Chapter 338: Face is worth a few dollars
Li Xin was still trustworthy, and when he got the money and food, he immediately sent a division of troops to encircle and suppress the Yongyi Army, saying that it was to encircle and suppress the Yongyi Army, but in fact it was to encircle and suppress the Loyal and Righteous Army, and the Loyal and Brave Army had already been crippled, and they were cowering in a mountain nest near Yizhou to add wounds, and according to the information sent back by Jin Zhongyi, the leader of the Yongyi Army, and the secret spies, there were only more than 200 remnants of the Yongyi Army, and the troops of a division were just to train the troops by the way.
The elimination of the Yongyi Army is just to help the Yongyi Army remove all kinds of obstacles and support Jin Zhongyi to ascend to the top, Jin Zhongyi wants muskets and ammunition to bombard the sky and thunder, as long as he gives money, the expeditionary force guarantees the supply, a musket that is not too sophisticated, and there is a risk of exploding the chamber Twenty-five taels of silver, and the ammunition is counted separately, and the thunder is thirty-two pieces, and you will give as much as you want, I am afraid that you will not have any silver.
Li Xin did not immediately withdraw the army and return to China, the conscription troops were stationed in Yizhou City, a division cleared the loyal and brave army, when it was actual combat training, the rest of the troops, in addition to patrolling, other troops took turns into the construction of the fortress and Yizhou City, until the fortress was built, two battalions of troops were stationed, and then the army was withdrawn.
Yizhou City is still under construction, he left two regiments of troops, and recruited two fresh battalions for training in the Xianren who changed into the Ming household registration, and the wolf thief group of 500 people also stayed in Yizhou, and from time to time cooperated with Jin Zhongyi's brave army to come out and toss it, creating a little pressure on the Xian officials of Yizhou City, forcing them to keep the expeditionary force stationed in Yizhou.
During this period, the Xian Empire mission arrived in Beijing, presented tribute, handed over the letter of state, sang praises to the great emperor and the courtiers while crying about all kinds of grievances and poverty, demanded severe punishment of the commander of the expeditionary force Li Xin and his subordinate generals, and asked the Ming to provide assistance in all fields, including military, industry and agriculture.
The cry of the envoy made the hundred officials sympathetic and proud, I am a big country, a country of civilization and etiquette, a country of great civilization, and all nations are subservient, of course I want to help these loyal and poor small countries, even if I really can't help anything, I will give some money and food or something, showing my great magnanimity and prosperity, as for the problem of Li Xin and other expeditionary force generals, the hundred officials chose to ignore it very tacitly.
Li Xin, Cao Bianjiao, Wei Yuanqing and other young generals are the most trusted favorite generals of the Son of Heaven, let the Son of Heaven deal with it himself, the stupid pen will intervene, the Donglin Party is a lesson from the past, they still want to live for many more years.
Zhu Jian first asked the envoy to take him down to rest, and then asked the eunuch to carry more than a dozen carts of tribute into the Jinluan Palace, opened them one by one in front of the hundred officials, and counted them one by one with the gift list.
What is the emperor doing?
The hundred officials looked at each other, and their eyes were focused on Ruan Dacheng, the first assistant of the cabinet, fortunately, the envoy of the Xian Empire was not there, otherwise he would have died of embarrassment.
Ruan Dacheng also smiled bitterly, to be honest, he didn't know what the emperor was playing, perhaps, except for Wang Chengen, the chief eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch, and Song Xiance, the chief of staff of the empire, no one could guess the mind of the Son of Heaven, but unfortunately these two goods had a dead face, looking at the nose and the nose, and did not reveal any information.
More than a dozen carts of tribute were all moved in and placed, and there were so many things that it was dazzling, occupying a small part of the space in the spacious Jinluan Palace.
The hundred officials are desperately wide-eyed, and some of them are even more struggling to swallow their saliva, and the tribute to the Son of Heaven must be priceless, with so many quantities, and the valuation is more than millions of silver.
Zhu Jian got up, walked to the rows of neatly arranged tributes, bent down to inspect, and Wang Chengen accompanied him.
"This, this, this ......"
Every time Zhu Jian pointed out a tribute, the little eunuch moved it to the side and placed it, and the more precious medicinal materials such as wild ginseng, Ganoderma lucidum, and deer antler velvet he pointed out were smaller, only about 20 pieces, and the other tributes were special trash antiques that fooled people, and they were not worth much.
Zhu Jian turned around a long time, looking at the valuable tributes selected, his brows furrowed, anyone could see that he was in a rather unhappy mood.
"Come and have a look." Zhu Jian snorted coldly, threw up his sleeves and sat back on the dragon chair.
The hundred officials suddenly snorted, and all of them went up, looking at them one by one with wide eyes, and the hundreds of tributes dazzled them, but it was impossible to determine whether these so-called national treasures and antiques were real or fake.
"What kind of queen used this broken bowl, and this medicine stick was used by King So-and-so...... It has a history of hundreds of years...... priceless ......" A little eunuch took the list in his hand and compared it, and then explained to Ruan Dacheng and Ruan Ge that he would read what was written on the list.
"Hmmm......"
Every time the little eunuch explained the origin and value of an antique, Ruan Dacheng's brows furrowed, these broken wood and bowls are really priceless treasures? Isn't that damn fooling?
Not only him, but even the officials frowned, although they are not antique appraisers, but they often receive gifts, they still have a certain vision and level, take a few more looks, and still recognize that many so-called rare treasures are all special garbage that fools people, and no one wants to give them away for nothing.
If there was silence in the Jinluan Palace, so quiet that the embroidery needle could be clearly heard falling to the ground, the hundred officials were indeed shocked by the hundreds of "rare" tributes in front of them, and they were speechless.
"It's shameless!"
After a long silence, someone gritted their teeth and cursed, and then a series of curses sounded, and the scolding soon filled the entire solemn Jinluan Palace, which seemed quite lively, compared with the spitting of the Donglin Party and the Jiangnan faction back then.
I am a big country, a state of civilization and etiquette, all countries come to kneel and pay tribute, it doesn't matter if the tribute is less, the courtesy is light and the righteousness is heavy, as long as it is sincere, the civil and military officials are proud and open, the face is very cool, as the suzerain, they will give heavy gifts in return, which is called the eldest brother cares about the younger brother.
But the Xian Empire actually got a lot of garbage to fool people, deceive the trust and heavy gifts of the empire, I have seen shameless, but I have never seen such shameless, and everyone has to blow up their lungs, and they have greeted the eight generations of Lord Li's ancestors N times.
A war against the Xian Empire over this? That's impossible, so what? The Xian Empire is so poor that it doesn't say anything, and it also falls into the name of bullying the small, which makes me ashamed of the Ming Dynasty, and besides, the Ming Dynasty has just sent troops to help the Xian Empire defeat the Jin Army, and the friendship between the two countries is really embarrassed to make a move, what else can I do besides forbearance?
Hundreds of officials scolded and scolded, but in the end they could only endure it helplessly, and some officials who wanted to save face also put forward the construction proposal of Qiba, in order to show my great magnanimity and prosperity, so that all countries surrendered, this matter had to pretend not to know, and they had to repay several times the gifts of others as in previous years.
As soon as this statement came out, some people were silent, some people objected, and some silent people thought that this suggestion was not bad, anyway, it was only once a year, even if it was lost, it would not be much, and some were just watching the lively melon-eating masses. There are a lot of opponents, and the ideas are more radical, especially when they see the pit, they have to jump down, and they want to die to save face and suffer the crime, and if they say that this is a crime of bullying the king, if you don't destroy your country, it is merciful, and you have to post money? S pen one.
For a while, the entire Jinluan Hall quarreled, the two sides held their own opinions, the reasons were sufficient, and it was difficult to distinguish the winner for a while, no worse than the spitting of the Donglin Party and the Jiangnan faction back then, the difference is that the former is a party dispute, and now it is only a difference of opinion among the officials.
"Stop, I ask you a question, how much is face worth?"