Zhu Houzhao coughed lightly, and then the chamberlain standing next to Zhu Houzhao screamed: "Silence! ”

Suddenly, above the court, those officials who were talking about it closed their mouths all of a sudden, only to hear Zhu Houzhao speak: "Yang Qing's family, what should be done about this matter?" ”

Yang Yiqing is the new head of the cabinet, and since he is in office, this matter naturally has to be handled by Yang Yiqing.

Zhu Houzhao can also bypass Yang Yiqing and give orders directly, but Zhu Houzhao also knows that Yang Yiqing is a person who knows the soldiers, and professional things must be handed over to professional people to do.

Chu Yi didn't know how many times he mentioned this concept to Zhu Houzhao, and he even took Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, as an example.

When it comes to the dispatch of troops, Zhu Houzhao is naturally much worse than Yang Yiqing, and Zhu Houzhao also has to help Yang Yiqing establish the prestige of the first assistant of the cabinet, so he handed over this matter to Yang Yiqing to handle.

If Yang Yiqing can properly and perfectly solve the problem this time, it is conceivable that Yang Yiqing can sit firmly in the position of the first assistant of the cabinet with this point.

Yang Yiqing took a step forward, first saluted, and then said with a straight expression: "Your Majesty, Tianjin Wei is the gateway to the Beijing Division, and the Tianjin Wei garrison and guerrilla generals are all fierce generals in the army, and the minister dares to guarantee that Tianjin Wei will definitely not lose!" ”

Once the Tianjin Wei fell, it was only a day's journey from Tianjin to the Beijing Division, although it was said that from the Tumubao Change to the Tatar siege, the Beijing Division suffered several foreign attacks, but all the officials did not want to see such a thing as the Beijing Division being besieged.

If one day, even the Beijing division is surrounded by the enemy, no matter what the result is, at least these officials will inevitably be written about in the history books.

Others are famous in history, but they are going to be on top of history for 10,000 years.

Zhu Hou glanced at the civil and military officials, and said in a deep voice: "The cabinet ministers, several princes, and generals should stay, and the rest should retreat!" ”

The officials who were killed by Zhu Houzhao stayed, and the other officials also left.

More than ten or twenty people seemed a little crowded in the imperial study, and these ten or twenty people almost represented the civil and military forces of the Ming and Manchu dynasties.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the decision power of many things in the Ming Dynasty is in the hands of these ten or twenty people, and the civil ministers, military generals, and nobles are all representative figures of the three parties.

Zhu Houzhao signaled several waves of heralds to bring the latest news one by one.

The last wave of heralds had arrived not long ago, and according to them, the port had been breached by the enemy, and Cheng Yan, a guerrilla general, had evacuated the merchants in the port and had taken the initiative to withdraw from the port and establish a defense in Qingtian Town.

Chen Ding frowned and said, "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Cheng Yan should be beheaded!" ”

Everyone couldn't help but be stunned when they heard this, Chen Ding was upright, and he was going to cut off people's heads when he opened his mouth.

Yang Yiqing couldn't help but smile bitterly, and saluted Chen Ding: "I don't know why Lord Chen wants to behead General Yan!" ”

Chen Ding said coldly: "As the general of the Ming Dynasty, when he dies on the battlefield, he will not take a step back, since he Cheng Yan is the general of my Ming Dynasty, he has the responsibility of defending the land and the people, facing the enemy who is coming, even if he fights to the last person, he must not take a step back, Cheng Yan should be beheaded, not enough to deter people's hearts, not enough to correct the strictness of my Ming military law." ”

Several veteran nobles present naturally have a natural hostility towards those newly promoted nobles, so at this time, they heard Chen Ding targeting Cheng Yan, and these veteran nobles not only did not open their mouths to defend Cheng Yan, but showed their approval.

Cheng Xiangwu and Han Kun, who were the Hou Ye, couldn't help but turn extremely ugly when they heard this, but they were not good at getting angry directly at Chen Ding.

Chen Ding was a person, and everyone present understood in their hearts that Chen Ding's words were not aimed at Cheng Yan, even if any of them were in Cheng Yan's position, Chen Ding would not hesitate to impeach, so Chen Ding was not right about things.

said that Cheng Yan was a general who went out under Cheng Xiangwu, since he was the one he brought out in the past, Cheng Xiangwu naturally wanted to defend Cheng Yan.

I heard Cheng Xiangwu say to the Son of Heaven: "Your Majesty, there will be something to say in the end!" ”

As one of the bigwigs in the army, Cheng Xiangwu is in charge of more than 100,000 sailors, and he can be said to be one of the few powerful figures in the Ming army.

Zhu Hou glanced at Cheng Xiangwu and bowed slightly: "Dingwu Hou, if you have something to say, you can say it bluntly!" ”

Cheng Xiangwu was enshrined as Dingwu Bo in the past, and later promoted to Dingwu Marquis because of his merits, just like Han Kun's Marquis Anyuan, they are all newly promoted princes.

In addition to the two princes of Anguo, Wang Yangming, and Yang Yiqing, the Duke of Jin, the army belonged to Cheng Xiangwu, Marquis of Dingwu, and Han Kun, Marquis of Anyuan.

I only heard Cheng Xiangwu say with a solemn face: "Your Majesty, the minister knows very well that Cheng Yan is not a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, His Royal Highness King Wu once said that the way of the art of war is to care about one heart, and to do it knowing that it cannot be done, it is not brave, but stupid!" ”

Chen Ding snorted coldly: "Your Majesty, the minister will impeach one person again, and the martial king Chu Yi actually encouraged the sergeants to escape from the battle......"

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help coughing lightly, and looked at Chen Ding helplessly, if you want to say that Chen Ding is unreasonable, people's impeachment is justified, but Chen Ding is obviously too rigid and doesn't know how to be flexible.

At this time, Yang Yiqing saluted Chen Ding and said: "Lord Chen doesn't know, the army encourages the soldiers to charge and kill the enemy, and swear not to retreat, this is true, but as a general of an army, he must have the ability to judge the situation and assess the situation. ”

Once the enemy drives straight in, the Jingshi will be shaken, and the consequences of this can be imagined.

Chen Ding said slowly: "The minister only knows that Cheng Yan is suspected of escaping. ”

Zhu Houzhao waved his hand a little impatiently and said: "After Cheng Yan's incident, I will talk about his merits and demerits, I only ask you, what is the way to deal with it?" ”

Everyone looked at Yang Yiqing, and only heard Yang Yiqing say: "Your Majesty, the minister said that with Cheng Yan and Dong Ke of Tianjin garrison, the enemy who came to attack would definitely not be able to pass Tianjin Wei." ”

A noble couldn't help but sneer, glanced at Yang Yiqing and said: "What Yang Ge said is light, you must know that the soldiers are also the major affairs of the country, do you promise?" If the enemy really arrives in Jingshi, where will you leave Your Majesty? ”

Zhu Hou looked at Yang Yiqing and said, "Yang Qingjia, do you have anything to say?" ”

Yang Yiqing said: "Even if Your Majesty can't trust Weichen, can't you still trust King Wu?" ”

Zhu Houzhao was slightly stunned, looked at Yang Yiqing with some doubts, and said, "What is the matter with Guan Daban at this time?" ”

Obviously, Zhu Houzhao was very puzzled, why Yang Yiqing suddenly mentioned Chu Yilai. This doesn't seem to have anything to do with Chu Yi.

Yang Yiqing shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, didn't you forget the Portuguese admirals that His Royal Highness King Wu brought back from Dongying's army more than half a year ago?" ”

At that time, Chu Yi returned, and the Portuguese admiral he brought back was a deep memory for many people, but now many people have even forgotten it.

At this time, Yang Yiqing mentioned it, and everyone suddenly recalled the overseas aliens they had seen when they welcomed Chu Yi back in triumph.

Seeing that everyone's attention was focused on him, Yang Yiqing said with a solemn expression: "His Royal Highness King Wu once said to his ministers, let the ministers be prepared, and sooner or later they will face a strong enemy from the sea. For this reason, after consulting His Royal Highness King Wu, he specially dispatched Cheng Yan, who was quite a talented general, to go, and even General Cheng Yan was unfavorable in the first battle, so he took the initiative to abandon the port and block the enemy in Qingtian Town, a few miles outside the port, which was also the suggestion of His Royal Highness King Wu. ”

"What, you said that Otomo had already made arrangements?"

Zhu Houzhao didn't expect Yang Yiqing to say such a paragraph, and at the same time, his heart was secretly put down, he could not believe anyone, but he would definitely not believe Chu Yi.

Since Chu Yi had meddled in the capital as a defense, with his understanding of Chu Yi, Chu Yi must have taken one step and seen three steps, and had already made arrangements for various possibilities. That's why Yang Yiqing said that he wanted Zhu Houzhao to believe in Chu Yi.

I saw Zhu Houzhao with a little joy on his face and said: "I see, I never thought that the eldest companion would make such an arrangement." ”

That noble man heard Yang Yiqing say this, and even involved Chu Yi, his expression couldn't help but change slightly, even if Chu Yi had already resigned, but mentioning Chu Yi's name was still jealous, if he had known that it was still related to Chu Yi, he would never have spoken to ridicule.

However, everyone didn't pay attention to this noble, so they heard Wang Hua stroke his beard and said slowly: "Your Majesty, when it comes to the transfer of troops, I'm afraid that no one present dares to say that it is stronger than Lord Shoufu, and it is just a barbarian, so why don't you leave it to Shoufu to deal with." ”

Zhu Hou looked at the crowd: "What do you think?" ”

Although he said that he was upright, Chen Ding would say whatever he wanted, and nodded cleanly: "The minister has no objection, and the household department will fully cooperate with Lord Shoufu." ”

Everyone glanced at each other, and said to the Son of Heaven: "The ministers have no objection!" ”

Wuwang Mansion

Chu Yi looked at the Son of Heaven who hadn't changed his robe and couldn't help but laugh and said, "Your Majesty came in such a hurry, could it be that something important happened in the court?" ”

Zhu Hou looked at Chu Yi and said, "The eldest companion asked Yang Yiqing to arrange the powerful generals Tianjin Wei more than half a year ago, could it be that he had long expected that there would be enemies coming from the sea?" ”

Chu Yi's hand making tea paused slightly, looked at Zhu Houzhao, and the corners of his mouth curled slightly: "Oh, in this way, the Portuguese are really here!" ”

Zhu Houzhao nodded and said to Chu Yi: "It seems that everything is expected by the big companion, but I have a false alarm." ”

Saying that, Zhu Houzhao explained: "Not long ago, Tianjin Wei rushed to the military report, hundreds of big ships came from the sea, as soon as they appeared, they attacked Tianjin Wei Port, and the guerrilla general Cheng Yan who guarded Tianjin Wei was invincible, and after evacuating the merchants and people in the port, he took the initiative to lead his men to retreat to Qingtian Town to snipe the enemy, and now there is no latest news coming. ”