The excerpt of Lu Xiangsheng and Lantian County's defeat of Jiannu in Guihua City soon spread to the princes of the court, and the important ministers of the court were dumbfounded, how could it be that Lu Xiangsheng had this ability?

It is incredible that he can win 4,000 Tartars in a battle, when did Lu Xiangsheng have such an ability?

There was a lot of discussion among the princes of the imperial court, and some people were even puzzled, how could this Lantian Li Chaosheng also participate in it?

For Lantian, the princes of the imperial court are not unaware, they can see the prosperity of Lantian over the years, who is not greedy for such a large piece of fat, there are many people who have plotted against Lantian over the years, but they are not Lantian's opponents, and Lantian is Chongzhen's current money bag, and it is not good for the important ministers of the court to put their hands directly into it, but now it is different, Naturalization City has no connection with Lantian County at all, he Lantian actually intervened in a hand, this is a heart of disobedience, when impeachment.

Thinking of this, the ministers gradually gathered together, waiting for the impeachment of Lantian County by the Shangjun Dynasty tomorrow, and the impeachment of Lu Xiangsheng at the same time.

And the most important person in this matter is Yang Sichang.

Yang Sichang is currently the secretary of the Ministry of War, is Lu Xiangsheng's top boss, originally these two people are capable, if they cooperate seamlessly, they will definitely open up the situation for the Ming Dynasty, but the two people are very incompatible, a soldier Zuo Shilang, the governor of Xuanda, and a military secretary, who is in power.

This is the war between the first and second leaders of the military department, and they fight each other, which must be a great harm to the Ming Dynasty.

So why did the two fight? There is no love for no reason in this world, and there is no hate for no reason, there must be a reason for two people to have a grudge, and the reason is very simple, the core is political disagreement.

What Yang Sichang means is that we must first settle the inside before we go outside, we can reconcile with the Tartars first, concentrate on dealing with the peasant rebel army in the country, and then deal with the rebel army before we talk about anything else.

What does Lu Xiangsheng mean, what is outside must first be settled inside, Tartar is the hatred of the country and the family, the peasant rebel army is just a disease of scabies, no matter how much trouble is also an internal matter of the Ming Dynasty, now we must solve the external affairs first.

The two people are hostile to each other like this, and they don't agree politically, which is the biggest hatred in the officialdom, even greater than the hatred of killing their father, the hatred of taking their wife, the hatred of killing their father, the hatred of taking their wife, maybe they can still forbear and pretend to cooperate, but the political disagreement, that is the rhythm of not knocking each other down, and they are about to fall, that is really doing everything.

Originally, Lu Xiangsheng was a little worried about Yang Sichang for his meritorious service this time, but when he saw that in the end, Lu Xiangsheng actually mixed up with Lantian, he felt that he had found a way to bring down Lu Xiangsheng.

Our cautious majesty can't tolerate collusion between the ministers below.

At dawn the next day, the early dynasty began, Chongzhen put on his clothes with the help of Queen Zhou, and just as he was about to leave, Wang Chengen suddenly rushed in, holding a fold in his hand and said: "Your Majesty, Lantian Li Chaosheng is an excerpt." ”

Hearing this, Chongzhen was stunned for a moment, frowned and took the fold over to take a look, his face suddenly became gloomy, and finally put the fold away, put it in his sleeve and said, "Go to court." ”

This voice is full of many feelings, some are relieved, some are helpless, there are fears, and there are hopes for the future.

……

In Guihua City, Lu Xiangsheng sat opposite Li Chaosheng and said: "After eating this meal, we will leave, and we don't know what year and month it will be when we see each other again." ”

Li Chaosheng took a sip of rice porridge at this time and said: "There is no banquet in the world that will not be dispersed, Duke Lu take care." ”

Lu Xiangsheng also took a sip of porridge and said: "But before leaving, I want to remind you, now that Guihua City has been taken by you, Your Majesty will definitely make waves after seeing my performance, maybe not long after, you and I will meet each other." ”

Li Chaosheng smiled when he heard this: "I understand what you mean, the emperor suspects that I have a disobedient heart, and your political opponent Yang Sichang will definitely take the opportunity to suppress you, such as making a bad move, asking you to attack Lantian County, and arrest me, a person who is disobedient, hehe......"

Lu Xiangsheng said: "Things have developed to this point, it is no longer under your control, I just hope that Your Majesty will not be confused, listen to Yang Sichang's words, and destroy the Great Wall." ”

Li Chaosheng heard this and looked at Lu Xiangsheng and said: "Don't worry, the emperor may be stupid, but today my performance should have been presented to the emperor, as long as the emperor sees my performance, there will be no more waves, but I am afraid that you will not get the reward you deserve for this merit." ”

Hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng looked at Li Chaosheng and said, "What did you give Your Majesty?" What did you write in it? ”

Li Chaosheng heard this and said, "It's nothing, just a little fact." ”

……

Your Majesty St. Ann

Li Chaosheng, the magistrate of Lantian County, played Your Majesty, the Naturalization City of the Border Fortress has been managed by my Lantian City, with this important city in hand, the Northland will not suffer from the Tartar ravages, the people of the Northland will be at peace, the Naturalized City is in the hands of the minister, it will be solid, and there is one more city, and the annual tax of the minister will be paid more than 30%, and the right to pay the tax of the naturalized city will solve His Majesty's urgent need.

Now I heard that Shaanxi thieves are rampant, Gao Yingxiang occupies northern Shaanxi and Hong Chengchou's army is fiercely fighting, Li Zicheng enters Shanxi to wreak havoc in the world, Zhang Xianzhong breaks through Fengyang, or it will ravage the two lakes in the future, the world is so erosive, the minister's heart is very painful.

After all, if Chen Lantian is in trouble, Hong Chengchou's 50,000 army will have no rations, and His Majesty can use taxes to be very few.

The only thing that the minister can guarantee is that in one day, Lantian will never miss the court a grain of grain and a tael of silver in taxes.

Minister: Lantian Zhixian, Li Chaosheng worshipped.

This is the content of the vernacular version of Li Chaosheng's letter, of course, when I sent it, I found someone to polish it and make the vernacular more elegant, but the central idea is that it is not bad at all.

And this letter is both soft and hard, although the whole text is a courtier's loyalty, in fact, every sentence is coercive and tempting.

What's wrong with the emperor, now the emperor, you also have to analyze the pros and cons and figure out the relationship of interests, Li Chaosheng gave the emperor a benefit from the beginning of this letter, that is, the naturalization city is in the hands of Li Chaosheng, and he will pay 30% of the tax every year.

This time it came to Chongzhen's heart, Guihua City was not the territory of the Ming Dynasty, if it was included in the Ming Dynasty, this governance and transportation of materials would require a large amount of money.

Chongzhen knows the relationship here, although it is quite tempting to expand the territory, but the country is about to die, what is the temptation.

Secondly, the strategic location of the Naturalization City is very important to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, what is the benefit to Lantian County, if the Ming Dynasty wants to attack Lantian County, whether it is from Shanxi, Sichuan, Gansu, two lakes, all directions can send troops, don't care about your Naturalization City at all, so the strategic significance of the Naturalization City is almost equal to nothing for the Ming Dynasty.

Now that the naturalized city is under the management of Lantian, the materials of the Ming Dynasty will definitely not care, and then the Ming border pass will be choked, and the most important thing is that there is no obstacle to the Ming Dynasty's attack on Lantian at all, and even such a fly may be able to involve Lantian's troops and weaken Lantian from the side.

Secondly, and most importantly, Lantian plus 30% tax, my God, you don't know how much Chongzhen wants to get this 30% tax, with these taxes Chongzhen can do many big things, just Chongzhen is quite willing to agree to this 30% tax.

And even if Chongzhen's mind is not bright and he doesn't care about the overall situation, it doesn't matter, there are still threats in Li Chaosheng's letter, a total of three points.

The first told Chongzhen, you are now in the world full of wolves, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong are clearly rebelling, you haven't done it, if you come to me again now, the world will be really chaotic, Your Majesty think twice.

Then he told Chongzhen, my Lantian is now the military rations that support the army of Hong Chengchou in northern Shaanxi, if you don't pay attention to me, I will run out of food, and then Shaanxi will really not be under your control.

In the end, Li Chaosheng made a guarantee, we are in Lantian, you can get a talent tax, you take this tax to recruit the army or whatever, it's okay, if you move Lantian County, you can't get a grain of grain, when the army has no food, it won't move, you can't command the army, then how many people in the world are kings, we don't know.

With such a combination of soft and hard, Chongzhen must have been dizzy, even if he knew that Lantian harbored evil intentions, he didn't dare to move, after all, compared to Lantian, there were thieves who dug their ancestral graves and couldn't do anything about themselves.

Now that he is clearly rebelling, he will not move, and he will move the only person who is willing to pay his food and taxes in full, isn't this a brain cramp?

Chongzhen knows priorities even if he is stupid.

So when Li Chaosheng showed Chongzhen a detailed analysis of the situation, Chongzhen's idea of taking the opportunity to kill Li Chaosheng was extinguished, and Liu Bang had to wait for the world to calm down after killing Han Xin.

It's not that Han Xin did it when he was born to be a fake King of Qi, Chongzhen may have a poor strategic vision, but the most basic imperial mental skills are still there, otherwise he is really so brainless, and Daming will not support him for another eighteen years.

"Go to court!"

The voices of the eunuchs sounded, Chongzhen walked out of the side hall, slowly sat on his ninety-five position, sat on the seat, Chongzhen glanced at the important ministers in the hall and said: "Princes, you should have read the military report sent by Xuanda, Lu Xiangsheng killed more than 4,000 enemies in one battle, such a great achievement, how do you think you should be rewarded?" ”

Chongzhen was very busy and didn't bend around with them, and went straight to the point, Lu Xiangsheng won the battle, how to reward it.

Hearing this, everyone in the audience quietly dropped the needle, this is the time to express their position, see the situation clearly, and wait for a moment to be humane: "Your Majesty, this is a big victory, and more than 4,000 slaves have been killed, which is second only to Ning Yuan's victory, and the minister thinks that he should be promoted to the official position of Duke Lu." ”

Hearing this, everyone in the court was silent, Chongzhen narrowed his eyes and said, "Well, that's good." ”

At this time, Yang Sichang glanced at his subordinate imperial history, and his subordinate imperial history received the boss's order and immediately came out and said: "Your Majesty is inappropriate." ”

"Well, what does Aiqing mean?"

At this time, Yu Shi said: "Your Majesty, although Lu Xiangsheng has merit, but there is also a big fault, the naturalization city is owned by the Ming Dynasty, how to arrange officials, who governs, should be decided by the imperial court, but Lu Xiangsheng gave the naturalization city directly to Lantian Li Chaosheng, this is obviously collusion, forming a party, this is a great crime of rebellion, so the minister thinks that not only can not be rewarded but also punished heavily." ”

"Nonsense, Your Majesty can't listen to the arrogant words of this bureaucracy, Lu Gong's battle is a rare victory for my Ming Dynasty in recent years, which has greatly improved the morale of our army, if the meritorious minister does not do the reward, but is punished, dare to ask who will dare to make meritorious service in the future, if everyone does not want to make meritorious service, afraid of war like a tiger, then how can the Ming Dynasty recover the lost territory, this is the words of the country, please Your Majesty to kill this bureaucracy."

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng's comrades argued loudly for him, and then Yushi was angry: "Your Majesty, you can listen carefully, this official is Lu Xiangsheng's comrade, and he should be punished for the same crime as Lu Xiangsheng." ”

"You are a harborer of evil."

"You deserve to die."

……

The civil officials of the Ming Dynasty are all professional trolls, after going to the palace, they are really arguing to death, and some civil officials also like to spray the emperor, and the emperor is a strong spray, and the emperor does not listen to the faint monarch, it can be said that the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty are particularly fond of spraying people, the emperor can spray, and colleagues are even more unscrupulous.

Say whatever you want, if you can buckle your hat, you can buckle your hat, a few words you are disobedient to the saint, harboring evil intentions, anyway, they have the professionalism of trolls.

Chongzhen had long been accustomed to it, took a sip of tea, and waited for it to be almost sprayed, at this time Chongzhen looked at Yang Sichang, who had not spoken, and said, "What is Yang Aiqing's opinion?" ”

Hearing this, Yang Sichang strode out and said: "Long live Chen Qi, Lu Xiangsheng is rewarded for his meritorious service in killing the enemy." ”

Everyone looked at Yang Sichang with some doubts after listening to Yang Sichang's words, knowing that this old coward had not finished speaking, and sure enough, Yang Sichang continued: "But Your Majesty, Lantian seized the Naturalization City is a great rebellion, since the Naturalization City is occupied by us, it should be regarded as the land of the Ming Dynasty, and Li Chaosheng occupied the Naturalization City without the imperial court's holy decree, which is a rebellion." ”

"The rebels must not be tolerated, the minister thinks that Lu Xiangsheng should be rewarded, and let Lu Xiangsheng lead the troops to return to Huacheng, capture Li Chaosheng alive and take him to the capital, and hand him over to the three legal divisions for trial and conviction."

Yang Sichang, this old fox is very smart, Lu Xiangsheng killed four thousand Tartars, no matter how you say it, it is a great achievement, at this time, it is thankless to attack him, it is better to attack Li Chaosheng first, Li Chaosheng obviously has the intention of uniting with Lu Xiangsheng, since this is the case, first dismantle the pair, let them kill each other, and then slowly try to destroy Lu Xiangsheng, this is the right way.

The surrounding ministers listened to Yang Sichang's words and all had strange expressions, sure enough, this old yin is not easy to provoke, this is simply killing two birds with one stone, everyone has been hungry for a long time for the big fat meat of Lantian, Lu Xiangsheng is still his political enemy, let them kill each other, and finally sit back and reap the profits It is really a good means.

Yang Sichang looked at Chongzhen calmly at this time, and then his head moved slightly, and the people who followed Yang Dang began to kneel down one after another: "The minister thinks that Yang Gong's words are reasonable, and Li Chaosheng should be punished for the crime of rebellion." ”

"The minister seconded the proposal."

For a while, the ministers began to second, and there was a feeling that the building was about to collapse and everyone was pushing.

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