Facing Zheng Xiang's question, Shen Yichen was silent.

Once anything happens, someone has to pay for it, let alone the heinous felony of killing officials and rebellion.

If you want more people to live, the only way to let Ye Zongliu die is to bear the crime of rebellion.

Maybe this is what Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, said, and he had to do it as a last resort!

Not only was Shen Yichen silent, but the miners in the house, such as Bian He and Canghuotou, who came from Fujian, felt extremely tormented in their hearts at the moment.

They are no longer the miners who have never seen the world and only know how to fight and kill, and they have gradually realized what is called officialdom, pattern, conspiracy, and general trend!

If the court was able to negotiate such a decision, it was the best outcome for the Fujian miners and furnace workers to look at it rationally, at least to fight for a way for more brothers to survive.

However, the person who supervised the military affairs to quell the rebellion was Shen Yichen, and he stood on the opposite side of Boss Ye, so that Canghuo and the others didn't know how to accept it calmly for a while.

Officials and thieves are not separated!

Zheng Xiang looked at everyone in the room with their heads bowed and their expressions heavy, and understood the answer in his heart.

The impact of his emotions in an instant made him sit on the chair again, looking at Shen Yichen in front of him, and asked in a tone that was close to begging: "Shen Gongzi, can't you save Boss Ye's life?" ”

Facing Zheng Xiang's pleading gaze, Shen Yichen didn't dare to look into his eyes.

Speaking from the heart, Ye Zongliu has a life-saving grace for himself, and the group of miner brothers left in Fujian have helped them to live and die several times, how dare they forget each other?

But many things are not something that Shen Yichen can decide with a mere five-grade Zuo Chunfang University scholar, Ye Zong stayed in Fujian and other places and became famous, and he became a wanted criminal in the imperial court early on, and now he is even more characterized as the first evil of rebellion.

The Manchu Dynasty is civil and military, who dares to risk the world's condemnation to protect him?

Moreover, the nature of counterinsurgency and flood control is still different, and Shen Yichen can be arbitrary in Shandong Qiangang, and even act recklessly. As long as it can be done in the end, the emperor and the court will tolerate the delegation of power.

But leading the army to quell the rebellion and other military affairs, unless the dynasty is at the end of the dynasty or the king is extremely mediocre, the leader will never be allowed to dictate his power, even if Shen Yichen is a civil servant.

Even if you don't send a relative to serve as the chief general, you will definitely send a eunuch to supervise the army.

Shen Yichen wants to deceive the upper and lower levels, the difficulty is tantamount to ascending to the sky, and the slightest leakage will cause endless troubles.

Han Yong's death is a precedent!

"I don't know."

Responding to Zheng Xiang's plea in a low voice, Shen Yichen was also in a dilemma.

"The little one understands, thank you Shen Gongzi."

Zheng Xiang nodded silently, a trace of despair flashed in his eyes.

He knew that Shen Yichen had done his best, maybe this was the catastrophe that Boss Ye was destined for, orthodoxy had been avoided for nine years, and orthodoxy had been in the catastrophe for twelve years.

"You have a good rest here for a few days, and I will inform you if there is any news."

Shen Yichen comforted Zheng Xiang, and then turned around and left the room.

This feeling of powerlessness was so depressing that he couldn't help but feel like he wanted to escape.

Walking out of the new courtyard, looking at Shen Yichen, who was still in a depressed mood, Bian He said: "The proprietor does not need to blame himself, he can save the lives of many miners and furnace workers in Fujian, and he has turned things around." ”

"As for Leader Ye, he has long put life and death aside."

Compared with Shen Yichen, Bian He knows Ye Zongliu better. In the face of the encirclement and suppression of the government, the two chose to take different paths to survive, but in fact, they were both psychologically prepared to die.

Rather than letting the imperial court send a large army to slaughter them all and die in the hands of Shen Yichen, in a sense, isn't it a kind of luck?

At least his wife, sons, daughters, brothers and siblings, can live in peace.

Listening to Bian He's persuasion, Shen Yichen exhaled heavily, then shook his head with a wry smile and didn't know what to reply.

After all, for modern people's thinking, the peasant uprising is not a serious crime of rebellion, but on the contrary, it has a progressive significance of the times.

But this is not modern, for the ancients, the followers of the coerced can pick up a life, which is already a great forgiveness, how dare you ask for more?

"Let's go back to the house first, let me think about it slowly."

Shen Yichen didn't say anything to death after all, he was always unwilling to give up any hope before the dust landed.

On the other side of the Forbidden City, Emperor Zhu Qizhen called the eunuch Wang Zhen after the court meeting, and wanted to discuss with him who to send as the chief general and who to send to supervise the army.

Although the Ming Dynasty had a precedent of Wang Ji and other civil servants leading the army to fight and be knighted, Zhu Qizhen did not have a bottom in his heart about whether Shen Yichen could take on the heavy responsibility of leading the army.

After all, he had never been in charge of martial arts in the year of the weak crown, and he didn't dare to be sure of anyone, what kind of unborn military genius was Shen Yichen, right?

Military affairs are not child's play, Zhu Qizhen thought about it, and decided to send a military minister as the chief general for the sake of safety, and then send a eunuch to supervise the army's logistics, and Shen Yichen can be Counselor of military affairs.

In this way, the rebellion can be successfully quelled and the war feats can be saved, and there will be no risk of capsizing in the gutter.

Objectively speaking, Zhu Qizhen did regard Shen Yichen as his confidant and beloved minister, and he began to think of favoritism behind his back.

"Sir, just now I discussed with the ministers and decided to send Shen Yichen to Fujian in the near future to supervise military affairs and quell the rebellion."

"But Shen Qing has never been in charge of the army, and he has no actual combat experience, I want to arrange two reliable people to help, I wonder if Mr. has a suitable candidate to recommend?"

Hearing that the emperor actually asked how he could help Shen Yichen, Wang Zhen's heart was full of dissatisfaction and jealousy, but he smiled quietly on the surface: "Long live Lord, Shen Hanlin is the son of the Duke of Chengguo, and he is from a family of honorable relatives, and he is by no means an ordinary civil servant. ”

"As the saying goes, the door will go out of the tiger, and Shen Hanlin will perform the Wujing camp at the tributary ceremony, long live the lord, you may be too worried."

Is it?

Hearing that Wang Zhen trusted Shen Yichen so much, Zhu Qizhen was a little shaken now.

Indeed, at the tributary ceremony that year, Shen Yichen led the Beijing camp to perform martial arts with the soldiers of the Southern Expedition, which was in good order in all aspects, highlighting the prestige of the Ming Dynasty and highlighting the atmosphere of the military ministers.

But martial arts is different from actual combat after all, can Shen Yichen really lead the army alone?

"Sir, having said that, I have always been a little worried about Shen Qing's leadership."

In the past, Wang Zhen would not go against the emperor and insist on his own ideas.

But this time, he didn't retreat and said: "Long live Lord, Fujian is just a group of mud-legged people making trouble, how can it be the opponent of the imperial army." Just wait for Admiral Shen Hanlin to integrate military affairs, and he will be able to sweep away the thieves with a thunderous force, and the counterinsurgency is just around the corner! ”

Wang Zhen was full of confidence, in a sense, this is also the consensus of the Ming Dynasty at this moment, and they all believe that the turmoil in Fujian is not to be feared.

Seeing Wang Zhen's strong recommendation, Zhu Qizhen nodded and continued to insist on this issue.

Maybe Zhu Qizhen is full of imperial tricks and the majesty of the Son of Heaven for anyone in the Manchu Dynasty. Only in the face of Wang Zhen, he will put himself in the position of a student, maintaining a dependence and respect for the teacher.

"And what advice does Sir have for the Overseer?"

The Ming Dynasty was generally dominated by eunuchs, and Wang Zhen, as the chief eunuch of the seal, could be described as the head of the internal officials.

This kind of candidate, no one is more suitable to recommend than him.

"Long live Lord, since you are worried that Shen Hanlin will not be able to lead the army alone when he is young, then find an internal officer with rich military experience to supervise the army, which will complement each other."

"Inside and outside the imperial city, the slave maid thinks that the most suitable person is the royal supervisor Yin Xi Gonggong."

"Sir, mean Xining?"

"Exactly."

Wang Zhen's recommended candidate happened to be chosen to Zhu Qizhen's heart.

Among the officials and eunuchs in the Orthodox Dynasty, although Wang Zhen was in a unique position, it did not mean that no one among the other eunuchs could be favored by Zhu Qizhen.

Yin Xining, the head of the royal eunuch, is one of the eunuchs who Zhu Qizhen trusts and favors.

It was even exaggerated to the point that in the twelfth year of orthodoxy, Xining invaded the British Gong Zhang Fu's farmhouse, and after the British Gong Zhang Fu did not comply, Xining sent his younger brother and a clean house slave to beat Zhang Fu's family, and also caused a pregnant woman to have an abortion and die.

You must know that the British Gongzhang Fu is one of the five ministers of Tuogu, and he is also the most senior military minister, and he is vaguely in the first position.

is such a Duke of the Ming Dynasty, who was bullied by the eunuchs, and made a fuss, it is a big joke in the world!

According to common sense, Xining is so arrogant and bullying the British public, I am afraid that she is tired of being crooked. But the fact is that the British public Zhang Fu sued the emperor, not only did he not ask Xining for the crime, but Zhu Qizhen clearly pulled the bias and slapped fifty boards each.

It may be precisely because of this incident that led to the change of the civil fort in the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, and the British duke, who had been fighting on the battlefield for decades, chose to protect himself from the wall and let the emperor and the eunuchs mess around.

In the end, he watched hundreds of thousands of troops die by themselves, including many of his subordinate brothers who had been born and died with him, and they were also wrapped in horse leather.

I don't know what kind of mood the veteran general Zhang Fu felt after beating the cane for decades at the last moment of his life, only the sorrow is greater than the death of the heart can be described.

"Long live the Lord, he sent an envoy to Mobei in the early years of the reunification of the Emperor Xigong, and later guarded Liaodong, and he was very familiar with military and political affairs. With his supervision of the army and Shen Hanlin, the slave and maid are sure that they can sit back and relax! ”

Wang Zhen struck while the iron was hot and said the reason for the recommendation, Xining has been envoys in Mobei for many years, and the local supervisors have rich experience, and there are few internal officials and eunuchs in the whole who can compare with him.

Liaodong can stabilize in the face of the Mongolian army, let alone the chaotic people in just one province?

"Ke Xining just returned from the town, and sent him to supervise the army in Fujian, is it a bit of hard work?"

At the end of the eleventh year of Xining orthodoxy, he came down from the position of the eunuch in Liaodong Town, and returned to Beijing to report on his work as the eunuch of the imperial eunuch.

and asked him to go all the way to supervise the army in Fujian, and Zhu Qizhen was really a little reluctant.

"Father-in-law Xi is deeply favored by the emperor, and he should repay the service. What's more, if he cooperates with a capable minister like Shen Hanlin, it is no surprise that he will quickly put down the rebellion in Fujian, and then he will be rewarded heavily. ”

"What the gentleman said is reasonable, so let's arrange it like this."

Zhu Qizhen nodded with satisfaction, in fact, he understood the meaning behind Wang Zhen's words, that is, this trip to Fujian to quell the rebellion is no different from going to brush up on military achievements.

On the contrary, this merit can be used to reward Xining and Shen Yichen and satisfy the selfishness of the emperor's personal preferences.

In the twelfth year of orthodoxy in history, Zhu Qizhen made an exception to reward him with land after beating Xining and the British Duke respectively, to make up for the "grievances" of encroaching on the farmhouse.

The "History of the Ming Dynasty" records like this: The field of eunuchs began with Yin Feng and Xining.

It means that Ming Yingzong set a bad precedent for the emperor to give land to eunuchs instead of meritorious ministers.

If you count the precedent of hereditary eunuchs' children, Zhu Qizhen's favor for internal officials and eunuchs has far exceeded the boundaries of general wooing. It can almost be inferred that he sincerely treats this group of internal officials as his own, and it is not surprising that Wang Zhenneng is in charge of the dynasty alone.

Hearing that the emperor agreed to his recommendation, the corners of Wang Zhen's mouth showed a very imperceptible smile.

Did Wang Zhen have such a good heart to support Shen Yichen to lead the army alone, and also arranged for eunuchs with rich military experience to complement him?

Of course, the answer is no, Wang Zhen wishes that Shen Yichen would die in Fujian tomorrow.

No one knows the temperament of the eunuchs in the palace better than Wang Zhen, and the effect of Xining serving as a supervisor is by no means complementary, but-for-tat!

Xi Ning is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and Shen Yichen is not a soft persimmon who grovels, these two people have a good show together.

If they pull each other's backs in the process of counterinsurgency and lead to the loss of the war, then since Shen Yichen is leading the army alone, he must take responsibility alone.

On the one hand, Wang Zhen was careless about the matter of water control in Shandong, but he didn't expect him to really succeed so quickly. On the other hand, in the imperial city, it is not so easy to reach out to the place to interfere.

This time, Fujian counterinsurgency learned experience, Wang Zhen will never allow Shen Yichen to make military merits again, and let himself repeat the mistakes of the past!

Another benefit is that Xining is also trusted by the emperor. Wang Zhen absolutely did not allow his status and favor to be challenged by other eunuchs in the imperial city, and he had to take advantage of Xining's unstable foothold to arrange him out of the palace again.

With the help of Fujian to counterinsurgency, it is a plan to kill two birds with one stone!

Before the smile on the corner of Wang Zhen's mouth disappeared, he heard Zhu Qizhen command: "By the way, sir, send someone to inform Shen Qing to enter the palace tomorrow, I still have some things I want to entrust to him." ”

What?

The candidates for the prison army have all been arranged, what else is Your Majesty worried about, you need to ask Shen Yichen in person?

Shen Yichen is so simple in the emperor's heart, even the emperor personally helped him pave the way for meritorious service?

For a moment, Wang Zhen felt a sigh in his heart, maybe this is the difference between a civil servant and an internal official.

The affairs of the family and the country cannot be touched by internal officials on the surface.

Once upon a time, he was also a literati!

"The slave knows."

After Wang Zhen bowed and saluted, he walked to the little eunuch stationed at the gate of the palace and asked him to go out of the palace to inform Shen Yichen to prepare for the face of the saint tomorrow.

Regarding the conversation between the emperor and Wang Zhen, Shen Yichen naturally didn't know, let alone the conspiracy and trickery behind it.

He returned to the mansion with mixed feelings at the moment, and he wanted to calm down quietly, but he didn't expect Zhu Yi to stand at the door of the West Wing Courtyard at this time, as if he had been waiting for a long time.