Three days after the front-line war report was transmitted back to Jinling, because of the unanimous impeachment of the front-line generals and officials, military generals, and relatives in Beijing, Zhu Yunwen, the Jianwen Emperor, finally gave severe punishment to Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai, who had been in charge of the civil and military power of the imperial court.

At the same time, the power in the court was also in the hands of other officials, Jiang Wenyi replaced Huang Zicheng with Ru Chang of the Yihe faction, and Xu Huizu, the Duke of Wei, replaced Qi Tai to preside over the civil and military affairs, and also adopted Fang Xiaoru's opinion and sent envoys to negotiate reconciliation with King Yan.

Of course, what is the real ingredient of this reconciliation, all officials know it in their hearts, and now that Jing Nan has been fighting for three years, so many people have died, and he said that he would not fight if he sat down and confessed his relatives? It doesn't make sense.

In the final analysis, Fang Xiaoru's opinions this time are still level, Yan Wang Jing needs an excuse, and now this excuse is gone, as long as the court sends envoys, will King Yan retreat? If you don't retreat, you will rebel, if you retreat to Beiping, won't you solve the dilemma in the north?

At the beginning, the officials who wrote to impeach Fang and Huang were still a little disappointed, after all, Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai are out, but there is still a Fang Xiaoru left by the emperor's side, and now the officials have reached a consensus, Fang Xiaoru, Huang Zicheng, Qi Tai, these three superlatives, any one of them may do the bad things that will leave a name in history, with them, King Yan can be invincible, so their opinion is that none of them can be left, but Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai have already taken all the blame off, and Fang Xiaoru is more like a teacher in the end, Pingsu didn't stretch out his hand to the government much, and this time he proposed such a good way to delay time, so that Baiguan pinched his nose and endured him and continued to jump beside the emperor.

Anyway, after such a move, the court seems to be much clearer, at least now those who speak and count are capable, and the officials have endured the evil spirit of two consecutive defeats, and began to discuss the matter of peace, of course, most of the officials still do not approve of peace, except for those officials who really want King Yan to return to Beiping to be an honest vassal king, other officials are trying to delay time by this trick, so after two days of court meeting, the envoys of the Ministry of Rites set off from Jinling, their goal, It is to persuade King Yan to call off the army and make a truce.

Li Jinglong walked out of the main hall, squinted his eyes at the sky, and looked at the ministers who were now leaping into the sky, Ru Chang and Xu Huizu, who were now leaping into the sky, surrounded by many ministers who were inclined to be inflammatory, sneered and flicked his sleeves, and swayed down the long steps in front of the Jinluan Palace.

It stands to reason that he, the leader of the peace faction, should be happy after the success of promoting the peace, after all, this is a real political achievement, but seeing Xu Huizu climb so high all of a sudden, he is still a little unhappy, first, because Xu Huizu is indeed capable, with him in charge, the next battle of King Yan is not so easy to fight, and he is now a person of King Yan.

Second, it is simply unpleasant to look at Xu Huizu, since the battle of Baigou River, Li Jinglong's temperament has become more and more awkward, he has seen the ups and downs of the cold and warm court in the world, what he likes to see most now is that others are unlucky, Xu Huizu is naturally one of the objects he wants to retaliate against, but now that he is climbing higher and higher with his own hands, Li Jinglong of course holds a sulk.

On the way out of the palace, Li Jinglong had a gloomy face, and no official came up to talk, he got into the carriage and went straight back to his mansion before he walked into the gate, and the porter didn't know where to turn out: "Master." ”

Li Jinglong was slightly stunned, then nodded quietly, and turned around and walked to the study.

Close the doors and windows of the study, open the second drawer on the right hand, and there was indeed a secret letter lying quietly inside, Li Jinglong's face was a little complicated, but after hesitating for a moment, he still picked it up and tore open the seal.

Just the first sentence at the beginning made his face turn iron-blue.

It doesn't take much thought to know who this secret letter came from... The wording was a little too harsh, which made the corners of Li Jinglong's eyes twitch.

In the letter, he mercilessly reprimanded the behavior of leading a group of officials to impeach Fang Xiaoru and the other three, saying that those three people standing in the court were the most beneficial to Yan Jun, and now he took it upon himself to unite with Xu Huizu to oust the two from power, wouldn't it be self-defeating? The court is approaching Qingming, and the capable Xu Huizu is standing in a high position, what is this not digging a pit for Yan Jun?

The last sentence of the letter gave him an incomparably chill, because Gu Huai pointed out a fact: since he had already boarded this boat, then the Yan army was defeated, and he should not think that he could get off the boat safely.

This sentence broke Li Jinglong's fantasy all along, since he re-entered the political arena, he has been deliberately avoiding thinking about this problem, he can help King Yan do things, pass on the news of the DPRK and China, and set off a storm in the court, but he is unwilling to admit that he is now with King Yan and both glory and loss, he still thinks that he is still the same Cao Guogong before, even if King Yan loses, he can still do well in Jinling.

Li Jinglong put down the secret letter, even his hands trembled slightly, he realized for the first time that he had walked to the edge of the cliff, and he was gambling with King Yan, how the green-shirted scholar had lured him to this thief ship step by step, and how cold and ruthless he was now!

The doors and windows were closed, the light was dim, and he sat in the dark, as if he had returned to the days when he couldn't help himself.

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"As long as I stop the war, I will pardon all the charges of the soldiers of the Yan army and restore the king?"

In the Yan army camp in Texas, Zhu Di immediately sneered after listening to the words of the imperial court envoys.

His emperor's nephew's delaying tactics were foolish... How could he not see through it?

The envoy of the Ministry of Rites stood alone in the big tent of the Chinese army, surrounded by generals under Zhu Di, Zhu Di sat high in the first place, and there was a scholar in green shirt standing beside him, everyone's eyes fell on the envoy like a real sword, making his breathing a little heavier: "Your Highness, Your Majesty has issued an order to remove Huang Zicheng Qitai from all official positions, demote to civil nationality, and expel him, didn't His Highness say at the beginning..."

Zhu Di shouted: "Since the day I started the army, I have already told the world that the so-called Jingjing is not against Your Majesty, but on the side of the Qing monarch!" Now that it has been almost three years since the Jingjing disaster, the people have been displaced, the places have been eroded, the soldiers have been killed and injured, and the country has weakened. Stopping the war and keeping my family rich and safe, how can I explain to the world? ”

When the envoy heard this, he suddenly changed color: "Your Highness..."

Zhu Di stood up suddenly, and flicked his sleeves angrily: "No need to say it again!" Your Majesty wants the ministers to withdraw their troops and stop the war, yes! There is only one condition! ”

"As long as Your Majesty will bewitch the king's heart, divide the royal family, force the vassal king to death, imprison the clan, and provoke the 17 traitors who provoked this Jingjing disaster to be killed in public, the minister will immediately suspend the army, and ride into Beijing alone with his three sons, and let His Majesty fall!"

As soon as these words came out, the smiles on the faces of the generals in the tent were almost uncontrollable, and even the green-shirted scholars beside Zhu Di turned their faces, not for anything else, just because of this... It's so shameless.

But it's better to be shameless than shameless to be an enemy, Zhu Di's words are clearly telling Zhu Yunwen that he wants to delay time? No way! Even if Zhu Yunwen really slaughtered Fang Xiaoru and other officials, he could still drag a few more into the water at that time, anyway, his mouth grew on him Zhu Di, who is the traitor and still needs Zhu Yunwen to nod?

This is simply shameless to the extreme, and he is doing a rebellion in the name of Jingnan, but Zhu Yunwen obviously doesn't understand a truth, to deal with scoundrels, you can only use the method of scoundrels, and use this method to delay time? Did you underestimate him Zhu Di too much? In today's situation, where can the people's hearts be lost?

The helpless envoys of the Ministry of Rites probably recognized the reality, hurriedly said goodbye, left the Yan army camp and went straight to Beijing, fortunately there were people sent by Zhu Di to protect, so they were able to leave Dezhou, otherwise there were continuous wars in Texas, maybe they would be slaughtered on the road, and they hurried for more than half a month before returning to Jinling, and the court officials learned the results of the peace meeting, and they were only a little disappointed, and they did not pin all their hopes on this.

Although the situation is bad now, it has not reached the point of being out of control, there are not many officials in the DPRK who want to really negotiate peace with Zhu Di, and besides, Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai's derogation is because of the pressure of hundreds of officials, not that Zhu Yunwen is so disappointed in them that Zhu Yunwen wants to kill them, and it is impossible for Zhu Yunwen to agree.

However, Zhu Di turned his face and turned decisively, he still had to come up with a way to deal with it, Zhu Yunwen had recently contracted a cold, and after receiving the report from the envoys, he also dragged his sick body to the Zhengxin Palace, and convened Fang Xiaoru, Ru Chang, Xu Huizu and other officials to discuss the matter, speaking of King Yan's refusal to negotiate peace, it didn't take much time at all, and a few people were not too disappointed, after all, this time for nearly two months, it was enough to send 100,000 foot soldiers from the south to Shandong, and a lot of grain and grass could also be raised to be sent to the front line, and the front line in Shandong could be stabilized, to solve the urgent need.

Several people discussed how to block the king of Yan in the north, and finally Xu Huizu proposed a feasible way, Texas has been lost, Shandong can only defend hard, so it is better to let the rear of the king of Yan catch fire and force him to retreat, and the most suitable for attacking Yongping in Beiping is the border heavy troops of Xuanfu and Liaodong, as for whether the internal transfer of the border army will let the aliens go south, at this time the people in the court have no time to think about it.

This is not a way to do it, Zhu Di won two battles and regained the initiative on the battlefield, and the imperial court needs time, so he can only use this method to delay his pace to the south, Zhu Yunwen saw that no one objected, so he agreed to Xu Huizu's method, and the military department immediately drafted an order, so that the army that could still move in the north went to set fire to Zhu Di's backyard.

Just when everything was going well, Fang Xiaoru on the side came to the spirit: "Your Majesty, the minister has a plan, which can make Yan rebel against his father and son!" ”

Everyone looked over, and after listening to Fang Xiaoru's clever plan, the eyes of several ministers were not right, because Fang Xiaoru's words... Sounds like that.

Is this an enlightenment?