"This man is clearly playing tricks, or knows what we care about, so he writes something specious and teases me."

When Xie Qian handed over the note written by Zhang Zhou to Liu Jian and Li Dongyang the next day, he was still a little annoyed.

As a cabinet minister, he condescended to see Zhang Zhou, but he didn't see anyone.

Li Dongyang is not as emotional as Xie Qian, he said: "The sentence that good and evil are in the end is saying that Zhang's relatives will create retribution in the future?" This kind of use of this kind of words here, or inappropriately, seems to be more perfunctory. What does Liu Lao think? ”

Liu Jian's focus was still on the first sentence, and he frowned slightly: "The first battle in the northwest, must there be?" It is still the Mengchun season, and there has been no movement in the northwest for two months. ”

The three of them couldn't find the answer from the note given by Zhang Zhou.

Xie Qian put away the strips, burned them directly in the brazier, and sighed: "It seems that he has made up his mind to be a minister, Jiangnan Jieyuan, but that's it." ”

……

……

The three cabinet members didn't take Zhang Zhou's reminder seriously.

But as soon as February entered, the situation on the nine sides changed abruptly, and for a while, the ministers in the government and the opposition were also very confused.

In the past, it was usually necessary to wait for the autumn harvest to come out and plunder, but it actually started in February of that year.

It's Kou Bian who comes up with Duoyan Sanwei.

On the morning of the fourth day of the first lunar month, the Fengtian Temple court meeting, and Dai Yi announced the matter in public: "...... Duoyan and other three guards captured Kou Liaodong Yizhou, and the eunuch Ren Liang, the chief military officer Li Gao, and the capital imperial Shi Zhang Yu retreated to the city of Yizhou, and asked for an order to send troops at the right time. ”

Duoyan Sanwei is considered "honest" among the grassland tribes.

The general sense of existence is also relatively weak, but if even Duoyan Sanwei comes to Koubian, it seems that there is also a sign of the turbulent situation in the grassland.

Civilian attitudes to this are also mixed.

Most of them advocated not sending troops lightly, but sticking to them.

However, it was also proposed that the Ming Dynasty was relatively well prepared in Liaodong, and the strength of the Duoyan Sanwei was relatively weak, so he could send troops to engage him.

Ma Wensheng, the secretary of the military department, said: "Now that the enemy situation is unknown, we should send sentry cavalry to reconnoiter north of Liaodong and west of the grassland, and then make a decision." ”

Ma Wensheng is an experienced military secretary in the end, and he can be regarded as calming the scene.

As a result, the matter has not yet subsided.

In the next three days, until the seventh day of the first lunar month, more than a dozen places in the northwest reported the situation on the border of Tatar Kou, and for a time there was wolf smoke everywhere.

On the morning of the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, the court meeting had just ended.

Dai Yi, the eunuch who was in charge of the seal, came to the cabinet and asked Liu Jian to go out to discuss the matter.

The two discussed for a long time before coming back, Dai Yi left in a hurry, Xie Qian glanced at it and said, "It doesn't look like it's going back to the Qianqing Palace." ”

Liu Jian said: "It's going to the military department." ”

"What's the matter, there's another war?" Xie Qian asked casually.

looked back at Li Dongyang, but saw that Li Dongyang didn't have much energy.

Liu Jian said: "Binzhi will enter the curtain in the afternoon, if you are not interested in the court, you can go back to prepare first." ”

The examination will start on the ninth day of the first month, and the curtain official will enter the venue in advance on the seventh day of the first month, Li Dongyang and Cheng Minzheng are both examiners, and the two will also ask questions after entering the venue.

"It doesn't matter."

Li Dongyang wanted to know what was happening now.

After entering the curtain, there will be no contact with the outside world for more than 20 days, and when he comes out again, maybe all the rumors in the northwest have subsided.

Liu Jian sighed: "Yansui and other places have successively reported that Di Yi has invaded the realm, especially around Yulinwei, the Tatar cavalry attacked lightly, and many did not love to fight, and there was a tendency to pursue in many places, and there was no gain. ”

Xie Qian said: "The Tatars are still here, but why are they so weird? In February, when the grasslands all over the grassland have not yet sprouted, Koubian ...... What is the figure? ”

Then Li Dongyang found a copy from a pile of notes.

Liu Jian took it in his hand and looked at it, but sighed heavily.

Li Dongyang said: "There are people who ask Wang Weining to go to the northwest to reorganize the army, mostly because there are still people in the court who still don't know about Wang Weining's affairs in the northwest, and they may also be tempted. ”

"It's all here, I don't know that Wang Weining is in the northwest?" Xie Qian was laughing.

Are these officials naïve or stupid?

When there was no war before, you stepped on Wang Yue and treated Wang Yue as a Ming moth, but now that the war in the northwest is together, you all want to let the court transfer Wang Yue to the northwest to deter cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods.

Coming and going?

Li Dongyang looked at Liu Jian and said, "What is the purpose of Tatar being so unscrupulous?" Could it be that it is really as previously stated, or there is a intention to commit a large-scale offense? ”

If Li Dongyang was asked to analyze it before, he would never believe that the Tatars would invade the country on a large scale before the beginning of spring.

But now Li Dongyang is not sure.

Xie Qian asked, "Where is Wang Weining now?" ”

Liu Jian said: "Partial head." ”

Xie Qian said with a puzzled face: "There has been no battle report recently, why would the Tatars miss this place?" It seems that the Xuanfu is hostile. ”

Li Dongyang said: "It was said before that the northwest of the Ming Dynasty is ten pots with nine lids, and there are always places that can't be covered. But now there is only one Wang Weining, ten pots and one lid, since the cover is at the partial pass, will the Tatar happen to appear here? Or will His Majesty let Wang Weining be on the front line of Xuanda to take precautions and move troops and horses at any time? ”

Liu Jian just shook his head.

So far, he has not figured out the specific movements of the Tatars in the northwest, and he has not even figured out what the purpose of the Tatars is coming.

Xie Qian said: "Now the strength of the three guards of Duoyan Kou Liaodong is the largest, and Liaodong is still the focus of the garrison. If it's just Liaodong...... I'm afraid there is nothing to do with Wang Weining. ”

From the Ming Dynasty to the Hongzhi period, the battlefield in Liaodong has always been the hard power of all parts of the nine sides, or in other words, Diyi outside Liaodong is too unfought.

On the contrary, the Trilateral and Xuanda often suffered from repeated attacks by the Tatars, which became the weight of the nine-sided defense.

……

……

At the beginning of February, because of the successive war reports from the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty, the people around the emperor were also anxious.

Dai Yi even had to go in and out of the Yamen of the Celebrant Supervisor, the Cabinet Duty Office, and the Military Department, inquire about the opinions of all parties, and collect the information as soon as possible, and then report it to Zhu Youzhi for information.

Zhu Youzhu didn't dare to slack off, he stayed in the Qianqing Palace almost every day, and didn't care about returning to the Kunning Palace after nightfall, so he simply put his food, accommodation and work in one place.

Empress Zhang was a little cold to him before, but now he is snubbing Queen Zhang.

“…… Your Majesty, in the opinion of the military department, the battle of Liaodong should be the first, and it seems that Duoyan has sent only 3,000 troops in Liaodong, most of which are mainly infantry cavalry, and if they are pursued by light cavalry, they may be able to besiege and annihilate them all......"

The opinions given by the Ministry of War are basically the same as those of the Cabinet.

If you have to hit only one place, you still pick a soft persimmon and pinch it.

The enemy situation outside Sanbian and Xuanda is unknown, and those places have been controlled by the Tatars for hundreds of years, so it is easy to fall into the quagmire if you are not careful, it is better to be in Liaodong...... At least most of the boundaries are deep cultivation areas of the Ming Dynasty, and there are no dates to play a few poles.

Zhu Youzhu said with emotion: "But Wang Weining is not in Liaodong." ”

Dai Yi didn't know what to say.

To say that the civil officials are cautious about the use of troops on the nine sides, in fact, Zhu Youzhu may be more cautious about this, and agreed to Zhang Zhou's proposal to send Wang Yue to the northwest, and did not say that Wang Yue should lead troops to attack, mainly to take precautions.

If it was a rash advance, there was no need for those ministers to dissuade him, and Zhu Youzhi would be the first to oppose it.

Even if Liaodong is a soft persimmon, Zhu Youzhu still doesn't dare to take risks.

"Your Majesty, do you want to ...... Wang Weining Transferred to Liaodong? Wei Bin on the side seemed to have given a bad idea.

Along with the emperor, several eunuchs looked at Wei Bin.

Wei Bin lowered his head.

He himself knew that this was not a good strategy, and he had been preparing for the battle for a long time, and as a result, Wang Yue was transferred to Liaodong, what if something happened...... The sin is great.

But sometimes, these eunuchs are the ones who carry the black cauldron.

In case the emperor also has this kind of idea, but he is embarrassed to say, then he Wei Bin proposed it and let the emperor adopt it, and in the end there is a real problem, the emperor does not have to be responsible, but he Wei Bin is responsible......

No matter how stupid the idea, the eunuch had to mention it.

Zhu Youzhu said: "I still want to believe Bingkuan, he said that he is at the end of the pass, and it stands to reason that he will ...... In all likelihood. ”

Xiao Jing said: "What Your Majesty said is extremely true, with the enemy situation reported back from the northwest at night, the Xuanda front line is much calmer than when Di Yi invaded the realm in the past years, or there is some brewing. ”

"What is Bingkuan's opinion?"

Zhu Youzhu said a few words and brought it to Zhang Zhou.

Xiao Jing lowered his head and said, "Yesterday, the slave maid visited Mr. Zhang, and he made it clear that as long as the Tatars start to invade the border, the results will be produced within ten days. ”

"Ten days?"

Zhu Youzhu has doubts about this time limit.

Dai Yi said on the side: "Your Majesty, slave maid, Mr. Zhang means that if the Tatars want to take the Partial Pass as the target of plunder, and there are suspicious formations everywhere, then they should also expect that the imperial court will make arrangements in the near future, and they are afraid that Your Majesty will transfer Wang Weining to the northwest." ”

Zhu Youzhu nodded in agreement: "It makes sense." If there is no real move in ten days, then the current old suspicion array will be meaningless. ”

As he spoke, Zhu Youzhu looked at the entire map.

This map was drawn by Zhang Zhou.

The passes, city fortresses, earth forts, etc., which are each out of the nine sides, are almost marked on them, and the labels of mountains and rivers are also very detailed.

In the end, Xiao Jing asked this question, which seemed to be what everyone wanted to ask, but it sounded stupid: "Where did the Tatars come from?" ”

Zhu Youzhu sighed: "The northern defense of the Ming Dynasty stretches for thousands of miles, and if you want to find the direction where the Tatars poured out of their nests, I am afraid that the only way to find out is to have internal responses within Diyi." ”

Chen Kuan reminded: "Isn't there still Mr. Zhang......"

"Huh."

Zhu Youzhu smiled, his face was much lighter, "There is a Bingkuan who can share my worries, and he can withstand 100,000 soldiers and horses." Since he suggested that Wang Weining be placed at the partial head pass, I accepted it, so why should I doubt it now? ”

Speaking of this, Zhu Youzhu suddenly said a little nervously: "But I haven't come, and I still have to worry." I think it will be ten days later, the day I get the results......"

Xiao Jing persuaded and said, "Your Majesty, don't be in a hurry. ”

"How many days are left for the exam?" Zhu Youzhu asked.

Xiao Jing said: "Candidates will enter the exam before nightfall tomorrow, and the exam will start early the day after tomorrow." ”

"Alas!" Zhu Youzhu sighed, "At this time, Bingkuan is not by my side, if he can give more advice by my side, it will not be like this...... He's not saying two other things......"

"Your Majesty, Mr. Zhang said that he would go again tomorrow, and he would write and submit it before entering the house."

"Can't this be more straightforward? Let me wait anxiously. ”

(End of chapter)