In the fifteenth year of Shunzhi, the Qing court wanted to completely follow the Ming system, so it changed the Inner National History Academy, the Inner Secretariat Academy, and the Inner Hongwen Academy into the cabinet, intending to make the cabinet the center of power of the Qing Dynasty.

Because he was afraid that the power of the scholars would be too heavy, Shunzhi specially lowered his rank and only set five grades to suppress it.

Therefore, although the cabinet of the Qing Dynasty is operating like the previous Ming Dynasty, the grade of the university scholars is too low, and there are not many clerks, so its powers and responsibilities are lighter than those of the Inner Three Yuan in the early years of Shunzhi.

Now that the emperor has not yet been in charge of the government, and all the affairs of the state are presided over by the auxiliary ministers, the cabinet system actually exists in name only.

However, the office of the auxiliary ministers is also located in the cabinet, which makes the cabinet unable to operate normally, but it is still the center of power of the Qing Dynasty.

When Sukh Saha and others went to Cining Palace to take advantage of Mulima's defeat to give Ao Bai eye drops in front of the Empress Dowager, another group of ministers went to the cabinet Ao Bai's duty room.

There are the secretary of the Ministry of Officials Asiha, the secretary of the Ministry of War and the official of the Red Banner Manchuria, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Ministers and the Blue Banner of Manchuria Marse, the Ministry of Rites Lang Tai Bitu, the scholar Wu Gesai and so on.

They are all ministers who have been attached to Aobai in recent years, and they are also important helpers in Aobai's control of the six departments.

Among them, there are many officials from the two yellow flags.

The news of Mulima's defeat, which had just arrived in the capital, was so shocking that all Manchu and Han officials who knew about it smelled the crisis.

The crisis does not come from the distant Kuidong, but from the capital under the nose.

Almost instantly, one after another eyes fell on the auxiliary ministers in the cabinet and the palace inside.

Asha, Jishi and others, as a party of Aobai, are well aware of the impact of Mulima's defeat on Aobai, so they are all offering suggestions to save it.

It is said that the army will be transferred to supervise and suppress the Ming army, and the rest of the Ming army in Kuidong will be wiped out at all costs.

It is said that there is a way to put the responsibility for Mulima's defeat on the governor in charge of encirclement and suppression, and in any case, the impact on Aobai must be minimized.

It is said that it is better to send someone to make peace with the Ming army, and redeem the captured Mulima and the Manchurian children, and it is impossible to really let the Manchurian family bring filial piety.

"Say peace, how to say peace? It's hard to ask me to clear the land and pay compensation! ”

The military department Shangshu Ka Chuha opposed peace, saying that victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, if you want to make peace with the Ming army because of a defeat, then the Qing Dynasty will be afraid that it will die early.

The one who proposed peace was Wu Gesai, a university scholar, who entered the office with a pen sticker, had never fought a war, and was similar to those Han officials in his bones.

"How can it be said that it is a compensation for the cession of land, the first emperor tried his best to appease the Kui Dong thief when he was there, and now he can not use force to pacify the Kui Dong thief, he should be appeased"

Wu Gesai explained that the Ming army could be given better conditions than before, such as giving it one or two mansions, and the big thief headed by the marquis and the uncle could be feuded.

Of course, the premise is that the Ming army must go to the Yongli era and shave their hair to be easy to wear!

This is the bottom line of the Qing Dynasty.

"If the Ming army is willing to make peace, I am afraid that they will not make peace."

Marse, who had only been the secretary of the household department for only two months, actually supported the peace talks, because the household department was now poor, and nearly half of the annual fiscal and tax revenue was taken by the three feudatories.

In the past two years, there have been few complaints to the imperial court from all over the country, and there is not enough civil unrest caused by them!

Therefore, if the peace talks could solve the war in Xishan and allow the household to take a breath, Marse agreed with both hands.

"The most important thing at the moment is to redeem the captured General Jingxi and the Manchurian children, otherwise the Eight Banners will protect Shaobao"

The meaning that Asiha, the secretary of the ministry, did not say, and everyone here knew it.

The 800-mile emergency report said that General Jingxi was defeated and most of the Manchurian disciples were lost, but this loss could not be all killed.

Some fled and some were captured.

Judging from the fact that Mulima was captured by the Ming army, it shows that there must have been a large number of Manchurian children who were captured.

As far as the imperial court is concerned, it is imperative to go all out to suppress the western bandits.

But for the Aobai party, finding a way to redeem people is the most important thing.

Because it really makes every Manchurian family die with filial piety, then Ao Shaobao is afraid that he will be hated by the Eight Banners.

Without the support of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, it may be difficult for the Aobai party to continue to control the government.

On that day, although Aobai sent Manchurian children to the expedition with the intention of training his children, it was also to win over the Manchurian Eight Banners to support him, rather than letting everyone in the Eight Banners spit on him.

The intentions must be good, who would have thought that Mulima would be defeated!

The first thing Zhuo Butai, the minister of the guard and the commander of Manchuria with the yellow flag, who rushed to the house after hearing the news, was to complain about his brother: "I said a long time ago that the third child can't lead the army, and he has no experience in leading the army, so it is very likely that it will be bad for him to lead the army, the eldest brother will not listen, now it's okay!" ”

"Second uncle, sit!"

Namufu, the son of Aobai, hurriedly moved a stool and handed it to the second uncle, also with a look of remorse, "At that time, Ama just let the second uncle lead the army." ”

It was a pity for everyone to hear this.

Compared with Mulima, who only conquered Jiangxi at the beginning of the country, Zhuo Butai can be said to be good at fighting.

When he was outside the customs, he was known for his bravery, and after entering the customs, he participated in almost all the battles against the Ming.

first from the prince of Yu Duoduo to the west to conquer Li Zicheng; He also attacked Zhejiang and Fujian from Belle Bolo, and captured Zhu Yujian, Emperor Longwu of the Ming Dynasty; Then from Prince Zheng Zierharang down to Huguang; Later, the southern general Yin marched into Yunnan and Guizhou together with Xinjun Wang Doni and Wu Sangui, defeated Li Dingguo's elephant array, and conquered Kunming.

In terms of military exploits, Zhuo Butai's younger brother is even more prominent than his eldest brother Aobai!

Only he has a violent temperament, after Kangxi led the army from the southwest in the first year, someone exposed to the court that he lied about the military exploits of his subordinates, and as a result, Sony, who was the head of the auxiliary ministers at the time, handed the matter to the Council of Princes and Ministers for decision.

At that time, Aobai, who was ranked last, was powerless to stop this, and he didn't say much to avoid suspicion.

As a result of the meeting, one of the councillors and two of them were sent to inquire about Zhuo Butai.

Who thought that Zhuo Butai was proud of his merits, and he quarreled with the king of parliament and Baylor, and made a big deal about small things.

So on the hanging, the later thoughts have merit and leniency, and only take the world to relinquish.

That is, Zhuo Butai, who returned from a great victory, was stripped of all his positions by the Qing court and was idle.

At the end of last year, Ao Bai used the remnants of the three ministers who opposed the enclosure to successfully restore Zhuo Butai as the commander of Manchuria with the yellow flag, and at the beginning of the year, he also led the minister of the guard, thus completely controlling the palace ban.

It's a pity that the recovery was late, otherwise there would be today's big trouble led by Zhuo Butai.

"Suke Saha and they went to Cining Palace, no need to ask if they are talking about the eldest brother, I don't know what the Empress Dowager and her old man think of this."

casually picked up the tea bowl on the table and didn't know who drank it, and took a sip of it, Zhuo Butai was sulking freely, and he was also worried about his younger brother Mulima.

No matter how incompetent Mulima is, he is also his younger brother, brothers, how can he not be worried.