Chapter 57: The Donglin Party in Action (Seeking a New Chapter)
After leaving the palace, Congzhe and Huang Jiashan returned to their yamen office.
Now the Ming army in Liaodong has suffered heavy casualties, and the four-way army has directly lost two roads, and the other two roads are also in a semi-crippled state, and the troops in Liaodong are seriously insufficient.
Regardless of this victory, a large number of reinforcements and food and military funds are needed, otherwise the empty Liaodong may attract the attention of the Mongols.
Fang Congzhe asked Huang Jiashan to urge reinforcements from all walks of life to rush to Liaodong.
Previously, the thousands of reinforcements of Xuanfu, the wolf soldiers in Guangxi and the white pole soldiers in Sichuan failed to catch up with Yang Hao's encirclement and suppression, and now these more than 10,000 people and horses have become a new force.
But these troops were far from enough, and Huang Jiashan was ready to transfer the Qi family army under the command of Qi Jin to the north; Even the Beijing camp began to select soldiers again, preparing to go to the battlefield in Liaodong.
For a while, the atmosphere in Jingshi also became tense.
This war touched the hearts of countless people, including the Donglin Party members who are now out of power, and these Donglin Party members are gathering in the mansion of Yuan Yingtai in the military department.
After the resignation of the Donglin Party's self-surrender auxiliary Ye Xianggao, the main members have been basically squeezed out of the core of power.
The earliest three leaders of Donglin, Gu Xiancheng, have died, and Zou Yuanbiao and Zhao Nanxing have also been reprimanded and returned to their hometowns.
If the early Donglin Party members can still criticize current politics, promote reform, and maintain the national capital, they can play a certain progressive role.
Today's Donglin Party is completely addicted to party strife and can't extricate itself.
Many people no longer have right and wrong in their hearts, but only know that the party is the same and different.
The purpose of their concern for the Liaodong War was to attack the three parties of "Qi, Chu, and Zhejiang" in order to regain their right to speak in the court.
Yuan Yingtai of the Ministry of War said: "The report of this expedition has been sent to the Ministry of War, and it is said that a great victory has been achieved. ”
"The traitor Li Yongfang was captured alive, and the heads of the thief chieftains Amin and Abatai are now in the military department."
Hearing about the victory in Liaodong, everyone present couldn't help but be a little disappointed, only Yang Lian seemed more excited in the military department.
Yang Lian said: "This battle has consumed too much manpower and material resources of the Ming Dynasty, and winning it is naturally the best result." ”
But this normal statement seems a little out of place here.
Everyone looked at Yang Lian with surprised eyes, and the subtext clearly said: Is this kid missing a root and tendon, and can't figure out where his ass is sitting?
Soon Yuan Yingtai changed his words and said: "But this time the good news is a bit weird, only Huang Shangshu has seen it, and in the past, this kind of good news would be circulated in the military department." ”
"Not only that, His Majesty also personally summoned Huang Shangshu and Fang Shoufu this time. At present, the military department is mobilizing troops and horses in various places to support Liaodong, which is not a measure that should be taken by a great victory. ”
Yuan Jiacheng, the head of the household department, also said: "The household department has also received an order from Fang Shoufu and is raising a large amount of military rations to be sent to Liaodong. ”
All kinds of signs show that the war in Liaodong did not end because of this "good news," but showed signs of escalation.
At this time, the imperial physician Sun Wenming on the side said: "Today, after His Majesty summoned Wan Fanghuang and others in the Qianqing Palace, he summoned the imperial doctor to go for diagnosis and treatment. ”
The more you talked, the more excited they became, and soon they reached a consensus: this good news is clearly trying to cover up, and it is simply a failure.
If it's a failure, it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Yang Hao, the economic strategy of Liaodong, is the general of the "Zhejiang Party", and he was recommended by Fang Congzhe, so they can take the opportunity to get rid of Yang Hao and recommend the Donglin Party to go to Liaodong.
Zhou Shunchang, the chief inspector of the Ministry of Officials, said: "If it is just a defeat, although the cabinet and the military department are negligent, I am afraid it will be difficult to punish them. At that time, Fang Shoufu will at most lose his pawn and protect the commander, remove Yang Hao, and take it out to blame. ”
"But if Yang Hao is a defeat, and Fang Shoufu and others help cover it up, then the nature of the matter is completely different!"
Zhou Shunchang's words made their eyes light up, which was like a swarm of flies staring at an egg with a slit.
These people instantly reprimanded Yang Hao for losing his teacher and humiliating the country, and Fang Congzhe brought disaster to the country and the people, and they couldn't wait to swallow the two of them alive immediately.
However, there are still two difficulties in front of them at this time.
One is that they didn't see the report at all, everything was just speculation.
Second, they did not know the specific situation of the war in Liaodong, and there was no way to blame them.
Yuan Yingtai said: "I understand your determination to eliminate traitors for the country, but now we don't have strong evidence in our hands, and we still need to be patient for the time being. ”
There is nothing else in the Donglin Party, that is, there are many people, and many officials at the bottom are Donglin Party members, and Liaodong is naturally no exception.
Within a few days, they had a lot of information.
Zhou Shunchang said angrily: "Liaodong has a slight Yang Hao, lost his division and lost his land, and he is afraid of the enemy like a tiger. As a result, Jianyu attacked all the way to the city of Shenyang, causing tens of thousands of people in our Ming Dynasty to be plundered by Jianlu. ”
Shao Zhan Liu Yijing was even more distressed, and cried: "In order to conquer Liaodong, I, Daming, spent millions of taels of silver; Hundreds of people cut back on food and clothing in order to pay the 'Liao salary'. But in exchange for a complete fiasco, according to the information sent back, the vicinity of the Sarhu monk cliff is full of the bones of my Ming soldiers, and the 50,000 horses of the army on the northwest two roads are almost completely annihilated. ”
"What's even more odious is that Yang Hao, a traitor, actually turned defeat into victory and sent good news to the Ministry of War."
The more these people talked, the more excited they became, and the whole room was full of whines and wails, and they didn't know which Donglin dignitaries suddenly died.
At this time, Yuan Yingtai said: "Please calm down, the two roads in the northwest are indeed a fiasco; However, there are still good news, the Southern Route Army killed the enemy chieftain, and a large number of beheadings are also real, and the head has been sent to the military department. At present, the vast majority of the results of the verification are the heads of the Jianyu. ”
At this time, everyone had already been selectively blind, and they couldn't see this at all, anyway, Liaodong was defeated, and it was a fact that Jianyu attacked Shenyang City and kidnapped a large number of people.
They were all beaten like this, and they dared to call it a "great victory" if they were lucky enough to kill two enemy chieftains and eliminate some prisoners?
Are they fooling the hell?
So the Donglin Party began to take action and wrote impeachment one after another.
However, Emperor Wanli never paid attention to the recitals of the hundred officials, and the piles of impeachments were sent directly to Fang Congzhe.
At this time, Fang Congzhe and Huang Jiashan were already very calm, because they had just received the latest battle report from Liaodong.
Yang Hao defeated Jianyu under the city of Shenyang, and Nurhachi had already retreated.
Moreover, Yahu Pass was still in the hands of the Ming army, and Jianyu did not completely occupy Qinghe Road.
Just when the two of them breathed a sigh of relief and were ready to report their victory to Wanli.
I saw a scribe hurriedly running over and saying: "Fang Shoufu is not good, a group of Donglin Party officials led by Zhou Shunchang and Liu Yijing are carrying coffins and crying outside the palace gate in mourning clothes. said that he wanted to seek justice for the tens of thousands of Ming soldiers who died in Liaodong, and asked Fang Shoufu to severely punish Yang Hao and other Liaodong generals, and investigate them for lying about the military situation and turning defeat into victory! ”
"They wept and mourned all the way, blowing and stirring and making quite a fuss, there were hundreds of people, and now the palace gate is full of onlookers!"
Shao Zhan Shi Liu Yijing even threatened: "If Lord Shoufu doesn't give everyone an explanation today, he will die outside the palace gate!" ”
originally thought that these Donglin Party would be impeached in the Shangzhang Chapter, Fang Congzhe was naturally not afraid, but he didn't expect that these people directly began to play scoundrels and make things so big, it seems that something bad is going to happen!
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