Gu Cong first bowed to the Emperor Taishang, and then replied very sincerely: "Your Majesty Mingjian, all the soldiers of our Daning Capital Division are loyal to the Ming Dynasty.

We only want to protect our family and defend the country, even in a bitter cold place like Daning, where we are hungry and cold, bleeding and sweating, we have no regrets.

It was the traitorous ministers in the court who repeatedly cooperated with the three generations of Mahamu, Tuhuan, and Yexian of Wara, and finally helped them unify Mongolia.

Now our soldiers of the Daning Dusi are willing to give up a comfortable life in Baoding Mansion, and return to the grassland with the son of the Great Tomorrow, regain the lost land of the Ming Dynasty, and restore the peace of Lianjiang.

May I ask Your Majesty, are we at fault? ”

When Zhu Qizhen heard this, he had nothing to refute. Yang Shiqi's son Yang Ji was slaughtered by Zhu Qizhen himself, so can he not know what Yang Shiqi has done.

Gu Cong wants to go back to the grassland and defend the country, which requires fairness, and Zhu Qizhen has no face to say that people are wrong.

In fact, Zhu Qizhen and Zhu Qiyu brothers are also on the same path, both of them want to suppress the traitorous ministers and clean up the pile of bad debts left by the Xuande Dynasty.

It's just that the way of doing things is different, Zhu Qizhen's method is to throw the ministers into prison, close the customs and release them again, hoping that they can be in awe and restrained. And Zhu Qiyu chose a more difficult path: capture the thief and capture the king first, first completely liquidate Sanyang, and then kick out all the ministers handed down from the Xuande Dynasty, leaving no one.

Boyan Timur saw that the Emperor Taishang was choked and couldn't get off the stage, so he hurriedly opened his mouth to relieve the siege: "Commander Gu, we have to go back to the grassland through Bauhinia Pass, please make it convenient." ”

"Yes, no problem."

Boyan Timur and Zhu Qizhen were stunned when they heard this, and they were let go so easily, and they didn't even save the door?

Gu Cong immediately added: "However, the Warat army must separate the men and horses from the weapons and baggage. ”

Zhu Qizhen asked curiously, "What do you mean?" ”

Gu Cong replied: "The last general is entrusted by the Son of Heaven to guard the dangerous pass, and it is impossible to let the Warat army pass through the Bauhinia Pass with open fire.

Therefore, the last general can send troops to transport the ordnance and baggage first, and then the Warat army will pass through the Bauhinia Pass empty-handed. ”

Boyan Timur smiled: "Am I crazy, I passed the test empty-handed, what if you suddenly attack us?" ”

Gu Cong also smiled and took out an edict from his pocket and handed it to Boyan Timur: "The emperor has already arranged it for you, this is an edict written by the emperor himself, allowing you to pass the customs with the emperor safely." ”

Boyan Timur took it, read it carefully, and had no objections. The credit guarantee of the great tomorrow is still valuable.

Moreover, Zhu Qiyu also gave a compromise solution in the edict: the Warat army can clear the customs in batches. For example, 3,000 people were transported with their ordnance baggage, then 3,000 people passed the border empty-handed, and then 3,000 people passed the customs in the same way.

In this way, there is no fear of a sudden attack by the Ming army and the destruction of the Warat army.

Boyan Timur asked the question in his heart again: "If your army resolutely defends the pass, we may not be able to capture the Bauhinia Pass." And we don't have much food and grass left, doesn't the general want to make war exploits, and the new monarch doesn't want heads? Just let us go so easily? ”

Gu Cong replied: "You can't become a fat man by eating in one bite, the emperor only wants to destroy the soldiers and horses of the first headquarters now, and the others, the last general is just a martial artist, and he doesn't know so much." ”

Seeing that he couldn't ask anything, Boyan Timur had to give up.

The guards of Bauhinia Pass were very trustworthy and released the Warat army out of the pass in accordance with the agreement.

After the last Warat soldier passed, the Ming army immediately closed the gate and began to make the final check and fill in the gaps in the fortifications, preparing to meet the soldiers and horses of the headquarters of the first one.

Zhu Qizhen's trip to Beijing, the only gain is that there are eight more concubines, and a name called the son of heaven.

The drizzle was drizzling and the cold wind was biting, Zhu Qizhen sat in the chariot, surrounded by several concubines, and warmed by red Luo incense charcoal, but it was like a spring breeze, and he didn't suffer at all.

In the bedroom, the eldest son who was also holding the beautiful woman like a jade, because he was unwilling to burn too much charcoal, had to cover the nest tightly and stick to the beauty tightly.

Lin Xiangyu felt a little hot, and asked with a smile: "Although it is rainy and cloudy, but it is only afternoon, is the husband lying like this?" ”

Zhu Qiyu asked curiously: "I don't want to lie down either, but what are you doing not lying down on this cold day?" I want to get out, but where to go?

Going outside the city, it's too dangerous; Going to the palace, it's even more dangerous. Going to the West Flower Hall? That's even worse, it's too hard to look at the book, and I still have to live well. I have to live to ninety-nine, and I will be angry with those civil and military generals and noble vassal kings. ”

Lin Xiangyu explained: "The husband misunderstood, the slave family meant, you have been attacking from all sides recently, and the ministers have not jumped out to fight back?"

You want to liquidate the Xuande Dynasty and restore the position of Empress Hu, so that the ministers in the court will not jump out to oppose it? ”

Zhu Qiyu snorted coldly and explained to the beautiful woman in his arms: "From the Taizong Dynasty to the present, these ministers, their personalities and thoughts are completely different from what you think.

You're going to be responsible for raising our sister-in-law in the future, so I'll have to explain it to you.

You must not think that the ministers of the Ming Dynasty had a sense of justice in their hearts. They don't care about Confucian etiquette at all.

You have to recognize that they are super super selfish realists, and no one will really break Confucian etiquette with you and me.

I doubt that the Jingtai Ceremony Discussion I want to engage in can be launched. Don't end up with no one against me, that's embarrassing. ”

Lin Xiangyu asked in disbelief, "Is there such an exaggeration?" Won't anyone come out against it? ”

Zhu Qiyu smiled helplessly: "Of course, I'll give you an example." At that time, Emperor Xuanzong favored his concubine and killed his wife, and abolished the queen of his wife's main room for no reason, and put the concubine on the throne of the queen.

Is this in line with Confucian etiquette? Is it in line with the sage books read by the Manchu scholars? Did Confucius say that you can spoil your concubine and kill your wife?

Did Mencius say that you can spoil your concubine and kill your wife? In which chapter and paragraph he spoke, you will point it to me and show it.

Then, such a blatant violation of Confucian etiquette, did any of the ministers of the entire Xuande Dynasty stand up against it? Was there anyone who was indignant and asked for Empress Hu's life?

No, the entire Xuande Dynasty is such a bunch of garbage ministers. If you really think that they believe in Confucianism and practice the way of Confucius and Mencius, then you are a fool. ”

That's it, there are still a lot of words, Zhu Qiyu didn't dare to say it to his princess, but dared to think in his heart:

There is inertia in human thinking, and there are always people who subconsciously think that the style and logic of the Wenchen in the early Ming Dynasty and the Wenchen in the late Ming Dynasty are the same.

In fact, on the contrary, the Wenchen in the early Ming Dynasty and the Wenchen in the late Ming Dynasty are completely two species.

The Wenchen at the end of the Ming Dynasty really took Confucian etiquette seriously, and there was nothing wrong with this. However, the scholars of the early Ming Dynasty were completely opposite, saying that they believed in the will of heaven was more reliable than saying that they believed in the way of Confucius and Mencius.

The three major examples of the Xuande, Jingtai and Tianshun dynasties show the style of Wenchen in the early Ming Dynasty vividly and clearly.

Zhu Qiyu sighed, but now it is still the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, and the little princess in his arms can't imagine what kind of jaw-dropping and breathtaking situation Wenchen can instigate in the early Ming Dynasty.

(End of chapter)