When Wang Ji saw this, he knelt down to accept the order.

Bai Gui hurriedly waved his hand: "Uncle Jing Yuan doesn't need to be polite, Your Majesty ordered, this is a secret decree, you can just take it and look at it by yourself." ”

When Wang Ji heard this, he bowed deeply to the north, and then took the secret letter, and after carefully confirming that it was intact, he opened the seal and took out the secret decree, and sat alone in front of the handsome case to look at it carefully.

Wang Ji read it carefully word by word, but his brows became tighter and tighter.

After reading it, Wang Ji deciphered three layers of information: first, the emperor hoped to end the war before this autumn; The second is that the emperor only asked for a temporary pacification of the Miao Mutiny, and the repressive measures did not have to be too cruel.

These two points are still expected, and what really makes Wang Ji frown is the third point: among the additional 100,000 troops sent, 40,000 are the defenders of the original Xuanfu. Although the emperor did not say it explicitly, the meaning of his words was to directly characterize the 40,000 people as rebels and ask Wang Ji to give him 'special attention'.

frowned, but without much thought, Wang Ji decided to do what the emperor wanted.

Seriously speaking, Wang Ji hated the defenders of Xuanfu more than the emperor, and hated the civil and military officials in Shanxi even more.

After reading the secret decree, Wang Ji put it in his pocket, and did not mean to share it with everyone present.

Everyone didn't know how to speak, so they heard Wang Ji say coldly to Qian: "Yu Shangshu, you have successfully brought the army, Your Majesty didn't say that you should command in the front, right?" Then I won't keep you, you better go to Nanjing to take up your post earlier. ”

Yu Qian and Wang Ji belong to different camps and have always been extremely discordant. Now that the command of the army has been handed over, Yu Qian did not stay long, so he left the barracks.

Seeing Yu Qian leave, Wang Ji's face finally improved a lot.

Don't look at Zhu Qiyu's absurd behavior, you feel that he is the only one who hates Xuanzong and Sanyang.

In fact, the positions of Zhu Qizhen and Wang Ji are not too fundamentally different from Zhu Qiyu.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen and Xuanzong's father-son relationship is a little deeper, so Zhu Qizhen is willing to hide for His Holiness, and it is not obvious on weekdays.

But political positions can't be pretended. Xuanzong and Sanyang were extremely war-weary, and carried out strategic contraction from the east, south, west, and north directions of the empire at the same time.

And Zhu Qizhen, Wang Zhen, and Wang Ji are all hardline main battle factions, and since Zhu Qizhen was in power, they have been trying to override public opinion, use troops on a large scale, and try to reconquer the Quartet.

As a result, it took a lot of effort to eat, and it was easy to wipe Xuanzong's ass in Luchuan in the southwest, and before he was happy, the disaster that Xuanzong had planted in the north completely broke out.

This time it's good, even the dignified emperor and the orthodox emperor have been sent out.

Therefore, when Wang Ji saw Yu Qian, he would not be angry.

In Wang Ji's view, the defeat of Tumubao was mainly caused by Zhu Qizhen's blind command. But Shanxi's armaments have been abandoned to an exaggerated level, and Shanxi's civil and military officials are completely irresponsible?

In particular, Yu Qian, as a close confidant of Xuanzong and Sanyang, patrolled Shanxi for 19 years, and did not return to Beijing until the 13th year of orthodoxy. As a result, in the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, the Tumubao Revolution occurred.

The next governor of Shanxi, who succeeded Yu Qian, has only been in office for a total of one year, and he can't blame the unlucky guy for the abolition of Shanxi's armaments.

The more Wang Ji thought about it, the more angry he became, so he said a few polite words, and then asked Shi Heng, Liu Yongcheng and others to go back to the camp to rest.

Although Shi Heng is now a marquis and Wang Ji is an earl, Wang Ji is the commander and has a high official rank; Second, Shi Heng fought two big defeats in Shanxi, and he consciously took care of his losses and lacked confidence. So it's not good to say anything about Wang Ji's neglect.

After sending everyone away, Wang Ji ordered someone to invite Baoding Bo Liang Xuan and Deputy Chief Soldier Fang Ying.

Then Wang Ji closed his eyes and thought carefully about his future way out.

Regarding Wang Ji's position, the two brothers Zhu Qizhen and Zhu Qiyu were wrong this time.

Zhu Qizhen has always believed that he has the grace of knowing Wang Ji, and Wang Ji will definitely be loyal to him.

Coincidentally, Zhu Qiyu also thinks so. Although after succeeding to the throne, Zhu Qiyu has been giving Wang Ji an official and a knight, asking for money for money, grain for food, and soldiers for soldiers, without the slightest disadvantage. But from the perspective of inner rationality, Zhu Qiyu also felt that his overtures were of little use.

Zhu Qizhen and Zhu Qiyu both made judgments based on human nature.

In fact, there is no problem with Zhu Qizhen and Zhu Qiyu's thinking, and the real problem lies with Wang Ji.

During Zhu Qizhen's reign, he liked to throw ministers into prison, and there were few important ministers in the court who had not entered.

Because Xuanzong loves to play with crickets, he was called the son of crickets by later generations. According to Zhu Qizhen's love to throw the minister into prison, future generations should call him the son of prison.

It's a pity that Zhu Qizhen's name as the son of heaven is too loud, and it directly crushes the other candidate titles.

The so-called king called the minister to die, and the minister had to die. Most of the courtiers didn't care too much about going to prison. But there are exceptions to everything, others can not care, but Wang Ji cares.

It's just that in the past, Wang Ji didn't choose.

But now, there is a new emperor, who is a hard-line main battle faction like the previous Zhu Qizhen, and hates Xuanzong and Sanyang who are mediocre and misguided more than Zhu Qizhen.

The new emperor's ability is stronger than that of Emperor Taishang, and in less than half a year, he broke up Warat and wiped Xuanzong's ass clean in the north.

Although Wang Ji is far away in Guizhou, his protégés and former officials are all over the court, and he can also get news from the capital.

For example, when Zhu Qiyu first ascended the throne, Yu Qian proposed to transfer Chen You from Nanjing to lead 1,000 elites to Wang Ji's army, responsible for strict monitoring and preventing Wang Ji from making any changes.

But this proposal was not only categorically rejected by Zhu Qiyu, but also severely reprimanded.

It's not big, but it's heartwarming.

Besides, in his conscience, so far, Zhu Qiyu has not treated Wang Ji badly.

Now Wang Ji is more concerned about his title, official position, power, and whether the wealth can be continued. For helping the emperor to restore, he is really not very interested.

Wang Ji in history, all of them went to participate in the change of seizing the door, in addition to pursuing the continuation of titles and wealth, and seeking a good future for their descendants.

The biggest reason is that I am ostracized and depressed. The original position of the secretary of the military department was occupied by Yu Qian, so forget it. was also implicated by Wang Zhen and was idle to Nanjing.

Now it is completely reversed, the change of imperial power, Wang Ji was not negatively affected, but Yu Qian was sent to Nanjing.

Zhu Qiyu wrote clearly in the secret decree just now: Wang Ji not only holds the position of the secretary of the military department, but also the Miao chaos is calm, and the marquis is not a problem.

Originally, it was impossible for Wang Ji to believe such nonsense as a civil official and a marquis.

But Liu Yongcheng, who had just arrived at the barracks, was originally a eunuch with the palm seal of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and the emperor actually made Liu Yongcheng an earl under great pressure.

Although Liu Yongcheng is a legendary eunuch second only to Zheng He in prestige and merit, it is really scary enough to give the earl an exception, and the emperor's courage is really terrifying.

The emperor gave Liu Yongcheng the title of earl, which played the role of buying horse bones.

So when Zhu Qiyu mentioned in the secret decree that he wanted to give Wang Ji a marquis, Wang Ji did not doubt it at all, so he took it seriously.

If you can really get the marquis, then you still miss what the emperor does.

However, around the New Year, news such as various fires and the death of King Yu had reached Wang Ji at this time.

Now Wang Ji turned to Zhu Qiyu's only concern, which was whether the new monarch could give birth to a son-in-law.

It is better to have an undisputed eldest son, so that it will be completely stable.

(End of chapter)