Chapter 130: "Sin" or "Merit"
Ye Qiu, who was far away in Ningyuan, suddenly received wave after wave of chivalrous value, and the growth of chivalrous value, which had slowly stagnated, began to advance by leaps and bounds again.
Ye Qiu glanced in the direction of Jingshi, and said in his heart: "It seems that the news has reached Jingshi, and the second uncle is very fast." β
The second uncle is naturally Ye Xiu, this Ye Xiu is Ye Lu's younger brother, and he is also the representative of the Ye family in the court.
Today's Pavilion Elder Zhou is similar, Chongzhen is not satisfied, Ye Qiu feels that with his own victory, the second uncle may be able to go further.
A few days later, two teams of people from the imperial court arrived in Ningyuan, and the military department and the Imperial Procuratorate sent a total of four teams of men, and two teams were afraid that they would encounter misfortune.
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A few more days passed.
It's still a temple of nourishing hearts.
Ye Xiu and Wu Hongwen, the secretary of the military department, stood in front of Chongzhen.
Chongzhen walked down from behind the table and asked, "How?"
Wu Hongwen also said excitedly: "Your Majesty, this time it is true, there are a total of 2,385 Jurchen heads, and 7,962 Mongol and Jurchen Han army heads. Not only that, among them, there are seventy-three Jurchen Bayala military cards, one hundred and forty-two white armor military cards, and the head of a Jurchen Beizi Unag. β
"Great victory, Your Majesty, this is a real great victory!" Wu Hongwen's face turned red with excitement.
As the secretary of the Ministry of War, he is also under great pressure, after all, someone must be responsible for a series of defeats, can he be the emperor!
Now that Liaodong has won a big victory, the pressure on him has been relaxed.
Chongzhen's face was redder than Wu Hongwen's, and beads of sweat were coming out on his forehead, it was winter now, which showed his excitement.
Then he was a little puzzled and asked: "By the way, this Ye Qiu is Ye Aiqing's clan, right, he went to Liaodong four years ago to take office?
Obviously, after getting the news of the victory, Chongzhen also learned about Ye Qiu.
Ye Xiu's heart moved when he heard this, Qiu'er's opportunity came.
"Your Majesty, after my nephew went to Liaodong four years ago, he actually made many meritorious contributions and killed the Jurchens on the battlefield many times, but there was Zu Dashou on it, and Lord Yuan had a lot of relationship with Zu Dashou, so every time the credit was taken by Zu Dashou and his cronies. β
"What is this!" Chongzhen was shocked.
"The minister will never dare to deceive His Majesty, if Your Majesty looks at the bookbooks of Liaodong's meritorious service in recent years, you will find that since the minister's nephew went to Liaodong four years ago, Liaodong's record against the Jurchens has improved, and there have been many times to kill real slaves and obtain small victories, which was not seen in the past. β
"Is this true?" Chongzhen turned to Wu Hongwen and asked.
Wu Hongwen quietly handed Ye Xiu a color, and Ye Xiu nodded faintly.
Wu Hongwen suddenly knelt down, "Your Majesty, the old minister has neglected to observe!" He knocked on the ground and shouted: "The old minister has never found out the abnormality of the achievements submitted by Liaodong in the past few years, until the news of Ye Qiu's victory came a few days ago, the old minister felt that something was wrong, and he worked tirelessly for several days and nights in a row, and sorted out the battle reports of Liaodong over the yearsββ"
As he spoke, he took out a thick stack of paper from his arms, "Your Majesty, it's all here, it is indeed as Lord Ye said, since Ye Qiu went to Liaodong to take office in the past few years, Liaodong's record is really much better than before." β
Chongzhen's complexion changed greatly, and as soon as he took the battle report handed by Wu Hongwen in his hand and looked at it, his face became more and more ugly.
Seeing the end, he stomped his foot violently, "I'm angry!"
He threw the battle report in his hand to the ground, suddenly thought of something, and asked, "Ye Qing, since you already knew, why didn't you tell me?"
"Your Majesty, the minister also wants to say, after all, it is the minister's nephew who has been wronged! But the minister still endures it, also because this is the minister's nephew! If the minister bothers His Majesty because of my nephew's private complaints, not only will he break the rules of the court, but he is also afraid that other generals will follow suit and become the private soldiers of some people in the court!"
Ye Xiu knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, the minister is guilty of deception and arbitrariness, please ask the emperor to punish the crime......
Chongzhen's eyes were red, what a good courtier, for the sake of me, he even endured the grievances suffered by his nephew, and he endured it for nearly four years!
If it weren't for Zu Dashou's death this time, I'm afraid I would have to continue to be wronged!
As for the "private soldiers of some people" in Ye Aiqing's mouth, aren't they Yuan Chonghuan and Zu Dashou, these two damn things!
He has long been dissatisfied with Yuan Chonghuan, and after taking office, he has made no achievements, but has made the ancestral warlords bigger, and the imperial court spends tens of millions of taels of silver every year to raise these moths!
Zu Dashou, die well!
Chongzhen gritted his teeth in his heart, and then said with unconcealed appreciation in his tone: "Aiqing thinks about the country and me, what is the crime! β
Chongzhen continued, "That Jiliao Governor has all kinds of illegal things, Aiqing has been impeached five times before, and I have been thinking about it for a long time, so I decided to make a slight move, and Ye Qing has really made an indestructible contribution. Although most of them stayed in the middle and didn't hear about it, Aiqing dared to go in outright, but I remembered it in my heart. β
Ye Xiu knelt down and said in a calm tone: "I don't dare to say anything for the emperor, I just hope that all the armies of my Ming Dynasty will be like this Liaodong battle, and expel the Jurchens from the border wall as soon as possible, so that my people will not have to be displaced." β
His mouth was full of fire, and his heart was actually quite proud.
He contacted Wu Hongwen to seize the opportunity of the Jurchens to enter the prison, first impeached Yuan Chonghuan one after another, and first convicted Yuan Chonghuan. Then took advantage of Yuan Chonghuan's abuse of power to drag the first assistant Zhou Xiangru into the water, Yuan Chonghuan was able to sit in the position of Jiliao Governor at that time, Zhou Xiangru made a great effort, who can guarantee that he colluded with Zu Dashou, and there was no Zhou Xiangru behind him?
Originally, Zhou Xiangru and Yuan Chonghuan were in support of each other inside and outside, but now Yuan Chonghuan is basically charged with colluding with warlords in the eyes of the emperor.
Zhou Xiangru fell, and there was no obstacle to his entry into the cabinet. and then take advantage of Ye Qiu's great victory to help him control the army.
At that time, there are high-ranking officials in my Ye family, and there are soldiers and horses outside, and I will have a few more chances of surviving in this troubled world.
As for the rebellion, he did not dare to think of it.
Wu Hongwen also took a fancy to Ye Xiu's rising potential, so he was co-opted by him and made up for Yuan Chonghuan.
Chongzhen's mood has eased up now, he looked at Ye Xiu with satisfaction, and praised in his mouth: "Ye Qiu, a small deputy garrison, actually turned the tide after Zu Dashou's army was defeated and killed, and turned defeat into victory. β
Ye Xiu was overjoyed when he heard this, "Qiu'er's official position is complete." β