After listening to Lu Xiangsheng's blood-like words, Zhu Youzhen, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was also moved. He finally gritted his last molar, and said fiercely as if he had stripped off the flesh of his heart: "But Deqing is willing to accept the appointment and share my worries, as for the salary of the soldiers and horses led by the army, I immediately ordered the first assistant Yang Sichang and the ministers of the household department to try to help them, so that the army will not be trapped by food and silver." ”

"Long live you!" When it was done, Lu Xiangsheng did not have a relaxed joy in his heart, but only a deep uneasiness; he steadily knelt on the ground, kowtowed, and thanked him.

Chongzhen signaled Lu Xiangsheng not to be polite, and continued to ask some questions about the situation in the Changping army, as well as the defense soldiers and horses of Xuan, Da, and Shanxi.

On the one hand, he felt that Lu Xiangsheng was a direct minister, and his loyalty was commendable, so it was not unreasonable for him to resolutely lead the battle; on the other hand, he was afraid that once the official army that he was not very confident in losing the foreign war, the crisis faced by the imperial court would be even more difficult to support in the face of strong criminals and bandits.

Emperor Chongzhen pondered for a long time, and he said to the imperial inspector he had chosen: "Qing suppressed the thieves in the past years and made great achievements. But the East is not comparable to the thief, so he should be cautious. ”

Lu Xiangsheng was born as a scholar, so he naturally had a seven-trick heart, but he had always been very self-disciplined; although he saw Chongzhen's uncertainty, and did not want to hide his views from the emperor, he further said to the emperor, "It is advisable to be cautious in fighting with troops." However, in the eyes of the foolish ministers, if Li Zicheng and Li Guo are among the thieves, they are strong and iron-armed, and the army is strictly organized, and their subordinates are strong and strong, and they do not let the thieves of An and Shi be chaotic, but the ministers are secretive, and the court does not know it well. Today, if someone exaggerates the elite in front of the emperor, it is just to find a place for peace. ”

"Our army is new, and we are tired from afar. The enemy is sharp, always take the weight as the top, and do not fight in waves. Chongzhen felt that he was led astray by straight men, and he was unwilling to persuade straight men not to act rashly.

Lu Xiangsheng was shocked when he heard the words "Don't fight in waves", and his fiery naked body seemed to be poured from the top of his head by a basin of cold water.

He was about to continue to make a bitter statement to the emperor desperately, Chongzhen, who had already burned all his combat strength in an instant just now, said to Lu Xiangsheng in a tone similar to physiological coldness: "Qing Saddle Horse is tired, go and rest." As for the battle defense matters, you can carefully discuss with Yang Sichang, Gao Qiqian, etc., to see how to proceed. ”

The eviction order has been issued, Lu Xiangsheng no longer knows what to do, and he doesn't dare to say anything at this time, so he has to kowtow and resign.

As soon as he walked to the right shun gate, one foot in the door and one foot outside the door, a eunuch quickly chased out, and he sent a decree that the emperor gave Lu Xiangsheng wine and food in the left shun gate, and asked him to hurry east with him.

The wine and rice given by the emperor are regulated as usual. There are only four kinds of dishes, and the size of the belly cannot be eaten seriously; there is only one glass of wine, and you can't drink it seriously, so you can only pour the wine in the cup on the ground, and you have to kowtow again to thank you, and if you want to carry the wine and food given by the emperor out of the Forbidden City without permission, then you can only exchange it with human heads.

In the evil feudal society, such a thing as the emperor's banquet has always been regarded as the supreme favor of the emperor, and it is a rare honor for the important ministers of the court. Lu Xiangsheng was moved to tears, he kowtowed to the north, shouted long live, and at the same time, in his almost frozen heart, there was a glimmer of hope that the emperor was inclined to fight against the east.

Eating the emperor's food in small sips, slowly sipping the wine given by Chongzhen, Lu Xiangsheng's heart was tossed and turned, what was going on, he really wanted to make a fortune divination after returning home. Just when he was thinking nonsense and was about to resign, a person walked in with his leg raised, smiled at Lu Xiangsheng, and arrived apologetically, "I want to disturb my lord again, and I want to look at Haihan." ”

Lu Xiangsheng was deserted in his heart, and he was stunned when he heard someone talking, but when he saw that the person who spoke was Wang Chengen, the eunuch of the palace, Lu Xiangsheng hurriedly got up and talked to this inner supervisor who has always had a good reputation. The two exchanged pleasantries, and Wang Chengen explained his intention to him.

It turned out that after Lu Xiangsheng left, Chongzhen felt uneasy in his heart, he thought about Lu Xiangsheng's sincerity to himself, and thought of the crowd in the court, and the troubles were a mess. He paced out of the temple with his hands behind his back to take a breath, raised his eyes to the rising sun, and found a vision of the sun.

Suddenly, in the clear and clear sky, "the blazing sun hugs Er, and there is a stream of clouds and qi, which is curved like a bow, and the back of the bow is facing upwards......" Chongzhen, who was favored by the heavens and 'the king's father and mother and earth is the son of heaven', was suddenly shocked in his heart, he forcibly suppressed the anxiety in his heart, and ordered Wang Chengen to hurry up to Qin Tianjian to inquire what kind of sign this was and Qin Tianjian.

Qin Tianjian is an institution that observes the celestial phenomena, calculates the solar terms, and formulates the calendar. From the Qin and Han dynasties to the Southern Dynasties, Taichang belonged to the Taishi Lingzhang Tianshi ephemeris; the secretary province of the Sui Dynasty belonged to the Taishi Cao, and Emperor Yang changed Cao to the supervisor; in the early Tang Dynasty, the Taishi supervisor was changed to the Taishi Bureau, and the heirs were renamed the Secretary Pavilion, the Hun Tian Supervision Yuan, and the Armillary Yi Supervisor several times, which belonged to the secretary province.

In the 14th year of Kaiyuan, it was renamed the Taishi Bureau, which belonged to the secretary province, and in the first year of the Qianyuan Dynasty, it was renamed Si Tiantai. In the Five Dynasties and the beginning of the Song Dynasty, it was called Si Tianjian, and after the reform of Yuanfeng, it was changed to the Taishi Bureau. The officials in southern Liaoning have Si Tiantai, and Jin is called Si Tiantai, which is a secretary and supervisor. Yuan has Taishi Academy, Ming Dynasty continued to use a Si Tianjian, and was later renamed Qin Tianjian, still belonging to Qin Tianjian.

At this time, the Qintian supervisor was the well-known German missionary John Tang, who suddenly heard the emperor's summons and immediately ordered the deputy supervisor Zheng Gao Shouqian, who was good at astrological divination, to enter the palace and play the right match.

Chongzhen was not very satisfied with Gao Shouqian's recital, and after repelling Gao Shouqian, he suddenly remembered Lu Xiangsheng, who had been summoned by his platform......

Just like the famous commander of the Celestial Empire in ancient times, Lu Xiangsheng in addition to the fine art of war, battle array, also specialized in the study of astrology in the Book of Changes. Lu Xiangsheng didn't dare to delay when he got the emperor's order, he hurriedly rinsed his mouth and cleaned his face, walked outside the hall and looked up for a while.

He remembered the vision very clearly at this moment, which was the celestial phenomenon mentioned in the "Star Classic" co-authored by Gan Gong and Shi Shen in the Han Dynasty, and the "Wangqi Sutra" written by Shao Ge in the Tang Dynasty.

When he learned of these disastrous signs, he was shocked, but Lu Xiangsheng could not explain the hexagram he had obtained, so he said to Wang Chengen, who had come to inquire about him in the place of the emperor: "Please ask your father-in-law to play your majesty on behalf of the students." In the ancient book, this is a sign of victory over the enemy. ”