When Yang Sichang, the secretary of the military department, was waiting in the west duty room in the Wenhua Gate, when he heard the official announce his visit, the servants habitually rearranged his almost perfect clothes and hats; a moment later, he saw Yang Sichang walking out of the duty room with a steady pace.

When he was about to enter the outer hall of the Wenhua Palace, he happened to meet the eunuch Gao Qiqian and walked out of the palace. He hurriedly took a step forward, arched his hand and asked in a low voice, "Gao Gong, what does the emperor think?"

Gao Qiqian didn't care about the palace maids and eunuchs around him at all, but just leaned close to Yang Sichang's ear and muttered: "In my opinion, the emperor is in a hurry to discuss peace, but he is afraid that he will have a reputation for seeking peace from the enemy, and he is even more afraid of the foreign court's discussions; ”

Yang Sichang, the assistant minister of the cabinet, is naturally not the first brother of officialdom, he nodded with a meaningful smile, and Gao Qiqian said goodbye to each other, and he followed the young man to lead the eunuch to the palace.

In the cold wind in front of the main hall, a palace maid standing with Nana lifted the heavy yellow satin curtain for him, Yang Sichang bent down and walked into the Wenhua apse respectfully.

Another palace maid stepped forward to open the embroidered dragon yellow satin curtain of the warm pavilion, Yang Sichang's waist bent lower, he walked in quickly, stood at the door and said: "Minister Yang Sichang sees the driver!" and then knelt down and kowtowed to the emperor.

Although Emperor Chongzhen trusted him very much and favored him everywhere, he knew that there were many courtiers in the southern and northern capitals who impeached him, and these people were reprimanded and punished by the emperor every time, but every time he was summoned by the emperor, he could not help but feel uneasy.

Yang Sichang is the eldest son of Yang He, the former right attendant of the military department and the governor of the three sides, in the thirty-eighth year of Wanli, he was a jinshi, and in the tenth year of Chongzhen, he replaced Liang Tingdong as the sixth secretary of the military department of the Chongzhen Dynasty. Yang Sichang knows that the current emperor is a suspicious, stubborn, and short-tempered person, and it is difficult to wait. From the frequency of the six military departments in ten years, it can be seen that Chongzhen's thin and unkind people, he is favored by the emperor today, maybe one day he will suddenly change his hexagram and be punished by him.

It is for this reason that Yang Sichang has repeatedly appealed and resigned, and has recently obtained the emperor's consent to allow himself to resign from the post of secretary of the military department, and recommended Lu Xiang to be promoted to the new secretary of the military department, so as to reduce his responsibilities so that he can concentrate on the appointment of the first assistant to the cabinet.

Xiang Chongzhen made a regular salute, Yang Sichang stood in the place where he had just stood high, he didn't dare to raise his head, he bowed down and stared at the black and shiny gold bricks in front of the emperor's feet, waiting for the emperor to ask.

"Sir, please. Chongzhen unexpectedly thought of a life-saving straw, so he was not interested in Yang Sichang's arrival, his voice was very low, fortunately, Yang Sichang was engrossed and waited for the emperor's inquiry at any time, otherwise he might miss Chongzhen's question.

Yang Sichang kowtowed on the gold brick in the same position as Gao Qiqian again, and then stood up, his hands hanging down to his side, and quietly waited for the emperor to continue speaking.

Chongzhen is still a young man after all, and in the face of an old bureaucrat who is determined not to say a word, he himself can't afford it anymore at first, so he coughed lightly and asked Yang Sichang: "Lu Xiangsheng will definitely be able to come tonight?"

"Definitely in time. Yang Sichang's answer was clear and concise, which made Chongzhen lose the direction of continuing to move forward along the theme.

"How are the three battalions assigned?" Chongzhen asked. Before Lu Xiangsheng arrived, he had some doubts about whether the three major Beijing battalions, namely the Fifth Army Battalion, the Third Thousand Battalion, and the Shenji Battalion, which were guarding Beijing, would be able to withstand the attack of the Qing soldiers.

"Part of the city is guarded, part of it is stationed outside the Dongzhi Gate and Chaoyang Gate, and part of the original station outside the Desheng Gate is to prepare for Changping. Now that the soldiers and horses of King Qin are coming from all over the place, Changping is safe, and this part of the people and horses have also withdrawn to Chaoyangmen. Yang Sichang had just come down from the defense line, and his answer was naturally watertight.

"How is the garrison in the city?" In just a few words, Chongzhen felt the threat of the Qing soldiers again, and suddenly found that Lu Xiangsheng may not be able to untie his heart knot, so this life-saving straw is better as a spare tire.

"The three battalions of Beijing soldiers are enough to defend the city!" Yang Sichang first wanted to appease the emperor's heart, and with his years of medical experience, he had already noticed the change in Chongzhen's tone when he asked.

He still lowered his head, not looking at the young man's pale face, but only answered the emperor's question respectfully, "The Hongyi cannons were all distributed to the city yesterday evening, and the ministers also sent officials to sacrifice the cannons. ”

Listening to Yang Sichang's answers, Chongzhen nodded frequently. He was satisfied, but he still wanted to ask about the peace negotiation, but after hesitating for a moment, his strong self-esteem made him change the subject, "Now that the captives have entered the Kou, the country's military resources have dried up, and it is becoming more and more difficult to deal with it. ”

He originally thought that Yang Sichang should have a correct answer here, but he still only saw a black veil, trembling and trembling under his mouth; since he wanted to open the mode of playing the right game between the monarch and the minister, he couldn't be cold, and now that the minister didn't speak, he had to keep emptying his mind and continue to play the right thing.

Unconsciously, the young emperor confided in front of Yang Sichang, an old driver, "The courtiers are venting and venting, but they are still empty words and not pragmatic, and when it comes to an emergency, no one can share the worries of the monarch, and they are very disappointed!

Shen Xun, the director of the Ministry of War, went through Cao Huachun's door and became the six-grade director of the important yamen of the Ministry of War, how important this position is, Yang Sichang and Chongzhen both know it, and in Li Chixin's era, he was the direct director of a certain department of the Central Committee.

Yang Sichang saw that Cao Huachun's people had made the emperor angry, so he persuaded him euphemistically: "Shen Xun's opinion is really confused. But he dared to take the liberty to play, first, because he knew that His Majesty was the king of Yao Shun, and he would not be guilty of his words; second, because he was worried about the country and did not have time to think about it, and he had many things to say, many of which were meritorious. ”

Chongzhen was strict and suspicious by nature, so Dongchang and Jinyiwei, as the eyes and ears of the emperor, went around to inquire about the private affairs of the ministers, but his eyes and ears used the rights given by the emperor to exchange interests for themselves, and because of this, as the vested interests of the Chongzhen Dynasty, few of these ministers wanted to be loyal ministers of Chongzhen and the Ming Dynasty.

The young Emperor Ming pondered for a moment, and nodded as if he had realized something: "Gu Nian is still a little worried about the country, I don't offend him!"

After speaking, he waved his chin, and the palace maids and eunuchs who were waiting in the palace hurriedly retreated.

Today, I flipped through the clicks and collected these statistics, and I felt a little apprehensive in my heart, and then I will enter the ...... of large-scale war and fight scenes; Could it be that the model of martial arts plus history has really entered a niche? After a short sleep, I drank a pot of small green mandarins to refresh myself and continue my journey to hit the streets.

(End of chapter)