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Chapter 572 What Brother Yibai Means...

The cabinet ministers, eunuchs, and maids in Qianqing Palace didn't know why the emperor cried so bitterly. Most of them knelt on the ground cautiously, for fear of harming themselves, but Wang Dehua, Wang Chengen and other eunuchs couldn't do like them. I saw them urging one after another, "The emperor be careful".

Fan Fucui, the chief assistant of the cabinet, and Chen Yan, the second assistant, also knelt on the ground and softly persuaded them, while the others put their heads on the ground, not daring to say a word, even Chen Xinjia did the same.

At this moment, Chen Xinjia was most terrified in his heart. He faintly felt a trace of uneasiness, as if Emperor Chongzhen was like this when he first heard about Fu Fan's disaster, and now he doesn't know why.

When the intruders were defeated, according to Zhang Cheng's secret report, they fled to the southwest, suspected to be fleeing to Funiu Mountain, but after the two thieves came out of Sichuan, there is still no trace. Could it be that they attacked Xiangyang by surprise?
Thinking of this, Chen Xinjia immediately trembled all over, cold sweat dripped down his forehead, and in a flash, he began to think about how to answer in order to deal with it in front of Emperor Chongzhen.

At this moment, everyone in Dongnuan Pavilion suddenly heard Emperor Chongzhen crying and saying: "I never dreamed of it! I never thought of it!"

He then asked again and again: "Yang Sichang...Yang Sichang...what are you doing?"

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Just when everyone didn't know why, Emperor Chongzhen stopped crying and asked suddenly: "Chen Xinjia, why did Zhang Xianzhong suddenly attack Xiangyang and kill King Xiang?"

"what!"

Chen Xinjia's head twitched, and he felt a burst of blackness in front of his eyes. He pressed his hands firmly on the ground to barely support his body, kowtowed and said: "Return to the emperor, when Yang Ge was in front, he reported that he had led the troops out of Sichuan, and sent the general Zuo Liangyu to suppress the bandits." Chasing and suppressing the bandits all the way, as for how Xiangyang fell, and how the bandits broke into Xiangyang. I really don’t know!”

Because Emperor Chongzhen had stopped crying, Wang Dehua got up and went forward, took Gao Mingheng's secret performance and passed it on to the recaptured Fan Fucui, his second assistant Chen Yan and others to read.

Gao Mingheng's secret memorial was sent to the palace together with the memorial of Fuqing Wang Zhu Changcheng, the second son of King Xiang.

Wei Zhaocheng read the memorial and handed it to Chen Xinjia. He glanced sideways at Zhang Sizhi and saw that he was shaking his head slightly with him, knowing that he was implying that he should not impeach Yang Sichang at this moment.

"I'm tired, you step back!"

Fan Fucui and other cabinet ministers didn't know how to speak to persuade the emperor not to be sad, when they heard that the emperor actually told them to retreat, they all felt a sense of relief in their hearts.

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Seeing that there was no one around, Wei Zhaocheng quietly said to Zhang Sizhi who was beside him: "Master Zhang, I think it will be difficult for Yang Wenruo to pass the test this time."

Zhang Sizhi walked forward in small steps on his own, and said lightly: "Today, Yang Wenruo has been favored and favored, so he may not be punished."

After walking a few steps forward, he said again: "Yang Wenruo is so ashamed of his superiors for losing his feudal status. I'm afraid he will have a hard time living!"

Wei Zhaocheng was taken aback for a moment, then asked: "Brother Yibai means..."

Zhang Sizhi hastily cut off his words, and said: "In short, Yang Wenwei's family is still weak, and you and I are no better than those professional speech officials. You must not get entangled in this matter, just wait and see what happens."

Wei Zhaocheng had a comprehensible expression, and didn't speak anymore, and went straight back to his public room.

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"Yang Sichang, where are you now?" After everyone withdrew, Emperor Chongzhen asked loudly again.

He suddenly stood up, patted the imperial case, and said sadly in his heart: "Xiang and Luo occupy the most prestigious places in the world, and Xiangyang is located in the upper reaches of the great river, and it has the potential to build a strategic view to the southeast.

King Xiang is Renzong's beloved son, and he moved to Xiangyang to serve as Pingfan in the upper reaches of Beijing, which is quite meaningful. Now that Xiangyang has fallen, accompanying Beijing must be greatly shocked! "

He sat back on the throne dejectedly, and after a while, he felt even more pessimistic and self-hateful, and he said in his heart: "I was looking for thieves for the world, but unexpectedly within half a month, I lost my feudal vassal. The king's capital died at the hands of thieves.

Could it be that the heavens have rejected my family, and it is impossible to use this to wipe out the descendants of my Zhu family, otherwise how could the thieves be so rampant! "

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Two days later, the Chongzhen Emperor, who was anxiously awaiting the news of Yang Sichang, finally waited for the Babaili Feizuo of Yang Sichang's military supervisor and Dali Youping Shi Wanji.

The content in the memorandum was tantamount to a bolt from the blue for Emperor Chongzhen: Commander-in-Chief Yang Sichang died of illness in Shashikou Governor Xingyuan before dawn on the first day of January in the 14th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty. It is properly sealed and temporarily stored in the treasury of Jingzhou.

At the same time as Wanji's flying music was delivered to the palace, Gao Mingheng, the new governor of Henan Province, also said that Yang Sichang, the governor and assistant minister, "suicided himself by taking poison or hanged himself in the cloud" in Shashikou. He became ill and died of illness.

Emperor Chongzhen now hated and pitied Yang Sichang, and felt helpless and powerless about how to control the "thief suppression" military in the future.

After he urgently called Chen Xinjia, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, into the palace to discuss, he passed down a decree to order Ding Qirui, the governor of the Ministry of War, the right servant of the Ministry of War, to take over as the governor of Yang Sichang.

Therefore, Ding Qirui was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of War and renamed as Superintendent. He was also the governor of Huguang, Henan, Sichuan, and the north and south of the Yangtze River.

Emperor Chongzhen insisted in his heart that although Ding Qirui had some talents, he could never compare with Yang Sichang's ability. However, he looked all over the court ministers, but he couldn't find anyone who could replace him as a supervisor. .

In fact, long before the news of Yang Sichang's death spread to the capital, some academic officials had filed charges of impeachment against him, but most of them were groundless, and Emperor Chongzhen ignored them. He has more memorials, and new bullets are sent to the palace every day.

The Emperor Chongzhen confiscated Yang Sichang's salary of millions, but failed to suppress the "thieves", and even caused Luoyang and Xiangyang to fall one after another. The imperial court is dead. However, the merits are not concealed, and the crimes are heard!"

Seeing this decree, those professional officials and censors became more and more violent in attacking and impeaching Yang Sichang, and some even asked Emperor Chongzhen to dissect Yang Sichang's coffin and kill him.

But after Emperor Chongzhen calmed down a little, he often remembered that when he gave a farewell banquet for Yang Sichang on the platform, he once said that if he failed to suppress the bandits, he would "follow him to death", the lingering sound is still in his ears.

He has always hated the family disputes in the imperial court the most, the faction is the same, and there is no distinction between right and wrong. This situation is now intensified in the gust of impeachment of Yang Sichang.

Emperor Chongzhen was very angry about this, and he ordered the eunuchs to order the six ministries, Jiuqing, Ke, Dao and other officials to come to the Qing palace as soon as possible.

(End of this chapter)