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Chapter 98 The Inspector Army and the Governor's Army?

Beijing, the Forbidden City, inside the Qianqing Palace.

When Emperor Chongzhen thought of the stubborn appearance of Yang Tinglin, the editor of the Imperial Academy and lecturer of the Eastern Palace, he became a little impatient. He frowned and said to Wang Chengen in a low voice: "Read Yang Tinglin's Shuzi to me!".

Wang Chengen picked up Yang Tinglin's memorabilia and began to read it in a clear voice.

Emperor Chongzhen sat on the throne, listened, and suddenly became angry. He couldn't help interrupting Wang Chengen, and asked in a deep voice:
"What did he say? Reread that sentence!"

Wang Chengen read softly: "Your Majesty has the ambition to attack, but the minister has no talent to resist insults; if you don't care about it, use the country as a play!"

"What!"

Emperor Chongzhen was very dissatisfied with the content of Yang Tinglin's memorial, so he continued: "It's purely a scholar's opinion! What do you say next?"

Wang Chengen continued to read softly: "Yang Sichang and Governor of Jiliao Wu Aheng supported the same internally and externally, friends conspired to harm the country, advocated peace negotiations, and Wu Bei suddenly forgot, so much so!..."

"Stop! Stop!"

Emperor Chongzhen suddenly jumped up from the throne, tapped the imperial case vigorously with his fingers, and said loudly:
"What's 'supporting the same at home and abroad, friends conspiring to harm the country', it's all nonsense! Wang Chengen, do you know if this Yang Tinglin is better friends with someone, deliberately criticizing ministers?"

"Your servant doesn't know." Wang Chengen said reassuringly.

Emperor Chongzhen sat back on the throne and turned his head quickly. He thought for a while, but he couldn't think of who Yang Tinglin would be a good friend in the court, so he continued: "Okay, read on!"

Wang Chengen continued to read: "The governor Lu Xiangsheng blamed the ministers for harming the country, and his words were heartbreaking. Husband Nanzhong was included, but Li Gang had no merit; potential goodness and success, Zong Ze died..."

"Humph"

Emperor Chongzhen let out a loud snort, stomped his feet vigorously, stood up again, and slammed his hand on the imperial case with a "snap". Wang Chengen, who was on the side, shook his hand in fright, and dared not read any more. go down.

"It's outrageous! How dare you slander me!"

He walked up and down in the Qianqing Palace, still asking angrily:

"Who is Li Gang? Who is Zong Ze? Who are Geng Nanzhong and Huang Qianshan? Ah! Why don't you say that Qin Hui is in the court? Could it be that I am Song Gaozong?...Damn it! It's extremely hateful!"

The allusions borrowed by Yang Tinglin in the memorial made Emperor Chongzhen extremely disgusted, even unbearable.

Chongzhen thought in his heart:

"This Yang Huzi is very knowledgeable, so he was appointed as the lecturer of the Eastern Palace. How could he use allusions in such a random way, so that the comparison is so nondescript?"

He usually hates that someone compares his peace negotiation plan with the Qing Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty's humiliating peace with the Jin Dynasty, but this Yang Tinglin insists on comparing the situation in the Southern Song Dynasty!
"What are you talking about!" Chongzhen said angrily in his heart: "Zhao Gou is on the left side of the river, and even though I struggle in every possible way, I am still the emperor!"

He murmured in his heart, "Oh, there's nothing I can do with such a person!"

After finishing speaking, he lightly gestured to Wang Chengen to let him continue reading.

Wang Chengen was worried that the emperor would be angry because of this, and ordered Yang Tinglin to be convicted. When he saw the emperor told him to continue reading, he breathed a sigh of relief, quickly cleared his throat, and read again:
"Your Majesty begs to be enraged, he made it clear that those who are upright are guilty of peace, and cut off the heads of courtiers and hung them on the gate of the country to show that they are incompatible with Dongyi. In this way, the soldiers will fear the law, know their loyalty, and have no two hearts.

Call all the ministers, big and small, to consult with the strategy, so that the emperor of the Chinese and foreign ministers and workers has the intention of fighting without peace, so that he will try his best to try his best to become stronger.I hope that His Majesty will tell Lu Xiangsheng to gather all kinds of reinforcements, take the opportunity to go to the enemy, and not to control it.This is the urgent task of today..."

Emperor Chongzhen paced back and forth in the Qianqing Palace, listening to Wang Chengen finish reading Yang Tinglin's memorabilia without missing a word.

In the memorial, Yang Tinglin also put forward some specific military suggestions, but his central idea was still against the peace negotiation, and he believed that the peace negotiation can only be considered after the military victory.

Although Emperor Chongzhen was headstrong, he also saw that Yang Tinglin's memorials were out of loyalty and patriotism, but he hated Yang Tinglin's attack on Yang Sichang in this way, and also hated the too violent words in his memorials, and even more hated Yang Tinglin's defense of Lu Xiangsheng .

He sat back on the throne a little dejectedly, took over Yang Tinglin's memorial, and looked at it carefully. He originally planned to keep it for processing, but then he dismissed the idea.

His grandfather, Emperor Shenzong, often left some memorials that he was not satisfied with for disposal, causing dissatisfaction among the officials and workers in the court, so in his hands, this method was rarely used.

He tried his best to be a "sage master" who was diligent in governing the country.

But he still didn't support Yang Tinglin's memoir, and when he mentioned the ink brush, he wrote a few words: "Understood, thank you!"

…………

After lunch, after returning to Qianqing Palace, Emperor Chongzhen was thinking about Liu Yuliang's Memorial of Thanksgiving, but before he saw it, he asked Wang Chengen, "Did Liu Yuliang ask for your majesty's resignation?"

According to Chongzhen's thinking, although Liu Yuliang was a civil servant, I heard that he was good at fencing. When he was working in the Imperial Academy, he used to enjoy fencing contests with his family boys every day.

He didn't ask Liu Yuliang to be able to charge into the battle. He only needed to be able to go to the army with the prestige of the chief assistant and boost morale.

As long as Liu Yuliang can do this, it will be regarded as a great credit, and he is already very satisfied.

In the near future, Xie Enshu, the academician Liu Yuliang, was indeed sent to the palace, but this letter of Xie Enshu disappointed Emperor Chongzhen.

In addition to thanking the emperor for his kindness, Liu Yuliang’s content in the book was more about begging the emperor to send him to inspect the armies, to boost morale on behalf of the emperor, and to urge the commanders of the various armies to fight bravely, instead of letting him succeed Lu Xiangsheng as the governor. Ground reinforcements.

It wasn't until this time that Emperor Chongzhen suddenly realized.

University scholar Liu Yuliang's "inspector's army" is completely different from the "governor's army" he thought of.

In Yuanshu, Liu Yuliang only asked to go to inspect the army, not to supervise the army, but because he was anxious to find someone to replace Lu Xiangsheng to save the situation, so he didn't carefully consider the twists and turns, so he hastily issued the edict.

Emperor Chongzhen had a wry smile on his face. Now he looked down on Liu Yuliang who wanted to make meritorious service but was afraid of directly leading troops to fight. In normal times, he might have ordered Liu Yuliang to be punished. He couldn't help but sighed again.

How to do it?

Should he agree to Liu Yuliang's request, or maintain his edict?

Emperor Chongzhen was unable to make a decision for a while!
Just at this time, the eunuch Wang Dehua, the chief inspector of ceremonies, came in a hurry and said to him: "I want to report to the emperor, the assistant minister Yang Sichang asked to be summoned."

Chongzhen was slightly taken aback, and asked, "What urgent matter does he have?"

Wang Dehua bowed and played back softly: "I don't know, maybe it's because of the appointment of the supervisor by the scholar Liu Yuliang."

Chongzhen understood instantly, he thought in his heart, it would be good to listen to Yang Sichang's opinion.

Then he said to Wang Dehua, "Tell him to go to Wenhua Hall to wait for his summons."

(End of this chapter)