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Chapter 437: Being respectful at first and then being arrogant at the same time makes people laugh when thinking about it
Zhu Yijun really made up his mind to fight against the left wing for twenty-five years. He was well prepared. After all, he had to achieve a result. Either the Ming Dynasty completely transformed the Tatars, or the Tatars rebelled against Tiangang.

Ananda Khan's left wing is far more powerful than the Tuman Khan on the right wing. Even though Obituman Khan is the suzerain khan, a suzerain khan who has lost the power to govern the left wing, Transkalkha, and Oara is really powerful. It is extremely weak, and the left wing nominally owns the behemoth of the right wing and the jurisdiction of the chieftains in Transkarkha, the Western Regions, and even parts of Sichuan and Tibet.

Zhu Yijun expected to be lenient to the enemy because he considered that these forces would do their best to support Anta Khan, so the fight would last for twenty-five years. However, he slightly miscalculated. The Tatar left wing was indeed very strong, but it was also powerful. Quite limited, these forces chose to sit on the sidelines and provide all support except support.

The Ming Dynasty's Jian Dao Jing Camp penetrated Daqing Mountain, which was only a hundred miles away from Jining Haizi. In the direction of Datong, the Ming Guards once again stationed themselves at Dongsheng Guard. Anda Khan sent two thousand households to take back Dongsheng. Wei, but came back defeated.

Dongshengwei is a battleground for military strategists. If you go out from the right, you can threaten Bansheng and Guihua City. If you go out from the left, you can threaten the entire Hetao Plain. This is the key place. Jiao Chengxun, the commander-in-chief of Datong, actually has 43815 officers and soldiers. It was Wu Baipeng, the governor of Xuanda, who conducted the investigation.

When Wang Chonggu was the governor of Xuanda, in the fifth year of Longqing's reign, he reported that there were 135778 Datong guards in the imperial court, and the Jin party had eaten more than 9 people with empty pay! It was more than twice the actual number. This was the original Wang Chonggu, the original Jin Party.

In the first year of Wanli, Wang Chonggu, who had suffered Zhang Juzheng's iron fist, returned to Xuanda to block the holes in the Xuanda Great Wall. The 54321 guardsmen were reduced due to escape, escape, battle damage, injuries, reintroduction, elimination, etc. The number reached . In the second year of Wanli, the Jin Party was still eating the free wages of more than people.

During the whole process, the Ming Dynasty's frontier troops did not actually decrease, only their wages shrank. Zhu Yijun finally chose to turn a blind eye and forget about the past. After the first year of Wanli, Wang Chonggu chose to give in and stay strong. A lot of things have actually been done, and coupled with Wang Chonggu's fig leaf, it can be considered justified.

The reduction in free wages was mainly due to the return of civilians. The Ming Dynasty's Nine-Border Army garrisoned the system. Each military household only had one person to serve. However, due to the war between the Ming Dynasty and the Tatars, the war was fierce and dangerous, and the Xuanfu of Datong There were two or three people from each military household. These were the strong men who were pulled. It was a helpless move at the time. Now that peace has been negotiated, they can be released and converted to civilians.

In addition, the elimination of old, weak, sick, and disabled people, etc., will further reduce the space and salary.

Reincarnation, depopulation, etc. are all just a fig leaf.

This is the contradiction. The Jin Party can control the Xuan Wei Army because the Xuan Wei Army has its own interests and needs to rely on the Jin Party to realize them. This is a vicious circle. If the imperial court cannot provide full pay, the Jin Party will have to do it. The more people there are to obtain military pay, the more the court will be unable to provide full pay, and the number of people with empty pay will increase. In the end, a deadlock that cannot be solved without losing one's head is formed.

Ma Fang glanced at His Majesty. The bad news is that His Majesty really has no war talent. The good news is that His Majesty never orders people to fight!
The answer to this question is very simple.

The frontier army is not a Beijing camp, nor is it an elite force. The tactics of breaking a cauldron and launching a thousand-mile raid are unique to strong armies and generals, and are not applicable to the frontier army.

"At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Gaozong succeeded to the throne in a hurry. The Jin people went south and could only barely build a defense line along the Yangtze River and Huaihe River. After Du Chong surrendered to the enemy, the entire defense line collapsed completely. The Jin people broke through Lin'an, Hangzhou, and searched the mountains and seas to capture Song Gaozong."

"Your Majesty, I have something to say." Ma Fang has now gone to the Jiangwu Academy to retire. He should stay away from the disputes in the court, but after thinking about it, he still wanted to say a few words for Qi Jiguang.

Ma Fang said solemnly: "I heard recently in the martial arts lecture hall that some people said that Qi Jiguang is timid and afraid of trouble, and Li Rusong is greedy for life and afraid of death. Your Majesty, this kind of rhetoric makes it difficult to stand up and talk."

The current military merit system of the Ming Dynasty is a battle line system rather than a head reward system. This is why Wu Baipeng dares to think about the arrangement in this way. As long as he can ensure defeat without collapse and stabilize the front line, the task will be completed. Anda Khan will have to face Qi Jiguang. The threat of a knife to the heart.

"Having a retreat behind you gives you confidence in your heart and your morale can be used."

"That's what I thought, but now that the Sixth Fort of Dongsheng Guard has been defended, I am even more confused as to why."

"I see your Majesty, your Majesty pays you your respects." Ma Fang saw that His Majesty was beaming with joy and knew that there was another good news ahead.

After Zhang Siwei's death, Wu Baipeng became the governor of Xuanda University as the Zhejiang Party. He finally conducted an actual investigation and finally identified 43815 people and determined the quota. What is more interesting is that Wu Baipeng also used the reduction in the name of elimination. In terms of quota, everyone was decent in terms of face, and they did not poke holes in the window of the Jin Party's empty pay, and did not put this matter on the scale.

Yu Qian had military talent, but Zhang Juzheng did not. If Qi Jiguang really buried the capital camp outside the Great Wall, how much trouble would the Ming Dynasty have caused.

In response to Li Rusong's attack, Anda Khan only invested a team of 10,000 people in order to block the offensive pace of the Daming Jingying camp. In the direction of Datong, especially Dongshengwei, he invested 20,000 troops.

"We have defended it this time. It will be impossible for Anda Khan to take down Dongshengwei again. Things on the battlefield are extremely complicated to say, but to be simple, in fact, it is just one big effort, then weakened, and three times exhausted. Anda Khan If we didn't win it the first time, if we want to win it again, it will be as difficult as climbing to the sky if our military morale is not available."

Wu Baipeng and Jiao Chengxun knew that their 50,000 men could not defeat Anda Khan, so after the attack began, they built three lines of defense around the Great Wall defense line, the Outer Six Forts defense line with Dongsheng Guard as the key, and the Datong Right Guard as the key. The Great Wall defense line and the inner five-fort defense line with Alpine Guard as the key.

"No gift." Zhu Yijun handed the good news in his hand to Ma Fang, the sacrificial wine of Jiangwu Hall.

Zhu Yijun didn't quite understand the situation of the battle, so he asked Ma Fang to come to the Jiangwu Hall to offer wine to clarify his doubts.

Zhu Yijun shook his head and said: "The frontier army is not very effective in combat, but they don't get much pay. An army soldier in the Beijing camp earns eighteen taels of silver a year, while the border army has less than ten taels. The average armament of each soldier in the Beijing camp is twenty Forty taels of silver, and the frontier troops have less than four taels, so they can do as much work as they want, and that's how it should be."

Zhu Yijun expressed his doubts. Does it really make sense to deploy three lines of defense inside and outside the Great Wall? But it seems to work extremely well.

Ma Fang had heard about the public opinion in the DPRK to some extent, and was a little worried. The number of people mobilized by Ming Dynasty this time was too large. Can Ming Dynasty's finances really support such a large-scale war? Ma Fang was really used to the hard life, so she naturally had this worry. She was worried that under the influence of actuarial calculation, the Ming Emperor would make a choice that was not conducive to the war situation.

Anda Khan's strategic ideas coincided with Dong Hu's. Qi Jiguang's elite troops in the capital really couldn't defeat him head-on. But if they couldn't defeat Qi Jiguang, they couldn't defeat your Xuanfu Datong guards! Therefore, we concentrated our superior forces to break through the Great Wall, advance to Datong Prefecture, and force the Ming army to withdraw.

"Qi Shuai is not timid. He holds the saber given by His Majesty. He kills first and then reports. He goes to the fortress and leads the troops to fight in an expedient manner. The greater the power, the greater the responsibility. Qi Shuai has many things to consider, so he works step by step."

Ma Fang continued: "There are three lines of defense in the direction of Datong, the outer six forts, the Great Wall, and the inner five forts. The first thing Governor Wu and General Jiao must ensure is that they are defeated but not defeated. They think about defeat before winning, and they are already invincible. A place of defeat.”

It’s been nine years, it’s been nine years since the Beijing camp was established, Ma Fang and Qi Jiguang have been partners for eight years, is Qi Jiguang and Li Rusong greedy for life and afraid of death? Are the characters who emerge from the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood afraid of death?
"General Ma, what advice do you have?" Zhu Yijun attached great importance to Ma Fang's opinion. His experience was a precious asset to the Ming Dynasty. He really couldn't lift a sword on the battlefield, but his experience could guarantee that the temple calculation would not happen. Fundamental mistake.

This is an unclear account. Who is right and who is wrong? During the long period of handling government affairs, Zhu Yijun discovered that there was no right or wrong in many things.

Ma Fang analyzed specific battle examples for His Majesty. During the period of the establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty and the search for mountains and seas to capture Zhao Gou, the Southern Song Dynasty had only one line of defense. The Song army on the entire defense line, the final choice was not to burn everything, but to surrender and surrender. escape.

Wu Baipeng and Jiao Chengxun knew their strength well, so they did not attack, but defended.

The main reason why Zhu Yijun knew that the Jin party was getting free money and didn't care too much was that the Jin party didn't actually get much from it, because at that time, the Ming Dynasty was really poor and the capital could only make three projects in its budget. In August, the border areas of Ming Dynasty were in a state of long-term payment arrears.

"That's it, General Xie Ma cleared up the doubts." All the doubts in Zhu Yijun's mind were solved.

Ma Fang took out his reading glasses and looked at them for a long time, then smiled and said: "Your Majesty, the frontier army is not strong in combat and weak in attack, but the defense is still very organized. Dongshengwei seems to be shaky, but facing two Despite the onslaught of thousands of troops, we still managed to hold on.”

Rather than saying that the Jin Party was eating empty wages, it can also be said that the Jin Party was leading Xuanda's border generals and soldiers to compete with the imperial court for wages.

Ma Fang further explained: "Your Majesty, the border army is quite complicated. It is full of criminals, refugees, and bankrupts. It can be suppressed under the constraints of military discipline at ordinary times. Once the situation gets out of control, the destructive power released is extremely shocking. Xuanda Hetao On the three sides of Shanxi, Shaanxi and Gansu, Hu and Han people live together. If there is no line of defense behind them, no support, and no intention to fight and defend, because there is no way to retreat, morale will be low, and they will mutiny and break up the camp, or even flee in the face of the wind or surrender when they see the enemy."

Defeat without defeat, what a luxurious idea. Ma Fang fled from the north in the 19th year of Jiajing and fought for the Ming Dynasty for so many years. In the past few years of Wanli, it was the only period where he could think about defeat before thinking about victory. Time, he is getting old and he no longer has the energy of a young man.

"There is no second Yu Qian or Yu Shaobao in the Ming Dynasty."

Wu Baipeng is not a fairy with three heads and six arms. The biggest reason why he can squeeze out the empty salary is that the imperial court now pays full salary!

"Indeed, Qi Shuai led the elite troops to march to Bansheng at this time. He has an 80% chance of winning Bansheng directly, but what about the remaining 20%? Once defeated, there will be no camps available in the grasslands along the way. The army will be defeated like a mountain, and the elite troops will be defeated. It would be a huge disaster to be completely mourned.”

Zhu Yijun's request for the frontier army was to hold on, rather than go out to fight, and the frontier army only had a small amount of food and pay.

Zhu Yijun looked at Ma Fang, frowning and asked: "General Ma, I am a little confused, why do we need to build three lines of defense in the direction of Datong? The soldiers of the Sixth Fort outside Dongshengwei know that there is another line of defense behind them. , they will lose their determination to fight and defend, and once they are defeated, they will immediately retreat to the next line of defense."

When Zhu Yijun heard Ma Fang's advice, he smiled brightly and said to Ma Fang: "Haha, General Ma is worrying too much. It's not that I look down on these cheap scholars. When Qi Shuai was in the capital, he was really silent. I don’t even dare to mention it. Now that Qi Shuai is leading his troops outside, they have finally grown up in courage! They are respectful at first and then arrogant at the end. It makes people laugh when they think about it."

"Your Majesty, only a strong army can break the boat. With the current strength of the Beijing camp, we can march directly from Xuanfu and attack Bansheng. There is an 80% chance that we can directly win Bansheng." Ma Fang first answered a question, why? Build three lines of defense.

"Believe it or not, General Ma, when Qi Shuai returns to Beijing in triumph, they will immediately shut up and even sing his praises."

Mr. Huang, from the Qi family of the Huang family in Penglai, has caused so many troubles in the capital. No one in the capital dares to say anything. Now that Qi Shuai is away with his troops and is not at home, the humble Confucians have started to make people laugh.

When Ma Fang heard this, her worries were put down. Good news, His Majesty could only laugh at the tricks of cheap Confucians.

"Your Majesty, Mr. Yuan Fu and Wang Cifu are quarreling in front of the imperial study room, asking for an audience." A small yellow doorman was trembling as he spoke. Zhang Juzheng and Wang Chonggu were the first and second assistants of the empire. If these two people quarreled, wouldn't the Ming Dynasty want to The earth is shaking?
When the fight was at its fiercest, Zhang Juzheng and Wang Chonggu had never had such a fierce quarrel.

"Who?! Announcement." Zhu Yijun's face turned stern. The conflict between the Jin Party and Zhang Party was far from intensifying to the point where the party leaders were tearing each other apart and swearing at each other.

"I pay homage to Your Majesty." Zhang Juzheng and Wang Chonggu bowed their heads to pay homage. "Without courtesy, you two sit down to talk. What happened to make the two ministers so angry?" Zhu Yijun looked at the two people who were still angry and asked strangely.

It was so noisy that my face turned red.

"It is true that Yuan Fu has contributed to the development of the country. Yuan Fu said that I was a traitor, and I admitted it. I was a traitor. However, Yuan Fu said that his article "The world is trapped in annexation and bailing out gangsters" has problems, and there are big problems. I cannot agree!" Wang Chonggu waved his sleeves and said in a loud voice.

After Wang Chonggu returned to the capital from Xuanda to serve as the Minister of Punishment, he has been trying his best to avoid conflicts with Zhang Juzheng. Zhang Juzheng is tough and I can't afford to offend him.

But today Zhang Juzheng called Wang Chonggu to Wenyuan Pavilion and said that there was a problem with his work-for-relief settlement of gangsters, and he refused to accept it!

You, Zhang Juzheng, have the way to go down in history, but I, Wang Chonggu, don’t deserve it!
Arrangement of gangsters and building of government and factories was Wang Chonggu's high road. Zhang Juzheng said there was something wrong with your route as soon as he said it. Wang Chonggu didn't lift the table because he was afraid of Zhang Juzheng's authority. He just slapped the table and quarreled.

"If there is a problem, there is a problem. Did I say something wrong? If I didn't say it wrong, how could something like this happen! I came to you just to discuss it. It would be better for you to just take the table in Wenyuan Pavilion. You insist on moving to If you come before His Majesty, I won't be able to cover you up!" Zhang Juzheng took out two memorials and handed them to Zhang Hong, who forwarded them to His Majesty.

"Then let His Majesty make his judgment!" Wang Chonggu said loudly.

It can be seen that Zhang Juzheng is really angry, and Wang Chonggu is also very aggressive, refusing to make any concessions.

You, Zhang Juzheng, are allowed to be loyal to the emperor and the country and the people, but you are not allowed to make Wang Chonggu a little contribution to the greatness of the Ming Dynasty again?

Feng Bao hurried in from outside. He had just been on duty at the Ceremony Supervisor in the other half of the room. He heard that Yuan Fu and Ci Fu were arguing, so he hurried over.

The purpose of coming here was not to break up the fight, and he couldn't stop it either. He came here just to watch the fun!

After Zhu Yijun finished reading the memorial, he looked at the two angry men with a solemn expression and once again confirmed his thoughts. It is very necessary for Wan Shi and such a peacemaker and mischievous master to have such a person in the court who can stop the fight. .

"Sir, don't worry. When Yang Bo and Yang Dazai didn't agree with your husband's examination method, your husband punched Yang Dazai and kicked Wang Cifu, and drove both Dazai and Cifu out of the Wenhua Hall." Zhu Yijun talked about the past and saw It seemed that he was trying to persuade Zhang Juzheng not to be angry, but he was also speaking for Wang Chonggu.

Yang Bo did not agree with the law of examination, and did not agree to put a halter on hundreds of officials. The purpose was to win over Zhang Juzheng, and then the Chu and Jin Dynasties merged. The law of examination offended the bureaucrats all over the world. No one dares to violate it when you are alive, and you will be punished after you die. .

Yang Bo's conditions were not unreasonable. With Zhang Juzheng's skills, Zhang Juzheng agreed at that time that the Jin Party would be completely controlled by Zhang Juzheng.

At this point, Zhang Juzheng drove Yang Bo and Wang Chonggu out of the court.

When his journey to the great road was questioned, Wang Chonggu's reaction was already excellent.

Zhu Yijun looked at Wang Chonggu again, thought for a while and said: "I have always known that Wang Cifu is loyal to the emperor and the country, so why should he be so worried? In the process of development, contradictions are one after another. When one contradiction is solved, another contradiction will appear. , there is no problem with the placement of gangsters, but there are some flaws, which is normal."

"Wang Cifu misunderstood you. Your husband asked Cifu to go to Wenyuan Pavilion to check for leaks and fill the vacancies. It was not for humiliation, let alone party struggle. If it was really for party struggle, why bother to communicate in advance and leave it to the Wenhua Palace for discussion? If you talk about things at the right time, the second assistant will definitely lose his face."

"Coal was a monopoly in the Song Dynasty. At that time, a pound of coal in Kaifeng cost 200 yuan. My husband was also trying to find and fill in the gaps for the placement of the second assistant."

Zhu Yijun set a character for this matter, and there were indeed some inevitable problems in the government-factory team-building.

Zhang Juzheng did not speak, which was regarded as acquiescence. In fact, Zhang Juzheng had no intention of checking and filling the vacancies. He just wanted to beat Wang Chonggu. The Ming army is fighting on the grassland. The Jin party should be honest and don't cause trouble. If the Ming army is defeated because of some "Chinese people" in the Jin party, Yes, the Ming Emperor's guillotine will also hit Wang Chonggu.

He didn't explain it clearly because His Majesty had stepped forward to be the peacemaker to give the Emperor face. If Zhang Juzheng continued to beat him, he would not be giving His Majesty face.

Wang Chonggu insisted on quarreling with Zhang Juzheng all the way to the imperial court, just to give himself a way out. As the leader of the Jin Party, you can't just knock Zhang Juzheng whenever he wants. Doesn't Wang Chonggu lose face? If you make trouble in front of His Majesty, you can come to the stage.

How old are they? They still quarreled until they were red in the face, even in front of His Majesty, but they were just movie stars.

Zhu Yijun looked at the two ministers and understood that the quarrel between the two was the performance of the best actor. Zhu Yijun opened his mouth to persuade them to make peace, and the scene came to an end. He picked up the memorial and read it in detail.

There was a problem with the Ming Dynasty's official factories. As Zhu Yijun said, the two Song dynasties were very good at making money. They specialized in salt, iron, coal, wine, vitriol, and other items, and then these special items became a sharp knife for the people. In the Song Dynasty, the four million Xiang army (composed of thieves and refugees) was closely related to the excessive demands of the imperial court.

The Ming Dynasty's official factory organization had just begun, and problems had already appeared. These two memorials corresponded to two problems, rigidity and bloat, and these two problems led to an inevitable problem, corruption.

Rigidity. Ming Dynasty's official and factory organization has become rigid to varying degrees. The specific manifestations are as follows: even the Fujian Weaving Bureau of Ming Dynasty suffered losses. Silk, an industry with such huge profits, can also suffer losses, which naturally caused the Ministry of Industry and the Metropolitan Procuratorate to Suspicion led to an inspection. In the absence of tasks from the Ministry of Industry, the entire Fujian Weaving Bureau was in a state of waiting for production, but the remuneration of Zhinang's labor was still being issued in the accounts.

However, the investigation by the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Ministry of Industry showed that this was not the case at all. The labor remuneration approved in the accounts did not reach the hands of the Zhinang, and someone was embezzling money. The Weaving Bureau that was waiting for production was not not weaving, but was in a state of operation. Where did these woven silks go?

Bloated, is a phenomenon similar to empty pay. Songjiang Shipyard, the representative official shipyard of the Ming Dynasty's pioneers and government factories, started an inspection this spring. Shen Shixing found that a total of 120 In the four boat ponds, varying degrees of salary vacancies have occurred. Some people have been absent from work for one to three years due to illness, supporting elderly and sick parents, traveling, etc., and the management is responsible for handling, meeting, and other reasons. Most of them have offices, big heads, etc.

Moreover, for a boat pond, out of 400 craftsmen, more than 100 are managers. These more than 100 people only earn money and do not work. Moreover, the management staff is too large, which is inevitably related to empty wages.

In Songjiang Shipyard alone, there are more than 452 people receiving imperial salary, who are not on duty all year round; there are more than 1,000 people, who are on duty for no more than a month in a year.

There is a clear chain of interests here that Shen Shixing found out, that is, in addition to the person who ate the empty wages, some of them also fell into the hands of the government officials and factory officials who managed it. The root cause of closing one eye.

There is no simple person who can climb to the top of the chief executive and sit there for several years. Shen Shixing can get to the bottom of the phenomenon of declining production capacity and increasing costs, and also provides a complete set of solutions to organize Streamlining the structure, building a supervisory mechanism, and most importantly, penalties.

As long as he gets the emperor's approval, Shen Shixing can take drastic measures against these moths.

"I think these measures proposed by Governor Shen are still effective. They are rigid and bloated. The problem cannot be solved by simply changing the general office. We must start with system construction, and the blade must be inward." Zhu Yijun Zhu approved Shen Shixing's memorial, Seal and seal.

On the issue of the quarrel between the first and second assistants, Zhu Yijun did not fight each other, but still chose to support Zhang Juzheng. Of course, Wang Chonggu made such a fuss, which was not a loss. The emperor admonished his ministers, which was only natural and justified, through means that were close to nonsense. , testing out the emperor's true attitude.

If there are no problems on the way to development, then that’s a heck of a lot. That’s the big problem that’s surging under the surface. Don’t be afraid of problems, just be afraid of them. Instead of solving them, you’ll avoid them, dodge them, turn big things into trivial things, and nothing can be done. In short, these minor illnesses will eventually accumulate little by little and become a huge problem. In the end, the building that was finally built will collapse.

Zhu Yijun had a brief discussion with Zhang Juzheng and Wang Chonggu and agreed to hold a meeting tomorrow.

"I'll leave." Zhang Juzheng, Wang Chonggu and Ma Fang chose to leave the imperial study.

After leaving the door, Ma Fang ignored the two of them, cupped his hands, and left directly. The two people who had been arguing to the death just now were no longer at war with each other.

"Wang Cifu is really good at it. Your Majesty has already understood it. I still remind Wang Cifu to take good care of his own people. If anyone cooperates with me, the bone prying knife outside the Meridian Gate is quite sharp." Zhang Juzheng held up his right hand. , with his left hand behind his back, looked at Wang Chonggu, and said in a bad tone.

"This is also due to Yuan Fu's good cooperation. Your Majesty can see clearly. Xie Yuanfu reminded me that I naturally take good care of my own people. You know that Your Majesty can kill people, but there are some things in this world that are much more terrifying than death. Let Your Majesty's actions will only lead to death, but with the internal strife in this sect, it's not as simple as death." Wang Chonggu said quite calmly.

"That's good." Zhang Juzheng nodded, fully recognizing Wang Chonggu's methods.

If Wang Chonggu takes action, he will squeeze everything out of the other party and at the same time make the other party owe a lot of debt. In order to repay the debt, the female family members will be used as prostitutes and the male men as slaves. Those culprits will probably be imprisoned together and starve to death.

Zhang Juzheng heard that when Wang Chonggu punished traitors when he was young, dozens of people were locked up together. When the door was opened after 18 days, only one living creature was left, very hungry, and the others had food. At that time, Wang Chonggu's eldest son Wang Yi was outside the Great Wall. The businessman was killed, and the one who betrayed Wang Chonggu was the Beilu who surrendered.

The Northern captives who surrendered were not subject to amnesty. They were all low-ranking people. If the low-ranking people died, no one would care about them.

"Yuanfu, we originally advocated for peace. Longqing negotiated peace but Yuanfu, Gao Gong, Yang Bo and I did it together. Now we are fighting again. Will anyone take the opportunity to cause trouble?" Wang Chonggu asked in a low voice. .

Zhang Juzheng said calmly: "I said it when we negotiated peace: The purpose of negotiating peace is to recuperate our energy and strengthen our forces to fight again. If we start fighting today, isn't it the same as what we promised at the beginning?"

"Sir is really a scholar!" Wang Chonggu was amazed!

Recuperate your energy and accumulate strength for the future. At that time, you could no longer fight and had to negotiate a peace. This is nonsense!
But as things turned out, the lies came true. Zhang Juzheng was really a scholar, and he was so magnanimous even when he told lies!

"That's what I wanted to say, and that's what I did." Zhang Juzheng turned and left. Wenyuan Pavilion still had many tickets to write.

(End of this chapter)