The First Gongsheng of Ming Dynasty

"It's pitiful. Who do you want to show your pity to?"

After Liu Yu was taken away again, Li Zhang said something in a slightly mocking tone, and then said to Zhang Zhou in a laughing tone: "Who made him offend you, sir?"

Zhang Zhou said: "He violated the laws of the Ming Dynasty."

"Yes, yes, but he is also ignorant and always wants to do double-dealing things. If he didn't do anything to that Ma Shangshu, why would Ma Shangshu recommend him every time? Does Ma Shangshu always speak to him in the court? Himself. He is not clean and wants to play both sides, and he deserves to be like this."

When Li Zhang said this, he was probably following Zhang Zhou's intention, or in other words, he was speculating on Zhang Zhou's intention.

In fact, even Li Zhang didn't quite understand. Why didn't a dog like Liu Yu, who was both corrupt and able to get things done, not go down?

Are you saying that he is in cahoots with Ma Wensheng? With Liu Yu's knowledge, he can probably tell which side has a stronger relationship. When he is asked to side with Zhang Zhou, he will definitely not pay any attention to Ma Wensheng's faction.

It seems that Zhang Zhou is too arrogant when it comes to Liu Yu.

"If nothing happens, I'll go back first." Zhang Zhou said.

"Let our family see you off." Li Zhang smiled and made a gesture of leading the way.

Zhang Zhou said: "How dare I trouble Eunuch Li? I can go out by myself. I just returned to the capital and I haven't asked about the Ministry of War yet. I'm afraid I will be extremely busy these two days."

Li Zhang said hurriedly: "Sir, you are a busy nobleman, and it is difficult for our family to bother you anymore. However, I believe that your Majesty relies heavily on you and will let our family... I hope you don't mind, sir."

Zhang Zhou nodded and said: "If His Majesty gives orders, I will naturally do my best. We all should do the same."

"Sir, please." Li Zhang smiled and sent Zhang Zhou out of the court door.

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Zhang Zhou left Beizhen Fusi.

After the others left, Mou Bin hurriedly came out of the inner hall and went to Li Zhang to wait for Li Zhang's instructions.

Li Zhang said: "Previously our family only said that Liu Yu should be interrogated properly. Who asked him to torture him? Cai Guogong happened to come back just now, and he saw him. Aren't you afraid that Cai Guogong will give you some color?"

Mou Bin hurriedly said: "It's a dereliction of duty. But judging from Cai Guogong's previous intention, it seems that he didn't care."

"That's what our family said. It's what the higher-ups meant. Cai Guogong thought it was His Majesty's wish, so he didn't care about it. But if he knew, His Majesty Liu Yu didn't care at all, wouldn't you be causing trouble for yourselves? ?" Li Zhang was also very angry.

Previously, in front of Zhang Zhou, he had to put on a show to ensure that Zhang Zhou would not notice.

Mou Bin could only bow his head and admit his mistake.

Li Zhang said: "Liu Yu originally thought he was a tough guy. Looking at his appearance, those who didn't know better thought he was a villain. Cai Guogong took him out, which seemed wise. How can such a two-faced person achieve great things?"

Mou Bin was puzzled and said: "I also feel that he is not a gentleman, but he doesn't seem to be..."

"We won't end up like this, right? It's not you who did it? Originally, we were just sent to prison, but you can still be transferred out for use later. After this punishment, there will be no room for change between Liu Yu and Cai Guogong. Cai Guo The guild uses a criminal minister who has been punished by him?" Li Zhang said angrily.

"Liu Yu, don't you dare to do anything?" Mou Bin said.

"Hmph, even if Liu Yu goes out and still works for Cai Guogong honestly, Cai Guogong will not be able to entrust him with important tasks. This is to prevent Liu Yu from worrying about today's imprisonment. Liu Yu's attitude is not important. What Cai Guogong thinks is Liu Yu's attitude is important. If Cai Guogong thinks that he may hold a grudge, then this person will be completely useless! It's you who disrupted Cai Guogong's employment plan."

Li Zhang abruptly put a blame on Mou Bin's head.

Mou Bin screamed in his heart that he was wronged.

It was Zhang Zhou who took people before, and it was you, Li Zhang, who said he was going to be tortured. But we actually tortured him, and now we are saying we don’t know the etiquette of advancing and retreating? You two bosses are really good at shirking responsibility.

Li Zhang said: "That old Xie Ge should also be treated kindly. He won't stay here for long and will be gone soon! If you do something that makes your own decisions in the future, don't say that our family is merciless. "

"Yes, yes." Mou Bin would not do anything else except admit his mistake.

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Near sunset.

When Li Dongyang came back from a trip, he was still on duty in the cabinet duty room that night. He also did a lot of things during his trip and inquired about news. When he came back, he reported what he had seen to Liu Jian.

"It's almost okay! Someone has revealed that His Majesty is planning to let Yu Qiao return home. Even if we try our best, I'm afraid the result... won't be too good."

Li Dongyang originally supported Liu Jian's uncompromising principles.

But as the emperor had made the decision to send Xie Qian back to his hometown, Li Dongyang felt that it was already difficult to argue with the emperor on this matter.

Liu Jian had a sullen face and remained silent.

Li Dongyang said: "Judging from the past rules, if you retire from the cabinet, there will be no chance to make a comeback. There is no trial of guilt and just letting the official return to his hometown. It is probably considered a certain concession by His Majesty."

Liu Jiandao: "What is this called a concession? Did Yu Qiao do anything wrong?"

"He is right, but the results are not in line with our expectations. If the north returns without success today, then His Majesty will basically not pursue Yu Qiao's matter, but since Cui Maoren and Zhu Zhijie have achieved success, they must Someone stepped forward to take some responsibilities, but if it wasn't Yu Qiao, it would have been... alas!"

Li Dongyang felt sorry for his old friend.

Xie Qian just implemented some decisions of the cabinet, but now he has become the scapegoat.

Liu Jiandao: "Has it been confirmed that it's divorce?"

Li Dongyang nodded and said: "It's almost the same! Cui Maoren and Zhu Zhijie won this battle. According to their own reports, there will be no follow-up pursuit. They will immediately turn back south, and everything in the northwest... So far, everything is safe. . This can be considered a blessing. If the British people have made any progress, I'm afraid this matter will not end well."

"Yeah." Liu Jian nodded.

Both of them knew very well that it was Wang Shouren who sent Xie Qian to help impeach Zhang Mao.

If Wang Shouren gets a victory, or Zhang Mao leads his troops to a great victory because of this, then Xie Qian is in vain... You criticize others, and they rely on this to achieve great victories. If you really continue to impeach them, they will not be able to gain their merits, and you will succeed. The Ming Dynasty is a sinner.

According to Li Dongyang's intention, if Wang Shouren transferred 6,000 troops and horses to Zhang Mao, if he did not achieve a greater strategic victory, then Xie Qian's matter would end peacefully.

If not, Xie Qian might not be able to escape unscathed.

Liu Jian frowned slightly and said, "But he said there has been no news from Ningxia in the past few days. How is the British public's current situation?"

In the northern war, the emperor clearly appointed Zhang Mao as the commander of the expedition, but now Zhang Mao seems to be invisible. Everyone was expecting Wang Qiong and Wang Shouren to achieve a great victory, and now they are looking forward to Zhu Feng and Cui Yuan. He was excited by the good news, but he, Zhang Mao, seemed to be staying out of it.

Of course, I don’t blame Zhang Mao for not having the ability.

It's strange. Everyone else was promoted or cultivated by Zhang Zhou. Others had too high expectations for Zhang Zhou's subordinates, but they had no expectations for Zhang Mao.

Li Dongyang said: "Previously I only heard that he was stationed in Huamachi, and he seemed to want to make a fuss about the small victory in the previous battle. Now that there is a big victory in the east, his British father has become a joke! After he returns to Beijing this time , it won’t look good in terms of face, and the previous plan we wanted to use him to confront Zhang Bingkuan can still be carried out.”

The cabinet originally planned to make Zhang Mao hate Zhang Zhou and cause internal strife in the governor's office. This is still possible.

Liu Jiandao: "The next step for the Beijing camp, I still can't say who your Majesty will hand it over to. I'm afraid that when the British Duke returns to Beijing, even his own fangs will be worn away! Are you counting on him? Humph!"

At the moment, Liu Jian is also very disdainful of people other than Zhang Zhou.

We obviously intend to use you people to deal with Zhang Zhou.

It turns out that you are all a bunch of bugs, but it is our civil servant leaders who have suffered heavy losses, and you, the so-called wolves, are now trembling in front of Zhang Zhou.

Count on Zhang Mao?

It seems that there is no hope.

Li Dongyang nodded and said: "Don't be afraid if you have merit in the northeast. As long as the northwest is calm, everything will be like this. It's just a pity for Yu Qiao."

Liu Jian was about to leave the duty room when something suddenly occurred to him and he turned around and asked, "Where is Ma Yi? Where are the thousands of troops and horses that Wang Bo'an assigned to me now?"

Li Dongyang shook his head.

He didn't know about this either.

In the overall strategic map of the Ming Dynasty's battle, it seems that Ma Yi has disappeared, and this group of people seems to have disappeared.

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The news of Zhu Feng and Cui Yuan's great victory had only reached the capital, but had not spread to other parts of the northwest. The west of Juyongguan had no idea about it.

But it was more than 300 miles northeast of Huamachi, where the furthest troops from the Ming Dynasty's expedition... Ma Yi and Zhang Rui's 6,000 elite light cavalry had already reached the hinterland of the grassland. After sleeping day and night, the Tatar camp was already in front of them.

"Six hundred miles beyond Guanshan, horses and mink furs are lighting up sky lanterns. What a wonderful scene."

Zhang Rui rides a horse and stands on a high place.

There seemed to be thousands of lights in the distance, and the eyes of every Ming Dynasty soldier were filled with a bloody aura.

Ma Yi put her hand on her sword, looked back at Zhang Rui and said: "My young master is very talented in literature, but I am just a rough man. I remember when Wang Weining sent troops to Weining Hai, and stayed in day and night for twenty days, and finally got Weining Hai's army." Good news. This time, the young master is personally leading us. It seems that we also have a chance... to continue his legend."

Zhang Rui said: "Pinglubo, you're welcome. I still have your wisdom and foresight this time. I know how to walk against the snow and cross the Gobi Desert in Xuewozi dozens of miles away to get here. I just met by chance. That’s all.”

"Haha."

Before anything could happen, the two people were already complimenting each other.

Just as he was talking, the messenger on the side came over and said: "Two generals, we have just returned from exploring the north. The snow is very thin for dozens of miles around, and there is no snow at all in some places. The Tatars are herding at least hundreds of thousands of sheep here. The camp stretches as far as the eye can see.”

"Ahem." After hearing this, Ma Yi felt not only excited but also a little worried, "We don't have many cannons, and the roads we walked are all covered with snow. If this battle doesn't produce results, I'm afraid we won't be able to fight again." There is no way back."

Ma Yi can be considered a light rider.

They brought a lot of muskets, as well as light cannons, but not a single cannon or heavy cannon, so that they could attack over long distances.

This place is three hundred miles away from Huamachi, but in fact, they walked at least five or six hundred miles since leaving the customs, and it took several twists and turns to get here.

Most of Ma Yi's men were elites from Datong. Half of them had participated in the previous bloody battles between Wang Shouren and the Tatars. They could be said to be the rare elite cavalry in the Ming Dynasty army with actual experience in grassland combat.

Zhang Rui looked very proud and said: "What are you afraid of? It is better to die here than to live in a coward for a lifetime. I believe that all the soldiers will think the same as me."

Ma Yi looked around at the excited soldiers.

He didn't have the nerve to say that this group of people didn't want to fight hard now, but they had no way to escape. It was so far out of the customs, and there was still heavy snow blocking the road behind them, and there was also the desert Gobi Desert. They couldn't go back if they wanted to.

Ma Yi said: "Then bring back a few more Tatars, pour some oil and wax, and put out the sky lanterns!"

"it is good!"

Zhang Rui high-fived Ma Yi.

Both were very excited.

Ma Yi finally drew out his sword, raised it high above his head, and said loudly: "My sons, make great achievements today!"

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Capital, in a private room on the second floor of the theater building.

When Zhang Zhou came out, he also closed the door. Before he could take a few steps, Liu Gui came over and handed Zhang Zhou a greeting card.

Zhang Zhou just opened it and saw that the current wife of the Zhu Feng family, Chen Rui's daughter, was coming to visit him. He just handed the greeting card back to Liu Guidao: "Tell her that I don't have time to see each other these two days. Let her go back and wait."

Mrs. Zhu Chen obviously came not for her husband Zhu Feng's affairs, but for the Chen family.

Chen Rui is dead, but he is still a "criminal person". The matter of Chen Rui's son inheriting the title is still unsolved. Ping Jiangbo's once powerful rhythm in the Ming army has passed.

Zhang Zhou and Liu Gui were walking in front, and behind them there was the sound of the private room opening. Liu Gui couldn't help but want to look back.

Before he could turn around, Zhang Zhou said coldly: "What are you looking at?"

Liu Gui immediately realized what was going on and stopped looking back.

He also understood that this theater was not only a place for Zhang Zhou to talk with people, but also a place for Zhang Zhou to spend time. He could not only watch plays, watch the scenery, eat and entertain guests, but also have different kinds of entertainment here. He, Liu Gui, just He is just a messenger who works in Jinyiwei. He is only responsible for protecting Zhang Zhou, and other matters have nothing to do with him.

Move to a new private room.

The window was open, and there was still singing on the stage outside, but it was Laosheng's singing. There were not many people in the audience below. Also because of the cold weather, there were not many guests that day.

This play was sung more for Zhang Zhou.

As soon as Zhang Zhou sat down, Liu Gui said at the door: "Sir, Eunuch Zhang from the Royal Horse Supervisor is here."

"Invite him in."

Zhang Zhou put down the official document in his hand, and Zhang Lushui, who had just come in with foot washing water on the other side, had no choice but to exit first.

Then Zhang Yong came with a smile on his face.

Zhang Zhou smiled and said, "Eunuch Zhang has returned to Beijing?"

Zhang Yong hurriedly said: "I was going to be transferred outside, but I didn't. I haven't been waiting for you in Beijing all the time, sir? Don't worry, it was His Majesty who asked me to come here. Your Majesty said that if there is anything wrong with the Dongchang, we will Let Yang Peng and Eunuch Yang continue to lead the errands, and leave the errands of the Beijing camp to me for the time being. I am here to learn from you." (End of this chapter)