Chapter 26 Chapter 26 Fighting
Emperor Wanli was still lying lazily, listless, going through the day like a living dead.
After lying down for a long time, he would often feel tightness in the chest, dizziness, sore back, and weakness in limbs; but he still didn't bother to get up to take a breath, and felt uncomfortable anyway, so he ordered the eunuch to summon the imperial doctor to prescribe a few medicines. If you can't get up, it's better not to get up as much as possible.
It's not that there is no joy in the Daming Palace——
He got a grandson and became a grandfather—the king's servant selected for the Crown Prince Chang Luo got a man in one fell swoop, and there was an extra man in the palace, which made him a little more angry; but, he didn't cheer up to rejoice. Not even inspired by it.
Hearing the eunuch's report, he casually ordered to prepare a gift and reward it to Wang Xuanshi and the newborn little emperor's grandson. After that, this matter disappeared from his heart without a trace.
He didn't completely ignore the little baby boy who had just been born on purpose, but he simply became obsessed with drugs for several days—it was indeed because of a flash of thought that made him give birth to something extremely Subtle thoughts: "Ah, that's Chang Luo's son—"
He even thought of Chang Luo's biological mother, Concubine Wang Gong, which made his mood confused.
The thought also flashed by suddenly.
He thought, maybe he didn't really hate Concubine Wang Gong very much, but at that time, things happened a bit indecently; or, it was because he was punished by the Empress Dowager Mercy for this——
Even becoming a father without any psychological preparation—like being forced to accept the facts and forcing myself to be at the mercy of fate—when I was young, I felt useless from the bottom of my heart!
From the very beginning, his heart was tied with thousands of knots that he didn't quite understand, and he was caught in an inexplicable complex emotion and couldn't extricate himself; To sort it out, I can only continue to "mix" day by day!
It has been more than twenty years. During this long period of time, all kinds of disputes have continued one after another, which has made him extremely tired. His only wish now is to end all this as soon as possible, but it always backfires——
The demon book case has finally calmed down, but the peaceful days will not pass for a few days—with the birth of the little emperor's grandson, a new wave of incidents will arise.
"Those old men in the court have nothing to talk about, let alone something to do - Chang Luo gave birth to a son, are you afraid that they won't talk about it?"
He wasn't confused in his heart, he thought everything through very clearly early on.
And things turned out as he expected.
But in just one day, the memorials submitted by the ministers have piled up several feet high.
The eunuchs made a detailed analysis report for him:
Of course, none of these many memorials omits words to celebrate the birth of the emperor's eldest grandson, and the content is of course repeated again and again, without any special features; Others, that is a suggestion: "Today, the birthday of the eldest grandson of the emperor is a great joy for the whole world to celebrate, and it is more appropriate to use the birth mother of the crown prince, Concubine Gong, as the 'imperial concubine'—"
This is an old matter brought up again - someone raised it as early as when Chang Luo was appointed as the crown prince, but he ignored it and suppressed it; this time, he got an excuse and revived it.
He can imagine that tomorrow, the day after tomorrow—there will be so many memorials on this matter that even twenty eunuchs can't carry them!
"Ugh--"
The ministers always wanted to interfere in his housework—he let out a sigh from the bottom of his heart, and he was too lazy to say anything, but his heart was clear.
According to the usual practice, when the eldest grandson of the emperor is born, there are always some rituals with plus signs to decorate and celebrate——
"Ugh--"
Another long sigh spread unrestrictedly in his heart, representing his inextricably complicated mood; however, a tired feeling began to rise in his heart again, as if he was trying his best to resist this Like all clear thoughts, he yawned unconsciously, trying to tell himself to fall asleep in a drowsy state, so as to avoid facing all this.
Escape is the only way to go—
However, this time, he couldn't bring himself to fight against the ministers—he was tired, tired, and he had spent most of his life in meaningless struggles with the ministers until now Only to find out that winning or losing is meaningless!
Anyway, even the appointment of the crown prince has been compromised, so let's just compromise!
He sighed quietly again—
The next day, he issued a "preemptive" move: to issue an imperial edict on the honorary title of Empress Dowager Cisheng.
The officials of the Ministry of Rites prepared the words, and when Gong Feng came to him, he personally picked out the two characters "Gong" and "Xi" and added them to the original name. Congratulations to the Merciful Empress Dowager!"
And as soon as this move was made, the ministers thought that the opportunity had come, and taking advantage of the opportunity to give the Empress Dowager the title of honor, the odds of winning were several points higher; even, many people with political acumen could immediately conclude that Emperor Wanli This move is actually a hint!
So, on the second day, almost all the staff suggested that Concubine Gong should be granted the title of Royal Concubine.
Even the few officials who usually never talked about the affairs of the palace, and who had never been involved in the controversy over the appointment of the crown prince, also joined the ranks—on this occasion, who would not say a few words for Wang Gongfei?The crown prince's biological mother is the future empress, and it will help his own future if he flatters her. What's more, there is no chance at ordinary times, but now it is in front of him, who would be too stupid not to reach out to pick it up?
"In the future when the crown prince ascends the throne, the empress dowager must think about our suggestions today—"
Ministers have a consensus - this is a value judgment.
As a result, Concubine Wang Gong, who had always been neglected, suddenly became a popular figure, and became the focus of attention in the court, and everyone was discussing: "The one who should have been promoted to the title of 'Emperor Responsible Concubine' is already more than twenty years late! "
The person who said this carefully looked back at the past. At that time, Concubine Gong Gong gave birth to Chang Luo, and she was only a "concubine"; after Concubine Zheng gave birth to Chang Xun, she immediately became Imperial Concubine; Noble concubine, even if the ministers write bald pens to fight for it, he will also ignore it accordingly.
At that time, Chang Luo's status had not been established, and many people's hearts turned to Concubine Zheng, and like gambling, they bet their treasures on Concubine Zheng and Chang Xun, forming an extremely delicate and special situation.
However, most of the people who were interested in Concubine Zheng at that time have turned their attention now, and even vehemently denied their position at that time.
But there are also people who look back only a few years ago.
That was the time when Chang Luo was registered as the crown prince, and some people also played, asking Concubine Wang Gong to be the imperial concubine.
At that time, there were not as many speakers as there are now—at that time, most of the people believed that winning the canonization of Changluo was already a great victory, and it was not appropriate to push forward step by step, so as not to annoy Emperor Wanli too much.
What's more, the process of fighting for the registration of Chang Luo has exhausted everyone among them——
Fortunately, recalling the past, everyone is still a little relieved: "At any rate, the strength was not in vain!"
Therefore, everyone gained a lot of confidence in this fight, and many people concluded with one voice: "This time, our efforts will not be in vain!"
The waste of effort in the past is far away, and this time, hope seems to have dawned——
However, Emperor Wanli seemed to whet his appetite. Even though these people were arguing, and even though the memorials piled up dozens of catties in the palace, they ignored them first; When he had doubts about the answer and his original confidence began to waver, he sent eunuchs to convey the will to the officials as if he wanted to surprise people.
As a result, the people who were already a little impetuous immediately fell to the ground with a loud noise while receiving his "emperor's grace".
Concubine Wang Gongfei's title of "Imperial Concubine" was successfully won.
However, the name belongs to the name, and the essence belongs to the substance—the concubine Wang Gongfei who got the title of "imperial concubine" has not been improved by Ren A in terms of actual treatment; the name is just a false name, and in essence, she is still alone Living in the Jingyang Palace like a cold palace, all the supplies are as meager as the mouth, and he does not see the king all the year round, as if he is huddled alone in a dark corner without sunlight and suffering the passing time bit by bit.
The title of imperial concubine means nothing to her at all.
Of course, for Emperor Wanli, this matter was even more meaningless.
Granting the ministers' requests was at best a perfunctory act, or even just a way to control the ministers. He didn't care about Concubine Wang Gongfei at all. Can't remember what she looks like.
And if this matter is approved, there is still a little extra gain for him; that is, because the courtiers have won another "victory", they are satisfied in a short period of time, and the memorial will automatically reduced a lot.
As a result, the workload of the eunuchs was reduced a lot, and he felt more and more quiet in his ears.
It was not until a few months later that another incident occurred, which made him feel "uneasy".
That is, Shen Yiguan and Shen Li, the cabinet scholars, successively became officials.
The reason for Shen Yiguan's resignation is a typical example of "everyone blames him, but dies without a problem"——
After all, there is still some justice in the hearts of the people in the world. Although Shen Yiguan used the demon book and the Prince Chu case to attack Guo Zhengyu, and cut off Guo Zhengyu's political life as he wished, it aroused the anger and anger of many people. Disdainful.
Over the past few years, there have been continuous impeachment memorials; although Emperor Wanli didn't read these memorials at all, he felt uncomfortable like a thorn in his back because he knew that he had been impeached.
Especially after the "Yisi Jingcha" in the 33rd year had some disputes between the officials who attacked him and his personal men and horses, his situation became worse-these officials were all Censor Wen Chun and others were originally one of the members who were aggrieved by Guo Zhengyu. After the "Jingcha" dispute, Wen Chun was managed by him to return to his hometown, and the rest of the people became more and more concentrated under the situation of increasing anger. firepower against him.
Everyone tried their best to pay attention to his words and deeds, collected all the evidence against him, and then went to impeachment together, and even crusaded and attacked with one voice in private.
After a period of time, no matter how powerful and treacherous people are, they can't stand it anymore——Shen Yiguan had no choice but to thank his illness to avoid facing it.
However, how can people who have been irritated be willing to let go?
Everyone collected evidence more frequently and attacked harder; someone even carefully listed his income from bribery, corruption and fraud since he was an official, made a statistical table, and sent it to the palace together with the impeachment memorial; The table was printed and distributed among the people.
In this way, it is impossible for Shen Yiguan to escape the accusations of the masses even by pretending to be sick and staying behind closed doors.
No matter how much he fell in love—how much he was unwilling—he couldn’t make it through anyway, so he had no choice but to resign from office.
However, when the matter came to an end, he still used his last ruthless move - anyway, he couldn't sit still in the position of the chief minister of the cabinet, and he would be a ghost!
"We have to pull that guy Shen Li off the horse together - or else we will all be unhappy together!"
And there are many ways to rectify the sinking carp——
He knew very well in his heart that in the selfishness of Emperor Wanli, he didn't like an upright minister like Shen Li very much-just Shen Li's repeated requests to stop the mining tax was enough to make Emperor Wanli hate him .
What's more, Shen Li's uprightness has also offended many people, the most obvious being some eunuchs related to the collection of mining taxes.
He counted them one by one in his mind:
Not long ago, there was a civil uprising in Yunnan, and Yang Rong, the tax envoy, was killed. There was a word in the palace that officials would be sent to arrest him; Only the crimes of the leader should be punished, as a warning, and the rest of the people who participated in the civil uprising should be pardoned, so as not to intensify the chaos; in the end, this proposal was accepted, but Yang Rong's remaining party deeply hated him. To the bone.
Then Liang Yong, the tax envoy in Shaanxi, also became Shen Li's enemy——Liang Yong asked for the guard, but Shen Li thought it was inappropriate and vetoed the matter.
Then Gao Huai, the tax envoy of Liaodong.Originally, under the guise of paying tribute, Gao Huai led his commander-in-chief to come, and Shen Li went to the shuffle overnight to stop——
Thinking about it one after another, the corner of his mouth inadvertently turned into a sinister smile: "Enough-enough-just because he offended these eunuchs, hey, he will feel better!"
Although Liang Yong and Gao Huai people were not in the capital, they had many party members in the capital, and most of them had close friends with him, and then contacted a few of Yang Rong's remnants of the party, and together they fueled the flames in front of Emperor Wanli—he has full strength. Sure enough, Shen Li's black gauze hat will be thrown away together with his.
Sure enough, after only a few days of hard work——
Emperor Wanli, who would frown when he heard the name "Shen Li", approved Shen Li's speech while approving Shen Yitong's speech.
Two of the three assistant ministers went away at once, and the only remaining Zhu Geng was old and sick, and there was no one to do anything in the cabinet; however, Emperor Wanli didn't care at all-he always believed that the cabinet ministers The less the better, so as not to be too wordy, so this time, he was not too busy considering candidates for the new assistant minister.
"Let's talk about it in a few days—"
There is no rush in this matter, take your time!
Thinking of this, he yawned again, and slowly lowered his eyelids—he fell asleep again.
Nurhachi is actively preparing for the battle.There was no sign of any imminent war, but he ordered preparations for war out of a special induction.
However, this induction is not groundless——
In the first month of the lunar year, he received a report saying that Zemuthei, the head of Feiyou City in the Warka tribe in the East China Sea, had made many detours to Jianzhou and asked to see him.
Of course he accepted, so he set up a feast, held a ceremony, and personally received Zermuthei.
When the two sides met, they got along very harmoniously and cheerfully, and the ceremony and banquet were so grand that Zermut Hei was speechless.
However, at the banquet, Zermuthei said to him: "Our department has long wanted to join Jianzhou—in the past, because of the long distance and difficult communication, we could not hand over Jianzhou, so our department had to attach to Wula department; but , Beilebu Zhantai of the Urab tribe is tyrannical and arrogant, often robbing our women's property and insulting everyone in our tribe-our tribe endured humiliation and survived until today; He was promoted as 'Kundulun Khan', so he traveled a long way and went through hardships to come to Jianzhou to ask for permission for my people to move home!"
He said it very sincerely, and it also made Nurhachi feel infinitely emotional: "Bu Zhantai is too ignorant - I let him go back to Ula to grow up, but he actually made everyone betrayed by himself!"
As for Zermuthei's request, of course he agreed immediately.
He said in a very sincere tone: "Don't worry, there is nothing wrong with this matter - the Ministry of Jianzhou has always opened the door and welcomes anyone to join; moreover, once you become a citizen of Jianzhou, you will never Will suffer any abuse!"
As he spoke, he immediately inquired carefully about the number of people and livestock in the Varka tribe, and then countered Muthei and said: "You will immediately prepare to move things when you go back this time, and I will also order people to vacate the house immediately. Let everyone live in peace!"
Zermut Hei prostrated himself on the ground with tears of gratitude: "Kundulun Khan will not disappoint!"
But at this very moment, Nurhachi's mind flashed a strange light, which touched another thought; so he countered Muthei and said: "It's a long journey from Donghai to Jianzhou, and safety is a concern—— However, you can rest assured that I will send troops to protect and let you arrive safely!"
Moreover, he immediately put it into practice—in front of Zermuthei, he issued an order: "Let Shu Erhaqi, Chu Ying, Dai Shan, Fei Yingdong, and Hu Erhan lead 3,000 troops to live in Feiyou City." , to protect the people of Varka!"
However, when the order was issued, his mood also fell into a delicate and complicated mood. He didn't say it out loud, and he forced himself to suppress this feeling in his heart—by persuading Zermut to drink, Everything is covered up.
It wasn't until the brigade left Hetuala and set off for Feiyou City that he calmed down and thought carefully.
After thinking over and over again, he first let out a silent, long sigh, and whispered to himself in his heart: "Is this all God's will?"
He thought about the Warka tribe who was about to become a citizen of Jianzhou, and the complicated relationship involving the Wula tribe, and he couldn't help muttering in his heart: "Last time, I let Bu Zhantai go back, was it wrong?" It is said in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, "A Dou who cannot be supported", but Bu Zhantai is also a Dou, and if he is helped, it will be for nothing—"
On the other hand, he was thinking: "This time, the Varka tribe betrayed him, and it can be regarded as a lesson for him—when the Warka tribe arrives in Jianzhou, he will definitely feel bad—"
He even thought of Abahai together.
At the beginning, it was Bu Zhantai who insisted on sending Abahai to Jianzhou—in order to repay his gratitude, Bu Zhantai used his niece as a gift—and after a few years, he also liked Abahai quite a lot.
She is not only beautiful, but also smart, quick-responsive, and thoughtful. A year ago, she had given birth to his twelfth son, Azig—although she was young and married the latest, she had Among his several wives, the "top" has a very heavy weight.
However, she is Bu Zhantai's niece!
Suddenly, he thought of Sister Mongolia: "What? These women from the four tribes of Hulun, in the end, the good relationship has become weird - Sister Mongolia is like this, she was happy when she married, But until the end of his life, there was still a knot in his heart, and he walked away with regret!"
And thinking about it this way, of course, his mood will be bad, and he can't think about things anymore; he simply put aside these and think about other issues.
He subconsciously ordered to intensify the training of soldiers and horses to prepare for battle——
For several days in a row, he personally put on the armor, commanded the drill formation, and sometimes went off the field in person, leading the men and horses to sprint, drawing the bow and shooting arrows in person, forgetting himself amidst the thunderous shouts of killing.
The first month is a season of heavy snowfall and freezing cold, but he and his men and horses did not feel cold at all because of the intensive training; even after half a day of training, all the men and horses were sweating profusely, the blood in their bodies was boiling, and their spirits were exhausted. more flourishing.
He did not reveal any subtle feelings in his heart to his subordinates, but only loudly exhorted and encouraged all the people: "The Warka tribe is about to return, and the number of people in my Jianzhou has to increase a lot—now, Jianzhou It is already the largest in Liaodong, and our army needs to be trained to be strong and strong, so as to live up to its name!"
This statement is of course very convincing, so the people in the brigade went to practice, their morale was even higher, and their combat skills were more sophisticated, which made him extremely satisfied.
However, there are many unexpected things happening in the world, which are unbelievable and unbelievable facts——
He had a vague premonition that the war that he was fully prepared for did not happen, but when Shuerhazi and others returned to Jianzhou from the Warka Department to report to him everything about the trip, he knew for sure that the war had already happened !
The Jianzhou Army has fought a battle with the Ula Army led by Bu Zhantai——
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