Qi Jiguang stood with his hands behind his back on the steps of the official residence of the Chief Minister of the Cabinet. Facing the cold wind blowing in his face, he loudly said: "If you want to wait for spring, how can you be afraid of the wind and snow!"
After Xu Rucheng heard this, he didn't say anything more and just looked at the scenery in front of him.
"If you want to wait for the spring, how can you be afraid of the wind and snow!"
"That's right, Xinli can't be killed!"
"Do they think that if they kill Duke Ji, the court will no longer recommend new gifts, and will no longer recommend Wu Xun to control military aircraft?"
"but."
"Using such a deceptive method shows that the supporters of the old rites are really at the end of their days, so they can only do this despicable act."
unexpectedly.
Zhang Xueyan, the Minister of Civil Affairs, came over at this time. After hearing Qi Jiguang's words, he spoke loudly, and then saluted Qi Jiguang and Xu Rucheng.
Qi Jiguang and Xu Rucheng hurriedly returned the gift.
"Some people said that there were a lot of gunshots coming from the direction of Jingying, and someone was assassinated. I guessed that it was related to the public."
"After all, other than the matter of appointing a minister, I don't think anyone would fire a gun without any reason."
Zhang Xueyan smiled at Qi Jiguang and said:
"Speaking of which, I am also responsible for this. I was the one who wanted to put the Duke's name on the list despite all the opinions."
Qi Jiguang smiled and said: "How can I complain about Otsuka Zai? If Otsuka Zai can trust me, I should treat him as a confidant."
"I just have to admit that when I serve as Privy Councilor, my first priority is not how to rectify military affairs, but how to save my own life!"
Qi Jiguang said to Zhang Xueyan and Xu Rucheng:
"However, I don't really want to be in a high position. It's just because, except for Otsuka Zai, everyone in the court who aspires to the country must know that the system of collecting money for mining to benefit the people is about to be implemented, and the court has begun to use new etiquette as the guideline. In order to enable the imperial power to control the world's money and interests to benefit the people and strengthen the country, the most important thing is to control the powerful military and generals by the court. In order to prevent the wealthy people who use Buddhist temples and Taoist temples to manipulate people's money and interests from rebelling, strong soldiers and powerful generals must be controlled by the imperial court. Soldiers and generals can't just be like thugs in the fighting industry. They only know how to get money to do things and don't know the rise and fall of the country. They are also responsible for it! In this case, someone needs to dare to come out and rectify military affairs!"
"As the saying goes, if I don't go to hell, who will go to hell? Since the matter has come before me, I have no reason to avoid it without caring about myself!"
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"That's exactly what I said!"
"Although scholars are the leaders of the four peoples, we cannot just value scribes and not warriors."
"Of course, etiquette and virtue must be demanded of warriors just as they are of scribes."
"Nowadays, there are indeed many generals, military officials and ministers in the world who deduct their military pay, take advantage of their merits and take advantage of their salary, and there are even those who engage in barbarian affairs and embezzle land."
"It can be said that if the soldiers and horses in the world are to be truly loyal and able to conquer the country, they should not just bully the people like thugs. The generals and military officials in the world must also be dealt with strictly. They cannot just strictly require supervision!"
"If the governor tries to cut down the military ministers, of course he has to take care of it, but if the generals try to cut down the soldiers, shouldn't they care?"
"If only civil servants are in charge, it is inevitable that they will be dissatisfied and think that the civil servants deliberately suppressed the generals and even committed mutiny. It is better to use the ministers who were born as generals to control the military ministers who are not responsible, so that the military officials in the world will not think that the court's handling of a general is intentional. It’s oppression because the general is really not doing his job! In this case, it’s hard to hold grudges and encourage those who are competent to cause trouble!”
Zhang Xueyan was also talking about his views at this time, but Xu Rucheng frowned and said something that he was quite worried about:
"If this is the case, will the incident at Xiangji Temple happen in this dynasty in the future?"
Qi Jiguang and Zhang Xueyan both fell silent.
After a while, Zhang Xueyan said: "No!"
Xu Rucheng handed over his hand and said, "Please ask Mr. Otsuka to clear up the confusion."
Qi Jiguang smiled slightly and nodded. When Zhang Xueyan saw this, he just looked at Xu Rucheng and said:
"Because the new etiquette is the original intention of the ancient people to advocate etiquette, which starts from respect and ends with benevolence. If I treat him as a scholar of the country, he should treat me as a scholar of the country, regardless of civil or military affairs!"
"Understood!"
Xu Rucheng cupped his hands and replied.
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At this time, a clerk from the inner court suddenly came to deliver the message: "Duke Xuanji and Xing'an Bo are here to see you!"
After hearing this, Qi Jiguang told Zhang Xueyan to stay with him, and then entered the palace with Xu Rucheng.
When Qi Jiguang and Xu Rucheng entered the palace, they happened to meet Zhang Jing, the eunuch of Dongchang.
Seeing this, Qi Jiguang and Xu Rucheng surrendered to Zhang Jing first.
Zhang Jing didn't even return the greeting. He even chuckled on purpose and swung the fly whisk away.
Qi Jiguang stood there feeling quite embarrassed for a moment. After a while, he deliberately asked loudly: "My husband is in charge of factory guards, why do ministers always get attacked?"
Zhang Jing then turned around and asked: "Being an official is inherently dangerous. How can the factory guards send people to keep an eye on you officials from foreign countries every day? If Ji Guogong is afraid of death, why doesn't he resign as prime minister?"
After saying that, Zhang Jing came to the Yangxin Hall with his head shaking.
"Why is he like this?"
Xu Rucheng couldn't help but ask Qi Jiguang.
Qi Jiguang just followed him into the Yangxin Hall with a sullen face.
Peng!
When Qi Jiguang and Xu Rucheng just came in, they saw a teacup flying from Zhu Yijun's hand to Zhang Jing's forehead. On the spot, Zhang Jing's tile hat was covered with water drops.
Zhang Jing himself was shaking like chaff on the ground at this moment and said:
"Your Majesty, please calm down. This is because the factory guard failed in his duty. However, the factory guard has indeed not received any unusual reports in the Beijing camp recently!"
"I think it's not my factory guards who are incompetent, it's you Zhang Jing who is incompetent!"
"You are incompetent!"
Then, Qi Jiguang and Xu Rucheng saw Zhu Yijun yelling filial piety crazily, and even almost put his whole face on Zhang Jing's face, and yelled filial piety to him, making Zhang Jing's eyebrows full of curses.
Zhang Jing himself did not dare to stretch out his hand to wipe it, but continued to tremble and kowtow and cry loudly: "What the emperor blames is that this slave is incompetent. This slave has let the emperor down!"
Zhu Yijun looked at Xu Rucheng again at this moment: "Why are you so happy?"
Xu Rucheng couldn't help but shiver, and his back felt as if cold water had been poured on him.
"I asked you what are you chuckling about?"
Zhu Yijun asked him again.
Xu Rucheng hurriedly kowtowed to the ground and said with a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, I just think that Eunuch Zhang deserves to be scolded!"
"Are you not wrong?"
"I asked you to be the admiral of the capital camp. What will your admiral become like?"
"The Prime Minister went to the capital camp for an inspection and was attacked by people from the capital camp. How can you let me feel at ease?!"
"My Jingying camp still can't reassure me. Is it the chronic illness in Jingying camp that is difficult to cure, or is there something wrong with you?"
As Zhu Yijun spoke, he looked at Xu Rucheng and said sternly: "Tell me!"
Xu Rucheng also trembled as if he was being shocked by electricity:
"Your Majesty clearly knows that there are too many troops in the Beijing camp. No one knows whether the official school who looks loyal and brave may be a loyal slave installed by some powerful gentry! Wow! Of course, I am also incompetent. I don't know first. Send troops to search and sweep the houses near the capital camp!"
Xu Rucheng said and bowed to the ground: "I am willing to be punished!"
"I don't care about any of them. I think the construction of Xinli has nothing to do with me, right? It's just Master Shen's business, right? I think whoever I appoint as prime minister is just my business, right?"
"Now you know, when people do bad things, it doesn't matter whether you are neutral or not!"
After Zhu Yijun said this in a tone that said he hated iron, he suddenly waved his hand and said, "Get out of here! The Prime Minister also steps down!"
Qi Jiguang said yes and left the Yangxin Hall with Xu Rucheng and Zhang Jing.
After Xu Rucheng came out, he wiped his sweat and said, "I didn't realize how powerful the dragon is and how terrifying it is!"
But that night.
Zhang Jing came to Zhu Yijun again: "Your Majesty!"
"Has the wound on your forehead been treated?"
Zhu Yijun asked with concern at this time.
