Lai Zongdao understood.
The other party didn't intend to pay attention to the tiger-character flag, and focused on Wei Zhongxian and the eunuch.
However, he still wanted to persuade the other party again, and said: "Yuanzhi, you can't just care about the affairs of the eunuchs. Now Wei Zhongxian has been expelled from the capital, and the eunuchs are no longer a thing. On the contrary, the Liu thieves in the northwest are making frequent changes. It is very possible that If you send troops to Henan, it will definitely become a serious problem for the imperial court!"
"Why didn't I receive a report from Henan? Could it be that Henan officials concealed the invasion of Liu's army?" Li Guopu said pretending to be angry.
Lai Zongdao understood that he was deliberately deflecting the question, but he still patiently explained: "Henan has not sent a report of Liu's army invading them, but the changes of Liu's army on the border of Henan are obviously an attack on Henan." .”
"Since there is no report about Liu's army attacking Henan, then everything is just speculation. Mr. Laige, you are too worried." Li Guopu comforted Zong Daolai instead.
After hearing this, Lai Zongdao knew that Li Guopu was determined to deal with the eunuchs first.
Given Jin Shang's displeasure with the eunuchs, it is naturally easier to gain favor by dealing with the eunuchs than with the Liu thieves in the northwest. Moreover, the eunuchs have now lost power and are easier to deal with than the Liu thieves who are far away in the northwest.
"Things have their own priorities. When you come to the cabinet, you should clearly distinguish the priorities." Li Guopu, as the senior who first joined the cabinet, gave some kind words to persuade Lai Zongdao.
"I have learned a lesson." Lai Zongdao bowed his hand towards Li Guopu with a bitter look on his face.
Nowadays, the first and second ministers of the cabinet have become clay bodhisattvas, occupying only one position. The other cabinet ministers who are inextricably related to the eunuch party have already been busy taking care of themselves.
At present, only he and Li Guopu can do things in the cabinet, but Li Guopu's thoughts are all on the eunuch party. Regarding the issue of the Tiger Flag, he is left alone in the cabinet.
And he could feel that even Jin Shang's main thoughts were on Wei Zhongxian and the eunuchs, but he did not spend much thought on the rebellion in the northwest.
What is good at the top must be good at the bottom.
After entering the cabinet, it is impossible not to be interested in the first assistant. Since both the first assistant and the second assistant in the cabinet are certain that they will not be in office for too long, Li Guopu, an old man in the cabinet, is naturally a strong competitor for the first assistant.
Li Guopu could feel Lai Zongdao's perfunctory attitude, but he was not angry. Instead, he kindly reminded him: "Lai Ge is always a minister appointed by Emperor Daxing to take care of life. It's better to focus more on the things that concern you most today."
"Thank you Mr. Li Ge for your concern, I will do it." Lai Zongdao replied perfunctorily.
This time it was no different from the previous intimacy.
Seeing this, Li Guozhu smiled and didn't take it seriously. He said goodbye and left the room where Lai Zongdao was staying.
Lai Zongdao looked at the door of the pledge room and let out a sigh.
After serving as an official for many years, now that he has entered the cabinet, he naturally no longer scolds Fang Qiu with his bookishness.
From top to bottom, he only saw that everyone was paying attention to Wei Zhongxian and the eunuchs, and did not care about the northwest rebels. Although he knew that the northwest Liu thieves were more harmful than Wei eunuchs, he did not intend to do that special thing. A loner.
Being able to persuade Li Guopu with a few words is the best he can do. People who are mavericks in official circles often do not end well.
He didn't want to offend the emperor and all the courtiers in the end, and end up with a disgraced official.
A few days passed, and the situation in the capital became more and more intense because of Wei Zhongxian's assignment to Fengyang.
Civil servant Qingliu and many students jointly submitted a petition calling for the execution of Wei Zhongxian and other members of the eunuch party.
Memorials calling for the execution of Wei Zhongxian are piled up with Zhu Youjian's Long Case every day.
Zhu Youjian, who followed Emperor Taizu as his example, wanted to be a diligent emperor, so he read every memorial in person. However, the almost identical content in these memorials made him hate Wei Zhongxian even more.
If he had not taken into account the reputation of his emperor, he would have wanted to issue an order to capture Wei Zhongxian and kill him with a thousand knives.
"Your Majesty, Commander Luo, the commander of the Imperial Guard, is asking for an audience outside the palace." Wang Chengen came to Zhu Youjian and whispered.
Soon after Zhu Youjian ascended the throne, he removed Tian Ergen as commander of the Jinyiwei and replaced him with the more trustworthy Luo Yangxing, who was also the son of the former Jinyiwei commander Luo Sigong.
"Bring him in." Zhu Youjian sat on the seat behind Long An.
"Xuan, the commander of the Jinyi Guards sent the left governor Luo Yangxing to come to see you." Wang Chengen shouted outside the palace.
As the sound spread, Luo Yangxing, who was wearing a python robe, walked in from outside the palace, knelt on the ground facing Zhu Youjian, and said respectfully: "I, Luo Yangxing, come to see your majesty."
"I love you." Zhu Youjianxu raised his right hand.
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Luo Yangxing thanked him first, and then stood up from the ground.
Zhu Youjian looked at him and asked, "How is Wei Wei?"
Wei Zhongxian, who was assigned to Fengyang, was accompanied by Jinyi guards who monitored him along the way.
"I'm here just for this matter." Luo Yangxing stepped forward, took out a secret book from his sleeves, raised it with both hands above his head, and said in his mouth, "This is a special gift from the Jin Yiwei Baihu who escorted Wei Yi. Please read the secret message that I have returned, Your Majesty."
Wang Chengen walked over, took the secret fold into his hand, and then returned to the Long Case and handed it to Zhu Youjian.
Although Zhu Youjian and Zhu Youxiao were the heirs of the prince when they were young, their lives were not as good as those of many eunuchs and maids in the palace. It was not until the prince Ming Shenzong ascended the throne that his life became easier.
Later, his elder brother Zhu Youxiao succeeded to the throne and specially invited a great scholar to give lectures to him. In addition, he was also diligent and learned a lot from books. His knowledge was much better than that of the Daxing Emperor Zhu Youxiao.
Taking the secret fold, Zhu Youjian held it in front of his eyes and looked through it.
His face slowly turned livid, and finally he threw the secret in his hand to the ground, and angrily said: "Damn eunuch, I am so tolerant of him."
Wang Chengen leaned down and picked up the secret fold from the ground and put it back on the dragon table.
"Luo Yangxing." Zhu Youjian's eyes, red with anger, stared at Luo Yangxing in front of him.
"I'm here." Luo Yangxing took a step forward.
Zhu Youjian said: "I order you to send a team of people from the Jinyi Guards to capture this eunuch for me. I want to kill him with my own hands, so go now."
"I obey the order." Luo Yangxing turned and left the hall.
Not long after he returned to Zhenfusi, a team of Jin Yiwei was ordered to leave the capital.
The news that Luo Yangxing sent the secret fold quickly spread in the palace, and even the contents of the secret fold reached the ears of several eunuchs in the palace.
A eunuch named Li Yongfang, who was the Chief Li Supervisor, was an important figure around Wei Zhongxian.
When Wei Zhongxian gained power, he and Wang Tigan, the eunuch and eunuch responsible for the ceremony, helped Wei Zhongxian change the cabinet votes.
After he learned the news, he immediately arranged for people to leave the palace, and arranged for people to dare to send secret information to Wei Zhongxian who was on the way to Fengyang before Jin Yiwei.
Soon after the Jin Yiwei who captured Wei Zhongxian and returned to the capital left, another fast rider left the capital.
At this point, Wei Zhongxian's fate was already foreseeable, and everyone in the court was waiting for the moment Wei Zhongxian died to start purging the eunuchs.
No one in the court paid any attention to the fact that the Tiger-Character Banner began to mobilize troops and horses to Henan. Even the memorials sent by Henan officials about the unusual movements of the Tiger-Character Banner's army were ignored.
The Tiger Banner has sent two combat divisions and one dragoon division, nearly 50,000 troops, to the border between Henan and Shanxi.
"Lord, the envoy sent by the slave thieves has arrived." Zhao Wu sent news from the fake gold envoy.
This team of envoys sent by the pseudo-gold came from the direction of the grassland. After entering Qingcheng, they revealed their identities and were taken back to Datong Town by the people of the Tiger Flag.
"Since you're here, let's meet you!" Liu Heng put down the newspaper in his hand, stood up from his seat, and left the office accompanied by Zhao Wu.
The main town office has a hall dedicated to receiving envoys.
As soon as the fake gold envoy arrived at the main town office, he was taken to the hall where guests were entertained.
After Ning Wan, I sat on the seat in the hall and looked outside the door from time to time.
Along the way, ever since he entered the territory of the Tiger-Character Banner, he felt the malice the people of the Tiger-Character Banner had towards them, the Dajin envoys, and this malice became stronger when he arrived in Datong.
Thinking of the fate of the envoys sent to contact the Tiger Character Banner several times in the past, he was now terrified, fearing that he would be killed by the Tiger Character Banner without even seeing Liu Heng's face.
"I didn't expect the changes in Datong to be so big. It seems that the Tiger Flag is not just a rebel. The general has some ability to govern the place." Bao Chengxian said.
After finishing Ning, I looked at Bao Chengxian and said with a smile: "I almost forgot, General Bao is also from Shanxi."
"People from Yingzhou, Shanxi, are familiar with Datong. The year I was about to leave, Datong was far less prosperous and lively than it seems now. I never expected that Shanxi would produce such a powerful figure." Bao Chengxian sighed.
Ning Wanme shook his head slightly and said: "You are wrong about this. I heard that the general of the Tiger Character Banner was not from Shanxi, but a soldier under Du Song's tent, the commander-in-chief of the Ming Army in Liaodong. Later, Because of the defeat, he fled to Datong Lingqiu and started a business, which is how the Tiger Character Flag became as big as it is today."
"It turns out he is from Liaodong, so it's not surprising." Bao Chengxian said with a smile, "With Tianming Khan and Dahan Zhuyu in front, it is not unusual for another general with the tiger character flag to appear."
Ning Wanme nodded in agreement and said: "Now Dajin is prospering in the hands of the Khan. If this tiger-character flag continues to grow, sooner or later it will become a stumbling block for my Dajin."
"Isn't it the general who the Great Khan sent us to win over the Tiger-Charactered Banner? Maybe the Tiger-Charactered Banner will help us to unify the Central Plains." Bao Chengxian said with a smile.
After Ning finished I said: "I hope so!"
He was not as optimistic about this mission as Bao Chengxian.
In the past, Dai Jin's envoys to the Tiger-Character Banner almost never ended well. However, along the way, he felt the hostility of the Tiger-Character Banner towards their group, which made him feel more and more uneasy.
"The general has arrived."
Someone suddenly shouted this outside the hall.
After hearing this, Ning Wanwo and Bao Cheng stood up from their seats and looked out the door together.
At this moment, several people walked in outside the house.
The leader has a straight nose, a broad mouth, a high forehead, and square eyebrows. He doesn't look very old, and is younger than Dajin's current Khan.
From my position, Ning Wan guessed that the young man in front of me must be General Liu Heng of the Tiger Character Banner. I immediately stepped forward, saluted and said, "Ning Wan, the envoy of Dajin, I have met General Liu."
"Are you Ning Wanwo?" Liu Heng stopped and looked at the person in front of him who claimed to be Ning Wanwo with interest.
Ning Wanwo and Fan Wencheng were so famous in later generations, so he was very impressed.
"It's your envoy." Ning Wanwa's eyes lit up and he looked slightly satisfied. He didn't expect that the General of the Tiger-Character Banner far in the northwest had also heard of his name.
Liu Heng moved his eyes to the person next to Ning Wan and asked, "Are you Fan Wencheng?"
"I envoy Bao Chengxian, and Tian will be the deputy general of the Great Jinhan Army." Bao Chengxian introduced himself.
Liu Heng said with a disappointed look on his face: "I thought one of you was Ning Wanme and the other was Fan Wencheng. It's a pity. If both of you came, I could have a good look at these two big traitors."
After saying that, he left Ning Wanwo and Bao Chengxian, who looked ugly, and went straight to the main seat in the hall and sat down.
"A good bird chooses its right wood to rest. It's a bit far-fetched for the general to say that the two envoys are traitors." Ning Wanwo retorted to Liu Heng's words.
Liu Heng laughed when he heard this and said: "So the fact that you two abandoned the Ming Dynasty and took refuge in the alien race as slaves has become something that everyone should praise."
"Didn't the general also abandon the Ming Dynasty and establish himself as king?" Ning Wanwo said, looking directly at Liu Heng.
Liu Heng clapped his hands softly and said with a smile: "You are right, I did set myself up as a king, but I am different from you. I never help foreigners oppress and harm my compatriots."
"The general's words are biased. Dajin and Ming are hostile forces. Some casualties are inevitable on the battlefield. Isn't the sword in the general's hand stained with blood?" Ning Wanwo counterattacked.
Liu Heng spread his hands and said: "But the knife of the Tiger Flag has never been stained with the blood of innocent people. Instead, it is the big gold in your mouth. It has killed many Han people in recent years! I believe I don't need to list them one by one. You should You should know better than me."
After Ning Wan, my expression changed.
In the last few years of the old Khan's life, in order to save food, Dajin first killed the people without grain and then the scholars. The blood of the Han people dyed the rivers of Dajin red.
"That's also because of the special situation. Today, Cong Khan has already changed the policy left by the old Khan and started to support the Han people. Now the life of the Han people has become easier." Bao Chengxian, who was next to him, justified Dai Jin's murder of the people.
Liu Heng looked at Bao Chengxian.
He said: "As a deputy general of the Ming army, you don't want to serve the country. Just because you are afraid of death, you betray your master for glory and kneel at the feet of a foreign race. You are worse than him."
As he spoke, he pointed at Ning'an next to me.
"General, you have also been in the Ming army. I believe the general should know very well what the Ming army is like. The general fled to Datong because he could not stand the incompetence and oppression of the Ming army." Bao Chengxian said.
Liu Heng laughed when he heard this and said sarcastically: "When I was in the Ming army, I was just a small soldier in the firearms camp, but you, Bao Chengxian, are different. You are the second-rank deputy general in the army. To say that the army is bullying, It's you who bullies the ordinary soldiers below. When will it be your turn to bully a second-grade general? Don't you feel agitated when you say such a thing in front of me?"
