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Chongzhen glanced at the piles of memorials on the table, with a hint of disgust in his eyes, but he still walked over to the back of the table, reached out and picked up one of the memorials and read through it.
Snapped!
After reading the memorial in his hand, he threw it directly to the ground and picked up the second memorial.
Snapped!
The memorial in his hand was thrown to the ground again, and he went to get the third memorial from the table.
But this time, he only opened it and glanced at it twice before throwing it to the ground and picking up another memorial again.
After flipping through seven or eight memorials in a row, he finally threw them all to the ground, with anger visible to the naked eye.
Wow!
Chongzhen waved his sleeves and pulled all the memorials on the table to the ground. He said angrily: "They are all the same, aren't they a little different?"
Wang Chengen on the side leaned down and hurriedly picked up the memorial on the ground.
"No need to pick it up, I don't want to see it." Chongzhen said angrily.
Wang Chengen returned to the table with a few memorials he picked up and put them down. He asked softly: "Your Majesty, please calm down. If you really don't want to read these memorials, I will ask someone to put them away first and wait for your Majesty to have them." Watch it when you have free time."
"Look, look, look, I don't want to read it at all now." Chongzhen put together the several memorials that Wang Chengen had just picked up and threw them out.
Wang Chengen did not pick up the memorial on the ground this time. Instead, he winked at the little eunuch on the side and asked the little eunuch to pick up the memorial on the ground.
And he walked to Chongzhen's side, rubbed Chongzhen's shoulders, and said softly: "Your Majesty, if you want to know something, you can find the ministers below. There is no need to be angry about the contents of these memorials."
"Do you know what is written in these memorials?" Chongzhen turned his head and asked Wang Chengen.
These memorials were sent from the Supervisor of Ceremonies. Of course Wang Chengen knew the contents, but he still shook his head and said: "After the Supervisor of Ceremonies received these memorials, he sent them directly to the Emperor. I haven’t had time to ask yet.”
"It's okay if you don't know. If you know, I'm afraid you'll be even more angry than me." Chongzhen said with an annoyed look on his face.
Wang Chengen said: "If your Majesty doesn't want to read these memorials anymore, your Majesty can tell the Supervisor of Ceremonies not to send them to you if he encounters similar memorials again."
After hearing this, Chongzhen looked at Wang Chengen coldly.
Wang Chengen was so frightened that he hurriedly knelt down on the ground. While slapping his mouth with his hand, he apologized and said, "I know that I am guilty. I should not talk too much."
Chongzhen just watched Wang Chengen slap him a dozen times before he said, "Get up, pick up the memorial on the ground and read it for yourself!"
Wang Chengen knelt and crawled to the memorial notebook closest to him, picked it up and opened it with both hands.
Because he already knew what was inside, he just glanced at it once, then closed the memorial again, and then carefully placed it on the table.
"Do you know why I'm angry?" Chongzhen asked.
Wang Chengen lowered his head and replied: "These ministers should be killed every one of them. They actually persuaded the emperor to fight against the thieves even as slaves. They are simply lawless."
"Even you, my eldest companion, can understand things, but these ministers of mine are pretending not to know. Instead, they want me to join forces with slaves and thieves. Humph, I really want to kill these ministers who submitted the memorial." Chongzhen snorted coldly. There was a sound.
Wang Chengen lowered his head.
The memorials on the floor had all been cleaned up by the young eunuch.
"Stop kneeling, get up!" Seeing Wang Chengen still kneeling on the ground, Chongzhen asked him to get up.
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
After Wang Chengen kowtowed solemnly, he got up from the ground.
"Daban, who do you think can defeat the tiger thief or the slave thief?" Chongzhen suddenly asked Wang Chengen.
"This slave doesn't know."
"It doesn't matter. I won't blame you. I'll tell you straight away as soon as possible. In fact, I'm also curious about who among them can win this battle." Chongzhen signaled to Wang Chengen.
After hearing this, Wang Chengen knew that he had to give Chongzhen an answer, and said: "The slave thieves have been operating outside the customs for many years, and they must be difficult to deal with. However, the tiger thieves traveled a long distance and did not have the advantage of the geographical location like the slave thieves. The weather was good. It’s almost the same, the tiger thief may have a slight disadvantage, but the most likely result is that both sides will suffer losses.”
"Oh?" Chongzhen became interested and asked, "Why does the eldest companion think that both of them will lose? Just now, the eldest companion said that the slaves and thieves have the advantage."
Wang Chengen continued: "The slave thieves have a geographical advantage compared to the tiger thieves, so they are very likely to win this battle on land. However, the tiger thieves have an advantage that the slave thieves do not have, and that is sea ships. As long as the tiger thieves If they retreat to the sea or an island, the slave thieves will have no choice, so in my opinion, even if the slave thieves defeat the tiger thieves, it will be difficult to drive the tiger thieves away from Lushun, and both sides will most likely suffer losses."
After listening, Chongzhen nodded and said: "It's pretty much what I thought. Losing both sides should be the best outcome, which is also the most beneficial to Ming Dynasty."
He said this, but he only thought of this when he heard Wang Chengen mention the tiger flag and sea ships.
His original thought was that if the Tiger Flag's army went to the lair of slave thieves, they would definitely not get any good results. The most likely thing would be that they would come back in despair.
But it's different with sea ships.
At that time, Mao Wenlong took advantage of the island and existed behind the slave thieves for many years.
"Your Majesty is right. Whether the tiger thief and the slave thief lost both before, or the tiger thief lost to the slave thief, it is a good thing for our Ming Dynasty." Wang Chengen echoed.
Chongzhen nodded.
The two enemies of Ming Dynasty fought with each other. No matter who wins or loses, it will be beneficial to Ming Dynasty.
"Big companion, why do you think the tiger thieves must send troops outside the customs? This is of no benefit to them. Could it be that after defeating the slave thieves once on the grassland, they think the slave thieves are soft persimmons and easy to bully?" Chongzhen asked Xiangshen. Next to Wang Chengen.
Naturally, the Ming Dynasty had heard of the news about Tiger Character Banner's defeat of Huang Taiji on the grassland.
But the Ming Dynasty only knew that the tiger-character flag and the slave thieves had an advantage in the battle on the grassland, but they did not know that the two red flags that came with Huang Taiji were almost killed by the tiger-character flag.
Such a thing is a shame to Huang Taiji, and naturally it will not be publicized everywhere. The Ming Dynasty has limited channels to obtain information about the things on the grassland. It is likely that the matter slowly spread to the Ming Dynasty in the past few months or half a year. I don’t know how many times I’ve been tipped off, but the news has long been distorted.
Therefore, Ming will only think that it is correct, and Ming will not believe those things that are exaggerated.
This also made the Ming Dynasty always feel that although the Tiger Character Banner defeated the slave thieves, it was only a small victory and had little impact on the slave thieves. After all, the slave thieves subsequently robbed many places in Daming Pass, proving that the slave thieves The strength of a thief.
(End of chapter)
