Gu Cong first bowed to the Supreme Emperor, and then replied very sincerely: "Your Majesty, all the officers and soldiers of our Daning Dusi are loyal to the Ming Dynasty.
We only wanted to protect our country. Even in a bitter cold place outside the Great Wall like Daning, where we suffered from hunger, cold, blood and sweat, we had no regrets.
It was the treacherous ministers in the court who repeatedly cooperated with the three generations of Mahamu, Tuohuan, and Ye from Oara, and finally helped them unify Mongolia.
Now we, the soldiers of Daning Dusi, are willing to give up the comfortable life in Baoding Prefecture and follow the Ming Dynasty back to the grassland to regain the land lost by the Ming Dynasty and restore peace in Lianjiang.
May I ask, Your Majesty, are we at fault? "
When Zhu Qizhen heard this, he had nothing to say to refute. Yang Shiqi's son Yang Ji was killed by Zhu Qizhen himself, so how could he not know what Yang Shiqi had done?
Gu Cong wanted to fight his way back to the grassland to defend his family and country, which required honesty and integrity, and Zhu Qizhen had no shame to say that he was wrong.
In fact, the brothers Zhu Qizhen and Zhu Qiyu came to the same goal by different paths. Both wanted to suppress the traitorous civil servants and clean up a bunch of bad debts left by the Xuande Dynasty.
It's just that the methods of doing things are different. Zhu Qizhen's method is to throw the ministers into prison, lock them up and release them, hoping that they will be in awe and restrain themselves. But Zhu Qiyu chose a more difficult path: to capture the thief first, capture the king first, first completely liquidate Sanyang, and then kick out all the ministers who had been handed down from the Xuande Dynasty, leaving no one behind.
Seeing that the Supreme Emperor was choked and unable to get off the stage, Boyan Timur quickly spoke to the rescue: "Commander Gu, we have to return to the grassland via Zijin Pass, please make it easier."
"sure, no problem."
Boyan Timur and Zhu Qizhen were stunned when they heard this. They were let go so simply, without even having to call the door?
Gu Cong immediately added: "But the Wala army must separate the men, horses, weapons and equipment."
Zhu Qizhen asked curiously: "What do you mean?"
Gu Cong replied: "The general has been entrusted by the emperor to guard the dangerous pass. It is his duty. It is impossible for the Oara army to pass through Zijin Pass with open fire.
Therefore, the general can send troops to transport the ordnance and baggage there first, and then the Wala army can pass through Zijingguan empty-handed. "
Boyan Timur smiled and said: "Am I crazy? I passed the test empty-handed. What if you suddenly attack us?"
Gu Cong also smiled and took out an edict from his pocket and handed it to Boyan Timur: "The emperor has made arrangements for you a long time ago. This is the edict written by the emperor himself, allowing you to bring the Supreme Emperor safely through the border."
Boyan Timur took it over, read it carefully, and had no objection. Da Mingzi's credit guarantee is still valuable.
Moreover, Zhu Qiyu also gave a compromise method in the imperial edict: the Wala army could clear the customs in batches. For example, first transport the weapons and equipment of 3,000 people, then 3,000 people pass through the border empty-handed, and then another 3,000 people pass through the border in the same way.
In this way, we will not be afraid of a sudden attack by the Ming army and wipe out the Wala army in one fell swoop.
Boyan Timur asked again the question in his heart: "If your army resolutely defends the pass, we may not be able to attack Zijin Pass. And we don't have much food and grass. Doesn't it mean that the general doesn't want to make military exploits, and the new king doesn't want his head?" ?Let us go so easily?"
Gu Cong replied: "One bite cannot make you fat. The emperor just wants to destroy his own troops first. The rest, the general is just a warrior and doesn't know much."
Seeing and asking nothing, Boyan Timur had to give up.
The generals guarding Zijingguan were very trustworthy and allowed the Wala army to leave the pass in accordance with the agreement.
After the last Wala soldier passed, the Ming army immediately closed the door and began to make final inspections and fill up the deficiencies in the fortifications, preparing to welcome the troops from the headquarters first.
Zhu Qizhen's only gain from this trip to Beijing was that he had eight more concubines, and he was given the title of Emperor Men.
It was drizzling and the wind was biting. Zhu Qizhen was sitting in a chariot, surrounded by several concubines and warmed by red rosy charcoal. He felt like a spring breeze and did not suffer at all.
In the bedroom, Da Mingzi, who was also hugging the beautiful lady, did not want to burn too much charcoal, so he had to cover himself tightly with the quilt and stick to the beautiful lady closely.
Lin Xiangyu felt a little hot, and asked with a smile: "Although it is raining and cloudy, it is still afternoon, husband, are you just lying like this?"
Zhu Qiyu asked curiously: "I don't want to lie down either, but it's such a cold day, why don't I lie down? I want to go out, but where to go?"
It's too dangerous to go outside the city; it's even more dangerous to go to the palace. Go to the West Flower Hall? That's even worse. Reading the memorial is too life-threatening. I still have to live well. I have to live to be ninety-nine and be very angry with those civil servants and military generals and noble vassal kings. "
Lin Xiangyu explained: "My husband has misunderstood. What I mean is that you have been attacking from all sides recently, won't the ministers jump out and fight back?
You want to liquidate the Xuande Dynasty and restore Queen Hu's position, so the ministers in the court will not jump out to oppose it? "
Zhu Qiyu snorted coldly and explained to the beautiful lady in his arms: "From the Taizong Dynasty to the present, these ministers' personalities and thoughts are completely different from what you think.
You will be responsible for raising our legitimate son in the future, so I must explain it to you.
You must not think that the ministers of the Ming Dynasty had a sense of justice in their hearts. They don't care about Confucian etiquette at all.
You have to realize clearly that they are super, super selfish realists, and no one will really argue with you and me about Confucian etiquette.
I even doubt whether the Jingtai ceremony I want to organize can be launched. Don't end up with no one against me, that would be embarrassing. "
Lin Xiangyu asked in disbelief: "Is it such an exaggeration? No one will come out to object?"
Zhu Qiyu smiled helplessly: "Of course, let me give you an example. Back then, Emperor Xuanzong spoiled his concubine and destroyed his wife. He deposed the queen who was his legitimate wife and his wife for no reason, and raised his concubine to the throne of the queen.
Is this in line with Confucian etiquette? Is it consistent with the sages’ books read by the scholars and scholars of the Manchu Dynasty? Did Confucius ever say that you can spoil your concubine and destroy your wife?
Did Mencius ever say that you can spoil your concubine and destroy your wife? Point it out to me in which chapter and paragraph he talks about it and let me take a look.
Then, did any of the ministers in the Xuande Dynasty stand up against such a blatant violation of Confucian etiquette? Is anyone so indignant as to plead for Queen Hu's life?
No, the entire Xuande Dynasty was just such a bunch of rubbish ministers. If you really think that they believe in Confucianism and practice the teachings of Confucius and Mencius, then you are a fool. "
Even so, there were still many things to say. Zhu Qiyu did not dare to say them to his princess, but only dared to think in his heart:
People's thinking has inertia, and some people always subconsciously believe that the style and logic of civil servants in the early Ming Dynasty and the civil servants in the late Ming Dynasty are the same.
In fact, on the contrary, the civil servants in the early Ming Dynasty and the civil servants in the late Ming Dynasty were completely different species.
The civil servants of the late Ming Dynasty really took Confucian etiquette seriously, and there was nothing wrong with this. But the civil servants in the early Ming Dynasty were completely opposite. It is more reliable to say that they believed in God's will than to say that they believed in the teachings of Confucius and Mencius.
The three major examples of Xuande, Jingtai and Tianshun dynasties vividly and clearly demonstrate the style of civil servants in the early Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Qiyu sighed, but it was still the fourteenth year of orthodoxy. The little princess in his arms could not even imagine the jaw-dropping and breathtaking situations that civil servants in the early Ming Dynasty could coax into.
(End of chapter)
