Ming Dynasty, capital, in the cabinet duty room.
Yu Qian sat on a chair, and on the table in front of him were two letters of credence, the Letter of Creation of the Nation.
One was a letter of credence that had been signed and sealed by Sun Xiang and Shi Heng, and the other was transferred from North Korea.
Yu Qian was a little surprised. Didn't Xu Youzhen go to help stabilize the situation in North Korea? Why did these two credentials pop up.
Is this what His Majesty meant?
Yu Qian didn't know much about the Peace Road mentioned in the national certificate. He only knew that, like Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty, it was a place where Jurchens lived together, with a vast land and sparsely populated areas. BIquGe.biz
It was only after seeing this letter of credence that Yu Qian realized that Shi Heng had gone too far in leading his army to suppress the Jurchens.
While Yu Qian was deep in thought, Li Xian walked in.
"Yu Taibao, what's the matter?"
Yu Qian sighed softly and said, "Li Fuchen, come and take a look."
As he spoke, he picked up the credentials signed by Shi Heng and Sun Xiang and handed them to Li Xian.
Li Xian was confused. After taking the certificate of credence, he read it carefully. Like Yu Qian, he was also a little surprised.
"Interesting, interesting. It seems that I know what His Majesty and Xu Youzhen talked about in Qianqing Palace." Li Xian said with a smile, put the credentials on the table again, and then went straight back to his seat sit down.
"What do you think?" Yu Qian asked.
"It's a good thing, it's a good thing, but it's a little strange?"
"How to say?"
"I once talked with the late Hu Shangshu about the situation of all the countries in the world. He once said to me that the An Ning Road and the Ping An Road are like the sixteen states of Yanyun in our Han Dynasty. These are the defenses of North Korea against our Ming Dynasty. As a natural barrier, there are many natural pastures between the two places. Without him, the number of horses produced by North Korea would be reduced by nearly 40%."
"Although it seems that there are not as many Koreans living there as Jurchens, they are still very important to Korea. I have seen that Shouyang Lord before. His words and deeds are not like a reckless person. How could he be sacrificed to the Ming Dynasty so easily? Well, this is also what’s weird about me.”
After hearing this, Yu Qian sneered.
"I have had a chat with this Lord Shouyang. He is extremely ambitious and once wanted the throne. I think Xu Youzhen took advantage of his pain points and prompted North Korea to donate its land."
"Now Governor Sun and Marquis Wuyang have killed them first and then reported them. It seems that it is also Xu Youzhen's credit."
"At first I was wondering why Sun Xiang was in North Korea, but now I understand that it must have been His Majesty who ordered Sun Xiang to go." Yu Qian sighed and said softly.
"How does Yu Taibao think we should treat these two letters of credence?"
"It also depends on His Majesty's holy will."
"If Your Majesty has no other opinion on this matter, I would like to give you, Taibao Yu, full authority to make the decision." Li Xian then asked.
After listening to Li Xian's words, Yu Qian was stunned for a moment, then thought about it carefully and said: "Since you have given it, you should receive it."
"Hahaha, Yu Taibao, is this you?" Li Xian said with a chuckle, and then suddenly his face straightened: "Although North Korea is a vassal state and obeys Ming's orders in everything, Ming must also have someone who can With the advantage of being sure to hit, North Korea will be more obedient after obtaining these two places."
"Li Fuchen, aren't you a moderate person? Why are you so radical now?"
Li Xian sighed deeply and then said: "Don't you want Taibao Yu to help your majesty to restore the glory of the Ming Dynasty?"
Yu Qian looked at Li Xian and said nothing, just thinking for a moment.
"We have been watching over the years. In the third year of Xuande, the Ming Dynasty abolished the Jiaozhi Chief and History Department and abandoned Annan. In the fifth year of Xuande, the Ming Dynasty moved the Kaiping Guards inward, which caused the defensive space in the north of the Ming Dynasty to shrink greatly. During the reign of the Supreme Emperor At that time, we were defeated several times, of which you and I are witnesses."
"When I gave up the post of Chief Secretary of Cochin, I had just won the election. We were still very young at that time, and we also thought about helping the Ming Dynasty change this decline. At that time, we were passionate but incapable."
But now we have the ability, but we no longer have the original ambition. We have to think more about what to do if we lose, what to do with finances, and what to do with everything. It can only keep you and me in one place forever. , unwilling to step forward, because we only need to follow the steps, and we will never make mistakes. You, Yu Qian, have been granted the title of Grand Master and have been favored for generations. I, Li Xian, can also be a minister. After death, I will also be Your Majesty is kind to you, but are these really what we want? As ministers, shouldn’t we put the country first and ourselves second? "
"Because of this, we have forgotten our original enthusiasm. Yu Taibao, you are a completely different person now than you were six years ago."
Yu Qian was a little confused. When did Ming Dynasty become so positive? A few days ago, His Majesty, who was less than nine years old, did some ideological work for himself, but he has not yet fully digested it.
Li Xian is here again.
Same formula, same passion, same results.
He looked at Li Xian.
"I have long since discovered that I am no longer the same person I was six years ago."
Li Xian chuckled twice.
"Sweeping away the dust of the Ming Dynasty's past is a responsibility that you and I should fulfill. There is no way for us to escape. Your Majesty is so wise and intelligent now and has the ability to distinguish right from wrong. It is really a blessing for the Ming Dynasty. Sometimes, I can't help but think, Could it be that what Xu Youzhen said about the celestial phenomena was not unfounded, but that he really saw that Your Majesty is a gift from God to the king who revived the Ming Dynasty." After Li Xian finished speaking, with tears in his eyes, he picked up the teacup on the table.
"The tea has gone cold, but Ming's blood should not go cold."
After finishing speaking, Li Xian's eyes were firm and he drank it all in one gulp, wanting to warm up the cup of herbal tea with his newly ignited blood...
He had read about the glory of the Ming Dynasty in books. Emperor Taizu expelled the Tartars and revitalized the Han people.
Didn’t you Mongolians hold up your whips and herd horses along the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers? Didn’t you point at our children and say they were weak southerners? Didn’t you once make our most proud nation not even worthy of a name?
In the end, we defeated you, we still live on the land left to us by our ancestors, and we still proved ourselves.
The glory of Ming Dynasty should not usher in weakness after its glory. He should always burst out with forward and upward power. He should make the people live more prosperous. He should make the Han nation stronger...
Li Xian was fascinated by these brilliance when he was young. His only regret was that he did not accompany Emperor Taizu to fight for the nation, nor was he blessed to devote himself to Emperor Taizong's reign. He yearned for it, but did not In that glorious period, leave your own shadow.
Since there is no shadow of Li Xian in history, Li Xian will spend the rest of his life helping His Majesty create a prosperous age, stop the decadence of the Ming Dynasty, make the Ming Dynasty truly rejuvenated, and make himself a model for future generations of ministers of the resurgence. .
After listening to Li Xian's words, Yu Qian's eyes were deep. He stood up and said, "Let's face the Lord. Your Majesty cannot only use Xu Youzhen."
After listening to Yu Qian's words, Li Xian smiled bitterly, and the atmosphere he had finally coaxed up suddenly disappeared.
Yu Taibao, who thinks highly of himself, still looks down on Xu Youzhen.
After a while, two letters of credence were placed on Zhu Jianshen's imperial case.
After Zhang Bao finished reading, Zhu Jianshen looked at Li Xian and Yu Qian, who were next to him, and said, "What's going on in North Korea? Aren't they making trouble? Why did the censor of Xudu come over and start making noises about offering soil?" Well, Yu Taibao and Li Fuchen, you two can tell me something."
Zhu Jianshen's clueless look made Yu Qian and Li Xian look at each other.
Wasn't this planned by you? Why don't you admit it...
But if the emperor doesn't admit it, the ministers will.
Li Xian said: "Your Majesty, these two places are barriers to Korea, and there are tens of thousands of Jurchens living there. Governor Sun and Marquis Wu Yang entered these two places to exterminate women in order to implement the national policy of transforming the land into a stream. Real person.”
"The Jurchen ethnic group is also a stubborn disease in Korea and suffers deeply from it, so they want the Ming Dynasty to lend a helping hand and hand over these two places to the Ming Dynasty. This is also to solve the Jurchen disaster for the Korean people and to show kindness to the Korean vassal states."
After hearing this, Zhu Jianshen felt that it made sense and said with a smile: "Since it is beneficial to the vassal state of Korea, then I, the Ming Dynasty, should accept the land donated by Korea. However, what do you think of Yu Taibao?"
"Weichen believes that the two pieces of land can be accommodated to provide benefits to the North Korean state and enable the complete implementation of the land reform."
Yu Qian's words surprised Zhu Jianshen.
Could it be that his words had an effect and made Yu Taibao no longer conservative...
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