Chapter 25 Stormy Waves (Part 2)
Seeing that no one raised any objections, the resolution to implement the ban on sea ban was determined. The Empress Dowager felt that this was not bad, and at least it could save a lot of military expenditures for the reconstruction of the navy. The court could use this money to continue to strengthen the most important army. The official in Jiangnan was clamoring to collect liquors, but the court could not find an excuse to object to this.
The Qing court rulers were, in the final analysis, small ethnic groups with a small population and could not replenish the manpower they needed at any time. The only way was to carry the Han people's flag. Now the identity of the bannermen is very valuable, and the court is unwilling to give them casually. Since the Qing court entered the pass, it has been relying on the Han people to fight the Han people. Now the court not only cannot provide troops to Huguang and Liangjiang, but also continues to collect food and grass from there. Therefore, the governors and governors are all people who are worthwhile at present. At least they did not ask for the title of king. As long as the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River can still supply food and grass and taxes to Beijing, the court felt that they had to temporarily delegate power to them.
"In the opinion of the humble minister, the most urgent task is to rebuild the green camps in Shandong and Henan. If there are police in the southeast in the future, you can send troops from these two places to reinforce." Since the sea ban can save some of the expenses, we will discuss how this money should be spent. Sun Tingquan pointed out that although wars have continued over the years, the court has been trying to transport money and grain from the local vassal treasury to the capital. Now the materials saved in the treasury are about enough for the country to use for three years. Not long ago, Dasu reported to the court and he heard that Zheng Chenggong had
After death, the old emperor asked them to wipe out Zheng Chenggong, or the purpose of not being able to be completed, so he asked to return to the capital. The ministers present knew that Zheng Chenggong was not dead, but Dasu had already lost all the green shadows in Henan and Shandong, and there was nothing to do if he did not return to the capital. Sun Tingquan advocated increasing the allocation of funds to Shandong and Henan to restore the strength of the green camps of these two provinces as soon as possible. In the future, whether to support Hubei or assist in the defense of the two rivers, the court would not be in a dilemma of no soldiers available.
The ministers discussed the amount of funds and determined the matter. As for Dasu, he would still let him stay in Fujian for a few more days, and then without knowing it, he quietly brought the remaining one and two thousand Eight Banners of Manchus back.
"There is one more thing," After most of the simple questions were dealt with, the Empress Dowager finally came up with the most difficult question: "Prince Kang and the others said that they should send a large army to enter Sichuan to wipe out the Deng thieves and avenge the late emperor. What do you think?"
Now the Empress Dowager of the Great Emperor certainly hated Deng Ming to the core, wishing he could be smashed into pieces immediately, but Sichuan was too far away and it was quite inconvenient to transfer materials. At the previous imperial meeting, everyone reached a consensus on the strategy for the next two years, that is, to observe changes quietly and not raise troops due to anger. Now the momentum of the Ming army has risen, which is somewhat similar to the situation in Li Dingguo back then. At that time, Hong Chengchou's advice to the Qing court was to stabilize the defense and even give up a piece of territory, so that the Ming army would want to fight but not fight. When the Qing army recovered from the shadow of defeat, everyone gradually forgot the victory of the Ming army and then fought with it.
Previously, the Empress Dowager and the important officials planned to follow this, calm down for two years, regain their strength and then fight Deng Ming. At that time, they also had political capital to implement this strategy. However, after the "Kangxi" case broke out, the royalist party was in a very unfavorable position. Now, if the court shows weakness, it is easy to give the prince's indictment.
"This is the memorial of Prince Kang, Sony, please take a look." After the Empress Dowager finished speaking, she asked a eunuch to hand over the memorial of Jieshu to Sony.
Sony was not interested in his passionate preface. He quickly moved his eyes to the second half of the memorial. As expected, Jieshu was just leading the way, and there were a lot of princes and ministers behind him, and he asked to go straight to Deng Ming's nest and capture him back and cut him into pieces in front of the grave of the previous emperor to comfort the blessing of the spirit in heaven.
"It is very pleasant to catch it and cut it into pieces, but Sichuan has a long journey to the capital, and there are many dreams. In the eyes of a servant, he should be executed immediately after capturing Deng Ming. The same was true for the old emperor back then." After the war in Gaoyou Lake, rumors that Deng Ming was Muguoer spread even more. There are two very suspicious points. One is that Deng Ming was willing to accept the surrender of the Imperial Guards, and they were released without any harm afterwards, but he refused to accept Shunzhi's surrender. Coincidentally,
During his lifetime, Shunzhi ordered Li Guoying to capture Deng Ming and executed him immediately. These two things were enough to make the bannermen think a lot; second, the Eight Mongolian Banners quickly turned against the emperor camp. Deng Ming not only did not force all the Mongolians to join in battle, but also made them get double armor. Everyone has never heard of anyone cherishing the life of the captives so much. Thinking of Muguoer's mother from the Golden Family and was once the widow of Lin Danhan, everyone was even more confused.
It is related to the royal family. Of course, Sony cannot ask who the Empress Dowager Deng Ming is. Sony's suggestion to execute Deng Ming is not abrupt. Sichuan has a long way to Beijing. If Deng Ming is killed and brought back to the head, he can still pay tribute to the previous emperor. Besides, this is the order given by the previous emperor. But this is not the point. The point is that Sony did not oppose the attack on Sichuan at all, but talked about the issue of execution after capturing Deng Ming.
"Your meaning is not understood by the Ai family," the Empress Dowager was a little impatient as she listened. Last time she discussed this matter, Sony analyzed why she could not seek revenge on Deng Ming immediately, but she was in an orderly manner. The Empress Dowager asked, "Why have you changed your mind again? Didn't you say that now is not a good time to attack Sichuan?"
"I admit that there will be a lot of trouble in attacking Sichuan, including money, grain, and how many reinforcements should be sent to Li Guoying need to be carefully considered. But I think that if I learn that Deng thief was killed, the late emperor would definitely be very pleased. Moreover, just in case, it is best to catch him and kill him immediately." Sony refused to take the lead in rejecting Jieshu's memorial.
"Nonsense!" Oboi cursed in his heart: "If you kill Deng Ming, the late emperor will certainly be very pleased, but the problem now is that we should not rush to fight at all, and it is completely unnecessary to attack Sichuan immediately."
Oboi had asked Shunzhi about Deng Ming's identity in private. That time he was scolded by Shunzhi. Not only was he scolded, but Shunzhi was angry and suddenly grabbed the stick beside him and beat Oboi. Oboi knew that Shunzhi had secretly investigated the matter, and heard that he had also asked several Muguoer's old guards for questioning, but afterwards, these guards evaporated from the world. Although Shunzhi said that Muguoer was definitely not pretending to die, Oboi did not dare to believe it deeply. As for whether the Empress Dowager knew about it, he was not sure.
The Empress Dowager and Sony answered a few times, but they were still unaware of the key points. Sony refused to deny the attack on Sichuan no matter what. The Empress Dowager turned his attention to Obai.
"There are still some money and grains. Although he has sent a lot of money and grain to the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi this year, Li Guoying probably did not conquer Chengdu alone and captured Deng Ming's strength. At present, there are no troops in the capital that can be sent to Sichuan..." When Oboi said this, the Empress Dowager's eyes lit up, thinking that Oboi would talk about why Jieshu's plan was not working next, but Oboi changed his tone: "But we can mobilize the Shanxi Green Camp. I dare not say how many people can be sent in Shanxi, and I don't know if it is enough."
The princely faction strongly advocated the extermination of Deng Ming, and occupied the commanding heights of public opinion and morality under the banner of avenging the emperor. If Oboi jumped out to refute this plan at this time, his situation would definitely become worse. Sony refused to say a ill-mouthed word about this plan, and Oboi did not dare to. Oboi mentioned the issue of insufficient troops in an understatement. He dared to say this in a dangerous situation. Oboi believed that he was worthy of the Empress Dowager.
Oboi had already started, and then he needed someone else to help. Now he needed to work together and not let Oboi take the blame alone. He immediately kicked the ball to Suksaha - this was a good pass, and Shuksaha needed to complete the final kick: "Shanxi's troops are very clear. Last year, he was responsible for inspecting the Shanxi Green Camp's military."
"Yeah, yeah." Everyone's eyes were focused on Suksaha, which made him feel like he was thorning on his back: "Shanxi's troops are very rich, and at least 30,000 Green Camps can be drawn to reinforce the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi." As soon as he said this, Suksaha saw Oboi's eyebrows standing up, and his eyes were spewing a fierce light that was about to kill people.
"But Shanxi is indeed rich in troops. If I say against my conscience, the people outside will not eat me?" Suksaha shouted in his heart. He is trying hard to hide behind Sony and Oboi, not wanting to attract the attention of the princely faction. Now if Suksaha deliberately lies to prevent the court from avenging Shunzhi - what kind of behavior is this? What kind of association will it cause?
"Of course, Shanxi's troops need to be used to guard against the Mongols." Suksaha couldn't withstand the fierce light shot from Oboi and said tremblingly: "Will the Mongols take the opportunity to make trouble? This slave thinks Lord Ebilong knows best."
After passing the ball to Ebilon, Suksaha hurriedly lowered his head. Although Oboi did not shoot just now, he still controlled the ball on the goal line. Suksaha had a little intention of clearing the opponent. The ball returned to the edge of the penalty area from the goal line. Suksaha was a little ashamed, and he murmured in his heart: "I'll do my best. As long as Ebilon says that the Mongols need to be wary of it, the Shanxi Green Camp cannot be transferred away easily."
"Ebilong! Ebilong!" The Empress Dowager waited for a long time, but did not see Ebilong respond. She couldn't help but shout, "Ai family asked you, what did you say?"
"This..." Ebilong asked himself that the three ministers in the front were not opposed to sending troops, and even suggested that this plan was feasible. Why did he jump out and stop avenging the emperor? Did he deliberately run to the front row to give them three arrows?
"I think the Mongols are loyal to the court." Ebilong flew up and kicked the ball directly from the opponent's penalty area back to the midfield.
As soon as Ebilong said this, almost all the Han people cursed in their hearts: "It's a shameless thing that you are still Huang Qi's confidant!"
That is, now, if the Empress Dowager was young, she would have picked up a stick and swung it to the four ministers of the regent. She was a Mongolian woman. She married Huang Taiji at the age of twelve. Her husband specially hired a teacher to teach her, so she learned to read books and read some etiquette. Until the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, whenever she encountered something unpleasant, as the Empress Dowager, she cursed with swear words while beating people in a daze. In other words, in recent years, life has become more and more comfortable, especially when she became the Empress Dowager, she learned to "Ai Family" one by one. When she was angry, she could suppress her temperament a little so that she would not be furious and throw the dirty words at the heads of the ministers.
"Where are you?" The Empress Dowager looked at the Han ministers unhappily. She knew very well that no ministers wanted to take the blame, and hoped that the Empress Dowager could decide in one sentence and reject Prince Kang's memorial. But the Empress Dowager also had difficulties. The rumors not only said that Deng Ming was Muguoer, but also that Deng Ming was the seed of the Empress Dowager and Prince Rui. Some bannermen also felt that if the Empress Dowager had not been known to Deng, then Deng Ming would definitely not say that the new emperor's reign was "Kangxi". After all, the reign title would still be decided by the Empress Dowager.
The Han ministers began to speak one by one, either saying that the court had money and food, or that the transportation of the Yellow River was quite convenient. In short, no one would say that Prince Kang's memorial was not feasible, and that the transfer of the green camp in Shanxi to cooperate with Li Guoying would definitely kill Deng Ming without leaving any armor. The regent ministers were all rough and thick-skinned, especially Oboi and Sony, who were now full of arrows, and they were still jumping around. The Han ministers dared not learn from them. The prince and the regent ministers did not object to avenge the late emperor. Did they have the courage to stop them?
"Please ask the Queen Mother to be the Holy Lord." The four ministers and the Han ministers knelt on the ground. They said everything they should say. If the Queen Mother still disagrees to attack Sichuan, it will definitely have nothing to do with them.
The Empress Dowager's fingers were trembling: "If I rejected this note, how would the bastards outside talk about me, the old woman?"
"You dog slaves!" The Empress Dowager could no longer help, stood up from her seat, cursed with a sharp finger, "I have killed my biological son, and I will do my own thing and stop you, the loyal ministers, from avenging the late emperor?"
"Stop the anger of the Empress Dowager." Seeing that the Empress Dowager was so angry, the people at the imperial meeting hurriedly lay on the ground and kowtowed desperately.
"Stop the anger, what about the anger!" There is no airtight wall in the world. After hearing the various rumors spreading outside, the Empress Dowager almost turned on the spot in anger. I don't know who leaked the news from these useless things, so why did Deng Ming know the emperor's whereabouts and the new emperor's reign, killing her biological son. Now the ministers are hesitant and refuse to tell the truth, and they even ask her to take the blame: "If you don't want to take the blame, then I'm willing to take the blame?"
Sony: "…"
Oboi: “…”
Suksaha: "…"
Ebilong: “…”
"Try it! Go and fight Sichuan, I agree. This is the letter, it's accurate!"
Chapter completed!