The Spring Festival of the twelfth year of Hongzhi.
Zhu Youtang was very happy to have a banquet at the Meridian Gate. When he came back, the sky had darkened, and he was ready to go to Kunning Palace to spend a good time with Queen Zhang in the spirit of wine.
"The medicine Bingkuan gave me before is really effective. It is better than Li Guang's, gentler, and I am always focused."
Zhu Youtang recently exercised in the sun, He also drank milk tea, ate eggs, chewed stick bones, etc., and a series of protein and calcium supplements, and his physical fitness recovered a lot. Zhang Zhou added some powerful ingredients that he could not use before, and then he felt that he was full of energy and vitality again. When I was young.
Xiao Jing followed beside him, subconsciously helping him when crossing the steps.
"No, I'll go by myself."
Zhu Youtang now has a man's confidence and feels that he has the conditions to take off.
Xiao Jing said, "Your Majesty, there will be a big sacrifice tomorrow."
"I remember, you don't have to talk about it all the time." Zhu Youtang raised his head and took a breath of air. He thought he was going to be carried into Kunning Palace on a Luan chariot like before, but he only paused for a moment and sighed with emotion, "As Bingkuan said, the air is very fresh. Where is Bingkuan"< /p>
Xiao Jing also didn’t expect that Zhu Youtang would think of Zhang Zhou at this time.
Xiao Jing said carefully, "Your Majesty, Mr. Zhang went to Xishan years ago and has not returned yet."
"Go to Xishan"
Zhu You Zang didn't understand for a while.
Xiao Jing said, "Your Majesty, didn't he say that he was going to open a coal mine in Xishan? I don't know what he thinks. I haven't come back to spend time with my family for years."
"The same goes for Bingkuan. He said that he had to prepare for the exam and had no time to enter the palace, but he went to Xishan to open a coal kiln. He should be able to find it."
"Mr. Zhang is good at calculating heavenly secrets, and he can still detect this after all. Yes."
"Yes, yes."
"By the way, Your Majesty, before leaving, Mr. Zhang also predicted three things in the next year, saying that they are all possible in the near future. It will happen, in conjunction with the great sacrifice tomorrow, all the prophecies have been reported to Qianqing Palace." Upon hearing this, Zhu Youtang looked unhappy and said, "If there is such a thing, why don't you come first. "Report to me"
Xiao Jing said with a grimace, "It has just been submitted. However, only the first sentence of the prophecy given by Mr. Zhang was annotated. It seems to be from Ningxia, Shaanxi in February." There will be earthquakes in the future. As for the second and third incidents, he did not say anything. He also made it clear that he would not do such things again in the future. He was not sure about many things."
"What do you mean?"
Xiao Jing said, "It seems that it may involve disputes between nobles, and God will give a warning. Because it has not happened in detail, he did not say it clearly"
" How can this Bingkuan learn to play riddles?"
Zhu Youtang smiled bitterly.
This seems to be inconsistent with Zhang Zhou’s previous straightforward character.
Xiao Jingxin said, before Zhang Zhou said that there was going to be an earthquake in Henan, Your Majesty, youI looked forward to it so much, and when things came true, I was so happy, and felt like a god was helping me.
Emotions Now that Zhang Zhou predicts an earthquake, you should not be surprised. You just want to know what he predicts later
As expected, even His Majesty's appetite is gradually increasing.
"Your Majesty, maybe, some things are not certain yet. After all, Mr. Zhang said that when things happen, you have to look for signs."
"Yes. Okay, yes. I am relieved that he is here."
"Your Majesty, isn't it Kunning Palace?"
Xiao Jing realized that he had made a mistake after he said it.
If the emperor wants to go to the Jiaotai Palace, he must listen to the emperor.
Who told the Empress Dowager in her dream that the late Emperor had given him a warning in the Jiaotai Palace, and that the reason why he had no heirs was because the Emperor took Kunning Palace as his family?
How can such a thing be justified?
It’s superstitious
Zhang Zhou can no longer be like before, always trying to make a prophecy for the emperor when nothing happens. Now the emperor specially He will only give it if you come to ask for it, and sometimes he will only half-cover it.
After all, this was the emperor's expectation for him.
To put it bluntly, he could neither overcount nor count out, just to whet the emperor's appetite.
This reflects the importance of passing the Jinshi exam.
If you pass the Jinshi exam, you no longer need to rely on these crooked things. You can gain the emperor's trust in the right way and become a good minister of the country. But if you fail to pass the Jinshi exam and have to accept the emperor's dismissal, then this will happen in the future. This kind of thing may happen more often.
If Zhang Zhou was favored by his status as a Jinshi, he would be just an official in the Eastern Palace at most, and he would not be able to obtain the favor he has today.
If you want to change the times, you must take a path that others have not taken, rely on your own knowledge of historical events to gain the emperor's trust, and at the same time let the emperor cooperate with you to complete some things, such as mining and mobilization Craftsman, etc., this is not smoother than the imperial examination he took the right path
Does he have to stay in the court for several years or even more than ten years, and wait until his status is improved?
Zhang Zhou was afraid that he would not be able to bear it.
Knowing the events that may happen in future history is also a necessary knowledge reserve for time travellers. There is an emperor who believes in Taoism and metaphysics and makes use of these things. As long as Zhang Zhou is not evil, he will not care. What on earth would those civil servants think of him?
It is good to leave a name in history for the integrity of civil servants, but obviously this path is not suitable for time travellers, because any time traveler is deviant and likes to do things that are not tolerated by the world of scholars.
They were all breaking the rules, Zhang Zhou just felt that he had to be more thorough.
The next day is the Great Sacrifice.
The ten-day holiday for the Lantern Festival has not come yet, and they still have to go to court in the past few days. For Zhu Youtang, he will participate in such court meetings even if he is sick.
But Zhu Youtang did not appear at the Meridian Gate on time that day.
The ministers are discussing it.
The three cabinet members individually called Ma Wensheng, the Minister of War, aside.
"Negative picture, report from the northwest, saying that the Xuanfu and Datong fronts will have military dispatches one after another at the end of the year. As the Minister of War, you should be aware of this."
In this world There are no airtight walls.
Wang Yue's trip to the northwest is a very secret matter, and only a handful of people in the court know about it.
But as Wang Yue arrived in the northwest, he was eager to fight, and there would always be some internal movements. Liu Jian would also pay attention to the reports in the northwest, and naturally discovered unusual signs. .
Ma Wensheng shook his head and said that he could not say anything.
If Ma Wensheng expressed surprise or inquired in turn, Liu Jian might have thought that there was no such thing and that he was suffering from a psychotic episode.
But looking at Ma Wensheng's face, it was clear that he knew but refused to say anything.
Li Dongyang on the side asked, "It's Wang Weining"
Ma Wensheng looked at him sideways, but again didn't mention a word.
The emperor only said that I was not allowed to tell others, but he did not specify how I should respond when others ask me. I did not admit it. I can’t rely on me to leak this matter. Please bring out the evidence.
This almost acquiescent approach also made the three cabinet members look bad.
Liu Jiandao: "Your Majesty, what is your Majesty doing? Just as the northwest has calmed down, the war is about to start again." It’s just a little arrangement, Mr. Liu Ge, don’t worry too much.”
This is all a deliberate attempt to test Ma Wensheng’s attitude.
Ma Wensheng still has the attitude of "I know everything, but I just don't say anything" and listen to the three cabinet members discussing it themselves.
"Your Majesty is here"
Just as he was saying this, the emperor arrived.
Zhu Youtang also came on foot. Perhaps because he was used to walking by himself now, he came a little late.
The court meeting that day also officially began.
The court meeting was uneventful.
But after the court meeting, Liu Jian took the initiative to ask for instructions to meet with the emperor alone to report the matter.
All the ministers left the palace first and waited to go to the Temple of Heaven and Earth in the southern suburbs. Only Liu Jian stayed at the Meridian Gate temporarily.
"Your Majesty, the reports from the Xuanfu and Datong offices indicate that troops and horses have recently been mobilized and are moving towards Piantou Pass and other places. In addition, the 30,000 taels of silver allocated by the Ministry of Revenue two years ago, It was originally used for the repair of earth forts around Xuanfu Town, but it seems to have been misappropriated."
Liu Jian's feedback from Ma Wensheng almost certainly confirmed this.
But he still had to make it clear to the emperor from a "professional" perspective that he had noticed the incident through some signs and that it was not someone else's intention to leak it.
Zhu Youtang didn’t have much emotional change after hearing this. He smiled and said, “Don’t worry, Mr. Liu Ge, Wang Weining has been using troops in the northwest for many years, he will have a sense of proportion.”
Liu Jiandao: "But Your Majesty, the northwest is peaceful now, why would you want to cause trouble?"
When Zhu Youtang heard this, he was a little unhappy.
Speak carefully, I am still willing to discuss with you Mr. Liu Ge, but you don’t know why I want to hide it from you
That’s because you always like to use some big principles to block you My mouth, once it comes to military and political affairs, you want to persuade me to emphasize agriculture and mulberry trees and despise corvee labor, talk about emphasizing culture and neglect military preparations, and say that the people of the Ming Dynasty live and work in peace and contentment, and the northwest border defense will naturally follow suit
< p>Isn't this wishful thinking of your civil servants?Dai Yi smiled and reminded, "Mr. Liu Ge, you are worrying too much. Your Majesty is just asking Wang Weining to defend in the northwest for fear of Tatar invasion. "
Liu Jiandao, "Your Majesty, if the northwest fortress is fully constructed and the patrols and dispatching are in progress, why should we worry about this?"
Zhu Youtang frowned and said, "Liu Mr. Ge thinks that I am unfounded."
Of course Liu Jian would not say that. He continued, "Your Majesty, mobilize troops and horses from the original defense towns and gather them in one place. This will lead to defenses and reinforcements everywhere. Insufficiency is the root cause of the crisis in the northwest frontier."
Actually, Liu Jian didn't understand either.
You, Wang Yue, just go to the northwest and gather soldiers and horses from all over the place. What does this mean?
You also say that you, an old boy, do not want to invade the grassland
Zhu Youtang said, "If there are signs that the Tatars may plunder Piantou Pass and other places before February, what does Mr. Liu Ge think?"
Liu Jian said this Naturally, he would not believe it. He said, "Your Majesty, even if the Tatars have this plan, after they find out about the deployment of troops and horses on the Ming border, they will choose other places to attack the border. The defenses on all nine borders should not be This can be accomplished by lowering the defenses of the surrounding border towns. Your Majesty, please give it more thought."
Zhu Youtang frowned and asked Dai Yi, "After Wang Weining arrived in the northwest, he mobilized troops from Xuanfu and Datong."
The emperor was very angry. He had agreed that Wang Yue would go to the northwest and rely on himself. How could he be noticed by Liu Jian because of the mobilization of troops?
Dai Yi also had a look on his face. Puzzled, he said, "Your Majesty, the current situation is that, in addition to the soldiers and horses taken from the Beijing Camp, the Wangjunmen did not draw soldiers and horses from Juyong, Zijin, Xuanfu, and Datong. Besides, you did not give him any troops." Please remember to bookmark these "authorities for troop deployment", the latest and fastest website can be read for free without anti-theft