"This person is obviously trying to be mysterious, or knows what we are concerned about, so he writes some specious things to tease me."
Xie Qian sent the note written by Zhang Zhou the next day. When they showed it to Liu Jian and Li Dongyang, they were still a little angry.
As a cabinet minister, Yu condescended to see Zhang Zhou, but saw no one.
Li Dongyang is not as sentimental as Xie Qian. He said, "The end of good and evil is to say that Zhang's relatives will bring retribution in the future. It may not be appropriate to use it here. It seems that he is perfunctory." It means more. What does Mr. Liu think?"
Liu Jian still focused on the first sentence. He frowned slightly, "A battle in the northwest is necessary. It is still the Mengchun season, and there are already two in the northwest. There has been no change from Di Yi in the month."
The three of them could not find the answer from the note given by Zhang Zhou.
Xie Qian put the note away and burned it directly in the brazier, sighing, "It seems that he has made up his mind to be a sycophant, and Jiangnan will be the leader of the Yuan Dynasty, but that's it."
The three cabinet members did not take Zhang Zhou’s reminder seriously.
But as soon as February entered, the situation on the nine sides changed suddenly, and the ministers in the government and the opposition were also confused for a while.
Usually, the Tatars would go out to plunder, which usually only occurred during the autumn harvest, but actually started in February that year.
Coming up is Kou Bian of Duoyan Sanwei.
On the morning of the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, at the Fengtian Palace meeting, Dai Yi announced the matter in public: "Duoyan and other three Tatars invaded Yizhou, Liaodong. The guarding eunuch Ren Liang, the chief military officer Li Gao, and Du Yu Shi Zhangyu retreated to the fortress of Yizhou and asked for orders to send troops at the right time."
The three guards of Duoyan are considered "honest" among the grassland tribes.
Generally, the sense of presence is relatively weak, but if even the three guards of Duoyan come to the border, it seems to be a sign that the grassland situation is unstable.
Civil officials also have different attitudes towards this.
Most people advocate not sending troops easily but to hold on.
However, it has also been suggested that the Ming Dynasty's defenses in Liaodong are relatively complete, and the three guards of Duoyan are relatively weak, and they can send troops to fight with them.
Ma Wensheng, the Minister of War, said, "Now that the enemy's situation is unknown, sentries should be sent to conduct reconnaissance in places north of Liaodong and west of the grassland before making a decision."
Ma Wensheng is experienced after all. The Minister of War, he was able to calm down the situation.
As a result, the matter has not yet settled down.
In the next three days, until the seventh day of the lunar month, more than a dozen places in the northwest reported the situation of Tatar invaders, and for a while there was smoke everywhere.
The court meeting had just ended on the morning of the seventh day of the lunar month.
Dai Yi, the eunuch in charge of the Li Supervisor, came to the cabinet and asked Liu Jian to go out to discuss the matter.
The two discussed for a long time before returning. Dai Yi left in a hurry. Xie Qian took a look and said, "It doesn't look like he is going back to Qianqing Palace."
Liu Jiandao, "Yes." "Ministry of War."
"Why, there's another war?" Xie Qian asked casually.
Looking back at Li Dongyang, he saw Li DongyangDongyang didn’t have much energy.
Liu Jiandao, "I will be entering the curtain in the afternoon. If you are not interested in court affairs, you can go back and make preparations first."
The examination will start on the ninth day of the lunar month, and the curtain officer will be in advance The entrance meeting will be on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year. Li Dongyang and Cheng Minzheng are both examiners, and they will also give questions after the entrance meeting.
"It doesn't matter."
Li Dongyang wants to know what is happening now.
After entering the curtain, he will be unable to contact the outside world for more than twenty days. When he comes out again, perhaps all the rumors in the northwest will have subsided.
Liu Jian sighed and said, "Yansui and other places reported one after another that Di Yi invaded the territory, especially around the Yulin Guard. The Tatar cavalry passed by lightly, but most of them were not willing to fight, and they were pursued in many places. "The Tatars still came, but why they came so strangely," Xie Qian said. In February, there were no green buds on the grassland. "What's the side picture?"
Then Li Dongyang found one from a pile of memorials.
Liu Jian took it in his hand and looked at it, but sighed heavily.
Li Dongyang said, "There are people who have asked Wang Weining to go to the northwest to organize the army. Most of them are because there are still people in the court who are not aware of Wang Weining's affairs in the northwest. They may also be trying to test him."
"I've been here for a while, but I still don't know that Wang Weining is in the northwest." Xie Qian smiled.
Are these officials naive or stupid?
When there was no war before, you stepped on Wang Yue and regarded him as a Ming worm. As a result, now that there is a war in the northwest, everyone He wanted to ask the court to transfer Wang Yue to the northwest to frighten the demons and demons.
As soon as you call them, they will go.
Li Dongyang looked at Liu Jiandao and said, "The Tatars are so unscrupulous in attacking the border. What is their purpose? Is it true as mentioned before, or is it a large-scale violation of the border?" "I asked Li Dongyang to analyze it before, but he would never believe that the Tatars would invade the country on a large scale before the beginning of spring.
But now Li Dongyang is not sure either.
Xie Qian asked, "Where is Wang Weining now?"
Liu Jiandao, "The head is off."
Xie Qian said with confusion, "There has been no deviation recently." According to the battle report at Touguan, why did the Tatars miss this place? It seems that the Xuanfu is hostile."
Li Dongyang said, "It used to be said that the northwest of the Ming Dynasty has ten pots and nine lids, and there are always lids. There is no place to live. But now there is only one Wang Weining, with ten pots and one lid. Since the lid is at Piantou Pass, will the Tatars happen to appear here? Or will His Majesty ask Wang Weining to be on the defensive at Xuanda and move his troops at any time? ”
Liu Jian just shook his head.
Until now, he has not figured out the specific movements of the Tatars in the northwest, or even the purpose of the Tatar invasion.
The Liaodong battlefield has always been the location of hard power from all nine sides. In other words, Di Yi outside Liaodong is too invincible.
On the contrary, the three sides and Xuanda were often attacked by the Tatars and became the focus of the nine sides' defense.
At the beginning of February, reports of battles came in one after another from all nine sides of the Ming Dynasty, which also made the people around the emperor extremely anxious.
Dai Yi even had to go to the bureaus such as the Bureau of Ceremony, the Cabinet Duty Room, and the Ministry of War to inquire about the opinions of all parties. After collecting the information as soon as possible, he reported it to Zhu Youtang.
Zhu Youtang did not dare to neglect. He stayed in Qianqing Palace almost every day, and did not bother to return to Kunning Palace after nightfall. He simply put his food, accommodation and work in one place.
Queen Zhang had been a little bit cold to him before, but now it was him who was snubbing Queen Zhang.
"Your Majesty, the War Department's opinion is that the battle in Liaodong should be prioritized. At present, it seems that Duoyan can only send 3,000 troops in Liaodong, mostly infantry and cavalry. If they are pursued with light cavalry, they may be able to Surround them and annihilate them all."
The opinions given by the Ministry of War are basically the same as those of the cabinet.
If you have to hit only one spot, it’s better to pick the softer one.
The enemy situation outside Sanbian and Xuanda is unclear. In addition, those places have been controlled by the Tatars for hundreds of years. If you send troops accidentally, you can easily fall into a quagmire. It is better to at least be in Liaodong. Most of the land is an area deeply cultivated by the Ming Dynasty. It depends on whether there are any jujubes.
Zhu Youtang sighed, "But Wang Weining is not in Liaodong."
Dai Yi didn't know what to say.
We should say that civil servants were cautious about using troops on the nine sides. In fact, Zhu Youtang might have been more cautious about this. He initially agreed to Zhang Zhou’s proposal and sent Wang Yue to the northwest. He did not say that Wang Yue would lead the attack. The main thing is to be prepared.
If it was a rash advance, there would be no need for those ministers to dissuade him. Zhu Youtang would be the first to object.
Even if Liaodong is a soft persimmon, Zhu Youtang still does not dare to take risks.
"Your Majesty, how about transferring Wang Weining to Liaodong?" Wei Bin on the side seemed to have a bad idea.
Including the emperor, several eunuchs looked at Wei Bin.
Wei Bin lowered his head.
He himself knew that this was not a good strategy. After preparing for the war at Piantou Pass for a long time, he ended up transferring Wang Yue to Liaodong. It would be a big sin if something happened.
But sometimes, eunuchs like them are left to take the blame. < /p>
No matter how stupid the idea is, the eunuch will always mention it.
Zhu Youtang said, "I still want to believe Bingkuan. He said that it is at Biantou Pass, so it is reasonable to say that it is inseparable."
Xiao Jing said, "What your Majesty said is absolutely true. After reporting the enemy's situation in the northwest at night, the Xuanda front line was much calmer than usual when Di Yi invaded the country, or something was brewing."
"What is Bingkuan's opinion?"
p>Zhu Youtang said a few words and took him to Zhang Zhou.
Xiao Jing lowered his head and said"Yesterday, my servant visited Mr. Zhang. He made it clear that as long as the Tatars start to invade the country, the results will come within ten days."
"Ten days"
Zhu Youtang has doubts about this time limit.
Dai Yi said from the side, "Your Majesty, please see, what Mr. Zhang means is that if the Tatars want to use Piantou Pass as the target of plunder and there are old suspicion formations everywhere, then they will It is expected that the imperial court will make arrangements in the near future, and they are probably afraid that His Majesty will transfer Wang Weining to the northwest."
Zhu Youtang nodded and agreed, "It makes sense. The old suspicion array is meaningless."
As he spoke, Zhu Youtang looked at the entire map.
This map was drawn by Zhang Zhou.
Nearly all the passes, fortresses, earthen fortresses, etc. on each side of the nine sides are marked on it, and the mountains and rivers are also marked in detail. Zhu Youtang looked at it for a long time, and several eunuchs around him also followed suit. Staring for a long time.
In the end, it was Xiao Jing who asked the question that everyone wanted to ask, but it sounded stupid: "Where did the Tatars come from?"
Zhu Youtang sighed He said, "The Ming Dynasty's northern defense stretches for thousands of miles. To find out where the Tatars came out in force, I'm afraid it can only be done if there is internal support within Diyi."
Chen Kuan reminded, "Isn't there still more?" "Mr. Zhang"
"Haha."
Zhu Youtang smiled, his face relaxed a lot, "There is a Bingkuan who can take care of me, and he is worth a hundred thousand." Soldiers and horses. Since he suggested that Wang Weining be deployed at Piantou Pass, I accepted it, so why should I doubt it now?"
At this point, Zhu Youtang suddenly became nervous and said, "But I have never Come on, let me be anxious. I thought it would be more than ten days before I get the results." Xiao Jing advised, "Your Majesty, there is no need to rush."
"Yes. How many days until the exam starts?" Zhu Youtang asked.
Xiao Jing said, "The candidates will be admitted before nightfall tomorrow, and the exam will start early the day after tomorrow."
"Alas," Zhu Youtang sighed, "at this time, Bingkuan is not here. If he can make more plans by my side, it won't be like this. Didn't he say two other things?"
"Your Majesty, Mr. Zhang said that he will go tomorrow and he will write it before entering the palace. Submit."
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