Zhang Mao couldn't help but submit a memorial in which he confessed his guilt.
He also had no choice. Liu Jing’s words frightened him. He still didn’t know how to deal with Zhang Zhou, and he had to ensure that he could return to the capital safely and confess his guilt. Hoping that the emperor could be given a lighter sentence has become his current top priority.
"How should I write this memorial?"
Zhang Mao hid in a place with tiles covering his head in the earthen castle, with a brazier burning around him. There was a strong wind outside, and he huddled up. I didn't know how to start writing for a long time.
Liu Jing sat on a small bench next to the brazier, flipping dough over the brazier with his hands to bake, muttering, "This matter will be passed on to others. Whoever's sin is greater than you, you will do it." "Who?"
"Who?" Zhang Mao asked in confusion as he put down his pen.
Liu Jing blinked and said like a cunning old fox, "Look, Uncle Xin Xin has made great achievements in the past, but this time he sent troops to you without permission. This matter caused the involvement of civil servants in the DPRK. If you want to impeach me, just say, in fact, Xin Xinbo's deployment of troops was just a matter of meddling in other people's affairs. In addition, he gained nothing from this war, so of course he passed on the responsibility."
Zhang Mao was angry. He said, "They help me fight the war, and they send troops and efforts. If you ask me to participate in the impeachment, isn't it like I am a human being?"
Zhong Decai, who was standing aside, quickly winked at Zhang Mao, meaning, you'd better listen more Listen to the advice of the Marquis, do you still care about whether you are a good person or not? The key point is to clear the responsibility first
Liu Jing sneered at the corner of his mouth and said, "Master, I dare to ask, when I was here Outside of Pianguan, without the thousands of soldiers and horses transferred by Uncle Xinjian, we would not be able to win this battle, right?" Zhang Mao said, "Of course not."
"That's not it. After all, did he send people to assist you? He basically came to take credit from you. Originally, he was busy in this battle in vain, but he sent troops to coordinate with you in name, just to get a piece of your pie. If he really assisted you, Where are the thousands of soldiers and horses of Ma Zongbing now? The credit has been taken away. Now when we have to share the responsibility, he ran away, right? If the situation in Ningxia changes now and you need to mobilize troops, Ma Zongbing's people can do anything "Assistance"
Liu Jing is also confident.
Anyway, Wang Shouren and he had different interests. We had various opinions on one matter, so we just had to choose the direction that was beneficial to us.
It doesn’t matter whether you are reasonable or not, the most important thing is to be logically consistent with yourself.
After Zhang Mao listened, he sighed helplessly and said, "This matter, even though it is true, I always feel that I have no shame to go to this impeachment memorial. What will others think of me?"
Liu Jingdao, "My lord, let me ask you, who are the victims like you this time?"
"Of course they are those civil servants. They attack Bingkuan every day. In the end, Bingkuan is really capable." "When Zhang Mao mentioned this, he didn't know how envious he was.
Why don’t I get this kind of treatment despite being a martial artist?
Liu Jing smiled and said, “Then why don’t you think about it, the person who can speak for you in this matter is Cai Guo"My lord, or those civil servants?"
Zhang Mao suddenly said, "What you mean is for me to quickly report my surrender to those cabinet elders and ministers, so that they know that I am of the same mind as them." , Only in this way can we make progress together, right?"
Liu Jingjing nodded and said, "My father-in-law is right to the point, and we should be like this. Otherwise, who can we rely on? Even if the Duke of Cai is in great numbers, His Majesty cannot tolerate two powerful Dukes in the court. You are a veteran of three dynasties, and he is a new noble. If Your Majesty does not give you face, we must have ministers in the court to speak for us. . "
"Oh"
Zhang Mao thought for a moment, then frowned and asked, "If I stand to impeach Wang Boan, the civil servants will support me."
Liu Jing smiled and said, "Think about it, Mr. Xie Ge is now in prison because of a little conflict with Uncle Xin Xin. The war situation in Jizhou has changed. Mr. Xie Ge can't save himself. The only way is to cooperate with you or say , only if you submit such a memorandum of participation in the impeachment can you ensure that Mr. Xie Ge will be fine. "
"Really?" Zhang Mao understood it himself, with a smile on his face, but he was still pretending to be confused.
Zhong Decai smiled and said, "My lord, I think This is what Anyuanhou mentioned. Now that we are standing together with all the adults in the court, we need to know who we should advance and retreat with together. ”
Zhang Mao said, “That’s the only way it can be. Who told Wang Bo’an to plot against me? If Ma Yi’s six thousand soldiers and horses were still under my account instead of sending out troops at will, I wouldn’t do it.” He impeached him this time because they did not listen to orders and missed the opportunity to fight. The person who participated in the impeachment was not Wang Boan, but Ma Yi."
"Yes, yes, yes. "Liu Jing found that Zhang Mao was also on the road, and quickly helped, "Even if it is Ma Yi who is participating in the impeachment, people in the court actually know that you are impeaching Uncle Xin Xin. If possible, we can send a letter to that person at the same time. Wang Zongzhi from the three sides asked him to help. "
"I don't believe he can help me." Zhang Mao doesn't think Wang Qiong will go to impeach Wang Shouren.
Liu Jingdao, "He is also busy working in vain. He is worried about how to report to the court. This is not for him." What's the chance? He is also a civil servant after all. Doesn't he want to lose the trust of Cai Guogong in the future? Even if he refuses, if we send him a letter like this, if others find out later, it can be considered as a thorn in the side between him and Cai Guogong. , causing them to have dissatisfaction. "
Zhang Mao sighed, "Old Liu, no wonder they say you are a human being. You were deposed and you were able to make a comeback. It seems you are really capable. If you didn't take the imperial examination and were appointed as an official in the Sixth Ministry, you would be blinded.
Liu Jing said with a look of shame on his face, "Master, you are making fun of me. I don't have the ability. We are just discussing how to make amends." I, like you, hope that your Majesty will not pursue this matter and just get through it peacefully. ”
“Okay. With Wang Boan, I have completely matched up with him in terms of virtue and talent. You can draft the text of the impeachment. I will go have a drink with Marquis Anyuan first, and then I can transcribe it later. ”
“Well, yes. ”
Zhong Decai looked aggrieved.
You are so lazy that you even ask me to write for others.
That’s it, if you still want to make achievements, I’m afraid the idle job in Jingying is not the only one suitable for people like you who spend three days fishing and two days drying nets.
It’s night.
On the grassland, more than a hundred miles west of Guanshan, a battle lasted for a day and a night, and is still going on.
For the first time, the Ming Dynasty's musketry cavalry demonstrated the advantage of long-distance raids. They gave up the huge group combat advantage of artillery and directly relied on the individual combat advantage of flint muskets. Ma Yi and Zhang Rui personally led this route. The men and horses pursued the Tatars for nearly a hundred miles in one day and one night, and the front line was fully stretched.
When the war first started, it was a group charge of six thousand people.
That night, it was broken down into units of a thousand people. During the day, it was a pursuit battle of a few hundred people. By the next night, it had been completely broken up into a small battle of less than a hundred people. The team, while fighting and chasing, resting and killing to support the war, is also spreading the battle lines in different directions, and must reunite in a short period of time.
Ma Yi and Zhang Rui each led a group of soldiers and horses. Initially, there were more than a thousand people. By the second night of the meeting, there were less than 300 people around Ma Yi and Zhang Rui.
This is already the headquarters of the Chinese Army.
After all, Zhang Rui had never experienced this kind of fighting method. By the second night, he could not help but withdraw his troops, especially when his generals informed him of the current situation, which made him feel that this was the case. This battle seems to have exceeded expectations.
"Young Master, we have chased the Tatars for more than sixty miles. If we don't go back, our future will be bleak, and our fire bombs will be insufficient. We have killed two thousand and six Tatars in this pursuit. There are more than a hundred people, if we don't withdraw our troops"
The soldiers are already tired of fighting.
First it was days and nights, followed by a day and two nights of long-distance pursuit and pursuit. They were still in a foreign country covered in ice and snow, and achieved feats that they could not even dream of. If they don’t retreat soon, are they waiting to die on the grassland and rely on ghosts to go back to receive their merits and rewards?
In front of Zhang Rui, the fire was soaring into the sky.
They destroyed another Tatar camp, and the captured prisoners were killed directly on the spot. This was the Xue Wang Shouren.
Knowing that there was no way to take the prisoners back, they killed them all on the spot, regardless of age or sex. They didn’t take the heads back, only the ears. Anyway, there was already a precedent, so I killed a few or dozens of them before. It doesn't matter if you bring a head, but if you kill thousands of people now, and tie several heads to each person at once, there is still a problem whether they will be lost along the way. The point is that this is a very heavy burden, and for the light cavalry, this is not realistic at all.
Zhang Rui jumped off his horse. Not far away, there were several strong Tatar men still crawling on the ground. Some soldiers rushed up and killed them with three strikes.
Then a bunch of people were fighting for the ears and sharing the credit, while the teams were also wrangling among themselves.
Zhang Ruidao said, "What's going on?"
The general thought he wasTalking about why the Tatars fell off their horses, he explained, "In order to deal with our fire cannons, the Tatars tied thick iron plates in front of their bodies. In this way, our fire cannons cannot kill them directly, but they will be knocked off their horses directly." , I don’t know what they thought, but they would either be beaten to pieces or fall off their horses.”
Zhang Rui frowned. I'm asking, what are they grabbing?"
The general was a little speechless, but he still said truthfully, "It's always been like this. It's like this from a distance. You can't tell who fired the bombs, and then they went up. Robbery. This kind of thing is very common. This is just a fight between troops. There are soldiers and soldiers fighting for each other." Zhang Rui sighed, "I never thought that such a day would happen. How can we still have conflicts over this matter?"
The general said, "Young Master, you don't know that all the comrades below are living on this merit, and life as a soldier is not easy. Those old ministers in the court have never intended for us to live a good life. Now that we have finally come to this day, they all want to take the credit back and exchange houses for mother-in-law and land. Otherwise, what can we do? There’s no time to eat.”
Zhang Rui remained silent.
As a British prince, he was also a soldier, but his military environment was obviously different from those of the people in front of him.
"Young Master, let's withdraw. We have achieved enough now. If we continue to pursue him, I'm afraid we won't have time to join forces with General Ma. I don't know what's going on with General Ma." At least we have enough soldiers here."
Zhang Rui looked at his generals, and then at the dusty soldiers following him in pursuit of the Tatars under the light of torches.
He suddenly understood the difficulties of this group of people.
"Okay." Zhang Rui said, "Clean up the front, then go back the same way and if you encounter any trouble on the road, just solve it together."
"Okay"
p>When the soldiers heard that they were going to return the same way, no one knew how happy they were.
Just as they marched forward in the charge before, now with the blessing of merit, they all think about returning home in glory, which is a kind of joy of victory.
Zhang Mao's memorial was sent out.
In Liu Jing’s words, no matter how fast they go, they can’t keep up with the speed at which the people in the court can impeach them. All they have to do is to make the judgment earlier than the emperor. If the emperor gives Their expedition was finalized, but the memorial they argued against had not yet been sent to the capital, so it was already too late.
At the same time, according to Liu Jing's suggestion, Zhang Mao also sent a letter to the Yulin Guard in Yansui Town and delivered a letter "requesting cooperation" to Wang Qiong.
After reading Zhang Mao’s proposal, Wang Qiong almost thought that this old boy was crazy.
"His son was still marching to the grassland with Ma Yi's troops, and he secretly participated in the impeachment. They said that tigers are poisoned but do not eat their children. Is the British prince going to kill his relatives in a righteous way?" Wang Qiong was not there He wanted to hide this letter in front of others because he wanted to do it openly, even in front of everyone.The commander-in-chief, deputy commander-in-chief, subordinate officers, generals, etc., announced the contents of the letter.
Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Yansui, Bo Li of Xiangcheng said, "Sir, why do I feel that the British Lord is trying to protect himself?"
Wang Qiong looked around at the people present and asked He said, "You also think that Ma Yi should be impeached, and Wang Shouren, the general secretary of the Xuan Dynasty, should be impeached, right?"
Li Ao said hurriedly, "This is not the intention of a humble position. The British prince is probably not clear-headed." Now, he should choose to go forward and retreat together with Uncle Xinxin. Who knows what’s wrong with him?”
Wang Qiong threw the letter on the table and said, “This old man. The boy is crazy. The war has not yet concluded, so he is in a hurry to clear up the relationship. He thinks that the small victory outside the border can cover up his cowardice and incompetence, and he expects me to become a lunatic along with him."
When the generals present heard this, they knew that Wang Qiong did not like Zhang Mao at all, and had no intention of having any contact with Zhang Mao at all.
But think about it.
No matter how awesome you Zhang Mao is, you are still just a British public servant. The person in front of you is the left minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs and the president of the Trilateral Council. The civil servant of the Ming Dynasty is close to the existence of the minister. Even Wang Qiong will return to the court in all likelihood. Ninth, he wants to be a minister, and Wang Qiong and Zhang Zhou are his backers, so he is also worthy of his reputation.
You, Zhang Mao, are not worthy of shining Wang Qiong’s shoes.
Just like this, you old boy still expects Wang Qiong to stand with you and actively extend an olive branch. You don’t know how much you weigh, right?
Li Wei asked, "Do you want to go?" Write a letter and refuse."
Wang Qiongli stared at him and said, "Do you think it is necessary? People who don't understand the rules of officialdom will not be tolerated in officialdom in the end. If he doesn't understand, don't I still ignore it?" Please remember to bookmark this chapter after finishing it. The latest and fastest website is free to read without anti-theft