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Chapter 563

Yang Zhong turned around and exited, turned back after a while, and replied: "Master Wan was outside the flower hall just now, asking about the situation of the master, and now he is waiting outside."

Yang Sichang said weakly: "Please come in!"

Mr. Wan is Wanji. He was recommended by Yang Sichang to serve as the right judge of Dali. He was responsible for supervising military discipline before Yang Sichang's army. Just listen to his opinion.

When Wanji entered the flower hall, Yang Sichang nodded to him and motioned him to sit down, showing a calm smile on purpose. After Wanji sat down, he looked at Yang Sichang's expression, leaned over and asked, "My lord is not feeling well, can you order the doctor to come in?" see?"

Yang Sichang shook his head with a smile, and said lightly: "I have a cold occasionally, it's not a serious problem, just take a few pills at night and you'll be fine."

He really wanted to talk to Wanji about Xiangyang, but when he saw Wanji holding a document in his hand, he asked him, "What kind of document are you holding?"

Wanji replied nervously: "It's an urgent document from Henan, reporting the fall of Luoyang and the murder of Fu Fan. Just now, my lord hasn't woken up yet, so I read it first."

Yang Sichang only felt his fingers trembling. He took the document and asked again: "Luoyang really...?"

Wanji said with a pale face, "Yes. Zhang Cheng, the deputy general of Xuanzhen, reported it in detail in the official document."

Yang Sichang was trembling all over, even trembling when he spoke, he held the official document and said, "Is it the official document from Zhang Cheng? Hey, it's too late for the old man to use him!"

He unfolded the document and read it hastily, and couldn't bear it any longer, ignoring the dignity of the supervisor and assistant minister, he burst into tears.

Wan Ji hurriedly got up to persuade him, and his servant Yang Zhong also rushed out to invite the eldest son Yang Shansong and several of Yang Sichang's cronies and staff to come over to persuade him.

After a while, Yang Sichang stopped crying, and with the help of his servants, he went back to rest on the bed in the flower hall. Wanji and his staff all retreated, only Yang Shansong remained outside to wait.

At dinner, Yang Sichang didn't get up, he didn't eat, and he refused to ask the doctor in Xingyuanzhong to see him. He only took a few pills for wind and cold under Yang Shansong's persuasion.

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After dinner time, he called Wanji to his bed again, and said to him: "I am deeply favored by the emperor, and I supervised the division to suppress the thieves. Unexpectedly, the suppression situation has deteriorated to such a state that I have no face to see the emperor again!"

Wan Wanji could only comfort him and said, "Please let the prime minister be reassured and heal his illness. Militaryly, Zhang Cheng's army can be dispatched to Huguang, and then redeployed to boost the morale of the army. It can still turn defeat into victory."

Hearing this, Yang Sichang sat up from the bed, embraced the thick quilt, and wore a heavy fur, trembling all over, panting heavily, he said: "The suppression situation is so bad, it's not because there are not enough soldiers, you and I are all of this." Know.

Today, my illness is getting worse and worse, and I know that it will be difficult to get back up again. All the affairs in the house are due to brother Ji taking care of me on my behalf, so that I can live up to my fate. "

Wanji hurriedly said: "My lord, why did you say that? My lord's body is just tired from the journey, and I sometimes feel cold, and it's not a serious illness that cannot be cured.

Xingyuan now has two great doctors who are highly skilled in the country, and there are quite a few people who are proficient in medicine among the staff. Tonight, I will invite a few of them to come in for consultation with the adults, but one or two doses of decoction will be all right. "

Yang Shansong also persuaded him, "Even if you don't take care of your body, you must cherish it for the country, and take timely diagnosis and treatment."

But Yang Sichang shook his head again, not allowing them to talk about diagnosis and treatment, he sighed and continued: "It is not clear where the intruders entered Yu Province.

With the ashes of his repeated defeats, he was able to revive from the ashes, suddenly gain momentum, and deceive the Central Plains. This person must have something extraordinary, and the harm to the country is not comparable to that of Cao and the two thieves. He must not be underestimated. From now on, my confidant of Ming Dynasty The trouble is definitely not the thieves offering Cao, but the intruder.

Please, brother Ji, send an urgent message to General Ping Zei on my behalf, asking him to chase and suppress Xian Zei. After taking back Xiangyang, he will lead Liu Guoneng and other surrendered generals to the west of Henan Province, and cooperate with Zhang Cheng and other generals in Henan Province to deal with them with all their strength. Burglary. "

Wan Jichang hurriedly agreed to follow his instructions, and then asked him a few military questions. Yang Sichang just closed his eyes and meditated, and refused to answer at all. He fell on the bed and waved Wan Ji, Yang Shansong and others to retreat. out.

After a long time, Yang Sichang ordered his servant to call Wanji in alone. He thought that the supervisor must have something important to say to him, but after waiting for a while, Yang Sichang just asked him: "When I went to Kuizhou last year, was it On what day?"

Wanji thought for a moment, then replied, "It's the first day of October."

Yang Sichang was silent for a moment before he said: "On the first day of October the year before last, when I first came to Xiangyang to supervise the division to suppress bandits, I originally wanted to rely on my mighty spirit to reorganize the army and succeed in suppressing bandits.

I didn't want the big officials in Fengjiang and the commanders in charge of Fangzheng to be constrained everywhere, so I sent the bandits westward and deep into the middle of Sichuan. At that time, I went to Kuizhou, and then went to Chongqing.

Unexpectedly, in just a few months, the situation would go so badly! "

Wan Wanji hurriedly persuaded him: "My lord, please rest assured. The army to suppress bandits has not completely collapsed, and there is still a chance to save it. Right now, the most important thing is to diagnose and treat your lord."

Yang Sichang didn't answer his words, but fell into silence.

Wanji waited for a while, and couldn't help asking: "Should I write a memorial to Jinshang now, one to plead guilty for the fall of Xiangyang, and the other to explain the strategy of using troops to suppress the bandits in the next step? "

Yang Sichang lay on the bed and shook his head gently, without saying a word, but two lines of tears rolled out of the corners of his eyes. After a while, he waved his hand and told Wanji to quit, and at the same time sighed and said, "Let's talk about it tomorrow!"

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Wan Ji returned to his residence after quitting, and he also felt very depressed in his chest.

He is the military supervisor of the supervisor Yang Ge's department. Now Yang Sichang is ill, and all important matters in the Xingyuan need to be handled by him. However, his heart is very chaotic, and he has no mood to deal with these military affairs.

He thought in his heart that the most urgent thing at present was that Yang Sichang should appeal to the imperial court and Emperor Chongzhen, but just now he had asked the "Minister Minister" for instructions, but the "Minister Minister" did not nod his approval, nor was he willing to discuss the next step with him. The strategy of suppressing thieves.

Looking at the dead branches swaying in the wind outside the window, Wanji couldn't help asking himself, "What's the reason for this?"

He was originally a promotion official of Yongzhou Prefecture, and he had neither family friendship nor teacher-student relationship with Yang Sichang. It was only because Yang Sichang knew that he was a talent that he recommended him to the imperial court as a military officer with the rank of judge of Dali Temple. Supervise the army.

Wanji is not a person who seeks profit and wealth, but because he admires Yang Sichang a lot on weekdays, and at the same time, he himself wants to serve the court in the matter of "suppressing bandits", so he is also willing to serve as Yang Sichang's important post of military supervisor.

Although the military has suffered some military defeats in suppressing thieves, he recalled that most of the strategies Yang Sichang proposed were not wrong. He felt that the problem was at this time. Daming was like a patient who had been suffering for a long time, and any famous doctor could not be caught off guard. Rescue, all parties are entangled, and it is too serious to hinder each other!

Under the lamp, he thought about the overall situation of suppressing thieves, and the more he thought about it, the more he couldn't sleep. On the first day of October last year, the scene when he accompanied Zhang Cheng, the supervisor and assistant minister, to Kuizhou unconsciously surfaced in his mind.

(End of this chapter)