Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 284
When Wang Ji saw this, he was about to kneel down to accept the order.

Bai Gui quickly waved his hand: "Uncle Jingyuan, there is no need to be too polite. Your Majesty has ordered that this is a secret decree. You can just read it by yourself."

When Wang Ji heard the words, he bowed deeply to the north, and then took the secret letter. After carefully confirming that it was intact, he opened the seal and took out the secret order, and sat in front of the handsome desk to read it carefully.

Wang Ji read each word carefully, but his brows became more and more wrinkled.

After reading it, Wang Ji deciphered three layers of information. First, the emperor hoped that the war would end before this autumn;

These two points were still expected, but what really made Wang Ji frown was the third point: out of the 4 additional troops sent, [-] were the former defenders of the Xuan Mansion.Although the emperor didn't say it clearly, what he meant was that he directly identified [-] people as rebels and asked Wang Ji to give him "special care".

The frown was a frown, but without much consideration, Wang Ji decided to do as the emperor wished.

Seriously speaking, Wang Ji hated the defenders of Xuanfu more than the emperor, and hated the civil and military officials in Shanxi even more.

After reading the secret decree, Wang Ji put it in his pocket and didn't intend to share it with everyone present.

Everyone didn't know how to speak, so they heard Wang Ji say to Qian coldly: "Yu Shangshu, you have successfully brought the army. Your Majesty didn't tell you to take command in front, did you? Then I won't keep you. You should go early." Let’s go to Nanjing to take office.”

Yu Qian and Wang Ji belong to different camps and have always been extremely at odds.Now that the command of the army has been handed over, Yu Qian didn't stay any longer, so he left the barracks.

Watching Yu Qian leave, Wang Ji's complexion finally improved a lot.

Don't look at Zhu Qiyu's absurd behavior, but think that he is the only one who hates Xuanzong and Sanyang.

In fact, the positions of Zhu Qizhen and Wang Ji are not much different from Zhu Qiyu's.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen and Xuanzong's father and son have a deeper relationship, so Zhu Qizhen is willing to hide for the venerable, which is not obvious on weekdays.

But politics cannot be pretended.Xuanzong and Sanyang were extremely war-weary, and carried out strategic contraction from the east, south, west, and north of the empire at the same time. In just ten years, the good grandson completely abolished the offensive that his grandfather had so easily expanded.

And Zhu Qizhen, Wang Zhen, and Wang Ji are all tough and main fighters. Since Zhu Qizhen took charge of the government, they have been fighting against all opinions, using large-scale troops, and trying to reconquer the Quartet.

As a result, it took a lot of effort to wipe Xuanzong's butt in Luchuan in the southwest. Before he was happy for two days, the disaster that Xuanzong had planted in the north broke out completely.

Fortunately, this time, even the majestic emperor and the orthodox emperor were sent out.

Therefore, when Wang Ji saw Yu Qian, he became angry.

In Wang Ji's opinion, the defeat of Tumubao was of course mainly caused by Zhu Qizhen's blind command.But the disarmament of Shanxi's armaments has reached an exaggerated level. Are the civil and military officials in Shanxi completely irresponsible?

Especially Yu Qian, as a confidant of Xuanzong and Sanyang, governor of Shanxi for 19 years, did not return to Beijing until the 13th year of Zhengtong.As a result, in the 14th year of orthodoxy, the Civil Fortress Change took place.

The next governor of Shanxi who succeeded Yu Qian had only been in office for a total of one year, and he couldn't blame the poor man for the disarmament of Shanxi.

The more Wang Ji thought about it, the angrier he became, so he said some polite words and asked Shi Heng, Liu Yongcheng and others to go back to the camp to rest.

Although Shi Heng is now a marquis and Wang Ji is an earl, firstly, Wang Ji is the coach and has a high rank;Therefore, it is hard to say much about Wang Ji's negligence.

After sending everyone away, Wang Ji ordered people to invite Baoding Bo Liang Pang and Deputy Chief Soldier Fang Ying.

Then Wang Ji closed his eyes and meditated, thinking carefully about his future.

Regarding Wang Ji's position, both brothers Zhu Qizhen and Zhu Qiyu made a wrong judgment this time.

Zhu Qizhen has always believed that he has the kindness to know Wang Ji, and Wang Ji will definitely be loyal to him with all his heart.

Coincidentally, Zhu Qiyu thought so too.Although after succeeding to the throne, Zhu Qiyu has been adding officials and promotions to Wang Ji, asking for money for money, food for food, and soldiers for soldiers, without any disadvantage.But from the perspective of inner rationality, Zhu Qiyu also felt that his overtures were useless.

Both Zhu Qizhen and Zhu Qiyu made judgments based on human nature.

In fact, neither Zhu Qizhen nor Zhu Qiyu's thinking is problematic, the real problem lies with Wang Ji.

When Zhu Qizhen was in power, he liked to throw ministers into prisons, and there were very few important ministers in the court who hadn't been in.

Because Xuanzong loved to play with crickets, he was called the son of crickets by later generations.According to Zhu Qizhen's habit of throwing ministers into prison, later generations should call him the prison emperor.

It's a pity that Zhu Qizhen's title of "Son of Heaven" is so resounding that it directly overwhelmed other alternative titles.

The so-called king ordered the minister to die, and the minister had to die.Most of the courtiers didn't care too much about going to prison.But there are exceptions to everything, others don't care, but Wang Ji cares.

It's just that in the past, Wang Ji had no choice.

But now, a new emperor has been replaced, who is as tough as the previous Zhu Qizhen and hates Xuanzong and Sanyang even more than Zhu Qizhen.

The ability of the new emperor is stronger than that of the Supreme Emperor. In less than half a year, he broke up Wala and wiped Xuanzong's ass in the north.

Although Wang Ji is far away in Guizhou, his disciples and old officials are all over the court, and he can also get news from the capital.

For example, when Zhu Qiyu first came to the throne, Yu Qian proposed to transfer Chen You from Nanjing to lead a thousand elites to Wang Ji's army, and be responsible for strict monitoring to prevent Wang Ji from making any changes.

But this proposal was not only flatly rejected by Zhu Qiyu, but also severely reprimanded.

It's not a big deal, but it's heartwarming.

Besides, speaking from the conscience, so far, Zhu Qiyu has not treated Wang Ji badly at all.

Now Wang Ji is more concerned about his title, official position, power, and whether his family's wealth can continue.I really don't have much interest in helping the emperor restore.

In the history of Wang Ji, all he participated in the change of seizing the door, in addition to pursuing the continuation of the title and wealth, and seeking a good future for his descendants,

The biggest reason is being repelled and frustrated.The original position of Minister of the Ministry of War was taken by Yu Qian, so forget it.Also implicated by Wang Zhen, he was left idle to Nanjing.

Now it is completely reversed, the imperial power changed, Wang Ji was not affected by the slightest negative influence, instead Yu Qian was sent to Nanjing.

Zhu Qiyu wrote clearly in the secret decree just now: Not only did Wang Ji firmly occupy the position of Shangshu in the Ministry of War, but also the Miao chaos was quelled, and the Marquis was no problem.

Originally, it was impossible for Wang Ji to believe the nonsense of civil servants being named marquises.

But Liu Yongcheng, who had just arrived at the barracks, was originally a eunuch in charge of the imperial horse supervisor, and the emperor unexpectedly made Liu Yongcheng an earl under tremendous pressure.

Although Liu Yongcheng is a legendary eunuch who is second only to Zheng He in terms of prestige and meritorious deeds, the emperor's boldness in giving the earl an exception is really scary enough.

The emperor granted Liu Yongcheng the earl, which played the role of buying horse bones with thousands of dollars.

So when Zhu Qiyu mentioned in the secret decree that Wang Ji would be named a Marquis, Wang Ji didn't doubt it at all, so he took it as a matter of course.

If you can get the Marquis, then why miss the Supreme Emperor.

However, before and after the new year, news of various fires and the death of King Tan had already reached Wang Ji.

Now Wang Ji's only concern with Zhu Qiyu is whether the new king can give birth to a son.

It would be best to have an undisputed eldest son, that would be completely stable.

(End of this chapter)