Wanli 1592

Chapter 1162 Good news for the new year

Are all the generals of the Great Qin Dynasty educated Confucian generals?
How can one of them speak so well?
He really didn't know how to refute what he said. Of course, he didn't want to refute himself, but just wanted to clarify his position and attitude, and show that he was not loyal to Yang Yinglong, but fulfilled his duty and had no other intentions.

That's what he said, but whether the other party believes it or not, it's not up to him to decide.

"Students have nothing to say."

He expressed his helplessness in this way.

"Looking at you, it seems that you are not a diehard loyalist of Yang Yinglong, and you don't seem to intend to die for Yang Yinglong?"

Zheng Ying smiled.

"Students...students and family members..."

"Seeing that you eat, drink, and take a shower and change clothes, I know you don't want to die. However, whether you die or not is not up to me. When you go to the capital, let's see how His Majesty makes a decision."

Zheng Ying shook his head, and looked at him again: "By the way, tell me, what did you think when you suggested that Yang Yinglong attack Sichuan?"

"This... is naturally because Sichuan has the least number of officers and soldiers and is the easiest to deal with, and there are still many ambitious people in Sichuan. As long as we defeat Ma Qiancheng, kill Wang Xianggan, and raise our arms, Sichuan will inevitably emerge with a lot of people. unruly person.

Moreover, Sichuan's terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, which is very suitable for a separate party. The foundation of the Great Qin Dynasty is not solid, and the family background is not strong. Down. "

Sun Shitai is still very honest.

Zheng Ying nodded and said: "What you said is basically correct, but you still have three mistakes. First, Ma Qiancheng may not lose so quickly. Second, Sichuan was defeated, and there is still a branch of our army in Yunnan." The army can go north to support at any time.

Moreover, there is still an army in Hanzhong, which can go south to attack. You may not be able to gain a firm foothold in Sichuan. Third, you underestimated the national strength of the Great Qin. His Majesty the Emperor has prepared military supplies for this battle for half a year. "

"Military supplies for half a year?"

Sun Shitai was taken aback: "16 troops, half a year's supplies?"

"Yes, half a year's military supplies and half of Jiangnan's strength have been used to supply the 16 troops. Your Majesty is bound to win this battle. You have underestimated your Majesty when you regard this battle as the real battle for the establishment of the Qin Dynasty. Determination."

Zheng Ying's face was full of pride.

"How many civilian husbands do you need? Aren't you afraid of trouble?"

Sun Shitai couldn't understand.

"This... If you have the chance, you will see it. I won't say more, but your strategy is also a kind of gambling. The smell of gambling is too strong, and there is no guarantee of victory, right?"

Regarding Zheng Ying's question, Sun Shitai smiled wryly and said: "How can there be anything perfect in this world? Sometimes when marching and fighting, it depends on God's will. People plan things, and God makes things happen. Even if I can calculate everything, I can't calculate God."

"It's also considered that you have self-knowledge."

Zheng Ying nodded and said: "Okay, you can go back, wait for your majesty to deal with you, if your majesty doesn't kill you, you're lucky, if your majesty kills you, it's your bad luck Okay, but this is what you deserve, don't blame anyone."

Sun Shitai nodded with a bitter face.

"Students dare not blame anyone."

After Sun Shitai left, Zheng Ying thought over and over again, and still wrote a letter with a pen, and handed it to the soldiers under his command, and asked the soldiers to send it to the capital as quickly as possible.

From Bozhou to the capital, it took fourteen days for the battle report to arrive first, and fifteen days for Zheng Ying's letter to arrive later.

When Xiao Ruxun received the battle report, it was already the beginning of February, and the New Year and Lantern Festival had already passed in the capital. The people in the capital received rice noodles, meat, and cloth from Xiao Ruxun, and lived a good year together and had a good meal.

Although people in the capital can gradually eat two meals to fill their stomachs, and some families are moving towards three meals, eating meat is still not an easy task.

So Xiao Ruxun widely promoted the breeding of poultry and livestock in various villages and towns in Beizhili to enrich the people's dining table, and promoted the planting of bean plants to make tofu and put it on the market, so that people can eat more tofu and get enough protein.

If you can’t eat meat, then eat tofu for a while. In the future, people will definitely be able to eat meat and make their bodies great. This is Xiao Ruxun’s greatest expectation.

During the Chinese New Year, the meals in the palace became more luxurious, which was specially approved by Xiao Ruxun. During the Chinese New Year, he invited his courtiers to dinner, not in batches, but in batches, not according to the rank of the official. , and according to the size of the contribution.

According to the ranking of officials' achievements in the past year, the first batch of invitations with the best achievements belong to the first-class banquet.

Invite them to eat the best food, use the most high-end ingredients to let the chefs recruited from all over the place give full play to their strengths, and invite them to eat all kinds of luxurious dishes from mountains and seas.

Not only that, it is also allowed to bring parents, wives and children to the banquet together, to give them enough face in front of their parents, wives and daughters, and to personally give them big red envelopes, parents, wives and daughters also have their own rewards, all these officials are flushed Guang, overjoyed, feels that he has struggled for a year just for this moment today.

Then by analogy, those with the second-class political achievements will eat the slightly second-class banquet and receive the first-class big red envelopes.

There are nine levels in this level, just like the ninth level of officials, the first level follows the first level, and the third level is not allowed to bring family members, and the red envelopes are pitifully small, and the last level is The mediocre officials with unsatisfactory political performance not only do not give red envelopes to their families, but also eat white rice and pickles.

Taunt them that they eat nothing, and warn them that if they continue like this, they will have nothing to eat.

After such a rule is set, all officials will know at a glance that this is a barometer of the holy family created by the emperor. Those who enjoy special banquets are obviously very favored. year promoted.

The latter asked grandpa to tell grandma to burn high incense, hoping that they would not be cut from their official positions, or even deposed, and kicked out of the court.

Moreover, Xiao Ruxun’s method of banqueting officials for New Year’s dinner also gave birth to a very interesting phenomenon in the officialdom of the Great Qin Dynasty. Later, more and more people described high-level officials who could only eat low-level banquets as "senior officials such as X" or "X grade X" "Wait for officials", used to mock them for their vegetarian meals.

For example, if a minister does not seek to make progress because of his poor performance or mediocrity, and he eats an eighth or ninth-class banquet, people will start to ridicule him. He is a ninth-class high-ranking official, or a second-rank and ninth-class official, not to mention whether the emperor wants to use him. , the ridicule of his colleagues can make him feel ashamed.

There is no clear standard for this banquet level, everything is the emperor's will, and the rank and status of officials have nothing to do with how many banquets they eat. Small officials of the seventh rank can also eat first-class banquets, and senior officials of the first rank may be kicked out To the ninth class banquet.

The emperor thinks that you can eat as many banquets as possible, so he will send you an invitation letter for the banquet. From the first to the ninth class, it is still a class, and there is still hope. Although you are reprimanded, you have to eat white rice and pickles, at least you still have something to eat .

Some officials who are about to be arrested for corruption and crimes will not be able to eat this banquet, which basically means the end of their political life, because the emperor means that Daqin has no salary for you to eat.

Officials think this way, they think it themselves, but if the emperor does the same, then it will confirm the officials' thinking, so five days after the new year, after the next wave of officials in the court have been changed and cleaned, the officials are basically sure the emperor's mind.

The emperor wants the court officials to be always vigilant and always do things, don't even think about eating a vegetarian meal in the corpse, holding power but doing nothing, this is as hateful as corruption.

In such an atmosphere, the first good news of Longwu's second year came.

Bozhou was victorious, and the Daqin army successfully put down the Bozhou rebel Yang Yinglong. Yang Yinglong and his son were captured alive, and the Bozhou rebel army was wiped out.

(End of this chapter)