Wanli 1592

Chapter 63 War and Peace
After the Liaodong battle report came out yesterday afternoon, Zhao Zhigao felt uneasy like an ant on a hot pot, and Zhang Wei also fell into deep doubts and worries. The most important thing is that this matter will have a bad impact on Daming's reputation, and another extremely important thing.

When things developed to this point, Japan, which suddenly appeared outside the tributary system and challenged the established power, suddenly felt a sense of existence, which made the officials in the court quite uneasy.

The two court elders stayed up all night, thinking hard about countermeasures, and then waited for His Majesty's summoning, all the time uneasy. Of course, the root cause of their sleepless nights thinking about countermeasures was not North Korea, just like the officials, it was another matter .

It wasn't until the two memorials brought by Shi Xing that their moods changed.

This is a very rare invitation to fight, yes, it is quite rare, because the person who invited to fight is a general, a famous general who has just made great achievements in the Northwest and was named Pingrupp, Xiao Ruxun.

The famous general who broke captives with firearms and overthrew the giant city with gunpowder did not have a sense of existence in the hearts of the courtiers, because he did not have any contacts with any civil servants, and he had never chosen civil servants to serve like Li Chengliang after entering Beijing. , only wandering among the military generals Xungui Group, as if he has become a martial arts upstart.

His life experience is not clean, first of all, his relationship with Wei Xuezeng and Ye Mengxiong is too deep, he can be regarded as an old department, or even a remnant, it cannot be believed, and it seems that he has no plan to join the lackeys of the civil official group. Naturally, everyone in the civil official group Don't bother with him.

At this stall, this guy handed over an invitation letter.

It listed in detail the reasons for the defeat of the Liaodong Army he analyzed and the information he knew about North Korea, and he came to the conclusion that North Korea was not suitable for most cavalry to enter the country for combat. It is proposed to transfer [-] firearms battalions from Ningxia, [-] gunners from Zhejiang, [-] sword and shield soldiers from Zhejiang, [-] gunmen from Shandong, [-] Xuanda crossbowmen, and [-] combined troops, supplemented by [-] cavalry from Liaodong, to attack Japan. .

Originally, this kind of paper would not be valued by the civil servants at all, and would be thrown away directly, because what qualifications and abilities does the general have to discuss military affairs?That's the business of our civil servants, you just need to lead the soldiers well, and we decide the rest!
But now, the situation has changed subtly. The civil servants know nothing about the situation in North Korea, but this Xiao Ruxun seems to know North Korea very well. good.

Zhang Wei and Shi Xing came up with an idea together.

This is a handsome talent, a terrible handsome talent, and an earl!It perfectly fits the requirements of the coach who led the army in the early Ming Dynasty!

A handsome talent appeared among the generals!A handsome talent who can stand shoulder to shoulder with Li Chengliang!

Is this good or not?
Shi Xing and Zhang Wei looked at each other, then at Zhao Zhigao who was nodding repeatedly while holding the memorial, showing helpless expressions together.

They chose to hand over this memorial to the emperor, and hand over this hot potato to the emperor. Being an official for their sake is no longer just a representative of one or two local forces, but a representative of the interests of an entire faction. , They dare not make rash decisions on such major matters concerning national and even international issues.

In fact, Zhang Wei didn't want to participate in this matter at all, it's just that Zhao Zhigao liked the paper, and Shi Xing had a clear-cut stand. He didn't want to make this matter a big deal at all, and he didn't want to pay attention to this general at all. However, things changed.

Another memorial is that of Tong Nuer Hachi, the leader of Jianzhou Wei Jurchen and the governor of Jianzhou Wei. The imperial court can bestow him with a golden top hat and the title of General Dragon and Tiger.

Next, he complained that the North Korean border was not peaceful recently, and more than 50 people from his tribe had been killed. Then he changed his pen and patted his chest and said: The Japanese are attacking North Korea, and the next step is to attack us in Jianzhou. I would like to Raise [-] troops for the court, and when the Yalu River freezes in winter, they will cross the river to fight against Japan.

Shi Xing was quite emotional, but Zhang Wei still couldn't make a decision.

So Shi Xing took a pen and wrote something, and sent it together with the two memorials, and the two memorials came to Zhu Yijun's desk who was worrying.

That's right, Zhu Yijun is worrying.

What he is bothered about is not North Korea, he is exactly the same as the two elders and the officials, what is bothering him is another thing - the struggle between the country and the country!
At that time, Zhu Yijun had two sons, the eldest Zhu Changluo and the second eldest Zhu Changxun. According to the rules, the eldest son established an heir, but Wanli doted on Zhu Changxun's mother, Concubine Zheng, and had been deliberately trying to put Zhu Changxun on the throne, so he always refused to give Zhu Changluo a title. The ministers firmly opposed it. , One after another wrote to request the establishment of the crown prince as soon as possible, but Wanli refused to comply.

So the officials and the emperor began a protracted struggle, from the 14th year of Wanli to the 20th year of Wanli. The problem is that in the 20th year of Wanli, this struggle just had a turning point. Under the leadership of the great scholar Zhang Wei, Hundreds of officials launched a furious attack on the emperor, desperately asking the emperor to give an explanation.

At this juncture, all the ministers do not want to give the emperor a chance to blur the topic.Regarding North Korea's sending troops, whether they object or agree, they must never open their mouths. Once they open their mouths, with the wisdom of today's emperor, they will definitely follow the topic: "The war is tight, let's discuss the war, the prince. Let's talk about it later!"

Therefore, the peace faction in the imperial court hoped to use this to control the war to aid Korea to a small extent, so as not to steal the limelight of "struggling for the foundation of the country".

Zhu Yijun, on the other hand, wanted to use this war to gain a respite for himself and pave the way for his son's ascension to the throne, so how to divert the attention of the courtiers was something he had been thinking about all the time.

Although North Korea is indeed important, it is not as important as the prince. He watched the news of the defeat of the Liaodong Army, but the courtiers remained silent. This is not a good signal.

So he reluctantly opened Xiao Ruxun's memorial.

Xiao Ruxun really made the point, North Korea is not suitable for cavalry to gallop freely, even if it wins, it will be a miserable victory. If the cavalry loses too much, it will be unable to maintain the suppression of Mongolia's slavery. This is by no means in the interests of Ming Dynasty. From this point alone The Liaodong cavalry cannot be allowed to make a big move. Xiao Ruxun's plan is to rely on the infantry as the main force to sweep the entire North Korea with the infantry and annihilate the Japanese in North Korea.

He proposed that at most only 20 soldiers and horses are needed, which is based on the fact that the Japanese sent 10,000 troops. However, the current intelligence is unknown, and there are speculations ranging from tens of thousands to 20 to [-]+ to [-]. However, it was impossible to count the number of Japanese troops, which made Zhu Yijun very angry. He even reprimanded Luo Sigong, the commander of Jinyiwei who came to report the work, for this the day before yesterday.

Xiao Ruxun's memorial was sent to Zhu Yijun at this time, along with Tong Nuer Hachi's memorial.

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