Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 872
"My lord, Ma Zhou's urgent report has arrived."

A palace official hurried in, and when the officials heard that it was Ma Zhou's urgent report, their expressions changed slightly.

As soon as they talked about Ma Zhou, Ma Zhou's urgent report came.

However, regarding this, Qin Tian, ​​Cheng Yaojin and others were all relieved. Since Ma Zhou took the initiative to send the memorial, then the fault of this matter may really be the fault of the supervising army.

As for Gao Shilian, his face was ashen.

When Cui Yan left, he asked Cui Yan to deliberately trouble Ma Zhou. Cui Yan's killing must have offended Ma Zhou, so he knew early in the morning that Cui Yan was probably at fault.

Therefore, after he got the news, he impeached Ma Zhou early in the morning, hoping that Ma Zhou could be punished without Li Shimin knowing the inside story.

It is unlikely that Ma Zhou will return to Chang'an City alive.

But what he didn't expect was that Ma Zhou's memorial would come back so soon.

Here, Li Shimin heard Ma Zhou's memorial came back, and immediately ordered: "Submit it."

Not long after, someone in the palace brought up Ma Zhou's memorial.

After Li Shimin took the memorial and read it once, his expression changed a little.

"Everyone, please take a look."

The memorial was passed down, and after everyone read it like this, Li Ji stood up and said: "My lord, since those Turkic rebels have surrendered, they can't be killed again, otherwise it will be bad for my Tang Dynasty's reputation. Who are those rebels on the battlefield who are willing to surrender? If we use force to solve them, why should we provide disaster relief? Cui Yanrang killed those Turkic rebels, it is really wrong, this Cui Yan should be killed."

As the British Duke of Datang, Li Ji's words carry a lot of weight.

After he finished speaking, Cheng Yaojin and others also started talking.

"Your Majesty, what the British Duke said is right, Cui Yan should indeed be killed, he is simply directing blindly."

"That's right, it's not just a blind command, he really wants to harm me, Datang. I, Datang, took down the grassland with great difficulty, and he is going to let me, Datang, hand over the grassland before giving it up?"

"This Cui Yan, should be killed, kill me Datang..."

After all the people said this, Gao Shilian's face became more and more ugly.

"Your Majesty, Cui Yan really shouldn't let people kill those Turkic rebels, but Ma Zhou killed Cui Yan because of this, isn't it too much?" Gao Shilian stood up, he glanced at Li Shimin, and then continued Said: "Cui Yan just said a word, and Ma Zhou killed him. This is unbelievable. He is avenging his personal revenge."

After Gao Shilian said this, many people in the court felt that it made sense.

"Your Majesty, Master Gao is right, killing people is not enough, is it?"

"It's fine to just refuse, why kill people? Ma Zhou's doing this has to make people feel that there is something wrong."

"That's right, Ma Zhou killed the supervisor in this way, and the emperor's supervisor will be useless in the future."

"This is slapping your face..."

While these people were talking, Li Shimin's expression was a little uncertain, making it impossible to guess what he was trying to say.

Qin Tian stood in front, smiled, and said, "It's a bit wrong for Mr. Gao to say that. What is Ma Zhou Gong avenging his personal revenge? Then what kind of enmity does Ma Zhou have with Cui Yan? We need to avenge his personal revenge publicly?"

When Qin Tian opened his mouth, the hall suddenly fell silent, and after Qin Tian said this sentence, he continued: "At that time, if you don't kill Cui Yan, do you think those Turkic rebels who surrendered will feel relieved?" ? There is a person who wants to kill them, so it’s no wonder they are relieved, even if they surrender, they will also run away. At that time, isn’t the effect the same as killing them? So, how to calm down the grassland.”

Speaking of this, Qin Tian raised his head to look at Li Shimin, and said, "Your Majesty, I think Ma Zhou did the right thing. Only by killing Cui Yan can he be done once and for all."

Just now everyone held their own opinions, but now after Qin Tian said this, no one said anything more, because they all felt that what Qin Tian said was right, in order to solve the problem of the entire grassland, killing a Cui Yan is nothing ?
Gao Shilian gritted his teeth, arguing with someone as eloquent as Qin Tian, ​​he obviously suffered a disadvantage.

And now he wanted to say something, but he didn't know how to say it.

Li Shimin weighed the situation, and said: "Ma Zhou's killing the supervisor was indeed wrong, but Cui Yan should also be killed. Don't pursue Ma Zhou's responsibility for this matter. We will make a decision after he returns from the grassland."

Indeed, Li Shimin also felt that Ma Zhou was right, but he sent the supervising army to exercise supervisory power on behalf of the emperor, which was equivalent to an eye of the emperor, but Ma Zhou killed the supervising army.

This really made Li Shimin very embarrassed. A little Ma Zhou is very courageous.

Therefore, he just didn't pursue Ma Zhou's responsibility now, and he would talk about it after Ma Zhou came back.

He needs to save some face.

And just after Li Shimin finished saying this, Qin Tian finally breathed a sigh of relief. As long as Ma Zhou was not punished now, Li Shimin might not punish Ma Zhou when he came back after solving the matter on the grassland.

Now, Li Shimin just used this as a step to step down.

However, when Qin Tian breathed a sigh of relief, Wei Zheng suddenly stood up and said, "Your Majesty, I feel that the existence of the Supervising Army is very detrimental to marching and fighting. The Supervising Army should be removed and cancel them forever."

Supervising the army has a very high authority. In addition to supervising the generals who lead the troops to fight, they sometimes give orders. If the generals don’t listen, they will speak bad words in front of the emperor. The order of No. [-] is very unfavorable for combat.

Before Datang, there were several defeats due to the blind command of the supervisory army, so Wei Zheng felt that it might as well cancel the existence of the supervisory army.

When Wei Zheng said these words, the generals Cheng Yaojin, Qin Shubao, and Li Jing were shocked. Even now, they all wished they could hold Wei Zheng and cry with tears streaming down their faces.

You've finally done something good.

These generals, they used to fight wars, but they never lost the suffering of being supervised. Listen to them, feel aggrieved, don’t listen, and worry that they will go back to sue, no matter what you do.

They also wanted to get rid of the supervisor for a long time.

However, although they were very excited at this time, none of them stood up.

As generals, they have always been suspected and feared by the emperor. They are not stupid. If they dare to agree to Wei Zheng's proposal and abolish the military supervision system, they will deliberately arouse Li Shimin's suspicion.

Therefore, although they all wanted to abolish the military supervision, this kind of matter had to be brought up by other civil officials, and their generals could just watch the result from the sidelines.

How could they do something that would set them on fire.

They only hope that Wei Zheng can give a little more strength this time.

(End of this chapter)