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Chapter 350 Li Chaosheng: Your Majesty, I am not scaring you
The story of Lu Xiangsheng and Lantian County defeating Jiannu in Guihua City was quickly passed on to the princes of the court, and all the important court officials were dumbfounded. How could it be that Lu Xiangsheng has this ability?

It is unbelievable that four thousand Tartars could be captured in one battle. When did Lu Xiangsheng have such ability?

There was a lot of discussion among the princes in the court, and some people even wondered, why did Li Chaosheng from Lantian participate in it?

Regarding Lantian, the princes of the imperial court are not ignorant. They can see the prosperity of Lantian these years. Who would not be greedy for such a large piece of fat? Shanglantian is Chongzhen’s current money bag, and it’s not easy for important court officials to put their hands in it, but now it’s different. Guihua City has nothing to do with Lantian County. Heart, when impeachment ah.

Thinking of this, the officials gradually gathered together, waiting for the next day to impeach Lantian County and Lu Xiangsheng at the same time.

And no one cared more about this matter than Yang Sichang.

Yang Sichang is currently the Minister of the Ministry of War, and he is Lu Xiangsheng's immediate boss. Originally, these two people are capable, and if they cooperate seamlessly, they will definitely open up the situation for Daming, but the two people are very at odds. A Minister of the Ministry of War, with great power in his hands.

This is the war between the top and the second in command of the Ministry of War, and their fighting will definitely do great harm to Ming Dynasty.

Why did those two fight?There is no love for no reason in this world, and there is no hatred for no reason. There must be a reason for two people to have hatred, and the reason is very simple. The core is political disagreement.

What Yang Sichang meant was that we must first settle down in order to fight against the outside world. We can first reconcile with the Tartars and concentrate on dealing with the peasant rebels in the country.

What Lu Xiangsheng meant was that if you want to fight against the outside world, you must first settle down inside. The Tartars are the hatred of the country and the family. The peasant uprising army is just a disease of scabies. No matter how troublesome it is, it is an internal matter of Ming Dynasty. Now it is necessary to solve the external affairs first.

The two became hostile to each other in this way, political disagreement, that is the greatest hatred in the officialdom, even greater than the hatred of killing the father, the hatred of taking the wife, the hatred of killing the father, and the hatred of taking the wife, maybe they can bear it and pretend to cooperate, However, disagreements in political views, that is the rhythm of not fighting the other side, but oneself will be defeated, it is really omnipotent.

Originally, Yang Sichang was a little worried about Lu Xiangsheng's meritorious service this time, but when he saw that in the end, Lu Xiangsheng actually got involved with Lan Tian, ​​he felt that he had found a way to bring Lu Xiangsheng down.

Our narrow-minded Majesty can't tolerate collusion among the ministers below.

At dawn the next day, when the morning court began, Chongzhen put on his clothes with the help of Empress Zhou. Just as he was about to leave, Wang Chengen rushed in with a memorial in his hand and said, "Your Majesty, Li Chaosheng from Lantian Fold."

Hearing this, Chongzhen was stunned, frowned and took a look at the folder, his face suddenly became gloomy, and finally put the folder away, put it in his sleeve and said: "Go up to court."

There are many emotions in this sound, including relief, helplessness, fear, and hope for the future.

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In Guihua City, Lu Xiangsheng sat opposite Li Chaosheng and said: "After eating this meal, we set off and left. We don't know when we will meet again."

Li Chaosheng took a sip of the rice porridge and said, "There is no banquet that lasts forever, Mr. Lu, take care."

Lu Xiangsheng also took a sip of porridge and said: "But before I leave, I want to remind you that now that Guihua City has been captured by you, His Majesty will definitely cause trouble after reading my memorial. Maybe soon, you and I will fight each other See."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng smiled and said: "I understand what you mean. The emperor suspects that I have a heart of disobedience. Your political enemy Yang Sichang will definitely take the opportunity to suppress you. For example, he will make a bad move and ask you to attack Lantian County. I am a disobedient person, hehe..."

Lu Xiangsheng said: "The development of the matter to this point is beyond your control and I just hope that Your Majesty will not be confused and destroy the Great Wall after listening to Yang Sichang's words."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng looked at Lu Xiangsheng and said, "Don't worry, the emperor may be stupid, but my memorial should have been presented to the emperor today. As long as the emperor reads my memorial, there will be no more disturbances. You won’t get the rewards you deserve.”

After hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng looked at Li Chaosheng and said, "Your memorial to His Majesty? What did you write in it?"

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng said: "It's nothing, I just wrote some facts."

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His Majesty St. Ann
Li Chaosheng, the magistrate of Lantian County, said to His Majesty that Guihua City, an important frontier fortress, has been managed by me in Lantian. With this important city in hand, the northern land will no longer suffer from the ravages of the Tartars, and the hearts of the people in the northern land will be at ease. In the hands of the minister, it will be as strong as gold. In addition, with this extra city, the minister's annual tax will be increased by [-]%, and the right should be assigned to Huacheng's tax to relieve your majesty's urgent needs.

Today I heard that bandits are rampant in Shaanxi, Gao Yingxiang occupied northern Shaanxi and fought fiercely with Hong Chengchou's army, Li Zicheng entered Shanxi to wreak havoc all over the world, Zhang Xianzhong broke through Fengyang, soon they will wreak havoc on the two lakes, the world is so corrupt, I feel very painful.

I have limited ability and cannot help His Majesty to settle the national crisis. I can only guard the land under the jurisdiction of Lantian for His Majesty and ensure the supply of taxes. After all, if my minister Lantian is in trouble, Hong Chengchou's [-] troops will have no rations, and His Majesty can use very little tax. , by that time, the world will probably be even more corrupt. I feel deeply that the burden on my shoulders is heavy, and I don't know when it will be overwhelmed.

The only thing I can guarantee is that in one day, Lantian will never miss a grain of grain or a tael of silver in taxes from the court.

Minister: Magistrate of Lantian County, Li Chaosheng pays respects.

This is the vernacular version of Li Chaosheng's letter. Of course, when it was sent up, someone had to edit it to make the vernacular more elegant, but the central idea is not bad at all.

And this letter is both soft and hard. Although the whole text is a loyal courtier, in fact, every sentence is coercion and temptation.

What's wrong with the emperor, now you have to analyze the pros and cons, and figure out the relationship of interests. From the beginning of this letter, Li Chaosheng gave the emperor a benefit, that is, Guihua City is in Li Chaosheng's hands, and you will be taxed by [-]% every year.

Right now, it has come to Chongzhen's heart. Guihua City is not the territory of Daming in the first place. If it is included in Daming, it will require a huge amount of money for governance and transportation of materials.

Chongzhen knows the relationship here, although it is tempting to expand the territory, but the country is almost in danger, so what is the temptation?

Secondly, the strategic location of Guihua City is very important to the Qing Dynasty. What benefits does it have for Lantian? If Ming Dynasty wants to attack Lantian County, it can send troops from Shanxi, Sichuan, Gansu, Lianghu, and all directions. It doesn’t matter at all. Guihua City, so the strategic significance of Guihua City is almost nothing to Daming.

Now that Guihua City is under the management of Lantian, Da Ming definitely doesn't care about the supplies, and then he has guarded the border of Da Ming. The most important thing is that there is no obstacle to Da Ming's attack on Lan Tian. Even such a piece of land may even involve Lan Tian's troops. Weaken Lantian.

The second and most important point is that Lantian will add [-]% tax. My God, you don’t know how much Chongzhen wants to get this [-]% tax. With these taxes, Chongzhen can do many great things.

And even if Chongzhen was out of his mind and disregarded the overall situation, it didn't matter, there were still threats in Li Chaosheng's letter, a total of three points.

First tell Chongzhen, you are full of flames in the world now, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong are rebelling openly, and you haven't managed it. If you mess with me again now, the world will really be in chaos. Think twice, Your Majesty.

Then he told Chongzhen that I, Lantian, are now supporting Hong Chengchou's army in northern Shaanxi. If you don't pay attention to messing with me, I will run out of food, and Shaanxi will really be out of your control by then.

In the end, Li Chaosheng made a promise. If we are in Lantian, you can get a day's natural tax. You can use this tax to recruit troops or do whatever you want. If you move to Lantian County, you won't get a grain of food. , When the time comes, the army will not move if there is no food, and if you cannot command the army, we will not know how many people will be king that day.

With such a combination of soft and hard, Chongzhen must have been confused. Even if he knew that Lan Tian had evil intentions, he didn't dare to move.

Now that I am obviously rebellious, I will not move, and I will move by myself, the only person who is willing to pay me the full amount of food, wages and taxes. Isn't this brain cramping?
No matter how stupid Chongzhen is, he still knows the priorities.

So when Li Chaosheng's memorial analyzed the situation in detail to Chongzhen, Chongzhen's idea of ​​taking the opportunity to kill Li Chaosheng was extinguished, and Liu Bang had to wait for the world to calm down to kill Han Xin.

It’s not that Han Xin acted when he was born to be a fake king of Qi. Chongzhen may have poor strategic vision, but he still has the most basic emperor’s mind. 18 years.

"Go up!"

The voices of the eunuchs sounded, and Chongzhen came out from the side hall, and slowly took his ninth-fifth seat. Sitting on the seat, Chongzhen glanced at the important ministers in the hall and said: "Masters, you should have read the report sent by Xuanda. Report to the army, Lu Xiangsheng killed more than [-] enemies in one battle, such a great achievement, how do you think you should reward him?"

Chongzhen was very busy and didn't want to mingle with them, and went straight to the point. Lu Xiangsheng won the battle, so how about rewarding him.

After hearing this, everyone in the audience dropped needles quietly. This is the time to express your opinion. After seeing the situation clearly, someone said after waiting for a while: "Your Majesty, this is a great victory, beheading more than four thousand slaves. This is only Second to the victory in Ningyuan, I thought it was Lu Gong's promotion."

After hearing this, all the people in the court were silent, Chongzhen narrowed his eyes and said: "Well, not bad."

At this moment, Yang Sichang glanced at his subordinate censor, and his subordinate censor immediately came out after receiving the boss's order: "Your Majesty is wrong."

"Well, what does Ai Qing mean?"

At this time, Yushi said: "Your Majesty, although Lu Xiangsheng has meritorious service, he also has major faults. Guihua City belongs to the Ming Dynasty. It is up to the court to decide how to arrange officials and who will govern them. However, Lu Xiangsheng put Guihua City Giving it directly to Lantian Li Chaosheng is obviously collusion and forming a party, which is a crime of treason and immorality, so I think that not only can't reward, but also severely punish him."

"Nonsense, Your Majesty can't listen to the rebellious words of this bureaucrat. Lu Gong's battle is a rare victory for our Ming Dynasty in recent years. It has greatly improved the morale of our army. If the meritorious officials are not rewarded, they will be punished instead. I dare to ask who will dare to make meritorious deeds in the future, if everyone does not want to make meritorious deeds and is afraid of fighting like a tiger, how will Ming regain the lost land?

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng's party argued loudly for him, and at this time the censor was angry: "Your Majesty, you must listen carefully. This colleague is Lu Xiangsheng's party, and he should be punished with the same crime as Lu Xiangsheng."

"You are the one who harbors evil intentions."

"You deserve death."

……

The civil servants of Ming Dynasty are all professional trolls. After going to the palace, they really argue to the death. Moreover, some civil servants like to troll the emperor. It’s good to troll the emperor. If the emperor doesn’t listen, it’s a fool. He especially likes to slander people, even if the emperor can slander, his colleagues are even more unscrupulous.

Say whatever you want to be ruthless, and take the hat off if you can. With a few words, you are disobeying the Holy Majesty and harboring evil intentions. Anyway, they all have the professionalism of trolls.

Chongzhen has long been used to it, drank a sip of tea, and waited until he was almost sprayed. At this time, Chongzhen looked at Yang Sichang who had been silent all this time, and said, "What's your opinion, Yang Aiqing?"

After hearing this, Yang Sichang strode forward and said: "Long live my minister, Lu Xiangsheng will be rewarded for his meritorious deeds in killing the enemy."

Everyone looked at Yang Sichang with some doubts after hearing Yang Sichang's words, knowing that the old man hadn't finished speaking, and sure enough Yang Sichang continued: "However, Your Majesty, it is a crime of treason and immorality for Lantian to seize Guihua City. Since Guihua City is occupied by us, Assuming it is the land of the Ming Dynasty, Li Chaosheng occupied Guihua City without the imperial edict, which is treason."

"The rebels must not be tolerated. I believe that Lu Xiangsheng should be rewarded. In addition, Lu Xiangsheng should lead the army to take back Huacheng, capture Li Chaosheng alive and take him to the capital. He will be interrogated by the three judges and convicted."

This old fox Yang Sichang is very smart. Lu Xiangsheng killed four thousand Tartars, no matter what, it is a great achievement. At this time, attacking him is not thankful. It is better to attack Li Chaosheng first. Li Chaosheng obviously intends to unite with Lu Xiangsheng. Dismantle the combination, let them kill each other, and then slowly plan to kill Lu Xiangsheng, this is the right way.

The ministers around listened to Yang Sichang's words, all of them had weird expressions. Sure enough, this old cunt is not easy to provoke. It's really a good way to kill each other and reap the benefits in the end.

At this time Yang Sichang looked at Chongzhen calmly, then his head moved slightly, and the people who followed Yang Dang began to kneel down one after another: "I think Yang Gong's words are justified, and Li Chaosheng should be punished for treason."

"My minister agrees."

All of a sudden, the ministers began to second their proposals one after another, as if the building was about to collapse, and everyone gave a push.

(End of this chapter)