My Ming Dynasty, I have the final say

Chapter 13 Sun Chengzong goes to Liaodong
"The ministers respectfully invite Shengan."

More than an hour later, Zhu Youxuan's ministers arrived at Qianqing Palace.

Following the neat chants, a group of ministers bowed and saluted.

"Uneasy, I am very uneasy."

Zhu Youxiao, who was leaning on the dragon chair and holding a memorial in his hand, looked at several important officials in the court and said.

"Liu Yishen."

"The minister is here."

Feeling that the emperor's tone was not quite right, Liu Yishen responded with some anxiety.

"This is your plan to promote Yuan Yingtai, the governor of Liaodong, to correct the situation. It says that Yuan Yingtai has made great contributions in expanding border defenses in Liaodong and recruiting surrenders and rebels, so he should be corrected."

"I am here to ask you today, you..."

"Retarded!"

He suddenly raised his volume, threw the memorial at Liu Yishen, and then shouted loudly.

"Did you read into the dog's mind?"

"Every three-year-old child in the folk knows that people who are not of my race will have different minds. Last year, when Fushun fell, the thieves disguised themselves as spies and merchants, sneaked into Lushun, and broke through the gates of Lushun from the inside out. What lessons can be learned from the past? Yuan Yingtai didn't investigate the aliens in the city and just committed suicide. He dared to recruit rebels and accepted them as soon as he came. Is it because he thinks Shenyang City is too strong, or he wants to give Shenyang City to Jiannu!"

"As an important minister in the current cabinet, if you don't reprimand him for such behavior, but instead take credit for him, are you blind or out of your wits?"

"Your Majesty, Yuan Yingtai has been in Liaodong for many years and has always been prestigious among the Jurchens in Liaodong. He uses the eastern captives to rule the eastern captives. I think this is a good strategy."

After hearing Zhu Youxiao's words, Liu Yishen stretched out his hand to wipe the cold sweat from his face and spoke out in defense.

"Furthermore, the Jurchen rebellion in Liaodong was only in Jianzhou, and the Yehe tribe did not participate. Chief Yehe died fighting for the Ming Dynasty. The Jurchens surrendered. If they do not accept it, they may hurt the hearts of the surrounding barbarians."

"Okay, okay, you've hurt the hearts of the surrounding barbarians. I think you are determined to give Liaodong to Jiannu!"

Hearing Liu Yishen's words, Zhu Youxiao laughed angrily.

"Come here, take off this official uniform and hand it over to the Third Secretary for questioning!"

"Yes!"

After hearing Zhu Youxiao's words, several tall eunuchs immediately walked in from outside and pulled Liu Yishuo out.

"Your Majesty! Mr. Liu is an assistant minister of the cabinet, so he cannot be blamed easily!"

"Your Majesty, Liu Fuchen is determined to serve the country with all his strength. His recommendation of Yuan Yingtai is completely dedicated to serving the public good."

Seeing Zhu Youxiao sending Liu Yishen to prison like this, several other people quickly advised him.

Zhu Youxiao seemed not to have heard what these people said and continued to ask.

"The censor of Zuodu."

"The minister is here."

Hearing Zhu Youxiao calling him, Zhang Wenda, the censor of Zuodu, hurriedly spoke out.

"It can be said that the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Six Sections Gallery are all cultural gatherings, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate is also a place of outstanding people. The entire memorial they wrote is all about quoting scriptures and allusions. It's not even a sentence to read. It makes my scalp numb when I read it. ."

"If I hadn't read carefully for several years, I might not be able to understand this memorial written by an official of the Ming Dynasty."

"I, the Great Mingyan Official, have always had the power to report rumors and report things, but look at who wrote these? What did they write?"

"Liu Youyuan, censor of Fujian Dao, Wang Huaixiu, censor of Gansu Dao, Wei Yingjia from the left to the criminal department, Xue Fengxiang from the right to the household, Bao Qianzhen from the etiquette department..."

"This is the Metropolitan Procuratorate that you manage for me and Ming Dynasty!"

"Fujian Road, Gansu Road, Henan Road, Hu Ke, Li Ke, Li Ke Yanguan, more than a dozen people in a row impeached Xiong Tingbi, the right minister of Liaodong Economic Strategy and the Ministry of War."

"This is an overstep of authority! A bold overstep of authority!"

With a bang, the paperweight was slapped on the table, Zhu Youxiao looked at Zhang Wenda in front of him fiercely and said.

"Officials from the southeast, northwest, and central provinces of the Ming Dynasty went to impeach an official who was in Liaodong and affiliated with the Ministry of War. Did you inspect the local areas and inspect the area to Liaodong, or did you inspect the Ministry of War?"

"The officials of the three departments of Li, Hu, and Li are impeaching the right minister of the Ministry of War. The Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Sixth Section think that the power in their hands is too small, so they can directly oversee it across departments, right?"

"Who gave these people the power to frame the border generals of the imperial court without any evidence!"

"Who gave these people the power to impeach a high-ranking official of the imperial court just by gossiping!"

"If this goes back and forth, what use does the Ming Dynasty require? To govern the country and the people, isn't it enough for you to just talk about it?! I need six more ministers, and I need more cabinet ministers!"

"What's this called! This is called Yuezu Substitute! This is called Si Chen!"

"Your Majesty, I have made it clear that officials have the right to report rumors and report things. All these actions of the ministers are for my sake."

"Your Majesty, if an official is convicted for his words, it may block our way of speaking out, which will be detrimental to the country and may frighten the courtiers."

"His Majesty..."

"quiet!!!"

Seeing the official speaking out, Liu Shimin, standing next to Zhu Youxiao, shouted in a high voice.

"Who is scared? If you stand up and resign now, I will be sure. There is no shortage of officials in the Ming Dynasty!"

Following the emperor's words, especially the last sentence, there was no shortage of officials in the Ming Dynasty, and the entire Qianqing Palace suddenly became quiet.

"Zhang Wenda! After you go back, immediately organize the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Sixth Section Corridor. I don't want to see this kind of overreaching happen again. Do you understand me clearly?"

"The minister obeys the order."

After being scolded by the emperor and Liu Yishui being dragged out, Zhang Wenda didn't dare to say a word at this moment, for fear that he would be dragged out next.

The palace is the little emperor's world, and he really doesn't dare to be presumptuous.

Especially when I heard that in the past few days, the palace was being cleaned, and there were so many people cleaning it.

"Wang Yongguang."

"I'm here." Wang Yongguang, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, who was named, quickly came out of the queue.

"I've approved the details you submitted to supervise the construction of the mausoleum for the late emperor."

Not to mention the feudal dynasty where Confucianism and Taoism flourished, even in modern society, Zhu Youxiao didn't dare to let anyone dig a hole casually to bury that idiot Taichang.

"Now that the national treasury is empty, to show my filial piety, I will give you another 50 taels of silver from my own funds. You must repair the late emperor's mausoleum for me."

"The minister leads the decree to thank you."

When Wang Yongguang heard that he was asked to build the tomb of Emperor Daxing and pay back the money, it was not a matter of picking off his head. Wang Yongguang ignored the cold sweat on his head and kowtowed quickly.

"Oh, right."

As if he suddenly remembered something, Zhu Youxiao added another sentence.

"Wang An hanged himself and followed his father. I deeply feel his loyalty. You can build a grave for Wang An outside his mausoleum and let him guard his grave."

"The minister leads the order."

Hearing the emperor's words, Wang Yongguang was a little confused, but he still responded.

Anyway, the money comes from internal funds, so just fix it.

"Master Sun."

"The minister is here."

Hearing the emperor calling him, Sun Chengzong quickly came out of the queue.

After considering his words, Zhu Youxiao continued.

"Since the Battle of Saarhu, Liaodong has been exhausted. Fortunately, Xiong Tingbi guarded Liaodong, which prevented Liaodong from falling and opened the door to the imperial court."

Zhu Youxiao said, making a change.

"However, Xiong Tingbi has a violent personality. He is good at supervising the army but not good at caring for the people, which makes the people under his command excited."

"I want you to be the governor of Liaodong, the governor of ministers and ministers, and the general in charge of government affairs. Can you do it?"

"Back to Your Majesty, I am willing to share your worries for Your Majesty."

After hearing the emperor's words, Sun Chengzong said quickly.

Ever since the Battle of Saarhu, he had long wanted to visit Liaodong, but he had never had the chance.

"Come up."

After nodding, Zhu Youxiao waved his hand, and a little eunuch brought up a screen.

Ask Sun Chengzong to step forward and stand in front of the screen, Zhu Youxiao said to Sun Chengzong.

"I want you to go to Liaodong, as long as you do two things. The first is to care for the people. I don't want to say more about this."

"But the second thing is for you to assist Xiong Tingbi in building the fort."

There is a strange-looking fortress painted on the screen, which is very different from the common military fortresses of the Ming Dynasty. A square fortress was changed into an eight-pointed star.

If future generations see it, they will definitely call it a bastion, but this is not so much a bastion, but more like the strongholds built in the countryside during the Japanese invasion of China.

It is simply composed of artillery towers, barracks, grain depots and prisons. What the Japanese bully with this thing is that Tubal Road does not have heavy firepower.

If the Japanese pirates built this thing in Europe, the rich guys in Europe could use the infantry cannon as a target for artillery practice. However, in a country where heavy firepower was extremely scarce at the time, this thing was like a stick in the throat.

Let's demolish it by force. If we don't have the firepower, we'll have to pay for it with human lives.

If you don't dismantle it, it will radiate influence and disgust people.

But in today's era, it would be even more cruel to kill slaves.

Next to the bastion, there are four words written by the emperor: make progress every inch of the way.

"I do not require you to put down the rebellion in Liaodong within a short period of time."

The emperor standing in front of the screen seemed to be telling Sun Chengzong, but in fact he was telling the important ministers standing in the Qianqing Palace.

"I want to build a pavilion in Liaodong, one pavilion in ten miles, and a fort in one hundred miles. I will advance slowly, step by step, and rebuild the guardhouse."

This style of fighting is called the sausage-slicing strategy. It is an advanced version of the tough battle and the stupid battle. It is Zhu Yuanzhang's specialty.

He punched out, then took it back, cut the flesh with a knife, and cut off a strand of Han soil.

In the fifth year of Hongwu, during the Battle of Lingbei, the three armies of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Da's main middle route army, were defeated and returned. Although Li Wenzhong's east route army won, they suffered heavy losses. Only Feng Sheng's west route army was defeated. A victory.

This battle gave Zhu Yuanzhang a good taste of the bitter pill of military adventure.

After this battle, Zhu Yuanzhang changed the rhythm of the Northern Expedition to the grassland and began the process of cutting flesh with a blunt knife, making progress every inch, just one word, grinding.

It lasted until the 20th year of Hongwu, when Yongchang Hou Lanyu led an army to defeat Menggu at Yuerhai. Tuogusi Timur and Prince Tianbaonu and other dozens of horses escaped, and the rest were either captured or killed, defeating Menggu. The ancient emperor's name was officially destroyed before the Yuan Dynasty.

But now the style of play taught by Zhu Youxiao to Sun Chengzong is even more disgusting, or incomprehensible.

Without peace talks and without fighting, we will defend when the enemy advances, we advance when the enemy retreats, build forts along the way, and create long-term, localized, low-intensity wars.

Let’s see who can’t stand it first.

"Sir, I understand."

From the map, we can see the emperor's strategic intention for the Liaodong war, and Sun Chengzong handed it over.

"Purpose."

Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao waved his hand, and the little eunuch in charge of etiquette began to write.

"Promoted Sun Chengzong to be the governor of Liaodong, governor of Liaodong's political affairs, and assisted Xiong Tingbi in conquering the slaves."

"The minister leads the decree to thank you."

(End of this chapter)