Wanli 1592

Chapter 517 Li Chengliang's Political Mistake
Over the years, this is one of the few times that the imperial court has compromised with the emperor.

Since Zhang Juzheng's death and the emperor's personal administration, in the first few years, civil servants used various methods to make the emperor feel that he was a holy king. During those few years, Zhu Yijun was obsessed with the dream of a holy king. The door of convenience.

It wasn't until some secrets about Jinyiwei and Dongchang entered Zhu Yijun's ears that Zhu Yijun suddenly realized that his "sage dream" was a peaceful dream whitewashed by civil officials. In the self-satisfied thinking that he is a holy king!
Then Zhu Yijun began to argue with the officials, and this dispute naturally destroyed the "good reputation" accumulated in the past few years, and the civil servants began to spare no effort to blacken the emperor. Anyway, the emperor has nothing to do with them.

The daily administration of the various departments of the imperial court was nothing to do with Zhu Yijun. Zhang Siwei, the earliest Shen Shixing and others, inherited Zhang Juzheng's style and strictly controlled the government affairs. I feel that my country is in good weather and the people are peaceful.

As for those who actually tell the truth...

Anyway, the emperor lives in Beijing and the Forbidden City, which is equivalent to being a mascot in captivity, and can't get out at all. If he can't see it, it means he doesn't have it. It's a simple conversion.

However, as the conflict between the emperor and his officials intensified, as Zhu Yijun began to pay attention to the control of Dongchang and Jinyiwei and began to cultivate his own eyes and ears, some things could not be covered up.

The officials realized that the emperor could not be fooled, so they could only start playing rogues, using very rogue methods to continuously drain the emperor's energy.

The so-called national struggle is not just a means to make the emperor exhaust his energy and make it difficult to pay attention to state affairs. It is a fierce battle between the officials and the imperial power.

In this battle, apart from spies and eunuchs, Zhu Yijun was often alone and helpless, and the stance of the officials was quite tough, making it almost impossible for him to do anything he wanted to his country.

For quite a few things, he can only do it through eunuchs and secret agents to ensure that his country will not completely escape his control. Even so, he will suffer a lot of obstacles and infamy.

In terms of public opinion wars, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty lost a lot, especially Zhu Yijun, who failed to do what Emperor Jiajing did.

But this time, when the civil servants were collectively sluggish, Zhu Yijun gained the upper hand. After careful preparation, the civil servants had to swallow this bitter pill and accept this established fact, because no matter what, they could not let their lives go. Damaged by the Mongols.

Xiao Ruxun seems to belong to the firm emperor's faction, but he is indeed good at fighting, and has a high possibility of doing things that Li Chengliang can't do now.

They were very dissatisfied with Li Chengliang's insistence on asking for help twice in half a month. Li Chengliang's emergency again and again would only make them more flustered and feel that their safety was not guaranteed. But at this time, who would dare to escape from the capital?
Therefore, Xiao Ruxun is the best hope.

Living up to their expectations, Xiao Ruxun showed a strong desire to attack from the very beginning, completely different from Li Chengliang who has been trapped.

"Blindly defending is meaningless, and offense is the best defense! It has been almost two months since the war, and the Mongols still have not retreated. This is enough to prove that the goal of the Mongols is not simply to grab and go, but to have a purpose and a conscious Fight for a long time.

And to this day, the siege of Yanmen Pass is still unresolved, which shows that their logistics supply is not a problem. I guess, they must have guaranteed their own logistics in some way.

If the Mongols really have 10 people according to the information, then there are [-] people attacking Zijing Pass. Zijing Pass is heavily guarded and guarded by veteran Li Chengliang. It is unrealistic to retreat after running out of food. Who knows how much food they have?
We must attack, we must take the initiative to attack and defeat them!Only after the siege of Bauhinia Pass is solved, can we say that we have enough troops to deal with the Mongols in other places. Therefore, after arriving at Bauhinia Pass, I will immediately launch an attack to defeat the Mongols in front, and then divide the troops into two groups to support them all the way. Yanmen Pass, all the way to support Taiyuan. "

Several civil servants suddenly felt that the atmosphere was different. Before, it was a lifeless, worried and worried person who couldn't eat well and sleep well all day long. He didn't even have the energy to fight politically. I don't know how many officials have packed their bags and are ready at any time. After retreating, how can there be psychological and political struggles?
But as soon as Xiao Ruxun came, he didn't say anything, he opened his mouth to counterattack, and he wanted to defeat the Mongols head-on, and fight against them. First of all, the momentum was completely different from Li Chengliang's defensive strategy. Although he didn't know the result, the momentum was there up.

Just like when Liu Bei appointed Wei Yan as the prefect of Hanzhong, Wei Yan didn't say anything, but first talked about his goal and showed his aura-Cao Cao brought the soldiers and horses from all over the world to attack, I will resist him for the king, Cao Cao's generals Bring 10 people, and I will eat it for the king.

Hanzhong has historically guarded 3 troops, which is the same whether it was Wei Yan's period or Wang Ping's period. Zhang Fei, who is extremely obsessed, can't say anything about bigger goals.

At that time, Zhang Fei had just defeated Zhang Yun's troops, resolved the crisis of confidence in Liu Bei in central Shu, and greatly increased his face and prestige in the Liu Bei Group.

Moreover, he was one of the first two generals to follow Liu Bei. Before that, Guan Yu became the chief general guarding Jingzhou, but now everyone thought Zhang Fei would become the second chief official guarding Hanzhong.

In the end, the winner was not the veteran Zhang Fei, but Wei Yan, Liu Bei's confidant in Yuzhou, who was promoted by Liu Bei.

But Wei Yan didn't discredit Liu Bei. He not only gave himself a boost, but also made Liu Bei look good. He won Liu Bei's support. No matter how dissatisfied Zhang Fei was, he couldn't embarrass Wei Yan in public, otherwise he would not give Liu Bei face. The development of Wei Yan also confirmed that Wei Yan did not live up to Liu Bei's entrustment.

It's the same now, Xiao Ruxun's qualifications are far inferior to Li Chengliang, a veteran in the battlefield for decades.

To put it bluntly, when Li Chengliang was fighting the Mongolian Jurchen on the battlefield, Xiao Ruxun's parents were not married yet, and when Li Chengliang was in full bloom, Xiao Ruxun was still breastfeeding in his mother's arms.

You can't say that you are stronger than Li Chengliang because of the higher merits and actual results of the war.

In the Ming Dynasty, the difficulty of conferring military merits was almost the same as that of the imperial examinations, especially in the roughly peaceful era, it was even more difficult to confer military merits. There was one champion every three years, but when will one be awarded a military merit title?
Leaving aside anything else, Li Chengliang was knighted, no matter what black materials were used to defraud him, he was knighted for his real military exploits, there is nothing to say about that.

But the problem now is that Li Chengliang's performance in the past half month has disappointed the court.

What the imperial court hoped was that Li Chengliang could expel the Mongols while guarding the Zijing Pass and ensure the safety of the Zijing Pass, instead of asking for help twice in a row, causing panic in the capital, and even many wealthy businessmen had already started to run south.

This is not only a military crisis, but also a political failure. In the politically open Ming Dynasty, Li Chengliang let everyone down. This disappointment does not matter, it is tantamount to throwing away the last glorious opportunity.

In fact, Li Chengliang was also unlucky, or in other words, did not gain the trust of the emperor, so that the emperor handed over [-] cavalry with enough combat power to Xiao Ruxun instead of ordering them to rush to support Zijing Pass.

If the emperor really had confidence in Li Chengliang and was willing to let Li Chengliang win a battle, then it would be a good story to let Li Rusong go to fight with his father and son, but the emperor always hated Li Chengliang in his heart, and he didn't want to see it Li Chengliang made a comeback.

Li Chengliang paid the price for his disregard for the emperor more than ten years ago.

(End of this chapter)