"Taizhou?"

Yan Song looked at the note in front of him and asked in confusion: "Why did he suddenly want to go to Taizhou? You can find out this clearly?"

The Minister of Rites who came to deliver the letter said, "I really don't know about this!"

Yan Song said: "I don't know if you shouldn't ask clearly? Then you are here to report? You just come and report that he wants to go to Taizhou, why, why, and what he wants to do. You don't ask clearly?"

Faced with Yan Song's questioning, the Minister of Rites immediately sweated heavily and said, "It's all the fault of the subordinates, I didn't ask clearly!"

Yan Song snorted coldly and said, "Since you know you are wrong, why don't you go and ask immediately and report it?"

The Minister of Rites hurriedly said, "The Lord is leaving."

After he left, Yan Song looked at the note in his hand again and said in confusion: "Go to Taizhou? Is this person's brain wrong or has another purpose?"

Yan Shifan walked over at this moment and asked, "Father? What's going on?"

Yan Song handed over the note in his hand and said, "Do you see?"

Yan Shifan took the note, looked carefully, and said strangely: "They are going to Taizhou?"

Yan Song said: "Yes, I'm actually going to Taizhou. I really can't think of why they were going to Taizhou at this time. Although Hu Zongxian kept sending good news over there, saying that the Japanese pirates had been greatly suppressed, it doesn't mean that he was safe. He hurried away now, is he thinking that his life is too long?"

Yan Shifan thought for a moment and said, "The child thinks it shouldn't be, or there must be some other purpose in it, but we just haven't figured it out yet!"

Yan Song said, "What other intentions are there? Well, if you want to figure it out, you may have to start with someone around him. By the way, there aren't two Jinyiwei around him and send someone to ask if they know."

Yan Shifan nodded and shouted: "Butler!"

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The leader of the Right Sect wanted to visit the capital today and asked Zhao Yuan to accompany him. In addition, he brought only two guards.

"How come the national teacher is so interested today?"

Zhao Yuan asked with a smile.

The leader of the Right Sect said: "Some time ago, Japanese pirates appeared in this capital. I and the second prince did not dare to leave the house rashly. I was a little curious. It is said that the imperial court has wiped out a large number of Japanese pirates in Taizhou and other places. Why did the Japanese pirates dare to venture into this capital? Moreover, the capital should be very defensive, so why didn't even know that even Japanese pirates broke into it?"

Zhao Yuan heard this and seemed to understand the question of the Right Sect Leader and asked: "Does the leader think that even the capital of our dynasty is free of defense. Anyone comes and leaves whenever he wants, and even those Japanese pirates have sneaked in with nearly a thousand people, and my court has not discovered it. This shows how lazy the soldiers of our dynasty are?"

The leader of the Right Sect had a bit of drunkenness, and Zhao Yuan had already heard it.

The leader of the Right Sect said: "I actually don't mean that, so I'm just a little curious. After all, this capital is the center of the entire country, so we should naturally be heavily guarded. As far as I know, the entire capital is possible, and someone almost beaten down."

Zhao Yuan said: "Does the national guru refer to the battle to defend the capital that occurred after the Tumu Fort Incident?"

The leader of the Right Sect nodded and said, "That's right, since you are also from the Ming Dynasty, this should be the most shameful thing for your Ming Dynasty."

The Tutumu Fort Incident refers to the incident in which Emperor Yingzong of Ming Dynasty, Zhu Qizhen was defeated and captured in the northern expedition of the Oirat in the 14th year of Zhengtong in the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the powerful tribe on the grassland was the Oirat. The Tumu Fort was a castle, located on the inside of the line from Juyongguan to Datong Great Wall, and was part of the Great Wall defense system.

In June of the 14th year of Zhengtong, the Oirat Taishi Yesen repeatedly invaded the Ming Dynasty's border. Ming Yingzong personally led 200,000 elite troops to fight from Datong north and fight with the Oirat on the Ming Dynasty border. As soon as the Ming army arrived in Datong, they received a secret report from eunuch Guo Jing. When they learned that the Oirat was ready, the Ming army immediately returned from Datong's division east and planned to return to Beijing from Juyongguan. On the way, they encountered Oirat attacks many times. Datong and Xuanfu fell one after another. Two large armies led by Wu Kezhong and Zhu Yong were defeated and 50,000 or 60,000 people were defeated and 10,000 were defeated and the entire army was wiped out. The remaining troops were moved to Tumubao and were attacked by the Oirat. The Ming army was defeated and surrendered, with more than half of the casualties. Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen was captured, and the Minister of War Kuang, Minister of Revenue Wang Zuo and other ministers died in battle. Zhu Qizhen became the first captured emperor in the Ming Dynasty!

Zhao Yuan did not deny it, but nodded, "What the national teacher said, even the culprit of that incident was a eunuch, which was also a great loss for the court at that time."

The leader of the Right Sect continued: "Later, this army of twatts went south. According to historical records, they had finally reached the capital city?"

Zhao Yuan said: "It is true, but after all, he did not break through the walls of the capital. The battle of guarding the capital presided over by the Minister of War Yu Qian and Yu completely blocked Yesen's plan and defended the capital."

At that time, the 200,000 elite troops in the capital had fallen at Tumu Fort, and less than 100,000 old and weak soldiers were left. Yu Qian resisted the opposition and asked the king to transfer the two capitals, Henan prepared the Cao army, Shandong and Nanjing coastal Japanese army, and the grain transport troops from Jiangbei and Beijing governments rushed to help. The people gradually calmed down and sent Yingzong back first, asking the defenders to open the door. Yu Qian and other ministers made the king privately the emperor and personally defended the city and refused Yesian sent Yingzong back to the capital. Later, the people in the capital were organized to fight a beautiful battle to defend the capital. The crusher Yesian forced Yesian to release Zhu Qizhen, who was already a prisoner.

The leader of the Right Sect said strangely: "At that time, the soldiers in the capital could stop Yesian's army, but why can't they stop the Japanese pirates from infiltrating now?"

Zhao Yuan smiled slightly and said with a hint of mystery: "Does the national master really think that the court knows nothing about these infiltrating Japanese pirates?"

The leader of the Right Sect looked at Zhao Yuan’s face with a hint of a smile, and suddenly moved his heart and said, “What do you mean?”

Zhao Yuan saw that he was still not sure about where he was, so he continued: "First of all, there are two major intelligence agencies in the capital, the East Factory and the Jinyiwei. Among them, the Beizhen Fushi Department of the Jinyiwei is to collect intelligence and arrest important criminals. In addition, there are more than one thousand people infiltrated the capital. Just under the eyes of the court, no matter how powerful they are, can they still fly to the sky and escape? Of course it is impossible! I don't know much about the entire situation, but as far as I know, the court has been secretly monitoring them!"

The leader of the Right Sect said: "What do you mean is that they have been targeted by the court since they sneaked in?"

Zhao Yuan said: "Of course, this capital is the base camp of Jinyiwei and Dongchang. All his actions are under surveillance. There is nothing strange about this. The reason why the court did not touch them before was just to avoid alarming the snakes, I thought the rest of them had not been discovered. Only then can I continue to sneak in with peace of mind. After almost all their troops were sneaking in, the court decided to catch them all in one place."

Of course, the leader of the Right Sect did not fully believe it and said, "According to your opinion, the court has also arranged it for a long time?"

Zhao Yuan said: "The court did not deliberately make arrangements, but just sent people to stare at them secretly! This is enough to ensure that they gather everyone in. Perhaps the national sect is a little strange. Why did they send troops to wipe out the first batch of people when they came in? Wouldn't other Japanese pirates dare not break in?"

Zhao Yuan's words did say that the national teacher had gone into the heart. Although he wiped out a lot of Japanese pirates, the Ming Dynasty also paid a considerable price.

Zhao Yuan said: "The national master is unknown. There is an old saying in our Ming Dynasty called the turtle in a jar! This turtle is the turtle. This means to catch this turtle. The best way is to let it enter the jar first, so that it will not run away. It is absolutely certain that we want to catch him. In our eyes, the Japanese pirates are the turtle, and the capital is the jar. If we capture them in the early stages of their infiltration, then we will inevitably alarm other Japanese pirates. Once these Japanese pirates are hidden, it will be difficult to find. Moreover, it is also a great threat to the people of the Ming Dynasty. To eliminate this threat, the best way is to gather them together and then eliminate them in one fell swoop, and they have to be locked into the jar of the capital."

The leader of the Right Sect suddenly realized and said, "So that's it."

From Zhao Yuan's words, the court should have known nothing, but then accidentally discovered it. Because he couldn't figure out where the Japanese pirates were hiding, the stupidest method was adopted, which was to eliminate the Japanese pirates by carpet-style search. The court had already planned to make him fall into the trap, and then he became a turtle in the jar, from passive to active, everything was under control.

The national teacher still had some questions, that is, he was still unsafe to believe Zhao Yuan's words, but he still couldn't find a reason to refute them.

In fact, within their country, there are many ministers who are now belittled the Ming Dynasty, believing that the Ming Dynasty is no longer the Ming Dynasty when it was established or the Emperor Yongle Zhu Di. The Ming Dynasty is now just an empty stance, completely strong on the outside and do not have any combat power at all. Otherwise, why can't they even solve the Japanese pirates who are constantly invading the seaside? They are also defeated step by step. On the other hand, Urianha on the back also constantly attacks the border, but the Ming Dynasty still blindly defends and does not send troops to command the army as Zhu Di in the past. In addition, the Ming Dynasty's emperor likes to practice Taoism and ignores the government, which is enough to see that this country is already sick and blind. Now seeing strength is just a sign of weakness. If you send troops, you will definitely be able to seize a large area of ​​land.

It is precisely because of this idea that there are officials in the country who support the Left Cult. Another purpose of this visit is to let them see the strength of the Ming Dynasty.

The fact that the Ming Dynasty suppressed Japanese pirates a few days ago seemed to those who supported the Left Cult, this was also a scene of the decline of the Ming Dynasty. So many Japanese pirates sneaked into the capital and did not even find it, which only shows the corruption and incompetence of the bureaucrats.

The leader of the Right Sect himself was a little confused about this matter, so he asked Zhao Yuan. After knowing that, he realized that there was such a reason.

After learning that it was this reason, the leader of the Right Sect suddenly became a little frightened. If it was really as Zhao Yuan said, everything was under control, then would the Ming Dynasty court be as ordinary people thought, and was already in his twilight years like an old man?

Absolutely not. The Ming Dynasty court should definitely not be what they thought!

After a moment of silence, the leader of the Right Sect said: "We also entered the Ministry of Rites to submit a memorial, hoping that the Ministry of Rites will allow us to go to Taizhou!"

Zhao Yuan thought for a while and said, "Taizhou? By the way, you seem to have talked about this before. The purpose is to see how we fight Japanese pirates, right?"

The leader of the Right Sect said: "The reason why the left Sect can still be popular in the court is that many support them is largely because they feel that the Ming Dynasty is old and no longer able to deal with three battles at the same time. In the eyes of many people in our dynasty, the Japanese pirates are just a group of bandits and hooligans. The Ming Dynasty people actually have no way to deal with them. After fighting for so many years, they have not completely wiped out. Some people even say that your soldiers ran away when they see the Japanese pirates and dare not fight with them at all. Such words that seem a bit similar to the day-long talk is that many people actually believe that this time you have wiped out the Japanese pirates in the capital, and have given them a chance to see them once, so I and the second prince mean to go to Taizhou, let them see them again, and completely let them give up their thoughts!"

The leader of the Right Sect also said this before. One of their purposes in the Ming Dynasty was to let the accompanying people see the strength of the Ming Dynasty, and then use this to dispel some of the attempts in those people's hearts!

To see a country with a strong strength, one of them is its military strength, that is, its combat effectiveness. The place where the Ming Dynasty was fighting was conveniently located was the coast, so they decided to go to Taizhou.

Zhao Yuan nodded and said, "In addition, if we can use this to lure the Left Sect's troops out of secret, we will have a good idea. After leaving the capital, the protection will naturally be less strict. I believe they are waiting for such a good opportunity now."

The leader of the Right Sect said: "This is also our meaning. After all, the capital is at the foot of the emperor. Moreover, when you fought a few days ago, there are still soldiers everywhere in the capital, with very strict defenses. Not only the left Sect, but even our people dare not act rashly! There is a little restrained, and after leaving the capital, this situation does not exist. I believe that the people of the Left Sect are very happy to see this!"

Zhao Yuan smiled and said, "If this happens, you and the Second Prince will become bait, and the danger will be greatly increased. The national teacher and the Second Prince must consider this clearly!"
Chapter completed!