After the Liaodong war report came yesterday afternoon, Zhao Zhigao was as uneasy as the ants on the hot pan. Zhang Wei was also in deep doubts and worries. He was wondering why the Liaodong Army was the most brave and brave in the Ming Dynasty and was defeated in the first battle. He was worried that this matter would have a bad impact on the Ming Dynasty's reputation and another extremely important thing.

Things have developed to this point. As Japan, which suddenly appeared outside the tribute system, challenging the old power, suddenly became full of presence, which made the ministers in the court quite uneasy.

The two cabinet masters did not sleep all night, thinking about countermeasures, and then waiting for the summons of His Majesty the Emperor, and were always worried. Of course, the fundamental reason for their sleepless night was not North Korea. Like the ministers, it was another matter.

Until these two memorials brought by Shi Xing changed their mood.

This is a very rare memorial to ask for battle. Yes, it is quite rare, because the person who asked for battle was a military general, a famous general who had just made great achievements in the northwest and was named Pinglubo, Xiao Ruxun.

The famous general who used firearms to defeat the trap and overthrow the giant city with gunpowder did not have a very presence in the court officials because he did not have any contact with any civil servants. After entering the capital, he never chose civil servants to serve like Li Chengliang. He only wandered among the group of military generals and nobles, and became a new military scholar.

His life experience is not innocent. First of all, he has a deep relationship with Wei Xuezeng and Ye Mengxiong. He can be regarded as an old subordinate or even a remnant. He cannot believe it. Moreover, it seems that he has no intention of joining the civil servant group. Naturally, everyone in the civil servant group will not miss him.

At this stall, this guy handed over a letter of request for a fight.

The reason why the Liaodong Army was defeated and the information he knew about North Korea was concluded that North Korea was not suitable for most cavalry entry into the country. However, when infantry was the main force and firearms were used as important weapons, he proposed to transfer 5,000 Ningxia firearms battalions, 5,000 Zhejiang gunners, 10,000 Zhejiang sword and shield soldiers, 10,000 Shandong gunners, 10,000 Xuanda crossbowmen, 40,000 combined troops, supplemented by 3,000 Liaodong cavalry, and entered North Korea to attack Japan.

Originally, this kind of memorial would not be valued by civil servants at all, and would be thrown away directly because what qualifications do military generals have to discuss military affairs with their abilities? That is our civil servants' business. You just need to lead the soldiers well, and we will make the decision on the others!

But now, the situation has changed subtlely, and civil servants know nothing about the situation in North Korea, while Xiao Ruxun seems to have a very good understanding of North Korea and has carefully proposed the need to go to war. Even Mr. Zhao Zhigao, a confused gentleman, thinks this plan is very good.

Zhang Wei and Shi Xing came up with an idea together.

This is a handsome man, a fatal handsome man, and an earl! It perfectly meets the requirements of the commander who led the army to the early Ming Dynasty!

A handsome talent appeared among the generals! A handsome talent who can compete with Li Chengliang!

Is this good or bad?

Shi Xing and Zhang Wei looked at each other, then looked at Zhao Zhigao who was nodding repeatedly while holding the memorial, and showed a helpless expression together.

They chose to hand over this memorial to the emperor and this hot potato to the emperor. As officials, they are no longer just representatives of one or two local forces, but representatives of the interests of an entire faction. They dare not make arbitrarily in making decisions about such major issues that concern national and even international issues.

In fact, Zhang Wei didn't want to participate in this matter at all. He was just a confused Zhao Zhigao liked this memorial, and Shi Xing was clear-cut. He didn't want to make a big deal about this matter and didn't want to pay attention to this general. However, things changed.

Another memorial was a memorial from Tong Nuerhaci, the leader of the Jianzhou Guard and the assistant general of the Jianzhou Guard. He wrote a letter saying that he had just unified the Jianzhou Jurchen tribes and could better guard the border for the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, he begged the court to give him the golden hat, garment and the title of Dragon and Tiger General.

Next, he complained that the North Korean border was uneasy recently, and more than 50 people in his tribe had been killed. Then he turned his pen and patted his chest and said: The Japanese are fighting North Korea. The next step is to attack our Jianzhou. I am willing to raise 30,000 troops for the court. When the Yalu River freezes in winter, I will cross the river to fight against Japan.

Shi Xing was quite moved, but Zhang Wei was still unable to make a decision.

So Shi Xing picked up his pen and wrote something, and presented it with these two memorials, which came to the table of Zhu Yijun who was worried.

That's right, Zhu Yijun is worried.

What he annoyed was not North Korea, he was exactly the same as the two cabinet masters and ministers, but he was annoyed about another thing - the dispute over the foundation of the country!

At that time, Zhu Yijun had two sons, the eldest son Zhu Changluo and the second son Zhu Changxun. According to the rules, the eldest son became an heir. However, Wanli favored Zhu Changxun's mother, Concubine Zheng, and had been deliberately trying to help Zhu Changxun as the throne, so he refused to give Zhu Changluo the title. The ministers firmly opposed it and wrote letters to request the position of crown prince as soon as possible, but Wanli refused to obey.

So the officials and the emperor started a protracted struggle, from the 14th year of Wanli to the 20th year of Wanli. The problem was that in the 20th year of Wanli, the struggle had just turned around. Under the leadership of the Grand Secretary Zhang Wei, the officials launched a gust of attacks on the emperor, asking the emperor to give an explanation.

At this critical moment, all ministers do not want to create trouble and give the emperor the opportunity to blur the topic. Whether they oppose or agree with the North Korean military. Once they open their mouths, with the intelligence of the current emperor, they will definitely follow the topic: "The war is tight, let's discuss the war, let's talk about the prince again!"

Therefore, the court's pro-peace factions hope to use this to control the war in aiding Korea to a small extent and not to steal the limelight of "competing for the foundation of the country".

Zhu Yijun was determined to use this war to win a breathing opportunity for himself and lay the foundation for his beloved son's ascendance, so how to divert the court officials' attention was something he had been thinking about.

Although North Korea is indeed important, it is not as important as the prince. As he saw the news of the defeat of the Liaodong army, the court officials remained silent. This was not a good signal.

So he opened Xiao Ruxun’s memorial helplessly.

I really told Xiao Ruxun that North Korea is not suitable for cavalry to gallop, and even if it wins, it will be a tragic victory. If the cavalry loses too much, it will be unable to maintain the suppression of Mongolia's Jiannu. This is definitely not in the interests of the Ming Dynasty. From this point alone, the Liaodong cavalry cannot be moved. In Xiao Ruxun's plan, it is necessary to rely on infantry as the main force, use infantry to sweep the entire North Korea and annihilate the Japanese in Korea.

He proposed that at most only 60,000 troops were needed, which was based on the fact that the Japanese sent 200,000 troops. The current information was unknown, and there were speculations ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands to tens of thousands to 200,000, and then to 200,000. There were many, and the number of Japanese troops could not be counted at all. This made Zhu Yijun very angry. He scolded Luo Sigong, the commander of the Jinyiwei who came to report his work the day before yesterday.

Xiao Ruxun’s memorial was delivered to Zhu Yijun at this time, and Tong Nuerhaci’s memorial was delivered together.

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