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Chapter 427: Peach Blossoms Destroy the Capital (5)

Emperor Tianqi's imperial edict directly bypassed the Silijian and the cabinet, and the official went to Gaoyang Sun Chengzong's mansion to read the imperial edict. Emperor Tianqi's move was a big surprise to Wei Zhongxian. He did not think about how the emperor who had always disliked studying and did not care about the government suddenly became so respectful to his teachers. Only then did Wei Zhongxian realize that the Emperor Tianqi who was growing up was not so easy to fool. Once the emperor felt that his power was threatened, he would definitely find a way to fight back.

Wei Zhongxian thought of another possibility from the emperor's action, which was that Emperor Tianqi attached great importance to the memorials submitted by Ponu Bo Zhang Ping'an. Among the elders of the Ming Dynasty, only Sun Chengzong not only went to the front line to learn about military affairs, but also was very familiar with Ponu Bo Zhang Ping'an, and his personal relationship with the grassland jack wolf Zhang Ping'an was also good. It seems that Emperor Tianqi wanted to invite Sun Chengzong to come and ask about Ponu Bo Zhang Ping'an's true intention to submit the memorial. Wei Zhongxian secretly thanked that he rejected the memorial of the Jinyiwei a few days ago. Otherwise, he really didn't know who would use to calm the anger after the emperor was furious.

Unlike Wei Zhongxian's entanglement, Zhu Zhengshan, the head of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty, has lived a very comfortable life recently. After Zhu Zhengshan took advantage of his practical actions to join the Xuanwei envoy of the Ponucheng, he received strong support from Zheng Tai, deputy governor of the Intelligence Department. Since Zhu Zhengshan was going to seduce good women, Zheng Tai took out a thousand silver coins from Ponucheng and bought a courtyard for Zhu Zhengshan in Dongshijia Hutong, Chongfu Temple, Xuannanfang, Nancheng, so that he could keep an outdoor house. Zhu Zhengshan was not vague. After Yuan Yongfu recovered from his illness, he gave him a fat man and went to Gaoyang to inspect the newly built city wall.

After receiving Zhu Zhengshan's mail, Yuan Yongfu was so grateful that he shed tears. This fat man could receive silver from filial piety in Gaoyang County, and he could also get errands of silver in the "Five Blessings" warehouse opened by the Xuanwei envoy in Gaoyang. After a while, he could get at least 100 taels of silver. The repair of the Gaoyang city wall was the Ming Dynasty's Po Nubo spent 10,000 gold coins on Po Nucheng and entrusted Gaoyang County to work and expand. Without Po Nucheng Xuanwei envoy, how could the Ming Dynasty War Department send him, a poor minor official, to inspect it?

For this reason, Yuan Yongfu borrowed money from his colleagues and invited Zhu Zhengshan to his house for dinner. Although Zhu Zhengshan was secretly happy, he pretended to refuse twice and agreed. Yuan Yongfu was thin and was not the opponent of Zhu Zhengshan, a strong player who had been fighting in the restaurant for a long time. After several rounds of cups, Yuan Yongfu was poured into a dead dog by Zhu Zhengshan. Now, Zhu Zhengshan's opportunity really came. Yuan Yao, who was already grateful for Zhu Zhengshan's gratitude for saving Zhu Zhengshan, quietly came out of the kitchen and took over her husband to entertain Zhu Zhengshan.

Zhu Zhengshan, a veteran of the flower garden, first recalled the hardships they suffered in the Jinyiwei together, bringing the distance between the two closer. Then he sighed that the Yuan Yao family was so beautiful and virtuous but suffered in poverty, and then expressed great sympathy for her unfair life situation. Zhu Zhengshan, who had a lot of cultural heritage in the flower field, first sang Liu Yongqing poems, and then used Li Houzhu's obscene words to test. After a few rounds, Yuan Yao family, a literary young woman from the Great Ming Tianqi Dynasty, was attracted by Zhu Zhengshan's profound literary heritage. So the two drank closer and closer. Finally, Yuan Yao family simply sat on Zhu Zhengshan's thighs and fed each other mouth to mouth.

The more they talked, the more they became more and more prone they felt hot and hot as they drank. With great enthusiasm, they became good at the dining table. Compared with Yuan Yongfu, who ate meat all year round, Zhu Zhengshan was as strong as a bull in heat. After several times of fighting against the lingering clouds and rain, the more they played, the more courageous they became. They finally completed the final madness by Yuan Yongfu in the bedroom. After the incident, Zhu Zhengshan ignored Yuan Yongfu, who was snoring at all, and lay beside Yuan Yongfu, holding Yuan Yao's chest softly in his hand. While sneering Yuan Yao's coquettishness, he discussed how to be a long-term couple.

In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zhengshan raped his wife and daughter, which was a great risk of public opinion. Even if he had the ill-hearted, shameless and protecting god to support him, Zhu Zhengshan, once the news was revealed, Zhu Zhengshan would be kicked out of the court by the censor who had nothing to do. Zhu Zhengshan knew very well that if he was kicked out of the court, he might be regarded as useless waste, and maybe he could give him a few pieces of flesh and bones so that he would not be starved to death for a while, but it would be impossible to have such a glory today.

So Zhu Zhengshan took out 100 silver coins and five gold coins to give it to Yuan Yao. The gold coins were for her private money, so he asked Yuan Yao to buy some good clothes, and half of the 100 silver coins were handed over to Yuan Yongfu to renovate the house and buy a maid with ten silver coins. They finally agreed to buy two maids in the new outer house in Zhu Zhengshan to facilitate their affair in the future. As for whether Yuan Yongfu could discover their affair, Zhu Zhengshan was very sure.

At the end of December of the fifth year of the Tianqi period, Sun Chengzong, the old master of the Ming Dynasty, stepped into the Forbidden City platform hall again. When he received the imperial edict from Emperor Tianqi, the emperor also sent the spy copies collected by the Jinyiwei to Sun Chengzong. Therefore, when Sun Chengzong was alone in confronting the emperor, he was already confident. He called him to report such an important matter from his hometown Gaoyang to report it. Sun Chengzong was extremely moved. Although he taught Emperor Tianqi for three years, his true thoughts about the emperor were not as thorough as Zhang Ping'an, who had never met the emperor far away from the pass.

Po Nubo has communicated with Sun Chengzong on many occasions. Our Emperor of the Ancestor Zhu Youxiao is really smart. Zhang Ping'an once said that Wei Zhongxian is a dog held by Emperor of the Ancestor. He would bite anyone he asked him to bite. If Wei Zhongxian bites the wrong person, the emperor would punish him. In the past, when the Donglin Party members controlled the power of the court, their old ministers often disdained the emperor's suggestions. This aroused the emperor's disgust and released Wei Zhongxian, a dog that could bite people, and bit the huge Donglin Party.

This time the emperor asked him to report Sun Chengzong to make a case, so that he could analyze whether the slave-brother Zhang Ping'an really wanted to fight the Jurchens. Sun Chengzong considered this issue for a long time. From the complex intelligence, he saw from the things that the jackal wolf Zhang Ping'an is doing now, which is to muddle the water. In Sun Chengzong's view, Zhang Ping'an used a memorial to express his determination to fight against the Jurchens, and should be preparing to attack the Jurchens. Zhang Ping'an is extremely cunning and will never put the real offensive target in front of the Jurchens.

Judging from the memorial, there are two main targets of the Pou Nu Army, one is the Mongolqin Grassland and the other is Guangning City, Liaodong. In Sun Chengzong's view, Guangning City should be the main target of the Pou Nu Army's attack. Korqin is the cover-up of the Pou Nu Army's real strategic purpose. Regardless of the target of the Pou Nu Army's attack, it is a very embarrassing thing for the Ming Dynasty official army. With Zhang Ping'an's disgust towards the civil and military officials of Liaodong, the Liaodong official army of the Ming Dynasty would not achieve any record in Liaodong.

If the Blazing Army besieged Guangning without fighting, or Zhang Ping'an led the army to break through Guangning and let the Liaodong official army take over, there would be huge risks for the Ming official army. Sun Chengzong's command in Liaodong would not know the reason that defending Guangning must guard Xining Fort. The Blazing Army encircled Guangning without fighting, and the Ming official army went out of the Jinning defense line and would be raided by female cavalry in the wild. How could Zhang Ping'an miss the opportunity to consume the Liaodong official army in the Ming Dynasty? He would definitely wait and see and not rescue. The Ming official army was no longer the opponent of the Jurchens in the field. The Blazing Army was watching jokes on the side, and the Jinning defense line would definitely be defeated by the Jurchens due to their empty troops.

Shanhaiguan, the important border of the Ming Dynasty, which lacks the Jinning defense line, will be completely exposed to the iron hoof of the Jurchens. Once Shanhaiguan is in trouble, the Ming Dynasty capital will be in danger. At this time, the Ponu Army, who is watching the battle outside Guangning, can take the opportunity to threaten the Ming Dynasty court. There is no room for bargaining, and the Ponu Bo Zhang Ping'an has to agree to whatever the Ming Dynasty court wants.

By the same token, after the Ponu Army defeated Guangning City Defense, the consequences were even more dangerous. Recovering the lost land in Liaodong was a gratifying event. If the Ponu Army transferred Guangning to the official army and suddenly withdrew its troops, the Jurchens attacked Shisanshan Post from Dujiatun Mountain Road and cut off the connection between Guangning and the rear, Guangning would definitely not be able to defend for a long time. In this way, the crime of losing the city was naturally borne by the civil and military officials of Liaodong. Zhang Ping'an, the Boss of Ponu, could not clean up the bonds of Liaodong.

Therefore, when Emperor Tianqi and Sun Chengzong discussed secretly, Sun Chengzong expressed his inner concerns, and Emperor Tianqi also highly recognized his teacher Sun Chengzong's analysis and judgment. They all agreed that the real purpose of the memorial of the Ponu Bo Zhang Ping'an this time was to find a way to eliminate the official army on the defense line of Jinning of the Ming Dynasty. Since this conclusion was made, the monarch and minister were ready to fool the Ponu Bo Zhang Ping'an. However, the memorial of Ponu Bo Zhang Ping'an was to regain the tiger skin of his ancestors' homeland. The words were too inspiring. If it was not handled well, it would bring about a wave of criticism from the censors.

Fortunately, Sun Chengzong, a veteran in the officialdom, wrote a commendation imperial edict in front of Emperor Tianqi. In addition to demonstrating the patriotic sentiment of Ponu Bo, the entire commendation imperial edict also stated that the Liaodong official army fully cooperated with the Ponu Army's attack on the Jurchen Jiannu. Since there was no decent thing in the imperial edict, it had to be compensated from other aspects. Since Zhu Zhengshan surrendered to Ponu Bo and had conflicts with the Jinyiwei, he kept it the same without promotion or demotion. Wang Pu was favored by Ponu Bo. If Ponu Bo wanted to transport goods from Datong, he might as well promote Wang Pu to a general. Anyway, there was a general above Wang Pu pressing on him, so he was not afraid that Wang Pu would defect to Ponu Bo.
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