March 24th.

It rained heavily all night, and the wind and rain did not stop at the fifth day. The capital was almost unable to see his five fingers. This made the ministers who entered the palace to pay their respects from the officials and carriages of various families, held umbrellas and walked to the outside of the Meridian Gate, and could only go to the Meridian Gate to shelter from the Meridian Gate porch.

Ma Wen was promoted from the carriage and did not stop at the Meridian Gate. As the Minister of War, he could first go to the cabinet in the palace to wait for the court.

Before he entered the duty room, a person behind him rushed forward without even umbrella, and handed over a piece of stuff wrapped in oil paper in his hand to Ma Wensheng.

He is Yan Zhongyu, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War.

"What's the matter in a hurry?"

Ma Wensheng didn't bother to look at the things in his hand, and thought about entering the payroll room before talking about it.

Yan Zhongyu said: "The right assistant censor Xu Jin reported urgently that Hami lost."

Ma Wensheng was going to enter the room, but when he heard this, he could barely stand firm with his hands holding the door frame. Yan Zhongyu wanted to help him, but he refused.

Ma Wensheng sighed quietly: "Things cannot be done by others."

Yan Wenyu and Ma Wen were promoted to the duty room, and the four ministers in the cabinet were there, and there were no other ministers.

Ma Wensheng handed Xu Jin urgently to the cabinet chief Xu Pu.

Originally, the memorials in the local area must be passed through the Political and Public Affairs Department, but when it comes to emergency military affairs, they can be directly transferred to the Ministry of War and the Cabinet, which is considered to be a memorial.

After reading Xu Jin's urgent report, Xu Pu's expression was deep. On the other side, Liu Jian, Li Dongyang and Xie Qian also surrounded him and walked forward.

Xie Qian spoke faster and said with a puzzled look: "It's too coincidental."

The other people probably had similar ideas.

If you see such a memorial in a few months, it may not be surprising. The key is that Zhang Yanling just said in front of the hall a few days ago that Aheima had shown signs of raising troops to attack Hami. Then he received a war report that Hami City was occupied by Aheima. This is not obvious to tell them that Zhang Yanling had learned the news in advance and was not taken seriously?

"The Battle of Hami is the Battle of Zhongxing in the Ming Dynasty. If there is any mistake, it will cause people's hearts to be disturbed."

Xu Pu's words were somewhat helpless.

The achievements in both civil and military affairs have always been the standard of a wise monarch and sage lord.

After Zhu Youzhan ascended the throne, the court had always been very clear about civil and political governance, but there were few major moves in martial arts and military affairs. The Battle of Hami was the greatest military achievement in the Hongzhi period. Ma Wensheng made an indelible contribution as the Minister of War. Before, the court had always used the capture of Hami to promote the Hongzhi Revival. Now he suddenly told the world that Hami was lost again. Isn’t that the same as the face of the Ming Dynasty?

At this moment, a few people came over in the rain at the door, and the head of the door had already arrived under the eaves.

"Several masters of the ministry, hurry up and go to Fengtian Palace. Your Majesty said that there will be rain today, so that all the ministers can go inside and hide from the rain first."

He said something, but he didn't plan to enter the cabinet and turned around and wanted to leave, as if he was going to the Meridian Gate to notify other ministers.

Xu Pu chased to the door a few steps and said, "Eunuch Li, please stay."

The man turned around, his old face was full of wrinkles, and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes almost completely covered his eyes. Even if he stared at him, there was only a gap.

This person is not someone else, but is known as the inner minister of the Ming Dynasty. Li Rong, the eunuch in charge of the seal.

Li Rong, whose courtesy name was Maochun, was from Sanyuan. He entered the palace during the Jingtai period and was appointed as the eunuch of the Sili Supervisor in the 14th year of Chenghua. During the Xianzong period, he was given a jade belt and a python robes, and a forbidden place in the palace to ride a horse. During the Hongzhi period, he was appointed as the Sili Supervisor in the tenth year of Hongzhi. He also presided over the wedding of Princess Deqing and his son-in-law Lin Yue until the early years of Zhengde. In order to avoid the limelight of Liu Jin, he took the initiative to retire and return home when the "Zheng Wang Yaoyan Case" was not closed.

Behind Li Rong are also the eunuchs of the Sili Supervisor Chen Kuan and Xiao Jing, who were also the main figures who later lost in the battle with the Eight Tigers.

If Bahu was the upstart eunuch in the early years of Zhengde, Li Rong, Chen Kuan, and Xiao Jing are all conservative eunuchs in the Hongzhi Dynasty.

"Xu Zhongtang, are you in trouble?" Li Rong was very respectful when he saw Xu Pu, so he walked into the duty room to greet Xu Pu.

Xu Pu could only take out the memorial wrapped in oil paper on his hand and hand it to Li Rong. Li Rong stretched out his hand but hesitated whether to answer it. At this time, Ma Wensheng came over and said, "Hami lost."

Li Rong stretched out his hand and immediately retracted.

He looked at several ministers of the Ming Dynasty with incredible eyes.

"Dear teachers, aren't you laughing at our family? Hami was so good before, how could she suddenly fall into a thief? If our family remembers it well, a few days ago, when the uncle submitted a report on military affairs in the northwest, someone in the country swore to tell Your Majesty that there was no war in the northwest."

Li Rong said very gently, but the words were like a knife, which directly hit Ma Wensheng's heart.

That day, he argued for Ye Qi in the court. Isn’t it Ma Wensheng who took the opportunity to step on Zhang Yanling?

Seeing that Ma Wensheng's face was very bad, Xu Pu took the initiative to explain: "Eunuch Li, Hami was stolen by the thief, which happened five days ago, and Jianchang Bo reported the memorial four days ago."

Li Rong sneered softly, "With Xu Zhongtang's intention, even if he was facing the national uncle's memorial, he would be unable to make up for the truth? Or did Xu Zhongtang think that Jianchang Bo could learn about what happened thousands of miles away less than a day after the incident, and report to Your Majesty to seek credit?"

After being questioned by such words, even Xu Pu didn't know how to explain this matter.

"Dear teachers, don't stand here. If such a big thing happens, hurry up and go to Fengtian Palace to wait for the opportunity. Our family will be reluctant to let you know this matter first so that you can deal with it."

Li Rong turned around and walked two steps towards the door, and sighed: "Oh! You are really not worry-free."

That is, Li Rong, who is qualified to speak like this to veteran ministers like Xu Pu.

Xu Pu's previous purpose of calling Li Rong was to make Li Rong report the matter in advance so that Zhu Youzhang would not be furious when he heard it in the court.

Of course, Li Rong understood this truth. He took the initiative to take on the bad things about the defeat of the war and went to the Qianqing Palace to notify Zhu Youzhan without caring about the other side.

Xu Pu and others headed to Fengtian Palace with a gloomy complexion.

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...

The rain is still falling outside.

All the ministers involved in the court discussion had arrived at Fengtian Hall, but after the sky was clear, there was no king.

Now the court officials have known the news of Hami's defeat, just like the sky outside, everyone is in a bad mood.

At this time, Su Yao was anxiously waiting for news about her father in the Su Mansion in the capital.

"... When the master went to the secret warehouse to count the goods transported from the shipment last night, he was taken away by the people from the Ministry of Justice. He sent people to inquire but failed. The matter was too big, even Shuntian Mansion could not be disturbed. The eldest master and his wife had followed the master's instructions in advance and stayed in Shandong without returning. Our Su Mansion even had the last batch of goods detained and could no longer take out money to clear the situation..."

The Su family wanted to transport some secretly stored goods away, but their family escaped, but they were found out.

If it was just a business dispute with the Tian family before, it was now a major case involving foreign countries, and it would not be possible to avoid disaster by breaking money.

Su Yao's brother and sister-in-law were both away from disasters and never returned. She was the only one who was the one who was the one who was at the helm.

"Let's go to Tian Mansion and treat it as asking the master of Tian Mansion to hand over all the property of our Su Mansion, hoping that he can let us go."

Su Yao took the few servants around her to the Tian Mansion in the rain.

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Jianchang Bo Mansion.

Zhang Yanling had a good night's sleep, but still got up early. While asking the little fox to tidy up his hair, he also hugged the little fox in his arms, making him very procrastinate.

"You little fox is so charming. If you don't know, you really think it's the reincarnation of the little fox spirit. You're just a tail. Can you please go back and add a tail to you?"

"good."

The little fox buried his head in Zhang Yanling's arms, with a shy look on his face, but he still glanced at it with his phoenix eyes. His cunning appearance deserves the name Zhang Yanling gave her.

"Oh, where is the best tail added?"

“It’s really hard.”

Zhang Yanling was laughing on his mouth, his hands were stuffed into the little fox's clothes, as if he was looking for a point of focus.

In ancient times, even if you don’t have great power, isn’t it a kind of bourgeois fun to be able to hang out with your own delicate little maid every day?

If I go back, I'll get a few more back...

Just as Zhang Yanling was imagining Feifei, there was another disharmonious sound of footsteps at the door.

It was Nan Laise who hurried to the door, but the door was not knocked, and the person had already entered.

"Bastard! What's this? Emotion teaches you the rules, but is it taught to the dog's belly?" Zhang Yanling cursed.

Nan Laise said with a bitter look on his face: "Stop being angry first. It's someone from the palace who said he wanted to summon you into the palace. Maybe it was the last time. You should be mentally prepared."

What happened last time?

Zhang Yanling smiled.

It was still the time of the court meeting, and he was suddenly summoned to the palace, but it was not someone who impeached him and called him to reprimand him.

"The weather is not very good, but good things come as scheduled. The little fox, hurry up and change his court clothes to me. I want to enter the palace to see a good show."
Chapter completed!