Chapter 134: It is difficult to suppress the collapse of the bureau
Yang Zhong turned around and exited, then turned back after a moment and replied: "Master Wan was outside the flower hall just now, asking about his situation, and he is waiting outside now."
Yang Sichang said weakly: "Please come in quickly!"
Mr. Wan is Wan Yuanji. He was recommended by Yang Sichang to serve as Dali's right judge. He was responsible for supervising military discipline in front of Yang Sichang's army. He was Yang Sichang's most effective adviser and the person who understood his difficulties best. Yang Sichang urgently needed to listen to him at this difficult moment in his life.
Listen to his opinion.
As soon as Wan Yuanji entered the flower hall, Yang Sichang nodded to him and told him to sit down, deliberately showing a calm smile. After Wan Yuanji sat down, he looked at Yang Sichang's expression, leaned over and asked, "Sir, you are not feeling well, can you order the doctor to come in?"
Take a look?"
Yang Sichang smiled and shook his head, and said calmly: "I occasionally feel cold, but it's not serious. Just take a few pills at night and you'll be fine."
He really wanted to talk to Wan Yuanji about Xiangyang, but when he saw a document in Wan Yuanji's hand, he asked him: "What document are you holding?"
Wan Yuanji replied nervously: "It's an urgent document from Henan, reporting the fall of Luoyang and the murder of Fu Fan. I didn't get up just now, so I read it first."
Yang Sichang felt that his fingers were trembling. As he took the document, he asked again: "Luoyang really...?"
Wan Yuanji said with a pale face: "Yes. Zhang Cheng, the deputy commander-in-chief of Xuanzhen, reported very detailed information in the official document."
Yang Sichang was trembling all over, and he was trembling even as he spoke. He took the official document and said, "Is this the official document from Zhang Cheng? Alas, it's too late for me to use him!"
He unfolded the document and hurriedly read it, then he couldn't hold it any longer, and he burst into tears without caring about the dignity and dignity of his supervisor and assistant ministers.
Wan Yuanji hurriedly stood up to persuade him, and his servant Yang Zhong also hurriedly ran out to ask the eldest son Yang Shansong and several close aides of Yang Sichang to come over and persuade him.
After a while, Yang Sichang stopped crying, and with the help of his servant, he returned to the bed in the inner room of the flower hall to rest. Wan Yuanji and his staff all retreated, but Yang Shansong remained outside to wait.
At dinner, Yang Sichang did not get up. He refused to eat, and refused to ask the doctor in the hospital to diagnose his illness. He only took a few pills to treat wind and cold at Yang Shansong's persuasion.
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After dinner time, he called Wan Yuanji to his bedside and said to him: "I am deeply favored by the emperor and supervise the army to suppress thieves. Unexpectedly, the suppression of the bureau has been corrupted to such a state that I have no face to see the emperor again!"
Wan Yuanji could only comfort him and said: "Please give me peace of mind and recuperate. Militarily, Zhang Cheng's troops can be mobilized to come to Huguang and redouble their deployment to boost the morale and morale of the troops. We can turn defeat into victory."
After hearing this, Yang Sichang sat up from the bed, hugging himself with a thick quilt and wearing a heavy coat. He was trembling all over. He gasped and said: "The suppression of the bureau is so ruined. It is not because of the lack of troops. These are the thoughts of you and me."
Know.
My illness is getting worse and worse today, and I know it will be difficult for me to get back to health. I rely on Brother Ji to take care of all the affairs in the palace in advance of my death."
Wan Yuanji hurriedly said: "Why do you say this, sir? Your body is just tired from the journey and you occasionally feel cold, but it is not a serious illness that is difficult to treat.
There are now two skilled doctors in Xingyuan, and there are also people who are proficient in medicine among the staff. I will invite a few of them to come in tonight to consult with you, but one or two doses of decoction will make everything better."
Yang Shansong also persuaded him: "Even if you don't cherish your own body, you should cherish it for the country and get timely diagnosis and treatment."
However, Yang Sichang shook his head again and refused to let them talk about diagnosis and treatment. He sighed and continued: "It is still unclear where the intruder broke into Henan Province.
He can actually rise from the ashes of repeated defeats, suddenly gain momentum, and conceal the Central Plains. This person must be extraordinary, and the harm to the country is incomparable to the two thieves Xian Cao. It must not be underestimated. From now on, I will be the confidant of the Ming Dynasty.
The trouble is definitely not the thieves who sacrificed their lives, but the intruders.
I ask Brother Jiren to immediately send an urgent message to General Ping Zei on my behalf, asking him to hunt down the Xian bandits. After recapturing Xiangyang, he will lead Liu Guoneng and other surrendered generals to western Henan, and cooperate with Zhang Cheng and other generals in Henan Province to deal with them with all their strength.
Burglars."
Wan Yuanji hurriedly promised to follow his instructions, and then asked him for several military questions. Yang Sichang just closed his eyes and meditated, refusing to answer at all. He fell on the bed and waved to Wan Yuanji. Yang Shansong and others retreated.
Got out.
After a long time, Yang Sichang ordered his servant to call Wan Yuanji in alone. He thought that the governor must have something important to say to him, but after waiting for a while, Yang Sichang just asked him: "When I arrived in Kuizhou last year, was it?
On what day?”
Wan Yuanji thought for a moment and then replied: "It's the first day of October."
After Yang Sichang was silent for a moment, he said: "On the first day of October last year, when I first arrived in Xiangyang to supervise the army to suppress the bandits, I originally wanted to rely on my power to organize the army and suppress the bandits successfully.
I didn't want to entrust the officials in the frontier, but the commander-in-chief was restrained in every way, so I sent the bandits to the west and penetrated deep into the center of Sichuan. At that time, I arrived in Kuizhou and then went to Chongqing. I felt that there was still room for military action in suppressing the bandits.
Unexpectedly, in just a few months, the situation has deteriorated so much!"
Wan Yuanji hurriedly tried to persuade him and said: "Please be at ease, sir. The army of suppressing thieves has not been completely destroyed. There is still a chance to save it. At the moment, the most important thing is to diagnose and treat you."
Yang Sichang did not answer his words, but fell into silence.
Wan Yuanji waited for a while and couldn't help but ask: "Would you like to write a memorial to Jin Shang now, one to apologize for the fall of Xiangyang, and the other to outline the next strategy for using troops to suppress the bandits?
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Yang Sichang lay on the bed and shook his head gently, without saying a word, but two lines of tears rolled out of the corners of his eyes. After a while, he waved his hand and asked Wan Yuanji to withdraw, and at the same time sighed and said, "Let's talk tomorrow!"
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After Wan Yuanji quit, he returned to his residence. He also felt very depressed in his chest.
He is the supervisor of the Yang Ge Department, the military commander. Now that Yang Sichang is ill, he needs to take charge of all major matters in the camp. However, his heart is very confused and he has no emotion to deal with these military affairs.
He believed that the most urgent thing at the moment was that Yang Sichang should apologize to the court and Emperor Chongzhen. However, when he just asked the "Envoy" for instructions, the "Envoy" did not nod in approval and was unwilling to discuss the next step with him.
strategy for suppressing thieves.
Wan Yuanji looked at the dead branches swaying in the wind outside the window, and couldn't help but ask himself: "What exactly does this mean?"
He was originally a recommendation officer of Yongzhou Prefecture. He had no family friendship with Yang Sichang, nor was he a teacher or student. It was only because Yang Sichang knew that he was a talented person that he recommended him to the imperial court with the title of Dali Temple Reviewer to serve as a military officer.
Supervise the army.
Wan Yuanji was not a person who was obsessed with wealth and wealth, but because he admired Yang Sichang a lot, and at the same time he also wanted to serve the court in the matter of "suppressing thieves", so he was happy to serve as Yang Sichang's important military supervisor.
Although the current military campaign against bandits has been unsuccessful, he looked back at the various strategies proposed by Yang Sichang and found that most of them were correct. He felt that the problem lay in the fact that the Ming Dynasty at this time was like a patient who had been suffering from illness for a long time. It would be difficult for any famous doctor to be caught off guard
When it comes to rescue, all parties are entangled and constraining each other is too serious!
He thought about the overall situation of suppressing bandits under the lamp, and the more he thought about it, the more he couldn't sleep. On the first day of October last year, the scene when he accompanied Zhang Cheng, the superintendent and assistant minister, to Kuizhou came to his mind unknowingly.