Zhu Youjian looked at the man in front of him, not angry but powerful. A letter was opened in front of the Long Case in front of him, and he was lying there quietly.
"When Wei Zhongxian was executed, you should have gone with him. It was Jiang Wan who saved you and kept you for his own use!"
"Your Majesty is wise. Your Majesty, Xu Xianchun, deserves death for his crime. It is your Majesty's kindness that gives me the opportunity to atone for my sins!" Xu Xianchun said in fear as he lay on the ground.
"It's interesting that Jiang Wan actually sent a dead man like you back to Beijing to report his victory!" Zhu Youjian shook his head: "Or, you owed Jiang Wan your life in the first place. Does he want to go back?"
"I'm scared!" Xu Xianchun lowered his head and replied: "Military orders are like mountains, and I only know how to act according to them. As for what the commander-in-chief means, I don't know at all, and I don't dare to ask!"
"Get up and talk!" Zhu Youjian said calmly: "The words in Jiang Wan's letter are unclear. I want to know what Dongjiang Town did when the Tartar army besieged me in Liaoyang. What happened to the great victory he mentioned?
How much moisture!"
He pointed at Xu Xianchun: "If you dare to talk nonsense, I will punish you, Xu Xianchun, of the nine clans!"
"I don't dare!" Xu Xianchun stood up: "Your Majesty has inquired, and I should report it truthfully. I dare not say a single false word!"
"Tell me, let's start from the day when the Tartars besieged Liaoyang!"
"Actually, I didn't really know when the Tartars started to attack Liaoyang. On that day, I had been ordered to transfer the troops from Nanhai Camp to the command of the general Li Zicheng. Before that, I led the troops under the command of the general Wu Sangui.
The army is attacking the Tartar Kuandian Panjiakou Military Fort and the Malanyu Military Fort, and is cooperating with General Li Zicheng’s troops to remove all the Tartar military forts and strongholds east of Zhenjiang Fort!”
"Bring the map!" Zhu Youjian ordered, and Wang Chengen behind him hurriedly brought up a topographic map of Liaodong. Zhu Youjian inspected the map one by one and found the place names Xu Xianchun mentioned.
"When the Kuandian area was completely controlled by our Dongjiang Town, the General Soldier formed the East Route Army, commanded by General Li Zicheng. It set out from Malanyu and moved northward. Along the way, it defeated and blocked thousands of Tatars and conquered Fengcheng.
!”
Xu Xianchun said: "Then, the commander-in-chief's generals came over. At this moment, I knew that Liaoyang had fallen. The Tartars were advancing eastward to Zhenjiang Fort. Our Eastern Route Army, except for a few troops stationed at Fengcheng, all returned to support.
Defeat the Tartars under Zhenjiang Fort!"
Xu Xianchun's words had obviously been rehearsed many times. At the beginning, he was a little nervous, but as he spoke more and more, he became more and more fluent.
"Which part of the Tartars besieged Zhenjiang Fort? How many people were there? How many people were lost in Dongjiang Town in this battle? Why didn't they pursue the victory and conquer Liaoyang, and stick to Liaoyang to wait for Jinzhou reinforcements to arrive..."
Zhu Youjian asked questions one after another. There was no expression on his face, but his eyes were full of anger.
"Also, why didn't Jiang Wan's letter mention anything about Song Jian, the supervisor I sent to Dongjiang Town? Where is Song Jian now?"
"Your Majesty!" Xu Xianchun raised his head: "I am just a person who is waiting for a crime. I should know that the Commander-in-Chief will let me know. If I should not know, if I knew, I would not be sent back by the Commander-in-Chief to report my victory.
!”
"Bold!" Wang Chengen behind Zhu Youjian shouted loudly.
"Luo Yangxing!"
Zhu Youjian ignored Wang Chengen's scolding behind him, but stood there blankly, as if he had no intention of getting the answers to these questions from Xu Xianchun's mouth. After Wang Chengen made a bold statement, the entire hall was silent for a long time.
I knew Zhu Youjian's slightly obscure words.
"I'm here!"
Luo Yangxing came out of nowhere and appeared in front of Zhu Youjian.
"I'm a little tired. You ask him these questions for me. Regarding what he knows about the situation in Dongjiang Town, there are no details. I want to know everything clearly!"
"I obey the decree!" Luo Yangxing lowered his head and responded.
Zhu Youjian sat down slowly and waved to him. Luo Yangxing and Xu Xianchun bowed their heads and retreated.
"Your Majesty..." Wang Chengen came over: "I asked them to bring you a cup of ginseng tea. Your Majesty, take a rest. We won the battle. This is a good thing!"
"Is it a good thing?" Zhu Youjian shook his head and looked at the letter on the Long case: "Jiang Wan actually dared to threaten me, he actually dared to threaten me..."
ah?
Wang Chengen was stunned, and his face suddenly turned pale.
"He holds in his hand the reason why I want to negotiate peace with the Tartars, and he threatens me to declare it to the world!" Zhu Youjian's expression was twisted: "Does he still regard me as his father-in-law?"
"Your Majesty, calm down your anger! Your Majesty, calm down your anger!" Wang Chengen said softly: "Isn't it that Song Jian is still in Dongjiang Town?"
"Huh, that waste, I'm afraid Jiang Wan has long ago ignored him!" Zhu Youjian snorted: "I don't take this small Dongjiang Town seriously at all, and I don't care if I let Jiang Wan mess with him.
I don’t feel bad, but Jiang Wan, a minister of mine, actually used my affairs to threaten me and asked me to let Dongjiang Town do as he pleased. Is he going to rebel?"
"Your Majesty!" Wang Chengen finally placed the ginseng tea handed over by his chamberlain and gently placed it in front of Zhu Youjian: "What is he trying to do in such a shabby place outside the pass? Your Majesty even said that he doesn't care about his small Dongjiang Town.
It’s not worth it to be angry about this!”
Zhu Youjian slowly took a sip of ginseng tea and fell into a daze again. After a while, he slowly said: "Yes, it's not worth it..."
"That's right!" Wang Chengen followed his tone and said: "Besides, the place where he is now in Dongjiang Town was originally occupied by the Tartars. It is his ability to come back more. If he wants to, we will
I don’t care, isn’t he not rebelling now? He is still sending money to the palace, and his wife and son are still in the capital. This rebel should not be like this!”
"He is a true rebel, and I can't do anything to him now!" After a long time, Zhu Youjian took a deep breath: "Now he in Dongjiang Town has become my Ming Dynasty's most capable soldier outside the pass.
We have soldiers and horses to deal with the Tartars, how can we have time to defeat them!"
"That's right, you're right to think so!" Wang Chengen said with a smile: "He is a person with ideas and a scholar. It is normal to have some unrealistic ideas. If he makes a mistake, His Majesty just orders him to scold him. Now he is in
We are fighting against the Tartars outside. If we misunderstand him again, then everyone in the world will laugh at His Majesty for his lack of tolerance..."
"It's not that he has some thoughts, he really has the intention to rebel..." Zhu Youjian knocked on the table and pointed to the letter: "You don't even know what is written in this letter. There are separate yamen to command the army and the people. He is just a mere person.
The commander-in-chief, he is treating himself as the commander-in-chief of Liaodong!"