At night, Qin Hui's sedan finally appeared in front of the mansion. There were many affairs in the court these days, and Qin Hui had to be busy until night before he could go home.
There were still dozens of steps away from the door of his mansion. Qin Hui saw a figure standing in front of his door through the sedan curtain. He ordered his entourage: "Go and see, who is standing in front of my door?"
The entourage ran over, and after a while, someone came forward and said, "Please tell me, sir, this is the envoy Zhang Xuan!"
It turns out that Zhang Jun is here. For so many years, Zhang Jun has been burning Qin Hui's incense. Needless to say, he shows his filial piety during the holidays. The key is that Qin Hui's influence in the army relies on Zhang Jun.
Zhang Jun stepped forward and begged: "Ms. sir, you have to help me no matter what this time!"
Qin Hui nodded, "Let's talk about it after we enter the mansion!"
The housekeeper invited Zhang Jun to sit down in the guest room. Not long after, Qin Hui changed his clothes and came over. Zhang Jun quickly stood up and saluted.
Qin Hui smiled and waved his hand, "Sit down!"
Zhang Jun sat down and said anxiously: "I have just heard that the Yushitai is going to impeach Beizi. I ask Qin Xianggong to help a group of Beizi no matter what this time!"
After this defeat, the commander-in-chief Zhang Jun was dismissed as prime minister, and even Wu Jie, who had made great military exploits, was dismissed from his post. However, Zhang Jun, who directly caused the defeat, was fine, which is really unreasonable.
Qin Hui took a sip of tea and said slowly: "The impeachment of the Xuanfu envoy is actually the official intention."
"Ah! Do you mean the official family?"
Qin Hui waved his hand, "Don't worry, just listen to what I have to say."
"Mr. Qin, please speak!"
"I advised you not to hold Wu Jie accountable before, but you didn't listen and insisted on shifting the responsibility to Wu Jie in the report. Wu Jie was just a sub-general. The sub-general was dismissed, but the main general was fine. Many courtiers were dissatisfied.
Lu Qingshan took the lead and contacted Li Gang, Zhe Yanzhi and nearly a hundred officials to collectively petition and demand the removal of Zhang Xuan as envoy. The officials were also forced by pressure and it was not his original intention."
"It means that I will be dismissed from office!"
"It definitely has to show something, but if it's done well, it means the board is raised high and dropped gently, you know what I mean?"
"Bizhi understands what my husband means, but what should I do?"
Qin Hui lowered his voice and said: "The key is that you have to shift the responsibility to Zhang Jun. You have to have sufficient reasons and evidence, and then Mr. Zhao and I can stand up when we defend you."
"What reasons and proof do I need?"
"The key points are actually two points. Why did you lose? Secondly, why did you lose money and food? Thirdly, the supervisor Lu Zhi was killed. These three points also made the officials furious."
Since Zhang Jun came to Qin Hui, he must have been prepared. He hurriedly said: "In fact, the defeat was laid from the beginning. Wu Jie was controlled by Yue Fei before, and at the same time he was under the jurisdiction of a humble position. It stands to reason that he should cancel the control by Yue Fei before he can accept a humble position.
For some reason, Xianggong Zhang missed this step, which made Wu Jie's position unclear. He went to fight with Yue Fei as before. As a result, after Li Qiong's betrayal, the low-ranking left and right wings were all gone. This incident is not so much Wu Jie's.
The dereliction of duty was actually due to Xianggong Zhang’s unclear position at the beginning, and he felt that he did this deliberately because of his personal grudge with Yue Fei.”
"This detail is good, I can bring it up, what else?"
"Also, the loss of money and grain must be his responsibility. The money and grain were originally placed in Jiangxia, but he moved the general warehouse of money and grain to Hefei. Although he did not defend Hefei because of his humble position, the arrangement itself was wrong. Hefei belongs to the Central Route Army
The logistics area is not the general logistics area. If you put all the money and food in Hefei, how will you arrange the money and food for the West Route Army? This is inherently unreasonable."
Qin Hui nodded, "It's unreasonable in the first place, so this can be considered a reason! Lu Zhi was killed by Li Qiong, can you free yourself?"
Li Qiong was the right wing of the Central Army. He led dozens of generals and more than 30,000 troops surrendered to the puppet Qi. Unfortunately, Li Qiong was killed by the supervisor Lu Zhi when he tried to stop them.
In fact, Li Qiong's rebellion is really Zhang Jun's responsibility. He embezzled and misappropriated military salary, leaving Li Qiong's soldiers and their families with no way to survive. That's why they collectively followed Li Qiong and surrendered. Otherwise, it would have been Li Qiong's personal surrender at most.
It was such a shame and humiliation that hundreds of thousands of people surrendered to the puppet Qi State.
But at this time, Zhang Jun certainly would not put the responsibility on himself. He quickly said: "Li Qiong's military morale was unstable from the beginning and he was full of complaints. He refused to accept Wang De's superiority. I have repeatedly told Xianggong Zhang that this kind of
People with unstable military morale cannot be placed in front of the enemy, but Xianggong Zhang will not listen. Of course he has a heavy responsibility. If he listens to me, Li Qiong will have no chance to surrender, and Lu Zhi will not go to Li Qiong's army to stabilize the morale of the army.
Then he won’t be killed.”
Qin Hui said slowly: "I understand. Write what you said today into a self-defense statement. I will hand it over to the officials. I will also intercede for you, but you must also be mentally prepared. The emperor will give it to all officials.
An explanation."
"As long as you retain your humble military power, let's get rid of all the other frivolous positions! I don't care, either a salary reduction or a fine is fine."
"I understand, go ahead! Leave all these things to me tomorrow."
"Thank you so much for helping me in times of crisis. I will bear this in mind. Tomorrow I will send someone to deliver some local products from my hometown to my husband."
Qin Hui narrowed his eyes and smiled and said: "Xuanfu is too polite. Local products are fine and don't need to be too expensive."
The two looked at each other tacitly, and Zhang Jun left immediately. Qin Hui took out the impeachment letter from the Yushitai. The impeachment of Zhang Jun had nothing to do with the emperor. It was Qin Hui who arranged it. Zhang Jun embezzled millions of dollars on Jinghu South Road.
, he thought he could pass without any indication?
If Zhang Jun doesn't show enough sincerity this time, Qin Hui will make him suffer.
Of course, if Zhang Jun is sincere enough, then he will be fined with three drinks and a few symbolic punishments.
The next morning, Qin Hui, Zhao Ding and Li Guang all rushed to the imperial study. Emperor Zhao Gou summoned them for urgent matters.
There was only one person in the imperial study who knew Privy Councilor Xu Xiantu. Zhao Gou said to everyone angrily: "I just got the news that Yue Fei's army refused to withdraw westward and still defended the central line of the Huaihe River. I asked the court to raise 400,000 shi of grain and 300,000 guan of money as soon as possible.
, what should I do?"
Everyone looked at each other, this news was a bit embarrassing. They withdrew their troops from the central line. It was not that they could not hold on, but that the imperial court's financial resources could not support it. However, this must not be said to the outside world. Regardless of the life and death of the people in Jianghuai, it was morally untenable.
Already.
They all said to the outside world that the army was defeated and that the military could not hold the middle line of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, so they had to withdraw their troops. But now Yue Fei's army actually held it. Doesn't this embarrass them?
Li Guang bowed and said: "Your Majesty, since Jianghuai has not been lost militarily, it is better to hold on. At least we have a strategic buffer. The Jin soldiers cannot attack Jiangnan all at once. This was also the purpose of launching the Jianghuai campaign in the first place.
"
Zhao Hua realized that the strategic buffer was related to his own safety. His expression softened slightly and he said to everyone: "Since Yue Fei can hold the Jianghuai front line, it is of course a good thing. I will not blame him, but how to raise money and food, everyone should think of a way
Come on! I heard that hungry people are everywhere in the Jianghuai River, and I can’t sit still!"
Zhao Ding bowed and said: "Your Majesty, we are short of money and food. How about asking Chen Qing to contribute some help to the court? He destroyed Xixia and should have a rich harvest! At least we also support 500,000 yuan, so Chen Qing should get something in return!"
"
Qin Hui shook his head, "He will only ask the court for money and ask him to pay for food. I'm afraid it's unrealistic."
Zhao Ding smiled and said: "There is no way. As long as your Majesty promotes another person to be prime minister, Chen Qing will definitely support the imperial court with money and food."
Zhao Ding seemed to be thinking about the court, but in fact he had selfish motives. He wanted to block the fifth prime minister's position and not give Zhang Jun a chance to return to the prime minister. So he took this opportunity to propose Lu Qingshan as deputy prime minister, and Zhang Jun completely
Forget it.
Everyone understood what Zhao Ding meant by promoting Lu Qingshan as prime minister. In order to save face, Chen Qing would definitely provide money and food to support Jianghuai.
Zhao Gou did not object to Lu Qingshan becoming the prime minister. This was the original negotiation condition. We just wanted to see if we could use this condition again. He nodded and said, "I will talk to Lu Aiqing later. I hope he can solve the problems for the court."
At this time, Xu Xiantu said again: "Dear Sirs, I also got news that Chen Qingzheng led the army to fight fiercely with Wanyan Nianhan in northern Shaanxi. It seems that Wanyan Wushu's army stopped attacking south, which is also related to this matter. He is peeking at Hebei
Territory.”
Qin Hui sneered, "Wanyan Nianhan's cavalry is the best in the world. They are the elite of the Jurchen army, not Wanyan Chang's peripheral army. I'm afraid Chen Qing will be in big trouble this time."