"Your Majesty, I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about Liu Daxia. He's so happy about his achievements, but it's unrealistic." Xie Qian said hurriedly.
Liu Daxia stroked his beard and sneered: "Master Xie, please pay attention to your words. This is in front of the emperor. Do you want to impeach me?"
Xie Qian said loudly: "Liu Daxia, as the Minister of the Ministry of War, you cannot share the emperor's worries. If you talk nonsense here, I will naturally reprimand you. If necessary, you can participate in the performance."
Liu Daxia was angry and wanted to retort, but Zhu Youtang shouted in a deep voice: "Two gentlemen, we are facing a formidable enemy, why are you quarreling instead?"
Xie Qian bowed and said: "Your Majesty, Liu Daxia knew that it was impossible to recover the Hetao, but he insisted on proposing this unrealistic plan. That is deliberately deceiving Shengting. Your Majesty, please do not believe him."
Zhu Youtang frowned and said: "Xie Qian, why do you say Liu Daxia's plan is inappropriate? You have to come up with a reason."
Xie Qian said: "Do you still have to say this? Isn't it obvious? Your Majesty, don't you understand this too?"
Zhu Youtang's face turned sullen. Xie Qian had always been like this when speaking, with a big mouth, no mercy, and no regard for the occasion. He often did this when talking to Zhu Youtang. Zhu Youtang was indeed a tolerant person, and he did not care about these things.
Calculation. But in this situation, Xie Qian's words were obviously too much.
Seeing this, Li Dongyang hurriedly stepped out of the queue and cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, let me speak. Thank you, sir. Please step aside."
Before Xie Qian could say anything, Liu Jian covered his mouth and coughed, so Xie Qian had to retreat obediently.
Zhu Youtang said in a deep voice: "Li Dongyang, it's whatever you say."
Li Dongyang said: "Your Majesty, Liu Shangshu's idea is indeed to solve the Hetao problem that has troubled me for many years in the Ming Dynasty. But it really doesn't work. This time the Tatar troops are well prepared. Thirty thousand troops are not a small number. We, Ningxia Town
At present, there are Ningxia Guards, Ningxia Front Center Guards, left and right guards and some local troops and horses. There are only six guards and horses in total. The Ningxia Guards have been defeated, and currently there are only 30,000 troops in the Five Guards. The strength is just about the same."
Zhu Youtang said: "Didn't Liu Daxia say that he would mobilize troops from Yulin Town, Shaanxi Town and Pingliang Prefecture to encircle and suppress them? There are more than 100,000 troops everywhere, wouldn't they have an advantage?"
Li Dongyang said: "Your Majesty, please mobilize soldiers and horses from all over to encircle you. It's freezing cold and the journey is long. It will take at least a month to assemble. Our soldiers and horses in the border town are not cavalry, but mainly infantry. The Tatars are cavalry. Raise the troops and mobilize the masses.
, I’m afraid the situation has already changed by the time we arrive. Besides, how can the soldiers and horses of Yansui Border Town be moved without authorization? If the soldiers and horses of Yulin Guard Station move, Yansui Town and Border Town will be empty, which is a hidden danger."
Zhu Youtang frowned and said: "You mean, before our troops arrive, Lingzhou will be lost and Ningxia Town will be in danger? Yansui is empty and might other Tatar troops take advantage of it?"
Li Dongyang said: "Exactly."
Liu Daxia said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, I don't think so. After all, Ningxia Town still has 30,000 troops. Even if Lingzhou is lost, how can it be possible to gather troops to defend Ningxia Town and be in danger within a month? Hold on until the rest of the year.
The soldiers and horses arrived, and they were able to encircle and intercept them, so they could gather together and annihilate them."
Li Dongyang said in a deep voice: "Mr. Liu, what if the Tatars break Lingzhou and go south to attack the hinterland? What if they go south to attack Qingyang Mansion? That is 30,000 cavalry. If they go south to attack Qingyang Mansion, they will be a threat to the southeast.
Kaifeng is here. They can also go north.
Attack the border town of Yansui. When Yansui is empty, what can we do to resist it? Breaking a Great Wall pass is not enough, why should we break the town of Yansui? Do the Tatars only have 30,000 cavalry? If there are other Tatar soldiers and horses in Hetao,
If the inside should be combined with the outside, wouldn't it be that Yansui failed?"
Liu Daxia said: "How is it possible? Since we need to encircle, naturally all parts of the northwest will coordinate. Yansui mobilizes troops and horses, and the soldiers and horses of Datong Prefecture in the east can go to the west for reinforcements. The troops stationed in Kaifeng Prefecture in the south can go to the northwest. If they dare to attack the hinterland, they will
We are even more trapped in a tight siege.”
Li Dongyang looked at Liu Daxia sideways and said: "Liu Shangshu, do you know what you are talking about? Do you know how many troops and horses will be mobilized and how big the impact will be? You are the Minister of the Ministry of War, don't you count this account?
? How much material and manpower will be consumed to mobilize so many soldiers and horses and link up many guard posts? "
Liu Daxia smacked his lips and said, "I don't think about anything else. I only care about troops and horses. Spending money and food is not my responsibility."
Liu Jian shouted sternly: "Of course you don't care, you just talk, do you know the difficulties of the court? If you want to be so happy, you don't want to think about whether the court has so much money and food for you. There is a drought in the south of the Yangtze River this autumn, and the court's money and food are already insufficient.
Relieve the victims. It’s snowing heavily outside now, so we can’t
Well, there's going to be a snowstorm again, so many things need to be done, and so much money and food have to be spent. Do you think you can just do whatever you want just because of your grand plan? If your whole body is involved, there are so many things up and down my Ming Dynasty that need to be coordinated.
Why, how can you understand the principle of careful calculation?"
Liu Daxia's face turned red, his beard flew up, and he shouted: "I am the minister of the Ministry of War in order to pursue my political affairs. I should fulfill my duties. What you said is not what I should think about.
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Li Dongyang said in a deep voice: "There is a saying that considers the overall situation. Therefore, we will discuss the best way. It is not just what you want to do."
Liu Daxia still wanted to argue. Shi Daishan, the censor of Zuodu, said: "My lords, my lords, please don't argue. It's all about court affairs, why bother arguing like this? How can you lose your decency in front of the emperor? Hey, say
Come on, it’s not because the imperial court has spent too much in recent years and its finances are tight. If the national treasury is full and there is enough money and food, why would there be such worries?"
Han Wen, the Minister of Household Affairs, nodded solemnly and said: "What Mr. Dai said is true. In the final analysis, it is still due to the lack of money and food in the court. This incident also reminds us that the court must make a great determination to rectify some things. If we do not rectify the long-standing abuses, we will not be able to do anything."
It will become increasingly difficult to get rid of some useless things that waste money. As the matter has been debated in the court this year, the emperor must make a decision."
Zhu Youtang was originally listening to the argument between Liu Jian, Li Dongyang and Liu Daxia, and his mind was still focused on how to solve the crisis of the Tatar invasion in the border town. But as he listened, he suddenly felt that something was wrong. The words of these people had been transferred to
Other things came up.
Zhu Youtang suddenly came to his senses. The important ministers of the cabinet and the outer court came to see him tonight, not because of the Tatars' border violations, but for other purposes.
Their arguments, quarrels, anger, all analyzes and righteous reprimands were all for themselves. They were acting in front of themselves, because they had been persevering in their discussions this year and were criticized by themselves.
Something that was rejected several times.
They really refused to give up, taking advantage of this opportunity to put on a show in front of themselves, forcing themselves to agree to their memorial. Damn it! Damn it! Zhu Youtang felt great anger in his heart.