Chapter 37 The conclusion of the coffin
"Mr. Supervisor, how should the matter end to this point?" Wu Xing was completely panicked as he watched the cavalry in the club move away. He pulled Wang Chengen's sleeve and asked as if he was ashamed.
Wang Chengen sighed, and there was no idea in his heart. He thought about it and was no longer concerned, so he could only say, "General Wu, since you can stay and ask about this matter, it means that you are a loyal minister and general of the Ming Dynasty. At this time, nothing will be helpful. I only ask you one thing, go back to Denglai immediately, and tell Lord Zeng about all you have seen and heard during this period."
"What then?" Wu Xing asked.
Wang Chengen shook his head: "How do I know and then do what to do? I can only wait for news."
On the way back to Dengzhou, Wumu asked, "Master, how should the matter end to this point?"
Lee Mingxun smiled and said, "Do you think things are not going to end?"
Wu Mu shook his head repeatedly. He had already reached the point of superstition about Li Mingxun. He immediately said, "Of course not. If it is not good, the master will not let the matter reach this point. But I don't know that he offended the largest official of the Ming Dynasty and the great emperor of the Ming Dynasty. If they get angry, how should we deal with it? After all, we are still in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty."
Li Mingxun looked at the white clouds all over the sky and said, "Do you know, looking at the thousands of years of history of the Han people, there is a kind of person who ended up miserably, that is, loyal ministers. In short, good people are not rewarded. We are so good to the Ming court that you have such an idea."
Wu Mu scratched his head, thought about it, but still didn't understand it. Li Mingxun said: "It's actually very simple. The Central Plains Dynasty is born with a sense of disgusting superiority. Among our enemies, whether it is the Eastern Lu, the Dutch, the Spanish, after defeating us, they will have various reactions, seek peace, recruit or accumulate strength to start a war. No matter how they deal with it, they are recognition of our strength. However, in the eyes of the emperor and ministers in the capital, we will always be barbarians who do not accept the king's transformation, and we will resist for their enemies.
The enemy, helping the victims, is a sign of obedience in their eyes. In this way, they only think that we are weak and can be bullied. This is the Central Plains dynasty. The better you treat him, the less good the result. On the contrary, those who are slanderous but can be prosperous. Today, I humiliated Zhou Yanru like this, just to tell the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty that the community's unjust grievances are just because it is good for both sides and cannot become the domineering capital of the court. Apart from the things we have done, the community actually has other choices!"
"Other options?" Umu asked in surprise.
Li Mingxun smiled slightly: "Of course, we fight for the court in exchange for the power of immigration. This is a very gentle and beneficial approach to both sides. If the court is unwilling to satisfy our demands, we can choose a more radical approach!"
"Radical method!" Wu Mu thought for a while and said, "I understand. What you mean is that we can also capture a group of Ding Zhuang back to Taiwan like the Donglu. Anyway, the Ming army can't beat us."
Li Mingxun glared at Wu Mu and said, "I'm just talking about radical methods, but you directly compare the community with beasts. It's really a rotten wood that cannot be carved."
"The radical method is very simple. It is to separate a section of the coastline, and who will fight whom, and to encourage the people to invest by establishing a stable order and providing survival materials, and then immigrate overseas. Of course, this method is too complicated, and the method you just said is also good, but we need to change the target. We went to North Korea, and there were many people there. After robbing Ding Zhuang and going to Taiwan, we can also make up for the labor gap and attack this important ally of the Eastern Captain." Li Mingxun said with a smile.
"I have a weak moral character, I have a weak moral character. Why did I choose this prime minister twice and give him the world? No wonder the Ming Dynasty is getting worse day by day, and it is getting more and more difficult!" Emperor Chongzhen's face was covered with tears, and suddenly sat on the ground and cried bitterly.
"Emperor, Emperor, you can take care of the dragon body. No matter how important national affairs are, they are not as important as your dragon body. The thousands of people in the Ming Dynasty are still counting on the emperor!" Wang Chengen knelt on the ground, crying and persuading.
Chongzhen buried his face between his knees, cried for a long time, suddenly raised his head, his eyes full of hatred, his voice burst out from his teeth, making the weather in Chunri a little cold: "Kill! I want the traitor who ruined the country and harmed the people, Ling Chi, to destroy the nine clans, nine clans!"
The emperor said nothing, how dare Wang Chengen refuted it? He knew that it was not an exaggeration to use Zhou Yanru's crimes, not to mention Lingchi's execution and the nine clans were killed, even if he was killed ten thousand clans, he was not an exaggeration to treat a high-ranking official in this way, but treating a high-ranking official from Donglin in this way was something that had never happened in the dynasty for three hundred years. He knew his master's temper. If he persuaded him, he had to kneel on the ground and kowtow to God, kowtowing him until his forehead was bleeding. He shouted: "God, God, if you open your eyes, just take care of the world. Don't let my prince suffer so much. Please God!"
Chongzhen was moved to see the old servant who had been taking care of him since childhood begging him to heaven. He lowered his head and grabbed his arm with one hand. Chongzhen looked back and found that it was Zhou Hou. Zhou Hou said, "Prince, how can you bear to see Wang Husband like this?"
"Oh!" Chongzhen sighed a long time, patted Zhou Hou's hand, and said to Wang Chengen: "Wang Daban, get up, don't kneel down. I just took back my words. Go and write an edict. Zhou Yanru is mechanically deceived, and he is more obscured than tolerate private individuals, abuses bandits, misleads the country and the people, and his crimes are unforgivable. Let his family commit suicide to thank the world. As for his followers, I will not pursue it."
"The emperor is wise, the emperor is wise." Seeing Chongzhen's mind change, Wang Chengen quickly kowtowed, and the kowtow was louder than before.
Chongzhen's just-in-one decree was to let Zhou Yanru take on all the crimes of the Eastern Captain's attack on the border this time, without hurting anything else, and to stabilize the situation and avoid chaos in the court.
Chongzhen sat upright, let Zhou Hou comb his hair for him, and said to Wang Chengen: "You tell me the matter of the Dongfan Island Barbarians in detail. I have dealt with Zhou Yanru. No matter what else, I still need to know what happened."
Wang Chengen did not miss any details, and reported everything he knew about the community, especially Li Mingxun's evaluation, was Zhongzheng and there was no bias. Speaking of Li Mingxun's command in the East China Sea, Shandong area, killing Donglu princes, countless generals, and having witnessed the deaths and accumulations of hundreds of thousands of people, relieving disasters and helping the people in Dengzhou, Chongzhen's face was excited and excited. When he talked about Li Mingxun's migration of hundreds of thousands of people and not respecting the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen's face was solemn, until Li Mingxun raided the camp in Tongzhou, forcing the army to collapse. Zhou Yanru was embarrassed and humiliated. Chongzhen's fists were secretly clenched, and his face turned pale.
"This Li Mingxun is a capable person. If he is used by the Ming Dynasty, he will be used by the emperor..." Zhou Hou beat the side drum.
"This island barbarian is so crazy that even the chief minister dares to bully him. How can he be used by the Ming Dynasty!" Chongzhen interrupted Zhou Hou's words and shouted loudly.
Wang Chengen said from the side: "This son once said that as long as the emperor is willing to move the capital to Nanjing, this son is willing to be dependent on the spot and is willing to be driven by the emperor."
"Impossible! Even if I die in this Forbidden City, I will not abandon the inch of territory left by my ancestors!" Chongzhen said without hesitation.
"If you don't use it for my Ming Dynasty, you will eventually suffer from it..." Chongzhen was quiet for a while, and suddenly murmured in a low voice.
Wang Chengen was standing aside, and when he heard this, he knelt down quickly, without caring about the rules and regulations, and said, "Your Majesty, you must not have such thoughts. Although Li Mingxun is respectful to the Ming Dynasty, he is definitely not a good match. If you are not careful, if you rebel in the Central Plains, then the Denglai Rebellion will begin again..."
Chongzhen helped Wang Chengen up and said, "Wang Daban, you are right. I have to endure humiliation now. Not only will I endure this Li Mingxun, but also those cliques and the thieves and the Eastern Captains. But I will never sit idly by and watch these people become bigger. I will deal with them one by one and return them a hundred times and ten thousand times the humiliation they imposed on me!"
Wang Chengen was owed and looked at Chongzhen, hoping to know how he dealt with Li Mingxun. Chongzhen smiled and said, "In recent years, the island razed to the court to kill the enemy, which was a meritorious minister. But I would not ask too much for him. This time, I would not treat the blame for the court's traitor this time, but I cannot be so tolerant of the court officials who are responsible for defending the territory. The ministers who have lost their territory must be punished heavily!"
"Lost the land and trap the people... The emperor said......" Wang Chengen's head flashed countless names, and Shandong Governor Wang Yongji was the leader, but Wang Chengen also knew that the emperor was not talking about him.
Chongzhen had already cleaned up, stood up and said, "The first evil is Zeng Ying, the governor of Denglai!"
Wang Chengen fell to the ground in depressedly. He immediately understood in his heart that the emperor was not dealing with Zeng Ying. This was clearly a different way to attack Li Mingxun. No matter how Zeng Ying planned to make a plan, how good things were made in this invasion, Denglai was also affected by war. It was a fact that Laizhou Prefecture and other prefectures and counties were in trouble. It was a fact that Wang Chengen was injustice, but even if Wang Chengen was unjust, it was useless. From a long-term perspective, the emperor did nothing wrong. After all, Li Mingxun was an outsider and could not cause many waves in Denglai. If the governor Denglai cooperated there, it would be different. In just a few years, Li Mingxun would be deeply rooted in Shandong.
"Is it really a sign of a destruction of the country when the heroes are wronged and the traitors are in power?" Wang Chengen murmured when he thought of the sharp contrast between Wang Yongji, who was promoted to the governor of Ji Liao, and Zeng Ying, who was about to be imprisoned.
Chapter completed!