Chapter 171 Will the truth hurt people (4)
Yongzheng never expected that he would be so angry that he was so despaired by Huo Chong. Knowing that if this continues, he would be afraid of losing his composure. Yongzheng simply left the seat on the way to hold a meeting of trusted ministers and asked the ministers to discuss it themselves first.
The minister didn't know where Yongzheng was going, so he didn't dare to ask, let alone leave. He could only continue the meeting under the auspices of Prince Thirteenth Master Yi.
Everyone looked very serious, and Huo Chong's actions had been put in front of all the ministers. These ministers were not smart and wise, and Huo Chong's trick was not profound in their eyes. Because of this, the ministers felt that it was almost impossible to crack.
Because Huo Chong made a very tolerant choice wherever he could make decisions. He did not massacre prisoners, nor abuse them, and even took away the money from the prisoners.
The ministers did not speak, and Prince Yi had to speak. He knew that if he did not say anything, these ministers would be able to use their cultivation skills to the extreme and wait until Yongzheng came back without saying a word.
As the *** who was raised by Yongzheng since childhood, Prince Yi guessed where Yongzheng went. It must be a Buddhist temple. I wanted to wait for Yongzheng to return to normal by reciting the Buddha's scriptures, and it took several hours to avoid falling.
"Everyone, I think Huo Chong deserves Nian Gengyao's evaluation, he uses elegance in his troops and fights solidly. I wonder what you think?"
The emperor's dearest Prince Yi spoke, and the ministers breathed a little relieved. If others valued Nian Gengyao's words so much, it would inevitably make Yongzheng unhappy. But Prince Lian said it was fine. Yongzheng would only feel that everything Prince Lian said was sincere... and this was true.
Zhang Tingyu thought for a while and sighed: "This is such a traitor and evil thing. Shandong lost completely this time. I am afraid that he will dispatch the well-established and polite generals to eliminate them carefully."
"How about Yue Zhongqi?" Ma Qi suggested immediately.
The ministers didn't say it, but a name appeared in their hearts. Prince Lian, the Eighth Master.
Before this battle, Yongzheng made things difficult for Prince Lian. Prince Lian’s response was to recommend Yue Zhongqi as the head coach, because although Yue Zhongqi was a powerful general, he also experienced calmness. With Yue Zhongqi’s calmness against Huo Chong’s elegance, the court’s military strength had a huge advantage, and Huo Chong could be solved.
This time, the defeat of Huo Chong failed. Judging from the information we have obtained now, Huo Chong has used his troops to the extreme. He suddenly surrounded 20,000 officials more than ten miles outside Jinan City. If it hadn't happened, the ministers would not believe that this would be true.
I thought to myself, but no one dared to mention Prince Lian's name. If Prince Yi is mentioned in front of Yongzheng, everything is right. If Prince Lian is mentioned in front of Yongzheng, everything is wrong.
Prince Yi felt that Yue Zhongqi was a good candidate and no longer commented on it. However, the matter in Jinan City was not over yet, and Yongzheng was so angry that he couldn't even do it himself. He took advantage of Yongzheng's absence to mention how to deal with Jinan, "This Chen Shiguan is not a soldier. It is not appropriate to let him guard Jinan."
The ministers thought this was right. We cannot say that Chen Shiguan made any mistakes, but he did not do anything that would be helpful to the battle situation. As the governor of Shandong, we have to take responsibility for this defeat.
Since that's the case, we have to find a charge for Chen Shiguan. The Minister of War Shu Fahai immediately said: "This rebellion is all Chen Shiguan's crime."
That's right, this guy is called Fahai. But he is not the Fahai who suppressed Bai Suzhen, the White Snake Empress. This Fahai is Tong Jia Fahai, a member of the Tong Jia family of famous families. As a clan member of Yongzheng's adoptive mother, Tong Jia Fahai is also from the Yongzheng uncle's clan.
No one objected to this crime. Prince Yi wanted to say a few words, but felt that it was best to say this to his brother Yongzheng in private. Rather than saying that Chen Shiguan was wrong, it was better to say that Huo Chong was in Taiyin. This is what Prince Yi was most worried about.
At this moment, Zhang Tingyu said to Fang Bao, who had not spoken, "What do you think Mr. Fang?"
Everyone's eyes fell on Fang Bao. Fang Bao was dressed in ordinary clothes, and compared with the core ministers of the Yongzheng Dynasty who were wearing flower feathers, his status was obviously too low.
But no one dares to underestimate Fang Bao.
Fang Bao was the cultural leader of the Tongcheng School. In the 50th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi (1711), Deputy Censor Zhao Shenqiao impeached Dai Mingshi's "Nanshan Collection" and "Liverpool Records". The impeachment memorial involved Fang Bao's grandfather Fang Xiaobiao.
As one of the famous literary inquisitions in the Kangxi Dynasty, Dai Mingshi and Fang Bao were from the same county and were also good at ancient Chinese. Fang Bao once wrote a preface for his collection of essays and was imprisoned in Jiangning County Prison. Soon, he was escorted to the capital to the Ministry of Justice Prison and was sentenced to death.
In the 52nd year of Kangxi (1713), the case was concluded and Dai Mingshi was sentenced to beheading. Because the important minister Li Guangdi tried his best to rescue him, the Emperor of Qing Dynasty wrote a letter to "Fang Bao's knowledge is unknown to the world", so he was spared from prison.
After the remission, he was granted the resignation of the Han army's flag, and ordered Fang Bao to serve as a court officer. Kangxi only "relenting and exempting the administration" was not to determine Fang Bao's guilt. He also appointed Fang Bao as a court officer, which was equivalent to "labor reform".
However, Fang Bao was sent to Kangxi's Nanshu to work as a service. He faced Kangxi day and night. He met Kangxi more times and discussed various things with Kangxi more times than the prime minister. He was Mingzhu, the popular powerful minister of the Kangxi Dynasty, and Soetu, much more.
In addition, Kangxi was actually very kind to Fang Bao, almost untied his clothes and pushed food. Therefore, Fang Bao was also considered a common prime minister. No one dared to treat Fang Bao as a "labor reformer". After Kangxi's death, Yongzheng also retained Fang Bao.
After hearing Zhang Tingyu's inquiry, Fang Bao sighed thoughtfully: "Great traitors and evil will definitely have great wisdom and courage. I am not only worried about this. Although Chen Shiguan is at a loss this time, but under Huo Chong's arrangement, as long as Chen Shiguan gathers the defeated army, it will definitely be like this. How could those green camps let go of so much money? But if they don't gather the defeated army and let the defeated army do their own things, they will definitely cause trouble to the people of Shandong. Everyone, Huo Chong is a bandit, and he can restrain his subordinates and not rob the property of the prisoners. This is the daunting thing."
Prince Yi was shocked. Some words were difficult to say, but Fang Bao's identity made him not very concerned, so he said it directly.
Huo Chong's insidiousness lies in the fact that he expected that the green camps of the Qing Dynasty would not let go of the money when they saw it, so Huo Chong left their own money for the defeated soldiers. When this kind of thing was spread, those who were unreasonable would ask a question, "Why did the thief army not plunder the prisoners' property, but the officials would plunder all the officials who survived the battle after they fought to the death."
If you explain it, you can only say that Huo Chong has a ill-intention.
However, some things cannot be discussed. In this case, Huo Chong is a sinner and everything he does is wrong. If the details are discussed, those who participated in the discussion are not really on the standpoint of the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, so they will notice that Huo Chong did many of the things he did in the details are quite right, and they may even think that Huo Chong did very benevolent and righteous.
If Huo Chong was benevolent and righteous, then what would the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty be considered? Is the tyrant who suppressed benevolent and righteous people?
Prince Yi knew very well that Huo Chong was able to achieve this because Huo Chong was wise and brave. Huo Chong was trying to use his great wisdom and bravery to subtly slander the justice of the Qing Dynasty.
Once Huo Chong really persists for a few years, he will even form a rivalry with the Qing Dynasty. Then all the benevolence and righteousness of Huo Chong will become a huge help to overthrow the Qing Dynasty.
Prince Yi knew that the ministers attending this meeting were all ministers valued by Yongzheng, and there was no problem with loyalty. But even so, this issue could not be discussed much. After all, Huo Chong now calls himself a great Han, which is clearly a tit-for-tat mankind in the Qing Dynasty.
The number of people in the Qing Dynasty was too small. It was only one percent of the Qing Dynasty. Once the Han people thought that the court established by the Han people could also implement benevolent policies, it was time for the Qing Dynasty to perish.
So Prince Yi interrupted the discussion about this, "Huo Chong is so cunning, it is all because of Chen Shiguan's incompetence, which makes Huo Chong's treacherous plan succeed. Chen Shiguan can't stand it."
Seeing that Prince Yi had already set the tone, the ministers were not talking. With Prince Yi's popularity with Yongzheng, let alone Chen Shiguan was wrong. Even if Chen Shiguan was not wrong at all, Prince Yi could make Yongzheng kill Chen Shiguan with just one word.
Thinking of Nian Gengyao's fate, the ministers no longer said anything. When facing an emperor like Yongzheng, it is often better not to speak.
Yongzheng recited Buddhist scriptures all night, and then went to bed after the court the next day. He woke up in the afternoon and immediately called Prince Yi to ask what he had discussed yesterday.
Prince Yi briefly told Yongzheng the results of the discussion. When he heard the reasons for severe punishment of Chen Shiguan, Yongzheng exclaimed and was very satisfied. Prince Yi was worried that Yongzheng would still love talents, so he gave a little reason that could not be discussed. Yongzheng nodded repeatedly, "Thirteenth brother, you did a good job. This is all Chen Shiguan's fault. What other green camps have usually been dispersed and their military discipline is not cultivated. We should be punished severely! We must never give pensions this time!"
After hearing this, Prince Yi wanted to persuade him, but still said nothing. Yongzheng did this to kill the chicken and scare the monkey, and he blamed Chen Shiguan and the 20,000 officials who suppressed the bandits, so that he could get rid of the responsibility of the court.
...And tens of thousands died in this battle between the government troops, and many of the remaining thousands of released surrendered soldiers were killed. If the pension was not easy to identify, and the second was too much money. With this money, it would be better to directly give the Qing army to the next attack.
However, when the ministers recommended Yue Zhongqi to lead troops to attack Huo Chong, Yongzheng immediately frowned. After thinking for a while, Yongzheng said unhappily: "This must be remembering Lao Ba's words, right?"
Prince Yi quickly advised: "Emperor, Yue Zhongqi is worthy of this position. As long as Huo Chong is wiped out, what everyone remembers is the emperor's order."
Yongzheng was angry for a while, but finally reluctantly agreed. He ordered Prince Yi to quickly formulate the expenses for the next time to send troops.
Just as Prince Yi left, someone sent another item. Yongzheng recited the Buddhist scriptures that had been in the night, and then looked back. He felt calm at this time. However, he had only read halfway, and had already jumped up from the chair with anger, looked left and right and saw that there was nothing to vent, and kicked the eunuch serving next to him.
After the kick, I was still not satisfied, so I simply kicked over the desk. The inkstone fell into several pieces on the ground, and the memorial fell to the ground, and the wolf's pen bounced on the ground.
Chapter completed!