[Comprehensive] The five elements are short of money

The DPRK and China are also arguing endlessly over this matter. The crown prince has returned to the DPRK, and everyone is expressing their opinions on how to deal with it.

The princes naturally hope to take this opportunity to get the right to preside over the naval battle, but the princes have all failed, how can they guarantee that they can do it? Over the years, the emperor has only cultivated the methods for the princes to participate in politics. They are not even a virtuous king. Leisure King Development.What the kings look forward to is to gain power without having to go to the battlefield in person.It has to be said that in supervising the war in the south, risks and opportunities coexist.

There are also veterans such as the four kings and eight princes who were born in the battlefield, and they are also eager to be appointed by their own people, and there are also courtiers with different factions who are also arguing endlessly.

In the winter, the southern naval battle returned to a state of confrontation, otherwise, with the ministers arguing like this, Qianxiang Kingdom would have entered the inland long ago.

Qian Xiangguo also tacitly stayed still. The purpose of the war is for wealth. They have won a small victory now, and they will not know the result if they continue to fight. Why not keep the current situation and compete for interests at the negotiating table?

The emperor and ministers who could decide the situation of the naval battle were all in the capital, and Xue Xun, who was far away in Jinling, seemed helpless. On the contrary, it was only at this time that Xue Xun truly realized the power of the General Secretary.

When the elder Ge was walking in the garden, he heard the maids playing carelessly among each other; when the general was patrolling the barracks, he dealt with a ridiculous incident; These trivial matters were told to the concubine as a joke by the servants.Such an inconspicuous little person can decide the direction of the situation. Xue Xun both admires and fears it. He wrote the words "Don't forget your heart" and posted it on the study room, reminding himself not to be disturbed by foreign objects, not to really become an "indigenous person" .

The capital, the imperial palace.

The most worrying about naval battles are His Majesty sitting on the dragon chair, and the several prime ministers in charge of the center.

"Your Majesty, Qianxiang's small land is nothing to worry about. There are three reasons for this defeat. One is that Qianxiang used tricks, and the failure was open and aboveboard; the other is that the navy has its own factions, which hinder each other, so that outsiders can take advantage of it." The third is that land mergers in the south are serious, and the common people have no land at all, floating like duckweed, and when the war came, there was this disaster of refugees." Zhang Xiang bowed back and said.Zhang Xiang has been loyal to the royal family through three dynasties, and has always been mature and prudent. Finally, he added: "The most important thing is the third one."

The emperor nodded in agreement, he knew that the crown prince was to blame for this defeat, but he couldn't bear to see that the child who was raised so tenderly was injured and sick, kneeling at his feet crying and crying.This country will belong to the crown prince in the future, and now that he is here, it is just for the crown prince to practice his hands, so as to prevent the crown prince from making irreparable mistakes in the future.No one is smooth sailing, and a general with a long history will suffer a few defeats.Therefore, the emperor was unwilling to give the right to supervise the war in the south to other concubine princes, so as not to encourage their ambitions and be detrimental to the succession of the dynasty.In all dynasties there have been so-called battles for the heir apparent, and the emperor wanted to end such tragedies of father-son and brother-fighting in his own generation.

Since the crime of the prince's unfavorable command cannot be said, Qianxiang's tricks and the like are just excuses, and the real solution is to annex the land.The emperor thought it over clearly, and said to Zhang Xiang: "What does Xiangguo think?"

"Your Majesty, the land in the south is barren and you can't rely on the land for food. Most of the places near the sea are going to sea to make a living. Therefore, once the sea roads are blocked, the people will naturally fluctuate. What I can't understand is that the past hundred years have been safe and stable. Why did it suddenly erupt recently? Woolen cloth?"

Yeah, what's the difference between now and the previous hundred years?

The emperor was terrified and said, "The Xue family!"

In the past hundred years, the Xue family was behind the scenes to stabilize the south, so once the Xue family withdrew from the southern market, there was such chaos.

"In vain I have always trusted the Xue family, but I didn't expect it to be so ambitious. How is this trip different from betraying the country? Sure enough, a businessman is after profit, and he has no family in his eyes..." The emperor hurriedly stood up and walked back and forth on the high platform of Danbi ,indignant.

Zhang Xiang closed his eyes and rested his mind, waiting for the emperor to vent his emotions first.

"Since your Majesty knows that the Xue family has made such contributions, why did you want to seize the General Secretary?" Emperor Zhang Pingxiang asked calmly after venting.

The emperor was at a loss for words for a while, and he also knew that this matter was done by the royal family, but he really didn't pay attention to the Xue family at that time, a small merchant, anyone who took it back from the General Administration could use it, but Xue Xun turned over and tricked him a handful.

Seeing the emperor like this, Zhang Xiang said helplessly: "Your Majesty, everyone treats him, everyone repays him, the national scholars treat him, and the national scholars repay him." In other words, do you think the Xue family is a lowly recipient?If you want to fight, you can beat and scold as much as you want, and when it's over, you still have to beg for mercy. That's not a minister, that's a slave. Is the Xue family a slave?Just look at how he has controlled the Secretary of General Administration for a hundred years, and he has managed the south like an iron bucket, so you know it's not the case!Those who are capable are not a little arrogant. Those talented people in the history books were just offended accidentally, and he will come back with revenge, not to mention the royal family bullying them so blatantly.

Zhang Xiang is at the center, so he naturally knows that the Xue family secretly controls the Tongzhengsi. It is understandable for the emperor to want to replace his confidant, but you can't just ignore it and kill randomly. Dew's messed up the south, just to show you what he's up to.

"Your Majesty, the refugees have spread to the two lakes. If there is no decision, the south will be in danger."

The emperor asked the old prime minister to urge and persuade him three times, and he realized that he didn't like it. He made a mistake in the matter of the Xue family. In less than half a year, the revenge of the Xue family came. There must be many people who know the truth. The means of greeting the emperor's face, the emperor wished to kill the Xue family, but no matter how embarrassing it was, he could only endure it.

There has always been a game between the emperor and his ministers. They all think that the emperor will follow what he says, but there are also a lot of papers rejected by the Privy Council every year.The Xue family is also a minister, and it is not authentic for him to do it first, it doesn't matter if he bows his head temporarily, the Xue family does not care about the people, and he always loves the people like a son.The emperor persuaded himself over and over again in his heart, and finally passed the hurdle in his heart, closed his eyes and accepted his fate: "What Zhang Xiang said is, use the Xue family."

The emperor immediately ordered Xiaohuangmen to draw up an edict, summoning Xue Xun to Beijing to serve as the third-rank Zijin Guanglu doctor.Xue Xun had no honors in the imperial examinations, and he had no achievements in killing the enemy. It is not suitable to attribute it to civil and military affairs. This can be regarded as compensation for the Xue family to be able to bestow officials with the same rank as the previous commander of the General Administration.

Zhang Xiang looked at the emperor's ugly face, and swallowed back what he wanted to say. Direct remonstrance also needs to be methodical. He has already remonstrated too much today, and he has nothing to do with the Xue family. .Zhang Xiang prayed in his heart that Xue Xun would be weaker, otherwise this matter would not end well.

Is Xue Xun a weak person?

When Xue Xun received the imperial decree, he scoffed in his heart, but said gratefully on his face: "The emperor's kindness is so great, please come to the humble house to rest first."

After dismissing the eunuch who delivered the decree, Xue Xun threw the imperial decree on the table casually. The emperor also thought too well. In the past, it was too beautiful to think about!

Xue Xun didn't expect the emperor to be so unrealistic. If he had taken the Secretary of General Administration to compensate a third-rank lord for a loose official, Xue Xun might have let it go, but now he still wants to use a loose official to dismiss him... snort!

Xue Xun immediately went back to his study and wrote a note for the eunuch to submit. At the critical moment of discussing the southern naval battle, the emperor did not send troops and generals but used the unknown Xue family, which naturally attracted people's attention.The time when the emperor saw the excerpts was almost the same as the time when other families saw Xue Xun's "Chen Qing Biao".

Xue Xun made it very clear in the memorial, "Thank Your Majesty for your kindness, the grassroots are ashamed not to accept it." Even self-proclaimed ministers are unwilling, such small favors and small favors of vain officials cannot satisfy Xue Xun.Xue Xun also made the obvious reasons very clear, one of which was "my late father betrayed me, and I didn't have enough years." Xue Xun was still in his filial piety, so it was impossible for him to be an official.Second, "The family is weak, and there is a child at a later age. He is about to stand up, and his wife is pregnant, and there are frequent dangers." Their Xue family is almost pure, and he is the only one in the direct line, and he is 25 years old. , other people's family already has a child who can make soy sauce, and his child is in the belly of his wife, and the wife's pregnancy is not good, so he is at an unprecedented risk.The third is "a merchant who talks about political affairs indiscriminately, and can't do anything." The courtiers' attack on the Xue family is also on the surface. Their Xue family is indeed a merchant. There is no need for those scholar-bureaucrats to roll their eyes. He holds the initiative. Why jump? Enter this circle, accept the constraints of the rules of scholar-officials, and endure exclusion?

As soon as "Chen Qing Biao" arrived in the capital, the response was enthusiastic. I heard that His Majesty's Qianqing Palace changed another batch of porcelain.The courtiers also reacted differently. Knowing the real strength of the Xue family, like Zhang Xiang, they sighed in their hearts that Xue Xun was hard-boned. He was not a literati, but he also had the character of a literati.Yes, don’t think that courtiers are slaves of the royal family. Everyone is just for mutual benefit. You haven’t seen it for hundreds of years. There are still emperors with iron families and flowing water. appetite.

There are also jokes that the Xue family is overconfident, like Jia Daishan, who said when he and Jia Shishi had a private conversation at night: "Excessive! Your Majesty will give you face, if you don't hurry down the steps, if you refute Your Majesty like this, you will be punished in the future." The way to be a minister is to be humble, respectful and loyal. After all, Xue Xun is young, and he can't accept the momentary temperament. If he is so rebellious, he will not go far."

Those who knew the Xue family's abilities were wandering about their own ideas in their minds. If they didn't know, they just watched the excitement. They didn't understand why the emperor and courtiers were fighting with a businessman in the midst of the war.

Regardless of the vicissitudes of the capital, Xue Xun was anxiously pacing outside the delivery room.Didn't it mean that you were pregnant in October? Why did it start at just nine months? This is premature, right?At this time, there is no incubator, will the child be able to support it after it is born?No, let's worry about whether I can give birth first.

Xue Xun frightened himself, the news about the woman giving birth kept recurring in his mind, and the bloody pictures rushed over one after another, so frightened that he didn't even have the energy to walk around, he slumped on the chair, his hands shaking non-stop.

He didn't want to change his wife after finally cultivating a tacit understanding and affection!