Chapter 197 The Third Excitement
"Whose report?" Emperor Jiajing said with interest.
"Your Majesty, your majesty, is silent and clumsy in Zhejiang's Japanese inspector." Lu Bing said respectfully.
"What? Silence?" Emperor Jiajing had forgotten his appointment on a whim, but the joke about "What silence" that he had made with Master Yan was still fresh in his memory, so he remembered everything as soon as he heard the name, and nodded slightly, "I asked him to write a report on the military situation in the Southeast. It's just a small matter, why did he present it now?"
Lu Bing had an idea of ​​silence in his heart, so he naturally wanted to explain it to him: "Your Majesty is the lord of the world, with mountains and rivers in his heart. A small matter in your eyes is a great thing in the eyes of the ministers."
"Hmph, that's good." Emperor Jiajing's eyebrows trembled and said, "If it weren't for the dynasty that the whole court was a person who was a lie, why would my Ming Dynasty be frustrated by the little Japanese pirates?"
Lu Bing felt a sense of shame on his face. He quickly changed the topic and said, "When I came, I looked through it. The thick stack, at least tens of thousands of words, was written in an orderly and easy to understand. What is particularly valuable is that no matter which aspect I wrote, there are relevant civil and military signatures and seals. This at least shows that, first, he has indeed traveled all over Zhejiang; second, his statement is indeed credible, otherwise there would be so many civil and military testimony; third," he said with a smile: "Congratulations to Your Majesty, this is such a real talent."
While he was speaking, Emperor Jiajing was flipping the silent report. Although he didn't comment on the words, he couldn't help but get serious. When he saw that it was indeed very different from the ambiguous report he had seen before, it was very precise and concise, allowing him to understand the meaning of the author without any worries.
Moreover, people who knew that this era were generally insensitive to numbers, so in many official articles, jokes such as "the river is thousands of feet wide and the building is hundreds of feet high" appeared from time to time. They deliberately used some simple and easy-to-understand charts to express the quantitative relationships, which made Jiajing slightly look at it and felt that he had a much more thorough understanding of the Southeast.
Jiajing was not Lu Bing. His concern for his own country was far greater than that of Zhang Jing, Li Tianchong's life and death, Yan Song, Xu Jie's secret fights, etc., so he did not rush to find any great victory in Wang Jiangjing, but read this report carefully from the beginning.
Silently, it turned out that the garrison in the southeast had been rotten as early as the Chenghua period. Now the troops fighting were all militias recruited by officials from Zhejiang and other places. It really took time to train these people. It turned out that the leaders and main forces of the Japanese pirates were some people who forgot their ancestors. They took risks to collude with the Tokyo people, which caused a large Japanese plague of tens of thousands of people... It seems that it is not that I, Daming, cannot do anything to the little Tokyo, but that the illegal people in my country are at work. Emperor Jiajing thought so.
The silence also used a series of combat power comparisons to point out that the Ming army's current combat power is in the recovery stage, and it will take at least one or two years to reach the level of Japanese/pirates. It also focused on introducing the characteristics of Japanese/pirates' movements based on islands and come and go freely. It also objectively analyzed the source composition of Japanese/pirates, which implied that it was very difficult for the emperor to completely wipe out them...
The needles fell in the hall and the rustling sound of the emperor turning the paper sounded very clearly.
After a long time, Jiajing slowly raised his head and rubbed his stubborn eyes... He didn't even have lunch, and finally finished reading the long hundreds of thousands of words. Everything on the southeast coast seemed to be vividly displayed in front of the emperor. Although he was still full of scars, his heart calmed down like never before... The long-term irritability and anxiety that had been before was ultimately due to his loss of control over the country, and he could not find a solution. For an emperor with a strong desire for control and a high self-esteem, it could not tolerate it no matter what.
But now, with this orderly report, he finally figured out the messy situation in the Southeast. I believe that if you study it again, your heart will eventually become bright. Thinking of this, the sense of power that can control everything has finally come back! It feels so good that I am the only one in the sky and under the earth.
Jiajing slowly closed his eyes and felt the excitement in his heart... This feeling has been three times since he ascended the throne. In addition to this time, one was thirty years ago, when Zhang Cong appeared on the "Great Li Commentary" which "even the saints cannot be refuted," which opened up the passionate and protracted great ritual discussion. Of course, the result was very good. Although it has been a long time, it is still very pleasant to think about it every time, and it is even more satisfying than Tao Tianshi's elixir.
The second time was Zeng Xian, the governor of the three sides, six years ago. In order to completely solve the border problems in Mongolia, the "Re-discussion on the Hetao Commentary" was a once-for-all strategy, and it was depended on by the country for generations. Jiajing was also very excited at the time, ready to rub his hands, blush his face and thick neck, which made Xia Shoufu, who had been in the officialdom for a long time, think that the emperor would roll up his sleeves and do something big, and he would not give up until he achieved his goal!
Unexpectedly, this excitement was like the rain in June, which came and went quickly. Emperor Jiajing performed a Sichuan opera skill to his ministers and changed his face. The next day, he threw the memorial into the cauldron, making contributions to the alchemy cause, and even defrauded the excited Suzhou Xia who could never make a new comeback.
Of course, the fate of Zeng Xian and Zhang Cong is incomparable. Zhang Cong was promoted to the prime minister of the cabinet as a Jinshi of the last century and completed an impossible task. However, Governor Zeng became a thorn in the emperor's side since then. Later, he was defeated by Qiu Luan with a complaint, which also implicated Xia Yan in the court together.
So Emperor Jiajing did not rush to draw a conclusion. He had to figure out whether he was really excited or fake excited. If he was false excited, his father and mother would remarry and do whatever he should do. If he was really excited, he had to think about what he should do.
But he could clearly feel that Shen Mo's memorial was not as passionate as Zeng Xian, and told the emperor that you should do this and that, as if you would not be worthy of being an emperor. On the contrary, he just summarized the situation in the southeast and did not directly propose any construction. But after reading it, the emperor immediately came up with a solution to the problem, and he could get it by tiptoeing and stretching out his hand, and there was absolutely no trouble for the emperor to worry about it.
Thinking of this, Jiajing couldn't help but have a thought in his mind, "If this kid is in the cabinet, can I practice with peace of mind?" As soon as this thought came out, he laughed out loud. If he remembered correctly, the kid was less than twenty and had not even participated in the provincial examination.
Hearing the emperor laughing, Governor Lu, who was extremely bored by the side, quickly took the opportunity to say, "Your Majesty, what do you think of this report?"
Jiajing nodded and said softly: "Well, it's not bad..." For the mean emperor, it's very rare to give such an evaluation. Then he remembered the original intention of finding Lu Binglai, and laughed and scolded: "What do you think should you deal with this matter?"
"Simple in the heart of the emperor, and the universe is arbitrary." Lu Bing said smoothly.
Jiajing made a gesture to throw out the memorial and cursed, "Do you want to be foolish with me?"
Lu Bing said with a frown: "Your Majesty, this is not a joke. I really have no idea." As he said that, he turned on the silent memorial and said: "I focused on the Wang Jiangjing victory, and said silently, "Wenhua and Zong Xian repeatedly urged, and Zhang Jing finally transferred the army north to Songjiang. However, Xu Hai and others heard that Jiahang was empty, and water and land were advanced together to break into Jiashan. Looking at this section, it was obvious that Zhang Jing could not withstand the pressure and went to fight, which also caused Jiahang's danger, so he deserved to be killed."
Then he pointed to the next paragraph and said, "But after the silence, he said: 'After Zong Xian retreating the enemy and Jiaxing, Zhang Jing immediately came from Songjiang to see the army, but Zong Xian was still the general of the battle between Wang Jiangjing.'" As he said, he scratched his head and said, "This is interesting. Zhang Jing is the purview of the purview with the king's orders. After arriving in Jiaxing, he did not hold Hu Zongxian responsible for commanding the army beyond his authority, and continued to delegate power, allowing Hu Zongxian to command the army to complete the victory. Speaking of which, Zhang Jing is not useless, at least he is a little self-aware and knows that he is not good enough, so he let the virtuous person to Hu Zongxian on the spot."
"It's just a corpse position and a vain meal." Emperor Jiajing snorted coldly, "What's the advantage?"
Lu Bing widened his eyes and said, "Remember that the Wei minister was the first to take on a great task, and was afraid that his ability would not be enough to ruin the great affairs of His Majesty. You taught me: 'A capable superior can use an incompetent subordinate, because he can make the decision by himself, and others can run errands; but if he is an incompetent superior, he must use a capable subordinate. Although he will feel uncomfortable, someone must give him an idea.'" He said seriously: "I think Zhang Jing has done a good job in this regard."
Jiajing's face turned muffled, and he wanted him to change his mind, which was no easier than letting Zhang Cong enter the cabinet. He only heard him say coldly: "This battle will not be a death sentence, but Zhang Jing is not loyal to him and fears the enemy and is afraid of the enemy. Is this always a fact?"
Chapter completed!