Seeing Yan Song being at a loss, the ministers in the cabinet thought to themselves: "It's going to change again!"

Unexpectedly, at this moment, the outside world came to report: Altan sent an envoy to the city!

Jiajing snorted coldly and ordered Xu Jie to deal with it - Xu Jie was the Minister of Rites and his control over foreign negotiations.

After Xu Jie left, Jiajing felt very tired and waved his hand to let the ministers go down to rest first. Yan Song went to the next ear room. Although he only walked a few steps, he felt that the eyes of several colleagues looked at him differently. A little eunuch brought tea. When he held it in his hand, he shivered slightly, and his heart was in a mess. Suddenly, the eunuch approached and said in a very low voice: "Change."

Yan Song's eyes flashed, and he pushed out Gong, but ran to the bathroom. One of them seemed to be someone, so he broke in. Yan Shifan was indeed waiting inside!

It turned out that Yan Shifan wanted to ask the boss and the war's decision. When he saw his face turned pale, he said strangely: "What's wrong?"

Yan Song made a statement in the cabinet in a few words, and Yan Shifan said in surprise: "Good Xu Jie! It turns out that he is also a traitor!"

But he did not hear about this in such a highly oppressive atmosphere, and he did not suffer direct impact. His father was more likely to calm down. He pondered slightly and said, "It seems that Xu Jie and Li Yanzhi are the same party! Hey, we have all been wrong before!"

Yan Song sighed bitterly: "Now, I'm thinking about how we can save our lives! Is they the same party? Let's talk about it later!"

The father and son planned to plan in the toilet. After a while, Yan Shifan said, "This matter has been planned for a long time. We lost this round, and we can only admit defeat. There is no way. It was a big danger just now! If Altan hadn't just sent someone to come, Your Majesty would punish him in anger. Father, if you deal with it, you will be sentenced to the imperial prison for two days even if you don't die. The cabinet will be troubled by Xu Jie in the future! Now, it's fine. Although I'm shocked, I don't expect that there will be no danger. As long as you pay attention to three things, you can turn big things into small things!"

Yan Song asked about those three things, and Yan Shifan said: "One, you are not afraid of being blamed by Your Majesty for your father's incompetence, and those who are incompetent will not be in great trouble; two, you must resolve your Majesty's taboo in taking power; three, you cannot blame the king - this is the most easy to violate. As long as you pay attention to these three things, there will be no major disaster."

It should be noted that Jiajing is an arrogant and smart emperor. His subordinates are "very stupid" and it is quite "normal" to him. Therefore, incompetent in some matters is not a big mistake. Jiajing's most taboo is that he is afraid that the chief assistant is too smart and is more powerful than taking power, which weakens his majesty! This was what Xu Jie attacked Yan Song this time - the sentence "Fenyi, you won't fail to submit those eighteen memorials to Your Majesty, right?" - In fact, it is an hinting to Jiajing: Yan Song is taking power, and is in the partition, and controlling the government! If Jiajing really believes this, Yan Song will be a big mess!

In addition, the third article is also the most common problem that ministers make when asking for their crimes. They are just arguing and revealing the words "Boss, I'm doing it according to your wishes", "Boss, you can't do it well if you are the boss," "This is not my reason, it's your reason," and so on. In fact, with Jiajing's talent, it may not be unaware that those things were caused by themselves. For example, if Yan Song really presented the eighteen memorials by Yan Song, even if Yan Song and Li Yanzhi were really presented, they would be in trouble. However, Jiajing hated those "loyal ministers" who directly advised the truth the most, because these "loyal ministers" always put themselves in a justice position, and used some great principles to suppress the emperor and all the sins were pushed on to the emperor! Such people are called "the heart is punishable" in the emperor's heart! On the contrary, for those "traitorous ministers" who desperately took the emperor's faults on themselves, even if Jiajing scolded them in his face, he would definitely protect his shortcomings!

Yan Song's level of power and strategy was not inferior to his son, and he was still more experienced. However, he was getting older and became much slower. He was not as quick as Yan Shifan when he was panicked. But at this time, he understood that Yan Shifan did not need to explain more, and he felt at ease.

Since he had a plan to protect himself, he immediately thought of fighting back. Yin Yun said angrily: "Xu Jie villain! Li Zhe traitor! I will be uneasy if I don't eliminate these two troubles!"

Yan Shifan smiled and said, "Didn't Li Zhe just win the big victory? Didn't Xu Jie also manage the Ministry of Rites? Didn't Altan just send someone? Didn't the emperor's ambition burst out when he was inspired by the big victory? Just start here and you can turn the world around, and let the two of them climb to the Nine Heavens and fall into the eighteenth level of hell immediately!"

Yan Song had not thought through the connection between these things for a while, and Yan Shifan said, "Take the victory while pursuing!" Yan Song said, "The situation in front of him can only stop when he sees it is better. How can he pursue the victory while pursuing? Going out rashly, I'm afraid..." But when he said this, he suddenly realized and couldn't help laughing!

Yan Song returned to his ear room and became calm and composed. When Li Ben Ding Rukui saw it, he secretly refused. Now that Zhang Zhi is seriously ill and is bedridden at home, there are only Yan, Li and Xu in the cabinet.

When Xu Jie came back, the ministers saw Jiajing. Before Xu Jie could speak, Jiajing suddenly glared at Yan Song and asked, "Where are the eighteen memorials?"

Yan Song didn't have time to care about the eighteen memorials? But Li Ben said: "I have already taken it!"

It turned out that he had already taken the eighteen memorials in the space just now, and then presented them to Jiajing.

You should know that once Yan Song collapses, the cabinet chief minister will be vacant. According to convention, it will be Zhang Zhi's turn. Zhang Zhi is seriously ill and dying again. It will be Li Ben's turn! When he thought that he might suddenly become the chief minister with a sound, even Li Ben, an honest man, was moved, so he was very positive.

Yan Song glanced at him secretly and saw what he was thinking, and he sneered in his heart.

Jiajing glanced at ten lines and swept the eighteen memorials. The more he looked, the more angry he became. He picked up one of them and smashed them at Yan Song, cursing: "You are an old traitor who is wronged! If you had submitted this memorial, would you still have what you are today!"

Yan Song was smashed by the memorial, and he did not dodge. He let the memorial hit his face, his eyelids slashed, and two lines of old tears fell down. He knelt down on the ground and cried: "Your Majesty, the old minister is incompetent! The court memorials are no less than ten thousand in a year, and there are dozens of them in a day! These eighteen memorials are mixed in between, like pearls on rubble, and it is very difficult to find. Moreover, what Li Zhe said was not something that had happened at that time, but his speculation based on his intelligence and intelligence, and because he was just a small matter, the old minister did not pay special attention to it! This is the ability of the old minister ignorant, and even buried talents, and had no foresight, and even ignored good strategies! The old minister is incompetent, and the old minister is confused! Please pay attention to your majesty!"

Li Ben was secretly happy to see Yan Song behaving like this, but Xu Jie secretly complained that something was wrong!

On the other side, Jiajing felt a little better when he saw Yan Song being honest and not fighting back, and scolding him. He snorted a few times, as if he was still angry, but in fact he didn't plan to pursue it again, because he was afraid that he would not be able to read the eighteen memorials a year. If Yan Song really reported every memorial of the chief level to him, he would go crazy! At this time, he scolded Yan Song for more than a dozen words and fined him a year's salary. When the Hulu retreated to the back wall for three days, he was still waiting for his crime to go away in the cabinet.

Li Ben was stunned when he heard this and said, "That's it?"

Yan Song's seemingly sparse and ordinary words just now had used profound power schemes, but this honest man couldn't understand what was going on. Jiajing said coldly: "What are you going to do?" Li Ben was so scared that he didn't dare to speak.

Xu Jie knew that although he had the upper hand in this round, he failed to force Yan Song to death. Instead, he missed his own bottom and clearly established himself on the opposite side of Yan Song. It was difficult to do any more plotting! The gains and losses in the meantime were really hard to say, so he heard Jiajing ask himself: "What do you say from the Hulu?" Xu Jie hurriedly answered accordingly.

It turned out that although Altan raised troops and gathered more than 100,000 people to go south this time, he actually did not have the ambition to destroy the Ming Dynasty. Their short-term strategic purpose was to plunder the Central Plains and spend the famine. The longer-term strategic purpose was to require the imperial court to open a horse market, which was just that. However, after a slight setback outside Anding Gate, Altan thought that the Ming Dynasty was indeed prepared, so he became more careful and sent an envoy to Beijing to make peace.

Jiajing is a man with a very good face. This kind of city alliance is a great shame to him. How could he agree? If he had to make a pity before the "great victory" of Andingmen, he might have been forced to make concessions under the circumstances, but then he was furious: "Absurd! Our army won a great victory! He dared to speak out! These barbarians are really ungrateful!" Then he ordered the army to attack and annihilate the Mongols outside the capital, "and they will not return to the desert grassland!"

This sentence is really a bold statement! But Xu Jie was frightened after hearing it! He advised anxiously: "Your Majesty! You can't do it!"

Jiajing asked: "What can't be used?"

Xu Jie said: "The defense of the capital is empty and it is not suitable to fight. It is only suitable to defend, not to make a quick decision. You must use the word "drag".

Jiajing frowned, Yan Song coughed and said, "Da Zongbo is too cautious. Now that our army has won a great victory, the morale of the three armies is greatly boosted, and the soldiers are using their lives! Just as it is time to pursue the victory, how can there be a reason to take advantage of the victory and surrender the alliance? Since Da Zongbo is in charge of the Ministry of Rites, he should know that I, the Ming Dynasty, has no such example! Does Da Zongbo want His Majesty to follow the example of Emperor Zhenzong of Song and come to the Zeyuan Alliance that has been ashamed for the ages?"

The Ming Dynasty's attitude towards the outside world was extremely tough, and he refused to give up even when he was in a weak position. It was completely different from the fact that he compromised when the Song Dynasty had the upper hand! Xu Jie knew this very well, but he knew that the "great victory" of Andingmen was actually lucky. If he ignored the military situation and was tough, he would be afraid that a disaster would be caused in the blink of an eye!

However, after hearing Yan Song's words, Jiajing praised them very much and thought they were loyal to them.

Xu Jie looked at Yan Song and saw that he was still squinting his old eyes, as if he was already blurred, but Xu Jie understood that this old guy could see everything clearly! If Xu Jie was Hai Rui's character, he would probably have to be honest and straightforward to advise him at this time. At that time, Jiajing was angry. Yan Song took advantage of the situation and immediately squeezed Xu Jie out of this battle decision! Then Yan Song could make a calm arrangement, play with Li Yanzhi in the applause, and then use Li Yanzhi's defeat to drag Xu Jie into the water, and pounce on him one after another until he killed the two of them!

The Yan father and son's plan was far more poisonous than arsenic, but they were always in harmony. Xia Yan died under their hands that day.

But Xu Jie was Xu Jie, and in the blink of an eye, he identified the priorities and said, "Your Majesty is wise, and what Master Yan said is very good! But the army must be arranged carefully and prevent Altan from scattering his troops to harass the capital." He reported his family's fortune to Jiajing: "The army in the capital is less than 60,000, and there are many old and weak. Altan has 100,000. I have few enemies. If I send troops out of the city, I am afraid that if there are police in the capital, it will be difficult to deal with it in a hurry. It is better to defend the city defense and wait for the army to serve the king!"

When Jiajing heard this, he felt that it was really dangerous if the army had been sent out and no one would protect him. If he didn't expect someone would come to report it, he said that the governor, Baoding's envoy Yang Shouqian, had brought troops to the king! Jiajing was overjoyed and thought for a while and said, "Let Shang Dajie send an elite force out of the city and work with the king to chase the enemy!"

Xu Jie asked: "How many troops should be sent? Which troops should be sent? Where should we chase the enemy?"

This is to ask how much force Jiajing will use to send troops this time and what strategic goals to achieve.

Jiajing said unhappily: "I'm here to ask me?" He is a smart emperor, but he is also an emperor who is unwilling to be responsible.

Xu Jie asked Yan Song again: "What should I do if the supporting role thinks?" This is to push the matter to Yan Song.

Yan Song said: "Altan came to ask for tribute for the year. This is the affairs of the Ministry of Rites. How to send troops in specific terms is the affairs of the Ministry of War." He pushed the words to others, and he was invincible!

Xu Jie wanted to discuss it again, but Jiajing felt tired again, so he ordered them to discuss the matter. Xu Jie and Ding Rukui had no choice but to do things separately. Since Ding Rukui wanted to send "elite" troops out of the city, he immediately thought of coming to Xizhijian! He then passed the order! He also increased it with ten thousand troops.

Li Yanzhi and Qi Jiguang and others were discussing the situation of the war. They were shocked after receiving the order. Qi Jiguang said in surprise: "How can you leave the city at this time? Isn't you going to extort your weakness?" Li Yanzhi naturally understood this section and hurried to ask Ding Rukui what was going on. Ding Rukui said: "This is Your Majesty's Holy Tribunal. I have no choice. You can do it according to your order."

"As long as you follow your fate? You should die by your fate!"

Of course, this sentence was still not spoken in front of the Minister of War, but just swallowed it into his stomach. Li Yanzhi came to Xiyuan again to ask for a meeting with the cabinet minister. Yan Song did not see him, Li Ben was not responsible, and Li Yanzhi only saw Xu Jie. Seeing that there was no one around, Li Yanzhi asked straight to the point: "Shi Xu! What's going on! Don't the cabinet know that the soldiers in the city cannot fight? Why are there such a mess of life coming? It doesn't matter if our soldiers in the three armies die, I'm afraid that once our army collapses, the capital will suffer!"

Xu Jie sighed and said, "I have nothing to do." Then he whispered briefly to the thrilling political struggle scene just now. Li Yan heard it and sweated. Xu Jie said, "I must come down in the current situation. I can try my best to cooperate with you in this way. Otherwise, the matter between the war will be taken away by the old thief Yan, and you will be at his mercy. You must leave the city! If you are the one who fights, there may be a glimmer of life. If someone else fights, I am afraid that the army will suffer a disaster that will ruin the country! Then you and I will become sinners!"

Li Yanzhi smiled bitterly and said, "But I am not a god! I want me to use thousands of people to fight 100,000! Master Xu praised me!"

Xu Jie said: "I will try to increase your military power."

Li Yanzhi shook his head and said, "It's useless. What's the use of more soldiers who can't fight? It's useless to give me the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses under Shang Zongxian!"

Xu Jie frowned and said, "Abstract the situation is like this, what's the use of complaining about you and me? Let's do it!"

Li Yanzhi knew that it would be impossible to stop him at this time, so he had to go back. At this time, under the influence of Xu Jie, the cabinet asked Shang Dajie to add 5,000 more troops to Li Yanzhi, and transferred Yang Shouqian into the city, and all 8,000 soldiers and horses to be dispatched by Li Yanzhi. Yang Shouqian's official position was higher than that of Li Yanzhi. If he was in the army, Li Yanzhi would not move.

While doing his best to integrate the 26,000 soldiers and horses inside and outside the city, he tried his best to stay excited in front of the soldiers, but when he saw Li Yanzhi, he couldn't help sighing: "These 20,000 to 30,000 people are not useful at all! If you really want to go out of the city to fight, you are afraid that there will be more dangers!"

Li Yanzhi knew that what he said was true. He put all the soldiers with family members in the city back to visit relatives the night before leaving the city. He himself came to Lu's mansion to see his wife and children. Lu Errong asked him what happened to the war. Li Yan smiled and said, "Don't worry! I didn't have many people on my hands that day, and I could even settle the 100,000 pirates! Now that I have soldiers and generals in my hands, are I still afraid of the captives?"

Lu Errong smiled and said, "That's natural!"

After he went out, Yier approached and said with some concern: "Miss, I'll look at my son-in-law..."

"Shh--" Lu Errong covered Yier's mouth and said, "Don't talk nonsense! Don't talk nonsense! There will be no trouble!" There was a very uneasy in his eyes!

Li Yanzhi didn't spend the night in Lu's mansion, and after seeing his wife and children, he was going back to the camp. However, since he had arrived, he had to go to see his father-in-law. In front of Lu Bing, he didn't hide his uneasiness. When Lu Bing saw him, he asked him what happened. Li Yanzhi thought that this would make his father-in-law feel confident, so that his wife would not be able to respond in case something happened to him. Fortunately, the father-in-law and son-in-law had such a reply, which made Li Yanzhi remind him and came up with a secret strategy to turn the world around!

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