Jun Jiuling

Secretly ordered the officers and soldiers of the Northland to be at odds with the Jinren.

Not to mention that the discord between the officers and soldiers and the Jin people is to provoke disputes and cause border instability, but to say that the secret order is to violate the holy name without permission.

These are mortal crimes to be impeached.

Cheng Guogong actually admitted it?

There is no need to show the evidence of Jin Yiwei.

Lu Yunqi, who was standing aside, looked blank, not disappointed or annoyed, as if he hadn't heard anything.

But the other ministers couldn't pretend that they didn't hear anything. After a while of silence in the hall, it fell into a commotion.

"Duke Cheng is bold!"

"A rebellious heart!"

Not only the censor, but more ministers stood up and reprimanded angrily.

The emperor seemed frightened by the scene, and seemed shocked and disappointed by Cheng Guogong's words beyond belief.

"Shut up." He shouted, looking at Cheng Guogong again, "Cheng Guogong, is there some misunderstanding?"

These words dissatisfied the quiet censors.

"Your Majesty, you dote on Zhu Shan too much."

"It is because of you that Zhu Shan becomes more arrogant."

"Your Majesty, whether you believe him or not, you are really deluded by him."

Especially a few old ministers were heartbroken.

The hall fell into chaos again.

The eunuchs had to keep the ministers quiet for the emperor.

"I let you say what you should say, and now I want to hear what Cheng Guogong has to say." The emperor said, looking at Cheng Guogong, "I will ask you again, did you really do this?"

Cheng Guogong nodded.

"Your Majesty has indeed done so." He said, "Your Majesty does not need these censors to inquire."

He glanced at Lu Yunqi again.

"You don't need the Jin Yiwei guards to spy."

He looked at the emperor again.

"Because I have been doing this all the time." He said, "I have always told the officers and soldiers of the Northland to always be on guard against the Jin people."

His posture was straight, his voice was mellow and his tone was soothing, but it was strange that the officials in the hall suddenly felt a little tense and depressed.

Cheng Guogong's voice continued, and he looked at the ministers on both sides.

"...You're welcome."

"Be fierce."

"Much ado about nothing."

"We must seize every opportunity to suppress."

"Create opportunities even if there is no opportunity."

The officials in the hall were dumbfounded.

Crazy, what are you talking about?

Ning Yunzhao stood aside and lowered his head.

Look, this is the real Cheng Guogong. He is not as gentle and kind as his appearance. He is indeed warlike, brave, and iron-blooded.

"Why should I do this? Because I have dealt with them all my life, and I know their temperament very well." Cheng Guogong said, "It is absolutely impossible for them to surrender by taking the initiative to make friends, and it is inevitable for them to take the initiative to make friends. He has wolf ambitions."

He turned his gaze back to the emperor.

"That's why Your Majesty, if I order the officers and soldiers in the Northland, I will order them in the same way when I am not in the Northland. I will order it like this in wartime, and I will also order it in non-wartime."

The emperor looked a little bewildered.

"So, what do you mean by that?" he asked.

Cheng Guogong looked at him.

"The size of my Great Zhou country cannot be discarded, especially the land close to the heart. Now that the Jin people are around, the Central Plains cannot be stable. If you retreat three counties today, you will lose several counties in the future. How easy it is to negotiate peace today. The battle will be so cruel in the future." He said, with a serious expression, he raised the wat board and bowed, "so the situation at this time is more dangerous than before, and peace cannot be discussed. I ask your majesty to be stricter in military affairs and take strict precautions against the Jin people. Stick to it, don't be gentle with each other."

After speaking, he lifted his robe and knelt down.

"Let's look for an opportunity to fight again." He bent down and kowtowed.

He still wants to fight!

"Zhu Shan! You are bold!"

Before the other officials could react, someone shouted angrily.

Everyone followed the sound and saw that Huang Cheng stepped out with a sneer.

"My lord, please punish Zhu Shan, the Duke of Cheng, for the crime of treason, injustice, and chaos." He bowed to the emperor and then looked at Duke Cheng, "Zhu Shan, since you led the army in the North, the Jin people have been defeated without loss. Now that we have invaded on a large scale, our officers and soldiers in the Northland have been defeated one after another, and the city has fallen, this is the Northern Army under your rule, what face do you have to speak out here?"

"The Jin people recharge their energy and store up their energy, make heavy troops and strong horses, reuse strong generals, and spare no expense in manpower and property, so they have strong soldiers and strong horses today." Cheng Guogong knelt down and looked sideways at Huang Cheng and said without hesitation.

Huang Cheng sneered.

"You mean that I don't have a heavy army, a strong horse, and a strong general, and only by sacrificing manpower and property have I been exposed before?" He said.

"Master Huang is aware of this. In recent years, I have never paid enough money and food in the Northland on time." Cheng Guogong said, "Let's exploit and deduct at every level."

Huang Cheng snorted.

"Ridiculous, shameless." He glared, "You have managed the army well if you have won a battle, and it is the court's fault if you have lost a battle. Our treasury gave tens of thousands of elites from our northern army to the Jin people, so that the national air force was damaged. Fortunately, the Yihe people can rest in peace, but you still want to fight. You want to send me to the Jin people. People are not!"

Other officials also appeared one after another.

"Your Majesty, we can't fight anymore."

"Your Majesty, the country is subjugated by military force."

They all bowed and said.

The emperor glanced over all the officials, and finally looked at Cheng Guogong, raising his hand to stop everyone's commotion.

"Cheng Guogong." He said, "It turns out that you still do not agree with the peace negotiation at this moment."

Cheng Guogong has a gentle expression and calm eyes.

"Your Majesty, the Jin people fought with me, and all the troops gathered, and the national wealth was exhausted. At this time, we should go all out to dampen his spirit, and we must not give him a chance to breathe. Although a peace has been negotiated, the Jin people took the initiative to seek peace. We After all, Fang's morale is high, the time and place are favorable, and the opportunity is hard to miss." He bowed, "Your Majesty, please take a picture."

The courtroom was noisy again.

"Your Majesty, I have a memorial." Huang Cheng said, stretching out his hand and pointing backwards, "Bring up the memorial."

Memorial?

The emperor frowned slightly, and nodded to the eunuchs. The eunuchs took orders and brought in a box not long after they went out, opened the lid and the memorial fell to the ground with a clatter.

"These are all memorials sent by the officials of Beidi after Duke Cheng entered Beijing. They are all requests for Duke Cheng to return to Beidi."

"They oppressed the imperial court and ignored the orders of government officials."

"Uncle Qinghe is having difficulty moving an inch in the north, and the generals from all walks of life are tyrannical."

Several officials stood up and said.

Discussions rang out in the hall, pointing at the memorial here, looking disbelieving and shaking their heads in dissatisfaction.

Looking at the scattered memorials and listening to the buzzing discussions, the emperor's expression gradually became serious.

"Your Majesty, as long as Zhushan is here, there will never be a day when border quarrels will cease." Huang Cheng said, leaning over and kowtowing, "I ask you to dismiss Cheng Guogong from military affairs, and I ask you to rule Cheng Guogong to do his best to be a powerful person at home and abroad." crime."

More officials then knelt down and echoed.

For a while, the whole room was filled with the voices of please punish Cheng Guogong.

There were only four exceptions, one Lu Yunqi, of course it was not because he disagreed, and one Ning Yunzhao, it was because the emperor hadn't spoken yet, and Cheng Guogong didn't speak either, and he kowtowed to plead.

His pleadings are of course different from those of these officials.

"Zhu Shan." The emperor said, "I don't ask you about the provocation."

Why didn't you ask about this crime? Will the emperor let Cheng Guogong go again?

The officials looked up.

Cheng Guogong also raised his head.

"I only ask you, maybe you don't want to fight?" the emperor asked.

Huang Cheng, who leaned over, frowned. Isn't it a bit risky for His Majesty to retreat? Zhu Shan is very shameless, maybe what he said just now was to force the emperor to say this sentence, after all, today he was accused of instigating the border provocation, the emperor let go of this matter at this time, he just took advantage of the situation Should be next.

After all, the peace negotiation has been completed, and the fight or not is just a few empty shouts.

Is he going to escape again this time? Then the next step is a bit troublesome.

Huang Cheng was thinking about what to say when Cheng Guogong had already spoken.

"Your Majesty, I can't." Duke Cheng kowtowed, his voice gentle but firm, "It's not yet the time to make peace without fighting."

Huang Cheng breathed a sigh of relief, hearing the voice of the emperor above.

"Okay then, please resign."

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Cheng Guogong please resign!

Cheng Guogong please resign!

A gust of news usually spreads in the capital, and then spreads out.

"What resignation?" An old man outside the tea shed by the road shook his head, "That's dismissal, but the emperor gave Cheng Guogong face and asked him to resign. After all, it sounds better than dismissal."

Regardless of whether he is dismissed or resigns, the people listening to the excitement don't care about the process but only about the result.

"And then? Has Duke Cheng really resigned?" They asked anxiously.

The old man nodded.

"Resigned," he said.

Hearing this, Zhu Zan threw a large amount of money on the table, got up and went out, Miss Jun hurriedly followed.

"Grandpa Guo must have his own thinking in doing this." She said.

Zhu Zan held the horse and smiled.

"I don't think much about it." He said, "Go to Beijing to take a look, now I just understand it."