The Ming Dynasty's Spokesperson

If the imperial court is compared to a noisy wet market, when the news of Japanese soldiers landing in North Korea spread, it was as if the entire wet market was instantly muted.

Originally, historically, the Ming court did not receive the news so quickly. However, in this time and space, due to the previous controversy over Lin Tailai's "preparation for Japan", the imperial court ordered Liaodong to strengthen the collection of information from North Korea.

But now there is only news about the successful landing of Japanese soldiers. It is not like the collapse of the entire North Korea as Lin Tailai predicted, and the Ming court has no sense of urgency.

Those who talked about the matter and just said "impossible" and cried poor were fine, but Lu Guangzu, the censor of Zuodu who attacked Lin Tailai for "having different intentions and evil intentions", was immediately slapped in the face.

Immediately, the censor jumped out and impeached Lu Guangzu for his selfish motives and false accusations against the ministers.

Lu Guangzu argued strongly that although Japanese soldiers landed in North Korea, didn't Lin Tailai have any fault of bluffing, exaggerating, and trying to seize the opportunity to seize power?

The question of whether North Korea was invaded seemed to have become a tool of party struggle in the Ming Dynasty.

This is very consistent with the national conditions in the middle and late Wanli Dynasty, that is, everything can be fought by parties. Regardless of whether it is the demon book case or the Chu vassal case, it can eventually turn into a party struggle.

Faced with the new situation, Emperor Wanli issued an order to consult Lin Tailai.

It was late spring when the six hundred miles urgent edict was sent to Suzhou City.

Lin Daguan, the first deputy leader of the literary world and a generation of poets, considered that he had been busy with politics and military affairs in the past three years and had neglected the creation of spring themes.

So he decided to update his spring poetry collection this spring, so he launched an elegant collection in the Humble Administrator's Garden, the largest garden in Suzhou.

Under the watchful eyes of the public, Lin Daguan was slowly brewing his poetry. Others did not dare to be impatient and patiently waited for the release of Lin Shizong's new works.

A quarter of an hour later, Lin Shizong was heard standing with his hands behind his back and reciting deeply: "Where is the most enchanting place in autumn? The lingering west wind, no, that's wrong, that's wrong, let's change it."

Then Lin Shizong skillfully switched to another song: "Today is not yesterday, so what will tomorrow be like? Why do I really regret not studying for ten years?"

In order to ask the old wind blowing, the maple river and the orchid path have been passed down several times, and the thousands of miles have turned into plain grass. Outside the lonely setting sun, I feel misty and sad."

Lin Shizong had only published one-tenth of his poem today when he was suddenly interrupted by the sound of rapid horse hooves.

Not long after, a yamen servant rushed over and said loudly: "The yamen conveyed that the emperor has urgently issued an edict to inquire about Mr. Lin, please respond as soon as possible!"

Everyone was surprised and envious at the same time. The treatment of Mr. Lin was worthy of being regarded as a national scholar!

But Lin Daguan snorted coldly and said to himself: "It's just an urgent consultation, not an urgent call for me to return to Beijing."

When the people nearby heard this, no one dared to answer the question. It can only be said that Lin Daguan's brain circuit is very human.

Suddenly, I heard Lin Daguan sigh again: "This shows that the court is too stable and needs to set off a new climax of struggle!"

The people next to him still couldn't understand, as if they were from two different worlds from Lin Daguan.

Afterwards, official Lin complained, and did not bother to publish the few hundred words of poems he had prepared. He hurriedly went home to write a memorial to answer the emperor's inquiry.

There are two main contents. One is to request the imperial court to urgently allocate 200,000 taels of silver to Liaodong to meet the needs of the situation in North Korea.

The second is to request the imperial court to mobilize about 100,000 troops to Liaodong to prepare for war.

Liaodong Town still had the task of defending the left flank of the Northern Captives and could not all be mobilized. Therefore, it was recommended to mobilize troops from Xuanfu, Datong, Yansui, Guyuan, Ningxia and other towns.

As for Ji Town and Gansu Town, which have heavier defense tasks, they can be transferred as appropriate.

Lin Tailai's memorial was still sent to the capital at an accelerated speed of 600 miles, which immediately caused an uproar.

Mainly because the movement proposed by Lin Tailai was too big, even far exceeding the scale of Ningxia's deployment of troops last year.

In the perception of many people, North Korea only encountered "Japanese pirates", just like what happened on the southeastern coast of Jiajing Dynasty. Was Lin Tailai a bit overreacted?

Two hundred thousand taels of silver were allocated in advance, and a hundred thousand troops were to be recruited. What did Lin Tailai want to do?

Not to mention the Wanli Dynasty, even in the past hundred years, it seems that such a large-scale legion has not been used.

Emperor Wanli was also puzzled by Lin Tailai's memorial, and decided to use collective wisdom to send Lin Tailai's memorial to the court for discussion.

The courtiers were talking a lot, but even those who supported Lin Tailai did not dare to be too determined. After all, the request for a hundred thousand troops was indeed a bit "appalling."

The most uncomfortable person at this time was Lu Guangzu, the censor of Zuodu. When the Korean issue evolved into a party dispute in the court, he had already been provoked.

He could only continue to question Lin Tailai's motives and expose Lin Tailai's ambitions. There was no turning back.

But seeing Lin Tailai's gambling getting bigger and bigger, Lu Guangzu was also confused and a little scared.

When a person is not confident, he will always think of relying on external forces, so Lu Guangzu summoned all the smart people he considered to discuss strategies together.

But even among our own people, opinions are not unified.

Qian Yiben, a senior imperial censor, gave impassioned advice: "There is no turning back when you shoot. The most fearful thing about doing things is hesitation. To back down at this time will only become the laughing stock of the world!"

Things have reached this point. We must grit our teeth and persevere to the end. We must not give up halfway!

Even if you pay the price for this, it is better than being ridiculed and despised by others.

If General Xian Gong needs to take care of himself, then let me and Lin Tailai fight to the end! "

Qian Yiben's words were very passionate and morale-boosting. They were completely in line with Qingliu's political correctness, and no one else could find anything wrong with him.

If no one shows the courage and courage to be willing to die, then the cohesion of the Qingliu forces will be gone.

Only the other censor, He Zhuo, was silently calculating in his mind. It seems that the one-year privilege they exchanged for famous paintings has not expired yet?

But Zhao Nanxing, the head of the Host and Guest Department of the Ministry of Etiquette, was much more cautious and said: "Although Lin Tailai has always been bold, he never takes aim without aim.

If he bets heavily like this, he might have some backing and trump card. If we blindly follow the bet without knowing the enemy's situation, we may encounter unexpected risks. "

Everyone can understand Zhao Nanxing's conservatism.

After all, Zhao Nanxing has been demoted three times in a row. If he is demoted again, he will have to go to another county to become a county magistrate, so he has to be extra cautious.

As a result, the two different opinions seem to have their own reasons, and a conclusion cannot be reached.

Looking at Zhao Nanxing, Lu Guangzu suddenly asked: "The North Korean mission is still in the same hall? Can you introduce it to me?"

As the saying goes, without investigation, there is no right to speak. Lu Guangzu decided to personally contact the top leaders of North Korea to obtain first-hand information before making plans.

In the past, Lu Guangzu would not have cared about what this small vassal country looked like. But now that it involves party strife, we have to pay attention to it.

The day before the court meeting, Lu Guangzu, the censor of Zuodu, went to Nanhui Tongguan in person, visited and hosted a banquet for Yin Zhuoran, the envoy of the North Korean mission, and consulted on North Korean affairs.

After drinking for three rounds, Lu Guangzu asked: "Can your country's soldiers and horses resist the Japanese pirates?"

Yin Zhengzhi was very fluent in Chinese and did not need to know anything. He directly replied proudly:

“Although our country cannot compare with the Ming Dynasty, it is still three thousand miles deep and has many dangerous mountains and rivers for the army and the people.

Although the Japanese pirates took advantage of my unpreparedness and successfully landed, our country can still resist the danger and defend it. If we mobilize soldiers and horses from the country to encircle and suppress them, we can destroy them! "

Although North Korea is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, as an envoy, Yin Zhuoran cannot lose the dignity of a small country!

National self-improvement starts with words!

Lu Guangzu was silent for a long time, and then thinking about the Jiajing Dynasty's experience in fighting the Japanese, he felt that what Yin Zhengshi said was true.

Japanese pirates can probably invade hundreds of miles along the coast.

After all, North Korea is also known as the powerful country in the east. How can it need the Ming Dynasty to mobilize a hundred thousand troops to rescue?

The next day, a hundred and eighty people gathered in Dongchaofang. The scale of this kind of court discussion was much larger than that of Ting Tui.

Anyone who wants to come, including Liubu Langguan and Kedao Yanguan, can come to participate. The main purpose is to brainstorm and solicit opinions widely.

Wang Yusheng, a third-year censor and member of the Update Club, stood in the crowd, feeling uneasy.

He is now at a critical stage and needs some performance to boost him. Therefore, the organization decided that he would be the main attacker today, and his main target was Lu Guangzu.

For Wang Yusheng, who was born into a wealthy family, he was really not good at quarreling with people, but he had some experience of being quarreled by Lin Tailai.

The family knowledge left by his grandfather, the late scholar Wang Hao, is not very impressive.

Wang Tianguan, as the first person in the foreign dynasty to be the official minister, also needed him to preside over the court meeting, but he simply announced the start and got out of the way.

Wang Tianguan had no interest in this kind of meeting that seemed to involve no personnel struggle.

Wang Yusheng, who was in an extremely nervous mood, heard the court meeting begin and rushed out. He stuttered to Lu Guangzu:

"Lu, Mr. Lu! You are old, incompetent, ill-informed, and you are harming the country! You are abusing public affairs for personal reasons in Korean affairs!"

Lu Guangzu looked at Wang Yusheng in confusion, who do you think you are?

Before the matter has even been discussed, you start directly criticizing me personally. Are you polite?

After the confusion, there is rage! Your father may have just been born when I entered the court!

"Who gave you the courage?" The infuriated Lu Guangzu asked Wang Yusheng, who was 26 or 27 years old.

Wang Yusheng shrank back, "Isn't it true that Zuodu Yushi doesn't want anyone to speak?"

Lu Guangzu didn't want to pay attention to this little trash like Wang Yusheng anymore, so he turned around and shouted to everyone:

"In the past hundred years, there may have been troubles from Japanese pirates in the East China Sea, and Korea was also in the East China Sea. Lin Tailai accidentally guessed a Japanese pirate attack, which can't mean anything.

On the contrary, Lin Tailai took advantage of the Japanese rebellion in Korea, which proves that Lin Tailai had different intentions and had evil intentions! "

Wang Yusheng stubbornly brushed his presence, stood in front of Lu Guangzu again, and retorted: "Why is it proved? If you say it is proved, then it is proved?"

Lu Guangzu thought that he was "old, incompetent and ignorant", and his anger gradually grew, so he said loudly: "After my in-depth research and analysis, I understand a little about the situation in Korea!"

Wanting to prove himself, Lu Guangzu continued: "Although the Korean state cannot be compared with the Ming Dynasty, it is still three thousand miles deep and has many dangerous mountains and rivers for the army and the people.

Although the Japanese pirates took advantage of North Korea's unpreparedness and successfully landed, the various places in North Korea can still resist the danger and defend, and then mobilize soldiers and horses from the country to encircle and suppress the Japanese pirates!

This is the situation, but Lin Tailai proposed to mobilize an army of 100,000 troops and allocate 200,000 silver taels. Isn't this an evil intention? "

Although some people, such as Ye Mengxiong, Secretary of the Ministry of War, wanted to speak for Lin Tai, but faced with the seemingly outrageous proposal of "a hundred thousand troops and two hundred thousand silver taels", they really couldn't speak up.

Lu Guangzu felt that he had reached a long-lost peak state, and his voice drowned out everyone, "We must reject Lin Tailai's proposal, and reprimand Lin Tailai and prohibit him from managing military affairs again to prevent it from happening!"

Ye Mengxiong was thinking about how to push back when suddenly an official from the Tongzhengsi appeared at the door of the Dongchao room.

Then he shouted to the ministers: "The Liaodong Governor reported urgently! The Japanese soldiers broke through the Korean capital, and the Korean kingdom has fallen halfway!"

Officials: "."

Fuck, is this Korean kingdom really okay? It has only been more than half a month since the Japanese soldiers landed in Busan, how come they even lost the royal capital Seoul?

"Yin Zhuoran, I poke your mother!" In a shocked and speechless environment, Lu Zongxian suddenly lost his composure first and cursed in a very undignified manner.

A powerful country in the east, with a depth of 3,000 miles, defending in a dangerous place, and soldiers and horses available, that's it? That's it?

Others didn't know what to say, and even felt a little sympathetic to Lu Zongxian.

What does "knowing a little bit about the situation in North Korea" mean? I don't know who fooled me.

Wang Yusheng suddenly jumped out again, and stopped stuttering. He pointed at Lu Guangzu, who was his grandfather, and said, "You are old and incompetent, and you are not convinced!"

"Shut up! Get out!" Lu Guangzu scolded Wang Yusheng, who was his grandson, like an angry old lion.

Wang Yusheng accused again: "As the head of the censors, you actually tried to block the way of speech!

You are old and incompetent, your vision is unclear, you put personal interests above public interests, and you block the way of speech. You are not worthy of being the Left Censor-in-Chief!"

Lu Guangzu: "."

Shi Xing, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of War, stepped forward to smooth things over and said: "Even if General Lu's judgment is biased, does that mean Lin Tailai is right?

In any case, we don't need 100,000 troops. We only need to send one or two generals from Liaodong to lead the troops to rescue!

When this batch of heavenly soldiers from the Ming Dynasty enters the court, with the assistance of the Korean army, we can wipe out the Japanese pirates!"

Compared with Lin Tailai's "100,000 troops and 200,000 silver taels", Shi Xing's proposal is obviously more "appropriate".

Anyway, the habitual thinking of the Ming Dynasty court is like this. When encountering the enemy, stabilize the defense, and then mobilize a few thousand or at most tens of thousands of troops to tinker with it.

After a discussion, the officials still tended to Shi Xing's proposal.

Although the capital of Korea was lost and half of the country was gone, at least half of it was left. It is impossible to waste the whole territory and let it fall, right? Just stabilize it and slowly counterattack.

But Wang Yusheng thought about his mission and said relentlessly: "But General Lu is old and incompetent, has unclear views, puts personal interests above public interests, and blocks the way of speech. What do you say?"

Lu Guangzu took off his official hat and said angrily: "I use this official position as a bet to support Shi Shilang's proposal!

If I really need the army that Lin Tailai said in the future, I will resign and apologize!"

Faced with this kind of rhetoric, the young Wang Yusheng was stunned and said subconsciously; "Can you...write a letter?"

Everyone: "..."

Why are the descendants of Wang Ao, the Grand Secretary, so sarcastic?