"How bold!" Zhu Cilang stood up angrily and looked at Zhang Rong.
Zhang Rong had no choice but to kneel down again: "Your Highness, please forgive me. I just said it nonsense."
Zhu Cilang clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, and was filled with anger.
After a moment.
Zhu Cilang sat back down.
The anger in my heart is gone, replaced by calmness.
Although Zhang Rong's words were harsh, they were all true.
It can be seen from the fact that Liu Kongzhao helped Qian Qianyi convey the message that the Nanjing nobles had already allied with the Donglin Party in Nanjing.
He has the final say inside the imperial city, and the soldiers outside the imperial city are controlled by civil officials and nobles!
He had indeed become a hostage.
After another moment of silence, Zhu Cilang asked Zhang Rong, "How is Yuan Jixian doing? Has the military pay been delivered?"
"The military pay was delivered 20 days ago, but Yuan Jixian has not yet dispatched his troops."
Hearing that Yuan Jixian had not yet sent out his troops, Zhu Cilang became anxious: "My father's original intention was to have Qin Liangyu in the front and Yuan Jixian in the back, so that the two of them could attack Zhang Xianzhong from both sides. But now, Qin Liangyu is almost unable to hold on, and Yuan Jixian has not yet sent out his troops!"
"Is Yuan Jixian still okay? If not, change someone else!"
Zhang Rong smiled bitterly, "Your Highness, when I was delivering the salary, I realized that the situation over there is indeed a bit complicated. Why not give him some more time?"
"Zhang Rong!" Zhu Cilang narrowed his eyes, his gaze cold, "You didn't accept benefits from Yuan Jixian, did you? You actually defended him despite his obvious fear of the enemy and cowardice!"
"I dare not!" Zhang Rong knelt down again.
He felt as if his knee had been hit by an arrow and the pain was unbearable.
"Your Highness, you don't know that although Yuan Jixian eliminated Zuo Liangyu and his son, he only eliminated Zuo Liangyu and his son."
"The ten generals under Zuo Liangyu all have their own agenda. If we don't subdue them, the result of a rash expedition will only be a disastrous defeat!"
"Besides..." Zhang Rong paused and continued, "Besides, Zuo Liangyu has always been on good terms with Donglin, and his generals often exchange letters with Donglin."
"Zuo Liangyu's experience and the current situation of the Donglin people in the court have made these people worried. If you want them to work for the court, Your Highness will have to think of a way." After Zhang Rong finished saying these words, he reached out and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
That is, in Nanjing, opposite Zhu Cilang.
If he was in Beijing, and the person opposite him was Chongzhen, he would have been executed by slow slicing.
What are the principles of the eunuchs of the Eastern Depot?
Say what you see and write what you hear.
Just state the facts, don’t take sides, don’t analyze!
Today he made an exception!
If Zhu Cilang pursued the matter, he could be executed now.
Zhu Cilang didn't have the energy to pursue the matter because he felt like his head was about to explode.
"Zuo Liangyu is actually related to Donglin? This... this is too confusing!"
A quarter of an hour ago, he still had a sense of superiority as if he was in control of the overall situation.
A quarter of an hour later, he was dizzy with the intricate relationships of the Nanjing court.
In fact, not only are the relationships in the Nanjing court chaotic, the relationships in the Beijing court are equally complex, and can even be described as intricately connected!
Relationships are complicated for a reason.
The generals were leading the troops to fight outside.
It’s good that we won the battle, we will get credit and rewards.
It would be terrible if we lost the battle, because the pens of those literati in the court could kill people.
In order to save their lives, military generals would try every means to make friends with civil officials.
I hope they can say a few good words for me in front of the emperor when I lose the battle.
Don't underestimate the power of these few words.
The emperor sat high in the Golden Palace. In addition to learning about military generals from the eunuchs who supervised the army, another way was to hear from these civil officials.
If the court is a classroom, then the head teacher is the emperor and the students are the ministers.
When a student makes a mistake, the class teacher will learn about the student's situation from other students.
When most people say that a student is not good, the class teacher's impression of this student will not be very good either.
Is this student necessarily a bad person?
uncertain.
Because some people just don’t like to be sociable, that’s not a bad thing.
It is like this in the classroom and in the court as well!
Zhu Cilang was so confused that he slumped in his chair, feeling hopeless.
“Your Highness?” Zhang Rong was afraid that something might happen to Zhu Cilang, so he raised his voice, “Your Highness! Your Highness!!!”
"I'm fine, I'm just tired and exhausted!" Zhu Cilang's fatigue was mixed with a little helplessness.
"Your Highness, Mr. Ni is your teacher, why not ask him..."
"He is also from Donglin, so asking him is pointless!"
"There are good and bad people in Donglin, and the person chosen by His Majesty should be right!"
Zhu Cilang had no choice but to ask Ni Yuanlu for advice in person.
When Shi Kefa arrived at Wenhua Hall, Zhu Cilang had not returned yet.
After waiting for a long time, Zhu Cilang finally appeared in Wenhua Hall.
After the greeting, Shi Kefa bowed and asked, "I wonder why Your Highness has summoned me here?"
Zhu Cilang, who had just returned from his journey to the West, took a deep breath and exhaled slowly.
After repeating this several times, he finally calmed down.
"Minister Shi, Qian Qianyi asked Liu Kongzhao, the Earl of Chengyi, to deliver a message saying that he is willing to donate 300,000 taels of silver to help the Nanjing court with its urgent needs."
"What do you think?"
Shi Kefa was stunned.
He never expected that Qian Qianyi could come up with so much money.
What was even more unexpected was that the person Qian Qianyi was looking for was Liu Kongzhao instead of him, the Minister of War.
Did Qian Qianyi take the wrong medicine?
Liu Kongzhao's power is not as great as that of the Nanjing Aviation Counselor!
Wait a moment...
Could the news be false?
No, it should be true.
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