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"Okay, no matter what crime the Empress Dowager wants to punish her, it can only be done after the Xiaochaohui." After speaking, Li Mu pointed to the Qianqing Palace not far away, indicating that they had arrived.

As long as Zhang Yan entered the main hall of the Qianqing Palace, the prelude to the small court meeting was kicked off.

Chapter 257 The Kingdom of Never Conquest

In the Humble Administrator's Hall, all the officials of the Ministry of War and the cabinet ministers arrived early.

It was true that they arrived very early. Some ministers stood in the Humble Administrator's Hall and couldn't help yawning, as if they hadn't woken up. This caused other colleagues to open their mouths one after another. The chain reaction caused the hall to yawn continuously.

"I said, colleagues, can you stop yawning early in the morning, which makes me want to yawn too, ah... oh."

"Ah..., it's still early, I've been waiting for an hour, why hasn't the Empress Dowager come here yet?"

"That's right. In the past, the Queen Mother called the small court meeting of the ministers, and they didn't wait for a long time. Today is strange."

"Poor thing, I was very busy last night. I thought this little court meeting would not last long. Who would have thought it would be an hour, and it hasn't started yet."

Wei Zhongxian, who also arrived early, stood with half-closed eyes and took a break beside the dragon case, turning a deaf ear to the discussions of these ministers, as if he had nothing to do with himself.

Until Wei Zhongxian heard that the door of the Humble Administrator's Hall of Qianqing Palace showed signs of being pushed open, he immediately opened his eyes and saw that the main door of the hall was being slowly pushed open, knowing that the Lord had arrived, he turned to the ministers in the hall. They said in a deep voice: "Ministers, let's hope, the queen mother has arrived."

Let these people still discuss how delicate the concubine's skin was last night, how good her kung fu is, and some government affairs are mixed in, what happened in the local area, and gossip about the inspection team that the court officials are most concerned about is indispensable.

Under Wei Zhongxian's reminder, they all stopped talking and closed their mouths, with a serious look on their faces, not as wretched as when they were discussing the concubine just now, and said the inspection team's gnashing of teeth.

No longer dozing off, she stood there full of energy and waited for Zhang Yan to enter the hall.

...

When the palace door was pushed open, Zhang Yan gave Li Mu a hard look, and then she regained the appearance that the queen mother should have, and walked into the main hall slowly.

"I have seen the empress dowager." The ministers in the palace greeted him respectfully.

Zhang Yan walked towards the dragon chair behind the dragon case amidst the respectful voice, and Li Mu followed behind, standing beside the dragon case like Wei Zhongxian and looking at His Highness's ministers.

"Everyone, let's all be at peace." After speaking, Zhang Yan sat down, but when she sat down, her plump body moved a few times on the dragon chair like a pinprick, and then sat down obediently.

Seeing this, Li Mu smiled, but did not speak.

After the routine procedure was finished, a minister stood up and said, "Queen Mother, I don't know if the phoenix body is ill today? For the sake of the Ming Dynasty and the common people, Your Majesty is young, and I hope the Queen Mother can keep the phoenix body."

The minister's flattery was very good, but it was shot on the thigh of Zhang Yan, a rouge horse.

Hearing this flattery, Zhang Yan understood that these ministers thought that she came too late, maybe because she was not feeling well, so they made this remark, and her face became unnatural. She knew it was not because of this, but she dared not say it The reason for coming out late, I had to admit embarrassingly.

"Aijia thanked Aiqing for your concern. Aijia felt tired after waking up this morning, so he took a short rest. It's disturbing the ministers to wait for Aijia."

As he said that, when the ministers were not paying attention, he glanced at Li Mu, with a strong look of blame in his eyes, and after retracting his eyes, he continued to speak seriously.

"Yesterday I notified all the ministers to come to the Qianqing Palace for the court meeting because Aijia read the battle report about Liaodong sent by Jin Yiwei. He was very indignant at the unfaithful ministers in the battle report, such as the Jurchens, who repeatedly violated the suzerain. The former emperor was kind and merciful. He took care of these Jurchens when they were in the most difficult time, took them in, and let them enter the court as officials. Now they treat the Ming Dynasty like their former benefactors like this. Ai's family is really puzzled , These Jurchens really don’t know what it means, the kindness of a drop of water should be repaid by a spring, and it is in vain to care about the kindness of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty to them?"

Regarding the topic of today's Xiaochao meeting, Li Mu briefly told her while serving Zhang Yan last night. In addition, on the way here just now, he set the basic tone of the topic.

It can be said that there is an issue about the Jurchens today. Li Mu has expressed his views to Zhang Yan in advance, and it depends on how these ministers decide.

"The empress dowager calms down. The barbarians have always been disobedient to the king. No matter how long these barbarians have been attached to me, they will not understand the vastness and profoundness of my etiquette in the Central Plains. The empress dowager should not be angry about such things."

The official who had just been flattering stood up again and comforted Zhang Yan who was very angry at the Jurchen's repeated border violations.

I don't know much about the Jurchen Zhang Yan. I only know that this is a race that betrayed the Ming Dynasty in the early years. When it became stronger, it began to invade the border of Liaodong from time to time, causing the court and the people to feel uneasy.

These things that belonged to the frontier of the imperial court would not make her feel much disgust in the palace. After all, these things were far away from her before, and she only started to contact them this year.

The long story just said was learned from Li Mu.

However, it is different now, since Li Mu doesn't like Jurchens, Zhang Yan feels that it is necessary to stand by her husband and be a sensible and obedient wife.

Since today, I have hated the Jurchen with the same hatred in my heart, and when I heard the comforting words of the minister below, Zhang Yan also sneered.

"The Ai family also thinks that no matter how merciful, sheltered, and civilized these barbarians are, they won't be able to learn my etiquette in the Central Plains."

"It's just that this barbarian Jurchen has repeatedly violated the Liaodong border of our Ming Dynasty, causing the imperial court to spend a lot of money on military pay in the Liaodong area. I don't know if you lovers have a solution."

"It can't be like what it is now. Once these barbarian Jurchens commit crimes on the frontier, the Liaodong frontier army will take precautions once, and then the imperial court will reward them once through military exploits. If this goes on, the Liaodong frontier defense will drag down the entire Daming. How can the family rest assured that such an unbearable Daming country will be returned to the emperor in the future."

After finishing speaking, Zhang Yan found the Ministry of War's battle report on Liaodong from the dragon case, picked it up and threw it on the dragon case, and there was a crisp sound.

The crisp sound seemed to represent Zhang Yan's attitude, which made all the ministers in the hall jump in their hearts, and couldn't help shrinking their necks, and they all began to ponder.

Today's Zhang Yan is very different from the past. No matter what kind of government affairs in the past, the queen mother who supervised the country and listened to the government gave them a kind of gentleness without anger and soft words.

This sudden warmth and anger made them puzzled. They didn't know how the Jurchens had offended the Queen Mother in the palace. There was a huge difference between the two.

After thinking about it, considering the current strength of the Jurchens and the weakness of the Ming Dynasty, these ministers still persuaded: "The Queen Mother calms down, the Jurchens are now powerful, and they cannot be confronted head-on, they should be..."

Li Mu, who was standing next to the dragon case, looked at the advice given to Zhang Yan by the ministers below. Although they were not the same batch of Ming officials in history, they were exactly the same. They did not have a tough attitude. They were all dissuading, thinking that the court should be firm and clear , It is a surefire strategy to take advantage of the strong defense of the city wall, and do not take the initiative to attack and wipe out the rebellion of the Jurchen clan.

Hearing the dissuasion from the ministers, Zhang Yan also hesitated, and secretly looked at Li Mu, but saw anger in his lover's eyes.

At this time, Li Mu seemed tired of hearing these ministers gossip, and asked coldly: "Why, ministers, do you want the Queen Mother to follow the example of the Emperor Taizu and set the Jin Kingdom built by the Jurchens as a country that will never be conquered?" ?”

Chapter 258 The Clan Who Will Never Recruit

Li Mu's words made the whole hall quiet, the minister who was persuading him was stunned for a moment, he was at a loss for words, not knowing what to do.

Zhang Yan, who was sitting on the dragon chair, was startled. She saw signs of anger in Li Mu, but she did not expect to be so angry that she brought out the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, to coerce these ministers. .

As the empress dowager, Zhang Yan naturally knew about the never-conquering kingdom of the Ming Dynasty, and she knew it by heart. This was also an important ancestral precept recorded in the ancestral precepts of the Ming royal family. She did not expect Li Mu to be so familiar with it.

Li Mu is not only familiar with it, but also knows what are the kingdoms that will not be conquered in the Ming Dynasty. He is no longer the first brother who traveled for the first time back then, he can be regarded as an old fritter.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the second year of Hongwu, that is, 1369, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the compilation of "Emperor Ming Ancestral Instructions" and announced that Korea, Japan, Great Liuqiu, Xiaoliuqiu, Annan, Chenla, Siam, and Zhan City State, Sumatra State, Western State, Java State, Panheng State, Baihua State, Three Buddha State, Boni State, fifteen countries are the countries that the Ming Dynasty will never conquer.

It is used to warn future generations not to conquer these fifteen countries arbitrarily, which also means fearing that future generations will be poor and silent.

Another meaning is that these fifteen countries existed like chicken ribs at that time, either separated by the sea or blocked by mountains, it was very difficult to conquer, so in the early Ming Dynasty Zhu Yuanzhang believed that these It is useless to take, and it is a waste of money and people.

Zhu Yuanzhang left this passage in "Emperor Ming Zu Xun", which fully proves this point. All barbarians in the four directions are limited to mountains and seas, and are secluded in a corner. The land is not enough to supply, and the people are not enough to command.

If he scratches my side without knowing it, it will be bad luck.He is not troubled by China, and it is not auspicious for me to raise troops and attack lightly.I am afraid that future generations will rely on the prosperity of China, be greedy for temporary military exploits, raise troops for no reason, and injure lives.However, Hu Rong and the northwest border are close to each other. After many wars, they must choose generals to train troops, and they must be prepared carefully.

In this ancestral precept left by Zhu Yuanzhang, apart from the fifteen countries that will never be conquered, there is another point that needs attention.

In the external environment in the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's focus was not on the coastal areas, but on Hu Rong in the northwest region, which had a lot of soil links with Ming Dynasty.

Since the Ming Dynasty had just been founded, the troubles in the northwest were more important than those countries along the coast. It was a matter of the survival of the country, and it was far more important than conquering and occupying some tasteless territories.

With the passage of time, it is obvious that Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestral motto is a bit outdated. At least Li Mu thinks it is necessary to abolish it, but before it is abolished, it can be used to make peace with these ministers who have nothing to do. Let's beat it.