The sharp and ear-piercing whistles and shouts of the Japanese outside the marquee were getting smaller and smaller, and the chaos caused gradually tended to subside.
Inside the tent, there was a small red clay fireplace, a charcoal and purple sand kettle, the tea in the kettle rolled up and down, and the rich aroma of tea wafted through the air.
Zhao Wenhua sat in the main seat, Hu Zongxian and Zhu Pingan sat in the lower head on both sides, the atmosphere in the tent is a bit gloomy.
The source was Zhao Wenhua.
He hadn’t had time to celebrate the escape, and now he had to face a looming dilemma – how to end it.
“Mei Lin, Zi Hou, you’re all your own people, and you’re all smart, so I’m not going to bend the rules with you. This Sea Sacrifice was supposed to go smoothly and be completed beautifully, and everyone would be able to share in the credit, get promoted and become rich, and all would be happy. Who knows that in the end there was a mistake, God damned Japanese night attack Jiao field, in the camps kill and set fire, although not yet counted the final results, but clear to see, the loss is certainly not small.”
“Although Yu Dayou, Tang Kekuan and others failed to fulfil their trust, neglected their duties, failed to perform their duties, making it easy for the Japanese to sneak into the Jiaochang and attack at night, they can’t absolve themselves of the blame, but as a sea ceremony official, and presiding over the sea ceremony matters of all sizes, I also have the unshirkable responsibility of leadership. Now that the incident has happened, how to report to His Majesty, how to help me solve the siege, do you have a good plan?”
Zhao Wenhua took a sip of tea as if it tasted like wax, then put the teacup aside, leaned forward and said to both Hu Zongxian and Zhu Pingan.
“My lord, the Sea Sacrifice Ceremony was completed smoothly and beautifully during the day. The night attack by the Japanese was after the Sea Sacrifice and did not affect your lordship’s report. These are two things, Your Excellency can completely report on the Japanese night attack in a separate fold. My humble servant thought that what happened after the sea sacrifice, that would have nothing to do with your lordship as the chief priest.”
As soon as Zhao Wenhua’s words fell, Hu Zongxian jumped the gun, suggesting that Zhao Wenhua should report the sea sacrifice and the Japanese night attack as two separate matters.
He played a clever trick to artificially split the things that happened on the same day, so that he could normally report the successful completion of the sea sacrifice, and Zhao Wenhua’s credit would not be less; as for the night attack by Japanese invaders, it was a separate matter and happened after the sea sacrifice, so it was not Zhao Wenhua’s responsibility, and the subtext was to let Yu Dayou and the others take the blame.
Zhao Wenhua listened, narrowed his eyes and pondered for a moment, then shook his head, ”Not good, although the Japanese night attack occurred after the completion of the sea sacrifice ceremony, but after all, it is the same day, in fact, it is also the end of the sea sacrifice, has not yet been dispersed, can not be hidden from the people who have the heart. The Li Mo gang in the imperial court, as well as some self-appointed people, are all staring in the dark, staring at Righteous Father as well as me and the others, if this matter is stabbed by them in front of His Holiness, things won’t be easy to clean up, and I’ll be chastised even more heavily.”
Zhao Wenhua heart is very clear, although the Yan Party in the courtroom power is huge, the world more than half of the officials are members of the Yan Party, the righteous father stomped a stomp, the courtroom can be shaken three shakes, but can not do a hand to cover the sky, such as the Li Mo party and some not party and the party of the Qingliu, explicitly or implicitly with the Yan Party do not deal with the Yan Party, although the power is far less than the Yan Party, but can not be ignored, the courtroom from time to time impeachment of the righteous father and other membersThe impeachment of Righteous Father and other members of the party that appears from time to time in the courtroom is evidence of this.
Originally, when he proposed the sea sacrifice, Li Mo and some other purists were against it, and now they are definitely staring at the sea sacrifice with wide eyes.
This kind of small means could not be hidden from them.
If they stabbed it out, things would be even worse instead, and it would be almost impossible to get out of it.
“In that case ……,” Hu Zongxian pondered for a while, then said meaningfully to Zhao Wenhua, “In fact, as long as someone assumes the responsibility for this night attack by the Japanese invaders, Your Excellency will naturally get off the hook. ”
“Although Yu Dayou and Tang Kefuan are to blame for their enjoyment of trust and dereliction of duty, their shoulders are too small to take on such a large responsibility.”Zhao Wenhua knocked on the armrest of his chair, looked at Hu Zongxian and then at Zhu Pingan, and slowly said.
Zhao Wenhua did not have the slightest heart burden for putting the blame on Yu Dayou and Tang Keguan’s heads, but these two were just generals leading troops, martial artists like dogs under the door, they could not afford to take such a big pot.
“If their shoulders are small can not afford it, who can afford it ……” Hu Zongxian said, and Zhao Wenhua looked at each other, and then coincidentally looked in one direction, that is where Zhang Jing’s tent is located.
A smell of intrigue spread out in the black of the marquee tent.
”I go, they are trying to put the pot on Governor Zhang Jing Zhang’s head,” Zhu Pingan realised at once.
After all, of all the people present, apart from Zhao Wenhua, the only one who could afford to carry such a large mouthful of pot was Zhang Jing.
Zhu Pingan could not help but feel a surge of hot blood, You guys are too shameless!In the beginning, it was you guys who took out the holy decree, and in the name of His Holiness, you overpowered Zhang Jing and seized the power to sacrifice the sea, with Zhao Wenhua presiding over all the matters of the size of the sea sacrifice. But when things went wrong, you just put the black pot of shit on Zhang Jing’s head!
While Zhu Pingan’s blood was hot, Zhao Wenhua and Hu Zongxian had already begun to look for problems with Zhang Jing.
“When I carried the mission of the sea festival, first came to the city, he had much criticism of the sea festival, the intention of the hasty sea festival, cope with the matter, but also want to divert the sea festival money for other purposes, after I took out the imperial decree clearly opposed, it whisked his sleeve away, this matter I have already reported to the supreme court; yesterday, before the start of the sea festival, he also on the sea festival of the shape of the sea, the scale of the process of the problem repeatedly want to be with my constraints, or Meilin moved out of the imperial decree, it was only angry to give up.The only thing he did was to stop in anger and leave with his sleeve, and everyone there saw it in their eyes. After this, he will negatively cooperate with the sea festival matters, a day, more than half of the day in the account said busy not out, as the governor of the Jiangnan monarchs, but idle, negative performance of duties, the Japanese night attack on the Jiaojiao field, which has the responsibility of can not be shirked.”
Zhao Wenhua slapped the armrest of his chair with his hand and righteously leaned the responsibility of the Japanese night attack towards Zhang Jing.
“Your Excellency, my humble servant thought that Governor Zhang, as the Governor of Jiangnan, specialised in suppressing the Japanese and had the duty to eliminate the Japanese and protect the territory. However, since he became the governor, he has been keeping his troops still for several months, failing to send a single soldier to exterminate the Japanese invaders, which has led to the Japanese invaders becoming more and more rampant in the south of the Yangtze River. Tonight, the Japanese attacked the Jiaochang, so how could Governor Zhang stay out of it?”Hu Zongxian started from Zhang Jing’s duty and added.
Zhao Wenhua’s thoughts opened up again after hearing Hu Zongxian’s words, he looked at Hu Zongxian appreciatively and nodded his head vigorously, “Yes, yes, that’s right, the fact that the Japanese were able to be so arrogant is all due to him pressing on with his troops and condoning the Japanese!After I came to Jiangnan, I have repeatedly urged him to send troops to fight the Japanese, but he has used all kinds of reasons to put it off, what the wolf soldiers and other guest soldiers have not stopped ah, what the old generals are unruly, the local soldiers and horses are not able to fight a battle and so on, refused to send troops to fight the Japanese. It is because he does not fulfil the duties of the Governor, condoning the Japanese in the Jiangnan rampage, only to make the Jiangnan boundary Japanese more and more, more and more bold, more and more lawless, and the occurrence of the night attack on the bear field of the scourge!Tonight’s scourge, he is more than unable to stay out of it, he has failed the trust of His Holiness, failed the trust of thousands of people, failed the trust of this official, he has an unshirkable responsibility!”
