Zhao Wenhua ultimately returned empty-handed. Zhang Jing was the highest military commander in the Jiangnan anti-Japanese war. Without Zhang Jing's order to dispatch troops, it would be useless for Zhao Wenhua to urge them to fight. In the end, he could only snort angrily and turn away.
Seeing Zhao Wenhua leaving angrily, Zhang Jing pulled the corner of his mouth in disdain. He didn't know why the emperor would send such a flatterer who knew nothing about military affairs to serve as the imperial envoy to supervise the army. It must be that the Yan Party headed by Yan Song misled the emperor.
Look at what Zhao Wenhua did after he arrived. He robbed and embezzled all the way, and even asked for bribes in disguise when he arrived in Yingtian! He didn't understand military affairs, he only urged the war, and he also tried to interfere in the plan to destroy the Japanese.
Zhao Wenhua and his group give us a glimpse of the whole picture of the Yan Party!
After I have wiped out the Japanese pirates, I will certainly unite with people of lofty ideals to fight against the Yan Party, restore order, and bring peace to the government and the people.
Zhang Jing became firm in his mind.
After Zhao Wenhua disappeared outside the door, Zhang Jing gave the order, "Okay, according to my arrangement, please invite the Minister of War, the Yingtian Garrison Commander, and the Zhejiang Army Inspector to come with me to inspect the training and preparations of each camp. There are two points to note for this inspection. One is not to notify in advance, and the other is to randomly select camps for inspection."
The purpose of inspecting military camps is to check how each camp is training and preparing for war, and then select outstanding generals from them.
A bad soldier will lead to a bad general. An excellent general is the indispensable backbone in suppressing the Japanese pirates.
After the arrival of outstanding soldiers such as Shandong spearmen and Guangxi wolf soldiers, these foreign soldiers will be assigned to outstanding generals.
Soon, Mr. Huang, the Right Vice Minister of the Yingtian Ministry of War, and Xu Pengju, the Duke of Wei, arrived with two bodyguards each.
Mr. Huang, the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of War of Yingtian, is a new appointee. The former Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of War, Shi Pengfei, was demoted to a commoner due to his crime in the last Japanese pirate attack on Yingtian. This is why Mr. Huang has been given this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for promotion.
After a while, Hu Zongxian, the inspector and censor of Zhejiang Province, also came. However, Zhao Wenhua also came with Hu Zongxian.
Zhang Jing first stared at Hu Zongxian for two full seconds. Hu Zongxian looked calm as usual, smiling and bowing to Zhang Jing, "Greetings, Governor Zhang."
Zhang Jing frowned and nodded, then turned to look at Zhao Wenhua and said in surprise, "Didn't Lord Zhao go back? Why are you here again?"
"I heard that Governor Zhang is going to inspect the military camp. As an imperial envoy in charge of military affairs, I naturally cannot stay out of it. Moreover, this inspection of the military camp can be used as an opportunity for me to select soldiers and generals to protect and maintain order for the sea sacrifice ceremony. The sea sacrifice ceremony is imminent, so I would like to ask Governor Zhang for his help. I hope you will not blame me for coming here uninvited."
Zhao Wenhua said with a smile, without any resentment on his face, as if it was not him who had just hit a wall at Zhang Jing's hands and turned away angrily.
As the saying goes, don't hit a smiling face. Seeing Zhao Wenhua lower his head and push Ji Hai out again, Zhang Jing couldn't just chase him away. Besides, he was just following the inspection of the military camps' training and preparations, and it didn't involve the core of command, so it didn't matter if he had one more person.
"Hmph, since we're here, let's go together." Zhang Jing snorted, walked out first, and tacitly agreed to let Zhao Wenhua go.
"Thank you, Governor Zhang."
Zhao Wenhua smiled and bowed to Zhang Jing's back. If you look closely, you will find a stain of ink on Zhao Wenhua's finger.
The reason for this ink mark is that Zhao Wenhua wrote a secret memorial and a letter in indignation after Zhang Jing went back angrily.
The secret memorial was presented to Emperor Jiajing.
Speaking of secret memorials, a convenient and fast channel to contact the emperor, Zhao Wenhua couldn't help but think of Zhu Ping'an. The emergence of secret memorials was suggested by this guy. With secret memorials, it is much easier to impeach someone.
Zhao Wenhua has never been a person who would swallow insults, nor has he ever been a person who can tolerate things with a broad mind or a broad mind.
The welcoming banquet was one thing, excluding the military commander and not informing him of the military deployment was another, asking for five thousand taels of silver but not giving it was another, and today he urged me to go to war but was rebuffed... ... Do you really think I have a good temper? !
snort!
I, Zhao Wenhua, will always seek revenge!
After returning angrily from the governor's office, Zhao Wenhua spread out his pen, ink, paper and inkstone and began to write a memorial impeaching Zhang Jing.
"Zhang Jing is a mature man, cautious by nature, and very careful. He is proficient in military tactics. However, he has no way to command his troops and is afraid of the Japanese pirates. Now the time has come for him to step forward, but he cannot. There are more than 40,000 Japanese pirates occupying places such as Taklinchuan and Shabao in Zhejiang, and they are gathering more and more. Every day, they allow the Japanese pirates to plunder surrounding cities, burning, killing, looting and committing all kinds of evil. The people are suffering. The Japanese are getting more and more arrogant. To date, they have broken through the city of Chongde. More than 100,000 people are crying in the streets and displaced. However, Zhang Jing has not sent a single soldier to suppress the Japanese since he took office. I have urged Zhang Jing to send troops to suppress the Japanese several times, but Zhang Jing always refused to send troops because the time was not right... Zhang Jing is wasting money and harming the people. He is afraid of the pirates and wants to wait for the opportunity when the Japanese pirates have plundered enough to escape before suppressing the remaining pirates to report his merits. Or even worse, Zhang Jing is a Fujianese. He is worried that the pirates will pass through his hometown and collude with the enemy to cause trouble. He is raising the pirates for his own benefit and does not think about serving the court... "
After finishing writing, Zhang Jing checked it carefully to make sure there were no typos, and was about to ask someone to send out the impeachment memorial.
However, Zhao Wenhua soon shook his head and said to himself, "Not appropriate, not appropriate. I just came to Jiangnan, the sea sacrifice has not yet been held, and my foothold is not stable. The time is still short, and it is not enough to submit this impeachment memorial..." Now is not the time. At least wait until the sea sacrifice is over, and then urge the war a few more times. Thinking of this, Zhao Wenhua crumpled up the memorial and threw it into the wastebasket.
In order to prevent the news from leaking, Zhao Wenhua picked it up from the wastebasket, threw it into the furnace, and burned it to ashes.
He took out another secret book and wrote again.
This time, Zhao Wenhua did not directly impeach Zhang Jing, but mainly wrote about his arrival in Yingtian to announce the imperial edict.
He only added a sentence at the end without leaving any trace. After receiving the order and talking about the sea sacrifice, Zhang Jing left in a huff...
After receiving the order, Zhang Jing talked about the sea sacrifice and left in anger. This is a fact, and everyone present saw it.
It can withstand scrutiny.
Based on my understanding of Emperor Jiajing, after learning that Zhang Jing left in anger after receiving the imperial edict, the emperor would definitely ask the imperial guards to verify it. This is a fact, and no matter who verifies it, it cannot change the fact that Zhang Jing left in anger. This will definitely make the emperor uncomfortable. Whether it is disrespectful to the imperial edict or criticizing the sea sacrifice, it will make the emperor feel resentful.
Even Zhang Jing, as the governor of Jiangnan, did this, which might have made the emperor wary and caused a rift in trust...
Anyway, we should first put some pressure on Zhang Jing and pave the way for impeaching him someday.
After writing the secret memorial, Zhao Wenhua wrote another letter to his adoptive father Yan Song, in which he slandered Zhang Jing to the utmost and detailed all the hostile acts against him. At the end, he stated that he intended to impeach Zhang Jing after the sea sacrifice and asked Yan Song to support him.
After writing it, Zhao Wenhua called his trusted subordinates and ordered them to bring the secret memorial and letter to the capital immediately without any mistakes.