What happened after the war had nothing to do with a front-line captain like Wang Yan. After reporting the military exploits of his men to Chen Baoning, he took people outside the city to clean up the battlefield. After having an extra meal, he followed Sun Fugui to lead the team.

The soldiers returned to camp to rest.

This showed Wang Baihu's privileges, and Sun Fugui took him to the place where his previous dead ghost Baihu lived, which was a separate small courtyard.

Seeing Wang Yan looking around, Sun Fugui said with a smile: "How about it, it's not bad."

Wang Yan nodded, stretched out his hand and touched the fire bed: "There's no fire here, it's cold."

"Where do you have the time? You can just call your brothers over to help you burn it later."

"Did you call?"

"It's called."

"Then I'll sleep with you for the night. Let's talk tomorrow."

Thinking that Wang Yan was embarrassed to instruct his men, Sun Fugui couldn't laugh or cry: "Okay, then you can come with me. It's not far from the next door. I'll boil some water and wash it off in a while. It's been a lot of work these past two days."

Wang Yan didn't say anything and followed Sun Fugui to where he lived. When he got there, he saw his men lighting a fire for him.

After hanging out with Sun Fugui, they chatted. After waiting for the water to boil, Wang Yan simply wiped his body, changed a set of clothes, lay down on the kang and covered his head before falling asleep without saying a word.

Sun Fugui knew that Wang Yan was really tired, so he asked his men to boil a pot of water. After wiping his body, he lay down next to Wang Yan and snored for a while.

Wang Yan was asleep here, but Yuan Chonghuan over there had no intention of sleeping. He had to think about how to report this matter.

After discussing with Man Gui and the other two, a beautiful piece of news from Yuan Chonghuan was sent to Gao Di, the Liaodong eldest brother who was stationed at Shanhaiguan behind. After all, Yuan Chonghuan was nominally Gao Di's subordinate. Although he stood up this time, he saw

Not quite a high ranking, but the rules are the rules, and there is no reason to report someone beyond their authority.

Ningyuan is about 100 kilometers away from Shanhaiguan. With great efforts, Gao Di received the news in the evening.

When he saw the news of the victory, Gao Di knew that he was almost done. After all, he advocated running away, but Yuan Chonghuan disobeyed and stayed to guard Ningyuan. Shouldn't he be left to his own devices if he lost? As a result, things didn't go as planned, and Yuan Chonghuan actually defended Ningyuan.

Oh. Gaudi is not a fool, of course he knows what this means.

Since the 46th year of Wanli, when Nurhaci issued the Seven Hatreds to rebel against the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army has been fighting and retreating, and now Liaodong has been defeated. Under this situation, Yuan Chonghuan defended Ningyuan... The Ming Dynasty needs victory, the emperor needs victory, he

The eldest brother Wei Zhongxian needs victory even more. So naturally, needless to say, he has to go.

Gaudi looked at the news of victory with a long sigh. After a long time, he attached a memorandum of his own and had it sent to the capital.

It is about 300 kilometers from Shanhaiguan to the capital. In addition, the victory information went through special channels. Express delivery people at the stations along the way kept stopping to deliver it all the way to the capital...

The next day, Emperor Zhu Youxiao, who was doing carpentry work, heard the news reported by Wei Zhongxian. He threw the plane aside and quickly patted the sawdust on his hand: "Hurry and show me."

Wei Zhongxian respectfully presented the victory document and looked at the emperor who was blushing and happy with a smile.

He received the news even earlier than the cabinet. After all, there were guarding eunuchs there who were supervising the army. They were all his godsons and grandsons. He had to tell him about this good thing.

Now they are the eunuchs suppressing the cabinet's power, so the war is naturally their job, and many of them in Liaodong are his responsibility. This damn thing was beaten by Jiannu all the way, and he was beaten all over his head, and he lost it.

In Liaodong, this was all Wei Zhongxian's fault, and he was under a lot of pressure. To be honest, if it hadn't been for this victory, he would have been far behind.

Now is a God-given opportunity. Although they are just defending the city, relatively speaking, this can be regarded as a victory. This not only consolidates their position, but also allows them to further suppress the Donglin Party.

"Okay, okay." Zhu Youxiao wandered around twice happily, then stopped and said, "My dear friend, have you sent someone to Ningyuan?"

"Your Majesty, don't worry. After receiving the news, I sent someone to follow the cabinet."

Zhu Youxiao nodded without saying anything.

Wei Zhongxian thought for a while and said: "The old slave looked at the report of the guarding eunuch below and said that a capable man emerged in this battle and killed more than a hundred slaves in two days."

He lives by pointing to the emperor. No matter how powerful the power is, it is only a matter of the emperor's words. In a word, if the emperor is happy, he will be happy, and if the emperor is uncomfortable, he will cry. So pick up some happy things,

It is his job to speak out and make the emperor happy. If you really want to say it, just such a thing can be considered auspicious.

When Zhu Youxiao heard this, he was surprised and said: "Oh? Is that really true? How come such warriors have never been heard of before?"

It’s not surprising that he made a fuss. After all, since the founding of the Jin Dynasty, there have been many urban battles in the field. In a battle involving tens of thousands of people, only one or two hundred people were killed in one battle. Now that we have come out

It is truly unheard of for a person to survive a major battle with his own achievements.

Serious people would not say that it is possible, should, maybe, Wei Zhongxian is like this: "The report came that Ningqian garrison Yuan Chonghuan and deputy commander Man Gui promoted Baihu together on the evening of the 24th of the first lunar month. He was still 16 years old.

The young man’s name is Wang Yan, and this is his first time on the battlefield.”

It was true, what he reported. It was false, and Yuan Chonghuan and Man Gui took the blame.

With civil and military guarantees, the credibility is very high. Besides, with so many eyes watching, the possibility of fraud is extremely small.

Zhu Youxiao laughed: "Send someone to investigate this Wang's statement to see if it is true. How long has it been since our Ming Dynasty has such a warrior? If it is true, after verification, this person will definitely be rewarded heavily.

.”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

He was just a small soldier who could fight, and Wei Zhongxian didn't care about that. What he cared about was that he was so happy today, and whether the emperor, who looked sad all day and had no thoughts about food and drink, could eat two more bowls of rice.

Zhu Youxiao nodded: "My dear friend, please invite some elders to come over and discuss matters."

Although he rarely went to court, after such a big thing happened, he had to discuss rewards and other things, study the next Liaodong policy and so on, and he had to have an idea in mind.

"Old slave obeys the order."

Naturally, Wang Yan didn't know about things far away in the capital. Of course, even if he knew, he wouldn't care. After all, he knew his record, and it was such a hard-won victory against Hou Jin's attack. In addition,

He was personally promoted by Yuan Chonghuan and Man Gui, but he didn't believe anyone in the city dared to care about his military exploits.

It was a great battle, and it was a rare and successful defense battle. Everyone was very happy, so there was not much training today. They all had a good rest. Of course, there was basically no training in the past. After all, there was no training.

I don’t have enough to eat, and I don’t have enough money to pay for it. I practice and practice...

Wang Yan walked boredly in Ningyuan City, looking around at this important military town and thinking about future plans.

In the short term, he has no way to do business and make money, because his strength is not enough, and he cannot keep his financial resources. He still has to study and study for promotion to an official position. When the time comes, there will be more people, and it will be difficult to make money.

He doesn't need to think about the future things in his mind. He can make a lot of money just by smuggling goods to Mongolia, not to mention engaging in sea trade, robbing and so on along the way.

There are those landowners, the eight Shanxi merchants and so on. If they have nothing to do in the future, they will copy two families. Isn’t it all money?

After wandering around for a while, there was nothing interesting to see. There was no ancient poetry, the houses were quite dilapidated, and the roads were quite muddy. Of course, there were good houses and roads paved with stone slabs, but they were either business districts or rich people.

A place to live.

Perhaps it is possible that this place is located in the north and is a border fortress, not the Qinhuai River in the south where people sing every night. I will have to go there when I have time to experience what kind of beauty the eight beauties are...

In the following time, Wang Yan practiced martial arts on a daily basis, teaching some moves to the remaining sixteen subordinates, and practicing with them whenever they had nothing to do. Of course, the amount of exercise was not too much, but the food was really not good, so he

He doesn't have any money to subsidize. Besides, even if he has money, he can't spend it like that. Unlike other servants of civil servants and military generals, if he does this and is attacked by someone with ulterior motives, it means he has ulterior motives.

As time passed, he was able to make up his men, which totaled eighty people. He took ten of the remaining thirty men, and his elder brother Chen Baoning took twenty.

In March, the imperial court issued a decree to re-establish the governor of Liaodong, with Yuan Chonghuan as the governor. Man Gui was promoted to the governor, Tongzhi, and was actually appointed as the chief military officer. At the same time, Wei Zhongxian took the opportunity to crowd in many people. Yuan Chonghuan sent a memorial to ask these people to be removed.

He was transferred away, because these people were obviously here to fight him. Zhu Youxiao was not sure, so he added the right minister of the Ministry of War, and his descendants Shiyin had thousands of households.

Wang Yan's rank is too low, so he doesn't know the specific details, but it is estimated that this time the Ningyuan defense battle gave the superiors hope of regaining the lost ground and defeating Hou Jin. After all, the existence of the Guanning Jin Defense Line has two meanings.

It is Shanhaiguan, which guards the gateway to the Ming Dynasty, protects the capital, and the other is the bridgehead of Qianhou Jin. Otherwise, why would Sun Chengzong have been here for several years, including farming, building fortresses, training troops and making firearms?

In April, after more than two months, the rewards for this Ningyuan battle were finally received.

On the school grounds, more than 10,000 people who participated in the war stood together densely. Wang Yan was in the front row, standing behind a group of generals. Anyone who wanted to be rewarded was notified in advance. Chen Baoning had already told him.

I heard the eunuch shouting loudly and reading out the imperial edict: "I have been entrusted by heaven to support the emperor. The edict says: Ningyuan defeats the thieves and restores organic life. I am very happy. The merits of all internal and external civil and military officials have been verified, and it is appropriate to add praise to them."

…………Yuan Chonghuan was appointed as the right minister of the Ministry of War and the censor of the right capital of the Inspectorate. He remained the governor as usual, and Yin Yizi... Man Gui was promoted to right governor, Yin Yizi, and was rewarded with twenty taels of silver..."

I read a long list from top to bottom, about Zu Dashou, this and that general, and after waiting for a long time, I finally read someone Wang: "The king is promoted to a thousand households, and is rewarded with ten taels of silver..."

As soon as this reward came out, many people nearby who heard the noise couldn't help but glance at the silly and happy boy. He is only sixteen. Although he has grown up, he is not that old.

Ah. This emperor is probably stupid at wood planing. How can he teach a child to thousands of households? Can he take care of things?

Of course, it didn't matter what they wanted to do with Wang Yan, who was always having fun. He didn't expect that the carpenter emperor was so powerful and generous that he would work for thousands of households. At this age and position, he was almost the best in the world.

Okay. Although the military attache is not very valuable, he is still a fifth-grade official. In the middle, there are also deputy 1,000 households, governors and so on.

Even though he chopped off more than a hundred heads, he really couldn't reach this point in such an environment at his age. It shows how satisfied Zhu Youxiao is with this battle, or maybe Wei Zhongxian? Who knows, he is in charge anyway

That's it. After all, Yuan Chonghuan worked from Yuan County Magistrate to Yuan Superintendent in eight years, so why shouldn't he, Wang, be allowed to fight from Wang Datou to Wang Qianhu in one battle? This doesn't make sense.

After a while, after the eunuch finished speaking, he saw Yuan Chonghuan, Mangui and others half-kneeling on the ground, saying that they had received the order. Wang Yan slowed down and knelt down as well.

Then, a group of officers and soldiers from the back knelt down and shouted "Long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live, long live."

Although Wang Yan had never seen this battle, he just shouted loudly along with him, saying that there was nothing wrong with it.

After this thing is over, it has nothing to do with the people below them. It is all the matter of the civil and military officials above. After unpacking, Wang Yan was called over by Chen Baoning: "Come with me, you take over my shift."

Wang Yan smiled and said, "Congratulations, sir, on your promotion."

After this battle, everyone from the cabinet to Wei Zhongxian and those who fought in Liaodong were basically promoted. Chen Baoning was promoted to command the garrison, and the position of Qianhu was vacant and was given to him.

Someone. Otherwise, we have to fight. This thing is to get promoted and make a fortune too damn fast.

Chen Baoning smiled even more stupidly than Wang Yan: "Hey, I'm taking advantage of you, otherwise I might just give you some money and spend it away."

"Your Excellency, you are too conservative. I heard Sun Fugui say before that you should have been promoted a long time ago. It's just... well, it was a coincidence. This time we defended Ningyuan City, so we should have been promoted. I didn't do that.

Relationships are all up to the adults themselves."
To be continued...