The cold team arrived at the Hanhai City of the Northern Frontier. Now the general Wu Xinyu is not in the Hanhai. The one who stays behind is Zheng Yougong, the third-rank general of the Northern Frontier. He is the most capable general under Wu Xinyu. Whenever Wu Xinyu is not around, he will stay behind.

Zheng Yougong is forty years old, and he is in his prime. He is not about his age, but about his career, but also a bit embarrassing.

At the age of 40, he is already the peak of the military general's grade without great merit. Therefore, Wu Xinyu has written a letter three times for Zheng Yougong, asking Your Majesty to transfer Zheng Yougong back to Chang'an to advance to the Ministry of War.

Zheng Yougong in the Northern Xinjiang is no longer able to go further. He is one year older than Wu Xinyu and cannot succeed Wu Xinyu as a general. If you think of the second-grade, even if you only get from the second-grade, you will have no chance in the Northern Xinjiang army.

The only way is to let him return to Chang'an and enter the Ministry of War or the cabinet. The Minister of War is already old and it will not be too far away if he retreats. Even if the current Minister of War is promoted to Minister of War, the vacancy of Minister of War can compete with Zheng Yougong's qualifications and age plus military merits.

Your Majesty takes good care of such people. With Zheng Yougong's age and merits, and his understanding of the situation of black martial arts, even if he cannot become the Minister of War, Your Majesty will leave him in the cabinet.

It would be great if you can be promoted to the secondary assistant in a few years. The secondary assistant in the cabinet is from the first grade, which is the right choice for Zheng Yougong.

Chen Leng and Zheng Yougong met once but were not familiar with each other. Zheng Yougong and Wu Xinyu were both people trained by the general Tie Liuli, the Northern Frontier. Although they were not Tie Liuli's adopted son, they also regarded Tie Liuli as their father.

Because of this, he respected Chen Leng very much. At that time, Chen Leng snatched back Tie Liuli's body to death. No one in the Northern Army felt close to Chen Leng?

In Hanhai City, Zheng Yougong got the news and went to the city gate to greet Chen Leng. After seeing this, he quickly saluted. Chen Leng helped him up: "Why do you have so many rules for all the brothers in the army?"

Zheng Yougong said: "General, there must be rules. People below should not think that they can be with the general without big or small or high or low."

Chen sneered, "Just do it... I can't stay here for a long time. I can prepare two pieces of changing clothes for me and prepare dry food for my people. Wang Gendong has to take the people back to Dongjiang first. Chen Ran and I are going to Chang'an."

Originally, Chen Leng asked Chen Ran to go home quickly, but Chen Ran refused to agree. Chen Leng is an old hen for many people, and Chen Ran is a Chen Leng's old hen. Until now, Chen Ran is not at ease when Shen Leng goes to any place alone.

"Okay, the things you need will be prepared within an hour. The general will wash and change clothes first, and then talk about going back to Chang'an after dinner."

"No hurry to eat."

Chen Leng turned around and pointed to the mighty horse team behind him: "This time I came back from Northern Xinjiang and wiped out many black martial border troops that were disbanded. Now they are all horse bandits. There are about eight or nine thousand war horses that have been stolen. You can ask your subordinates to count them and leave me three horses with no one. They will also rush back to Eastern Xinjiang."

Zheng Yougong was shocked: "There were seven or eight thousand war horses, and the war horses of Heiwu were all good horses. Seven or eight thousand war horses could expand at least five battalions of light cavalry."

Chen Leng: "Are you happy?"

Zheng Yougong nodded vigorously and said with a fist: "I would like to thank the general for the Northern Frontier Army!"

"Don't thank you, no hurry."

Chen Leng said: "According to the agreement between the court and the grassland Daejin, every year the grassland will transport 3,000 war horses to the various guards and soldiers of the four border troops in Daning. These 3,000 war horses are included in the tax, and the rest is not enough for Daning.

You also know the price of a war horse from the grassland. In this way, I will sell it to you half the purchase price."

Zheng Yougong: "..."

Chen Leng: "Look at what expression you are like."

Zheng Yougong said: "General Wu Da is not in the northern border, so I dare not make decisions."

Chen Leng said: "It doesn't matter. Just tell me where the silver vault is. I'll get it myself, and I promise not to get it more."

"Don't!"

Zheng Yougong hurriedly said, "Otherwise, I won't want these war horses."

Chen Leng: "Well, no, it's okay. I'll send it back to Chang'an and hand it over to the Ministry of War. Wherever the military is sent, it will be wherever the military is sent. But according to the rules, all the expenses on my way will cost you the Northern Frontier Army. I'll give you a receipt. You can just go and ask the Ministry of War again. The Ministry of War will definitely reimburse you."

Zheng Yougong: "It would be strange if you can get money from the Ministry of War..."

Chen Leng said: "How can you know if you don't try?"

Zheng Yougong: "Let's talk about half price."

Chen Leng said: "Look, you obviously want to buy it, but you pretend not to want it and then get a price cut. You profiteers are really...ah, it really makes me speechless."

Zheng Yougong: "I am a profiteer..."

Chen Leng: "Let's do it, the whole thousand are counted as money, and the remaining hundreds are counted as gifts by me. Even if the remaining nine hundred and ninety-nine are counted as less than one thousand, I don't want money."

Zheng Yougong's eyes lit up: "Okay!"

An hour later, Zheng Yougong looked at Chen Leng with a grievance: "General, you must have counted clearly in advance. Apart from the three cavalry left for the general's personal soldiers, there are 8,01 left..."

Chen Leng: "Huh? Is this a coincidence? At least one more horse."

Another hour later, Chen Leng's team replenished foster care supplies in Hanhai City, changed into new clothes, and left with all the things. Wang Gendong took Wang Kuohai and 200 personal soldiers to return to Dongjiang first. Chen Leng and Chen Ran took one hundred personal soldiers to escort Huang Jin to Chang'an.

Zheng Yougong sent out of the city gate and asked curiously: "General, there are only more than 300 people in total, why do you still have to leave separately?"

Chen Leng: "The secret of heaven cannot be revealed."

After saying that, he got off.

Zheng Yougong grabbed Chen Ran and asked in a low voice: "What the hell is going on?"

"Because General Wang Gendong and General Wang Kuohai have no orders at all. Take them to Chang'an. If the Ministry of War does not approve it, they have to obediently return to the northern border. The general asked them to go to the eastern border first. If the Ministry of War does not approve it, the general can act like a rogue."

Zheng Yougong looked confused and thought that there was such an operation?

On the official road, Chen Leng sat in the carriage and counted it with his fingers. Chen Ran was so immersed in his mind that he couldn't help but ask, "Lengzi, what are you calculating?"

Chen Leng said: "These gold is handed over to Your Majesty. I ask Your Majesty to give the gold to Anyang Shipyard. With this gold used to build ships, the scale of our navy can be expanded again, so the gold is still our navy. When we take the ship, we will get one batch and one ship, and we should still have to make a profit."

Chen Ran: "..."

At the same time, Chang'an.

The atmosphere of the New Year in the city has not yet subsided. The red lanterns on the streets are still hanging, the weather is still cold, and the people in Chang'an City are rich and leisurely, so the business in the city has been too good during this period.

The Emperor is the same

In the past, I sat in the East Nuan Pavilion and reviewed memorials with the prince. The prince reviewed one copy and read one copy. He was becoming more and more sure of the ability of Prince Li Changye, so when I looked at Li Changye from time to time, I looked at him with relief.

Li Changye would also find this kind of gratifying look, but he was not much happy, but instead became more and more panic and uneasy in his heart.

What happened to his father?

With his father's age and not as energetic as he was, Li Changye was afraid to teach him how to be a good emperor step by step. In fact, there were rumors a few years ago that his father had a physical problem. He secretly asked the people from the Imperial Hospital many times, and the people there were also hesitant.

"Ah Yeh!"

The emperor suddenly sneezes, and Li Changye quickly took the handkerchief and handed it over. After the emperor took it, he sneezes two times in a row: "Ah Yeh! Ah Yeh! Hey? Who is planning to me?"

The emperor casually said, "There is a saying among the people, "Sneeze, think, scold, and plot."

The emperor sneezes three times and smiled, "If I plot against me, there will be no one else."

Li Changye was thinking of his brother Li Changze, but he looked at his father's face and said it in a joking tone. So when he thought about it, his father was probably talking about his relatives.

"What else can Shen Leng plot against his father? It's all his father plot against him."

After Li Changye said this, he felt something was wrong and shook his head quickly: "My son is wrong."

The emperor gave him a blank look: "Have I ever planned on him?"

He got up and moved: "I sent back from the northern border to expedite the news that Xin Fengyue is dead. He has done what I have given him again. It is a great achievement to get rid of Xin Fengyue, so I am thinking about how to add some rewards. Are you saying that I am planning to him now?"

Li Changye quickly shook his head: "No, no, Erchen is joking."

"Ha ha ha ha......"

The emperor smiled and said, "Look, you're scared."

He looked at Li Changye: "Let memorial be released first. Go to the cabinet to discuss it with Lai Cheng and the others, and see how to give Shen Leng and Wu Xinyu and others some rewards."

"My son follows the order."

Li Changye stood up and said, "I'll go find Lord Lai now."

The emperor said, "I asked Lai Cheng how the treasury yesterday. The south has been unstable in the past two years. First, it was floods and plagues. The treasury allocated a large amount of money to provide disaster relief, and reduced taxes for several years..."

The emperor sighed: "I originally wanted to get the treasury to allocate some silver to Anyang Dock and then to the newly built East China Sea Dock. It has been two years since the East China Sea Dock has not been built yet, so it is time to urge me."

He shook his head: "Although Sang Country is small, it is difficult to fight. Sang people are fierce and united. The navy in Daning is difficult to supply during the expedition, so what I want is to make the navy stronger, but..."

Li Changye said: "My son was still thinking yesterday, so it's better to set an example and start reducing expenses from the palace."

"Need not."

The emperor said: "Daning is not so short of this point. The treasury will be full in the summer. Remember, try to use this method as little as possible, which will make the people uneasy."

Li Changye said huh: "Son minister...Son minister actually always wanted to tell his father that Chen Leng has restored his second-rank military position and has also restored his throne of Duke. This time he made great contributions, so why not... Dazhu Kingdom?"
Chapter completed!