But he was stopped halfway. "Brother Huang, my sister heard that Brother Huang is leaving for the northwest in the next few days?" Yunzhi asked.
"Yes." Yunxi had already guessed her purpose.
"Then, Brother Emperor, will you take your sister to the northwest with you?" Yunzhi looked anxious, but still asked calmly.
Ever since she asked Yunxi to go to the northwest with her in the first month, Yunxi had neither agreed nor denied it, but just said that she would think about it again. At that time, there was still plenty of time, so Yunzhi was not in a hurry, and occasionally met Yunxi. Just ask.
But since April, she began to become anxious. Seeing one guard station after another getting on the boat to Jiangbei, countless military supplies entered the Yellow River along the canal between the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers to Shaanxi, and the days before Yuanxi's departure were getting closer and closer Close, but never gave her the right words.
Therefore, Yunzhi wanted to find a good time to see Yunxi and plead face to face. However, Yunxi was also very busy this month. She had no free time during the day, and she did not dare to disturb her relaxation time at night, so she could not do it. The trip was successful. Until today, she heard that Yunxi was about to leave, and knew that she could not delay it any longer. She deliberately stopped at the place where Yunxi must pass from Kunning Palace back to Qianqing Palace and waited for Yunxi to ask him face to face.
"Brother Imperial, if my sister goes to the northwest with you, she will definitely not cause any trouble. If Brother Huang wants to go to Yiwu and is worried about the danger of Yiwu's soldiers, he can leave his sister at Uncle Fourteenth's house in Ganzhou. Prince's Mansion."
"If even Ganzhou is not safe, then put my sister in Kaifeng to keep company with my fifth uncle."
"Brother Emperor, let my sister go with you." Yunzhi pretended to be very pitiful again.
Yunxi stood there and thought seriously.
In fact, it is not very difficult to take Yunzhi with him, as long as he does not take her to the front line. But he always feels that it is not very solemn to take a woman with him. After all, his trip to the northwest is mainly related to the war, and Timur It's a very powerful opponent.
Therefore, Yunxi finally decided not to take Yunzhi with him, but he did not reveal it immediately. Instead, he said, "Brother, let me think again and let you know at noon tomorrow."
Disappointment flashed across Yunzhi's face, but she immediately returned to her original state and said with a smile: "Then the younger sister is waiting for the emperor's words."
Yunxi suddenly felt a little guilty and didn't want to look at her face here anymore. He hurriedly said: "It's May now. It's quite hot standing under the sun. Fourth sister, please go back quickly."
"Yes, sister, I'll go back right now." Yunzhi agreed, bowed and left. Yunxi also continued to go to Qianqing Palace.
But he had only walked a few steps when he saw Wang Xi running anxiously with a document written in big red letters in his hand. After seeing him, he immediately ran over as fast as he could and raised his hands. The clerk said: "Guan family, His Highness the King of Qin urgently reports!"
"What's the matter?" Yunxi asked, taking the document from his hand, tearing open the seal and reading it. After only a few glances, his face instantly turned pale, and it took a while before he returned to normal.
"Timur actually sent troops in advance!" Yunxi muttered in disbelief. After coming back to his senses, he immediately said to Wang Xi: "Call Zhang Fu into the palace immediately! Immediately send an order to all the post stations where the Western Expedition army passed by, so that When the Western Expeditionary Army passed by, they told them that they must rush to the northwest as quickly as possible, to the guard post with the shortest daily average travel distance, and that the commanding officers should be dismissed from office for the people and never used again!"
Although Wang Xi knew what was written in the document, he was still stunned by Yunxi's severe punishment, and then Cai realized what was written in the document and accepted the order to retreat.
Yunxi returned to the Qianqing Palace as quickly as possible, casually wiped the sweat from his face, called the three fourth auxiliary officers present and asked: "Do you already know the documents coming from the northwest?"
The three of them all shook their heads. They had just seen Wang Xi hearing the report from the eunuch at the Qianqing Gate that there was an urgent document for six hundred miles. They also saw Wang Xi returning to the Qianqing Palace with the document and asking the young eunuch the emperor anxiously. If you come here, you understand that something big has happened, but you don’t know what big thing happened.
"Timur raised his troops earlier than expected. He had conquered Alashankou 12 days ago. It would take another month at most to reach the gates of Yiwu City. By then, the Ming Dynasty would not have more than 150,000 soldiers who could rush over. , and most of them are cavalry or light infantry, artillery, etc. are absolutely unable to arrive, but the cavalry and the cavalry of the Samarkand Kingdom cannot guarantee victory in the field battle, so they have to defend the city. But the city defense... Although Shang Bing has been building it for more than four years. Yiwu City, but after all it cannot be compared with the big cities in the Central Plains. If it is captured by Timur's troops, then!" Yunxi originally just wanted to give them a brief introduction to the current situation, but he did not expect to talk too much. Already.
It took a while for Yunxi to react, coughed and said, "Do you understand the critical situation of Yiwu?"
"Is it already so bad?" Bao Zhao frowned and said, "Your Majesty, why didn't you let the soldiers go to Yiwu early to prepare?"
"First of all, although the land in Yiwu is fertile, there are few people after all. It is impossible to bear the food and grass for hundreds of thousands of troops. Transporting food and grass from the Central Plains to Yiwu will consume a lot, so we waited until the beginning of spring to order the guards in various places. The troops set off."
"Secondly, it was me and several generals who were careless." Yunxi said this, feeling a little regretful. The Ming Dynasty's foreign wars have been so smooth in recent years. Since Wang Baobao's death, he has never lost a battle and has never lost anything. In a city, even if all the enemies heard that the Ming Dynasty was coming to attack it, they would either run away in advance or just wait and defend in place, never daring to take the initiative to attack. Therefore, although everyone knew that the country of Samarkand was different from previous enemies, they still felt negligent in their hearts. I can't help it no matter what.
"This seems to be the result of several generals' neglect of the enemy." Xie Jin said quickly.
Yunxi did not answer the question, but got back to the topic: "Since the situation in the northwest has changed like this, I will set off for the northwest tomorrow, which is May 12th."
"The matters in Beijing will be left to a few gentlemen. The arrangements for handling matters are the same as when I visited Guangdong and Guangxi before. Small matters can be approved by you and the Queen will use the seal; major matters will be sent to the bank. If there is something very important but delayed For matters that are not allowed, the Queen will preside over a court meeting, summoning the ministers of the six ministries, the Duchayuan, Dali Temple, and the general affairs department, as well as the governor of the Fifth Army Dudufu, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, and the judge of the Fifth Army Dudufu to participate in the meeting. Discuss."
"During the days when I am not in Beijing, these gentlemen do not need to come to Qianqing Palace every day to serve as trustees. They can just go to Jinshen Palace. There are hundreds of steps from Jinshen Palace to Qianqing Palace, so gentlemen please walk more."
"Yes, Your Majesty." The three of them agreed hurriedly.
Yunxi said to Xie Jin again: "Xie Qing, let's put aside the matter of compiling books and deal with the important affairs of the court first."
"I obey the order," Xie Jin said hurriedly.
Yunxi gave some more instructions and asked them to go back and continue voting for the memorial.
He immediately called his fellow servants over. "Chen Ji, Yang Zhu, Hu Yan, Zhou Shu..., you guys will follow me on the tour."
Chen Ji and others immediately bowed down to accept the order, while the others were very envious: being able to go on patrol with the emperor was definitely a sign of being highly regarded.
Some people also looked at Yang Feng secretly. He was not included in the people Yunxi named just now. What does the emperor mean? Doesn't he plan to take him to the northwest? Or is there some other reason? This person started to think about it.
Yunxi ordered: "Although I am on a tour of the northwest this time, I will pass through many places in the north along the way. You should pay attention to observe the people's sentiments in various places along the way. When I went there, it was too late. I will test you when I return from the northwest.
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"Yes, Your Majesty." They agreed immediately.
Yunxi said to the people who were not named just now: "Although you are staying in the capital, it is not easy. It turns out that the discount drafted by the gentlemen has turned into a blue batch. Things are not easy to deal with. There will definitely be more
I'll leave the matter to you. Don't make any mistakes."
"Yes, Your Majesty." These people felt much better after hearing this and bowed in agreement.
Yunxi nodded and said: "All my dear friends, please step aside. Yang Feng, you stay."
Everyone secretly glanced at Yang Feng, then bowed and left.
"Yang Feng, are you willing to go to the northwest to fight? Instead of staying with me as a sacrificer, you can lead troops on an expedition?" Yunxi said directly without talking nonsense.
"I am willing." Yang Feng answered directly without any hesitation.
"Okay. Yang Feng, I will give you the rank of general. Tomorrow morning, you will set out with the three guards in front of the army, left and right, to command the other five guard posts except the left and right guards of the army and the tiger and left guards!"
Although Yunxi had already thought about this matter, he was still a little hesitant when it came to the matter. After a pause, he said. After all, even if the absolute main force like the commander of Naoto Guard has a very low chance of dying in battle, it still exists.
possible.
Yang Feng didn't think much about it. Hearing this, he just agreed very happily: "Thank you for your grace, Your Majesty."
He didn't feel embarrassed at all. He had served as a deputy general at the border before and had commanded an army of tens of thousands. Although the permanent deputy general at the border may not be as good as a general of such a large army, it was not far behind.
"It's just, that's all." Yunxi suddenly said these words inexplicably, making him retreat.
After ordering this matter, although there were still several memorials on the table, he had no intention of reading them. He stood up and walked a few steps out of Qianqing Palace.
Bao Zhao and others didn't take it seriously either. The emperor had just learned about such a big event and had set out a few days in advance. There must be something to tell him.
After a while, Yunxi returned to Kunning Palace, and Xiyao came out with a surprised look on her face. "Husband, why are you back now? But you don't feel well? Have you called the imperial doctor?" She suddenly thought of a situation and hurriedly
asked.
"No." Yunxi said: "There has been an accident in the northwest. I originally planned to set off on the 15th, but now we can't wait until the 15th. We must set off quickly. My husband has already decided to leave tomorrow morning."
In fact, it would be of little use if he didn't set off, but he was worried that something more difficult would happen, and the generals on the front line would not dare to handle it without authorization and would need to report it to him. At that time, he should be as close to the front line as possible.
What's more, he was indeed a little worried about Shang Bing. Shang Bing had been raised in the capital since childhood, and they were very familiar with each other and had a good relationship. Even if it was useless to set off early, he couldn't help but want to go a few days in advance.
"In this case, I will immediately order my servants to deal with it." Xiyao said immediately without asking what happened.
"You don't need to pack too much. You can't be as particular when you go out as you are at home. Just enough is enough." Yunxi ordered.
He then added: "My husband has one more thing to tell you. Wang Xi, come here too." He raised his voice.
Wang Xi came over with some doubts, and heard Yunxi say: "In the first month of the year, I remember you mentioned re-appointing Wang Jin and Wang Bu. I'm sure, Wang Jin will be appointed as the chief ceremonial supervisor, and Wang Bu will be appointed as the junior supervisor.
The imperial eunuch, the young eunuch, will assist the queen in taking care of the palace affairs during the days when you and I are not in the capital."
Then he said to Xiyao: "Wang Bu and Wang Jin will be left to you. If they break the law again, you don't have to wait until my husband comes back from the northwest. You can just deal with them."
In the past few years since the original corruption case, he has already taken it lightly. Based on his experience as an emperor in the past few years, he feels that he was too harsh on the three of them and should at least give them a chance. And he occasionally
I would recall the happy time when the emperor's grandson was served by them, and I would feel soft-hearted, and finally decided to re-enable them and give them another chance. But if they make mistakes, they will be executed directly without mercy.
Wang Xi felt excited for a while. Wang Bu paid it back. Timur and Wang Jin were the first eunuchs sent to serve Yunxi. They had a good relationship. They had been trying to save him after he capsized, and now they finally succeeded.
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"Thank you for your grace." Wang Xi knelt down happily and said.
Xiyao doesn't care. No matter who is left to take care of the imperial city, it doesn't make much difference to her. Anyway, it can't be the eunuch of her Kunning Palace, so it doesn't make much difference.
Yunxi smiled and said: "It's not a reward for you, why are you kneeling?" Yunxi knew that Wang Xi and Wang Jin had a good relationship, and often helped Wang Jin after he was demoted. This was actually a good thing for him.
People with old feelings are always more trustworthy than people with extreme indifference. So he always pretended not to know.
Having said this, Xiyao left the palace affairs behind and packed Yunxi's luggage. Yunxi turned around and told Wang Xi something. Then he went to the backyard, picked up the young Wen Yin, and gave instructions to his servants.
He went to call Min'er, Wenyuan and others back. Before leaving Beijing, he didn't want to deal with anything else and just wanted to stay with his relatives.
In this way, he stayed with the children all afternoon, had dinner together, and was about to leave Kunning Palace.
"Husband, don't you rest in Kunning Palace at night?" Xiyi was a little surprised.
"My husband still has something to do, so I won't rest here." Yunxi said, comforted Min'er a few more words, got up and left Kunning Palace.
"Go to Yanxi Palace immediately and tell Miao Jin that I will rest at her place tonight."
"Guardian, didn't you summon Concubine Chen to go on tour with you? Why are you still resting in Yanxi Palace tonight?" Wang Xi asked.
"I still have a few words to say to her, so I have to go over there." He just decided to let Miao Jin go on the tour with him in the afternoon, and he didn't have time to give instructions on many things.
Wang Xi didn't know what Yunxi was going to say, so he didn't dare to stop him anymore and trotted to the Yanxi Palace himself.