What Xue Baochai wants now is to take advantage of the fact that he is in charge of Fengyin and still has a certain say in the harem, so as to strive for greater advantages for his son.
But if Jia Hui himself fails to live up to his expectations, even if he has a thousand abilities, he may not be able to change Jia Ke's mind.
So now Xue Baochai feels that he can no longer let Jia Hui go.
After listening to Xue Baochai's explanation, Xue Baoqin finally understood the current situation. It seemed that a new round of fighting for the heir was about to begin again.
Xue Baoqin was ostensibly advising Xue Baochai, telling her not to be anxious and to guide her slowly.
But Xue Baoqin also has other thoughts in her heart now. In Xue Baoqin's mind, she is now the most favored by Jia Ke, and her son is also very loved by Jia Ke. Every time Jia Ke comes to Xue Baoqin, he will hold his little one in his arms.
Jia Min was intimate with her for a long time.
Since other people's sons can hope to inherit the throne, why can't her Xue Baoqin's son?
There is another person who is paying attention to this matter, and that is the Queen Mother Zhou in Cining Palace.
It must be said that the Empress Dowager Zhou is now obsessed with letting Jia Mao, who grew up beside her, inherit Jia Ke's throne.
Therefore, it cannot be said that Empress Dowager Zhou dislikes the other princes in the palace, but the five fingers are not all the same length.
Therefore, Queen Mother Zhou was very dissatisfied when she learned that Jia Zhi went to the Yangxin Hall and asked Jia Ke to go to the army for training.
But Jia Zhi is also her grandson, and the Empress Dowager Zhou cannot treat him differently, so she can only work harder and recommend Jia Hui to Jia Ke.
The undercurrent in the palace was quickly discovered by Jia Ke.
After Jia Ke understood the truth of the matter, he almost wanted to laugh. He was only thirty years old, and with his martial arts skills, he had a long life.
Unexpectedly, this was the case, and the princes and grandsons below had already begun to think about who would be the emperor.
To say that Jia Ke is quite generous, if someone were more petty, they would wonder if these people are all looking forward to my death.
Jia Ke did not establish a prince because he was still young and would not know how many years he would live in the future. If not, the princes would not be able to survive him. But he did not expect that the tree would be quiet but the wind would not stop.
However, Jia Ke did not interfere in the fights between the princes below. He also wanted to see which of these princes had real abilities. Although these older princes may not be able to inherit the throne in the end, Jia Ke
Ke also needs to carefully observe their character and put them in a useful position in the future, so that they will not be like the princes of the previous dynasty who became useless just eating, drinking and having fun every day.
However, Jia Ke didn't pay much attention to these things. After understanding the situation, he forgot about them.
The most important thing in Jia Ke's mind now is the Northern Expedition of the Tatars and the complete elimination of their threat to the Central Plains.
In the past few years, with more and more information about the Tatars, Jia Ke has also discovered that the strength of the Tatars has begun to recover rapidly.
After all, the Tatars have the support of the 36 countries in the Western Regions. They are also a people on horseback and are good at plundering. In the past few years, they have ceased fighting with the Central Plains and their rear areas have been safe, which naturally gave them the opportunity to plunder other places.
Therefore, the Tatars have once again regained their prestige and power, wearing hundreds of thousands of armors and shocking dozens of countries.
Due to the recovery of his strength, Alsileng Khan began to make moves against the Central Plains again.
For example, Jia Ke had just received a memorial. There was a Tatar tribe with thousands of troops entering Shaanxi Town, plundering a large number of ordinary people, and then returned north.
After Jia Ke got the news, instead of being angry, his face was full of joy.
There is really no place to look for, and it takes no effort to get it. Since the relationship between the Tatars and the Central Plains has been relatively good in recent years, although Jia Ke wanted to find an excuse to be sent to the Northern Expedition, he has never been able to start. Now this Tatar
The man put the handle of the knife into Jia Ke's hands.
After receiving the memorial, Jia Ke immediately ordered the border gate to stop all trade with the Tatars, and ordered all border officers to be on heightened alert. Once the Tatars invaded, they must give him a head-on attack.
At the same time, Jia Ke began to speed up the process of equipping the three major battalions with firearms. Jia Ke's hope was to turn all three major battalions into firearms storage units within half a year.
Due to Jia Ke's order, the firearms factory near the capital began to produce at full capacity. It can be said that the people stopped and the machines did not stop. Such busy work day and night greatly increased the output of firearms, barely able to reach the level of Jia Ke, and completed the three major tasks within half a year.
Battalion equipment tasks.
Let’s talk about Alslenk Khan on the grassland. It can be said that he has enjoyed unlimited glory in recent years. The 36 countries in the Western Regions have been completely stabilized. He once again pushed westward and destroyed 20 countries.
Now the Tatars can be said to be the overlord in Central Asia. Even the powerful black-clad Dashi began to retreat continuously in order to temporarily avoid the Tatars' attack.
Therefore, Alslenkhan began to swell a little, and he once again set his sights on the south.
Sending a small tribe to attack the border this time was Alsileng Khan's test of Jia Ke. He wanted to see the bottom line of the Jia Ke Rong people.
Unexpectedly, Jia Ke had no questions at all and immediately closed the mutual market and reorganized the army to prepare for war.
After Arslen Khan received the news, he did not have any fear. Over the years, he not only restored the number of his cavalry, but also obtained a lot of knowledge and craftsmen from the West.
Due to the efforts of these Western craftsmen, the Kaijia equipment rate of the Dada people has increased significantly, and the bows and arrows in the hands of the Tatars have also begun to become sharper.
Alsileng Khan believed that if he faced Jia Ke this time, he would also gain an absolute advantage over Jia Ke's elite soldiers.
Therefore, after receiving the news that the Yan Dynasty closed the mutual market, Upper Alsileng Khan announced that all agreements with the Yan Dynasty were invalid on the grounds that the Yan Dynasty had broken its promise. Then he ordered the tribes under his command to start harassing the people of the Central Plains.
border.
Fortunately, Jia Ke had already ordered the generals on the nine sides to strictly defend, so the Tatars had no chance to take advantage of them.
The Tatars also wanted to fight to conquer the city, but now due to the strong financial resources of the Central Plains dynasty, Jia Ke built all nine walls of the city.
Now the nine-sided city wall is much higher and thicker than before, which makes it difficult for the Tatar tribes who come to attack.
In the end, these people could only plunder around Jiubian before leaving with satisfaction.
Although the Tatars did not achieve any significant results in their large-scale harassment this time, they still achieved great gains because the economy of the Central Plains Dynasty was more prosperous, and even near Jiubian, the population was much larger than before.
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After Jia Ke received the news, he did not take action immediately. Instead, he began to send edicts to firearms factories, urging them to quickly produce more guns and artillery.
After this harassment, Alsileng Khan sent spies to inquire about the Central Plains information, and found that Jia Ke turned a blind eye to the matter.
This made Alsileng Khan start to feel uneasy. He, the Tatar Khan, had experienced how powerful Jia Ke was. He was so tough that Jia Ke could endure such grievances, unless he had something serious.
A conspiracy is being hatched.
Although Alsileng Khan was frightened, he did not have any timidity. He also knew that the Central Plains had become more and more prosperous in the past few years. If he let Jia Ke rest for a few years, he would not have to fight, and he would be able to defeat the soldiers under his command with just money.
Buy them all.
Alsileng Khan is now preparing for the next life-and-death battle.
Under Jia Ke's urging, the firearms factory began making muskets and artillery day and night.
Soon, the three major battalions in the capital and the Fenwu Camp were all equipped. If these 200,000 musketeers were deployed, Jia Ke believed that they would be invincible.
Jia Ke was not prepared to take action personally this time, because he was still inseparable from the emperor in the capital.
Therefore, Jia Ke accepted Feng Mo, the military governor of Liaodong, as the marshal on the right, commanding 50,000 Xiaoqi battalion musketeers and 100,000 Liaodong troops, plus 20,000 cavalry from Zhenghuang Banner and Zhenglan Banner, and set out from Liaodong Town to conquer the Tatars.
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Huang Baifeng, the Jiedu envoy of Xuanfu Town, was appointed as the marshal of the left route, commanding the 50,000 musketeers of Fenwuying and the 100,000 soldiers of Xuanfu Town. Together with the Zhenglan Banner and Zhenghong Banner, a total of 40,000 cavalry were commanded by Xuanfu.
He set off from the town and went north to conquer the Tatars.
Jia Ke asked the two armies to divide their forces and advance directly, and then gather in the royal tent of Arslen Khan.
After Jia Ke issued the order, Fenwu Camp and Xiaoqi Camp set up their respective camps and headed all the way to Liaodong Town and all the way to Xuanfu Town.
Jia Ke's order to the two of them was not to occupy much land, but to kill the enemy's effective forces on a large scale.
Jia Ke's intention was very obvious, which was to drive out the Tatars.
At the same time, Jia Ke also promised the Eight Banners soldiers who were on the expedition that all the prisoners who went north this time would be distributed among the Eight Banners soldiers.
And Jia Ke knew how powerful the Tatar Meng He was. In order to eliminate this hidden danger for the two armies, he sent spies to the grassland before the two armies went out to fight, and began to promote Meng He's wisdom and Alslen Khan.
of incompetence.
Alsileng Khan was an immortal British master, so he could clearly see through this little counter-intentional plot, so he did not take any action against Meng He.
However, the generals under Alslen Khan and the leaders of the tribes who were close to him began to alienate Meng He.
And Meng He was not a fool. After the rumors spread, he knew that it was the spies sent by Jia Ke who were spreading the rumors.
Therefore, Meng He did not dare to neglect. With only a dozen of his personal guards, he rushed back from the North Sea to the location of King Arsleng Khan's tent.
That night, Arsleng Khan and Meng He had a very pleasant conversation. When Meng He left, Arsleng Khan went to see them off in person, and the emperor and his ministers parted in tears.
With the actions of Alsileng Khan and Meng He, the rumors were barely suppressed.
As a result, Alsileng Khan had just stabilized when news came that Meng He was attacked on his way back.
Arslen Khan was furious after receiving the news. He believed that this was done by Jia Ke's spies again.
But when he sent people to investigate, they found the bodies of the men who attacked Meng He. When they came back to check, he immediately found that his hands and feet were cold.
It turned out that the corpses of these people were definitely warriors among the Tatars, and many of them even had the eagle symbol tattooed on their bodies.