Chapter 434 The civil and military officials who were restrained
On the long street, many pedestrians saw this and avoided it from a distance. If they were hit, it would be in vain whether they lived or died.
Watching the two messengers whizzing by shouting victory, many people couldn't help but show doubts. The people of the capital were naturally familiar with Xuanfu. It was the northern barrier of the capital, and it could be said to be one of the important towns on the nine sides.
In the teahouse on the side of the long street, many people looked at the messenger whizzing by.
A regular customer of the tea house was surprised and said: "A great victory in Xuanfu? I remember not long ago there was news that Yang Yiqing, who was appointed as the governor by the emperor, was confronting Dayan Khan in the land of Xuanfu. Could it be that Governor Yang defeated Dayan.
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A tea guest sitting next to him shook his head and said: "How is this possible? That is Dayan Khan of Megatron Grassland. Governor Yang is indeed a rare official in Ming Dynasty who is proficient in military strategy, but it is impossible for him to be that person."
Dayan Khan’s opponent.”
Many people nodded after hearing this. It wasn't that they didn't have confidence in Yang Yiqing. It was because after the Tumubao Incident, the Ming Dynasty had turned from offensive to defensive against the foreign races in the northern grasslands. It could even be said that in the border towns, the two sides were fighting.
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The greatest advantage of people in the capital is that they are well-informed. In addition, the imperial court does not allow people to discuss government affairs, so many people are really clear-headed when discussing the so-called general trend of the world.
The biggest advantage of the grassland aliens over the Central Plains is the cavalry, which can travel thousands of miles without a hit. In addition, the inherent disadvantage of infantry when fighting cavalry makes many people not optimistic that Yang Yiqing from the Xuanfu land can defeat Dayan Khan.
In everyone's opinion, Yang Yiqing's greatest contribution was to be able to defend the Xuanfu land and protect the northern barrier for the imperial court.
Urgent messengers whizzed by, and soon, countless people in the capital knew the news of Xuanfu's victory.
Forbidden City.
In the imperial city, it had been two or three months since Chu Yi left the capital and went to the south of the Yangtze River to put down the rebellion of King Ning. A few months ago, Chu Yi passed through the capital without entering the capital and went straight to the border town in the north.
Due to Zhu Houzhao's dependence on Chu Yi, not only did Zhu Houzhao not adapt to Chu Yi's absence for several months, he actually missed Chu Yi more and more.
In the imperial garden, Zhu Houzhao, dressed in simple and elegant clothes, was slowly practicing the Taoist health and fitness techniques taught to him by Shao Yuanjie.
Ever since the queen became pregnant, Zhu Houzhao naturally attached great importance to Shao Yuanjie, and paid even more attention to Shao Yuanjie's health-building techniques. Under Shao Yuanjie's guidance, Zhu Houzhao never neglected his fitness.
Shao Yuanjie was standing on the side watching Zhu Houzhao practice health-preserving techniques. Gu Dayong on the side looked at the fine beads of sweat on Zhu Houzhao's forehead with a look of distress on his face.
Seeing Zhu Houzhao slowly stop, Gu Dayong stepped forward quickly. Shaking the dust in his hand, he took the silk from the little eunuch beside him and handed it to Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty has a long breath and a healthy dragon body. It's really enviable."
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Zhu Houzhao was very angry and laughed loudly: "My health is what it is today, thanks to Master Shao!"
When Shao Yuanjie heard this, he bowed his hands slightly and said, "I am ashamed of myself, Your Majesty, I am so complimentary!"
While he was talking, he heard the sound of rapid footsteps in the distance. Zhu Houzhao, Shao Yuanjie and others all looked at it.
I saw two dusty messengers running towards the emperor under the guidance of a chamberlain.
Almost a few feet away from Zhu Houzhao, Gu Dayong took a step forward, and the two messengers bowed down in unison, respectfully took the victory report from behind and presented it: "Your Majesty, eight hundred miles of urgent work, a great victory for Xuanfu!
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Zhu Houzhao couldn't help being stunned when he heard the words, with a bit of surprise on his face. He looked at the two messengers in astonishment. After reacting, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but step forward, but at this time Gu Dayong had already stepped forward, and from the hands of the messenger
He took the letter, checked it a little, and made sure there was nothing wrong with the letter. Then he walked to Zhu Houzhao and handed it to Zhu Houzhao and said: "Your Majesty, please read it!"
Zhu Houzhao took the letter with an impatient expression, then slowly opened it and scanned the contents of the letter. Before he finished reading, Zhu Houzhao had a look of surprise on his face, and he couldn't help laughing until the end.
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"Okay, okay, Chu Daban did a great job!"
Although it is not clear what the content of the letter is, just looking at Zhu Houzhao's expression, we know that the content of the letter must be related to Chu Yi. Otherwise, Zhu Houzhao would not have mentioned Chu Yi.
After Zhu Houzhao finished reading the urgent letter and his mood calmed down a little, Zhu Houzhao took a deep breath and a flash of light flashed in his eyes and said: "It is reported that the cabinet minister has entered the palace, summoned Ying Gong, Ding Guo Gong and others to enter the palace.
Said that I had something important to summon you!"
Soon some of the chamberlains left the palace, and at this moment Gu Dayong said with a bit of surprise: "Your Majesty, could it be that the General Manager of Chu has made some meritorious deeds?"
Zhu Houzhao handed the letter to Gu Dayong and said, "Meritorious achievement? That is simply an unparalleled achievement!"
Gu Dayong took the letter and read it. When he saw that Chu Yi and Yang Yiqing had joined forces, they defeated Dayan Khan's 100,000-strong army in one battle and chased him for more than a hundred miles, capturing Dayan Khan alive.
Just looking at the content of this letter, if he didn't know something about Chu Yi, Gu Dayong would never believe the content of this letter even if he beat him to death.
The content of the letter is really unbelievable.
With Gu Dayong's status, he naturally knows many things, and he naturally also knows the situation in the Nine Borders. It would be quite difficult for Yang Yiqing to resist Dayan Khan. Otherwise, the imperial court would not have mobilized 100,000 people from the capital.
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All the time, Yang Yiqing's memorials to the imperial court stated that the border towns were poor, and they were just trying to fend off the Tatar invaders.
This made the impression between the civil and military forces of the DPRK and China that the situation in the border towns was actually not very good. Otherwise, Balsborough would not have been able to directly enter the Central Plains, and even reach the capital and appear outside the capital.
Now there is a good news that Dayan Khan was captured alive. How can this not shock people?
Dayan Khan was captured alive. If another person had said this, he might have been dragged out and beheaded on charges of lying about military intelligence.
However, this news was sent by Chu Yi. Apart from other things, Gu Dayong believed that Chu Yi would never cheat on such matters.
Chu Yi has always been clean and tidy in his actions, one is one, two is two, his words must be followed, and his deeds must be resolute. If Chu Yi lies and deceives, others will not tell him, at least Gu Dayong will not believe it.
While Gu Dayong was horrified, he also felt boundless envy and jealousy. Such feats were simply astonishing. In one battle, he defeated nearly 200,000 Tatar troops, and even defeated Balsbort and Dayan Khan.
When all the high-ranking Tatar nobles and generals are wiped out, it can be said that after this experience, the grassland aliens will have no hope of recovering their strength for decades.
No matter what Gu Dayong thought in his heart, but in front of Zhu Houzhao, Gu Dayong immediately said to Zhu Houzhao with a happy face: "Old slave, congratulations to your majesty, congratulations to your majesty. With this battle alone, your majesty will definitely leave his name in history.
Revered by future generations of monarchs."
Zhu Houzhao said with a smile on his face: "I knew that Chu Daban would not let me down, but I never thought that Chu Daban would give me such a big surprise."
In the cabinet, because Chu Yi decentralized power, Zhu Houzhao, under the influence of Chu Yi, also adopted the strategy of delegating power to the cabinet. As the emperor, he only needed to balance the court, seize the financial power, the power of official promotion and military power, which was enough.
As for other civil affairs and other matters, it is natural to delegate power to the cabinet.
The cabinet is located in a palace complex in the Forbidden City. In a spacious hall, the cabinet ministers are assisting the emperor in reviewing memorials, and each one of them is doing their best.
A burst of footsteps sounded outside the palace, and several chamberlains were seen entering the cabinet. Noticing the movement, Jiao Fang and others who were reviewing the memorial subconsciously raised their heads and looked at the visitor.
When she saw the person coming, Jiao Fang couldn't help but look puzzled and said: "My father-in-law, this is..."
One of the eunuchs said to Jiao Fang and others: "His Majesty has issued an order to summon the cabinet minister to come to the palace to see him immediately!"
All the pavilion elders were doubtful, but a few of them accepted the order respectfully.
After tidying up for a while, I soon saw several pavilion elders leaving the palace followed by the chamberlains, heading straight into the depths of the palace.
A pavilion elder was walking with Jiao Fang. He looked at the few chamberlains and then at the majestic palace in front of him. He heard the pavilion elder Lu Wenliang saying to Jiao Fang: "Do you know that your majesty summoned us in such a hurry?
,What’s the reason?”
Jiao Fang shook his head slightly. Naturally, he didn't know why the emperor summoned them.
Like Jiao Fang and others, the British Duke and the Dingguo Duke were also confused. Even if the courier carrying the urgent report passed by, many people already knew the news of Xuanfu's victory.
The British Duke hurriedly left the Duke's Mansion, got on the carriage and horse of the Duke's Mansion, and headed straight for the Imperial City.
On top of the creaking carriage, white-haired Zhang Mao sat there. Next to him was a young man, Zhang Lun, Zhang Mao's grandson.
Zhang Lun looked at Zhang Mao and said, "Grandpa, your Majesty summoned grandpa to the palace at this time. I don't know why!"
Zhang Mao looked calmly and said: "How can we, as ministers, understand His Majesty's thoughts? However, if I am not wrong, the emperor will urgently summon us, and in all likelihood, we will go to the border town of Jiangnan or Beidi."
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While he was talking, Zhang Mao suddenly raised his eyebrows and shouted almost instinctively: "Stop!"
Following Zhang Mao's order, the carriage stopped immediately.
Zhang Lun looked at Zhang Mao in confusion, obviously puzzled as to why Zhang Mao suddenly stopped the carriage at this time. After all, they had to be summoned by the emperor, and they should be rushing to the Forbidden City non-stop at this time.
"grandfather……"
Zhang Mao lifted up the curtains on the car and looked outside. At the same time, Zhang Mao looked solemnly at a few people gathered on the roadside who seemed to be discussing something excitedly.
"Lun'er, please get out of the car and take a look to see what those people are talking about. Grandpa just now seemed to have heard something about a great victory."
Zhang Lun glanced at the people on the roadside. Just as Zhang Mao said, he could vaguely hear the words "big victory".
After getting off the carriage, Zhang Lun walked to the roadside, cupped his hands at the people and said, "Everyone, I wonder where the great victory you are talking about is? The north or the south of the Yangtze River?"
Zhang Lun was dressed in fine clothes, and he had received an excellent education since he was a child, so he looked very elegant.
As soon as Zhang Lun spoke, those people were stunned for a moment, glanced at Zhang Lun slightly nervously, and then slowly said to Zhang Lun: "This noble man is unaware of something. What we were just talking about was not long ago."
The great victory of Xuanfu was just spread."
"Xuanfu's great victory?"
Zhang Lun was stunned for a moment, and then he heard the man say: "We were just guessing what the Xuan Mansion catastrophe was about, and we never wanted to disturb the noble man!"
Taking a deep breath, Zhang Lun nodded to several people, and then returned to the carriage. Zhang Lun said to Zhang Mao: "Grandpa, just now my grandson went to test the voices of those people. What they were talking about was the Xuanfu catastrophe.
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With a raised brow, Zhang Mao's eyes flashed with sparkle, and he stroked his beard and said slowly: "Xuanfu's great victory? Is it possible that Chu Yi really hit the Tatars hard?"
Chu Yi put down the rebellion of King Ning of Jiangnan, and the army returned and headed straight for the border town. Naturally, everyone knew its purpose. Chu Yi even wrote to the emperor, begging the emperor to send an army from the capital to help him lay a large net against the Tatars.
In Zhang Mao's view, Chu Yi's move was too crazy. He actually wanted to engulf the Tatars in one go. This was simply unrealistic.
Now they are talking about the great victory of Xuanfu and what Yang Yiqing's ability is. Old foxes like Zhang Mao have really sharp eyesight. Naturally, they can see that Yang Yiqing is enough to defend the city. It is impossible to expect him to severely damage the Tatars and achieve the so-called great victory of Xuanfu.
impossible.
Zhang Lun was surprised and said: "If this is true, it can really be called a great victory. I don't know how many casualties our Ming soldiers suffered in this battle, and how many casualties the Tatars had!"
There were many cases of false reports of military exploits in the army. Zhang Lun subconsciously thought that Chu Yi and Yang Yiqing might have achieved something in the battle with the Tatars, but even if they had achieved something, it would definitely not be considered a so-called victory.
Zhang Mao closed his eyes slightly and said: "Enter the palace, then everything will be known!"
The carriage creaked and stopped outside the palace gate. Just as he got off the carriage, he saw another carriage stopping. It was none other than Ding Guogong Xu Guangzhao.
Xu Guangzhao first bowed to Zhang Mao and then entered the palace.
Xu Guangzha glanced at Zhang Mao and whispered: "Old Duke, do you know why your Majesty summoned us?"
Zhang Mao chuckled and said: "Your Majesty summoned us, perhaps to announce a big event to us."
Xu Guangzha became even more puzzled after hearing this, but Zhang Mao had no intention of explaining.
In just a short while, Zhang Mao, Xu Guangzhao and the others entered a large hall. When they entered the hall, they saw Jiao Fang's senior ministers there.
After everyone greeted each other, just when they were about to discuss it, they heard the voice of the chamberlain coming from outside the hall: "Your Majesty has arrived!"
Zhang Mao and others quickly stood up and bowed to Zhu Houzhao and said: "I pay homage to your Majesty. Long live your Majesty! Long live your Majesty!"
Zhu Houzhao walked into the main hall, turned around and sat on the dragon chair. He spoke condescendingly and said slowly: "Everyone, please get up without courtesy!"
I saw Zhang Mao and others getting up.
The chamberlain brought the seats, and everyone took their seats at the emperor's signal.
Looking at the crowd, Zhu Houzhao's face was filled with a bit of uncontrollable joy, and he nodded towards Gu Dayong amidst the puzzled looks on Jiao Fang, Zhang Mao and others' faces.
Gu Dayong walked down the steps and handed a letter to Zhang Mao. After reading it, Zhang Mao was shocked.
The letter spread, and everyone who saw the urgent letter, whether it was Jiao Fang or other cabinet ministers, looked in disbelief.
As an old-fashioned man, Chen Ding stepped forward and said to Zhu Houzhao when everyone was filled with surprise and doubt: "Your Majesty, I dare to ask if your Majesty is sure that the contents of this letter are all true.
Really? Then it’s fine that Balsbrot was arrested, but Manager Chu said that many Tatar nobles, including Dayan Khan, and their leaders were arrested. I really can’t believe this is true!”
He frowned slightly, having to say that Chen Ding's words did displease the emperor, but Zhu Houzhao also knew Chen Ding quite well and knew that this man was always upright and did not treat people the right way, so he did not blame him.
All I heard was Zhu Houzhao said in a deep voice: "I trust Daban, Daban will never deceive me!"
Zhang Mao stroked his beard and said slowly: "As for whether what is said in this letter is true or false, there is no need to worry. We just need to wait for news from Xuanfu. Xuanfu is not far from the capital. I believe
It won't be long before Yang Yiqing's memorial arrives."
Everyone's hearts moved. Just as Zhang Mao said, if the letter Chu Yi submitted to the emperor was true, then this would really be a great victory that had not been seen in almost a hundred years. With just this battle, the emperor Zhu Houzhao would be famous.
If you leave a lasting legacy, as long as you don't commit suicide yourself, you will definitely be comparable to Taizu and Chengzu.
Zhu Houzhao saw that all the civil and military officials were unwilling to believe the authenticity of this great victory. He was indeed a little unhappy in his heart, but Zhu Houzhao had no doubts about Chu Yi.
With a slight smile on his lips, Zhu Houzhao said to Gu Dayong: "Gu Dayong, send someone to the Ministry of War to keep an eye on it. As soon as the news of the success of the Xuanfu comes, we will get it immediately."
Ru Jiao Fang felt a little uneasy at the moment. Although she hoped that the news was true, it was difficult to believe that the news was true. After all, it was just the thought of including Balsbort, Dayan Khan and others.
Everyone was caught by Chu Yi, and everyone felt so unreal.
Only Zhu Houzhao had an indifferent look on his face, sitting there calmly sipping tea and waiting for news from the Ministry of War.
Chu Yi's letter was naturally not presented at the same time as the news of Xuanfu's great victory, but it was also an urgent letter from 800 miles away, so the speed of the two was not much different.
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