Chapter 435: Help the General Manager to seek rewards
At the same time that Chu Yi's letter arrived in Beijing, the news of the success of the Xuanfu also arrived at the Ministry of War. The officials of the Ministry of War looked at the news stupidly, and their first reaction was disbelief.
But soon the palace chamberlain came. After the chamberlain inquired, the officials of the Ministry of War naturally did not dare to hide anything, so they immediately took out the urgent letter that had just been submitted and handed it to the chamberlain.
When the chamberlain found out that the good news from the Xuanfu had arrived, he immediately returned to the palace and resumed his life.
In the palace.
Zhu Houzhao sat there with a calm expression. For more than an hour, the hall became quiet. All the important civil and military ministers accompanied the emperor to drink tea there and wait for news.
If there is no news from the Ministry of War, then it is almost certain that the so-called good news previously was false news.
It can be said that the dozen or so important ministers present had different thoughts. To be honest, everyone had different feelings about the so-called victory of Xuanfu.
Some people hope that the Xuanfu victory really exists, but there are also people who are not willing to see this.
In the eyes of a very small number of people, it would be best if the Ming Dynasty could remain undefeated or suffer a slight loss, no matter how great the victory it achieved during the war with the Tatars.
Everyone knows that Chu Yi personally planned this battle and led his army to fight the Tatars.
Jiangnan was pacified and King Ning's rebellion subsided. Among them, Chu Yi could be said to have made the greatest contribution. Even with the existence of such a bright pearl as Wang Shouren, Chu Yi's brilliance was still unable to be suppressed.
Wang Shouren had great military achievements this time, but Chu Yi personally arranged the arrangements. Even Wang Shouren had been arranged by Chu Yi in advance.
Naturally, the civil and military forces of the court were unaware of this at the beginning, but later as the Ningwang rebellion was gradually put down, especially Wang Shouren's display of his rare military talent, Wang Shouren suddenly entered the scene.
into the public eye.
Wang Shouren can be considered to have an extraordinary background. His father was a minister of the imperial court, and he was Zhu Houzhao's teacher in the past. He can barely be called an emperor's teacher.
But even with such an identity and background, Wang Shouren's career was not smooth sailing. He was able to stand out during the chaos of King Ning, and it can be said that it was all thanks to Chu Yi.
Even though his father was a minister, he never asked for any official position in front of the emperor. Instead, Chu Yi single-handedly arranged Wang Shouren's deployment.
It is precisely because of this that in the eyes of many people, Wang Shouren is Chu Yi's right-hand man, and many people regard Wang Shouren as Chu Yi's lackey.
Wang Shouren's meritorious service was naturally regarded as Chu Yi's meritorious service.
Chu Yi had already accomplished such great feats by putting down the rebellion of King Ning. Now if he returns with a great victory as mentioned in the urgent letter from Eight Hundred Miles, the civil and military forces of this court will
Even the emperor could no longer embarrass Chu Yi.
It is true that Chu Yi's achievements are too huge and astonishing.
In that letter, the Tatars totaled nearly 200,000 troops. Although the troops were said to be divided into two groups, each group had more than 100,000 troops.
In the past, even tens of thousands of people could invade the border towns, but now the Tatars suddenly mobilized 100,000 or 200,000 people, and even the Tatars were defeated.
After arriving at the capital, the capital camp tried its best to block the Tatars outside the city and persisted until the Tatars retreated.
Even though there were a lot of losses under the capital, if all of Balsborough were added together, there would be tens of thousands of people. If Dayan Khan's 100,000 men were added in, this would be a full number of hundreds of thousands.
There are so many people.
The news of Balsborough's defeat and capture has spread back to the capital. That's all for Balsborough. The key is Dayan Khan.
What a person Dayan Khan was. Even though the other party was a foreigner from the steppes, the Chinese and military ministers of the Ming Dynasty had many interactions with Dayan Khan.
Dayan Khan unified the Tatars and even suppressed the Oara, becoming the new hegemonic force on the grassland in one fell swoop.
A tribe that can gradually grow and develop from a small tribe, and finally annex and unify all tribes on the grassland, becomes the lord of the grassland.
Balsbroat was the son of Dayan Khan, so it was reasonable for him to be plotted against him. The most important thing was that Dayan Khan, such a heroic figure, would definitely not be captured alive so easily.
A burst of hurried footsteps came, and many people in the hall were even a little sleepy while waiting. They were suddenly awakened by the footsteps, and at the same time they subconsciously looked towards the entrance of the hall.
I saw a chamberlain walking quickly into the main hall, holding a memorial in his hands respectfully, and then they all bowed down in front of Zhu Houzhao and said: "My servants pay homage to Your Majesty, here is the memorial presented by the Xuanfu!"
Everyone's eyes fell on the memorial held in the hands of the chamberlain. Many people wanted to see through the memorial to see clearly the content on it.
Zhu Houzhao, who was sitting there boringly drinking tea, suddenly his eyes lit up and his eyes fell on the memorial in the hand of the chamberlain.
Since this memorial came from the Xuanfu, and it was an urgent memorial, the first thing Zhu Houzhao thought about was whether this memorial was the news of the Xuanfu's victory presented by Yang Yiqing of the Xuanfu.
The great victory of Xuanfu was really shocking. Zhu Houzhao naturally had 100% trust in Chu Yi, so he never doubted the contents of the urgent letter submitted by Chu Yi.
But as the emperor, Zhu Houzhao could believe it, but he couldn't ask others to be like him and not even doubt him.
Therefore, Zhu Houzhao needed a memorial from the Xuanfu to prove that Chu Yi was not lying about the military situation, but had truly achieved the great victory written on top of the 800-mile rush.
"Send it over quickly!"
Gu Dayong hurriedly walked down the steps, stepped forward quickly, took the urgent memorial from the hand of the chamberlain, and then stepped forward to hand the memorial to Zhu Houzhao.
Zhu Houzhao opened the memorial and scanned it ten lines at a time. His face was full of joy, and he saw that Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but excitedly patted the table and said: "Okay, okay, I know that Chu Daban will not deceive me!"
While speaking, Zhu Houzhao said excitedly: "Come here, please pass this memorial from the Xuan Mansion to all the ministers for you to take a look at!"
Gu Dayong personally took the memorial from Zhu Houzhao, and then slowly presented it in front of Zhang Mao, Jiao Fang and other important officials in the court.
Both Zhang Mao and Jiao Fang stared at the memorial one by one, wishing they could recite all the contents of the memorial.
Zhang Mao narrowed his eyes and sighed softly in his heart. Even when he looked at the memorial, Zhang Mao still felt a little unbelievable.
His ancestor Zhang Fu, when he was old, accompanied Emperor Yingzong on his personal expedition and ended up in the Battle of Tumubao. His existence as a divine needle in the sea for the British government was no longer there.
It is precisely because of this that Zhang Mao has a better understanding of the Tatars. In Zhang Mao's view, the Tatars have many advantages. Not to mention other things, just the fact that they have all the cavalry makes people scratch their heads.
Perhaps the Tatars could be injured in a single battle, but if you want to surround the Tatar army and force them to land, it will naturally be extremely difficult. What is particularly important is that even a steppe hero like Dayan Khan failed.
It fell into the hands of Chu Yi.
Looking at the detailed description in the memorial, even Zhang Mao had to admit that Chu Yi really gave them a great surprise.
Obviously more shocked than happy.
The memorial was turned around in the hands of everyone, and the figures in the hall all lowered their heads slightly, with faces full of surprise or disbelief.
Zhu Houzhao picked up the teacup and drank tea while observing everyone's expressions and reactions. It seemed that he wanted to see what kind of reactions the crowd would have when the news was confirmed.
When the memorial returned to Zhu Houzhao's hands again, almost half an hour had passed.
Zhu Houzhao slowly unfolded the memorial and placed it on the table, and slowly read out the contents of the memorial.
The entire hall was quiet, except for Zhu Houzhao's slightly excited voice that echoed in the hall: "I guess everyone has seen the memorial presented by the Xuanfu."
Everyone's expressions changed as they looked at Zhu Houzhao and the two reports on the Xuanfu victory on his desk.
Jiao Fang chuckled in her heart, stroking her beard and looking at the others.
After listening to Zhu Houzhao's questions, the others looked at me and I looked at you. No one made any move, and they were not willing to make the first move at this time.
Of course, there is no need to say more to flatter Chu Yi, but if you want to find fault with Chu Yi, Chu Yi seems to have no weaknesses or tricks at all. Don't you see, even the emperor is looking proud of him now?
If anyone jumps out at this time, they are asking for trouble.
Looking across the crowd, Zhu Houzhao said slowly: "Everyone, Daban has made such great contributions to our Ming Dynasty. You might as well take advantage of everyone here to discuss how to welcome Daban's victory.
After returning home, how to reward the great companion?
Zhu Houzhao's words made some people's hearts skip a beat. Do you still want to reward Chu Yi? You must know that the positions Chu Yi holds now can be said to be more important than the last, and he has almost reached the limit of being a minister.
The emperor now said that he would reward Chu Yi, but after thinking about it, everyone didn't know how to reward Chu Yi.
Chu Yi, as a chamberlain, had already reached his peak at a young age, so that for a while, they couldn't figure out how to reward Chu Yi to be worthy of Chu Yi's achievements this time.
When good news came from Jiangnan, Zhu Houzhao mentioned the matter of rewarding Chu Yi more than once, but it was a pity that Chu Yi was not in the capital at all at that time.
In addition, a secret report from Chu Yi reached Zhu Houzhao's case. Zhu Houzhao learned that Chu Yi was planning to set up a big plan against the Tatars, so Zhu Houzhao temporarily gave up the idea of sealing Chu Yi.
After all, Chu Yi was busy dealing with Balsbrot, Dayan Khan and others at this time, and had no energy to pay attention to this.
However, Zhu Houzhao has not forgotten Chu Yi's achievements. Now he has pacified Jiangnan, captured the Tatar high-ranking officials alive, and destroyed the Tatars. Either of these two is enough for him to reach the position of Duke.
Everyone looked at Zhu Houzhao and thought hard in their hearts about how they could be worthy of Chu Yi's achievements, and at the same time, they should try their best to prevent Chu Yi from threatening the imperial power.
Of course, everyone knew very well that even if they persuaded the emperor not to reward Chu Yi this time, it would never affect Chu Yi's influence on the court.
Not to mention other things, in the Beijing camp alone, nine out of ten generals in the Beijing camp were personally selected and appointed by Chu Yi. Hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers and horses, it can be said that they only obey Chu Yi's orders.
Chu Yi had military power, and many people were secretly worried that Chu Yi would endanger the emperor.
It's just that even though Chu Yi had the power before, he had no achievements that could convince the public. Therefore, although some people said they were worried about Chu Yi, they didn't react at all.
This time was different. In just a few months, Chu Yi successively suppressed the rebellion of King Ning, and then captured Balsbrot, Dayan Khan and other high-ranking Tatar nobles alive. It can be said that this was the only two times that Chu Yi
Yi's extraordinary feats are really frightening.
More importantly, Chu Yi's name may be spread throughout the world with these two battles.
Thanks to those literati, Chu Yi's reputation was not very good. He was even said to be a murderous demon who could eat people's hearts and almost stop babies from crying.
Even among the people, Chu Yi is regarded as a powerful eunuch, and is regarded as a person who brings disaster to the country and the people by those ignorant people. However, anyone who is not a fool knows that once the news of the two great victories spreads, Chu Yi will not be very good to the people.
Your reputation will inevitably change.
With military power in hand and great prestige, no one dares to imagine that if one day Chu Yi has other ideas, who else can check and balance Chu Yi.
A figure stepped forward and bowed respectfully to Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty, I sincerely request your Majesty to confer the title of General Chu Yi as the Duke of the Ming Dynasty, in order to show his merits and appease the hearts of the officers and soldiers of the three armies."
Another figure saluted Zhu Houzhao and said: "Your Majesty, I think that the mere position of Duke is not enough to show the importance and love that the imperial court and your Majesty attach to the Grand Manager..."
Zhu Houzhao's eyes lit up and he looked at the veteran minister and said: "My dear, you might as well speak frankly, how should I reward my senior companion to express my trust in my senior companion?"
Under the attention of everyone, the official glanced at everyone, and slowly opened his mouth to Zhu Houzhao, who was looking at him expectantly: "I sincerely request your majesty to make the chief steward king!"
"puff!"
After the official finished speaking, everyone present, including Zhu Houzhao, opened their eyes wide and looked at each other in disbelief.
Everyone was stunned by the official's words.
This man dared to ask the emperor to be crowned king. Don’t you know that non-clan members cannot be crowned kings? There were only a few people in the world who had different surnames and were crowned kings at the beginning of the country. But after the founding of the country, not to mention princes, even the title of duke was not crowned by imperial decree.
You guys, how are you helping Chu Yi to seek rewards? They are simply trying to trick Chu Yi into death!
[On the sixth day after my daughter was born, if you calculate it, she slept for less than thirty hours in six days. She could have died!]
