Jinyi champion

July twenty-fourth.

Early in the morning, all the ministers entered the palace and waited to meet the emperor.

At that time, the civil and military officials were discussing a lot, because they had learned the news from different channels earlier. In the past few days, various gates of the Xuanfu were harassed by Tatars, and sporadic wars broke out. The Xuanfu strengthened its vigilance.

"...Zhongtang, no one expected that the target of the Tatars was really not on the three sides, but directly at Xuanfu and Datong. According to the current battle reports, Baiyangkou was lost and recovered, and a battle of no less than a thousand people broke out This is the first time that our Daming Pass has experienced such a violent impact after the Battle of Yingzhou."

As Minister of the Ministry of War, Peng Ze was the first to bear the brunt of the emergency military situation in the Northwest, and had to explain it to the emperor at the court meeting.
But before that, he wanted to ask Yang Tinghe for his opinion.

Yang Tinghe looked stern.

Now, the little emperor said that the focus of the Tatar looting was not on the three sides but on Xuanda?

How did the little emperor judge?
Blind cat meets dead mouse?

Or is it from Zang Feng, governor of Xuanda, or someone else?

With many puzzles, with the arrival of the court meeting, Yang Tinghe walked at the head of the row of civil servants, and strode into the Fengtian Hall with his head held high.

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The court will be calm.

Regarding what happened on the front line of Xuanda, Zhu Si took the lead, because he had tried his best to overcome all opinions and ordered the Xuanfu Datong line to strengthen security, so that the border gates responded to the Tatar attack with ease this time, and neither the officials nor the people suffered. Big loss.

Of course, to prevent problems before they happen, there is no credit if there is no fault. Although Zhu Si earned a reputation as a god of predicting things, it did not substantially help him control the court.

In this court meeting, people from the Ministry of War were basically explaining the situation. Peng Ze and Li Kun, the right servant of the Ministry of War, explained very carefully, and few others participated in the topic.

As a result of the final agreement, the imperial court took out about [-] taels of money and food, and transferred it to Xuanda's front line to deal with it. In addition, the household department had previously allocated about [-] taels worth of money and food to Xuanda and the three parties, which means that Xuanda is only in the The combat supplies received in summer amounted to as many as [-] taels.

This is not counting Zhu Hao's own financing.

The court meeting ended in a strange atmosphere.

When Yang Tinghe came out of Fengtian Hall, his face was not very good-looking, because this time not only the little emperor had a good face, but even Zang Feng, who was not under his control, became the court's favorite.

On the way, Jiang Mian mentioned intentionally or unintentionally: "The details of the Baiyangkou battle have not been reported to the capital until now. They only said that the pass was lost and recovered, but what is the state of the enemy and us now, and how many casualties each of them are, are all mysteries. Why did it happen? In the past three days, there is still no specific news?"

"Um!?"

Yang Tinghe heard the key to the problem.

Although Baiyangkou belongs to the gateway extending from Xuanda to Yansui, it is some distance away from the capital, but if we talk about the battle report, the news should be delivered to the capital within two days no matter how urgent it is at [-] li.

Why is there no battle report for three days?

However, gossip spreads very fast. Now people are saying that Baiyangkou fought a fierce battle, and completed a fierce battle from the fall to the recapture. It is reasonable to say that it will be extremely tragic...

...

There is no news now, is it just a formality by waving the flag and shouting?
Suspicious!
"decide as things go."

Yang Tinghe said thoughtfully.

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It was not until the afternoon of that day that the specific situation of the Baiyangkou war was reported.

Zang Feng, Governor of Xuanda, personally reported.

After Yang Tinghe got the battle report, he first looked at the scale of the battle at Baiyangkou. The Ming Dynasty sent more than [-] troops, while the Tatars who invaded the border looked like [-] to [-]... First, the Baiyangkou defenders were surrounded by thick fog. , the situation is unknown, met the Tatars onslaught, voluntarily withdrew from the pass after sixteen people died.

Afterwards, under the command of Tianchengwei, Jia Qin and his son Jia Ruyang led more than [-] troops, and they allied with Baiyangkou to withdraw their troops and horses, and recaptured Baiyangkou.

Beheaded six Tatar heads, got fourteen horses, and some weapons...

Yang Ting and Ben are going to leave the cabinet to watch the house. After receiving this battle report, they can't tell what it feels like.

As far as the record is concerned, it's not bad. Sixteen people were killed or injured...not counting the casualties during the second counterattack...By the way, there was no mention of the casualties in the second counterattack?
The final result is to kill six Tatars, it seems that the harvest is not very big.

The current situation in the Northwest is like this. Wars are usually thunderous and rainy, and it is more like a military operation that sees and robs and prevents looting back and forth. In the case of the civil fort change, hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of horses were killed and injured. No matter how difficult it is to appear.

"Jie Fu, the matter is of great importance, and you should report it as soon as possible."

Jiang Mian came over to remind.

Yang Tinghe said: "It took such a lot of trouble to say that Xuanfu and Datong are all soldiers, and the result is only a war of this scale. Is it worth it?"

From Yang Tinghe's point of view, I can understand that the thunder is heavy and the rain is small, but the result is so small, isn't it too embarrassing for the court?

Thanks to Xia Xia, the imperial court dispatched more than one hundred thousand taels of silver to Xuanfu and Datong, and the result is what it looks like now, how dare you show your merits?
Who knows if the heads of the six Tatars took credit for killing the herdsmen outside the pass?

Jiang Mian smiled, but did not answer.

In Jiang Mian's view, as long as the Xuanfu and Datong are safe and everything is safe in the pass, no matter what happens to him, a few days of stability in the capital is more important than anything else.

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The next morning, the battle report was made public in the court.

Because Zhu Si wanted to recruit Zang Feng, he praised Zang Feng's performance in this defensive battle. Although Zang Feng did not participate in the front-line battle, at least so far, the Tatars have not caused any major disturbances. The trouble was just a situation in Aries' mouth, and it was resolved quickly.

"I want to add Zang Qing's family as the censor of the right capital, and reuse it after returning to Beijing."

Zhu Si announced happily.

Zang Feng went to the Xuanfu of Zhisuo as the right servant of the Ministry of punishment and the censor of Youqian Capital, and was in charge of the military affairs of Xuanda. On the other hand, Zang Feng did not get preferential treatment in the official position.

Zang Feng was in charge of the governor's water transportation for many years before he was transferred to the governor of Xuanda, and his rank was lower than this.

If this time because of meritorious service, he was moved to the right capital as an imperial envoy, it would be equivalent to holding the title of minister and taking charge of military affairs in the Northwest.

The emperor wanted to promote Zang Feng to the official position just because of such a small merit of killing six enemies. When he returned to the court in the future, he might be appointed with six ministers. This is obviously to train Zang Feng to be the successor of the Sun family rhythm.

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Yang Tinghe thought so in his heart.

Because the emperor recently praised Zang Feng, no matter how you look at it, he wanted to use Zang Feng and his Xuanda local soldiers and horses for the emperor's use. This place used to be the sphere of influence of Jiang Bin, Xu Tai and others, and now these people are dead. The little emperor wants to take advantage of it?

snort!
Now that I have understood your will, how can I do what you want?
Yang Tinghe came out and said: "Your Majesty, the Baiyangkou battle report is not exhaustive, and may need to be checked separately... There are frequent false reports of military achievements in the Northwest. If such meritorious service is to be rewarded, I am afraid that it will make the frontier soldiers Give birth to a slack heart.”

He was right.

There have never been many wars on the front line of Xuanda, and the Xuanfu is mostly used as the Northwest Army food reserve. Even though it is located in a strategic point, it is rare to encounter wars all year round. Instead, the three sides are attacked every year. The defense of the Northwest of Ming Dynasty is the top priority.

Now because of a small contribution in Xuanda, do you want to get a reward?
Obviously favor one over another!

What does this make the trilateral soldiers think?
Moreover, in the Baiyangkou battle, it was clear that abandoning the pass and fleeing first was the first thing to do, and it was reasonable to take it back later... From the beginning, you didn't fight to the end, and you want to show your merits by taking it back?
How could it be so easy!
The bigger reason is that Yang Tinghe didn't want the little emperor to recruit Zang Feng because of this, and he didn't want Zang Feng to become the successor of the Minister of the Household.

Zhu Sidao: "The battle report is very detailed. I really can't think of anything wrong with it. As for the false report...only six people were killed. What's the matter?"

Yang Tinghe stared at the emperor.

You also know that only six people were killed?

I wouldn't say that if sixty **** were killed!
"Then, let's find out first. Right now, the Xuan Mansion is being harassed by Tatars. The war is not really over yet. Let's wait for the final result."

Zhu Si was not in a hurry. Seeing Yang Tinghe's objection, he retreated without any further pressure.

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Although Zhu Si didn't argue with Yang Tinghe, he still felt a little unhappy.
In the afternoon, I went out of the palace to see Zhu Hao.

Zhu Hao is using the sand table to deduce the situation in the northwest, and from time to time he will take out the battle reports from Sanbian, Xuanda, etc., and conduct some simulations and deduction in comparison with the terrain.

"Zhu Hao, what is this for? I want to play too."

Zhu Sixing rushed over.

But at this moment, a delicate voice came from the side: "Don't disturb him, he said, no one is allowed to talk to him."

It was unruly and willful, at this time with her hips on her hips, her mouth pouted, glaring at Zhu Hao's eldest princess, Zhu San.

Zhu Si raised his head and glared at his sister, as if to say, is it possible for a woman like you to come in a place of military aircraft?

Zhu Hao said: "Your Majesty, don't listen to her nonsense, I'm trying to figure out where the Tatars will attack next."

Zhu Si sighed: "I was about to talk about this matter. According to what you said today, I wanted to award Zang Feng, but I encountered great resistance. If I didn't listen to you and didn't have the same knowledge as them, otherwise... It is impossible to win the credit back to Zang Feng.”

"It's impossible to fight."

Zhu Hao shook his head.

"What's the meaning?"

Zhu Si was puzzled.

Zhu Hao raised his head and glanced at Zhu San, Zhu San immediately became unhappy, because he disliked himself being in the way here, and was about to throw a princess' temper, but Zhu Si was not used to her, and ordered Zhang Zuo to come forward and take Zhu San out of the room.

No matter how upset Zhu San was, he couldn't openly disobey the emperor's younger brother's intentions, so he snorted coquettishly, turned around and left, so that only Zhu Hao and Zhu Si were left in the room.

Zhu Hao ignored it, and said directly: "It's obviously a false report to announce the great achievements of the local area."

"what?"

Zhu Si was taken aback.

Falsely reporting military exploits, you still want me to honor those who deceive me?

If this is a joke...wouldn't it be the wish of the surname Yang?

"On the front line of Xuanda, there has not been a decent war in the past few years. In addition, the former emperor was resident in Xuanfu, harassing many places, causing people's livelihood to decline, and the Tatars have nothing to grab...Jiang Bin is nepotism, There are a bunch of gangsters stationed everywhere, and it is not uncommon for them to falsely report their military exploits." Zhu Hao said.

Zhu Siyi laughed: "That is to say, your plan is not to win military exploits for Zang Feng? Why is that? Tell me quickly!"

Zhu Hao stopped staring at the sand table, and looked back at Zhu Si: "I just want this matter to go according to Elder Yang Ge's wish, so that he has a reason to remove Zang Feng."
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