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Chapter 231 That Imperial Envoy Li Huanding Is Not a Good Official 【Order】

For some reason, seeing that Li Huan didn't react at all, Qian Ning felt a mountain of pressure rushing towards his face.

The next moment, I saw the secret letter in Li Huan's hand turned into powder, and Li Huan's face was calm, and a solemn murderous intent rushed towards his face.

"Could it be that the frontier soldiers in Yulin Town are all dead? Why did the court raise them for food? They let the Tatars easily enter the pass, and they can't stop the Tatars. Could it be that they can't even warn them?"

Listening to Li Huan's words, Qian Ning shrank his neck and dared not speak.

A stern look flashed in Li Huan's eyes and said to Ren Ping who was beside him: "Commander Ren, you stay and train these soldiers and sit in Xi'an Mansion."

Ren Ping came to his senses when he heard the words, and hurriedly bowed and said: "The last general takes orders."

When Li Huan's eyes fell on Guan Zheng, Li Huan said: "Commander Guan, immediately mobilize the troops and follow the governor to Yulin Town. The governor wants to see how this Tatar sneaked into Guanzhong of."

Guan Zheng looked solemn and said: "The last general takes orders."

Soon the desolate trumpet sounded, and the tens of thousands of soldiers who were training on the school field couldn't help being stunned, showing a look of astonishment, and subconsciously looked towards Dianjiangtai.

In less than a cup of tea, smoke and dust billowed in, and the ground shook slightly. Apart from some veterans of the Zhenwei Camp who were training new soldiers and soldiers sent by Li Huan, there were still nearly 2000 people in the Zhenwei Camp.

The desolate sound of the horn was the signal to summon the soldiers of the Zhenwei Camp.

After some downsizing, there were only more than 3000 people left in the entire Zhenwei camp. Although I can't say that all of them are elites comparable to the frontier army, overall, they are not much worse than the frontier army.

Even if considering the armor rate of Zhenwei camp soldiers, only in terms of equipment, Zhenwei camp will definitely surpass those frontier troops in the nine border towns.

If it is the former Beijing camp army, the armor rate may not be as good as that of the frontier army, but after the elimination, a large number of old and weak soldiers were eliminated, and a large number of soldiers and armors were naturally idle. It can be said that this time the Zhenwei camp With Li Huan out of Beijing, the Zhenwei Camp almost emptied its inventory. More than 3000 soldiers were all wearing armor. The powerful crossbows, firecrackers, knives and guns and other sharp weapons.

Although I dare not say that the Zhenwei Battalion is armed to the teeth, it is definitely better than the frontier army.

Therefore, the men and horses of the Zhenwei camp may not be incapable of fighting against those brave frontier elites.

Here Li Huan instructed Qian Ning, Guan Zheng was dressed in armor, and said to Li Huan solemnly: "Governor, the soldiers of the Zhenwei Camp have assembled, and they are ready to wait for the command of the Great Commander at any time."

Li Huan nodded, glanced at all the soldiers, and shouted in a deep voice: "All the soldiers, the Tatars attacked the pass, entered the pass, and plundered the money and food that our Ming Dynasty gave to the victims, so that countless people were displaced and died of hunger and cold. Do you think the Tatars should be killed or not?"

Hearing the words, a group of soldiers couldn't help showing a bit of evil spirit in their eyes.

"Kill, kill, kill"

Immediately, the sound of shouting and killing shook the sky.

The newly recruited soldiers not far away also showed anger.

You must know that these recruits were all recruited from the refugees affected by the disaster. No one knew better than them what the government's relief food meant to them.

The Tatars robbed the relief food, which pushed the disaster-stricken people in Yulin Road to a dead end.

All of a sudden, even these new soldiers who hadn't been trained for a long time couldn't help shouting along with the soldiers of Zhenwei Camp.

Taking a deep breath, Li Huan got on his horse, nodded to Guan Zheng and said, "Commander Guan, lead the army and follow me to Yulin Road."

Although Li Huan knew in his heart that perhaps by the time he led the Zhenwei Camp troops to Zhenwei Camp, those Tatars had withdrawn from the Great Wall and returned to the grassland, but Li Huan still decided to take Zhenwei Camp to Yulin road.

Yulin Road is one of the important towns in the Nine Borders. The Nine Borders has been dealing with foreign races all year round, but it is not comparable to the inland land of the Central Plains.

Li Huan went to Yulin Town this time to see if he could attack the Tatars who invaded the country, but the most important thing was to help the victims.

That's right, the main purpose of Li Huan's rush to Yulin Town was to relieve the victims. Compared with fighting the Tatars, nothing was more important than helping those victims.

Under normal circumstances, if Li Huan wanted to help the victims, he would have to bring a large amount of food. Otherwise, even if he arrived in Yulin Town, a clever woman could hardly survive without rice, and she would not be able to save people without food.

But Li Huan had his own considerations.

After ransacking the house so many times, Li Huan clearly found that the people in Daming were indeed poor, and most of them barely made ends meet, but this did not mean that all the people in Daming were poor.

It's just that a large amount of money, food, and wealth are all gathered in the hands of a very few people, and these people are powerful and aristocratic families entrenched in the locality.

At this time, Li Huan was full of travel and dust, and behind him were nearly two thousand soldiers from the Zhenwei camp. It took Li Huan and others several days for Xi'an Mansion to rush to Yulin Town.

As the governor, Li Huan shared joys and sorrows with the soldiers of the Zhenwei camp for a few days, and he did not do anything special. Unlike many supervisors and governors, who marched in large armies, these people sat leisurely in the carriage.

For the past few days, Li Huan ate and lived with all the soldiers in the Zhenwei camp, and only the soldiers in the Zhenwei camp were convinced by Li Huan.

There was a sound of horseshoes ahead, and one could tell at a glance that the person coming was the sentinel.

As the army marches, the importance of sentries can be imagined.

An elite Xiaoqi came on horseback, got off his horse and said respectfully to Li Huan and Guan Zheng: "Governor, Commander, I found the team of Governor-General Yang Yiqing of the three sides ahead."

Talking about the little flag officer, he said: "At this time, Governor Yang is bringing people to visit the chief governor."

Li Huan raised his brows, apparently he did not expect to meet Yang Yiqing, the governor of the three sides, after entering the Yulin Road boundary.

Speaking of Yang Yiqing's words, to be honest, Li Huan still has a good understanding of this person, after all, this person can be regarded as a person who allowed Wen Yunwu during the Zhengde Dynasty.

In particular, he also supervised the important towns in the three borders, and he can definitely be regarded as a great official of the frontier. At the beginning of the court, some people even suggested that Yang Yiqing, a great official of the frontier, should be transferred back to the central government to enter the cabinet and take charge of the military department.

It can be seen that Yang Yiqing is definitely not an ordinary person.

A cloud of smoke billowed in the distance, judging by the size of the smoke, there were almost dozens of riders, if nothing unexpected happened, it would be Yang Yiqing and the others that the little banner official said.

Li Huan pestered Guan Zheng who was beside him and said, "Commander Guan, accompany me to meet Governor Yang for a while."

Guan Zheng responded, and drove his horse forward slowly beside Li Huan.

Soon, a group of cavalry roared towards them. The leader was a middle-aged official dressed in a governor's uniform. Just looking at his familiar appearance on the horse, he knew that his riding skills were definitely not bad.

And behind him is a group of elite cavalry, just looking at the momentum and appearance of these cavalry, they are definitely the elite of the frontier army.

A few flags fluttered in the wind, and the Yang character banner was waving vigorously, with a truly extraordinary momentum.

At that time, Yang Yiqing was the censor of Youdu and the governor of Shaanxi. He was in charge of the military affairs of the three towns and supervised the trilateral military formations of Yansui, Gansu, and Ningxia. He was also called the governor of the trilateral.

Yulin Town, also known as Yansui Town, is one of the important towns on the nine borders, and together with the towns of Gansu and Ningxia, it is an important town on the three borders.

Therefore, Yang Yiqing is not only the censor of the right capital of the imperial court, but also the governor of Shaanxi Province, and the governor of the military affairs of the three border towns.

Looking at Daming, there are very few people who can match it locally.

Yang Yiqing, together with Li Dongyang and Liu Daxia, are known as the Three Heroes of Chu, but compared to Li Dongyang and Liu Daxia who are pure literati, Yang Yiqing is not only the best in martial arts, but also has extraordinary attainments in martial arts.

Later, Yang Yiqing became the chief assistant of the cabinet. He was known as a general and a prime minister, with literary and martial arts skills, comparable to Yao Chong, the famous prime minister of Tang Dynasty.

News about Yang Yiqing flashed in his mind, and at this time Yang Yiqing also brought a group of people to the front.

While Li Huan was looking at Yang Yiqing, Yang Yiqing was also looking at Li Huan,

For many local officials, despite Li Huan's reputation in the capital and Fujian, it may not be the case in other places.

Even though there are many stories about Li Huan in the palace newspaper, for some officials, it is not bad to know Li Huan's name.As for saying more, there are really many people who are not interested.

But Yang Yiqing is different. Yang Yiqing has been an official for decades. He has entered the official career since the Chenghua Dynasty. Not a few.

In addition, Yang Yiqing is the governor of the three sides, so it is impossible not to pay attention to the changes in the court, so Yang Yiqing understands Li Huan very clearly.

More than a month ago, Yang Yiqing had already known from the imperial palace report that the Son of Heaven had personally sent Li Huan as an imperial envoy to Shaanxi to supervise local disaster relief.

Ordinarily, Yang Yiqing, as the governor of Shaanxi, was responsible for the catastrophe in Shaanxi. However, neither the court nor the emperor intended to blame Yang Yiqing. Town, optimistic about the frontier army for the court.

Therefore, Yang Yiqing seems to have the title of governor, but in fact, he has no room to intervene in the government affairs of Shaanxi, and his main energy is to restrain the frontier army and prevent the frontier army from causing chaos.

After all, under a catastrophe, there will be civil unrest. This is almost common sense. Small-scale civil unrest can be quelled by the local government and the guards. However, once a large-scale civil unrest occurs, an army must be dispatched to suppress it.

Yansui Town, one of the important military towns on the nine borders, is naturally very important.

And Yang Yiqing is sitting in Yansui Town.

This time the Tatars appeared on Yulin Road almost without alarming the frontier troops, and even looted the food provided by the court to relieve the victims.

As soon as Yang Yiqing got the news, he sent orders to the three important towns, and even began to mobilize soldiers and horses, preparing to block the road back to the grassland in Huli.

Not long ago, Yang Yiqing got the news that Li Huan, an imperial envoy, rushed over from Xi'an Mansion with a battalion of troops.

So Yang Yiqing brought his men and horses to greet him, and only then did the two meet.

Yang Yiqing dismounted from his horse and saluted Li Huan, "I'm the governor of Shaanxi, in charge of the military affairs of the three towns, and Yang Yiqing, the censor of the right capital, pays his respects to the imperial envoy."

Without waiting for Yang Yiqing to bow down, Li Huan hurriedly stepped forward, supported Yang Yiqing and said: "Governor Yang, you don't need to be too polite. Li is in Beijing. His Majesty often hears that Governor Yang is both civil and military. See, it really lives up to its reputation."

Yang Yiqing showed a bit of flattered look on his face, he hurriedly cupped his hands in the direction of the capital and said: "Your Majesty's ridiculous praise, it really frustrates the old minister."

Just by supporting Yang Yiqing, Li Huan felt the power contained in Yang Yiqing's not-so-strong body. strong.

According to Li Huan's judgment, Yang Yiqing's strength, even the average first-class players may not necessarily be his opponent.

Li Huan suddenly discovered that civil servants of Confucian background, such as Wang Yangming and Yang Yiqing, who had extremely high attainments in military affairs, all had strong internal cultivation.

Just like Wang Yangming, who has a high level of internal cultivation, even Li Huan now claims to have practiced the thirteen Taibao horizontal exercises to the state of being invincible, and he dare not say that he can stabilize Wang Yangming.

And Yang Yiqing in front of him is obviously a strong man whose strength is not much worse than Wang Yangming.

The two exchanged polite words, Li Huan looked at Yang Yiqing and said: "Governor Yang, why Li is here, I think Governor Yang should have a good idea."

Yang Yiqing showed a dignified look on his face, nodded slightly with guilt and self-blame: "The lower officials are in charge of the military affairs of the three sides, but they let the Tatars sneak into the pass, so that the other party robbed the imperial court. Relief food, the lower officials are not strict in governing the army, some are unfavorable to the emperor, and some are unfavorable to the people of the three sides..."

Speaking of this, Yang Yiqing said again: "After the incident, I have strictly ordered the commanders of the three sides and a group of commanders to strictly guard the gates of various places, and dispatched an elite group to encircle and suppress the invaders. Unfortunately, the Huli department also I don't know where I got the news, but I was always able to avoid the encirclement and suppression of the army first, and after looting a few villages and towns, I have fled back to the grassland from Sanlangkou."

It can be said that half a month has passed since Li Huan got the news and when Li Huan led the troops to arrive.

During these half a month, it was obviously impossible for the Tatars in the pot to stay on Yulin Road foolishly and wait for the three armies to encircle and suppress them.

Don't look at the fact that the Tatars are always on the sidelines these years, and the Ming side is on the defensive, it also depends on what kind of situation it is.

After all, the Tatars invaded the borders, and tens of thousands of cavalry had always gone south to the Central Plains. Naturally, the Nine Frontiers had to do their best to guard against such a large-scale invasion of the border.

However, that was the result of the dispatch of most of the Tatar troops, and the court had to deal with it with all its strength.

But this time it's just a small pot, and it's only a few thousand young and strong.

Tatars of this scale, to be honest, any town on the nine borders has the strength to easily wipe them out.

Therefore, if Aliha and the others in the pot didn't get better and accepted them, half a month later, Yang Yiqing would have led the three elites to stay in Yulin Road completely.

In fact, Li Huan himself had too much hope for the Tatars who left behind to loot. The Tatars are not stupid. They must have escaped immediately after robbing so much food. If they really want to stay in the pass, then they will What a ghost.

Nodding his head slightly, Li Huan looked at Yang Yiqing and said: "According to Governor Yang's words, the people in the pot are obviously here for the relief food from the imperial court. The grain team can escape the encirclement and suppression of the governor afterwards, doesn't Governor Yang think that there is something wrong with it?"

Hearing the words, Yang Yiqing flashed a bright light in his eyes, took a deep breath and looked at Li Huan and said, "I also know that there must be someone among them colluding with Hulibu, otherwise Hulibu would not have entered the bandits so smoothly. , Exiting customs, even the officers and horses dispatched by the official know it clearly."

Li Huan frowned and said, "I don't know if Governor Yang has ever found out who colluded with the Tatars and committed such a treasonous thing?"

Yang Yiqing slowly shook his head and said: "For a while, there are no clues, but the governor will definitely investigate to the end, and will never let such rebellious people go unpunished."

Li Huan nodded slightly and said: "Jin Yiwei will also investigate this matter, and it involves people in the army. I hope Governor Yang can make it easier for him."

Yang Yiqing only hesitated for a moment when he heard the words, then nodded and said: "It should be so."

Although Yang Yiqing, as a civil servant, has a natural resistance to Jin Yiwei's investigation of the case, Yang Yiqing is not a fool. He naturally knows that if such a big thing happened, as long as anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Tatars invaded, there must be three sides. With the help of powerful figures in the court, Jin Yiwei has the right to monitor the world.

If Jin Yiwei didn't intervene in such a big event, it would be a strange thing.

Speaking of which, Li Huan took a deep breath, and said with a dignified expression: "The relief food was robbed by the Tatars, what happened to the people of Suide Prefecture?"

Those grains are life-saving grains for the people of a state. Li Huan really can't imagine what will happen to the people of Suide Prefecture without those grains.

Sure enough, after listening to Li Huan's words, Yang Yiqing's face showed a somewhat heavy expression.

After a while, Yang Yiqing opened his mouth and said: "The 10,000+ people in Suide Prefecture starved to death as many as 4000. When the official arrived in Suide Prefecture, he immediately visited various powerful and merchants in Suide Prefecture, and finally raised more than [-] shi of grain. Every day With gruel, there are no more large-scale casualties, but the food raised may not last for a few days."

Speaking of which, Yang Yiqing bowed to Li Huan, and said pleadingly: "I also ask the imperial envoy to urge the court to allocate relief food as soon as possible. On behalf of the people in Yulin, I implore the imperial envoy..."

Speaking of which, Yang Yiqing bowed down to Li Huan, and behind Yang Yiqing, several officials and a group of soldiers also bowed down to Li Huan.

"Please, my lord, save the people in Yulin!"

Li Huan suddenly heard that more than 2 people died of starvation in Suide Prefecture, his heart was shocked, and at the same time, he was filled with endless anger.

Even if Yang Yiqing later said that he had raised thousands of shi of grain from the Suide squire and barely killed the people, the anger in Li Huan's heart did not diminish at all.

Forced to suppress the anger in his heart, Li Huan took a deep breath and helped Yang Yiqing up and said: "Governor Yang, don't worry, since Li is here, he won't just sit back and watch my Ming people starve to death."

Hearing Li Huan's categorical promise, Yang Yiqing couldn't help being moved, he bowed to Li Huan again, and said excitedly: "I thank you, my lord."

At this moment, Yang Yiqing's various prejudices against Li Huan disappeared. No matter how easy Li Huan was to kill, even scholars, but just because Li Huan had the people in his heart and was willing to do things for the people, Yang Yiqing treated Li Huan Give birth to some admiration and respect.

Yang Yiqing has been in the officialdom for a long time, so it can be said that he has long been used to seeing all kinds of misery in the officialdom. For so many years, he has punished dozens of corrupt officials alone. But it is very few.

After being saluted by Yang Yiqing, Li Huan said, "How far is this place from Suide Prefecture?"

Yang Yiqing immediately said: "There are still about ten miles. In order to prevent the remaining Tatars, the lower officials sent out many sentries, so they inquired about the imperial envoy and his party in advance, and brought people to welcome the imperial envoy."

Li Huan nodded slightly and said: "Since that's the case, please Governor Yang to lead the way. Li will go to Suide Prefecture first to see the people affected by the disaster."

Booming, the brigade roared towards Suidezhou.

Suidezhou

It was dark outside the city, and there were refugees struggling to survive everywhere. The county magistrate Ding Dechao, who was all patched up, looked more stooped than the previous few days, and his face, which was already full of sorrow, was now even more sad.

Ding Dechao couldn't help sighing as he watched the corpses being carried away by the guards and digging deep pits for burial.

The official who followed Ding Dechao said: "My lord, the governor is now sitting in Suide Prefecture, and the relief food from the imperial court will be allocated sooner or later. What you have done is already doing everything you can, and you are worthy of anyone..."

Ding Dechao shook his head when he heard the words, his eyes were a little red, and he looked at the scrawny people around him, with gray eyes and no hope, and said: "I am ashamed, if I could ask those rich businessmen and gentry for help With more food, the people will not starve to death so many people, more than 2 people, that is more than 2 lives, just disappear..."

Speaking of which, Ding Dechao couldn't help sobbing in a low voice, and the dignified county parent officer squatted on the ground and wept like a child.

"I'm incompetent, the Liu family, the Tang family, and the Chen family, which one of them doesn't store grain and tens of thousands of stones, if I..."

The official looked at Ding Dechao and sighed softly: "Your Excellency, you are a good official, but behind the Tang family is Lord Tang Dingbang, the commander of the guards, behind the Liu family is the guerrilla general Liu Bao, and although the Chen family is only a distant relative of General Chen Guang, But you won’t sell your face. Only Governor Yang can ask them to provide some food, and you have really tried your best.”

The official said with some doubts: "Governor Yang sent someone earlier, saying that the imperial envoy Li Huan Li is coming soon, please accompany him to meet the imperial envoy, why don't you go?"

Ding Dechao snorted coldly when he heard the words: "The imperial envoy has a bad reputation, so I don't think he is a good official. Do you expect him to be the master for my people in Suide? If you have that time, I might as well find a way to ask for a few more. Hao Qiang took out some rice grains to help the victims."

While he was speaking, a cloud of smoke and dust billowed in the distance, shaking the ground, and the momentum was extremely astonishing. Not only the people, but also the county magistrate Ding Dechao and the officials around him who were still checking among the refugees couldn't help it. He looked in the direction of the movement.

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