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Chapter 174 Is Shang Fang's Sword Sharp?

After entering September, Zhang Zongxian arrived at Xuanhua Governor's Mansion with two cavalry brigades as the governor's standard battalion.

For Zhang Zongxian in Xuanfu Town, he decided to adopt the soft policy first and bring the frontier army into the grassland. After all, this place is too close to the capital, and the relationship between various aspects is complicated, especially the nobles have many interests.

Now is not the time to start with them.

After arriving in Xuanhua, Zhang Zongxian didn't close the door to see visitors like in other towns, but kept receiving visiting officials and border troops.

For a while, the frontier soldiers in Xuanfu Town were confused. They were already prepared to fight Zhang Zongxian, and their backstage nobles were also ready.

Anyway, if there is no death, if you dare to kill them, you will cause trouble, and the nobles will go to the palace to cry.What do you do?
However, Zhang Zongxian did not fail to act. First, he asked Lin Danhan to be exempted from the market reward, and Zhangjiakou's mutual market was closed.

When Lin Danhan led troops to buckle the border, the imperial court had no choice but to reward him every year in the name of the mutual market.There are as many as one million taels every year.

After the rise of Jiannu in the previous life, the city rewards for him were also increased. As a result, when he sought to control other tribes of the Tartars, he was blindly tough, causing the conquered tribes to be overwhelmed by his rule, and they sought refuge with the Jurchens one after another.

Later, after Jiannu annexed the Horqin tribe, Lin Dan didn't dare to let a fart go. Instead, he moved westward and left the Liaohe River to deal with the Tumote tribe.

After conquering the Tumote tribe, they invaded Datong again, killing tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians of the Ming Dynasty, and almost captured the city of Datong.In order to appease him, the imperial court also gave him the city reward of Tumed Department.

As a result, this guy still often buckles the side, looting and killing people in Shaanxi and Shanxi.In the end, he was defeated by Jiannu and rushed to Qinghai, where he died of illness.

Soon Tianqi decreed that Lin Danhan's market rewards were abolished and the Zhangjiakou mutual market was closed.

After Lin Danhan learned about it, he wanted to send an envoy to Beijing, but Zhang Zongxian sent someone to stop him, cut off his ear and sent him back.

Lin Dan Khan was so angry that he wanted to raise troops to seize the pass, Zhang Zongxian was waiting for him to do it, and it was already the queen of autumn at this time.

The troops of the Legislative Army have already been prepared. Twenty cavalry brigades and ten infantry brigades have all moved forward to Jining.Just wait for the army from Xuanfu Town to come out.

After learning that the Ming army had a large army stationed in Jining, Lin Danhan realized that the Ming army was about to make a move. Two months ago, he received a request for help from the Wai Khalkha Department. The Kabuya tribe dispersed the tribe.

At that time, Lin Danhan realized that he was surrounded, and now that the Ming court has stopped the market rewards, it is indeed necessary to do something.

Immediately began to gather troops, and rescued the Horqin tribe. The Horqin tribe also took over some of the Khalkha tribe. They knew that the cavalry of the Ming army was very powerful, and they knew that after Lin Dan Khan was defeated, it was their turn for the Horqin tribe.

On the one hand, they assembled troops to support Lin Danhan, and on the other hand, they quietly contacted Jiannu. The wild boar skin had a marriage relationship with Horqin. After Jiugong Tieling, after Kai Yuan could not go down, the wild boar skin always wanted to conquer the Tartar Chu tribe, and then attacked from the grassland Ming dynasty.

It has only been a few years now that the overlord of the grassland has been beaten like this by the Ming army. This makes Ye Zhupi very surprised, but he also thinks it is an opportunity to surprise the Ming army when the two sides are fighting, and kill two birds with one stone.

Immediately, the wild boar skin began to mobilize the Eight Banners, and forced North Korea to send troops. It recruited [-] gunners from North Korea, as well as a large number of bowl guns and Franco machine guns.

Zhang Zongxian sent troops from Datong Town under the pretext of resisting Lin Danhan's deduction, and sent the eight cavalry brigades of the Legislative Army, plus the two cavalry brigades of the standard battalion, to Gubeikou led by Boren.

After preparing for the start of the war, let them go out of the side wall from Gubeikou and go straight to Guangning Houtunwei.

Then Zhang Zongxian ordered in the name of the governor of Qibian that Xuanfu Town must gather all troops to Zhangjiakou to attack Lin Danhan with the reinforcements from Datong Town.

Seeing that the standard battalion around Zhang Zongxian was not there, the border generals in Xuanfu Town were not afraid that Zhang Zongxian would take them into action, so they found various excuses to delay sending troops.

Zhang Zongxian first asked Zhao's staff to come forward and entertain the general soldiers and generals.

Soon Staff Zhao called the Chief Soldier and the generals to drink together. After half a round of drinking, Staff Zhao began to make indirect remarks.

"You are all the pillars of the imperial court. Now that Lin Danhan is buckling up, it is a good time to kill the enemy and serve the country. Why are you hesitating!"

Seeing that Zhao's staff got to the point, these frontier soldiers stopped drinking.Started to complain, one of the generals said:
"Master Zhao, you don't know! The court has repeatedly owed wages, and the soldiers are full of resentment. I am afraid that the rash gathering of troops will cause a mutiny."

Staff Zhao had already prepared for this matter.

"Don't worry, everyone, the governor has asked the imperial court for the city reward for Lin Danhong to pay the soldiers in this town."

When these sides will hear that there is money, their eyes will light up.

Zhao's staff went on to say:

"In this battle, Datong Town and Yansui Town will send troops to help. There are no less than [-] troops. In addition to the town's army, why worry about not breaking the Tartars?

Some generals were already moved by what they said.

At this moment the commander-in-chief spoke.

"Xuan Mansion is an important place to defend the capital, if you send troops rashly, if any side wall is breached by the Tartars, it will be a death penalty for us!"

Seeing what he said, Zhao's staff sneered and said:
"Breaking the side wall is a capital offense, so you want to test whether the Governor's Shangfang sword is sharp?"

As soon as these words came out, the side generals present did not dare to speak anymore.

"The governor is not giving face to you, but to the masters in the capital. Don't give face to shame."

The commander-in-chief quickly replied:

"How dare I wait, I am willing to serve the governor, just? Just?"

"Speak up if you have something to say. The governor is not here. The governor sent me here to let everyone tell the truth."

The commander-in-chief looked at the people present, and the other generals quickly winked at him to tell him to speak quickly, the commander-in-chief said helplessly:

"I'm just worried about the investigation of the military farmland. I also heard that other towns bought the general farmland with money. I don't have the money to buy the farmland when I owe wages all the year round. I forgot that Mr. Zhao said good things in front of the governor. A few words, let the governor understand our hardships."

To put it bluntly, I still don't want to hand over the occupied farmland, but Zhang Zongxian's purpose is to coax them out of the border town, and they can't help them when they are outside the border wall.

According to Zhang Zongxian's instructions, Zhao's staff tricked them and said:
"This matter is actually simple. As long as you fight with your heart, the governor can save you the money to buy the land. You only need to pay taxes on time in the future. After this battle, the governor will definitely join the cabinet. Everyone, please do a good job. Worry about not being able to get promoted and get rich!"

Some generals wanted to exempt the tax, so they wanted to argue a few more words.Was pressed down by the general soldier.The commander-in-chief knows that if he sees good, he will accept it. After all, the governor holds Shangfang's sword, and if he really kills them, he will kill them. Even if the nobles behind him make trouble, they will be dismissed from office at most.

So the two sides reached an agreement on this, and Xuanfu Town began to mobilize troops.

(End of this chapter)