Blood from Daming

Chapter 99
The bells of the court meeting came from the Forbidden City, and the officials secretly thanked themselves for their foresight. Everyone arranged their official uniforms and ran to the gate of Qianqing in a hurry.It wasn't until they arrived at the guards guarding the gate that they told these officials that today's special court meeting had been changed to the Hall of Supreme Harmony, and everyone rushed to the Hall of Supreme Harmony in a panic.

The Hall of Supreme Harmony is actually mainly used as a place for various ceremonies. It is rarely used for court meetings. Emperor Tianqi also mainly met ministers at the Gate of Supreme Harmony and the Gate of Qianqing. Hey, the court meeting today is quite big. The minister entered the Hall of Supreme Harmony and found that for the first time, Emperor Tianqi was waiting there first.

Seeing that the officials were about to arrive, Eunuch Wei hinted that the eunuchs in front of the hall would start the court meeting. The eunuchs in front of the palace announced the start of the court meeting. After the ceremony, civil and military officials stood on both sides of the main hall, and the deacon eunuch in front of the hall went to the middle of the main hall to read out, announcing the official document of the great victory announced by the military and civilian newspaper of Datong Prefecture, Datong Prefecture, Datong Town, Shanxi Province.

Thank you for your wisdom and prosperity: Datong’s military and civilians have united and fought hard for several months: Datong’s army cooperated with the Chahar Lindan Khan in the Yonggu Mausoleum of Fangshan in Datong to defeat the eighth son of King Nurhachi with fewer attacks Taiji, five sons Mang Gurtai, seven sons Abatai, Sun Yuetuo and other Baylor, more than 3 Jurchen led by Taiji, five coalition forces of Khalkha, Mongolia, killed more than 5000 enemies, and the grandson of Khan Nurhachi Sa Ha Lian was shot to death, killing 37 nobles of Niu Luzhang Jingboer Jin Jurchen, and capturing 38 people including Niu Luzhang Jing Yaxichan, with more than 700 heads.More than 400 war horses were seized, including [-] wounded horses. Numerous weapons and banners of various types were seized, including the main banner of the Eight Banners Zhenghong Banner.More than [-] people were killed in the Ming army, and countless wounded.

Attached is the list of meritorious personnel as follows: the first meritorious service Xue Yun, the eunuch Zhang Gonggong, the eunuch of the imperial horse supervisor, and the prefect of Datong Zhao, and the following are deputy general Yu, general Xue Liu, commander Wei Luo of Datong, general Zhang Shen, Lizhi County of Datong County, and leader Tu . A large number of Datong officials such as Zhenbianbao and Hongcibao.

After hearing this, the officials of all sizes in the imperial court thought it was a great achievement to kill hundreds of Tartars in Liaodong, a family of Famu people. They all know that Tartars are vicious and difficult to fight, but you Datong always killed thousands of Tartars. , This time it was more ruthless to kill tens of thousands of people. What do you tell everyone to say about you? You have finished your skills. Why don't you mention it to us, so that everyone can benefit from it.

The court officials wanted to congratulate Emperor Tianqi immediately. Anyway, they were flattering and flattering, bragging about meritorious deeds, and they could say whatever was nice, as long as the emperor liked it. This made Emperor Tianqi feel like a king, no matter what Qin Huang Han Wu was like. , Tang Zong and Song Zu themselves seem to be not bad, right? Didn’t Genghis Khan’s descendants be driven back to the desert by our old Zhu’s family?

Emperor Tianqi was happy in his heart: Well, it must be rewarded heavily, so he said: "Ministers and workers, now that Datong has won the battle, I want to worship the heavens and the earth to comfort the ancestors, so that the people of the Ming Dynasty can celebrate the day when the captives will be exterminated. Discuss rewards and rewards for Datong officials, soldiers and civilians."

As soon as the ministers of the court heard that the emperor wanted to reward the officials, soldiers and civilians of Datong Mansion, everyone shut their mouths and remained silent for a while. After a while, they all inspected the royal history and said: "Report to Your Majesty, although the good news of Datong Mansion has arrived, but All relevant achievements have not been checked yet, so it won’t be too late to discuss meritorious deeds and rewards after sending people to check it clearly.” Most ministers quickly seconded the proposal, and the officials knew that the seats in the imperial court were very limited. Good things that can be given to outsiders are of course best shared by your own people.

Emperor Tianqi said to himself: Why do you all have reasons to object to what I say, and it’s a set of one set. Today, a court meeting was held with great difficulty, and these guys came to make things difficult for him again. At this time, Emperor Tianqi heard Wei Daban Wei Eunuch After whispering a few words in his ear, Emperor Tianqi nodded and had his own topic.

Emperor Tianqi: "The Ministry of War and the Ministry of Household Affairs, why have the military achievements of the two Datong Mansions not been verified yet, and the rewards and silver rewards have not yet been distributed."

The Ministry of War: "In the previous Datong City Defense Battle, Datong claimed that Mongolia was wiped out in the First World War. The Jianzhou coalition army had 2000 people, of which at least 7000 were real Tartars. There were 670 four heads, 92 Tatars were captured, including the head of the Tartars. The prisoners have been escorted to Beijing, and the Tartars prisoners will be punished the next day. The Datong Army killed 430 Tatars in the rescue battle of Zhenbianbao and Hongcibao. , captured 22 Tartars, killed 170 and three Mongols, captured a large number of Mongols, seized [-] horses and other trophies, and the situation is basically true. It’s just that the promotion of Datong officials is too fast, and the Ministry of War has no way to arrange it for the time being. gone."

Household Department: "Although the Ministry of War has verified the facts, it is true that the Household Department has no money. Only when there is money in the future will it be reissued."

Sitting down, the Emperor Tianqi was at a loss again, so he had to answer the same question. The officials below stared at each other, saying that there was no silver in one thousand and ten thousand, but it was empty. The method is to give the first two rewards first, and the lovers should first give some supplementary rewards to the Datong Mansion in terms of official positions."

Immediately, a new speaker jumped out and said, "My Majesty, Datong Mansion is an important military base of our Ming Dynasty. It should be guarded by an experienced, mature and prudent general. It is important that I ask the emperor to choose another general officer of Datong. "

Emperor Tianqi opened his mouth and didn't close him. Almost all the ministers looked up at this political idiot with contempt in their eyes. Our team is a high-quality talent. Competing to go to Datong, that's because Datong's official position is fast fat. Now Datong has so many people dead. There were many dead and injured, and more than 2 soldiers were wiped out. If you touch your toes, you will know where Datong will be turned into a ghost place with no living people by Nurhachi next year.

Everyone think about who will be an official at this time, and finally let that guy Xue Yun squat to the end, the flea official looked at everyone's contemptuous eyes, and secretly said that it is not because you are shouting every day to take down President Datong. He is in that position, now he seems to understand something. He was in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and said the wrong thing. Hey, he himself felt that he was getting smaller, and finally he really became Got a little flea.

In the end, the emperor and the ministers reached a compromise. Since there is no money to spend now, we will use the official hats that don’t cost money to deal with it first, and comfort those stupid hats who worked hard in the Ming Dynasty. So everyone discussed and discussed for almost two hours. It was not until Shen Shi that he came up with a compromise plan: Xue Yunshi awarded General Zhaoyong the rank of third-rank military attache to act as the commander-in-chief, temporarily led Datong's military and political integration on behalf of Tianxunhun, and Emperor Tianqi sent 10 taels of treasury silver to reward Datong in advance The officers and men of the three families of the government issued an appointment edict to reward silver on the same day.

Another discussion: If the Datong Army's victory in the battle of Yonggu Mausoleum on Fangshan Mountain in Datong is verified to be true, it is proposed that Xue Yunshi be awarded the rank of deputy general of Dingguo General, and the second-rank military attache will act as the commander-in-chief. The father-in-law will be rewarded separately by Da Nei. The magistrate Zhao of Datong was promoted to the governor of Shanxi, Yu Dacheng was awarded the title of deputy general, the commander of the Datong Guard was promoted to the first level of knighthood, Zhang Can was promoted to the first level of knighthood, and Lizhi County of Datong County was the acting magistrate of Datong Prefecture.The promotion of below [-] bosses shall be reported and approved by Datong Town.

Even if the imperial court has an account of the meritorious personnel in the Datong war, Eunuch Wei, the supervisor of ceremonies, Bingbi, the eunuch, and the admiral of the East Factory, has gained a lot of benefits in Datong. A few days ago, Eunuch Zhang and Xue Yun sent a lot Treasures, among them, Eunuch Wei's favorite is the exotic glassware sold from the far west to the Central Plains, the colorful, beautiful and unpredictable colors.Of course, it is necessary to help Datong to speak, otherwise these courts are literati and they will not eat Xue Yun and the others to the bone.

Now the Xue Mansion is in a good place. In the past few months, people have often come to the Xue Mansion to thank the Xue family for killing the Tartars for the country and the people, and protecting the great rivers and mountains for the Ming Dynasty. Today is even more outrageous. People have been coming to the Xue Mansion before noon. In front of the gate, there were nearly 1 people at most in the afternoon, expressing their gratitude to the Xue family for their contributions to the court and the people of Ming Dynasty. Afterwards, there were letters and poems handed over by Xue Rui, who was guarding the gate. The Liaodong people in the capital jointly called on Xue Yun to go north to destroy the captives, regain the Daming mountains and rivers, and so on.

Xue Rui was taken aback by this, and he was naturally very happy to see Xue Yun make such great achievements, but everyone praised the Xue family and Xue Yun so highly, that loyal Yue Fei was not so easy to do, so he quickly ordered his servants to close the door Regardless of knocking on the door and making noise outside, Xue Yun's family hid in the mansion and hoped that these people would disperse quickly.

When it was getting dark, there were very few people outside the door. At this time, someone from the palace came and shouted outside the door for a long time. The servants heard something wrong inside the door before opening the door. The eunuch who passed the order was very dissatisfied. Hurry up to send the money, and the popularity in the palace disappeared. The emperor rewarded the Xue family with many treasures. Xue Rui took his family to receive the imperial decree. The emperor graciously allowed the children of the Xue family to serve the emperor in the army. Xue Rui hesitated for a while. In the end, the names of Xue Yun's elder brother Xue Bin and second brother Xue Bo were reported.Then the generous gift sent away the eunuch who delivered the edict in the palace.

The next day when Xue Rui went to Xiaoxue's Mansion, all the maids and servants of Xiaoxue's Mansion came to greet her. Xue Rui went straight into the main hall and sat down. He looks elegant and dignified, and there is indeed a bit of scholarly charm in it. He is worthy of being a scholar after an official family.Then there is Mei Xiang, the maidservant at home, but she has been pregnant for five or six months now, she is also a mistress of the Xue family, and she looks so pretty, Xue Rui thinks about the four guards in the small courtyard of Xue's mansion. After watching Xue Yun for so long, he didn't fart at the end, but Wu Hui from Xue Zhuang and Mei Xiang from the second room took the lead. Xue Rui was very disappointed with the two girls Ru Meng and Ruo Lian.

Following the steward, Ni Hongshuang, brought the maid surnamed Wang and a dozen maids from the mansion. The servants came to visit the old man. Xue Rui ordered the old housekeeper Mao to reward the servants. He could not help but look at Ni Hongshuang a few more times. Although she is a little bit older, she is superior in her mature charm, gentle and masculine, different from Daming's weak woman, she is indeed the Beidi Rouzhi that she met once in a while, and secretly sighs Xue Yun, the grandson's beauty Not shallow.

With this in mind, Xue Rui put Ms. Chen, Mei Xiang, and Ni Hongshuang in the same seat as a treat, so he distributed the emperor's reward, the palace treasure, to the three of them, and asked Mei Xiang a few words, asking her to take a good rest and pay attention to her body and stomach Before leaving, she left a few maidservants that Mei Xiang had been close to with her. They were considered to be from Xiao Xue's house, and among them was the eldest girl Yingchun.

(End of this chapter)