Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 722 The teacher is fine

   Going to Nanchang with leg problems?

  Zhang Sheng looked at Xiao Jing.

unbelievable.

  The prince brought several followers, including his own son.

  He couldn't believe it.

  But...but I have to believe it.

  Xiao Jing doesn't know how to joke, as long as you check this matter, you will know.

  Zhang Sheng felt panicked and wanted to cry.

   Courting death, this is courting death.

That King Ning colluded with the Poyang Lake pirates and had King Ning as his guard. The situation has become more and more severe. Perhaps, King Ning has turned against him. At this time, he went to Nanchang and claimed to kill King Ning. Isn’t this just courting death? ?

  Zhang Sheng wanted to die.

  He looked at Emperor Hongzhi helplessly.

  Emperor Hongzhi said: "Hurry up and prepare."

  The edict has been issued all the time, and it comes out in an instant.

  Suddenly, there was an uproar in Beijing and China.

  Your Majesty is determined to go his own way. On that day, the British Duke Zhang Mao inspected the 3,000 battalions on behalf of the emperor, and the 3,000 battalions set off early the next morning.

  What Ming pursued was the strategy of the emperor guarding the country.

  In fact, this is more like a continuation of the strategy of strong stems and weak branches in the Song Dynasty.

In the Song Dynasty, a large number of troops gathered in the capital and were firmly in the hands of the royal family, so that there were almost no soldiers available in border towns and local state capitals. Once it was time for war, troops were dispatched from Kaifeng. It is cumbersome, which is also the reason why although there were millions of imperial troops in the Song Dynasty, in fact, the control over the border towns was not strong.

  Emperor Wen learned this lesson. On the one hand, the elite of the Ming Dynasty could not form a feudal town, and were eventually controlled by the generals of the border towns. In this case, the capital was simply located in the north, where the hidden dangers of the Ming Dynasty were greatest, that is, Beijing.

In this way, the capital is very close to the front line, and the most elite soldiers and horses in the world are stationed in the capital, and the imperial court can control it at any time without worrying about it. After walking for a day or two, you can leave the customs. Therefore, once there is a war, the imperial court can call the Beijing camp to help at any time. Even in normal times, the Beijing camp and the border town can also switch defenses back and forth without too much cost.

  This national policy has not only learned the lesson that led to the demise of the Tang Dynasty, but also the local generals who supported their troops and respected themselves. It also absorbed the strong stems and weak branches of the Northern Song Dynasty, and even the situation of being passively beaten everywhere in the Northern Song Dynasty.

  But... Among them, it also led to a fatal flaw, that is, although the border town is impenetrable. But because elite soldiers from all over the world gather in the capital and border towns, in the south, especially in the south of the Yangtze River, most of them are ordinary soldiers and guards. These soldiers and horses have almost no salary, and their management is chaotic. If they are called militiamen, they can be regarded as highly respected. . This is the direct cause of the chaos in the southeast caused by a mere pirate. Can a group of farmers drive out the pirates?

Now King Ning's rebellion has caused turmoil in the court, and it is precisely because of this that King Ning has planned for a long time. His King Ning's guards are bound to be elite, and they secretly communicated with water thieves. Almost none of them were capable of fighting, and the only military horses still capable of fighting, and only some guards guarding Nanjing, were still able to fight.

  If the imperial court wanted to crusade against King Ning, it had to mobilize the capital’s capital camp, but the emperor was in Beijing, and the border towns also needed to be on guard, and the capital camp’s troops could not be mobilized too much.

   Now... problem solved.

  Your Majesty's personal expedition, so the three thousand battalions, the five army battalions, the warrior battalion, the Xiaoqi battalion, the Shenji battalion, and the Jinwu guard all came out.

  The imperial conquest was carried out in person, but the mobilization was extremely rapid.

  Zhang Mao led the army to set off soon.

  Emperor Hongzhi had already left Beijing when he was gone, followed by a mighty battalion of warriors. Zhang Mao was the vanguard.

  This time, Emperor Hongzhi decided to draw rewards from the officers and soldiers and draw internal funds, which made the accompanying officials and the cabinet ministries feel better.

   Your Majesty has silver.

  Everyone has already done private calculations. The silver deposits in the inner treasury are at least six million taels.

  Zhang Sheng, Minister of Rites, Ma Wensheng, Minister of War, and Ouyang Zhi, a scholar of the Imperial Academy, all accompanied him.

Because the Chinese army set off very quickly, it only took two or three days to leave Beijing directly, accompanied by the Warrior Battalion and the Jinwu Guards. There were more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and there were 20,000 soldiers from the 3,000 Battalion and some of the Fifth Army Battalion. Wing, there is a Xiaoqi battalion in the front as the vanguard, and after that, there are 60,000 to 75,000 barracks, and the food and grass cannot be dispatched in time. Although the Ministry of War has recruited people from various places in order to counter the rebellion, and there are supplies along the way. It is still stretched to maintain an army of tens of thousands, so the Fifth Army Battalion in the rear deliberately slowed down the pace of marching.

   It's just that the emperor insisted on going his own way and insisted on the forward and the central army first, which caused great concern.

  Emperor Hongzhi in the past was always willing to listen to and adopt the suggestions of his ministers, but recently, he began to act recklessly more and more.

  Leaving Beijing, Emperor Hongzhi only ordered the central army to rush forward. The central army moved too fast, and the left and right wings had to speed up their pace. Zhang Mao, who was in the vanguard, saw that, alas, His Majesty's Chinese army was about to catch up, so he had to speed up, frantically scouting, wandering around the state capitals along the way, because they were in a hurry, they needed to search everywhere more quickly to prevent Enemy situations that may arise.

  Emperor Hongzhi mounted his horse.

Sitting on the horse, he was out of breath, Xiao Jing, who followed him, tried hard to persuade His Majesty to take the lead, but Emperor Hongzhi waved his hand so big that when he got off the horse one day, he felt that his thighs on both sides were worn out , there was a bruise, he gritted his teeth, and asked someone to apply a hot towel to it, which relieved it a little bit.

  At this time, he had just set up camp, and Ouyang Zhi didn't go to eat. His right hand was still bandaged like a pork knuckle.

  Emperor Hongzhi said: "Aren't the two strands of the Qing family worn out? Eh...do you want to apply it too?"

  Ouyang Zhi said: "Your Majesty, I have been accustomed to bowing horses for a long time, and I don't think there is anything unusual."

Emperor Hongzhi sighed: "At first I heard that Taizu won the world on horseback, but now I know how hard it is to be on horseback..." He was in a bad mood, depressed, and if it wasn't for the gloomy sky, he even wanted to urge the Chinese army to rush again tens of miles.

  Ouyang Zhi glanced at Emperor Hongzhi: "Your Majesty, if you want to come to be His Highness the Crown Prince, you must be very anxious."

   "This little bastard." Emperor Hongzhi scolded: "If I knew he was like this back then, I would have wished to drown him."

After scolding, he didn't relieve his hatred, but he suddenly sighed: "But even a beast has the feeling of licking a calf. No matter how naughty the prince is, he is still my son and my flesh and blood. He is naughty, but I have neglected him." , I did not educate him to become a talent, this is my responsibility. He is always determined to go his own way, eager to make meritorious service, I am thinking, maybe I am really wrong, sometimes I am too harsh on him, I always hope that he can be a perfect man, This pressure is too great. After all, he is only a young man, how can he bear it? When I was a minor, I suffered a lot, so I can endure what ordinary people can't bear, but he was forced by me and her since he was a child. The queen mother dotes on her, but now that she has grown up, I expect him to be a good prince, just like when I was the prince, this..."

  Emperor Hongzhi said, shaking his head.

   "It's my mistake. Since I made a mistake, I have to make up for it. I have to find him back. He can't die."

  Ouyang Zhi said: "With my mentor here, His Highness will be fine."

  Emperor Hongzhi always wondered why Ouyang Zhi was not in a hurry when he learned that the crown prince and Fang Jifan had gone to Nanchang Mansion. Now after hearing Ouyang Zhi's words, Emperor Hongzhi couldn't help saying: "You are not worried at all?"

  Ouyang Zhi shook his head: "Master will be fine."

   "What if something happens?" Emperor Hongzhi was dissatisfied with such dry answers.

  Ouyang Zhiru's repeater is still the kind that gets stuck a little: "Master will be fine."

  Emperor Hongzhi was desperate, he gave up asking, and only said: "I want to go to bed early, tomorrow, I have to hurry."

  He sighed, preoccupied.

  …

Outside the big tent, Ma Wensheng's eyes were bloodshot, and he was a little angry, because the army came out too quickly, the military department was not prepared enough, the prepared tents were insufficient, and most of the food and grass were old food in the warehouse. General, surrounded him, complaining in one voice.

   Ma Wensheng didn't dare to say, you go to the emperor, no wonder I am the official. I can't say, you go eat * go.

  But he had no choice but to be kind and cheerful: "We are in a difficult time together, we are in a difficult time together, raise soldiers for a thousand days, use them for a while... hey..."

After finally breaking free from these generals, there were not enough tents, so he and Zhang Sheng lived in the same tent, opened the curtain and went in, and saw Zhang Sheng with his back on his back, wiping his tears, and Ma Wensheng sighed again: "What kind of life is this... Mr. Zhang, don’t cry, you won’t come back even if you cry.”

  Zhang Sheng burst into tears: "Negative picture, you don't know now, my son has a leg problem, and went to Nanchang Mansion... Hey... King Ning is ambitious, once he notices them, how can he let them go easily?"

  Ma Wensheng didn't want to listen to his nagging. When he accompanied the driver during the day, he had heard enough of Emperor Hongzhi's chant.

  The fact that the prince went to Nanchang without authorization is a secret, and only a limited number of people know about it. Therefore, His Majesty can only tell a limited number of people that he is a victim.

   "Oh my God." Ma Wensheng hammered his heart: "God is unkind, why are children nowadays so troublesome. Raising a child is like raising a dog."

  Zhang Sheng said bitterly: "My son is not a dog."

Ma Wensheng is already exhausted, His Majesty is only concerned about going out, but he has to be in the middle of the dispatch, and this army is the Warriors' Battalion and the Jinwu Guards, which are not under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War, and they are not like the Beijing Camp. You are being polite, I don’t live well, I don’t have enough food, I want to scold my mother, and I walked for another day, I was so tired that I simply ignored the sobbing Zhang Sheng, and fell asleep without taking off my boots. snore.

  Zhang Sheng had no choice but to fall asleep with the sound of snoring.

  ...

  The first chapter was delivered. I got up too late today, so I checked some more information.

  (end of this chapter)