The Most Powerful Man in the World

Lin Pingzhi hurriedly walked into the study and presented an urgent letter to Chu Yi: "Master, Your Majesty urgently orders!"

Chu Yi raised his brows, took the letter, and opened it, his expression changed slightly.

After pondering for a while, Chu Yi turned to Lin Pingzhi: "It is rumored that Xu Tianzuo, Sun Qiu and other generals will come to see the Governor."

Soon Xu Tianzuo, Sun Qiu and other generals rushed over. These people have been training their soldiers in the camp these days, and they dare not slack off.

Regardless of the fact that King Ning's rebellion has been quelled, Wang Shouren has quelled the rebellions in various parts of the Yangtze River. It seems that they are not needed at all, but Xu Tianzuo, Sun Qiu and others know clearly that in the north, the Tartars are confronting the imperial army. At any time, it is possible to break through Xuanfu, Datong, Taiyuan and other border towns and break into the Central Plains.

The pacification of King Ning's rebellion does not mean that they can put their horses into the Nanshan Mountains, and the armor is put into the warehouse, so the generals did not dare to relax at all, and seized the time to train their men and horses, waiting for the next day to face the Tatar army.

"I've seen the Chief Executive! I don't know if the Chief Executive Zhao Mo will be waiting to come, but what are your orders?"

Chu Yi glanced at a few people and said slowly: "Beijing is urgently reporting that the [-] Tatar army, led by the Tatar prince Barsborough, has already broken through Taiyuan, and the troops are under the capital!"

"What! How is this possible!"

"God-killed Tartars are actually approaching the capital!"

"Are the defenders of Taiyuan City all waste? How could the Tartars break through so easily!"

Hearing that the Tatar soldiers were approaching the capital city, all the generals present were stunned. That was the capital. How many years have passed since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty for a hundred years, and only the change of the Tumu Fort, the Oara and the Tatar army There was an opportunity to invade Beijing, and in the decades since then, the Tatars have rarely been able to cross the Nine Frontiers.

Now Chu Yi told them that the Tartars even came to the capital, which is definitely a great humiliation for the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

As soldiers, it is their incompetence to let foreign soldiers come to the capital.

"Commander, give me an order. The last commander will wait thousands of miles to return to the division and fight against the Tartars. Even if they die in battle, they will never let the Tartars underestimate me, Daming."

"Master Chief, please also order!"

Immediately, a group of generals stepped forward and prostrated themselves in front of Chu Yi's seat, each with high fighting spirit and without fear.

Chu Yi nodded slightly, and his expression was quite satisfied. As a general, if he heard the enemy but did not have the will to fight, then he did not deserve to be a general.

Looking at the crowd lightly, Chu Yi slowly got up, a tyrannical power spread from Chu Yi, only to hear Chu Yi say: "The Tartars think that I have no one in Ming Dynasty, but I am so arrogant, Although Your Majesty has passed the order that the Governor does not have to rush back to help, but the capital is in danger, how can I sit here, the Governor's decision has been made, and the generals will listen to the order!"

Immediately, all the generals looked solemn, and looked at Chu Yi with burning eyes.

Then Chu Yi said solemnly, "Where is the commander Wang Li!"

Immediately, one of the generals stepped forward and clasped his fists and said, "The last will be here!"

Chu Yi looked at Wang Li and said, "Commander Wang, the Governor will leave you a [-]-strong army, and you will be in Nanjing City!"

Wang Li was slightly taken aback, although he said that he really wanted to go back to Beijing to fight the Tartars, but seeing that Chu Yi had made up his mind, he knew that even if he opened his mouth, he would not be able to change Chu Yi's mind, so he took a deep breath and said solemnly: " The last commander will definitely live up to the expectations of the general manager, the city is in the presence of people, and even if the last commander is killed in battle, he will definitely protect the city of Nanjing."

The big rebels in Jiangnan have almost been pacified by Wang Shouren. Even if there are small rebels, it is really impossible to say that they can break through the defensive Nanjing City, but Nanjing City is not without it. War, after all, no one can guarantee when those rebels will come to Nanjing.

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Chapter 1 The general manager is going to close the door and beat the dog! 【[-] more】

With a glance, Chu Yi glanced at Fang Li and Tang Bohu, and after a little thought, he said: "Fang Li, this supervisor ordered you to stay in Nanjing, take charge of Nanjing's government affairs, and cooperate with Wang Li's commander and envoy to ensure the tranquility of Nanjing. ."

Fang Li was stunned at first when he heard the words, and he couldn't help showing a bit of surprise on his face. He chose to rely on Chu Yi in order to be able to hug Chu Yi's thigh.

Obviously, his choice was not wrong. His classmates and friends are now three feet tall, but he was reused by Chu Yi, and now he has been designated as Nanjing Left-behind by Chu Yi.

Whether the position of staying behind in Nanjing is not big or small, the key depends on how powerful Chu Yi is.

This means that Chu Yi handed over the military power to Wang Li, the commander. Otherwise, as long as Fang Li is willing, his Nanjing left-behind will be able to control even the military power.

But even if he could only control the government affairs of Nanjing City, it was a step up for Fang Li.

Nanjing is no less than other places, it is the southern capital of the Ming Dynasty. As long as he can manage Nanjing City in an orderly manner, this is his qualifications. In the future, if he enters the house and returns to the court, he may not be able to enter the cabinet and do it. A cabinet minister.

For scholars, being able to enter the cabinet is already the pinnacle of his life, and Fang Li's biggest dream is no more than that.

Resisting the excitement in his heart, Fang Li respectfully said to Chu Yi: "Don't worry, the chief, his subordinates will surely appease the people, develop people's livelihood, and keep Nanjing city in an orderly manner!"

Looking at Fang Li lightly, Chu Yi nodded slowly and said, "How to clean up the situation in Nanjing City, I think you should have a good idea. After the chaos, there will be great governance. I hope you will not disappoint the Governor."

While speaking, Chu Yi looked at Tang Bohu and said, "Tang Yin!"

Tang Bohu hurriedly stepped forward and said, "General Manager!"

Chu Yi looked at Tang Bohu and said, "Originally, the Governor planned to let you stay with Fangli in Nanjing City to be a partner, but after thinking about it, the Governor planned to take you to Yangzhou to be a prefect of Yangzhou, I wonder if you would like it? "

Yangzhou has now been breached by Wang Shouren, and after the destruction of more than a dozen lords' homes such as the Xie family, Yangzhou city can be said to be in a lot of dilapidation, and a cadre of officials is needed to sit in town.

In particular, Yangzhou City is an extremely important node on the Grand Canal. In addition, it is one of the largest cities in the southern part of the Yangtze River. It can be said that it is very important in the southern part of the Yangtze River.

So Chu Yi thought about it, and finally thought of Tang Bohu.

Although it is said that Tang Bohu is not from Yangzhou, Tang Bohu was born in Suzhou and grew up in the south of the Yangtze River. Tang Bohu is very familiar with the land in the south of the Yangtze River.

As for Tang Bohu's talent and learning, to be honest, from Chu Yi's point of view, perhaps Tang Bohu is not the kind of sage who will be the prime minister, but his life has been bumpy, and his vision and knowledge are not bad. In addition, these two years By his side, if Chu Yi couldn't even see how capable Tang Bohu was, he would be too incompetent to know people.

If Tang Bohu is really in charge of a province, it would definitely be difficult for Tang Bohu, but a place like Yangzhou Prefecture is just within Tang Bohu's ability.

Tang Bohu has been with him for a while, but it is not good to keep the other party by his side as a clerk, so taking advantage of this opportunity, Chu Yi arranged Tang Bohu in Yangzhou Mansion, which can be regarded as a future for Tang Bohu. , As for how much Tang Bohu can achieve in the future, it depends on Tang Bohu's own ability.

After making arrangements for Fang Li and Tang Bohu, Chu Yi glanced at Xu Tianzuo, Sun Qiu and other generals. These generals saw Chu Yi looking at them all in high spirits and puffed up their chests.

I just heard Xu Tianzuo say to Chu Yi: "General Manager, take us back to the capital, I will wait for the bloody battle to let those Tartars know how powerful it is."

With a strange look in Chu Yi's eyes, he looked at Xu Tianzuo, Sun Qiu, and the others, and said with a slight smile, "Tomorrow, the army will be reorganized, and the army will be launched!"

When the generals heard the words, their eyes lit up, and their faces showed excitement.

As soldiers, credits and awards are naturally obtained from the battlefield. If there is no war, they will have no chance to make meritorious deeds. Naturally, it is impossible to talk about what awards they want.

Everyone knows that this time against Tatar is definitely an opportunity to make merit. If you miss it, I am afraid that there may not be such a good opportunity in the future.

If it is said that he was named by Chu Yi to stay in Jiangnan like Wang Li, but it is not what Xu Tianzuo, Sun Qiu and others wished. They can be described as newborn calves who are not afraid of tigers. They are not afraid of the Tartar invasion at all. meaning.

Compared with Xu Tianzuo and Sun Qiu, who were in their prime, Wang Li was already over forty years old, and he was considered a veteran in the Beijing camp.Compared with Sun Qiu and Xu Tianzuo, they are naturally a little less aggressive, and it is precisely because of this that they were named by Chu Yi to stay in the south of the Yangtze River.

There is a mighty army of more than [-], and the number of ships mobilized just to run the army has reached hundreds.

The [-]-odd army can be described as a carefully selected elite. After all, these days, additional reinforcements from the surrounding provinces have also arrived in twos and threes. After Chu Yi's rectification, plus all the The captured King Ning rebels can be said to have nearly [-] soldiers in the entire Nanjing city.

[-] elites were selected from them, and then some of the soldiers and horses from various provinces were sent back by Chu Yi. At the same time, the old, weak, sick and disabled were simply taken out by Chu Yi with as much as [-] million taels of silver and ordered them to be disarmed and returned to the field. .

After all, King Ning raised an army and wanted to loot the young and strong people, causing the people around Nanchang to decline. It happened that these old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers were taken by Chu Yi and placed around Nanchang, which was scourged by King Ning.

The confiscated fields and acres reached millions of acres, and together with the confiscated gold and silver, Chu Yi easily completed the abolition of nearly [-] soldiers.

After some rectification, nearly [-] troops, including prisoners of war and soldiers from surrounding provinces, shrunk by nearly half.

It seems that the strength has been greatly reduced, but after such a streamlining by Chu Yi, the real elites and young people have been selected, and the strength of the army after the reorganization is far greater than before.

Among them, [-] old, weak, sick, and disabled were placed around Nanchang. There were fields and money to be placed. However, these soldiers who were relieved and returned to the fields were placed smoothly.

As for the remaining troops, about [-] of them returned to their respective provinces, but it was certain that after these soldiers returned, they would probably be dispatched to King Qin in the capital as soon as possible.

Of the remaining [-] or [-] soldiers and horses, [-] were left to Wang Li to sit in Nanjing City, while the remaining [-] horses boarded the big boats and went down the Grand Canal, heading for the north.

At a glance, the big boats covering the sky and rivers really stretch for more than ten miles. It can be said that the entire river surface is full of big boats.

On top of a huge flagship, Xu Tianzuo, Sun Qiu and several generals stood aside, facing the wind, watching the rolling river flow down the river, their eyes involuntarily fell on Chu, who was standing on the bow, wearing a cloak that swayed slightly. Yi, there was a look of awe in his eyes.

Chu Yi looked at the scene on both sides of the strait, and said slowly, "How many days can we reach Tianjin?"

Xu Tianzuo, Sun Qiu and the others looked at each other, only to hear Xu Tianzuo step forward and say: "Return to the chief, if there is no accident, at most two days' effort will be needed to arrive at Tianjin City, and if you hurry up, it will be at most You can reach the capital from Tianjin in two days.”

Chu Yi nodded slightly. At this moment, Sun Qiu had a somewhat hesitant look on his face, as if he had made a decision, and saw Sun Qiu step forward and said to Chu Yi: "Professor, I will have something to say at the end. , I don't know if I should say it or not!"

Chu Yi turned around, looked at Sun Qiu with great interest, and smiled slightly: "Oh, I don't know what General Sun has to say, although it is!"

Sun Qiu took a deep breath, looked at Chu Yi and said slowly: "Master, the last general thought that the Tartars had been besieging the capital for nearly ten days, and now Beijing is as stable as Mount Tai, in fact, even if I rush back to the capital at this time, It will not change the current situation.”

The terrain around the capital is flat, and this terrain is most suitable for the Tatar army to fight against the cavalry. Therefore, even if there is a stalemate with the Tatar army, the Ming side has no intention of going out of the city to fight the Tatars.

Everyone knows that on the vast and flat ground, it is extremely difficult for infantry to deal with cavalry, and the Tatars are almost a cavalry. The generals would not make such a choice.

As Sun Qiu said, when they return to the capital at this time, it is actually difficult to change the current situation in the capital. It is nothing more than adding tens of thousands of troops to make the capital more stable.

As for wanting to annihilate the Tatar army, there is no hope.

Chu Yi smiled slightly, glanced at Sun Qiu and said, "Oh, in your opinion, don't we have to go back to the capital?"

Sun Qiu couldn't help frowning. He didn't dare to say if he didn't go back to the capital. It was a matter of attitude. As a courtier, the capital was in trouble.

Seeing Sun Qiu's expression in his eyes, Chu Yi slowly said with his hands behind his back, "Are you trying to persuade the Governor to run thousands of miles into the rear of the Tartars?"

Sun Qiu suddenly raised his head and looked at Chu Yi with a look of surprise. As Chu Yi said, he really wanted to persuade Chu Yi to do this.

In fact, including several generals of Xu Tianzuo, there is no such idea in their hearts. After all, they are also generals of the new generation in the army, and their military literacy is not that bad.

They can clearly see the current situation in the capital of the capital. Whether they return to the capital or not, it will not affect the overall situation. There are not many tens of thousands of them, and there are not many without them.

Therefore, the biggest significance of returning to Beijing at this time is nothing more than to boost the morale in the capital.

But if, as Sun Qiu said, if he ran thousands of miles to the rear of the Tartars, it would be a feat of sealing the wolf to live in the back.

Chu Yi swept over the crowd and said slowly: "You can think of it, how can the Ben Governor not think of it, but you also don't want to think about it, how easy is it to run thousands of miles to the Tartars' old nest on the grassland?"

Sun Qiu and Xu Tianzuo showed some dissatisfaction on their faces, and Chu Yi said with a smile: "Have you considered the issue of food and grass? If you want to go deep into the prairie, even if you start from the capital, it will be a long journey. , tens of thousands of troops traveled thousands of miles. I think back then, when Emperor Chengzu conquered Mobei for five years, which time did he not do it with the power of the whole country? It’s really like you think about it. I’m afraid that I haven’t entered the grasslands. food and collapsed."

Running thousands of miles into the rear of the Tatars, if Chu Yi did not think of this, it would be impossible, and it seemed very wonderful.

But Chu Yi is more clear, that is, the possibility of success in this move is almost slim.

One is that the Tatar army is now entering the Central Plains, and the strength of the Ming Dynasty cannot support the tens of thousands of troops to march north. Moreover, the leader of the Tatars is not on the prairie now, but confronts Yang Yiqing in the land of Datong and Xuanfu.

That is to say, even if someone can lead the army to kill the prairie, it will not have the effect of beheading to disturb the Tatar army. After all, as the great Khan of the Tartars, Dayan Khan and other high-ranking Tatar leaders are all in the army.

I'm afraid that when Dayan Khan receives the news that the grassland was attacked by Ming soldiers, he will not take it to heart.

After Chu Yi said this, the generals of Sun Qiu and Xu Tianzuo showed shame on their faces.

After all, they had been on the ship for the past few days, but they had secretly discussed it in private, and it was probably their common wish that Sun Qiu spoke this time.

Obviously, because of their limited positions, Sun Qiu, Xu Tianzuo and the others put themselves more in the position of a general, while Chu Yi is the leader of an army, so naturally they have more issues to consider than them. , it is natural to see more comprehensively than them.

Sun Qiu said with a look of disappointment: "What the chief executive said is very true, it is because the subordinates hadn't considered it!"

Chu Yi smiled slightly, raised his brows and said, "Although we can't run thousands of miles to the rear of the Tatars, we can contain the Tatars in another way."

As for Chu Yi, Xu Tianzuo and the others were convinced, and now they heard what Chu Yi said, and each of them looked at Chu Yi with a twinkle in their eyes.

Chu Yi said solemnly: "I'll go ashore from Tianjin, and then detour into the land of Shanxi, retake the important town of Taiyuan, and give the Tartars a door to beat the dog!"

When the generals heard the words, they were stunned for a moment, and then their faces showed excitement.

Compared with the hard-to-implement plan they thought of running a thousand miles, Chu Yi's strategy of closing the door and fighting the dog was more suitable for the current situation.