The Most Powerful Man in the World

Gu Dayong waved his hand, and the servants and servants who were serving at the side also quietly left one by one, leaving Zhu Houzhao, Gu Dayong, Jiao Fang, and Zhang Mao in the entire hall.

Zhu Houzhao handed the memorial presented by Chu Yi to Zhang Mao and said, "Let's take a look at the old prince, what is Chu Da's suggestion!"

Zhang Mao took the memorial and looked at it intently, his complexion changed greatly, his expression was a bit dignified, and even the hand holding the memorial was slightly trembling.

After a while, Zhang Mao passed the memorial to Jiao Fang, who was beside him. Jiao Fang suppressed his curiosity, but after reading the contents of the memorial, his expression was not much better than Zhang Mao's, and his face was also full of solemnity.

Zhu Houzhao looked at the two of them calmly and said, "The two of you are my brothers, I believe in them, and my companion suggested that I take back the vassal lands of the vassal kings in the world and reduce their salary. I wonder what Aiqing thinks?"

Zhang Mao was sweating coldly on his back, but he looked up at Zhu Houzhao and gritted his teeth: "Your Majesty! The suggestion of the chief general is absurd. If he takes back the feudal lord's fief and reduces his salary, he doesn't know what to put the Taizu on. Earth, throughout all dynasties, which emperor was so harsh on the clan..."

Zhang Mao had no choice but to speak, Chu Yi clearly wanted to attack the Ming clan. With Zhang Mao's experience, he could not see that the Ming clan had become a cancer that would bring down the Ming dynasty, but from his standpoint, he would never If the emperor agrees to do this, if even the Ming clan has cut their salaries, will Chu Yi take action against these nobles in the next step?

As the saying goes, the lips are dead and the teeth are cold. With his understanding of Chu Yi, once he opens his mouth, he does not know when Chu Yi will attack the Xungui Group.

Jiao Fang stroked his beard, with a bit of bitterness in his expression. Feeling Zhu Houzhao's gaze, Jiao Fang bowed and said, "Your Majesty, this is your Majesty's family business, and this minister does not dare to speak falsely."

Zhu Houzhao, who was sitting on it, swept his gaze over Jiao Fang and Zhang Mao, and said slowly: "I already know the meaning of the two Qing families. This matter is of great importance. I don't want to hear about it from other people."

Jiao Fang immediately said, "I will keep my mouth shut!"

Zhang Mao also nodded and said, "Your Majesty can rest assured, this minister knows what to do."

Watching Jiao Fang and Zhang Mao leave, Zhu Houzhao looked at the secret letter under the memorial in front of him. The secret letter was accompanied by the memorial, but the secret letter was Chu Yi's guess about Zhang Mao and Jiao Fang's reaction.

Looking at the secret letter, Zhu Houzhao sighed softly: "My partner, my partner, if it is as you said, the British Lord firmly opposes it, and Jiao Ge will stay out of it."

With a sigh, Zhu Houzhao put away the secret letter and the memorial, looked at Gu Dayong and said, "Gu Dayong, can General Cheng and General Lu have any military information back?"

Gu Dayong stepped forward and offered a cup of hot tea: "Your Majesty, General Cheng and the others led the army to follow the Tatar army. It has been half a month since now, and military information is reported every day, and everything is as usual. ."

A bright light flashed in Zhu Houzhao's eyes, he suddenly stood up and looked towards the north, and said in a low voice: "Chu Da, I hope you can successfully besiege the Ballsborough part this time, and Jieshi will return with a great victory. Your plan will be spread to the world, and no one will dare to oppose it."

In fact, Ballsborough had already lost his chance to break the capital before he broke Beijing City in the first time. With the arrival of soldiers and horses from various places, coupled with the fact that the Tatars could not be attacked for a long time, the morale of the army was weakened. There was no choice but to retreat.

Half a month ago, the Tartars made their last attempt. In one day, they attacked the city with all their might, with as many as [-] casualties. They attacked the city wall several times, but were calmly repelled by the defenders, and finally stayed behind. The corpses in the next place, tens of thousands of troops, rolled up the billowing smoke, and abandoned the capital to return to the north.

When the Tatars withdrew their troops, Chu Yi did not even reach Taiyuan City, but Zhu Houzhao made the decision himself, with Cheng Xiangwu as the general of the Pinglu, Lu Dazhu as the deputy commander, and the army of horses and [-] horses to follow the Tatar army. .

Among the [-] troops, tens of thousands of them were in the Beijing camp, and the remaining nearly [-] were in the past month. Although most of the soldiers and horses of the local diligent kings were old, weak, sick and disabled, it had to be said that the elites still reached the level of the elite. Seven or eighty thousand.

The most important thing is that there are many people and high morale.

If it is a situation of rout, let alone an army of hundreds of thousands, even an army of hundreds of thousands is probably useless.

Although Cheng Xiangwu and Lu Dazhu said they were following the Tatar army, they were cautious in their marches.

After a few times, the Tatars attacked the camp, but they didn't get a good deal, but they no longer cared about the army of Cheng Xiangwu and Lu Dazhu.

Who told Lu Dazhu and Cheng Xiangwu that they did not show the slightest attacking posture, they were more like following them all the way, recovering the city, and sending them back to the grassland.

On this day, several figures appeared outside a large camp of Tatars who were camping and resting outside the county town.

A group of Tatar soldiers stared at a group of people who were obviously Daming soldiers and couldn't help shouting: "Who is coming?"

One of the leading generals of Ming Dynasty said loudly: "I am the envoy of Chu Yi, the General Manager of Chu, and I have been ordered to see Prince Ballsborough."

Soon Ballsborough met the guerrilla general Cheng Kai.

Cheng Kai was neither humble nor arrogant, and walked into Ballsborough's tent under the watchful eyes of a group of Tartars.

Ballsborough sat there, first looked at Cheng Kai, seeing Cheng Kai's calm expression under the gazes of the crowd, he couldn't help but secretly praised in his heart, and slowly said, "I don't know if the Director of Chu sent you here, so why? What's the matter?"

Cheng Kai looked at Ballsborough and clasped his fists in a salute, "The commander is here as ordered, and I have a gift from the general manager to pass on to His Royal Highness the prince!"

Ballsborough couldn't help laughing when he heard the words, and said with a bit of curiosity: "Oh, Chu Yi has a gift for this king, but this king wants to see what gift he wants to give to this king!"

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Chapter four hundred and fifteen

The name of Chu Yi, Ballsborough is naturally no stranger, and even these days in the land of Gyeonggi, Ballsborough has a better understanding of the name of Chu Yi.

If Barsborough only regarded Chu Yi as a Wang Zhen-style eunuch before, then after learning about what Chu Yi had done, Barsborough realized that Chu Yi was by no means comparable to Wang Zhen.

Especially knowing that the reorganization of Jingying was led by Chu Yi himself, Ballsborough appreciated and admired Chu Yi even more.

It is normal for a servant to rely on the favor of the emperor to become a powerful eunuch like Wang Zhen and Liu Jin, but it is rare for someone to purify the court and suppress the rebellion like Chu Yi.

Therefore, Ballsborough was very curious about Chu Yi. Now that he learned that Chu Yi had sent someone to give him a gift, it naturally made Ballsborough curious.

I don't know what gift Chu Yi will give him.

With a loud laugh, Ballsborough said to the waiter next to him, "Bring the gift, but this prince wants to see what gift this Chief Chu will give this prince."

Cheng Kai handed the boxy box to the waiter with a solemn look in his eyes.

No one else knew, but he knew exactly what was in the box.

Inside the box is Hu Limu's head. After special treatment, even if it takes ten days and a half months, the severed head will not corrode, and it is still lifelike.

Cheng Kai knew very well that once Ballsborough saw Hu Limu's head in the box, he would definitely be furious, or he might lose his life.

But Cheng Kai didn't panic, he was ready to die in the Tartar camp when he took on this mission.

The huge box was placed on the table top. Just in case, Ballsborough couldn't open the box himself, but the waiter slowly opened the box to see if there was any danger.

When the box was slowly opened, the waiter was naturally the first to see the scene inside the box.

When the waiter saw the scene in the box, he almost exclaimed, his hand shook slightly, and the lid in his hand couldn't help falling to the ground.

Obviously, the waiter saw Hu Limu's lifelike head in the box.

In the big tent, the Tatar generals clenched the scimitars at their waists almost instinctively, and if something went wrong, they would kill Cheng Kai on the spot.

At this moment, Ballsborough also saw the scene in the box. When his eyes fell on Hulimu's head, Ballsborough's eyes shrank.

Ballsborough took a deep breath, suppressed the shock in his heart, a cold light flashed in his eyes, stared at Cheng Kai, and said coldly: "What a good Chu Yi, but this prince underestimated him! "

To be honest, Ballsborough never thought that the so-called gift that Chu Yi gave him would actually be Hu Limu's head.

Looking at Hu Limu's head, Ballsborough's first thought was Taiyuan City. Even Hu Limu's head fell into Chu Yi's hands. It is conceivable that if nothing else happened, Taiyuan City might have returned to Daming. hand.

When the other Tatar generals in the tent saw Hulimu's head, their expressions changed, and the people who were friendly with Hulimu were even more furious. hacked over.

Just as the machete was about to slash in front of Cheng Kai, he heard Barthborough shout, "Stop Samuhe!"

The blade was pressed against Cheng Kai's forehead, Samuhe's eyes were red, and he said to Ballsborough, "Prince, let the end general kill him to avenge Brother Hulimu!"

Ballsborough slapped the table and said angrily, "This prince ordered you to step down!"

Samuhe looked at Cheng Kai fiercely, and finally reluctantly retracted the knife and retreated to the side, but the murderous intent in his eyes did not restrain at all.

Cheng Kai was sweating coldly on his back, but he breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at Ballsborough without fear: "My chief executive has a message for me to bring to His Royal Highness!"

Ballsborough said solemnly: "Speak!"

Cheng Kai looked straight, and said solemnly in Chu Yi's tone: "Ballsborough, Chu is waiting for you in Taiyuan City!"

Squinting his eyes, Ballsborough pressed one hand on the wooden box with Hulimu's head, bowed slightly, his eyes flashed with a cold light, and laughed loudly: "Okay, okay, how can this prince let Chu The Chief is disappointed."

Speaking of which, Ballsborough said to Cheng Kai: "Let's give Chu Yi a message and let him wait. This prince will cut off his head with his own hands to pay homage to my Tatar warriors!"

Cheng Kai looked at Ballsboroth neither humble nor arrogant and said, "My family governor is waiting for you!"

After speaking, Cheng Kai bowed his hands and said, "If His Royal Highness does not have any orders, Cheng Mou will go back and return to his life!"

Ballsborough had a gloomy face, gritted his teeth and said, "Go away!"

"Your Highness!"

Seeing this, several Tatar generals in the tent couldn't help but hurriedly said to Ballsborough, "Your Highness, you can't let him go!"

Seeing Cheng Kai's figure leaving, Ballsborough slapped the table and yelled at the generals: "Enough, the two armies are fighting, don't kill them, you are trying to make those wise people look down on us. Tartar?"

Saying that, Ballsborough held up Hu Limu's head and said, "If you want to avenge General Hu Limu, then cheer up this prince, kill him and run to Taiyuan City, behead Chu Yi, and take Chu Yi's head. , pay homage to the leader of Huli Mu!"

"Kill Chu Yi, kill Chu Yi!"

Cheng Kai left the Tartar camp, and his whole body could not help but stumble and almost fell to the ground. To be honest, he really felt that he had walked before the gate of hell.

Even if he is not afraid of death, the invisible pressure in the Tatar army camp would have collapsed if he were an ordinary person.

Several soldiers who accompanied Cheng Kai let out a sigh of relief when they saw Cheng Kai's figure. Cheng Kai entered the Tartar camp, and the possibility of being able to get out alive was very slim. Camp, several people are naturally very happy.

Cheng Kai took a long breath, glanced at a few soldiers, and said to one of them: "Ma Qi, you all hurry up and go back to see the chief officer, and say that the Tartars have been provoked, no accident, they must go straight to Taiyuan City. go."

Ma Qi and the others got on their horses, said goodbye to Cheng Kai, and rode their horses in the direction of Taiyuan City.

Cheng Kai, on the other hand, bypassed the Tatar camp and went to the rear of the Tatars, but he saw a continuous barracks appearing in front of him for dozens of miles.

This barracks is strictly and neatly arranged, and it is not so easy to break through at first glance.

Needless to say, this barracks is naturally a court of hundreds of thousands of troops led by Cheng Xiangwu, Lu Dazhu and others who followed the Tartars.

Outside the camp gate, Cheng Kai said in a long voice, "I'm here, under the order of the General Manager, to ask to see General Cheng Xiangwu."

Cheng Kai really didn't know who was in command of this army, but he was able to see the banner. Needless to say, the eye-catching banner with the word "Cheng" must be Cheng Xiangwu in command of the army.

Soon Cheng Kai entered the camp, entered the commander's tent, and saw Cheng Xiangwu sitting on the commander's seat at a glance.

After stepping forward for a salute, Cheng Kai respectfully said, "Last General Cheng Kai, see the General."

Cheng Xiangwu nodded slightly and said, "Generals don't need to bow, just get up and talk!"

After Cheng Kai was seated, Cheng Xiangwu looked at Cheng Kai and said, "General Cheng is here, I wonder if the Chief Executive has any orders?"

Cheng Kai attacked the city of Taiyuan, and he was ordered to send the head of Huli wood to Ballsborough, angering the Tartars, so that the Tartars would not flee, but went straight to the city of Taiyuan.

Cheng Xiangwu, Lu Dazhu and other generals who were present heard their eyes full of excitement.

The strongest point of the Tartars is their mobility. Because of the cavalry, the mobility is not comparable to that of the infantry. Don't look at the fact that Chu Yi led the army to block the retreat of the Tartars, and Cheng Xiangwu and others led the ten. Tens of thousands of troops followed.

But if the Tatars finally abandon Taiyuan City and choose several other border towns, maybe the Tatars can escape smoothly.

Chu Yi spent so much effort, not so simple as to teach the Tatars a lesson, but to hit the Tatars in one fell swoop.

Chu Yi chopped off Hu Limu's head and sent it to Ballsborough not to humiliate Ballsborough, but to anger the Tatars in this way.

Chu Yi believed that Ballsborough and the others would definitely hate Hu Limu when they saw Hu Limu's head, and he asked Cheng Kai to tell Ballsborough in a provocative tone that he was waiting for him in Taiyuan City. In this case, if Ballsborough had abandoned Taiyuan City and had to go back to the grasslands, then Chu Yi had no other way.

However, Chu Yi did not believe that Ballsborough would not go to Taiyuan City. If Ballsborough would not go, he would be afraid that his Tatar generals would not agree.

Lu Dazhu said with admiration: "As soon as the chief executive made his move, it was really extraordinary. I'm afraid that Ballsborough will obediently be led by the nose of the chief executive this time!"