The Most Powerful Man in the World

Chu Yi didn't take Dayan Khan's reaction to heart. Dayan Khan fell into his hands. If Dayan Khan smiled at him, it would be a strange thing.

As Dayan Khan fell into the hands of Chu Yi, those Tartar soldiers who had no intention to fight at all dropped their weapons one by one and surrendered in unison.

For five full days, outside the Xuanfu, within a radius of a hundred miles, a team of Daming soldiers chased the Tartar soldiers who fled in embarrassment.

These Tatar soldiers are scattered all over the place. After all, in the chaos of the army, only a small number of soldiers can really keep up with Dayan Khan's footsteps. As for the [-]-[-]% of the Tatar soldiers, they are like headless flies in the chaos. scramble.

These Tartar soldiers who were scurrying around were like frightened birds. As long as they were targeted by the Ming army, they could easily be recruited and surrendered.

It can even be seen that hundreds of Daming soldiers captured thousands of Tatar soldiers. It can be seen that in the case of the collapse of the army, these Tatar soldiers who can be called the henchmen of Daming frontier town in the past are also like their fangs have been chopped off. Hungry wolf.

On this day, in Xuanfu City, Chu Yi personally went out of the city, and saw the smoke billowing in the distance, the earth trembled, and the black people and horses came slowly, and a large number of cavalry came like a flood. No less than [-] people.

Among the flags and flags, a group of soldiers and horses could be seen rushing towards the city gate. The leader, Chu Yi, recognized the other party with just a glance. It was Yang Yiqing, who was appointed by the emperor as the governor of the five sides.

Chu Yi won the Dayan Khan before. It can be said that the greatest merit naturally fell on Chu Yi, while Yang Yiqing was the commander-in-chief in charge of chasing and gathering those Tartar soldiers who had fled. After a few days, he was able to gather them up. Almost all of the Tatar soldiers have been gathered, and those who escaped without a trace are afraid that they have already penetrated hundreds of miles into the grasslands, on the vast grasslands. It is naturally unrealistic to pursue and suppress these Tatar soldiers.

When Yang Yiqing saw Chu Yi, his eyes narrowed. Who does not know that Chu Yi is almost the representative of the emperor. It can even be said that Chu Yi can even directly decide for the emperor. In this Ming Dynasty, he is definitely under one person. existence above all people.

Throughout the Ming Dynasty, it is not that there have been eunuchs such as Wang Zhen and Liu Jin, but these people are far worse than Chu Yi.

In the face of Chu Yi going out of the city to greet him in person, even Yang Yiqing did not dare to put on airs in front of Chu Yi. As he approached, Yang Yiqing dismounted and bowed to Chu Yi and said, "Yang Yiqing has seen the chief executive, and the chief executive is here to greet him. Shame on it!"

Chu Yi looked at Yang Yiqing and said with a big laugh, "The Governor-General can afford it. If the Governor-General hadn't stabilized the Nine Frontiers and dragged Dayan Khan out of the Xuanfu City, how could I, Daming, have achieved today's great victory? !"

After speaking, Chu Yi said solemnly: "I also invite Lord Yang to mount the horse and go side by side with the Governor to share the glory."

The mighty army slowly entered Xuanfu City, and the entire Xuanfu City can be said to be shaken. Xuanfu is one of the important towns on the nine sides. Almost most of the people have a blood feud with the grassland aliens.

Over the years, foreign tribes from the grasslands have invaded the Central Plains, and more than once they have chosen the important town of Xuanfu as a breakthrough point. After each conflict, I don’t know how many young men in Xuanfu city died at the hands of the Tatar invaders, and I don’t know how many Xuanfu people were looted to the extreme. The grasslands became slaves of foreign races and died in the grasslands.

Now that an unprecedented victory has come, the entire Xuanfu city has fallen into a sea of ​​joy. At first, the news spread because there was no official publicity and confirmation, the people in the city were just rumors, and few people would believe the Minghui. to achieve such a victory.

After all, they are in a border town, and the people in Xuanfu City are very clear about the concept of Dayan Khan's army of [-] troops. Under such circumstances, it would be good for Daming to defend the city. As for the war without the Tatar ten Wan Dajun, this is simply a fantasy, even if it is a story, no one dares to make it up like this.

However, not long ago, as a large number of Tatar prisoners were continuously escorted into Xuanfu City, the government also posted a notice to inform the people in the city that the [-] Tatars were all gone, and Dayan Khan was even more convicted. The general manager, Chu Yi, was captured alive.

Now that Chu Yi went out of the city to meet him in person, it naturally attracted the crowd of countless people in the city.

When I saw Chu Yi and Yang Yiqing coming in parallel on horseback, and then looked at the escorted Tatar soldiers, I don't know who shouted: "Da Ming Wansheng, the chief officer Qiansui, the great Ming Wansheng, the great officer Chitose!"

Xuanfu, as a border town, naturally has a bit more chill, and a bit less prosperous Jiangnan, so there are not many literati who are willing to stay in this town, so it is said that Chu Yi is in In the southern part of the Yangtze River, thanks to the blessing of those literati, I don't know how many people regard Chu Yi as a beast of a flood, but in the border town, at least Chu Yi's reputation is not so bad.

Seeing the reactions of the people around him, Yang Yiqing, who was in parallel with Chu Yi, couldn't help but said to Chu Yi with emotion: "The Chief is in charge of this battle without the Tatar army of nearly [-] people, and he will surely leave his name in the history of history and shine for future generations. That's it!"

Chu Yi laughed lightly and said nothing. The so-called Qing Shi left a name. To be honest, Chu Yi really never thought about it. Even if he had laid such a foundation for Zhu Houzhao, he could not guarantee that he would leave this world by himself. After that, those literati who were severely suppressed by him would be so honest. With what he knew about these people, he was afraid that he might not have a good reputation.

All the way into the Xuanfu city government office, the Tartar prisoners who were taken into the city were naturally handled by people.

In the government office, Yang Yiqing and other returning generals were in the midst of a celebration banquet after some grooming.

Chu Yi specially held a celebration banquet for Yang Yiqing and others. During the banquet, Chu Yi praised many generals who had performed outstandingly in the war, which made many generals excited.

Who doesn't know Chu Yi's influence on the emperor, it can be said that as long as they can get into Chu Yi's eyes, it means that they have entered the emperor's eyes, not to mention other, just look at Cheng Xiangwu, Lu Dazhu, Sun Qiu and others who were originally buried Among the generals in the army, which one did not become a famous general in the Ming army after being discovered and promoted by Chu Yi.

Now being valued by Chu Yi, then it may not be impossible for him to be able to go as high as Cheng Xiangwu and others in the future.

Halfway through the banquet, Chu Yi and Yang Yiqing left and handed over the banquet to these generals. The atmosphere naturally became relaxed and warm.

At this moment, Chu Yi and Yang Yiqing were sitting opposite each other in the study, and the clear tea in front of them exuded a faint scent of tea, and they heard Chu Yi say to Yang Yiqing: "This time Chu has sent people [-] miles to rush. Send the message to Your Majesty, and it won't be long before your Majesty will order to summon Lord Yang back to Beijing to take up the post of Minister of War."

Yang Yiqing couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. He obviously did not expect that Chu Yi would recommend him as the Minister of War. Although it was said that the Son of Heaven had previously given him the title of Minister of War, the so-called Minister of War was more of a glory, but it was not. Like a real Minister of War, he has great power.

Taking a deep breath, Yang Yiqing looked at Chu Yi and said, "Mr. Yang is fortunate to have His Majesty's love and the trust of the Chief Executive. He will definitely live up to His Majesty and the Chief Executive."

Chu Yi smiled slightly, looking at Yang Yiqing with a straight face and said: "This time the Governor is back in Beijing, and wants to write to the emperor, I beg His Majesty to increase the business tax, salt tax, mining tax, and slowly open the sea, I don't know if Lord Yang can do it. Any advice?"

People like Yang Yiqing have experienced ups and downs for decades, and their eyesight is so sharp and accurate. Chu Yi has never concealed his purpose, so anyone with a little knowledge knows Chu Yi's goal, otherwise Jiangnan will not be. As for the complete erosion in a short period of time after King Ning raised his army.

It is precisely because they are clear about Chu Yi's purpose that those people who are entangled and lying on Daming's body to suck blood will take a risk.

Yang Yiqing's spirit was shocked, although Chu Yi said that there was a bit of a smile in his eyes, but Yang Yiqing did not dare to take it lightly.

Don't look at how he has made such a great feat with Chu Yi this time, but Yang Yiqing is very clear, that is, he is being held high by Chu Yi at the moment, that is not really high, once he has a political disagreement with Chu Yi, Chu Yi will Yi Custodian will slaughter all opponents like sweeping Jiangnan.

At that time, Yang Yiqing felt that it would be good for him to be able to get out of his body.

With a straight face, Yang Yiqing looked at Chu Yi and said, "What the chief executive does is for me, whether it's raising taxes or opening the sea, it is something that several generations of emperors want to do, but if the chief executive wants to do it , Although Yang is not talented, I hope that after attaching to the chief general, he will follow the lead of the chief."

While Chu Yi and Yang Yiqing were talking, more than a month had passed since the Tatars retreated from the capital, thousands of miles away.

In more than a month, the capital has already returned to its former prosperity, and it is impossible to see that a fierce battle broke out in this ancient city a month ago.

On this day, on the capital's long street, I saw two [-]-mile expedited messengers marching straight into the capital, shouting at the same time: "[-]-mile rush, Xuanfu victory, Xuanfu victory!"

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On the long street, many pedestrians avoided it from a distance.

Watching the two messengers roaring and roaring past, many people couldn't help but show their doubts. The people of the capital are no strangers to Xuanfu. It is the northern barrier of the land of Gyeonggi, and it can be said to be one of the important towns on the nine sides.

In the teahouse on the side of the long street, many people looked at the roaring messengers in unison.

A regular customer of the teahouse said in surprise: "The victory of Xuanfu? I remember that there was news not long ago that Yang Yiqing, who was appointed as the governor by the emperor, was facing off with Dayan Khan at the Xuanfu. Could it be that Governor Yang defeated Dayan? sweat?"

A tea drinker sitting beside him shook his head and said, "How is this possible, that is Dayan Khan of the Megatron Prairie, and Governor Yang is indeed a rare officer in my Ming Dynasty who is proficient in military strategy, but it is impossible to be that one. Dayan Khan's opponent."

Many people nodded their heads when they heard the words. It was not because they had no confidence in Yang Yiqing. It was because after the change of Tumu Fort, Daming had turned from offensive to defensive against the aliens in the northern grasslands. It could even be said that in the border towns, when the two sides fought, both sides fought. May not be able to take any cheap.

The biggest advantage of the people in the capital is that they are well-informed, and the court can't help but talk about the government, so it is really reasonable for many people to discuss the so-called general trend of the world.

The biggest advantage of the prairie aliens over the Central Plains is the cavalry, which can travel thousands of miles without a single blow. In addition, the innate disadvantage of the infantry when fighting against the cavalry makes many people not optimistic that Yang Yiqing, who is in Xuanfu, can beat Dayan Khan.

In everyone's opinion, Yang Yiqing's ability to hold the Xuanfu land and guard the northern barrier for the imperial court is already the greatest credit.

The urgent messenger whizzed past, and soon in the capital, I don't know how many people knew the news of the victory of Xuanfu.

Forbidden City.

In the imperial city, it has been two or three months since Chu Yi left the capital to settle the rebellion against King Ning in the south of the Yangtze River. A month ago, Chu Yi passed through the capital instead of entering the capital, and went straight to the northern border town.

Because of Zhu Houzhao's dependence on Chu Yi, and not seeing Chu Yi for several months, Zhu Houzhao not only did not adapt, but he became more and more concerned about Chu Yi.

In the imperial garden, Zhu Houzhao, dressed in a simple outfit, is slowly practicing the Taoist health and fitness techniques taught by Shao Yuanjie.

Since the queen became pregnant, Zhu Houzhao has naturally attached great importance to Shao Yuanjie, and paid more attention to the techniques of strengthening his body and keeping fit that Shao Yuanjie passed on. Under Shao Yuanjie's guidance, Zhu Houzhao never neglected fitness.

At this moment, Shao Yuanjie stood on the side watching Zhu Houzhao practice the technique of health preservation, while Gu Dayong on the side looked at the fine sweat beads on Zhu Houzhao's forehead, with a distressed look on his face.

Seeing that Zhu Houzhao slowly stopped, Gu Dayong hurried forward, flicking the dust in his hand, took the silk from the hand of the little eunuch beside him and handed it to Zhu Houzhao: "Your Majesty has a long breath and a healthy dragon body, I'm really envious. Bystander!"

Zhu Houzhao was full of anger, and he laughed loudly: "It is thanks to Shao Zhenren that my body can have what it is today!"

When Shao Yuanjie heard the words, he slightly bowed his hands and said, "Old Daoist deserves it, Your Majesty is wrong!"

Just as he was talking, he saw the sound of hurried footsteps in the distance. Zhu Houzhao and Shao Yuanjie looked at them together.

I saw two messy messengers running towards the Son of Heaven under the guidance of a servant.

About a few feet away from Zhu Houzhao, Gu Dayong took a step forward, and the two messengers bowed in unison, took the good news from behind and said: "Your Majesty, hurry for eight hundred miles, Xuanfu is a great victory! "

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but be stunned when he heard the words, and his face showed a bit of surprise. He looked at the two messengers in amazement. After reacting, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but take a step forward, but Gu Dayong had already stepped forward, from the messenger's hands. He took the letter and checked it a little to make sure there was nothing wrong with the letter. Then he walked to Zhu Houzhao and handed it over to Zhu Houzhao, "Your Majesty, please read it!"

Zhu Houzhao took the letter with an impatient look on his face, then slowly opened it, and swept the contents of the letter with one glance and ten lines. stand up.

"Okay, okay, Great Companion Chu did a great job!"

Although it is not clear what the content of the letter was, just by looking at Zhu Houzhao's expression, he knew that the content of the letter must be related to Chu Yi, otherwise, Zhu Houzhao would not be able to mention Chu Yi.

After Zhu Houzhao read the expedited letter, his mood calmed down a little, Zhu Houzhao took a deep breath, and a bright light flashed in his eyes: "It is said that the cabinet cabinet is old to enter the palace, and I invite Duke Yingying, Duke Dingguo and others to enter the palace. Said I had something important to summon!"

Soon, a servant left the palace, and now Gu Dayong said with a bit of surprise: "Your Majesty, could it be that Director Chu has made some other achievements?"

Zhu Houzhao handed the letter to Gu Dayong and said, "Meritory?

Gu Dayong took a look at the letter, and when he saw that Chu Yi and Yang Yiqing joined forces, they defeated Dayan Khan's army of [-] people in a battle and chased for more than a hundred miles, capturing Na Dayan Khan alive.

Just looking at the content of this letter, if you don't know something about Chu Yi, if you kill Gu Dayong, Gu Dayong will never believe the content of this letter.

The content of the letter is too unbelievable.

As Gu Dayong's status, he naturally knows a lot of things, and he naturally knows the situation in the Nine Frontiers. It would be quite difficult for Yang Yiqing to resist Dayan Khan. Otherwise, the imperial court would not have transferred [-] capitals from the capital. Camp north.

For a long time, Yang Yiqing's memorial to the court said that the border towns were poor, and that the Tartars entered the pirates, but they were just trying to parry.

This made the situation in the border towns not very good in the impression of the Chinese martial arts. Otherwise, Ballsborough would not have been able to enter the Central Plains, and even reached the land of Gyeonggi and appeared outside the capital.

Now there is a good news that Dayan Khan was captured alive, how can this not make people shocked.

Dayan Khan was captured alive. If this was said by someone else, he would be dragged out and beheaded by an accusation of lying about military intelligence.

But this news was sent by Chu Yi. Not to mention, Gu Dayong believed that Chu Yi would never cheat on such matters.

Chu Yi's actions have always been neat and tidy. One is one, the other is two, words must be done, and actions must be fruitful. If you want to say that Chu Yi is lying and deceiving, others will not say it, at least Gu Dayong will not believe the first one.

At the same time as Gu Dayong was horrified, there was boundless envy and jealousy. This kind of meritorious deeds were simply terrifying. In the first battle, the Tatar army lost nearly [-] troops, and even Barsborough and Dayan Khan were defeated. When the Tatar high-level nobles and generals are all wiped out, it can be said that after this incident, the grassland aliens want to recover, I am afraid that there is no hope for a few decades.

No matter what Gu Dayong thought in his heart, in front of Zhu Houzhao, Gu Dayong immediately said to Zhu Houzhao with a happy face: "Old slave, congratulations to Your Majesty, Your Majesty Hexi, just by this battle, Your Majesty will surely be famous in history, and in the future Revered by future kings."

Zhu Houzhao said with a smile on his face: "I knew that Chu Dafan would not let me down, but I never thought that Chu Dafan would give me such a big surprise."

Among the cabinet, because Chu Yi delegated power, Zhu Houzhao, under the influence of Chu Yi, also adopted the strategy of delegating power to the cabinet. As the emperor, he only needs to balance the court, seize the financial power, the power to promote officials and the government is enough. As for other civil affairs and other matters, it is natural to delegate power to the cabinet to handle.

The cabinet is located in a palace complex in the Forbidden City. In a spacious hall, all the cabinet elders are assisting the emperor in reviewing the memorials, and they are all doing their best.

A burst of footsteps sounded outside the hall, and several servants entered the cabinet. Noticing the movement, Jiao Fang, who was reviewing the memorial, subconsciously raised their heads and looked at the person who came.

When he saw the person coming, Jiao Fang couldn't help but look puzzled and said, "Several father-in-laws are..."

One of the supervisors said to Jiao Fang and the others, "Your Majesty has spoken, summoning the senior cabinet ministers to enter the palace quickly!"

The elders of the pavilion were puzzled, but a few of them respectfully took orders.

After tidying up for a while, he soon saw several pavilion elders followed the several servants out of the palace and went straight to the depths of the palace.

A pavilion elder was walking with Jiao Fang, looked at the servants, and then looked at the majestic palace in front of him, and heard pavilion elder Lu Wenliang say to Jiao Fang: "Master Shoufu, do you know that your majesty summoned us in such a hurry? , why?"

Jiao Fang shook his head slightly, he naturally did not know why the emperor summoned them.

Like Jiao Fang and the others, the Duke of England and the Duke of Dingguo were still confused. Even if the messengers with urgent reports passed by, many people already knew the news of the great victory of Xuanfu.

The British prince hurried out of the palace, and the carriage and horses that boarded the palace went straight to the imperial city.

On the creaking carriage, Zhang Mao with white hair sat there, and beside him was a young man, Zhang Lun, the grandson of Zhang Mao.

Zhang Lun looked at Zhang Mao and said, "Grandpa, His Majesty summoned Grandpa to enter the palace at this time, I don't know why!"

Zhang Mao said calmly: "Your Majesty's mind, how can I, as a minister, be able to figure it out, but if the old man is not wrong, the emperor urgently summons, nine out of ten with Jiangnan or the northern town. dynamic.”