—— Ye Yichen first declared martial law in the capital, and then sent a group of civil and military generals, armed with gold medal arrows, to Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other guard posts, and he mobilized sergeants to guard Beijing. Order all armies to set off immediately after receiving the general's order, and rush to the capital on time to set up defenses, if there is disobedience, the military order will be killed!

Inspected the nine cities, reorganized the army for war, and posted notices to pacify the people. Immediately afterwards, he sent the big head to personally lead the only elite cavalry in the city of 5,000, and returned to Beijing with Ye Minchun, who was entrenched in Tongzhou, and brought back dozens of truckloads of rice and grain by the way.

Although Ye Minchun was ordered to burn down the granary in Tongzhou, he finally saved part of the grain, and the big head led the cavalry to defeat the encircled Jurchen soldiers.

At this time, the price of goods in Beijing soared, especially the supply of grain, a stone of rice was usually sold for a few taels of silver at most, and at this time it was sold for more than ten taels. There are even profiteers hoarding and driving up the price of grain. Ye Yichen's military, government, and civil affairs were grasped and severely cracked down, and several leading grain merchants were immediately punished by military law. These people are all extremely tough people in the background, and some are even the spokesmen of the princely royal family, others dare not touch them, Ye Yichen is high and powerful, but he is not afraid of them.

As soon as this batch of grain entered Beijing, Ye Yichen ordered Ye Minchun to put the grain into the market to stabilize the price of grain.

Even if Meng Zhi, the head of the military department, objected, the military rations in the city were not abundant, and it was unwise to ignore the army in order to appease the people. Meng Zhiguan is not big, and Ye Yichen is not what he wants to see. At this moment, the emperor is touring the south, and all affairs in Beijing are presided over by the Prince of Jin, and the emperor gave him the right to make decisions on the spot, but Ye Yichen is not the emperor after all, and the officials who stayed in Beijing cannot directly give Ye Yichen a letter, so he wrote a letter, which can be regarded as a workaround.

Ye Yichen read Meng Zhi's letter in the study and threw it aside. Ye Fengqi picked it up and looked at it, and couldn't help but wonder: "Sixteenth brother, those who dare to stay in the Beijing Division, whether they are sincerely patriotic or for the glory and wealth of Bo Yibo, all in all, they have a lot of courage." I'm afraid that the words of this chief are also the doubts in the hearts of many officials, Brother Sixteen, what are you going to do like this? "Fighting a war is about food, but Ye Yichen doesn't want to hoard food at all, and even Ye Fengqi is very strange.

Ye Yichen put down the wolf in his hand, stared at it for a moment, the rain was pouring outside the window, the rain had been falling for two hours, and I don't know where the emperor's "Southern Tour" team had gone, was she okay?

He turned his face and said, "I have already asked someone to count it, and the grain in the several granaries of the Beijing Division is enough to feed the soldiers of the three major battalions for three months. ”

Ye Fengqi said: "It's only three months, shouldn't it be better to accumulate more food for emergencies?" ”

Ye Yichen said: "Seventeenth brother, this battle will not be too long, one month soon, two months if it is slow, whether Da Chu will fall apart, or Phoenix Nirvana, it will soon be clear, three months of food is enough for us." ”

Every famous general will have a very keen intuition about war, and Ye Yichen is no exception. Ye Fengqi looked at Ye Yichen's eyes, although he didn't hear Ye Yichen's explanation, he still unconditionally convinced Ye Yichen, because Ye Yichen had never disappointed him.

At this time, a personal soldier came in and reported: "Lord Wang, Ye Minchun, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, asks to see you!" "Ye Minchun has been following the prince on errands, and these days he has jumped from the Jinyi Wei Qianhu of the fifth grade to the commander of the fourth grade, and his promotion is not unpleasant, but his surname is Ye, and he is the leader of the third generation of the emperor, which is not surprising.

Ye Yichen didn't have much to do with this nephew, it can be seen that he was resolute and courageous, with more than 1,000 soldiers and horses to defend Tongzhou for more than ten days, and the Jurchen cavalry was repeatedly attacked, he was really a rare talent, and he couldn't help but love talent, and he dressed up and said: "Please come in!" ”

There was a gurgling sound of nail leaves, Ye Minchun had just entered the city, settled a group of remnant soldiers, and came to the Jin Wangfu in the rain before returning home. After a period of tempering, Ye Minchun has matured a lot, he is only eighteen years old this year, but he looks quite calm and dignified, he wears a silver armor, a cloak, his hair is wet with rain, and he is close to his forehead, and his eyes are bloodshot because he has not slept for many days, but the kind of warmth and restraint that is both inside and outside is more and more forgetful.

Ye Minchun raised his eyes and swept his eyes, and saw that after Ye Yichen was sitting on the bookcase, there were stacks of documents on the bookcase, and Ye Fengqi was sitting on the other side, with a prodigal smile on his face. Ye Yichen thought to himself: It is said that the two uncles are not separated from Meng Meng, and they are indeed worthy of their reputation.

He knelt down on one knee and gave a military salute: "The last general Jinyi Wei commanded Ye Minchun to meet the prince." "Although he is an uncle and nephew, he must salute according to his official rank, which is also a rule in officialdom.

Ye Yichen looked at his nephew kneeling on the ground, and saw that he was weathered but his eyes were gentle and calm, and he couldn't help but praise it in his heart, and said gently: "Calm down, it's been hard all the way!" ”

He also gave him a seat, and said, "This king has summoned you to ask about the military situation in front of you. ”

Ye Fengqi personally handed over a cup of tea, and said with a smile: "The two of us are a king, a general, we are uncles and nephews, why should we be so restrained!" ”

Ye Minchun thanked him and sat down generously, but still replied: "The last general will definitely know everything!" ”

Ye Fengqi saw that these two people were all so unenlightened, and he couldn't do it for a while.

Ye Minchun told him in detail what he saw and heard in Tongzhou, Ye Yichen asked very carefully, and Ye Minchun answered seriously. By the time I was done, half an hour had passed.

Ye Yichen is extremely satisfied with Ye Minchun, although the two are uncles and nephews, but the royal family is indifferent, Ye Yichen has only seen him a few times in total, because he is not familiar with him. Now seeing that he advances and retreats to a certain extent, he is not arrogant in victory and not discouraged in defeat, he has the style of a general, at this moment the Beijing division is short of soldiers and major generals, it is the time to employ people, Ye Yichen is naturally very happy to find such a general. Then he said gently: "You have worked hard all the way, go back to rest first, and recuperate, coming to the king of Japan will be of great use to you!" ”

Ye Minchun stood up, but did not say goodbye, but said: "There will be a reluctant invitation in the end, please agree!" ”

Ye Yichen raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh, what's the matter?" ”

"Gyeonggi Hulu is raging, the people are miserable, as far as I know, the letter for help came like a snowflake, but the prince has been standing still, so I want to ask the prince to give me a soldier and horse, the last general is to fight for his life, but also to save the people of Li in the fire and water!"

Ye Yichen's face sank. "Please, go down! Have a good rest, if you want to compete with the abrupt Jurchen, there will be a chance in the future! ”

"Lord Wang!" Ye Minchun knelt down suddenly: "The last general is not for fame or profit, but as a four-rank military general of Great Chu, he should share worries for the country and solve problems for the people." Now that the people are suffering outside, the last general will sit back and relax in Beijing, and the last will have trouble sleeping and eating! The last general once saw the Jurchen cavalry slaughter an entire village, men, women and children, not a single one was left! It's so miserable! Please fulfill the wish of the last general, the last general only needs a thousand soldiers and horses, even if he dies on the battlefield, he will never dare to have the slightest resentment against the prince! Speaking of the Jurchen's abrupt ferocity and barbarism, Ye Minchun was such a gentle and elegant person, and his face was distorted.

Ye Fengqi was also very shocked from the side, and couldn't help but look at Ye Yichen as well.

Ye Yichen's face remained unchanged at all: "No! Don't say it's a thousand soldiers and horses, even a single soldier can't give it to you! ”

"Lord ......"

"Needless to say, the king will punish you for disobeying orders! Don't let me go down yet! ”

Ye Minchun stood up with difficulty, and walked out of the house staggeringly, the rain outside was getting heavier and heavier, and his personal guards saw that the master came out of the study of the prince of Jin, and walked into the heavy rain without even an umbrella, and hurriedly held up the umbrella to cover him from the pouring rain.

"Your Excellency, ...... you"

Ye Minchun waved his hand weakly: "Go back to Yanqing Palace...... "I have done everything I should do, but I am humble and weak, and I can't go back to heaven......

He was extremely smart, and he also knew that Ye Yichen's choice was correct. Although the villagers near Gyeonggi are miserable, but the Tuwu and Jurchen grabbed it village by town, and it always has to delay some time to hit the Beijing Division, and now Ye Yichen has just taken over the defense of the Beijing Division, I wish that the soldiers and horses of these two foreign races would be tied up for a few days, so he could calmly arrange the defense of the Beijing Division, under his iron-fisted rule, Ye Minchun believed that he would soon be able to twist the Beijing Division up and down into a rope, and then the weak Beijing Division would no longer be weak, and the elite cavalry of the two clans might not be able to please him.

What Ye Yichen lacks is time. He wished that there would be more wealth in Tongzhou, Miyun, and Changping, and that the abrupt Jurchens would be slower to grab......

can be understood clearly, Ye Minchun can't do what he is like no matter what, in order to achieve the goal, unscrupulous means. As a general of Da Chu, he could only sit back and watch his people being trampled and trampled under the iron hooves of foreign clans, Ye Minchun only felt extremely painful.

At this moment, the abrupt Great Khan Zuo Yan broke through the Bauhinia Pass, and the rapid march all the way has reached the border of Tongzhou, and his 30,000 elite soldiers have drawn five thousand military horses from each of the six grassland tribes.

The eyes of the leaders of the various tribes were red, and one by one they went to his tent and cried: "Great Khan, now that we have entered the Guannei, the flowers and rivers of the Han people are in front of us, why don't we let go of our hands and feet to rob their food treasures, population and livestock?" What Jurchens can rob, but we can't? ”

Zuo Yan had to be appeased again and again: "We mobilized the strength of the whole clan this time to set up such a big situation, and the plotters were big, not to loot a city or a land, our purpose is to follow the example of our ancestors and establish a huge abrupt empire in this prosperous land." The Jingshi is in front of us, as long as we capture the Jingshi, countless gold and silver treasures, beautiful women and slaves, will be taken by us, is it not much better than robbing the soil in these poor ditches? ”

Finally suppressed the various tribes, Zuo Yan couldn't help but scold in the tent again, Tumutu This stupid guy is really short-sighted, the Beijing division is now empty, he doesn't wave the army and goes straight to the Beijing division, but he wasted so much time in these places in Tongzhou and Changping. He didn't know that the Dao Tu was actually not stupid, but he was not like Zuo Yan, who had the bloodline of the Golden Family, and had extremely high prestige and influence in the prairie, and could integrate the strength of all parts of the prairie.

The Jurchen has three tribes in the northeast, each of which is not under the control, this time it is integrated for the benefit of the sky, but there is not much binding force on the subordinates, as soon as he enters the Juyong Pass, he can't restrain the Haixi Jurchens, the Haixi Jurchens first began to loot everywhere, the savage Jurchens have the same example, the Jianzhou Jurchens where the civil engineering map is located are the most powerful, he originally wanted to take his tribe to Beijing first, but the Jianzhou Jurchens saw the spoils of war stolen by the other two tribes, countless gold and silver treasures, carts of grain, and slaves who were connected to the sky and the earth, The eyes of the little leaders are red, and Tumu Tu can't stand the pressure from the clan, so he lets them burn and loot everywhere, if he still opposes it at this time, I'm afraid his position as leader won't last long.

The two armies were scheduled to meet in Tongzhou, and then join forces to attack the Beijing division. As soon as Zuo Yan arrived in Tongzhou, he received a very bad news. At this time, the person guarding the Jingshi turned out to be his old opponent: Ye Yichen, the king of Jin.

Ye Yichen is famous in the northwest, and there are countless legends about him on the grassland. It can be said that the people of the steppe hate him to the bone and are extremely afraid of him. Because Ye Yichen is not only very capable of fighting, but also very capable of killing. The strategy he believes in is: for the barbaric race of the Abrupt, only if they are hurt, will they be honest and want to use the words of those saints, the king's education, benevolence, righteousness and morality to influence them? That's!

Therefore, every time there was a famine on the grassland, every time an army was raised to attack the border defense of Dachu, as long as it was a prisoner caught by Ye Yichen, almost all of them were killed by him. Intermittently, on the northwest front, there were not 80,000 but 50,000 Tuwu soldiers who died at the hands of Ye Yichen, and the Tuwu population was already small, and prisoners could be exchanged before, but Ye Yichen didn't care, anyway, Dachu didn't lack that little population. This kind of fighting really hurts their muscles and bones, the population is getting smaller and smaller, and after the fight is the worst, every time Zuo Yan uses force, he has to think about it every time he uses force, and sooner or later he will fight his own people out.

Ye Yichen has a great reputation among the various tribes of the grassland, and it is said that he has an extremely ugly appearance and eats human flesh raw, and mentioning him can make children stop crying.

Sure enough, all the tribal leaders trembled a little when they heard his name! They have suffered too many losses under this man! This No. 1 general in the Northwest is like a god in his soldiers, he is the best at attacking fortifications, and he never uses a staff member, because he doesn't need it! No matter how heavy the military affairs are, they are all decided in one word, and they are decided to kill! That's right, he's a legend!

When Zuo Yan was worried here, Yulan was already in Hebei with the holy car. Although there is a large army to protect each other, the army walks and walks, but only walks dozens of miles every day, and does not walk fast. Yulan has been looking for a chance to meet Yuxin these days. She has always kept the prince's entrustment in mind, although she asked Xiaoyu to bring a handwritten letter and handed it to Yuxin through the green branch, and Yuxin also passed the news that she would definitely take care of the Qi family more, but Yulan was always a little relieved when she didn't see Yuxin.

It's not that Yuxin doesn't want to meet her, it's just that the queen has been unhappy since she left Beijing, and Yuxin has to serve in front of the queen every day, which is also very hard.

On this day, Yulan was bored in the tent with a book flipping through, and in the past few days, she has been taking the pills that Doctor Xue has given her, and her body is getting better day by day.

Today, the army set up camp not far away, at that time the land was vast and sparsely populated, and the city was far less dense than it is today, even if you were the emperor, it was impossible to live in the city every time. Therefore, most of the nobles traveled with tents.

Yulan has already eaten dinner and is drinking tea, this tea naturally cannot be compared with Jingshi, fortunately, Yulan is not picky about these at all. Mother Qian and others are fortunate to have a good master, yesterday the five girls' personal girl was slapped by the five girls because a cup of tea was not brewed, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that the five girls can't stand the pain of this kind of journey, and they are just angry.

At this time, Xiaoyue came in from outside and said excitedly, "Girl, do you think I saw someone outside?" ”

Yulan looked at her babbling and couldn't help but smile and said, "Who did you see?" ”

"I saw the Franc machine! Yellow hair and blue eyes, not at all like us! Oh, it's the first time I've seen someone look like this, there's a female Francis with curly hair! Xiaoyue gestured excitedly, and even Xiaoyu's steady girl was attracted by her words. There are dozens of them, saying that they landed from Quanzhou and wanted to go to Beijing, so they finally took a boat to Tongzhou, but they encountered a rebellion by Jurchen soldiers, and they came here to avoid it. It's really a coincidence, they said they wanted to see the emperor, but how could the emperor have the heart to see them now! ”

Yulan listened to it, and jumped up happily: "You said that the Franco machine man? Where are they? Take me to them! ”

The two girls were startled: "Girl? What's wrong with you? ”