CHAPTER XXXI
Meng always remembered Gao Fu's favor, found a suitable day, cut the horse meat into large pieces and cooked it in a large pot, and invited everyone to eat it well.
Large pieces of meat and bones are rolled in the soup and served with buckwheat flatbread.
Gao Fu and the others were not polite, they gave up their chopsticks and started directly, took out the dagger they carried, cut off the tendons on the bones, and put them in their mouths, which was particularly chewy.
Ding Xiaoqi and Liu Xiaoqi came uninvited, Liu Xiaoqi was still a little unable to wipe his face, but Ding Xiaoqi had no worries, and he didn't care about Meng Baihu's face darkening, and after hugging his fists and saying hello, he directly aimed at the bones with the most meat, picked them up with chopsticks, and took a bite.
Fast, ruthless, accurate, the three-word formula has been exerted to the extreme.
The oil splashed everywhere, and the corners of Meng's mouth twitched.
The former Langzhong adult, what about the literati? What about the integrity of officials? What about the discipline of the reader?
The former Langzhong lady finished gnawing the bones and wiped his mouth, "What is the festival?" I don't know. ”
When the words fell, he simply threw away the chopsticks and grabbed them directly, which was no less ferocious than the soldiers around him.
With such an awareness and such a power of action, this is the five-grade civil official!
What else can be said?
Meng Baihu could only roll up his sleeves and resolutely join the ranks of grabbing meat.
Everyone is a scholar and a soldier, who is afraid of whom!
In front of a group of fierce military men, Meng Hu and Meng Qingjiang are the only two Sven people. Holding the rice bowl and stepping aside, they looked at each other, fortunately there were still some left under the stove, otherwise they wouldn't even be able to drink the broth, not to mention the meat scraps.
"Fortunately, the fourth cousin was prescient."
"Well, how many flatbreads are left?"
"Not much." Meng Hu stretched out ten fingers.
"Well done." Meng Qingjiang gave a thumbs up.
"Passing the prize." Meng Hu smiled very innocently.
Therefore, those who are close to Zhu are red and those who are close to ink are black, and they have been with Meng Shishilang for a long time, and the wood should also have a long heart.
Hongwu 31 years, December
After the winter, heavy snow fell in the north, and the official road was impassable for a while. The music sent to the capital from all over the country was delayed for more than ten days before it was put on the emperor's desk. By the time the imperial court learned that the Northern Yuan had invaded the border again, the border troops in Liaodong and other places had already chopped back and forth with Tartar knives and axes.
"Remnant Yuan is guilty of a border at this time?"
No wonder Emperor Jianwen didn't believe it, at this time in previous years, the Tartars went home early for the winter, and the border had already stopped, and this year was indeed a special situation.
The Tartars were not beaten into grain grass in Kaipingwei, and they were cut a few stubbles as rice, and they lost a lot of people and horses, which is a handful of bitter tears when you think about it. Although those who fled back saved their lives, they still faced serious problems of survival.
With no food, no cloth and cotton, how can the herdsmen survive this winter? Even if you can survive and the cattle and sheep are all eaten, how will you live next year?
A series of problems were placed in front of them, which profoundly made the princes of the Northern Yuan Dynasty realize the difficulty of survival.
In the royal tent of the Northern Yuan Emperor Erleboke, there was a gloomy cloud. The ministers and princes couldn't think of a better way, so they could only bite the bullet and grab it again.
"Grab it again?"
Everyone's eyes lit up, Yanwang's territory is not easy to grab, so go to Liaodong and Shanxi, in short, you can also gain a little bit by hitting the luck, right?
So, in the middle of winter in the thirty-first year of Hongwu, the Northern Yuan launched many attacks on the Ming border fortress one after another. The cavalry of the Northern Yuan Dynasty scattered various points, guerrilla warfare, and gave full play to the highest code of conduct of grabbing when the opportunity was seized and running away after grabbing.
It doesn't matter if you grab it or not, it's important to save your life. The wind is tight, let's just talk about it!
Flies don't bite, they respond to people!
The border soldiers in the guard station were in a hurry, and began to greet the eighteenth generation relatives of the Tartars, and all kinds of uncivilized words came out one after another, which were popular throughout the border fortress, and they were very popular. All kinds of dialects come together, and the scolding will not be the same for a whole day.
I really couldn't bear it anymore, the border troops in Liaodong and other places began to take the initiative to attack, and the Duoyan Sanwei under King Ning was not idle, and he was not soft at all with a knife. Whose money is given to whom, this is the professional ethics of foreign aid.
For a time, the sound of killing all over Shuobei was everywhere, the sword light and axe shadow, and the imperial court was also shaken.
When the news reached Nanjing, Emperor Jianwen had to slow down the pace of cutting the feudal domain, and a cadre of ministers who advocated cutting the feudal domain also lowered their voices. When there is a conflict between external contradictions and internal contradictions, most people can still distinguish between priority and priority. Put aside the little thing of your own people for the time being, and it is more important to get rid of the Tartars first.
After the Tartars who attacked Liaodong returned again, the kings of Yan, Ning, Jin, Liao, and Gu suddenly joined forces, gathered their troops, braved the wind and snow, and went out twenty or thirty miles north from the border guards to carry out a stormy sweep of the Tartars lurking everywhere.
Yang Wen, the governor of the Left Army, and Guo Ying, the Marquis of Wuding, also actively participated in the operation. personally dressed in battle, the heroic force is still the same as it was back then.
Kaiping Wei was in the key place, the border army of the guard was brave and good at fighting, only a few remained, and the others poured out under the leadership of the commander Xu Zhong.
Shen Xuan was ordered to be the vanguard, leading 3,000 cavalry to rush all the way, looking for traces of the Tartar in the vast snowfield, killing when he found it, and continuing to look for it after killing, so that the Tartar fled in despair.
Meng led more than 100 of his subordinates to play soy sauce behind Shen's guerrilla team, picking up leaks by the way.
It's not that he's exaggerating, but whenever the cavalry under Shen's guerrilla command passes by, it's really like locusts crossing the border, and it is a miracle to meet one or two living Tartars.
Meng swears to heaven that every word he uses is a compliment!
In mid-December, the vassal king's joint military-affairs-operation was a complete success.
The vassal kings such as King Yan and King Ning did not meet each other, but only contacted each other by passing letters, summed up the experience and shortcomings in the process of action, and discussed how to write the note to the imperial court by the way. How to report losses, how to ask for war achievements, there are many of them.
After discussing with each other, the vassal kings returned to their fiefdoms with their armies, and soon after, a succession of fast horses galloped to Nanjing with the vassal kings.
After the battle is over, the Tartars have run away, the court must be interesting, right?
Returning to the base, the vassal kings sent troops to the north this time, in general sense, for the country and the people, and the deep-seated consideration may not be a demonstration to the imperial court.
King Zhou's family was arrested, and then they were demoted, and it was not only King Yan who was shocked. This time it's King Zhou, will it be himself next?
Kill the chicken to show the monkey, everyone knows who the monkey is, but no one is willing to be the chicken again.
In addition to the King of Jin, which vassal king is not the uncle of Emperor Jianwen? Weaker vassal kings, such as King Yan and King Ning, can be rounded and flattened with their nephews?
Therefore, after the Song Shu from Northern Xinjiang was sent to Nanjing, Emperor Jianwen was worried, and he once again realized that none of his uncles were fuel-efficient lamps, and the road of cutting the feudal domain was really a long way to go.
Emperor Jianwen also recognized that the biggest difficulty was definitely King Yan.
Other uncles can't say it, King Yan, it's bound to be the opposite!
Emperor Jianwen is not a fool, and he has to make more adequate preparations when he really does it. Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng and others have drawn up a seemingly perfect plan, just waiting for Emperor Jianwen to approve the implementation.
Aside from Qi Huang and other radicals, there were also different voices in the court.
For example, Gao Wei and Yushi Han Yu, who were the former military governor's office and are now serving as officials, have successively ascended to the top and resolutely disagreed with the opinions and methods of radical figures such as Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng.
Gao Wei's recital clearly wrote that cutting the feudal domain was necessary, and everyone agreed. The means of cutting feudal domains need to be reconsidered.
It is absolutely not okay to emulate Chao Wrong's brute force and hard work, and a bad one will provoke the vassal king to rebel. should learn from the master's father to be flexible and maneuvering, implement Tui'en, and the back cover cannot be divided again, so the prince and brother of the feudal lord in the north will be divided to the south; The sons of the kings of the south were divided into the north.
"In this way, the power of the king will not be cut but cut by itself."
This kind of method was mentioned by Emperor Jianwen when he played against Emperor Hongwu, but when Gao Wei and Han Yu proposed it again, Emperor Jianwen hesitated.
Young people have an impulse to do things, not to mention, the vassal kings have made Emperor Jianwen really feel threatened.
Looking at the several notes in front of him, the young emperor was still undecided, so he could only send someone to find Qitai Huang Zicheng and others to discuss.
When Qi Tai and the others heard this, they naturally shook their heads.
"Your Majesty, the vassal king is arrogant and lawless, violates the court system, and if he does not cut it, the court will not be disciplined. His Majesty is the king of a country, and the vassal king is a vassal......"
In the Wenhua Palace, Huang Zicheng stood eloquently and eloquently. Qi Tai and others seconded the proposal from time to time and added a few more sentences. Emperor Jianwen was said to be full of red light, and nodded frequently.
The result of the deliberation of the monarch and the ministers can be imagined.
"In this case, it is like a discussion!"
Emperor Jianwen finally made up his mind and made a decision on the spot, okay, I just did it!
As soon as the war in northern Xinjiang stopped, Emperor Jianwen, who thought he had sharpened his sword, finally began to do it.
At the end of December of the 31st year of Hongwu, the imperial court issued an order to take Zhang Hao, a servant of the Ministry of Works, as the political envoy of Beiping, Xie Gui, the commander of Henan, and Zhang Xin, the commander of Guizhou, as the commander of Beiping. At the same time, Song Zhong was promoted to the commander of the original Jinyi Guard, and the troops were stationed in the area of Kaiping to Shanhaiguan.
The former commander of Beiping made Chen Heng get too close to King Yan, and Emperor Jianwen waved his pen and promoted him to the governor of the capital.
Zhang Yu and others were transferred to Beiping, and there was only one key task, staring at King Yan, and once they found that King Yan had signs of rebellion, they would immediately be ordered to do it!
This is not the end, Emperor Jianwen, who was in excitement, planned to continue to play the trick of knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger, and controlled Zhu Gui, the acting king who had just united with King Yan to go out of the northern expedition, on the charge of "greed and cruelty". The same family was caught in Nanjing, and the crime was quickly implemented, and the title was taken to the end. The next year, the acting king was sent to the mountains and countryside in Shu to receive re-education from the poor middle peasants.
A series of actions in the imperial court can be described as vigorous and resolute, and Emperor Jianwen thinks he has a plan, but he doesn't know that the first one may not be able to take the lead, and the one who starts later may not have no advantage.
Historical facts have proved that the book business is so angry that it kills people on impulse!