Chapter 135: After the Triumph

No matter what kind of attitude Zhu Qizhen has towards the three of them in his heart.

At this moment, the celebration of triumph in Daning City is real.

Zhu Qizhen transported an unknown amount of wine from the rear, and rewarded all the cattle and sheep captured by the army in Mobei, and even bought a lot of cattle and sheep from various parts of southern Mongolia.

Not to mention other rewards, the silver spent on rewarding the whole army this time was more than 100,000 taels.

As for other rewards, not to mention.

Zhu Qizhen also repeatedly summoned the soldiers to feast and drink, and even drank to the fullest, drawing his sword and competing with the soldiers.

Most of them win, but there are also people who drink high, and they dare to win Zhu Qizhen, Zhu Qizhen doesn't care, everyone who can win over himself personally gives wine and rewards with swords.

For a time, the morale of the army was shaken.

Zhu Qizhen successfully created a heroic image in the army, and more than 300 generals and colonels entered the martial arts academy or entered the palace guards.

Become a guard of the Qianqing Palace.

These people are all soldiers after the bloody battle, and there are not even more than a thousand households, most of them are the heads of the soldiers. But they are all young and have potential, and after such a bloody battle, as long as they carefully study the art of war, they may not be able to produce a few great generals in the future.

Now that Meng Ying has decided to retire after this battle, Yang Hong naturally wants to take the throne. The era of Yang Hong's control of the world's military power is coming.

In this regard, everything was expected in Zhu Qizhen.

But Yang Hong is not young anymore, he is in his fifties, and he can't sit in this position for many years, who will be after Yang Hong?

Zhu Qizhen probably felt that it was Fang Jin, or Liu Ju. Although Yang Xin is good, it is impossible for such a big position to be inherited by uncle and nephew, but behind their group of people?

Zhu Qizhen is going to make a screening at this moment.

And when Zhu Qizhen was feasting on the soldiers, Yang Hong, Guo Deng, and Shi Heng had already cashed out half of the rewards of the generals and generals below, and all kinds of rewards were naturally not said.

Yang Hong, Shi Heng, and Guo Deng were all rewarded with 10,000 taels of silver.

As for the other rewards, Zhu Qizhen asked Li Xian to let the wind out, saying that the emperor felt that Daning was not Beijing after all, and the rewards here were not solemn enough, but he would wait for the army to return to Beijing before making rewards.

In this way, the other generals saw that Yang Hong and the three of them were not rewarded, so they naturally didn't care.

But Yang Hong's performance is different.

Yang Hong and Guo Deng were calm.

Especially Guo Deng, speaking of which, he also attacked Beihai, and won more than 100,000 people, and there were hundreds of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses, which can be regarded as a great achievement.

In fact, anyone with a discerning eye knows that this is all the credit of picking up.

But Shi Heng was a little out of breath.

Shi Heng locked this in the room, paced back and forth and thought about it repeatedly, and secretly said in his heart: "I'm not wrong, I'm not wrong." I'm not wrong. ”

The more he said that

, the more confident he is in his heart.

In the far away place of the Emperor Shangao, Shi Heng could ignore the authority of Beijing, but in Daning City, Wu Jin and other troops were stationed on the Daning City Wall, while Shi Heng only brought more than 1,000 personal soldiers and more than 10,000 meritorious soldiers, and the rest of the troops had already returned to Zhaozhou City first.

And most of the meritorious officials who feasted in Zhu Qizhen were Shi Heng's subordinates.

Corporal Emperor Lixian naturally moved these unknown soldiers very much, and after three glasses of wine, he had already put Shi Heng aside.

Perhaps, in their eyes, allegiance to His Majesty is the same thing as following General Shi.

But Shi Heng felt that the emperor was really disintegrating his influence in the army. But there was nothing to be done.

He couldn't do anything.

"General, I have inquired clearly, Your Majesty has summoned Yang Hong at this moment." Suddenly, one came over and whispered.

Shi Heng breathed a sigh of relief, but instead calmed down, and secretly said in his heart: "What should come is still coming." ”

Zhu Qizhen did this to sharpen the minds of the three of them, in fact, not only Shi Heng was like this, but Yang Hong and Guo Deng's various departments were also temporarily taken over by Wang Yue.

Wang Yue, as the judge of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, verified the merits in the army, which he did together with the Ministry of War. Zhu Qizhen trapped the three of them and their own soldiers in Daning City in the name of feasting and drinking, and Wang Yue began to take over the power of the army one by one in the name of rewarding.

Of course, with Wang Yue's ability and qualifications, it is not possible for him to completely control the army, but it is okay to let the army be wrong.

You must know that Zhu Qizhen came out this time, and he didn't bring troops.

The six battalions of personal soldiers are already Fang Jin's garrison in Daning City, which is enough to control the military.

Military power has always been like this, easy and difficult to receive.

If the three of them, especially Shi Heng, have any changes, Zhu Qizhen will naturally be ruthless, seeing that the three of them are honest, Zhu Qizhen will naturally enter the next step.

The first person Zhu Qizhen called over was Yang Hong.

In the backyard of the Yamen under the command of Daning Wei, Zhu Qizhen saw Yang Hong alone, split his head, and said, "Yang Hong, are you guilty?" ”

Yang Hong immediately knelt down and said, "The minister is guilty." ”

Zhu Qizhen squinted slightly and said, "What crime?" ”

Yang Hong said: "The minister's inability to control Shi Heng is the minister's sin. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "It's not all your fault, it's also my fault, I should have given you the position of general in the first place." ”

Yang Hong said: "It is the minister who has failed His Majesty's grace. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Get up." ”

Yang Hong slowly got up and said, "Yes." ”

Zhu Qizhen sat Yang Hong down and said: "This time the Northern Expedition was successful, and he also died first, and he was spurred westward, you are meritorious, and I will not be rewarded for this merit." After returning to Beijing, you will enter the cabinet with the title of Guogong, replacing Meng Ying, the Duke of Teng. In the future, the major military affairs of the Ming Dynasty will depend on you. ”

Yang Hong said: "Thank you, Lord Longen. "Get up and salute.

Zhu Qizhen said: "The monarch and the minister play the right thing in private, there is no need to be polite, but I am actually very worried, looking at the battle of the first war, the lord will be incompatible, the front and back are disjointed, and they are taken advantage of by the thorns." Such a situation, but again victorious? I don't worry about a defeat, the Ming Dynasty is now the strength of the country. What if the army is lost? In just five years, I will be able to make a comeback, but I will win a battle in the wrong way, and it will be more harmful than a defeat in the right way. ”

To fight a war is to make fewer mistakes than who makes them.

Zhu Qizhen reviewed the battle of Yanran, which was full of dangers, in terms of strategy, in fact, the Ming army lost, not necessarily on the collision of the national strength of the two sides, and the tile spur was not as good as the Ming Dynasty.

It's not that Yexian's command ability is not as good as Shi Heng's.

It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and what she said is also first.

Of course, it was not that he did not make mistakes, and the biggest mistake he made was not military, but political.

It was the liquidation of the Erjin family that made him lose the support of the entire Mongolia.

If in the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, the Ming Dynasty was fighting with the Mongols, then after that, it was obvious that the Ming Dynasty was fighting with the Tile Thorns.

Yang Hong is also like this, not to mention anything else, the battle for command between Yang Hong and Shi Heng is a taboo for soldiers.

Yang Hong said: "Your Majesty knows thousands of miles, and the minister is guilty. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Then what are you going to do with Shi Heng?" ”

Yang Hong said: "The minister does not dare to speak falsely about this matter. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "After returning to Beijing, you will be a cabinet scholar in charge of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and you can't participate in the military affairs of the world." ”

"Now it's time for you to take up the post early."

"Tell me what you think."

Zhu Qizhen didn't look at Yang Hong's eyes.

This is an exam question from Zhu Qizhen to Yang Hong.

Everyone who enters the cabinet is Zhu Qizhen's political assistant and political opponent.

When implementing the Mobei strategy, Yang Hong resolutely stood on the side of Zhu Qizhen's policy, and it can be said that he was his right-hand man, but when he entered the cabinet, it was different from before.

At this moment, Zhu Qizhen has two points to test Yang Hong.

The first is whether he has the ability to control the overall situation of the whole world, and the second is whether he will declare personal vendettas.

Only these two points can be passed by Yang Hong, and Zhu Qizhen can rest assured that Yang Hong will become a member of the cabinet. Otherwise, Yang Hong would not be able to sit in this position for a long time.

Yang Hong may owe Shi Heng a leg up militarily, but he is very shrewd politically, and when he heard Zhu Qizhen's question, he already clearly felt the deep meaning.

Yang Hong said secretly in his heart: "You must not fall into the well for Shi Heng." On the contrary, we have to find a way to save one or two. ”

It's just that Yang Hong and Shi Heng are already deep, where is he willing to say good things to Shi Heng, his heart moved, and he thought of it.