Chapter 85: Jiang Gui

"When it comes to the ability to break the enemy in battle, the subordinate is above Jiang Gui." Chen Huai said with a big grin in front of Zhu Qizhen.

Zhu Qizhen was speechless for a while. It can also be seen that Chen Huai is indeed a scheming person.

Zhu Qizhen said: "The Empress Dowager has already agreed, there is no need to say more." Suffice it to say General Chiang. ”

Chen Huai had no choice but to tell the story about Jiang Gui one by one. Zhu Qizhen summed it up. Jiang Gui can't understand the written language, but he loves soldiers like a son, and when he leads his troops to attack, he often brings his own salute and never pretends to others. Short of strategy, but a soldier is willing to die. There is the wind of ancient famous generals.

Of course, this is processed by Zhu Qizhen, Chen Huai speaks, always off-topic, and he has only one core off-topic, that is, although Jiang Gui is good. But it's far inferior to me, and it's better to use Jiang Gui than me.

However, in Zhu Qizhen's opinion, Jiang Gui is much more reliable than Chen Huai.

Chen Huai is just a general, and Jiang Gui is handsome. It's just that among the handsome talents, there are also superiors, so that Jiang Gui is certainly inferior compared with Xu Da and Lan Yu. But like Jiang Gui, An An is divided into regular soldiers and presses each other, and it is estimated that nothing will go wrong.

Although the Ming Dynasty is not as good as before, there is no country in the whole world that can compare with the Ming Dynasty in terms of national strength.

Zhu Qizhen had to admit that the cabinet chose Jiang Gui, and he couldn't make a mistake in this choice.

Zhu Qizhen listened to Chen Huai's words, and was about to send Chen Huai away, but saw Chen Huai suddenly kneeling down and said, "Your Majesty is begging for something." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "General Chen, please speak." ”

Chen Huai said: "The minister has a small dog, and he also has a little riding and archery ability, and he wants to be His Majesty's guard and drive for His Majesty." ”

Zhu Qizhen listened, and his heart was slightly up: "Since General Chen has spoken, let him come." ”

Chen Huai immediately said: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty." ”

After Zhu Qizhen sent Chen Huai away, his heart suddenly moved, and he said secretly: "Is this Chen Huai really scheming?" He carefully scrutinized Chen Huai's every move after entering the hall, although he couldn't see any flaws, but leading the troops to fight and winning the battle against the generals before the two armies, is it really not a city government at all?

"Maybe this is his city." Zhu Qizhen said secretly in his heart.

Life in the world depends on acting skills. Zhu Qizhen didn't want to delve into it. However, he yearns for Jiang Gui, and he can't wait to see this famous general of this dynasty.

At this time, Jiang Gui was also galloping on a fast horse, and just arrived in Beijing, he saw a middle-aged man in his forties, sitting in a carriage, waiting at the city gate, and saw Jiang Gui. lifted the curtain and said, "Jiang Tongzhi." ”

When Jiang Gui saw it, he immediately dismounted and saluted, and said, "I've seen the third master." ”

The man smiled and said, "I can't afford it now." ”

"The last general will not dare to come to any time, they are all British officials. I will never forget it. Jiang Gui said.

This person is none other than Zhang Xuan, the third brother of the British Gong Zhang Fu. Originally, such a thing should have been done by Zhang Zhong, but Zhang Zhong's body and bones were really bad, so Zhang Zhong was allowed to come.

Zhang Xuan smiled slightly and said: "My eldest brother asked me to send you a message, after entering the city, don't go to the military department, go straight to the palace, the eldest brother has already arranged, you can see Your Majesty immediately." ”

"This time the war in the northwest, you are the main general has been finalized, but the future still depends on the present."

Jiang Gui listened to it and said: "Thank you Third Master, the grace of the country, the last general will be unforgettable." ”

Speaking of which, Chen Huai can also be regarded as a British general. However, the British prince has an average affection for Chen Huai, but he praises Jiang Gui more, and probably feels that Jiang Gui's ability is above Chen Huai.

Jiang Gui was originally going to go to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies first, but after listening to Zhang Xuan's words, he turned to the Forbidden City without saying a word. With the arrangement of the British duke, Jiang Gui met Jiang Gui very smoothly.

In the Forbidden City, Jiang Gui saluted loudly: "Minister Jiang Gui greets Your Majesty." Long live my emperor, long live, long live. ”

As soon as Zhu Qizhen saw Jiang Gui, he thought of a person, Li Shimian.

It's not that the two look alike, but that they have the same temperament.

Jiang Gui was dressed in armor, with gray hair, and was dusty. But his anger was like Hong Zhong, his face was resolute, and he was even more serious in front of Zhu Qizhen.

made Zhu Qizhen have a feeling that he couldn't play profane.

Although this kind of person is a subordinate, it makes Zhu Qizhen have a very formal feeling, which is the same as seeing Li Shimian.

When Zhu Qizhen met Chen Huai, he felt that Chen Huai did not have a positive shape, which made him a little crying and laughing. But when he met Jiang Gui, it made Zhu Qizhen feel even more uncomfortable.

Because in the face of such a general, Zhu Qizhen naturally didn't dare to be rude, lest Jiang Gui feel slow.

Therefore, the conversation between the two entered a very serious question between the monarch and the minister.

Zhu Qizhen said: "The general has been in Songpan for a long time, and the Songpan Rebellion is almost the end of the Xuande period, what is the inside situation, can the general know?" ”

Jiang Gui immediately got up, bowed slightly forward, and said, "The minister thinks that there are three reasons for the Songpan Rebellion, one of which is the terrain. Between Songpan and Chengdu, there is only a chain bridge, once the chaos starts, the iron cable is interrupted, the army can not fly across, naturally protracted. ”

Secondly, there is the contradiction between the subject and the object. The local people of Songpanwei are unruly, and the establishment of the guard in Songpan is all moved in from other places, and there are naturally contradictions between them. ”

"The third is that the reality of the guard is light, and it is not enough to deter people from afar."

After Zhu Qizhen listened, he pondered silently for a while, and said: "General Jiang doesn't need to be secretive, there is no Han Cheng and the like, why is it chaotic?" ”

Jiang Gui could only say, "Your Majesty Shengming." ”

Zhu Qizhen had not done his homework before, and at least understood the causes and consequences of the Songpan Rebellion.

The Songpan Rebellion was because of the Jiaozhi War, which was uncertain for many years, and the imperial court decided to recruit the Songpan guards, but Songpanwei did not want to go to a hundred households, so he decided to go to Jiaozhi to a dead end. But how can you not go, that is, Songpan has a fight, so you don't have to go to Jiaozhi.

So, they falsely accused Songpan Fanren A Yongzhai Rong'er of conspiring to rebel, Chengdu Wei sent 10,000 people to quell the rebellion, Rong'er Jie could only bribe with cattle and sheep first, and then united more than 10,000 people from the Tusi to rebel.

That's when the big war began. However, this battle wiped out 7,000 officers and soldiers, which made the rebels extremely prosperous for a while, cut the chain bridge, and even marched to Mianzhu to the vicinity of Chengdu.

Shake the Kyoshi.

This is also one of the active driving forces for the imperial court to withdraw from Jiaozhi.

This is also Xuanzong's helpless choice, the Jiaozhi war has been protracted for a long time, and after a long time, maybe it will be like Yang Guang's expedition to Goryeo, and the world will sing the song of death without Annanlang?

There are practical reasons for Xuanzong's withdrawal from the army.

Zhu Qizhen said: "However, the reality of the guard is despised by the people, how is the reality of the guard? ”

Jiang Gui was silent for a while, and then said: "Before the Songpan Rebellion, the guards hired Fan people as soldiers for a long time, and they did business on their own, and they were not in the guard for many years. Therefore, together with the Songpan Rebellion, the rebels entered a no-man's land. ”

Zhu Qizhen listened, although he had been prepared for a long time, but when he heard this, he chuckled in his heart and said, "How is the Songpan Guard? ”

Jiang Gui immediately said: "The minister has reorganized in Songpan and increased the monthly ration for the guards, and now the Songpan guard has made great improvements, and it is not far from the nine border guards. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "So how much is the shortage of Songpanwei? ”

Jiang Gui said: "Yicheng." ”

Zhu Qizhen took a deep breath and suppressed his anger.

Listening to Jiang Gui's tone, he knew that this gap was already very remarkable. Thinking of the number of deserters of 1.2 million people, I know that Jiang Gui is only short of 10%, which is already very good.

But Zhu Qizhen still couldn't suppress the fire. In his opinion, the imperial army can only have leave, how can there be a vacancies?

It's just that he had to recognize the reality and said: "Is the same for the nine-sided shortage? ”

Jiang Gui had also been in Jiubian at the beginning, and immediately said: "The minister has not been in Jiubian for ten years, and I don't know what the situation in Jiubian is. ”

Zhu Qizhen listened to Jiang Gui's words and immediately understood, Jiang Gui didn't know, but didn't dare to say it. Otherwise, what he said before was not much different from the nine-sided shortage.

I'm afraid that Jiang Gui knows the situation in the nine sides, and it is even more unbearable than this. Zhu Qizhen suddenly remembered what Yang Rong said about the broken northwest. 、

Although the northern captives went south, they did not go deeper, and many places in the northwest were not actually plagued by soldiers, and they were still ruined.

Unless this damage is not caused by the invasion of the north and the south. So what is the reason for the "broken"?