Chapter 155: The Arrival of the Tile Thorn Mission

Although Zhang Zongzhou is the person in charge of the Tile Spur Mission. But on the bright side of the person in charge. is not Zhang Zongzhou, Zhang Zongzhou's identity is just a Mr. Ledger.

After entering the monolithic fort.

Zhang Zongzhou felt the breath of the Han people who had not been seen for a long time. In fact, he never thought that he would be able to return to the mainland in his lifetime. Naturally, there is infinite emotion in my heart.

He quickly put away all these feelings.

He began to inspect the defense of Xuanda.

Within a few years, Xuanda Defense was renovated by the Ministry of War, and many traces of repair are very new.

The Great City, the Thousand Household Fort, and all kinds of beacon towers, with moats and wooden fences, and then integrated with the local terrain and mountains, are simply a natural line of defense.

There are only a few decisive battles that can be fought by large armies.

This line of defense should not be an impregnable wall, but a big net, any prey entering this area, will be stagnant, blocked, and then usher in a head-on decisive battle with the Ming army.

Zhang Zongzhou secretly said in his heart: "If he goes south in the future, it is best not to fight a decisive battle in this generation." ”

The deeper Zhang Zongzhou went deeper and deeper under the city of Xuanfu, he saw a new thing, that is, he had already heard of Chi Dao I don't know how many times.

But many things, no matter how many times others say it, are not as good as looking at it yourself.

Zhang Zongzhou just glanced at it, and his heart was like ashes, and he was stunned there for a long time, unable to calm down for a long time.

This gallop looks very shabby.

It's just that two wooden rails are laid on the rammed earth, and there are sleepers fixed under the wooden rails.

But Zhang Zongzhou watched for a long time, and on average, less than a pillar of incense, there was a carriage galloping by, and it was seen that the carriage could carry at least ten stones of grain.

Others don't know that Zhang Zongzhou, as the first Han staff member under the command of the tile thorn, naturally understands what this means, which means that the logistical pressure of the Ming Dynasty has been greatly eased.

It even means that the Ming Dynasty's offensive ability on the grassland is recovering.

The prudence of the Ming Dynasty in attacking on the grassland was, on the one hand, due to the ineffectiveness of several attempts by Taizong in the later period, and on the other hand, the consumption of grain.

It's too difficult to transport grain on the grasslands.

Even if you don't count the Mongols' harassment of the grain route, just talking about the harsh natural environment discouraged the Ming soldiers.

When Taizong was on the Northern Expedition, he was also hungry for several days. Reducing the amount of meals is even more commonplace.

It's not that there is no food in the Ming Dynasty, but that the grain behind it can't be transported.

With this approach, the loss of food transportation is greatly reduced. It is almost equal to the rise of the national strength of the Ming Dynasty.

Ordinary spies naturally can't be as profound as Zhang Zongzhou thought. Therefore, even if Zhang Zongzhou knew that Da Ming was cultivating a reputation, the specific situation was still unclear.

"Can't wait any longer

went. Zhang Zongzhou secretly said in his heart: "The more you wait for the Ming Dynasty, the stronger it will become, and the emperor of the Southern Dynasty is a British lord." ”

Zhang Zongzhou has not yet arrived in Beijing, and he has already made up his mind.

After coming to Jingshi, the Tile Spur Mission was asked to settle outside the city, but their place of settlement was surrounded by several armies of the Ming Dynasty.

It's the norm.

When the Tile Thorn envoy exceeds 1,000, this is a necessity.

After all, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, at the foot of the Son of Heaven, can't let the army of the tile spur move freely, so most of the tile spur missions are in this kind of semi-supervised situation. 、

Only a few people are able to enter and leave the camp freely.

And Zhang Zongzhou is naturally in the hands of a few.

He took two guards and walked on the street of Daming.

The city of Beijing is much more prosperous than it was many years ago.

There are also many reasons for this prosperity.

The first reason is that the national strength of the Ming Dynasty is still thriving on the whole. Beijing, as the capital of the Ming Dynasty, is naturally developing rapidly.

The second is that Zhu Qizhen has established a number of students in Beijing, and all the students of the Water Conservancy College and other colleges have exceeded 10,000. You must know that most of these students are wealthy.

After all, it is impossible for ordinary people to go to school.

With such a large population, it has formed a small city in the south of Beijing.

The third is Beijing's unique official system.

In the entire Ming Dynasty, that is, here in Beijing, all the officials are not hereditary, but enter by examination. Similar to civil servants. Coupled with the annual income of at least tens of thousands of taels in Beijing, it is one of the wealthiest prefectures in the entire Ming Dynasty. It can also support such a system.

Therefore, the rule of officials in Beijing is a little better than that of other places, and this situation has attracted people to gather.

Zhang Zongzhou didn't know the details, but he could see from the price of goods and grain that the impact of Huang Hua's decision on Daming was not as deep as he imagined.

However, he is just a casual spectator, and if he wants to know more about Daming, he wants to meet a living person who has been in the city of Beijing.

It's just that Beijing City is the world of Jinyiwei, and it can be said that everyone who can enter the city is under the monitoring of Jinyiwei, and whoever he wants to see must be carefully arranged.

Otherwise, you're in trouble.

Zhang Zongzhou was still waiting for the opportunity, but he didn't know that his temptation had exploded in the cabinet.

Mandarin Palace.

"I think it's absolutely impossible." Hu Hui's white hair was about to stand up, and he shouted angrily: "There is Taizong's testament, 'The respect of our dynasty's national power, beyond the ancient times, its control of the north and the west, no Han harmony, no Tang alliance, no Song New Year's coin, and no brotherly enemy gift'. ”

"In view of the lessons of the two Song Dynasty, the imperial court has never done this, and now the thorns dare to insult the Heavenly Empire, although the ministers are old, but they can still eat and fight, please a soldier and horse, capture this fang on Your Majesty."

Hu Hu was a confidant of Emperor Taizong.

He doesn't care about many things, and every day in court is a routine, and he is quite confused. But whoever really thinks he's old and confused is wrong.

Hu Hu doesn't care about many things, but he cares about Taizong's posthumous name.

This incident is clearly a slap in the face of Emperor Taizong.

Hu Hu couldn't bear it.

Mr. Hu sat down and spoke. Zhu Qizhen comforted.

Although Hu Hu said it powerfully, Zhu Qizhen didn't dare to entrust the army to a civilian official, so he could only appease him.

Something about harmony. Zhu Qizhen also has a very calm judgment.

Zhu Qizhen naturally didn't want to kiss anymore.

There was no precedent for harmony in the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Qizhen didn't want to break it from him. But he also has to take into account the realities of the situation. Zhu Qizhen didn't want to start a war with the tile thorn now.

If you can hold back the tile spur, just a woman, Zhu Qizhen doesn't care, anyway, she is not the princess of the Ming Dynasty.

But many things, you can't think like that.

It is necessary to consider the political implications, as Hu Hu said.

Many things, in fact, are not what an emperor can always insist on, the Ming Dynasty has always insisted on not getting along and not compromising, which is actually a reflection on the history of the two Song Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty has always made peace in one battle, forgot about it once it made peace, and then fought and made peace again, and Gou An again, until it was forced into the sea.

This kind of tragic end makes any civil officials and doctors very repulsive to peace discussions and peace relatives, not to mention that the Ming Dynasty is now strong.

Many people's memories are still alive in the Taizong period. Live in the days of the Ming army's total suppression of the grassland. How could they possibly agree and pro.

Therefore, as soon as this matter spread, there must have been a lot of officials who wrote against it.

Hu Hu is just one of them.

Of course, it's not that there is no one who supports it.

The biggest supporter is Cao Nai.

Cao Nai said: "Taizong's legacy, the minister does not dare to forget it for a while, but this time and that time. The household department was almost empty, and the soldiers did not move the grain and grass first. ”

"The minister did not agree to make peace, but should ease the relationship with the tile, pretending to be a snake, dragging on for the past two years, the Yellow River work is over, and he doesn't dare to go south if he wants to come to the tile."

Zhu Qizhen didn't say anything.

This opinion is actually the opinion of all previous ministers.

Otherwise, the envoys of the tile spurs are obviously more numerous, why did Datong still order to let them go. It is because of the great work of the Yellow River that the astronomical amount of silver taels has been mobilized.

Zhu Qizhen fell into the biggest financial crisis since he ascended the throne, and the total amount of grain in the granaries of Beijing and Tianjin was less than 10 million stones.

Although the social order in the Ming Dynasty did not fluctuate due to the catastrophe, and even the price of grain was relatively stable, the imperial court also paid the price.