Chapter 129: After the Great Victory

"Good, good, good." Zhu Qizhen has been cultivating his qi for many years, but now he can't lock the joy in his heart.

Many years of hard work have finally paid off in an instant.

Zhu Qizhen didn't know how many nights of exhaustion, and finally had a decisive victory over the tile spurs. also let go of Zhu Qizhen's heart that had been hanging.

In the twenty-two years of orthodoxy, Zhu Qizhen has slowed down almost everything and focused on this battle.

I have to say that it seems that there have been natural disasters in the past few years, and God wants to repay one or two in recent years.

Although this year's year is not as good as last year, on the whole, it is not a famine year.

Only Shandong is still full of natural disasters, specifically Jinan, Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Xuzhou, and Fengyang. The drought is severe, and there are some irregularities in the weather in the south of the Yangtze River.

But in this regard, Zhu Qizhen is very satisfied.

It was also this good year that allowed Zhu Qizhen to support the Northern Expedition of more than 100,000 troops, although it was a little difficult, but it was not difficult.

Zhu Qizhen's previous arrangements for various reforms are also well promoted. The tax cards on the canal have already generated millions of dollars from the tea and horse trade.

This is also the reason why Zhu Qizhen dares to be so atmospheric.

However, the only thing that made Zhu Qizhen a little uncomfortable was the chaos in Guangxi.

Although Zhu Qizhen can't see that Han Yong has worked very hard and has achieved a lot of results, there is one point, whether it is Jinyiwei, Dongchang, or even Han Yong himself, it is explicitly or implicitly explained.

Freezing three feet is not a day's cold.

The situation in Guangxi has reached this point, which is due to the accumulation of defects during the Hongwu period. Unless the imperial court increases investment, the prolongation of the war in Guangxi has become a fact.

Then Han Yongduo has a small victory, but he can't stabilize the overall situation.

However, when the news of Yan Ran's victory came, Zhu Qizhen immediately made a decision.

The death of the first is destined to be impossible for the north to fight any big battles in the next few years. The imperial court naturally has the manpower and material resources to invest in Guangxi. Zhu Qizhen immediately gave Han Yong a reply and encouraged Han Yong to deal with it decisively. Next year, the imperial court will transfer Huguang and the Yunnan-Guizhou army will enter Guangxi.

After dealing with this matter, Zhu Qizhen carefully read the documents of the victory.

It's just that after he rejoiced, he carefully watched the good news. Countless thoughts came flooding through my heart.

"That's not right." Zhu Qizhen said secretly in his heart.

The essays are written briefly, and the real detailed reports are at the back.

But even in this report, Zhu Qizhen can see the thrill between the lines, which is completely different from what Zhu Qizhen thought before.

Zhu Qizhen first reflected on himself. I feel that my previous judgment is not too conservative.

After all, Zhu Qizhen is not very important to the military

Understand that in formulating strategic goals, it is natural to prefer to be lenient rather than ambitious, and let the soldiers below do things that they cannot do.

If the goal can be achieved, then delegate power to the first-line generals.

But Shi Heng's battle of Xingkai Lake, Yang Hong's battle of Taizhou, and now the great victory of Yanran Mountain, all illustrate this point, and the margin of the goals he assigned to the front line is a little too large.

Zhu Qizhen admitted this, and at the same time felt that Shi Heng was unruly.

But when a report came, there were generals at all levels, judges, Jinyiwei spies, and Dongchang spies. Only then did Zhu Qizhen know that Shi Heng was unruly and unruly, and he was simply presumptuous.

In Zhu Qizhen's view, the contradiction between Shi Heng and Yang Hong is simply Shi Heng's challenge to his authority.

This made Zhu Qizhen unbearable.

Everything Yang Hong did was in accordance with his overall strategy. Although Shi Heng had a big victory, he had provoked Zhu Qizhen's strategy and army organization. Let Zhu Qizhen not tolerate it.

In particular, the destruction of the organization of the army.

The army of kings that Zhu Qizhen wants to prohibit by order, the army of the economic system, is an army that takes obedience to orders as the first priority, not an ancient warlord, although it can be fought, but it is an arrogant general, and a bad one is an unstable factor.

Even Zhu Qizhen can tolerate Shi Heng's infringement of his authority, after all, people who use their talents have all kinds of tempers, whether they are civil ministers or military generals.

However, Zhu Qizhen cannot easily deviate on the road of army building.

But Zhu Qizhen immediately took a deep breath, knowing that even if he couldn't tolerate it now, he would have to tolerate it. At least now to be tolerated.

Without him, this is not the time to dispose of Shi Heng.

The timing is not right.

Not to mention anything else, in the streets and alleys of Jingshi, some people have already begun to say books, what do they say? Said "Loyal Country Fair North Story".

Naturally, it is made up nonsense, and it is mixed with some gods and ghosts.

After all, although a letter of enclosure was passed to the Beijing Division, most of them were one-sided words, and the specific battle process had to be summarized among the generals of each department before it could be slowly sorted out.

These documents cannot be said to be top secret, though. But it's not something that these street storytellers can lift.

It is these people who use their artistic imagination to make it themselves. In modern parlance, it's a hot spot.

Even the children inside and outside Beijing, when they play war games, one must play the role of Zhongguo Gong, and the other will play the role first.

By the way, in fact, in the twists and turns between Yang Hong and Shi Heng, the death of Yexian was in a speculative tone, and he did not dare to implement this. Make room for yourself.

But when it was spread outside, it was rumored that Shi Heng was cut first.

What is called prestige, what is called the sky. It is estimated that the last time Daming had such a prestigious general was the British Gong Zhang Fu.

All kinds of things between Shi Heng and the emperor and his ministers are not something that outsiders can peep at, of course, someone can feel it. Smart people never say much.

If Zhu Qizhen disposed of Shi Heng at this time, he would hurt the hearts of the soldiers.

Shi Heng, no matter how many mistakes he makes, can fight, can fight, and win the hearts of soldiers, there is no doubt about it. Otherwise, Shi Heng would not have been able to fight fiercely in the battle of Yanran Mountain, with more than half of the casualties, and the army would still follow one after another until death.

If the Ming army did not have this tenacity, the battle of the day would not know whose victory or defeat it was.

Such a general is really a double-edged sword, used against the enemy, there is a sense of destruction, but you must also beware of hurting yourself.

Second, it hurt Zhu Qizhen's prestige.

Zhu Qizhen has been in power for more than 20 years, and now his authority has been established, but Zhu Qizhen still cherishes feathers. Because every point of prestige is a bargaining chip for future things.

The people and even the officials will not think about it, they will only look at the results.

Zhu Qizhen can't accommodate Shi Heng, which is naturally a big minus.

Zhu Qizhen paced back and forth, let out a sudden breath, and said secretly in his heart: "Shi Heng, Shi Heng, I will take another step, but there are some places that must not be allowed, I just hope you can understand and don't force me to kill you." ”

With that, there's one thing on the agenda.

That's the Northern Tour.

After Shi Heng's incident, Zhu Qizhen even more realized that there may be changes in the army that he doesn't want to see.

So Zhu Qizhen immediately summoned Chen Xun and explained the matter of the northern tour.

Chen Xun was taken aback and said, "Your Majesty, since the war has been successful, why should Your Majesty go to the outer places of the fortress by wading through the wind and sand." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "It's not far to wade through the wind and sand, but it's just to Daning, the soldiers work hard to kill the enemy, and it's not good for me to sit in the nine-fold." ”

Chen Xun felt that the number of courtesies was too heavy, but Chen Xun was not the previous ministers after all, since Zhu Qizhen said so, he didn't dare to refute, he just asked: "Your Majesty's Northern Tour, how to arrange the affairs of the Beijing Division?" ”

Zhu Qizhen pondered for a while and said: "Let Li Xian accompany me and assist me in handling government affairs, and the cabinet of government affairs in various places will be in charge, and if the cabinet does not handle it well, it will be sent to the line." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "The prince has also grown up, and I will ask Fan Hong to teach the prince to supervise the country." ”

There is also a reason why Zhu Qizhen chose Li Xian to accompany him.

In the cabinet, Meng Ying and Wang Ji are old, Chen Xun wants to be in charge and can't leave, and Liu Dingzhi's handling of finances is even more important to the use of troops, so naturally he can't leave.

Jiang Yuan and others wanted to assist Chen Xun.

In contrast, Li Xian seems to be in the prime of life, and he is ranked last, so he can follow Zhu Qizhen to the north.

Chen Xun said: "The minister obeys the order, but it will take a while for various arrangements, and the minister estimates that it will take at least more than a month." ”

Zhu Qizhen didn't care and said, "You just go and arrange it." ”