Jizhou Town can be said to be the most important border town in the Ming Dynasty, because it surrounds the capital from the east, west and north three directions.

For such a military town, it stands to reason that the most loyal generals and the wisest commanders should be arranged to take care of them carefully to ensure that the capital is foolproof.

It's a pity that at this time, Yan Song, a traitor above the court, was in charge, what border defense, what capital security was in his eyes, it was all floating clouds, and in his eyes there was only silver, only interests, so Jizhou Town, a border town, not only did not send the wisest commander, but was controlled by Yang Shun, a corrupt official.

Yang Shun only knows how to embezzle food and salary, curry favor with Yan Song, and the defense of Jizhou Town can be imagined.

After Yang Cong took a group of civil servants and military generals to inspect several Great Walls, his face was simply blackened.

Although he had been mentally prepared and knew that the Great Wall in Jizhou Town was definitely not very good, he did not expect that the Great Wall here had been dilapidated to this point.

Nima, there are openings everywhere, and no one cares about them after they dig them up, what is the use of such a Great Wall?

After the group came to Gubeikou, which is known as the north gate of the capital, Yang Cong finally couldn't help but be furious.

He pointed to the already collapsed pass and the gap dozens of zhang wide and asked coldly, "Lord Yang, have you never come to the border pass to inspect?" With such a big opening, did you deliberately open the door to the Tartars? ”

Saying this, the cold sweat on Yang Shun's body couldn't stop coming out again, he really didn't come to the border to inspect, Gubeikou was dug up like this by the Tartars, and he was also Buji Island!

He wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and then quibbled: "Your Excellency, the Great Wall of Jizhou Town is more than a thousand miles, and the lower officials, the lower officials don't have time to inspect them one by one." ”

How the hell did you become the governor of Jizhou?

Yang Cong couldn't help but say angrily: "Don't have time to inspect them one by one? Do you know what kind of place this Gubeikou is, this is the main road leading to the inside of the pass, known as the north gate of the capital, the one hundred and twenty-nine passes of the Great Wall of the entire Jizhou Town are the most important here, you don't have time to inspect them one by one, and don't even take a look at this most important pass? ”

Yang Shun was speechless, how did he know that this was the most important pass in Jizhou Town, and even he didn't know how many passes there were in Jizhou Town, this was the first time he had heard Yang Cong say it, in normal times, he was concerned about deducting food and salary, how could he care about these things.

Yang Cong saw him like this, and couldn't help but snort coldly: "This official doesn't care if you have time or not, you have to repair the gap in the Great Wall, and you have to send people to guard the beacon towers everywhere, if the Tartars break through the Great Wall easily, if you enter a no-man's land, this official is the only one who asks!" ”

This!

How much does it cost?

When Yang Shun heard this, the first thing he thought of was not how to guard against the tartars, but the silver in his pocket!

It seems that he is afraid that he is going to have a big bloodletting, there is no way, if he doesn't do it, and the Tartar can easily break through the Great Wall, I'm afraid he, the governor of Jizhou, will not have to do it, and when the time comes, he won't be greedy for a penny.

Fortunately, Yang Cong did not order him to make up the deducted salary, in that case, he would go bankrupt, because most of the silver he was greedy for was filial piety to Yan Song.

Forget it, it shouldn't cost much money to repair the Great Wall, anyway, the labor is free, and it is completely possible to recruit the guards to repair it, and he will only pay some food expenses at most, so he should be considered to be ruined and avoid disasters.

Thinking of this, he gritted his teeth and admitted: "Your Excellency, the lower officials must do their best to repair all the gaps in the Great Wall as soon as possible. ”

This guy is a waste, and he can't expect too much, so let him repair the Great Wall, and treat it as waste.

Yang Cong nodded slightly, and didn't say anything more, there is nothing to see about this Great Wall, and he is not here to count the number of gaps, and it is his main purpose to knock Yang Shun.

The beating was over at this point, and he was not interested in looking at it any longer.

According to another report from the spies, the main force of the Tartars fled all the way, and after fleeing back to the Uliang Habu, they did not stay long, and went directly back to the Hetao.

In other words, at this time, Jizhou Town is no longer a threat, and he can return to Beijing to resume his life.

The external enemy of the Tartar was defeated by him, Yan Song, the inner ghost, didn't know what tricks to come out, he looked at the desolate Saiwai in the distance, and couldn't help but sigh softly, and then turned the horse's head and rushed to the direction of the capital.

This guy, his exploits this time are obvious to all.

The 100,000 army of Tartars entered the Kou, and Yang Shun, the governor of Jizhou, was helpless, so he could only defend the city, although Qiu Luan, the Marquis of Xianning, led the army to help, but it was just for show, this guy did nothing in the city of Tongzhou, so that the Tartars looted wantonly near Jizhou City, as if they were in a no-man's land.

He was the only Yang Cong, as soon as he went up, a soldier came to lure the enemy in two ways, and directly beat the Tartar to the ground, and fled north in a panic all the way, not even daring to turn back.

Not to mention that he relieved the siege of Jizhou Town and ensured the stability of the capital, not to mention that he annihilated 20,000 enemies and beat the Tartars, just that he captured tens of thousands of Tartar cavalry, which is a great feat.

This time, even Yan Song couldn't hack him.

This time, even Jiajing had to reward him well.

He led 40,000 southeast troops, escorted more than 10,000 prisoners out of Tongzhou City, and walked less than 20 miles, a banner appeared in front, and a long red carpet was spread on the banner under the banner, and on the red carpet, Yan Song, the first assistant of the cabinet, Zhang Bangqi, a scholar of the cabinet, and Mao Bowen, the secretary of the military department, stood a large number of important ministers of the imperial court.

Seeing this, Yang Cong hurriedly turned over and dismounted, stepped forward, and pretended to give his hand: "Lord Shoufu, how dare you work to greet you, the lower officials are afraid." ”

Yan Song also pretended to praise him: "Lord Yang has made such an immortal achievement, the world has caused a sensation, and it is natural for this official to come to greet him, even the emperor is waiting for you to sacrifice your prisoner at noon." ”

The noon gate to offer prisoners, it sounds like a handover of prisoners, nothing matters, but in fact it is a very grand etiquette, when the emperor's people run to the gate of the palace to greet them, it is a supreme honor.

When Yang Cong heard this, he hurriedly arched his hand and said, "Then let's hurry up, don't dare to let the emperor wait for a long time." ”

After saying that, he directly arched his hand towards Zhang Bangqi and Mao Bowen, and then turned around and got on the war horse.

This noon gate sacrifice is just a ceremony, of course, it does not mean that you have to take as many prisoners as you take to the noon gate to sacrifice to the emperor, roughly bet ten or twenty enemy generals or something.

Besides, it is impossible for the emperor to allow the border army or other people from other places to enter the capital, so Yang Cong just took more than 100 personal guards and more than 10 Tartar generals, and came to the noon gate surrounded by Yan Song and others.

At this time, the noon gate was already waving flags, thousands of brocade guards dressed in costumes lined up on both sides, and even Jiajing was waiting on the city gate tower with hundreds of civil and military officials, and the scene was really spectacular.

After a period of tedious etiquette, the prisoner offering was finally completed, and then the reward was served.

I saw a ceremonial official of Honglu Temple take out a holy decree, stand on the tower of the city gate and read aloud: **, ***, promote Yang Cong to the crown prince, ***.

There are a lot of crepe in front of me, which have no practical significance, but this prince Taibao is real.

The crown prince Taibao is one of the three orphans, from the civil officials of the first product, in the Ming Dynasty, the civil officials are basically the second product to the end, from the first product and the first product are basically posthumously sealed, and the real lifetime rose to the third duke or the three orphans, there are nearly three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, and there are not many.

Since then, Yang Cong has also been regarded as a legendary figure in the official residence.