"Your Majesty, congratulations on the victory in Hejian. Now that the Jiannu Right Route Army has lost its commander, it is a good time for our army to launch a large-scale counteroffensive. At this moment, a heavy minister should be sent to the front-line governors Shandong, Henan, and Zhili, and the soldiers and horses should use the river as a node to launch a counterattack. After expelling the Right Route Army, he returned to Baoding and fought a decisive battle with Jiannu with Lu Xiangsheng! Between the lightning and flint, Yang Sichang was in a hurry. He knew that Yang Hongzhang had the credit for continuously capturing Haoge and Yue Tuo, and no matter how much he took eye medicine, the emperor would not be able to listen to it, so instead of continuing to attack Yang Hongzhang, it was better to directly target Sun Chengzong instead.

Hearing this, the full hall of civil and military was dumbfounded, and was first surprised by the content of the chapter that Yang Sichang saw, that is, Yang Hongzhang fought another big victory in Hejian Mansion, and it seemed that he had captured or killed Yue Tuo, the commander of the Qing army's right army! First Hauge, then Yue Tuo, if it is true, it is really an immortal achievement. No wonder the emperor is so happy, compared with such a credit, where is Yang Hongzhang still guilty? The emperor is right, Yang Hongzhang had muskets because he was plundered by the Dutch, they rose up to resist, and took the sailors to rob the sea boats, could it be that these things were thrown into the seahorse on the sea for fear of violating the laws of the imperial court?

Then everyone was surprised by Yang Sichang's wit again, and they still had to push Sun Chengzong out after a big circle. Hejian is victorious, but it is far from the point where he can fight back, otherwise Lu Xiangsheng played in Baoding? Of course not, but most people can't tell the current situation, Yang Sichang said that it was an opportunity to counterattack, and they always felt that this was an opportunity created by Yang Sichang for Sun Chengzong.

"Yang Aiqing is right, I mean the same thing. Yang Aiqing, a civil and military officer of the Manchu Dynasty, was familiar with military books and knew the battle array, and was the best candidate for the governors of Shandong, Hejian, and Gaoyang to carry out a counteroffensive. Zhu Youzhen seemed to be in a good mood, and he didn't care about Yang Sichang's sophistry and Wang Lenian's sins, but listened to Yang Sichang's inspiration.

"Uh...... Weichen ...... "Yang Sichang was dumbfounded for a while, he couldn't have imagined that the emperor Zhu Youzhen would let him go out of Beijing to supervise the war, didn't he keep talking about Sun Chengzong?" What's wrong with the emperor? Yang Sichang knows very well that the current situation, whether he replaces Lu Xiangsheng, or starts anew, or waits for the soldiers and horses of Shandong and Henan to be in place, there is no way to deal with Dolgon's Manchu cavalry.

How did Yang Sichang know that in Zhu Youzhen's heart, before Sun Chengzong recovered, he Yang Sichang was indeed recognized as one of the few important ministers in the court. Now that he made his own suggestion, the emperor asked him to go to the governor of the Cabinet University Soldier Department Shangshu several soldiers and horses are impeccable. Maybe Zhu Youzhen still thinks that the courtiers must regard him as a Ming Jun and Yang Sichang's Bole.

Looking at Yang Sichang's embarrassment, Zhu Youzhen didn't realize that something was wrong, and some of the officials below who didn't deal with Yang Sichang tried to hold back their laughter. However, Sun Chengzong did not fall into the well, he was more worried about the situation in Hejian, only to see him bow slightly and said: "Your Majesty, although Hejian is a great victory, there should be a fluke element, most of the main force of the right army of 30,000 people is still there, and when they react, they will definitely besiege Hejian as soon as possible, and Hejian will definitely become a lonely city." At present, the most important thing is to consolidate the defense of the river and use it as a fulcrum to contain Jiannu more, so as to reduce the pressure on Baoding and the capital to the greatest extent.

There is the granary of my Ming Dynasty, as well as the goods looted by Jiannu in Zhili and Shandong during these days, and they must not fall into the hands of Jiannu again. For the sake of today's plan, it is first necessary to clarify the issue of defense command in Hajian Province. Gao Yang's discord is a lesson from the past. Don't forget that Yang Hongzhang is still just a seven-rank magistrate who can't help the military generals of the fifth grade. The prefect of Hejian asked Siwen, but he was a four-grade civil official. As the saying goes, if the name is not right, it is not good, and in the current crisis situation, the imperial court must designate a person to be fully responsible for the military and political affairs of Hejian! ”

Hearing this, Zhu Youzhen nodded frequently, Sun Chengzong was not carried away by the victory, and his eyes were not confused by the party dispute, this is Lao Cheng's important policy! Yang Sichang didn't expect that for the sake of Yang Hongzhang, Sun Chengzong also gave up, which clearly meant that he was worried that the civil official of Zheng Sipin would interfere with Yang Hongzhang's command, according to this line of thinking, wouldn't it be to give Yang Hongzhang a general soldier? This is not what Yang Sichang wants to see, Sun Chengzong's prestige is quite high, if there is a general soldier level outside, the status will be even more unbreakable.

Yang Sichang hurriedly said again: "Your Majesty, the matter of rewarding meritorious deeds can wait for Yang Hongzhang, Xiang Siwen and others to enter Beijing. Sun Ge Lao is right, the top priority at the moment is the defense of the river. The minister thought that Yang Hongzhang could be promoted to prepare the road for the Beizhili troops and the garrison between the rivers, and recruit troops in the local area to continue to confront and contain Jiannu, and then counterattack when the time is ripe. ”

Zhu Youzhen was very disappointed, originally in his heart, Yang Sichang could be regarded as an old man, and what was particularly commendable was that he understood military affairs better than Xue Guoguan and others. Now that the enemy is present, he just thinks about party struggle again and again, and he can do everything to squeeze out Sun Chengzong. Looking at the other important ministers, one by one, they looked at their noses and noses, as if they had suddenly settled down.

Zhu Youzhen was very disappointed, although he was used to this kind of change in the ministers, and finally Zhu Youzhen looked at Fan Fucui, the servant of the Ministry of Officials, Fan Fucui noticed that the emperor's eyes for help hesitated a little and went out of class and said: "Your Majesty, not to mention Yang Hongzhang's credit for capturing Haoge and Yue Tuo, just at the beginning of the organization of the people to repel the Japanese invaders, in Zhili three battles and three victories, its ability is enough to be competent for any general, and now the war is erosive, it is the time for the court to employ people, Yang Xiang's proposal is inevitably stingy, and Yang Hongzhang does not have much room to play." Therefore, Chen Jianyi awarded Yang Hongzhang to praise and govern Yin, and promoted Mingwei to general, and as for the function, he could be awarded a deputy general or a staff general according to the needs of the war. ”

Hearing this, Sun Chengzong frowned slightly, and Yang Sichang shouted angrily: "Nonsense, that Yang Hongzhang is just a martial artist, and he is twenty years old." Besides, there are different paths for civil and military affairs, doesn't Lord Fan make the court law disordered by not distinguishing between civil and military affairs? How can he convince the public if he goes on like this, and how does Yang Hongzhang maneuver between the prefect of Hejian and others? ”

"Yang Xiang is too worried, I am right to use Wen Yuwu, and it is precisely because of this that Wang Lenian can drive away the heroes with peace of mind. But Yang Xiangbei forgot that now is wartime, and it is not impossible to use extraordinary methods in extraordinary times. Besides, Yang Hongzhang, Xia Guan heard that he had been a showman before he went to sea, and he could be regarded as a scholar. Besides, what Gao Yang did after that, compared to the prefect of a place or even the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, there are a few people who can beat him Yang Hongzhang in terms of cultural governance and martial arts. If he wasn't young, the lower officials would have suggested that the imperial court grant him a general army. Moreover, if the war escalates in the future, or if the situation requires it, the minister advocates that such a capable minister be given real power, and the general army is also acceptable. ”

Seeing his teacher stand up at the critical moment, Zhu Youzhen smiled again, and said in his heart that his teacher understood him. Let you Yang Sichang go to supervise the war and don't dare, then Lu Xiangsheng is both civil and military, and he is not shrinking in Baoding, although Yang Hongzhang is young, but what he has done, the credit he has made is not something that ordinary soldiers in a town can do. However, Zhu Youzhen still wanted to see what Sun Chengzong meant.

Sun Chengzong's meaning could not be more obvious, that is, the defense of the river must be handed over to Yang Hongzhang, and it is necessary to prevent Xiang Siwen from making trouble at a critical moment. Therefore, Fan Fucui's proposal to award Yang Hongzhang the rank of Zanzhi Yin of the fourth rank can be regarded as the same level as the actual prefect of Hejian. It's just that the addition of a fourth-grade General Mingwei's loose official is redundant. In other words, if it causes chaos in the civil and military, it will be no problem to change it to Dr. Zhongshun. Zhu Youzhen just wanted to speak, but someone below stood up.

I saw Xue Guoguan trembling and trembling out of class and said: "Your Majesty, my lords, of course Yang Hongzhang's merits should be rewarded, but the path of civil and military affairs cannot be confused. The emperor thought that Yang Hongzhang should be awarded the captain, the general Mingwei, and the general of Hejian. ”

Hearing this, Yang Sichang was relieved, he knew that according to Yang Hongzhang's merits, he was afraid that he would not be able to stop the emperor from awarding Yang Hongzhang a medal, so it would be helpless to define this new person as a martial artist, otherwise the emperor would be happy and would promote Xiang Siwen to a level, and then Yang Hongzhang would take over the prefect of Hejian It would be even more unacceptable.

Zhu Youzhen looked at Sun Chengzong, but Sun Chengzong still didn't say a word. Obviously, this kind of thing really can't be explained at once. There is no martial arts, and everyone has accumulated it over the years. Either the imperial examination will be slowly boiled, or go to the battlefield to kill the enemy. Yang Hongzhang can only be regarded as a fierce general according to his experience. But in this way, it is difficult for Yang Hongzhang not to be disturbed by Xiang Siwen. However, Xiang Siwen was born as a Jinshi, and he also made great contributions in the river after four years of training, and it was not appropriate to suddenly let Yang Hongzhang run on top of him.

With the proposal of Xue Guoguan, the quasi-head of the cabinet, it is more difficult for others to continue to help Yang Hongzhang speak, after all, Xue also said that Yang Hongzhang's merits can be rewarded slowly, and the river is straightened out first, so the general of Zhengsi is already the limit in the eyes of these old people who have been in the officialdom for decades. Otherwise, a general soldier in his early twenties would make them embarrassed!

Zhu Youzhen is also more difficult about this, of course he hopes that Yang Hongzhang can continue to win big battles, and finally be able to lead a town of soldiers and horses to directly kill the right army of the Qing army, and then join Lu Xiangsheng, but he is not the king of Xin who has just ascended the throne as the emperor, and these years of training also let her know that she must take her time to promote a person, and now she just hopes that Yang Hongzhang can resist in the river, hold on until the Qing army retreats, and then send Haoge and Yue Tuo to the capital, and then see if this guy is the second Lu Xiangsheng, if so, That must also be a major part of the training. Zhu Youzhen also thought of Wang Chengen's reminder that now he and Yang Hongzhang have not met, and they can't meet this young general for the first time, so they can't be the third grade or even higher, so their own cultivation will be ignored.

Seeing that the emperor, Sun Chengzong and Yang Sichang were silent, the others were embarrassed to continue to entangle, and finally the others continued to argue, it was nothing more than that Yang Hongzhang was promoted to the fourth rank at a young age, and the newcomer was not convinced. Of course, it is natural to support Sun Chengzong to take credit and say things, and the key is the needs of the war.