Chapter 732: Conquest of Annan - One of the Selected Generals

Hearing Yun Xi's words, Xi Yao smiled and said, "It feels so strange to hear my husband call me a concubine. ”

"Isn't it appropriate for you to call me husband, and I call you lady?" Yun Xi also said with a smile.

"But on weekdays, Lifu Jun always calls the name of the concubine."

"In the scene just now, the husband felt that it was very suitable to call the lady, so he called it like this."

Xi Yao smiled, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she didn't say anything.

Yun Xi took another bite of food, thought of something, and said to Xi Yao: "Xi Yao, this time for the battle of Annan, I will also use water divisions, so Xi Ran will also go to war." However, the water master is actually much safer than the Lu master, and Xu Ran is a thousand households, so there should be nothing wrong. "Every time he wants to mobilize the relatives of the harem concubines to fight, he will explain to them in advance.

"Well, husband, the concubine knows. Since Your Majesty wants to transfer water to fight, although the concubine is worried about the safety of her brother, she will not dissuade her husband from transferring the concubine's brother from the guard, nor will she ask the husband to transfer the concubine's brother from the guard. Xi Yao said.

After that, the two of them said a few more words, and the meal was over. Yun Xi went to approve the answers, and Xi Yao returned to Kunning Palace to take care of a few children first.

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The relatives of the harem concubines who are going to be mobilized to fight this time are not only Xu Ran. Li Jiqian, who had already been arranged by Yunxi to be the general of the Navy Division in the Beibu Gulf, did not need to be mentioned, and it was impossible to escape; Miaojin and Baoqin also got their wish and let their relatives go to the front line to fight.

On the night of Yunxi's official decision to conquer Annam, he rested in the Chengqian Palace in Baoqin, and when he had dinner with her, he mentioned that he would conquer Annam.

Baoqin immediately said: "Husband, can you let the concubine's father and brother go to war?" ”

"Your father and brother?" When Yun Xi heard this, she remembered her conversation with her father and brother on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and asked tentatively: "If you think that it is not appropriate for them to have a leisure meal in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies now, I will transfer them to a place where they are in charge of baggage, and this time they will go to Annan to take charge of the baggage of hundreds of thousands of troops." ”

"Your Majesty," Baoqin was about to speak, when he suddenly paused, picked up the cup and drank a glass of water before continuing: "The concubine's father is now nearly fifty years old, although he fought in the war when he was young, but it is not easy to pick it up again now, if His Majesty is gracious and let his father take charge of the baggage, of course the concubine is willing." ”

"However, the eldest brother of the concubine is now only thirty years old, and he has learned the art of fighting in the army with the concubine's father since he was a child, and he should serve the Ming Dynasty."

"Besides, it's not good to be a dignified man, and at the right age, to always be idle. The concubine was worried that His Majesty would not want his relatives to make more military exploits, so he instructed them to be officials in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies; But when I saw His Majesty in the past two years, there was no restriction on this, so the concubine also wanted the concubine's brother not to be a drag on the Ming Dynasty. ”

Baoqin's reasonable words dispelled Yunxi's doubts. "In that case, I will put your father Ye Zi into the place where he is in charge of the baggage, and he will be a grain and grass officer in charge of this army of hundreds of thousands; As for Ye Yiwei," Yun Xi pondered for a moment before continuing: "This time, let's also go to take charge of the troops transporting grain and grass." The big war is coming, let a person like him who has never fought a war go to an ordinary guard, and the guard will not dare to ask for it. When this battle is over, I will let him go to the ordinary guard to go through the training. ”

"Why, Your Majesty has decreed, and the guard will dare to do it?" Baoqin said.

"Why did I make such a will? Yiwei is from the seventh rank in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and he must be appointed at least as a test hundred households from the sixth grade in the army. The so-called incompetence of one general will exhaust thousands of troops, even if it is only one hundred households, it will affect more than 100 people, how can I not care about the lives of more than 100 soldiers! Yun Xi said solemnly.

"The concubine has spoken in vain, please atone for your sins." Baoqin, who understood that he had violated Yun Xi's taboo, immediately said.

"Those who don't know are not guilty, but you can't say such things next time." Yun Xi said.

In this way, the Ye father and son decided to participate in this war.

As for Xu Jingchang, it's even easier. Because Yunxi wanted to mobilize Jingwei to fight, although Xu Jingchang's guard was not in the guard post of this requisition, Xu Yingxu, who was the governor of the five armies, transferred him to the guard who was among the recruits. Xu Jingchang himself has some skills, and the Xu family is not easy to offend, so Commander Wei accepted it.

Miaojin also called Xu Huizu's eldest son Xu Qin into the palace and said to him: "Your daughter-in-law is pregnant, and I don't know if it's a man or a woman, so I won't let you go this time; When you have a son, I will also let you go to the battlefield. You are the eldest grandson of the Xu family, and you are a student who graduated from the martial arts hall, how can you keep living in the capital! ”

"Yes, Fourth Aunt." Xu Qin said with a bitter face, but he was relieved in his heart.

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"Yes, Your Majesty." Several generals of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies said, and then saluted and withdrew from the palace.

Yun Xi first instructed Wang Xi to call the little eunuch to come in and clean up, and then shouted: "Ah, this matter has finally been settled." ”

"Your Majesty is so busy all day, and the time to eat and rest on weekdays is uncertain, what's wrong with your body." Wang Xi said.

"After this matter is decided, it will be much better, and the yamen such as the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Industry, and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies have nothing to report to me, and then they can do things according to the statutes that have been set, and there is nothing to do." Yun Xi smiled.

"That's great, Your Majesty, you can rest more." Wang Xi also said with a smile.

Yun Xi smiled again and instructed him: "You let Xuan Zanyi enter the palace, I have something to say to him at noon; In addition, call Zhang Fu over immediately. ”

Wang Xi took the order. After a while, Zhang Fu walked in and said, "I've seen Your Majesty." ”

"Zhang Aiqing doesn't have to be polite." Yun Xi said.

Zhang Fu saluted and sat down opposite Yunxi solemnly. Yun Xi is very busy these days, but he actually called him over in his busy schedule, why is this?

'I have not done anything taboo, except that I once rode a horse in the streets in the middle of the night after eating and drinking, and it is not at all worth calling me to say so. As for the rest, I, a general, had no chance of making money at all, nor had I ever accepted bribes. Could it be that someone slandered me for taking bribes? It's not like you're going to use me all of a sudden. Zhang Fu thought in his heart.

"Zhang Fu, I remember that you were in the twenty-eighth year of my Hongwu to inspect the north and see you in Beiping Mansion. I have a good eye for talents, and let you enter the martial arts hall to study. ”

"At the end of the thirtieth year of Hongwu, you graduated from the lecture hall, and in February of the following year, you were appointed as the deputy thousand households of the right guard of Yulin, and the following year you were promoted to a thousand households."

"Then I transferred you to the side as a generalist, and you have been by my side for three years now." Yun Xi said.

"Your Majesty, it has indeed been three years since the ministers were by Your Majesty's side." Zhang Fu said.

"Three years, that's long enough. Zhang Fu, I have decided to appoint you to an official position in this expedition to Annam, and to lead the army to fight. Yun Xi said.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Zhang Fu stood up happily and bowed down and said.

Although there is a sense of trust around the emperor, no one will really regard them as ordinary seven-grade officials. But just like the imperial history of the two six-year years is a senior imperial history, and the three-term imperial history of the nine years is a full officialdom of the street, being a housekeeper by Yunxi's side for two or three years is to be trusted, and when it is longer, it means that the ability is insufficient. Zhang Fu has been by his side for more than three years, and Liu Rongdu, who came to the emperor from Beiping with him, was sent to Beiping as a general again, but he is still serving as a general.

Finally, today, he was sent out by the emperor to fight, and he didn't have to be regarded as a person of inability, how could he not be happy.

Yun Xi stretched out his hand and motioned for him to sit down, and said, "You don't have to be like this, I should have let you go to a foreign country as a general, but this year I have been thinking about Annan, and I forgot to send the people around me to go out as officials." ”

"It wasn't until I decided to conquer Annam, considering the matter of dispatching military generals, that I finally remembered your affairs and decided to appoint you as one of the generals to lead several guards to conquer Annam."

Hearing Yun Xi's last sentence, he didn't even finish the second half of the sentence, Zhang Fu, who had already calmed down, became excited again: "What? Counselor? How could I be appointed as a staff officer? ’

At this time, most of the general soldiers, deputy generals, and staff generals of the Ming Dynasty were temporarily dispatched, and the officials and officials depended on the number of commanders. In the battle of Annam, 600,000 troops were dispatched, and the deputy generals had to command more than 100,000 troops, and the generals could almost command 20,000 or 30,000 troops.

In the past, the practice of giving up people to go out as generals was to start with the commander and be promoted to the commander after two years; This time he originally thought that it would be similar, at most he was directly appointed as a commander. But now Yun Xi actually said that he would appoint him as a general!

But after the excitement, Zhang Fu immediately came back to his senses, stood up and saluted Yun Xi and said: "Your Majesty, the minister is only a seven-rank official, how can He De be appointed as a general by His Majesty in this battle?" Moreover, there are regulations in the army, and the ministers are suddenly promoted to generals, I am afraid that the generals will not accept it, and the army's morale will be unstable. ”

"Zhang Fu, you are a talent, why can't you be appointed as a general? If it weren't for your junior qualifications and young age, I would have chosen you as an adjutant general. ”

As for the instability in the army, before the Battle of Chibi, Zhou Gongjin was appointed as the commander of the Sun-Liu coalition army, and veteran generals such as Cheng Pu and Han Dang were not convinced, but after Zhou Yu arrived, he was quite orderly and orderly, which made the generals admire. In my opinion, you are a more talented general than Zhou Gongjin, and you will definitely be able to solve the unstable morale of the army. Yun Xi said. He saw that Zhang Fu was still very uneasy, and said in an accentuated tone: "I believe in my own vision. ”

"Your Majesty, the minister must live up to Your Majesty's trust!" Zhang Fu stood up straight and said very solemnly.

Yun Xi stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "I am waiting for the excerpt of your commander's great achievements to be sent to the capital." ”

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