Xie Qian is an old fox, he knows very well what the imperial court wants to do now, in the spirit of "fat water does not flow into the fields of outsiders", he does not want Shen Xi to give up the credit for recovering Bauhinia Pass to Liu Daxia. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

But Xie Qian didn't want Shen Xi to show his edge, and the best way was to leave the credit to the generals under Shen Xi's command, so that he could buy people's hearts and establish contacts in the Beijing camp and the border army, which was a lot of political resources.

The curtain of the Chinese army's big tent was opened, and Shen Xi walked out with Xie Qian.

Hu Songyue and the others immediately straightened their waists, like the honor guard of the three armed forces ready to be reviewed, full of energy and smiles, but Xie Qian didn't have the heart to see that this group of people were like bamboo poles there...... He was old and didn't sleep a day and a night, and he was so tired that he couldn't open his eyes.

Shen Xi explained a few words to the guards, and the guards immediately accompanied Xie Qian to a tent not far from the Chinese army's tent, and when Xie Qian walked away, Shen Xi turned his head and looked at Hu Songyue and the others, and pressed his hand:

"Don't pestle, what do you look like? Do you really think that Xie Ge always comes to see you to put up flowers? If you want to make Xie Ge take a fancy to him, make the military appearance neater, and the men and horses patrolling the camp at night should be more serious, whoever has a problem, don't say that the official can't get along with him! ”

Liu Xu said with a smile: "Yes, since Lord Shen has an explanation, the last general will definitely obey!" ”

Zhu Lie also hurriedly said: "I will also obey!" ”

Shen Xi shook his head helplessly, turned around and returned to the big tent of the Chinese army, when he left, Hu Songyue and the others looked at each other, they very much wanted to know what Shen Xi and Xie Qian said in the big tent.

Hu Songyue waved his hand to the few thousand households who had just been promoted behind: "You go back and rest first, can you hear what Lord Shen said just now?" If anyone is negligent tonight, don't say that General Ben has nothing to do with him! Whoever you are, you're here to guard today! ”

Hu Songyue casually pointed to someone, and the Qianhu went happily, thinking that he was being reused.

After these thousands of households left, Hu Songyue looked at Liu Xu: "Old Liu, look...... Elder Xie Ge came this time, and it is said that he received a holy decree to let Lord Shen withdraw from the army. Elder Xie Ge and Lord Shen muttered in the big tent, and there were no specific instructions when they came out, did they retreat or not? ”

Hu Songyue didn't ask Zhu Lie, because he knew that Zhu Lie had no ink in his stomach, and Liu Xu had a certain brain in comparison.

Liu Xu said: "Can't you see this? This is called the general outside the king's life is not subject to it, how can our Lord Shen be the kind of person who is easily swayed by others? ”

As soon as these words came out, Hu Songyue and Zhu Lie nodded hurriedly.

What kind of person is Shen Xi, these days they have a clear touch, Shen Xi is simply a representative of arbitrariness, but it is because of Shen Xi's "insistence" that they have won military exploits again and again, glorifying their ancestors. At this time, they felt that it was a good thing for Shen Xi to be stubborn, so that he might not be able to resist the emperor's order, so that everyone had the opportunity to regain the great merit of recovering Bauhinia Pass.

If they knew that what Shen Xi and Xie Qian were talking about in the tent was just where Shen Xi would go after returning to the court, it was estimated that they would vomit three liters of blood.

Hu Songyue and others want to get more military merits, but Shen Xi doesn't plan to fight anymore, the war has reached this point, it can basically come to an end, and then the class can return to the court, as for who recovered the Bauhinia Pass, it doesn't matter, of course, Shen Xi also hopes that Lin Heng and Wang Lingzhi will make great contributions in this battle.

However, although Lin Heng and Wang Lingzhi obeyed his orders, this cavalry was fundamentally a soldier and horse under the command of Liu Daxia, the secretary of the military department and the governor of the three sides, and it was only temporarily dispatched by Shen Xi, the governor of Yansui, and now Shen Xi has taken the soldiers and horses to complete the errand of the Beijing division to relieve the siege, and Shen Xi will have to return them all in the next step.

Hu Songyue, Liu Xu and Zhu Lie, looking in the direction of Bauhinia Pass, all the military achievements they have obtained now are obtained after fighting with the Tatars, and they fought a round of battles with Shen Xi, but they did not recover a city, if they can recover Bauhinia Pass in the end, this credit is not small.

It's a pity that Shen Xi doesn't care about giving them credit anymore, and would rather let Lin Heng and Wang Lingzhi pick up cheap, which is exactly what Xie Qian's idea is, fertilizer and water don't flow into outsiders' fields, Lin Heng and Wang Lingzhi are the real people in Shen Xi's mind, who is cheap if they are cheap?

And the reason also makes sense, you are the infantry of the Beijing camp, how can you compare the speed with the four-legged cavalry of the border army? Wash and sleep!

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Jingshi Forbidden City, Wenyuan Pavilion.

Liu Jian and Li Dongyang drafted all the official tickets related to the Tatars in their hands and sent them to the celebrant eunuch, who was still a little confused about the war outside the city.

Li Dongyang asked, "Young Master Liu, do you think that Shen Xi is this person...... Can it be useful? ”

In the autumn of that year, locust plagues occurred in Fujian and Zhejiang and other places, and the localities were already short of food for disaster relief, and the imperial court urgently dispatched the king's soldiers and horses, spending a lot of money along the way, and the imperial treasury was already stretched.

Liu Jian said: "In any case, he is also the hero of this war, if you talk about the first merit...... Not necessarily, but ranking among the top three foreign ministers, I'm afraid it's not controversial! ”

In the list of meritorious ministers drawn up by the Cabinet, they are divided into domestic ministers and foreign ministers.

The so-called internal ministers, that is, the officials of the capital, including the cabinet and the officials of the six ministries, as well as the defense generals of the nine cities.

Foreign ministers are local generals outside the capital, naturally including border army generals.

Shen Xi led the troops outside, so in the preparation of the merits, from the side of the ministers, Shen Xi could be the first to take the lead, but Liu Jian did not recognize Shen Xiju's merits, in the Xizhimen and Zhengyangmen two battles that decided the fate of the capital, Liu Jian did not personally participate, did not intuitively feel the tragedy of these two battles, and it is not clear what role Shen Xi led the troops back to help.

Liu Jian was only paranoid that Shen Xi led only 15,000 troops, and even if he returned to the army, it would only play a harassing role, and the Tatar retreat intact was the best proof of this.

Shen Xi failed to achieve a satisfactory "great victory", and now what has to be agreed is only the credit of Shen Xi's battle west of Juyong Pass.

Obviously, Liu Jian believes that Liu Daxia led his troops to recover Yansui Town and Ningxia Town, and if Xuanfu, Zhangjiakou Fort and Bauhinia Pass are restored next, the first merit naturally belongs to Liu Daxia, followed by the first merit of the generals under Liu Daxia's command, and the third can be ranked to Shenxi.

Although Li Dongyang personally experienced the Battle of Xizhimen, he had a heartfelt dislike for Shen Xi, and when he heard that Shen Xi's credit was ranked in the top three, he was still not very satisfied, thinking that he could insert someone in front of Shen Xi and let Shen Xi's credit drop even further.

Liu Jian said suddenly: "In the past few years, there have been frequent changes in the functional officials of the household department, and many old accounts cannot be verified, coupled with the emptiness of the treasury and the difficulty of capital turnover due to the use ......of troops, Han Shangshu has submitted his resignation many times."

Li Dongyang said: "Although Han Shangshu is over the age of six, he is in good spirits, is he going to resign just because of the lack of treasury silver?" Isn't this irresponsible to the imperial court? ”

Liu Jian did not comment, and Li Dongyang said: "I don't know what arrangements Your Majesty will make after Shen Xi returns to Beijing, and will it be handed over to the Ministry of Officials to formulate at its discretion?" ”

Liu Jian and Li Dongyang glanced at each other, and in their eyes, they seemed to understand what the other party wanted to say, but some things were not spoken.

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Bauhinia City, the Palace of Treasures.

After the battle of Zhengyangmen, Zhu Houzhao openly collided with his father in front of the ministers in the Qianqing Palace, but he went to the Qianqing Palace and Cining Palace to ask for peace two days later, but he couldn't even see his father and mother, which made him extremely depressed.

Zhu Houzhao now wants to follow Shen Xi to pursue the Tatars, and wants to drive the Tatars all the way to the grassland, and it is best to complete the feat of sealing the wolf Juxu, but he does not know that the Ming court has been empty of treasury because of this war, and there is no money and food to deal with the more huge war.

Zhu Houzhao was depressed, he found that he had returned to his previous state of life, he had to stay in the palace every day, he couldn't go anywhere, and a large group of people followed him wherever he went, reminding him that this was not okay and that he couldn't do that, which made him upset.

The only good thing is that he doesn't have to study.

In the past few days, the people from Zhan Shifu have stopped coming, and it is rare for him to be quiet, but he also knows that this leisurely life will not last for a few days.

"Father-in-law Zhang, this palace is going to Zhengyangmen to inspect the defense, are you going with this palace?" Zhu Houzhao asked Zhang Yuan tentatively, wondering if Zhang Yuan had been instructed by the emperor and empress to look at him.

Zhang Yuan hurriedly said: "Your Highness, you can't leave the palace easily, Your Majesty and the queen mother have an explanation, now that the war is over, you must stay in the palace, outside the imperial city...... It's not peaceful! ”

Zhang Yuan felt that it was a glorious thing to receive the order of the emperor and the empress to watch the crown prince, and he didn't realize that he had been hated by the bear child.

Zhu Houzhao knew that the eunuch beside him was a spy sent by his father, and his anger rose from his heart, but he was scheming, he didn't attack Zhang Yuan, and sneered: "There's nothing to do with you here, you go down first, the palace is going to rest!" "The bear child opened Zhang Yuan to facilitate his own exit from the palace.

When Zhang Yuan walked out of the palace gate, Zhu Houzhao hurriedly changed into a eunuch outfit hidden under the bed, and then turned out of the back window as light as a swallow, muttering: "If you don't let me go out, don't I have the ability to go out?" This palace gate, I have walked back and forth a few times, and I am already familiar with the road! ”

The bear child touched the waist card on his waist, felt that he was very smart, and let him find the feeling of sneaking out of the palace before.

It's a pity that before he arrived at Donghua Gate, Zhu Houzhao was stopped by the patrolling guards, because the guards noticed that he was not like a eunuch, Zhu Houzhao, who was fourteen years old at the turn of the year, already spoke a little manly, and he was not able to pass the curfew by fooling around twice before.