The two quickly decided, gave the order to go down, and returned to Haizhou along the same road. Soon after entering the mountain pass, the sound of fried beans erupted on the mountains on both sides. Zhang Zongling's ambush finally made the right bet.

It was getting late, and the Houjin armor soldiers first used their bows and arrows to return fire on both sides of the mountain, but soon found that this could not be useful at all, and Huang Taiji ordered: "Don't attack, move forward quickly." ”

The Houjin soldiers fled in embarrassment, and finally Huang Taiji was clear and issued the correct order in time, and the Houjin pursuers all came on horseback, so they rushed forward regardless of it, although they threw down some corpses and horses, but there were no big casualties.

After the Houjin soldiers fled away, Zhang Zongling drilled out of the woods on the side of the mountain with a gloomy face: "Damn, why did you delay it until this time, I can't see it clearly, sons, be careful if there is a guy who is not dead, make up for it first and then look at it." ”

In fact, even if you can see it clearly, the capture will not be much bigger than now, mainly because the fire bolt fire speed is low, and the speed of the Jiannu horse is too high, the cavalry can only fire two or three times after running the whole distance, and the cavalry moving at high speed is not easy to aim, and the accuracy rate of the fire gun is already low, which restricts the results of the battle, and finally cleared out, the valley has obtained more than 320 heads, and more than 100 useful horses, but there is one thing that is still worth Zhang Zongling's boasting, that is, the guards are unharmed.

When Zhang Zongling's troops returned to Tashanpu, the battle situation here was almost cleaned up, and a total of more than 480 Houjin soldiers were obtained, and the Guards also lost 215 people, 85 seriously wounded, and 237 lightly wounded.

Of course, this is because of the involvement of artillery and the final sneak attack, if you look at the situation of the white-knuckle battle, the exchange ratio should be close to one to one. Lu Xiangsheng was already very satisfied with this result, because this was a white-knuckle battle, not relying on the advantage of weapons, but relying on courage and fighting ability.

After resting for the night in Tashanpu, everyone returned to Gaizhou. As for Yaozhouyi and Li Luoguo on the road, they only sent a banner of cavalry to guard here, and all the other troops entered Gaizhou City. At this time, it was October of the second year of the Apocalypse.

At this time, Cao Wenzhao sent a messenger to inform him of the situation in Fuzhou, and Cao Wenzhao had also recovered Yongning City. Now the south of Gaizhou has been occupied by the Ming army.

Lu Xiangsheng ordered Cao Wenzhao to rush to Gaizhou immediately and discuss future actions together. Then he began to send messengers, one to the general staff of Juehua Island, and the other to send directly to the Jingshi, he had some problems that the emperor could decide.

And in September of the second year of the Apocalypse, the stars of Guyuan Prefecture in Shaanxi Province died like rain. In Pingliang and Longde counties, Zhenrong, Pingyu and other places, Magang, Shuangfeng and other forts were overturned by earthquakes, the city walls collapsed more than 7,900 zhang, more than 11,800 houses collapsed, more than 16,000 livestock were crushed to death, and more than 12,000 men and women were crushed to death.

After the earthquake, Shaanxi Governor Zhang Zhihou first concealed the disaster, could not hear about it, and the disaster relief was ineffective, and was impeached by Yu Shigao. The emperor was furious and sent Jinyi Wei to arrest him and bring him to Jingshi for questioning. Then he ordered to promote Sun Chuanting, the prefect of Yan'an, to be the left attendant of the military department and the governor of Shaanxi.

There are several imperial historians who think that Sun Chuanting's promotion is too fast, and he is afraid that he will lose his hope due to lack of experience, Zhu Youxiao said: "The imperial history can have something to do, and I am very relieved." However, what Sun Chuanting did in Yan'an Mansion may not be clear to you. Everyone knows about his refusal to capture the north, and at that time, I added him to the rank of squire of the military department, and he was in Yan'an Mansion for two years, cleaning up Tiantun and increasing output, you may not be very clear. Let's put it simply, Yan'an Mansion, as the poorest government in Shaanxi, has now solved the problem of eating for the people, and the soldiers recruited by Yan'an Mansion are all self-raised in the government. “

Several imperial historians made a big red face and knelt down to plead guilty. After Zhu Youxiao got them up, he said: "You are not guilty, you are the imperial history, and you originally wanted to remind me of some things that I may not have noticed." However, I hope that you will not look at a person from the aspects of qualifications, but from the aspects of whether he can do things, whether he can do things, and whether he has violated the law, so that you can judge whether he can be the governor of Shaanxi. And after he became the governor, he also had to help me keep an eye on him, see how he was doing, and as soon as he made a mistake, he would immediately report it to me, so that he fulfilled his duty as a royal historian. “

When the ministers heard this, they were stunned in their hearts, and they understood that the emperor was also telling them that the emperor did not like to judge a person from some imaginary aspects, and if you want to attack a person, it is better to have some solid evidence.

Zhu Youxiao thought that the earthquake in Shandong in February and the earthquake in Shaanxi in September were earthquakes, and according to the statistics of the Ministry of Rites, the weather was colder than in previous years, just like last year, Zhejiang, Anhui, Hubei, and Hunan fell heavily for more than a month, and the Han River ice was strong and crossable. He began to think about whether to stock up on some food in case he needed it. Of course, Sun Chuanting will order him to plant sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn in various parts of Shaanxi, so can he get some grain from other places?

He said to Zhu Yanxi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites: "Are the tributes of Annan and Champa coming?" ”

Zhu Yanxi replied: "Back to Your Majesty, both the north and south of Annan are here, and Zhancheng is also here." ”

Zhu Youxiao said: "You tell them, I want them to exchange all the tribute they will pay next year for rice, the more the better, and I will buy it at the market price by 20% more." ”

Zhu Yanxi said with some embarrassment: "Your Majesty, according to the rules, we should give a gift in return at least five times the price of the tribute items." ”

Zhu Youxiao didn't know about this, so he asked, "What is the truth?" Isn't that every time we lose money? ”

Fang Congzhe hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, we are a great country of the Celestial Empire, and this is the case for the following vassals. ”

It turned out to be a death to save face, I see. Zhu Youxiao said: "Tell them that if you buy their rice at the market price by 20% more, their price is much lower than ours, and they have a lot of money at this price, and I don't believe they don't want to make this money." This time there are so many that we can't afford to buy them at five times the price. ”

Ye Xianggao said: "Your Majesty, the minister has an idea, we said that we want them to pay a tribute of 100 stone of rice, and we can return five times the price to them, and then tell them that my court is willing to buy rice at a price 20% higher than the market price, they are profitable, and they will naturally sell it to us, and these cannot be regarded as tribute, so they have nothing to say, please ask Your Majesty to make a judgment." ”

Zhu Youxiao said happily: "This method is good, you have face and lining, just do what Ye Gong said." ”

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