Behind everything that happens, there are all kinds of causes and effects.

If something surprises you and feels incomprehensible, it's because you haven't found the causal joint behind it.

In the northwest at the end of March, although the cold spring has not yet passed, the Yellow River has begun to thaw, and the cold winter sun has finally gained heat, shining on the vast and desolate land, turning the thick ice and snow into a murmuring stream.

Emperor Chongzhen's holy decree of rewarding the heroes of the attack once again in the city of Beijing has been delivered to the northwest where the army is gathered along with the ministers and Jinyi guards who passed the decree.

The silver yuan and silver yuan tickets issued by the emperor to reward the officers and soldiers participating in the war have just been sent to the hands of the soldiers one after another, and the chief military officers in the northwest have received the news of rewarding the world, and they are all happy to come to the door!

On the afternoon of March 18, the third year of Chongzhen, after the morning ecstasy of the generals of the border armies of various towns gathered in Huamachi, they gathered in the yamen hall of the trilateral governor's mansion with irrepressible smiles on their faces and suppressed the urge to drink and celebrate.

Li Banghua, the newly promoted first-class military minister of Dongsheng Hou, sat in the position of Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of the three sides, and looked at the civil and military generals who were sitting in two rows respectfully on the left and right in the hall with a smile, and his heart was really happy.

He himself didn't expect that the time he asked to leave Beijing was only a little more than a year ago, and his lifelong wish would come true!

A few days ago, from a letter written by a colleague in Beijing, Li Banghua learned that the emperor had the idea of changing the title system, and he still had the idea of admonishing him.

After all, the Emperor Ming Shijue is precious, just because of its rarity, you are doing so much now, shouldn't this title be devalued?

However, before he could write his exhortation into a song and send it out, he received the will of Jin to make him a first-class Dongsheng Marquis.

Although the emperor increased the viscount and baron, and divided each of the fifth-class titles of the dukes into three ranks, which was as many as twelve levels more than the original dukes and marquises, he thought that his interests were not damaged, and the interests of all the noble families who had been knighted were not damaged.

As for these newly crowned lords this time, just look at their mood and performance, except for elation, in addition to gratitude, no one complains about what is wrong with the new Shijue Shilu system!

Because if there were no such changes, the vast majority of them would not have gotten the Lord at all!

That being the case, what else is there to say!

After being promoted to the first class of Dongshenghou, Li Banghua burned the admonition that had almost been written that night.

For decades, all the glory that a scholar from a scholar can get, he Li Banghua has taken it all over again, and the emperor treats him well.

Under such circumstances, he knew that he had no reason to question the decision of the young emperor now, not to mention that this decision had already had an immediate effect.

Not only did it make those generals who had already been knighted scream, persuading him to gather heavy troops as soon as possible and go south to the land of Taomin, so as to kill all the rebellious Hui Hui, so as to make greater military achievements, but even those ordinary officers and soldiers were also rising in morale, and they were eager to follow the expedition immediately, so that they could be rewarded for their meritorious service as soon as possible.

The most impatient is still the group of young generals and young strong officers who came out of the martial arts hall, because their military exploits are only one step away from rewarding the third-class baron, and they only need to have another great battle that is enough to shine in the annals of history, and there will be an unknown number of people who can make a reward for future generations!

Li Banghua, a civil official who was born as a jinshi, has been in the army for a long time now, and of course he knows very well the urgent wishes of these young generals, and at the same time he understands them very well.

Isn't this the purpose of the emperor's reward for meritorious officials this time?

And this incident is, of course, the reason why Li Banghua gathered here today to supervise and appease the generals.

The emperor ordered him to temporarily lead the army in the northwest as a scholar of the Zhongji Temple and the minister of military aircraft of Zhengyipin, and the purpose was also very clear.

What the emperor said in his will was to let him go to Yan'an to sit in the town, but before leaving the land of Hetao, he still needed to smooth out the chaotic situation in the northwest, otherwise, after he arrived in Yan'an, he would be a little out of reach for the trilateral governor's palace in Huamachi and the large number of troops gathered around Huamachi.

Emperor Chongzhen asked him to go to Yan'an, and he was a little baffled.

In his heart, even if he is not allowed to sit in the place of Huamachi, he should let Xi'an go!

After all, Xi'an at this time was the first strategic place and the first military town in the northwest.

However, once the will of the imperial court is given, those who understand it must be carried out, and those who do not understand it must also be carried out.

Now that Emperor Chongzhen has held him Li Banghua so high, how many people in the court are staring at him, looking for his mistakes everywhere, he will not easily question the emperor's will.

Li Banghua sat on the official hat chair above the hall of the yamen of the governor on the three sides, while watching the generals brought by himself happily exchange heads and ears without knowing what to say, while occasionally glancing at Yuan Chonghuan, who was sitting in black and red, and the civil and military generals under his command.

After a long time, Li Banghua put down the tea bowl in his hand, coughed lightly, and said slowly: "The will of the Holy Lord has been conveyed this morning, and everyone here already knows it!"

"The saint has been on the throne for three years, one has eliminated the Liukou, and then the southwest, three defeats and captives, four recovering the Hetao, the wisdom and martial arts of the saint, according to this, it can be seen!

"I live today and become an official and a general, which is really a blessing in life! Regardless of civilian officials and military generals, as long as you have merit, you can get a knight in a war! This is a new situation that has not been seen in the past 200 years since the emperor was created! At that time, it was the time for my generation to make great achievements! ”

When Li Banghua said this, the lobby was completely silent, and everyone was staring at him intently, only listening to him continue:

"The Taomin Mutiny and the Ganzhen rebellion, the Holy Lord and the imperial court have already reached a conclusion! This generation of wood is barbaric, and he has been in my Chinese territory for 300 years, but he has refused to accept the king for 300 years! At this time, the Jianyu was defeated, the thieves fled westward, the land of China, and the four seas were calm, and this was the time to strangle this generation of Mu Suman! ”

As soon as Li Banghua's voice fell, the entire lobby was solemn.

The civil officials present, such as Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of the trilateral government, Sun Chuanting, the governor of Yansui, Mei Zhihuan, the governor of Gansu, Shi Gongsheng, the imperial history of the Dinglu town supervisory army, Qu Shiyun, the imperial history of the Ningxia town supervisory army, and Liu Zhilun, the imperial history of the Gansu town supervisory army, all knew what this meant.

These people are now in the northwest borderlands, and they all know the seriousness of the Mu Suman problem.

After 300 years on the Chinese territory, if a foreign race can be assimilated, then it is almost certain that this race will sooner or later become a scourge to the Chinese nation.

Over time, the land of Taomin, the land of Hexi, and even the land of Moxi at the end of the land of Hexi will no longer be the home of the Chinese nation.

After thinking about this issue clearly, none of the civil officials who are familiar with the Jinshi background here, and these civil officials who regard themselves as the children of the Confucian Holy Gate, think that Yuan Chonghuan's recklessness is guilty.

On the contrary, not only did they continue to unanimously support Yuan Chonghuan's hard-line policies, but many people saw the similarities and differences between the thieves in northern Shaanxi and the Taominmu speedy barbarians, and they had the idea of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, waiting for both of them to be defeated, and then annihilating them all in one fell swoop.

It is precisely because of this that in the months since the great chaos in the northwest, Yuan Chonghuan, in addition to reorganizing the army for war, mobilized the officers and troops that can still be restrained within the jurisdiction of the trilateral governors to the northern border area, while occupying strategic points to prepare for the battle of Hetao, and on the other hand, gathering troops to form local advantages, he is to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, waiting for favorable opportunities.

At this time, the military generals present, such as Jingyuan Bo Zhao Shujiao, An Yuanbo Cao Wenzhao, Wu Anbo Wang Tingchen, Yansui Town Chief Soldier He Shiyu, Ningxia Town Chief Soldier He Huchen, and Dingyu Town Acting General Soldier Zhou Yuji, everyone knew that the next big battle was imminent, and their spirits were instantly excited.

Zhao led the teaching of Gansu military family, he was an official outside for decades, his parents were dead, and his wife and children also followed the Shanhaiguan where he was a general soldier.

His hometown of Jingyuan, Gansu, that is, the capital of Shaanxi at this time, is still in the hands of the official army.

Of course, the so-called official army here and now is just a local Han guard army household that spontaneously armed.

After the chain reaction formed by the Taomin mutiny, these officers and soldiers who were prepared for the border were too late to return for a while, and a large number of cities in the border were lost.

A few months have passed, and now, almost all of the towns under the jurisdiction of Gansu Town, Xingdu, Shaanxi, except for a few important towns with strong city defenses, such as the Lanzhou Acropolis and the Xining Acropolis, have fallen into the hands of the rebellious hereditary Musu barbarian officials.

These lonely cities, like reefs in the sea, have withstood the impact of the waves of the sea again and again, but they have always stood tall.

Over the course of a few months, the power generated by Mu Suman's sudden rebellion under the high-pressure rule was gradually consumed in the war.

In the land of Taomin and many areas in the Hexi Corridor, the original situation of you and me, I and you have become a pot of porridge, has gradually become clear.

It's like a pool of muddy water that has been precipitated for several months, separating Musuman from the Han and other ethnic groups.