Chapter 920: A Piece of Chicken Ribs

Emperor Chongzhen's method of dealing with it greatly surprised most of the people present.

Li Banghua and Yuan Chonghuan looked at each other, with mixed emotions and mixed feelings in their hearts.

And Wu Anbo, Wang Tingchen, Jing Yuanbo, Zhao Shujiao, An Yuanbo, Cao Wenzhao and others looked at each other one by one, feeling both stunned, surprised, and very puzzled in their hearts.

It's not that they watched the fall of Li Banghua, the Minister of Military Aircraft, or Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of the three sides, or even the punishment of the crime.

For these generals, they can meet a minister like Li Banghua who came to supervise the army, and a trilateral governor like Yuan Chonghuan who sat on the front line and transported grain and grass for them, so that the soldiers under their command were not short of food and ammunition, and they were already burning high incense.

It was really Emperor Chongzhen's disposition this time, which was very different from the precedent before the Ming Dynasty.

Because of such a thing, I really don't know how many people will be punished and imprisoned because of this, or even their heads will fall to the ground.

After the rebellion of Mu Suman, Lanzhou City was in the vast sea of the Northwest Mu Su Barbarian rebellion, and after the Mu Suman in the city was killed and escaped, he took in a large number of Han people who fled from the surrounding area to take refuge in the city.

For a long time after that, he did not receive rescue and supplies from the Trilateral Governor's Palace.

It's not that Li Banghua or Yuan Chonghuan don't want to send a large army to relieve the siege of Lanzhou City, but they are also in a dilemma in their hearts.

It stands to reason that Lanzhou City is not very far from Guyuan and Ningxia, and when the situation was bad in the early stage, it was understandable that there was no way to rescue and relieve the siege, and later when Yuan Chonghuan took the official army to Guyuan City, it was not impossible to rescue Lanzhou.

Of course, Yuan Chonghuan did not take the initiative to save Lanzhou, which was not what Emperor Chongzhen meant.

Although Emperor Chongzhen now likes to take care of some trivial matters that make the courtiers feel inexplicable, he can't manage the northwest frontier thousands of miles away, and he can't care about the details of whether this Lanzhou city should be rescued or not.

However, it is not completely unrelated to Emperor Chongzhen.

The problem lies in the secret decrees issued by Emperor Chongzhen to Li Banghua and Yuan Chonghuan one after another.

Emperor Chongzhen only had a general strategic idea for Musuman in the northwest, especially after the Musuman Rebellion, he also put this strategic idea again and again in the form of secret decrees, mentioning Yuan Chonghuan and Li Banghua who later sat in Yan'an, Qingyang and other places.

Emperor Chongzhen's idea was to expel these Musu barbarians all the way west.

First, they were driven across the Yellow River to the west of the river, and then they continued to drive along the Hexi corridor, allowing them to run all the way to Hami, and even to the Western Regions west of Hami.

It was now the territory of the Wara Mongols (also known as the Oirat Mongols), and after the Musu barbarians were driven over, they were left to fight the world upside down, and then the officials and troops of the imperial court intervened to reap the benefits of the fishermen.

For Emperor Chongzhen's plan, whether it is Li Banghua or Yuan Chonghuan, they all agree with it very much.

They have been in the northwest for a long time, and now they have already realized that it may be possible to expel all the Mu Suman who are scattered all over the three places in the northwest, so as to clear the northwest land and leave it to the Han people of Shaanxi, Gansu and Gansu or the Han people from the interior who have immigrated to cultivate.

However, it is impossible to wipe out the Musu barbarians all over the northwest on the spot.

Even if Emperor Chongzhen privately agreed, the cabinet would not agree, and if the cabinet agreed, the Manchu ministers of civil and military affairs would not agree.

Because if you really want to do this, under the political envoys of the two capitals and thirteen in the mainland, those Musu barbarian populations who have basically assimilated should probably have sympathy for each other and hurt things, which will cause other unknowable chaos.

Once the turmoil of the Musu barbarians scattered in the interior is triggered, then the problem is even more serious.

Even within the imperial court, there will be turmoil because of this problem.

Therefore, on this issue, from Emperor Chongzhen himself to Li Banghua and Yuan Chonghuan in the northwest, their views are basically the same, that is, the requirements put forward by the "Sumu Sumanshu" before the Trilateral Governor's Palace:

"Those who belong to me will always be at peace with China, and those who carry me will run outside the plug!"

It's not that there is no way for you to live, if you really want to be obedient to the people, then naturalize in China and integrate into the Chinese nation from now on.

If you don't want to be a submissive citizen, if you don't want to be a member of the Chinese nation, you can go!

If you occupy the territory of the Chinese nation and don't leave, and you don't want to integrate into the Chinese nation when it's over, then why do you still want to stay? Is there such a thing in this world?

It is also because of this that the location of Lanzhou City has become very critical, because it is stuck in the middle of the Yellow River in Ganning.

The city of Lanzhou divides Gansu into Hexi and Longyou, and the Hexi corridor is the Hexi corridor across the river, and the south is the thriving place of Zhou and Qin in history, that is, the so-called Longyou.

Of course, Longshan refers to Longshan, and this Longyou, from different directions, is also called Longxi, and because it is located in the south of Gansu, it can also be called Gannan.

If you want to drive a large number of Mu Suman from Longyou or Gannan across the Yellow River and let them move west along the Hexi Corridor according to the previous plan, Lanzhou City will immediately become a piece of chicken ribs.

Such an important city, when Musu was in chaos before, when it was still in the hands of the officials and soldiers after all, if you gave up the order, the government and the opposition would be spitting and the stars would spray you to death.

Emperor Chongzhen couldn't make this will, and Li Banghua and Yuan Chonghuan couldn't make this determination.

But if you do your best to rescue this Lanzhou city, or simply send a large army to Lanzhou City, then Taominhe Prefecture, Lintao, Gongchang, Qinzhou and other places, that is, the entire Longyou region south of the Yellow River in Gansu, will be cut off from the Hexi Corridor.

Whether it is swelling to tens of thousands of thieves again after entering Longzhong, or the Mu Suman who is everywhere in Gannan in Longxi, the next thing can only be fought to the end with the officials and soldiers who come to suppress it.

This was not the strategic plan that Emperor Chongzhen had conceived.

This is not the situation that Li Banghua and Yuan Chonghuan want to see.

When the news of the thieves going north to attack Lanzhou came, Cao Wenzhao, an Yuan Bo who was in Jingning City, took the initiative to ask for a rescue, but was suppressed by Yuan Chonghuan, and the reason was here.

Cao Wenzhao is just a rude and uncivilized general, he is good at being stubborn and stubborn, charging into battle, but he is difficult to understand some calculations in Yuan Chonghuan's heart.

And these calculations, Yuan Chonghuan can't talk about them anyway.

Moreover, after the edict was read out against Li Banghua and Yuan Chonghuan, the Jinyi guards who came to deliver the edict of the Military Aircraft Department handed over several other posthumous gifts and personnel appointments and dismissals to Li Banghua, minister of the military aircraft, who read them out.

"The Military Aircraft Department sent an edict, the chief soldier Zhang Jiamo, the deputy general Zhang Tianli, and the deputy envoy of the regimental training Mao Yujian, when the person is dead, the crime is eliminated, and the special order is posthumously awarded Zhang Jiamo as the general of the three products of Zhaoyong, Zhang Tianli is the general of the three products, and the deputy envoy of the regiment training Mao Yujian is the doctor of the three products!

"The Military Aircraft Department issued an edict to revoke the establishment of Huamachi Dinglu Town with immediate effect, and the original Dingyu Town's economic system posts were merged into Gansu Town, and Zhou Yuji, the acting chief military officer of the original Dingyu Town, was specially ordered to serve as the chief military officer of Gansu Town, and Liu Zhilun, the imperial history of the Gansu Town Supervisory Army, still served in his original post.

"The Military Aircraft Department has issued an edict that from now on, Shi Gongsheng, who was originally scheduled to be the supervisor of the town and the imperial history of the army, will be reappointed as the senator of the trilateral governor's office and the deputy envoy of the trilateral regimental training, and the decree will take the men and horses of the subordinate military standard battalion to continue to integrate the soldiers and civilians of the northwest township for regimental training."

After listening to the previous edict's punishment for himself, Li Banghua finally put his mind at ease, and it was extremely easy to read out the edict conveyed by his military aircraft department at this time.

Although the revocation of Dingyu Town means that the original nine-sided important town Guyuan Town has completely entered history and become a thing of the past, Li Banghua can only accept the various orders contained in the edict at this time.

For this, Yuan Chonghuan is the same.

Emperor Chongzhen did not punish him, he was already the emperor's grace, at this time he was just relaxed, and he did not dare to have any different thoughts about merging the people and horses of Dingyu Town into Gansu Town.

Originally, when the Trilateral Governor's Mansion was stationed in Jieguyuan, Guyuan Town could be regarded as an important town directly led by the Trilateral Governor's Office, but now that it has been revoked, then from then on, the Trilateral Governor's Mansion has no soldiers and horses directly under the direct command except for the direct governor's standard.

However, now this Dingyu town is indeed no longer necessary, although the Great Wall of the side wall on the first line of Huamachi is still there, but this place is no longer a border fortress because of the recovery of the previous Hetao land.

Now that there is a new town in Hezhong in the north, as well as the original Ningxia town, the existence of Dingyu Town as a border town itself has become redundant.

Yuan Chonghuan listened to this content of the edict, and did not dare to think about it, after all, this Dingyu Town, which was formed by the transfer of Guyuan Town, was still under the control and command of the Trilateral Governor's Office after it was merged into Gansu Town.

At this time, Zhou Yuji and Shi Gongsheng, who were kneeling on the ground, listened to the edict read by Li Banghua, and immediately received the edict of thanksgiving and shouted long live.

Since then, Zhou Yuji has stepped into the ranks of the chief military officer of the border town of the imperial court, and Shi Gongsheng has also become a figure who can take charge of himself from supervising the military and imperial history.

In addition to these posthumous seals and appointments, Sun Chengzong led the edict drafted by the Military Aircraft Department, and also made a general arrangement for the future situation in the northwest.

Now with the terrain sand table in the Wuying Palace, the Minister of Military Aircraft and the personnel of the Military Aircraft Department have arranged the strategy of using troops in the northwest, and it is no longer a closed-door operation, it all depends on experience and imagination.

As soon as General Li Banghua's operational order issued in the form of an edict was announced, all the newly promoted nobles and generals present at the meeting pondered for a moment and all obeyed the order.