Let's say that after Emperor Chongzhen said some words with the noble concubine Hai Lanzhu, he sent his cronies, namely Yang Zhen and Deng Tianhe, the military attaches of the imperial attendants, to leave Beijing with the letters and tokens prepared by Hai Lanzhu and Manzhu Xili, under the leadership of Hasigan, the original leader of the Horqin attendants of Manzhu Xili.

Yang Zhen and Deng Tianhe were a few years older than Emperor Chongzhen, but the longer they served as military attachés by Emperor Chongzhen's side, the more they respected this young emperor.

The backgrounds and family backgrounds of the two of them are certainly not very prominent compared to people like He Zan and Hou Gongji, but compared with people from pure grassroots backgrounds like Huang Degong, Hu Dawei, and Mengruhu, they can be regarded as being born in a military attache family in the Ming Dynasty.

These young people who were born in the families of middle and low-level military attachés, who have followed their fathers in the ranks since they were children, charged in front of the two armies, compared with those high-ranking noble generals, they have a lot less habits of gentlemen, and more iron-blooded pride in fighting on the battlefield.

At the same time, compared with those young people from pure grassroots backgrounds, there are a lot of words and deeds and foresight from their parents, and there is also more loyalty to the emperor from their ancestors.

Whether it is Yang Zhen's unyielding death after being captured in history, or Deng Tianhe's heroic death in history under the siege of the enemy, it clearly shows this point.

Emperor Chongzhen promoted these young generals to his side, not to use them as hostages to control or restrain the generals of their parents.

Of course, this is not just to break the path of civil and military affairs and improve the status of military generals.

Emperor Chongzhen asked them to follow him to the court, or let them follow him to meet various civil and military ministers, mainly to broaden their horizons and increase their knowledge.

On the one hand, you can teach them at any time nearby, let them know some of their thoughts and ideas, cultivate their overall situation, shorten their distance with themselves, and enhance their loyalty.

On the other hand, it also let them know some of the situation above the Jingshi court, so that in the future, let them take charge of themselves and guard the Quartet.

It must be said that such an effect is still obvious.

If it weren't for these people who were sent out one after another, how could Emperor Chongzhen be completely at ease with the army of the towns under the jurisdiction of the Guards, as well as the Tumen Zhenshoufu in the northeast and the Jiuyuan Zhenshoufu and Shuofang Zhenshoufu in the northwest?

It would be better to let these generals who had been observed by themselves and sent out from their side directly serve as a guard than to send some eunuchs to serve as prison soldiers!

Because these generals who go out from their side not only have the identity of military generals, but also have the vision and prestige of military generals, and the most important thing is that they are loyal to themselves, understand their own ideas, and trust in them.

In this way, the monarchs and ministers do not suspect each other, which is naturally more conducive to them to open up territories and make contributions in the future.

At the beginning of the last month of the third year of Chongzhen, that is, in the early morning of the second day of the lunar month, Yang Zhen, Deng Tianhe, Hasgan and others took the caravan promoted by more than 100 camels and mules and horses of Hengxing Company from Zhangjiakou to the north.

For the next month or so, they had to brave the bitter cold winds of Saibei, all the way north, passing through Zhangbei Fort and Pingding Fort where the officers and troops were already stationed, and the city of Duolun Noll until they reached the upper reaches of the West Lamulun River, and then turned east, along the frozen surface of the West Lamulun River to the east, until they reached Kulunburg, and then turned north.

Finally, under the leadership of Haskan, he went to the area north of Chaganhot, where the left-wing Mongols of Horqin were stationed.

The reason why Emperor Chongzhen asked them to take this road, instead of taking other roads, such as going north through Gubeikou through Rehe, Ulan Hada or Yingzhou (three towers, that is, Chaoyang in Liaoning in later generations), was to contact Horqin, and the fewer people who knew about it, the better.

Especially before this happens, the fewer people who know, the less resistance there will be.

Emperor Chongzhen was not worried about sending people to contact the Horqin left-wing Mongols, but was inquired about by the spies of the Jin State after the captivity.

Such a thing, if it was found out by the spies of the Jin Kingdom after the capture of the country, maybe the effect would be better.

Of course, with the blockade measures of the Ming Dynasty against the Later Jin Kingdom and the painstaking operation of the Ming army in Saibei, it is not easy for the spies of the Later Jin Kingdom to find out the news.

What Emperor Chongzhen was worried about was actually the Qingliu civil officials who liked to find fault in the court of the Ming Dynasty, especially those imperial historians in the Imperial Procuratorate and the Six Science Corridors.

He did this, but he didn't want to quarrel with the court on his side before the eight characters were drawn.

Especially this matter, which involves Lan Guifei Hai Lanzhu, Emperor Chongzhen does not want to add all kinds of pressure caused by public opinion to Hai Lanzhu, who has just given birth to a child.

Fortunately, now, whenever it comes to the end of the year, the focus of everyone's attention in the Jingshi court of the Ming Dynasty is the Zhengdan court meeting held in the Huangji Palace, the head of the three major halls of the Forbidden City, early in the morning of the first month.

Therefore, not many people paid attention to Emperor Chongzhen's quiet dispatch of the former attendant military attache and others to Zhangjiakou on business, and even fewer people knew about it.

The Zhengdan Grand Festival of the Imperial Palace is usually not held until the early morning of the first day of the first lunar month, but every year at the beginning of the lunar month, various preparations have already begun.

Because the envoys from the various vassal states and foreign vassals around the Ming Dynasty often began to arrive at the capital of the Ming Dynasty one after another at this time.

The same is true this year.

Moreover, as far as the situation that has been made public by the Imperial Court and the Ministry of Rites, the envoys of the vassal countries and foreign vassals who have arrived and are about to participate in the pilgrimage are far more than the Zhengdan court meeting in the third year of Chongzhen.

Those princes and envoys of the vassal countries and foreign vassals who were originally arranged to be stationed in the Ming Dynasty were naturally not missing.

For example, the younger brother of the Korean king, Ayahara Maharaja Li Li, the prince of the Annam Mo clan Mo Jingwan, the second prince of the Ryukyu Kingdom Shangyi, and the eldest son of the Great Ming Guiyi King Burhatu of the Mongolian Karaqin Tribe, Chen Gelbatu, the eldest son of the leader of the Kulun tribe, the eldest son of the Marquis Hebayar of the Kulun Tribe, and the eldest son of the leader of the Duolun Tribe, the eldest son of the Daming Muyi Marquis Hadan Batel.

These people were originally left in Jingshi by Emperor Chongzhen, and they either studied in the Guozijian in Jingshi City, or served in the Jiangwutang in Tongzhou.

Others were placed in various pavilions of the Rifan Temple, serving as general secretaries or pedestrians.

In addition to these characters, the Shunyi King Bu Lost Rabbit, who originally belonged to the Tumut Ministry, of course, represents Tumut this time.

Although the original Tumut Mongols have largely disappeared today, except for those tribes in Qinghai who have joined Lin Dan Khan.

The Tumut people, who were originally dominant on the Tumo River in the south of the desert, either died in the war in the southern region for many years, or fled north to the north and joined the three major khans of the northern Mongolians.

In short, as a tribal alliance, the Tumut Mongol Wanhu has now disappeared after experiencing the conquest of the Chahar Mongols under Lin Dan Khan, as well as the invasion and killing of the Jurchens led by Huang Taiji.

However, the Shunyi king Bu Lost Rabbit, who originally belonged to the rightful heir of Tumut Khan, still has its symbolic value.

In any case, the Shunyi King Bu Lost Rabbit is also one of the descendants of the golden family of the Bal Jin clan.

Before the death of Lin Dan Khan, the value of Shunyi King Bu Lost Rabbit may not be large, but one day in the future, Lin Dan Khan died in the station of Qinghai Lake West Chakhanoer as in history, then the value of Shunyi King Bu Lost Rabbit will be revealed.

For the Chahar Mongols under Lin Dan Khan, the king of Shunyi, Bu Lost Rabbit, may be of little value.

However, for the original Mongolian tribes in the West China Sea that are now attached to Lin Dan Khan, the king of Shunyi, Bu Lost Rabbit, is the descendant of Altan Khan, and is the most upright master of these Qinghai Tumut Mongols.

Therefore, when it was time to prepare for the Zhengdan court, whether it was the cabinet, the Ministry of Rites, or the Imperial Court, these yamen all took the Shunyi King Bu Lost Rabbit as an important signboard and arranged it in.

In addition to the Shunyi King Bu Lost Rabbit, the Ordos Mongol tribe Jinong, who lost the Hetao pastureland, that is, the first-class Feng'en Marquis Erlinchen given by the Ming Dynasty's Son of Heaven, was still arranged in the ranks of the envoys of the court as the head of the Ordos Mongol tribes by the Li Fan Yuan.

In addition, there are also the Dalat Division, Hangjin Division, and West Urat Department of the Mongolian tribes outside the Hexi that are now subordinate to Shuofang Zhenshoufu and Jiuyuan Zhenshoufu, as well as the Mongols of the Yijin Holodarhut Department who are directly under the governor of Hezhong, and now they have also sent envoys from their respective tribes to drive the horses selected by each department as tribute gifts, on the way to the Jingshi of the Ming Dynasty.