Chapter 70: Rewarding
A sealed express message was sent to the capital, the smile on Chongzhen's face did not stop for a day, the great victory in the north, although he did not defeat Huang Taiji, but at least forced the people to retreat, Lin Dan Khan's strength was greatly damaged, it was impossible to harass Daming in the short term, and with the expansion of trade, it was impossible to make a lot of money, the most exciting thing for Chongzhen and the civil and military officials of the Beijing Division was that Sun Chuanting actually captured Haoge alive, this is the eldest son of Huang Taiji, which is equivalent to the prince of a country, when he heard the news, Chongzhen was excited for several nights without sleeping, You can blackmail Huang Taiji again, and the son plus these nearly 10,000 prisoners of war, thinking about it, has a lot of silver, and Chongzhen's harazi is going to flow out, if the ministers know that their emperor's majesty first thought of not using this to increase prestige but to increase silver, it is estimated that their eyes will fall out in shock. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
When the rebels in the north were eliminated, Chongzhen had ordered Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting led the army to attack Henan in two ways, to recover Henan, at this time the officials in Henan were like when they surrendered to Zhu Youxiang, looking at the wind and descending, and even faster, the army has not yet arrived one by one to announce the return to the arms of the imperial court, Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting felt that they were not here to fight, but to sightsee, the army was served by local officials along the way, just two days after the surrender of the rebels in the south, the army successfully entered Luoyang, Immediately afterwards, the concerts from all over southern Henan also arrived in Beijing, looking at these songs, Chongzhen was unbearable, and threw them directly into the paper basket, and even Sun Chengzong on the side shook his head secretly.
"Teacher! I really want to replace all the officials in Henan! It's really γγγγγγ Chongzhen didn't know what words to use to express his thoughts at this time.
"Your Majesty's mood is known to the ministers, but this law does not blame the public, although the rebellion was at fault first, but if this is all changed at once, I am afraid it will cause panic. And because of the previous events, there are no longer enough alternate officials, and if Henan comes to replace all the officials at onceγγγγγ Sun Chengzong was helpless.
"I know! In this way, when this relief passes, let the Jinyi guards find some incriminating evidence for them, and I will change them one by one! Chongzhen gritted his teeth.
Sun Chengzong shook his head helplessly, and continued: "Your Majesty! The trophies and prisoners of war escorted by He Kegang and Chen Mingyu will arrive in Beijing tomorrow! β
"That's right! The teacher didn't remind me that I almost forgot! In this way, all the officials below the cabinet went out of the city to greet them! Chongzhen said.
Sun Chengzong thought for a while and said, "The old minister thought that it was better to summon Li Yangde, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, to discuss together. β
"It's good! Li Yangde, the secretary of the Xuanli Ministry! Chongzhen commanded.
A father-in-law took the order to announce the summons, and watching the attendant leave, Chongzhen said, "Teacher! How are you thinking about the cabinet candidates? β
"The old minister recommended Cheng Jiming, Liu Hongxun entered the cabinet, of course, Guo Yunhou, Li Yangde, Wang Yongguang, and Wang Zaijin can all enter the cabinet!" Sun Chengzong said.
Chongzhen lowered his head and muttered for a while: "Guo Yunhou, Li Yangde, Wang Yongguang, Wang Zaijin, if they enter the cabinet, there is no suitable person to fill the vacancy for the time being, for the time being, it will be like this, Cheng Jiming, Liu Hongxun can enter the cabinet, so be it, tomorrow morning, the court will announce, by the way, the traitor Shi Fenglai is in charge of the teacher, what do you need to let Wang Gonggong and Zhu Gonggong cooperate with the teacher!" β
"The old minister obeys!" Sun Chengzong said.
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Yangde came and saluted respectfully: "The minister knocks to see Your Majesty!" Banzai! Banzai! Hooray! β
"Li Aiqing is flat! There's a lot going on these days! Aiqing has worked hard! Chongzhen smiled.
"For the sake of Da Ming, for Your Majesty! It's not hard! Li Yangde said respectfully.
Chongzhen nodded and said, "I summoned you to talk about welcoming prisoners of war!" I think you also know the recent battle report, tell me what you think! β
Li Yangde stood up and said respectfully: "Return to Your Majesty!" Recently, my Ming soldiers have won successive battles, happy events, and the ministers are very happy, and the ministers have made arrangements to welcome the army and prisoners of war after hearing the specific battle report! Specifically, let's talk about it in detail! β
Chongzhen nodded, indicating that he continued, Li Yangde said: "First of all, for the rebel troops escorting the north and south, when they enter Beijing, the six Shangshu and other hundred officials will go out of the city to greet them; On the other hand, the trophies and prisoners of war escorted by He Kegang and Chen Ming were led by the cabinet to go out of the city to greet them, because this is a big victory, since the rise of the Apocalypse, my Ming has rarely won victories, we need such a victory to enhance the national prestige of my Ming Dynasty, military prestige, and inspire the military and the people, and the cabinet can take the lead to show the importance of the imperial court to them; Finally, the son of the enemy chief escorted by Governor Lu Xiangsheng and the prisoners of war, Weichen thought that Governor Lu should wait for Governor Sun to arrive and enter the city together, and then the cabinet led hundreds of officials out of the city to greet him, and His Majesty personally greeted him at the city gate, after all, this victory is the biggest victory in this war, and it is also the best time to enhance His Majesty's imperial prestige, enhance my Ming national prestige, and military prestige, so the minister thought that His Majesty personally greeted the most appropriate. β
Chongzhen nodded after listening: "Teacher! What do you think! β
Sun Chengzong said with a smile: "The minister seconded the proposal!" β
Chongzhen pondered for a moment and said, "That's very good! Spread the order to General Sun to return to Beijing as soon as possible and round with Governor Lu's army! Henan has now been decided, and the rest can be handed over to Governor Hong! β
"Obey the order!"
"It's hard work! Then you go ahead and arrange it! Chongzhen commanded.
"Obey! Retire! Li Yangde bowed respectfully and retreated, arranging things to go.
"Teacher, let's eat with me, I still have something I want to ask the teacher!" Chongzhen said with a smile.
Sun Chengzong said with a smile: "The old minister obeys the order!" "Now that the emperor's meal is rubbed, Sun Chengzong is no longer as unaccustomed and restrained as he was at the beginning.
At this time, He Kegang and Chen Mingyu had already arrived at the outskirts of Beijing with the loot and prisoners of war, and they were only dozens of kilometers away from Beijing. It's finally here! It's so much more tiring than fighting! Chen Mingyu sighed.
"Not really!" He Kegang also sighed, all the way from outside the customs into the customs, it can be said that there are many crises, the horse thieves encountered along the way are not to say, they are all small shrimps, not enough to stuff people's teeth at all, the basic horse thieves see the army pulling their legs and run, the most frightening time is when it is almost to Jinzhou, He Kegang sent someone to inform Yuan Keli of the situation in advance, and asked him to send troops to respond, that is, a day after the person who reported the news left, the escort team met a white flag cavalry that was patrolling, He Kegang urgently ordered all the soldiers in front to change into Tartar equipment, put their hats tightly, and then personally led a Guanning iron cavalry to meet them, and soon the other party found them and asked them what they were doing, He Kegang replied in Jurchen that they were the front-line army, escorting some prisoners of war back, as for which things were captured the materials of the Mongolian army, the Great Khan ordered them to escort back together, of course, the people on the opposite side wondered that the prisoners of war and supplies should not be escorted to the camp, how to escort them back? That is, when they were stunned, He Kegang suddenly pulled out a knife and killed the captain of the patrol, and then everyone started to do it, seeing that this side was moving, Chen Mingyu on the other side ordered people to speed up to the pass, ten thousand horses galloped, and suddenly slipped away, and after a fierce battle, the team of ten people was quickly eliminated, He Kegang ordered people to dispose of the corpse, and then quickly chased the army, a day later, Duoduo led the army here, even if He Kegang dealt with most of the traces, but there will still be some clues to be found, Duoduo quickly ordered the army to start chasing along the traces, and notified Dolgon, both armies began to run for their lives, one fled, one chased, and finally ten kilometers outside Jinzhou City, Duoduo caught up with the escort team, when he saw those of his own people being imprisoned in the prisoner car, Duoduo roared, commanding the elite with white flags to rush up, and He Kegang ordered Chen Mingyu to quickly lead the escort team towards Jinzhou City, leaving a thousand Guanning iron cavalry and four thousand soldiers of the Beijing battalion to block, and the two sides quickly collided together, Launched a fierce battle, all the Ming army has only one belief, that is, it must be resisted, otherwise all efforts will be wasted, one by one is a fight for life, even if it is going to die in battle, it will also pull the grenade at the last moment and die with the enemy, both sides are crazy, the battle continues, Duoduo looked at this intercepted army in surprise, Guan Ning Iron Cavalry He can understand, the other team looks at the Ming Dynasty which army is so strong in combat effectiveness? A warrior who can drag my big gold?
The two sides killed for half an hour, and the Duoduo army was still dragged to move an inch, and at this time, the Ming army had already suffered more than half of the casualties, and more than 10,000 Duoduo people also suffered more than 2,000 casualties, and at this time, there was a sound of horses' hooves behind the Duoduo army, and Duoduo said happily: "Big brother is here!" "It was Dolgon who led the white flag to run wildly, and the Ming army suddenly knew that the next step was probably to prepare for martyrdom, but the road to heaven and earth, just when they were going to do the final madness, there was also a sound of horses' hooves behind them, accompanied by the sound of horses' hooves and rumbling footsteps, and soon they saw the arrival of reinforcements, He Kegang also saw an old acquaintance, it turned out that it was Mangui who led the reinforcements to arrive, at this time he led five thousand Guanning iron cavalry and fifty thousand infantry troops to rush to the top, A day ago, he received Yuan Keli's letter and he was ready, and now it came in handy, and the follow-up Dolgon saw that the Ming army was overwhelming, and even if the victory was useless at this time, he organized the withdrawal of the army, and Man Gui did not chase after him, and He Kegang and others cleaned up the battlefield and returned to Jinzhou City together.
"Lao He! Brother, I envy you to death! Alas! It's a pity! Lao Tzu can't go to the battlefield and kill the Tartars happily! Along the way, Man Gui complained to He Kegang all the way, and He Kegang couldn't cry or laugh.
Later, after the rectification of Jinzhou City, the army set off directly from Jinzhou and went to Beijing, and Yuan Keli sent an additional 2,000 infantry troops to escort it. And the army finally arrived at the Jingshi smoothly, and the previous situation appeared.
Recalling the past, He Kegang sighed: "It's a pity! Just one step away! That's the loss of so many brothers! β
Chen Mingyu also sighed: "But anyway, we are going to Jingshi, cheer up!" The court will not treat the brethren badly! β
The two looked at each other, and then ordered the army to put themselves in order, rest, and enter the city in the best possible appearanceγγγγγγγ
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