In a military camp outside Xuanfu City, two knights riding two horses, one black and one white, were wielding long knives to fight, although the knives had been wrapped with thick linen, but both of them used all their strength, you came and went between the murderous spirit, it seemed that they were eager to cut each other under the horse with a knife. Watermark Ad Test: Watermark Ad Test

The two cavalrymen were both extremely skilled and equally brave, but the knight on the white horse seemed to lack experience in actual combat, so after several rounds of fighting, he was unaware that he was slashed in the back by the black horse cavalryman, and fell off his horse at once.

"Your Majesty!" Seeing this situation, a white and chubby eunuch watching from the side immediately shouted, rushed up and helped the knight who fell to the ground, this knight is naturally His Majesty Zhu Houzhao, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and it was Gu Dayong who supported him, and the knight who fought with him was the most favored military general Jiang Bin beside him.

"The last general should be damned, please punish Your Majesty!" Jiang Bin also jumped off his horse at this time, ran over and knelt down.

"What should I die for? This is what I forced you to use all your strength, and if you deliberately lose to me as brave as you are, then I will have to wonder if your military exploits are fake. Zhengde stood up with a smile and said, the ground in the martial arts arena is relatively soft, and he also knows certain skills when he falls off the horse, so he is not injured, but he was stabbed by Jiang Bin in the back, and he still has a faint pain.

Since Zhengde won the last victory in Yingzhou, although he was happy for a while, he soon thought of the Mongolian officer who was killed by his own hands, in his heart, if it wasn't for the officer's carelessness, Zhengde was likely to die in the hands of the other party, so during this time, Zhengde forced the generals in the barracks to fight him. In order to accumulate actual combat experience, it is a pity that although those generals dare to kill the enemy on the battlefield, they dare not fight with Zhengde, even if they are reluctant to go to the martial arts arena. In the end, he will deliberately lose to Zhengde. This made Zhengde very angry, and in the end he forced Jiang Bin. Let him use all his strength, otherwise he will take away his military power and let him start from a small soldier, which makes Jiang Bin very helpless. In the end, I can only accompany Zhengde to fight.

Zhengde stood up and moved twice, then took another sip of water, and then got on the horse again and said to Jiang Bin with a knife: "Come again, I feel that I am much stronger than before, maybe in a few days, you are not my opponents!" ”

Seeing Zhengde's enthusiastic appearance, Jiang Bin could only helplessly get on the horse. fought against Zhengde again, but this time Zhengde performed very well, and even fought with Jiang Bin for a few more rounds, but in the end he was poked in the ribs by Jiang Bin. Although he didn't fall off the horse this time, if he was on the battlefield, Zhengde would probably have been stabbed to death by Jiang Bin's knife, so this time he was still defeated.

Zhengde has always been impatient in other things, but he is extremely patient in martial arts and military affairs, although he has been defeated repeatedly when fighting against Jiang Bin, but he is not discouraged at all, after all, he is very clear about his situation, when it comes to real martial arts, Jiang Bin may not be much stronger than him, but in terms of actual combat experience, he is much worse than Jiang Bin, a fierce general who has been fighting on the battlefield for many years, which also makes him unable to exert his strength against the enemy at all, and if you want to make up for this gap, you can only through actual combat confrontations again and again, After learning from the other party's experience, the next time you encounter an enemy on the battlefield, you don't have to rely on luck to kill the enemy.

For several months, Zhengde spent time on actual combat drills with Jiang Bin, although most of the time Zhengde still couldn't beat Jiang Bin, but Zhengde also lifted Jiang Bin off the horse several times, and even finally made a lose-lose play, which made Jiang Bin very happy to tell him that with his current martial arts and battlefield experience, he met an ordinary Mongolian officer, and he was definitely not Zhengde's opponent.

On this day, Zhengde and Jiang Bin fought again for a day, the two returned to the Zhenguo Mansion to take a bath, the last military exploits have been rewarded, Zhengde's Zhenguo Duke title has also come down, and even the Zhenguo Mansion has been built partially, and now it can live in, as for the rest of the part is also under intense construction, Zhengde intends to use this Zhenguo Mansion as his home outside the palace.

In a side hall of the Guogong Mansion, Zhengde sat on a rocking chair and shook slowly, next to Gu Dayong helped him play a fan, as for Jiang Bin, he was sitting on the side drinking tea, only to see Zhengde put a grape in his mouth and said while eating: "Jiang Bin, I want to establish a cavalry The fold has been sent to the cabinet, but now the cabinet is resolutely opposed, even Wang Qiong does not support me, and the second brother has not expressed his position until now, do you say that our cavalry can still be established?" ”

Hearing Zhengde ask about the cavalry, Jiang Bin immediately put down the teacup and said: "Your Majesty, the people in the cabinet only care about the immediate interests, and they can't see Your Majesty's long-term plans at all, although they are all against Your Majesty's idea now, but as long as His Royal Highness King Zhao can stand on His Majesty's side, he will definitely be able to override the cabinet and pass His Majesty's resolution, but now I don't know what King Zhao's plan is?" Why don't Your Majesty send a private message to King Zhao again, so that King Zhao can make a decision earlier? ”

Jiang Bin hopes to form such a cavalry more than anyone else, after all, he is the first favorite in front of Zhengde, and he is familiar with military affairs, if this elite cavalry is established, Zhengde must be a nominal general, but with Zhengde's temperament, he definitely doesn't like to deal with the complicated affairs of the army, so this cavalry will definitely fall into his own hands in the end.

In fact, Jiang Bin and Zhou Chong are the same kind of people, they always have a sense of insecurity about their lives, so they will desperately increase their strength, Zhou Chong used to mainly increase his financial and material resources, while Jiang Bin is desperately increasing the strength in his hands, but there is no essential difference between these two ways to enhance strength, only in this way can they sleep well.

Hearing Jiang Bin's words, Zhengde said with a very rare wry smile: "I have already sent a letter to my second brother, and he should reply to me when he calculates the time, but there has been no news now, and it is estimated that he may not agree with my idea." ”

"Your Majesty, the old slave thinks that this can't be blamed on His Royal Highness King Zhao, now the cabinet is twisted into a rope to oppose His Majesty's establishment of elite cavalry, although His Royal Highness King Zhao is a prisoner of the country, but if the cabinet is bent on opposing it, His Royal Highness King Zhao will definitely not be able to do it." At this time, Gu Dayong suddenly opened his mouth to help Zhou Zhong speak.

"That's right, although the second brother was appointed by me as the supervisor, his power is still limited by the cabinet, and now the cabinet is unanimously opposed, even if he wants to help me, I'm afraid he can't think of any good way." Zhengde couldn't help but muttered to himself when he heard this.

"Your Majesty, I heard that His Royal Highness King Zhao founded the Governor's Mansion of the Four Seas to manage the sea trade, and the profits of the sea trade are the most lucrative, and the taxes paid to the imperial court every year are very considerable, so can you let His Royal Highness King Zhao hand over these taxes to us, and then use them to build cavalry, I believe that with this money, it should be enough for us to build a cavalry." At this time, Jiang Bin was still a little unwilling to suggest, when he was in Beijing before, he felt that Zhou Chong was targeting him everywhere, and now that he has the opportunity, he naturally wants to make Zhou Chong find some trouble, and even if he can separate the brotherhood between Zhengde and Zhou Chong, it will make him even happier.

But it's a pity that although Jiang Bin is a good hand at fighting, he doesn't know anything about government affairs, otherwise he wouldn't have made such an idiotic suggestion, so this time he didn't need Gu Dayong to help Zhou Zhong speak, Zhengde immediately smiled and said: "Although the Governor's Mansion of the Four Seas was founded by the second brother, the taxes in the Governor's Mansion must be handed over to the treasury, that is to say, the money must be handed over to the household department in the end, if the second brother wants to use the money, he must first persuade the cabinet, and only if the cabinet agrees, the household department will allocate money to us." ”

Jiang Bin didn't expect that the steps of using money in the court were so rigorous, which made him blush, and he didn't dare to say it anymore at the moment. However, Gu Dayong next to him glanced at him deeply, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but sneer. Gu Dayong is a caring person around Zhengde, he knows more about Zhengde than anyone else, such as Zhengde's inability to have children, he is the third person in the palace to know in addition to Zhengde and Empress Dowager Zhang, so he knows that sooner or later the Ming dynasty will fall into the hands of King Zhao or the prince of Zhao Wang, so he will never stand on the opposite side of Zhou Chong, and even as long as he has the opportunity, he will desperately curry favor with Zhou Chong, in order to keep his current position in the future.

"If the proposal to build elite cavalry is rejected by the cabinet, those greedy Mongols will definitely come again after a few years of recuperation, and in the future, the frontier of our Ming Dynasty will never be at peace." Zhengde said with a hateful face on his last face, after the last war, he finally had a sense of responsibility to Daming, and he no longer wanted his people to die at the hands of foreign races, so he said such heart-wrenching words.

"Your Majesty, the matter has not yet been decided, His Royal Highness King Zhao may be working this matter, maybe in a few days, this matter will take a turn for the better, so please let Your Majesty relax!" Gu Dayong helped Zhou Chong speak at this time, and comforted Zhengde Dao, although he didn't spend much time with Zhou Chong, but for this magical His Royal Highness King Zhao, Gu Dayong always had a feeling that he couldn't see through, and maybe maybe Zhou Chong could really persuade the cabinet to agree to establish elite cavalry.

"I hope so!" Although Zhengde also knows that his brother is talented, but the cabinet is also notoriously tough, even if he is himself, it is impossible to pass a resolution under the unanimous opposition of the cabinet, so Zhengde has little confidence in Zhou Chong, but what Zhengde didn't expect was that a few days later, he received a surprise from Zhou Chong.