I'm afraid Zhou Chong didn't expect that the idea of building a military academy he proposed gave Jiang Bin the opportunity to enter Beijing to get close to Zhengde, although now Zhengde is not as ignorant of the government as before, but it is not diligent, and even his playful personality has not changed much, God knows if he meets someone like Jiang Bin, will he still follow the original old path in history?

It is also worth mentioning that after the border army of Xuanfu defeated the little Tatar prince who came to attack, the general army and the prison army immediately wrote a report to the imperial court, but when writing this document, the general army and the prison army were listless, because they knew that even if they wrote the document brilliantly and killed more Mongolians, the court would not have a reward.

Sure enough, after the Xuanfu report was sent to the imperial court, not only was the result not rewarded, but also belittled by the imperial court, saying that they were falsely reporting their war exploits, so in order to understand the real combat situation, the military department also sent an official to verify, but the official turned a blind eye to the heads of those grassland people, not to say that the Xuanfu army killed ordinary herdsmen to make up the number, in fact, at most killed a dozen grassland cavalry, and then the military official went back with the results of the war, and recorded it, As for the reward on the Xuanfu side, there is no reward at all, and even half of next year's military salary will be deducted.

For the above result, the Xuanfu has long expected it, because this has almost become a tradition of the border army, no matter how many Mongols the border army kills, the court will be suspicious of their good news documents, and now it has developed to the point that they don't believe their good news documents at all, even if the facts are in front of them. The big guy in the military department can open his eyes and tell nonsense. The exploits of the five thousand men were said by them in vain. It would be nice to have a dozen or so left.

This kind of encounter is not only Xuanfu, the year before last, the little prince of Tatar led troops from Ningxia to enter, when Qiu Yue was still in Ningxia as the chief soldier, so he fought with the little prince, although the Ming army suffered a lot of losses, but the Mongols also died a lot of people, and the most Lu also had to retreat. But what is the result? The document of the victory arrived at the imperial court and became a third-level beheading. After recapturing more than a dozen war horses, the court rewarded something without pain, and later after Zhengde heard about it, those ministers in the court were also very dissatisfied, so they found an opportunity to transfer Qiu Yue to the capital, which was regarded as compensation for him.

In fact, not to mention Qiu Yue's border troops, in the original history, Zhengde secretly ran from the capital to Xuanfu, but just met the little prince of Tatar who led 50,000 troops to the south again, and Zhengde had been waiting for this opportunity to go to the battlefield in person. So he commanded 40,000 or 50,000 Ming troops to meet the enemy, and as a result, the two sides started a big battle in the Yingzhou area. This is the most glorious "Battle of Yingzhou" in Zhengde's life.

The battle of Yingzhou was personally commanded by Zhengde, and finally repelled the army of the little prince of Tatar, and even Zhengde personally killed an enemy, with the identity of Zhengde, there was an enemy who could rush to his side, which shows the intensity of the battle of Yingzhou, it is said that the two sides fought more than 100 battles, and the soldiers were killed and wounded.

However, in the official "Wuzong Record" compiled by the Ming Dynasty, in the Battle of Yingzhou, the Mongols suffered only 16 casualties, but the Ming army killed 52 people. You must know that it was a war of more than 100,000 people, and it was a fierce battle for more than a month, and more than 100 large and small battles, I am afraid that it was a military exercise in later generations, and the number of casualties was more than the number recorded above, so as long as people with a little brain can see that there is a problem with this number, but the official Ming Dynasty is still so grandiose in the official history, which is also a great spectacle in the history of the Ming Dynasty.

Even the war commanded by Zhengde himself, the officials of the Ming Dynasty dared to so blatantly compress the results of the war, not to mention the border generals like Qiu Yue, it can even be said that when the border army fought with the Mongols, it was right to win, and the court would not have a reward, and it would be a big crime to defeat, and even before the war ended, the generals with the troops might be arrested by the court for questioning, and even sometimes the Ming army was needed on the battlefield to temporarily avoid the edge, but the court did not allow them to retreat, So even if sometimes the border army knew that they would definitely die if they fought the Mongols head-on, the generals with the troops could only helplessly take people to meet them and send them to death, because if he didn't die, their whole family would be arrested and beheaded.

It is also that the border army has been treated unfairly by the imperial court for so many years, so the generals in the border army are also quite resentful of the Ming court, and if this resentment accumulates for too long, it will definitely make the border army lose its fighting spirit, and even corrupt and fall like those guards inside the Ming Dynasty.

But now after the news of Zhengde's construction of the military academy spreads, these border soldiers finally see hope, after all, no one in this world is a fool, most people can see the political significance of the military academy, and it is even no exaggeration to say that this is the only chance for the Ming generals to turn over, so the generals in the border army are scrambling to go to the military academy, one is to contribute a little bit of their own strength to the military academy, and they can also find a career for themselves, after all, stay in a ghost place like the border army, and fight every year. The key is that if you win, you will still be angry, and no one wants to stay in the border army.

The autumn of the ninth year of Zhengde passed quickly, and with the arrival of the first snow of the year, the whole Xuanfu was relieved, because as long as it snowed, the grassland people would not go south, after all, the grassland was colder than Xuanfu, if the army was sent in winter, not to mention anything else, the heavy snow alone could bury the army.

In a house on the north street of Xuanfu City, Jiang Bin, who was dressed in cotton clothes, sat by the fire, and a few sweet potatoes were roasted on the stove, which now exuded a sweet smell, and beside Jiang Bin, there were also a few men dressed in the military sitting in a circle, everyone chatting while eating baked sweet potatoes, and they looked at ease.

"Brother Jiang, now that the heavy snow has sealed the Tatars on the grassland, and the area around Xuanfu is also peaceful, did the chief soldier say when will you be sent to Beijing?" One of the short and fat young men took a bite of the sweet sweet potato, and then raised his head and asked Jiang Bin next to him, although they had repelled the army of the little prince of Tatar before, and the list of transfers to the capital had also come out, but in order to prevent the Mongols from killing the horses, the general army of Xuanfu did not dare to easily transfer those fierce generals from the army.

"Well, I just received a message from the chief soldier this morning, let us get ready, we will leave for the capital in three days, otherwise if it is late, I am afraid that the road from Xuanfu to the capital will also be blocked by heavy snow, and we will not be able to reach the capital before the year." Jiang Bin is also eating baked sweet potatoes, speaking of which, Xuanfu has been planting sweet potatoes everywhere in the past two years, although corn is also good, but it is not as large as sweet potatoes, so now Xuanfu both military and civilian use sweet potatoes as the staple food, but this thing is not hungry, obviously full, and soon feel empty in the stomach, so as long as they are free, everyone likes to bake a sweet potato to fill their stomachs.

"Great, only Brother Jiang is the only one in our gang, but it's a pity that a few of us are not angry, we only cut down a few Mongolian ten-captains last time, and we didn't make any contributions at all, but now that Brother Jiang is here, if we can establish a foothold in the capital in the future, don't forget our poor brothers." Another man with a long and thin face said with a grin.

"As long as Brother Jiang enters the military academy, he will definitely be able to stand out in the future, let's wait to eat and drink spicy food with Brother Jiang!" The last one-eyed man to open his mouth was also a big man who said with a smile.

These three men are all officers of Ulzhou Weizhong, and they have grown up with Jiang Bin with their bare butts since they were children, so they can be said to be like brothers, and they can rest assured that they can give their backs to each other on the battlefield, so they talk very casually.

When Jiang Bin heard the words of several brothers, he also said with a smile: "We are all our own brothers, so naturally we have to support each other, as long as I can gain a foothold in the capital as long as I am the eldest brother, I will naturally not forget all the brothers!" ”

Hearing Jiang Bin's words, the other three also praised Jiang Bin for his righteousness, but then the man with a long face and thin face suddenly spoke: "Brother Jiang, during this time, I have been listening to my brothers in the army say that in addition to recruiting talents like you to serve as instructors, the military academy will also select a group of young people in the army to study in the military academy. ”

As soon as the long-faced thin man's words fell, the short and fat man on the other side of Jiang Bin also grabbed it with the same excitement and said, "Yes, Brother Jiang, our three brothers have no chance to go to the military academy as instructors, but if we can be selected to study in the military academy, then our brothers will be able to get together again." ”

Hearing the words of these two brothers, the one-eyed man also showed a look of eagerness, but Jiang Bin shook his head with a wry smile when he heard this: "Brothers, I have also heard some about the selection of military children to study in military schools, but our brothers closed the door and told the truth, I am afraid that this kind of good thing will not fall on us at all, after all, those high-ranking officials such as general soldiers and guard commanders have their own children and nephews, and with such a good thing, they will naturally give priority to their own families, and it will take several years to study at the military academy. So the students recruited are all teenagers, so I'm afraid there is no hope for our brothers. ”

Hearing Jiang Bin's analysis, the other three were all a little disappointed, originally they still had a trace of extravagant hope to go to the military academy, but now they are all dead. However, they were all open-minded people, and they quickly recovered and began to congratulate Jiang Bin on being able to leave the ghost place of Xuanfu. (To be continued......)