On the night that Ye Guan and the others finished listening to the book, it snowed heavily again in Beijing, and it snowed all night. If it weren't for the kindness of the big families in the capital to set up a porridge factory to make porridge, they would have to freeze to death and starve to death this year......

Just when the rich families in the capital were giving kind porridge, they were thousands of miles away in Datong Mansion.

Seven days ago-

"Old Shen, you said that this is almost the New Year, and this year, there is no monthly silver in this Wei Yuan?" A man wearing the standard armor of the Ming army leaned against the battlements of the city wall of Datong Mansion, hunched over and stomped his feet, while warming his hands that were red from the cold. When you have some free time, you can chat with your companions who are also on duty on the city walls.

"Who the fuck knows how to go. It's not time for Liu Dusi to be here. How much can we share some silver every year to spend the New Year in peace, or Liu Dusi, poor Liu Dusi's family, I ended up in pieces, my daughter and my mother don't know where to go, presumably those dog officials have scooped them! The daughter of the Russian family had already pestered Russia to buy her a pearl flower and went back. Seeing that she will get married next year, if I don't buy it as a father, I won't have a chance in the future! It's been a fucking cold winter this year, if only there was a hot mouthful of noodles to eat. The older soldier rubbed his ears red from the cold, and thought that his daughter was about to get married, but he had not bought anything good for her, and he felt a little guilty in his heart. But as soon as the white-haired wind blew, it seemed to blow the cold wind into people's bones, freezing so much that people only shivered, and this old Shen was hungry again, thinking about the hot noodles, and his saliva had to stay.

"Grandma's, these officials are really fucking not raised by people. In the past, no matter how much, there was always some silver sent down for us to pass the New Year, this year is good, not to mention the silver of white flowers, even rice and noodles have not been seen, how can we resist those tartars if we are not full? Feelings are not those who are officials with knives and guns to fight hard! The daughter-in-law of the Russian family is about to give birth in the next year, what do you say I will use to feed our big fat son! The younger soldier complained about his boss's deduction, and at the same time thought of his mother-in-law, and felt warm in his heart.

"Hey, sixth brother, how do you know it's the big fat son? Can't it be a girl? Lao Shen said jokingly.

"Phew, shut your crow's mouth, Lao Tzu said that a male baby is a male baby, but the family has been passed down for three generations, if you don't give birth to a son, the Russian mother will drive my mother-in-law out, and the Russian aunt is good to the Russian, and the Russian-aunt is reluctant to let her go." The young man cursed angrily.

"Eh, Russia thinks it's better to give birth to a female baby, they all say that the female baby is the father's little padded jacket, you see, we are all soldiers, after giving birth to a male baby, we are still soldiers, you haven't had enough of the pain of being a soldier?" Speaking of this, a cold wind blew, and the two of them shrank their heads into the female wall again.

"Sixth son, listen, is there any movement outside? How did Russia hear the sound of horses' hooves? Isn't it the Tartar who killed a thousand knives? "Although Lao Shen is old, he has been a soldier for decades, and he is more alert than this young man.

"How is it possible, on such a cold day, isn't it colder for the Tartar to ride on a horse? Besides, there have been several heavy snowfalls this year, and those Tartars have to hurry up and call their cattle and sheep to go, so how can they have time to run here. Is it really a Tartar with three heads and six arms, is a fairy who is not afraid of the cold!? Liuzi pouted disappreciatively.

"No, it's the sound of horses' hooves!" Lao Shen didn't let go of his heart like this, but stood on the city wall again and looked at the white land outside, and then listened with his ears sideways. The more I listened, the more I realized that it was the sound of horses' hooves.

"Here comes the Tartars! Quick, quickly beat the gong to inform the brothers in the Tibetan battlements, quickly beat the drum to inform the garrisons in the city, and quickly burn the wolf smoke! The Tartars are attacking the city! Lao Shen saw countless black dots suddenly appear on the white earth in the distance, and as the sound of horses' hooves became louder and louder, there were more and more black spots, and finally a scene similar to black cloth was formed on the ground, like the shadow of the god of death holding a sickle......

Looking at the more and more Tartar soldiers in the city, while beating the gong, Lao Shen thought of his daughter's wedding. And the sixth son, what he thinks about is whether he should give birth to a daughter and whether he can still see his own baby born......

On the second day, it was the twentieth day of the twelfth month of the sixteenth year of Hongzhi, which was also the last early dynasty of the sixteenth year of Hongzhi. The next time the morning dynasty is opened, it will be the grand court meeting on the first day of the first month of the seventeenth year of Hongzhi. Therefore, whether it is a Beijing official or a nobleman of more than four grades who live in Beijing, or a foreign official of four grades or more who stays in the capital on official business, they all brave the goose feathers and heavy snow to participate in the last early dynasty of the sixteenth year of Hongzhi, regardless of whether they have a fold or not, they must not let those imperial historians find a chance to impeach. Who doesn't know that those imperial historians are like mad dogs, catching and biting whom.

"There is a morning music, nothing to retreat from-" After shouting long live in the mountain, the sworn eunuch said a familiar sentence.

"Minister--Liu Daxia, the secretary of the Ministry of War, has important matters in the Ministry of War, and has heard the holy news of His Majesty." As soon as the eunuch finished speaking, an old man with a thin figure but full of energy, dressed in a scarlet official mansion and embroidered with brocade chickens, stepped out of class to play.

"There's a play." The eunuch looked at Emperor Hongzhi and saw that the Son of Heaven bowed slightly, so he raised his voice and said again.

"Your Majesty, the Ministry of War received a military report from Datong Mansion yesterday evening that the main fire screen of the Mongolian Tatar Goljin Banner took advantage of the heavy snow to attack Datong Mansion on the 13th day of the 16th month of Hongzhi, and it was reported that Wang Gao, a guerrilla general of Datong Mansion, resisted bravely, killed more than 180 Tartar soldiers, and recovered countless property plundered by the Tartars, with a population of 369 people." Liu Daxia, the secretary of the Ministry of War, lowered his head and reported.

"Oh? Is that a victory? Emperor Hongzhi was very happy to hear such a report. The Tatars have always been the confidants of the Ming court, especially after the Tumubao Incident, the Ming army, which was actively preparing to plow the court and sweep the caves, suffered the biggest blow since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the elite of the Ming army was completely lost, and 500,000 veterans and recruits were wiped out in a battle. The mentality of the entire empire underwent a drastic change, and it began to cling to the Great Wall, not to anger the many tribes of Mongolia that had been divided. It was also from this blow that through the continuous efforts of Yu Qian and later Wenchen, the Wenchen group completely suppressed the eunuchs and military generals and nobles, and even began to overtly and secretly override the emperor with the country's righteousness. Starting from Emperor Taizu, the control of the twenty-six guards that were continuously added during the Chengzu and Xuande periods was gradually weakened, and finally the card in the emperor's hand was only Jinyiwei. That is, if the emperor plays cards with his courtiers, how to play and how to lose.

Therefore, when he heard that Datong Mansion had defeated the invading enemy, Emperor Hongzhi was very happy.

"No, Your Majesty, although this newspaper says so, but according to the information that the minister has received from other sources, it seems that there is a big problem with General Wang's excerpt." Liu Daxia changed his tone and said such a thing.

"What's the problem?" When Emperor Hongzhi heard Liu Daxia say this, he suddenly thought in his heart that this old man must be repeating the same old tune again.

"Your Majesty, in the tenth year of Hongzhi, the minister once wrote to Chen Bing and the ten harms. Your Majesty does not use it for some reason. Now that the wars have appeared one after another, it shows that the discipline of the border Cypriot army is very erosive! Your Majesty, the minister learned from the military reports of Xuanhua Mansion and Ningxia Town that Batu Mengke, a descendant of the Mongol Erjin clan, was ambitious and tried in vain to restore the former glory of his ancestor Temujin, and after several battles, he had unified most of Mongolia. This time, he came to attack the city in the heavy snow because he was driven to Datong by Batu Mengke from the Qiantao area of the Hetao. In the future, the more ruthless the fire sieve Batu Mengke hit, the more ruthless the fire sieve attacked my Daming border town, this kind of situation is almost like the situation of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Jin State attacked the Liao State, and the Liao State attacked the Northern Song Dynasty! Our border army is unbearable, and it is not a problem to hold on, but there may be a big victory over the Tartars, among which the border army lies about the military situation and war exploits, if we do not change the situation of the border army's erosion, the form of the siege of Beijing in the orthodox period will appear again! Your Majesty! Liu Daxia's words were earnest, so that many civil officials nodded unconsciously after hearing it.

Emperor Hongzhi did not like it, although he was a conservative emperor, but he also hoped to solve the great trouble of Mongolia, the Ming Dynasty, for his son. During the Tianshun period, Annan Li Hao was defeated by Laos, and the eunuch Wang Zhi was a person who was well versed in military and political affairs, so he wanted to take the opportunity to capture Li Hao, restore the Ming Dynasty's suzerainty over Annan and even set up a political envoy in Annan again, so he said this to Xianzong, and the emperor asked Liu Daxia for the documents of the Yongle crusade against Annan during the Yongle period. Liu Daxia hid it and refused to give it, and secretly said to Shangshu Yu Zijun: "As soon as the war disaster starts, the southwest will be over immediately." Zijun woke up, and this thing had to stop. No one knows what Zijun woke up to, but the civil officials defeated the eunuchs this time, although it was achieved by fighting one less battle.

Emperor Hongzhi once wanted to send troops to suppress the Mongol attack on the border towns of the Ming Dynasty, but a group of civil officials resisted to the death, the emperor once asked the ministers, why our army can frequently go out of the fortress during the period of Taizu Taizong, why can't it now? Liu Daxia used His Majesty's talents to be no worse than Taizong, but the soldiers were far less than those in the Taizong period. One sentence blocked Emperor Hongzhi's following.

Therefore, although Liu Daxia is a good official and a clean official, his fear of eunuchs and generals is too deep, so deep that Hongzhi doesn't like him very much. Emperor Hongzhi looked at Mu Bin, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and wanted to get some accurate information from him.

"Your Majesty, the commander of the minister's Jinyi guard has something to start Your Majesty." Mu Bin started the class.

"There's a play."

"No, Your Majesty, the Jinyi Wei secret agent got the news, the fire screen attacked and harassed Datong Mansion, the Datong Mansion guerrilla Wang Gao was defeated, the fire screen plundered a large number of people and left, and the general Qin Gong and the deputy general soldiers did not stay. Only recapture and collect a small number of people who have escaped......" Mu Bin said this, his tone gradually lowered, because he saw that the emperor's face was getting worse and worse.

"Your Majesty, the ministers of the imperial history Wang Lun reported that the folk Shilin rumored that the Datong Mansion guerrilla Wang Gao, together with other officials, privately communicated with the enemy chieftains, sold salt and iron in exchange for huge profits, and murdered Liu Shiqing, the capital of Datong Mansion who was not in the same stream as them, Liu Shiqing's daughter Liu Liangnu has come to Dengwengu Temple to knock Dengwengu to complain. From this, it can be seen how much the military system has been eroded, please see it to Your Majesty! ”。 The imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate also hurriedly came out to increase the weight.

"The Criminal Department investigated the case of Liu Liangnu. The Ministry of Investigation sent people to Datong Mansion to investigate the situation, and if it is true, it will be punished according to the law. After the year, the officials of the Ministry of War and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies discussed the military system with the Six Ministers. Let's retreat. Emperor Hongzhi sighed, then made an order, then turned around and left, and left the Fengtian Hall without waiting for the mountain of the ministers to call long live.