When Cao Bianjiao led his army to Datong that day, Cao Yue and Sun Chuanting went out of the city for five miles to greet him, and placed Cao Bianjiao's men and horses in the Beida camp outside the city. Cao Bianjiao's troops came from a long distance and experienced another fierce battle, and the soldiers were tired and urgently needed to rest and replenish their military supplies. Cao Yue also generously took out the small amount of money and food savings in Datong City to meet the needs of Cao Bianjiao's department. Cao Bianjiao was very grateful for this, and Cao Yue was also pleasantly surprised by the reinforcements of Cao Bianjiao's department, which should be the only team of Datong desperate to rescue when it was in crisis.

Although Zhou Yuji, Jiang Pai and Jiang Rang brothers promised to rescue Datong, they did not dare to compete with Jiannu, and only agreed to intercept the Liukou for the Datong army. And Cao Bianjiao's Eastern Alliance Army fought another battle with Dolgon's army on the way to reinforcements, and lost some men and horses, so Cao Yue had to make compensation.

After Cao Bianjiao arrived in Datong, the two brothers exchanged a lot, but most of them were exchanges on the use of troops, and the two brothers did not talk much about the current situation and the future of the Cao family. Whether it is Cao Yue or Cao Bianjiao, they all know that now their brothers have become influential figures, and the people of the world know their heroic deeds, and the ministers in the court, as well as Emperor Chongzhen, also look at them differently.

There must be ministers in the court who praise them, and of course there must be many people who are not convinced, and are even trying to slander them and ostracize them. This is the characteristic of the Ming Dynasty, and the intrigue in the court is always fierce, even if the enemy is currently the same. The status of military generals has always been low, and they are very seriously excluded by civil servants, and military generals who have made great contributions often do not get the corresponding treatment, and even suffer unfair treatment, which Cao Yue has personally experienced.

It can also be seen from the fact that Sun Chuanting was unjustly imprisoned and spent several years in prison.

There are many things, and the two brothers must discuss them and discuss how to deal with them, otherwise they are likely to be in trouble.

Sun Chuanting promised that after the victory of the Battle of Datong, he would tell Cao Yue a lot of secrets, and Cao Yue was also ready to find an opportunity to chat with Sun Chuanting and find out some inside stories that he didn't know.

Of course, the first thing to do is to reward meritorious soldiers, compensate the dead, and arrange for the military and people of Datong.

At this point, Sun Chuanting was more scheming than Cao Yue, when Jiannu arrived at Datong City, he had already had a secret discussion with Zhu Chuanqi, the acting king, and successfully made Zhu Chuanqi agree that if the battle of Datong was won and Jiannu was repulsed, Zhu Chuanqi must come up with at least one million taels of silver, and there was enough food to reward the soldiers and arrange for the people, otherwise the Datong army would abandon Datong.

Nearly 200,000 slaves were pressed, Zhu Chuanqi was of course afraid to death, and under the psychological effect that saving his life was the first priority, he was forced to agree to Sun Chuanting's threat.

But after the Battle of Datong, he wanted to repent, but Sun Chuanting had already thought of such a trick, and took out the notes written by Zhu Chuanqi, as well as some evidence proving that Zhu Chuanqi had collusion with Jiannu and Liukou, but Zhu Chuanqi could only relent, and reluctantly took out a huge amount of money and food.

Zhu Chuanqi's family property is very rich, even if he took out a million taels of silver and hundreds of thousands of stone grains, it did not make him bankrupt, at most it only made his living conditions a little worse. So much property was extorted by Sun Chuanting and Cao Yue successively, and nearly half of his family property was gone, Zhu Chuanqi was full of resentment towards these two people, and he secretly swore that he must find a way to take revenge and make Sun Chuanting and Cao Yue unlucky.

But now, Zhu Chuanqi still doesn't dare to openly turn his face with Sun Chuanting and Cao Yue, after all, he has done a lot of disgraceful things, and some things still have the handle in the hands of Sun Chuanting and Cao Yue. He needed time, and even more so opportunity, so he took a temporary forbearance.

In the eyes of Sun Chuanting and Cao Yue, Zhu Chuanqi is just a greedy vassal king, who does not have much power and does not have much impact on the current situation, and they have evidence that Zhu Chuanqi is doing business with Jiannu and secretly doing business with Liukou, so they are not afraid of Zhu Chuanqi's retaliation, and they don't think much about whether this vassal king will retaliate.

After sending troops to transport one million taels of silver and hundreds of thousands of stone grain from Zhu Chuanqi's palace to Xingyuan, Cao Yue and Sun Chuanting were very happy.

The military problem was temporarily solved, and the rewards of the soldiers should not be worried, the food for the relief of the people was temporarily settled, and the Jiannu also retreated, and the liukou Liu Zongmin and Li Yanbu did not dare to march north again after Zhou Yuji and the Jiang brothers sent out their troops and horses.

Datong is safe at the moment, there is no threat, and of course they are happy.

After the blackmail of Zhu Chuanqi was successful, the two happily returned to Xingyuan, and when they drank tea and bragged together, Cao Yue naturally led the topic to the things he cared about.

"Old man Sun, you promised me that when the battle of Datong is won, you will tell me all the confidential things you know, and give me some ideas. Now that the big things are done, you can also tell me what you know, and give me some ideas so that I don't get miserable!"

"Boy, do you know if you can't wait to find out this?" Sun Chuanting was not surprised that Cao Yue asked him these things, and after taking a slow sip of tea, he said happily: "Don't worry, I will definitely tell you what I should tell you, and the old man will not cheat you!"

"Then you can say it today, what is the real purpose of coming to Datong this time, it won't be just the labor army, right? I came here to take away the power of my Datong army, right? Cao Yue asked very politely.

"Clever!" Sun Chuanting gave Cao Yue a thumbs up and said with appreciation: "Some people in the court are dissatisfied that you commanded tens of thousands of horses at a young age and defended one side, and the combat effectiveness of the Datong army is too strong, and you have defeated Jiannu several times, you say, may no one be jealous of this army?" You and Cao Bianjiao's men and horses are so strong in combat, maybe someone is not worried that your Cao brothers will not listen to the orders of the imperial court? ”

Sun Chuanting's words suddenly confirmed some of the worries in Cao Yue's heart, he smiled bitterly, and asked Sun Chuanting: "It's His Majesty the Emperor, he doesn't worry that my cousin and I are both commanding tens of thousands of elite soldiers, right?" ”

"I didn't say anything, you guessed it yourself!" Sun Chuanting did not answer Cao Yue's question, but smiled mysteriously, "You have trained an army with such combat effectiveness, and now there are not many people and horses that the imperial court can mobilize, and many generals will not obey the dispatch of the imperial court, or the lion will open his mouth and make a lot of demands to the imperial court." If you want to continue to control it yourself, you must know what price you will have to pay. So the old man advises you, honestly hand over the army, and by the way ask the court for some conditions, in the case of someone who wants to pick your peaches, many of your requirements can be met, and even some excessive requirements can be. Long live Lord attaches great importance to you, and the most beloved daughters are ready to marry you, how to do it, how do you look at it!"