Although the Son of Heaven and the cabinet ordered not to attack, and only let the nine-sided armies intercept in their own defense areas, at the operational level, after confirming the news of the retreat of the Tartars, the counterattack of the Ming army has officially begun. The military leaders who wanted to make meritorious contributions, the soldiers who wanted to make money, and even the private soldiers controlled by Xun Gui all started a game called hunting thieves for bounties.

During the siege of the northern captives, he plundered around the capital division, made a lot of money, and also harmed the industries of the powerful in the capital division, and the beams on both sides were actually very large. If Mongolia is powerful, this kind of beam will be forgotten, just knock out teeth and swallow blood. But now that the thieves are about to retreat, at this time, it is natural that there is revenge and revenge, and how much can be recovered.

Although they did not have the strength to engage the Mongols head-on, the captives were now retreating, and the possibility of returning to the division was extremely low. With a part of the elite troops in pursuit, the strength of the few troops in the rear of the Mongol palace is still there.

In particular, these captives often carry a large number of baggage, and although the speed of action cannot be improved, they cannot maintain the array, and their combat effectiveness is very problematic. After beating them, there is still something to grab, and the troops' will to fight is much stronger than that of the defending Beijing division. The Mongols were anxious to return home, and after the troops behind the palace were rushed by the officers and soldiers several times, they were a little disorganized, and as a result, the final Beijing division defended before and after, but during this period of time, the most beheadings and casualties were the most.

The people did not return to their homes immediately because the Tartars had retreated, and it was safest to hide in the city until the war was over. But no matter what, just thinking that the thieves had retreated, the mood of the people was still good, and on the side of the imperial court, it could also be claimed that this was a great victory.

But at the height of the temple, not many people were really happy, except for Jiajing, few people knew that the retreat of the thieves was because of the use of extraneous moves. As for the reason for the thief's retreat, the bigwigs couldn't guess it, and for a while there were different opinions in the court. Some of them were well-informed and knew that something was wrong with the thieves, and it seemed that some people were quite dissatisfied with Bodi Khan, and some people heard that it was the chief of Gunbirik who defeated the Korqin and invaded Bodi's territory, forcing him to return to his division to save him.

Because the reasons are not clear, the response means are not very positive. Several cabinet ministers are calm people, and the merits of the martial artists in the Wuzong era are too great and their status is also high, and these issues are also a consensus. It was the tacit choice of the civilian officials to suppress the warriors and prevent them from obtaining military merits, and under this policy, even a punitive counterattack against the Mongols was not accepted.

The reasoning of Yang Tinghe and others is also very correct, the current country is not the time to use force. Wu Zong was so happy with his achievements, and he went on expeditions everywhere, so that the country was poor and the people were bad, and the national strength was weak, so he should now recuperate and recuperate, and he could not continue to use force abroad. Although the Mongols besieged the capital division this time, the Ming Dynasty actually did not suffer any losses, and there were only a handful of lost counties, and the level of the capital city was all in the hands of the imperial court. As for the loss of the countryside, it is not included in the statistical scope of the imperial court, and it can be ignored.

Since you didn't suffer any losses, for the sake of face, it is not worth really fighting with the Mongols, but you should consider why the Mongols are fighting, respond to this point, and avoid fighting again in the future.

Or Yuan Zonggao considered the idea of the Son of Heaven, and played a round in the middle, "The opinion of the ministers is by no means to appease the thieves and nurture the traitors, but to have priorities, and everything is people-oriented." The people have been living too hard these years, and we need to be sympathetic to the people and not tear them apart. Instead of pinning our hopes on the sword soldiers, it is better to solve this problem through some better means. ”

Jiang Mian also said, "Yes, although the thief is vicious, he is just a barbarian, and he is not a confidant in the imperial court." At present, there are many evils in the DPRK, the discipline is sluggish, and the people's strength is weak, and it is difficult to achieve complete success even if they go out on the expedition. According to the opinion of the ministers, the people should be restored first, and then the troops and horses should be strengthened, and then one or two good generals should be sent to plough the pavilion and sweep the holes, then the thieves can be captured, and the horses can be destroyed. ”

The household department and the military department also all said that the treasury was empty and the troops were insufficient, and it was not suitable for a full-scale war against the Mongols. Even if Jiajing really wants to fight, he can't fight, and at this time, Jiajing is left with the only way to compromise.

However, not using force against the Mongols does not mean that this incident can be treated as if it never happened, anyway, the Jingshi was besieged, the emperor's dignity was hit, and the imperial court needed to do something to maintain the emperor's face. Since it is not possible to use troops externally, it can only punish the relevant responsible persons internally and make some people pay a sufficient price.

On this issue, the cabinet behaved even more radically than the emperor, Niu Jixue decided to behead all the doors, his wife and daughter sold the Jiaofang Division, Liu Shoudao moved his family to Yunnan, Cai Guangxing and Cao Zihou were two families, and the whole family had to be investigated. However, the list taken out by the Criminal Department also included Fan Chong and those grain merchants who insisted on opening the market, saying that they wanted to assist in the investigation. It's just that the servants who went to fetch people were all beaten by the brocade guards and left, and no one was able to lock them up.

"Why? This Fan Chong is obviously a person from Jinyiwei, why is he even arrested, what is the criminal department doing to eat, a group of rice buckets. In the Yang Mansion, after hearing the news, the ninth sister looked disdainful, and at the same time leaned her head on Liu's lap as if she was coquettish, "Mother, you said that the people from the Criminal Department, is it a big rice bucket?" ”

As a woman born as a concubine, Liu never dreamed that one day, there would be a daughter of a national family who would please herself as if she were a pet. Huanxi didn't know what to say, so she pulled the ninth sister up with a smile on her face and let her sit next to her, "My mother is a countryman, with long hair and short knowledge, and I don't understand the truth." If you want to be the secretary of the Criminal Department, it must be a character in the lower realm of Wenqu Xing, and it will definitely not be a rice bucket. But my good daughter-in-law said that they were rice buckets, and they must be rice buckets. ”

Yang Chengzu looked at the intimate appearance of the two, and always felt that something was wrong, as if he had suffered a great loss. hurriedly coughed a few times, "Ninth sister, you are the daughter of a big family, a bit of a sitting face, don't look like you have no bones." As for what you said about Fan Chong, of course the Criminal Department is not a rice bucket, they are shrewd. If these people were taken to the yamen and guaranteed to be questioned as accomplices, they might die in prison without knowing what they wanted. Who let them release grain, and don't stand with the grain merchants, you see, Liu Shoudao, who insists on carrying it to the end, isn't it just a sentence. This set of things is nothing unusual, but with me, they want to play this set, and it is far from it. ”

Although the time has not yet reached the end of autumn, but the wind of accounting has risen, the former thought that the storm of the Beijing camp was nearing the end, but he did not want to because of the matter of the northern captives entering the customs, the wind blew fiercely, forming a tornado. The first to bear the brunt of the attack was the military department, which had already been tossed once, and in the face of this huge wind, it was once again blown to pieces and collapsed.