Chapter 240: The Clearance of Soldiers
"Hey ......"
Wen Tiren was so angry in his heart, a pair of small eyes narrowed slightly, and he looked at Yang Sichang with a cold light, and the majesty of Yichaofu was undoubtedly revealed for a while.
And Yang Sichang was not to be outdone, and still went back. Now that the emperor is still here, what kind of majesty are you playing at me, can you be better than the emperor no matter how good you are?
Seeing the two ministers facing the cow in front of him, Chongzhen was not angry, but watched with interest as his two important ministers fought openly and secretly. After all, for the emperor, a court that is too amiable is not what he needs, and if the ministers below have a good relationship enough to wear the same pants, then he, the emperor, may not be able to eat.
Wen Tiren said coldly: "Lord Yang, this official doesn't know what benefits Yue Yang promised you, so he spoke for him like this. Although the official does not agree to punish him, it does not mean that the official also agrees to transfer his troops and horses to King Qin. ”
Yang Sichang looked at Wen Tiren lightly, and said calmly: "Wen Fu, the lower officials are just talking about things. Thinking that Yue Yang has paid millions of taels of grain for the imperial court in the past two years, and nearly 200,000 taels of commercial taxes, this alone is worthy of the imperial court's vigorous commendation, but this official can't figure it out, what have those "loyal ministers" who always say that he has ill intentions done for the imperial court? ”
As soon as Yang Sichang's words came out, Wen Tiren immediately became dumb. Yang Sichang's words pointed out one of the biggest characteristics of the Ming Dynasty, those scholars slipped their mouths one by one, but it was really difficult for them to do something.
Didn't you say that Yue Yang has no king and no father? What did those literati who shouted loyalty and patriotism all day long do for the imperial court?
As the saying goes, everything is afraid of comparison, and if you compare, everything will come out, and some things can't be played just by lip service. In the final analysis, if a country wants to operate normally, it still depends on those who can do things, this truth Chongzhen is naturally very clear as the emperor, he thought about it and made a decision in his heart, he hesitated for a moment before he considered it and said.
"Yang Aiqing. As the secretary of the military department, you are in charge of the world's soldiers and horses, so you are in charge of this matter. Although I have never seen that Yueyang, I think that a person who can pay 700,000 quintals of grain and hundreds of thousands of taels of silver every year will not be much worse even if he is a bad person, and it is no problem to come and mobilize him to come to Jingshi Qinwang. ”
Since Chongzhen, the Ming master, has made a final decision, no matter what everyone thinks in their hearts, they all got up and bowed down to him in unison and said in unison: "The emperor is shengming!" ”
It's just that while bowing down, some people secretly frown in their hearts, although Chongzhen agreed. But listening to his tone, it was very reluctant, it seemed that this Chongzhen still had scruples about Yue Yang, but at present, there was really no soldier to adjust, so he had to do so.
Sure enough, after a while, Chongzhen made another decree, ordering Lu Xiang, who was suppressing bandits in Hubei, to be promoted to the prime minister and minister of the five provinces, and immediately led the army to Changping.
In this way, under the deliberation of everyone, several holy decrees left the Forbidden City and galloped away in all directions almost at the same time.
When Yue Yang received this holy decree. It was already five days later, and the messenger finally delivered the official document of the transfer of troops to Yue Yang's hands.
June 11 of the fifth year of Chongzhen
Yue Yang sat in the study, eating the grapes sent by the Linglong sisters while looking at the official document of the military transfer department that had just been sent, and from time to time grape juice splashed on the official document on the table.
"Eh, young master. Look at you, the official document is full of grape juice, and it would be great if people saw it. Yuling, who was cleaning up the table on the side, saw that Yue Yang had treated the official documents of the imperial court so carelessly, and her little face turned pale with fright. Hurriedly took away the grapes in Yue Yang's hand, and took out a handkerchief from his arms to carefully wipe the grape juice on Yue Yang's hand.
"Eh, girl, I said what are you afraid of. It's just an official document, and it's not the holy decree of Emperor Laozi. Besides, what if it's a holy decree? It's not people who write it yet! Hai Lanzhu, who was sorting out information on another desk on the side, couldn't help but smile when she saw this, and said a word to Yuling.
"How can this be the same, this is an official document from those adults in the imperial court, it's not ordinary, we need to keep it well." Yuling carefully wiped the official document and answered seriously.
"You, you are worthy of being trained by your grandmother, and you are really careful enough." Looking at Yuling's cautious appearance, Yue Yang couldn't help but cry and laugh a little. Although she has become an official's wife, Yuling's cautious temperament has not changed, and she always keeps Yueyang's study and backyard in order on weekdays.
Yue Yang said a little helplessly: "Okay Ling'er, don't be busy, hurry up and help Xiaoman take care of our two little devils, I'm worried that the two of them won't be able to bear it." ”
Since her son was weaned, Hai Lanzhu began to take up the work of Youchuan Si and Youshan Si again, and handed over her son to Xiaoman, while the Linglong sisters took care of the family's business while taking care of the child, and the child was naturally handed over to Xiaoman and the maid at home. Originally, Yuling wanted to invite a wet nurse, but was stopped by Yue Yang, who said eloquently that children who grew up eating other people's milk will grow up to be alienated from their own mothers. The reason is very strong, Yuling has to work hard to take care of the family's business while nursing the child.
Finally took the diligent Yuling to play, Yue Yang gently tilted the desk and muttered: "Hai Lanzhu, this time the imperial court ordered me to send troops, the time is very urgent, we are required to rush to Changping within ten days of receiving the official document, if they are all cavalry, it is almost the same, but most of our soldiers and horses are foot soldiers, if you want to feel that Changping has to travel day and night within ten days." ”
Hai Lanzhu pursed her lips: "Isn't this obvious, those old men in the military department are embarrassing you, it seems that the news that you are shouting about recruiting 10,000 soldiers has frightened many people." Especially that Chen Xinjia, he is the left squire of the military department, and it is too easy to do something bad to you in secret. In my opinion, you still don't want to go, Huang Taiji sent Azig to lead an army of 100,000 to the south this time, which was originally intended to loot, and it was seven or eight hundred miles away from us. This time, the prime minister offended those ministers in the court, they are holding back the bad and want to clean you up, if you go and you must not be bullied to death by them, just don't go, I want to see what they can do to us? ”
"You!"
Looking at Hai Lanzhu's indifferent expression, Yue Yang shook her head helplessly, reached out and gently scraped her Qiong's nose, and said lovingly: "You always habitually put the customs of your grassland into our Daming, I know that in the grassland, the strong are respected, as long as you have the strength, you will be respected by others." But this is Daming, there are many invisible rules and regulations here that are always restraining us, although you are now considered to have some strength, but you still have to be careful in doing things, you can't do whatever you want, you know? ”
"I really don't understand why you Han people like to put shackles on yourself so much, even though you have that strength, you still bind yourself. Look at my Abu, how much life is going on now, if he doesn't want to, even Huang Taiji can't force him to do what he doesn't want to do. Hai Lanzhu said proudly.
Although she has been married to Yue Yang for two years and even gave birth to a child, Hai Lanzhu still disagrees with some of the practices of the Han people. For her, who grew up on the grassland since she was a child, as long as she has strength, she is strong, and a strong person must have the dignity of a strong person. For example, the current Horqin tribe, in the past two years, has become a famous tribe on the grassland, and now has more than 10,000 warriors, as long as the sheared wool and raised cattle, sheep and horses are sold to Yueyang every year, the whole tribe can live a very rich life, and there will be no more starvation in winter as in the past.
The Horqin tribe has become stronger, and now Zhaisang even speaks a lot louder, and several times the Manchu Qing have negotiated with him to invite him to go south to plunder together, but Zhaisang has refused. In Zhai Sang's words, in the past, the sons invaded the south because they had no food to eat, but now the food in the house is enough to eat, and it would be stupid to go out and play with others to lick the blood.
Yue Yang couldn't help this daughter-in-law, so he had to say bluntly: "You, don't forget that you are also the daughter-in-law of the Han people now, in the words of our Han people, that is, you marry your husband, and you have to abide by the rules of our Han people when you come to the territory of our Han people, understand?" ”
"Oh!"
Although Hai Lanzhu is relatively straightforward, she is still very obedient to Yue Yang's words, and she can only give up when she sees her husband insisting on it. But then Hai Lanzhu remembered one more thing, and couldn't help asking: "By the way, how many men and horses do you plan to bring with you this time?" ”
"Well, just bring 5,000 foot soldiers, 3,000 cavalry, an artillery battalion and 2,000 heavy soldiers, and more than 10,000 troops should be able to protect themselves." Yue Yang thought for a while before replying, although the total strength of Yue Yang has reached about 23,000 now, but he has to garrison the Chahar garrison outside the pass, and he has to divide troops to garrison Yingzhou Capital, Hunyuan Prefecture and various checkpoints on the North Road, and there are not many troops at hand, otherwise he would not have announced a few days ago that he would have taken advantage of that opportunity to shout recruitment.
At this time, Yue Yang's mind came up with a line of information that appeared when he searched for Du Niang in modern times: In July, the Qing army entered Gyeonggi, and after capturing Changping, they successively captured Liangxiang (now Fangshan, Beijing) and besieged Shunyi (now Beijing). Ming Shunyi Zhixian Shangguanxin and guerrilla rulers all commanded Su Shiyu and others to resist the city. The city fell, and the national weapons, the rain and so on all died. Taking advantage of the situation, the Qing army captured Baodi (now Tianjin), Dingxing, Ansu (now Xushui, Hebei), Dacheng, Xiongxian, Anzhou and other counties of.
Although this line of information is short, it contains the blood and tears of many people, since the current Ming court can not protect the people under its command, then let yourself do your part...... (To be continued......)
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