Chapter 435: Help the Chief Administrator Ask for a Reward
At the same time that Chu Yi's letter arrived in Beijing, the good news of Xuanfu was also entered into the Ministry of War, and the officials of the Ministry of War looked at the good news stupidly, and their first reaction was not to believe it.
But soon the palace attendant came, and after some inquiry, the official of the military department naturally did not dare to hide anything, and even took out the urgent letter that had just been submitted and handed it to the chamberlain.
The chamberlain found out that the good news of the Xuanfu had arrived, and even if he took the palace to resume his life.
In the palace.
Zhu Houzhao sat there calmly, for about an hour, the hall was quiet, and a group of civil and military ministers accompanied the Son of Heaven to drink tea and wait for news one by one.
If there is no news from the Ministry of War, then it is almost certain that the so-called good news from earlier is fake news.
The dozen or so important ministers present can be said to have different thoughts, and for the so-called victory of Xuanfu, to be honest, everyone has different feelings in their hearts.
Some people hope that this victory of Xuanfu really exists, but there are also people who do not want to see this.
In the eyes of a very small number of people, this time the Ming Dynasty in the process of the war with the Tatars, not to mention how big the victory was, as long as it can remain undefeated or suffer a little loss, it is the best.
Everyone knows that this battle was personally planned by Chu Yi and personally led the army to meet the Tatars.
Jiangnan was pacified, and King Ning's rebellion subsided, among which Chu Yi can be said to have made great contributions, even if there is such a bright pearl as Wang Shouren, but it still can't suppress Chu Yi's brilliance.
Wang Shouren's military achievements this time can be described as impressive, but Chu Yi personally arranged in the middle, even if Wang Shouren was arranged by Chu Yi in advance.
This point was naturally unknown to the Chinese Wu at the beginning, but later as the rebellion of King Ning was gradually put down, especially Wang Shouren showed his rare military strategic talent, which made Wang Shouren suddenly enter the attention of everyone.
Wang Shouren can be regarded as an extraordinary background, his father is a scholar of the imperial court, and he is the teacher of Zhu Houzhao in the past, but he can barely be called an emperor.
But even with such an identity background, Wang Shouren's career is not smooth sailing, and he was able to emerge during King Ning's chaos, which can be said to be due to Chu Yi.
Even if his father was a scholar, he never asked for any official position for him in front of the Son of Heaven, but Chu Yi single-handedly arranged for Wang Shouren's transfer.
It is precisely because of this that in the eyes of many people, Wang Shouren is Chu Yi's right-hand man, and many people regard Wang Shouren as Chu Yi's lackey.
Wang Shouren's exploits were naturally regarded as Chu Yi's exploits.
In quelling the rebellion of King Ning, Chu Yi had already made such a great achievement, and now if he returned with a great victory as mentioned in the letter of the eight hundred li urgency, this dynasty Chinese Wu and even the Son of Heaven would no longer be able to embarrass Chu Yi.
It is really Chu Yi's feats that are too huge and amazing.
In that letter, the Tatars added up to nearly 200,000 soldiers and horses, and although it was said that the troops were divided into two routes, each of them had 100,000 soldiers.
Even if there are tens of thousands of people in Suri, Koubian can make the noisy chickens and dogs in the border towns, but now the Tatars have dispatched one or two hundred thousand people at once, and even let the Tatars hit the capital, and the Beijing camp desperately blocked the Tatars outside the city and insisted until the Tatars retreated.
Even if there are a lot of losses under the capital, but if the Balsborough part is combined, it is tens of thousands, and if you add the 100,000 people under Dayan Khan, this is more than 100,000 people.
The news of Balsborot's defeat and capture has been transmitted back to the capital, and Balsborot is just that, the key is Dayan Khan.
Dayan Khan is such a person, even if the other party is a steppe alien, but the Chinese military ministers of the Ming Dynasty have dealt with Dayan Khan a lot.
Dayan Khan unified the Tatars, and even suppressed the Warats, becoming the new hegemonic force on the steppe in one fell swoop.
A tribe that was able to gradually grow from a small tribe, and finally annexed and unified the tribes on the grassland, and became the lord of the grassland.
Baalsborot is the son of Dayan Khan, and it is reasonable to be calculated, the most important thing is Dayan Khan, such a heroic figure is definitely not so easy to be captured alive.
A rush of footsteps came, and many of the people in the hall were even a little sleepy, and they were suddenly awakened by the footsteps, and at the same time subconsciously looked towards the entrance of the main hall.
I saw an attendant respectfully holding a piece of music and walking quickly into the main hall, and then bowed down in front of Zhu Houzhao and said: "Slave and maid to see Your Majesty, the chapter presented by the Xuanfu is here!" ”
Everyone's eyes fell on the piece of music held in the hand of the chamberlain. Many people's eyes can't wait to see through the piece and see the content on it.
Zhu Houzhao, who was originally sitting there drinking tea boringly, suddenly his eyes lit up, and his gaze fell on the music in the hand of the waiter.
Since this piece of music is from Xuanfu, and it is still an urgent chapter, Zhu Houzhao's first thought is whether this piece of music is the news of Xuanfu's great victory presented by Yang Yiqing of Xuanfu.
The victory of Xuanfu was too shocking, and Zhu Houzhao naturally trusted Chu Yi 100%, so he never doubted the content of the urgent letter submitted by Chu Yi.
But Zhu Houzhao is the Son of Heaven, he can believe it, but he can't ask others to be like him, and he doesn't even doubt it.
Therefore, Zhu Houzhao needs the Xuanfu recital to prove that Chu Yi is not lying about the military situation, but really achieved the great victory written on the 800-mile expedited line.
"Hurry up!"
Gu Dayong hurriedly walked down the steps, stepped forward quickly, took the urgent piece from the hand of the chamberlain, and then stepped forward and handed the piece to Zhu Houzhao.
Zhu Houzhao opened the chapter, swept the ten lines at a glance, his face was full of joy, and he saw Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but pat the table and said excitedly: "Okay, good, I know that Chu Daban will not deceive me!" ”
While speaking, Zhu Houzhao said excitedly: "Come on, pass this piece from the Xuanfu to all the Qing family to take a look!" ”
Gu Dayong personally took over the piece from Zhu Houzhao, and then slowly presented it in front of Zhang Mao, Jiao Fang and other important ministers of the court.
Whether it was Zhang Mao or Jiao Fang, they stared at the piece one by one, eager to recite all the content on the piece.
Zhang Mao's eyes narrowed, and he sighed lightly in his heart, even if he looked at the concerto, Zhang Mao's heart was still a little incredulous.
His ancestor Zhang Fu was old when he accompanied Emperor Yingzong to the imperial expedition and ended in the battle of Tumubao, and as a British government, he was not there.
It is precisely because of this that Zhang Mao has a better understanding of Tatar, in Zhang Mao's view, there are many advantages of Tatar, not to mention others, the fact that the full cavalry alone makes people scratch their heads.
It may be possible to inflict damage on the Tatars in one battle during the battle, but if you want to surround the Tatar army and force it down, it is naturally extremely difficult, and most importantly, even Dayan Khan, a steppe hero, fell into the hands of Chu Yi.
Looking at the detailed description in the recital, even Zhang Mao had to admit that Chu Yi really brought them a great surprise this time.
Apparently more shocked than delighted.
The music turned around in the hands of the crowd, and the figures in the hall all bowed their heads slightly, their faces full of surprise or disbelief.
Zhu Houzhao picked up the teacup and observed the reactions of the crowd while drinking tea. It seems to be to see what kind of reaction the crowd will have at the moment when the news is confirmed.
When the chapter returned to Zhu Houzhao's hands again, nearly half an hour had passed.
Zhu Houzhao slowly spread out the piece and put it on the table, and slowly read out the content of the piece.
The entire hall was quiet, only Zhu Houzhao's slightly excited voice echoed in the hall: "Zhongqing's family, the concert presented by the Xuanfu, I think everyone has seen it." ”
Everyone's expressions changed, looking at Zhu Houzhao and the two reports on the table about the victory of Xuanfu.
Jiao Fang chuckled in her heart, stroked her beard, and looked at the others.
The rest of the people listened to Zhu Houzhao's questioning, you look at me, I look at you, no one moved, and they were not willing to be the first bird at this time.
If you flatter Chu Yi, naturally you don't need to say much, but if you want to find fault with Chu Yi, Chu Yi doesn't seem to have any weaknesses and handles at all.
His eyes swept over the crowd, and Zhu Houzhao said slowly: "Everyone, the great companion has made such a great contribution to my Daming, you may wish to take advantage of the fact that everyone is here, let's discuss first, how to welcome the great companion to return with great victory, and how to reward the great companion."
Zhu Houzhao's words made some people sigh in their hearts, and they want to reward Chu Yi? You must know that Chu Yi's current position can be said to be more important than the other, and he has almost reached the limit of being a minister.
The Son of Heaven now said that he would reward Chu Yi, but after thinking about it, everyone didn't know how to reward Chu Yi.
Whoever let Chu Yi be an internal servant has already reached the peak at a young age, so that for a while, they couldn't even think of how to reward Chu Yi so that they could be worthy of Chu Yi's meritorious deeds.
When the good news from Jiangnan came before, Zhu Houzhao had mentioned the matter of rewarding Chu Yi more than once, but unfortunately Chu Yi was not in Beijing at that time.
In addition, Chu Yi's secret letter came to Zhu Houzhao's case, and Zhu Houzhao learned that Chu Yi was going to set up an overall situation against Tatar, so Zhu Houzhao temporarily stopped the idea of sealing Chu Yi.
After all, at this time, Chu Yi was busy with how to deal with Baalsborot, Dayan Khan and others, and he didn't have much energy to pay attention to these.
But Zhu Houzhao has not forgotten Chu Yi's exploits, and now he has pacified Jiangnan and captured the Tatar high-level alive and destroyed the Tatars, either of which is enough to make people reach the position of a prince.
Everyone looked at Zhu Houzhao and pondered in their hearts how to be worthy of Chu Yi's exploits, and at the same time, they also wanted to avoid Chu Yi's crisis of imperial power as much as possible.
Of course, everyone is actually very clear in their hearts, even if they persuade the Son of Heaven not to reward Chu Yi this time, it will definitely not affect Chu Yi's influence on the imperial court.
Not to mention anything else, just in the Beijing camp, eight or nine out of ten of the generals in the Beijing camp were appointed by Chu Yi himself, and hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers and horses can be said to be the only ones who obeyed Chu Yi's orders.
Chu Yi is in power, and I don't know how many people are secretly worried about when Chu Yi will endanger the Son of Heaven.
It's just that even if Chu Yi held great power before, he didn't have the merit of being able to convince the public, so although some people said that they were worried about Chu Yi, they didn't react.
This time is different, in just a few months, Chu Yi has put down the rebellion against King Ning, and then captured Balsborot, Dayan Khan and other Tatar high-ranking and nobles, it can be said that only this two times, Chu Yi's feats are really terrifying.
More importantly, Chu Yi's name is afraid that it will be famous all over the world with these two wars.
Thanks to the blessings of those literati, Chu Yi's name is not very good, and he is even rumored to be a demon who kills people without blinking, giving birth to people's hearts, and can almost stop babies from crying.
Even among the people, Chu Yi is regarded as a eunuch and a person who has brought disaster to the country and the people by those ignorant people, but as long as he is not a fool, he knows that once the news of the two great victories spreads, then Chu Yi's reputation for not being good among the people will inevitably change.
With military power in hand and great prestige, no one dares to imagine that if one day, Chu Yi has other ideas, who else will be able to balance Chu Yi.
A figure stepped forward and saluted respectfully to Zhu Houzhao and said: "Your Majesty, the old minister implores Your Majesty to crown the title of Chief Administrator Chu Yi as the prince of my Ming Dynasty, so as to show his meritorious deeds and the heart of the soldiers of the three armies." ”
Another figure saluted Zhu Houzhao and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the position of the prince is not enough to show the importance and love of the court and His Majesty to the chief administrator......
Zhu Houzhao's eyes lit up, he looked at the old minister and said, "Aiqing might as well say bluntly, how can I reward my companion so that I can express my trust in my companion?" ”
Under the attention of everyone, the official glanced at everyone, and slowly opened his mouth and said to Zhu Houzhao, who was looking at him expectantly: "The minister implores Your Majesty to crown the chief steward as the king!" ”
"Poof!"
The official's voice fell, and everyone present, including Zhu Houzhao, opened their eyes wide and looked at each other in disbelief.
Everyone was stunned by the official's words.
This person dared to ask the Son of Heaven to be crowned king, don't you know that if you are not a clan, you can't be crowned a king, and there are only a few people in the world who have a different surname as the king, and after the founding of the country, don't say that it is the prince, even if the position of the prince of the country is not crowned a few, where is this to help Chu Yi get a reward, it is simply to put Chu Yi to death!
[On the sixth day of my daughter's birth, do the math, in six days, I slept for less than 30 hours, and I was going to die! 】