"A descendant dares to grab my Cao Wenzhao's head!"

On the first day of the fifth month, when Cao Wenzhao's scolding voice sounded in Hanhai City, he was about to send troops when he suddenly learned the news that Wu Sangui had sent troops to fight Buriyaxi.

As soon as the news came, Cao Wenzhao immediately became angry.

This battle was originally supposed to be the Eastern Army and the Northern Army joining forces to share the merits, but now Wu Sangui, a descendant boy, wants to swallow both of the merits alone, isn't this a slap in the face of Cao Wenzhao?

"! Lao Tzu wants to go up to His Royal Highness! ”

The more he thought about it, the more angry Cao Wenzhao became, and the generals around him were also holding back the fire.

The Northern Army began to prepare in March, and as a result, after two months of preparation, it prepared a result of being cut off, and whoever was replaced was angry.

"Wang Daocheng! You know a fellow Northern Army! Brothers' military exploits were robbed! Where did you kid go! ”

"I'm writing an impeachment note!"

Cao Wenzhao scolded, and another person scolded outside the hall.

When Cao Wenzhao heard this, he immediately extinguished his anger, and not long after, a Confucian general wearing the regular uniform of a military attache also walked in with the impeachment note that had just been written.

"Someone will expedite me for eight hundred miles! ! The military exploits have been robbed of the damn! ”

As a student of the first phase of Yanshan, Wang Daocheng was even more aggrieved than Cao Wenzhao in his heart.

There is no need for Cao Wenzhao to speak, as soon as he learned the news, he wrote an impeachment note.

In his shouting, a staff officer took over the impeachment note, and the general ordered a group of Tang horsemen to go south with it.

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Tang Qi brought not only the impeachment of the music, but also the anger of the generals of the Northern Army.

Not to mention the generals, even the ordinary soldiers of the Northern Army were furious when they got the news.

Although the population of Buriyaxi is very small, and there are only a few thousand soldiers and horses, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is still meat, and it is plain that it is cut off by people, and no one can stand it.

Fortunately, they intercepted the news in time, and soon after the Tang cavalry led Song Shu south, the cavalry of the three battalions of the Northern Army assembled in Hanhai City rushed north, preparing to snatch back the military merits on the battlefield.

It's just that before their impeachment arrives in front of Zhu Youzhen, the people of Beizhen Fusi have already sent the news to Suzhou City through carrier pigeons the next day.

"Your Highness! This Wu Sangui is inevitably a little rebellious! ”

When the news of Jinyiwei was delivered, Zhu Youzhen was on a safari with Man Gui, so he learned that his military exploits had been robbed soon after the news was sent.

However, in the face of his anger, Zhu Youzhen looked at the news in his hand with great interest, and couldn't help but quip: "Do you think he is insatiable?" ”

"This ...... There are indeed some. Although Man Gui didn't say too much, his angry and blushing expression was enough to explain everything.

It's just that in the face of his anger, Zhu Youzhen raised the letter full of news and said: "You all think he is insatiable, but is he really insatiable?" ”

Shaking his head, Zhu Youzhen smiled and said, "It's the seventeenth year of the Apocalypse, and it's been a few years since I became a vassal." ”

"Wu Sangui and Zu Dashou are in-laws, plus Wu Xiang and Zu Dashou missed the battle of Fuliao, although they seem to be people from the Qi Palace, they are on the edge."

"Now you still think he's greedy because he's insatiable?"

Wu Sangui's careful thinking, Zhu Youzhen understood it at a glance.

The reason why he can understand at a glance is because he knows what kind of person Wu Sangui is.

Seeing the wind makes the rudder, brave and good at fighting, short of strategy...... This is Zhu Youzhen's evaluation of him.

There are many theories in history as to why Wu Sangui did not surrender to Dashun, most of which are related to the problem of Wu Sangui's family.

There are two contents, the first is that Wu Sangui heard that his father was tortured to death, so he was angry at the crown.

The second is to hear that the concubine Chen Yuanyuan was occupied, and then he became angry at the crown.

However, for these two options, historical romanticism prefers the second one, but whether it is the first or the second, it seems that Wu Sangui has no choice but to raise troops for filial piety and love.

But what is on paper is that in history, Wu Sangui hesitated when he heard the rumors that Shunjun tortured his father Wu Xiang.

As a normal person, the first thing Wu Sangui did when he learned the rumors was to find out whether his father Wu Xiang was still alive.

However, at this time, Wang Zeyao and others, who were sent by Li Zicheng to persuade Wu Sangui to surrender, also brought a letter written by Wu Xiang to Wu Sangui.

At this moment, the lives of Wu Sangui's whole family, including his father, were in the hands of Li Zicheng, his father's life and death were uncertain, there were rumors that his father was dead, and there were rumors that he was tortured, but at this time, a letter from his father came.

If he sent his cronies to Beijing to continue the negotiations, instructing them to try to see with their own eyes whether their father was still alive, this is normal human behavior.

If he asked Li Zicheng to send his father over, the whole family would be reunited, although it was not very clever, it was also a normal person's business.

However, Wu Sangui's first reaction after reading the letter was "Li Zicheng must have killed his father" and then rebelled directly, attacked Tangtong, and seized Shanhaiguan.

However, Wu Sangui's judgment was seriously wrong, and Li Zicheng did not kill Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui's family.

Even if Wu Sangui raised troops, Li Zicheng did not kill Wu Xiang, but took him to the east to conquer Shanhaiguan, and wanted Wu Xiang to persuade Wu Sangui to surrender.

As a result, during the entire Shanhaiguan Campaign, Wu Sangui was as blind as he was, not believing that his father was still alive, but fighting Li Zicheng to the death.

It was not until the end of the Battle of Shanhaiguan that Li Zicheng saw that Wu Sangui was determined not to surrender so he killed Wu Sangui's entire family.

What can make Wu Sangui even ignore his father is the interests in front of him, and the conditions given by Shun and Qing are very different.

Judging from the situation of Kong Youde and the three of them, once Wu Sangui, who was the number one enemy of the Qing army at that time, surrendered, he would at least be a prince, and Shunjun would be a marquis at most, because Liu Zongmin and others were just marquises.

The prince and the marquis, how to choose between the interests of this, a normal person knows which interests are greater.

In the face of interests, Wu Sangui, who was born in the gentry class, would of course choose the former.

Such an egoist, even if his political performance is average, Zhu Youzhen can analyze the reasons why he can't fight the tooth.

As a marginal figure in the Qi Palace, it was definitely impossible for Wu Sangui to follow him to the Qi Kingdom, because he was different from Huang Long, Lu Wenzhao, Man Gui, Sun Yingyuan, Cao Wenzhao and others.

Most of these people are civilians, and they rely on Zhu Youzhen, but Wu Sangui is not.

Wu Sangui's ancestral home is Nanzhili, his grandfather went north to Liaodong to run a horse business, and his father became a martial artist through martial arts.

In this context, coupled with the fact that he is a marginal figure in the Qi Palace, it is impossible to leave everything behind and go to the Qi Kingdom, so choosing a new backer is what he needs to do.

The icing on the cake is not as good as sending charcoal in the snow, and Wu Sangui just wants to isolate himself.

In this way, after Zhu Youzhen left, as a lonely minister, he was naturally better than many officials of the Yanshan faction.

The emperor has his own people in the Western Army, the Southern Army, and the Northern Army, but the Eastern Army and Shangzhi do not, and he has to be the first person in the Eastern Army, this is Wu Sangui's idea.

"It's a pity that I'm too young......"

Zhu Youzhen laughed mockingly, the others haven't left yet, and there are even five or six years left, this Wu Sangui can't wait to show his loyalty to his brother.

With such a political level, it is no wonder that in history, he could not even do it by drawing the river and ruling the river.

"Since you want to be a lonely minister, then I will fulfill you."

Muttering, Zhu Youzhen turned his head and said to Man Gui and Lu Yuangao, who had already understood everything:

"The order was issued, Wu Sangui was promoted to the general army of Nanzhou, Weiyuan Bo Cao Wenzhao was transferred to the general army of Lingbei, the Eastern Army and the Northern Army were replaced, and Lingbei Province was established, and the Taiyuan prefect Xie Xuelong was promoted to the political envoy of Lingbei, and Lingbei was included in the jurisdiction of the Northern Army Governor's Office."

"Yes!" Zhu Youzhen's words made Man Gui and Lu Yuangao understand what he meant at once.

Wu Sangui wanted to be a lonely minister, and he wanted to send charcoal in the snow, so Zhu Youzhen fulfilled him and threw him to Nanzhou to be a lonely minister.

After surviving these five or six years, the emperor can still remember him, then he can be a lonely minister.

Zhu Youzhen sneered lightly, and then continued to hunt with Man Gui.

At the same time, his decree was also sent to the capital, and a few days later it was seen by Zhu Youxiao of the Heart Cultivation Palace.

Unlike Man Gui and Lu Yuangao, who thought that Zhu Youzhen wanted to deal with Wu Sangui, Zhu Youxiao saw traces of his younger brother wanting to take action against the Eastern Army Governor's Mansion from this edict.

Since the Governor's Mansion of the Eastern Army is the Eastern Army, the battle will naturally be against the East.

But the problem is that with the fall of Jianyu and the recovery of Central Siberia, Central Siberia and Eastern Siberia were set up as Lingbei Province and were controlled by the Northern Army, and the Eastern Army did not have any hostile forces bordering for a while.

What's in the East? Korean peninsula?

Under the siege of the Ming Dynasty for many years, North Korea can't even gather 30,000 troops at the moment, and if you want to deal with them, a battalion of soldiers and horses from the Eastern Army can destroy the country, and there is no need for the current configuration of 40 battalions.

Isolating the emperor from meddling in the least eastern military governor's office, and then further weakening its military power, this is what Zhu Youzhen wants to do.

For this matter, it is estimated that the generals in the Eastern Army Governor's Mansion will not object, and only the middle-level Yanshan generals may feel aggrieved.

Sun Yingyuan, You Shigong, and He Shixian are either going to Qi State, or they are already about to go.

The remaining Zu Dashou, Mao Wenlong, Zu Dabi, Wu Xiang, Wu Sangui and others are just the general soldiers of a province, and they can't interfere in the affairs of the Governor's Mansion, and they don't have so much energy.

"My brother has been thinking about me......"

With a sigh, Zhu Youxiao turned this decree into a holy decree, and he continued to deal with the mountains of sparseness.

Although he looked a little tired, when he thought that Zhu Ciran had entered the realm of Beizhili, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but feel a little more energetic.

At the same time as his spirit, on May 12, Golovin, who led a team of 400 Tsarist troops, finally arrived at Mangazzea on the west bank of the Yenisei River.

At this moment, he was still a hundred miles away from the Ming army on the other side of the river, but his heart was always hanging.

He was afraid that the Ming army would cross the Yenisei River, so he kept asking people to build Mangazzeya Fort.

At present, there are 400 regular Russian troops and more than 360 expedition members in the fort, and if the Ming army really attacks here, Golovin can still resist it for several months with the structure of the fortress.

He knew the situation in Siberia well, and heavy artillery could not be transported at all, especially on these May days when the snow melted and the roads were muddy.

It's just that in the face of Wu Sangui's cavalry troops, which numbered no less than 2,000 people, Golovin was still worried and couldn't sleep every night.

Compared with his fear, Wu Sangui, who was stationed in Tulu Hanks, regretted what he had done.

When he learned that the person sent by the Northern Army to attack Buriyaxi was Weiyuan Bo Cao Wenzhao, he immediately regretted it.

Especially when Cao Wenzhao led his troops to raid Buriyaxi a few days ago, and attacked Buriyaxi with the soldiers and horses of the Beihai Battalion in the south and north, the regret in his heart was even worse.

At this time, he reacted in an afterthought, the king of Qi is still five or six years away from being a vassal domain, and if he jumps out so early, I am afraid that not only will he not be able to be a lonely minister, but he will also have to be cut in accordance with military law.

He hurriedly asked the soldiers and horses of the Eastern Army, who were still fighting in Brigay, to stop, and at the same time personally wrote a handwritten letter to Cao Wenzhao, indicating that he only wanted to assist in the attack and prevent the Brigayse from fleeing north.

However, Cao Wenzhao will believe the content of this letter, which is uncertain.

At the age of twenty-nine, he was full of enthusiasm, and he only thought about the result when he did things, but he didn't expect to pass by.

In hindsight, he realized that his battle had been in vain.

"Peng!"

In a tent in the southern forests of Fort Tulu, Wu Sangui slammed his fist on the table.

From the appearance of his clenched fists and hideous face, it is not difficult to see how much regret he has in his heart.

"Big Brother......

"Come in!"

Hearing a familiar voice, Wu Sangui responded, and then tried his best to put away his emotions.

The curtain of the tent was lifted, and the person who came in was Wu Sanmei, the general of the Beihai battalion and Wu Sangui's cousin.

"Big brother, the pond ride back, there seems to be reinforcements from the Rakshasa people on the other side of the glacier, but there are not many of them, only less than four hundred."

Wu Sanmei walked in, and at the same time smelled the smell of wine in the house, and couldn't help frowning.

"I know, leave them alone for the time being, and order them to be stationed west of the Binghe River in accordance with the marching orders of His Royal Highness the King of Qi."

At this time, Wu Sangui instead remembered Zhu Youzhen's marching order.

"Big brother, should we take down Tulu Hanks? Surrounded like this, some food and grass are consumed. ”

Wu Sanmei seemed unwilling to be surrounded like this, but Wu Sangui was annoyed, waved his hand and said, "Your Highness will do whatever he wants." ”

"Yes......" Seeing that Wu Sangui was in a bad mood, Wu Sanmei didn't stay long, but walked out of the tent.

As he stepped out of the tent, a hurrying back rider also crossed him and broke into the tent with a handwritten note.

"It's not ......"

"Chief soldier, Wei Yuanbo has replied."

Wu Sangui was annoyed, and when he heard the sound of the tent curtain being lifted, he immediately became angry and wanted to scold, but he was soon blocked by what Tang Qi said.

He got up and snatched Cao Wenzhao's reply from Tang Rider, and Cao Wenzhao led his troops to Briyaxi and saw that the Eastern Army was no longer going south to grab merit, and the anger in his heart also disappeared a lot.

Although the anger subsided a little, Cao Wenzhao couldn't help but ridicule Wu Sangui in the letter, a junior.

Wu Sangui's face darkened, but he also knew that it was better to be scolded a few times than to be hated by Cao Wenzhao.

After reading the contents of the letter hastily, Wu Sangui immediately said to Tang Qi:

"Rest for one night, and tomorrow let the two sentinels C and D retreat from Brigaxi to support the two sentinels A and B in the south."

"Mark and command!" Hearing Wu Sangui's words, Tang Qi immediately got up and retreated to rest.

When Wu Sangui saw him leaving, the stone in his heart also fell to the ground.

However, within a few days of his good days, he ushered in the holy decree of the capital.

On May 26, Cao Wen's edict suppressed the Buriya Xi, and he followed Zhu Youzhen's order to set up a Ding Ling Mansion in the local area, and placed the captured 30,000 Buriya Xi Mongols in the local area.

On the same day, Wu Sangui also received a holy decree from the capital, and Zhu Youxiao initially awarded him the general of the second rank of the dragon and tiger, but he was transferred to Nanzhou to serve as the chief soldier.

What Nanzhou is like, although Wu Sangui doesn't know, he also knows that it is overseas, on the edge of the territory of the national dynasty.

Wu Sangui, who got the news, turned pale all of a sudden, obviously he knew very well what fate he was going to face.

It's okay to put it aside for a few years, if the emperor can't think of him in the future, then he will be a Nanzhou general soldier at best in his life.

After confirming that the news was correct, Wu Sangui was like an eggplant beaten by frost, and on June 15, he handed over the siege and defense of various places with Cao Wenzhao, and then handed over the tiger talisman of the chief soldier of the Eastern Army Governor's Mansion, and prepared to accept his fate and transfer to the south.

Cao Wenzhao, who took over the Lingbei Western Expedition, was much older than Wu Sangui, and he adopted a siege posture against the local Tsarist fortress according to Zhu Youzhen's words.

Judging from the grain reserves of the forts, at most half a month, many forts east of the Yenisei River will fall.

For Da Ming, Siberia and Brigaxi in the strategy were just a small episode, and they were not even as exciting as Hong Chengchou's attack on the Mughals.

Except for Zhu Youzhen, no one cares about this cold and frozen land, even Zhu Youxiao, who is the emperor.

Compared with the establishment of Lingbei Province, Zhu Youxiao is more happy about the return of a person at the moment.

"Smack-"

On June 20, when Wu Sangui's frost-beaten eggplant went south and Zhu Youzhen also embarked on his return journey, Zhu Ciran, the prince of the Ming Dynasty who had been touring south for a year and four and a half months, finally returned to Beijing.

When the whip of the Han general sounded, Zhu Youxiao, who was smiling like Maitreya Buddha, soon couldn't laugh.

"Is this Brother Ran?"

When Zhu Ciran, who was dressed in a yellow round-necked robe, had dark skin, and was thin and imhuman, he walked into the Yangxin Hall from the gate of the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Youxiao couldn't believe that this black and thin young man was his son for a while.

Not only him, but even Zhang Yan covered his mouth, Fan Guifei, Zhang Yufei, Wang Liangfei and others couldn't believe it.

Zhu Ciyan, Zhu Cijiong, Zhu Shu'e and other Zhu Ciran's younger brothers and sisters were also shocked by his appearance and couldn't speak.

If it weren't for Liu Shun, who was following Zhu Ciran, who was known to them, it is estimated that they would all suspect that Zhu Ciran had been dropped.

It was precisely because of Liu Shun, who was also dark and thin, that they dared to believe that the person in front of them was Zhu Ciran.

"This ...... This...... Brother Ran...... You ......"

As the biological mother, Zhang Yan looked at the once black and chubby son who was so thin that she couldn't figure herself, and tears almost burst out of her eyes, thinking how much he had suffered.

However, Zhu Ciran looked around, and then when he saw Zhu Youxiao, he immediately said:

"Sons, see the ...... of their fathers"

"Uh...... "Zhu Youxiao couldn't associate Zhu Ciran with the image of a year ago for a while, which was somewhat embarrassing.......

Like Zhang Yan, he couldn't sit still and stood up, and then walked in front of Zhu Ciran.

In fact, the father and son haven't seen each other for a year and a half, so whether it is appearance, voice, or figure, Zhu Ciran has undergone a lot of changes.

For Zhu Ciran, who is in adolescence, in a year and a half, his height has risen from 5 feet 2 inches to 5 feet 5 inches (176cm), so his height is almost the same as Zhu Youxiao.

The original harsh voice has also become much thicker after the voice change period, and it seems to be more mature.

"It's good to be back...... It's good to come back......"

Looking at Zhu Ciran's appearance, Zhu Youxiao actually didn't know how to communicate with this bastard boy, but he felt that this kid was much more mature.

He patted Zhu Ciran, and the touch on his hand also meant that Zhu Ciran was healthy and thin, not hungry and thin who slept in the open.

The feeling and sense of change couldn't help but make Zhu Youxiao think of the changes before and after his younger brother every time he went on an expedition.

These feelings were added together, Zhu Youxiao could barely recognize his son, and Zhang Yan had already grabbed Zhu Ciran's hand and cried distressedly.

"Let's sit down and prepare for the family dinner."

Zhu Youxiao comforted Zhu Ciran, and then gestured to the concubines and heirs who were still stunned around him.

Zhu Cijian and Zhu Cijiong are close to Zhu Ciran, although they are half-brothers, but after all, they were also brought up by Zhu Ciran.

They stepped forward to ask about Zhu Ciran's experience along the way, and Zhu Ciran also told them about the customs and customs of various places after sitting down.

Not only these two brothers, but also the six younger sisters such as Zhu Shu'e and Zhu Shuchang listened carefully.

Looking at their appearance, Zhu Youxiao touched his short beard, feeling that the time and place he chose were a little inappropriate.

He originally wanted to arrest Zhu Ciran on the first day he came back to be a prisoner, but when he saw Zhu Ciran's "miserable" appearance, even he couldn't bear it for a while.

I couldn't bear it, so I missed the best opportunity.

Soon, the meal was served and the feast officially began.

Zhu Youxiao at the dinner table didn't say a few words, and listened to Zhu Ciran's description of the customs and customs of the northwest, southwest, and southeast like everyone else, and his heart was itching.

When I heard the vastness of the Qilian Mountains in Hexi, the beauty of Sichuan, the strange rocks of Yunnan, the magnificent waves of the two vast seas, the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River in southern Fujian and Zhejiang, and the cultural scenery......

Zhu Youxiao's original "unbearable" for Zhu Ciran disappeared in an instant, and all that was left in his heart was how to let Zhu Ciran supervise the country and how to find an opportunity to come on a southern tour.

His "ill-intentioned" appearance fell into the eyes of Zhang Yan, Wei Zhongxian and others, and everyone only thought that he felt that the child had suffered, and he was speechless as a father for a while.

Not only did they think so, but even Zhu Ciran couldn't help but comfort when he saw Zhu Youxiao's "low" appearance:

"Dad, don't worry, I've eaten, drank, and had fun all the way, it's nothing, I'll be fat and come back after a few days in the capital."

"Well......" Listening to Zhu Ciran's words, Zhu Youxiao also smiled "kindly" and looked up at him:

"Well, you stay in the capital for a while longer, and let the imperial dining room cook more food for you, otherwise the ministers of the outer court will see you like this, and they will think that there is no food in the palace."

"Good ......" Listening to his father's analogy, Zhu Ciran couldn't cry or laugh, but at the same time he felt warm in his heart.

Although you can enjoy the cultural scenery outside, in the dead of night, Zhu Ciran is inevitably a little homesick.

Looking at the lively family banquet in front of him, Zhu Ciran also happily continued to talk about the customs and customs of various places.

It's just that when he said this, Zhu Youxiao's brain had already begun to be active.