At the beginning of April of the fourth year of Zhengde,

A convoy of men came from the town of Shuofang Town, about 3,000 people.

The leader is Han Shishilang, who became famous in the first battle of Liangxiang in the second year of Zhengde and was named the general of Wujie by the emperor.

General Wujie is the name of a loose official, that is, he has an official name but no official position, but he can solve the problem of 'grade', which is a five-rank military attaché.

His official position is a thousand households who are directly related to Wei Hu Benwei, and he is about the same age as the emperor.

Those who survived the war always had such benefits.

After almost two years in Beijing, there was a new order from above, and today he is here to send a messenger to Wang Shouren.

"As a matter of heart, more than 1,200 Dingkou and 87 craftsmen at the end of the general have been put into Shuofang Town, and calves, farm tools, and wheat seeds have been put into storage, please count and verify them."

Wang Shouren had just returned to Shuofang Town from his inspection of Bei'an Garden, and when he saw such good news, he was immediately happy.

"Get up!"

"Xie Du."

"Liu Yan, you take people to settle the people."

"The last general commands!" Liu Yan is already familiar with it, after all, this is not the first time.

Wang Shouren carefully read the letter from the emperor brought by Han Shishilang.

As always, the emperor was very supportive of him, and he needed a population in the Hetao area, so the population came one by one, and this was already the tenth trip.

The ploughing cattle, farm tools, and seeds needed to reclaim the land were just as stingy as the imperial court.

The emperor's language in the letters was more cordial, and Wang Shouren did not know how others communicated with the emperor.

Anyway, every time I write to him, I always have to care about other ......

For example, I will ask him,

Aiqing, are you feeling okay lately?

Aiqing, you are the frontier of the country's soldiers, and you are extremely hard, so you must not be too tired.

Aiqing, if you miss your hometown, you can play a good show.

Aiqing, you must be diligent in the frontier land, so as not to resurgence of the Tatars, in case they succeed in stealing the camp, your life will be in danger.

……

And so on, anyway, it's not the first time Wang Shouren has watched it.

Just like this time, the emperor said: Aiqing, I heard that this Han Shishilang originally grew up in the northwest, is very familiar with the Tatars, and has performed very well in the war, so I specially sent him over to strengthen the strength in your hands. As for whether he really becomes a talent, you can see it.

Wang Shouren's eyelids were raised, and he glanced at whether the people below were peeking at him, as if he was afraid of being seen by others if he was doing something unsightly.

It's really ...... Some of the emperor's expressions are a bit fleshy......

For him, it's a kind of pressure.

Continuing to read, the emperor said again: Your father has been a military secretary in Nanjing for many years, and his health is fine. Now it is time to employ people again, and I want to transfer them to Beijing. It's just that the north is not as good as the south is not the same, and it will be hard work day and night when the time comes, so ask your opinion, what do you think?

Wang Shouren's father, Wang Hua, is sixty-four years old, and it is not impossible to be an official at this age, many people are still in their seventies or eighties.

It's just that asking Wang Shouren like this is really a bit spoiled.

The old rules, Wang Shouren decided to write a letter to 'refute' the emperor, it is also unruly to be so good to the courtiers! It's easy to encourage the arrogance of the courtiers, I won't do that, but what if the others forget the courtesy of the courtiers?

"Come with me."

"Yes."

Han Shishilang followed Wang Shouren's footsteps into the side room, where there was a desk.

While holding the pen, he said, "Your Majesty has praised you in his letters, although this official is working with you for the first time, but I expect you to be a very talented person, Shuofang Town has just been built, and there are three major things that need to be promoted at the same time, one is to cultivate fields, the second is to herd horses, and the third is to train soldiers. What do you want to do? ”

"The last general, but with the command of the envoy!"

"Then ......," Wang Shouren thought for a while, "Let's reclaim the fields, this year we will reclaim thousands of hectares of land, and the task is extremely heavy." ”

"Yes."

After Han Shishilang retreated, he was led to his residence first, and then went to Bei'anwei the next day.

Shuofang Town has Shuofang left and right guards and North Anwei and Yong'an Wei, a total of four guards.

Normally, the military towns set up along the Great Wall are far more than this size of troops, and if you follow the general defense system of the town, the road city, the acropolis, the city and the fortress city, it will take tens of thousands of people to basically take shape.

But the Hetao region faces a new problem – there is no Great Wall here.

The Hetao is the place where the Great Wall is crossed, so the kind of defensive operations carried out by relying on the terrain passes and the passes of the Great Wall are no longer realistic.

Unless hundreds of kilometers of the Great Wall are built on this section, it is obviously unlikely that it will be possible in a short time.

Therefore, Shuofang Town chose the second way of thinking, which is to build a military fortress.

The so-called military area is to make the military color here very strong, reclaiming wasteland is to obtain food, encircling the garden to raise horses is to obtain war horses, and then building cities, in addition to the main city, but also to build satellite cities at a suitable distance.

In this way, they are horns of each other, and when one is attacked, the other immediately leads troops to help. And unlike the other border towns, it is necessary to maintain a strong cavalry force here.

This is the power of the offense.

Because there is an offensive force, neither Varat nor Tatar can ignore this.

In this way, Shuofang Town formed a fortress-like city, nailed to this place, so that the enemy could not ignore and defeat.

In this way, the forward push of the defense line can have the meaning of pushing forward.

Of course, this is the current assumption of Zhu Houzhao and Wang Shouren, a hundred and ten years later, if the emperor and the border generals are changed, it will not be something they can manage, and contemporary people always want to solve the affairs of thousands of generations, but how can it be in fact.

Shuofang Town is like this, Yinchuan Town, Yunzhong Town is also like this, the three military fortresses and the place where the troops are stationed here are entrenched, at least Zhu Houzhao can ensure that when he is alive, the people in the north will not be able to jump.

Macro is so.

Microscopically, Wang Shouren still has some enemies that have not been resolved.

Two years after Zhengde, although the imperial court defeated the little prince, there were still some remnants of power gathering on the grassland, especially the fire sieve ran back......

He thought that he should take advantage of the strength of the country to carry out another expedition.

According to the emperor's character, he felt that as long as he managed the Hetao area in an orderly manner, with 30,000 elite horsemen and three sharp soldiers, he could enter the grassland, and the emperor would definitely be allowed to play.

As for his father......

Wang Shouren didn't know what to say, the emperor was so favored and wanted to use it again, this gentleman's grace was too heavy.

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Jingshi, Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Houzhao and Lin Han, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, played for a long time, and the cause was a little complicated.

First of all, when he first succeeded to the throne, he ordered someone to revise the "Record of Filial Piety", which took four years and is now about to be completed.

The process of its revision is also tortuous, originally the university scholars Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian as the president, and then they all went one after another, Zhu Houzhao ordered Lin Han, and the Ministry of Rites Zhang Yuanzhen, the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy Liu Zhong, and several attendants of the Hanlin Academy to compile and repair together.

In this year, the revision of the records of the former dynasties was an important political capital, as if gilded.

At present, the direction of the court's employment has changed, and many people have grabbed official positions such as county prefects, prefects, and political envoys.

This kind of good thing, if the gilded person can't take his turn, who can take his turn?

Zhu Houzhao is not unwilling to appreciate these attendants of the Hanlin Academy, but after studying and repairing in the Hanlin Academy for a few years, he will go down to serve as a parent official, and he always feels that this is irresponsible to the people.

It's good to have talent, you can come slowly, either to be a deputy, or to be a foreigner and a director in various departments, and be familiar with the affairs of the ministry.

In this way, Lin Han felt that it was not good, "The Record of Filial Piety" was not an ordinary secular matter, and the emperor treated the compilers like this, and it was far-fetched to say that it could be regarded as unfilial.

So after chattering for a long time, Zhu Houzhao's head hurts.

This Lin Hengda, every time I communicate with him is the most difficult, he is not only rigid, stunned, and uncomfortable. And he is old, his ears are not good, as the emperor, he has to amplify his voice, otherwise people can't hear it.

Lin Han was born in Xuande for nine years and is 76 years old this year. His hair and beard were all white, and every time he crossed the threshold of the palace, someone had to help him.

After thinking about it in many ways, Zhu Houzhao moved his mind to replace him.

However, the Book of Rites is about the word 'rites', and in fact, the position is very important. You have to be a character like Taishan Beidou. And you have to find an older person, and it always feels weird to be a scholar in the Ministry of Rites at the age of thirty or forty.

From this, he thought of Wang Hua, no matter what, Wang Hua was also the champion of the year, and he was also somewhat famous in the clear stream.

In addition, Wang Hua served as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites in Beijing, which was also convenient for his son to act in Hetao.

Officialdom is human affection, and there is such a father in Beijing as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, as long as it is related to the Hetao, ordinary people have to make it convenient.

This also saves him, the emperor, from going to the platform every day.

The emperor should not do such a thing easily, because it is not a good thing to affect the balance of officialdom. In case the person you favor makes such ugly things as greed and dereliction of duty or doing a mess, won't it make the emperor himself ugly?

"Hey." Zhu Houzhao shook his head, these old guys are the most difficult to explain.

By the evening, the final votes of the Cabinet had been sent in.

Zhu Houzhao is used to walking twice after dinner, and then batch for an hour or two, after all, the night is quiet and no one disturbs, so it is almost a rule for a long time.

And today, a note caught his attention. There are two reasons, one is that the person who played is Zhang Xuan, the magistrate of Shanyang County, who is a celebrity and a ruthless person. The second is this matter, the officials of the Shaofu government deducted silver taels, and the local people's grievances were boiling.

The vote given by Wang Wei was to ask the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Shaofu to investigate together, and then report the truth.

Zhu Houzhao has one more heart.

What he instructed was: I know.

But when he turned his head, he called Jinyiwei to enter the palace.

The people's lives are already poor, and these officials cannot be allowed to act in such a wanton manner.

If you want to set off a big case, then set off a big case, and you can also look at Zhang Zhang's success.