When Wang Bing and Yang Tinghe hurried to the courtyard where the emperor lived, Gu Zuo, Gu Renyi, Jin Gui and other officials had already arrived.

You Di walked two steps quickly to the emperor, "Your Majesty, the two pavilion elders are here." ”

Zhu Houzhao waved his hand and beckoned him to stand on the side, and after the two of them saluted him, he first asked, "How is the matter over there?" ”

"Your Majesty, rest assured, the old minister has carefully explained to Song Heng, and he will give His Majesty a satisfactory explanation in two days."

"Give a seat."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Now that you're all together, let's get started. Yang Shen, you read the urgency of the military department and listen to it to everyone. ”

"Yes."

Yang Shen is still young now, standing behind Jin Gui, as long as he doesn't mention him, he doesn't make a sound at all.

“…… In February of the tenth year of Zhengde, Hami Wei commanded Ling Weifeng to report, Hami Zhongshun Wang Baiya was secretly meeting the envoys of Turpan, and the two sides conspired in the room and colluded with each other. At the end of February, 2,000 cavalry from the Turpan Khanate approached Hami to build momentum. At the beginning of March, Baiya colluded with Tuguo and used soldiers to pretend to be bandits in order to take them out. The two sides have received short battles, and Hamiwei has killed more than 50 enemies, and his own side has also suffered more than 10 casualties.

King Hami worships the tooth, is cunning by nature, well versed in conspiracy, demagoguery with words, acts like a snake and scorpion, and denies his deeds when his deeds are revealed. Remember your Majesty's hadith, not an inch of the land of the ancestors can be made. Nowadays, the traitors inside and outside are acting more and more rampantly, and the soldiers have reached the city, which is tolerable and unbearable. It was the deceased ministers who respectfully invited the saint to uphold the righteousness, and the quasi-ministers sent troops to recruit to exterminate the traitors and recover their homeland. The soldiers of our army will also fight bravely to kill the enemy and swear to die! ”

Zhu Houzhao's expression was calm, in fact, the fire in his heart was even bigger than a few days ago.

"If something like this happens, there will be a military report in the future, but this note from the Ministry of War is basically enough for our monarchs and ministers to take a look. It is true that I am out on patrol, but such military affairs cannot be delayed, and I have called you here today to make a decision. Just now, Yang Yongxiu thought very clearly, I have more than ten soldiers killed and wounded......"

The emperor's eyes swept over their faces, "Kill my soldiers, this is not taking the Ming army into account." ”

"I think!" Wang Bing suddenly spoke, "The imperial court should agree to Jing Yubo's request, support him to lead the elite to ride out of the Hexi Corridor, recover Hami, and deter the Turpan Kingdom!" ”

Zhu Houzhao laughed.

These courtiers of the Ming Dynasty, after his unremitting 'transformation' over the years, finally stopped making trouble with him in this matter.

In fact, Wang Bing also thought very clearly, Yang Yiqing and Wang Wei even agreed to the emperor's personal conquest, and he expressed his support for Zhou Shangwen's troops here, what's the problem?

"Okay." The Emperor laughed, "Then the tone of this will is set. Dispatch troops? ”

"Troops!" Wang Bingzuo bowed.

"What about the others?"

The other ministers also all stood up, "The ministers also agree, they should send Jing Yubo to send troops!" ”

Jin Gui added to the report, "Weichen remembered that last year, there were more than 400,000 stone of grain in Gansu Town, and the military food was enough for emergency, but the minister thought that he should order the governor of Shaanxi to transfer the grain storage in Ningxia and other places to Jingyubo. The more the military food and grass, the better. The required silver taels can also be temporarily transferred from the Shaanxi treasury, and then supplemented by the imperial court. ”

That's the strategy. Before that, though, there is one more problem that needs to be addressed.

"In the past ten years, I have rarely talked about such an issue with you Aiqing, and today I have to discuss it. What Jin Gui just said, I agree, as soon as the war starts, it should be so. But I would like to ask you to think about one more question...... How are you going to fight this battle?

Will the future enemy be driven out of Hami, punished Baiya, and deposed the king of Zhongshun, or will Zhou Shangwen be allowed to continue west? Attack Turpan again? If the Turpan State is defeated, how will the imperial court govern it? ”

In other words, is this a simple defensive operation, or is it an excuse to drive straight into the field and really expand the border.

"If God doesn't take it, he will be blamed." Wang Bing simply didn't do anything, and said: "The minister thinks that the strategy set by the imperial court should not stop at Hami, but should agree with Jing Yubo to continue to expand the territory to the west. There are two reasons, one is that the Turpan Kingdom invaded my Ming Dynasty first, and he was unkind, how can he blame me for being unjust? Second, the imperial court set a stop line, which made it difficult for the officials and soldiers to fully exert it. ”

"If that's the case......" Gu Zuo interjected, "then it may be a war to destroy the country." Before thinking about victory, first thinking about defeat, what if Jing Lubo's march is not effective? Will he do it reluctantly? ”

"It can make Jing Yubo act cheaply." Gu Renyi suggested: "The minister thinks that what Attendant Jin said just now is good, although there is emergency grain and grass in Gansu Town, but once the war starts, it cannot be controlled, so the imperial court should transfer military supplies to the northwest from today in case of emergency." As long as the imperial court continues to supply military supplies, let Jing Lubo flexibly adjust according to the battlefield......"

Zhu Houzhao took over the conversation, and his eyes also flashed, "As much as you can, you can lay as much as you can." As for the ...... after the fight"

Wang Bing kowtowed, "What's so difficult about governance?" When the time comes, the old minister is willing to shepherd the frontier for His Majesty! ”

"Good!"

If he has such words, Zhu Houzhao will not hesitate to praise, even in his eyes.

Wang Bing is indeed behind Yang Yiqing and Wang Wei, but he hasn't fallen down over the years, except for being a little slippery, he still grabbed some key things. Otherwise, how can it stand?

In the middle of the deliberations, new news came from outside,

These kinds of things, one by one, did not dare to procrastinate, and sent them to the emperor's hand in the house as soon as possible.

Zhu Hou took a look at it, and suddenly smiled, "Although we were all shocked by this important military situation report today, and it was not a happy event, I am still very happy." Because my four ministers and scholars all have the same opinion. ”

He shook the things in his hand, "Yang Yiqing is also two words, send troops!" Wang Bing, Yang Tinghe, I don't quite remember the last time the four of you made up your mind at the same time. ”

"The monarch and the ministers are single-minded, the court and the border towns are also single-minded, and the ministers dare to say that I will be able to defeat the enemy in this battle and raise the prestige of the country!" Wang Bing patted the sycophants first.

"Good!" Zhu Houzhao also raised a few points of pride, he walked around twice, and straightened out his thoughts, "Spread my will, seal Zhou Shangwen as the commander of the army, hang the seal of the general of the Western Expedition, add the title of secretary of the military department, and lead the Gansu town foot soldiers and 45,000 elite cavalry to pacify the disloyal ministers of Hami.

I would like to emphasize that this is a war between countries, not to suppress bandits, nor to quell chaos, once the war starts, from the beginning of the war, everyone should take the defeat of the enemy as the first priority, no matter who it is, if the action is not conducive to the war, I will double the guilt!!

In addition, according to the request of Jin Gui and Gu Renyi, although several towns near Gansu did not send troops, they were all Ming troops, and they should give full support, whether it was food, weapons, medicine, war horses or even clothing, they should be supplied according to the needs of the Gansu army.

Finally, all border army towns other than Gansu towns and guards in the Beijing camp should strengthen their vigilance and training from now on. ”

The last half of the sentence doesn't need to be said, everyone knows that this is the style of Emperor Zhengde, although the probability of Zhou Shangwen's failure is not large, but the war is not good, the reason why other soldiers and horses are prepared at this time is that if the war is unfavorable, it must be able to be connected immediately.

Everything was as Wang Bing expected. From the fifth year of Zhengde to the tenth year of Zhengde, the emperor was preparing to deal with the situation in the northwest step by step. Now that the time has come, even on the way to the south, it will not change the emperor's determination.

The dispatch of troops in Zhengde's ten years was much smoother than that in the early years of Zhengde.

Despite this, Gu Zuo still suggested, "Your Majesty, if the war breaks out, should the imperial driver return to Beijing first to stabilize the hearts of the army and the people?" ”

"I let the other border towns and get ready, this is called being completely prepared, but the southern tour does not stop, this is the confidence of victory. At this time, he hurriedly returned to Beijing, but it seemed that the court was caught off guard. ”

Zhu Houzhao sat upright on the main seat above, and said in a deep voice: "Out of this door, all of you must tell outsiders that the imperial court has long been prepared for the use of troops in the northwest, and the changes in Hami are also under control." Emperor Zhengde's personal words about expanding the territory are not empty words! ”

(End of chapter)