Chapter 80: The Face of the Monarch

After relocating Ning Jue on the bed.

Zhang Juzheng and Zhou Shangwen were relieved.

The two of them refocused their gaze on the map in the courtyard.

"Old general, in your opinion, how should this matter be handled?"

Zhou Shangwen's brows furrowed.

"Zhang Shi said, to be honest, just one Weng Wanda may not be so useful."

Zhou Shangwen's words did not open directly.

has been at the border for a long time, and Zhou Shangwen knows that one Weng Wanda can't play such a big role.

The ministers of Xuanfu, if they are determined to let me in, Weng Wanda will be the same if he is not in Xuanfu.

But he was indeed transferred back.

Zhang Juzheng sighed meaningfully.

"The human heart is terrible."

Although I don't know what role Weng Wanda played in this matter, Zhang Juzheng knows that this matter has to be prevented.

"Old general, don't worry about Weng Wanda's side, it's in a hurry."

"I will find a way to leak the news to Jinyiwei, as long as Jinyiwei moves, he Weng Wanda will have to go back to Xuanfu."

Hearing this, Zhou Shangwen still couldn't help but snort coldly.

"Zhang Shi said, you still take it for granted."

Zhou Shangwen's expression gradually became solemn.

"If Xuanfu is determined to let me in, it is useless if he Weng Wanda goes back or not, the same, if what Ke said is true, even if we use Jinyi Wei to bring Weng Wanda back to Xuanfu, it is just to give him Weng Wanda a way to die."

"It's better to be on guard."

Zhang Juzheng looked at Zhou Shangwen with a puzzled expression.

"What does the old general mean to find a way to transfer the soldiers of the Beijing battalion to take over the defense of Xuanfu directly?"

Hearing Zhang Juzheng mention Jingying, Zhou Shangwen almost didn't laugh.

"Relying on the Jingying alone, this Jingshi has long been lost."

"Let's put it this way, now there can be 60,000 people in the Beijing camp, and my old man will chop off his head and tell you to kick it as a ball."

"This is the old, weak, sick and disabled, standing in a row on the city wall, can you wrap the city wall in a circle!"

Zhang Juzheng looked at Zhou Shangwen in disbelief.

"Can Jingying be weak to the point of weakness?!"

"Salary! When soldiers are paid, the salary has not been paid, how can there be soldiers in the Beijing camp? ”

When it came to military salaries, Zhou Shangwen couldn't help but feel a lot excited.

He was a hereditary commander, and he couldn't know much about the Ming military households.

"Emperor Xianzong is still there, Jingying is fine, and when he arrives in the cabinet of the Xiaozong Dynasty, then Li Wen happens to be from a military family! Alas. ”

Zhang Juzheng looked at Zhou Shangwen suspiciously.

"But what does this have to do with Jingying?"

mentioned this, Zhou Shangwen couldn't help but scold.

"It's not the gang of bastards in the cabinet when Xiaozong, first abolished the opening of the Chinese law, the salt merchants were originally in the border customs of Shangtun, planting grain for salt, the ancient times, they are good, abolishing the opening of the Chinese law, the salt merchants can buy salt by paying silver, who still comes to the border to farm?"

"There is a lot of silver in the imperial court's books, and the price of grain in the nine sides has more than doubled!"

"The price of grain in Jiubian has risen, and the military salary in Jiubian has to rise with it, and they have moved the military salary of the Beijing camp to Jiubian."

"The soldiers are not paid, the generals are not paid, the generals are not paid, they are going to the soldiers to ask for them, and the soldiers can only run away if they are out of pay."

"In recent years, the more wars are fought, the more expensive the grain becomes, the higher the military salary, and the higher the military salary in the nine borders, the less the Beijing camp can get."

"The Beijing camp has not been paid for many years, and it is only the hell that the Beijing camp can have soldiers."

Zhang Juzheng sat silently in place.

"What does the old general mean, let's play tomorrow and directly transfer the soldiers and horses to the Beijing Division?"

"No way!"

Zhou Shangwen categorically interrupted Zhang Juzheng's words, and gestured on the map with the long pole in his hand.

"The art of war goes first, and if I am a prisoner, I must have already assembled outside the fortress."

"If I answer, I will immediately change the route and go straight to Yansui, and then take Datong and go straight to Jinyang."

"It doesn't matter if Yansui is lost, without the main force of my Datong, Jinyang is afraid that it will also be lost, and at that time, the imperial court will lose a lot more than guarding the capital once."

The mountains and rivers in Shanxi are easy to defend and difficult to attack, and Zhou Shangwen knows that at this juncture, if all the soldiers and horses of Datong are transferred to the Beijing Division.

It's almost equivalent to giving the whole of Shanxi to my answer.

At that time, Wang Baobao's strategy of counterattacking the Central Plains was to base himself on Shanxi and then look at the Central Plains.

The people on the grassland who want to seize Jinyang and then re-ascend the throne as emperor have already been more than one generation.

Zhou Shangwen's tone became more and more firm.

"If he and I agree to fight a battle, Gyeonggi is the most beneficial place for our Ming Dynasty, the Son of Heaven is here, although the Beijing camp is unbearable, but there are always two people, transfer my 2,000 soldiers to the Beijing Division, and then get together the soldiers and horses of the King of the World, relying on the strong city of the Beijing Division, he I will break his front teeth, and he will not be able to enter the city!"

"Once this battle is fought, Da Ming will be able to get the inside, but the face of the monarch will be lost."

If I answer that I really come, it can only mean that the meat of Xuanfu is rotten clean, and if I want to stop him, I can only stop it in Beijing according to local conditions.

When Zhou Shangwen said this, he couldn't help but sigh.

was beaten to the capital by the Tartars, looking at the entire Ming Dynasty, and the Communist Party also achieved this achievement by Emperor Ying Zongrui, and also lost the throne once.

"The matter has come to this, and the face of the monarch does not matter first, but only relies on the old general's 2,000 soldiers, which is ...... Will it work? ”

Obviously, in the eyes of Zhou Shangwen and Zhang Juzheng, they didn't consider the problem of Jiajing's old face at all.

Zhang Juzheng is more concerned with the fact that people can't move millions of troops, and Zhou Shangwen wants 2,000 people when he opens his mouth, isn't it too child's play.

Zhou Shangwen couldn't help but laugh:

"You can't say that, we can't do it here, but it's like that on the other side."

"The Hermes-Epitek thinks the grassland is good, Tuda thinks the Central Plains is good, go and return, return and return, and I just forcibly put together a few alliances in the grassland and then coerce some Han-mes."

Zhang Juzheng looked at Zhou Shangwen suspiciously.

"So?"

Zhou Shangwen couldn't help but snort coldly when he heard this: "What else? This battle was fought back and forth, each time they led 100,000 people to watch from behind, and I answered with thousands of soldiers from their own alliance to fight against our Ming Dynasty's border generals, and whoever lost the people behind them will also disperse. ”

Since 30 years ago, there has been only a small fight between the two sides, and the last big fight was the Battle of Yingzhou fought by Zhu Houzhao.

Even in the Battle of Yingzhou, the entire battle process was similar to what Zhou Shangwen experienced.

More than 100,000 people watched the excitement in the back, Zhu Houzhao led Jiang Bin's thousands of soldiers to fight with the little prince's thousands of people, the little prince was defeated, the Ming army pursued, and the grassland departments began to run away.

Although it is not like the dozens of dead and wounded as written by the scholars, the real scale of casualties is at most around 1,000.

Even if there are a lot of people, there are only a thousand people who really listen to your command.

Zhang Juzheng was puzzled:

"If so, how is it different from the five generations? It's nothing more than 10,000 people fighting, why bother with so many soldiers and horses to increase waste? ”

Zhou Shangwen's eyes widened and he hurriedly said, "Don't you dare not bring it." ”

"If someone brings it, if you don't bring it, the other side will be bold, and the soldiers are also people, and who doesn't know if the drum is beaten."

"It's been a hundred years since the founding of the country, and these nine sides have also been fighting for a hundred years, the Tartars are tired, and the border army is also tired, and this is almost a family."

"Now only those lords in the temple still think that the two sides of the Great Wall are as clear as they were when Taizu was there...... Oh, the old man didn't say that Ke Zhong and Zhang Shi talked about you, after all, you are still young, and you didn't grow up at the border, which is understandable. ”

In Rong Ma's life, Zhou Shangwen understood the biggest truth.

The righteousness of the family and the country in the commentary is nonsense, and the soldiers who can't recognize all the words on the nine sides don't have such a clear position, let alone on the grassland.

Everybody lives their lives.

If there is a cheap, take it, and run if it is not cheap.

Whoever treats the soldier as a human being, and gives enough money, will win the battle.

Zhang Juzheng was obviously relieved, but Zhou Shangwen couldn't help but say: "But don't be too happy too early when Zhang Shi speaks, even these two thousand soldiers, I'm afraid it's not so good." ”

Although these family soldiers are close to Zhou Shangwen, nominally, they are the soldiers and horses of the imperial court, and the transfer is also ordered by the military department.

Zhang Juzheng couldn't help but laugh and said, "Old general, what's so difficult about this?" ”

"Old General, have you forgotten something?"

Zhou Shangwen looked at Zhang Juzheng in confusion.

"I haven't forgotten, the medicine prescribed by the imperial doctor in the palace has been taken on time."

Zhang Juzheng couldn't stop laughing when he heard this.

"Have you forgotten that you entered Beijing this time to ask for money for the border soldiers?"

Zhou Shangwen was stunned.

"Isn't the imperial court ......?"

Zhang Juzheng shook his head.

"Hey, old general, the bereavement reward has not been distributed, how can you go back to see the soldiers without begging?"

"If there is no salary, the soldiers will have to come to Beijing to ask for money."

Zhou Shangwen, who was confused, said confusedly: "The border army entered Beijing without permission? Isn't that also a capital offense? ”

Zhang Juzheng shook his head.

"Bring armor, that's the border army entering Beijing."

"If you come empty-handed, then you will become a homeless, Yan Ge Lao can stop the border army, can he stop the homeless?"

Such a big Jingshi, one day there will be thousands of homeless people!

How much difference can there be between 2,000 more people and an extra grain of sand?

When Zhou Shangwen heard this, he suddenly became enlightened.

"Can we still inform him Yan Song tomorrow?"

Zhang Juzheng sat aside and stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Old general, you came up with it yourself, Zhang Mouke never said that." ”

The inside and outside of the small courtyard are filled with cheerful air.

Zhou Shangwen couldn't stand up with a smile on the side.

"It's got to be you guys playing with your brains, hahaha."

Zhang Juzheng was ashamed and said: "Zhang is also forced by the situation, and the situation is compelled by the situation...... I hope that the old general's two thousand armor soldiers will never be used. ”