Chapter 84: Enrich the country to pacify the world, strengthen the army to punish the disobedient (In honor of the alliance leader

I truly do not attend to my proper duties. Main text, Chapter 84: Enrich the country to pacify the world, strengthen the army to punish the disobedient. Zhang Zhang Juzheng heard the Emperor ask whether Xu Xu Jie would honestly return the land.

"I do not know." Zhang Zhang Juzheng shook his head and said.

Zhang Zhang Juzheng played riddles with the young Emperor, and the young Emperor was not polite either. He shook his sleeves, put them behind his back, and while leaving the Zhao Wenhua Hall, said with a smile: "To know what you know and to know what you do not know, this is wisdom."

"I respectfully send off Your Majesty." Zhang Zhang Juzheng bowed his head and sent the Emperor away from the Zhao Wenhua Hall.

He knew that his little thoughts could not be hidden from the Emperor at all. The reason Zhang Zhang Juzheng made such a big scene was not to deal with Xu Xu Jie at all. He had sharpened his knife and was holding it, telling Xu Xu Jie that not only could they play the trick of "doubling," but he could too.

Zhang Zhang Juzheng made such a big scene not just for the two hundred and forty thousand mu of land of Xu Xu Jie, but for the seventy thousand qing of land encroached upon in the Southern Southern Yamen. These seven million mu of regular land were the core of Zhang Zhang Juzheng's plotting.

For Xu Xu Jie to return the land, it would be best if he resisted, best if he used all his strength to resist. In this way, Zhang Zhang Juzheng could take the opportunity to expand the scope.

The country's finances were in great deficit, and the imperial court had no grain or money. They had to find a way. Zhang Zhang Juzheng's way was to ask whoever had money and grain for it.

In the afternoon, Zhu Zhu Yijun appeared in the Baoqi Division of the West Garden. He passed by the Chengguang Hall, the power center where the Emperor Jiajing Emperor had once summoned his ministers.

During the Emperor Jiajing reign, the center of power of the empire was not in the Zhao Wenhua Hall, but in the Chengguang Hall. This was the institutional design of the Great Ming, which shifted at any time according to the Emperor's preferences.

The Taiye Bridge had eighteen folds and was an arch bridge made of white marble. Although it had a history of more than three hundred years, it was still extremely solid. The Guanghan Hall had not been repaired for many years. When the Baoqi Division was established, the Guanghan Hall collapsed with a loud noise amidst people's exclamations.

The two eunuchs, Zhang Jing and Xu Jue, found one hundred and twenty gold coins cast with the words "Zhiyuan Zhiyuan Tongbao" on the main beam.

These one hundred and twenty Zhiyuan Zhiyuan Tongbao coins were Han-script small-denomination coins cast by the Yuan Dynasty Emperor Shizu, Kublai Khan. They were one inch in diameter, with thin rims and thick bodies, and appropriately sized holes. The front was in Han script, and the back was in Phags-pa script. Phags-pa was the State Preceptor of the Yuan Dynasty when Kublai Khan was alive, and Phags-pa script was the new Mongolian script invented by this State Preceptor.

By the Emperor Wanli reign, no one used this Mongolian script anymore.

The Emperor Jiajing Emperor had lived in this Guanghan Hall built by Kublai Khan from the twenty-first year of Emperor Jiajing until the twelfth month of the forty-fifth year of Emperor Jiajing.

Before the Guanghan Hall collapsed, it was old and broken, an old house whose main beam had not been moved for three hundred years.

Zhu Zhu Yijun picked out the six best-looking copper coins from these one hundred and twenty and rewarded them to the Grand Secretary of the Empire, Zhang Zhang Juzheng, and picked out three more and gave them to the Chief Censor of the Empire, Hence Hai Rui.

After the construction waste of the Guanghan Hall was cleared, construction began on Qionghua Island. To be precise, they built a few rooms, leveled the garden land, and expanded the fire room for seedling cultivation.

The Guanghan Hall had already collapsed. The layout of the newly completed Baoqi Hall was extremely similar to Zhang Zhang Juzheng's Quanchu Guild Hall, more like a home. Zhu Zhu Yijun had liked the layout of the Quanchu Guild Hall quite a bit when he ran there to beg for food before, so he just copied it.

After Zhu Zhu Yijun's honor guard crossed the eighteen-fold Taiye Bridge, he stood on the square in front of the Baoqi Division and saw Qi Qi Jiguang, Yu Yu Dayou, and Ma Fang.

Yu Yu Dayou had been back in the capital for more than fifteen days. Besides being the Deputy President for selecting military talents for the Great Ming Capital Battalion, he also had an important mission: to take sweet potato seedlings to Songjiang Prefecture and other areas to try to promote planting. Yu Yu Dayou could freely enter and exit the Baoqi Division to learn the method of sweet potato seedling cultivation.

"We subjects pay our respects to Your Majesty. Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live." The three military generals performed the five-bows-and-three-kowtows ceremony.

Zhu Zhu Yijun signaled the three generals to rise and had Feng Bao bring over three seedling boxes. There was only one lush potato seedling in each box. The seedling box was just a formality, indicating that they were taking the seedlings for promotion, but what truly had promotional significance was that each of them would withdraw three thousand jin of potato seeds nurtured from potato seedlings that had been pinched and high-temperature passivated and killed.

These sweet potatoes were the method of seedling cultivation.

Qi Qi Jiguang would take the sweet potatoes to Jizhou, Yongping, and Jia Shanhai Pass for military farming; Yu Yu Dayou would take the sweet potatoes to Songjiang Prefecture for military farming; and Ma Fang would take the sweet potatoes back to Xuanfu and Datong for military farming.

Zhu Zhu Yijun bowed slightly, looked at the lush fields behind him, and was silent for a moment before saying: "Our dynasty established the world's military farming guard stations to stabilize the country with military force. Ten thousand men with one strength, invincible in the world. Today, I wish to promote potato seedlings for the purpose of saving from famine. I entrust the matter of military farming to you generals."

The military farming of the Great Ming Dynasty was mainly completed by the military farming guard stations. The guard stations in the hinterland of the Great Ming had long since rotted away, and only the border areas still had partial military farming guard stations for military farming.

"Dare not disobey." The three generals performed a military salute and received the potato seedlings.

Zhu Zhu Yijun asked Yu Yu Dayou to stay behind, walked into the Baoqi Hall that replaced the Guanghan Hall, and looked at the seventy-year-old man in front of him. Yu Yu Dayou had already entered the age of "seventy years of age is rare since ancient times." Born in the sixteenth year of Hongzhi of the Ming Xiaozong Emperor, Yu Yu Dayou was already seventy years old this year.

His white hair was full of the storms of the Great Ming's seventy years, and the vicissitudes on his face full of gullies were the ups and downs of the Great Ming.

In order to show that he could still fight, in the sixth year of Emperor Longqing, Yu Yu Dayou wrote to Tan Lun saying that his precious sword was not old, and at sixty-nine, he could still make a woman pregnant.

"Jin Lian Po is old, can he still eat?"

Jin Lian Po said he could still eat five bowls of rice!

And Yu Yu Dayou, Yu Long, a Great Ming commander, said such things as making a woman pregnant at sixty-nine to show he could still fight, but he still could not get the opportunity to lead troops.

Now Yu Long had come before the Emperor of the Great Ming. On the surface, it was to let him take the potato seedlings to Songjiang Prefecture for military farming, but Yu Yu Dayou smelled an unusual scent.

This return of land was definitely not so easy and simple.

"Commander Yu, Hence Hai Rui recommended you to enter the court. I originally wanted to keep you by my side to discuss military strategy, but the country is drifting and changing. The opening of maritime trade in Songjiang Prefecture concerns the great interests of the country. Therefore, I am sending you to Songjiang Prefecture to rebuild the Great Ming Navy." After Zhu Zhu Yijun finished speaking, he signaled Feng Bao to bring a Sword of the Son of Heaven, handed it to Yu Yu Dayou, and said: "You may execute the disobedient."

For the matter of Songjiang Prefecture, only a strong dragon like Yu Yu Dayou could manage it, and only he could be the ballast stone that would not let the giant ship of the Songjiang Prefecture Shipping Commissioner's Office sink, no matter how big the waves were.

Only a strong dragon could firmly suppress the local snakes.

The Songjiang Prefecture Shipping Commissioner's Office was Yu Yu Dayou's biggest task in going to Songjiang Prefecture.

Qi Qi Jiguang led the Capital Battalion. The only person Zhu Zhu Yijun could use to go to Songjiang Prefecture to suppress people with strength was Yu Yu Dayou. The matter of Xu Xu Jie returning the land would definitely not be so easy.

Zhu Zhu Yijun took out Hence Hai Rui's memorial and explained to Yu Yu Dayou in detail the plan for opening maritime trade in Songjiang Prefecture. Xu Xu Jie was not the focus; the focus was on opening maritime trade.

"Jin Lian Po is old, but he can still eat. Your Majesty's grace, I will go through fire and water to taste the holy grace." Yu Yu Dayou took the Sword of the Son of Heaven, held it in his hand, bowed his head and said: "I have three requests, I ask Your Majesty to grant them."

If Yu Yu Dayou were to sing high-sounding words, Zhu Zhu Yijun would be disappointed. Yu Yu Dayou proposing conditions proved that Yu Yu Dayou had long guessed about his return to the capital and had made plans.

A commander is a commander. Talking to a sensible person is so easy.

"You may speak freely." Zhu Zhu Yijun said with a smile.

"I request three thousand southern soldiers to follow me south to Songjiang Prefecture." Yu Yu Dayou proposed the first condition. Without subordinate officers, even if Yu Yu Dayou were a strong dragon, he could not cross the river and suppress the local snakes.

His view was very consistent with Qi Qi Jiguang's: the organizational degree of the army is the basic guarantee of combat effectiveness.

"Granted." Zhu Zhu Yijun nodded and said: "Commander Qi will transfer three thousand southern soldiers to you."

"My second request: I request to transfer Chen Lin, the Assistant Regional Commander of Guangzhou, as my deputy to follow me to Songjiang Prefecture. Chen Lin has strategy and is good at leading troops." Yu Yu Dayou specifically mentioned a person, Chen Lin, a third-rank military official, Assistant Regional Commander of Guangzhou.

"This is the apple of the eye of the Viceroy of Liangguang, Yin Yin Zhengmao. If you take him away, I'm afraid Viceroy Yin will be half-dead. This is a man of the Grand Secretary. I will discuss it with the Grand Secretary." Zhu Zhu Yijun said with a smile.

Yin Yin Zhengmao, Viceroy of Liangguang, a Ming Jinshi from the twenty-sixth year of Emperor Jiajing, was in the same class as Zhang Zhang Juzheng, and served as the Viceroy of Liangguang while holding the post of Minister of War in Nanjing.

The great wind rises from the end of the duckweed. The political situation affects the whole body with one hair.

Gao Gong's student, the Viceroy of Liangguang, Li Qian, served as Viceroy in Liangguang and pacified the rebellion of the Miao people Wei Wei Yinbao and Huang Huang Chaomeng in Gutian. However, Li Qian was defeated repeatedly, and he had no sense of caution at all, repeatedly missing military opportunities, arrogant and losing, and the bandit flames were rampant. Within a month, the bandits captured several counties, making him a minister who lost territory.

The split between Zhang Zhang Juzheng and Gao Gong was over the candidate for Viceroy of Liangguang.

They handed over the Viceroy of Liangguang to Li Qian, but Li Qian was defeated repeatedly, losing his armor and throwing away his helmet. Zhang Zhang Juzheng recommended his classmate Yin Yin Zhengmao as the Assistant Grand Secretary. Gao Gong and Zhang Zhang Juzheng launched a fierce confrontation over the candidate for Viceroy of Liangguang.

In the end, Zhang Zhang Juzheng won a complete victory, and Yin Yin Zhengmao became the Viceroy of Liangguang at the end of the fifth year of Emperor Longqing.

Because at the critical moment, Li Qian lost again, and was ordered by the Emperor Longqing Emperor's imperial edict to retire on the spot, leaving his post and returning home, without having to enter the capital to plead guilty.

It was not strange that Li Qian could not win, because Li Qian had already started eating empty pay when he became the Viceroy of Liangguang to pacify the rebellion. Chen Qingyuan reported five thousand troops, but when Yin Yin Zhengmao arrived at the scene, he searched the Chen Qingyuan area and only found three thousand old, weak, sick, and disabled soldiers.

In other words, Li Qian had already started eating empty pay when he took office as Viceroy of Liangguang to pacify the rebellion.

When Yin Yin Zhengmao arrived at the place in the fifth year of Emperor Longqing, he discovered the complexity here: internal Miao people's chaos and external Japanese pirate harassment.

Yin Yin Zhengmao spent three years making the Liangguang region gradually return to stability. The method of stability was one word—win.

Wherever the war happened, Yin Yin Zhengmao won there.

And Chen Lin was a general under Yin Yin Zhengmao, who had made many military exploits and was now an Assistant Regional Commander. According to Chen Lin's ability to fight, he would soon be able to take charge of his own affairs. Yu Yu Dayou asking for Chen Lin as his deputy, that is, the Deputy Regional Commander, to go to Songjiang Prefecture, naturally had his intentions.

This was one of the very, very strange things in the rotten situation in the southeast of the Great Ming: as long as land measurement is done, Japanese pirates will inevitably cause trouble.

Whether there is a causal relationship in this, no one has evidence, but the facts are indeed so. Once the imperial court started land measurement, the Japanese pirates immediately began to stir up trouble. Yu Yu Dayou was preventing trouble before it happened.

He was old. Even if he suddenly contracted a serious illness or was hurt by "anyone who dares to obstruct public law and harm officials who are doing their jobs," there would be military personnel to preside over the situation.

Secondly, he needed a fierce general who could take charge of his own affairs and charge into battle. Chen Lin was obviously a good candidate.

Thirdly, Chen Lin was a fierce general. Talking about him in front of the Emperor would let him show his face and become familiar.

The grievances suffered by Hu Hai Zongxian, Qi Qi Jiguang, and Yu Yu Dayou could not be allowed to continue to be suffered by the new generation of generals. After winning battles, they were constantly dismissed, and the grievances of having all their merits erased just because the censors said a few words could not continue like this.

Enrich the country and strengthen the army. These two words "strengthen the army" cannot be achieved overnight; it requires water dripping through stone, quantitative change leading to qualitative change.

"I need at least five years. Three years of training troops and two years of stabilization, and the Great Ming Navy will be effective." Yu Yu Dayou gave a specific timetable. Five years, he only needed five years to complete all this, hoping that the imperial court could give him such a long time.

"That is acceptable, it can be extended." Zhu Zhu Yijun gave a broad answer. If five years was too short, then ten years, twenty years. Zhu Zhu Yijun was only ten years old, he could afford to wait, but this matter must be done.

That was all the imperial court's land! To be precise, that was all my land!

Zhu Zhu Yijun said extremely solemnly: "I am young and cool, relying on Commander Yu as the pillar of the country. I hope Commander Yu can support a piece of sky in the southeast for me, for the Great Ming, and for the people of the world!"

Yu Yu Dayou bowed his head again and said: "I thank Your Majesty for your great grace, I will surely go through fire and water, and be the vanguard for the King."

After Yu Yu Dayou received the order, he went to find Hence Hai Rui, Zhang Zhang Juzheng, and Tan Lun. After communicating with each other, he did not stay overnight in the capital and rushed to the Southern Southern Yamen.

Wang Daokun, Zhang Cheng, and others would set off on another day.

That night, in the Qianqing Palace, the young Emperor heard that Yu Yu Dayou had left the capital first and said with great emotion: "Opening up territory and expanding land, experiencing the merit of heaven and earth, the first person to cover the ancient and modern times; going out as a general and entering as a prime minister, having the talent to decorate the country and the family, a talent of both literature and martial arts, unparalleled in the world. Commander Yu is indeed a commander, acting with thunderous speed."

Zhang Hong hesitated for a moment before saying: "I think that if it were not for Your Majesty, even if Commander Yu and Commander Qi had ten thousand feet of heroic spirit in their chests, they would only be sad and sorrowful, with their ambitions unfulfilled and their heroic hearts unexpanded."

Zhang Hong knew very well the tricks of the Great Ming court. The more capable one was, the more severely one would be impeached. The merit of "checking the enemy" could be offset by just a few words from the censors.

Yu Yu Dayou gradually disappeared from people's vision after the Japanese pirate menace gradually subsided. This commander who wrote "The General Essentials of the Continued Martial Classics" eventually died in depression.

"You are very good at flattering. Don't flatter anymore in the future. People around me should not listen to these slanderous words." Zhu Zhu Yijun gave a very clear and explicit instruction to Zhang Hong's flattery: You said it well, don't say it again in the future.

Zhang Hong actually wanted to say that what he said was the truth, but the Emperor had a clear edict, so he had to bow his head and say: "I obey the edict."

"Bring me Commander Yu's 'Sword Classics' to see." Zhu Zhu Yijun had obtained a martial arts secret manual today.

The real martial arts secret manual, the "Sword Classics" written by Yu Yu Dayou.

Zhu Zhu Yijun opened it and found that this martial arts secret manual was completely hanging a sheep's head to sell dog meat. There was no sword technique in this martial arts secret manual at all, no short weapons, but it talked about stick techniques, bow techniques, and formation techniques.

The reason it was called "Sword Classics" was actually because all of Yu Yu Dayou's skills came from the long sword of Jingchu. The "Sword Classics" talked about the method of using short weapons for long purposes, which was Yu Yu Dayou's housekeeping skill.

Of course, this "Sword Classics" was also included in the "New Book of Discipline" by Qi Qi Jiguang. Zhu Zhu Yijun had read it before. The copy in his hand was an annotated version annotated by Yu Yu Dayou himself. After reading it, he gained a lot.

Great Ming martial artists, especially the soldiers in the military formation, seemed to look down on short weapons. For example, the Embroidered Uniform Guard Commander Zhu Zhu Xixiao only recognized "one inch long, one inch strong," while Qi Qi Jiguang said "I am long, I am strong." In the "Sword Classics," a work discussing short weapon martial arts, Yu Yu Dayou wrote all about sticks, bows, and formations.

"Extremely wonderful, extremely wonderful." Zhu Zhu Yijun was quite satisfied with the "Sword Classics."

The "Sword Classics" had four types of weapons, namely: hook, saber, spear, and mace.

On the afternoon of the next day, Zhu Zhu Yijun practiced fighting with sticks against Luo Luo Sigong. Luo Luo Sigong was beaten and fled in panic. Zhu Zhu Yijun's long weapon practice was just beginning, and there was no technique. Under the condition of equal strength, Luo Luo Sigong really could not fight him.

"Luo Luo Sigong! You have no heart of submission, you have no martial virtue, you sneak attacked!" Zhu Zhu Yijun was hit on the leg by a wooden saber and jumped three feet high, his teeth baring in pain. A hit from this wooden saber would leave a bruise, and it would take at least thirteen or fifteen days to heal.

Luo Luo Sigong held a short weapon. Although he was at a disadvantage, he also counter-attacked a few times, getting close and hitting the young Emperor, making him scream.

Luo Luo Sigong dropped the wooden saber in his hand, knelt down and said: "I deserve to die ten thousand deaths."

The last people who let the Emperor touch his head, Wang Wang Zhanglong, Chen Hong, and others, had already been sent to the Jieku Institute.

Luo Luo Sigong held a wooden saber and could extract a few bruises on Zhu Zhu Yijun's body every day.

If it were a thousand cuts, Luo Luo Sigong should have been atomized long ago.

Zhu Zhu Yijun saw Luo Luo Sigong kowtowing to plead guilty and walked over helplessly, pulled Luo Luo Sigong up, and said: "Oh my, you are so boring. Get up, get up. I was just joking. Keep fighting as you were. Luo Luo Sigong, you are only ten years old, be more lively, like me, be more cheerful."

"Yes, yes, yes, just like that."

Wang Wang Zhanglong let the Emperor touch him, that was attempting to assassinate the Emperor. Luo Luo Sigong and Zhu Zhu Yijun fighting was to improve their martial arts. In order not to let Empress Dowager Li worry, Zhu Zhu Yijun never let Empress Dowager Li see his injuries, but Imperial Physician Chen Chen Shigong knew the injuries on the young Emperor's body very clearly.

Martial arts experience is all beaten out.

"Come, again." Zhu Zhu Yijun picked up the short weapon and practiced with the short weapon like Luo Luo Sigong.

Long weapons are useful for military formations, and short weapons are useful for preventing assassins and villains.

A waist saber can be worn on the body and drawn to fight at any time. He couldn't carry a long weapon that was two heads taller than him wherever he went! He was not as tall as the Qi family waist saber yet. The Qi family waist saber was five feet long, and Zhu Zhu Yijun was only four feet two.

When Jing Ke assassinated the King of Qin, the King of Qin circled the pillar, which was the classic scene of the King carrying the sword. Therefore, long weapons must be practiced, and short weapons must also be practiced.

As they fought, Zhu Zhu Yijun found that this "Ding-character return kill" was really easy to use. The movements were simple, smooth, and flowing. As long as one was not careful and had a flaw, one would be taken away by two slashes.

"Ah!" Luo Luo Sigong groaned in pain, shaking his hand hard, jumping up and down.

"Luo Luo Sigong, are you planning to enter the white blade with bare hands?!" Zhu Zhu Yijun laughed out loud when he saw this. Just now, the young Emperor swung away Luo Luo Sigong's wooden saber and turned to slash down. Fearing to hurt Luo Luo Sigong, he changed the slash to a pat. Luo Luo Sigong subconsciously used his left hand to block, and the heavy slash hit Luo Luo Sigong's hand exactly.

Luo Luo Sigong's face turned pale with pain, sweat poured down his forehead, and he squatted on the ground holding his hand, his face extremely painful.

Zhu Zhu Yijun realized it was bad and immediately said loudly: "Imperial Physician Chen! Someone is injured!"

Zhu Zhu Yijun stepped forward and walked around Luo Luo Sigong anxiously. Chen Chen Shigong thought something had happened to the Emperor and rushed over at the fastest speed, opened Luo Luo Sigong's hand, and pressed it. Luo Luo Sigong cried out in pain.

After Chen Chen Shigong checked, he breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Fortunately, the bone is not broken. Your Majesty, this sparring is still too dangerous. Wooden sabers can also kill people."

"Fortunately, fortunately." Zhu Zhu Yijun breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this. He had tried his best to hold back his strength, but he still hit it solidly. The palm of Luo Luo Sigong's hand was swollen three inches wide, and then he turned from celebration to annoyance and said: "Commander Qi has said many times, don't enter the white blade with bare hands. You can't even catch a wooden saber."

"Let me see."

Zhu Zhu Yijun squatted down to look at the injury on Luo Luo Sigong's hand and said mockingly: "You won't be able to participate in sparring for ten days or half a month. Don't think about being lazy. Even if you are injured and can't train, you must still report on time, so as not to give people an excuse."

Injuries on the hand will also affect other places.

Zhu Zhu Yijun had been cut on the shoulder by Luo Luo Sigong before. It was also a coincidence that he hit the tendon. For half a month, the young Emperor could stand on a pile, but he couldn't run or jump. The vibration of running involved tearing pain in the whole shoulder.

That kind of severe pain was enough to make the young Emperor, who was sleeping soundly at night, wake up if he turned over and pressed on his shoulder. When it hurt, it was like someone reaching in and pinching it, pulling and pulling. For those few days, Zhu Zhu Yijun was like an old man with a candle in the wind, moving slightly, and his hands were twitching.

It was also these pains that made Zhu Zhu Yijun and Luo Luo Sigong the two people with the most exquisite martial arts in the Emperor's martial arts sparring group.

Luo Luo Sigong went from being the last one to becoming a martial arts master second only to the Emperor, within the range of twenty-one people.

Of course, everyone thought that Luo Luo Sigong looked fierce when fighting, but he still left room for the Emperor to be the strongest one.

"Go back and get a roast goose, consider it the medical expenses I'm paying you." Zhu Zhu Yijun pulled Luo Luo Sigong up.

Luo Luo Sigong stubbornly said: "I don't want it. Last time I hurt Your Majesty, Your Majesty didn't ask me to pay either."

Zhu Zhu Yijun saw Luo Luo Sigong's stubbornness and didn't make things difficult for him, saying: "That's fine. Listen to the imperial physician, you must rest for fifteen days. You are not allowed to train. Don't cause permanent damage by then, and you won't be able to cry. When I need to use people, I won't even have a handy person to use."

"I obey the edict." Luo Luo Sigong was very obedient. Whatever the Emperor said, he did, even if the Emperor asked him to hit the Emperor, he would execute it.

This is the daily life of a ten-year-old ruler practicing martial arts: being beaten and beating people.

Qi Qi Jiguang returned to the capital to be the Regional Commander, Ma Fang became the Deputy Regional Commander, Ma Gui and others were Assistant Regional Commanders, and the new Great Ming Capital Battalion was unfolding in full swing.

Zhang Zhang Siwei was active everywhere, but he was always thinking about returning to the capital, but there was no response. Zhang Zhang Siwei was really anxious, very anxious, because the current leader of the Jin Party, Ge Ge Shouli, was in a great situation.

If Zhang Zhang Siwei could return to the capital as scheduled, Ge Ge Shouli would definitely not be able to fight Zhang Zhang Siwei.

But the development of things was that Ge Ge Shouli gradually sat firmly in the position of leader.

Recently, because the Emperor's inspection of the Capital Battalion's troops caused controversy, under Ge Ge Shouli's campaigning, Zhang Zhang Juzheng finally changed it to inspecting the troops every five days. This was a huge victory for the Jin Party against the Zhang Party!

It dealt a heavy blow to the arrogant arrogance of the Grand Secretary in power "overawing the Emperor." Ge Ge Shouli therefore gained great prestige.

Zhang Zhang Siwei was anxious, very anxious, because the Emperor had drawn a clear line, that is, the day the Xuan-Da hole was plugged.

However, the construction of the Great Wall took three to five years. By then, the "Veritable Records of the Shizong Su Emperor" would have been finished. If Zhang Zhang Siwei returned to the capital by then, the daylily would have been cold.

On the fifteenth day of the ninth month, the Great Ming Emperor Zhu Zhu Yijun, after finishing his martial arts practice, took a carriage to the North Tucheng. According to the established procedures, he inspected the Capital Army.

Qi Qi Jiguang, Yang Wen, Ma Fang, Ma Gui, Li Li Rusong, and others met the Emperor at the Wu Ying Building in the North Tucheng and reported on the selection and formation of the new Capital Battalion.

An order-issuing officer ran in hurriedly, panting and saying: "Report! The Jizhou Military Consultant Wu Dui reports! The Northern Barbarian Little Prince and Dong Dong Huli, taking advantage of the high autumn and fat horses, have gathered thirty thousand troops, ready to knock on the pass and go south at any time, and have reached forty miles outside the North Ancient Pass!"

Zhu Zhu Yijun frowned, stood up and said: "Commander Qi, follow me back to the capital, and I ask you all to sleep on your weapons and wait for dawn."

Zhu Zhu Yijun's carriage was right outside the camp gate. Zhu Zhu Yijun invited Qi Qi Jiguang to board the carriage and travel together toward the capital.

"Your Majesty, this matter is a bit strange." Qi Qi Jiguang looked at the Emperor's worried expression and expressed his point of view.

Zhu Zhu Yijun asked suspiciously: "What is strange about it?"

Qi Qi Jiguang said solemnly: "I have two doubts. First, I have not received the scout report from the night scouts of the beacon towers. Moreover, there is no signature or seal of the Jizhou Regional Commander Chen Chen Dacheng on this report. In other words, it was reported by the Military Consultant Wu Dui himself."

"The beacon tower night scouts were created by the Xuan-Da Regional Commander Yang Hong in the second year of Emperor Jingtai. So far, there are more than three thousand people. They are all scouts of our Great Ming army. For more than a hundred years, they have gone deep into the barbarian camp to inquire about intelligence. I am the 'Liaoshan' (mountain observer) for the three towns of Jizhou, and I have not received the report from the beacon tower night scouts. How could a military consultant know about it one step earlier than our Great Ming beacon tower night scouts?!"

Beacon towers are the platforms of the Great Wall. Distant scouts are scouts who go deep into the grassland. Night scouts are scouts who don't have to come back at night and operate on the grassland.

The beacon tower night scouts have been around for more than a hundred years and are a complete and well-functioning intelligence system, divided into duties such as capturing live prisoners, reporting, guarding, supervising, claw probing, running reports, transmitting matters, beacon towers, sitting on the pond, reporting police, and observing mountains.

"Liaoshan" is the head of this intelligence system for a town, usually held concurrently by the Regional Commander of the Nine Borders.

Qi Qi Jiguang is the "Liaoshan" of the three towns, and Liang Liang Menglong, Chen Chen Dacheng, and others are still in Jizhou.

The Northern Barbarians invaded with thirty thousand people. How could they hide from the eyes of the beacon tower night scouts and easily reach forty miles outside the North Ancient Pass?

Before, when Qi Qi Jiguang defeated Dong Dong Huli in North Ancient Pass, Mu Xifeng Pass, and other places, he took a group of night scouts to explore the grassland. Only after confirming that the Northern Barbarians had no strength to go south did Qi Qi Jiguang agree to enter the capital to receive rewards, which delayed quite a bit of time.

Qi Qi Jiguang frowned and said: "Your Majesty, please allow me to report. My second doubt is that North Ancient Pass hurt the Northern Barbarians. Dong Dong Huli's nephew was captured alive by my department. This Dong Dong Huli also needs to recuperate for a period of time after going back before he can recruit more people. Both attack and defense have intervals. Where did Dong Dong Huli get so many people?"

"Thirty thousand people, more than one hundred thousand horses. If they really came to invade, the capital area would have been full of refugees and rumors long ago. How could it be so quiet?"

Zhu Zhu Yijun was just a ten-year-old ruler. He had no combat experience. He thought for a long time before saying: "Does Commander Qi mean, 'There are three or two branches of peach blossoms outside the bamboo, and the ducks know first when the spring river warms up'?"

The weather is warming up. Whether the water is warm or not, the peach trees outside the bamboo forest and the wild ducks in the water know first.

If the Northern Barbarians set up such a battle to invade, then the sound of more than one hundred thousand horseshoes would ring forty miles outside the North Ancient Pass. The people on the border would have long ago fled inward, and rumors would be everywhere.

"I request to go to North Ancient Pass to explore." Qi Qi Jiguang bowed his head and said. Whether it is true or not, he will know if he goes to see it himself.

Zhu Zhu Yijun shook his head and said: "That's not urgent. Let's talk about it after the court discussion in the capital."

After returning to the capital, Zhu Zhu Yijun went straight to the Zhao Wenhua Hall, did not even return to the Qianqing Palace, did not see the two Empress Dowagers, and directly went to the Zhao Wenhua Hall, asking Feng Bao to pass an edict to the Zhang Wenyuan Pavilion, ordering the civil and military court officials to discuss the matter.

Zhang Zhang Juzheng and Lu Lu Diaoyang were the first to arrive. The place where they sat and worked was the Zhang Wenyuan Pavilion opposite the Zhao Wenhua Hall.

The report had already reached the Ministry of War. Tan Lun, the Minister of War, was the second to arrive at the Zhao Wenhua Hall. Tan Lun and Qi Qi Jiguang communicated, and both were suspicious.

The two Empress Dowagers heard that the Northern Barbarians were going south and also rushed to the back hall of the Zhao Wenhua Hall, waiting for the court discussion to begin.

Zhu Zhu Yijun sat calmly on the moon platform, and even had the leisure to read for a while.

Qi Qi Jiguang was in the capital, and there were one hundred thousand soldiers trained by Qi Qi Jiguang in Jizhou, Yongping, and Jia Shanhai Pass. Zhu Zhu Yijun didn't believe that the Northern Barbarians could run into the Zhao Wenhua Hall and cut off his head!

Zhu Zhu Yijun was not panicked at all, but Ge Ge Shouli was slightly anxious.

"For this matter, first send a fast horse to North Ancient Pass to inquire. With a fast horse and a whip, it will take three or four hours to go back and forth." After Zhang Zhang Juzheng exchanged opinions with Qi Qi Jiguang and Tan Lun, he decided not to impose martial law, but to inquire about the truth of the intelligence first.

"I'll go." Qi Qi Jiguang felt that he should go for a run himself. If it was really the Northern Barbarians invading the border, he would immediately take over the command, and he could command the border troops to attack and defend, and the capital area would not need to be too anxious.

In the second year of Emperor Longqing, Qi Qi Jiguang went from south to north. It has been five years since then. It is not that Qi Qi Jiguang looks down on the Northern Barbarians and is careless. In Qi Qi Jiguang's eyes, the Northern Barbarians and the Japanese pirates are about the same, not worth fighting.

Qi Qi Jiguang never underestimates the enemy. Every time he goes all out, which is why he wins every battle. For a general, if you don't consider victory, first consider defeat, so you can fight a hundred battles without danger.

Every battle Qi Qi Jiguang fights, the first thing he thinks about is how he will lose, and every time he wins, it is him.

From the perspective of strength, Qi Qi Jiguang does not think the Northern Barbarians are powerful. From the perspective of winning, Qi Qi Jiguang never underestimates any opponent.

"Commander Qi, don't be impatient. It may be 'shaking lips and drumming tongues'." Zhang Zhang Juzheng said with an extremely strange expression: "At that time, Commander Qi had not yet returned to the capital. In the second year of Emperor Longqing, someone, in order to sabotage the peace agreement with Altan Khan in the second year of Emperor Longqing, once fabricated a report, deceived the Provincial Governor and Military Consultant, and caused the capital to be under martial law for more than a month, costing hundreds of thousands of silver, but it was a joke."

"This led to Commander Qi going north to train troops."

Zhang Zhang Juzheng talked about the past, and his expression could be described as mixed. The great affairs of the country are in military affairs and sacrifices. Even the reports dared to be fabricated, causing the capital to be under martial law for a month, but it was just scaring themselves, spending hundreds of thousands of silver, delaying the farming in the capital area, and strengthening the walls and clearing the fields. In the end, it was a false report, and the person who made the false report is now the Provincial Governor of Datong, Fang Fang Fengshi.

The Emperor Longqing Emperor also realized the problem here, so he agreed to Qi Qi Jiguang's going north to train troops.

This is not a rare thing. During the Emperor Jiajing reign, the seal of the Ministry of War was even lost.

Zhu Zhu Yijun and Qi Qi Jiguang looked at each other, and Qi Qi Jiguang's eyes were full of shock!

This pool of water in the court cannot be stirred like this.

Even the reports can be fabricated to scare the imperial court. This courage is really too big. And is Wu Dui's intelligence this time a false report?

Reading "Sword Classics" long weapon proficiency +20, sparring long and short weapons proficiency +100, slingshot fishing: accuracy +20, dynamic aiming ability +10, standing on piles and training, physical strength +0.3, farming: promoting sweet potatoes, Great Ming stability +3, population expected +2. Thanks to book friend "Little Flying Carpet" for the 1,000-point reward, thank you very much, in honor of alliance leader "Little Flying Carpet"!!!! Thanks for the support and recognition, thank you very much. ===== CHAPTER 85 =====