The cries of ridicule lingering in his ears made the censor's face turn pale and turn green, and he knew that his reputation was over.
I suddenly felt like my heart was filled with despair, as if I had lost the desire to live.
"Your Majesty, rebels are everywhere in Guanxi and there are endless remnants of Qianliang. You must not go west to Chang'an."
After saying that, the censor threw away the wat board and wanted to hit him to death, but he was pushed to the ground by the Han general who had been on guard for a long time.
"Let go, let me go. I will die! I will die for remonstrance."
Zhu Wenwu remained silent and watched indifferently as the old censor was dragged out by the Han general.
If he hadn't said that there were rebels all over Kansai and directly remonstrated with him, his friends and colleagues would have come out to smooth things over and save him, but his words offended everyone in the court who was born in or made money from the northwest. The civil servants and military generals have relationships with their in-laws, old tribes, etc.
For example, Nong Xia Tong, a civil servant who was born in Weinan, and Jia Hui, a military general who made a fortune in the four western regions.
Thinking of this, several people looked towards Da Sinong and Taiwei.
Hiss. This face is so dark and scary!
Several people quickly lowered their heads, not daring to look at them anymore.
Sorry, old friend, we want to live, not die!
Everyone tacitly chose to ignore this topic.
A few more censors wanted to go out and say that they were wasting the people and wasting money, but when they glanced at the Taiwei sitting at the head of the Wu class, they remembered the picture that was posted on the wall of a side room of the Ministry of Hubu. Day and night they worship the ever-burning portrait of the God of Wealth.
The face in the portrait looks exactly like the one carved from the same mold as the Taiwei!
The treatment of 400 million taels of silver is so terrifying!
The officials present could not think of any reason to stop the Second Saint from hunting in the west. In addition, the emperor emphasized that the emperor also wanted to go.
The officials were at their wits' end.
These days, a Supreme Emperor who takes the initiative to take the Zen position is as if he has been plated with gold. No matter how screwed up he was before, from the time he takes the initiative to take the Zen position, he is the living ancient holy king!
What's more, apart from forcing the prince to rebel, the emperor is still a very accomplished emperor. The two together can be said to be a combination of virtues and virtues in terms of etiquette and law. Even the most stubborn Confucian scholars have nothing to say about this.
As a result, the officials could only admit that they were unlucky, cursed secretly, held their noses and bowed down together with Zhu Wenwu and said they obeyed the order.
The affairs of Chang'an in Xihunting were settled in this way.
. . . . . .
"What do the Emperor and His Majesty think? They know clearly that there are remnants of the East Palace in the Qinling Mountains, so why do they go to Chang'an and risk their lives?"
On the white jade steps, Jia Hui and Chen Si stayed away from the crowd and gathered together to whisper.
"This matter is rather complicated." Chen Si looked embarrassed.
"Then let's make a long story short!"
"Okay, the main reason is that the emperor wants to see the little prince in person."
"Then you won't put yourself in danger, right? You know that today Daqi mainly relies on the two saints to come to the court to clear the sea and the river. The saint alone cannot control the world."
"Oh, then go and persuade Grandpa Huang."
"Forget it, let the emperor be happy." After thinking about it, Jia Hui immediately gave up the dissuasion.
"Actually, what Grandpa Huang means is that the sooner this matter is dealt with, the better. The people who embroider the clothes don't even know where they are. Instead of letting them grow bigger and bigger, it is better to give them a chance to attack as soon as possible. Destroy them."
"Then we won't go to Huaqing Palace."
"This" Chen Si squirmed and looked hard to say.
"What? Isn't it hard to tell?" Jia Hui asked.
"It's not that I can't say it. The main reason is that my father wants to go."
Want to soak in a hot spring and then die as bait in the mountains?
"Isn't it too dangerous?"
"It's not dangerous. Grandpa Huang plans to take Long Xiang, Feng Xiang, Yu Linwei and your Suzaku cavalry with him this time."
"It's the three guards, that's okay." Jia Hui felt relieved when he heard these three familiar names.
At the founding of the People's Republic of China, Taizu established the bodyguards as direct military commanders. The 17 guards were all composed of retired professional soldiers and belonged entirely to the emperor's pro-military troops.
But it is also because these seventeen guards and horses are the emperor's personal army and must be raised from internal funds, and all seventeen guards and ninety-five thousand troops are needed!
In addition to the Xiuyiwei, a behemoth with a formal establishment of 14,560 people in 13 thousand-household offices, the number of people in the establishment alone exceeds 100,000!
This does not include tens of thousands of war horses and more than 100,000 embroidered guards!
The internal money is really too much to bear!
So during the reign of Emperor Taizong, Emperor Taizong streamlined the direct military command department and reduced the seventeen guards and horses to seven guards and horses in total: Longxiang, Baotao, Feixiong, Yingyang, Xiaoqi, Fengxiang and Yulinwei.
Directly save the cost of raising seven guards and horses, and then use the money and food to raise ten guards and horses to arm the seven guards to the teeth.
All members are armored and equipped with the most advanced weapons and equipment at all times. Even the soldiers are 40,000 elites selected from the laborers of Jiubian and Jingying!
This move has greatly eased the financial pressure on internal funds, and the combat effectiveness has not even been weakened much!
Let's talk about the three guardsmen who are going to hunt westward.
Of course, there is no need to say more about Longxiang Guard. It was Longxiang Guard who acted as the main force to destroy the Sixth Army of the East Palace.
The Fengxiang Guards came half to defend the palace and half to attack the East Palace. They were the ones who killed all the people in the East Palace. Among them were several of the emperor's grandsons who were killed and Jia Hui played well.
Then there is the Habayashi Guards, which is an army composed of the orphans of the Seven Guards. Since the royal family has not personally conquered for nearly twenty years, the Habayashi Guards almost exist in name only.
However, at the end of the second year of Yonglong, which was the last year of the Emperor's rule, the Habayashi Guards were almost fully staffed.
In other words, the fathers and ancestors of this group of Yulin Guards all died in battle because of the East Palace Rebellion. The hatred for killing their fathers is irreconcilable!
It can be said that these three troops have a bloody feud with the Sixth Army of the East Palace, and all of his Suzaku cavalry are elite cavalry from various frontier armies and a small number of Beijing camps. The three thousand households were all promoted from humble beginnings by Jia Hui, and they are closely related to each other. The former East Palace had nothing to do with it
There is no psychological burden at all in killing the remnants of the East Palace!
"With the three guards, the Suzaku cavalry, and the soldiers and horses from the Lantian Camp, there won't be any big problems with Xi Lie's security." Jia Hui nodded thoughtfully.
Either the East Palace hates him to the core, or he has a blood feud with the East Palace, or he has nothing to do with him and takes action without the slightest psychological burden. He will not hook up with those rebels no matter what.
While chatting with Chen Si, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a man in a python robe walking towards the palace gate in small steps.
"Your Majesty is leaving in such a hurry, where are you going?"
Jia Hui grinned and shouted at King Zhongshun who was quickly walking out of the palace. King Zhongshun was so frightened that he trembled and froze, and then ran out risking his life.
Chen Si and Jia Hui looked at each other and laughed.
. . . . . .
The matter of hunting in the West is not something that the emperor can do with just one mouth. There are so many different things in it.
Fortunately, Daqi had just experienced a capital move, and was very familiar with the etiquette of the emperor's tour, so there was no need to worry about the ceremonial aspect.
All that's left is to provide warning and food supplies along the way.
In previous years, everyone would have to worry about these things, but this year is different, this year we have money!
Just keep an eye on the people below and avoid corruption.
Although Daqi implements a policy of high salaries to support integrity, and the punishment for corrupt officials is very cruel, but there are all kinds of birds in the forest, and there are always a few people in this world who are lucky enough to save money rather than their lives.
Then the eunuch in charge of Weiyang Palace was notified to start cleaning up Weiyang Palace.
The last time Emperor Qi came to Chang'an was more than ten years ago. In the past, in order to save money, the maintenance of Weiyang Palace was limited to the palace walls, three main halls and a few main sleeping halls.
Generally speaking, these are enough. This is not a capital move but just a tour. The emperor can't bring all the concubines with him, right?
But this time, the emperor also wants to follow
As a result, the palace was not enough, but fortunately the emperor was considerate and decided to live in Xuanshi Hall with the empress, and drove the emperor to the Jiaofang Hall at the back and squeezed in the empress.
However, Chen Si found that he had no place to stay after going to Chang'an.
The steward of Prince Yiyong's Mansion rode horseback and rushed towards Guannai overnight to buy a house in Chang'an.
The next thing has nothing to do with Jia Hui. This trip to the county government is something that the mistress Li Wan should worry about. He only needs to check and fill in the gaps every day.
Zuojundudufu.
Letters of notification were stamped with the governor's seal and carried by knights to military yamen across the country.
Inform them that at least until October, all memorials will be sent not to Luoyang but to Chang'an.
It may cause some trouble initially, but it is not all bad. At least the court's response to the southwest war will be much faster.
After stamping the governor's seal on the document sent to Liaodong Town, Jia Hui rubbed his sore wrist and let out a sigh of relief.
Finally finished.
Writing documents can be left to the scribe, but sealing cannot be done by others.
"Lieutenant, the water is ready."
A clerk came over quickly carrying a pot of hot water that was still gurgling. He filled the Taiwei's teapot with water. After letting it sit for a few breaths, he quickly poured the tea into the teapot that Jia Hui pushed over. In a big teacup.
It's about three o'clock, let's drink tea first!
"Huh. Breathe."
Jia Hui, who felt refreshed after taking a sip of hot tea, sat back on the chair with a comfortable expression.
"Old Liu, have you checked out all the things that need to be moved out of the Yamen?"
"Back to Lieutenant Commander, we have taken inventory of everything in the Governor's Mansion. Here is the list." Old Liu, the scribe, handed the list to Jia Hui with both hands and stood there waiting for questioning.
"So many? When I passed by several other yamen, why did I feel like they had nothing to move?"
"Lieutenant, this is the year of defense changes in Jiubian, so the files of the generals must be taken away, right?" Lao Liu explained quickly.
"Ah, yes, I almost forgot. We are checking from west to east. Haven't the four northwest towns already been checked? It's enough to bring the list of generals. Their files are no longer needed. Just put them in Luoyang. Just bring them Just go to the archives of the five towns heading east from Sanguan Town." Jia Hui picked up his pen and began to write and draw on the list.
"Yes!" Old Liu answered with his hands raised.
In fact, there were many dispensable items on the list, most of which even old officials like them were unsure whether they should take.
In order to avoid being scolded and punished for taking less things, they wrote down all the things they could think of in a list, trying to do it in one step, deleting more and adding less, and let the captain decide what to take.
Take a look, isn't this missing the files of the four towns?
"Don't you need to bring tables and chairs? It's enough to bring some futons and wooden boards the size of paperwork. We can only use these on the way back and forth. It's not like the Governor's Mansion in Chang'an doesn't have these things."
After carefully checking it five or six times, Jia Hui returned the revised list to Lao Liu.
"Go and prepare. Oh, by the way, who are you planning to let stay at the Yamen?"
"Back to Taiwei, Chang Qianshi won the lottery to stay behind. Then some officials who are older and have poor health and can't stand the fatigue of traveling and traveling also plan to stay on their own initiative."
"Okay, are there enough people left behind?"
"There are three more."
"Let's do it. Tomorrow, we will let the promising children in their family. Remember, it doesn't matter whether they are legitimate or not. They must be promising children. Let them take over the class and come to the Yamen first to practice with you. You should keep an eye on it. If it is good, I will lift them up."
"Oh, I'll thank you, Lieutenant, on their behalf!"
Hearing Jia Hui's words, Old Liu was overjoyed. He knelt down on the ground and kowtowed to Jia Hui.
"Okay, you can go about your business." Jia Hui waved his hand towards Lao Liu, took another sip of tea and continued to process the paperwork.
"Oh, tsk tsk tsk, you are indeed Master Yun. Now you have left the mountains and entered the plains."
Jia Hui was amazed when he saw the battle report from Southwest.
After regaining Lashio and capturing King Mang Yingda of Toungoo alive, the Yun Yu tribe of the Qi army marched westward along the mountain road, successfully attacked Meimu at night, opened up the road for the Qi army to go down to the plateau, and then headed towards Mandalay, the important town of Toungoo in the west. Successfully used Mang Yingda to persuade Mandalay's defenders to surrender.
At this time, the Qi army completely divided Dongyu into two sections, and could go north or south along the Irrawaddy River at any time.
The partial division of the Qi army that set out from Xuanweisi in Babaidadian also successfully crossed the Thaninthawong Mountains, captured several cities along the coast, and then marched towards Yangon.
Taungoo is finished.
On the Great Plains, no one was a match for the Daqi warriors.
Let’s see how long Taungoo can hold on after being beaten into two quarters.
Presumably it won't be long before King Toungoo and other royal nobles of Toungoo will be sent to Chang'an to dance.
Speaking of dancing, someone from the Jiaofang Department said that Antong Bayar, who has been practicing for nearly two years, will have his first show in Xiyuan in three days.
Be sure to check it out!
"Come here, tell Lao Liu and ask him to bring the files of the generals on this southern expedition." Jia Hui called a clerk and gave him a few instructions to tell Lao Liu.
"yes!"
The clerk agreed and went to look for Lao Liu.
. . . . . .
North Korea, suburbs of Seoul.
The crown prince Li Xiang and the civil and military corps of North Korea stood outside the Ying'en Gate, tired and worried, standing there without saying a word.
As early as when he decided to send people to assassinate the late king, he had already made preparations for Da Qi to come to North Korea to investigate.
All relevant characters and clues have been destroyed. In order to ensure realism, he also specially caught a tiger and fed it to a few untouchables, just to let it get used to the taste of human flesh.
But things were still beyond his control, even far beyond his imagination.
The investigation team did come, but it was not the one with a maximum of 100 people as originally expected.
Instead, it was a country-killing investigation team with three thousand fully armed elite cavalry of the Qi border army!
How could we, North Korea, be so virtuous and capable?
After learning about this, Li Xiang was so frightened that he smashed his palace to pieces and lit a fire.
well.
Li Xiang sighed, he regretted it terribly now.
But the matter has come to this, and now he can only take one step at a time.
While he was thinking, Li Xiang suddenly felt a vibration coming from the ground.
Looking up, I saw a group of knights in helmets and armor, holding flags and surrounded by several carriages, heading towards the Yingen Gate!
"Your Majesty, the angel is here!"
The confidant standing aside said to Li Xiang as if he was just waking up from a dream.
"Axi, do you still need to tell me?"
Li Xiang snorted coldly at his confidant. Under the puzzled gaze of his confidant, Li Xiang raised the corner of his mouth and strode towards the angel with a smile on his face.
"play music!"
With Li Xiang's loud shout, the musicians who had been holding musical instruments at Yingen Gate recovered from the shock brought by the angel's three thousand elite cavalry and began to play the ritual music given by Da Qi...
"Chaotian Le"
Here’s… yesterday’s update…
emmmm... I think I said before that I would add a chapter every other day during the holidays, and now I owe you four more chapters...
But the holiday is over, and I can finally return to the normal update rhythm...
(End of chapter)
