Jizhou, inside the Governor's Mansion.
After leading his army in triumph, Yang Xuan didn't have time to remove his armor, so he went straight back to the Governor's Mansion. He wanted to personally write a letter to the court to inform His Majesty of the situation here.
At this moment, Yang Xuan was sitting in front of the writing desk, laying out his pen and paper, pondering the contents of the letter in his mind. After much thought, Yang Xuan finally decided to keep everything simple.
Perhaps due to being too excited, Yang Xuan's hand holding the brush trembled slightly. After pondering for a long time, Yang Xuan put down the brush and wrote on the paper.
"Your Majesty, Wei Chen Yang Xuan, Governor of Ji Liao, not long ago, Wei Chen led his army to successfully defeat the invading 30,000 Tatar army!"
"We annihilated a total of 26,723 enemy troops and captured 16,362 pieces of armor, countless swords of all kinds, cattle, sheep, livestock, etc., totaling 8,600 Yu Tou!"
"In addition, our army suffered various casualties in this battle, totaling more than 3,000 people!"
When Yang Xuan wrote this, he paused for a moment. After sorting out the words in his mind, he continued to write.
"Not only that, Weichen also captured the eldest son of Sun, who is now Zasak Tuhan Tumahan. Weichen is currently sending people to escort him to the capital, and he will surely arrive in the near future!"
After the last stroke was finished, Yang Xuan put the brush back to its original place and carefully checked the contents of the letter. After confirming that there were no errors or omissions, he breathed a sigh of relief.
After the ink on the paper was dry, Yang Xuan sorted it out and put it into an envelope. He immediately called his confidant and gave instructions in a deep voice.
"Send this letter to the capital, 800 miles away, we must hurry!"
"Yes, Lord Governor!"
After hearing this, the confidant immediately took the order and left.
Not long after, a guard walked in, knelt on the ground and said in a deep voice.
"Reporting to the Governor, Lord Shangshu is outside asking for an audience!"
When Yang Xuan heard this, he raised his eyebrows and immediately gave instructions.
"Well, let him in!"
"Yes, Lord Governor!"
After a while, Yang Bo entered the study room in the Governor's Mansion under the leadership of the guards.
Seeing Yang Bo's arrival, Yang Xuan asked with concern.
"Have the soldiers' salaries and corresponding rewards been distributed?"
When Yang Bo heard this, he nodded and immediately responded.
"Well, all of them have been distributed according to double the quota!"
Later, Yang Bo saw the tired look on Yang Xuan's face and immediately comforted him.
"Now that the battle is won, it's time for you to take a good rest."
After Yang Xuan listened to Yang Bo's consolation, he shook his head and immediately spoke.
"After I take a shower and change clothes later, let them prepare a table of wine and food. Let's have a good celebration!"
When Yang Bo heard this, he responded quite boldly.
"Well, let's not go home until we get drunk tonight!"
"You won't come home until you're drunk!"
…
Capital City, Yan Mansion.
In the early morning, when Yan Shifan came to the hall, what he saw was this scene.
In the hall, Yan Song was sitting at the top, his head drooped, and one hand almost dropped to the ground. However, despite this, Yan Song still held the book in his hand tightly and was reluctant to relax.
Yan Song's body had already been covered with a blanket by the maid.
Immediately, Yan Shifan called the maid and asked softly.
"How long did it take for father to get up?"
When the maid heard this, she didn't dare to hide anything and immediately responded.
"Back to Xiao Ge, I got up at Mao hour and stayed there until now."
After Yan Shifan got the answer he wanted from the maid, he immediately waved his hand and ordered.
"Well, I understand, go down!"
Yan Shifan looked at Yan Song sleeping and sighed inaudibly.
He knew that his father had been under a lot of pressure in recent days. He had to personally check on any news coming from Jizhou, for fear of missing anything.
Immediately, Yan Shifan walked out of the hall with silent steps, looked at the flowers and plants planted in the courtyard, sighed, and said silently to himself: "Oh, I hope the front line can win!"
In a blink of an eye, it was time to officially go on duty.
When Yan Song and others came to the cabinet one after another, and before they started to deal with today's memorial, a subordinate staff member walked into the cabinet quickly. While kneeling on the ground, he held the memorial in his hand high. He raised his head and said in a deep voice.
"Mr. Xinge, this is the 800-mile express from Jizhou!"
When Yan Song heard this, his whole body suddenly became energetic. He stood up from his seat and took the envelope from the hands of the subordinate staff.
Soon, Xu Jie and others also put down their unfinished business and gathered around one after another. Like Yan Song, they were also extremely curious about the contents of the letter!
Facing everyone's gaze, Yan Song took a deep breath, carefully opened the envelope, and began to browse the contents.
Time passed by slowly. When Yan Song read the contents of the letter word by word, he was speechless for a moment, perhaps because he was so shocked.
It took a long time for Yan Song to react. He looked like a madman and kept muttering in his mouth.
"Haha, the front line won... won, and it was a big victory!"
"What!"
Hearing this, Xu Jie could no longer suppress the curiosity in his heart. He took the letter from Yan Song's hand and began to read it carefully. After a while, Xu Jie put the letter aside and laughed loudly.
"Hahaha, Your Majesty, Ming Ming, I have won, won!"
"My Ming Dynasty is truly invincible!"
Immediately afterwards, Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng, and Yan Shifan also read through the contents of the letter one after another. They were also shocked by the content written in the letter.
"Yang Xuan, the governor of Jiliao, not only annihilated the invading 30,000 Tatar army, but also captured Tumaihan alive. This is an unparalleled achievement!"
Immediately, Zhang Juzheng was the first to react and reminded him instead.
"Should we inform His Majesty of this news as soon as possible?"
After hearing Zhang Juzheng's reminder, everyone finally realized what they were doing, and immediately started walking towards the Cultivation Heart Hall without stopping.
On the way to Yangxin Hall, Yan Song seemed to suddenly remember it, and then reminded everyone.
"By the way, call Eunuch Lu too!"
"Um."
…
In the early morning, Jiajing was sitting upright on the futon, his eyes seemed to be closed.
Since exercising his mental power previously, Jiajing can clearly feel that his meditation time and the benefits that meditation has brought to him have greatly improved.
After Jiajing exited the meditative state, he slowly stood up from the futon. After roughly sensing the situation in his body, Jiajing was able to keenly sense that the amount of mana that his Dantian could contain was almost reaching its limit.
In other words, Jiajing is about to break through again. Since the last breakthrough, Jiajing's realm has been stuck at the peak of the middle stage of Qi refining. After this period of meditation, the shackles of the realm have been loosened a lot.
If he continues to practice step by step like this, Jiajing will soon be able to advance to the later stage of Qi refining in a logical manner.
Recalling the situation when he broke through the realm last time, Jiajing still had lingering fears. He never thought that just breaking through to the middle stage of Qi refining could cause a thunder disaster. What should he do in the later stage of Qi refining, and what should he do in the foundation building stage?
"Forget it, there's no point in thinking about this right now, let's just focus on practice!"
Jiajing shook his head imperceptibly, as if to get rid of the chaotic thoughts in his mind.
At this moment, the voice of guiding the eunuch came from outside the Yangxin Hall.
"Your Majesty, Mr. Yan Ge and Eunuch Lu are waiting outside the palace!"
When Jiajing heard this, he couldn't help but frowned and immediately said doubtfully.
"Why are they coming to see me so early?"
"Forget it, let them in!"
"As you command, Your Majesty!"
After receiving Jiajing's instructions, the guiding eunuch quickly came to Lu Fang, Yan Song and others who were still waiting to be summoned, and said respectfully.
"Everyone, His Majesty just said that you can go in!"
"Um."
Everyone withdrew their gaze and immediately stepped onto the steps of the Nourishing Heart Hall with solemn expressions.
As soon as they entered the Yangxin Hall, everyone knelt on the ground, looked at the figure sitting on the dragon chair, and said respectfully.
"I bow to your Majesty, long live my emperor!"
Seeing this situation, Jiajing looked away, waved his hand quite casually, and immediately gave instructions.
"Well, everyone, get up!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
After receiving Jiajing's permission, everyone slowly stood up from the ground.
Immediately afterwards, Jiajing's Gujing Wubo voice sounded in their ears.
"You came to see me so early. Is there any news from Jizhou?"
As soon as Jiajing finished speaking, Yan Song, who had just stood up from the ground, responded immediately.
"Your Majesty is really good at predicting events. Not long ago, Yang Xuan, the governor of Jiliao, sent people eight hundred miles away to rush to deliver news that there was a great victory ahead and tens of thousands of enemies were wiped out!"
When Yan Song said this, he paused for a moment, took out the memorial from his sleeve, raised it high above his head, and continued.
"Not only that, Yang Xuan, the governor of Jiliao, also captured alive the eldest son of Sun, who is now Zasak Tuhan Tumahan!"
"Currently, Tumaihan is being escorted to the capital by the guards. He will surely arrive soon!"
After listening to Yan Song's report, Jiajing couldn't hide the joy on his face, clenched his fists suddenly, and said in a deep voice.
"Okay, this Yang Xuan has done a good job, I will reward him!"
As soon as Jiajing finished speaking, Lu Fang took the memorial from Yan Song's hand, came to Jiajing's side, and respectfully handed the memorial into Jiajing's hands.
Jiajing took the memorial and took it apart. After browsing the contents above, he felt relieved and said loudly.
"According to my decree, the imperial court will distribute four times the salary to all the soldiers who participated in this battle. For the soldiers who unfortunately died in battle, the imperial court will also distribute four times the original standard of pension."
"The relatives they left behind will all be supported by the imperial court's special allocation of money!"
"Yang Xuan, the governor of Jiliao, captured the Tatar Khan and made great contributions to killing the enemy. The imperial court has officially named him a hussar general, and his responsibilities remain unchanged!"
"Yang Bo, Minister of the Left of the Ministry of War, assisted Yang Xuan, Governor of Jiliao, in annihilating the invading enemies, and made great contributions. He is now named General Huaiyuan, and his responsibilities remain unchanged!"
"In addition, all officers, big and small, who participated in this battle will be upgraded to one level based on the original level!"
After Jiajing's words fell, no one at the scene raised any objection to it. Immediately afterwards, everyone knelt on the ground respectfully and said in unison.
"Your Majesty, Holy Might!"
Soon, the news that the Ming army had won a great victory on the front line, annihilated tens of thousands of enemies, and captured the Tatar Khan alive, quickly spread throughout the capital at a viral speed!
The people all applauded this, and the officials were extremely excited and did not even bother to deal with the government affairs at hand. They gathered in groups to discuss the matter.
(End of chapter)
