The five thousand soldiers and horses Li Jing sent out for the expedition were carefully selected and equipped with complete weapons and equipment. According to Wei Yunqi's words, if you give me these five thousand cavalry, I dare to challenge the Turkic army of 50,000.
There is definitely some bragging involved, but this guy does have a lot of military exploits, and he is one of the famous generals who can defeat more with less.
Five thousand people were given seven thousand horses, and the food and grass supplies were provided by counties along the road. After arriving in Zhangye, Fan Zigai would be responsible for solving the later food and grass problems.
Yang Ming took several big bosses to personally escort Li Jing out of the city.
Yu Wenshu said on horseback: "Pharmacist, remember not to cause trouble. If the Turks send envoys to inquire, just say that you are protecting the smooth flow of trade routes and never interfere in their affairs."
"Don't worry, Mr. Xu, I am just a spectator. Without His Majesty's will and the Crown Prince's decree, I will never act rashly," Li Jing nodded.
Yang Yue also told: "In the bitter cold land of the northwest, take good care of your health. You are not young anymore, no more than you were back then. Keep an eye on Gaochang. If the Turks invade, you can help defend in the name of protecting the vassal state."
Li Jing nodded: "Xuan Ting, please ask Mr. Yang to say hello."
"I won't say hello," Yang Yue said with a smile, "You two are not outsiders. Let's negotiate with each other after we go there. He won't disobey you."
Li Jing smiled and nodded.
Outside the city, five thousand elites have been assembled. In front of all the soldiers, Yang Ming granted the edict to Prince Li Jing. In other words, unless the emperor had other wishes, no one else could move Li Jing's position. Fan Zigai He and Yang Xuanting both need to cooperate.
Watching the army leave, Yu Wenshu frowned and said: "Your Majesty's decree should be coming soon. The trouble in the north is really worrying. When can it be solved once and for all, life will be stable."
Yang Yue smiled and said: "We have to wait. Without three to five years of rest and recuperation, we can't recruit a large army."
"If Changsun Sheng is here, things will be easier to handle. By the way, I heard that his sons are causing trouble again?" Yu Wenshu said.
Yang Ming frowned and said, "Is there such a thing?"
"There are rumors circulating," Yang Yue stroked his beard and said with a smile: "The third eldest son, Sun Anye, told people after drinking that he had seen his stepmother, Mrs. Gao, bathing, and she was a coquettish fox. It was probably passed on to eldest son Wuji. I heard from my ears that the two brothers had a fight in a wine shop in Dongshi the day before yesterday."
Wei Yunqi frowned and said: "My stepmother is also a mother. Fortunately for him, he can tell me that Changsun Anye is a prison general in Yanxingmen. He is notorious far and wide. He is nicknamed the God of the East Gate. I heard that it doesn't matter who owns the goods." Entering through Yanxing Gate, if you don't treat others well, they will peel off your skin."
Yang Ming joked: "Does he dare to use products from the Wei family?"
"Lend him some courage," Wei Yunqi raised his eyebrows.
Everyone laughed.
Yang Yue laughed and said: "Listening to what you just said, it seems like he is making things difficult for your Wei family. Do you have any quarrel with him?"
"I can't talk about the quarrel, I just can't stand it," Wei Yue said: "The salary of the prison general of the city defense is so rich. I don't want to be this hussar general anymore. I want to find a city defense officer to work for." The patriarch of the Xue Xue family, Sun Anye, is making money every day."
Yang Gongren said in a deep voice: "In that case, the city's defense needs to be improved."
"No, people will resent me if I correct them," Wei Yunqi waved his hand quickly.
Yang Ming smiled and said: "Look at who is around you? They are much more stable than you. What can and can't be spread out? They are more measured than you."
Yu Wenshu laughed, patted Wei Yunqi's shoulder, and said, "What are you afraid of? In the capital, besides the royal family, is there anything your Wei family is afraid of?"
Several people walked slowly back to Beicheng along Zhuque Street. On the way, Yang Ming turned sideways and asked:
"Who are these prison generals in the capital?"
Yang Gongren said: "The general in charge of the Tonghua Gate is Yang Hongde, the eldest son of Yang Yue, the Chunming Gate is Li Keshi, the fourth son of the pharmacist's family, the Yanxing Gate is the eldest grandson Anye, and the Qixia Gate is Li Yuan's cousin Li Shentong. The Mingde gate is Cui Hongshou, the Anhua gate is currently the king of Shu Yang Xiao, the Kaiyuan gate is the younger brother of Liang Wang Yang Zhan, the Marquis of Jibei, the Jinguang gate is the Qianniu Beishen Chai Shao of Prince Yuande, and the Yanping gate is Qiu Hesan. Ziqiu Xinggong, Guanghua Gate is Douluyuan, as for Hualin Gate, Xuanwu Gate, and Zhide Gate, they belong to the left and right prison gates and have nothing to do with the city's defense."
"Yang Xiao is a prison general?" Yang Ming frowned and said, "He is my cousin."
Yang Gongren smiled and said: "Your Majesty decided."
"Oh~~~" Yang Ming smiled: "What is the relationship between Dou Luyuan and Dou Luji, Duke of Chu?"
Yang Gongren replied: "It is the grandson of Duke of Chu, Duke Xijue Zhengyi County, who has made thousands of preparations for your majesty."
Lu Ji, the Duke of Chu State, was the father-in-law of Yang Liang, King of Han Dynasty.
Yang Ming looked at Wei Yunqi and smiled: "There's no one named Wei?"
When Wei Yunqi was about to speak, Yang Gongren interrupted: "There are many generals below with the surname Wei. The Wei and Du families guarding the city have the largest number."
"That's what I'm saying," Yang Ming laughed: "You are the General of the Hussars, and the city defense is nominally under your control. But they are greedy and you turn a blind eye. You have to be responsible."
Wei Yunqi said with a frustrated look on his face: "Among these people, there are at most three or two people who can't be managed. The rest don't listen to my orders."
Of course I won't listen to you. The defense of the capital requires decentralization, and it is impossible to let a few generals.
Yang Yue guessed what Yang Ming was thinking, so he suggested: "The phenomenon of eating and taking cards cannot be eliminated. It is still necessary to properly crack down. Otherwise, the country will suffer too much loss in the area of commercial tax in the capital, but we must find a model so that others can learn from it." Some warnings.”
Yang Ming smiled and said: "Which one is suitable to be a model?"
"Of course it's the eldest grandson Anye. Wuji is the son of the prince. He has been in trouble again and again. This is because he doesn't take the prince seriously. Why should a person like this be entrusted with an important position?" Yang Yue said with a smile.
Yang Ming said: "Isn't this seeking personal revenge?"
"No, the crown prince is the foundation of the country. It is by no means a personal enmity, but a state matter," Yu Wen said: "I think we should investigate the eldest grandson Anye and punish him severely, as a warning to others."
Yang Ming smiled: "You can arrange it."
Yang Yue nodded. He is the boss of Sili Tai. His duty is to inspect everything inside and outside the capital. This department has taken away the very large powers of Yushitai. If Yushitai is jijianwei, then Sili Tai is similar to zhengfawei.
They are all serious judicial departments with real power.
The gate supervisor of the city defense is the chief officer of a city gate. The chief officer is very idle. After all, he is watching the gate. Once it is opened and closed, the day is over.
Therefore, the prison generals in the capital do not spend much time in the guardhouse. Generally, they will not go to work honestly without someone from above to review.
That is to say, Cui Hongshou was the most miserable, because he was looking at Mingde Gate, the main entrance of the capital, where there was the greatest mobility, and there were many high-ranking officials and dignitaries coming in and out, so he did not dare to neglect it.
Just like today, Yang Ming and the others had to fight back and forth from Mingde Gate. If they found that he was not there, he would be finished.
The situation of other city gates is slightly better. The west gate mainly sells goods from the Western Regions and has a relatively mixed population. The east gate mostly sells goods from the Central Plains.
Yanxing Gate of Changsun Anye is one of the east gates.
He is not on duty today, he is having fun at the gambling house in Dongshi.
Money comes and goes quickly. This has been true since ancient times. People who make money hard are usually frugal. People who make money easily are necessarily extravagant. If you make two million a year, you won't even look at a BMW X3.
Changsun Anye is quite profitable. He is the kind of person who has so much money that he doesn't know how to spend it. Otherwise, Wei Yunqi would be jealous of him?
This guy only kept two of the goddesses in Jinyang Tower, spending nearly 200,000 yuan on them.
Whenever Yu Wenlan sees his eldest grandson Anye, he greets him with all-round greetings, like the God of Wealth.
And Jinyang Tower is the prince's property, so most of the children of the capital's aristocratic families are willing to spend money here.
Yang Yue first sent Si Li to drive Wei Fuzi to Yanxing Gate, and caught Anye absent from his post. After asking the generals under the guard, he found out that Anye was in the Dongshi Gambling House, so Wei Fuzi took the people there directly. Take someone.
"Shang Yonggong, what are you doing?" Changsun Anye was playing well when he was suddenly kidnapped by the guards who broke in. He looked at Wei Fuzi in surprise.
Who is Wei Fuzi? The eldest son of Wei Shikang, the eldest grandson of Xiaoyao Gong Wei Hong, and the eldest brother of Wei Fusi.
"Yanxing Gate is the defense center of the capital. As the general overseeing the gate, why is he not on duty?" Wei Fusi asked.
The eldest grandson Anye was stunned: "I have nothing to do today, so I came out to play with my humble position. It is definitely an exception. Please ask Yonggong to show his noble hand."
Wei Fuzi snorted coldly: "Someone in the Yushitai accused you of corruption and perverting the law. I just asked your subordinates. They said that you leave at midnight every day. I said Anye, your little life is quite comfortable. .”
Under normal circumstances, subordinates would not betray their superiors, but there were too many people named Wei in the capital's city defense station. It was impossible for them to hide it from Wei Fuzi. After all, he was the talker of Xiaoyao Gongfang.
"Who is so blind as to report me?" Changsun Anye cried out: "Gong Wei, my brother is serving in the East Palace, please let me go."
Wei Fuzi smiled: "I am only responsible for arresting people. As for convicting you, it is the matter of Dali Temple. You can let Changsun Xingbu go to Dali Temple."
After saying that, Wei Fuzi said to the guard: "Take him away."
"I'm wronged, I'm wronged, go and tell big brother," Changsun Anye said to his entourage, who hurriedly ran out of the gambling house to move reinforcements.
Changsun Xingbu is still the right military attendant of the East Palace. Yang Ming did not touch him. After all, it was the arrangement that Yang Ming promised in front of Changsun Sheng before he died.
People must be honest, not to mention Yang Ming admires Changsun Sheng very much.
But these brothers in their family are really worrying, and they are not afraid of others laughing at them. They always have conflicts every day.
It's okay for you to peek at Mr. Gao's bathing. Don't tell anyone else. How can my eldest son, Sun Wuji, tolerate this?
When it comes to the reputation of the biological mother, no one will give up.
Why did Wei Yunqi use the conversation between Yu Wenshu and Yang Yue to directly drag Changsun Anye into trouble today? Doesn't he know that this offends people?
Of course he knew, but even if Yu Wenshu didn't mention this matter today, he planned to find an opportunity to expose it.
Because it was Yang Rui who instigated him.
Yang Rui and Wei Gui agreed to give Changsun Wuji the lead, and nominally the city defense was indeed under the control of the Hussar General, so Wei Gui acted as the middleman and passed the word on.
Of course Wei Yunqi was happy to oblige.
