Although Zhu Qizhen was very optimistic, he still learned Polo's lesson and insisted on letting the army rest for three days before going to war with the Ming army.
So for the next three days, silence fell outside the capital. Polo was busy building forts and consolidating defenses; he was also busy rectifying the morale of the army and boosting morale.
On the Ming army's side, all battalions were nervously preparing for battle. In particular, Shi Heng's Fifth Army Battalion and Sun Boring's Three Thousand Battalion were gearing up, vowing to perform extraordinary feats in the next battle and steal the limelight from the Ming army in Beicheng.
The Beijing army has now become four major battalions, and the four major battalions are also competing with each other.
Shi Heng's Fifth Army Camp was originally the eldest brother of the Beijing Camp. It was the largest and most elite army in the Beijing Camp. Now, before it can be used, it has been stolen by the Shenji Battalion and the newly formed Xiaoqi Battalion. This seriously hurt the self-esteem and sense of honor of the soldiers of the Fifth Army Camp.
Fortunately, Shi Heng and Sun Bor came to the city in person to meet the Holy Spirit and expressed their loyalty to the new king. After all, Zhu Qiyu finally agreed to delegate power and allowed Shi Heng and Sun Bor to act expediently while taking the initiative to attack the Ming army first.
Anyway, Zhu Qiyu, through a flood of propaganda, has let all the people in Beijing know that the emperor personally commands an army of 40,000 and is responsible for the military in Beicheng. Therefore, even if Shi Heng and Sun Boring were defeated, it would still be a problem of the Xicheng defenders and not directly related to the emperor.
In this way, not only will the majesty of the emperor not be damaged, but the failure of the west city defender will also highlight how wise and powerful the emperor is who personally guards the north city.
Of course, it would be best if Shi Heng and Sun Boring could win.
It's quiet outside the city, but it's the complete opposite inside the city. In the past three days, a pamphlet called "The Record of the Northern Campaign" has appeared in the streets and alleys, as well as at the propaganda points set up by Xinjun in various cities and towns.
Calling it a pamphlet means that the book is a bit thin, but the size of each page is four or five times that of an ordinary book. Because this booklet is mainly based on pictures and supplemented by text, it tells the whole process from the orthodox emperor's expedition to the arrival of the Supreme Emperor's troops in Beijing.
The name "Conquest of the North" originally contains a strong sense of irony. The orthodox emperor led an army of 500,000 people to personally conquer the northern barbarians. As a result, he continued to conquer and conquered the city of Beijing. The orthodox emperor forcefully conscripted himself into the Supreme Emperor.
Therefore, this book is not only a record of the conquest of the northern barbarians, but also a record of the conquest of Beijing.
The most exciting thing in the book is "Under the Bauhinia Pass, the Emperor calls the door." The first-class painter hired by Zhu Qiyu restored the scene of the Emperor arranging the Emperor's ceremonial guard, with an army of 30,000 tiles behind him, devouring mountains and rivers, and overwhelming the Zijin Pass.
Even ordinary people who are illiterate can feel the majesty of the Wala army and the confusion and hesitation of the Ming army at that time.
Although time was limited, dozens of painters under Zhu Qiyu worked day and night and only made a few hundred copies. But one person can read it in the time it takes a cup of tea, and then pass it on to the next person to read. Moreover, multiple people can watch together, which is convenient for everyone to discuss together after watching.
Therefore, this booklet was passed from one to ten, and from one to another, it spread throughout the capital at a rapid speed.
Therefore, the conflict between the new emperor and the Empress Dowager Sun and the Supreme Emperor officially began.
Why did Zhu Qiyu choose such a time point? It was because Zhu Qiyu Town was outside Beijing and would only stay for less than a month at most. If the two of them don't fight each other, they will hardly see each other in the next three years. It's bitter cold outside the Great Wall and thousands of miles apart. By then, they won't be able to find anyone to fight with.
While Zhu Qizhen was still under the walls of Beijing, Zhu Qiyu wanted to force more people to stand in line. Either follow the new king or follow the emperor, there is not much room for people to swing left and right.
In this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Zhu Qiyu must raise his prestige to a very, very high level and completely suppress Zhu Qizhen's prestige.
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On the afternoon of the third day after the truce between the two sides, Zhu Qiyu returned home after inspecting military affairs outside. As soon as he entered the main courtyard, he saw his princess commanding the guards there to carry out boxes of gold and silver.
Zhu Qiyu hurriedly stepped forward and asked curiously: "What's wrong, little princess? What's going on? I haven't heard of anyone who has made military exploits again. Who are you going to reward?"
Lin Xiangyu laughed when he heard this and said: "It's not to reward people, but someone has offended us, so the slave family has to educate them."
"Educate them? Use boxes of gold and silver to educate people? There is such a good thing in the world, so I also want to be educated by the princess."
Lin Xiangyu patted the box next to her: "Husband, take it seriously. Three hundred thousand taels of silver and fifty thousand taels of gold. If they are used to educate me, they will be enough to bury you."
When Zhu Qiyu heard this, he was speechless: "Our family doesn't have much money in total, right? Three hundred thousand taels. Did you move out half of the money you saved?"
"Almost, it's a small half of the savings. But if you move out 300,000 taels, 1.5 million taels will be moved back soon."
Zhu Qiyu's curiosity was completely aroused, and he quickly asked the reason.
Lin Xiangyu explained: "It's not all because of my husband. In the past few days, you have been preaching about the faults of the Supreme Emperor. Now the Empress Dowager's family has begun to fight back: They secretly sent people everywhere to say that the slave family was picked up by the husband from the wild. They are of low origin and have poor moral character. If you don't deserve the position, you should ask yourself to give up the position as concubine and go back to your hometown in Jiangnan.
Then let Wang, the Queen of Yin, take the throne in the middle palace and become the queen of the new king. She will be the mother of the world. She will enter the Forbidden City with you and live in Qianqing Palace and Kunning Palace. "
Zhu Qiyu heard this and praised: "Yes, these people are really brave. But why did the Sun family come forward personally as soon as they came up?"
"Otherwise, what should I do? The military commanders are now at least openly controlled by their husbands. Except for the civil servants who are clearly loyal to their husbands, the rest are all on the fence.
Among the nobles in Beijing, apart from the husband's cronies, the only ones who have the ability to fight against the husband are the British Duke and Cheng Guogong. But this is only in terms of ability. In fact, Duke Yingying and Duke Cheng Guo are not crazy. They will not be so stupid that they will be upright and make their husbands unhappy.
So what can the Sun family do, they can only do it themselves. "
"What does that have to do with the gold and silver?"
Lin Xiangyu smiled narrowly: "The most popular gambling game in the capital now is to bet on whether you can behead 40,000 Tatars and build the capital.
The people in the capital are quite unfavorable to their husbands. If you bet on your husband, you will pay twenty for one bet.
The Empress Dowager Sun's natal family is very wealthy in the capital and has opened several large casinos in the capital. The slave family has notified these casinos that they will bet 300,000 taels of silver and 50,000 taels of gold on the bet that your husband will win.
They were frightened by the huge amount of gold and silver, and they did not dare to take the bet of 20 to 1, but only 5 to 1.
Husband, you won’t blame the slave family for making decisions, right? "
Zhu Qiyu waved his hand: "How could it be? There are still some people with this kind of discernment. You are not just trying to get angry with the Sun family, but you are doing it to build momentum for me.
If this happens, I will become the talk of all the people in the capital, and most of them will laugh at me.
But the louder they laugh, the louder the slap in the face will be in the future. During these ups and downs, my momentum and prestige will increase faster, and my image will become more vivid and three-dimensional, deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Moreover, if you go out with 300,000 taels of silver, you will get 1.5 million taels of silver when you come back; if you go out with 50,000 taels of gold, you will get 250,000 taels of gold when you come back.
This money is just enough to pay rewards to the soldiers, which means that the rewards are paid to us by the Sun family, but we are the ones who do the good things. Wonderful, wonderful, the princess is really good at making money.
But is there a casino in our property? You should be careful and don't let the Sun family come to our casino to hedge risks. "
"Risk hedging? Where did your husband learn this? How come the slave family has never heard of it?"
(End of chapter)
