I am one year older than Chongzhen

Chapter 230 So Brave and Brave
Geng Zhanghua had a good memory and remembered Huang Yi's words in his heart.

He learned that Lin Danhan really came to Datong to show off his might to extort money, and he admired Huang Yi even more.

Geng Zhanghua has already understood from Huang Yi's mouth that Lin Danhan is a coward with great ambition, talent, bullying and fear of strength, and knows that he is unpopular.

So when Geng Ruqi summoned Xuanda's civil servants and military generals to ask questions, General Geng Shen, a strong and powerful supervisor of the standard battalion, made an impassioned speech.

In his words, he despised Lin Danhan extremely, and he threatened to lead the supervising battalion soldiers and armored servants, which would definitely deter the Chahar Tartars so that they would not dare to have wishful thinking.

Xuanfu, Datong, Taiyuan, including Yansui Town, Ningxia Town and other important towns on the nine borders were often harassed by Tartars, and it was impossible to resist the Tartars on the front line of the Great Wall.

The purpose of the Tartars crossing the Great Wall is to rob, and the officers and soldiers of the Ming court have long been numb and used to it.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the situation worsened. Most of the civilian and military generals defended the city to protect themselves, allowing the Tartars to plunder for a few days before withdrawing from the Great Wall.

Civilian and military generals basically don't care about the life and death of border residents.

Lin Danhan personally led tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to the Datong line in a murderous spirit. Of course, there will be no civilian or military general under Governor Xuanda who will take the initiative.

Geng Zhanghua in the yamen is so high-profile, ready to lead the army to compete with Lin Danhan, how can Xuanda's civilian and military generals object?

In fact, the military generals basically had no right to speak. Whether it was a fight or a peace, it was the civilian officials who decided.

It is really difficult to handle the matter of Lin Danhan leading troops and Malays on the same line to provoke, and Governor Xuanda asked how to deal with it.

While those civil servants were looking at each other, the ignorant yamen first jumped out to take over this difficult matter, and of course the adults were happy to push the boat along.

As soon as Geng Zhanghua finished speaking, there was a lot of flattery. He said a lot of things like a father is a hero, a tiger father has no dogs, and so on.

Although Geng Ruqi knew the pissing nature of civil servants and military generals, he still felt quite comfortable hearing these nasty words praising Geng Zhanghua.

As he gets older, he must be worried that Aiko will make a mistake, but during this period of time, Geng Zhanghua's performance is good, and he can be regarded as brave and victorious.

In addition, the armored servants who have expanded to a full fifteen hundred are all selected elite cavalry from the nine sides.

Money is easy to do!
The family members of these family members all moved to Xuanfu and Zhangjiakou for resettlement, and each household was given [-] mu of dry land, and everyone was grateful.

These servants are all veterans, and they all have personal experience of fierce battles with the Tartars, so their combat effectiveness is beyond doubt.

So Geng Ruqi readily agreed that Geng Zhanghua would personally lead the supervising battalion to Datong.

When parting, the old father must have some whispers.

It’s nothing more than that, if you can’t do something, don’t be brave and brave. Datong City has high walls and thick walls, and the food storage is enough for half a year’s expenses. As long as you enter the city and stick to it, Huduntu will be helpless.

Geng Zhanghua was worried that his father would change his mind and would not allow him to rescue Datong, so he agreed wholeheartedly, saying that he would fight steadily, not seeking merit but seeking no fault.

At the end of February, Geng Zhanghua had already led Governor Xuanda's pacesetter battalion of 2000 troops, plus [-] armored servants, to Datong.

He did not close the city gates like most civilian and military generals.

Instead, the [-] soldiers and horses led by the Superintendent of the Standard Battalion, Du Wenhuan, the commander-in-chief of Datong, and Cao Wenzhao, the deputy general of Yansui East Road, faced the aggressive Lin Danhan in an array.

Lin Danhan, who is poor and crazy, is really a paper tiger. He really didn't come here to siege cities and land, but just want to get more benefits!
Seeing that the [-] Xuan army was waiting in strict formation, and the thousands of cavalry were in good order, and there was a posture of drawing their swords to face each other if they disagreed, he immediately calmed down.

It may not be impossible to fight, but can you fight?If you kill one thousand enemies, you will lose eight hundred. We are here to get some food, not desperately.

The next step is of course a friendly negotiation, and there is no way to give the city more rewards, so it can only follow the old practice, which requires thousands of good horses to be selected by Geng Zhanghua's armored servants.

Of course, Geng Zhanghua became more and more stubborn, because after a secret operation, the civilian and military generals under Governor Xuanda were basically convinced.

Those who know the current affairs are outstanding, and those who have a good relationship with the governor are promoted one after another, and the rest of course dare not be top-notch.

Those who got promoted knew it well, how could they dare to be disobedient, because they were actually criminals, and they all participated in the buying of officials and nobles.

They all spent several times the amount of head rewards from the imperial court to obtain inexplicable military achievements.

This kind of military merit can't stand scrutiny at all, but the person who presided over the nuclear power and reported it to the court for rewards is Governor Xuanda himself. He only recognizes the head and doesn't ask the ins and outs.

The officials and censors could only pinch their noses to admit it. Who made the court's system of rewarding meritorious deeds be based on the number of beheadings?

Reporting and exposing the tricks in military exploits can't be done by wind. Generally, it is found that the head is not a real slave or a real Tartar, and some even use a woman's head as a fake.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were too many masters who could identify heads, and even the officials and censors quietly sent their confidantes to check the heads of Governor Xuanda who asked for credit for his subordinates.

The final conclusion is that all of them are young and middle-aged real slaves and real Tartars. There are more than a hundred real slaves with blue flag inlaid waist cards.

The hard facts are in front of you, which is enough to prove that you have gained a lot!
But no one can tell how they can gain so much?I have never heard of such a large-scale battle fought anywhere!

Can't tell what to do?
Ask!
However, Governor Xuanda refused to answer on the grounds that military secrets could not be disclosed to the public.

Later, there were some rumors that the Karaqin Tartars, who were acting as minions, were wiped out by the Xuanda coalition forces, and the Jiannu reinforcements also suffered heavy losses.

Well, it's not that they kill the good and take the credit. As for who is going to give the credit to get promoted and get rich, it's really hard to control the officials and censors.

Forget it, let's stop here!
Geng Zhanghua has changed, completely changed to asking for money but not fame. This time, he didn't keep the first grade and sold out all of them.

Now more than 40 taels of silver have been obtained, and there is no shortage of money and food to resettle the family.

Of course, he couldn't do it alone, and entrusted Li Weida to buy a large amount of grain, cloth, saltpeter, sulfur, etc. to send to the base area.

Geng Ruqi's expenses were also very high, so of course a son should be filial, and he gave a full 10 taels of silver.

This term Governor Xuanda has a lot of money, so of course he did a good job.

Not only fearless of Lin Dan Khan's provocation, but also subdued a large tribe with a population of tens of thousands and four thousand string controllers.

Geng Ruqi had political achievements, and he gave the high officials in the court much higher than usual tributes, so many officials spoke for him.

Originally, there were rumors that the imperial court wanted to transfer Geng Ruqi to Beijing to serve as the Minister of the Ministry of War.

Geng Ruqi has the official position of Minister of the Ministry of War, and he is also the censor of Youdu, but it's just a vain position that takes pay and doesn't care about things.

But Geng Ruqi emphasized that Xuanda is not stable, and it takes time to reorganize the army and reassure the people, and the governor should not be changed frequently.

The final result was that the Emperor Chongzhen gave Geng Ruqi, who stayed in office, the title of Minister of the Ministry of War, promoted to a third rank, and rewarded Yin Yizi as a thousand households of Jinyiwei, and also rewarded some brocade silk...

(End of this chapter)