prosperous age

Chapter 212 211 Delayed departure
Beijing, Xiyuan, Yongshou Palace.

At this time, a large group of high-ranking eunuchs were standing outside the hall, waiting for news from the hall, and the leader was the great eunuch in the palace, the ancestor Huang Jin.

They had been waiting outside the hall for a long time, and their hands and feet were already numb, but there was still no movement in the hall.

Just when everyone was anxiously wanting to enter the palace but did not dare, and was in a dilemma, there was finally movement in Yongshou Palace.

With the creaking sound of the temple door being opened, a Taoist priest wearing a crown hat and cassock had already opened the door and stood in front of the temple door. Seeing eunuchs of all sizes with their hands hanging outside, he smiled and said: "The emperor has already opened the door." Get out, come in."

Immediately, without waiting for the eunuch waiting outside the house to speak, he turned around and walked towards the palace, his clothes fluttered as he walked, which gave him a fairy-tale feeling.

Under the leadership of Huang Jin, all the eunuchs filed into the main hall of Yongshou Palace. Seeing that Emperor Jiajing, who was wearing Taoist robes, was already lazily lying on the upper seat, everyone felt the eyes. Staring at everyone they came in with a strange look.

"Congratulations to the Taishang Daluo Tianxian Ziji Longevity Sage Zhizhao Lingtong Sanyuan Certificate Ying Yuxu, the head of the Five Thunders, the real person Xuandujing Wanshou Emperor exits the customs"

As all the eunuchs shouted out the Taoist name of Emperor Jiajing neatly, a smile appeared on the face of Emperor Jiajing, who was still expressionless before, and waved his hand to get the eunuchs who were saluting to stand up, and then they all stood up and retreated to the main hall sides.

However, except for Huang Jin, the other eunuchs would not let go of this opportunity to flatter the emperor, and they continued to congratulate Emperor Jiajing for his improvement in martial arts. When he entered the door, His Majesty's eyes seemed to be filled with divine lightning, and so on.
Emperor Jiajing only listened to their congratulatory words with a smile on his face, but didn't say a word.

After a long time, Emperor Jiajing finally waved his hand again to stop the eunuchs from flattering him, and asked Huang Jin who was standing next to Lan Daoxing: "I have occasionally felt something these days, so I have retreated for half a month. What is the big deal in the court? Are you back?"

After entering the hall, Huang Jin, who had been standing on one side of the palace, stood up and gave a brief introduction to Emperor Jiajing's current battle situation in Xuanfu. Hearing that the Alda Department is still stationed in Yanqing Prefecture and Baoan Prefecture, Emperor Jiajing The smile on his face disappeared, and his brows were slightly frowned, "What is the cabinet's opinion?"

"Returning to the emperor, Weng Pu, the Minister of Frontier Inspection a few days ago, asked to go to the Xuanfu to supervise the war. The cabinet voted to approve Weng Pu's post of supervising military affairs and let him be in charge of the Xuanfu's war."

Huang Jin slightly raised his head and glanced at Emperor Jiajing on the throne when he was speaking. He knew the habit of this master. When he heard the opinions of the cabinet, he would often have his inner thoughts reflected, and at this time, he would generally not continue to pay attention to the people who gave the report. , just to see the emperor's true thoughts.

Sure enough, he peeked at Emperor Jiajing's reaction, but now Emperor Jiajing lowered his head as if thinking about something.

After a while, Emperor Jiajing looked up at Huang Jin and continued to ask, "What are the deployments of the Ministry of War?"

"The Ministry of War asks for an order to transfer the Jizhen army to Huairou, Changping, and Shunyi, and to urge the Datong army to go to Xuanfu to help in the battle."

Huang Jin briefly answered the imperial court's military mobilization against the invasion of the Alta Khan tribe during this period, and then shut up and stopped talking.

Emperor Jiajing on the throne only nodded slightly afterwards, showing that he had no objection to the command of the Ministry of War.

Because he had been psychologically prepared, Emperor Jiajing was not shocked by the news that the Alda Department had entered the Xuanfu. After confirming that the Alda Department had only entered the Xuanfu, he was relieved to let the cabinet and the Ministry of War handle the war. Perhaps it was a feeling in his heart, Jiajing The emperor seemed to have a connection between heaven and man, and finally attracted Taoist priest Lan Daoxing who was favored these days to practice in seclusion.

After retreating for nearly half a month, the news I heard after leaving the customs was not too bad. Except that the Tartars had not left the Great Wall, everything else was trivial.

Now that the troops had already started to be mobilized, it was only a matter of time before the Tatars withdrew from the Great Wall, so he didn't have to worry about anything.

As for the proposals of the cabinet and the request of the Ministry of War, with Huang Jin's shrewdness in doing things, he had already approved it.

"If you have nothing else to do, you can step back first, and Huang Jin will stay and serve."

Emperor Jiajing began to drive people away at this time. He didn't like a lot of eunuchs in his Yongshou Palace, so let them do their own thing.

Taoist Lan Daoxing also bowed and resigned after the eunuch withdrew.

Emperor Jiajing nodded slightly, and said with a smile: "The Blue Immortal has worked hard these days, so let's go back and rest."

After Lan Daoxing left, Emperor Jiajing said to Huang Jin: "Ask someone to light up the lights, and send me all the memorials from these days."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

After Huang Jin bowed and answered, he walked to the door of the hall and called the little servant to hold the memorial, and he called two servants to come in and light all the candles in the hall.

After the little servant brought a large pile of memorials and put them on the imperial case and exited, only Emperor Jiajing and Huang Jin, who were standing beside him, were left in the hall.

These are the memorabilia issued by the Supervisor of Rituals these days. The first thing Emperor Jiajing does after each retreat is not to deal with the newly sent documents that have not been processed, but to see that the Supervisor of Rituals has approved and sent them out. He would ask Huang Jin something he didn't understand.

After flipping through the two documents of the Ministry of War, I turned to the third volume of Weng Pu's memorabilia, looked at the draft on it, and then asked: "This word was written by Xu Jie, Wei Guangde, Counselor for Military Affairs, who proposed this?" ? Is it him too?"

"No, Your Majesty, the matter of Wei Guangde's military affairs counselor was proposed by Mr. Yan Ge. At the beginning, I got the ticket and went to the cabinet to ask the reason."

Huang Jin quickly answered.

"Yan Song? What did he say? What is the attitude of the rest of the cabinet?"

After hearing Huang Jin's words, Emperor Jiajing continued to ask.

Huang Jin didn't know what Emperor Jiajing was thinking at the moment, but he felt a little uneasy in his heart, so he could only explain according to the situation at that time.

"Your Majesty Xiaowei is young and has a light official position. Logically speaking, he really shouldn't be a military counselor. That's why I went to the cabinet to find out more details.

What Elder Yan Ge meant was that Wei Guangde is the deputy envoy of the border patrol, and now the admiral of the border patrol is supervising military affairs. Either he will return to Beijing immediately to return to his command, and another person in the capital will be sent to assist Weng Shilang, or he will be arranged to assist in military affairs. There is no need to send anyone over there.

With Weng Shilang's ability and the help of Mr. Wei, it shouldn't be difficult to deal with military affairs. With the addition of military counselor, the main reason is that his official position is too low.

Although the post has been added, but with Mr. Weng around, there should be no mistakes. The two masters of the cabinet are deeply convinced, so this paragraph was added to the proposal. "

Huang Jin told Emperor Jiajing in detail what he heard from the cabinet. Seeing that Emperor Jiajing had no other expression, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, Huang Jin couldn't figure out whether he was right or wrong in criticizing him. He could only lower his head and wait for what Emperor Jiajing would say later.

"Hehe, Weizhong really has a heart, he takes good care of him, a little fellow, haha"

Emperor Jiajing finally laughed out loud, and when the words fell into Huang Jin's ears, he knew that his master was not angry, but he was not satisfied either.

At the very least, he didn't pronounce Yan Song, but called him by his character. Before, he called Yan Song directly by name and asked him what he was going to do.

Thinking of this, Huang Jin suddenly realized that this time it was indeed Meng Lang. Can military affairs be authorized casually?

Weng Pu himself is the minister of the Ministry of War, so it is possible to act as an agent for military affairs, but Wei Guangde is only a review by the Imperial Academy, and it is indeed against the system to grant him the right to be a military counselor. Why didn't he think of it at the time?
Only the emperor can authorize people who are not from the Ministry of War to participate in military affairs. I should have suppressed this matter at the time, and only gave Weng Pu the power to supervise military affairs. Wei Guangde should wait for Emperor Jiajing to leave the customs Finally, it is only right to act according to the emperor's will.

Thinking of this, Huang Jin hurriedly knelt down and bowed down: "Your Majesty, this servant realizes his mistake."

"Why did you agree in the first place and be approved for red?"

Emperor Jiajing asked in a flat tone.

"At that time, the slave heard Elder Yan Ge explain that Weng Shilang was sitting on the front line, and the military affairs counselor for Mr. Wei was just to give him a little bit of status there."

Having said that, Huang Jin stopped talking, just knelt down and waited for Emperor Jiajing to deal with him.

After a long time, the emperor on the throne spoke again: "This is not an example, the right to be a military counselor must be reported to me first.

Weng Pu, it's okay, with him around, there shouldn't be any trouble. "

Hearing this, Huang Jin knew that his mistakes had been uncovered, but he didn't expect that Weng Pu held a high position in the emperor's heart, and Emperor Jiajing was quite at ease with him, but it's a pity, if he was younger, it would be hard to say Can be mixed into Shangshu.

"Did the Ministry of War send the battle report from the Xuan Mansion?"

Emperor Jiajing suddenly asked again.

"Yes, one copy will be delivered in two or three days, just..."

Huang Jin hurriedly answered, but soon stopped talking, not knowing what to say.

"Find it out, and focus on it."

When Emperor Jiajing spoke, Huang Jin quickly got up from the ground, stood next to the imperial book case and dug out several memorials from the middle and lower levels of the memorial, and handed them to Emperor Jiajing respectfully, without stopping to introduce the situation of the Xuanfu battle.

"After the Tartars entered the customs, they only attacked Chang'an Station. Afterwards, the brigade was stationed in Yanqing Prefecture and Baoan Prefecture. There was no further action, but the reconnaissance cavalry kept haunting Huailai, Yongning and other places to investigate our army's movements."

In the early morning, Wei Guangde followed the convoy to Huailaiwei on the third day. After a day of rest and preparation, according to the plan, they should leave for Huailai County today, waiting for the response from the Ministry of Defense.

Dong Yiyuan went to Huailai Weizhong early in the morning. He wanted to select [-] soldiers to add to the convoy guards, and was ready to leave Huailai Wei at any time and go to Huailai County.

Fortunately, before Wei Guangde left, he finally met the messenger sent by the Datong Army to submit official documents to Juyongguan.

"According to the itinerary you said, 3000 forwards of the Datong Army should arrive at Yumei's garrison of thousands of households today?"

Wei Guangde found the messenger who was stopped and asked.

"Yes sir."

The messenger saw that although the official in front of him was young, standing beside him was the commander of Huailaiwei and the commander Tongzhi. To be respectful, the messenger is not a fool, so he naturally knows that this person has a great official position, so he naturally dare not hide it.

"But according to the military report sent before, the Datong Army should have passed through Weizhou ten days ago. Why hasn't the Vanguard Army arrived at the Yumei Qianhu Office for such a long time?"

Wei Guangde still had the map in his mind, so he naturally knew that at the speed of the Ming army, he should have entered the boundary of Xuanfu in six or seven days, and arrived at the military newspaper Yumei guarding the thousand households at the outermost edge of Xuanfu, but Datong actually used it. It took ten days to arrive, and Wei Guangde undoubtedly thought of the possibility that the Datong Army was afraid of the enemy and fought timidly, deliberately slowing down the schedule.

"My lord reported that the army encountered a dangerous obstacle when leaving Weizhou and crossing Xiaowutai Mountain. The mountain road was destroyed before, and the army was struggling to move forward. It was really necessary to slow down."

The messenger had no choice but to explain, but Wei Guangde didn't really believe these words.

If you cross a mountain road, you can say that the mountain road is destroyed. If you cross a river, you can't say that the river is soaring and difficult to cross.

Counting that it has been half a month since the Datong Army set off, the total distance is more than 400 miles. Although many of them are mountain roads, they are generally official roads. Naturally, the traffic will not be bad.

After asking a few more questions, knowing that the main force of the Datong Army was going to collect food and grass near Weizhou, his eyes almost fell out.

Wei Guangde's official document urging the Datong army to come hastened was for the purpose. It was written in black and white that he would stockpile food and grass in his arms so that they could come to meet up as soon as possible.

With a wave of his hand, let the messenger go down, continue his errand, and deliver the letter to Juyongguan.

At this time, Wei Guangde wanted to write another letter to Weng Pu, wanting to impeach the Datong Army for fear of the enemy and delaying the battle, but in the end, forget it, and wait until this test is over.

Last night, he planned to leave for Huailai County today. Wei Guangde calculated that the Datong Army should be three or five days away from here. He plunged into Huailai County by himself, and it would take about three days for Baoan Prefecture to send troops over. This is a consideration. When it was time for the delivery of official documents and preparations for the expedition, when the Baoan Prefecture army approached Huailai County, the forward of the Datong Army had almost arrived at Huailaiwei.

Wei Guangde dared to make this trip with two armies beside him.

It's all right now, what Weng Pu was worried about before has happened. The Datong Army should have deliberately slowed down and didn't want to arrive at the battlefield too early.

According to the current speed, it will take at least seven or eight days for the forward troops of the Datong Army to reach Huailaiwei, and this must be that they will not continue to slow down.

After a little calculation of the time, Wei Guangde knew that going to Huailai today was not the best time to expose his whereabouts. He had at least three days of preparation time to try to contact the Xuanfu Army in Baoan Prefecture to discuss future preparations.

If we go according to this time, then when we encounter the Tazi troops in Huailai County, not only the troops from Baoan Prefecture will come to rescue, but also the troops from the Datong Army will move closer at this time. Whether to fight or stay should be carefully considered.

After calculating the time in his mind, Wei Guangde knew that today was not a good time to set off, so he immediately called Li Zhen to discuss with him, and then called Dong Yiyuan to make the following arrangements.

(End of this chapter)