my days with tyrants

Chapter 290 A Loyal Servant Wants to Take a Knife
After settling the affairs of the Liao Fan, the army led by Yang Feng and Yang Wen headed west.

He is not going to go through Shanhaiguan.

It is not necessary to enter Shanhaiguan to enter the customs, and the same is true for entering Juyongguan.

Chaoyang.

Or the former Tunwei of Yingzhou.

This place belongs to the Daning Dusi, or the current name Beiping Dusi.

Originally in history, it was Yang Feng’s old friend Liu Zhen who guarded Daning during Jingnan, but it was also written as Liu Zhen, but now he is still serving as deputy to Song Sheng in the Western Regions, so the commander of the capital of Daning is Bu Wan. But in addition to the commander of the capital, it is customary to have a veteran of the captaincy level sitting in charge...

"Chen Heng."

Yang Wen held up the binoculars and said.

At this moment, they are facing an array of thousands of troops.

A veteran with a white beard leaps with a sword.

At this time, Chen Heng was already nearly seventy. This old man followed Zhu Yuanzhang very early on, but he had not been knighted in his whole life. He did not expect that at the age of nearly seventy, he would succeed in stud. He gave the capital of Daning to Zhu Di, and died on the battlefield for Zhu Di, and was finally posthumously duke, and left the title of Marquis of Ningyang to future generations...

Ten generations of glory and wealth.

"He imprisoned Bu Wan, the commander of the capital who opposed the rebellion in Daning, and then, with the support of Princess Ning Zhang, he thought that the king of Xiang was wronged and raised troops. After I led the army to Guangning, he led an army of [-] there.

It is estimated that once I attack Guangning, he will send troops to rescue. "

Yang Wen said.

"What's the real reason? It's impossible that Zhu Bo really has such a great charm, so that most of the [-] guards in Daning will support it? I remember that Chen Heng was only transferred to Daning the year before last, and Bu Wan was in Da Ning. Ning has been around for many years, and his foundation should be stronger than him. With one word from Chen Heng, the overwhelming majority of Daning's people will support him, so that he can easily win Bu Wan. It is not enough to justify Zhu Bo. Zhu Bo is a fart, even if the emperor kills Zhu Quan, they will not complain to Zhu Quan."

Yang Feng said.

"It's bitter and cold in the north, especially in Daning. All the guards think about returning day and night."

Yang Wen said with a sigh.

"Understood, so Zhu Di made a promise to them."

Yang Feng nodded.

That makes sense.

Chifeng!
The era of no mining is indeed not a good place.

Then he pushed the moose forward.

And the panda flag followed behind him.

"Old General Chen, how many years have you followed Emperor Daxing?"

Yang Feng shouted.

Chen Heng looked at him warily.

"Look at this. This is called Zouyu Banner. It was used to stop killings in ancient times. Zouyu Banner is used to stop soldiers. Yang is an outsider, and he is suitable for mediating this battle. We will not fight today. I just want to tell you Just talking, your beard is white, how many years have you been with Emperor Daxing?"

Yang Feng shouted.

"When Emperor Daxing was still in Haozhou, the old man had already defected to his command. It has been almost 50 years since then."

Chen Heng said slowly.

"Are you loyal to Emperor Daxing?"

Yang Feng said.

"This old man is loyal to Emperor Daxing. What does the ambassador want to say? Shouldn't this old man raise an army? Before Emperor Daxing's body was cold, His Majesty killed the clan, his uncles and brothers. We are loyal ministers of Emperor Daxing, so I naturally have to ask His Majesty a question." I understand. What's more, Lan Yu besieged the kings in Kaifeng. The life and death of King Ning is uncertain. Our guards are all under the jurisdiction of King Ning. The life and death of the commander is uncertain. We naturally have to ask His Majesty for clarification. Since the ambassador wants to mediate, please ask Jingcheng, please give me an explanation from Your Majesty, if the king of Xiang and the king of Guangze are indeed guilty, we will naturally lay down our hands and blame them."

Chen Heng said.

"I just ask if you are absolutely loyal to Emperor Daxing."

Yang Feng said.

"Yes!"

Chen Heng said without hesitation.

Yang Feng nodded.

"Then ask the old general to prove it. There is no proof for what you say. Since the old general said that he is absolutely loyal to Emperor Daxing, then please prove your loyalty."

He said.

"How does the ambassador want to prove that he is old?"

Chen Heng said angrily.

"Of course you follow the Emperor Daxing. Your Emperor Daxing is dead. Since you are a veteran who is absolutely loyal to him, you must follow the Emperor Daxing in the sky. Please follow the Emperor Daxing, I will take you with me. Take the body to the capital, and then bury it next to the Xiaoling Mausoleum, and make you worthy to enjoy the Taimiao. In addition, as a reward for your loyalty, I guarantee that your son will be made an earl.

General Chen, please prove your loyalty. "

Yang Feng said.

Chen Heng looked at him in astonishment, and then looked at the surrounding subordinates.

"Old General Chen, don't look at them. This matter has nothing to do with them. If you don't follow Emperor Daxing, it has something to do with them. At that time, you will be disloyal to Emperor Daxing. Offensive. Since Yang came to Daming, he has never been defeated. As an envoy of a friendly country, I also have a close relationship with Emperor Daxing. I may even be his son-in-law. I am also half of Ming. I don’t want to treat Daming But if you lead them to rebel, then as the son-in-law of Emperor Daxing and the uncle of His Majesty, I can only help them clean up the internal rebellion."

Yang Feng said.

Chen Heng was still looking at his subordinates.

but……

"Are you fantasizing about something?"

Yang Feng said.

Immediately afterwards, he urged the moose forward, and then walked in front of the Daning Army...

"All those who have participated in the Western Expedition, come out."

he shouted.

Immediately, the Ming army began to come out.

At this time, those who did not want to stay in the Western Regions in the first batch of Western Expeditionary Army led by Zhu Di had returned, and the first batch of Western Expeditionary Army was Beiping, the Northern Parallel Capital Division and the Shanxi Xingdu Division. Eight thousand cavalry participated, and they belonged to Zhou Xing, and more than 6000 have returned so far.

These are the most elite of the Great Ning Dusi, but most of them participated this time.

After all, they really support Zhu Di.

Soon before Chen Heng's formation, three to four thousand people came out, and all the most elite cavalry came out. After all, they were all riding Arabian horses, which were obviously most suitable for use as cavalry. The elite of the light silently lined up at the front, and then watched Yang Feng stop in front of them...

"Your Majesty!"

Yang Feng shouted.

The latter still got off their horses without the slightest hesitation, and then knelt down beside their own horses.

Yang Feng didn't say anything more, and continued to ride around them on a moose, walking in front of Chen Heng's formation.

"All Mongols, come out!"

he shouted.

Daning Dusi is a mixture of Han and Mongolia.

Of course, it’s not the Duoyan Sanwei. The real Duoyan Sanwei Yang Feng disappeared before he arrived. He was a subordinate of Liao King Azashili of the Yuan Dynasty, but after Azashili surrendered, he only got a commander. An insult to Ji's status, after all, Naha was granted the title of Marquis.Mu Huali's descendants are actually taller than him, Tai Jifeng, which is obviously an insult to him, so he ran away with a large number of followers in the 24th year of Hongwu. After he escaped, Duoyan Sanwei actually did not exist.It’s just that there are still some people who didn’t follow, and this group of people was incorporated into the Sigewei of the Daning Capital. The [-] guards of the Dusi are also mixed.

This is the so-called Duoyan Sanwei after Zhu Di annexed King Ning's troops.

To be precise, there is no Duoyan Sanwei.

It's just that some Mongols who were originally Duoyan Sanwei are in Sigewei, the capital of Daning.

As for the later Duoyan Sanwei, it was re-established by Zhu Di, but that was many years later.

The Mongols in Chen Heng's formation looked at Yang Feng tremblingly...

"If you come out, you will live, if you don't come out, you will die!"

Yang Feng said.

Then he raised his rifle.

The next moment gunshots rang out, and a Mongolian general fell on horseback 200 meters away.

Yang Feng calmly continued to aim and fire.

Then another Mongolian general fell from his horse.

But no one dared to fight back.

Chen Heng didn't dare to give an order.

In fact, the confrontation was over when those cavalry from the Western Expedition went out and knelt under Yang Feng's order. They were the most elite of the Daning Army, and the rest were all accustomed to Yang Feng's prestige.And those Mongolian generals didn't dare, Yang Feng was indeed embarrassed to kill Han people, but they were different, Yang Feng like them had killed a lot these years.

In the Western Expedition, even the Mongolian Khan was captured and Arutai was killed. Those soldiers who returned from the Western Expedition have been telling his legend.

Soon there were Mongolian soldiers out of formation.

"Kneel down, all kneel down!"

Yang Feng shouted as he rode on the evocative moose.

Those Mongolian soldiers quickly got off their horses and fell to their knees.

Then more and more people came out.

Yang Feng continued to look at the rest of the guards...

"I know what Brother Zhu Gaochi must have promised you. I also know that Daning is indeed a bitter place, but no matter how bitter it is, can it be more bitter than Huining? I have already started planting rice in Huining, and the rice seeds have already been sown before I came here. , whether the land reclamation team or the guards or the military households there are all very satisfied. If you really don’t want to continue to garrison Daning, I can also suggest to His Majesty the Emperor that the guards belonging to the Daning Capital Division should be abolished. After all, at this time Mongolia I have already surrendered, so there is no need for so many garrisons. However, it is still impossible to completely abolish it. I will ask the emperor to follow the example of Huining, and I will contract the military supplies of the Daning Capital, and then I will be responsible for the development here.

I can turn Huining into a paradise, and I can also turn Daning into a paradise. "

Yang Feng said while walking.

Rehe is indeed very poor...

But there are mines!

Gold, copper, and sulfur are all current strategic resources.

Especially the latter two.

The cannonization of the Ming Dynasty made copper more and more scarce. Although the use of paper currency can indeed save copper to the greatest extent, it is still more and more expensive after a large amount of copper is used for casting cannons.Most of the sulfur actually comes from the Wa Kingdom and Ryukyu, and these two are enough to support the development of this area.

What's more, there is animal husbandry.

A large amount of grazing and then making canned meat can be sold to the south.

As for the food supply, it is equally simple. As long as the corn and potatoes are spread, there will be no shortage of food in this area.

As for the abolition of the guard, this is actually necessary.

The Daning Dusi is acting as the front line of the battle against Mobei. Now that Mobei has surrendered, although it is still necessary to maintain a certain garrison vigilance, 10,000 military households are still a bit too much.Behind the [-] military households are [-] or even [-]+ households. After so many years of reproduction, there must be more than [-] households. With so many military households in the farming era, it is indeed a bit crowded in Rehe.It can be subtracted by half. In this era, the population carrying capacity here is limited, and even the herdsmen in the late Ming Dynasty are the weakest.Not only is it unnecessary to keep the [-] garrisons, but the supply will also cost a lot of money. Half of them will be abolished and about [-] will be retained and replaced by hired reclamation teams. up.

"Kneel down, all kneel down!"

Yang Feng shouted as he walked.

The soldiers of the Han guards also dismounted silently and knelt down.

Soon almost everyone was on their knees.

The [-] army knelt down in a vast area in Qiantunwei City of Yingzhou, only Chen Heng and his servants were left there.

Yang Feng came back in front of him.

"Old General Chen, it's time for you to prove your loyalty to Emperor Daxing."

Yang Feng said.

"Ambassador, don't lie to me!"

Chen Heng said slowly.

"I'm not lying, you can rest assured, whether your emperor agrees or not, I will let him agree."

Yang Feng said.

Of course, if he went back in this way, then Zhu Yunxi had to agree if he disagreed.

Chen Heng got off his horse silently, then knelt down on the ground facing south, then pulled out his saber and put it on his neck. He looked at the sky in the south with complicated eyes, and around him were [-] people kneeling on the ground underlings.

"Emperor Daxing, the old minister is loyal to His Majesty!"

He suddenly yelled.

Immediately afterwards, the knife in his hand was pulled suddenly, and blood spurted from the severed blood vessel...

"Old General Chen is also a loyal minister. You take away General Chen's body, find a good coffin, put it in a good coffin, and protect it with ice when you arrive in Daning. I will take his body to the capital. As for you all, get up and go back. Each perform their duties, and I will fulfill what I promised you, and I will be in charge of your military supplies during this period, and I will arrange for people to continue transporting them for you."

Yang Feng said.

This is easy, and Liaodong Bay will thaw soon.

Supplies by sea will continue to arrive.

The [-] Great Ning Army was easily dealt with by him like this.

A total of five people died.

Of course, including their commander in chief.

"According to the ambassador's standard, do I have to be loyal to Emperor Daxing?"

Yang Wen said.

"You? You don't need it. You are the second generation. Your father is already loyal to the Emperor Daxing. However, those veterans who followed the Emperor Daxing to conquer the world should indeed be loyal to the Emperor Daxing. Some people deserve to die. .”

Yang Feng said.

Yang Wen's father died fighting for Zhu Yuanzhang more than 40 years ago, and his uncle died in Poyang Lake, so he really doesn't need to be loyal to Zhu Yuanzhang, but the rest of Zhou Dexing, Wang Bi, Lan Yu, etc., do have to be loyal to Emperor Daxing .If they refuse, then Ambassador Yang will definitely persuade them to be loyal to Emperor Daxing like he persuaded Chen Heng. Besides, they were all killed by Zhu Yuanzhang long ago in history, but Yang Feng appeared and lived all these years .

Be content!
Now it is just to allow them to walk the path they should have walked long ago with more dignity.

Kill all this crop of veterans, and let them be buried as Zhu Yuanzhang. After cleaning them up, Ming Dynasty will truly enter a new era.

(End of this chapter)