RNP Chapter 662 Emperor Chongping: If you don't let me down, I will never let you down!
Chapter 662 Emperor Chongping: If you don't let me down, I will never let you down!
Chapter 662 Emperor Chongping: If you don't let me down, I will never let you down!
After lunch, everyone sat down again to drink tea and talk.
Under Zhen Qing's beautiful eyebrows, her clear and phoenix eyes flashed, she stared at the young man, smiled sweetly, and asked: "I heard from a letter from my brother from the second uncle's family that when Brother Heng was in Huai'an Mansion, my elder brother invited Brother Heng to Jinling as a guest. Why didn't Brother Heng go?"
Zhen Xue was sitting at the side, originally listening quietly, when she heard the words, she gently put down the teacup in her slender hand, and under Chunshan's black eyebrows, a pair of eyes as soft as water lightly turned to the boy in the python suit.
Because of her serious demeanor, the young woman in Huaxin had a gentle and smoky air between her beautiful eyebrows and eyes, and a bookish atmosphere lingered in it, while her bright black and white eyes were as clear as if they were about to reflect a figure.
Jia Heng turned his eyes away, picked up the teacup, took a sip, and said in a clear voice: "At that time, the class teacher was coming soon, and he was busy with affairs at hand, so he didn't have time to go to Jinling. I mentioned it to Zhen Lin earlier, and when I have time Go back to Jinling and visit the old lady again."
Hearing this explanation, Zhen Qing smiled softly, and said softly: "That's right, military matters should not be ignored, but my clan brother disturbed Brother Heng's business without knowing it, which was a bit abrupt."
I thought to myself, it doesn't take much effort to go to Jinling, I'm afraid there is something hidden.
Presumably it was because the family sold high-priced grain in Huai'an Mansion earlier, which annoyed this person. Although he later helped to stabilize the grain price, there may be some grievances in his heart.
Zhen Xueqing apologized, and said softly, "Ziyu is on official business, so I shouldn't have disturbed each other rashly."
Jia Heng glanced at Zhen Xue, and said in a deep voice, "You two princesses, I'll go to meet the saint later, and ask about it by the way."
Upon hearing this, Zhen Qing smiled lightly and said, "Brother Heng is going to the palace to inquire now, thank you so much."
Saying that, she looked at Zhen Xue at the side, with a trace of strangeness in her eyes, and said softly, "My sister saw it, I said that Zi Yu is enthusiastic, and our two families are also old relatives for decades, and my brother-in-law is with you again." Brother Heng, who work together in the military aircraft department, will definitely not sit idly by."
Just now, I don't know if it was her illusion, the way Jia Ziyu looked at his sister was a little strange, although it was fleeting, it was a bit unusual.
Surprises overflowed on Zhen Xuewan's beautiful face, and under her beautiful eyebrows, her lustrous and rippling eyes fixedly looked at Jia Heng, and said softly, "Thank you, Ziyu."
The beauty is in her early twenties, with a cloud piled in a green bun, her nose is greasy and goose fat, and her lips are shiny. At this moment, she is speaking slightly, and Wen Ning's eyebrows are quite elegant and intellectual, calling Ziyu, even though she is a relative of Zhenjia The title between them, but it makes people's hearts slightly rippling.
Jia Heng's face was calm, and he said softly: "Princess, you are polite."
It’s hard to say that the original intention was this way, because when talking about border affairs with Emperor Chongping, it was necessary to mention Datong and Taiyuan Second Army Town, which are the gates of the Han Dynasty in the northwest. Stagnation.
In Daming Palace, side hall of Hanyuan Hall, in the study room——
In the afternoon, Emperor Chongping sat behind the case and was reviewing the memorials. The middle-aged emperor was in a good mood recently. The Beijing camp had just returned to Beijing, and the floods in the Jianghuai area were also ending. .
"Your Majesty, Uncle Yongning handed over the sign and come in." At this moment, Dai Quan from Daming Palace came softly from outside the palace and said in a low voice.
Upon hearing the words, Emperor Chongping raised his head, with some surprise on Shen Ning's face, he said, "Zi Yu is here? Tell him to come in quickly."
Dai Quan responded in a low voice, and immediately bowed and left the study.
Not long after, Jia Heng stepped into the hall, saluted Emperor Chongping, and said: "I have seen the Holy One, long live the Holy One."
"Zi Yu, get back on your feet quickly." Emperor Chongping looked gentle, left the mahogany desk, stretched out his hand to support him, and asked, "Didn't I give you a vacation these two days, why don't you stay at home for a few more days?"
Jia Heng said: "Going back to the sage, the minister stayed at home and was idle, so he went to the Jinyi mansion to inquire about the border affairs, and listened to the spies to summarize the assassination of the enemy in recent months. The above is Chen Fanglue."
"Oh? Fanglue?" Emperor Chongping became interested when he heard the words, and said, "What can Ziyu gain?"
As the commander of the Beijing camp and minister of military aircraft personally promoted by Emperor Chongping, his main duty is to propose national policies and military strategies to the Eastern captives in the north. Now that he has an idea, he must discuss it with Emperor Chongping.
Jia Heng asked: "I do have some ideas and discuss with the Holy One. I don't know if there is a map of the Nine Sides on the side of the Holy One?"
Emperor Chongping looked at Dai Quan and ordered, "Go and get the map."
Dai Quan hurriedly led some inner eunuchs to go, and after a while, hung a huge map on the screen, and the monarch and his ministers got close to the screen to take a closer look.
On the map, the land outside the pass is occupied by the Eastern Barbarians, and many Mongolian tribes in the west also surrendered to the Eastern Barbarians.
Jia Heng said: "Your Majesty, the eastern captives will often join the bandits in autumn and plunder my population and property. At first it was once every two or three years, but now it is almost every one or two years. In autumn and winter this year, Or next spring, it is possible to invade the bandits again, and I have already sent spies to the East to spy on the enemy. guarded against."
"Be prepared in advance, how to prepare?" Emperor Chongping pondered for a moment and asked.
Jia Heng looked at the map and said, "Your Majesty, deduce the land where the enemy invaded. Now Li Ge is in Jizhen and Beiping to oversee the army. If the eastern captives cannot break through through Jizhen and Xuanfu, they will probably use Mongolia to attack. The military towns of Datong and Taiyuan are waiting for an opportunity to intimidate us in Guanzhong, but of course Xuanhua and Jizhen are still the focus of our surveillance."
In the past battles, because of the high walls and deep walls of the Datong and Taiyuan army towns, the terrain is important, and the Chahar Mongolia is a buffer, so troops rarely marched from the two towns.
Emperor Chongping looked at the map, thought for a while, and said: "Ziyu's words are not without reason, and the enemy's captives are here."
Jia Heng pondered for a moment, then said: "My lord, there is one more thing. Now that the Nine Frontiers are rearranging their armaments, I heard that the military towns of Ningxia, Guyuan, and Yansui have received good news one after another. The entire army is still helpless, and once the enemy enters the country, it is necessary to take precautions as soon as possible."
Emperor Chongping's face was solemn, his eyes fell on the Datong and other places on the map, and he said: "Datong's army consolidation is not smooth, and we need to take precautions as soon as possible."
I couldn't help but think of the previous incidents such as flood fighting and flood control. If it wasn't for a rainy day, the flood situation in the Jianghuai area would be even more serious.
At this time, Jia Heng pointed to the map and said: "The Donglu invaders over the years, they all invaded from Jizhen, Xuanfu and other places. Now my Han Manchu civil and military eyes are all here. Donglu may not know it. If we do what we do, we will take advantage of Chahar Mongolia and attack Datong and Taiyuan by detour, and the Guanzhong will be shaken, or we will divide our troops into two groups, making it difficult for us to help each other.”
Compared with the late Ming Dynasty, Chen Han had the advantage of learning the lessons from the fall of the Ming Dynasty and establishing his capital in Guanzhong, barely gaining a momentum of victory, unlike the late Ming Dynasty in Beiping, where the capital had police and was shocked three times a night.
Emperor Chongping was silent for a moment, and said: "Listening to what Ziyu said, the defense of Datong and Taiyuan is particularly important?"
Jia Heng said softly: "Your Majesty, it's almost the same. In addition, there is Pingan Prefecture. In the next six months, we will have to re-arm the above-mentioned places, deploy troops, and rectify the military equipment. Some don't know the details, and I don't know the specific reason?"
When mentioning this matter, Emperor Chongping's face was gloomy, and he said in a cold voice: "Jiang Zining, the chief soldier of Datong, said that there are books for military registration and personnel that can be checked. The method of front selection eliminates the old and the weak, but the generals of the Datong army first thought that defense was important, so they did not want to go to war, and obstructed them in every possible way, and then finally checked and checked, but in the end they only cleared out a few hundred old and weak troops."
Jia Heng pondered for a moment, then said: "Could it be that Jiang Zining, the commander-in-chief of Datong, has been out of the mud and not stained, and has been fighting hard all these years?"
"As far as I know, there are quite a few vacancies in the Datong Army Town after the previous border checks and visits, but I don't know what tricks Jiang Zining used so that King Beijing can't see the truth at all." Emperor Chongping said in a cold voice with gloomy eyes.
This King of Beijing really lacks knowledge and talent, not to mention asking him to lead troops to go out, he can't even do military affairs well, and he loses the face of the ancestors of the Shui family.
At the beginning of Chen Han's founding of the country, among the four kings and eight princes, King Beijing was the most accomplished, but in the generation of Shui Rong, he couldn't even manage to organize the army well. It's a big disappointment.
Jia Heng thought for a while, and then suggested: "Your Majesty, you still need to select the most important military personnel, and go to the Second Army Town to inquire."
Emperor Chongping said in a deep voice: "Water dissolves in the city of Datong. I don't even know the actual number of soldiers in Datong. The current shortage is unknown to the court. I don't even have the name of reprimanding and rectifying. The roots are intertwined, the master has not been famous, and it is not easy to move lightly, so the imperial court has to bear with it for the time being."
Of course, it was also because some time ago, Jia Heng didn't sit in the center, and dispatched [-] troops from the Beijing camp to the Central Plains to quell the chaos, so naturally he didn't care about the border towns.
Until Jia Heng quickly settled the Central Plains with the Beijing camp, the generals of the border towns were shocked. The military towns such as Ningxia and Guyuan, which were still somewhat resistant, chose to cooperate with the imperial court to check the vacancies under the coercion and lure of Nan'an County King and Baolinghou. Eliminate the old and the weak, at least on the surface, the number of soldiers has been replenished by [-]% to [-]%.
However, the two towns of Datong and Taiyuan used the excuse that the soldiers were all paid in real money, and they pretended to be perfunctory and perfunctory about the training of the warlord of the King of Beijing.
The king of Beijing, on the other hand, believed that he had not completed the errand of reorganizing the military equipment, and was also worried that after returning to Beijing, he would damage the dignity of the military minister and the king of a county.
Jia Heng said: "Your Majesty, the generals of the border towns will do their own thing, arrogant and domineering, and it will not last for a day. Don't worry, Your Majesty, and wait until soon, when I lead the soldiers of the Beijing camp to Datong, and then rectify them."
Emperor Chongping said, "What is Ziyu's opinion?"
Jia Hengdao: "Jizhen and Xuanfu, with Mr. Li Ge personally sitting in the town, are generally safe, but Datong and Taiyuan towns, I can't allow them to be taken advantage of by the enemy. I think that the movement of the eastern captives should be known in advance. If the Hulu really attack us from Xuanhua and Datong, we will be able to calculate with our minds or not, and seek victory."
Without waiting for Emperor Chongping to inquire, Jia Heng thought for a while and said, "My lord, the detective in Jinyi sent by the minister to the land of Haojing delivered a message, and he has already connected with Hongyi in the land of Haojing. I thought that I could spend a lot of money to hire relevant craftsmen to Shenjing and buy a certain number of Hongyi cannons for the purpose of defending the city."
Emperor Chongping paused, with hesitation in his eyes, and asked, "Ziyu, are these Hongyi cannons and firecrackers really shocking?"
The middle-aged emperor once mentioned firearms and other military weapons to Jia Heng, and he believed that it is people who determine the outcome of a war.
Jia Heng pondered for a moment, then said softly: "Your Majesty, using it to defend the city has the effect of killing the enemy and startling the horse. I think it can be called a military weapon for defending the city. Of course, other things can't be separated from the generals. The soldiers serve to die."
Emperor Chongping pondered for a moment, and said: "Then introduce the Hongyi cannon and related firearms skills. My Dahan Jingying has the original Shenji battalion, and I can quickly handle firearms proficiently if I think about it."
"Your Majesty, it still takes a lot of money to introduce cannons and firecrackers, and most of the cannons and shells are consumables. We should try our best to introduce craftsmen from the Military Armament Supervision Department to produce them for our own use." Jia Heng said.
Emperor Chongping was silent for a while when he heard the words, and said: "Ziyu also knows that the treasury has not had much silver in recent years, and more than half of the capital's military pay is coordinated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. If you want to buy a large number of artillery and projectiles, you have to find another source of income. .”
In the past period of time, although there were non-stop copying and confiscation of floating wealth, there was no shortage of expenses.
Jia Heng said: "The minister's intention is the same, Yangzhou can't delay any longer."
Taxes cannot be imposed on ordinary people, so they can only be imposed on businessmen. As Mr. Yan Ge said, I have never heard of rebellion in farming, but I have never heard of businessmen being able to rebel.
Emperor Chongping thought for a while, and said: "I have found an opportunity in this period of time, and I ordered you to go south. Not only is it a mistake to reform the salt law, but also to find out the balance of the warehouse over the years, and chase down the deficit, so as to give back to the army."
Emperor Chongping had been in charge for many years, so he would not be ignorant of the shortfall of the vassal silver in the Yangzhou Yunku, and even the bad debts left by the Taishang Emperor in Zhizao Mansion during his reign.
Even in the original book of the Red Chamber, after the death of the Supreme Emperor, a large-scale house raid was carried out.
Jia Heng said: "My sage, my lord, has this intention. I went to Yangzhou to rectify the salt affairs, collected military expenses, and by the way went south to bring in craftsmen and artillery from the land of Haojing to aid in the war against the captives."
Emperor Chongping nodded, looked at the young man with a thinner face than before, and said in a gentle voice: "Ziyu, you just came back, and you have to go south again, and it's too tiring."
Jia Heng said sternly: "Your Majesty's insightful eyes are simple and simple. He commanded the tigers in the capital camp at the age of not being a weak crown. He is in charge of state affairs and privy secretaries. He is responsible for fighting against the captives. He must be loyal to the king's affairs. Kuang Weichen is behind the Majesty. How dare the billions of people of the great man speak of suffering?"
Family affairs, state affairs, world affairs, if there is no skin, how can Mao be attached?
When Emperor Chongping heard the young man's words, his heart was shaken slightly, and he looked at the young man with firm gaze, and said: "Zi Yu is a young man, since he has this ambition, I don't want to force others to make things difficult for me."
As expected of the person he picked as his son-in-law, only such a young man is qualified to be the princess.
Jia Heng was not the kind of person who talked about it, he just had the achievements in fighting the chaos in the Central Plains and resisting floods in the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers, so he gave Emperor Chongping a strong conviction.
"Your Majesty, in the war against captives, the subject cannot lose, and neither can the Holy Majesty. The great Han has established a country for a hundred years, and after the defeat in Liaodong, it can no longer withstand a big defeat." Jia Heng said in a deep voice.
Listening to Jia Heng's words, Emperor Chongping's eyes were somewhat complicated, and he said with emotion: "Zi Yu is right, neither you nor I can lose."
As he spoke, he took Jia Heng's hand, and the middle-aged emperor seemed to be moved with true emotion, and said in a low voice: "Since I took the throne, I have seen a lot of malpractice and corruption in the border affairs. The ambition of the foundation of the world, but the affairs of the world are complex, success is difficult and failure is easy, until he meets Qing, he is like a fish in water, and there is no disadvantage. Leave a name in history... In short, if you don't let me down, I will never let you down!"
This is the promise of an emperor.
It can be said that Jia Heng has single-handedly assisted Emperor Chongping in organizing the army and consolidating the imperial power since he became an official. The performance of the Beijing camp in Henan and Jianghuai has also proved that the strength of the Han Dynasty has recovered. Undoubtedly, Emperor Chongping saw the hope of Zhongxing .
Now it can be said that it is short of... a victory against the captives.
Even Emperor Chongping faintly felt that even if there were hundreds of Ruwei Qing Huns, or even undefeated, a tie was already a psychological expectation, and he didn't think about a big victory all at once.
No matter how anxious you are for success, you also know that military affairs cannot be rushed.
Jia Heng's face moved slightly, and he said: "The words of the Holy Majesty are as important as a thousand weights to me, and I am terrified."
Just now, he just took advantage of the situation to express his determination like "give the order!" Who knows that Emperor Chongping was really moved, but the emperor's promise, it's fine to listen to it at the time.
However, it's a bit weird to say, he once said in the bottom of his heart that if the emperor does not fail him, he will not fail the emperor...
Emperor Chongping thought of the salt merchant, his eyes were slightly cold, and he felt a sense of urgency in his heart, and said: "Since this is the case, Yangzhou Salt Affairs really can't simmer slowly, it needs to be cut quickly."
War needs money and food, and now the imperial household department obviously cannot support a war.
Thinking of this, he said: "Ziyu, wait a few more days, and you will go south."
Jia Heng said: "The minister will be ready in the near future."
Go to Yangzhou to rectify the Lianghuai salt affairs first, and save money, food, and armaments for the subsequent war against the captives, so as not to bloodbath the Liangjiang officialdom.
"By the way, after Xianning returned to the palace, she mentioned you yesterday. If you have time, you can go and see her." Emperor Chongping suddenly remembered something and said.
Jia Heng's expression was a little unnatural, and he said in a low voice: "Weichen...go and see later."
In front of other people's father, it always feels a little weird to go to the watery cabbage.
Emperor Chongping looked at the slightly shy young man, smiled lightly, and said, "It's hard for me to say anything about the matter between you and Xianning. I'm waiting for the day when you make great achievements and call my father the emperor."
(End of this chapter)