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Chapter 909 West Wind Strength (Part 1)

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    The sky was covered with dark clouds, and even though it was Mao Shi, I still couldn't see my fingers.

    Eight large lanterns hung high in front of the Chengtian Gate, all of which were covered with white cloths because the national mourning was still in progress. The light was dim, shining on the officials waiting in front of the palace gate, reflecting gloomy or even frightened faces.  The atmosphere was extremely heavy, which was in stark contrast to the lively scene where officials were joking and joking before entering the Chengtian Gate.

    The silent crowd was slightly disturbed, and the officials followed the prestige, and saw that under the guidance of two lanterns, the Grand Scholars came together from the direction of the cabinet. Obviously, the cabinet elders stayed up all night and studied countermeasures.

    All the officials looked around, trying to get some information from the faces of the elders the one walking in the front was short and the other tall, the chief assistant Xu Jie and the second assistant Gao Gong.  No one can try to see anything, but from Gao Ge's ashen complexion, one can guess that the situation seems to be worse than imagined.

    The elders always arrived on time. Just after standing still in the morning class, the bell rang on the Drum Tower, and the Chengtian Gate slowly opened.  Hundreds of officials lined up silently and filed in

    On the Golden Palace, Emperor Longqing had been waiting there for a long time. Although he was greedy for comfort and especially didn't like to get up early, the continuous sound of alarms made the young emperor sleepless all night. He couldn't wait to see his ministers for the first time.

    When Baiguanshan shouted long live, the emperor felt a sense of security, but soon disappeared in the voice of the Xuanyu official of Honglu Temple.  The captive chieftain, I answered, led 80,000 cavalry and bypassed Datong from Jinzhong. I am sincerely afraid that the capital will be shaken.  '

    He also read Cao Bangfu, governor of Jiliao, an urgent note: "More than 30,000 cavalry from the barbarians of the Tatars have marched along the Chaohe River to Gubeikou. Jizhen is in a hurry!"  '

    Although Long Qing was absent-minded about political affairs, but the emperor of Ming Dynasty guarded the gate of the country, he certainly knew that Datong and Jizhen were the east and west gates of the capital. Now the east gate has been crossed, and the west gate is also in danger.  The second time I came here, I had a big plan.

    So, after Emperor Longqing ascended the throne, the first sternly worded imperial decree was born.  The Xuanyu officer took an edict from the eunuch and read it aloud: "The generals are afraid of the enemy and fight cowardly, and the military department is insensitive, so that the Tartars drive straight in, and they want to shake our imperial capital. I am very worried. How can all the ministers  Ashamed?  '

    Hearing the emperor's censure, Xu Jie stood up from the brocade pier, and led all the officials to kowtow to plead guilty.

    "What's the use of kowtowing, everyone get up." Long Qing didn't know whether he was angry or lack of energy, and his voice was trembling: "Hurry up and come up with a countermeasure, don't really wait for others to come to the city."

    Xu Jie supported Jindun to stand up, and respectfully comforted the emperor, saying, "Your Majesty, calm down. Although the Tartars are coming violently, the court has done their homework and will not repeat the tragedy of the 'Gengyu Change'" As he spoke, he watched  Looking diagonally at Yang Bo, he said, "Let's invite the Ministry of War to speak for the emperor."

    Although the situation is very urgent, there is no trace of panic on the face of Minister of War Yang Bo. He has seen too many storms in his life, and he can keep calm at any time, so he went out and said: "  Your Majesty Qi Zuo, since last year, the old minister took over the defense of the capital, and has been trying to change the defense strategy of the capital, that is, from the original focus on the defense of the capital and the focus on the defense of the entire Gyeonggi region. In order to achieve this goal  , Wei Chen continued to mobilize the outer guard flag army to take turns to practice in the capital, and built a series of military facilities that echoed each other.  The clothes are flawless, but before breaking through our outlying military towns, the Mongols would not dare to trespass and covet the capital."

    After hearing Yang Bo's words, Long Qing was determined, and Longyan said joyfully, "No wonder the father wants to hand over the defense of the capital to Da Sima. You are my Da Ming's Ding Haishenzhen!"

    Hearing the emperor's praise, Yang Bo smiled lightly, and said: "But the time to build the defense of the capital is still short, and the funds have been stretched all the way, especially the lack of mobile troops, soit is okay to defend the capital, but there is nothing we can do to retreat the enemy." The old man  He is very self-aware. He has less than 10,000 cavalry under his command, and the rest are infantry. It is fine to defend the city with infantry against cavalry, but there is nothing to do with field maneuvers. Therefore, I have said the ugly words in advance, lest anyone will participate in my "watching the enemy" in the future.  Intimidated, afraid to fight' and the like.

    "The imperial court raises soldiers, not just for guarding the capital." Gao Gong became displeased when he heard this, and stepped out, "If one hundred thousand troops dare not go out of the city, and just sit and watch the people suffer miserably, what's the point of the emperor guarding the gate of the country?  "

    What he said made Yang Bo blush a little, and he snorted and said: "It's not because I don't want to protect the people, it's because I can't do it. Nowbsp;  The government opened the horse market, but soon it was closed by the court because of the Tatars buying and selling, openly looting, and even killing our market officials."

    As I said before, there are millions of Mongolian tribes, but because of the characteristics of nomads, they can only graze and milk goats, and cannot produce daily necessities. Want to buy it from the Ming Dynasty people?  But the two sides are in a state of war, and the Ming government does not allow the common people to do business with them, so they can only rob.  So Mongolian iron cavalry rushed into the Central Plains again and again, and when they returned with a full load, you will see that the most on horseback is not gold and silver treasures, but pots and pans.

    Don't laugh, if you don't mobilize people to grab it, you won't even have this thing.  Don't look at the Mongols showing off their power every year, but they are already tired of crooked in their hearts. They always come out to rob for this kind of thing. It is high risk, no guarantee, and the input and output are seriously inconsistent. It is not worthwhile.

    Who doesn't want to be safe?  So they have always longed to return to what they did 50 years ago, when everyone opened a market on the border, and they could get enough necessities without fighting.

    It seems that "open border trade" is a good way to eliminate wars and enjoy peace forever, but this is not the case-because trade can bring peace only under the premise of equal strength.  The reality is that the Mongols are tyrannical and the Ming Dynasty is in a weak position. It is impossible for them to do business with you honestly. If you take a few old and thin horses, they will exchange you for valuable goods. Will you give them?  If you don't give it, you will smash it.  No matter how shrewd the Han people were, they couldn't make money in the mutual market, so the common people were extremely unimpressed by it, and the imperial court was even more ashamed of it¡ª¡ª

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