Ningxia Governor Liang Wenmeng's black gauze hat was lost, and the post of Ningxia Governor had to be rearranged. Since Motosuke was present, the emperor of course asked for his opinion first.

Shen Shixing was waiting for this opportunity, and immediately said: "The minister recommended Ye Mengxiong, the governor of Guizhou, to transfer Ningxia. ”

As soon as these words came out, Gao Shishi's brows immediately furrowed.

Ye Mengxiong...... This person is not incompetent, but unfortunately there are two problems: first, this person is a rising star that the Heart School has focused on cultivating in recent years; Second, this person is a radical main battle faction who does not ask for reasons.

Ye Mengxiong is Jiajing's forty-four years of gold list, it stands to reason that Gao Gong is still his teacher, but he is a person who learns from the heart, of course he refuses to worship under Gao Gongmen, and because he is not ranked high in the gold list, he is only a middle among the top three, so he did not stay in Beijing, but directly served as the county governor of Fuqing.

In the second year of Longqing, he was transferred to Beijing as the head of the household department, and moved to supervise the imperial history, and was usually very active. In the fourth year of Longqing, an important turning point came - he clearly opposed my answer to the tribute, which was contrary to the concept of high arch and high pragmatism, and because of the fierce rhetoric at the time of Shangshu, the emperor was angered, so he was demoted to the city of Haoyang County, Shaanxi.

But his actions attracted the attention of the bigwigs of the Heart School, and he began to focus on training, and soon after he moved to the right to return to the Detui Official, and then transferred to the head of the Nanjing Household Department to supervise Fengyang Cang. In the second year of Wanli, he was transferred to Langzhong, and soon became the prefect of Ganzhou.

After the mourning period ended, Shen Shixing still did not forget him, and immediately made up for him the prefect of Anqing. In the tenth year of Wanli, when Guo Pu and Zhang Siwei handed over power, Shen Shixing operated for him again, so he served as a patrol envoy in Zhejiang. In this position, he created the "Ye Gong Shen Gong" and handed it over to the Xu family in Songjiang to prepare for the military industry and private industry as a "guard against Japanese invaders".

It should be noted that this Ye Gong Shen Gong is not a musket, but a vehicle-mounted cannon. And he adopted the idea of Jinghua artillery, not made of copper, but made of pure iron to build the gun body - before the army artillery material was replaced by steel, only Jinghua was the only one, and the rest of the military enterprises or yamen did not have such technology, or it was impossible to control the size under the condition of quality and quantity.

Ye Gong Shengong is slightly different from Jinghua's "1234" cannon, it is only divided into heaven, earth, and Xuan. The Tianzi Shengong weighs 280 pounds (converted, the same below), and is 3 feet 5 inches long; The earth number Shen Gong weighs 200 pounds and is 3 feet 2 inches long, and the Xuanzi Shen Gong weighs 150 pounds and is 3 feet 1 inch long. Each gun has a three-wheeled gun carriage, with two wheels in front and a wheel height of 2 feet 5 inches, and one wheel in the back, with a wheel height of 1 foot 3 inches, high in the front and low in the rear, and the muzzle of the gun is high.

To put it simply, this Ye Gongshen gun is a simplified version of the Jinghua artillery, which is just stuck in the middle of the No. 1 and No. 2 guns, No. 2 and No. 3 guns, and No. 3 and No. 4 guns. Although the military department later measured that the power of its artillery was slightly inferior to that of Jinghua, because this was the first military industrial enterprise in the south that could be privately owned, it was still mass-produced - this is also an important reason why the Jinghua artillery was mainly equipped with the northern army rather than the southern army, after all, the southern heart school officials were very strong, and the southern provinces had never been areas that Jinghua could easily penetrate.

Because of this contribution, Ye Mengxiong was soon transferred to Yongping Bingbeidao, which was very disgusting Gao Pragmatic - Yongping Dao was under the jurisdiction of Kaiping, which was very difficult for the three major factories in Jinghua for a period of time, and said that the three major factories disturbed the people for a while, and said that the three major factories had too many private families, thanks to the fact that Gao Pragmatic had returned to Beijing at that time, and after Shen Shixing led Ye Mengxiong's evaluation of "incorruptible first", he found a way to transfer him to Shandong Suzheng and Lian Visiting Envoy, which was purified. The envoy was a temporary dispatch, and soon Ye Mengxiong moved to the right to the governor of Guizhou, until today.

To put it simply, Ye Mengxiong still has the ability, but he is very bad with the real school, and this person is "high-spirited", no matter what disputes arise between Daming and the surrounding forces, if you ask Ye Mengxiong's attitude, this guy must be one word: dry!

If I want a few more words, it is: fuck it all!

Just like when I answered the tribute, Gao Gong had already clarified the reason for the tribute, and also put forward the specific steps of the "West Huaidong System", which was completely in line with the actual situation of the Ming Dynasty at that time, but Ye Mengxiong just disagreed, and continued to go up and down, and said fiercely that the Mongols could only fight to the end, and there was no need to pull one faction to fight another.

Big brother, if you can fight, do you want you to say it?

It is precisely because of these two reasons that when Shen Shixing mentioned Ye Mengxiong, Gao Shixing frowned. First, Ye Mengxiong, a stinky and temperamental official of the Heart School, became the governor of Ningxia, and he may have to face some troubles of disobeying and even disobeying orders at that time, and second, even if he wins the battle in the end, it is equivalent to giving free side work to the officials of the Heart School.

However, Shen Shixing's timing was really good, he did not compete with Gao Shixing for the candidate of the trilateral governor just now, and personally came forward to "recommend" Gao Shixing, at this time, if Gao Shixing opposed his proposal, it would inevitably seem a little unreasonable, and even suspected of pampering power.

Gao Pragmatic is not Ye Mengxiong, and he will not shout blindly regardless of the actual situation, so he knows that he can't speak out against it at the moment, so he is expressionless and silent.

But Zhu Yijun no longer remembered Ye Mengxiong's deeds back then, and after listening to Shen Shixing's recommendation, he subconsciously asked Gao Shixing: "Seeking truth, what do you think?" ”

Gao Pragmatic sighed in his heart, but he still had to make a calm and quiet appearance on his face, and said lightly: "The minister and Ye Futai are not very familiar with each other, and I don't know much about his personality and ability, but since Yuanfu approves it, there must always be something to be respectable." ”

The meaning of this is simple: I don't know anything, don't ask me about it, and don't look for me if I'm in trouble.

However, Zhu Yijun didn't think much about it, after all, he also knew that Gao Pragmatic had been appointed twice in the past few years, and subconsciously felt that Gao Pragmatic might not know as much about the people and things in the imperial court as he did back then, so it was common not to be familiar with someone.

But if you don't understand, it doesn't mean you don't object, so Zhu Yijun smiled and said, "Since that's the case, let Ye Mengxiong go to Ningxia...... Yuanfu, Ye Mengxiong is still in Guizhou, how long does it take to go to Ningxia? ”

Shen Shixing thought about it and calculated, and said: "If he goes to Sichuan and enters Hanzhong, he will enter Shaanxi, although there are mostly mountain roads along the way, but it will always be faster than Wei Xuezeng." Then he paused, glanced at Gao Shishi, smiled softly, and said: "Besides, there is only one Pingyu City left in Ningxia now, and he, the governor, is afraid that there is nothing to do for a while, and it doesn't hurt to be late." The minister hoped that Gao Jingluo would advance quickly, and by the time Ye Mengxiong arrived, he would only need to clean up the battlefield. ”

Zhu Yijun only laughed or said something auspicious to Mr. Shen, and laughed when he heard it, but he didn't think deeply.

However, as a person who "calculates too much", although Gao Shishi is also smiling, he can't help muttering a little in his heart, and secretly said: Shen Yaoquan has repeatedly hinted that I can "speed" and "speed" in counterinsurgency today, what does this mean? Does he want to provoke the general, or does he want to kill?

With a high level of pragmatism, it is impossible for him to believe that Shen Shixing has "good intentions" towards him, just like Shen Shixing's performance tonight, let go first, for the final harvest. happy

In essence, his style of acting is quite similar to Gao Pragmatism.

Zhu Yijun first asked: "Truth-seeking, the current situation in the northwest is bad enough, you lead Shanxi reinforcements into Shaanxi, Bo Shuoketu and Bibai are your troops, I am not too worried, but the Huo Luochi and the Rabbit are a little far away, I am worried that you will not be able to reach them for a while...... Do you want to transfer some more troops and horses from Sichuan to support? ”

Gao pragmatic did not answer directly, but asked first: "If the Sichuan army goes north, will the salary be transferred from Shenjing or Nanjing?" ”

He didn't say this casually, because Sichuan's soldiers and horses were usually managed by the Nanjing Military Department and not directly managed by the Beijing Military Department. This is just like when Liu Xian, as the chief soldier of Sichuan, was transferred to the southern provinces to fight, Nanjing was responsible for the food and salary, and even after he stayed in Wolf Mountain, he was made difficult by the Wei Duke's mansion.

However, there is a situation here, that is, if the southern troops are transferred to the north and used, they will generally be replaced by the Beijing Military Department to be responsible for food and salary, just like the use and supply of the Qi army. Sichuan is under the scope of the Nanjing Military Department, but if the Sichuan Army enters Shaanxi, it will be regarded as entering the scope directly under the Beijing Military Department, and it stands to reason that it will be replaced by the Beijing Military Department to provide food and wages.

Obviously, the reason why Gao Shishi asked this was because he didn't want to increase the burden on the imperial court, and Zhu Yijun immediately reacted.

However, Zhu Yijun also had other considerations, frowned and asked: "I understand what you mean, but now is not the time to think about money - quelling a rebellion is different from taking the initiative, the latter can wait, and the former can't wait." Truthfully, if this money is to be spent, then it must be spent, you don't have to worry about this first. ”

Gao Pragmatic listened quite pleased, although the emperor was young, he was very prioritizing, and his "companion reading" for so many years was not in vain.

So he smiled and said, "Since the emperor said so, the minister is naturally not afraid of 'the more the merrier'." ”

Zhu Yijun couldn't help but smile when he heard this, and said: "That's okay, what can the Sichuan army mobilize, you will discuss it with Liang Menglong after you return to the military department, and explain it in the last article." Now let's talk about the transfer of soldiers and horses in Shanxi, who are you going to transfer? How much? ”

Gao pragmatically said: "Ma Gui and Li Rusong." Datong is 20,000 and Taiyuan is 10,000. ”

Zhu Yijun was stunned for a moment, hesitated for a moment, and finally couldn't help asking: "Ma Gui and Li Rusong...... The two of them have the ability, but your total is only 30,000 soldiers, will it not be enough? The military report said that there were already 60,000 troops in Bibai alone, and it was estimated that Bo Shuoketu could also dispatch at least 30,000 or 40,000 cavalry, not to mention Huo Luochi and Zhuli Rabbit, who had already figured out that they could add up to 50,000 at most. ”

The so-called 30,000 or 40,000 people in Boshoketu are actually just the strength that his headquarters has without a big mobilization, in fact, as a Jinong, he is really ruthless, and 50,000 or 60,000 people are also made up. It's just that the strength of the Ordos Department is somewhat scattered, and there are still more than 30,000 and nearly 40,000 cavalry there.

It can also be seen from this that Tumut, who maintains about 100,000 troops in peacetime, is indeed not much stronger than Ordos. It's just that the population of Tumut is more than twice that of Ordos, and if you really want to mobilize to fight, the advantage is still relatively obvious, not to mention that Tumut already has a part of the agricultural area, and the potential for a long-term war is obviously better than that of Ordos.

As for Huo Luochi and Zhuli Rabbit, it has been explained before that 50,000 is the limit after the two of them work together, and it is difficult to maintain it in normal times.

But in any case, Gao pragmatic only transferred 30,000 people from Shanxi, which seems to be a little too little. And the key is that the three towns of Shanxi are not short of soldiers, Xuanfu has 130,000, Datong has 120,000, and Taiyuan also has 670,000, which adds up to more than 300,000, why only one-tenth of it?

However, Gao Pragmatic shook his head and said: "The so-called 60,000 troops in Bibai, of which the elite will not exceed 30,000 at most - originally there were only 30,000 garrisons in Ningxia Town, so they can't all be elites, right?" And his extra 30,000 people, except for the 4,000 private soldiers of his own family, the rest are probably newly recruited rabble, which is not enough to worry about.

Although Huoluochi and Zhuli Rabbit and Erfang can have a total of 50,000 people, as long as Bu Rihatu returns to the east, with the ability of the two of them, it will be very difficult to break through the side walls of Nian Bo and Zhuang Langwei, as long as the Guyuan side can maintain the supply of these two important places, it can be temporarily stabilized, so there is no need to rush for a while.

As for the Boshok Tu...... There are still some ways to try, if it can be done, maybe it doesn't need a big battle to let him honestly go back to the loop. ”

Zhu Yijun was stunned when he heard this, and then he was overjoyed, and asked, "Is there such a way?" Come and hear it! ”

Gao was pragmatic but more serious, and said calmly: "The way is to exert pressure in many ways: first ask the king of Shunyi to gather a large army, so that he can claim that the 150,000 elite cavalry of Tumut have been prepared at Fengzhou Beach, and they will march south at any time; Then the troops of the three towns of Xuanda were frequently mobilized, and at the same time the rumors were quietly released, saying that the 30,000 people led by the ministers were just a pretense, and in fact, the imperial court planned to mobilize 200,000 troops to level the Hetao in one fell swoop with the cooperation of Tumut; In the end, he sent someone to say that he would move Taigal Zhungen Hatun and cut all the money, and asked the sister and brother to force Boshoketu back. ”

Taigal Jungen Hatun is Boshoketu's old lady and his cousin. With the support of all her efforts, she finally retained the position of Jinong, and at the same time, she also had a great influence on the department of Boshoketu - theoretically, after the death of Buyan Batur, his descendants were in the hands of the regent Hatun, and Boshoketu actually received this power from his mother, so of course Taigal Zzungen Hatun also had considerable residual power in the army.

Zhu Yijun was overjoyed when he heard this, and praised: "Seeking truth is really powerful, this wonderful move goes on, unless Bo Shuoketu is crazy, he must obediently return to the Hetao." But after a pause, Zhu Yijun asked with some concern: "Hannaji's side won't really move, right?" Also, if the Tumen take this news seriously and prepare to send troops to Tumut, it will be troublesome. ”

Gao pragmatically shook his head and said: "If Buzhhatu does not return to Chahanhot for a day, the Tumen will not have the confidence to send troops." Besides, we can also do more things, such as letting Yang Siwei and Li Chengliang perform with great fanfare, or simply mobilizing troops or something, so that the Tumen are nervous. ”

Zhu Yijun saw that he was very thoughtful, and breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay, since you have an overall plan, then I can rest assured." Today's hour is not early, Mr. Shen, seek the truth, you will go back first, and tomorrow you will take care of all the affairs you have just discussed. Especially for truth-seeking, you have limited time, so you can go early if you can, and you can go early and return early. ”

Shen Shixing and Gao Shixing gave up, and returned to their homes under the escort of the eunuchs and the guards of the imperial city.

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