The 5,000 cavalry under Gao Pragmat's command planned to dismiss most of them when they arrived in Changchang, leaving only 1,000 cavalry from the Beijing battalion to escort them back to Beijing, but unexpectedly, the cabinet suddenly sent a decree to come, saying that it was ordered by the emperor to order Gao Pragmatism to lead 5,000 cavalry back to Beijing intact, and the heads obtained in this battle were also returned from the military headquarters and let them take them back to Beijing.

Gao Shishi understood this order as soon as he heard it, and it is estimated that Zhu Yijun will have another prisoner sacrifice ceremony, and then sacrifice to the Taimiao.

It can only be for this reason, otherwise, the Gao family is itself a "gray zone" army, even if the Ming Dynasty has come to this point, the family system has been more strange, and the armed family of officials is often directly regarded as a regular army, but after all, Gao Shishi is a Wenchen Beijing official, even if the emperor trusts him again, he should not let him return to Beijing with four thousand horsemen.

This is not a question of trust or not, it is a question of institutional insolence - of course, the family members of the border ministers have to resist foreign enemies, and it is understandable for the court to recognize their role, but what do you want to do when you are a Beijing official who has so many armed family members and brought them to Beijing?

You must know that although Jingying claims to be invincible in the world with an army of 400,000, three-year-old children don't believe it. Four thousand iron horsemen who had just defeated the Mongol Khan came to Beijing, which was a major event that could affect the defense of the entire Beijing Division.

So the only reason is that Zhu Yijun needs this "five thousand iron horsemen" to come to Beijing to show his face, and show the Ming Dynasty's might and good at fighting to the Beijing division and even the whole world.

As for the heads of the Mongolian soldiers who had already been submitted to the Ministry of War for inspection, they must have been returned to them for this reason to be used as props.

These people are really unlucky to live, and they can't live in peace when they die.

In fact, many of them did not die at the hands of the Ming army, but because the left and right wings of Mongolia went through this battle, the relationship was almost completely torn apart, and Han Naji was not so merciful, so he had to treat the corpses and heads of these enemies well, and it happened that the Ming army was based on the merits of the head, so the new king of Shunyi simply did a favor and gave all these heads to Gao Pragmatic for disposal.

Gao Pragmatic himself didn't have much interest in these heads, but considering that the merits of the Ming army were different from those of his family, it was not easy to throw away a fortune from the hands of the Ming army who followed him, so he handed over the heads to the military department for statistics.

Speaking of which, when this batch of heads was sent to the Ministry of War, the pragmatic senior brother Da Sima Wu Dui was really happy and sad. The joy is that this time the heads of the Mongols alone are tens of thousands, which is simply the number one victory in the past two hundred years, although the battle was not fought by him, but it was fought by his junior brother Gao Shishi, and he naturally had a bright face as a senior brother.

What's more, no matter what, he Wu is the secretary of the military department, no matter what victory the dynasty wins, doesn't it have to be counted as his performance?

But after the joy, you will start to worry.

What are you worried about? Worry about money.

As a result of the reform of the high arch, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Industry, and so on, have already had a bit of a "budgetary" style, and the year before they would first give a rough estimate of a certain amount to the Ministry of Households, and then the Ministry of Households would allocate funds to the various ministries and the relevant local yamen according to the possible income in the coming year.

But where would the Ministry of War have thought that more than 10,000 Mongolian heads would be "accounted for" this year? Usually, one or two hundred heads can be collected in a battle, and it is worth suing the great victory of the Taimiao! More than 10,000? Wodi is obedient......

In the end, after the emperor and the cabinet intervened, about sixty or seventy percent of the "mobile funds" were forcibly equalized from the household department, and then the emperor himself paid out of his own pocket and took money from the treasury to make up the balance, which can be regarded as making up the reward money.

The emperor didn't feel distressed about spending this money, but the household department almost jumped to scold his mother, and refused to count it according to twenty taels per head, forcing the military department to "reduce prices" and "convert", and he insisted on making twelve taels and one head, and the rest of the reward money was made up with cloth, grain and other materials.

In the end, the household department paid 160,000 taels, which is nothing compared with the high pragmatic spending, but the funds of the household department have a fixed destination, and suddenly there is a large amount of money, of course, it is a headache. In addition, there were floods in Jiangnan and Liaodong this year, and the emperor had just reduced taxes by more than 300,000 yuan...... Tobe thinks that if this continues, he will drink wind and smoke again next year.

Of course, after this big victory, it is not only these that have caused such an impact on the central side, but there are too many details, and there is no need to state them one by one, all in all, after a super victory, although the whole country celebrates for sure, there are also many "happy troubles" within the imperial court.

Fortunately, these troubles have nothing to do with Gao Pragmatic for the time being, he just needs to cooperate with the performance according to the instructions of the cabinet.

The 5,000 iron cavalry repaired in Changping for two days, in order to better show the mighty spirit, and the Beijing camp attached great importance to this - after all, the Beijing camp sent troops this time, and whether they fought or not, they always showed their faces.

A group of Jing Nan nobles summed it up, and sent thousands of sets of armor and horse harness to Gao Pragmatic, and secretly asked Gao Pragmatic to help, so that his horsemen could change into these outfits, so that the Beijing camp could show his face at one time.

It is difficult to calculate the personal debt between Gao Pragmatic and these nobles, but this matter is very important to the nobles, but for him, it is just a matter of command, and a favor is just a gesture, so he did not shirk.

Outside the Desheng Gate in Yanjing City, there was really another suburban welcome of the emperor, this time the scale was larger than the last time Zhu Yijun celebrated Gao Shipra's pacification of Annan, presumably because the Ming Dynasty's attention to Mongolia was far better than that of Annan.

But the scale is big, the routine is still the old routine, the familiar formula, the familiar taste, there is no need to repeat it a second time.

The only difference is probably that after the sacrifice to the Taimiao this time, the Beijing Temple was built in the south of the city with the heads of the people obtained from the left-wing Mongolia to show the majesty of the Ming Dynasty.

Well...... In this way, it seems to show the prestige of high pragmatism.

Anyway, the storytellers and Dr. Tea of the Beijing Division have all been urgently dispatched to find the Jingying and Gao family horsemen who have participated in this battle, to inquire about the news, dig deep into the inside story of this battle, and prepare to start writing the latest Patriotic War drama starring Gao Longwen.

As for Gao Pragmatic himself, he didn't have the leisure he had ten years ago, and it was difficult for him to have the opportunity to go to the teahouse and wine shop to listen to his big play, so he could only follow the rules and honestly follow the system of the national dynasty to hand over the Qin mission, and then prepare to continue to go back to the Hanlin Academy and Zhan Shifu, drink tea, read newspapers, and make a living.

As for Xu Gong, Gao Pragmatic didn't have too much hope, after all, it was only less than half a year since his last promotion, even if the emperor was his old classmate, it would be difficult to get a squire who was less than twenty years old, right?

After all, this is the Ming Dynasty, according to the original history, it is even the late Ming Dynasty, and it is relatively rare to be promoted at will according to the emperor's personal wishes.

In the final analysis, after all, the Hanlin Academy and the Zhan Mansion mainly rely on seniority transfer, unlike border ministers and border generals, who mainly rely on merit transfer.

Gao Pragmatic was very calm, and even calmed down to the point where he began to prepare for his birthday banquet, and the Internal Affairs Department of the Gao family also began to send out invitations under the auspices of Gao Mo, inviting the officials of the Shixue School in Beijing, Xungui, colleagues from the Hanlin Academy and Zhan Shifu to participate in Gao Pragmatic's crown ceremony on May 26 - the crown ceremony was only nominal, because it was the twentieth birthday, in fact, he was given a word after he was lifted, and if he had a word, he was actually an adult.

The strange thing is that the reward for him has not come down, I don't know if there is a debate in the cabinet or the emperor himself can't make up his mind, until Gao Shishi's birthday, this should have been a reward that he would have heard about at most three days after he returned to Beijing, and there was still no movement.