In April of the fifth year of Longqing, the emperor issued an edict to canonize me as the king of Shunyi, and the leaders of his subordinates were also commanded by the governor of the capital, thousands of households and hundreds of households, etc., proclaiming the unity of Hu and Yue, and the two sides made peace, taking a big step towards ending the 29-year war between Mongolia and Han.

At the canonization ceremony in Datong, Wang Chonggu, the governor of Xuanda, was like the winner of a great battle, and proclaimed the title of king for the imperial court, because the Ming court spared his grandson Jiang Han and vowed never to commit Xuanda again.

In fact, Wang Chonggu did win a big war, without the support of the cabinet minister Gao Gong, Wang Chonggu resigned as early as the beginning of the tribute, let alone today's tribute.

Although even after the tribute has been completed, although the officials of the court and the central government no longer dare to disobey the will of the cabinet assistant, there are still people in private who say that Wang Chonggu is a Tatar fornicator, and that he is a traitor who relaxes border defense to facilitate the enemy.

But in the history known to Chen Mu, the tribute advocated by Wang Chonggu was the beginning of peace in northern Xinjiang of the Ming Dynasty, until the end of the Ming Dynasty, and even provided the later Qing Dynasty with the idea of governing the north of the Great Wall.

As the military commanders of Xuanda, Chen Mu and Ma Fang showed their faces at the tribute ceremony, and then the two general soldiers, one old and one young, rode out of the city to the fields that no one knew about to let the cavalry pull out the guard, sit on the ground, and exchange opinions on military teaching materials while drinking farmhouse soju.

"The old man read Mr. Chen's proposal, and originally thought that the old man was already strict enough with his subordinate generals, but I didn't expect Mr. Chen to be even harsher." Ma Fang's expression was the same as his words, full of appreciation and admiration for Chen Mu, a young man, "All I think about is how to train soldiers, but General Chen wants to train generals, eh...... Still have to pour it out? ”

Ma Fang said and looked at Chen Mu's hand pouring wine into the wine bowl, pouted and muttered something, he lifted another wine jug and drank it directly, and said to himself: "In the past few years, there have been frequent police on the side, and Ma has been drinking less. ”

"The old man's mind is getting muddy day by day, no better than you juniors."

Saying that, Ma Fang turned his head, looked at Chen Mu and asked very seriously: "Mr. Chen, you said, will you stop fighting in the future?" ”

Chen Mu saw both the hope for peace and the confusion about the future on Ma Fang's sagging face with frost and scars.

Just as Chen Mu was thinking about how to answer, Ma Fang had already said to himself: "The old man was eight years old and lived in the grassland, he didn't go to social studies, he didn't read the military book, and he bent the wood for the bow and the horse galloped, and the horse was ......handsome."

"The general doesn't have to be in the twilight of his life, he will still fight, and he will always fight."

"A few days ago, Gao Ge Lao was not a border general, saying that he would not commit any offense against others, and he would not commit it if he was afraid of me; Don't bully others, don't bully me, don't bully me, I think that's what he said about self-improvement. ”

When mentioning the high arch, Ma Fang was not as respectful as Chen Mu, put down the wine jug, tilted his head and two arms from the bottom up, and said: "It's all a fool!" If you can really trust me not to commit, I should fight over, the three-way car rode out of Xuan, Da, and Shaanxi, and the cavalry interspersed and encircled, outflanked and destroyed, so that the whole floor outside the plug rose! ”

Oh, Chen Mu understood, it turned out that the place name Bansheng was a verb in the old general.

Chen Mu can say something, he put down the wine bowl and hugged his fists and said: "The general is right, all the floor is up, lift your breath!" ”

"It's not that I don't mention it, it's like a money bag, and the northerners have no food or money, so they come south to grab it. Kill your father and brother, step on the grave of your ancestors, and in the end you have to do business with him! The old man didn't say that it was not good to do business, and there was no need to die, and the old man who sent him to the court also agreed with the peace, that is, in his heart. ”

Ma Fang shook his head, gritted his teeth and beard and stuck together with wine, pounded the armor on his chest, and said, "It's not pleasant." ”

Chen Mu thought so.

Some of Ma Fang's family members died in the early years of Jiajing, and their parents were separated due to the war. It is the war that has shaped their generation, the south and the north, and this generation has a painful experience.

Let them negotiate peace, they are uncomfortable.

Chen Mu felt quite uncomfortable when he heard it, but he didn't know what to say to comfort Ma Fang.

"People say that the old man wins a hundred battles, but in fact, the old man loses, and the brave can win for a while, but no matter how brave the person is, there is also a twilight year, and the people are old, but the border troubles have not subsided."

Ma Fang said that he shook the empty wine jug, threw it aside boringly, shook his head and said to Chen Mu: "Let's set up a martial arts hall, the old man has no knowledge, but he can still understand the meaning of the martial arts hall." Recuperate and accumulate national strength, guard the border and even win the north, the old man's generation can only hand over the heavy responsibility to you. ”

This is the most surprising place for Chen Mu, he thought that the meritorious generals at this time would not support the martial arts hall, and it was not a bad thing for civil officials to set up a martial arts hall, but for the military attachés with vested interests, the martial arts hall would inevitably affect the upward space of their descendants, but he didn't expect Ma Fang to say that he seemed to value the martial arts hall more than Chen Mu.

"Does the general really think that the martial arts hall can take on a heavy responsibility?" Chen Mu drank a bowl of wine, and then said a little incoherently: "The younger generation still thinks that the generals in the army will not like junior officers to learn more things." ”

"Fart!"

Ma Fangwaner scolded with a smile and asked very seriously: "I don't know which general Chen is talking about, is it the Yu general, who is a general, the Qi general, who commands the generals, and Ma, who is a slave and a general?" Or is it the Chen family with a small flag as a general? ”

Ma Fang was happy when he said this, and said, "Yes, you are not a general yet." ”

These generals, who lead the general army of a town, all have the position of governor of the left and right, that is, the general officer number in ancient times, but Chen Mu does not have it, so although his authority is great, his status is slightly inferior to others, which is due to his lack of qualifications.

He's lucky.

"From the hereditary commanders to the hereditary hundred households, they are all the generals that Chen Zongbing said, and they are not the ones who teach the martial arts, they don't like to learn more things by themselves when they have dung in their hearts." Ma Fang raised his finger left and right and said: "Just those kids, if it weren't for the martial arts hall, I wouldn't be too lazy to teach the old man to teach!" ”

Ma Ye drank a lot of alcohol, drank a pot of soju as if he hadn't drunk it, his eyes were shining, his tongue was not knotted, he raised his hand and patted his head and said, "Forget about business, two things." One is that the old man thinks that there is a need to add rules to the martial arts hall and teach in the army. It is useless to teach and teach, and it is necessary to select talented generals to set up a special battalion, and the new and old will be rotated in two phases, with mutual confirmation. ”

"The second thing is that it is too difficult to compile a book, it is easy for the old man to lead the troops, but he doesn't have the ability to write it, Datong has two major generals under his command, and he can control the cavalry to the best of Ma's talents, transfer them to General Chen's subordinates, and help the general compile the book, what is the name of the cavalry, the teaching materials, General Chen compiled it together."

Ma Fang said and waved left and right, and the pigtail family got off the horse and ran, so he heard Ma Fang say: "Call the brothers Ma Jin and Ma Gui and let them come to meet General Chen." ”