Chapter 632: A Heroic Name

Because the north is Mengyuan, so when the king was crowned in the Hongwu period, Zhu Yuanzhang placed those most trusted sons on a whole line around Mongolia, from Liaodong to the northwest, and set up the king of Liao, the king of Ning, the king of Yan, the king of Dai, the king of the valley and so on. Among them, King Ning and King Yan were known as the two powerful feudal domains in the Northland, and they had the upper hand during the years of war with the Mongols. Therefore, the ruined city of Daning, where Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, was located, was once a first-class fortified city, but after twenty years, only ruins and broken walls remained.

In the past, Zhu Di robbed the king of Ning in the north, and after forming an alliance with Duoyan Sanwei, he went south to fight for hegemony in the world, and Zhang Fu was also among the entourage, but before the northern expedition to Ping Wuliangha last year, he had not been here for almost 20 years, and now the overseer rebuilt this ruined city, even if he is rarely sentimental on weekdays, he can't help but feel quite emotional when he walks through the city now. It's just that these emotions come and go quickly.

After all, the abandoned city of Daning has been abandoned for many years, although the Wuliangha people of Duoyan Sanwei have not been able to enter the city to live, but even if the three sharp spirits were severely defeated last year, we need to beware of the comeback of these grassland tycoons.

The Ministry of Industry sent competent officials and a large number of craftsmen, coupled with the concerted efforts of the soldiers, but in just four months, the walls of the ruined city of Daning have been repaired to the west and south, and many earthen houses have been built in the city. The scorching summer has passed, and now it is the time to catch up with the construction period. At this time, he led his own soldiers through the city, and the soldiers he saw along the way retreated and saluted, and he bowed his head while thinking in his heart.

Although he used to make great deals, but he also returned to the capital several times in the middle, during which he also accompanied the northern expedition, and also trained the army to Xuanfu Wanquan, and last year he followed the emperor to walk around the north again, and each time he was out for a short time, and he probably couldn't stay long in Daning this time. If this place is rebuilt, then from Daning, Kaiping, and Xinghe will become a line, and Xuanfu will no longer need to station so many soldiers and horses, and the three places can be attacked, retreated, and defended, which are the three nails wedged into the hinterland of Mongolia. From now on, it seems that the emperor deliberately ordered his generals, I am afraid it was still for wartime considerations. However, does the emperor really want to fight, or does he want to defend the emperor accordingly?

"English Princess!"

Zhang Fu was about to enter his temporary office, only to hear such a voice behind him, and when he looked back, he found that it was Zhou Bailing, the commander of the Daning Left Guard who accompanied him this time. Because this is the former general of Anyuan Hou Liu Shengbao, and he has made contributions from Zhang Yue several times, and now most of his subordinate colleagues and former generals are in the north and south of the world, and he naturally looks at him differently. Nodding his head to signal Zhou Bailing to excuse himself, he gave a few orders to the soldiers on both sides, and then went to the big tent first.

Zhou Bailing, who followed the house, saw Zhang Fu sit down, so he hurried forward, bowed and said: "British duke, the last general has just led a team back from inspection, and the Uliangha people are very honest and dare not approach here, but a chieftain pushed a few elders over, saying that the pioneer had surrendered, and implored the imperial court to reopen the horse market." In addition, many businessmen have come to inquire whether the imperial court is a temporary garrison or a permanent garrison in Daning, and some have come to inquire about Kaizhong. After all, they saw the land we had cultivated and the cattle and sheep that we grazed. ”

"Whether it is the reopening of the horse market or the opening of the middle school, it needs to be reported to the imperial court." Zhang Fu knew those Uliangha people, after all, he and Huo Zhen and other Mongolian generals were also comrades-in-arms in Paoze, and he had also fought side by side with the Mongolian warriors of Duoyan Sanwei, knowing that they only surrendered to strength. However, he was not so polite to the merchants, and immediately commanded in a deep voice, "Merchants seek profits, and they must be careful to beware of the spies, and do not let the spies get in." By the way, I asked you to send someone to find out the truth of the Tatars, and this matter should be hurried. ”

"Report, the official document of the Governor's Mansion of the Military Capital of the Rear of the Beijing Division!"

Before Zhou Bailing could agree, he heard a loud shout from his own soldiers outside the tent. He looked at Zhang Fu, and before he had time to think about it, he took the initiative to retreat. As soon as he walked on his front foot, a sturdy soldier quickly stepped into the military tent, and after the military salute, he presented an official letter sealed with mud in both hands. Zhang Fu took it apart and took a look, and immediately stood up.

There are surrenderers who claim that Arutai is going south to invade? The king of Wara Shunning defeated Arutai, and the Arutai tribe broke up and fled north? The imperial court sent an envoy to Warat? Behind this series of news, there may be other threads......

After taking two steps back and forth in the tent, Zhang Fu was sure that the emperor was now even annoyed. Thinking of the previous three northern expeditions, he supervised the transportation once, once in Jiaolu, and once led the right tug, but he failed to fight with Arutai once, he couldn't help but sigh.

Aside from the last time, the first two labor expeditions were quite fruitful, but the result was only to defeat the Tatar and Warat tribes, and only a few years of recuperation, the other side recovered. In contrast, each time a large army of hundreds of thousands is dispatched, the burden on the treasury of the household department is even greater. If you count the 300,000 troops of Qiu Fu in the past, but the name of the first generation was lost, the Yongle Dynasty has used the army four times before and after, and the loss of the household can still be protected!

"I know, now that the autumn is high and the horses are fat, in order to prevent the Tartars from attacking, you give the order to go down, and the army will take strict precautions!"

Since the three guards of Daning have been in charge of Baoding Mansion for 20 years, this former famous army is now just ordinary in combat power, and the most important thing is that the officers up and down never thought that they would return to Daning one day. These days, Zhang Fu has been training and parading troops again and again, coupled with the hard work of building the city, the generals are all tired enough. I don't dare to complain during the day, and when I patrol the night at night, there are inevitably people who talk about it.

"In such a dilapidated place, God knows how my family survived in the first place! This day is training soldiers, when will there be a head! ”

"That's because you are shallow, and you think that Daning was a prosperous place in the north, and it was also a matter of these years!"

"Even if it was once prosperous, it is now like this! Doesn't it mean that the British Duke is the emperor's most trusted person? After the pilgrimage of the Chengguo Gong Hallomy, he stayed in Beijing, and the British Duke still has filial piety, why was he sent here? There is still gold, silver and ivory over there, but what is there here, no benefit at all? ”

"Don't talk nonsense, how can the British Duke be assigned! You have never seen the power of the British Duke when he was in Annam, and I heard that the Jingguan of thousands of people frightened the thieves. The emperor is old, and I am afraid that he plans to use the British Duke to lead the army. ”

Unable to sleep at night, Zhang Fu changed into civilian clothes and took a few personal soldiers to patrol the city, but he overheard such a few voices. He stretched out his hand to stop the soldiers beside him from speaking, and stood there listening for a long time, and at the end he couldn't help but instinctively move in his heart. Thinking that since he returned to the dynasty in the fourteenth year of Yongle, he had hardly fought a good battle, he groaned slightly, and couldn't help but laugh dumbly.

When those voices were far away, he instructed the soldiers next to him: "Give the order tomorrow, and from now on, the training will be one day off every seven days." ”

At night, only a few lighting torches are lit in the city of Daning, so more places are dark. Zhang Fu turned around for most of the time, and when he passed a linoleum tent with blazing torches at the door, someone happened to come out of it. The two looked at each other, and with the help of the firelight, he recognized the young man on the opposite side at a glance, who was less than twenty.

"Meng Tao?"

"Ah...... British Public! ”

Because of their father's relationship, the brothers Meng Tao and Meng Fan were just the general flag when they came to Daning. Although it was easy for Baoding Hou Mengying to find a way to find a test for the two of them, the brothers were worried about Zhang Yue's words, so they tried to keep a low profile, so not many people in the army knew the identities of the two, and they also lived with ordinary military households on weekdays. As soon as he saw Zhang Fu at this time, he let out a low cry after giving a salute, and then glanced at the military tent behind him uneasily, and only then did he let go when he heard the snoring sound one after another.

"Tomorrow's army will be in the big competition, the winner can try a hundred households, your brothers should be careful!"

Leaving these words, Zhang Fu ignored him and continued to move forward without looking back. When he walked back after a round of inspections and saw his military tent from a distance, he noticed a black figure standing next to the flagpole, as if he was still looking around, and he couldn't help frowning. When he got closer, the figure came up in a puff of smoke, and he was startled at the sight of it, and then his face sank.

"Peng Thirteen, what are you doing in Daning?"

"If it weren't for Madame and Young Master Yue sent together, how dare I come to beg for scolding!"

After Peng Shisan's salute, he shook his head helplessly, first presented Mrs. Wang's family letter, and saw that the few personal soldiers around him were reliable, so he lowered his voice and said: "Madame celebrated her birthday a few days ago, and the Han Wangfu sent a jade Guanyin, ten skins, and twenty ends of each of the other tables. Because it was given by Princess Han, it was said that the King of Han remembered the friendship between him and the lord in the past, and the lady had to accept it. Later, after listening to the idea of the third young grandmother, Guanyin sent to the Buddha shrine at the back of Daqingshou Temple to pray for the blessing of the first queen of benevolence and filial piety. ”

"Hell, one will be hard and one will be soft, whether it is endless, it will be overwhelming!" Even if Zhang Fu was angry and angry, he was really annoyed at this time, scolded hatefully, and crossed the topic without asking, "What did Brother Yue let you do?" ”

"Young Master Yue...... Peng Shisan scratched his head, and then said solemnly, "This time, there are many nobles who have recommended themselves to lead the troops, and the emperor has refuted them." Cheng Guogong recommended you, master, and the emperor also did it once in front of the young master. ”

Hearing that it was Zhu Yong who recommended him to lead the troops to the battle, Zhang Fu was stunned and shook his head angrily. He can also be regarded as watching Zhu Yong grow up, and the two families have always taken care of each other, and their friendship is naturally extraordinary. However, Zhu Yong was hanging out with those scholars and doctors in Nanjing all day long, I am afraid that he had heard too much about benevolence, righteousness and morality, and only cared about the emperor's body and was not suitable for the imperial expedition, but he forgot anything else. The two of them are already the only remaining princes among the heroes of the Jingjing, and he is not worried that the emperor thinks that they are colluding, but the emperor is angry with Arutai, but because Arutai was defeated first and then surrendered and then rebelled, how can the breath that he hold can be eliminated by others leading troops to conscript?

"Cheng Guogong is reckless this time...... That's it, Brother Yue shouldn't have sent you just for such a thing. What else does he want from you? ”

Peng Shisan's face was strange, and then he spread his hands and said, "I'm just one step ahead of the imperial court messenger...... Master, although the emperor did not prepare for the expedition this time, he planned to take 30,000 soldiers and horses to patrol the border along the Great Wall, and the last stop was the ancient city of Daning. The emperor has made up his mind, and no one in the court dares to persuade him, so please prepare here as soon as possible. After all...... The emperor had already been seriously ill before. At the critical moment, the lord must preserve his reputation. ”