The Prosperous Era of Longwan

Of course, when everyone started to care about this Li Gongren, they wondered whether they should talk to King Yu and ask His Majesty for her title.

Just by giving birth to an imperial grandson, it seems that it is okay to give him a concubine of Prince Yu.

The key point is that this Li Gongren is still young and can still give birth.

If King Yu seizes the time to give birth to a few more, then the problem of the few heirs in Prince Yu's palace can be eliminated.

"Bang."

Just as they were thinking wildly, Li Fang pushed open the door and rushed in.

At this moment, Li Fang's face was full of smiles, and her face was full of laughter.

This kind of expression is not common, and it also shows how excited the people around King Yu are at this moment.

After Li Fang entered the house, the second person who entered the house was also Feng Bao, who had a wrinkled face. However, he was a step slower than Li Fang. This was not because he was not physically as good as Li Fang, but because he was holding a cloth ball in his arms very carefully. look.

After Feng Bao entered, everyone in the room could no longer sit still and stood up.

King Yu had already walked over quickly, and Li Fang wisely stepped aside to let Feng Bao face King Yu.

"Let Gu hug me."

Seeing the baby in Feng Bao's arms, King Yu said with a trembling voice. As he spoke, he reached out and found the wrapped baby in Feng Bao's hand.

King Yu has not held his own flesh and blood for many years. Every time there is news of the birth of his child, he will be excited.

And every time a child died, it was a blow to King Yu's spirit.

It's not like he hasn't heard rumors from outside about the issue of his father and his son, including his brother Jing Wang Zhu Zaizhen, and of course himself.

But at that time, King Yu scoffed at these rumors because he had a son.

However, as the three children died one after another, especially after the death of the prince, his spine became a little bent and could not straighten up.

King Yu is lustful, especially in recent years, and he has to be served by palace servants almost every night. This may be the reason.

Now I'm fine, I finally have an heir again, worthy of my ancestors. I just hope that this child can grow up safely and pass on the incense.

King Yu held the child in his arms, still praying in his heart, hoping to be blessed by his ancestors.

Beside him, Gao Gong, Chen Yiqin and others were already crowded, all stretching their heads to look at the newly born child.

The wrinkles on his face are comparable to those of Li Fang and Feng Bao, and he looks like a little old man.

Wei Guangde thought in his heart, but newborn babies are almost like this. It's no wonder that later generations usually say "so ugly" when they see them, and then they are said to be that the uglier the child is, the more beautiful they will be when they grow up.

Well, in fact, his child seems to be the same. There is no shadow of himself or his wife on his face. It is said that it will take a few days to gradually get better. At that time, the child will be lovable.

Wei Guangde withdrew his gaze and glanced at Li Fang and Feng Bao, who had been squeezed out of the crowd. Wei Guangde's heart moved, and he remembered what they had said before, and immediately said to the delighted King Yu: "Your Highness, who should I send to the palace to report the news? It's so big." Your Majesty should be informed of your happy event as soon as possible."

"Yep."

After Wei Guangde's words came out, King Yu hurriedly agreed.

He stopped staring at the baby and glanced at Li Fang and Feng Bao behind the crowd.

Li Fang was the person next to her, so she was actually the most suitable person to be the messenger. However, Feng Bao had not long since left the palace and his connections were still there, so it seemed more convenient for him to enter the palace.

It's actually completely dark now, and it's impossible to reach Xiyuan, which has been locked up.

"Feng Bao, just go to Xiyuan and send a letter to your father to tell him about this."

King Yu didn't think much and immediately gave instructions.

"Yes, Your Highness."

Feng Bao happily agreed. This was an opportunity to reveal his face in front of the emperor, and he might not be able to see the emperor.

In the days since I arrived at Prince Yu's Mansion, my main job has actually been to take care of Palace Li's people in the past few months, and now I can take credit for it.

He was not thinking about the reward from Emperor Jiajing, but he wanted to take advantage of it. He didn't know whether the emperor would transfer him back to the ceremonial department.

However, it seems that staying with Gongren Li and taking care of this child is actually a good job.

Thoughts about returning home did not delay him at all from going out to Xiyuan to report the news.

The little prince was passed from King Yu's arms to Gao Gong's hands, and soon to Chen Yiqin. Soon everyone hugged him, and finally he was passed from Wei Guangde's arms back to King Yu's hands.

This may also be a tradition, everyone should hug each other to show their closeness. If this child grows up and becomes emperor in the future, it will also be a source of conversation.

"Li Fang, host a banquet to entertain Master Gao and others."

King Yu ordered after taking the child back, and then said apologetically: "Master Gao, everyone, I will go over to see Caifeng'er first, and I will be back in a while. We will not go home until we are drunk tonight."

The banquet at the palace was quickly served. After all, the kitchen had guessed such a big event early on, so it didn't take long.

Although King Yu did not arrive, everyone was chatting happily and drinking one glass after another.

After a short time, everyone's conversation shifted from imagining happiness because of the birth of the prince to the government affairs. After all, they were all officials.

After talking about the recent main affairs of the government, the topic soon turned to the southeast. In the past few months, the Ming army has carried out the power of encircling and suppressing the Japanese pirates in Xinghua. Yu Dayou, Qi Jiguang and others led their troops to continue southward along the coastline, encircling and suppressing the Japanese pirates wandering around, and achieved remarkable results. .

In the previous encirclement and suppression campaigns by the Ming army, the Japanese pirates often boarded boats and fled when they knew they were outmatched. But this time, Yu Dayou commanded the navy to encircle the enemy by water and land. Even if the Japanese pirates boarded the boats, they could not escape the Ming army's butcher's knife. Successful news came one after another. , which greatly inspired the court.

According to official documents reported in Guangdong, small groups of Japanese pirates now know that they are unable to withstand the Ming army's encirclement and suppression, and have begun to merge, planning to join forces to fight against the Ming army.

When talking about the North, it is natural to comment on Yang Xuan, the governor of Jiliao.

"Shan Dai once said before that Yang Xuan actually caused trouble for himself by trapping the thief chief Tong Han in Gubeikou. But now Tong Han's son volunteered to be a hostage in exchange for Tong Han. At least, for now, Tong Han The Han tribe should not be enemies of our Ming Dynasty."

Gao Gong smelled of alcohol when he opened his mouth, but he still spoke coherently.

What he said actually happened three months ago.

In May, Yang Xuan was worried that the Tatars would take advantage of the lack of troops in the Santun Camp to send troops to attack the Great Wall at Ji Town, so he sent a large number of scouts out to inspect the enemy's situation.

Of course, one of them is to find out the location of the main force of the Tatars outside the customs, and to prevent them from sneak attacks in Liaodong.

Only by knowing the location of the enemy can we know ourselves and the enemy in battle.

It was nothing to send people to investigate the enemy's situation, but the scouts who came out of Gubeikou were ambushed by the Tatars. Not only were many people killed, but four were captured.

Tong Han, the leader of the Mongolian tribe who captured these scouts, didn't know whether he was drunk or something. He led his men and escorted four prisoners to the Gubeikou city wall and asked the Ming army for money in exchange for prisoners.

After negotiating the price with Guo Hu, the Ming army's Gubeikou garrison general, he actually went into the city to collect the ransom in person.

Then, of course, he was bumped into by Hu Zhen, the deputy commander-in-chief of Jizhen, who happened to arrive. Without saying a word, he sent his own soldiers to capture him, and then reported his merits to Yang Xuan, the governor of Jizhen.

As for the four captured scouts, Hu Zhen didn't want to ask about them at all.

Who is Tong Han?

In fact, he is just the tribal chief of one of the countless tribes on the Mongolian grassland, but his goddaughter is the wife of Xin'ai Taiji, the son of the Tumut tribe leader Ada Khan.

After Yang Xuan got the report, he thought that he could use this to manipulate Huang Taiji, and even sat down and had a good talk with An Dahan. Naturally, he had a rare thing to live in, and he didn't want to pay attention to the reason.

Perhaps, he also felt that the so-called ransom was actually just a tactic used in the war between the two countries.

As for the strategy, falling into the trap is naturally due to your own stupidity and has nothing to do with others.

After capturing Tonghan, Hu Zhen began to negotiate with them because he had control over the lifeblood of this Mongolian tribe.

After that, he obtained the other party's guarantee not to fight with the Ming army, and promised to release Tong Han, but asked to detain one of Tong Han's sons as a hostage.

Several sons of Tonghan were sent to the Ming army in turn, changing every six months.

Thinking that this strategy ensured the safety of the Great Wall in Ji Town, Yang Xuan hurriedly reported his contribution to the court after receiving the reward from Hu Town.

This matter was only reported to the capital last month and was quite a sensation.

Many people believe that this policy ensures the safety of the Great Wall to the north of the capital, and Mongolia's coveting of Ji Town can be stopped.

However, a few people such as Yang Bo and Wei Guangde felt that this strategy was inappropriate.

In later generations, on the battlefield, the two warring armies were allowed to clean up the battlefield, treat the wounded and collect corpses under the red cross flag if they reached consensus. In that case, the war was temporarily suspended.

This prisoner exchange is actually similar to that situation.

Wei Guangde believes that although the relationship is hostile, there should still be ethics, otherwise the safety of the captured soldiers will become extremely disadvantageous in the future, because they have no value and may be killed in the extreme.

As for Yang Bo, no matter how he thought about it, he felt that it was extremely inappropriate to do so, and even thought that this move might lead to greater revenge from Anda Khan, because the Ming army's deception would ignite the anger of the Mongols.

However, in front of Emperor Jiajing, Yang Bo's reminder was not taken seriously.

Yang Bo's self-proclaimed strategic plan was sent to the capital. After being discussed by the civil and military ministers in the court, most of them thought it was a good strategy. Emperor Jiajing therefore gave Yang Xuan and governor Xu Shen thirty taels of silver each and two pieces of silk. Inside, the generals Sun Bin and Hu Zhen each have twenty taels, and one outside and inside, and the participating generals Guo Hu and others have ten taels each.

"Mongolians have a bold personality, dare to love and hate, and rarely have evil thoughts. Governor Yang and General Hu are actually using evil ways to deceive them this time, fearing that they will get burned."

Wei Guangde shook his head and sighed: "Even if they don't take action against the border wall of Jizhen, they can definitely take action against Xuanfu, Datong, and even Yansui and other places.

Of course, maybe without this, they would still fight to plunder food, but the excuses and the scale of sending troops would definitely change.

I heard that although our Ming Dynasty has been fighting with various Mongolian tribes for a long time, there are still some tribes who do not want to be enemies of our Ming Dynasty and do not want to go to war with An Da Khan. After this incident, I am afraid these tribes will also send troops to participate in the war. "

"Soldiers are deceitful. Even if they cheat, it doesn't seem like anything, right?"

Yin Shizhen said.

"According to the news from the Ministry of War, Guo Hu was already negotiating with Tong Han on the city wall for a ransom. He was only here to get money, not to attack the city wall."

Wei Guangde replied, "Deceit does not mean that you can use this method to deceive. It means misleading the other party's thoughts and being deceived."

"When two countries are at war, there is a saying that they will not kill but come to envoy."

Zhang Juzheng nodded and answered.

However, after their conversation, soon after King Yu came back, the atmosphere of the banquet became lively again. Naturally, everyone wanted to propose a toast to King Yu and congratulate him on the new child in the palace, even Gao Gong was no exception.

While they were drinking and chatting, countless torches were swaying at the foot of Xiong Mountain in Liaodong, thousands of miles away.

The battle between tens of thousands of Mongols and the Ming army has ended, and the victorious side is counting the battlefields and collecting seizures.

"Found it, found it."

At this time, excited shouts suddenly came from a group of people in the distance.

Soon, the surrounding torches moved over, illuminating the area brightly.

Not long after, Huang Taiji came over, escorted by Ba Du'er and Da Laisun. At this time, there was a corpse of a Ming army lying alone on the ground. The bun on his head was scattered, and his armor was in pieces, but it could still be identified. It is an excellent mountain armor made in the Ming Dynasty.

When Huang Taiji got close, he dismounted and leaned over to take a closer look. He turned back to Lai Sun and asked, "Is this person Yang Zhao?"

He had only seen Yang Zhao from a distance. Everyone was dead at this moment, and he couldn't identify him for a while based on his vague memory.

After calling, Sun He and Du'er came forward and looked at it for a long time before saying, "It looks a bit like it."

"Taiji, this person has this."

The first Mongolian soldier to be found said, with a golden seal in his outstretched hand.

Huang Taiji took it and carefully read the writing on it under the light of the fire. The words "General Officer of the Liaodong Army" were clearly visible.

"It should be."

A smile appeared on Huang Taiji's face at this moment, and then he ordered: "Look in the camp to see if anyone has seen Yang Zhao. Also ask among the prisoners. Those who recognize him can live."

"Yes, Taiji."

Someone next to him agreed. He must be someone with a high official position in the Mongolian army, a noble among the Mongolians.

"Seize the time to clean up the battlefield. The entire army will move south by tomorrow afternoon at the latest. The target is Gubeikou."

Huang Taiji stood up straight at this time and ordered loudly.

"Haorui. Haorui"

Soon, in the wilderness, the shouts of long live the Mongolian soldiers could not be heard.

This battle was fought too easily. A large number of Ming troops were easily wiped out and a lot of captures were made. In the future, their Taiji would lead them to more victories, so they were naturally happy.

Jiang Duer looked at the excited soldiers around him and smacked his lips, but said nothing.

After Huang Taiji mounted his horse, he and Da Laisun followed suit. After Huang Taiji left for a while, he said, "Taiji, over there, you have a brother who is being held hostage by the Ming army."

"That's why I chose to attack Gubeikou. I want to kill all these liars. If the people of the Ming Dynasty dare to touch a hair of my brother, I will use a thousand or ten thousand to kill them."

Huang Taiji said disdainfully.

As Wei Guangde said, the so-called thief chieftains captured by Yang Xuan and Hu Zhen were nothing but trouble.