Chapter 173 Not only do I want to conquer in person, you civil servants also have to accompany me to conquer in person!
Seeing His Majesty's resolute attitude, all the civil and military officials were frightened and anxious, and their heads were about to be smashed by Zhu Youtang.
Some of them are purely worried about Zhu Youtang's safety, but there are very few officials in this group.
There were also worries that after Zhu Youtang went on an expedition, he would follow in the footsteps of Emperor Yingzong and not be able to come back.
They were not concerned about Zhu Youtang himself, but were worried that they would be eliminated by political opponents after the change of imperial power.
Throughout the dynasties, every change of imperial power meant that the power of these ministers would also undergo a power reshuffle.
If you are lucky and someone who is close to you becomes powerful, you will be able to lift your boat and chickens and dogs to heaven.
If you are unlucky and become the one to be eliminated, you can go home if you are lucky, and if you are not, you can start to find a Feng Shui treasure for yourself and take care of your funeral.
But more often than not, it is the civil servants who secretly hook up with the generals in the border towns and exchange interests.
This section has the most officials, especially Xu Pu and Liu Daxia. They are really anxious this time.
These civil servants really didn't want Zhu Youtang to go on a personal expedition and patrol the nine borders.
Seeing that Zhu Youtang refused to listen, Xu Pu simply gritted his teeth and remonstrated.
"Your Majesty! In the past, Emperor Yingzong led a personal expedition. However, the Tumu Fort incident occurred. Yingzong was captured and the country was devastated. Your Majesty, please..."
"Be bold!"
Zhu Youtang couldn't help but became furious when he saw that Xu Pu dared to mention Yingzong's past events.
He slapped the dragon chair, stood up suddenly, and pointed at Xu Pu.
“Not only do I want to conquer in person, but you people also have to accompany me to conquer in person!”
“You, Xu Pu, Minister of the Ministry of Revenue!”
“And you! Minister of War Liu Daxia!”
“Come with me on the expedition tomorrow!”
"Ah?!"
Xu Pu and Liu Daxia were frightened when they heard Zhu Youtang's order, and froze on the spot.
They never expected that Zhu Youtang would not only conduct the expedition himself, but also bring the two ministers with him.
In fact, Zhu Youtang had decided from the beginning that he would take these two people on a personal expedition.
It is said to be a personal expedition, but in fact it is a border patrol.
At Walakou, Zhu Youtang knew in his heart that this was false news, just to prevent him from counting the number of soldiers in the border town.
The Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of War are definitely involved. Officials from these two departments cannot stay in the capital.
And Zhu Youtang not only had to take two ministers with him on this expedition, he also had to take half of the court officials with him.
After I leave, I don’t know how much trouble these officials will cause in the capital.
By keeping these unstable officials with you, you can feel a little more at ease.
"Tu Ting!"
"I'm here."
"Your entire Metropolitan Procuratorate, more than two thousand supervisory censors, will all go out with me tomorrow. No one is missing!"< br>
Tu Fu felt bitter in his heart and wanted to die, but he did not dare to disobey the order, so he could only kowtow to the leader.
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
"There are still all the gishizhongs from the six subjects who will go out with me tomorrow."
After hearing Zhu Youtang's words, all the gishizhong from the six subjects felt as if they were mourning for their heirs. Their faces turned pale and they kowtowed. .
Zhu Youtang did not stop, and continued to name the official positions and names of the imperial officials one after another like the king of hell.
"In addition, Cao Ding, the left minister of the Ministry of Personnel and a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, Ding Xuan, the right minister of the Ministry of Justice, and Wang Yonghe, the right minister of the Ministry of Industry."
"Zhang Yi, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy , Xingren Secretary Zheng Yinhao, General Affairs Secretary Youtong Zheng Gong Quanquan. ”
"Liu Rong, the minister of Taipu Temple, Ma Yu, the young minister of Dali Temple, Huang Yangzheng, the young minister of Taichang Temple, Ling Chu, the young minister of Shangbao, and Liu Xin, the imperial eunuch of Xia Guanzheng."
"Housekeeper Qi Wang, Cheng Siyun, a doctor in the Ministry of War, is in charge. Shi Yujian..."
"Come with me tomorrow, and the imperial commander will march in person!"
Every time Zhu Youtang read out a name, the faces of the civil servants whose names were read turned pale! One point.
80% of the officials whose names were called by Zhu Youtang were from the Jiangnan area.
Needless to say, Xu Pu and Liu Daxia, Ding Xuan, the Minister of Punishment, were from Ganzhou.
Wang Yonghe, the right minister of the Ministry of Industry, was from Nanzhili.
General Affairs Secretary Zuo Tongzheng Gong Quan'an, a native of Zhezhou.
Huang Yangzheng, Shaoqing of Taichang Temple, was from Zhezhou...
They wanted to persuade Zhu Youtang not to go on a personal expedition.
Unexpectedly, Zhu Youtang not only insisted on conducting the expedition himself, but also led half of the court's civil servants to join him in the expedition.
The sky is falling!
How can there be a war without generals and soldiers, and half of the court's civil servants go out with them? !
Is this going to war? !
This kind of arrangement for an expedition is unprecedented!
Except for the fact that Emperor Yingzong personally went on the expedition and brought half of the court's civil servants with him, who else could arrange the expedition troops in this way? !
Can war be the responsibility of civil servants? !
The entire civil servants in the court were in despair, but only the generals were secretly proud.
When these civil servants leave the capital, won’t the status of their generals in the court rise?
But obviously, Zhu Youtang did not intend to let these generals go.
"Pingning Marquis Zhang Fu, Taining Marquis Chen Wei, Pingxiang Bo Chen Huai, Xiangcheng Bo Li Shi, Sui'an Bo Chen Yun, Xiuwu Bo Shen Rong, Prince Consort He Yuan..."
"Tomorrow Come with me and march in person!”
“It’s your majesty, the final commander!”
All of these meritorious generals have titles.
Many of them are relatives of the emperor and serve in the Governor's Mansion of the Fifth Army.
But these people are different from the Zhou brothers in Changping and the Wang brothers in Jinghai. They did not simply get the title based on their status as the queen mother and the queen's younger brother.
But they are meritorious generals who have actually been on the battlefield and achieved military exploits.
But many of these meritorious generals were involved in Yang Tong's border town smuggling case.
These generals, like the civil servants, were scared to death and felt extremely terrified.
Zhu Youtang mobilized thirty-five generals in one breath, which was already a lot of people.
But compared with the number of civil servants, it is still not worth mentioning. They were not afraid of going to the battlefield and behaved much calmer than the civil servants.
Those civil servants, except for a very small number of high-ranking officials such as Xu Pu and Liu Daxia, actually did not know that Walakobian was a fake news.
They really thought in their hearts that Wala came to invade the border, and they really wanted to go to the front line to fight.
Some civil servants were relatively calm at the thought of going to the battlefield, while others were already trembling with fear.
People will die on the battlefield. Once you leave, don't you really never come back?
Zhu Youtang already suspected that there was a mutiny in the border town.
So Zhu Youtang took all the people who might participate in the mutiny with him.
After confirming the entourage, Zhu Youtang began to arrange the actual army to go out.
Although the Walakou side was lying about fake news, the border generals deceived the superiors and deceived the subordinates, smuggled arms, defaulted on food and wages, and ate empty wages, but it was the real deal.
If these things are found out by Zhu Youtang, these generals will definitely not be able to keep their heads.
So in order to prevent the generals from jumping over the wall, Zhu Youtang must lead an army to protect himself and the civilian officials.
"Wu Dinghou, Gao Shun!"
"The last general is here!"
Gao Shun walked out of the queue of generals and came to salute in front of Zhu Youtang.
"I order you to lead 50,000 men into the camp tomorrow and follow me on the expedition."
"This is Your Majesty, the last general to receive the order!"
Gao Shun immediately bowed his head and accepted the order without saying a word.
In the Xishan Military Camp in the capital in front of them, there are only 50,000 fallen soldiers left.
Zhu Youtang trapped 50,000 people in the camp in one breath and took them all away.
This means that even the capital is ready to be abandoned, and control over the border towns of Ming Dynasty must be taken back.
But with fifty thousand trapped in the camp, Zhu Youtang still felt that it was not enough.
"Wang Zhi, Mou Bin."
"Wei Chen is here!"
Wang Zhi, the director of the West Factory, and Mou Bin, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, are accompanying him Bin, immediately knelt down and obeyed the order.
"Wang Zhi, Mou Bin, you two each pick 5,000 Xichang fans and Jin Yiwei, and join me in the expedition tomorrow."
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
Wang Zhi and Mou Bin are together Taking the order, his face was solemn.
The stalls opened by Xichang and Jinyiwei are very large, and there are many people using them.
Deploying five thousand men at one time is already their limit.
As a result, Zhu Youtang's actual combat strength reached 60,000.
Sixty thousand people are more than enough.
After determining the candidates and troops for the expedition, it is time to prepare the army's supplies and supplies.
"Qiu Jun."
Qiu Jun, the left servant of the Ministry of Finance, was shocked when he heard his name. He thought Zhu Youtang was going to take him with him to the expedition.
Qiu Jun trembled and replied: "I am here."
"I order you to start raising food for me immediately. Before tomorrow, you must mobilize 70,000 people and horses for ten days of food and grass for me."
< br>"Tomorrow at 11 o'clock, I will personally recruit the team and set off on time!"
The soldiers and horses have not moved, but the food and grass go first.
Suddenly sending out troops without preparing food and fodder in advance is a taboo for military strategists.
Zhu Youtang did not mobilize food and grass in advance except when he mobilized 100,000 troops to fall into the camp last year and went to Tumu Fort to intercept and kill the little Tatar prince.
Last year’s expedition to the Chagatai Khanate in the northwest and the recent southern expedition to Annan both started mobilizing food and grass nearly a month in advance before the expedition.
The time the camp went to Tumu Fort, it was entirely because Tumu Fort was right at the gate of the capital, and the round trip only took a few hours, so there was no need to prepare food and grass.
The little Tatar prince and others who were trapped in the camp were intercepted and killed in the afternoon. They returned to Changtong for dinner that evening.
The reason why Zhu Youtang had to leave in such a hurry this time was that he only had less than a day left to collect food.
It was because he was very sure that there must be officials in the capital informing the generals in the border towns.
And there must be more than one official reporting the news.
So he must set out as early as possible, the sooner the better, so as to catch the generals in the border town by surprise.
We cannot give the officials in the DPRK and China and the generals in border towns time to report the news.
And about ten days of food and grass are enough for Zhu Youtang to inspect the two border towns of Xuanfu and Datong.
If that's not enough, there are many granaries built by Emperor Taizong during the Yongle period to the north of Juyongguan for the Northern Expedition.
They can get supplies in these granaries.
At the same time, you can also check these granaries.
Look at the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of War, how brave they are and whether they dare to touch the idea of these military warehouses.
It has only been more than a month since Qiu Jun was promoted to the position of Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Household Affairs. He had been the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Rites before.
Therefore, it is unlikely to be involved in this border town food and salary case.
At this moment, Zhu Youtang felt more at ease when Qiu Junlai was asked to take charge of the food and grass before the expedition.
Qiu Jun first breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that Zhu Youtang was not taking him on an expedition, but asking him to be responsible for mobilizing food, grass and baggage.
But then he was stunned when he heard that Zhu Youtang actually asked him to collect so much food in less than a day.
“Your Majesty, the food and grass stored in Beizhili have almost been allocated.”
"How can I gather so much food and grass in such a short period of time?!"
This time, Zhu Youtang was really determined to go to the expedition himself: "I have authorized the Ministry of Household Affairs, this time I can Mobilize grain and grass from various imperial villages in northern Zhili."
< br>"If it's not enough, buy grain from the major grain merchants in the capital and use the internal funds to provide silver!"
"I have only one request. Tomorrow at 11:00, the army must be able to set off on time!"
< br>(End of this chapter)