Wei Xuezeng narrowed his eyes and said slowly, "If it were just the Eight Tigers, then it would be great. If the Eight Tigers are gone, the Emperor will be the Eight Cats. If you want to kill and cut them, you will be as easy as turning your back. However, the old things in the previous dynasty are not far away. If you really want to act against the enemy, it will definitely cause a strong backlash from the ministers. Now you are well versed in power and may not do it. So, what should you do?"

The middle-aged literati was stunned, and after a while, he pointed to the letter in Wei Xuezeng's hand in uncertainty: "Is that?"

"At the beginning of the founding of the country, Taizu customized Wu Zunwen and Wenbei, but he inherited the peace for a long time. In addition, the Tumu Fort has a drastic change, so today. If the emperor really wants to support who will fight for power... The war will continue again. The country needs generals urgently. If no one is available, if someone..."

Wei Xuezeng didn't finish his words, but he said everything he should say.

So Wei Xuezeng sat down and picked up his pen to write a military order.

"I want to transfer deputy general Ma Gui, and the chief minister Xiao Ruhui led three thousand troops to help Pinglu City quickly, and tried to ensure that Pinglu City was not lost, and threatened to worship the rebels from the flanks."

The middle-aged scribe understood it: "The platform is wise."

Wei Xuezeng smiled and then said, "I will write a memorial and report to Your Majesty. Hexi is full of Mo, but Pinglu City will not surrender."

The middle-aged scholar shook his head helplessly and bowed again: "The platform is still wise."

Wei Xuezeng smiled and said nothing.

At a moment, a soldier ordered the soldiers to call Ma Gui and Xiao Ruhui, who had just led their troops to the Huamachi camp, to the commander's camp. The two of them came to the commander and knelt on one knee and bowed: "I will see the platform!"

"Well, get up, two generals, I have important things to hand over to you."

Ma Gui and Xiao Ruhui looked at each other, and then Ma Gui clasped his fists and asked, "Do you dare to ask what instructions do the platform have?"

"The rebels disregarded the kindness of heaven and rebelled, and the crime was extremely evil. However, there were some people who were even more abominable than the ones who were more abominable. They held the city in their hands and did not resist, but instead bowed their knees to follow the thief, without any integrity, which caused the forty-seven Forts in Hexi to be exhausted and caused the current dilemma! I really hated these people without a king or father! I thought Hexi was all these people, but I didn't expect that there was another person who had an adversity, defended the city and did not surrender, and held the enemy for our army, and made great contributions. I wanted to ask for his merits."

Wei Xue once turned his attention to Xiao Ruhui: "Xiao Dusi, I ordered my brother Xiao Ruxun to defend Pinglu City and not surrender. Now he is fighting with the traitors. I really didn't expect that there would be such a loyal and kind general in Hexi."

Xiao Ruhui blinked and showed an ecstasy look: "What does the platform mean is that the fourth brother of the last general is still standing in Pinglu City?"

Wei Xuezeng smiled and nodded: "I just received a letter of help from General Xiao, so I called you and asked you to lead 3,000 troops to help Pinglu City. We must protect Pinglu City. If Pinglu City is protected, you still have the strength to join forces, try to attack Ningxia Town, attack Ningxia Town from the east, and harass the rebels' flanks. Of course, the first priority is to protect Pinglu City!"

Xiao Ruhui was overjoyed and immediately clasped her fists: "I will obey the order!"

Ma Gui's face was calm and he bowed with his fists: "I will obey the order!"

As soon as he left the camp, Xiao Ruhui couldn't help but feel her surprise and clenched her fists hard. Ma Gui looked a little envious.

The Ma clan of Datong was not a Han nationality, but was also one of the general clans who followed the Ming court to contribute to the Ming court earlier. Under the general trend of the decline of the nine-sided general clans, only two general clans went against the current. One was the Li clan of Liaodong, and the other was the Ma clan, which was called Dongli Xima at that time. Somewhat interesting is that neither of these two families were from Han people. The Ma clan's ancestors were Ming Hui tribes, while the Li clan's ancestors were Ming Korean tribes.

The Ma family of Datong has produced powerful generals throughout the dynasties. From Magui's ancestors to guard the border of the Ming Dynasty for generations. In the tenth year of Wanli, Magui became the deputy general of the army, and was once promoted to the general of Ningxia, reaching the second rank. However, later, he accidentally offended Zeng Qianheng, a Yushi Shaoqing who was specially sent to inspect the nine borders of the court, so he was impeached and demoted. He was idle until the New Year before he was urgently activated.

Ma Gui did not embezzle and accept bribes, nor did he do anything that was angered by the heavens and people resented. The reason why he was impeached was because he was angry with Zeng Qianheng's attitude of looking down on the warriors. He defended and fought a few words and offended Zeng Qianheng. After Zeng Qianheng returned to the court, he participated in Ma Gui's book, and Ma Gui was demoted and idle.

To this day, the military men of the Ming Dynasty were not unwilling to rise up and fight against literati, but they were really the lifeblood of military men. The way to promotion and supplementary supplies were all in the hands of literati. The Ministry of War Military Selection and Ministry of Revenue were both in the hands of literati. They asked you to go up and you went up and they asked you to go down and you went down. Sometimes even the emperor could not interfere. For example, when Zhang Juzheng was in power, the emperor dared not let out a sensation. As powerful as Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang would tremble under the shadow of Zhang Juzheng.

The generals of the Ming Dynasty have now developed to the point where they are not afraid of the emperor but are afraid of civil servants. To put it bluntly, the emperor was not confident when facing the literati group. The military families with a little knowledge would be resentful about the Tumu Fort. The change in the Tumu Fort completely destroyed the Jingnan Wuxun noble group, which was enough to compete with the civil servants' group, which led the civil servant Yu Qian to take the opportunity to invade the power of the military officers, and take advantage of the national crisis to build the strongest civil servants in history, forcing the later emperors to indulge the eunuchs to confront him.

Earlier, the military officers under Taizu could compete with civil servants, but were killed by Taizu. Chengzu created a new military officer group in the Jingnan Campaign, which could still compete with civil servants. As a result, the Tumubao Incident captured all the military officers' group. Emperor Jingdi supported the civil servant group, and Yingzong could not succeed without the support of the military officers who had survived cooperation with civil servants. Later, he was really scared when he saw the powerful civil servant group, so he tried every means to get rid of Yu Qian, but he could not do anything to the civil servant group that had already become bigger.

Later the emperor was even more helpless. Wuzong was even more indulged in order to vent his dissatisfaction and indulged the Eight Tigers, which not only disgusted the civil servants, but also disgusted the world. Emperor Jiajing dealt with the eunuch and used the superb skills of civil servants to govern civil servants to defeat the civil servants for decades. Emperor Longqing ascended the throne, but without his father's means, he indulged the civil servants again, which directly created the giant beast Zhang Juzheng. The ten years before Emperor Wanli ascended the throne, lived under the shadow of Zhang Juzheng, and the entire group of military generals shivered at Zhang Juzheng's feet.

I was frustrated... I thought that Zhang Juzheng would have a better life without everyone, but a censor could control the second-rank military generals and officials to be relied on the emperor. The emperor was so angry that he could not raise his head in the court. Everyone was in trouble. If you really want to talk about it, who would care about whom?

In this context, to curry favor with civil servants and get better treatment is the only way for military officers to live a better life. Whoever makes money and personnel power in the hands of others can't be tough, then just be soft! Incompetent generals curry favor with civil servants for treatment, and some capable military officers also curry favor with civil servants for their own ambitions. In short, if a general wants to live a good life, he must have a backer in the court.

Who is the backer?

So Ma Gui was a little envious. Xiao Ruxun guarded well, and once he guarded well, he pleased the Grand Governor Wei Xuezeng, the three-sided governor. This great man who dared to fight with Zhang Juzheng, would definitely be appreciated by Wei Xuezeng if he could support reinforcements in the future. At that time, he would recommend it to the court, and he would be able to get the general officer and easily reach the peak of his life.

Unlike him, who made so many contributions to the position of general, a small censor was beaten down - of course, civil officials protected each other, dare you be disrespectful to Wenquxing?

It’s so cool to lean on the big tree... Xiao Ruxun’s name is known. It should be said that few people in the Jiubian General Sect don’t know that a military general married the daughter of the Minister of War. In modern times, this trick can be regarded as a poor boy in the countryside who married the daughter of the chairman of the multinational group.

"General Xiao Shen is General Xiao's fourth brother? He is so born! It's really not easy to defend the lonely city where the rebels are everywhere."

Ma Gui took the initiative to talk to Xiao Ruhui. Xiao Ruhui was also capable and was responsible for leading troops. The four sons of the Xiao family each had their own military positions, which was rare in the nine-sided generals.

Xiao Ruhui turned her head and looked at Ma Gui, nodding and smiling immediately: "Mahjong is too honorable! That boy just fulfilled his duties. As a garrison, he had to guard the place. It was not a great thing. However, this boy likes poetry and books the most and likes to write poetry. He just doesn't go to read military strategies. He thought that this boy wanted to take the imperial examination, but he didn't expect that he still didn't forget his duties."

As he said that, Xiao Ruhui changed her expression.

"I just don't know what the situation is now. There are many rebels, and he has only 3,000 soldiers under his command. It is also difficult to trap the lonely city. Mahjong, let's get some troops to help!"

Ma Gui nodded. Everyone would do this favor: "Okay! Order the troops immediately and go out to fight as soon as possible!"
Chapter completed!