Chapter 238 Two Emperors
The ground was trembling and vibrating, and more than a thousand archers lined up in running columns, running around the school grounds.
The shouts were loud and neat. After several months of training, these things have gradually penetrated into everyone's bone marrow, causing their spirit to change.
Zhang Han was wearing a gray military robe, the short robe was made very well, and it was stuffed with cotton inside, the same as every archer. The only difference was that Zhang Han's military uniform had no logo, no breast mark or badge. This was the only difference between him and ordinary officers and soldiers.
Zhang Han exhaled in his mouth and complained to Sun Jingting beside him while running: "Xiaozheng, when I have free time in the future, I have to move to the south. It's so fucking cold here in Datong..."
Sun Jingting said: "Southern? I went to Nankaifeng and also to Nandu. It was as cold as winter..."
The Sun family’s Dongshan meeting has been around for a long time, so it is estimated that Sun Jingting also went to the south to see the market. Zhang Han smiled and shook his head, saying, “You didn’t go south…”
As he said that, he lost confidence, because Zhang Han remembers that he saw in a book that it was snowing in Guangzhou during the Qing Dynasty. If this were the case, it seemed that there was no other good choice except to go to the tropical region.
"Tangma is here."
...The place where Zhang Han and Sun Jingting ran was the opposite corner of the camp gate. A horse rode a horse and rushed to the camp gate. Then the sentry guarding the gate checked the Tangma's ID, and the officer ordered the opening of the camp gate. The horse rushed to Zhang Han's signing room.
"It seems that there is an emergency report again."
Zhang Han understood at a glance that the level of this Tangma is very high. Now the Tangmao is divided into three levels, the lowest level is the general level. A group of scholars led by Sun Jingting will be demolished first, because Zhang Han's Tangmao is not an official system, but collects information from all over the country. The intelligence organizations in various places are very effective and continuously send information to Li Zhuang. Zhang Han no longer reads the information one by one as before. He is counted as Sun Jingting.
Generally speaking, it is urgent. Emergency reports are usually confidential, and only a few people are qualified to dismantle them.
The next step is a special emergency, which needs to be delivered to Zhang Han as soon as possible.
"It's a copy of the diary, sir, it's a copy of the diary!"
Tangma saw Zhang Han running over from a distance, and shouted from a distance.
"Use special emergency?" Zhang Han and Sun Jingting said: "Which bastard did the good thing!"
"There must be something big." Since it was a diary, there was no level of confidentiality, so Sun Jingting simply ran over with him.
Jiang Kui, Jiang Yi and others scattered into a semicircle and did not approach them. Every archer here was checked out and his daily mental state was also seriously concerned. Zhang Han was also the safest area in this military camp, and even more safer than when he was in Xinpingbao. After all, the flow of people in Lizhuang is very convenient, and a faceless person came in and was recorded all of a sudden. The flow of people in Xinpingbao is too large, so this job is difficult to do.
"What's the matter? Have you seen the mansion copy?" Zhang Han got closer and asked the Tangma again.
Tangma said: "Maybe the emperor is dead. I saw these lines of words faintly found on the residence."
"What's the bullshit?" Zhang Han smiled and cursed: "The emperor has been dead for about a month."
"I don't know this."
Tangma smiled and touched his head, and handed the Tang newspaper to Zhang Han.
"Thank you for your hard work, go down and rest."
The Special Express Pond Report does not replace people but only changes horses, and it is constantly racing. Because it involves confidentiality, it cannot be replaced. It runs hundreds or thousands of miles away. Although the best guy is chosen to do this, he runs over day and night, and the Iron Man is almost tired.
"It's really the emperor dead." Zhang Han looked at the leaving Tangma, but his face did not change much. At this time, Li Xiangfu, Li Dongxue and others also came over. They saw Zhang Han saying to Sun Jingting: "Then he collapsed suddenly!"
The emperor's reign has been changed to Taichang, and it has only been a month since the reign of the emperor, but he died again.
Because he was middle-aged, there was no medical case or illness before, but there was only vague news that he was too lustful and injured his vitality. Later, Li Kezhuo of the Imperial Hospital offered red pills. The emperor's energy increased so much that he could already take things normally. As a result... he died suddenly. Such a way of death can be said to be a sudden death.
"Have the new king ascended the throne?"
"The prince has not been enthroned yet." Zhang Han said in contemplation: "According to common sense, it should be that the eldest son of the emperor Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne."
Although Zhang Han is thousands of miles away, he has almost no barrier to the news about the capital. Wang Faxiang's work is very effective, and the intelligence organization in the capital is gradually becoming full of wings. There are many news that the senior officials of the Shanxi officialdom may not get the news at the first time, but Wang Faxiang can do it.
"Is the eldest brother still very young?" Sun Jingting said: "It's less than twenty, how many brothers are there?"
Zhang Han said: "There is a brother named Zhu Youjian, who is only ten years old this year."
Because the incident happened suddenly and it was too short, neither Zhu Youxiao nor Zhu Youjian had a title, either he was a prince or a prince, but a prince.
Of course, from the perspective of patriarchal law, the two brothers are well-deserved heirs of the throne, Zhu Youxiao is Emperor Tianqi, Zhu Youjian is the Emperor of Tragedy, and the famous Emperor Chongzhen.
Sun Jingting said with a gloomy face: "In the past ten months, the country lost two emperors. The new king is not the eldest king, it is really not my blessing in the Ming Dynasty!"
"It's normal." Zhang Han said: "After changing the reign of Taichang, he indulged in lust and often controlled several women every day. Indulging in this way, his health was not good. It was expected that his energy would be damaged and his body would be destroyed."
"Wen Lan, sometimes you don't look like my Ming people..."
Sun Jingting suddenly said this, Zhang Han was startled and said with a forced smile: "What do you mean?"
"Your attitude towards the emperor is not only an insignificant indifference, but a complete treatment of the emperor as an ordinary person. Analyze the reasons and summarize them, and there is no feeling of sadness or discomfort at all."
Zhang Han said: "The Emperor and the Emperor of Daxing... In fact, the Emperor of Daxing is also a great success. How to say that, these two kings, one of whom has been in power for forty-eight years, actually have no great contribution to the country. The other one enjoys the country for a short time and has not yet benefited the people. To be honest, it is true that I have no feelings for these two emperors."
Sun Jingting nodded and said, "Actually, when Emperor Wanli was there, I often hated him for being careless in government affairs, but after his great business, I couldn't help but feel sad. In fact, most people are like this. Only you, Wen Lan, you are too calm."
Zhang Han smiled and said, "Then I'm cold-hearted."
Sun Jingting rolled his eyes and continued to discuss this topic with Zhang Han.
At this time, Zhang Han went down the pond newspaper and looked at a few lines. His face became ugly. He said with his feet: "Absurd and nonsense, how can he put such important news on the residence and copy it!"
After Sun Jingting made an election, Zhang Han looked at him and handed him the next page of Tang.
"Yu Shigan?" In an instant, Sun Jingting's face also became extremely ugly. He said, "Wen Lan, you must inform Governor Wen and Zheng Bingbei as soon as possible. Unfortunately, Li Zunlu has arrived in the capital!"
"I'm afraid they don't have any good ways." Zhang Han said: "The thief has not arrived in Lingqiu, and has not yet destroyed the prefectures and counties before. It is better to have less trouble than to have more trouble in the local area. People have the same intention, and the governor's army and military preparations are not too contrary to the will of the public. Without waiting for the thief to disturb the place, they are not good at making big moves. As for the general, deputy general, and general, they are not allowed to leave the trust without leaving the land. It seems that this matter can only be up to us."
The local military and political system of the Ming Dynasty was actually a mess, or in the late Ming Dynasty, it was a mess. Judging from the history of peasant wars in the late Ming Dynasty, when the bandits began, the local response was inaccurate, complex and chaotic, lacking the backbone and effective means, and even differences in wars, let alone unified commands from various places, and instructing officers and soldiers to effectively intercept or kill them.
Until the thief is in great power and attracts the attention of the central government, civil servants under positions such as the three-sided governor and the military affairs of the five provinces are qualified to coordinate the actions of each province. With such high-ranking civil servants coordinating the war, each province can coordinate the actions, rather than sending the thief's gifts out of the country.
The rise and fall of the peasant army in the early stages were related to the ability of these ministers in the affairs of the prime minister and the financial and military and political systems of the entire Ming Empire.
Yu Shigan is still outside Datong Prefecture, which is considered a trouble for Shanxi. If he runs to Datong, it will be a trouble for Datong Governor and Datong Town, and it has nothing to do with Shanxi Governor and Shanxi Town. Now Yu Shigan is at the junction of the two places. Datong hopes that he will turn back quickly, and Shanxi is eager to set off firecrackers to send him out of the country... As for the fact that people are really being ordered and the thief are killed, I am afraid that no one from top to bottom will have such an idea.
It’s not that the civil servants and generals of the Ming Dynasty were so bad, but because they knew it was difficult to deal with.
Yu Shigan is in a continuous mountainous area, with mountains everywhere, Taihang Mountain, Heng Mountain, and Wutai Mountain. These mountains stretch out in tracts, forming a large area that is difficult for officers and soldiers to reach. Originally, there were many bandits in these places. For bandits like Yu Shigan, who have border troops as the core, this is a difficult refuge.
When we reach the north, Datong Town is very strong, but there are also large Yinshan Mountains there. In addition, the Great Wall is on the front line. The main forces of the border army must guard against the Northern Territory. How can we really free up our hands to suppress the bandits?
"It seems that we really have to rely on ourselves, but..." Sun Jingting looked at the archer in training, and an extremely firm expression gradually appeared on his face, which was originally shocked and suspicious. He said, "And, you must rely on it!"
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The teams in the valley are sparse, but the team is dragging long. In the bleak valley in the early winter, it seems like a colorful flower snake, constantly surging forward on the winding valley road.
Yu Shigan was riding on a horse, and a personal soldier led his war horse in front of him and walked forward carefully. This place belongs to the Taihang Mountains. Going eastward is the famous well path, and the northeast is the border wall at the junction of Shanxi and Datong.
In the early days of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, this place was once part of the border. At that time, the most important frontier line of Datong was in Datong. Later, Datong was stable, and the nine borders of Daming gradually took shape. The Mongols' attack focus gradually shifted from the west to Jizhen and Liaozhen. From Zijing Pass to Panguan, the line gradually became safe and sound. The well path to Taiyuan, a strategic area of Hedong that had been fought for in the past, gradually became a safe inland.
Chapter completed!