This time, it was the second housekeeper of the Prime Minister's Mansion. The middle-aged man who used to follow Li Yan often had no contact with You Miao, but he was considered an old acquaintance. You Miao thought strangely, Li Yan had something to do with him, so what did he send a housekeeper to do? Sure enough, after the two exchanged greetings for a while, the housekeeper of Li's house came up with his intention: he was also asking for a popular document, but not for himself, but for his wife and children to move to Jiangnan, where they would seek refuge with their uncle's mother. And the blank palm print document listed by the Ministry of War was ready, so it was naturally Butler Li who got it himself.
You Miao agreed in Li Yan's face, and stamped his official seal and Zhao Chao's handsome seal on the document. After Steward Li returned, the mansion sent another thousand taels of silver notes. You Miao knew that this was partly done because of Li Yan's favor, but he couldn't help but sighed that the Li residence was really powerful and powerful, and even a housekeeper could pay a thousand children and eight hundred taels out of it.
At night, Zhao Chao came back early, with a preoccupied look. You Miao told what happened during the day at dinner. After all, Zhao Chao had not nodded his head about the Li family, and You Miao was still a little unsure of his mind. Guess Zhao Chao just hummed and nodded to show that he knew.
Zhao Chao: "My father, the emperor, is on a southern tour in the past few days, and there will be more big households in the capital coming to ask for our seal. You can just look at it and cover it."
You Miao frowned and said, "Is it okay to let them go?"
Zhao Chao said: "Originally in my hands, I wouldn't let people go. When people leave, what about morale? I'm afraid no one in the capital is willing to fight. But it's not good to let them go. , I guess I'm going to find my big brother to make trouble, it's hard to ride a tiger, and neither the left nor the right, otherwise, how can I let you be in the center?"
You Miao nodded slowly, realizing that although the imperial court was not far away for the big family in the capital to move south, it could not stop them all.
"Is there really danger?" You Miao asked again.
Zhao Chao shook his head and said, "No one can say for sure. If we really want to move the capital, we will be the last batch of people to leave... I think if you are still..."
You Miao raised her eyebrows, and Zhao Chao apologized: "Okay, I won't urge you to go back, so as not to get slapped on the face again, you can do it yourself."
Saying that the two of them were happy, You Miao remembered the silver money he received during the day, and said, "A few times of stamping like this, you can probably collect a few thousand taels. I'll give you half of it."
Zhao Chao didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "You can keep it."
You Miao also mentioned that the servants should be sent back, Zhao Chao naturally agreed, and let Cheng Guangwu, Chang Yuan and Yaoguang follow the Southern Tour team, and just put them in. From the next day, there was a lot of big families in the capital, and they sent people to come to worship, all of them holding empty documents with the palm print of the Ministry of War, asking for You Miao's official seal and Zhao Chao's handsome seal. He also sent money to ask for help. You Miao expected that Pingxi also received a lot, I was afraid it would be tens of thousands of taels, so everyone who came here honestly and unceremoniously made a payment. After two and a half days, it was actually a charge. With more than ten thousand bank notes, nearly ten documents were signed out-anyway, once Emperor Tianqi moved the capital, these big households would have to follow him. And even if the capital is held, these people will move back one after another, so it's better to be happy to earn a vote.
Three days later, Zhao Min set off on a tour of the south, and half of the time in the capital was empty. You Miao left behind three thousand taels of flowers in the palace, and sent Cheng Guangwu and other three servants away. At first Cheng Guangwu was reluctant to live or die. Miao forced him to go back. If he didn't leave, he would pack up and get out. Cheng Guangwu had no choice but to go to Jiangnan.
After You Miao sent off the servants, he began to arrange the defense of the Gyeonggi Army. In a short time, most of the people in the court had left, leaving only the Grand Master Guozijian, many young people, and some old officials of the Ministry of War. The crown prince oversees the country, everyone knows what's going on in their hearts, but they don't dare to say it outright.
The number of wounded soldiers from the front line was increasing day by day, and the battle situation was becoming more and more urgent. Until news came from the front line that the Tatars reinforced 50,000 Saibei iron cavalry and invaded the Central Plains in one fell swoop. Everyone panicked immediately. It seemed that the Tatars were not just planning to loot in Hebei this time, but the Central Plains!
"Transfer Nie Dan back to Hebei immediately!" Zhao Chao said in the morning: "Let him take over Tang Hui's soldiers!"
The ministers looked at each other, an ominous atmosphere shrouded in the early morning, the prince reluctantly calmed down and said, "Tang Hui can still hold on, and now we have to quickly draw troops from Yangzhou, Liuzhou and other places to support the Hebei front. How many people are there in the Gyeonggi army? ?"
You Miao replied: "More than 800 people have joined the army in the past few days..."
"Report—" The spies outside the Meridian Gate rushed into the hall all the way, and the officials immediately changed their expressions.
It was the messenger who followed the emperor's southern tour. When the spies knelt down outside the hall, everyone's heartbeats were lost for a long time.
Zhao Chao and the prince looked at each other, their eyes were full of shock, their body trembled slightly, and they looked outside the hall.
"Fortunately, General Nie is escorting him! His Majesty is on his way back to the DPRK..."
All the ministers breathed a sigh of relief, but then fell into a deeper shock, and the old emperor came back. It means that the South Road is completely cut off, and the capital is in a state of turmoil, and everyone is in danger.
Zhao Chao didn't want to ask more questions in the early morning and later, and went to the imperial study with the prince, called Li Yan and others to discuss matters, and asked the messenger about the situation in Hanyin County. . The messenger recounted the situation of the Southern Tour intermittently—the emperor had just left the capital and entered the territory of Liangzhou, when he was suddenly attacked by the Xianbei people in Hanyin. Dan asks for help.
Nie Dan didn't know about the old emperor's southern tour at all, and Zhao Hao didn't dare to say more. When Nie Dan learned that the emperor was going south through his jurisdiction, he actually wanted to go to find immortals. The old emperor escorted back to the capital.
Zhao Hao returned to the palace without a sound, and the news became more and more serious. New recruits from Jiangnan and other places were sent to Beijing in an endless stream, and they were incorporated into the Gyeonggi Army through the hands of You Miao, and then sent to the front line. Until the third day of the twelfth lunar month, Li Zhifeng had not arrived in the capital, and the defenders of Hebei suffered their first defeat since the beginning of winter.
This time, the big defeat was due to Tang Hui's command error. In the cold winter and the twelfth lunar month, thousands of miles of snow were flying. Tang Hui was eager to fight quickly, but he was accidentally attacked and ambushed by the Tartars. Nearly 20,000 recruits were drowned by the Yellow River. Tang Hui withdrew the remaining troops to the south bank of the Yellow River in embarrassment, and Hebei fell across the board.
Nearly 20,000 recruits died of drowning, plus 30,000 soldiers who were shot to death by the Tartar army and trampled on each other, and more than 10,000 were seriously injured. They were sent back to the capital, Gyeonggi. In the military camp, the sky and the ground are full of wounded soldiers.
You Miao was picked up by Zhao Chao on the bed, and Zhao Chao only left a sentence: "Tang Hui's army is defeated, you go to the barracks! I'll go to the morning court! Quick!" He hurried out of the palace.
When You Miao stood outside the barracks, Fang witnessed the brutality of the war with his own eyes. Since taking over the post of Superintendent Censor, the military newspapers from the capital and the front line have come and gone, and there are no more than a few dead and injured. Only then did You Miao realize that these were all human beings with the same life as himself.