The two uncles collected another front-line interview draft like a star chasing manual. Xie Ying also led people to draw a thick stack of maps outside the customs, ready to leave Shaanxi and go to Ningxia Town. However, just as they were leaving, a team from Jingli to deliver new ordnance moved to Shaanxi impressively, sending two large Fran cannons, five medium cannons and ten small cannons, as well as more than a hundred of the latest Spanish arquebuses. .
The largest long-caliber guns were sent to Yulin first, and only when they were imitated could they be distributed to other border towns.
The two uncles immediately refused to leave.
The opportunity to fight like this has not been available since Yongle and Jingbei. Can they still go as they should? Although my sister and father wanted to tell them to go back, there are still teachers at home, right? Mr. Cui is the prime minister of the imperial court, and he can definitely understand their hearts to sacrifice their lives to serve the emperor!
They were afraid that their words as disciples would not have enough weight, so they both went to ask Xie Tongzhi, a friend and close neighbor of Mr.
Xie Ying knew what they were thinking as soon as she saw the two of them twitching and refusing to speak, so she didn't wait for them to hold back their words, and took the initiative to say: "I was about to write a letter requesting to stay in Shaanxi to watch the battle, and I will follow suit. The team draws a map, and also writes a letter to the family and Cui Xueshi to report safety, do the two uncles also write back?"
want to want!
The eyes of the two uncles lit up, and they suddenly thought of something to deal with at home and in the palace - Xie Tongzhi was right, they didn't come to participate in the war, but to watch the battle and interview the heroes from the rear, shouldn't they stay!
They were busy writing letters to their families following this line of thinking, promising not to fight, at most just interviewing (on the ground) and feeling the guns, and they were satisfied. Xie Ying also agreed to help them write a letter to the teacher to explain, and then personally wrote a letter back to Beijing, telling Cui Xie that he planned to stay on the battlefield.
He knew exactly why Cui Xie had been pushing him step by step over the years, and he wanted to do something for him to change the future that only existed in Cui Xie's memory. It's just that his identity is not enough, and he can't get involved in many important affairs of the court. The only thing that can be done for him is to stay here and watch his arrangement bear fruit.
Or go a step further and do your part on this battlefield.
Xie Ying's letter was sent back to the capital through the express shop along with the map. Cui Xie opened the letter and read it once, his heart was slightly sour, but the corners of his mouth slowly turned up.
He was looking forward to Xie Ying returning to Beijing as soon as possible, but he also knew how important this battle was. If he hadn't been from the Hanlin Academy, he couldn't leave the capital, and the emperor would not tell him to transfer to another department. He really wanted to follow Xie Ying to the battlefield, watching the soldiers reclaim their territory, and then fight to the north of the Yellow River. After hitting the Tianshan Mountains, leveling the borders...
But although he couldn't go, Xie Ying watched for him, which was equivalent to him going.
Cui Xie smiled forcefully, and put the map sent by Xie Ying together with the map of his previous life.
This map was drawn following the maps of Xuanfu, Datong, and Shanxi that Xie Ying had sent before. The scales are the same. If the previous maps are put together, they can be combined into one. From this picture, you can clearly see the several-shaped protrusions in the north of the Yellow River and the continuous Great Wall between the nine major towns in the south.
He also drew a small drawing himself, which kept the most accurate proportions.
In order to avoid suspicion, he also went to the Central Secret Library to read many atlases, and wrote down a few books containing the Yellow River in order to respond to the inquiries of the emperor and the Ministry of War. Fortunately, the Son of Heaven did not ask these questions, but only sighed that the picture was meticulous and usable, so that the army could divide several divisions to search along the river, and firmly seal the remnants of the thieves on the south bank of the Yellow River.
This is not the first time he has presented this map. In the past few times, the emperor had given gold and silver clothing, but this time he said: "If the map presented by Mr. and Xie Tongzhi can be used in battle formations, in one fell swoop, to strengthen the army and kill the captives, it cannot be used again. Ordinary things are rewarded for each other. Today, I will give gold, and after the great victory, we will discuss promotion."
Cui Xie gave a deep bow and replied, "This minister is just arranging the map sent by Xie Tongzhi, how dare you take credit. If Your Majesty is kind, this minister only wishes to personally go to Yanqing and other residences in Shanshan, Shaanxi and other places to watch the state officials recover Hetao. ."
Naturally this doesn't work.
He is the lecturer of the Son of Heaven and the East Palace, and his main career is to enter the general scriptures and history of Ziji, teaching the most honorable father and son in the world not to leave the capital easily. Emperor Hongzhi was also reluctant to send him out, and just wanted him to be like Li Dongyang, first serving as Taichang Shaoqing, and then serving as minister of the Ministry of Rites, Minister of Rites or Minister of Personnel, and then he would join the cabinet when he was old.
Cui Xie also knew that he couldn't go, so he only set a psychological bottom line for the emperor, and then he said the real request: "I know I can't go to the border, but I hope to see the latest and most detailed battle reports from time to time. Uncle Guo is on a parade in Shaanxi Town at this time, can you keep them in the customs and pass on the battle report from the front?"
This... The queen is afraid to worry.
The emperor is caught between his beloved wife and his favorite ministers, and it is also a dilemma.
But Cui Xie, a nephew, refused to share his worries for the monarch. Instead, he deliberately made a dangerous statement, saying that Xie Tongzhi sent a letter saying that the two uncles intended to avoid his surveillance on the way back to Beijing, and secretly ran outside the customs to participate in the war. Rather than that, it's better to put them in the rear, with a large army guarding them, so that the two of them won't cause trouble.
The emperor sighed helplessly, and after returning to the palace, he told the queen about the movements of the two brothers-in-law. Empress Zhang had also received a letter from her mother, Mrs. Jin, from outside the palace. When she heard that the two younger brothers, Sapo, would not come back, she was so anxious that she had to ask the emperor to think of something.
Hongzhi sighed: "The uncles are used to being at ease outside. Even if you force them to come back, there is no guarantee that they will come with a 'general outside, and the military order will not be accepted', so they refuse to come back. Protect them."
Fortunately, Xie Tongzhi was by the side of the two uncles. He not only allowed Wen Wen and martial arts, but also taught his uncle martial arts since he was a child.
The emperor again ordered some Jinyiwei to go to the north. On the bright side, it was to follow Xie Tongzhi to investigate the terrain outside the customs, but in fact it was to protect the two uncles.
The little prince heard about this from his mother's harem, and sighed for a long time. After the banquet, he specially left Cui Xie behind and asked him why his uncle could go to war in an open and fair manner, but he, the prince, couldn't.
Because the identity of the prince is not the identity that can fight.
If the emperor has established a prince, the prince will supervise the country, and he can lead troops to fight in person, but the prince himself will never leave the capital until the country is destroyed.
But the prince is in the second year of middle school, and he has inherited the bear temperament of the Zhang family. He doesn't just listen to what he says. Cui Xie simply did not reason with him, and only asked, "Your Highness is going to the border, do you want to be the commander-in-chief, do you want to be the general?"
The prince was so excited, he patted the table and said, "I will be the commander-in-chief of the three armies!"
Cui Xie replied with a smile: "I have taught Your Highness for many years, and I know very well that His Highness is worried about the country and the people, so how could he dare to stop it? It is just that His Highness is still young and has never learned the art of war. Don't worry. I would like to help His Highness write a note and submit it to the imperial court, so that the world will know that His Highness not only has the heart to lead troops, but also the ability to lead them."
what! Or Mr. Cui!
When Cui Xie mentioned the word "young", the prince almost thought that he, like everyone else, was looking for excuses to stop him, but unexpectedly, this gentleman was really on his side and wanted to help him realize his ideals!
The prince was so excited that he wanted to worship him as a military adviser and let him follow him to go out with him.
Although Cui Military Sergeant did not officially take office, he conscientiously drew a simple map with grasslands, rivers, deserts, and Great Wall for the prince, pointing to the map and saying, "Where does Your Highness want to deploy troops, and how many troops and horses to arrange? Send troops from Shaanxi Town or Yansui Town? The generals here are Yang Yiqing, the general commander of the three sides, Liu Ning, the left commander, Zhao Xuan, the guerrilla general, and Song Ying, the commander of the commander of the provincial capital of Shaanxi…”
There is no real-time strategy game in this world, and the second-year-old boy's desire for war could not be satisfied, so Cui Xie personally played a game with him, so that the little prince could experience the fun of talking on paper.
Experience the fun of being abused by Gao Play.
As he talked and painted, he set the rules of victory and defeat for the prince according to the comparison of the combat effectiveness of the captives and the Ming army in reality. The prince selected the generals to fight, and he served as a sparring partner for the little prince, Huosi and other captives. In addition to fighting head-on, the crown prince also had to worry about logistical constraints and the persuasion of courtiers, and if he wanted violent soldiers, he had to see if the household could afford food and grass.
Facing the crushing of the game designer, the prince had no interest in playing, and finally had to throw a piece of paper, struggling to say, "The solitary general, go into battle to kill the enemy, okay?"
That's okay, according to the old rules of the uncles, if you win the lecturer, you can kill the enemy, how about it
Cui Xie proposed a very simple way to seduce the prince. It's a pity that Zhu Houzhao is only 12 years old this year. He may not be able to play as an ordinary lecturer, let alone Cui Xueshi who started his career with eight-foot spears
Civil and military are not as good as people, so what kind of soldiers do you still command
The little prince honestly went back to study military books and practiced martial arts. When the emperor heard about this, he just smiled and asked someone to give Cui Xie a table of royal meals.
Cui Xie was relieved when he heard that the prince was studying the art of war in the palace.
Although I don't know if Zhu Houzhao will grow up to be a general Zhu Shou in the future, but at least the current prince is no longer the debauched Wu Zong in history, but a person who has a brain and is not easy to be easily hooked up by the eunuch military attache.
Even if he still likes military attachés, there is the most famous Xie Zhenfu hanging on him, and he won't tell him to favor eunuchs, Jiang Bin, Qian Ning and other scourges as in history.
In order to find something for the prince to do, Cui Xie simply built an inaccurate border sand table and made him a strategy board game.
He said it was a sand table, but he didn't dare to get dangerous hard toys into the palace. The plate was made of wood. The ground and mountains in the plate were molded and dyed with white wax. The river water was dyed with indigo layer by layer. Different color shades. The side walls are all bonded with beef bone blocks, and ground millet flour is used instead of fine sand to make sand dunes, which are bonded with fish glue.
The general soldiers are carved into squares with cow bones and dyed. Civil servants use red, military officers use blue, and the more famous officials and generals are, the darker the color. Soldiers use more colors. The three battalions and the frontier troops are divided into different colors. The number of even, hundreds, thousands, and thousands on the card represents the number of people.
However, this game is not like when he guided the prince in the palace to write the memorial, he can directly write the name of the important minister of the dynasty, but borrowed the identity of the famous general of the Three Kingdoms, and drew the picture according to the card face of the Three Kingdoms Killing, and the tactics were written. But which battalion can he bring, how many troops he can bring, what kind of city or field he is good at, and what restrictions are there when engaging with thieves...
As a lecturer, it was inconvenient for him to directly send toys to the prince, so he simply asked Eunuch Gao to hand it over, and hid himself deeply.
Eunuch Gao was naturally grateful to him, and wished that he could become the first assistant in one step. From then on, the two sides supported each other, both inside and outside. Just like the singing in the play, they jointly protected the dynasty.
The prince got the strategy game, and he really had a place to consume excess energy. While studying the tactics, he learned to use plug-ins without a teacher.
Wouldn't ordinary battalion soldiers and arquebuses become spearmen who could restrain thieves? In the future, I will ask the Ministry of War to make more guns. I will use it here first!
The Fran cannon can be changed to a small cannon that can be held with both hands, so can the horse army be changed to an artillery army with one enemy and three? In the future, the Ministry of War will be restructured, just use it first!
The tiger squat gun was pulled by a cart, and when it was time to fire the gun, wouldn't it be done by pouring lime into a fort? The front army and the central army are equipped with tiger squatting guns!
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The prince spent a lot of time in order to play in the game and invented a lot of new arms. After being invincible among the harem eunuchs and younger brothers and sisters, he left Teacher Cui behind and asked him to fight with him again.
If he can defeat Mr. Cui, he will be able to lead his troops out of the customs and fight against the little prince!
He left Cui Xie full of expectations, and took out the sand table and cards to play with the teacher. He didn't decide the rules of the deduction last time, that's why he lost so badly. Now all the rules are set by him, and the cards are also his, he will definitely win!
He really won this one.
The flag owner in Mr. Cui's hand was captured by him, and the little prince escaped, leaving tens of thousands of soldiers behind.
The prince asked with a smile: "Sir, with Gu's current way of using soldiers, may I go to fight Da thieves?"
Cui Xie also smiled: "Since the little prince is defeated, these tens of thousands of troops are prisoners. Has Your Highness thought about how to deal with them? It is ominous to kill prisoners, but these prisoners of war are used to bandits, and their physical strength and swordsmanship are better than mine. Army, if you don't look up to it, you'll be in chaos again if you're not careful.
"And even if they don't do chaos, and they sincerely surrender, the large tract of land within the confinement has become desert, and the sandy land expands outside every year, which cannot be used for their nomadic herding, nor for the cultivation of the people of Ming Dynasty. The aftermath of Juebei's confinement?"
The prince said a few daily agricultural classics on how to control the sand, and Cui Xie shook his head and smiled: "When I compiled this book, I wrote it as an ordinary commoner, and it is only used to instruct common people what to do when they live on the outer edge of the desert. How to prevent sand. But His Highness is the Crown Prince of the East Palace, and he has just defeated the little prince of the Tartars, so he has to arrange the arrangement from the big place, how can we only look at the agricultural classics?”
The prince thought about the big picture himself, but couldn't think of it for a while, so he cast his cards helplessly and went back to study. Where he couldn't think of it, when he listened to the lecture, he pretended to be concerned about people's livelihood and asked Yang Tinghe and other lecturers.
Yang Tinghe asked Cui Xie in private: "It must be Hezhong, what did you persuade the prince to do? A few days ago, the prince was intoxicated with military affairs, and I almost wanted to play the emperor. Fortunately, now the prince has changed his mind and is focusing on the livelihood of the people." The livelihood of the people outside the customs is always better than leading troops to fight.
Cui Xie said with a smile: "Prince is at the age of greed for freshness, and now he has won again and again outside the customs, so naturally he has the idea of making meritorious deeds. Fortunately, the adults have taught me not to blindly love martial arts, but actually don't do anything for me. "
Yang Tinghe shook his head and chuckled: "You are modest, although I don't know the truth in the palace, I can imagine that you persuaded the East Palace. But it's no wonder that the prince has the heart to lead the army. Your books are also well-stocked with hero records. It's so good, I want to go into battle. You see, I look a bit like Yang Yiqing in your book, Chief Yang, if he can lead the army, maybe I can too?"
No, it looks like you are the filter of the uncles of the country. If you follow the painting described in Xie Ying's letter, the image will be far from yours.