In early summer, the court received a battle report, and Xifa raided Hele's mother clan east of Xiangzhu of the Dingbei Army.
Because Gu Fangshu commanded it well, the raid was perfect. The large tribe was unprepared and a large number of grain and livestock were plundered. They even captured Hele's maternal grandmother and two older uncles.
Naturally, a person like Hele can be threatened by just a few relatives.
However, this move affected the selection of the first leader of his mother clan's Dong, causing a commotion in Hele Leg Dong.
What happened before was that Fuxifa and Hele had another decisive battle. After Hele was defeated, he retreated deep into the grassland.
The imperial court had a small dispute over whether to allow the Dingbei Army to pursue and suppress Wei He. From a strategic point of view, the purpose of the dynasty was whether to consume Wei He. If you don't deny anything good, it's best to deny the tug of war, the kind that doesn't stop for many years. Therefore, some people think that Hele has been defeated twice in a row, and the tribes in the grassland don't have much loyalty at all.
If the Dingbei army continued to cooperate with Xifa in pursuing the east, Hele's army might disperse. In this way, it took Xifa less than two years to kill his close enemy and avenge his father. Ascending the throne under the banner of Khan... Isn't that a powerful enemy of the Eastern Dynasty
Moreover, from a practical point of view, transporting grain and grass during the Ming Dynasty is already very difficult, and it will be even more difficult if we go deeper into the grassland.
So the court tends not to help.
However, at this moment, the Imperial City Secret Service reported that there were traces of mineral deposits in the direction where Hele fled, which was suspected to be a gold mine.
The monarch and his ministers reached a consensus without much argument: the gold mine was destined to another country.
For this reason, Chunjia did not step into the harem for almost half a month. Of course, such a big news cannot be publicized to everyone, especially as a central power plotting mineral deposits in neighboring countries, it is definitely not easy to talk about it outside. The harem didn't know why, so they thought the war was not going well, and for a while they were a little confused.
The queen specially summoned Yun Fenghuang to Yanfu Palace for this purpose, hinting that she would find an excuse to go to the emperor to inquire about the situation of the war. How are the children from various families who went out with the army doing now? Not to mention your achievements, but did you do anything wrong that made the emperor furious
Yun Fenghuang didn't care, so that month he specially carried a food box and went to Taichu Palace under the pretense of visiting. However, he was stopped at the gate of the palace. Yan Yin, who came in person, apologized and said that the emperor was going Please forgive me for being disturbed because of the bad state affairs.
As for what the concubines wanted to know, he had nothing to say.
This made Yun Fenghuang quite shameless, and the queen and other concubines were even more worried.
He was afraid that his father and brother had done something wrong, which would lead to an unfavorable situation in the war, so he was wondering if the emperor would ask him to turn against him and settle the score