Chapter 212 211 Delayed

Beijing, Xiyuan, Yongshou Palace.

At this time, a large group of eunuchs of grade were standing outside the hall, waiting for news from the hall. The leader was the eunuch in the palace, the ancestor Huang Jin.

They had been waiting outside the hall for a long time, and their hands and feet were already sore and numb, but there was still no movement in the hall.

Just as everyone was anxious to enter the palace but didn't dare to go to the dilemma, there was finally movement in Yongshou Palace.

With the sound of the door of the hall being opened, a Taoist priest wearing a crown, hat and robes had already opened the door and stood in front of the hall. Seeing the eunuchs standing with their hands hanging down outside, she smiled and said, "The Emperor has come out of seclusion, come in."

Then, without waiting for the eunuch waiting outside the house to speak, he turned around and walked towards the hall. When he walked around, he felt like a fairy-like trait.

Under Huang Jin's leadership, the eunuchs entered the main hall of Yongshou Palace. They saw Emperor Jiajing, wearing Taoist robe, lying lazily on the upper seat. I wonder if it was an illusion, but everyone felt the eyes staring at everyone who came in with a strange look.

"Welcome the Supreme Daluo Heavenly Immortal Ziji Changsheng Shengzhi Zhaoling Tong Sanyuan Certification Ying Yuxu General Palm Five Thunder Dazhen Man Xuandu Realm Wanshou Emperor came out of the pass"

As the eunuchs neatly shouted out the Taoist name of Emperor Jiajing, a smile appeared on the face of Emperor Jiajing, who had an expression of ancient wells without waves, waved his hand and asked the eunuchs who were saluting, and then they stood up and retreated to both sides of the hall.

However, except for Huang Jin, other eunuchs would not miss the opportunity to flatter the emperor. They were still talking to Emperor Jiajing to improve his skills. When he entered the door, his Majesty's eyes were as if there was no lightning in his eyes.

Emperor Jiajing's congratulations to them were just listening with a smile, but he didn't say a word.

After a long time, Emperor Jiajing finally waved his hand again to stop the eunuchs' flattery, but instead asked Huang Jin, who was standing beside Lan Daoxing, and said, "I have occasionally responded to it these days, so I have been in seclusion for half a month. Is there anything major in the court? Has Altan Khan retired?"

After entering the hall, Huang Jin, who had been standing on one side, then stood up and briefly introduced the current situation of the Xuanfu to Emperor Jiajing. Hearing that Altan's army is still stationed in Yanqing Prefecture and Bao'an Prefecture, the smile on Emperor Jiajing's face disappeared, and his brows frowned slightly, "What is the opinion of the cabinet?"

"Return to the emperor, Weng Pu, the border minister who visited the border, submitted a letter to the Xuanfu to supervise the war. The cabinet vote was to be approved and Weng Pu would be given the position of admiral military affairs, so that he could be responsible for the war in the Xuanfu."

Huang Jin looked up at Emperor Jiajing on the imperial throne as he spoke. He knew the master's habits. When he heard the cabinet's opinions, he would often have inner thoughts. At this time, he would not continue to pay attention to the person who reported the report. He could just take a look at the emperor's true thoughts.

Sure enough, he secretly saw Emperor Jiajing's reaction, but now Emperor Jiajing lowered his head as if he was thinking about something.

After a while, Emperor Jiajing looked up at Huang Jin and continued to ask: "What are the deployments of the Ministry of War?"

"The Ministry of War requested an order to transfer the Jizhen army to Huairou, Changping and Shunyi to urge the Datong army to Xuanfu to assist in the war."

Huang Jin briefly answered the military mobilization of the imperial court to the invasion of Altan Khan's troops during this period, and then shut up and stopped talking.

Emperor Jiajing on the imperial throne then nodded slightly, showing that he had no objection to the command of the Ministry of War.

Because he was mentally prepared, Emperor Jiajing was not shocked at the news of the invasion of Altan's army. After confirming that Altan's army had only entered Xuanfu, he asked the cabinet and the Ministry of War to handle the war with confidence. Perhaps because he felt something, Emperor Jiajing seemed to have a response from heaven and man, and finally attracted the favored Taoist Lan Daoxing who had been in seclusion for these days.

After being in seclusion for nearly half a month, the news I heard after leaving the seclusion was indeed not bad. Except for the Tartars who have not withdrawn from the Great Wall, everything else is a trivial matter.

Since the army has begun to be mobilized, it is only a matter of time before the Tartars withdraw from the Great Wall, so he doesn't have to worry about anything.

As for the cabinet's votes and the Ministry of War's request, Huang Jin's previous wise work has been criticized for it.

"If nothing else is going to happen, you can step down first, and Huang Jin stayed to serve."

Emperor Jiajing started to drive people away at this time. He didn't like a bunch of eunuchs stuck in his Yongshou Palace, so he would rather let them do their own things.

After the eunuch withdrew, Taoist Lan Daoxing bowed and resigned.

Emperor Jiajing nodded slightly and said with a smile: "I'm working hard these days, so go back and rest first."

After Lan Daoxing left, Emperor Jiajing said to Huang Jin: "I asked someone to light up the lamps and send me all the memorials from these days."

"Yes, the emperor."

After Huang Jin bowed and answered, he walked to the gate of the hall and called the little servant to carry the memorial. He called two more servants to come in and light up all the candles in the hall.

As the little servant brought a large stack of memorials and left the imperial case, he left the hall with only Emperor Jiajing and Huang Jin standing beside him.

These are all memorials from the Silijian to approve the redemption these days. After each retreat, Emperor Jiajing's first thing was not to deal with the newly sent documents that had not been processed. Instead, seeing that the Silijian had already approved the redemption, he would ask Huang Jin a few words that he didn't understand.

After reading two documents from the Ministry of War, he turned to the third memorial of Weng Pu, read the above ticket draft, and then asked: "This word is written by Xu Jie, Wei Guangde, counselor of military affairs. Who mentioned this? Is it him?"

"No, Your Majesty, Wei Guangde's military affairs matter was proposed by Master Yan. At the beginning, I received the ticket and planned to go to the cabinet to ask why."

Huang Jin quickly answered.

"Yan Song? What did he say? What is the attitude of the other people in the cabinet?"

Emperor Jiajing continued to ask after hearing Huang Jin's words.

Huang Jin didn't know what Emperor Jiajing was thinking at this moment, but he felt a little uneasy in his heart and could only explain according to the situation at that time.

"Mr. Xiao Wei is young and has a light official position. Logically speaking, he should not be the position of counselor of military affairs. I went to the cabinet for details because of this.

Ge Lao Yan meant that Wei Guangde was the deputy envoy of the border patrol and now the border patrol was in charge of military affairs. Either he would return to Beijing immediately to report his orders, and other people were sent to assist Weng Shilang, or he would arrange for him to assist in military affairs. The capital would no longer have to send people in the capital.

With the ability of Weng Shilang and the help of Lord Wei, it should not be difficult to handle military affairs. In addition, the counselor of military affairs is mainly because his official position is too low, otherwise it would be impossible for him to be a reviewer of the Hanlin Academy to say something in Xuanfu.

Although he has been added, there should be no mistakes with Lord Weng here. Both adults in the cabinet agree deeply, so they added this paragraph to the vote."

Huang Jin informed Emperor Jiajing of the details he heard in the cabinet. Seeing that Emperor Jiajing had no other expression, there seemed to be no smile on the corner of his mouth. Huang Jin couldn't figure out whether he criticized the winner or not, so he could only lower his head and wait for Emperor Jiajing to say what happened next.

"Haha, Weizhong is very interested. He is very good at taking care of him, a fellow villager, haha."

Emperor Jiajing finally laughed out loud. When he finished speaking, he realized that his master was not angry, but he was not satisfied.

At least, he did not pronounce Yan Song, but used his word Weizhong to call him. He had called Yan Song's name directly and asked him what he wanted to do.

Thinking of this, Huang Jin suddenly realized that this time, Meng Lang was indeed. Can military affairs be authorized to be given at will?

Weng Pu himself is the Minister of War, so it is okay to act as a military affairs, but Wei Guangde is just a review by the Hanlin Academy. The right to grant him the right to counsel military affairs is indeed contrary to the system. Why didn't he expect it at that time?

For those who are not in the Ministry of War, only the emperor can authorize this. He should have suppressed this matter at that time and only gave Weng Pu the power to supervise military affairs. Wei Guangde's affairs should be done after Emperor Jiajing came out of seclusion and depends on the emperor's intention.

Thinking of this, Huang Jin quickly knelt down and bowed: "Your Majesty, I know you're wrong."

"Why did you agree to give me a bonus?"

Emperor Jiajing asked in a plain tone.

"At that time, I heard Master Yan explain that Mr. Weng was on the front line, and that Mr. Wei was just to give him a little bit of a position there."

Speaking of this, Huang Jin stopped talking, but just knelt down and waited for Emperor Jiajing's demise.

After a long time, the emperor on the throne spoke again: "No, I will be the only one. The right to counsel the military affairs must be reported to me first.

Weng Pu, it’s okay, with him here, there should be no trouble."

When Huang Jin heard this, he knew that his mistake had been revealed, but he didn't expect that Weng Pu was quite at the top of the emperor's heart. Emperor Jiajing was quite relieved of him. It was a pity that if he was younger, he might not be able to become the Shangshu.

"Have the Ministry of War reported the Xuanfu war?"

Emperor Jiajing suddenly asked again.

"Yes, one will be delivered in two or three days, but."

Huang Jin answered quickly, but soon he wanted to speak but stopped and didn't know what to say.

"Find it out, you can pick it up and talk about it."

When Emperor Jiajing spoke, Huang Jin quickly got up from the ground, stood beside the imperial desk and took out a few memorials from the middle and lower levels of the memorials, and handed them to Emperor Jiajing respectfully, without stopping, he began to introduce the situation of the Xuanfu war.

"After the Tartars entered the pass, they only attacked Chang'an Station. After that, the brigade was stationed in Yanqing Prefecture and Bao'an Prefecture without further action. They just kept appearing in Huailai, Yongning and other places to investigate the movements of our army."

In the early morning, Wei Guangde followed the baggage convoy to Huailaiwei on the third day. After a day of rest and preparation, they should set off for Huailai County today, waiting for Altan's reaction.

Dong Yiyuan went to Huailaiwei early in the morning. He wanted to select 500 soldiers to join the convoy's guards, ready to set off at any time to leave Huailaiwei and go to Huailai County.

Fortunately, before Wei Guangde left, he finally met the messenger sent by the Datong Army to Juyongguan to submit official documents.

"According to what you said, today the 3,000 Datong Army vanguard should arrive at Yumi's Thousand Houses?"

Wei Guangde found the stopped messenger and asked.

"Yes, sir."

The messenger saw that the official in front of him was young, but there were commanders of Huailaiwei and commanders Tongzhi and others standing next to him. These were all amazing officials. They could only respect themselves in front of this young official. The messenger was not a fool, so he naturally knew that this person was afraid of being very big, so he naturally did not dare to hide it.

"But according to the military newspaper I sent before, the Datong Army should have passed Uezhou ten days ago. Why hasn't the vanguard army arrived at Yumi Qianhu Station for such a long time?"

Wei Guangde had that map in his mind, so he naturally knew that with the speed of the Ming army, he should enter the Xuanfu territory in six or seven days and arrive at the outermost military newspaper Yumei defending the Thousand Houses Office, but it took him ten days to arrive in Datong. There was no doubt that Wei Guangde thought of the possibility that the Datong army was afraid of the enemy and deliberately slowed down his schedule.

"Mr. Report learned that the army was in danger when it left Weizhou and crossed Xiaowutai Mountain. The mountain road was destroyed before. The army was struggling to move forward. It was really necessary to slow down."

The messenger had to explain, but Wei Guangde didn't believe these words very much.

When crossing a mountain road, it means that the mountain road is destroyed. If you cross a river, you will not say that the river water surges and is difficult to cross.

It has been half a month since the Datong Army set out, and it has only been more than 400 miles in total. Although many of them are mountain roads, they are also official roads in general, so the traffic will naturally not be bad. No one can get out of this speed.

After asking a few more questions, I knew that the main force of the Datong Army was going to collect food and grass near Weizhou, and my eyes almost fell out.

Wei Guangde's purpose was to urge the Datong Army to speed up the official documents. It said that they would hoard food and grass in Huailai and let them come to meet as soon as possible. The official documents were white and white.

Wave your hand and let the messenger go on, continue your errands, and send a letter to Juyongguan.

At this time, Wei Guangde wanted to write another letter to Weng Pu, and wanted to write a letter to impeach the Datong army to fear the enemy and delay the opportunity to fight. But in the end, let's forget it and wait until this level is over.

Last night, he planned to set off for Huailai County today. Wei Guangde was planning that the Datong Army should have a trip of three or five days away. He plunged into Huailai County and sent troops from Baoanzhou for about three days. This was the time for the delivery of official documents and preparations for the expedition. When the Baoanzhou army approached Huailai County, the vanguard of the Datong Army would almost have arrived at Huailai Guard.

There were two armies beside him, so Wei Guangde dared to run this trip.

Now, what Weng Pu was worried about before happened. The Datong Army should have deliberately slowed down and was unwilling to arrive at the battlefield too early.

At the current speed, it will take at least seven or eight days for the vanguard of the Datong Army to arrive at Huailaiwei, and this must be because they will not continue to slow down their pace.

After calculating the time a little, Wei Guangde knew that it seemed that it was not the best time to go to Huailai today to expose his whereabouts. He had at least three days to prepare, so he tried to contact the Xuanfu Army in Baoanzhou and agreed on the preparations afterwards.

If we go at this time, when Huailai County encounters the Tartar troops, not only will Bao'anzhou troops come to rescue, but also the Datong Army team will come closer at this time, with two armies on the side, and whether Altan's troops fight or stay should be considered carefully.

After Wei Guangde calculated the time in his mind, he knew that today was not a good time to set off. He immediately called Li Zhen to discuss with him, and then called Dong Yiyuan to make the subsequent arrangements.
Chapter completed!