Chapter 119                                                             

After Ma Fang left.

Tengxiang came.

Zhou Mengchen said, "Brother Teng, why are you here?"

Teng Xiang followed Zhou Mengchen for several days and finally confirmed that he was not Zhou Mengchen's animal. Finally, he decided to move back to his military supervisor's office. He just sent some documents to work in the Governor's Office and copied a copy of all the orders of the Governor's Office to Teng Xiang.

As for whether Tengxiang looks at it or not, it's another matter.

Of course, Zhou Mengchen also made some compromises on this matter.

First of all, Tengxiang had direct troops under his command, not more than 500 people, including one hundred cavalry. Tengxiang enjoyed the treatment of a senior official of the court, and only one of these 500 soldiers was to protect Tengxiang. Tengxiang even arranged the people of his family in the army. Under the care of Zhou Mengchen, he also had a good future.

Of course, Zhou Mengchen also made it clear that he would give Tengxiang the chance. But if it was really useless, he would get a high title and let them protect Tengxiang in the Military Supervisor's Mansion.

Tengxiang was also very satisfied with this.

After all, he is not in the palace now and does not have so many unreasonable thoughts. Tengxiang's Teng family was originally a gateway to extreme poverty. After all, if the family had not been poor to a certain extent, the males in the family would not have been stabbed.

The officers arranged for them are not high now. But in the eyes of the Teng family, it is also very good. After all, they are eating Shangguan grain.

Zhou Mengchen gave Teng Xiang face. Teng Xiang also reciprocates. He doesn't want to express his opinions on the military affairs of Datong, and even looks a bit like a mascot. On the one hand, he acts as the eyes and ears of Jiajing and reports the situation of Datong to the palace without any discount. On the other hand, when Zhou Mengchen's eyeliner, there is something wrong with the palace. Teng Xiang also told Zhou Mengchen.

So, when Zhou Mengchen saw Teng Xiang coming, he felt a little worried. It should be something changed in the palace or Beijing.

Tengxiang said, "Brother Zhou, I am asking questions on behalf of Your Majesty this time."

Zhou Mengchen immediately stood up, with a certain attitude of answering the emperor and his ministers. Tengxiang hurriedly said, "Don't be so nervous. After all, Your Majesty is not here. Let's just sit and talk."

After Zhou Mengchen and Tengxiang sat down, this time Zhou Mengchen gave Tengxiang to the upper leader. Because Tengxiang came on behalf of the emperor.

Tengxiang said, "Your Majesty asked: You proposed the strategy of Master Xu's shallow attack and construction."

Zhou Mengchen said, "Go back to Your Majesty. That's right."

Tengxiang said, "Your Majesty asked: You are so brave. I have long been allowed to mention reconciliation, but now you don't want it?"

Zhou Mengchen said, "I dare not deceive Your Majesty. Although I have the intention to reconcile, I have no power to reconcile. However, now I am defending thousands of miles away from the border, and I am controlled everywhere. I can punch one punch to avoid a hundred punches. I want to force the Tartars to fight me in the name of reconcile. Let the initiative on the battlefield be in our hands. Otherwise, our rank will have millions of troops, and the Tartars will be restrained from leaving the nose. In the next few years, the incident of the war in the capital will probably happen from time to time. The Lord humiliates me and dies. How dare I let Your Majesty humiliate again and again, before this is the worst strategy."

Tengxiang said, "Your Majesty asked: Can you win?"

Zhou Mengchen said: "I dare not say that I can win, I can only say that even if I lose, I will not be defeated."

Tengxiang said, "Your Majesty only has these three questions. The rest are what my ancestors want me to ask you. They are all in the letters." Tengxiang then escaped from his body and handed it to Zhou Mengchen.

After Zhou Mengchen saw it, Huang Jin secretly reminded Jiajing about the spread of the beacon to Beijing. Everyone in the palace was full of dangers. Finally, he reminded Wan to point out that if Zhou Mengchen was not sure, he should not start this battle lightly, and defeat this battle in one battle. Zhou Mengchen's fate would be very worrying.

What Zhou Mengchen didn't know was that in history, Qiu Luan's death did not die in the 29th year of Jiajing's army, but in the 31st year of Jiajing. Jiajing may not know many things about Qiu Luan. However, the reason why Jiajing tolerated Qiu Luan for two years was that he took a fancy to Qiu Luan's ability to fight.

Of course, Jiajing didn't know that all Qiu Luan's victory was on paper. What was the actual situation? Qiu Luan covered it up tightly.

In order to respond to Jiajing's expectations, Qiu Luan called out a very high tone every year after Jiajing twenty-nine years, such as the Northern Expedition of the Tartars, how to deal with the enemy, etc.

But the question is, is it really time to fight, and Qiu Luan is timid.

Jiajing was extremely impatient. He urged several times in a row, and the feeling was almost comparable to the gold medal given to Yue Fei by Emperor Gaozong of Song. Of course, one was going to march and the other was going to retreat. Qiu Luan bragged about it, but he knew very well how much he had. Once he sent troops, he would definitely lose. In the end, Qiu Luan committed suicide.

But now it is different. Zhou Mengchen won two consecutive victories. One was the battle under the city of Beijing and the other was the battle of Baideng. Therefore, Jiajing's heart was even higher.

It means acquiescent to this battle.

You can see from Jiajing's question.

It seems that he asked Zhou Mengchen's head, but the last question revealed Jiajing's heart. "Can you win?" It can be seen that Jiajing still hopes to have a victory that will make him humiliate before the snow.

However, since Jiajing wants to win, then if Zhou Mengchen really defeated, the situation will be very dangerous. Zhou Mengchen's many years of holy relatives may be wiped out. The emperor was such a ruthless political creature. Emperor Jiajing was the most typical mean and ruthless among all emperors.

Huang Jin also thought about Zhou Mengchen’s old love and gave Zhou Mengchen a reminder.

After seeing it, Zhou Mengchen felt a stern heart. He smiled bitterly in his heart. He said to himself: "From now on, I'm afraid I can only go from one victory to another. After all, Emperor Jiajing is especially impatient with the losers."

Zhou Mengchen dared not place his family's lives on Jiajing's nostalgia for not being missed by old love.

Not only this battle in front of us, but all wars will be the same in the future, and victory will not be defeated.

Zhou Mengchen looked calm and said, "Please tell Eunuch Huang, just say that Zhou Mengchen thanked him for his tips."

Tengxiang said: "Actually, the civil officials outside regard us as beasts, but they don't know that they are loyal to the royal family. No one can compare to us. The reason why my godfather reminds me is that he is the official outside, that is, Lord Zhou, you are dedicated to doing things. It is amazing that others are very concerned about doing things. Most of them are dedicated to being officials." Tengxiang paused slightly and said: "This is the original words of the godfather."

Zhou Mengchen knew that Huang Jin said this, but he might not have been unable to bring the relationship closer together. But Zhou Mengchen was still a little moved in his heart. He said: "Eunuch Huang praised it. If he could do things wholeheartedly, it would be great. I would only be 50% interested in being an official and 50% interested in doing things."

If you don’t have the heart to be an official, you can’t do anything without power and status. If you don’t have the heart to do things, Zhou Mengchen doesn’t know what his official position is for?

Tengxiang said, "Brother Zhou, I think you'd still write a letter to tell Your Majesty more. After all, children who cry can have milk. I think you have the right to expose it secretly, but how can you use it? If other officials had such power, they would have written three letters a day long ago. They had to maintain their relationship with Your Majesty. Where did the godfather? All the godfathers have written to you. You won't have a lot of contact."

Zhou Mengchen said: "Tengxiang said, I'll write it now."

Zhou Mengchen had thought about this before, but he did all the tricks and flirted with the words of killing first and then reporting. How could he write to Jiajing? If he didn't say anything about the letter of the letter, he might not have the intention to escape Jiajing. He was determined to let go of his hands and feet in Datong to do things.

Naturally, I am unwilling to let Beijing intervene more.

However, Zhou Mengchen also knew that this time and that time was the same. At this critical moment, he also had to work harder.

So Zhou Mengchen stayed up all night and wrote a memorial, which was a secret memorial. There was also a letter to Huang Jin, and a letter from Fengcheng Hou, Zhang Juzheng, Xu Jie and others. In other words, Zhou Mengchen had already mobilized all his connections and wanted this matter to pass the court resolution.

After doing this, Zhou Mengchen also talked with senior generals of Datong one by one according to the previous plan, talking about various strategic and tactical issues in rebuilding the Yulin Acropolis.
Chapter completed!