The ruthless emperor in the late Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 267 The Chief of Generals
"Bah, mother, what the hell, do you really regard yourself as a feudal official?"

"Yes, this old thing clearly wants to ride on us again, the general must not show him the military order."

Looking at Hou Xun who left in a huff, all the young generals, colonels and lieutenants in the government hall cursed one after another, completely ignoring Hou Xun, the former Minister of the Household Department and the current Protectorate.

Similarly, not only did all the generals and soldiers of the Fourth Army not have the slightest awe of the envoy of the Anton Protectorate, but they had a deep loathing on the contrary.

There is no way, as long as the generals and veterans who came from the Chongzhen Dynasty, there is no one who does not hate the civil servants, even the recruits from the Shenwu Dynasty have little affection for the civil servants.

And Huang Degong, as the chief military officer of the Chongzhen Dynasty in the past, even though he was born in the army of the Son of Heaven, he was not uncomfortably angry with civil officials in Jiangnan, so he naturally didn't want to let civil officials ride on his head and do his best.

Similarly, all the generals in the Shenwu Dynasty now don't want to live the days of being suppressed by civil officials.

The reason why the towns and legions obeyed the red lady was because firstly, the red lady was the emperor's favorite woman, and secondly, the red lady was the leader of the military generals, and she was the most powerful leader in protecting everyone's interests in front of the emperor. backbone.

Coupled with the fact that she is pregnant with the emperor's heir, if such a special status were placed in other dynasties, it can be said that the current Hong Niangzi has seriously threatened the emperor.

If the emperor really wants to repress military generals again and restore the previous style of suppressing martial arts with literature, once Hong Niangzi stands up to oppose, or even directly wants to abolish the emperor and establish another son, who will the commanders of the armies and the commanders of the towns support? Hard to say.

After all, this is related to the core interests of all warriors, even future generations.

Of course, this kind of threat does not exist at all now, because the Jiangwu Hall makes up for it very well.

Although the chief generals of various armies and towns may stand on the side of Hong Niangzi, the students in the martial arts hall will definitely stand firmly on the side of Emperor Zhu Cihong.

In addition, the current logistics, ordnance, military law, drills, etc. have all been controlled by the students in the martial arts hall, especially the ideological education of ordinary soldiers.

This has led to the current field army, the generals who command the troops only have the right to command the troops, and all other rights are deprived.

If the head of the legion and the commander-in-chief want to rebel and disobey the emperor's order, not only will no one follow them, but they will be taken down immediately.

Although the students in the martial arts hall were on the same line as other generals in terms of civil and military disputes, but when there was a conflict with the emperor on this point, the students would not hesitate to side with the emperor.

Not to mention other things, just because they are the emperor's direct disciples, it is destined that they and the emperor have already been bound together, and they will be prosperous and both will be prosperous.

Just ask, if the emperor is changed, will the new emperor continue to reuse the disciples who trusted the old emperor?
The answer is definitely no, and he will be on guard against suppression everywhere, the emperor will only train his disciples again.

This set of teacher-student bondage, which has evolved into a bondage of interests and future, is undoubtedly more reliable than pure loyalty to the emperor.

This is also the reason why Zhu Cihong had never guarded against the red lady before, because he didn't need it, he couldn't do things like other emperors, such as crossing rivers and demolishing bridges, hiding birds and hiding bows, cooking rabbits and dogs, and releasing military power with a glass of wine.

Of course, no emperor is really willing to do such a thing, but limited by his ability and vision, he has to do so to stabilize the imperial power.

He believed that if Zhao Kuangyin and Lao Zhu had known the role of the Royal Military Academy, they would never have chosen to suppress generals.

In fact, Lao Zhu has learned the lesson of Lao Zhao. Although he killed the arrogant soldiers, he did not blindly suppress the warriors. It was only the flaws in the system, coupled with the battle of the civil fort, which made the status of the Ming army and generals in the later period Even Song Jun and Song General are inferior.

At this moment in the official hall, looking at Hou Xun who fled away in a huff, although Huang Degong didn't yell like other generals, his face was livid with anger.

From his point of view, Hou Xun's intention was to make things difficult for him. He had never intervened in the government affairs of the Duhu Mansion.

As soon as Hou Xun came, he took the initiative to hand over the matter of building the city. As long as he was not in the military, the craftsmen, young and strong, were directly handed over to Hou Xun to manage, and the grasslands of the tribes were also allocated by Hou Xun with civil officials.

Even if there was a conflict between the two tribes, he was the first to find him to solve it, but he took the initiative to avoid suspicion and let Hou Xun handle it.

But sending troops to destroy the Tartar tribe who just moved to Hetao was purely a military operation. Now Hou Xun not only wanted to intervene, but also deliberately made things difficult. Obviously he had bad intentions and wanted to ride on the heads of their generals again.

Even if Huang Degong didn't want to tear himself apart with him, he would never compromise on this matter.

"General, with a tribe of ten thousand people, it doesn't matter if the cavalry from Tumed's troops participate. According to the general, we don't need to look at Hou Xun's face at all."

"That's right, this military order was issued by the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and it must not be shown to him, otherwise there must be two."

Seeing Huang Degong's gloomy face and not speaking, everyone was really afraid that he would compromise, so they said again.

However, no one dared to directly call the Mongolian cavalry to participate in the battle without Hou Xun as the envoy.

As for the request for the memorial, no one raised it either. After all, if it were to be presented, I am afraid that ghosts would know that there was a civil and military rift in the Anton Governor's Mansion.

The emperor's heart is unpredictable, and now that the world has settled down, no one knows the emperor's true attitude towards military generals and civil officials, but there are examples from all dynasties.

Therefore, everyone was extremely resistant to bringing this kind of civil and military discord to the emperor, fearing that the emperor would take the opportunity to suppress the generals.

"Although the imperial concubine's military order says that there is only one small tribe with ten thousand people, it has been so long, An Neng knows if there will be another tribe migrating here?

What's more, the empress has clearly stated that the horses, cattle, sheep, women and children captured in this battle will be rewarded to the Tumed Ministry. If they don't participate in the war, will it be possible for us to give them for free when we return? "

Huang Degong said slowly, he knew that although there was no explanation in the military order, the real meaning of the empress was that it was best to use the cavalry of Tumote's troops as the main force for this battle.

As for why this is the case, he generally understands a little bit, so if he only uses the cavalry from the Tumed department as a supplement, the empress will probably not say anything, but if he completely ignores the Tumed department, the empress will definitely be unhappy of.

What's more, although he didn't take those Mongolian tribes seriously, it would definitely be safer if thousands of Tumed cavalry participated.

As for whether this military order is the empress's own intention, or His Majesty's intention, in fact, he can't figure it out.

After all, he didn't know if His Majesty was in Beijing or went to Nanjing again.

"Then what should we do? Is it possible that we really want to make another request?"

"I'll talk to Mr. Hou first. If it doesn't work, I can only ask for an order." Huang Degong thought about it, waved his hands, and then left the hall.

Although the generals didn't say any more, they all asked Hou Xun's eighteen generations of ancestors in their hearts.

Fortunately, the imperial concubine did not give them a time limit in terms of military orders.

(End of this chapter)