Smuggling Daming

In a martial arts field in a military camp outside Xuanfu City, two knights riding two horses, one black and one white, were brandishing long knives to fight. He used all his strength, and there was a murderous look between you and me, as if you wanted to chop the opponent off the horse with a single knife.

The two cavalrymen fighting each other are both extraordinary in martial arts and equally brave, but the knight on the white horse seems to lack actual combat experience, so after several rounds of fighting, he was unaware of the black horse cavalry. It was cut in the back, and he fell off the horse all at once.

"Your Majesty!" Seeing this situation, a fat and white eunuch who was watching immediately shouted loudly, rushed up and helped the fallen knight up. This knight was naturally His Majesty Zhu Houzhao, Emperor of Ming Dynasty. His is Gu Dayong, and the knight fighting with him is Jiang Bin, the most trusted general around him.

"Damn him, please punish him!" Jiang Bin also jumped off his horse and ran over to kneel down.

"What should you die for? This is what I forced you to do with all your strength. If you deliberately lose to me with such bravery, then I will doubt whether your military achievements have been faked." Zhengde stood up with a smile and said. The ground on the ground was relatively soft, and he also knew certain skills when he fell off the horse, so he was not injured, but he was stabbed by Jiang Bin in the back, and it still hurts faintly.

Since Zhengde won the victory in Yingzhou last time, although he was happy for a while, he soon thought of the Mongolian officer who was killed by himself. In all honesty, if the officer was not too careless.Zhengde is likely to die in the hands of the opponent.So since this time.Zhengde forced the generals in the barracks to fight him in order to accumulate actual combat experience. Unfortunately, although those generals dared to kill the enemy on the battlefield, they did not dare to fight against Zhengde. He also deliberately lost to Zhengde, which made Zhengde very angry, and finally he forced Jiang Bin.Let him try his best, otherwise his military power will be taken away, let him start from a small soldier, which makes Jiang Bin very helpless, and in the end he can only fight with Zhengde.

Zhengde stood up and moved around for a few times, then took another sip of water, then got on his horse and held his knife again and said to Jiang Bin: "Again, I feel that I am much stronger than before, maybe after a few days, you will not belong to me." opponent!"

Seeing Zhengde's high spirits.Jiang Bin had no choice but to get on his horse and fight Zhengde again.But this time Zhengde performed very well, and even fought with Jiang Bin for a few more rounds, but in the end he was stabbed in the ribs by Jiang Bin. Although he did not fall this time, if it was on the battlefield, Zhengde was probably stabbed to death by Jiang Bin's knife, so he was still the one who lost this time.

Zhengde has never had much patience in other matters, but he is very patient in martial arts and military affairs. Although he has been defeated repeatedly in confrontations with Jiang Bin, he is not discouraged at all. After all, he is very clear about his situation. In terms of real martial arts, Jiang Bin may not be much better than him, but in terms of actual combat experience, he is much worse than Jiang Bin, a titan who has been fighting on the battlefield for many years, which also makes him unable to show his strength when facing the enemy. If you want to make up for this gap, you can only go through actual combat again and again. After you learn the opponent's experience, you don't have to rely on luck when you encounter the enemy next time on the battlefield. Killed the enemy.

For several months, Zhengde spent time on actual combat exercises with Jiang Bin. Although Zhengde still couldn't beat Jiang Bin most of the time, Zhengde also knocked Jiang Bin off his horse several times, and even made a win-win situation in the end. As a result, Jiang Bin was very happy to tell him that with his current martial arts and battlefield experience, he was definitely not an opponent of Zhengde when he met ordinary Mongolian officers.

On this day, after Zhengde and Jiang Bin fought again for a day, the two returned to the Zhenguo Mansion to take a bath. A part has also been built, and it is now ready for people to live in. As for the remaining part, it is also under intense construction. Zhengde intends to use this township mansion as his home outside the palace.

In a side hall of the Duke's Mansion, Zhengde was sitting on a rocking chair and slowly rocking, Gu Dayong was helping him with a fan, and Jiang Bin was sitting on the side drinking tea. As he ate it, he said, "Jiang Bin, the memorial to my desire to establish a cavalry has been sent to the cabinet, but now the cabinet is firmly opposed, even Wang Qiong does not support me, and my second brother has not yet Express your opinion, do you think our cavalry can still be established?"

When Zhengde asked about the cavalry, Jiang Bin immediately put down his teacup and said, "Your Majesty, those people in the cabinet only care about their immediate interests and can't see His Majesty's long-term plan at all. Although they are all opposed to His Majesty's ideas now, as long as they If His Royal Highness King Zhao can stand on His Majesty's side, he will definitely be able to overwhelm the cabinet and pass His Majesty's resolution, but I don't know what King Zhao's plan is now? Why don't His Majesty write a private letter to King Zhao so that King Zhao can make a decision earlier?"

Jiang Bin hopes to form such a cavalry more than anyone else. After all, he is Zhengde's number one favorite in front of him, and he is familiar with military affairs. If this elite cavalry is established, Zhengde must be a general in name, but with Zhengde's Temperament, and definitely don't like to deal with the complicated affairs of the army, so this cavalry will definitely fall into his own hands in the end.

In fact, Jiang Bin and Zhou Zhong are the same kind of people. They always have a sense of insecurity about their own lives, so they desperately increase their own strength. Zhou Zhong used to mainly increase his financial and material resources, while Jiang Bin is Desperately increase the strength in their hands, but there is no essential difference between these two methods of increasing strength, only in this way can they sleep well.

Hearing Jiang Bin's words, Zhengde gave a very rare wry smile and said: "I have already written to my second brother, and he should reply to me after some time, but there is still no news about it now, it is estimated that he may I don’t agree with my ideas either.”

"Your Majesty, this old slave feels that His Royal Highness Zhao Wang can't be blamed for this. Now the cabinet is twisted together to oppose His Majesty's establishment of elite cavalry. Although His Highness Zhao Wang is the supervisor of the country, if the cabinet wholeheartedly opposes it, His Royal Highness Zhao Wang must have nothing to do." At this time, Gu Dayong suddenly spoke to help Zhou Zhong.

"That's true. Although the second brother was appointed by me as the supervisor, his power is still limited by the cabinet. Now the cabinet is unanimously opposed. Even if he wants to help me, I'm afraid he can't think of a good way." Zhengde also heard this. Can't help talking to himself.

"Your Majesty, I heard that the Governor's Mansion of the Four Seas founded by His Royal Highness Zhao Wang manages the sea trade, and the profit of the sea trade is the most lucrative. However, the taxes paid to the court every year are very considerable, so can His Royal Highness Zhao pay these taxes to the government? Give it to us, and then use it to build a cavalry, I believe that with this money, it should be enough for us to build a cavalry." At this time, Jiang Bin still suggested with some reluctance, when he was in Beijing before, he felt that Zhou Zhong was everywhere. As for himself, now that he has a chance, he naturally wants to cause some trouble for Zhou Zhong, and even if he can divorce the brotherhood between Zhengde and Zhou Zhong, it will make him even happier.

But it's a pity that although Jiang Bin is good at fighting, he doesn't know anything about government affairs, otherwise he wouldn't have made such an idiotic suggestion, so this time he didn't need Gu Dayong to speak for Zhou Zhong, Zhengde immediately laughed Dao: "Although the second brother founded the Governor's Mansion of the Four Seas, the taxes in the Governor's Mansion have to be handed over to the national treasury. If we want money, we must first convince the cabinet, and only if the cabinet agrees, the Ministry of Households will allocate money to us.”

Jiang Bin didn't expect that the steps of using money in the court were so strict, which made him blush, and he didn't dare to say any more.But Gu Dayong next to him took a deep look at him, and a sneer could not help but appear on the corner of his mouth.Gu Dayong is a caring person around Zhengde. He knows more about Zhengde than anyone else. For example, he is the third person in the palace who knows about Zhengde's infertility besides Zhengde and Queen Mother Zhang. So He knew that Daming's country would fall into the hands of King Zhao or his son sooner or later, so he would never stand on the opposite side of Zhou Zhong, and even if he had the opportunity, he would try his best to please Zhou Zhong in order to To be able to keep the current position in the future.

"If the proposal to establish an elite cavalry is rejected by the cabinet, those greedy Mongols will definitely come again after recuperating for a few years. In the future, our Ming's frontier will never be peaceful." Zhengde said with a look of hatred at the end Well, after the last war, he finally had a sense of responsibility towards Daming, and he never wanted his people to die at the hands of a foreign race, that's why he said such heartbreaking words.

"Your Majesty, the matter has not been settled yet. His Royal Highness Zhao Wang may be working hard on this matter. Maybe in a few days, this matter will turn around, so please rest assured, Your Majesty!" While helping Zhou Zhong to speak, while comforting Zhengde, although he didn't spend much time with Zhou Zhong, Gu Dayong always had a feeling that he couldn't see through this magical His Royal Highness Zhao Wang, and maybe even Zhou Zhong really The cabinet can be persuaded to agree to establish an elite cavalry.

"I hope so!" Although Zhengde also knows that his brother is outstanding, the cabinet is notoriously tough. Zhengde didn't have much confidence in Zhou Zhong, but what Zhengde didn't expect was that a few days later, he received a surprise from Zhou Zhong. (To be continued..)