open sea

Chapter 285
In April of the fifth year of Longqing, the emperor issued an edict to confer Alda as the King of Shunyi, and all the chiefs of his subordinates were also commanded by the governor, with thousands of households and hundreds of households. Take a big step.

At the conferment ceremony in Datong, Xuanda governor Wang Chonggu, like the winner of a great battle, announced the decree for the imperial court to confer Alta as king, because the Ming court spared his grandson Bahan, and vowed never to offend Xuanda again.

In fact, Wang Chonggu did win a big battle. Without the support of the cabinet minister Gao Gong, Wang Chonggu would have resigned because of people's words as early as the beginning of mentioning the tribute, and there would be no tribute today.

Even though the tribute was completed, although the officials in the court did not dare to disobey the cabinet minister's intentions, some people still said that Wang Chonggu was in private with the Tatars, relaxed the border defense to facilitate the enemy, and said that he was a treacherous minister.

But in the history that Chen Mu knew, the Alda tribute initiated by Wang Chonggu was the beginning of peace in the northern border of the Ming Dynasty, and it lasted until the end of the Ming Dynasty, and even provided the Qing Dynasty with ideas for governing the north of the Great Wall.

As Xuanda's military commanders, Chen Mu and Ma Fang showed their faces at the tribute ceremony, and then the two general soldiers, one old and one young, rode out of the city to the fields where no one knew, and asked the cavalry to pull out their vigilance. While drinking farmhouse shochu, they exchanged opinions on military textbooks.

"I've seen Zongbing Chen's proposal. I thought I was already strict enough with my subordinates, but I didn't expect Zongbing Chen to be even stricter." Ma Fang's expression was the same as his words, and he was full of respect for a young man like Chen Mu. Appreciation and admiration, "All I think about is how to train soldiers, but General Chen wants to train generals, eh... have to pour it out?"

As Ma Fang spoke, she looked at Chen Muzheng's hand pouring wine into the wine bowl, and with her mouth curled up, she muttered something. She picked up another wine pot and drank it directly, saying to herself: "In the past few years, It’s always a policeman, Ma has been drinking less, if I want to pay tribute in the future, I will ask all the frontier fortresses to ask for it one by one.”

"The old man's heart is becoming increasingly cloudy, no more than you youngsters."

Speaking of which, Ma Fang turned her head, looked at Chen Mu and asked very seriously: "Chen Zongbing, tell me, will you stop fighting in the future?"

On Ma Fang's sagging, weathered and scarred face, Chen Mu saw not only the hope for peace, but also the confusion about the future.

Just as Chen Mu was thinking about how to answer, Ma Fang had already said to himself: "The old man was living in the grassland at the age of eight. He has never studied social studies or read military books. He drives a bow and a horse with a bent wood, and his horse is sloppy..."

"The general doesn't have to act like a martyr in his twilight years. He can still fight and always will."

"A few days ago, Mr. Gao Ge was not a frontier general who passed on the text, saying that if you don't rely on others, you will not commit crimes, but if you rely on me not to commit crimes; if you don't rely on others to deceive you, rely on me not to deceive you. I think that's what he meant when he said self-improvement. "

When it came to Gao Gong, Ma Fang didn't admire it as much as Chen Mu did. He put down the jug, tilted his head and raised his arms from bottom to top, and said, "They're all fools! If you can trust me, you should hit him. , the three-way vehicles rode out of Xuan, Da, and Shan, and the cavalry interspersed to encircle, outflank and destroy, and let the whole damn floor rise outside the Great Wall!"

Oh, Chen Mu understands. It turns out that the place name Bansheng is a verb for the old general.

What could Chen Mu say? He put down the wine bowl and cupped his fists and said, "The general is right, the whole fucking floor is raised, raise your breath!"

"It's not that you can't raise your spirits. The great Ming Dynasty is like a money bag. The northerners have no food or money, so they come south to grab it. Kill your father and brother, step on the grave of your ancestors, and in the end you have to do business with him! I don't mean that business is not good. No need to die, the old man also agrees with the peace agreement in the memorial sent to the imperial court, that's what's in his heart."

Ma Fang shook her head, gritted her teeth and beard stained with wine, and beat the armor on her chest, saying: "It's not fun."

Chen Mu thought so.

Some of Ma Fang's family members died when the Mongols invaded in the early years of Jiajing, and their parents were separated due to the war. When Alta invaded, Mongolian soldiers swept the Ming Dynasty imperial tombs.It was the war that shaped their generation, the southern Japanese and the northern captives, all of this generation have suffered deeply.

Let them make peace, they are not comfortable.

Chen Mu felt uncomfortable when he heard it, but he didn't know what to say to comfort Ma Fang.

"People say that the old man is victorious in all battles. In fact, when the old man loses, he can be brave for a while, but no matter how brave he is, he will grow old. When he is old, the side troubles have not subsided."

As Ma Fang was talking, shaking the empty flagon, he threw it aside boredly, shook his head and said to Chen Mu: "Let's talk about the martial arts hall. I don't have much knowledge, but I can understand the meaning of the martial arts hall. Rest and rest to accumulate national power, guard The frontier is even better than the north, and this generation of the old man can only entrust the heavy responsibility to you."

This is what surprised Chen Mu the most. He thought that the meritorious generals at this time would not support the lecture hall. It is not a bad thing for civil servants to set up a lecture hall, but for military officers with vested interests, the lecture hall will definitely affect The room for improvement for their descendants, but they didn't expect Ma Fang's words to be more important than Chen Mu's.

"Does the general really think that the lecture hall can take on important responsibilities?" Chen Mu drank a bowl of wine, and then said incoherently: "The younger generation thought that the generals in the army would not like the junior officers to learn more."

"fart!"

Ma Fang smiled and scolded, and asked very seriously: "I don't know which general Chen Zongbing is talking about. It is the general of the Yu family who has become a general from Baihu, the general of the Qi family who directed his affairs and became a general, and the slave. Ma, who is the general? Or Xiaoqi, the Chen family who is the general?"

Ma Fang was happy while talking, and said, "Yes, you are not a general yet."

These generals who alone lead the generals of a town all have the position of governor, that is, the title of the ancient general, but Chen Mu does not have one, so although his authority is great, his status is slightly inferior to others, which is due to his lack of qualifications reason.

He is lucky.

"From hereditary commanders to hereditary hundreds of households, they are all the generals Chen Zongbing said. They are not the ones who are taught in the martial arts hall. They don't like to learn more because they are so smart." Ma Fang raised his fingers left and right. : "As for those boys, if it is not for the martial arts hall, I would not bother to teach if I begged the old man to teach!"

Master Ma has a great capacity for alcohol, he drank a pot of shochu as if he hadn't drunk, his eyes sparkled and his tongue didn't tie up, he raised his hand and slapped his forehead and said, "I forgot the business, two things. The rule is to teach in the army. It doesn’t work to just teach and learn, but you have to select talented generals to set up a special battalion, and the old and new phases will be rotated between the old and the new, and they will bear each other’s testimonials.”

"The second thing is that compiling a book is too difficult. It's easy for me to lead troops, but I can't do that when I write it out. Datong has two great generals under his command, and Ma has the best ability to control cavalry. They are transferred to General Chen's subordinates. Let’s help the general compile the book, what’s the name of the cavalry one, and the teaching material, let’s compile it together with General Chen.”

As Ma Fang said, he waved to the left and right, and his braided family member dismounted and ran over, and Ma Fang said: "Call the brothers Ma Jin and Ma Gui, and let them come to see Zong Bing Chen."

　One more chapter for everyone, it will be even harder to follow!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)