"What do you mean, Your Majesty?"

"I don't know, I really don't know."

"Raise five hundred troops, and those who are determined will come to the capital. What a willing person."

"Your Majesty, are you really not afraid of chaos in the world?"

"Haha, the world is not chaotic enough? Hundreds of thousands of troops have gathered in Jifu. Who dares to cause chaos in the world? In order to avoid liquidation, the two loyal dogs of Dongchang Jinyiwei are staring at me like crazy. Even if they are talking in sleep, they will probably escape.

It’s not out of your Majesty’s eyes and ears.”

"Even the First Emperor and the Queen Mother..."

"Be careful what you say, don't be the chicken that kills the chicken to scare the monkeys!"

"Our new Majesty's methods are really terrifying. He has already controlled the situation to such an extent in just a short time since he took the throne. He uses the external pressure brought by Oara to balance all parties."

"It is simply unheard of that using chaos to control chaos can have such an effect."

"Times make heroes, and only true heroes can do it to this extent."

"Your Majesty probably also knows that the war has started with the invasion of Wala. Even if we are dissatisfied, we dare not make false statements and cause chaos in the court."

"Why do I feel that His Majesty is a little worried about the world being in chaos?"

"Breaking and then establishing has caused us and other ministers to be wary and suspicious of each other. Or is it just deliberately tempting us to make mistakes? Who knows what happened to the notes everyone handed over? Is it a list of beheadings, or should I and other ministers write it in person?

beheading list."

"Can it be right?"

"Do you dare to be right?"

I definitely wouldn't dare to do that. If I really wanted to get the list right, I would be committing the crime of deceiving the emperor.

The funeral of the Empress Dowager was said to be simple, but necessary specifications were still in place.

However, when Zhou Yu's decree came out, the vassal kings everywhere were a little confused. Five hundred soldiers?

Hmm...

You must know that when the current emperor was still King Xi, he only had 350 personal guards.

Of course, for a prince living in the capital, 350 personal guards are completely enough, but for princes in other fiefdoms, this number of people may not be enough.

From the time when Zhu Yunwen came to the throne, the life of the vassal kings in various places was not easy. First, they were weakened by Zhu Yunwen. After Zhu Di launched the Jingnan and became the emperor, he also continued to weaken the vassal kings in various places. After all, Zhu Di knew very well how he was.

How could someone who became an emperor not be wary of other vassal kings?

Judging from the situation at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, a normal vassal king could have a private army of between 5,000 and 12,000 people. However, after Zhu Di, only two people could maintain such a situation, namely Zhao at that time.

The king and the king of Han.

Later, at this time of Zhou Yu, the vassal kings in various places, even if they had more private soldiers, only had more than a thousand people. The situation was no longer the same as before. This is visible on the surface, but it cannot be seen.

No one can tell how much of the human part there is, and don’t really think of the current feudal lords as the kind of gatekeeper princes who once were able to guard one place. Except for a very few, they also shoulder the responsibility of guarding an entire place.

Apart from that, everyone else has almost been raised as trash.

Zhou Yu ordered that the vassal kings from all over the country be allowed to come to the capital to observe mourning for the empress dowager. However, it was not out of good intentions to allow these people to bring no more than 500 soldiers, but to prepare to further weaken the power of these vassal kings in other ways.

The strength, only five hundred men, may not be too much for each feudal king, but if you add them all up, Zhou Yu will have a large number of usable soldiers on hand in the blink of an eye.

The ministers really didn't know Zhou Yu's true plan, and they were somewhat confused about the current changes, but there were inevitably some minor complaints among the whispers.

Ever since the Empress Dowager's mourning hall was built, Zhou Yu has been staying in the mourning hall and rarely leaving. No matter what, no one can find any problem with Zhou Yu when there are no other important matters to delay it. According to the simplicity set by the Ministry of Rites

What to do at a funeral, even if it’s simple

But it is also necessary to follow the proper procedures. Simplification only allows Zhou Yu and many courtiers to spend more time on other things, and eliminates some unnecessary red tape so that the courtiers do not have to do those formal things, let alone

Continue to expand things beyond the palace.

On the second day after the death of the Empress Dowager, it was just over a day. For many ministers, apart from the need to offer incense and kowtow, and wear mourning clothes, there was nothing else that they needed to care about, let alone what the army should do.

Nothing could be done to prevent the death of the Empress Dowager from causing other consequences.

After the third day, clan kings from various places began to come to the capital, so Zhou Yu had some extra things to do. To meet these clan kings and clansmen from various places, everyone had to come over to meet Zhou Yu, but most of them could not say a word.

The sentence will be sent to the mourning hall.

As for Zhou Yu himself, apart from going there sooner or later, he spent most of his time in the Wenhua Palace handling official duties. The death of the Empress Dowager also brought about some changes.

For example, the Great Khan of Wala, Tuo Tuo Bu Hua, sent people to bring gifts and wrote a letter asking for peace. On the other side, the army outside Zijing Pass also stopped its offensive and started to retreat.

After discussion, Yu Qian and the Ministry of War both believed that they had suffered little losses in the attack on Zijingguan, and the main force was not greatly affected by this. Now that they had been unable to attack Zijingguan for a long time, they already knew the situation of the other two armies.

, knew that the Wala Middle Route Army had been defeated, and had been harassed by Yang Hong's leader and did not dare to increase the offensive on Zijingguan.

In order to avoid greater losses and to avoid being trapped, they will inevitably choose to retreat. If Yang Hong is sent to block the retreat first, he may not be able to block it. After all, the disparity in strength between the two sides is too large and it is impossible for Yang Hong to really stay first.

If you want to retreat first, you will definitely try to deal with the biggest threat now, the cavalry led by Yang Hong, and then you can retreat with confidence.

After asking Zhou Yu for instructions, Yu Qian immediately made new combat arrangements and sent people to Yang Hong immediately, so that Yang Hong would not have a head-on conflict with Yexian's army. If he also evacuated all the way first, he would only need to harass him from the side.

In order to avoid falling into Ye Xian's trap, you can also arrange traps in advance on the final route of Ye Xian's army to evacuate. You can only make sneak attacks but not fight.

This chapter is not over yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading! The battlefield is changing so quickly. Even if Zhou Yu wants to continue to consume Wala's living power and directly let him die under Zijin Pass, he can't do it.

After all, he was not a fool and chose to evacuate as soon as he realized that something was impossible and might put himself in danger.

Ye Xian's decisiveness somewhat disrupted some of Zhou Yu's arrangements and plans.

The war continued to change day by day, and various new news would be delivered to Zhou Yu's hands every day.

He also gave up the attack on Zijingguan and retreated north from the original route. During the evacuation, he encountered Yang Hong's troops and set up an attack and lost thousands of people. Yang Hong seemed to have learned something and only harassed instead of fighting head-on. He occupied the location in advance and laid many traps for them.

We encountered a lot of troubles on the way back first.

After that, the army first arrived under Yu County, stayed within the boundaries of Yu County for one day, and then evacuated towards Datong. However, it took another half a month for the Oara army to withdraw outside the Great Wall.

At this time, it can be said that the biggest crisis caused by the failure of the Tumubao battle has been basically resolved, but there are still many, many things waiting for Zhou Yu to do. Although Wala retreated, it was not considered a victory, let alone a victory.

At the end, everything must be handled according to priority.

In the eyes of everyone, the most important thing now is of course the funeral of the Empress Dowager. Wala's withdrawal can be said to be the best funeral for the Empress Dowager. It took nearly a month to send the Empress Dowager to the imperial mausoleum.

, and then various matters such as rewards can be implemented according to some arrangements made in advance.

No matter what Zhou Yu thought, the courtiers and the soldiers who fought for the Ming Dynasty did not think there was any problem with it. Anyway, the funeral of the Empress Dowager was the most important thing. If there was also the funeral of the late emperor, it would not be a problem.

There was no problem, but even though everyone seemed to agree that the late emperor had died in the battle, no minister came forward to say what kind of funeral ceremony would be held for Baozong.

As for the vassal princes and clans, they all anxiously requested permission to leave after the Empress Dowager was sent to the imperial mausoleum. Zhou Yu let them all go after hosting a banquet for all the vassal princes and clans who came to express condolences.

After that, there are the rewards for the rewards, the promotions for the promotions, and the rewards for the rewards.

The next step is to rectify the border defense. Although the Oara has withdrawn from the Great Wall, the passes that were previously breached also need to be repaired. The border defense force must be strengthened to prevent the Oara from breaking into the Great Wall again.

As soon as the imperial edict of this reward was announced, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue requested that the generals and elite troops who had made contributions in this war and were able to conquer the war should be kept in the capital to strengthen the defense of the capital. He did not mention anything about rectifying the border defense and strengthening the border defense force.

, completely contrary to Zhou Yu's plan, and was refuted on the spot by Yu Qian and other sensible ministers, almost failing to stage a real-person PK at the level of a minister.

If you are not a fool, you should know how important border defense is, but Shangshu of the Ministry of Finance is right about one thing, the capital does need elite troops to stay behind.

In just a few days, Zhou Yu, the Ministry of War and the cabinet discussed a complete deployment. With Juyongguan, Xuanfu, Datong, Jingshi, Zijingguan and other key border areas as the main core, they organized border defense and established a complete defense system to strengthen propaganda.

Deployment of guards at Mansion, Datong and the Great Wall at the frontier, increasing garrison strength, training military horses, repairing cities and other tasks.

Now all the troops around the entire capital will be redeployed, and a new line of defense will begin to be established outside the Great Wall. At the same time, one hundred thousand elites will be selected to rebuild the three battalions based on the original backbone of the three battalions. Zhou Yu himself will

Lead the army to defend the capital.

These measures were all aimed at stabilizing the border defense and the capital. The battle in the capital was considered a victory, and the counterinsurgency in the coastal areas also went very smoothly.

Compared to the army in Oara, the rebels along the coast can only be regarded as a bunch of rabble. They are much easier to deal with than those in Oara, and good news will come back from time to time.

After working hard for a while, Zhou Yucai reminded the courtiers of the prisoners in Oala.

"Your Majesty, now that the war has ceased, the great Khan of the Wala, Tuo Tuo Tuo, has written many times to admit his mistake. I hope that your majesty can release the tens of thousands of Wala soldiers and the Prime Minister of the Wala, Alazhiyuan, who were captured by our Ming Dynasty. He is also willing to offer ten war horses.

Tens of thousands of cattle and sheep were offered as an apology, and Alazhiyuan also repeatedly requested to see His Majesty."

The sudden reminder reminded Zhou Yu of the captured Alazhiyuan, and Zhou Yu had some impression of this person.

Moreover, there is still a deep conflict between Alazhiyuan and Ye Xian. Not only Alazhiyuan, but also Ye Xian and the Great Khan of Ou Tuo Tuo Bu Hua have always been in conflict.

The Ming Dynasty had used the conflicts between them to drive a wedge between them before. First, Tuotuo Buhua and both of them had received rewards from the Ming Dynasty. However, even so, the nature of these Wala people was still greedy.

They will pounce on them like hungry wolves, but let alone the Ming Dynasty, even the various tribes of Ou La will also have conflicts due to interests.

In Wala, Totuo Buhua was the Great Khan, and he was also the Grand Master first, and Alazhiyuan ranked third as the Prime Minister.

And although Ye Xian is not a big sweat, he has the strongest power. Even if he is a big sweat like Tuo Tuo Bu Hua, it depends on Ye Xian's face and situation to a certain extent.

According to history, he later killed Totu Buhua himself and became the Great Khan, and then gave the position of Grand Master to his son Asha Timur, which caused the dissatisfaction of the Alazhiyuan.

Later, the two sons of Alazhiyuan were poisoned to death out of suspicion, which led Alazhiyuan to lead the left-wing tribes of Oara and the right-wing tribes of Oara led by Boyan Timur to join forces with 30,000 troops to attack Yexian, and finally

Kill him first.

In other words, Alazhiwon was the first to be hit by disaster, but there was no good outcome for Alazhiwon, and he was ultimately defeated and killed.

With this information flashing through his mind, Zhou Yu looked at Yu Qian: "All the Ora soldiers we captured belong to the Alazhiyuan tribe?"

Yu Qian bowed and responded: "Your Majesty, most of the captives are from the Alazhiyuan tribe, and a small number are members of other tribes. These tens of thousands of young men are also extremely important to these tribes."

Zhou Yu nodded slowly: "Then you tell me whether to let this person go or not."

"It doesn't matter if we let it go or not." Yu Qian was the first to answer: "But Wala is willing to use 100,000 war horses, cattle and sheep as an apology, and the Ming Dynasty can also further ask Wala to return the captive people of the Ming Dynasty in exchange.

If we don't let these people stay, it won't be of much use. If we let them go, we can let them publicize His Majesty's benevolence in Wala."

Yu Qian's idea is actually the idea of ​​others. One hundred thousand horses and countless cattle and sheep are very good. If they can be exchanged for the people of the Ming Dynasty, it will be a great achievement. Keeping them is a waste of food.

If you want to say kill, you really can't kill. There are reports of unknown killings and prisoners, but the most important thing is that this killing will probably lead to a deadly battle with Wala every time.

Zhou Yu sighed softly: "Forget it, let it go."
Chapter completed!