In the Hall of Heaven's Tribute, everyone was silent.
Previously, the officials would think of using the ancestral laws to suppress the imperial power.
However, at this moment, they suddenly lost the thing that could hinder the imperial power.
Zhu Youtang is arbitrary, rewards and punishments are clear, and his heart is like a mirror.
He didn't hesitate to bear the infamy of violating the ancestral system to support Yang Yiqing.
Why?
In order to let the officials know what his attitude towards the war was!
In the near future, he and the Tartars would have an ultimate confrontation that involved hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
If they lost their morale now, how could they fight?
Yang Yiqing could not fall. Zhu Youtang needed him, and so did Jiubian.
At this moment, the civil and military officials gradually understood Zhu Youtang.
He didn't want his reputation, nor did he want to become an emperor for eternity. Even if he had to bear the infamy of a tyrant, he wanted to complete his chess game.
That's right, Zhu Youtang was playing a big game of chess, a big game of chess that planned the world!
The officials gradually understood that internal strife would only annoy Zhu Youtang, and the result would be like the left deputy censor Zheng Shi, demoted and exiled!
"The cabinet has voted to promote Yang Yiqing as the Left Vice Imperial Censor and continue to manage the nine sides for me.”
This was a tacit agreement for Yang Yiqing to kill the captives and whip the slaves.
With Zhu Youtang's words, Yang Yiqing could go all out without any scruples.
"Retreat."
……
When Zhu Youtang released the signal to Yang Yiqing, he also released the signal to Ma Wensheng.
There were some words that the emperor did not need to say.
Zhu Youtang wouldn't repeat what he said once and for all.
At this moment in the Ministry of War.
Ma Wensheng was ready to go to the western border.
Beside him.
The former Minister of Works, Liu Daxia, was transferred to the Ministry of War to take over Ma Wensheng's position in the capital.
In this one month of power transfer, Ma Wensheng told Liu Daxia everything about the Ministry of War.
"Brother Ma, we won't meet much on this trip to Xicui.”
Liu Daxia's eyes were filled with tears.
Ma Wensheng nodded and said solemnly,""The emperor entrusted this important task to me, and today, he raised his arms and shouted in the court.”
"I, Ma, have the ability. If I don't sincerely drive out the Tartars for the country, I swear I'm not a human!”
The signal that Zhu Youtang released during the morning court session reassured Ma Wensheng.
He was touched.
The emperor treated me as a Kingdom Scholar, and I will return the emperor a territory that stretches 1,500 miles to the west!
Ma Wensheng didn't say too many sad words. He hid them in his stomach, carried his luggage, and brought his family to the western border of the Ming Dynasty, Hami!
That place had been the territory of Great Ming for generations.
Now, a Turpan foreign state with more than 50,000 people was trying to challenge the Ming Dynasty's bottom line.
In other dynasties, the emperor did not punish them, but it did not mean that it was the same in Hongzhi Dynasty!
Ma Wensheng left the capital.
On the way to Xichui, he went to Jiubian.
He arrived at Jiubian Datong Prefecture half a month later with Zhu Youtang's imperial edict.
……
In this half a month, Yang Yiqing had been urgently setting up fortifications on the nine sides.
The weak points of the Ming Great Wall were strengthened.
With money, everything could be done with half the effort.
Apart from that, Yang Yiqing also ordered the military craftsmen to repair the long-lost weapons of the Great Ming, such as the Crouching Tiger Cannon, handgun, flintlock, Divine Fire Flying Crow, and so on.
In this half a month, Yang Yiqing had arranged everything in an orderly manner.
He knew that he might not have much time left in Jiubian.
"Commander, the imperial edict is here."
Yang Yiqing was stunned. What was supposed to come had come.
"Go receive the decree!"
Yang Yiqing didn't dare to be negligent. He led the officials of Da Tong Prefecture and opened the city gates.
Seeing an old acquaintance, Yang Yiqing was stunned again.
But Ma Wensheng didn't make small talk. Business was more important, and the emperor's decree was more important than anything else.
"Commander of Datong, Ambassador of the Nine Borders, Imperial Censor Zuo Qian of the Imperial Censorate, receive the decree!”
"Your subject, Yang Yiqing, accepts the decree!"
" The Emperor has decreed that Yang Yiqing, the Left Imperial Censor of the Imperial Censorate, has defeated the enemy and consolidated the northern border. He is hereby promoted to the Left Deputy Imperial Censor of the Imperial Censorate…"
After Yang Yiqing heard the imperial edict, he was a little stunned.
"Lord Yang, are you still not going to accept the decree?"
Ma Wensheng said.
Gone?
It was gone!
Yang Yiqing was stunned.
His Majesty did not mention anything about him killing the captives and flogging the slaves. Instead, he promoted him to the left deputy censor.
This…
"Brother Yang, long time no see."
Ma Wensheng sighed.
It had been three years since they last met.
"Brother Ma, what are you doing?" Yang Yiqing looked at Marvin Sheng suspiciously.
Ma Wensheng's face showed some pride.""Tian Zi, I want the west!"
These few words were short, but Ma Wensheng said it with a sonorous and powerful voice, incomparably firm.
"Congratulations, Brother Ma." A smile appeared on Yang Yiqing's gloomy face for the first time.
Ma Wensheng looked at Yang Yiqing and said solemnly,""Brother Yang, do you know what His Majesty said when Zheng Shi impeached you in the Hall of Heaven?”
Yang Yiqing replied solemnly and shook his head,"I don't know."
"Then I'll tell you."”
The Saint Son of Heaven's roar sounded from Ma Wensheng's mouth.
With every sentence, Yang Yiqing could feel his blood pumping.
When he said the last sentence,"If Yang Yiqing can't reach the imperial court, no one will speak up for him. If no one supports him, then I, the Emperor, will support him!"
Even someone as tough as Yang Yiqing, who was made of iron, could not help but tear up when he heard this.
"Brother Yang, our time has come!”
"The wise ruler that you and I have been waiting for is here!”
Ma Wensheng said firmly.
Yang Yiqing nodded vigorously.
At this moment, the two of them stood up straight and looked at the mountains and rivers that stretched for thousands of miles outside the Great Wall. Their eyes emitted an incomparably hot expression.
"It's getting late. I hope that when we meet again, we will be discussing the world in the Tartar army!”
"I hope that when we meet again, we will be drinking and singing in Turpan.”
"Brother Yang, take care!"
"Brother Ma, take care!"
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