Capital, Hall of Supreme Harmony.

Zhu Zaijiang sat upright on the dragon throne, motionless.

People grow up in different environments and experience different people and things, and their growth rate will be different.

Although he was just seven years old, Zhu Zaijiang's words and deeds were not far from those of a child of eleven or twelve years old. Even though he still had the child's childishness, innocence, playfulness and ignorance, he was sitting upright on the dragon throne, looking straight at the civil and military officials seriously, and his demeanor of a emperor was already showing.

Five ministers of the guards sat under the four sides, listening to the civil and military officials arranged in a square formation below who reported various matters there.

For some people who can make decisions on the spot, the five ministers will make decisions on the spot. If they cannot make decisions on the spot, the memorandum will be collected and will be discussed in the Ganqing Palace for a while, and then the solution will be decided.

The morning court dispersed, and the five ministers of the guards accompanied Zhu Zaijiang back to the Ganqing Palace.

Then the five people began to discuss the memorials reported. At this moment, Zhong Bin, the new commander of the Jinyiwei, personally entered the palace to the Ganqing Palace.

Seeing Zhong Bin breaking into the Ganqing Palace, Yang Tinghe frowned and said, "Rareless, this is the Ganqing Palace. Can you just break into it at will?"

Zhong Bin looked at Yang Tinghe without a word. He bowed slightly and raised a war report with both hands: "Report to all sirs, the 800-mile rush in Suzhou. The Turpan army invaded Jiayuguan, and Jiayuguan had been broken. The guerrilla general Hou Zhang of Jiayuguan was captured, and the northwest border army and the Beijing camp were killed and injured."

Every word Zhong Bin said was actually earth-shaking, but he had the ability to do so, but he was very plain and said these words without expression.

"What?" Yang Yiqing first slapped the chair and stood up. He looked at Zhong Bin and asked, "Did you say in the battle report that how many soldiers and horses have been dispatched in Turpan?"

Zhong Bin replied: "Not less than 80,000."

"Not less than 80,000?" Yang Yiqing was so angry that his beard floated straight. He looked at Yang Tinghe and said meaningfully: "What a good skill. He has 100,000 soldiers and nearly 50,000 soldiers from the border army. 150,000 people were beaten like this!"

Yang Tinghe raised his eyelids one by one. After looking at Yang Yiqing, Yang Tinghe's eyes drooped, took a breath and said, "Victory and defeat are common in military affairs. Now is not the time to pursue who is right and who is wrong. Let's take a look first and discuss how to deal with it. Jiayuguan is broken, and Suzhou may not be able to withstand it for long."

"Report! Xia Yan asked for a meeting in the military department!" The guards guarding outside the Ganqing Palace entered the Ganqing Palace to report.

When Wang Qiong heard this, he immediately showed a shocked expression. Yang Ting and his eyelids twitched and said, "Tell him to come in."

Soon, Xia Yan walked into the Ganqing Palace and saluted Yang Ting and said, "See the five lords."

"What's the matter?" Yang Tinghe asked.

Xia Yan made an action that was not much different from Zhong Bin, bowed his body and sent a battle report, saying: "Report to all of you, Suzhou was captured by Turpan and the Oirat coalition forces. Now the Beijing camp reinforcements and the northwest border troops are retreating to the Liangzhou Guard!"

"What?" This time, including Yang Tinghe, was also surprised. He couldn't help but curse: "Yan Song"

The word "waste" has not yet been spoken from Yang Tinghe, and Yang Tinghe forced the two to swallow them back into his stomach.

If Jiayuguan is just broken, then Suzhou can resist it again. But now Suzhou is broken, which means that the gate of the Ming Dynasty was torn apart by the people of Turpan.

Now the Turpan army is advancing and retreating without any obstacles. There is no natural danger to defend further forward. The only hope is that the officers and soldiers of each city can do their best to defend the enemy, so as not to let the Ming Dynasty suffer too much.

However, when Suzhou was broken, there were so many places where the Turpan army could go, and the Ming Dynasty had suffered heavy losses now.

There are still 100,000 soldiers and horses in the Beijing camp, but do these 100,000 soldiers and horses really dare to move?

Once the war is unfavorable, the capital is like an empty city. Anyone sends a soldier and horse to come, the capital will be at risk of being defeated immediately.

Yang Yiqing turned his head and looked at Yang Tinghe, and shouted angrily: "Yang Tinghe, you have chosen the best candidate!"

After saying that, Yang Yiqing shook his sleeves and walked out of the Ganqing Palace.

Without Jiang Xia, just Yang Yiqing and Li Dongyang had no effect at all, and there was no meaning in whether they were present or not.

Yang Tinghe had a dark face and sat back on the chair, looking confused.

It’s right that he likes to fight for power, but the current issue no longer involves power, but involves the safety of the Ming Dynasty. If the Ming Dynasty is dispersed, what’s the point even if Yang Tinghe sits on the throne?

Yang Tinghe was not familiar with military affairs. He turned his head to look at Wang Qiong and asked, "Shangshu Wang, how should we deal with it now? Is there any good solution?"

Wang Qiong was slightly stunned. He looked at Yang Tinghe. This was the first time he felt that Yang Tinghe had such an incompetent side. How to deal with it now is not obvious?

Among the six ministers of the resolute resignation, Li Dongyang, who had been rarely spoken, finally spoke at this moment. He said: "The Ministry of War immediately rushed to send an order to ask the troops of Shaanxi Xingdu Division to assist the Suzhou army."

"Yes!" Wang Qiong replied.

Li Dongyang looked at Zhong Bin again and said, "The Jinyiwei immediately used a letter from Fei Ge to pass the news of the destruction of Suzhou City to the prefectures along the road, and ordered them to prepare to defend the enemy. The chief officer lost the city and was killed without mercy! Those who did not fight and abandoned the city will be punished by nine clans! Those who made military achievements and successfully defended the city will be rewarded and promoted to the officials according to their merits."

"Yes!" Zhong Bin replied.

Li Dongyang finally looked at Yang Tinghe and sighed, "I'm going to Jiangxi to send an order immediately, and let Wang Shouren lead his troops to Liangzhou Guard to support him immediately."

"Yes," Yang Tinghe also responded.

However, Yang Tinghe was stunned after answering. Compared with Li Dongyang's official position, he was almost the same. He shouldn't have answered like Wang Qiong and Zhong Bin.

Yang Tinghe coughed and deliberately maintained his dignity: "When things come, only soldiers will block the water and soil. Don't panic, respond calmly, and it is the moment to overcome the difficult light together."

Before he finished speaking, Zhong Bin turned around and said four words lightly: "Single nonsense." Then he walked out of the Ganqing Palace.

Yang Tinghe was so confused by the four words Zhong Bin that he could no longer say the following words, his face turned pale but he didn't know how to vent his anger.

Wang Qiong still gave Yang Tinghe face and praised him, "What the lord said is, the official will go and handle it immediately."

After saying that, Wang Qiong also left.

Yang Tinghe knew that this was a bad thing. After leaving the Qing Dynasty, Yang Tinghe's first thing was to think about how to explain these things to the "Phoenix Lord". After all, Yan Song was recommended by him with all his strength.

After leaving the palace, Yang Tinghe did not return to the mansion, but hurried to Yazhu.

When he arrived at Yazhu's door, two masters from the Fire Hall stopped Yang Tinghe and said, "Master Feng said that he knew everything you want to say. He didn't want to see you, so he asked you for your own blessings. I hope you can overcome the difficulties this time. Otherwise, you will be the sinner of the Ming Dynasty."

When Yang Tinghe heard this, he was stunned. He stood there like a deflated ball. He felt like he was getting older in a trance.

At night, it suddenly started to drizzle in the capital.

A carriage entered the capital and was walking towards Xiaoyao Villa. The people sitting in the carriage were Jiang Xia and Li Ruliu.

Knowing that something happened in the capital, Jiang Xia quickly rushed to the capital. Finally, he returned to the capital that night.

After arriving at Xiaoyao Villa, Jiang Xia did not have time to go back to the backyard, but first sent Li Ruliu to Yi Chai's medicine house.

After a long journey, Li Ruliu basically had the last breath left. In the past, she was just vomiting blood, but now she has become drowsy.

I kept falling asleep from morning to night. After waking up, I stayed for at most less than five minutes, and then I started to sleep again.

Li Ruliu, who was originally stunning, has basically all her hair turned gray and her body is thin and bony, and she looks like a stalemate.

He sent Li Ruliu to the medicine house, and Yi Caicha quickly came to the medicine house from the room where he lived. After seeing Li Ruliu, Yi Caicha did not treat her as soon as possible, but opened a secret lattice under his alchemy cauldron and took out a sandalwood box inside.

There were two pills in the box that looked like the size of a baby's fist. Jiang Xia smelled it out as soon as he smelled it. He looked at Yi Cai in surprise and said, "Uncle Yi, is this the dragon blood silver flower you regard as your life?"

Yi Caicai nodded and said, "I knew you would bring people back to me, so I prepared in advance and refined the dragon blood silver flower into these two dragon blood pills.

This dragon blood pill should protect her life for two years, and two are four years. If you can’t find a better medicinal material than dragon blood and silver flower in four years, then you may be really unable to turn things around.”

Jiang Xia knew that this dragon blood silver flower was the treasure of crabs, and it was the thing that his dead wife carefully planted after finding it and finally left to him.

Yi Crab asked Jiang Xia to break Li Ruliu's mouth apart, then took out one of the pills and put it in Li Ruliu's mouth.

The pill was very big, and Li Ruliu could not swallow it at all, but the strange thing about this pill was that it began to melt as soon as it reached Li Ruliu's mouth, and finally it naturally turned into a stream of potion and entered it and was swallowed by Li Ruliu subconsciously.

Yi Caicai reached out to follow Li Ruliu's pulse. After waiting for a while, he nodded and said, "The pulse has begun to become stronger. Let her rest. Her condition will definitely get better and better in the next seven days. You go and rest first. You can leave for so long. It is better to go and see your ladies when you come back."

"Yes, Uncle Yi, I'll leave first."

After saying that, Jiang Xia left the Yaohu and returned to the backyard.

Before he could enter the backyard, Jiangxia heard someone shouting: "I heard that Jiangxia is back, where are the people? Where are the people?"

Jiang Xia knew as soon as he heard this, the person coming was Yang Yiqing.

He had already raised his feet and took them back. Jiang Xia knew that Yang Yiqing had received the news of his return so late and ran to Xiaoyao Villa, which must be for the loss of Suzhou City.

It was really raining all night long. Li Ruliu's situation has not been straightened out yet, and such a big thing happened to the Ming Dynasty.

Jiang Xia walked over to Yang Yiqing's voice. As soon as the person arrived at the intermediate court, he saw Yang Yiqing jumping and shouting: "Jiangxia, Jiangxia."

"Stop shouting, I'm here." Jiang Xia said.

Yang Yiqing turned his head and looked at Jiang Xia, and said, "You boy, don't even polite when you see your father-in-law?"

Jiang Xia was not in high spirits, so he waved his hand and said, "Okay, I know you have something to do when you come to me. Let's talk about something to do first."

Yang Yiqing looked at Jiang Xia with annoyance, but his expression suddenly became serious. "Okay, let's talk about the serious matter first."

The two walked to the main hall to sit down, and the servant immediately brought tea and pastries.

Seeing that Jiang Xia was tired and her shoes were still stained with rain and cement, Yang Yiqing asked, "Just just entered the house?"

Jiang Xia nodded.

Yang Yiqing said: "With your level of knowledge, I believe you should have known about Suzhou, right?"

Jiang Xia nodded again and said, "I know, I have said that Yan Song is not good. It is useless to change to Mr. Yangming now. After all, his official position is too low to integrate the Shaanxi Army, Jingying Army and Suzhou Army. If you want to turn the situation around, you may have to become a big shot."

"Yes, you said a lot. A big shot must be there. If you don't come back, I'm going to ask myself to go to Liangzhou Guards." Yang Yiqing said.

Jiang Xia looked at Yang Yiqing and knew what Yang Yiqing meant. After being silent for a while, he shook his head and said, "Father-in-law, I can't go out yet."

"Can't you go out?" Yang Yiqing frowned and said, "Is it because of the woman Annanguo gave birth to a son?"

Jiang Xia nodded, "Ru Liu's life is in danger now, I can't leave her out."

After hearing this, Yang Yiqing nodded slightly and said, "Since that's the case, then I won't force you to do it. I'll tell Yang Tinghe tomorrow that I'll take action myself."

Jiang Xia shook his head and said, "My father-in-law, I absolutely do not doubt your ability to lead troops to fight. But if you go this time, it may be difficult to save the situation."

"Why?" Yang Yiqing asked.

Jiang Xia looked at Yang Yiqing and said, "The reason for Yan Song's great defeat this time is that he did not restrict the troops of the Beijing camp, which caused the discipline of the 100,000 troops of the Beijing camp to be disbanded, and finally he rushed to Jiayuguan to support him, which led to the breaking of Jiayuguan.

Not to mention the heavy casualties in the Beijing camp, the morale of soldiers and generals is the biggest problem. First, the soldiers and generals have resentment towards Yan Song and the court, and second, the soldiers and generals are killed by the Turpan army.

This problem cannot be solved by just going alone.”

Yang Yiqing was immediately angry when he heard this and shouted: "If you don't go, I won't do it like this, what can't do? Then what do you want? I will send the Ming Dynasty out?"

Jiang Xia was also a confidant for a moment. To be honest, he knew very well that there was only one person who was the most suitable person to turn the tide at the moment, and that was himself.

But Li Ruliu's situation made him unable to bear to leave the capital like this.

Jiang Xia thought about it and sighed, and wait until the Qianqing Palace will discuss politics tomorrow.
Chapter completed!