PDLP Chapter 196: Get some benefits
Chapter 196: Get some benefits
By then, hundreds of thousands of border troops will surrender, plus the Duke of Dingguo’s troops and the barbarians supporting them from behind.
Who among the princes in the country dares to act rashly?
But what is the price?
Ning Yi thought about it for a moment and realized that it was enough to refer to the conditions of cooperation between the fourth brother and the barbarians.
Moreover, King Huai paid a greater price, and it is unknown how much land he ceded.
But compared with the land ceded, the emperor's throne was quite a bargain.
The old emperor looked at the prime minister thoughtfully.
The Prime Minister also looked at Ning Yi thoughtfully, and now he didn't believe that Ning Yi would rebel.
Even if Ning Yi contacted King Huai privately to help with the rebellion.
But Ning Yi couldn't possibly be contacting Prince Ji, right?
Judging from the Sixth Prince's method, it is indeed very likely that he could use Huaizhou to seduce Prince Ji and ask him to send troops to help pacify Prince Huai.
I believe that King Ji will be happy and may even send troops quickly.
Otherwise, if King Huai really pacified the capital, King Huai would have hundreds of thousands of elite troops, and the first one he would have to deal with would be King Ji.
If the Sixth Prince wanted to rebel, it would be impossible for him to contact King Huai, so he would deliberately find King Ji to cause trouble for King Huai and hold him back.
The Prime Minister finally nodded and said, "Your Majesty, I think what Your Highness said is feasible."
"It's just the Northwest Frontier Army, they need to arrive as soon as possible."
Yang Long breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the prime minister agreed.
As an old fellow in the court, he has been in officialdom for many years and is also the Minister of War.
He had long seen that Ning Yi really did not rebel, and the reason was the same as the Prime Minister's.
What this means is that the rebellion by Duke Dingguo and Prince Huai has nothing to do with the Sixth Prince.
In this case, if the Sixth Prince sends troops to settle the case, it will be a great advantage and can establish greater prestige in the army and the court.
"I, the old minister, also think it's feasible."
After Yang Long bowed and agreed, the old emperor finally felt relieved.
"Okay, in that case, I will have Lao Liu personally lead the troops and march north as soon as possible to resist Duke Dingguo."
"Sixth Brother, I will send 10,000 Imperial Guards to follow you north. If necessary, the Imperial Guards will be enough to inflict hardship on that traitor Fang Chengyu. You only need to stop him from continuing southward."
Ning Yi bowed and accepted the order seriously on the surface, but he sneered in his heart, wondering what the old emperor meant by this.
Aren’t the Royal Guards there to monitor you?
He also said that the Royal Guards would join the battle when necessary.
Doesn’t it just mean that the other Beijing troops can’t hold on any longer, so the Imperial Guards are going to the battlefield?
Don’t you see what time it is? You still care so much about the Royal Guards.
The old emperor was really confused. Even if the Imperial Guards were defeated, as long as Fang Chengyu could be dealt with, there would be plenty of opportunities to re-form the Imperial Guards.
But if the capital city is breached, you, the old emperor, will lose your life, so it is useless to feel sorry for the Imperial Guards.
One after another, the old emperor began to ask Eunuch Zhao to issue imperial decrees.
First, issue an imperial decree to King Ji, asking him to send troops to deal with King Huai immediately, and also vaguely state that Huaizhou will be yours from now on.
Then he sent someone to the northwest as quickly as possible, traveling 800 miles to mobilize 30,000 cavalrymen to move south as quickly as possible. The cavalrymen could reach the vicinity of Huaizhou in less than half a month.
Of course, the old emperor did not listen to Ning Yi completely.
Instead, another 40,000 elite troops were mobilized from the south, and these 40,000 elite troops continued to replenish the Beijing camp.
Now the old emperor is worried that the Beijing camp’s combat effectiveness is not good enough.
Therefore, as long as there are elite troops, they will be transferred to the Beijing camp.
He was also worried. If Prince Ji could not delay Prince Huai's progress, he would need to mobilize other troops to the capital as soon as possible while Ning Yi was heading north.
Only in this way can you feel at ease enough.
All departments were quickly mobilized.
Moreover, it was an expedited transfer, and those soldiers of the Beijing camp who originally thought they had no chance to go to the battlefield were stunned.
Unexpectedly, they couldn't escape the fate of going to the battlefield this time.
Moreover, the battlefield is just hundreds of miles away, which means it’s right at our doorstep.
Of course, the weapons and equipment were distributed at such a fast speed that the Ministry of Industry opened its warehouses and transported them without delay.
Zhao Yinghong understood very well that this was a critical period and he dared not be negligent in the slightest. All the warehouses were cleared out and sent to the Beijing Camp as soon as possible.
In the past, whenever the troops asked for weapons and equipment, he would refuse to give them and delay the delivery with various excuses.
You can also take bribes and extort money. If you don't give any benefits, don't even think about getting good military equipment.
But it’s no use now. Emperor Wu is in a very bad mood. If Zhao Yinghong dares to make trouble again, Emperor Wu will massacre his entire family.
Similarly, the grain storage department opened its warehouse doors, and horse-drawn carriages frantically carried out grain.
I can’t worry about so many things now. I have to prepare the food supplies for the 60,000 troops that are about to head north.
Otherwise, if they were defeated due to the problem of military rations, his career as Si Cheng would be over.
Even the Ministry of War opened the military supplies that had just been stored in the warehouse and transported out various weapons and equipment in batches.
But Ning Yi took the opportunity to ask Yang Long to transport a large amount of weapons and equipment.
Except for a group sent to the Beijing camp that was assembling quickly.
Everything else was secretly transported to his base.
Although the remaining tens of thousands of weapons, armor and equipment were discarded by other armies.
But after careful selection, the weapons and equipment for the 20,000 soldiers are still quite good.
If we add some simple firearms, we can immediately gather 20,000 elite troops, and they are the elite troops of the Mandarin Duck Formation.
Yang Long received a report from his subordinates that all the old weapons and equipment in the warehouse had been taken away.
The corners of Yang Long's mouth twitched wildly. He knew very well that the so-called batch was selected and sent to the Beijing Camp for the march north.
In fact, not much of it was needed, as the rest was embezzled by Ning Yi.
But Yang Long would not say anything. What was the point of keeping them in the warehouse? They would just be scrapped and then handed over to the Ministry of Industry to make new ones.
Normally, if Ning Yi dared to ask him for these old equipment, he would not dare to give it to him.
After all, as the Minister of War, he does not have the final say in the Ministry of War.
The Ministry of War is too important. It can mobilize troops from all over the country, and the old emperor has always kept it in his hands.
The two assistant ministers and several other officials inside were all lackeys of the old emperor.
Under such circumstances, how could Yang Long dare to mess around with Ning Yi in private?
We can report it to the emperor at any time.
But it’s different now. In order to go north to resist Duke Dingguo, Ning Yi asked for it in person in front of the old emperor.
The old emperor didn't care. They were just some old weapons. It was okay. He could just pick out new ones to replenish the Beijing camp. As long as they could go to the battlefield, he wouldn't care about these junk.
But Ning Yi knew that these weapons and equipment were the replacements for the elite troops that Emperor Wu had just dispatched from various places.
But these are not the rusty weapons discarded by the old Beijing camp, a group of soldiers who are just waiting to die.
Most of these elite troops frequently fight in the border areas and the south. Their weapons and equipment are still very useful and they are well maintained.
It would be a shame if these were left in the warehouse to rust. It would be better to use them for ourselves and give them to the new army. It is better than buying things from the cannibalistic Dongfang family.