The Prosperous Era of Longwan

"I see, Your Highness is worried that the child will die young."

Wei Guangde murmured.

Wei Guangde can understand King Yu's concerns.

If you don't have children, you are at least still young and have hope. But if you have children and they die young, you will definitely be sad. Such a blow may even be worse than not having children.

Thinking of the two sons and two daughters who had died in infancy, Wei Guangde really felt sympathy for King Yu at this time.

It's so miserable.

"Eunuch Li, it's best to find some capable doctors from the private sector in addition to finding imperial doctors from the Imperial Hospital to diagnose and treat people in the Li palace."

Wei Guangde whispered to Li Fang.

"Private doctor?"

Li Fang was stunned and asked uncertainly.

"There is a proverb circulating in the capital, and Eunuch Li may have heard of it."

Wei Guangde replied.

"What proverb?"

Li Fang asked with a frown.

Wei Guangde glanced at Li Fang, and said softly with the corner of his mouth: "Articles from the Hanlin Academy, swords and guns from the Arsenal, tea soup from Guanglu Temple, and prescriptions from the Taiyuan Hospital."

Wei Guangde heard this passage not long ago, and it was Zhang Ji who told him.

He didn't care much about the phrase "Hanlin Academy article" in it. No matter how beautiful the Hanlin Academy article was, it was actually just that.

People ridiculed the Hanlin Academy's articles for being rhetorical, but did not say what the cabinet votes were going to be. It was obvious that they still understood the importance.

In fact, this was also because he often asked the imperial doctor from Tai Hospital to nurse Xu Jianglan's health. As a result, Zhang Ji told him what he heard outside when he came back. Perhaps he gave a kind reminder because he learned about it from his mouth.

This passage is a sarcastic remark that is not worthy of the name, rather than saying how good they really are.

After knowing this, Wei Guangde also asked Lu Bu about it. After all, he was an authentic Sijiucheng native. Then he heard several different versions from him, but without exception, they all had "Taiyin Hospital Prescriptions" This passage.

Seeing that Li Fang still didn't respond, Wei Guangde smiled and said: "Besides this, there are also several jokes circulating among the people, talking about 'Hanlin Academy articles, Luan Yuwei's swords and guns, imperial hospital prescriptions, Luomashi suitcases.'

What he said is actually that these are just superficial and not suitable for use. ’

If you haven't heard it yet, there is also a paragraph. Let me think about what it is about. "

Having said this, Wei Guangde lowered his head and recalled for a moment before remembering, and then read: "Articles from the Hanlin Academy, prescriptions from the Taiyuan Hospital, tea soup from Guanglu Temple, and Luan Yiwei's sedan chair."

Before Wei Guangde could finish speaking, Li Fang had already waved her hands hurriedly and said, "Okay, okay, I understand what it means. I seem to have heard it mentioned before, but I just took it as a joke and didn't take it seriously. .

After hearing what you said this time, I went back and asked someone to find out where a doctor is good at regulating the body, treating fetuses, etc. "

"If Eunuch Li believes me, I will go back to the house later and ask. You can also ask about the doctor I was looking for outside. Anyway, it seems that he is really capable."

Wei Guangde said again.

When he heard this, he immediately asked Zhang Ji to look for folk doctors in the streets and alleys of the capital.

Regardless of whether his methods are better than those of the imperial doctors at the imperial hospital, at least Xu Jianglan's mother and child are not safe.

"Okay, I'll lend you money for your hard work."

Wei Guangde now introduced the doctor who was treating Mrs. Wei. Naturally, Li Fang would not say that he would send someone out to look for her, so he agreed immediately.

Wei Guangde also wrote down this matter, and when he returned to the palace, he called Zhang Ji to learn about the doctor's situation in detail, and then sent someone to send the news to Prince Yu's palace.

As for what Li Fang would do, Wei Guangde couldn't control it.

Time passed day by day, and it entered August, and the day when the Li Gongren gave birth was approaching.

During this period of time, this matter was undoubtedly the top priority in Prince Yu's palace. Therefore, Wei Guangde knew the name of the person in the palace, Li Caifeng.

Caifeng is really a bit like a mother who cares about the world and is a queen.

The emperor is a dragon, isn't the queen a phoenix?

However, King Yu's queen is destined to be Princess Chen. Even if Li Caifeng and Li Gongren give birth to a prince, unless the prince finally ascends the throne and becomes emperor, it will be impossible to become a queen.

After all, being a princess does not mean whoever King Yu wants to do. It was decided by Emperor Jiajing, and the inner court would also grant a golden book.

"Rumble"

With a sound like thunder, a large group of Tatar cavalry galloped across the plain.

This cavalry had once again broken through the permanent fort a few days ago and looted the villages and towns outside Liaoyang City. Now it roared out of the already broken side wall and ran to the north.

In the past few months, the Mongolian Tatars seem to have been at loggerheads with Liaoyang. They have successively broken through the border walls such as the Resident Fort and Changning Fort to the west of Liaoyang. After some raids near Liaoyang, they escaped through the border walls without caring about the surrounding areas. Ming army fort.

You know, where they are, there are Ming army large and small side forts within a few dozen miles to the left and right. If the Ming army comes out of the fort to intercept them, as long as they can delay for a little time, the troops of the Liaoyang General Army will catch up.

After all, the Great Wall of Liaodong is in a "V" shape here, which is also an extremely risky move from the perspective of military use.

"Taiji, I'm afraid Yang Zhao'er is going crazy right now. We've broken down the border wall twice in the past half month and looted the entire west side of Liaoyang, haha"

It was Da Lai Sun who was speaking. He broke through the barrier this time and happened to encounter the troops transporting grain and grass in Liaoyang City on the way. They brought a lot of grain and prepared to distribute it to the forts below.

It was also because not long after the last time they broke through the border wall and looted property, the forts were in urgent need of food and grass to provide relief to the military households and civilians affected by the disaster.

When the two armies encounter each other, a fight is inevitable.

However, the Ming army's troops were supply troops, but they had little combat effectiveness. Almost as soon as the Tatar cavalry rushed closer, many people in the Ming army's formation turned around and fled, directly leading to the collapse of the entire army formation, leaving them this time It was easy to grab a lot of food.

"We are lucky, and we have all this food. I believe Yang Zhao will lead his troops to chase him this time. How do you plan to deal with him then?"

The speaker was naturally Xin'ai, the son of Anda Khan, also known as Huang Taiji.

Relying on their speed advantage, the Tatar cavalry could move back and forth vertically and horizontally, making the Ming army unable to defend themselves.

Only this time, because they grabbed a large number of grain trucks, their progress was greatly slowed down.

However, this seemed to be exactly what they wanted. They seemed to be eager for the Ming army to catch up. Huang Taiji still had time to joke with his men about beating Sun.

"Over there in Baodu, I'm afraid I'm already impatient with the waiting. Then I'll have to compete with him to see who can catch or kill Yang Zhao, hehehe."

Among the Mongolian Tumote tribe, there were not many warriors who had the ability to fight against Da Lai Sun, and the one he mentioned was Ba Du'er.

Last time, Bao Duer followed Huang Taiji to break through Changning Fort and looted it. This time, it was him who brought Sun.

"This place is still nearly a hundred miles away from Xiong Mountain. We can't let down our guard. If Yang Zhao leads people to chase him, you have to lead people back to intercept him and pretend to be defeated. Do you understand?"

Huang Taiji reminded.

"Don't worry Taiji."

When the call came, Sun replied indifferently.

As the two slowed down their horses to talk, a fast horse galloped behind them.

After arriving at Zuojin, the knight on horseback did not dismount his horse to report like the Ming army did. Instead, he rode directly to the two of them and reported loudly: "Taiji, Lord Tong, the Ming army has chased us thirty miles away."

"Oh, can the person leading the team investigate clearly?"

Before Huang Taiji could say anything, Sun couldn't wait to ask the question he was most concerned about.

"There is a Yang-character flag in the Ming army, but it is not yet certain whether it is the Ming army Yang Zhao who is leading it."

The scout replied hastily.

"Why can't you be sure?"

Sun was anxious when he came to call, and he raised his riding whip unconsciously, but as soon as he raised his hand, he had to put it down because of Huang Taiji's eyes, so he had to suppress his anger and asked.

"The Ming army was protected by cavalry at the front, rear and left, so they could not get close. Also, the smoke and dust during the march of the Ming army was too great, so the flag could not be determined."

The scout replied hastily.

He almost got whipped. At this moment, he just wanted to complete the task of reporting the news as soon as possible and leave here.

"Continue to keep an eye on it and investigate as soon as possible."

Huang Taiji spoke at this time, and then waved his hand to signal him to leave.

"yes."

The scout was eager to leave as soon as possible, but Sun was not very good-tempered, so he agreed and then turned his horse's head and headed back.

"Just keep this speed. By the time we reach Xiong Mountain, the Ming army will almost catch up. I just hope that the Ming governor doesn't do anything bad."

Huang Taiji said to Lai Sun while calculating the marching speed of the two armies.

"Yang Zhao has led his troops out, will he still listen to the governor of the Ming Dynasty?"

Sun didn't believe it when he called, so he answered casually.

"I hope so."

Although Huang Taiji is also relatively reckless, he has been with Anda Khan for a long time and has come into contact with many people from the Ming Dynasty, especially the group of White Lotus believers who rebelled against the Ming Dynasty.

During the contact, I learned from them that the generals of the Ming Dynasty had to listen to the civil servants.

In the realm of Liaodong, the largest general is the Liaoyang Commander-in-Chief, followed by the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Guangning. But above them there is the Governor of Liaodong, who is the largest official in Liaodong.

As for the civil servants, Huang Taiji didn't care about them. Even though I had inquired about this person before, I knew that he was recognized by the Ming Emperor and sent to patrol Liaodong by suppressing the rebellion of a man named Shi Shangzhao in the Ming Dynasty.

"The governor of the Ming Dynasty was called Wang Zhigao. He used to participate in suppressing the rebellion of Henan Division Shangzhao. At that time, he was the Henan Councilor and Deputy Military Envoy."

At this time, a man behind Huang Taiji who looked obviously different from a Mongolian said loudly.

Needless to say, this person is of course also a person from Guihua City, and many of them stay with the leaders of various Mongolian tribes to serve as tributes and paintings.

At this moment, he heard the two people talking about the governor of Liaodong, and then he spoke.

"Yes, the man named Wang Zhigao is the governor here."

As soon as he reminded him, Sun said loudly.

"Let's wait until we are sure that the person behind him is Yang Zhao."

Huang Taiji just said casually.

At night, for the sake of marching safety, both the Mongols and the Ming army chose to set up camp as soon as it got dark.

When marching at night, if you don't do it well, your troops and horses will get separated for various reasons, and even cause chaos and get out of hand.

However, even as they were setting up camp, Mongolian scouts kept approaching and inquiring outside the Ming army's camp. Even if the Ming army's sentry cavalry kept driving them away, it was ineffective.

In the middle of the night, Huang Taiji finally received a report from the scouts in his tent, confirming that the leading general of the Ming army was Yang Zhao, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong.

In fact, what they planned this time was just to inflict pain on the Ming army and let the Jizhen Ming army march eastward to support Liaodong.

Of course, on this basis, it would be great if Ming officials with sufficiently high official positions could be killed.

The most famous people in Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty were naturally the governor of Liaodong and the two chief military officers. Therefore, whether it was Huang Taiji or other Mongolian leaders, they naturally hoped that they could catch the big fish Yang Zhao this time by casting a long line.

If they wanted the governor of the Ming Dynasty to go to war, they knew it was impossible. After all, they were just civil servants.

In the early morning of the next day, the two armies chasing on the plains got up early and broke out of camp and headed north, but one was running and the other was chasing.

The general who led the Ming army this time was really Yang Zhao, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong. In the two months after the rainy season, Liaoyang was tortured by the Mongols.

He broke through the border wall several times in a row, completely ignoring him as the commander-in-chief of Liaodong.

The first two times, when he learned that the border fortress had been breached, Yang Zhao led troops to pursue them, but the Tatars ran too fast.

This time, Yang Zhao learned that there were only two to three thousand Tatars coming in, and they were moving slowly because they had robbed dozens of carts of food. Naturally, Yang Zhao felt that this was an opportunity to eliminate this group of Tatars.

As long as this group of Tatars is eliminated, no Tatars will dare to invade Liaoyang in the next year or two.

It was precisely because of this idea that he mobilized more than 5,000 cavalrymen from Liaoyang and surrounding areas to pursue them, vowing to regain the lost food and grass.

Along the way, the Tatar scouts continued to detect the Ming army. Naturally, the Ming army's scouts were also following the traces of the Tatars, and their strength was already clear.

It seems that there are indeed less than 3,000 troops.

The number of Tatar soldiers and horses that broke through the border wall these few times has been showing a decreasing trend, and in Yang Zhao's opinion, it should be the result of the Tatars dividing some of their soldiers and horses to transport away the looted property.

Now that the news has been confirmed, he naturally doesn't look down upon a mere three thousand troops.

There are not many such opportunities. The Ming army is marching faster than the Mongolian Tatars, and they are unable to escape.

It was precisely because of this preconceived idea that Yang Zhao became bold in his pursuit. He was not worried about the Mongols' deception at all, even though he had received a letter from Yang Xuan, the governor of Jiliao, reminding him to be careful and beware of a large-scale Tatar attack. Capture Liaodong.

Yang Zhao's thoughts are actually similar to those of Yang Bo, the Minister of War. He doesn't really believe that the Tatars will target Liaodong, a bitter and cold place.

The journey of dozens of miles passed quickly as the cavalry marched. In the eyes of the Ming army forwards, the smoke and dust rising from the passing army in front were clearly visible. They had caught up with the Tatars.

"Quick, speed up, catch up with them."

The guerrilla general leading the vanguard hurriedly gave orders and at the same time sent messengers to report the news to the commander-in-chief behind him. The purpose was naturally to ask him to detach a group of troops and go up from the flanks to intercept the Tatars' escape route.

Yang Zhao received the report from the front and knew that the forward had bitten the Tatars' tail. He hurriedly sent two teams of cavalry to outflank them from the left and right flanks.

These two groups do not need many people. As long as they can hold off the Tatar army for a moment, most of them can reach the battlefield.

Both sides have been marching all the way in the past few days, and there is no such thing as being short of people or horses. Everyone is in the same situation. The Ming army still has a numerical advantage, so he is not worried at all that he will not be able to defeat them.

Between running and chasing, the two armies quickly entered Xiong Mountain.