"Bah, mother, what the hell, do you really think of yourself as a feudal official?"
"Yes, this old guy clearly wants to ride on us again. The general must not show him military orders."
Looking at Hou Xun walking away, all the young generals and colonels in the official hall cursed one after another, completely ignoring Hou Xun, the former Minister of Household Affairs and now the envoy of the Protectorate.
Similarly, all the generals and soldiers of the Fourth Army not only had no respect for this envoy of the Anton Protectorate, but also had a deep dislike for him.
There is no way, as long as the generals and veterans who came from the Chongzhen Dynasty did not hate the civil servants, even the new recruits of the Shenwu Dynasty had no good impression of the civil servants.
As the former chief military officer of the Chongzhen Dynasty, Huang Degong, even though he was a member of the emperor's own army, was still resented by civilian officials in Jiangnan, so he naturally did not want to let civilian officials ride on his head and dominate.
Similarly, all the generals in the Shenwu Dynasty now do not want to live the same life of being suppressed by civilian officials.
The reason why all the towns and legions obeyed the Red Lady was that, firstly, the Red Lady was the emperor's most favored woman, and secondly, the Red Lady was ranked first among the generals and was the most powerful leader in safeguarding everyone's interests in front of the emperor.
Backbone.
In addition, she is now pregnant with the emperor's heir. With such a special status, if it were placed in other dynasties, it can be said that the current red lady has seriously threatened the emperor.
If the emperor really wants to suppress military generals again and restore the previous method of suppressing military power with civility, and once the red lady stands up to oppose it, or even directly wants to depose the emperor and install her own son, who will the commanders of each army and the commander-in-chief of each town support?
Hard to say.
After all, this concerns the core interests of all warriors, even future generations.
Of course, this threat no longer exists at all, because Jiangwutang has made up for it very well.
Although the generals of various armies and towns may side with the Red Lady, the students of Jiangwu Hall will definitely stand unswervingly with Emperor Zhu Cihong.
In addition, logistics, ordnance, military law, drills, etc. are now all under the control of students in the martial arts hall, especially the ideological education of ordinary soldiers.
This has led to the fact that in the current field army, the generals who command the troops only have the right to command troops, and all other rights are deprived of them.
If the legion commander and commander-in-chief wanted to rebel and disobey the emperor's orders, not only would they have no one to follow them, but they would also be captured immediately.
Although the students of the Jiangwu Hall stood on the same line as other generals when it came to the civil-military dispute, when there was a conflict with the emperor on this point, the students would side with the emperor without hesitation.
Not to mention anything else, just because they are the emperor's direct disciples, they are destined to be tied to the emperor, and they will both prosper and suffer.
Let me ask, if there is a new emperor, will the new emperor continue to reuse the disciples who trusted the old emperor?
The answer is definitely no, and he will be on guard and suppress him at every turn. The emperor will only retrain his disciples.
This set of teacher-student bundles, and then evolved into interests and future bundles, is undoubtedly more reliable than simple loyalty to the emperor.
This is also the reason why Zhu Cihong has never been wary of the Red Lady before, because he doesn't need to, and he can't do the same things as other emperors, like crossing rivers and burning bridges, hiding birds with bows, killing rabbits and cooking dogs, and releasing military power over a glass of wine.
Of course, in fact, no emperor was really willing to do such a thing, but due to limitations in ability and vision, he had to do so to stabilize the imperial power.
He believed that if Zhao Kuangyin and Lao Zhu had known the role of the Royal Military Academy, they would never have chosen to suppress the generals.
In fact, Lao Zhu learned the lesson of Lao Zhao. Although he killed the arrogant and powerful generals, he did not blindly suppress the warriors. It was only the flaws in the system and the battle of Tumubao that made the status of the Ming army and military generals in the later period difficult.
Even the Song army and Song generals are inferior.
At this moment, in the official hall, looking at Hou Xun walking away, Huang Degong, although he did not curse as loudly as other generals, was so angry that his face was livid.
In his opinion, Hou Xun's actions were clearly intentional to make things difficult, and he had never interfered in the government affairs of the Protectorate.
As soon as Hou Xun came, he took the initiative to hand over the construction of the city. As long as he was not a military craftsman, young and strong, he was directly handed over to Hou Xun to manage. The pastures of each tribe were also allocated by Hou Xun and the civil servants.
Even if there was a conflict between the two tribes, and he was the first to resolve it, he would take the initiative to avoid suspicion and leave it to Hou Xun to handle it.
But sending troops to annihilate the Tatar tribe that had just moved to Hetao was a purely military operation. Now Hou Xun not only wanted to intervene, but also deliberately made things difficult. It was obvious that he had evil intentions and wanted to ride on the head of their generals again.
Even if Huang Degong didn't want to break up with him, he would never compromise on this matter.
"General, for a tribe of only ten thousand people, it doesn't matter whether the cavalry of the Tumote tribe participates or not. We will see in the end. We don't need to look at Hou Xun's face at all."
"Yes, this military order was issued by the Governor's Office. You must not show it to him, otherwise there will be another one."
When everyone saw Huang Degong's gloomy face and said nothing, they were really afraid that he would compromise, so they started talking again.
However, no one dared to propose calling the Mongolian cavalry to join the battle without going through the envoy Hou Xun.
As for the petition for an imperial edict, no one raised it. After all, if this was done, everyone would know that there was a civil and military rift in Anton's Protectorate.
The emperor's heart is unpredictable, and now that the world has been peaceful, no one knows the emperor's true attitude towards military generals and civil servants, but the examples from past dynasties are there.
Therefore, everyone was extremely resistant to bringing this kind of civil-military discord to the emperor, fearing that the emperor would take the opportunity to suppress the generals.
"Although the imperial concubine's military order states that there is only one small tribe of ten thousand people, it has been so long. Can An know if there will be another tribe migrating here?
What’s more, the empress has made it clear that the horses, cattle, sheep, women, and children captured in this battle will be rewarded to the Tumote tribe. If they don’t participate in the war, is it possible that we will give them to them for free when we come back?"
Huang Degong said slowly. He knew that although it was not stated in the military order, what the Empress really meant was that in this battle, it would be best to use the cavalry of the Tumut Department as the main force.
As for why this is the case, he roughly understands it, so if he only uses the cavalry of the Tumote Department as a supplement, the empress will probably not say anything, but if he completely ignores the Tumote Department, the empress will definitely be unhappy.
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What's more, although he didn't pay attention to those Mongolian tribes, if thousands of Tumut cavalry were involved, it would definitely be safer.
As for whether this military order was the empress's own intention or His Majesty's, he actually couldn't figure it out.
After all, he didn't know very well whether His Majesty was in Beijing or went to Nanjing again.
"Then what should we do? Is it possible that we really need to petition again?"
"I'll go talk to Mr. Hou first. If it doesn't work out, I can only ask for an order." Huang Degong thought about it, waved his hands, and then left the official hall.
Although the generals did not say anything more, they all asked about Hou Xun's eighteen generations of ancestors in their hearts.
Fortunately, the imperial concubine did not give them any time limit in her military order.