Chapter 107 Good News
However, although everyone could see the doubt, Chongzhen sitting on the dragon throne did not seem to notice it, and his young face was still smiling brightly.

The officials had also heard about Mao Wenlong's false reporting of military achievements, and they all stood in the square with their heads down and pouting, but no one stood up to ruin Chongzhen's good mood.

However, all the officials underestimated Chongzhen. Everyone could see the loopholes in Mao Wenlong's report. Although Chongzhen was young, he was the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, so how could he not see it?

However, he had already received a memorial from Jiang Yueguang in private, which detailed the course of the battle.

The original intention of this war was to follow the imperial edict of Chongzhen and carry out harassment in the west of Liaohe River.

Moreover, Chongzhen also vaguely felt that the fact that Zu Dashou ran into Huang Taiji head-on but did not start a battle and Huang Taiji retreated on his own was related to the harassment launched by Mao Wenlong.

He had originally been prepared for Yuan Chonghuan to send him a battle report on the fierce fighting on the front line, including the number of Ming soldiers killed and who was killed in action.

However, with the participation of Mao Wenlong, the front line was surprisingly lucky. While saving the Dorote tribe, it did not engage in a fierce battle with Huang Taiji.

This resulted in heavy casualties, which was unexpectedly good news for the Ming border defense, which was already in a weak period.

In general, although there will be great actual results on both fronts.

But all the strategic goals that Chongzhen wanted to achieve have been achieved, so he was really happy from the bottom of his heart.

After Wang Chengen finished reading the report, Chongzhen immediately announced the rewards for Zu Dashou and Mao Wenlong.

Zu Dashou was given the title of deputy governor, the seal of the vanguard of the expedition to Liao, and a reward of 200 taels of silver;

Mao Wenlong was given the title of governor-general and awarded 200 taels of silver.

However, in private, Chongzhen personally paid out two thousand taels of silver as a reward.

Because Jiang Yueguang mentioned in his memorial that Mao Wenlong valued money more than his life, and rewards of real gold and silver were more practical to Mao Wenlong than any false reputation.

However, the two thousand taels of silver could not be written into the official reward document, for fear that Zu Dashou would feel unbalanced if he knew about it.

The officials had no objection to Zu Dashou's reward, and some even felt it was too little.

After all, Zu Dashou fought a real battle with Huang Taiji, saved the Dorlot tribe, and won a firm ally for the Ming Dynasty in Chahar.

Not to mention there were more than a hundred Jiannu heads and a colorful Hada.

However, many officials had complaints about the reward given to Mao Wenlong.

They believed that Mao Wenlong had falsely reported his military achievements and exaggerated the war situation.

Why could he be given the title of governor-general like Zu Dashou?
Although it lacks a seal compared to Zu Dashou’s, it is still too generous.

However, although the officials were dissatisfied, they did not dare to say much.

After all, Cheng Jiming, the assistant minister of the Ministry of War, is a ready-made example. A powerful official in Beijing now has to eat dust in Datong.
As a result, two imperial edicts of commendation were quickly issued from the capital.

At this time, Zu Dashou was in the Jinzhou City General's Mansion, which had not been repaired yet, and he and Yuan Chonghuan found Gulu and others from the Duoluot tribe who arrived later. Unlike the thank-you banquet on the grassland, the banquet prepared by Zu Dashou was also good, but it pales in comparison, at least there were no dozens of beautiful girls dancing.

Thinking of the beautiful girl, Zu Dashou stroked his beard and reminisced about it. This Tartar girl is so cool!
After entering the yurt, I didn't move at all. I was almost exhausted. If I had cooperated a little, I would probably have been killed.

Everyone was toasting each other, and soon they were all drunk and wanted to hug each other and call each other brothers.

At this moment, Yuan Chonghuan shook off his drunkenness, raised his glass and said, "Fortunately, the Emperor of the Great Ming informed us in advance and issued an order to rescue your tribe, which prevented the tragedy of genocide!"

"But Huang Taiji is a man with wicked ambitions. Although we were lucky enough to repel him this time, there is no guarantee that Huang Taiji will come again, and our army cannot always protect us. I wonder if Gulu Taiji has any good countermeasures for this?"

As soon as Yuan Chonghuan said this, the originally lively table suddenly became silent.

Except for Seleng who had to stay in the tribe, all the nobles present, including Gulu, Zirhatan and Dorote, fell silent.

After staring at each other, Taiji Gulu finally asked, "I wonder if Commander Yuan has a good plan to save lives. If it can save tens of thousands of lives of my Doroth tribe, I... as long as my Doroth tribe can do it, I will never dare to delay!"

Jirhatan also said in panic: "Yes, Commander Yuan, please give me some advice!"

The other Dorote nobles also echoed this, and some even suggested simply relying on the Ming Dynasty and directly moving their tribal members to the city of Jinzhou.

Seeing the attitude of Dorot and his men, Yuan Chonghuan raised his lips slightly, knowing that they had taken the bait, so he said slowly, "There is a way, and if it succeeds, it will bring you great wealth!"

"But there are risks as well. If we fail, it may not be much better than Huang Taiji's attack. I just don't know if you have the courage!"

Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment when they heard this. After a while, Gu Lu's expression suddenly became firm and he said, "There is nothing worse than sitting and waiting to die. Please teach me, Commander Yuan!"

Yuan Chonghuan and Zu Dashou immediately looked at each other. Although Zu Dashou did not say anything, Gulu saw a hint of hesitation in Zu Dashou's eyes, and his heart couldn't help but skip a beat.

It seems that Zu Dashou also knew Yuan Chonghuan's idea.

However, as Yuan Chonghuan's subordinates, when they saw Yuan Chonghuan was about to propose a solution, they actually showed hesitation, which shows that this also had an impact on the Ming army.

I just don’t know what the enormous wealth that Yuan Chonghuan was talking about was.

Thinking of this, Gu Lu's gaze towards Yuan Chonghuan suddenly became more solemn.

Yuan Chonghuan did not let Gu Lu wait for long. He put on an ambiguous smile and said, "Gu Lu Taiji, do you know why Huang Taiji sent troops to attack you?"

Gulu said without hesitation: "Why don't you know this? It must be because we robbed and killed the messenger who was communicating with Huang Taiji and the traitorous group of Kalaqin, so they sent troops to attack."

At this point, Gulu seemed to remember something, and took out two secret letters from his arms and handed them to Yuan Chonghuan, saying, "General Yuan, please look, these are the secret letters that Huang Taiji sent to Kalaqin!"

Although Yuan Chonghuan had long known from Chongzhen that Huang Taiji would collude with Kharchin and deal with the Dorlot tribe as soon as possible, when he saw the secret letter of collusion between the two with his own eyes, he could not help but feel an inexplicable awe of Chongzhen in his heart.

Even though he was the commander-in-chief of Ji and Liao, he had never heard of such top-secret information. However, Chongzhen, who was far away in the capital, knew it clearly.

(End of this chapter)