Chapter 1192 The warning from the eldest lady!

Perhaps in order to make Ye Mingsheng more clearly aware of the importance of this port to the future development of Qilu, Ma Runchuan continued to introduce to Ye Mingsheng the port's superior geographical location, geographical conditions, and the positive role that Tao Port could play in his plan························
Unfortunately, Ye Mingsheng, who was an army general, did not have a deep understanding of matters related to the ocean, so he could only understand half of what Ma Runchuan said at most.

Therefore, although Ma Runchuan spoke eloquently and passionately, he seemed full of confidence and full of beautiful visions for the future after the completion of Taogang construction.
But these did not have much impact on Ye Mingsheng. From beginning to end, Ye Mingsheng just said that he would ask the Ministry of Industry to send someone to coordinate and evaluate the feasibility of their Taogang project in a while!
Ye Mingsheng knew that he was not a genius, nor an all-rounder, so when dealing with some professional issues, he had his own principle, that is, not to give blind orders, not to make random moves, not to do stupid things like an amateur commanding professionals, and to leave professional matters to professionals!
Just evaluate the final result and make sure that merits are rewarded and mistakes are punished!
Although Ye Mingsheng was willing to believe what Ma Runchuan said, it was only Ma Runchuan's personal opinion after all. For a project that cost millions of taels of silver, it was naturally better to be cautious. After the evaluation by the Ministry of Works, Ye Mingsheng also planned to send the Ministry of Revenue to conduct an evaluation to assess how much the construction of Taogang could boost the economy!

After the evaluation reports from the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households are submitted, Ye Mingsheng will decide whether to invest in the construction of the Taogang project.

After the on-site inspection of Taogang, Ye Mingsheng's inspection of Qilu came to an end, and he prepared to go to Huainan for further inspection!
At night, Ye Mingsheng's troops arrived at Lanshan County, a small county in southern Qi and Lu, 300 miles away from Huainan, as planned.

At Ye Mingsheng's instruction, Lanshan County did not hold any large-scale welcoming ceremony. It was just that the county magistrate and some officials from the county government came to greet him. Then Ye Mingsheng moved into a mansion that had been prepared long ago.
After having a simple meal at 12:30 pm, Ye Mingsheng asked his maid to prepare a basin of water for washing his feet before going to bed.

I was out and about all day today. I took the test on Koh Tao for about a morning, and then I traveled in the afternoon. I hardly rested throughout the day. I walked on the road for several hours and dozens of miles. Although Ye Mingsheng was riding in a horse carriage, he was still very tired due to the bumpy road.

Just when Ye Mingsheng was about to go to bed, Liu Haibo came over and reported that the magistrate of Lanshan County had sent two fair-skinned and beautiful girls to serve him.

Ye Mingsheng was really tired about this and didn't have the energy to do so. He just waved his hand and prepared to go to bed.

However, just when Ye Mingsheng was lying on the bed, he heard an urgent voice from outside the room. Although Ye Mingsheng was too sleepy to open his eyes, his sense of responsibility made him ask involuntarily:
"Where's the urgent mail? Send it in quickly!"

Liu Haibo, who was standing outside the door at a loss as to whether he should bother Ye Mingsheng or not, delivered the urgent document. When he heard Ye Mingsheng's voice, he immediately gained his backbone. He quickly opened the door and presented the urgent document to Ye Mingsheng and said:

"Reporting to the Marshal, this is news from Yijing. It is said to be related to the information from the grassland..."

As soon as these words were spoken, Ye Mingsheng immediately took the urgent document and started reading it. After just reading the beginning, Ye Mingsheng's expression showed a little joy.

Xun Ke, who led the Third Army to the grassland, brought good news. A few months ago, after Zhamuhe knew that Ye Mingsheng had sent troops to attack him, he felt that he could not escape this time. Since he would be in danger if he stuck his head out, this guy simply went with Ye Mingsheng!
Because in the Luobi tribe, many people could not accept that Ibugel, as the Khan, would submit to the Great Zhou because of their self-esteem and the historical blood feud with the Great Zhou. Jamukha also grasped the psychology of these people and strongly attacked Ibugel for betraying Luobi!
Moreover, Jamukha was also planning to unite those forces that were dissatisfied with Ibugel's submission to the Great Zhou, and while Xun Ke's Third Army had not yet arrived at the Luobi tribe, he planned to launch a rebellion so that the king could return and regain control of the Luobi royal court!
Jamukha's idea was good, but the news accidentally leaked and was heard by spies from the General Coordination Office, who then quickly delivered the news to Xun Ke and Ibugel!

After hearing the news, Xun Ke responded flexibly and personally led 5,000 light cavalry to advance lightly. Together with Ibugler, he arrived at the royal court of Robe before the rebellion broke out.

Xun Ke’s move undoubtedly disrupted Jamukha’s deployment, but adhering to the idea of ​​​​going all out, Jamukha directly launched a rebellion in advance...

Although Jamukha united some forces from the Robe tribe to launch a rebellion, the rebellion was launched in advance and therefore happened in a hurry. Some of Jamukha's arrangements and preparations did not produce good results. This led to his failure after a fierce battle, and Ibugel regained control of the situation in the Robe royal court with the help of the Fengwu Army.

In order to preserve his strength, Jamukha had to lead his troops to flee back to Mobei again. After returning to Mobei, Jamukha knew that the Fengwu Army had gone on a long expedition and the pressure on logistics supply was very heavy, so he only sent a few small troops to harass. The main force acted like a turtle in Mobei, preparing to drag down the logistics supply of the Fengwu Army and achieve the goal of defeating the enemy without fighting.

Xun Ke had anticipated this move. He did not search for Jamukha's trace in the vast Gobi Desert like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Xun Ke began to make arrangements just as he did in the strategy to defeat the enemy he wrote for Ye Mingsheng. The first was to resolutely cut off Jamukha's supply channels from Luo Bi's troops, and successively annihilate several small forces sent by Jamukha to harass him, preventing Jamukha from getting any supplies and putting pressure on Jamukha's troops from the outside!
In addition to exerting pressure from the outside, Xun Ke also asked Ibugele to actively win over the generals under Jamukha, trying to divide the generals under Jamukha internally...
Under such internal and external pressure, problems immediately arose within Jamukha's clan due to lack of food and clothing. However, Jamukha was also very capable. He soon discovered that one of his generals had been in contact with Ibugel without telling him. He directly killed the general and his entire family in front of all the tribesmen under his command!
After such an example of killing the chicken to scare the monkey, Jamukha's internal situation was temporarily stable for a while. However, although the cruel killing could shock people, it could not solve the difficulties of lack of food and clothing faced by Jamukha and his people!

Therefore, after a period of time, someone under Jamukha's command contacted Ibugel again. After some bargaining, this person agreed to act as a traitor and, at Xun Ke's instruction, instigated Jamukha to attack a ranch and plunder cattle, sheep and people.

Jamuka, who was facing difficulties, could not resist the instigation and led thousands of soldiers to plunder the ranch!

This move was exactly what Xun Ke wanted, and he used the trick to capture Jamukha and all his followers in one fell swoop. Even Jamukha himself became a prisoner of the Fengwu Army.

Although Ibugel’s troops took on a part of the military supplies, the daily consumption of money and food for tens of thousands of troops was still very high. In addition, the finances of the Yijing court were not yet prosperous. Therefore, now that the work was done, Xun Ke was ready to take Jamukha back to the court. However, although Jamukha had been annihilated, a new problem arose in the Luobi tribe...

Although Ibugel was well aware that surrendering to the Great Zhou would seriously damage his prestige as the Great Khan of Luobi, he asked Ye Mingsheng for some gold, silver and treasures on the condition of opening the market, and prepared to reward them to some Luobi nobles to appease the internal situation.

Despite such an arrangement, Ibugel still underestimated the adverse impact of this incident on his Khan position. Therefore, even though Jamukha is dead now, there are still quite a few Robe nobles who think that Ibugel is no longer worthy of being the Robe Khan. Some even hope that Ibugel will commit suicide to apologize.

Faced with such a situation, Ibugel was worried that the tribe would rebel one day and he, the Khan of Robe, would be hacked to death. So Ibugel found Xun Ke, hoping that Xun Ke could leave some people in Robe, on the one hand to maintain his rule as the Khan over the various tribes of Robe, and on the other hand to protect the safety of him and his family.

Although Xun Ke had the idea of ​​stationing troops in Luobi, he was also aware that he had no decision-making power in the matter, so he sent the matter back to the court. After learning the news, the General Staff did not dare to make a decision on their own and sent someone to deliver the message to Ye Mingsheng urgently.

Xun Ke explained his thoughts to Ye Mingsheng in the letter. He believed that the conservative forces within Luobei were still very strong. These people were very dissatisfied with Ibugele's submission to the Great Zhou. Even if Ibugele would reward them with gold, silver and jewelry from the Great Zhou, it did not calm their resentment.
Therefore, once the Great Zhou withdraws its troops in the future, there is a high possibility of another rebellion within the Luobi, and Ibugele is likely to be defeated and killed.

By then, with the killing of Ibugele, the political and economic achievements made by the Great Zhou in Luobi will most likely be lost!

Therefore, Xun Ke believed that in order to preserve these achievements, the Great Zhou should also deploy a force in Luobi to help Ibugele stabilize his rule. After reading Xun Ke's suggestion, Ye Mingsheng pondered carefully and gave his instructions:
“As long as Ibugel is willing to bear the corresponding expenses, he agrees to deploy an army in Robe to help Ibugel maintain his rule…”

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April 25th, Ye Mansion, Yijing

After taking Jingren to pay his respects to Ye Cui and having breakfast together, An Miaoyi took Jingren back to her own courtyard. Because Gu Sansi would come to teach Jingren in the afternoon, An Miaoyi asked her subordinate Madam Cao to watch Jingren review his lessons, while she herself checked some accounts of the Ye Mansion.

Although the reason why Nanny Zhao, who was in charge of purchasing, was beaten to death was due to other reasons, An Miaoyi realized from Nanny Zhao's incident some loopholes in her management of the Ye Mansion. A Nanny dared to embezzle hundreds or even thousands of taels of silver from the Ye Mansion. This incident really made An Miaoyi angry.

Therefore, An Miaoyi was determined to manage strictly and prevent similar incidents from happening again. After all, she was the eldest lady of the Ye Mansion, and she was in charge of everything inside and outside the Ye Mansion. So what Zhao Ma was greedy for was not other people's money, but her, An Miaoyi's money!

Just as An Miaoyi was checking the accounts of the Ye Mansion in her mind, a maid came over and bowed to report:

"Madam, Director Ye Cheng from the Attendant Department is here with the memorial file!"

Hearing the name Ye Cheng, An Miaoyi paused, a cold light flashed in her beautiful eyes, and then she ordered coldly:

"Call Ye Cheng in!"

"Yes!"

Under An Miaoyi's order, Ye Cheng and several attendants holding memorial files immediately came to An Miaoyi.

As if sensing the coldness in An Miaoyi's beautiful eyes, Ye Cheng did not dare to make any eye contact with the lady of the Ye Mansion. He immediately bowed to An Miaoyi and said:

"I am here to see you, Madam!"

An Miaoyi looked at Ye Cheng who was bending over and said calmly:

"When did Director Ye become so unruly?"

Hearing this, Ye Cheng was stunned at first, then he immediately knelt down and spoke again:
"I am here to see you, Madam!"

An Miaoyi did not immediately call Ye Cheng to get up while he was kneeling on the ground. Instead, she let Ye Cheng kneel on the ground for about half a cup of tea before she slowly said:
"Director Ye, get up!"

"Thank you, madam!"

"What do you want to see me about?"

"Madam, please review the files of the cabinet and the General Staff for the past three days!"

Hearing this, An Miaoyi said with a smile:

"So Director Ye, you still have eyes for me, your wife?"

Facing An Miaoyi's somewhat meaningful words, Ye Cheng bowed and replied:

"Madam, you are joking. In my heart, the Marshal and you shine like the sun and the moon!"

As soon as these words came out, An Miaoyi snorted coldly:

"Director Ye, I hope you really think so!"

“That Madam Zhao thinks she can be clever just because she has a little power, but in fact she is totally wrong. It is not her turn to make the decisions in the Ye Mansion…”

(End of this chapter)