Chapter 1271: Choice of country name!

Half an hour later, when Ye Mingsheng was secretly thinking about how to conduct the inspection in Jingchu, Song Haibo was outside the carriage and reported to Ye Mingsheng:

"Marshal, Ye Pengchao, the Censor Ye, is here!"

Ye Mingsheng was a little surprised when he heard this. His team had not yet reached Tongcheng. Why did Ye Pengchao come so early?
As soon as the doubts arose in his mind, Ye Mingsheng almost had the answer in his mind. He rushed here from Hanyang so early just to show his loyalty and leave a good impression on him so that he could be successfully promoted to the position of Censor.

Ye Mingsheng was not actually disgusted with Ye Pengchao's behavior. After all, running for office played an important role in his becoming a powerful general. This could be considered one of Ye Mingsheng's dark histories. However, Ye Mingsheng himself was not too shy about this. Instead, An Miaoyi, Ye Dong, Ye Kui and other people who knew the truth kept their mouths shut and dared not say anything.

In addition, Ye Mingsheng had some understanding of Ye Pengchao. Ye Pengchao was a member of the Ye clan. He joined the Fengwu Army together with many Ye clan relatives who followed Ye Mingsheng. However, due to physical reasons, he was unable to pass the recruit training. However, relying on his intelligence and cleverness, he entered the newly established Coordination Office!
The first time Ye Mingsheng paid attention to Ye Pengchao was because he heard from Huo San that Ye Pengchao facilitated the surrender of Duan Zhibao, Li Zhengyong and others, helped the Fengwu Army control Jingchu, and established the Fifth Army!
After hearing about Ye Pengchao's deeds from Huo San, Ye Mingsheng also admired Ye Pengchao's talents. There were many brave generals among the Ye family members, such as Ye Dong, Ye Tao and others who were very brave and fearless in fighting...
But to be realistic, perhaps because of their level of education, there are not many smart people in the Ye family. It's not that Ye Mingsheng looks down on his family, but there are indeed many reckless people. Many of them naively believe that Ye Mingsheng can decide everything as he is the emperor. But they don't know that when Ye Mingsheng himself does something, he also has to weigh the pros and cons and abide by the rules!
So after realizing that Ye Pengchao was a talented person, Ye Mingsheng also wanted to train Ye Pengchao. For this reason, Ye Mingsheng transferred Ye Pengchao out of the General Coordination Office and appointed him as the Deputy Censor of Jingchu. At that time, Ye Mingsheng's idea was to let Ye Pengchao accumulate some experience in the yamen, and at the same time he could observe him better.

However, Duan Zhibao of the Fifth Army underestimated the enemy and advanced rashly, which led to his fall into Xu Zhaojie's trap. Duan Zhibao and the main force of the Fifth Army were annihilated by Xu Zhaojie. This also put the Fengwu Army's originally good situation in Jingchu into a precarious situation.

In order to seize Jingchu and destroy the layout of the Fengwu Army, Xu Zhaojie actively organized his troops and prepared to attack Hanyang. At the same time, he contacted another general of the Fifth Army, Li Zhengyong, through some channels, hoping that Li Zhengyong would rebel against the Fengwu Army and open the city to surrender.

Li Zhengyong had originally been dissatisfied with Ye Mingsheng's decision to make Duan Zhibao the commander of the Fifth Army and the deputy commander, so facing Xu Zhaojie's recruitment, Li Zhengyong was also open-minded and started negotiations with Xu Zhaojie on the price of surrender...

At that time, although Xu Zhaojie was at an absolute disadvantage strategically, if he could control Jingchu, he would achieve a local victory, which might allow him to survive for a few more years.

At this moment Ye Pengchao realized Xu Zhaojie's conspiracy, so without any orders, he joined forces with Zhang Shengli of the First Division, and killed Li Zhengyong and hundreds of his cronies without prior notification, and took over the city defense of Hanyang. As a result, Xu Zhaojie had to give up the idea of ​​attacking Hanyang when he saw that there was no opportunity to take advantage of!

When Ye Mingsheng learned the news more than a month later, he was also very surprised. He felt that Ye Pengchao was a very good talent. However, just when Ye Mingsheng was about to reward Ye Pengchao, Xu Zhaojie's prison break broke out. Although Xu Zhaojie did not escape in the end, this incident still caused great chaos in Hanyang!

The Jingchu Censorate was largely responsible for this. At that time, the Censor Liang Xin had his power basically hollowed out by Ye Pengchao, so he simply resigned!
Ye Mingsheng was also a little angry about Xu Zhaojie's prison escape, but because he admired Ye Pengchao's talent, he offset the merits and demerits and only fined Ye Pengchao one year's salary. He also let Ye Pengchao temporarily take over the position of Jingchu Censor in the name of Deputy Censor. Overall, it was a light punishment with a big warning.

Ye Mingsheng had heard a lot about Ye Pengchao's deeds, but he had never met him in person, so he was very interested in meeting this fellow tribesman of his...
If it was half an hour ago, Ye Mingsheng would have definitely met Ye Pengchao, but the road was too bumpy during this half hour. Although the two carriages were specially made by the First Manufacturing Bureau, and the shock absorption effect was very good under the current technical conditions, Ye Mingsheng was still shaken in the past half hour. Therefore, Ye Mingsheng now looks a little tired and his mental state is not very good. For the sake of his own image, Ye Mingsheng immediately ordered:

"Let Ye Pengchao lead the team and continue to advance towards Tongcheng!"

After hearing Ye Mingsheng's instructions, Song Haibo nodded and said:

"Sir, I will go and inform Ye Pengchao!"

Ye Mingsheng asked again:
"How far is it from Tongcheng now?"

"I just asked the guide, and he said it's still about five or six miles away, and we'll definitely reach Tongcheng within half an hour!"

Ye Mingsheng nodded slightly when he heard this. Although he was sitting in the carriage and didn't move much, to be honest, it was still a bit tiring to walk all the way. He was now suffering from back pain and wanted to find a place to lie down and straighten his back.

In addition, because he was always on the road, he ate casually for breakfast and lunch. For breakfast, he only had a bowl of millet porridge with some dried meat. At noon, he only had a bowl of soup stewed with dried meat and ate two large white flour pancakes.

So now Ye Mingsheng really wants to reach Tongcheng as soon as possible so that he can have a good meal. Although he has not arrived in Tongcheng yet, Ye Mingsheng has heard that in addition to copper mines, the local crispy candies are also said to be very good, so Ye Mingsheng is very interested in trying it.

After eating, taking a bath and taking a nap, Ye Mingsheng believed that he would be able to recover with full health and have more energy to handle his work...

(The country name is Feng, Qian, or Yan. Which one do you choose?)

(End of this chapter)