It's not that Marquis Annan cannot give up power, but at this point, it's no longer possible for him to preserve the Marquis Annan's Mansion by handing over his military power. What Emperor Mingzheng is best at is getting rid of the donkey after it has done its job.
When Gu Yun was in the Lingnan Army, he went to the battlefield at the age of 14, fought bloody battles and made many military achievements, but the military reports sent by Annan Hou to the capital never dared to reveal Gu Yun's military achievements, and all of them were kept secret. The Gu Wei had already made Emperor Mingzheng sleepless at night, and their Gu family could not have another young general.
Gu Yun was well aware of this. After being tied up in the capital like a hostage by Emperor Mingzheng, he deliberately acted like a dandy young man who only cared about having fun.
People in the capital only know that Gu Yun is arrogant and conceited, but few know that he is a real bloodthirsty wolf on the battlefield in Lingnan. He once led 5,000 troops, defeated the larger force with a smaller one, annihilated 20,000 cavalry of Baiyue, and captured the enemy leader alive!
He should have been a soldier fighting on the battlefield to defend his country, but now he can only be trapped in the capital, pretending to be ignorant of the world.
"He won't let my father go back to Lingnan easily." Gu Yun said seriously.
Emperor Ming Zheng finally summoned Gu Wei back to the capital, but failed to take away the military power from Gu Wei. Emperor Ming Zheng was not willing to let the tiger go back to the mountain. Even if the war broke out again in Lingnan and the border was broken, it would not shake Emperor Ming Zheng's mind.
"Shen Tian proposed to the emperor that he intend to promote Guo Rang to the commander-in-chief of Lingnan and temporarily take charge of the military power of Lingnan." Liu Ziqi said, "Ji Wudao won a victory against the Oirat and captured the deputy general of the Oirat, Erluye, alive. The victory report has not yet reached the capital."
"Why are you trying to stop me? You should talk to my father about Lingnan. The emperor will never let me leave Beijing." Gu Yun was talking to Liu Ziqi, but her starry eyes were fixed outside the flower hall. She murmured in a low voice, "I haven't seen Yu Jiao for a long time, and I haven't had a good talk with her."
Seeing that Gu Yun's heart was entirely devoted to Yu Jiao, Liu Ziqi was happy to see it happen, but he was also afraid that Gu Yun would act rashly and annoy Yu Jiao.
"Yu Jiao is still young. Everything is too much or too little." Liu Ziqi reminded him, "The emperor will not allow our two families to marry."
Gu Yun calmed down a little and sat down on the chair again. Now he was willing to listen to what Liu Ziqi said about Lingnan.
"Is the military report about unusual movements at Wuyi Pass and the Baiyue causing trouble true or false?" Seeing Liu Ziqi nodding seriously, Gu Yun said, "I thought it was just a lie you made up to trick the man who let my father go back to Lingnan."
Liu Ziqi said, "With your father in Lingnan, the Baiyue dared not cause trouble easily. But when your father returned to Beijing, the Baiyue must have heard the news and invaded Wuyi Pass several times after the New Year. In the spring, the Baiyue people were short of food. Although they did not mobilize troops on a large scale, only a small group of Baiyue troops invaded the border at night each time, but they had looted dozens of villages. Fortunately, your father had made arrangements before returning to Beijing. But if he did not return to Lingnan, the Baiyue would become more rampant."
Gu Yun frowned slightly. He grew up in Lingnan and had deep feelings for every tree and blade of grass in Wuyi Pass. He often went in and out of the villages at the border. The people of Wuyi Pass were simple and warm-hearted, and treated the Lingnan Army very well. In order to control the troops in Lingnan over the years, the imperial court had never had enough military rations and supplies. In winter, the people of Wuyi Pass spontaneously made cotton clothes for the soldiers of the Lingnan Army to keep them warm.
If Liu Ziqi had not secretly run a business and sent food and military pay to Lingnan over the years, countless people in the Lingnan army would have starved to death.
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