East Factory Governor

Chapter 547 The Uninvited Guest

Qin Shuhuai's mood immediately improved. With this money, he could reward the whole army well.Especially these days, the martial arts allied forces have paid a lot for the court to suppress the bandits, so it is time to reward them and express the court's concern.

It was already daylight.The officers and soldiers cleaned the battlefield and counted the battle damage.

In this battle, the officers and soldiers can say that they wiped out more than [-] rogue bandits in the city, and basically wiped out the [-] five-element flags that the Demon Sect came to aid.As for the five apostles, six apostles, seven apostles and others, they took advantage of the chaos and fled again.

In terms of officers and soldiers, there were more than 5000 people, and more than 5000 were lost in battle, and the casualties were not too large.

The point is, after this battle, Gao Yingxiang only has more than 5 direct descendants left, and he can only hide near Weinan City.Moreover, he lost a large amount of military rations and salaries, as well as a stable source of income, and was no longer able to launch a large-scale offensive against the official army.

Qin Shuhuai ordered the officers and soldiers to repair on the spot, and purchased a large amount of vegetables and meat in the city, so that the price of chicken, pork, and mutton in the city soared to three times the usual price, for the whole army to hold a celebration banquet!At the same time, Meng Wei, Meng Hu, Zhang Xiao, He Kegang, He Renlong and others were sent to the camp to condolences and reward those who have made great achievements.

Speaking of meritorious persons, Qin Shuhuai thought of Tang Sanniang.In these few battles, Tang Sanniang's Tang Sect poison played an extremely important role, so in terms of credit, Tang Sanniang's Tang Sect is the number one!

Qin Shuhuai decided to reward the Tang Sect with 10 taels of silver, and planned to nominate Tang Sanniang, the head of the Tang Sect, as an alternate elder, who could be appointed after the approval of the elders' meeting.Alternate elders do not have any real power, but they are extremely honorable. This means that the Tang Sect, which has always been excluded by the martial arts, has been accepted by various factions in the martial arts—at least, no one dares to say that the Tang Sect is a crooked evil. .

Although Tang Sanniang only thanked lightly, she was extremely happy in her heart. 10 taels of silver, this is a windfall for the Tangmen who have lived in a poor place in central Sichuan for a long time. I am afraid that they will not be able to save so much silver in ten years.With this money, they can buy a lot of expensive medicinal materials to develop various murderous poisons or holy medicines to save people!Moreover, after this battle, the Tang Sect will definitely be accepted by the same people in the rivers and lakes, and the grievances and grievances with other factions in the past can also be resolved by taking advantage of the situation, and it will be much easier for disciples to travel in the rivers and lakes in the future.

Although the Tang Sect lost more than 200 disciples in this expedition, it was still a worthwhile trip.

After rewarding Tang Sanniang, Qin Shuhuai went to the Emei faction in person to express his condolences for the heroic sacrifice of Mrs. Shangshui.Master Shangshui's body was cremated on the spot in Baoji City, and was secretly sent back to the Emei School.

Qin Shuhuai decided to give 3 taels of silver to the Emei faction, plus a large wharf in Jinmen, and donate it permanently to the Emei faction.This means that the Emei School can at least guarantee an annual income of tens of thousands of taels of silver in the future.

The elder of the Emei sect, the current head master Xuanzhi thanked Qin Shuhuai on behalf of Emei, but it was still difficult to overcome his sadness.

Qin Shuhuai also had rewards for the rest of the sects and sects. In short, the 130 million taels of silver found in the city, after deducting the compensation for the common people and the rewards for the soldiers, only three 10,000+ taels fell into his pocket.

But after the reward, the morale of the whole army has risen to another level!What's more gratifying is that after several battles, the Wulin coalition forces gradually mastered the skills of marching and fighting in actual combat, and became more and more like an elite soldier.

Of the [-] troops in Shangluo City, there are [-] martial arts coalition troops, and [-] are imperial court troops.With the strength of the [-] troops, there is no problem in sweeping south of Shanxi.

In the evening of that day, Qin Shuhuai received an urgent report from the capital.

It turned out that three days ago, that is, on June 7th of the third year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji led tens of thousands of elite soldiers and more than [-] soldiers.By the time the horse whistle sent out the pond report, Malanyu was already in danger.

Along with the urgent report, there was also a secret letter written by Chongzhen himself.In the letter, he asked Qin Shuhuai eagerly, what happened to Gao Yingxiang's raid in southern Shanxi?When is the fastest time to lead troops to the north to fight against Jiannu?
To put it bluntly, Chongzhen still has no confidence in the 10,000 Guanning Army, the tens of thousands of Datong Army, the Xuanfu Army, and the [-]+ field soldiers in Jizhen.Only when Qin Shuhuai appeared on the map of Ji Town can he feel at ease.

Qin Shuhuai thought about it, now Gao Yingxiang still has more than 5 direct descendants. If more than 5 people are defending the city, the officers and soldiers really have no good way, but if they dare to come out, they only need [-] officers and soldiers to wipe them out ——Of course they must be elite soldiers in the official army.

However, if he wants to go north to fight Huang Taiji, then at least [-] troops must be withdrawn from here. By then, Shaanxi's troops will be empty at once. In the case of miscellaneous bandits, there are also many hidden dangers.

It seems that another battle must be fought, at least the 5 to [-] miscellaneous troops must be cleared before they can leave.Of course, it would be even better if they could find a chance to defeat Gao Yingxiang's remaining [-] horsemen.

His reasons for doing this, in addition to considering the overall situation, also have private factors.Because Lai San'er and Chen Jing are still in the hands of each other, he always feels uneasy if they are not rescued.

He conceived for a while, and wrote a memorial to Chongzhen, to the effect that most of Gao Yingxiang's territory had been recovered, leaving only Weinan.And among the rogue bandits in Shaanxi, only Gao Yingxiang's more than 7 people remain, plus 10 to [-] miscellaneous names.At this time, if he leads the army to go north, there is no guarantee that Gao Yingxiang will not be revived.Therefore, in order to completely stabilize the trilateral situation, he must launch another offensive against bandits to ensure that Gao Yingxiang is unable to offend the officers and soldiers again before he can send his troops northward.And this process may take [-]-[-] days.During this period of time, he believed that Yuan Chonghuan should be able to drag Huang Taiji to Jizhen, so the emperor need not worry and so on.

After writing the memorial, he was about to send someone to deliver it, but he heard a commotion outside.

"Bold! This officer is the governor of Baoding, the Ministry of War's Cleaning Department, and the imperial envoy who investigates Qin Shuhuai's evidence. How dare you stop him?" said an arrogant and frantic voice.

"Hehe, imperial envoy? Our Lord Hou is also an imperial envoy, so it can be offset. In addition, our Lord Hou is the Marquis of Tongzhou, the Prince Shaobao, and a scholar of the Wuying Hall. Strictly speaking, he is a cabinet minister, so it is Isn't it older than you?" From the tone of the voice, one knew it belonged to Meng Hu.

Meng Hu deliberately angered the other party, but there is a saying that is true, although Qin Shuhuai never participated in cabinet meetings, he has always been a member of the cabinet at the University of Martial Arts.

Hearing this, Qin Shuhuai knew that it was Zhang Yijia who came.It was Qin Shuhuai's idea that Chongzhen asked Zhang Yijia to investigate Qin Shuhuai. The purpose was to transfer Zhang Yijia out of the post of governor of Baoding, so as to prevent the Donglin Party from interfering with Yuan Chonghuan by commanding the army blindly through him.

Zhang Yijia considered himself a majestic imperial envoy, but he couldn't even get into Qin Shuhuai's study. He couldn't help pulling out the imperial decree angrily and angrily, and shouted to Meng Hu, "No matter what position you hold in the army, you are now an imperial envoy. Kneel down and listen to the order!"

When Meng Hu saw that he had taken out the imperial decree, he didn't dare to be arrogant anymore, so he knelt down obediently.

"Following the heavens, the emperor said. In order to clean up the military discipline of the three sides, Zhang Yijia, the Secretary of the Ministry of War, was specially appointed..."

The gist of the imperial decree is that Chongzhen entrusted Zhang Yijia to inspect military discipline on three sides. If any generals found fearing war, avoiding war, and deceiving their superiors and subordinates are found, they can be dismissed on the spot and sent to the capital.The imperial decree did not say that he came here specifically to investigate Qin Shuhuai, but Zhang Yijia was given more power, because in this way he could handle all the officials in the three sides.

Zhang Yijia read the imperial decree arrogantly, handed it to Meng Hu, and said, "Do you want to read it?"

Meng Hu laughed and said, "Don't watch it, don't watch it, Mr. Zhang, please come in."

Zhang Yijia snorted coldly, and then walked in with a dozen or so entourages.

(End of this chapter)