The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 255 Traitor
After meeting the emperor, all the meritorious persons in Jinyiwei were rewarded, and the promotion of Jinyiwei did not require a cabinet vote, the emperor directly asked the supervisor of ceremonies to issue a decree.

The nineteen Jinyiwei under Lou Yun not only took the risk to go out of the customs to contact the "Red Banner Army", they also actively participated in the battle and killed 54 Tartars, including one commander of a thousand and two commanders of a centurion.

The son of heaven's pro-army made great contributions to the Tian family's face, the emperor was happy, and the reward was good.

All the Jinyiwei who participated in the battle were promoted to three ranks in a row, but they were actually awarded one or two ranks. These grassroots Jinyiwei felt as if they had reached the sky in one step, and they felt like they were in a dream when they left the palace.

The emperor did not forget Li Ruolian, one of the instigators, and knew that Lou Yun's line was a powerful person specially selected by Li Ruolian from hundreds of brocade guards, and promoted him to a vacant position to become a real official of a thousand households with the fourth rank of brocade guards .

Luo Yangxing, the commander of the Jinyiwei, is hereditary, so mediocre that he is close to incompetent, because historical records show that he has been the commander of the Jinyiwei for 17 years without any bad deeds.

Royal hawks and dogs have not bited people for more than ten years, and these ten years are still the end of the world when "a country is about to perish, there must be evildoers". What is the use of such hawks and dogs?

This time, Luo Yangxing also gained a first-level false title. As soon as he left the imperial city, he happily invited all the criminals to drink flowers and wine in Yichunyuan to celebrate.

Li Ruolian immediately arranged for someone to send Huang Han's letter to Xu Guangqi and Zheng Guochang, and now he followed the commander to play in Yichun Courtyard, so he could deliver the letter to Chuchu by the way.

When Xu Guangqi and Zheng Guochang learned that Huang Han had won another big victory, they invited their colleagues to their home for a banquet to celebrate. They were going to get drunk.

After receiving the letter from the old lady, Rou'er sent it to Zheng Xiu'e's embroidery building in no time. Although it was not addressed to herself, Zheng Xiu'e read every word very carefully, but wondered why her future husband's calligraphy was so weird?

Zheng Xiu'e let go of her hanging heart, because Huang Han not only reported her safety in the letter, but also told her father-in-law that she would not miss the wedding date.

Qin Yuyi and Zhang Fengyi, who personally delivered the official documents of the Ministry of War, and a group of 17 people rushed to Shanhaiguan in just two days after changing horses and galloping non-stop.

At this time, the supervisor Sun Chengzong did not take office, and the governor of Liaodong was Qiu Hejia, the censor of Youqian Capital. He is currently the highest leader of Liaodong and has accepted the official document of the Ministry of War.

The order for the Ming army in western Liaoning to assemble on the front line of Jinzhou was issued on the same day, and the fastest movers were indeed the white-armed soldiers. They advanced at a speed of nearly a hundred miles a day in the ice and snow of the western Liaoning corridor.

Ma Xianglin was shocked when he first saw his wife and younger sister who had a frosty face. He thought it was his mother who had an accident. Later, he learned that it was his sworn brother who might be in trouble. He immediately led Qiqian's subordinates into action.

The time when the white pole soldiers arrived in Jinzhou was already three days after Huang Han took Qingcheng. Because Ningyuan is relatively close to Jinzhou, the two commanders Cao Minglei and Song Wei stationed there already had [-] troops before Ma Xianglin's troops arrived. Arrive in one day.

Such a big move by the Ming army really alarmed the Jin army. The slave chief Hongjie paid special attention to intelligence collection and liked to take in traitors for his use.

Fan Wencheng, who was convicted for losing Zunhua, asked for his crime and meritorious deeds in order to show his loyalty. In the spring, when his master returned to Liaodong, he took the initiative to ask to take dozens of traitors to Zhangjiakou to contact merchants to buy urgently needed food for Dajin.

Hong has robbed a lot of gold and silver, people, and livestock. He really needs a lot of food to survive the autumn harvest.

Although they robbed a lot of grain, it was impossible to bring all the looted grain back to Liaodong with Jiannu's transportation capacity.

When the Jin army retreated, too much food was forced to give up, and they had to use limited transportation capacity to transport relatively valuable cloth, silk, copper, iron and so on.

Fan Wencheng was indeed quite capable. He contacted Fan Yongdou, a big Shanxi businessman from his family within a few days after arriving in Zhangjiakou. Under the leadership of this traitorous businessman, a large amount of grain was smuggled out of the customs.

Fan Wencheng not only contributed to the preparation of food, but during his stay in Zhangjiakou, he took the initiative to send out traitors and went offline to place hidden stakes in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan and other places where Ming Dynasty had civil strife.

This traitor lurked in Zhangjiakou and got too much inside information about Daming. Based on the intelligence delivered by many sources, he wrote a two thousand-word memorandum.

The content is to analyze the disadvantages of Ming Dynasty's governance, pointing out that Wen Tianwu and Wu Xi of Ming Dynasty were in constant civil strife, and emphasized that under the glorious, great, and correct leadership of the British Lord, the Kingdom of Jin will be built into a great country that is equal to Ming Dynasty.

To be honest, at this time, no one would have thought that Jiannu would destroy Daming and replace him, not even Hong Jie had the extravagant hope.

He just wanted to throw away the label of Daming's traitor, and hoped that Dajin would be recognized by Daming. For this reason, he did not hesitate to cancel the title of emperor and become a vassal state of Ming like North Korea.

Hong Xie carefully read the memorial presented by Fan Wencheng, who came back from Zhangjiakou for half a year. He once again clearly realized the importance of the traitors and traitors to the Dajin Kingdom.

Obviously, the Jurchens are simple-minded and can only fight and kill. They are rich and safe. After withdrawing from the Ming Dynasty, most people drank and drunk at home all day long. I am afraid that I am the only one who can have Fan Wencheng's education and knowledge. That's all.

The next day at the court meeting, he exempted him from all punishments for losing Zunhua with Fan Wencheng's high-profile meritorious service in preparing food and grass and laying out the intelligence network.

The Ming army gathered on the front line of Jinzhou in a big way. Hongxie called civil officials and military generals to discuss the matter. Several Gu Shanezhen believed that the Ming army was preparing to launch a winter offensive to retaliate in Liaodong, and suggested that Da Khan should make preparations early.

Fan Wencheng had a different opinion, and he talked eloquently: "Khan, I don't agree with you. Based on intelligence analysis and past experience, I believe that the Ming army will really launch a big war. How can there be any reason to say that you can start a fight? Therefore, I judge that the Ming army will not launch a large-scale attack."

Hong Zai asked, "If the Ming army had no desire to launch an attack, why did they keep increasing their troops in Jinzhou?"

Fan Wencheng said: "As for why the Ming army gathered troops in Jinzhou, I think there must be something strange. My Dajin army has responded to all changes without change, and it is not surprising that it is self-defeating."

In history, Duduo, who created the "Yangzhou Ten Days" massacre and died of smallpox in the sixth year of Shunzhi, looked down on traitors the most. Seeing Fan Wencheng shaking his head and spitting, he sarcastically said:

"The civil servants and military generals of the Ming Dynasty may not all be secretive people. In the Ming Dynasty, Liu Zhilun and Huang Han attacked Zunhua and seized the city in one fell swoop. You have lost hundreds of battles. This is what happened at the beginning of the year. Ben Baylor can still remember it vividly, I never imagined that a slave like you would dare to speak out loudly."

The Jiannu and Tartar civil and military people who were present all despised the Han officials, and they burst into laughter when they saw Duoduo's words mocking Fan Wencheng.

Hitting people doesn't slap people in the face, and cursing people doesn't reveal faults. Duo Duo's words are equivalent to pressing Fan Wencheng's face on the ground and rubbing it fiercely.

Hongxie rescued this good servant: "Fan Aiqing, I wonder if there has been any news about Liu Zhilun and Huang Han recently?"

"Khan, I have been paying close attention to them. Liu Zhilun has nothing special during this time. Huang Han openly accepted the first red card of Yichunyuan as his concubine in the capital of the Ming Dynasty. I think there must be something strange in it."

(End of this chapter)