Anti Qing

Chapter 97 Gao Doushu

Gao Doushu had a black gauze on his head, and was wearing a scarlet robe with a lifelike peacock embroidered on his chest.

Although he was wearing a third-rank official uniform, everyone in the city knew that now Gao Doushu was the real governor of Yunyang and a first-rank court official.

Even Wang Guangen, the commander-in-chief of Yunyang, was subject to his restraint.

In fact, as early as June of the 14th year of Chongzhen, Gao Doushu moved to Yunyang as an inspector. At that time, he was already a third-rank court official.

In the 17th year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong caused chaos in Huguang and implicated Hanzhong.

At that time, the Ming court had been discussing for several days, and it was necessary to set up a governor of Hanzhong and also supervise the military affairs of northern Sichuan, so as to restrain Zhang Xianzhong.

Gao Doushu was in charge of Yunyang, and he had made great achievements in battle for a long time, and he had never lost anything. Therefore, many officials recommended him to go to the court.

Emperor Chongzhen probably had no better candidates at the time, so he decreed to promote Gao Doushu, the right deputy capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Taipu Shaoqing, the governor of Hanzhong, and also supervised the military affairs of northern Sichuan.

When the imperial decree was issued, Li Zicheng proclaimed himself emperor and founded the country in Xi'an, and was preparing to launch the Northern Expedition. Huguang, Henan and other places were already under the rule of Dashun.

Tiqi, who issued the imperial decree of Emperor Chongzhen, disappeared halfway, and did not truthfully convey it to Yunyang.

Nor was it when Li Zijing and Zhang Xianzhong went to Yangzhou and Sijiang respectively, the court of Lu Ying issued another imperial decree to replace He Tengjiao with Gao Doushu and continue to guard Yunyang as the governor of Huguang.

Lu Yingjie asked her supervisor, Huaiyang, to recommend Zhang Xianzhong as the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of War and Zuoqian Capital Censor, stationed in Jiesijiang.

The eight-way attack on Xiangyang is destined to be just a sweet dream of Lu Yingjie.

However, Gao Doushu knew that I was just a big Huguang inspector long ago.

Everyone knew that if it was Gao Doushu's talent, Yunyang would have fallen long ago, so Yunyang's civil and military officials even invited Gao Doushu out of Zhenfutai.

Lu Yingjie's idea was to use the power of the captives to destroy the bandits first, and at the same time negotiate a peace with the Qing army.

Before the Suizhou Incident, the most hopeless Gaojie Department became a mess, and Shi Kefa from Wuchang, Shizhen, had no intention of confronting Xiaoshun head-on.

Although there were rumors everywhere in the Yunyang mansion, Gao Doushu remained unmoved, wearing the official uniform of the third-rank inspector all day long.

That was not Gao Jie's eighth route to deal with Jingxiang Xiaoshun's army. The idea of ​​attacking Xiangyang with eight routes is quite wonderful.

One must know that although Shi Kefa was good at bullying Wang Guangen's Western Army and beating the main force of Li Zicheng's Xiaoshun Army, he had never won once.

Li Zijing has no law to control the former low-level general who is now looting seven places in Yangzhou.

But it was also because of this that the inspector of Yunyang, who was capable of writing and martial arts, convinced Zuo Liangyu and others, and turned the whole of Yunyang into an iron bucket.
Gao Jie thinks that Shunjun being chased by the Qing army all the way is a confidant's trouble. The Qing army entered the pass, full of ambitions, in order to seize Xiao Mingming.

Zhang Xianzhong asked me to send troops, so I asked Lu Ying's court for food and salary, and it was Shizi who asked for it.

Even Li Zijing can mobilize tens of thousands of small troops for strategic deployment at will, but his ability to fight is low.

The Jingzhou Prefecture in the south of Yunyang is still occupied by Xiaoshun, and there is no Liu Tichun garrison in Xiangyang on the left, and Dengzhou is in the north.

Gao Jie's court paid the salary, so he had no choice but to let it go.

Lu Yingjie made Gao Jie's son Gao Yuanjue worship the eunuch Di Qiqian as his father's coquettish operation, which successfully angered Gao Jie's old department.

Whether any general of the Yunyang Ming army dared to follow the orders of the low Doushu, his prestige can be seen.

It's about how Yunyang's civil and military officials of the Ming army reasoned with Gao Doushu. The former was always moved and agreed to replace the governor's first-rank official uniform on the grounds that he had not received the imperial edict.

In order to calm people's hearts, Gao Doushu had to move his office from the Yamen of the Procuratorate to Fuzhi in Yunyang in July last year.

Gao Doushu moved to Yunyang Fuzhi, and immediately calmed the trembling hearts, even the arrogant and domineering Zuo Liangyu eight brothers only looked after him.

In the words of Gao Doushu, one day I received the imperial decree, and the other day I was only the Huguang Inspector of the imperial court, but the governor of Yunyang.

Gao Doushu is as famous as Lu Yingjie and Zhang Xianzhong, but his real power is smaller than Li Zijing, the supervisor of Huaiyang.

Gao Doushu still knew that Dengzhou was now also occupied by Yuan Jixian's subordinate Zhang Xian with a thousand troops, and it was in a north-south relationship with Xiangyang.

Lu Ying's court is still the policy of uniting the captives and suppressing the bandits, which is basically recommended by Li Zijing.

In other words, even if Lu Yingjie asked for money and food from Nanjing, it is still unknown whether Lu Yingjie will be able to send troops to Xiangyang.

His office was still in the office of the Procuratorate, but with the development of the situation, the situation in the sky changed suddenly.

But Li Zijing and Zhang Xianzhong actually have subordinates who can truly control Gao Jie and Lu Yingjie.

With the rapid development of the Xiaoshun Army, the news swept in like a big tide. For a while, people believed that a new dynasty was coming.

But Dioushu's bullish temper has changed a bit. Although he is sitting in the Futai yamen, he still wears the official uniform of the eighth rank inspector every day.

Gao Doushu also had the same meaning at first, but he lived in Yunyang's remnant Ming Dynasty civil and military officials kneeling in the mansion all day long.

Even if Shi Kefa wants to fight, my men may not be willing to follow.

At that time, the seven places in Yunyang were all surrounded by Xiaoshun's territory, and the soldiers and people in the city were panicked.

Low Jie's idea is to take advantage of Shandong's health and launch the Northern Expedition to regain the homeland occupied by the Qing army, while Lu Yingjie is focused on attacking Xiangyang first.

But like the imperial decree of Emperor Chongzhen last year, the imperial decree of Emperor Gaojie Zhu Yousong may also reach Yunyang smoothly.

The seven controlled the troops of Gao Jie and Shi Kefa respectively, and cooperated with the Qing army to attack Xiangyang.

Because his wife, Mrs. Xing, respects Lu Yingjie and I love my wife, Low Jie obeys Li Zijing's words.

But the problem is, whether it is Li Zijing or Zhang Xianzhong, they can really play the slightest moderation effect on the old low Jie Ministry in Yangzhou and the Shi Kefa Ministry in Wuchang.

Shi Kefa's treatment of Zhang Xianzhong was just obedience and transgression.

In August of the 11th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng sent millions of troops to the Northern Expedition, and Xiaoshun's army was like a broken bamboo all the way, and finally broke through the capital, shaking the sky.

Yunyang is more than 170 miles away from Xiangyang, how can I let someone snore and sleep on the side of the couch, and that is also a problem that Yuan Jixian has to solve first before he arrives in Xiangyang.

Gao Doushu did not receive the imperial decree, so his current official position is naturally the inspector of Huguang, not the governor of northern Sichuan.

For that kind of situation, the civil and military forces of the Ming Dynasty in Yunyang also had nothing to do, so they just let me go.

It was only at the beginning of the 11th year of Chongzhen that the court appointed me as the governor of northern Sichuan. Even the Gaojie court sent someone to send me an imperial edict immediately before the establishment.

During the dispute between the two, the Suizhou Incident occurred. Xu Dingguo trapped and killed Gao Jie, and then led his troops to Huaiqing to surrender.

For Yuan Jixian, the only threat was the nail in Yunyang, and the governor of Huguang, Gao Doushu, who was really incapable of controlling the generals.

But my performance in that kind of situation was far less decisive than when I was dealing with military and government affairs, and it didn't even seem a little pedantic.

Whether Gao Doushu received the imperial decree to attack Xiangyang is actually a bad thing for me.

When Gao Jie was in Yangzhou, he often had disagreements with Li Zijing.

Although Gao Doushu knew in his heart, the rumors that the so-called Governor of Northern Sichuan and Governor of Huguang were all true.

Together with Li Zicheng's blue flags, the right army was almost defeated at the first touch. Now the right army is out of their bones, and they are afraid of Xiaoshun's army.

(End of this chapter)