Traveling through the Ming Dynasty, as soon as you open your eyes, you will die

Outside the Great Wall, the Qing army arrived. It is true that the army is like the sea and the people are like clouds.

The coalition's large camp tents were densely packed and endless, stretching for hundreds of miles and covering the entire grassland outside the Great Wall.

It was not the North Great Wall that fired what Lu Mou characterized as the first shot of the World War, but Jiangnan.

Two months ago, because according to the original personnel arrangement, Zhang Shenyan, who had rich experience in capturing bandits and had high moral character, was dismissed after Lu Mou accepted Zhang Huangyan's plan to seize the opportunity to regain Zhejiang and Fujian in the South during this world war. He was appointed to Jiangnan and replaced the loyal but incompetent Shi Kefa as the governor of Jiangnan.

As soon as Zhang Shenyan took office, he received the full support of Li An, the eunuch who stayed in Nanjing.

With Lu Mou's permission, Li An opened Nanjing's treasury and took out a large sum of gold, silver and food to support Zhang Shenyan's actions.

Zhang Shenyan immediately walked into the four towns in Jiangnan alone with this abundant money, food and materials, and Xuzhou, the only noble city that had achieved great results. He wanted to completely surrender this bandit-turned-Gao Jie.

Gao Jie was considered a very good fighter in the late Ming Dynasty.

He was a fellow countryman of Li Zicheng, a good comrade in the uprising together, and Li Zicheng's right-hand man. He made great contributions to building a foundation for Li Zicheng.

In this regard, Li Zicheng formed a deep, brotherly friendship with him.

However, Li Zicheng was a small-minded person by nature. How did it show?
The specific manifestation is that he has not been as open-minded as a man: brothers are like brothers and women are like clothes. Good brother, how can I say that I have no clothes? I share the same robe with you and wear mine.

When Li Zicheng's first wife ran away with someone, Li Zicheng personally chopped up the person who abducted his wife. But he let go of his first wife.

It is estimated that this is not because Li Zicheng is magnanimous, but because he has another hidden agenda.

It turned out that the second wife was smart and brave, and was responsible for the logistics, money and food distribution of the army. After going back and forth, I got close to Gao Jie, who always went to collect money and food.

As for why this wife cheated on her again, it's probably because the widower who broke into the king's life was ill. Xing couldn't bear the loneliness, so she ran away with Gao Jie.

And now Mrs. Gao has not given birth to a boy and a girl. Li Zicheng really wants her to run away with someone. This is not because Li Zicheng dislikes Mrs. Gao's appearance, but because Mrs. Gao is in charge and has the huge tribe of his uncle Gao Yingxiang. As long as Mrs. Gao is around, that group of people will always be at odds with him. As long as Mrs. Gao ran away, Gao Yingxiang's men would naturally integrate into Li Chuang's system.

But unfortunately, Mrs. Gao didn't run away. Do you think this is disturbing?

Having said that, although brothers are like brothers, Li Zicheng did not wear the same clothes as his brothers, but instead turned against each other.

The reason why he made such a choice is probably a matter of face as a man.

As the saying goes, the two greatest enemies in the world are the hatred of killing one's father and the hatred of taking away one's wife. Do I, the world-famous King Li Chuang, have no regard for face?

So he became a mortal enemy with his former brother, chasing him to heaven and earth. In the end, Gao Jie had no choice but to lead his men and surrender directly to the Ming Dynasty.

In the Ming Dynasty, he showed his heroic spirit again. He not only blocked Li Zicheng's revenge against him, but also made the famous Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, known as Cao Cao and other rogue bandits flee.

Finally achieved the position of commander-in-chief.

But at this time, Gao Jie was in a somewhat awkward position.

The first one is that no matter how good he is in fighting, he was born a bandit, and the Ming Dynasty's supervisory officials only regarded him as a mad dog and never paid attention to him.

At the same time, the Ming Dynasty was already in financial ruin at that time, and the army could not send out money and food. Especially for someone who was born a bandit, he was even more despised and ostracized. Even the pitiful little money and food he had was not his turn, so he had to raise money on the spot. The team led by Gao Jie was originally a bandit, and robbery on the spot was their specialty, so his reputation became even worse.

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Gao Jie led Yangzhou and garrisoned outside the city. Gao Jie was determined to enter the city. The people of Yangzhou were afraid of Gao Jie and would not let them in. Gao Jie was in a hurry to attack the city, so he robbed women in the village of money and food every day, making the local people hate him even more.

The prefect Ma Minglu and the official Tang Laihe defended tenaciously for more than a month. The good old Shi Gebu Shi Kefa planned to give Guazhou to Gao Jie, so he stopped attacking the city. Disobeying orders, he eventually entered Xuzhou.

Such an upright person like Shi Kefa was deeply disgusted by his origin and behavior. Even if he had money and food in his hands, he would not give it to Gao Jie.

In this way, Gao Jie has become a marginalized person that her grandma is not close to and her uncle does not love. She is the most capable but the most down-and-out among the four towns.

Now Gao Jie has plundered all of Xuzhou and has reached the point where he is too poor to support himself.

The reason why Lu Mou borrowed Li Zicheng's help, except for the other three towns, but did not eradicate him, and ordered Yang Songshan to save him when Li Zicheng was most in danger of attacking him, was actually because he was Li Zicheng's mortal enemy. For the sake of. At the same time, Gao Jie is also a hero with loyalty. In Lu Mou's eyes, he is regarded as a young man who can be saved through education.

This time, when Zhang Shenyan entered Xuzhou, the rebellious Gao Jie was originally unwilling to pay attention to him, but because he might bring him some money and food, he still received him.

Zhang Shenyan sat opposite Gao Jie. He did not look down on Gao Jie like the previous civil servants and sat in the main seat, but sat in the guest seat.

This made Gao Jie, who had always been looked down upon by the court, less hostile to Zhang Shenyan, and the two of them could sit together and talk properly.

Gao Jie carefully asked about the court affairs and the purpose of Zhang Shenyan's visit this time.

After Zhang Shenyan talked about the court affairs without concealing anything, he said bluntly: "Now that I have been awarded Jiangnan Superintendent, I came to General Gao's headquarters this time to check the real situation and be aware of it."

As soon as these words came out, Gao Jie's face immediately turned cold.

In these troubled times, if you have soldiers, you are the Caotou King, and if you have soldiers, you can threaten the court. If you have empty soldiers, you can pretend to receive some of the military money and food that the court does not have much.

And if you really have a lot of soldiers, then you will be the casualties and cannon fodder in the next war.

And if you don’t have enough troops, then you will be absorbed by others, you will be marginalized, and then they will find an excuse to kill you.

And the most terrible thing is that when civil servants order troops, they are really picky and picky. No matter what the result is, you will not be able to escape the fate of being impeached and convicted.

For this reason, military generals are most disgusted by civil servants ordering troops.

Mao Wenlong, who founded Dongjiang Town, would rather be sanctioned by the court and not get a penny of money and food. He would lead a group of his own beggar soldiers to rob the Jurchen Nurhachi, and he would not let the civil servants order troops to get even a little money and food from the court. That's the truth.

But in the end he was killed by Yuan Chonghuan on the grounds that he did not accept the imperial order of troops.

A feudal official, an important official guarding one side, was killed in the hands of civil servants. No one complained about his injustice, and no one criticized Yuan Chonghuan for being unreasonable.

There was also He Renlong, who had great military exploits, who was also killed by Sun Chuanting under this excuse. For this reason, the country lost a powerful general. Li Zicheng and other thirteen battalions held wine to celebrate for ten days. They all said, once Madman He is gone, who in the world can still rule? I.

Now that Zhang Shenyan has become the governor of the five provinces south of the Yangtze River, it is natural for him to order his own troops.

But Gao Jie must not let him order troops. This is a taboo for military commanders. (End of chapter)