Win the Ding 1617

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In February of the 12th year of Chongzhen (1639), the Qing Dynasty was ordered by the general Dorgon to lead an army to plunder, return from the northeast of Shandong to Tianjinwei, and return across the canal to the east.On the ninth day of March, the Qing army left the Qingshan Pass and returned to Liaodong.In the service, the Qing army entered the pass for half a year, penetrated two thousand miles, captured Baoding, Jinan two prefectures, three prefectures, 55 counties, and the second pass; killed the second governor of the Ming Dynasty, more than a hundred generals and officials above the defense; captured more than 30 people, gold More than four thousand taels, and more than 97 taels of silver.The suffering and property losses suffered by the people of the Central Plains are immeasurable.

Upon receiving the news that the Qing soldiers had left the customs, the ruling and opposition parties heaved a sigh of relief.

Jiannu returned to his hometown Liaodong to divide the gold and silver on a large scale, and held a celebration banquet.On the other hand, the imperial court will also start intensively dealing with the aftermath of the destroyed cities in various places.Meritorious personnel need to be rewarded, and those who have crashed need to be punished.Chongzhen handed over the power to direct the rewards and punishments of the ministers to Yang Sichang

On March 36th, Yang Sichang played five incidents of accidents: lost opportunities in guarding the frontier;So Zheng Xizhao, the governor of Jizhen, Sun Maolin, the sub-supervisor, Chen Zubao, the governor of Shuntian, Zhang Qiping, the governor of Baoding, Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong, Wu Guojun and Chen Guowei, the generals of Jizhen, Ni Chong, the governor of Shandong, and Zu Kuan, the general of aid and suppression. Li Chongzhen, and his lieutenants went down to the prefectural and county Yousi, and all [-] people died together.There are even more degraded people.

The imperial decree to arrest Zu Kuan and rectify the law before the army has been written, but I don't know who to send?

"It would be great if we didn't have that incident with Li Weiru, who is currently stationed in Tianjinwei and Wuqing counties!" The cabinet went up and down, from the first assistant Zhou Yanru to the second assistant Yang Sichang.All sigh.

From the day Wang Chengen returned to the capital, the power game between the cabinet and the supervisor of ceremonies began to decline. In the next few days, after Wang Dehua hurried back to the capital, the situation became more delicate.

First, a group of censors from Yushitai jointly wrote a letter to impeach Li Shouhan for lying about his military exploits and harming allies, and asked to send personnel to the Nanzhong Army to thoroughly investigate whether there was any corruption of meritorious deeds during the Battle of Jinan. Why was Yue Tuo the only one? The armor banner of others.But the head of the corpse was missing?Unexpectedly, this topic will be included in the book.Emperor Chongzhen was furious, "My generals killed the enemy to serve the country, but you and the Confucian scholars are here to find fault? What do you want?"

For a moment, everyone in the court was so scared that no one dared to speak.

Only Wang Chengen, who was standing next to Chongzhen's book case with a whisk in his hand, pointed to a name on the title book and said something darkly. "My lord. I have heard of this man's name before."

The name Wang Chengen pointed to was none other than Ge Zhengqi, the former censor of Guangdong Province.

"This man was in England when the red-haired barbarians invaded the country. He didn't want to lead the army and horses to resist, and supervised the army to drive away the barbarians. Instead, he hid on the Pearl River flower boat and committed prostitution. Later, he was punished by Mr. Li. He was whipped a few times. Children who are three feet tall in Guangzhou are well known. I don’t know why, but after returning to the capital, they still work in Yushitai after following the footsteps of an adult. This inscription is also signed by him here. This is private revenge The suspicion of it seems impossible to wash away!"

As soon as these words came out, the entire Huangji Hall was shivering in a piece of mansi silk court clothes.Those dressed in red and blue robes, embroidered on the chest with the patches of cranes, golden pheasants, unicorns, and xiezhi, with jade-inlaid belts and rhino horn belts tied around their waists. Immediately, his face became paler than that of a dead man.

There have been rumors in the market that Yue Tuo was indeed killed and Du Du, Abatai and others were captured that day. However, in order to consider the dignity of the royal family, General Li reluctantly exchanged the captured King De and others with his great military achievements. return.But Ge Zhengqi and others want to expose this matter completely. Isn't this embarrassing the emperor and throwing it to the whole Ming Dynasty?

Moreover, as Wang Chengen said, this person has a lack of personal morality, and he was whipped and punished by Li Shouhan. It is unknown how credible the impeachment papers he participated in are unknown.

Chongzhen just took advantage of the problem.He vented his anger on these crows because he had been taking out money and food from the internal treasury to pay for the army for several months, but he didn't hear any good news such as killing the enemy's chieftain and capturing the enemy's flag.

"Where is Luo Yangxing?!"

Luo Yangxing, the Commander of Jin Yiwei, turned out from the side.

Emperor Chongzhen sneered and said: "Ge Zhengqi, in your article, you always say that you are for the country and the people, and you accuse me of being wrong at all, and you point out that my capable person, Guo Zhongliang, is a person with ulterior motives, but what are you? Colluded with the Tartars and framed the minister?"

He waved his hand: "This generation bullies me, plays tricks, how can I not be punished! Where is the big Han general in the palace? Drag it down, court staff!"

Seeing those big Han generals dragging those censor officials down the hall horizontally, all the officials in the hall were horrified, and those officials, some did not say a word, some shouted Taizu Chengzu Emperor, some On the other hand, the expressions were dull and gloomy, and some people cursed loudly that Li Shouhan, Wang Dehua, Wang Chengen and others were in collusion and collusion.

Dozens of censor officials were dragged out of the hall and dragged under the base of the platform. The Jinyiwei Banner School came over and stripped off all these dog-like guys who used to sit upright.In the chilly spring, dozens of white and tender buttocks make people feel rather evil.

An eunuch Shi Shiran walked over, but it was Wu Liangfu.He exchanged cryptic glances with the leaders of the Jinyiwei who executed hundreds of households and the generals of the Han Dynasty.The people holding the court staff looked at the position of the boots under Eunuch Wu's feet, and nodded indistinctly to each other.

"Under the public notice, how much will you call?"

The executioners headed by the executioners purposely approached Wu Liangfu, and took a careful look at Wu Liangfu's closed toes, "The emperor is in a rage, and he didn't issue an edict, so just hit him hard!" Wu Liangfu replied coldly.

Playing with your heart is a terrible way of playing.

The guards in Jinyi were very clear-eyed at the moment.This is because the father-in-laws want to give an explanation to General Li of the South Central Army, and they want to borrow a few heads of speech officers.

"Execution!" Hundreds of small standard bearers of Jinyiwei walked up behind the group of people with their sticks, pulled them over, pushed them to the ground, lay face down on the ground, and raised the sticks in their hands.

The hundreds of households who were executing the sentence gave an order: "Put the stick!" The school captains lined up on both sides shouted in unison: "Put the stick!" At this time, a small flag each walked out of the queue with a big bamboo stick.Put the staff on the buttocks of Ge Zhengqi and others.The stick sounded harshly, and looked terrifying, and the captains followed the order of the eunuchs and eunuchs and shouted in unison: "Beat!" So the executioner raised the stick high, shouted loudly, and slapped the stick pumped down.

All the civil and military officials in the Huangji Hall could only hear the howling of ghosts and wolves outside the hall like a tsunami of mountains and tsunami, and purple-black stiffness marks immediately bulged between the legs of the people who were beaten. "Puff... Puff..." "Puff... Puff..." "Puff... Puff..." After hitting three times, the school captains looked at Wu Liangfu's stern face again, and shouted in unison: "Pull with your heart!" !"

The captain executed the executioner even harder.In the process of playing.The force is more fierce.Every five hits.The executioner had to change to another person, and the school captains still shouted to convey Wu Liangfu's order.Every time an order is given, one person gives the order first, and then hundreds of school captains echo in unison.The shouts were earth-shattering.The officials watching the execution on the stone steps were all terrified.His legs trembled.

The execution captains are all specially trained.The way to train is.First wrap two dummies with leather, one with bricks inside and the other with a layer of paper.Dummy with a stick to beat the bricks.It looks very light, but when you open the leather to check, all the bricks inside will be smashed; when packing the paper dummy, it seems to be very heavy, but even the paper is not broken - only after this level of practice can he be selected A thug who executes the imperial staff.In this way, in the actual execution, you can do whatever you want: if you want to beat someone to death, you can use a dummy packing bricks; if you want to take care of someone, you can use a dummy packing paper.Bystanders who don't know the inside story can't see the prisoner's real intention at all from the captain's forceful situation.

Even the court sticks in their hands are specially made of chestnut wood.The end of the battering man is cut into a mallet shape and covered with an iron sheet. There are barbs on the iron sheet. Once the stick is hit, the executioner will pull it along with the trend, and the sharp barb will tear off a large part of the victim's body. Come on.

In Jinyiwei, quite a few people went to the Shou Han several times to pass the decree, and even participated in the war against the slaves. After returning, they not only made a lot of money, but also got promoted because of their military achievements, and they were looked down upon in front of their superiors. Even Jane is in the heart of the emperor.How can this not make everyone envious?For a while, in Jinyiwei, the name of General Li was equivalent to the words promotion and wealth.And this group of Qingliu, with their nostrils upturned in the past, is always like a factory guard to everyone in Dongchang and Jinyiwei.These captains have been holding grudges for a long time.

Now that I have such an opportunity, how can I not use what I have learned over the years?

On this day, more than [-] censors were killed on the spot.

From then on, Li Shouhan's face was painted with a strong color of eunuchs in the hearts of the gentlemen in Donglin.

"Okay! Good fight!" Wang Dehua and Wang Chengen, who were serving Chongzhen in the Huangji Palace, exchanged glances with each other calmly, and they both saw a faint trace of joy in the depths of each other's eyes.

But Zhou Yanru, Yang Sichang and others who were standing in the queue of civil servants had expressions like ancient wells.For the emperor's thoughts, these old bureaucrats who have experienced ups and downs in the officialdom can also guess to a certain extent.

The cabinet these days has received countless papers and inscriptions about the impeachment of Li Shouhan and the South China Army, from all directions, and the charges are even more varied.

Generals from Shanhai Town, Ji Town, Yutian Town, Ningyuan Town and other divisions of the Guanning Army system impeached Li Shouhan indiscriminately and beheaded all the officers and soldiers who were unfortunately captured and lost in the bandit camp. It is even more excessive behavior to pretend to be credited.

Not only did the Guan Ning army rise up to attack, but even the Yanshenggong Mansion in Qufu also impeached Li Shouhan.

Looking at the pile of documents, Yang Sichang shook his head secretly.

"This group of crows has undoubtedly done the thing of driving fish for the deep and flocks of sparrows! At this time, Li is very hot, and when the holy family is prosperous, he is holding a heavy army. You wrote a letter to impeach him at this time, which just fulfilled his emperor's heart. position in the middle!"

As Chongzhen's favored minister, Lord Yang is very clear about the emperor's thoughts. Seeing that Donglin's power has expanded again, military leaders from all over the country are becoming more and more domineering.Now that Li Shouhan had such a role model, it could be used to check and balance Donglin and the civil official group represented by Donglin, and to suppress those military sticks who were arrogant and domineering, but disturbed the people more than defended the enemy.

Sure enough, after disposing of these censors who framed the ministers, Chongzhen had a decree to pass down.

"General Li defended the Han Dynasty twice and entered the guard twice, all of which have made great contributions. He discussed the cabinet's livelihood and rewarded meritorious soldiers. I don't hesitate to bestow nobles. Don't let the world discuss that my rewards are too small, and the hearts of loyal and brave soldiers will be chilled."

"The cabinet has made a plan. General Li has a high merit. He will add his crown prince Shaobao and the governor of the five armies to the left. Doctor Ronglu will give his son Shijinyi thousands of households and his other son Shijinyiwei hundreds of households. I will give it to the three generations. All are one-of-a-kind."

Zhou Yanru thought that this reward was not low.Nowadays, the bestowals granted by military leaders everywhere are nothing more than this.But there was an imperceptible sarcasm on Yang Sichang's pretty cheek.

Emperor Chongzhen was silent for a long time, and said slowly: "General Li is loyal to the country. A role model should not be rewarded with a title."

"I pass on my decree, General Dragon and Tiger, the governor of the Nanzhong Army, horses, money and food. Governor Li Shouhan is loyal to the country and has made great achievements in killing slaves. He was promoted to the commander-in-chief of the Nanzhong, and the matter of suppressing the town of Guangdong and Guangxi, such as Qing, etc. The previous request is to handle the anti-smuggling matters of coastal defense in Fujian, Guangdong, Zhejiang and other places. Stationed in Guangzhou. Give him the military title of Nanyue Army. Give him the title of earl. The title must be well-known. Supervising and discussing. Give him a certificate, give him an iron certificate, and eat two thousand stones of Lumi. His ministry will make meritorious service, and the Zuobian soldiers will wait for the verification of the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of War, and the Supervisor of Rituals, and rewards for meritorious service."

A series of decrees were sent out, blowing up like spring thunder, leaving everyone stunned.Official positions, errands, territories, and titles, Zhou Yanru, Yang Sichang and other cabinet members who knew that Chongzhen was going to wholesale official positions today were all stunned for a while.Not only was he granted an uncle, but he was also given an iron certificate. This is a hereditary earl, not a flowing earl.He also handed over the mission of mentioning the town of Guangdong and Guangxi to Li, which undoubtedly handed over the land of Lingnan.In addition, he was given the army number Nanyue, and was ordered to handle anti-smuggling matters in the coastal defense of the three provinces of Fujian, Guangdong, and Zhejiang. What kind of gift and power is this?How many generals of the Ming Dynasty were named uncles?

"As soon as this decree comes out, Li will completely become the emperor's lonely minister!"

Yang Sichang, who had been an official in Nanjing for many years, felt terrified. He knew very well what the task of anti-smuggling in the three provinces of Fujian, Guangdong and Zhejiang meant to the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, and it was undoubtedly a thorn in their eyes.And in this way, the original official position of General Longhu, a chieftain officer, who had a strong taste, was naturally abolished, and Shou Han entered the official system from the chieftain officer.

"We must not let Li Weiru go on like this any longer. After a few years, he has become full-fledged and rich in money and food. It is definitely not the blessing of Ming Dynasty, nor is it the blessing of us!"

A few days later, the name of Li Shouhan, who had been discussed by the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Rites, was drafted and sent to the Supervisor of Rites and the ministers of the cabinet.

"Uncle Ning Yuan?!" Wang Chengen almost jumped up and cursed.

This was Li Chengliang's title back then!During the 30 years Li Chengliang guarded Liaodong, he played ten great victories successively. The border commander's martial arts flourished, which was unprecedented in the 200 years of the Kingdom.He is even more famous for his extravagance; he embezzles military wealth, horse prices, salt lessons, and market rewards at will;Not only did he use bribes to strengthen himself, but he even falsely reported his military exploits, killed good men and pretended to be senior officials, and was impeached by officials.Giving this title to Li Shouhan is undoubtedly pointing his nose at Li Shouhan and scolding Li Shouhan as a person who will bring disaster to the country and the people, and support bandits and self-respect.

"How about this?"

Wang Dehua was a little sullen.

"The cabinet thinks this title is very beautiful. Over the years, Uncle Li has nurtured the people and opened up thorns. He has also made many achievements in calming the captives and suppressing the invaders. The word Ningyuan is just right."

"Exactly! A few days ago, according to the proposal of Qian Shilang from the Ministry of Rites, General Li was granted the title of General Dragon and Tiger. This position is exactly the position of an old slave who served as the order of our court. No one thinks it is beautiful. However, General Li has been in Guangdong since then. Province, flattened in the Pearl River, why not? Father-in-law, don’t take it seriously.”

Seeing that the cabinet was determined, Wang Dehua and the others had no choice but to give up in resentment. They had to order someone to write a letter and send it to Yangliuqing's Han camp overnight, and properly sued the court officials.

Soon, Cao Huachun went out of Beijing to read the imperial decree of Fengdian Shouhan.

"Uncle Ning Yuan?" Shou Han couldn't help laughing out loud after hearing the commendation ceremony for him in the imperial decree.Previously, my official position was General Dragon and Tiger, and when I used the banner, a group of Liaodong rebels attacked like crazy. If I meet this group of Jian slaves again in the future, and use the banner of Uncle Ning Yuan, what will happen to these guys? Where?

"My servant congratulates the uncle. The emperor has a decree. Please enter the capital as soon as possible after receiving the decree. The imperial court will have its own reward ceremony."

"Thank you, Eunuch Cao, for your suggestion. I wonder when it will be convenient for Eunuch Cao to come to Beijing?" Shou Han saluted the great eunuch Cao Huachun knowingly.

"So that the uncle knows that the servant is old. With the grace of the emperor, the servant was released to return to his hometown for the elderly. This time he went to the uncle's army to announce the decree. This is also the last time that the servant will do errands for the emperor. It can be regarded as an eye-opener for the servant. See See the aura of our great Ming army!"

He ordered someone to take out a plate of jewels and rewarded Cao Huachun. Cao Huachun thanked his uncle for the reward, and went down to rest with the people around the guard.

"Congratulations, my lord, Hexi my lord, you will be the earl from now on!"

From behind the curtain, Li Peiting turned out with a strange expression.

"Second brother, I don't know what this group of bureaucrats in the court think, but they actually put the title of ancestor on my head! This group of thieves!" Shou Han blushed once in a while.

Unexpectedly, Li Peiting waved his hand very calmly.

"My lord, why bother? I have already said that the members of the Ningyuan Li family have all died in the waves of the South China Sea."

"My lord is going to the capital this time, but I have to be more careful. I heard the decree ordered you to bring a brigade of teachers into the city to present a gift of prisoners. I'm afraid that the high-ranking officials in the city will be unfavorable to the lord at this time!"

"Once the lord becomes Yuan Chonghuan's second, the army outside the city will be without a leader, and Hong Chengchou's tens of thousands of Qin soldiers will be by his side. At that time, our army will be in danger! The lord will be in danger!" (To be continued...)