Win the Ding 1617

Although the cabinet and the imperial court have reservations about the statement reported by the Beijing camp that they killed hundreds of thousands of thieves, chased and killed Li Zicheng for dozens of miles, and suspected of beheading the giant bandit Li Zicheng, or did not believe it at all; however, Li Huayu represented Shandong soldiers. The Masuo reported that Kaifeng was recovered, more than a thousand elites of the old battalion of thieves were beheaded, and thousands of elite cavalry were obtained, but officials from Chongzhen to the Six Departments of Jiuqing Han Zhan Kedao nodded in agreement.I think this is a more reliable military report.

The son regained a famous city and a large county for the court, so the court was naturally embarrassed to reprimand Lao Tzu severely.Moreover, the report from the household department and the internal supervisors also reminded Chongzhen and the big bosses that it is the time when they are in the dark, and if they offend the father and son, the military rations in the capital and the Nine Sides will be another big problem!

Therefore, the cabinet and the eunuchs of the chief inspector of ceremonies urgently discussed in secret, adhering to the will of Emperor Chongzhen, and planned to take advantage of Li Huayu's recovery of Kaifeng to reward Uncle Ning Yuan.

"What the emperor means is to promote Uncle Ningyuan to be a Marquis! Even Zuo Liangyu, you all have to be named Earls. If Uncle Ningyuan is not granted a title, the court really can't stand it. But, it is to add the title of Marquis of Ningyuan, It’s better to write another beautiful name, but it’s for the cabinet to compare with the Ministry of Rites for a better life!”

The cabinet and the officials of the Ministry of Rituals had to rack their brains to think hard about Uncle Ning Yuan's new title. When Zuo Liangyu, Ding Qirui, Yang Wenyue, etc.'s report books arrived in the capital, a shocking thunderbolt came. The bad news spread to the capital.

A general named Yang Weicheng under Zuo Liangyu's subordinates, after Zuo Liangyu's defeat, escaped the search and suppression of Cao San's family and the people in eastern Henan by chance. The boat fled to the north bank of the Yellow River.

Seeing King Zhou, who was also taking refuge in Zhangde Mansion, General Yang could not help crying on the ground.

The imperial court has 20 troops.It was defeated by Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai and others in the first battle, and there were hundreds of miles of dead bodies, and all 10,000+ troops were captured by Li Chuang, Cao Cao's thief and others.The rations, supplies, armor and weapons of all ministries are all owned by thieves!

Everyone didn't dare to believe such shocking news at first, but just now came the news that Li Zicheng had been killed again, how could Li Zicheng come back to life in the blink of an eye?Instead, Zuo Liangyu, the imperial court secretly leaning on it as a pillar, and the generals who secretly supported him to compete with Li Shouhan, collapsed in one blow? !

Just when the court was doubtful, the official document from the governor of Henan arrived.

It carefully explained how Zuo Liangyu's army of more than [-] people, together with Ding Qirui, Yang Wenyue and other troops, were defeated by the two thieves!

In the defeat of Liaodong, 10,000+ people were wiped out, and in the defeat of Eastern Henan, nearly 20 people were wiped out.How many 20 available soldiers in the imperial court can withstand such a toss?

Under a series of blows, it was finally difficult for Zhu Youjian to resist such a big blow.That's when everyone in the cabinet played against each other on the spot.In a hurry, he spit out a mouthful of blood!

Is this okay?

Wang Cheng'en, Zhou Yanru, Chen Yan, Wei Zaode, Wu Liangfu and other eunuchs and ministers who were present swarmed up, calling Chongzhen to wake up, calling the imperial physician in a hurry, at a loss, just rushing around in the warm pavilion. Bang, with tears all over his face, each performing their own performance.

fine.Although the prescription of Tai Hospital is also one of the ten ridiculous ones in Beijing.Notoriously flashy, but that's whoever scores.His Majesty the Emperor is in a hurry.He vomited blood and fainted. If the diagnosis and treatment were not good, everyone would have to go to the Heavenly Prison or the Imperial Prison of the Zhenfu Division to see a doctor for the head of the prison!After careful consultation and treatment by several imperial physicians, Chongzhen finally woke up leisurely.

Chongzhen, whose face was as pale as paper, slightly opened his eyes amidst the whispered calls of the crowd.Apart from the trusted eunuchs, there were several important ministers in the cabinet. Outside the Nuan Pavilion, the eunuchs and housekeepers in Empress Zhou's palace were also eagerly waiting for news.

"deliver an imperial order."

The young eunuch of the chief of ceremonies and several officials of the cabinet immediately spread out pens, ink and paper, ready to record the emperor's will.

"The supervisor is waiting for Xun. He framed the important officials of the imperial court, and lingered in Qilu and other places, extorting prefectures and counties, and harassing the localities. Fearing thieves like tigers, they dare not enter the place where the bandit army is entrenched in Henan. As a result, the imperial court ordered its temperate army, Zuo Liangyu was defeated, and Ding Qirui, Yang Wenyue and others died for the country. All the assets of the Jiazhang were abandoned to the thieves. Jin Yiwei was ordered to go south to arrest Xun. Before Jin Yiwei arrived, Shandong officials would guard him!"

Leaning on the huge pillow brought by Wang Chengen and taking a breath for a while, Chongzhen continued to deliver the decree.

"The thief minister Hou Xun, it is said that his family is rampant in Guide, and there are many rebellious and unrighteous things. And some bandits entered Guide and sent people to guard his family's mansion. Anyone who tampered with plants and trees would be executed immediately. Military order. Pass the decree to the generals in Kaifeng, and immediately go east to Guide, confiscate all the property in his home, and collect all as military salary!"

As soon as these words came out, Zhou Yanru and the others were frightened.It's already the beginning of summer in May, but it's like falling into a freezing hell!The cold sweat on his body soaked through the robe!

The emperor even knew about such things, but he still sent Hou Xun out of the capital to make Zuo Liangyu fight for the face of the old officer.I'm afraid that Li Zicheng and others protect the property of the Hou family's house in order to have a little incense with Zuo Liangyu in private.Now that Zuo Liangyu was defeated, the emperor immediately turned his back on him and sent Hou Xun back to the Imperial Prison, and even ransacked Hou Xun's home.I'm afraid, this Lord Hou Xunhou may not be able to come out of the imperial prison in this life!

(The most pitiful thing is not Hou Xun, but his talented son who is famous in Jiangnan. , in the city of Nanjing, wherever this Mr. Hou goes, he is surrounded by a group of talents who go down the river, and he is even a character who rides a horse across the inclined bridge and is full of red sleeves. As a result, this feeling of being in the clouds is not boring yet , it was a hollow somersault from the cloud and fell on the muddy ground. After the son of the supervisor became a criminal minister, the government officials in Jiangning County can trouble you, and Zuo Liangyu's large amount of gold and silver is gone. The real name , the head of the bed is full of gold, and the strong man has no face. The outstanding heir of Donglin, Hou Dagongzi, who is best at finding reasons for his failure in others, naturally recorded this deep-rooted hatred on the Li family father and son. The series of means. This is a later story, so I will not list it for the time being.)

"The decree is drawn up. Uncle Ningyuan and his son have made great contributions to the country. They have served the king many times. They conquered famous cities and wiped out giant bandits. The imperial court should not hesitate to reward them. For the promotion of the Duke, all etiquette and uniforms should follow the official regulations of the State of Qian."

Chongzhen is also a person who can distinguish between interests and interests. If Hong Chengchou and even Zuo Liangyu's troops and influence were used to secretly suppress and counteract Li Shouhan before, today's Zhu Youjian is a classmate.It's just a gambler who gambled in the middle of the night and found that he had no capital in his hands after dawn, while the gamblers at the same table were staring at his wife and children one by one.How can you not hold on to your only benefactor and pillar?

According to the standards of Qian Guogong Mu's family?That would undoubtedly be handing over the governance of Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian, which had already been controlled by Li Shouhan.Moreover, in order for the army to go north, the Southern Guangdong Army has sent forward troops into Hunan, Zhejiang, and southern Jiangxi. Although most of the road construction teams came, they surveyed mountains and rivers along the way and built roads and docks.This influence and authority has expanded invisibly.

"Ah! Thousands of calculations, but it is not as good as heaven's calculation!" For several months, he has been trying to implement the emperor's will, and has been making various small tricks to suppress and plot against Li Shouhan and the cabinet leaders of the Southern Guangdong Army. Hearing that Chongzhen promoted Li Shouhan The purpose of the title is all black in front of his eyes.

However, the situation is stronger than the people.

In the capital, as time went by, various rumors arose.

It is not necessary to wait for the cabinet and the director of rituals to issue the imperial decree.There are already rumors everywhere in the city.

Most of them are rumors about how Zuo Liangyu was defeated.

"Those elite thieves who broke into the camp all had fierce horses on their crotches. They galloped to the front of Zuoping's army and horse formation with guns in their hands. After thousands of guns and thieves lined up, they stood like a wall, waiting to be watched by the leader. With one order, thousands of firecrackers opened fire! Poor General Zuoping, although he has always been known as the elite, how have he seen such a method of warfare? This method of warfare may not be able to withstand the Liao thieves who harassed the Gyeonggi back then. Stay!"

"After two rounds of firecracker salvos, all the intruder firecrackers shouted in unison, each with their thorns straight in their hands, and went straight to the left battalion formation to kill! Poor officers and soldiers of the left battalion, who were first bombarded by the bandit cannons After a while, there was another burst of firecrackers. The formation was already in chaos. How could it be the opponent of thousands of elite old thieves who attacked with firecrackers? At that moment, tens of thousands of elite battalions under the general Zuo Liangyu's command shouted in unison. Disintegration! The chaos of the standard battalion immediately caused an uproar among tens of thousands of troops from the north and the south. The soldiers of the three armies rushed south, snatching the road and trampling on their own. Countless people died! All kinds of military supplies, equipment, food and salaries were thrown away for dozens of miles. !"

In the teahouse, idlers in the capital just talked about the Battle of Eastern Henan that they had learned from various sources. Zuo Liangyu was defeated like a mountain. The story of running hundreds of miles and not daring to stop for a while.

"The Zuoping bandit, who has been suppressing bandits for many years, naturally has a deep hatred with the Chuangxian Cao family. Now that there is such an opportunity, how can the three families let it go? At present, the Zhenshan camp is the main one, and the elite bandits from each department take turns to chase The Zuoping bandit fled to Xuchang, and the bandits chased him to Xuchang, and fled to Nanyang, and the bandit chased him to Nanyang. If it wasn't for the young master of the Li family who recovered Kaifeng and led our heroes from the Beijing camp to go south, I'm afraid that at this time, Xiangyang will not be able to keep it!"

Various folk versions of the legend, under the secret promotion of various forces, spread without increasing the price.

Under the cover of Shanxi merchants, the secret operations of the Chuang and Cao families in the capital spread the details of the Battle of Eastern Henan in order to show off their military strength.Basically for the same purpose, the nobles of the Southern Guangdong Army system and the capital are also calmly cheering for their children.

These rumors, of course, were reported step by step by the fans of the incident as the dynamics of the capital, and reached Chongzhen's ears, one with joy and the other with worry.The good news is that the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp have finally come out of their experience, and they are able to fight against millions of thieves.What is worrying is that the Liu thief is so powerful, how will he deal with it in the future?

Lying on the sickbed, Chongzhen wondered wildly whether he should transfer the capital camp from Kaifeng back to the capital. Based on these two troops, when it was time to rectify the three major camps, the eunuch who went to Tianjin to pass the decree brought back an extremely bad news.

"When the Lord heard the news of Eastern Henan's defeat, he became ill with anxiety and anger. He was ill and couldn't take care of things. Right now, the subordinates are waiting for the eldest son to rush from Shandong to Tianjin to preside over the overall situation."

"Lord Li saw the servants and maidservants on the sickbed and said, the Lord is worried about the humiliation of the ministers, and the master has humiliated the ministers to death. Now everything is not going well in the court. How can the ministers accept His Majesty's promotion of officials and ranks? Please take back the reward of Duke Ning. Fate is!"

"Alas! An important minister of the Qian Kingdom!" The court and the public, knowing that Li Shouhan declined the court's reward so much, no matter what they usually say about this domineering general.At least at this time, I couldn't help but stick out my thumb to admire.Ask yourself, if you change them, you will definitely not be able to do this.

(Li Shouhan himself said this: "Damn, I can afford to be promoted to a noble title. I'm no worse than Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Zhang Yu and others. But you bastards, it's not good to be a duke , get me a Duke Ning!”)

After Li Huayu arrived in Tianjin, the eldest son of Li did not pay attention to the court like his father did. He just ordered someone to write a memorial to the court, and sent Li Shouhan to Shanghai on the grounds that his father was seriously ill and needed to go south for recuperation. , went south to Shandong.

When the imperial court dispatched officials from the Ministry of Rites to rush to Tianjin with the imperial decree and rewards from Chongzhen.The entire Xingyuan is already empty.

"Father, let them handle this important matter of the court! Our Li family is worthy of the people of the Central Plains, and the court of the Zhu family!" On the ship, Li Huayu faced his father's accusation of being too reckless, Some disagree.

In addition to leaving the chaos in Gyeonggi and Liaodong to the court to clean up by itself, Li Huayu even did a major event that made the court's eyes shattered when he went north.

In Kaifeng City, after receiving the message from the Tiaoshenji Battalion and the [-] Battalion that soldiers and horses went north and returned to the organizational system.Li Huayu sneered, and ordered the two chief soldiers to be summoned.

"Old Luo. Patriarch, our fate of working together is over." He handed the message from the Ministry of War to the two well-known generals in the Beijing camp who had been promoted and made a fortune in Shandong and Henan. "Now the imperial court has important uses for the two of you, and I have sent you back to rectify the troops in the capital. Naturally, it is not good for me to stay here. But let's work together. Look, just say what you need. A certain family must Perfect for both of you."

The two commanders looked at each other, what else could they say?Food, weapons, armor, military pay.All horses are fine and deficient.

"Eldest Young Master, what is the point? Although the blessings of the bidders are shallow, and they can no longer serve under the command of the uncle and the eldest son, but if the eldest son is useful to the bidders in the future, just give orders!"

"That's right! If you blink your eyes, you will be supported by the big girl!"

"Alright! Two, there is a document here in a certain family, and I need you to jointly issue it with me!"

The men and horses of the Beijing camp slowly moved northward, and Li Huayu led the two garrison brigades of the Dongfan Army and the Nanyue Army to hold their ground behind.

An urgent military document signed by three people was quickly sent to the capital.

Behind them, more than ten thousand Ming soldiers had been swallowed into their stomachs, and their mouths were full of oil. The Chuangcao family, which covered almost the entire area south of the Yellow River in Henan, entered Kaifeng City almost on their toes.

"Millions of thieves, surrounded by a large number of officers and soldiers, stormed Kaifeng day and night with hundreds of red cannons. The ministers and others, for His Majesty's sake, withdrew from Kaifeng, and fought and left."

If Li Huayu went back ten years, what awaited him would be the end of beheading and ransacking his home.Just kidding, abandoning the provincial capital without authorization, and handing over the famous city to the thieves, such behaviors as beheading and ransacking are light.However, what ability and means does the current imperial court have to deal with these generals?What's more, the imperial court is still full of enthusiasm for these generals.

"Master Li is indeed a trustworthy person!" Luo Rucai, who entered Kaifeng, greatly appreciated the deal with Li Huayu.Using a city of Kaifeng in exchange for Zuo Liangyu's 10,000+ troops, this deal is very suitable no matter what.

In addition to admiring it, the Chuang and Cao families sent their own people to send [-] refugees to Shandong.And Zhang Xianzhong, who had finished rectifying his subordinates, was impatient to re-erect the banner of the Eight Great Kings of Xiying, and replaced his commander-in-chief banner with the banner of the General Fumin Begging Thieves. After Ge Liyan waited for his folks from Shaanxi to meet up, he made a fuss between Jianghuai and Huaihe Rivers.

From the bottom of his heart, Li Shouhan admired his son's actions in Kaifeng.If the old-fashioned forces in the imperial court and the forces that Jiangnan Donglin can rely on are not cleaned up, how can this great Ming Dynasty be cleaned up?I'm afraid that those guys from Jiangnan will have to face Duoduo's butcher's knife again.The Lao Tzu in the Princess Grave who was still the prototype of the pig brother had to kill three more days in Yangzhou before he sealed the knife.

also good!Lao Tzu is just like the headmaster playing off the field, playing a method of retreating to advance.All the soldiers and horses in Liaodong, Tianjin and Jimen were withdrawn.Leave this mess to you guys and let you clean it up.I used this period of time in Nanzhong, Guangdong and Guangxi to rectify the internal affairs. When you can't clean up the mess, I will bring a lot of money and food, and hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers will go north to clean up the Ming Dynasty. It is the one who draws mountains and rivers.

Li Shouhan, who had made up his mind, no longer entangled with his son about the abandonment of Kaifeng and the withdrawal of troops from Tianjin, and started chatting and laughing with his subordinates.

Dozens of large ships headed south along the Bohai Bay to Dengzhou, Jiaozhou and other places. After they landed in Jiaozhou Bay, the Lord was invited to sit for a few days. , Summer grain harvest scene in Shandong.

However, Li Shouhan could enjoy the scenery here, while the imperial court was slapped with another slap in the face. (To be continued..)