Daming wolf ride

Just after the Lantern Festival, the new battle situation in Laizhou came. The rebels were still sparing no effort to attack Laizhou City. Even after the imperial court recruited the secret envoy Qu Yiyang to go to Dengzhou to conduct secret business with Kong Youde, Kong Youde still ordered Li Jiuzheng who attacked Laizhou to continue to attack the city. Don't bother with the solicitation.

The Governor of Denglai Xie Lian and the prefect Zhu Wancheng in Laizhou City were already persuaded by Qu Yiyang and were willing to come forward to preside over the care, but the rebels broke their trust and attacked the city again so that they could no longer believe that the care would be possible, so they strengthened the city defense. Military and political officials patrolled the city day and night in batches.Li Jiucheng, the supervisor, attacked fiercely for several days, but he still couldn't succeed. Although the city was running out of food, the army and the people still insisted on resisting and refused to surrender. The two sides were at a stalemate.

After Xu Congzhi was hit by rebel artillery and died of serious injuries, Xie Lian immediately sent someone to sneak out of the city at night and sent a memorial to Beijing. The soldiers did not save, and sat and watched the rebels attack the city.They begged the emperor not to appease, but to go all out to encircle and suppress the rebels, and severely punish the reinforcement commander Gao Qiqian who feared the enemy like a tiger.

It is written in the memorial: "Laicheng was besieged for fifty days, and it was in danger. Day and night I looked for reinforcements, but the soldiers did not arrive, and I knew it must be a mistake in the appellation. The ministers of the state wrote to the ministers, copied the imperial edict and the Ministry of War's edict, which was the Ministry of Zhi According to the report of the ministers of the state, the ministers have heard of the saints. The husband and the ministers of the country have a deep love for their hometown, and they endured bullying the saints and fell into the border....The ministers should die as ghosts to kill thieves. Life too." The state minister mentioned in the letter is Zhang Guochen, the head of the Ministry of War who advocated for appeasement.

It can be said that this memorial is the most important and urgent military message issued by Laizhou City after the last letter against appeasement. However, Chongzhen did not see such an important memorial, and even Wen Tiren, the chief assistant of the cabinet, did not see it. did not see. [

The memorial was suppressed by the Secretary of General Affairs controlled by the Donglin Party, and the envoy sent to the Ministry of War was sent away at will by the right servant Liu Yulie and others. The hall official Xiong Mingyu had no idea that there was an envoy from Laizhou.

In the current capital, there are voices of appeasement. Under the strong pressure of the Donglin Party, the chief assistant Wen Tiren dared not mention a word of war.

On the 22nd, at the instigation of the Donglin party members, Chongzhennai sent Zhang Guochen, the head of the Ministry of War with the highest rank among civil servants from Liao nationality, to Xiaoguantun to discuss with Gao Qiqian, Jin Guoqi, Lin Jiantai and others about recruiting.

Zhang Guochen was eager to grab the merits, and rushed to Xiaoguantun with only a dozen entourages on a light horse. After arriving, he immediately sent Qu Yiyang as an imperial envoy to negotiate with the rebel Li Jiucheng again.After receiving Kong Youde's secret order to feign surrender, Li Jiuzheng stopped his attack on Laizhou City, saying that they had long been willing to accept the imperial court's appeasement, but they could not be appeased because of the repeated attacks by the officials and troops of Laizhou City.Since the emperor personally sent people here this time, they will naturally not betray their trust, but the premise must be that the Ming army in Laizhou city can no longer fire at the rebels outside the city.

To ask the Ming army not to fire at the rebels, first of all, the rebels really stopped attacking Laizhou and retreated ten miles to show their sincerity.But the rebels had no intention of retreating at all. Instead, they transferred another [-] elite soldiers from Dengzhou.There are various indications that the rebels have no intention of accepting appeasement at all.

But Zhang Guocheng, who was hot-headed and bookish, believed Li Jiuzheng. In the name of imperial envoy, he ordered the soldiers and civilians in Laizhou City not to harass the rebels outside the city, let alone shoot without authorization.At the same time, under the request of Gao Qiqian, the emperor issued an order to justify Gao Qiqian's behavior of not marching in - "Without the consent of the Fuchen, all reinforcements are not allowed to go to war without authorization, so as not to destroy the Fufu Bureau. "

After hearing the news, Shi Dayong was stunned, and immediately burst out laughing. No wonder Chongzhen said that civil servants could be killed when he was dying. The state affairs of Ming Dynasty were ruined by these self-righteous fools. It would be unreasonable not to kill them!

The imperial court controlled by Donglin wanted to be pacified, the cabinet scholars wanted to be pacified, the officials of the six ministries wanted to be pacified, the imperial envoys wanted to be pacified, and the eunuchs who supervised the army wanted to be pacified. What Shi Dayong, a little general from Jinzhou, can do, all he can do is Train his soldiers well.

Guo Yi had already returned from the capital. He went to see the old governor, but the old governor was already terminally ill, and spent most of the day in a coma state. Even when he woke up, he couldn't recognize anyone, and couldn't even speak.Guo Yi asked Qiu's family, saying that he was afraid that he might not last until the end of the month.However, Guo Yi could only leave five hundred gold to say goodbye.

After leaving Qiu's house, Guo Yi went to Dongchang located outside Donganmen to see the factory owner Cao Huachun, but the Dongchang fan told him that the factory owner was not in Beijing.Guo Yi asked Eunuch Cao when he would return to Beijing, and the other party replied that he did not know.

Guo Yi had no choice but to go to see Wang Cheng'en again, but he was not familiar with the place in Beijing, so he didn't know where to find Wang Cheng'en, so he could enter the palace as soon as he said he could.The old man didn't know what to do, so he couldn't give him some advice. After three days of idling in Beijing, Guo Yi still started from scratch. Nai had no choice but to go to Changping to find the general's younger sister.

Guo Yi was a soldier of Shi Dayong's elder brother Shi Dazhi earlier, and he followed Shi Dazhi to Shi Xiaomei's husband's Jiang's house, so he knew the way, but when he arrived at Jiang's house, he did not see the general's sister.The person who came to receive him was the general's brother-in-law—my aunt Jiang Qing.

Knowing that Guo Yi came to visit his wife on behalf of his uncle Shi Dayong, Jiang Qing's reaction was neither cold nor indifferent. He asked a few words about where his uncle is serving the country now, and Guo Yi returned one by one, asking why he didn't see Miss. .Jiang Qing had a strange expression on his face, saying that his wife had contracted a cold and was ill, so it was difficult for her to leave the room to see guests.

Guo Yi was puzzled, since he entered the mansion, he found that the Jiang family looked at him strangely, but he didn't think much about it.Since the lady is suffering from the cold and it's hard to see him, then let's go.He handed over the letter that Shi Dayong had brought to him, and handed over the 1000 taels of silver notes he had exchanged in the capital to the uncle.

Jiang Qing didn't say anything, and politely asked Guo Yi to stay for dinner in Jiang's mansion. Guo Yi said that he still had something to do in Beijing, so he didn't want to stay any longer. He just asked the aunt to ask the young lady to ask her well.Jiang Qing didn't hold back much, and personally sent his wife's natal family out of the house.

After leaving the Jiang's residence, Guo Yi was anxious about the affairs assigned by the general, so he didn't stay in Changping, and quickly entered Beijing again.Because he thought that Wang Chengen was the chief eunuch of the inner court, as long as he could find the eunuch in the palace, he must be able to find Wang Chengen through him.Guo Yi waited at the outer gate of the palace every day for the eunuch who was going out of the palace to buy.

Huangtian paid off, and he really told him to wait for a eunuch who was set up by the inner court department to come out and buy it. After giving the eunuch 50 taels of silver, the eunuch readily agreed to go back to the palace for him and pass it on to the prince.

This trip lasted for a long time, Guo Yi thought he had been cheated and was extremely annoyed, but at dusk, two young eunuchs came over and asked him if he was a member of General Shi of Jinzhou.Guo Yi hurriedly said yes, the two young eunuchs didn't ask any more questions, and took him directly to a big house at the gate of the palace. [

In that mansion, Guo Yi met Wang Chengen.