Daming wolf ride

In the past two years, the censor's impeachment of Shi Dayong and his self-respect have been written one after another. Hou Xun really didn't open which pot to lift. In the past two years, did Shi Dayong exist in the ruling and opposition parties?

In terms of merit, Shi Dayong attacked the city and pulled out the stronghold, and even broke the capital of Donglu, Shenyang. There were hundreds of Donglu princes and heads presented to Beijing, and tens of thousands of Donglu's heads were inspected by the Ministry of War. It is a great victory. Chongzhen's four-year victory in Jinzhou is even more encouraging, but what kind of treatment did the imperial court treat Shi Dayong?

It's too late to pretend to be deaf and dumb!

What does the emperor think of Shi Dayong?

Among other things, several Chinese envoys went to Dengzhou to summon Shi Dayong to Beijing to have an audience. Has he come? !

There are rumors in the inner palace that the emperor laughed at himself that he didn't have twelve gold medals in his hand!

The tail is too big to fall off, the tail is too big to fall off!

No one thought that Shi Dayong, the mere general of Jinzhou, could do such a great thing, and how did his tiger and wolf master train himself!

To put it mildly, Shi Dayong was transferred but not ordered, and had the same virtue as that ancestor Dashou. On the surface, he was still a soldier of the Ming Dynasty. The father shared his worries, but he repeatedly took power in Denglu, and even more brazenly asked himself to set up the governor of Denglv. A joke, what a big joke, when the governor of Ming Dynasty was concurrently held by a military general, this military general invited himself to the court!

It's not that the imperial court is ignorant of what happened in Dengzhou and Lushun, so there may be nothing to do!That Shi Dayong relied on his elite soldiers and horses, and his achievements in suppressing the rebellion and defeating the Eastern captives, he didn't take the imperial court seriously at all!If he really had a monarch and a court in his eyes, why didn't he go to Beijing to see him? Could it be that the current emperor is really that stupid Song Gaozong!Is he really afraid that the imperial court will make trouble for him too!

In the past two years, it is not that no one in the court has spoken up for Shi Dayong, saying that not rewarding meritorious deeds will chill the hearts of soldiers, but the question is how to reward?How to reward?

Then Shi Dayong's contribution is enough, and it is more than enough to confer a duke, but if the imperial court wants to be conferred, he must be willing to accept it!

Is it necessary for the imperial court to lose face and go to Dengzhou to force Shi Dayong the title of the duke of the country!

The imperial court can't afford to lose this face, and the emperor can't afford to lose this face even more!

Since last year, the ruling and opposition parties have been wise to not mention the situation in Dengzhou, and the censors have been instructed not to impeach Shi Dayong again.

The imperial court is not caring about itself now, and none of the important ministers in power are willing to force Shi Dayong to oppose him, let alone Shi Dayong has really become an outlier in the Ming court!

The tradition of being noble and humble is not to be lost. If a warrior is allowed to enter the court with a knife, the princes in power will not be able to survive!Do you want this face anymore!

On the issue of how to deal with Shi Dayong, whether it is Donglin or non-Donglin, the government and the opposition have the same opinion-invisible!

As long as all the memorials of Dengzhou are suppressed, as long as all the affairs of Dengzhou are suppressed, as long as all the people of Dengzhou are suppressed, it will be treated as if nothing happened. Anyway, there is only one Dengzhou left and right. Without the foundation of Ming Dynasty.As for Lushun, the left and right were also thrown out by Donglu, so what does it have to do with Daming!

The princes in power are very shrewd in their calculations, unless Shi Dayong enters the capital, otherwise the whole court will pretend that nothing happens.

It's not that there are people who understand. Those who knew that Donglu had been severely injured by Shi Dayong wanted to ask for credit for Shi Dayong, but Shi Dayong committed crimes one after another and refused to enter Beijing at all. Speechless.

Correspondingly, the great victories of the Jinzhou Army in southern Liaoning and Shenyang were also deliberately downplayed by the imperial court. Without the clamor of the censors, there were not many people who knew about the great victory of the Ming Dynasty in the territory of Donglu.People who were close to the side wall only knew that Donglu had become more honest in the past two years, and that they could not see the side of Donglu in general, but they didn't know why.

Now that Hou Xun mentioned Shi Dayong again in front of the emperor, Wen Tiren and Zhang Fengyi's faces would naturally not look good.

Speaking of which, Wen Tiren supported Shi Dayong. In the fourth year of Chongzhen, he took over from Zhou Yanru as the first assistant. The whole court was full of Zhou Yanru's Donglin party members. The church is still the Donglin Party.He really wanted to use forces outside the court to check and balance the Donglin Party, but in his heart he was a civil servant after all, and he didn't dare to follow the example of He Jin in bringing generals into the court. Who knows if Shi Dayong is Dong Zhuo, and neither is the Donglin Party. As a ten-time attendant, he dared not risk the public opinion of the world.In particular, Shi Dayong constantly challenged the bottom line of the imperial court, which made his original wooing gradually withdrawn, and now he only hoped that Shi Dayong would really raise the flag to rebel. — let him go!

Their complexions were ugly, and Chongzhen's complexion was even worse. Shi Dayong was a painful scar in his heart. It's okay if no one exposed it, but someone exposed it. This young emperor really hurts!

He snorted, and his tone was extremely indifferent, "Could it be that apart from that Shi Dayong, there are no good generals in my Ming Dynasty!"

"The emperor is angry, the emperor is angry!" Seeing that the emperor was angry, Hou Xun quickly got up and knelt down, "I know that Shi Dayong has been domineering for the past two years, and he has no imperial court in his eyes, but his troops are indeed elite, and even the Eastern Prisoners are not theirs. Opponents, if the court gets them to help suppress the bandits, it will get twice the result with half the effort."

"Hmph, I don't want to put a hot face on a cold ass, isn't my face still clean?" Thinking of Shi Dayong's refusal to enter Beijing for several times, Chongzhen became even more angry.

Hou Xun said: "I heard that Shi Dayong is based on Dengzhou and Lushun. If he can be transferred from Denglu, his tribe will be like a rootless duckweed. If you win, the imperial court will be happy, and if you lose, it will not hurt the imperial court. This strategy of driving away tigers and wolves, tigers and wolves will fight each other, and the imperial court will benefit in the end, Your Majesty!"

Hou Xun's words were so sweet that Chongzhen couldn't help being tempted, and pondered: "This plan is good, but what if people refuse to obey the edict?"

Hou Xun hurriedly expressed his loyalty and said: "Since this matter was proposed by the minister, and the free minister went to persuade Shi Dayong, the emperor can rest assured that no matter whether it is successful or not, there will be no real loss to the court."

"This..." Chongzhen thought for a while, then nodded slightly, "Then I will leave this matter to Aiqing."

"The minister takes the order and will definitely live up to the holy hope."

After turning around and sitting down, Hou Xun heaved a sigh of relief, thinking that he was finally worthy of the 5 taels of silver sent by Shi Dayong.

Chongzhen warned Zhang Fengyi again: "The dispatch of troops by the Ministry of War cannot be delayed, and we must make good preparations, and there must be no mistakes."

"The Ministry of War has already made a decision on the deployment of troops, but I am worried that Hong Chengchou will control all the soldiers and horses, and he has no skills at all, so it is difficult to take care of the situation. The military situation is like a fire. If we ask for instructions, it may delay the opportunity of the battle and be taken by the bandits. Cheng, it seems better to send another person to governor Henan, Shanxi, and Huguang military affairs."

Chongzhen pondered: "This statement is certainly reasonable, but Hong Chengchou's prestige is long-standing, and he is good at suppressing bandits. No matter how difficult it is to select such a handsome talent, I dare not change generals easily." Speaking of this, I can't help but think of Yang He and Chen Qiyu , said bitterly: "I really can't afford to delay, if this stalemate continues, when will there be peace!"

Chongzhen's expression was a little sad, and his words were full of remorse. Although he didn't mean to blame, Zhang Fengyi was shocked to hear it, and his whole body was in a cold sweat. If the emperor thought that he was pleading for Yang He and Chen Qiyu, he became angry, unbelievable, and hurriedly silenced.

"Lu Xiangsheng said that the defense of Zhongdu is empty, and the thieves and thieves will go to Zhongdu. Is the Ministry of War prepared?" Speaking of this, Chongzhen glanced at Zhang Fengyi and asked him: "Is Fengyang, the capital of Henan, far from Longxing?" How many guards are there in the ancestor's mausoleum?"

Zhang Fengyi replied: "Emperor Taizu Gao specially set up the left-behind division of Zhongdu, under the jurisdiction of Fengyang, Fengyang middle, Fengyang right, imperial mausoleum, left-handed left, left-handed middle, Changhuai eight guards and one thousand households. There are 6000 people in the squad army, the high wall army, the cao army, and the new army protecting the mausoleum."

"Now it's not a peaceful and prosperous age, and 6000 people are probably too few."

Zhang Fengyi was afraid that Chongzhen would order troops to be transferred again, so he quickly argued: "The emperor doesn't have to worry about exiles from the south, but he can order Fengyang Governor Yang Yipeng to move to Fengyang, and Wu Zhenying, the inspector censor stationed in Sizhou, thought it was a horn, and echoed left and right. Then fly to the governor of Shandong and the censor of Caojiang, strictly guard the key points, and teach the bandits to retreat when they are in trouble."

Wu Zhenying was originally Wen Tiren's in-law from the same hometown, and had worked as an aide in Wen's residence for many years. Wen Tiren was promoted to the chief assistant, and he found an official position in the Metropolitan Procuratorate. He is a staff member of the governor of Fengyang, but the governor of Fengyang is also the governor of Water Transport, and the Governor's Office of Water Transport is located in Huai'an, and the large and small affairs of Fengyang Mansion are handled by the inspector. If the governor's office is moved to Fengyang, Wu Zhenying will naturally feel dissatisfied There are few constraints, Wen Tiren has the heart to protect him, and asked Zhang Fengyi: "How do you know that the bandits will retreat in spite of difficulties? With such confidence, isn't it to coax the dragon's heart to be happy?"

Zhang Fengyi didn't think too much, and said with a smile: "Don't worry too much, Shoukui. Your old man grew up in the south of the Yangtze River, and the folk customs in the northwest are not as familiar as my old Shanxi. Since ancient times, Huma has followed the north wind, and the birds nest in the south branch, which means that people and Things have their own habits. Nowadays, the Northwest bandits are not used to the rice in the south of the Yangtze River, and the war horses that the bandits ride on don’t eat the water and grass in the south of the Yangtze River. If they can’t reach Fengyang, they will be dissatisfied with the water and soil, and they won’t be able to form an army. How can they be invincible? "

Wen Tiren snorted softly and said: "It turns out that there is such a mystery! If so, then Yang Yipeng doesn't have to move to Fengyang. Thinking about his age, it is important for his disciples to join the cabinet. Those Zhou Zhang?"

How could Zhang Fengyi fail to hear the sharpness of the words?He suddenly remembered that Pi Yang Yipeng was the teacher of Old Wang Yingxiong, and that Wu Zhenying and Shou Kui were related by marriage. If he offended the two cabinet ministers because of a trivial matter of changing defenses, his Minister of the Ministry of War might not be able to do it. With the sweat on his forehead, he hurriedly replied: "That's natural, that's natural."

Chongzhen had never left Gyeonggi since he was a child, and he had never learned the local customs and customs. Hearing Zhang Fengyi's quotations from the past to prove the present, he said it clearly and logically, but he still felt puzzled.

Wen Tiren got up and said: "I have received great kindness from the sage, and I am in charge of the affairs of the cabinet. I should have offered advice and suggestions, but I only know that the draft memorial is loyal and not deceitful. I have never studied the use of troops in battle. I am really ashamed! Zhang Da Sima dared to talk about it like this , I don’t want to make unreasonable comments, please ask the emperor to make a judgment.”

"Sir, sit down." Chongzhen looked at Hou Xun who was speechless, and said with a smile: "Are you still worrying about the salary? I don't want to make it difficult for you, nor for Hong Chengchou. I will leave some money for you, and the household department will prepare 80 yuan for the salary." Ten thousand taels, 20 taels of silver will be allocated from the internal funds, and another 13 taels of new salaries in Huguang and 2 taels of new salaries in Sichuan will be reserved for military use. Don’t delay the suppression of bandits because of lack of salaries, and give you an excuse.”

"Your Majesty is divine and powerful, how dare you wait!" Wen Tiren hurriedly got up, and said in unison with Hou Xun and Zhang Fengyi.

Chongzhen stared at the exquisite small hand stove and said: "Prepare an order to give Hong Chengchou the title of Minister of the Ministry of War, and tell him to live well."