Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

() In a mountain temple in the eastern mountainous area of ​​Nanyang Prefecture, the carnival of many horse bandits is coming to an end.Some horse bandits were talking nonsense when they were drunk;

Song Xiang sat on the grand master's chair in the main seat of the Juyi Hall converted from the mountain temple, watching his subordinates having a carnival with a smile on his face.But if someone carefully looked at Song Xiang's expression, he might find that Song Xiang's smile was just a fake, and his brows were still furrowed unconsciously.

Seeing that it was getting late, Song Xiang stood up from the grand master's chair, and called out: "Have fun, brothers!" After that, he pushed away the local prostitute who was accompanying him, turned around, and walked towards his back behind the mountain temple. go to the house.

But the horse bandits who were still carnival didn't notice. When Song Xiang turned around, he gave his cronies a wink, and those cronies followed Song Xiang into his room knowingly.

As soon as he entered the room, one of Song Xiang's cronies yelled: "Brother Song, why don't you have a good time today? What's the matter calling the brothers in?

Song Xiang's eyes widened immediately, and he first cursed the word "cao" at that confidant, and then cursed: "I told you a long time ago, don't call me Brother Song."

Perhaps some readers may be familiar with the name Song Xiang, indeed you remember correctly, this Song Xiang was the one who fled with seven or eight of Wu Shigong's cavalry when Wu Shigong went to Qin Wang.

After Song Xiang escaped from Wu Shigong's army, he knew that he couldn't stay in Guide Mansion any longer, so he took these seven or eight people to Nanyang Mansion in the westernmost part of Henan Province, and became a horse bandit again. OK.

Of course, after becoming a deserter, Song Xiang and the others did not dare to use their real names anymore. They all had nicknames like "Optimus Prime" or "Deceptic Tiger". Even Xue Zhinong couldn't find people like Song Xiang.

But Song Xiang's subsequent struggle can also be called a legend. He gathered the scattered horse bandits, then occupied a mining area, and after defeating the armed forces organized by those private mine bosses twice, he completely wiped out all the people in this mountain area. The mining area was occupied for himself.

Moreover, Song Xiang had been in the army for a long time after all, and he went to Wu Shigong's place to receive strict military training, so he did learn some of the essence of Wu Shigong's army.Therefore, just organizing the miners in this way and training some furs, those miners were able to defeat the armies of the private mine bosses and even Li Lu's Ming Dynasty regular army.

However, unlike his subordinates, with these two victories and his own strength expanding, Song Xiang felt the pressure and danger of making a big move.Therefore, today Song Xiang gathered his cronies who had deserted with him, and discussed to find a way out.

But when Song Xiang uttered his thoughts, a confidant said nonchalantly: "Lord of the mountain, some of us in this mountain have knives and iron ore for silver. Isn't this kind of happy life very good?" Yes."

"With your thinking, how long can we live happily!" Song Xiang reprimanded, "Don't look at how well we trained those miners, but look, those miners are the same as we used to be under Wu Mowang. The comparison of those soldiers when we were doing it was a hundred and eight thousand miles away. I thought that Wu Mowang was in Guide Mansion, which was far away from our Nanyang Mansion. But I didn’t expect Wu Mowang to go to Runing Mansion as a garrison. Our current place is only two or three hundred miles away."

"A few days ago, Wu Mowang even sent people to my place to buy iron materials. After that, it will be a matter of time before we find out that we people are here. I wondered, isn't this what is said in the storybook! Kill people and set fire to ask for safety, we I have to take advantage of my current strength and find an official to recruit. As long as we also have official status, the Wu Demon King will never do anything to us."

Hearing Song Xiang mention Wu Shigong, Song Xiang's cronies also fell silent.After a while, a close friend came up with an idea: "The Lord of the Mountain killed the people sent by the Wu Demon King, and he will not do business with the Wu Demon King in the future, so the Wu Demon King will never come to our Nanyang Mansion for no reason. As long as he can't find us, can't we still live this comfortable life?"

"You still don't believe me when you say you're stupid. As long as we make a move, the Wu Demon King can find us here as long as he sends someone to investigate. Besides, we just became deserters, and we didn't have any deep hatred with the Wu Demon King. There is no room for relaxation. But as long as you kill the people of Wu Demon King, you will never end, and Wu Demon King's title of Demon King is not for nothing!"

"Then what should we do? Anyway, the little ones will obey the idea of ​​the mountain master."

Song Xiang thought for a while, and then said: "For the time being, we will maintain it first. Don't make the relationship with Wu Mowang impotent. He can sell iron materials cheaper if he wants them."

"To tell you the truth, even if I want to recruit security, I still want to go to Wu Mowang. Otherwise, serving as a soldier in other places is similar to being a beggar. Isn't this hurting my brothers? But we don't know whether Wu Mowang can do it." Accept us again. But I estimate that we can pull out more than 4000 horses now, and Wu Mowang is a person who likes to expand his force, which is why we rely on him."

"Even if the Wu Demon King is unwilling, we can still dominate here. Then Wu Demon King is an official of the Runing Mansion, and the general manager can't come to Nanyang Mansion."

After Song Xiang's cronies heard this, they also felt that there was no better way, so they all agreed with Song Xiang's opinion, and decided to have a look first.

Zhou Yanru is in a bit of a state of distress now, because now another great scholar, Wen Tiren, is contradicting Zhou Yanru, the chief assistant, in everything.

But what is even more worrying is that in every debate between the two sides, Emperor Chongzhen also vaguely leaned towards Wen Tiren's side.Zhou Yanru also had eyes and ears in the inner court. He knew that the eunuch Cao Huachun, who was next to Emperor Chongzhen, was always talking bad things about himself in order to restore the society and form a party for personal gain in Emperor Chongzhen's ears.

Zhou Yanru knew that he was not clean, so while he was still favored by Emperor Chongzhen, he wanted to do a few beautiful things to relieve Emperor Chongzhen's worries.

However, the house leak happened to be raining overnight, and the construction of Daling River City, which was thought to be safe and secure, was strictly besieged by the Houjin army, and several rescues by the Liaodong Ming army were also given by the besieged Houjin army. It was a big defeat.The governor of Liaodong, Sun Chengzong, also submitted a memorial to the court to send reinforcements from the pass.

Zhou Yanru, who is the first assistant, can't just sit back and watch at this time, because that Wen Tiren is waiting for his fault, and wants to drive himself off the throne of the first assistant.

When it's critical, you can still rely on your own people.So today Zhou Yanru personally wrote a private letter to some of his cronies, asking them to send the strongest army under them.

After waiting for a while, Zhou Yanru finally finished writing all the letters. He suddenly remembered a letter written to him by his confidant Yangzhou Salt Transport Envoy Guan Yin a few days ago, asking him to send a letter to Wu Shigong from Henan. The defense was transferred away from Henan.

Zhou Yanru had also inquired that the feud between Guan Yin and the guard was nothing more than the fact that Guan Yin's son had robbed the guard of a title.But after all, Guan Yin belonged to Zhou Yanru, and he paid a lot of tribute to Zhou Yanru every year, so Zhou Yanru agreed to Guan Yin's intention on such a small matter.

Zhou Yanru didn't know that the reason for this letter was not entirely Guan Yin's idea. More than a month ago, Qi Chun'an, the head of Yangzhou Qijia, sent 1 taels of silver to the Guanfu of the Yanyun envoy, and asked to send the letter to Guan Yin. Wu Shigong transferred out of Henan.

And if it succeeds, the Qi family can take back some sites for selling salt goods from Guide Mansion and Runing Mansion, and it can also cut off one of Wu Shigong's sources of income, and take revenge on Wu Shigong in disguise.

So Zhou Yanru wrote another letter to the governor of Henan, in which he called on the Runing Mansion to guard Wu Shigong and join the rescue operation outside the pass.However, as a deal, Zhou Yanru also hinted at the Governor of Henan that there is a vacancy for the Minister of the Ministry of Punishments in the current imperial court.

When Zhou Yanru finally finished writing the letter and put the letter on the thick stack of private letters, Zhou Yanru couldn't help stretching a lot.

But what Zhou Yanru didn't know was that among his stack of private letters, there were several letters that completely affected the history of the late Ming Dynasty.

After Hou Xun, an old Donglin party member, received Zhou Yanru's letter, he immediately promoted his bed partner Zuo Liangyu to an official position, and asked Zuo Liangyu to lead the army to Liaodong to rescue Dalinghe City.

But this move released Zuo Liangyu, who was regarded as a pillar by the court and a beast by the people at the end of Ming Dynasty.

As for Zhou Yanru's confidant, Denglai Governor Sun Yuanhua, after receiving this private letter, he immediately asked his confidant general Kong Youde and other generals brought from Dongjiang Town to lead the Liaodong Dongjiang soldiers stationed in Denglai to help outside the customs. Liaodong Ming Army.

And what disgusting performance did Kong Youde and the others have?This will be described later.

When the governor of Henan received Zhou Yanru's letter, he didn't think about it at all, and immediately agreed to send Wu Shigong out.In the eyes of the governor of Henan, aren't those military officers just a tool for civil officials like himself to get promoted and make a fortune?

But what will happen after Wu Shigong, the guard of Runing Mansion, is released?