Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

() The change in the direction of the court, of course, is to spread the "Laizhou Great Victory" to the world, and of course to reward those who have done meritorious service.And at this time, the ministers who planned the award suddenly remembered that there was still a great victory that had not yet been awarded.That is the victory of Jiyan (Jining Prefecture and Yanzhou).

Regarding the result of the Jiyan Great Victory, none of the officials raised any objections.Because the memorials and heads turned in by officials from various places have formed a complete chain of evidence.

But when the officials who planned the rewards submitted the memorials about the two great victories to the Emperor Chongzhen, the Emperor Chongzhen was surprised to find that the Henan guard named "Wu Shigong" appeared again.

"Wang Banban, who is this Wu Shigong? Why does it sound so familiar to me?" Emperor Chongzhen asked Wang Chengen beside him.

"The emperor's memory is really good, he is the son-in-law of Xue Hou's recruit!" Wang Chengen replied with a smile: "But that kid has a bad nature, and he was also greedy for money when he was the commander of Nancheng. I heard that later he He also hooked up with a widow and was driven to Henan by Xuehou."

"However, that kid was diligent as a general in the local area. Although he was not a good general, he was also brave and brave to fight. When he was king last time, he followed General Qin to recover the four cities of Yongping and made some contributions."

"But his nature has not changed, so the old slave guesses that he must have some credit for fighting in Denglai this time, but he must have learned the bad habits of the generals in those places. It really taints his noble background!"

Emperor Chongzhen also laughed, it is always very pleasant to hear other people's family ugliness.So he laughed and scolded: "Xue Hou's beloved daughter is entrusted to no one! That's all. I have to give Xue Hou a face, and I don't care about Wu Shoubei's matter."

Wu Shigong is carefree in Shandong, but Xue Lian, who knows the direction of the court, is worried about his son-in-law.So a few days ago, Xue Lian gave Wang Chengen another generous gift, so today Wang Chengen also made this favor.

However, Wu Shigong was unlucky enough. It should be said that Wu Shigong's performance in killing Kong Youde's rebels in Shandong this time, that is, Wu Shigong's Runing Battalion, was remarkable, but he was almost arrested and imprisoned for no reason.

But it's a blessing in disguise, and you know it's not a blessing.Also unintentionally driven by Wu Shigong's victories, the countdown to the resignation of Chief Assistant Zhou Yanru has entered.In fact, this also caused Wu Shigong's most worrying problem - the transfer from the Runing Mansion after the war was fundamentally resolved.

Afterwards, the internal officials who passed the decree came to Liu Yulie's army and read out the imperial decree of the award.In addition to promising Liu Yulie to act cheaply and continue to appease the rebels, only three military officers were rewarded in the imperial decree.

One is Jiang Guerrilla from Henan.Of course it's a gift.This posthumous gift is very generous, far exceeding the general posthumous gift.But no military officer would envy or be jealous of Jiang Guerrilla.

The other is Liu Zeqing, who was promoted to lieutenant general of Caozhou.And this upgrade is a real job promotion.

The last one is Wu Shigong, who was promoted to the capital of Runing Mansion.But this promotion is false promotion.Neither the area under jurisdiction nor the number of troops assigned has been increased.To be precise, he just enjoys the treatment of the capital and takes the post of garrison in the Runing Mansion.

In fact, it can be seen from this that Liu Zeqing and Wu Shigong's promotions were all due to their meritorious service in the Jiyan Great Victory.As for the victory in Dengzhou, all the military officers were not rewarded except Jiang Guerrilla, who was killed in battle.

Of course, the reason mentioned in the imperial decree is: after the rebels are wiped out, they will be rewarded together.But everyone below Liu Yulie knew that Emperor Chongzhen already knew the truth about the Denglai victory.

The boss got angry, and the consequences were serious.Zhou Yanru and Liu Yulie stepped up to appease them.

So since the civil servants can't appease the rebels, then find a Liaodong Wu general who has a good relationship with the military officer of Dongjiang Town to appease.At the end of May in the fifth year of Chongzhen, Liao general Sun Yinglong wrote a letter to persuade Geng Zhongming to surrender because of his old friendship with Geng Zhongming.

But Geng Zhongming followed his plan, and sent someone's head to him, saying that he had already beheaded Kong Youde, and asked Sun Yinglong to sail quickly to accept the surrender.So Sun Yinglong happily led the navy fleet from Tianjin to Dengzhou.

But as soon as he landed, Sun Yinglong was beheaded by Geng Zhongming, and the large number of warships he carried became the spoils of war for the rebels.Then, relying on the captured warships, the rebels repelled Huanglong, the leader of Pidao, from the sea.

In the land attack, the rebels captured Zhaoyuan and seized a large amount of supplies and silver there.There are more than 8000 taels of gold.The amount of gold hidden by the soldiers of the rebel army was several times this amount.

The Zhaoyuan Gold Mine is well-known even in modern times.But in the Ming Dynasty, it was abandoned by the court on the grounds of depletion of mineral resources because of deception from top to bottom.However, local officials and local tyrants colluded with each other and exploited without permission.But now all the gold has fattened Kong Youde's rebels.

Therefore, although the attack on Laiyang was unsuccessful, and Laizhou City was still under siege, the arrogance of the rebels was still getting more and more arrogant day by day.

But the Ming court still did not learn its lesson.In order to attack Kelezhou City, the rebels repeated their old tricks and asked Governor Liu Yulie to surrender again, and proposed that as long as several civil and military officials in Laizhou City came out of the city to proclaim the edict, they would surrender.

Under the pressure of the governor Liu Yulie, Denglai governor Xie Lian, who had a glimmer of hope in recruiting, decided to go out of the city to surrender. As soon as he and Laizhou prefect Zhu Wannian left the city, Kong Youde fell to his knees crying and said that he was guilty of death.Kong Youde's realistic performance really deserves an Oscar for Best Actor.

Kong Youde also said that when he accepted the surrender ceremony the next day, the commander-in-chief Yang Yufan was invited to attend.When Xie Lian returned to the city, Yang Yufan, the commander-in-chief who was born in a military family, was well aware of the capricious nature of the rebels, and firmly refused to leave the city.Here, we can deeply understand that sometimes, the IQ of military officers is indeed higher than that of civilian officials.

Sure enough, on the second day, that is, on the Qixi Festival of this year, Xie Lian and Zhu Wancheng were arrested by the rebels when they went out of the city again. The rebels took them as hostages and ordered Yang Yufan to surrender the city.But Zhu Wancheng shouted: We are dead, you must stick to it!Surrounding me are the elite troops of the rebel army, shoot at me quickly!

Yang Yufan also decisively ordered to fire at the places where the rebels were densely populated. The rebels were killed and injured, but Zhu Wancheng also died under the fire of his own people.

Although this heroism like Wang Cheng is embarrassing.But we also feel a little fatigued by the repeated success of the rebels' false surrenders.

If it's a human being, it won't step into the same cesspit twice.But the most elite scholar-bureaucrats in the Ming Dynasty were repeatedly played by a few rebel generals who were low-spirited miners. This situation is really speechless!

But at this time, Zhou Yanru and the main appeasement faction still insisted on appeasement.Not to mention, Zhou Yanru's eloquence is really good, and Wen Tiren is also watching Zhou Yanru's clown-like performance, waiting for when he will perform.So Emperor Chongzhen still hesitated whether to suppress or appease.

But some honest ministers can't stand it anymore!Liu Erzhi, a native of Laizhou, a servant of the household department, and a great calligrapher, bumped his head against the pillar of the court hall when the two factions were arguing.His remonstrance finally made Emperor Chongzhen decide to send a strong force to encircle and suppress the rebels.The death of Liu Erzhi also completely ruined Zhou Yanru's dream of being the chief assistant.

At this time, one of the four remaining members of Laizhou City, General Yang Yufan led the soldiers and civilians of Laizhou to continue to defend Laizhou City alone.Their actions firmly held back the footsteps of the rebels.

And Liu Yulie was removed from the post of governor by Emperor Chongzhen, and returned to Beijing to report on his duties.Liu Yulie's successor is Zhu Dadian, the new governor of Shandong.And coming with Zhu Dadian, there are also 2 horses from the eunuch Gao Qi who sneaked into the supervising army.

But at this time, the successive victories have already made Kong Youde and the others dizzy.When Kong Youde heard the news, he said contemptuously: "I think killing Shandong soldiers is as easy as cutting melons and beans. What if they come with tens of thousands of people?"

Indeed, successive victories have made the rebels stronger.During the eight months of Kong Youde's rebellion, he kept recruiting and accepting rebels. People from Mao Wenlong's old department in Liaodong kept crossing the sea to join him.

But what Kong Youde didn't know was that the 2 troops brought by Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian this time were not all from Shandong's army. Zu Dabi and Zu Kuan, nicknamed "Zu Er Crazy", as well as Wu Xiang and his son Wu Sangui, who had committed crimes and meritorious service, were led by powerful generals such as Wu Sangui.

Since Wu Shigong built the front battalion in early April, the spies he sent out had several small-scale strangulation battles with the rebel spies.But neither side had any intention of causing a big war, so after a few more trials, the two sides formed a de facto ceasefire line in Shahe.

And in the next three months, Wu Shigong and Liu Zeqing's former army will have nothing to do.Except for Liu Zeqing becoming Deputy General Liu and Wu Shigong becoming Wu Dusi, they all enjoyed Kong Youde's performance of playing with the civil servants.

But Wu Shigong didn't know that he was temporarily idle, but the three daring military officers he stayed in Henan wanted to plan a military operation of du li.