Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

When Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian knew that all the military attachés of the coalition forces were obedient, but only Wu Shigong and the other three Henan military attaches did not listen to their "discussion", their noses were suddenly crooked.

In fact, Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian's capture was not entirely out of selfishness.Of course, during the seizure, they will be given a share according to the official rules, and they will not refuse to pretend to be lofty.

However, apart from taking part of these seizures to appease the Liaodong Army.Most of the rest, Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian are still planning to return them to the coalition forces that have made the most contributions today.

Although this seems to be a change from reducing or exempting the share of seizures turned over by the coalition forces, it is a matter of leadership authority and a principle that cannot be compromised.

But Wu Shigong and the others slapped them both in the face, how could this prevent Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian from being furious?

However, as Wu Shigong estimated, Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian were not able to retaliate overtly, but for these two veterans in the officialdom, it is also handy to retaliate secretly.

That revenge was divided into two paths.One is not to give Wu Shigong credit for his past achievements, and the other is to block the way for Wu Shigong to make meritorious deeds in the future.Anyway, the central idea is to prevent Wu Shigong from being promoted.

But from an objective point of view, Wu Shigong's reaction this time was indeed excessive.From the perspective of the Runing Battalion, it is true that the interests are at a loss, but from the perspective of Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian, they also want to balance the relationship between the various branches of the Ming Army.This is a question of the ass decides the head.In all fairness, Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian's handling of the seizure was relatively fair.

Of course, Wu Shigong also had plenty of reasons to oppose it.But unfortunately, the reasons for Wu Shigong's opposition could not be stated publicly.It is not necessarily that he wants to say: The reason why the Runing camp was not turned over and seized is to expand its strength?Just to be a prince?Isn't that the same as publicly declaring rebellion?

Therefore, under impulse, Wu Shigong made such a reaction that did not conform to official rules.Of course, this also allowed Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian to shape Wu Shigong's style of grabbing money and merit in their hearts.The image of a hairless military officer.It's no wonder that Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian want to take revenge immediately.

It can also be seen that the personnel arrangement of the Runing Camp this time is incomplete.Wu Shigong did not bring literati staff such as Deng Qifan or Zhang Xuebin to the expedition, which also led to Wu Shigong's arbitrary handling of officialdom issues.

Otherwise, with the persuasion and mediation of Deng Qifan and the others, although the Runing Camp will inevitably suffer some losses in terms of interests, at least they will not get to the point where they are incompatible with the coach.Even the conflict with the Liaodong Army will not intensify. After all, the Liaodong Army only got hundreds of armors. It is not worth doing such an excessive "naked corpse incident" for these things.This can also be seen deeply, within a political group.The importance of literati who are familiar with officialdom rules.

In addition, to make a digression, in the original history, Li Zicheng's peasant rebellion army did not pay attention to literati, which made Li Zicheng and others conquer Beijing.It didn't take long to die.

The reason is that there are too few literati around Li Zicheng.The only ones, Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance, are just low-level recruits who have been bullied, and they have a strong desire to retaliate against society.Not very good at governing the country.And the legendary Li Yan?If there is such a character in history.Then he was never a core member of Li Zicheng's group.

And after the great victory in the battle of Huangxian, of course he had to report the victory to the court Lubu again.However, in the memorial presented to Emperor Chongzhen, the three military officers from Henan—Wu Shigong, Chen Zhongzhi, and Jiang Cheng—unfortunately reduced to one word—“waiting”.As long as they are mentioned, Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian's memorials are replaced by "Vice General Liu and others".

Even Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian used spring and autumn brushwork, and they did not falsely report military information.Just ignore Wu Shigong and the others.Of course, in the report book, there must be no names of these three people.

Of course, Wu Shigong and the three of them could not have seen Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian's memorial.Wu Shigong was mentally prepared to be deprived of his military merit anyway, but Chen Zhongzhi and Jiang Cheng were not fools either, and they basically guessed what Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian did.

But Chen Zhongzhi and Jiang Cheng didn't care.They advance and retreat with Wu Shigong.Although there are some reasons for the grouping of fellow villagers, the most important reason is that both Chen Zhongzhi and Jiang Cheng knew that they had no future in the first place.

Chen Zhongzhi didn't talk about him anymore, he had been unsatisfactory in the Henan governor's bid camp.No matter how good he is, the governor of Henan can't hand over the governor's bid camp to Chen Zhongzhi to lead.

And Jiang Cheng lost his big backer because of Jiang Guerrilla's death.And the guerrilla battalion of Jiang Guerrilla will definitely be led by other military officers arranged by the court.After all, Jiang Cheng is too far away from the official position of guerrilla, and there are two levels of defense and capital in the middle.And as a relative and cronies of the former guerrilla, Jiang Cheng certainly has no future when the new guerrilla takes office.

Besides, in the "Laizhou Great Victory" and the Shahe Great Victory when Liu Yulie led the army, Chen Zhongzhi and Jiang Cheng had already earned enough military merit.When the imperial court rewarded them after the war, at most it would give them a first-level false title, but this official didn't know much about it.This is like the situation where Wu Shigong is currently in charge of the capital and is actually in charge of the defense of Runing.

Doesn't it mean that after they made military exploits again, the imperial court would give them false titles again?Let's take a modern example: If an official is paid at the level of the main hall or deputy minister, but his actual official position is a county magistrate at the level of the department, wouldn't that be a joke?The court would not do that either.

The only advantage of having a false title is that you will be more prestigious in official exchanges, and the court will give you more salary.But we all know that the salaries of officials in the Ming Dynasty are negligible in the total income of court officials.Therefore, a military officer who doesn't like fame very much, and can't have a reputation, will definitely choose to earn such a large sum of money first.

But when Emperor Chongzhen read the memorial to the victory, another interesting thing happened.Emperor Chongzhen was of course very happy when he learned of the great victory in Huang County.But when he looked carefully at the content of the memorial, he found that a son-in-law of the Hou's mansion who had stolen the widow mysteriously disappeared.It can also be seen that Wu Shigong is indeed notorious in the heart of Emperor Chongzhen.

Emperor Chongzhen was furious, not because of Wu Shigong, but mainly because Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian dared to hide themselves, and they colluded to hide themselves.How can this not make Emperor Chongzhen, who has a strong desire for control, feel angry?Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen immediately asked Wang Chengen to investigate clearly, what happened?

And Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian, who are in charge of the army, must have people from Dongchang and Jinyiwei beside them.Under Wang Chengen's investigation, he quickly reported the ins and outs of everything that happened.

Emperor Chongzhen saw that this was the case, but he didn't pursue it further.However, when he saw the conflict between the coalition army and the Liaodong army, he couldn't help but feel a little happy in his heart.

The Liaodong Army spent a lot of food and pay from the court, but what it brought to Emperor Chongzhen was only the loss of teachers and humiliation of the country.What's even more exasperating is that the Liaodong Army has faintly become an independent kingdom. Even after the Jisi change, Zu Dashou fled the capital with the Liaodong Army, and Emperor Chongzhen had to swallow his anger and send eunuchs to appease him.Therefore, the arrogant Emperor Chongzhen had long disliked the Liaodong Army.

But now having such a money-grubbing and lustful military officer has caused the Liaodong Army to suffer some losses. It seems that the villain really needs to be tortured by the villain!

But this time Wang Chengen did not speak for Wu Shigong. He persuaded Emperor Chongzhen, "This Wu Dusi is so greedy for money, it is no wonder that Governor Zhu and Gao Gong will treat him like this. However, they only taught Wu Dusi a lesson, and did not disclose the military law. It can also be seen that Governor Zhu and Eunuch Gao have a good heart, and they still remember the emperor's trust."

Emperor Chongzhen also nodded in agreement with Wang Chengen's words.After all, he is not interested in redressing Wu Shigong's unjust case.

Emperor Chongzhen pointed to the name of Wu Shigong on the report, and said to Wang Chengen: "This man's character is very bad, and he really insulted the name of his ancestors. Marquis Wu is elegant and diligent. Although Marquis Xue is not careful in his work, his character is also quite good. Really. The dragon gave birth to nine sons, each of them is different! Although they are considered brave, but in the previous dynasty, such people who have small talents but no great virtue will never use them."

Wang Chengen immediately flattered with a smile: "Isn't that the emperor is broad-minded and knows people well?"

Emperor Chongzhen also laughed.But after laughing for a while, he put away his smile and sighed: "It's a troubled time!"

The reason why Wang Chengen wanted to help Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian this time was that after the change of the first assistant, a faint alliance between the new first assistant Wen Tiren and Cao Huachun formed between the internal and external courts.Although Wang Chengen didn't like taking power very much, he also didn't like having other eunuchs from the inner court climb on his head.Therefore, in order to fight against Cao Huachun, Wang Chengen put aside the family dispute between the Sili Supervisor and the Yuma Supervisor, and took the initiative to take this opportunity to extend an olive branch to Gao Qiqian.

And seeing that the goal of not reporting Wu Shigong's previous achievements this time was achieved, Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian took the method of blocking Wu Shigong's future meritorious service.

During the military meeting after a day's rest, Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian ordered the whole army to march out immediately, to capture Dengzhou City while the iron is hot, and completely wipe out Kong Youde's rebels.

But during the military discussion, Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian arranged for Wu Shigong to lead Chen Zhongzhi and Jiang Cheng to form a partial division, first to recover Zhaoyuan, and then advance along the coast to wipe out the rout left by the rebels. , and finally surrounded Dengzhou City from the south of Dengzhou City. (To be continued..)