Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

"Fourteenth son!?", upon hearing this address, Wu Shigong understood that this butler was sent by his father Wu Weizhong.He took a closer look and remembered who the housekeeper was. He had also dealt with Wu Shigong before, and it was Guanshi Hong who persuaded Wu Shigong to give the shares of the salt farm to his father.

After thinking about it, Wu Shigong's face darkened.The seizure of the salt field is not a pleasant thing. Wu Shigong can't vent his anger on his father Wu Weizhong, but now he won't show Guanshi Hong a good face.

"What do you want from me?" Wu Shigong asked bluntly.

But Manager Hong seemed to be unaware of Wu Shigong's displeasure.He still smiled and said: "Master Hou has made an engagement for the fourteenth son, and he wants to choose an auspicious day for the son to marry. The lady who is betrothed is..."

"Crack!" Wu Shigong was furious immediately, and re-shot the big case.Then he yelled, "Come on!"

Immediately, a group of soldiers rushed in outside the tent.

Wu Shigong pointed to Guanshi Hong who was still confused, and ordered loudly: "Throw him out, let him go back wherever he came from!" Immediately, the guards rushed up and grabbed Hong Guanshi's limbs, and threw Hong The steward carried it out.Only steward Hong's explanations and begging for mercy were left.

What are you kidding?Now all the troublesome things are making Wu Shigong's scalp explode, and this unscrupulous father of his still wants to make a family for him?Still don't want to add to the chaos?If it wasn't for Dad's sake, he wouldn't have been thrown out today, or at least Guanshi Hong's legs would have been broken.

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Half an hour later, Zhou Junwu walked into the big tent. Seeing that Wu Shigong had regained his composure, he smiled and said, "My lord! The students have settled down the people in your house, and declined this marriage. Tomorrow Let them go back. But...don't your lord listen to this marriage? That lady sounds pretty good."

Wu Shigong was amused by Zhou Junwu's joke all of a sudden: "Side! I didn't expect you to make fun of me. You know that I don't have such thoughts now."

However, Wu Shigong was quite satisfied with Zhou Junwu taking the initiative to wipe his ass for himself, so he thought about it.Then he ordered: "When Steward Hong leaves tomorrow, prepare a generous gift from the camp and let him take it with him. It will be considered as my tribute to my lord father!"

After finishing speaking, Wu Shigong thought of his unscrupulous father again, and could only shake his head and let out a long sigh.

In late January of the 15th year of Chongzhen, the Runing Army successively repatriated the troops temporarily borrowed from other Ming armies, as expected.There are only more than 700 Ming soldiers who are willing to stay in Zhenyuan City.With the addition of an alliance left by Wu Shigong, the Runing Army now only has more than 8000 soldiers and horses left in Zhenyuan City.And the rest of the Runing Army troops, in the name of rest.They were successively withdrawn to the camp south of Shanhaiguan and ready to go.

In early February, Wu Shigong led the last retreated Runing Army troops back to Shanhaiguan.After that, he came to Changqiu to discuss secretly, and gave the Chang family in Shanxi, where Changqiu was located, the exclusive trading rights of the Runing Army in Liaodong.However, Wu Shigong made a request: to ask the Chang family to give up trade with the Manchus and Mongolia.Of course, this is also a choice Wu Shigong gave to the Chang family, if they are not willing to give up doing business with the Manchus in the future.Then the Runing Army will definitely let the Chang family wait and see.

On the fifth day of February, Wu Shigong brought Chang Liuqin to the camp in Guannan.After that, he sent letters to Zhao Zhiwan, the new governor of Jiliao, and Gao Qiqian, the new governor of Liaodong in the pass.Inform them that the Runing Army will return to Runing immediately.

Knowing this shocking thunderbolt, Governor of Jiliao Zhao Zhiwan and Liaodong Supervisor Gao Qiqian were shocked, they immediately came to Runing Army to prevent Wu Shigong from returning.

"Mr. Wu! You have been in Liaodong for such a long time. If the miscellaneous family has offended you, please apologize first. But you must leave without telling. After you leave, how can the officers and soldiers in Songshan and Jinzhou escape from danger? ?” Gao Qiqian bowed his hands to Wu Shigong again and again, just to let Wu Shigong dispel the idea of ​​leaving.

"Mr. Wu! This governor knows that you have always been loyal to the emperor, but why did you leave today without purpose. I will not hide from Mr. Wu. This governor has recommended to the emperor that you should be the commander of Liaodong, and I will give you the command arrow to let you take responsibility. Rescue responsibility. How about you hang around for a few more days and wait for the court's decree?" Zhao Zhiwan also advised.

Indeed, Emperor Chongzhen and the imperial court were quite dissatisfied with the former governor of Jiliao Yang Shengwu's behavior of holding back troops, so they changed their generals and replaced them with the new governor of Jiliao Zhao Zhiwan.After Zhao Zhiwan came to Liaodong, he really wanted to mobilize troops to rescue Jinzhou, Songshan and other cities, and he was already preparing to use Wu Shigong's Runing Army as the main rescue force.

But now, Zhao Zhiwan's dream has come to nothing.However, neither Zhao Zhiwan nor Wu Shigong could be blamed for this. The opportunity to fight has been lost, and any good ideas are useless.

At this time, Wu Shigong will not be shaken by the few words of these two people.So he said to Gao Qiqian: "Gao Gonggong! The last general has known you for many years, and I always have some love, so I don't want to make things difficult for you. But look at the current Liaodong, Jinzhou and Songshan are no longer able Save it again. The army's morale is broken, and going again will be a big defeat. And the last general has built a new city next to Ningyuan, leaving more than ten thousand tigers to defend, and it can be regarded as the last bit of his strength."

"The last general's Runing army is always a guest army in Liaodong, and we have been away from Runing for nearly two years. Now that Shaanxi bandits are rampant in Henan and Chu, how can the last general's Erlang feel at ease? To be honest, if It wasn’t the last general’s strong wrists, maybe they had mutinied back to Runing long ago. Master Supervisor and Master Supervisor, you have to show your hands high, it is impossible for our Runing Army to leave their hometown and fight in Liaodong for a long time without protecting the elders in their hometown. Hey——! Let's get together and get separated! After the last general quells the civil unrest in the Central Plains, go to Liaodong and fight for the two adults!"

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In the end, Zhao Zhiwan, governor of Jiliao, and Gao Qiqian, the governor of Liaodong, failed to stop them.But the two of them were just trying to persuade them with good words, and did not use troops to stop them forcibly.At this time, in fact, everyone has more or less a feeling that the building is about to collapse, so they are unwilling to do things to the extreme, and want to leave a way out for themselves.

The Emperor Chongzhen and the court also kept silent about the unauthorized return of the Runing Army.I even saw that it was a done deal, and when the Runing Army marched to Tianjin Wei, the imperial court sent a supplementary order from the Ministry of War to mobilize the Runing Army to return.This can be regarded as saving some face for the court!

On February [-]th, the Runing Army marched to Tongzhou and began to collect ships to return through the Grand Canal.But Wu Shigong never expected that his unscrupulous father had already brought the girl who was betrothed to him to wait in Tongzhou. (To be continued..)