Ming Zuo

Chapter 392 The Last Family
"Your Majesty, Zuo Menggeng is still fighting bandits in Yimeng Mountain. He has trapped the remnants of Bailian in Nishan. He is preparing for the final battle once and for all.

Zhang Zhenxiu stood up and dealt with Chongzhen's problem.

"Hmph, the mere remnants of the white lotus have been fighting for nearly two years and still can't be wiped out. Thanks to him, he is also known as the world's famous general."

Annoyed, Chongzhen began to blame others indiscriminately, even Zuo Menggeng, who had nothing to do with him, was spared.

Zhang Zhenxiu's head is full of black lines, and he really doesn't know how to complain about this king.

"Your Majesty, the left party is only one gang, and the troops are limited. It is inconvenient to encircle and suppress the reckless mountains. For this reason, Zuo Menggeng even asked Linqing to assist, and it is today's success."

The subtext is to tell Chongzhen that Zuo Menggeng's Dongchang Association has only a few thousand people, and it is very good to be able to make it like this.

At the same time, it is also reminding Chongzhen not to expect Zuo Menggeng to deal with the rebels.

There are tens of thousands of rebels. In the past, so many governors, governors, and generals could not handle it. How can they expect a general?
Chongzhen was just furious, but his reason was still there, and he knew that his thoughts were too much.

"Aiqings, Shandong is in danger. How to solve the problem? Is there a good plan?"

Zhou Yanru shivered and said nothing.

Liu Yulie's defeat has made him lose the initiative in this matter.Although it has the name of the first auxiliary, it is unable to move.

Wen Tiren, however, was extremely active and seized the opportunity to say with all his might, "Your Majesty, the only way to do this today is to quickly dispatch the world's elite Guan Ning Cavalry in order to restore Shandong and ensure peace."

His proposal was supported by many courtiers.

Not only his henchmen, but even Wang Wanxiang and others jumped out and strongly agreed.

Just because Wang Wanxiang and others were from Shandong, they couldn't bear to see how their hometown was beaten to pieces.

This Wang Wanxiang, who held a grudge for being impeached by Jiang Cai, almost forced the Jiang brothers to death in the Nanming court.

However, in the face of the turbulent crowd, Chongzhen was silent.

Chongzhen is a person who is very good at playing with the emperor's ingenuity. When he sees so many people supporting the mobilization of Guan Ningjun, he feels uneasy.

One is that there is a conspiracy behind it, and the other is that once the Guan Ning army is transferred to suppress the rebellion, the situation in Liaodong will be unstable.

And his undecided appearance was immediately caught by Zhou Yanru.

Zhou Yanru didn't dare to come forward on his own, but gave a wink to a close friend.

Li Chunwang immediately jumped out and changed the subject during the engineering department.

"Your Majesty, the Western Association's surveillance eunuch Deng Xizhao and the governor of Jiliao, Cao Wenheng, are increasingly in conflict, and they criticize each other. Jizhen is the gateway to the capital, and it is important. This minister believes that this is not the blessing of the imperial court. For the sake of the stability of Jizhen and your Majesty's peace of mind, Cao Wenheng should be relieved of the post of governor, and the person who recommended it should be investigated."

Everyone's eyes were once again focused on Zhou Yanru.

Because he was the one who recommended Cao Wenheng as the governor of Jiliao.

Why did Zhou Yanru instruct his subordinates to attack him?
Just because he has grasped the context of Chongzhen familiarly.

This is a suspicious emperor, and the more his ministers work together to get something, the more nervous he gets.

Just now because of Liu Yulie's defeat, Zhou Yanru had stepped on the edge of the cliff and was in danger.But now, when Li Chunwang used the contradiction between Deng Xizhao and Cao Wenheng to attack him again, Chongzhen immediately became suspicious.

He would wonder if there is a certain force among the following ministers, who wants to replace Zhou Yanru, and then control the government?
That being the case, Zhou Yanru couldn't move lightly.

"Aiqing's words are reasonable, and he issued an order to remove Cao Wenheng from the position of Liao Governor and order Fu Zonglong to take his place."

From beginning to end, he did not mention how to deal with Deng Xizhao.

Because compared with foreign ministers, Chongzhen trusted eunuchs more.

This time, it's okay. In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Zhao Guang, the censor of the capital of Youqi, and the governor of Miyun, exposed Deng Xizhao's crime.After Chongzhen was recalled, he asked Sun Maolin, the subordinate official, to verify.

Of course, the eunuch would protect the eunuch. Sun Maolin deliberately covered it up and bit back, resulting in Zhao Guang being confiscated from Guangdong.

It can be said that Chongzhen's appointment as a eunuch is actually better than that of his elder brother.

Obviously it was to discuss the countermeasures of Wuqiao mutiny, but in the end, the innocent Cao Wenheng was dismissed.

As for the proposal by Wen Tiren, Wang Wanxiang and others to mobilize Guan Ning's army to suppress the rebellion, Chongzhen did not give any reply.

When Cao Wenheng received the news, he didn't have any anger. He laughed and handed over the errand neatly.

He didn't go back to the capital, Dianmao, and went directly south to Shandong.

Since then, the sea is wide and the fish leaps, and the sky is high and the birds fly, and he can finally do what he likes.

Just when he went south to Shandong, Zhang Zhenxiu also walked out of the Guangqu Gate and embarked on the road home.

Both of them received a notice from Zuo Menggeng, and they knew that there was going to be a big change in the future. It would be dangerous for them to stay in the DPRK.

On April [-], the court received news of Liu Yulie's defeat, but nothing has happened since then.

The two forces are still in the hesitation of Chongzhen, and they are arguing endlessly about whether to be the main custodian or the main battle.

Both sides made moves in turn, hoping to dominate the situation.

First, Wen Tiren instructed the officers of Ninghaizhou, Dasongwei, and Chengshanwei to attack Dengzhou, hoping to copy the rebels' back path.

However, the rebels had been on guard for a long time, and Li Jiucheng personally sat in Dengzhou.

Dongjiang Town, the elite of hundreds of battles, fought against these rotten guards, and it was like destroying the dead.

The reinforcements from the three places in Ninghai not only failed to fight against Liu Yulie to relieve the siege of Denglai, but instead destroyed the already weak defense forces.

The second action of Wen Tiren's side was to order Huang Long, deputy general of Phi Island, to attack Dengzhou from the sea.

Huang Long tried and failed.

The main battle faction's two consecutive moves all ended in failure, and Zhou Yanru felt that he had another chance.

After he let Liu Yulie stabilize the situation, he negotiated with the rebels again.

At this time, Liu Yulie had already learned that Xu Congzhi had died in the shelling of the rebels, and also learned that the officials in Laizhou City were willing to appease him, so he sent Zhang Guochen to negotiate with Kong Youde, Li Jiucheng and others.

Qu Yiyang had been running several times before without success, but Zhang Guochen felt that he could.

Because Qu Yiyang is from Shaanxi, and he is from Liaodong, he has fellowship with Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and others.

After seeing Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and others, Zhang Guochen tried his best to persuade with his fellow villagers, hoping that the rebels would agree to appease them.

As everyone knows, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and others hate the Liao people, especially the people from western Liaoning.

But since someone is willing to deliver food, why not do it?

So Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming pretended to agree to be petted again.

Zhang Guochen was overjoyed.

This guy foolishly wanted to take exclusive credit, so instead of returning to Laizhou to tell everyone, he returned to Tianjin alone, and summoned the Tianjin Navy to Dengzhou for comfort.

It is conceivable that when Zhang Guochen led the Tianjin Navy into Dengzhou Water City, he was immediately caught by Li Jiucheng in the urn.

Failing to convince them, they also gave more than [-] ships of various kinds to the rebels in vain.

When the news of Xu Congzhi's death came back to the court, Chongzhen appointed Zhu Dadian, the military governor of Tianjin, as the governor of Shandong.

Compared with the previous two governors of Shandong, Zhu Dadian was a ruthless man and a capable minister.

After Zhu Dadian took office, he did not go to Jinan, but went directly to Qingzhou.

It was here that he began scheduling and reviewing, and the results were very bleak.

Zhu Dadian made it clear in his memorial to Chongzhen that the only troops in Shandong today are Deng Yu's army, but their combat power is worrying.

If you want to quell the rebellion, you must dispatch elite soldiers to come.

After losing so many men and horses, Chongzhen finally realized that the Denglai war could no longer be delayed.

Under the begging and urging of officials such as Bi Ziyan and Wang Wanxiang, on the fifth day of the sixth lunar month, Chongzhen finally announced in the courtroom that Guan Ning's army was dispatched to Shandong to suppress the rebellion.

There were [-] barbarian and Han officials outside the pass, and [-] cavalrymen in the pass. Jin Guoqi was the commander, and Gao Qiqian was the supervisor.

When the news reached Liaodong, a young man couldn't sit still and ran to Jin Guoqi's handsome tent, kneeling down and begging.

"Commander, in the previous battle of Changshan, my father was ineffective in fighting, and he was guilty of the emperor's favor. But my Wu family has been loyal for generations, and the world can learn from it. I urge the commander to give the junior a chance, and the junior is willing to be a pawn before the horse. , to atone for the sin of my father."

Looking at the burly and heroic young man, Jin Guoqi greatly admired.

"My uncle, get up quickly. No one in Liaodong knows about your bravery. With you as a general, my heart is at ease. However, this matter is no trivial matter, and only my uncle can take care of it."

Wu Sangui understood, and went to visit Gao Qiqian with a lot of money that night.

Gao Qiqian looked at the gleaming gold, with great joy, and pointed: "If you want to atone for your father's sins, it is all in the emperor's heart. You have a reputation of loyalty and bravery, and you should be known by the emperor."

Through Gao Qiqian's handwriting, Wu Sangui's petition was sent to Chongzhen.

When the traitors were arrogant and all the horses were fighting together, someone took the initiative to ask for battle, Chongzhen... was moved.

He personally made a reply, allowing Wu Sangui to go out with the army, and ordered Wu Xiang to go out with the army.

What is the meritorious general?

It is also a case of guilt and meritorious deeds.

After more than half a year of tossing, countless troops and civilians were lost, and half of Shandong was smashed, the Ming Dynasty finally made up its mind and sent the most elite troops to quell the rebellion.

And this is already the last fortune that Chongzhen can come up with.

　It is said that the girl surnamed Gu can deal with it, but she doesn't deal with me, what should I do?
　　
　
(End of this chapter)