I want to be emperor

Chapter 341 Chongzhen Changes the Governor
After the news that Chongzhen wanted to dismiss Wang Jiazhen and arrest him, the minds of many courtiers in the Ming court went blank...

Many people also couldn't understand why Chongzhen wanted to dismiss Wang Jiazhen at this time.

More importantly, you only dismiss people, but you don't replace them with someone with sufficient qualifications and abilities in time.

Now that the war in the south of the Yangtze River is at its most critical juncture, in this case, the governor of Nanjing who is in charge of coordinating the war is directly killed. Is this going to be like that?
Even if you want to change generals just in time, that's not how you do it.

Although Jiujiang suffered a disastrous defeat and Wang Jiazhen's responsibility could not escape, many people also know that Jiujiang's defense has nothing to do with Wang Jiazhen himself.

The Jiujiang Line of Defense was created by Shi Kefa himself, and it has nothing to do with Wang Jiazhen himself. When Shi Kefa was building the Jiujiang Line of Defense, Wang Jiazhen was still playing as a concubine in the capital.

After Wang Jiazhen took over as the governor of Nanjing, he also strongly supported Shi Kefa in the limited two or three months, and gave Shi Kefa what he wanted, and gave Shi Kefa great support.

Therefore, in the eyes of many people, the fall of the Jiujiang defense line has nothing to do with Wang Jiazhen.

Even if you have to be responsible, you don't have to go all the way to the end. It is routine operation for Wang Jiazhen to commit crimes and meritorious deeds.

Even if you don't consider these things, you should at least consider who should take over as the governor of Nanjing after killing Wang Jiazhen.

Now it is not easy to find someone to be the governor. There are only a few who meet the requirements, and everyone is not easy to move.

If it were so easy to choose a governor with such weight, when the imperial court chose Yang Sichang, Chen Biqian and even Wang Jiazhen last year, it would not be so troublesome and procrastinating, but it was really difficult to choose people.

Let’s not talk about it, and let’s talk about it. Now, the Ming court has not even selected the Minister of the Ministry of War in the true sense. It’s just because there can’t be no one for a long time.

But everyone knows that this is only temporary, even Wang Yehao himself knows...

The candidates for the Minister of the Ministry of War are still difficult to deliver, and now they are going to elect the governor of Nanjing. What kind of trouble is this going to do?

Really high prestige and able to lead troops, and able to restrain the first group of governors, the governor of the chief soldier is Chinese cabbage, choose whatever you want...

If he chooses someone to fool him at random, it might be a bad thing, and Jiangnan will be completely finished by then.

What's more, in the first half of this year, a Minister of the Ministry of War committed suicide, and a Southwest Governor Yang Sichang was killed, and Hong Chengchou was transferred to the northern line, and Sun Chuanting was replaced as the governor of the three sides.

Now kill Wang Jiazhen, Governor of Nanjing...

This is equivalent to that in just a few months, Chongzhen changed the three governors in charge of encircling and suppressing the Chu thieves one by one.

Not only the governor, but actually the lower governors, military preparations, and military supervisors have changed more. After a year, they can basically change the senior civilian officials in charge of military affairs in the surrounding provinces one by one.

However, the frequent change of senior local civil servants such as governors and governors who actually lead the army to fight will seriously damage the morale of the frontline soldiers, and will seriously affect the continuity of various military policies.

After all, each high-ranking civil servant has somewhat different concepts of suppressing thieves and building an army.

This one likes to play field battles, that one likes to play city defense, that one likes to engage in new standard troops, and that one likes traditional soldiers with artillery.

People are like this, they have their own ideas to some extent.

But the high-level change is so frequent, this governor tossed and froze for a few months, and the next governor froze for a few more months, and finally tossed and tossed, nothing was done, and only a lot of mess was left.

Arresting Wang Jiazhen now will cause a lot of mess!
Many people can already imagine such a scene: the imperial decree to arrest Wang Jiazhen was sent to Jinling City, Wang Jiazhen was arrested by Jin Yiwei and brought back to the capital for trial, and the Chu army entered Jinling City.

If this toss continues, Jiangnan may be over, and the Ming Dynasty may also be over.

As a result, some officials in the capital began to seriously consider a question, that is:
In this world, can the last name be Luo?
After being surnamed Luo, what about his own interests?

Well, a large number of civil and military officials of the Ming court in history also seriously considered this issue when Li Zicheng led his troops to attack the capital. In the end, some of them made the initial decision: abandon Chongzhen and switch to Li Zicheng.

But they didn't expect that Li Zicheng, who seemed to be a mighty man, would be defeated outside Shanhaiguan, and finally he was taken into the pass by the East to take advantage of it.

But it didn't matter, they turned around and surrendered... This time, they kneeled down to the barbarians they despised in the past!

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Chongzhen was angry, and after killing Wang Jiazhen with an imperial decree, he knew that the governor of Nanjing had a lot to do with it, and he couldn't leave him alone for a day. In addition, the courtiers also knew that Wang Jiazhen's dismissal was inevitable, and the top priority was to appoint a new one immediately. The last part of the governor of Nanjing proposed that Fan Jingwen, Minister of the Ministry of War of Nanjing, be the governor of the military affairs of Nanzhili, Jiangxi, Henan and other places.

Speaking of this Fan Jingwen, what does this person say, the serious Donglin Party, the happy party fights, the good party fights!
In the early years, he was kicked out of the court because of the failure of the party struggle, and it took several years to be reactivated. After being activated, he continued to fight with Wei Zhongxian and others, and he was crushed to death.

It was not until Chongzhen succeeded to the throne that he ushered in the spring again. Well, like most Donglin party members, promotion is like being a rocket.

In the first year of Chongzhen, he was promoted to Taichang Shaoqing, and in the second year of Chongzhen, he was promoted to Yushi of Qiandu and governor of Henan.

Back then, the Eastern captives detoured through Mongolia to enter the customs. He led Henan officers and soldiers to serve the king. He had never fought a battle, but he still relied on this qualification for a long time.

It's a pity that his father failed to live up to his expectations, and passed away two years later, and Fan Jingwen was forced to resign from office to observe the funeral.

After the mourning period passed, the power center of the capital had nothing to do with him... Naturally, party disputes were inevitable here, but this time he didn't win and became a loser.

In the end, he was mentioned in Nanjing and served as the censor of the right capital of Nanjing. After a lot of tossing, he became the Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, but he had already left the center of power.

After all, everyone knows that the capital is the core of power.

Nanjing, that is just the accompanying capital, and the ministers or servants in it are either pensioners, or they were kicked over after losing the battle.

However, Fan Jingwen was able to be killed several times, and then recovered again. This relationship and his own fighting ability are naturally good.

Therefore, a minister elected this person to take over as the governor of Nanjing, saying that Fan Jingwen happened to be in Jinling City, and he had also served as a governor before, had also trained soldiers in Tongzhou, had experience in leading troops, and had served in Nanjing for several years. And so on.

Qualifications and abilities as well as experience are a good fit.

When Chongzhen saw it, he also remembered that this person led soldiers to serve as the king in the second year of Chongzhen, and he also trained soldiers in Tongzhou. He felt that this person was still a soldier, and in a short time, he really couldn't find other more suitable ones. The person is gone, so it is easy to let this person serve as the governor of Nanjing.

Therefore, it was formally decreed that Fan Jingwen, the Minister of War in Nanjing, be the governor of the military affairs of Nanzhili, Jiangxi, Henan, Zhejiang and other places.

It's just... Many people are worried about Fan Jingwen's superior position.

Fan Jingwen is good at playing party battles, but leading troops to fight, don't look at him leading troops to serve as a king, and he also went to Tongzhou to train soldiers, but he really didn't lead troops to fight seriously...

In contrast, the other former or current governors have more or less led troops to fight.

Wang Jiazhen, the former governor of Nanjing, was the governor of Gansu at any rate before. He led troops to fight, and his military achievements were not small. He led his troops to behead hundreds of people.

This person also served as the left servant of the transfer department, and was in charge of money and food affairs.

Combining the two, in fact, Wang Jiazhen is quite suitable to be a governor and coordinate the army. When the cabinet ministers asked him to be the governor of Nanjing, they considered his experience and ability comprehensively.

Even though Chen Biqian, the predecessor, was born as a speech officer, he seemed to have made no achievements when he was the governor of Henan and the governor of the military affairs of the provinces on the eastern front, but in fact Chen Biqian had done a very good job under limited conditions.

At least under his auspices, although Zuo Liangyu is domineering, he still guards Ye County and other areas honestly, preventing the Chu thieves from entering the Central Plains.

At the same time, Chen Biqian also tried his best to maintain the southern Ruzhou, Runing Mansion and many other fronts.

Of course, there are reasons why the strategic direction of the Chu army is not in these directions, but it is also inseparable from Chen Biqian's overall planning.

If the strength of the Ming army in these places is not good, and the Chu army can easily send some troops to attack the city and conquer the land, the Chu army doesn't mind laying down a few more territories.

Another example is Yang Sichang, the former prime minister of the military affairs of the five provinces. This man is good at strategy and has good ability. Among so many governors in the Ming court, his strategic planning ability should be regarded as second to none.

He was the first to toss out the new standard army that Ming Ting is currently training, and he also proposed a series of perfect strategies for suppressing thieves. Although his siege strategy failed, at least he has formulated a strategy seriously.

The former governor of Huguang, Tang Hui, the prime minister of the military affairs of the five provinces, also led troops and fought many battles with thieves. During the six and seven years of Chongzhen, he also participated in the encirclement and suppression of Chu with Lu Xiangsheng and others. Beiliu thief campaign.

It's just that it's a tragedy to meet the Chu thief later!

But it's nothing to be defeated by the Chu thief, even Lu Xiangsheng was defeated and died, and it's normal for Tang Hui to lose.

It's not that Tang Hui is not capable, but that the Chu thief is too strong!

What's more, Tang Hui was the first to come up with and apply this new set of defense tactics that followed the Ming army's example of Chu thieves using trenches and fortifications to defend the city.

There is also Hong Chengchou, this person did not say that he was able to lead troops to fight, and the various thieves he had worked in before had fought to the death. Although he hadn't fought the Chu thieves much, after he went to Beizhili, he had a fight with Dongyao , Although the loss of soldiers and generals, it can be regarded as a confidence.

After all, it was a serious field battle that blocked the attack of Dongyao, and the strength of the two sides was about the same, and Dongyao had a large number of cavalry, which was not easy for the Ming army.

Then there is Sun Chuanting, this person is even more outrageous. Gao Yingxiang was arrested within a few months when he was the governor of Shaanxi, and he has completely controlled the local situation not long after he became the governor of the three sides. The scale went.

Looking at these governors, there are good and bad experience and ability, but in any case, they are basically able to lead troops into battle, and no matter how bad they are, they can also sit in the rear and coordinate the army.

But Fan Jingwen, many people have no confidence in him!

(End of this chapter)