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Chapter 319 Admiral Xuanzhen North Road Military Affairs

The sun hangs high in the sky like a big fireball, scorching the earth with its fiery rays, even the capital of the Ming Dynasty is generally unbearably hot.

In the East Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace in the Forbidden City, Emperor Chongzhen sat behind the desk with a tired face. The bowl of ice porridge on the desk had lost its coldness, but it was still full.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't have the heart to eat it at all, so how could a mere bowl of ice porridge dispel the restlessness in his heart?
It turned out that in March of this year, Sun Chuanting was a little depressed because he was not summoned by Emperor Chongzhen, and he was deaf due to a cold.

Emperor Chongzhen thought that Sun Chuanting was shirking responsibility, so he ordered the Ministry of War to send someone to verify it. After the report was true, he was dismissed and sent Yushi Yang Yijun to verify it again.

Coincidentally, at this time, Yin Sanpin, the schoolteacher of Baoding Prefecture, reported Sun Chuanting, saying that Sun Chuanting was arresting people randomly, but Yang Yijun verified again that Sun Chuanting's condition was true, and dismissed Yin Sanpin's complaint as "venting anger".

Emperor Chongzhen had already been irritated by Sun Chuanting and lost his trust in him. After receiving Yang Yijun's reward, Chongzhen insisted that Sun Chuanting's claim of illness was "obviously a deception" and believed that Yang Yijun was protecting him, so he Both of them were dismissed, and Jin Yiwei was sent to arrest Sun Chuanting and put him in prison.

At the same time, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and other rogue bandits became more and more violent, and their momentum was overwhelming, which seemed to be uncontrollable. Li Zicheng also began to frequently move outside Shangluo Mountain, and he was likely to come back.

Since Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai's rebellion, Xiong Wencan, who holds the title of Minister of the Ministry of War, also tried his best to dispatch Zuo Liangyu and Luo Dai to lead troops to pursue and suppress them.

However, it was true that his ability was not good enough. Zhang Xianzhong set up an ambush on Luohou Mountain west of Fangxian County. In the end, tens of thousands of officers and soldiers were defeated. Even Luo Dai, the commander-in-chief, was captured alive. Fleeing, even lost the army seal letter.

In a rage, Emperor Chongzhen immediately dismissed Xiong Wencan, took him to Beijing and cut him down. Zuo Liangyu, the commander in chief, was demoted three ranks in a row, and was retained with guilt, and he was charged with making meritorious service with the army to atone for his crime.

Throughout the day, there was nothing that could make Emperor Chongzhen happy, but at this moment, there was Yu Shi who impeached Zhang Cheng for privately killing the criminal official, and asked the court to discuss and punish Zhang Cheng for his crime.

Emperor Chongzhen threw those bullets on the case at that time, didn't he just kill a few criminals who conspired against him, as for such a big impeachment?

He cursed in his heart: "I'm really full."

I was thinking of staying in China and just ignore it, but I don't know why in the past few days, there have been more memorials to impeach Zhang Cheng, and it seems to be getting worse.

Not only did the private killing of criminal officials turn into the unauthorized killing of court military officials, but someone also mentioned that Yuan Chonghuan beheaded Mao Wenlong, which made Emperor Chongzhen very angry.

Today, Yang Sichang, Minister of the Ministry of War, was hurriedly summoned to come to solve this matter.

Although Yang Sichang has resigned from the post of Minister of War, the new Minister of War, Fu Zonglong, is coming all the way from Sichuan.

Yang Sichang's holy family is not bad, and he was given a seat as soon as he entered the East Pavilion as in the past. He still sits on a small corner of the chair with his buttocks.

"What does Aiqing think about Zhang Cheng in Xuanzhen?" Emperor Chongzhen asked with a look of weakness.

Yang Sichang bowed slightly, and replied very respectfully: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Ministry of Criminal Affairs have already investigated this matter, so it is true that Xue Wu's party colluded with bandits and plotted to assassinate Zhang Cheng, and they just wanted to rebel. , but there is no clear evidence.”

Chongzhen sighed, and asked again: "According to Aiqing, how should the officials deal with the impeachment of Zhang Cheng?"

Although Yang Sichang had made preparations before entering the palace to meet His Majesty, he still didn't dare to be careless. He bowed his body and pondered for a while, organized his words a little, and then replied softly: "Reporting to Your Majesty, Governor Xuanda has a memorial. According to their reports, it was Xue Liangqing and Wu Youlu who conspired to assassinate the Shangguan, and even used poisoned arrows stained with horse dung on the general Zhang Cheng.
Now Zhang Cheng is still recuperating in the mansion, whether he will survive is still unknown, Xue and Wu have gone against the grain and almost destroyed a good general of our country's dynasty.
However, Zhang Cheng himself was indeed suspected of taking private revenge, and even murdered officials privately, but he must be punished. If he is not punished, it will be difficult to convince the public.

But now the rogue bandits are resurgent and are ravaging my heartland. The country is in trouble and I think of good generals. This is a good opportunity to employ people to send generals. If the punishment is too heavy, or even Zhang Cheng is dismissed and taken to Beijing to face his crimes, then the military training on the North Road will surely fail. ! "

Emperor Chongzhen looked at Yang Sichang with dull eyes, how could he not know about this, and it was because of this that he called Yang Sichang to give him some advice.

He sighed, and then asked again: "According to Aiqing's intention, how to deal with Zhang Cheng is the most appropriate?"

Yang Sichang stood up from his chair, bowed to Emperor Chongzhen, and said, "Reporting to Your Majesty, the Beilu Bingbei said in the memorandum that although Zhang Cheng had just arrived in Dushi, he did his work sincerely. The army is practicing day and night,
He even cleared tens of thousands of acres of farmland and recalled more than a thousand military households. It was precisely because of this that the interests of Xue Wu and others were mobilized that they were assassinated. The law of the country is indeed death without guilt,

However, Zhang Cheng was also reckless in this matter, and the imperial court must be held accountable. If the subordinates wished, Zhang Cheng's Wanquandu Sidu commander should be removed from his post, and he should be demoted to the title of Kaipingwei commander as a punishment. To appease the officials in the imperial court can also make Zhang Cheng know the majesty of the heavenly family.

However, in order to enable him to continue to train the new army for His Majesty and become a strong army early, he can be ordered to still take the blame and try to make atonement. The minister suggested that Zhang Cheng be stationed in Chicheng and serve as the admiral of Xuanzhen North Road. Military affairs, in order to quickly become a powerful force.

In this way, he was dismissed from his title as a punishment, so that he could understand the power of the country and the laws of the country, and he also added his powers to show God's grace, so that he could use the resources of the entire North Road to train more elite soldiers for the country. "

There seems to be a trace of confusion in Emperor Chongzhen's eyes, where are my elite soldiers and generals?
Can Zhang Cheng really train an elite team?

Although he is not sure, he is willing to believe, because keeping a seed of hope in his heart will give him a little hope.

Just like Hong Chengchou was able to quell the bandits and rebels in Shaanxi, he is now going to lead the army out of Liaodong. It seems that the eastern captives will not dare to invade our Daming capital again in the future.

He said lightly: "Just follow Ai Qing's advice."

"Your Majesty, regarding the candidates for the defense of Chicheng, how many people are more suitable..."

Before Yang Sichang could continue talking, Emperor Chongzhen interrupted him: "Your cabinet handles small matters. Didn't Zhang Cheng sponsor Zhang Guodong? How about this person?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, Zhang Guodong was originally a thousand generals under Lu Xiangsheng's command. After the Battle of Julu, he only followed Zhang Cheng. It is true that time is not long."

"It's him!"

(End of this chapter)