The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 433 Chongzhen's coup

On the 17th, at the yamen of the prefect of Dengzhou, Ding Yi invited Xu Fuzuo, the commander-in-chief of Denglai, and the governor Liu Yuan, Kou Hua (who hadn’t left yet), Song Zhe, Du Ruhai, Fang Duotai, Yang Duan and others to accompany him. Lu Chao was not there.

Halfway through the wine, Fang Duotai used the strength of the wine to yell at Wang Weizhong for being insane and deceitful. He also said that if Zhao Dashan hadn't let him play guns and make meritorious service in Xu Dabao, he would be the chief soldier today. , Ask him to come over for a drink, but he can't even call him.

Du Ruhai scolded even more, what virtue and ability is there for him, he is a bigger official than Lord Ding?Datong's battle would be better fought by Mr. Ding, but he lost more than 300 people.

Xu Fuzuo, Liu Yuan, Kou Hua and others looked at each other.

Ding Yi seemed to be in a bad mood. He drank a lot of wine, but he remained sober, and angrily scolded everyone: "Shut up, the court did nothing wrong. He beheaded more than 700 people, and according to the law, he was granted a third rank, the post of commander-in-chief. Also worthy of him."

Song Zhe said again: "Wang Weizhong has an uncle in Lushun, and he wants to take him to Qingzhou."

Ding Yi's face darkened: "His uncle is getting old, and I'm afraid he won't be able to travel long distances, so it's better to stay in Lushun."

Not long after, Jin Yiwei sent news to Luo Yangxing in the capital, and reported to Emperor Chongzhen, saying that Wang Weizhong was furious in the camp when he heard that his uncle could not go to Qingzhou, and kicked over the Taiwan case.

The next day, one of the soldiers practiced in the camp, and one of them did not do well. Wang Weizhong found an excuse and kicked him out of the Qingzhou camp with a staff of [-].

It is said that this one was always promoted by Ding Yi's personal soldiers.

Chongzhen was very happy in private, very unhappy.

In mid-August, Chongzhen summoned the cabinet and Jin Yiwei Commander Luo Yangxing to discuss matters.

All the ministers thought that Ding Yi was still in awe of the imperial court, just like Zu Dashou, although he supported the army, he did not dare to act recklessly.

Wang Weizhong's plan can be used to promote his subordinates and confidants to sow dissension.

Chongzhen asked Luo Yangxing, who else could his subordinates use?

Luo Yangxing thought for a while and said, Xu Wei, Ding Yi's subordinate, used to be Zhang Cheng's subordinate. He originally belonged to the Dengzhou Navy and was from Yinan, Shandong. friend.

According to him, Xu Wei was loyal to the Ming Dynasty and the Holy One. When Ding Yi beheaded the surrendering faction Zhou Yong in Xu Dabao, Xu Wei was the first to support him, and he was also unwilling to surrender.

This person can be called a loyal minister of Ming Dynasty.

But now that I have been with Ding Yi for many years, I don't know how he is feeling, so I can send someone to contact him to have a look.

In late August, there was an imperial decree to Phi Island, and Ding Yi, the deputy general of Phi Island, would be promoted to the general of Phi Island if he devoted himself to his duties and rescued the people.

His subordinate Xu Wei was the general of Jinzhou and stationed in Jinzhou, Zhang Jing was the general of Fuzhou and stationed in Fuzhou, and the general of Denglai transferred Yang Zhen to Dengzhou.

Phi Dao promoted two generals at once, and Ding Yi led people to take over the imperial edict.

Zhang Jing joked with Zhao Dashan with a smile on his face, but he didn't take this general seriously at all.

Xu Wei found Ding Yi afterwards and said that he didn't want to go to Jinzhou, but wanted to stay in the original Phi Island.

Ding Yi said it's okay, you and Mao Xin exchanged, and took ten soldiers to Jinzhou, Mao Xin brought ten soldiers to Phi Island, and all the soldiers and horses under his command were exchanged.

Xu Wei nodded without hesitation, but after walking out of the room, he let out a long breath with a complicated expression on his face.

On August 8, a Ming army slowly approached Zhaoyuan in Dengzhou. The general in command was Yang Zhen, a former guerrilla in Laizhou, who made contributions during the Kong Youde Rebellion. Last year, he was promoted to Denglai General. Still responsible for stationing Laizhou.

This time, Emperor Chongzhen transferred Wang Weizhong away with a wonderful handwriting, and then transferred Yang Zhen to guard Dengzhou.

Next week, Ding Yi's subordinate Yougen will be Yang Zhen's deputy.

Everyone in the imperial court thought this move was very clever.

Further controlled Ding Yi's influence in Dengzhou.

If it weren't for the fact that there were no vacancies for the general army in Shandong, or because he was afraid that Xu Fuzou would not listen to the tune, Chongzhen would have wanted to transfer Xu Fuzou away.

But their transfer to Yang Zhen was also a kind of suppression of Xu Fuzou.

Yang Zhen also has 3000 soldiers and horses, of which [-] cavalry were collected for him by the imperial court from two places.

There were two thousand soldiers in Laizhou, and another thousand were drawn from Qingzhou, because Wang Weizhong went to Qingzhou.

In this way, Yang Zhen rode with three thousand steps, walked slowly for several days, and finally entered the territory of Dengzhou.

In fact, they felt different after they left Laizhou City.

This Yang Zhen is usually in Laizhou City, and there has been no battle in the past two years, so it is rare to come out.

This time when the soldiers came out suddenly, I was taken aback, because there were people on many official roads, and they were cooking porridge.

In Laizhou City before, he heard people say that someone was going out to provide disaster relief, but he didn't take it seriously, thinking that the county government was doing it.

Now when I went outside, I found out that it didn't seem to be done by the county government, but every porridge spot has a local county government servant.

After he passed a place, he asked someone to call the yamen servant for questioning.

The yamen servants said they were big households in the city, but no one knew the details, they were following orders, and the county government asked them to cooperate.

Yang Zhen doesn't believe it, you fast yamen servants can do such a good thing?

He straightened his face immediately and asked again sharply.

The yamen servant had no choice but to say again, we collect money at five cents a month, but it only takes half a month, and someone will replace me.

Yang Zhen asked again, who is your rotation?
Yamen servants said, there are quick yamen servants and battalion soldiers.

Yang Zhen stared, did the battalion do this too?

Who doesn't want to do it if they have money, the yamen servant said, as long as they stand at this station and maintain the next order, they will have money, and everyone wants to do it.

Yang Zhen turned around and suddenly felt that someone in his army might have done this without telling him.

He asked again and let him go.

Only then did I know that someone was spending a lot of money on disaster relief, cooking porridge for the victims, and guiding them to Dengzhou.

This must be what the Dengzhou people did.

Yang Zhen thought for a while, and immediately understood that it was probably Ding Yi who did it.

In Denglai, only Ding Yi has the ability to do things.

He fought Kong Youde together with Ding Yi during the Kong Youde Rebellion, but at that time he was also a guerrilla, and Ding Yi was also a guerrilla. Ding Yi could participate in the discussions of the Chinese army every time, and he was not even qualified to go to the Chinese army.

At that time when Kong Youde was punched, there were only a dozen soldiers on the scene, and countless generals, so it was his turn to be a small guerrilla.

So after the fight, he hasn't seen Ding Yi yet, only heard his name.

Another incident happened later, Xu Fuzuo, his immediate boss, tricked him out of Laizhou to discuss matters. As a result, Ding Yi's soldiers rushed into Laizhou and killed many wealthy households.

Then it took up a lot of minerals and fields in Denglei.

Yang Zhen didn't say anything afterwards, since it had nothing to do with him anyway, and when Xu Fuzuo saw him, he found a name to give him 100 taels of silver.

The immediate boss gave the people under Yin, so Yang Zhen naturally shut up.

Thinking of these things, and seeing so many disaster victims going to Dengzhou, Yang Zhen suddenly felt that this Dengzhou general was not good.

But the imperial court has an order, and he can't disobey it, so he can only procrastinate and go to Dengzhou.

After entering Zhaoyuan, there are three roads to Dengzhou, which are the three roads that Ding Yi and Xu Fuzuo took when they punched Kong Youde, and they each chose to guard one.

Ding Yi's people were at the first intersection, signaling them to the officers and soldiers to go to the top, and the refugees to go to the other two.

Naturally, he didn't want to go with the refugees. After walking for about a quarter of an hour, he saw a bunker in front of him.

Yang Zhen was stunned for a moment, then shook his head, thinking that he was delusional, but when he took a closer look, it was really a bunker. The castle was not small, and it was blocking the main road they were going forward.

What the hell is this?Yang Zhen was dumbfounded, then furious, he called his servant: "Go and ask what's the matter, why is there a military fort on this official road?"

He is now a general in Dengzhou, so he can naturally manage Zhaoyuan.

Several servants hurriedly galloped away on horseback.

(End of this chapter)