The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 647
Zhang Xianzhong is still considered a general of the Ming Dynasty, so buying some horses is nothing, who will stop him.

He had a lot of money in his hands and was robbing money everywhere, so Ding Yi directly increased the price by 200 taels and sold it to him.

And just as Lu Chao said, this is a one-shot deal, and it is estimated that there will be no chance to come in the future, and it is a fortune to make a fortune.

Everyone chatted for a few words, and soon Ding Yi began to arrange with a serious face, and everyone listened carefully.

In this war of entering the customs, Wang Weizhong's troops were severely injured. Three thousand of his soldiers and horses went out to fight, and two thousand and two died in the battle. Everyone who survived was wounded. Disabled.

Xu Fuzuo took out more than 3000 troops, which was about the same as Wang Weizhong's troops, and the entire army was basically wiped out.

The pension for this war alone is a large sum of money. Fortunately, it has snatched millions of taels from the Qing soldiers, otherwise it would be another blood loss.

Both of them are currently being treated for injuries and did not come to the scene.

In view of Xu Fuzuo's better fight this time, Ding Yi planned to take him as one of his own.

After the war, the imperial court must adjust the positions of Xu and Wang, and Ding Yi must also make preparations.

The former Dengzhou General Yang Zhen had a Dengzhou Second Battalion composed of 3000 soldiers and horses. He would play for Xu Fu, and then select a group from the Dengzhou hoard to make up his [-] men.

No matter where the court transfers him to, he can follow him.

This can also be regarded as his return to brother Xu.

He told Xu about this matter yesterday, and Xu was very satisfied, and he knew that in this world, it is impossible to do without soldiers, and he must have his own soldiers.

He originally thought that his soldiers and horses would be useless when they were disabled, but he didn't expect Ding Yi to be able to replenish his soldiers and horses.

Moreover, the soldiers and horses will be raised by Ding Yi in the future. Ding Yi told him very clearly that Xu will be Ding's subordinate in the future. No matter how the court transfers him, these soldiers and horses will follow him, but Ding Yi must transfer him. Listen to the tune.

Of course Xu Fuzuo had no objection, he already regarded himself as Ding Yi's man, and Ding Yi raised his own soldiers.

A few years before this, Xu Fuzuo had already made a lot of money in his tenure as the commander-in-chief of Denglai, and the battle of Qingshuibo made him understand that in the troubled times of the Ming Dynasty, if you want to live well, money alone is useless , must be supported by elite soldiers and horses.

The same is true of Wang Weizhong, who wants to make up for him with [-] soldiers and horses.

He still has [-] veterans alive, and he will transfer [-] soldiers from Lushun to him, so that Wang Weizhong will also make up [-].

When will it be completed, it will depend on the imperial court's post-war rewards.

After doing this, Dengzhou's soldiers and horses were Yanxiong's 32nd Battalion with 33 soldiers, Fang Duotai's [-]rd Battalion with [-] soldiers, and Yang Zhen's [-] soldiers belonged to Xu Fuzuo.

Considering that Dengzhou has a larger population now, this time it has plundered another million taels of silver, plus 10,000+ livestock all belonged to Dengzhou.

Ding Yi decided to increase the number of soldiers in Dengzhou first.

Three thousand troops were selected from the hoard to form a new 34th Battalion, with Zhou Yougen as the leader and Yang Duan as the deputy. At the same time, three thousand soldiers were selected from the refugees to replace the hoard.

In this way, there are three infantry battalions on the Dengzhou side.

In addition, Du Ruhai's original [-] cavalry was expanded to [-], and Chen Yang, who came from Pidao, served as the commander of the cavalry battalion. In this way, Dengzhou had [-] infantry battalions plus [-] cavalry, a total of [-] troops, which is quite powerful. up.

Ding Yi also ordered the establishment of the first Dengzhou division. Yan Xiong was the division commander and the 32nd battalion commander, who was responsible for the command of the three Dengzhou battalions.

Zhou Yougen and Fang Duotai are the deputy teachers respectively.

Du Ruhai is still in charge of the logistics of the three infantry and cavalry battalions.

Chen Yang led [-] cavalry to station in Dengzhou.

This is the first time that Ding Yi has set up a division-level unit in Dongjiang Town. Yan Xiong and the three are quite happy, after all, the level has risen again.
The conditions for violent soldiers are population, food and silver.

Dengzhou and Jeju have achieved profitability in the past two years. Especially after the implementation of the commercial tax in Dengzhou, the annual income has been steadily increasing. In addition, this time they have cut back a million taels of silver. no problem.

Ding Yi stayed in Dengzhou for less than half a month, and Wang Weizhong and Xu Fuzuo's injuries improved a lot. After chatting with them a few times, Ding Yi returned to Lushun.

It wasn't long after he returned to Lushun. At the beginning of April, the imperial court's decree for rewards had not yet arrived, but internal news had already reached Dengzhou in advance. It was obvious that Chongzhen and the courtiers were testing Ding Yi's bottom line.

The Ming court planned to transfer Wang Weizhong to be the general soldier of Shandong to garrison Linqing (the former general soldier Liu Zeqing of Shandong was transferred to the general soldier of Yanzhou), and Xu Fuzuo was the general soldier of Jizhen and transferred to Jizhen.

Ding Yi was the commander-in-chief of Denglai, plus Prince Shaobao, the governor of the left, and Liu Yuan was the governor of Baoding.

Zhang Jing was the commander of Lushun, stationed in Jiefuzhou and Lushun, Xu Wei was the commander of Dongjiang stationed in Jiejinzhou and Pidao, Shen Shikui was the commander of the rescue and suppression army, and a large number of former Dongjiang town officers were promoted to deputy generals.

As soon as the court's decree was announced, the whole world was in an uproar, and Dongjiang was shaken.

With the example of Wang Weizhong's experience, Chongzhen wanted to take advantage of this great victory to split Dongjiang Town into two, promote Zhang Jing and Xu Wei respectively as the commander-in-chief, and at the same time transfer Liu Yuan to Baoding and Ding Yi to Denglai. In his own opinion, it was definitely a coup.

But the commander-in-chief of the world and the generals of Ming Dynasty all saw it in their eyes.

Yuan Chonghuan joined the Imperial Guard back then, but was cut off, so Zu Dashou never came again. Now that Ding Yi's soldiers and horses have won a big victory, you immediately pick and choose his subordinates. Who would dare to fight so hard in the future.

In fact, this trick was often used by Chongzhen. Back then Zu Kuan was a servant of Zu Dashou's subordinates. He was promoted again and again to be the chief soldier. Later, Zu Kuan didn't get mixed up with Zu Dashou much.

He thought it would still work.

According to his idea, first divide Zhendongjiang, and then transfer Zhang Jing and Xu Wei after two years, so that Ding Yi's soldiers and horses will be divided into three, and Ding Yi's confidantes will also be divided into three. Greatly weaken Ding Yi's power.

Chongzhen's imagination is quite beautiful, but it also depends on who it is used for.

And he also understands that Ding Yi is not a good generation, for the sake of the court's face, he issued an imperial edict before he dared to come up, first use internal information to test Ding Yi's reaction.

So after the news reached Shandong, Liu Yuan immediately resigned in mid-April and wanted to retire to his hometown.

Ding Yi had talked to him earlier, if he was transferred to another place, he must not go there, he would surely die in the future.

Of course Liu Yuan was aware of Chongzhen's virtues. How many governors did Chongzhen kill when he entered the customs this time?That's how the governor of Baoding was killed. The key people didn't make any mistakes. It was the general's fault that he couldn't beat the Qing soldiers. Kill him as a governor.

Now Chongzhen wants to transfer him to Baoding as the governor, of course Liu Yuan will not go.

Otherwise, he can be killed if he finds any excuse in the future.

He was determined not to leave Shandong even if he died.

Liu Yuan asked to resign, but the court refused, so Liu Yuan did not go to Baoding either.

In desperation, the court ordered him to go to Jinan, Shandong Province to serve as governor again in May.

Only then did Liu Yuan happily go.

In April, Ding Yi did not go to Denglei either.

The imperial court was also watching at this time, to see Ding Yi's reaction and make Governor Denglai.

The original candidate for governor was Wang Jiazhen.

Wang Jiazhen was a bit old at this time, but he was famous for his integrity and loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, so Chongzhen wanted him to go to Denglai to restrain Ding Yi.

Dan Ding Yi remained motionless and said he was unwell.

And Zhang Jing, Xu Wei and Shen Shikui didn't move, and the person who went to pass the news didn't even see the three of them, and was stopped in Dengzhou.

Not long after, Ding Yi came to play and recommended Zhang Yingqiu, the prefect of Dengzhou, as the governor of Denglai.

Chongzhen was very angry and helpless. After much deliberation, the imperial court finally agreed and officially issued an imperial edict in mid-April. Liu Yuan was the governor of Jinan, Ding Yi was the commander-in-chief of Denglai, and Zhang Yingqiu was the governor of Denglai. The three happily went.

Chongzhen was angry and angry, and Ding Yi couldn't be controlled at this time, because another major event happened in the Ming Dynasty at this time.

In May of the 12th year of Chongzhen (1639), after recuperating, Zhang Xianzhong bought a large number of horses from Ding Yi, and suddenly turned back.

He raised the banner of righteousness in Gucheng and quickly defeated the guarding Gucheng officers and troops, killed the county magistrate Ruan Zhitian and the patrolling censor Lin Mingqiu, demolished the city walls, robbed the treasury and imprisoned them.Zhang Dajing, Ma Tingbao and Xu Qizuo were forced to surrender.

When Zhang Xianzhong left Gucheng, he wrote down the list, numbers and time of bribes from him by officials from top to bottom in the government in detail on the walls inside and outside the city, so that the people could clearly see the corruption of Ming Dynasty politics.

When Zhang Xianzhong rose again, Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying's troops also responded, and joined Zhang Xianzhong in Gucheng.Li Zicheng, who was hiding in the Shangluo Mountains, also regrouped and entered Henan through the Yun and Jun areas of Hubei.The beacon fire of the Peasant Army once again burned on the land of the Central Plains.

Chongzhen was so busy that he rounded up the peasant army everywhere. He had no time to control Ding Yi, so he could only stabilize Ding Yi and agree to his recommendation.

In late April, Ding Yi summoned more than a thousand generals and important civil servants in Dongjiang Township in Lushun.

He is planning to go to Dengzhou to serve as the commander-in-chief of Denglai, but the affairs here need to be arranged.

At this time, the generals gathered in the mansion, and the main officers of each battalion were there.

Mao Xin, Xiao Yongqiu, Zhang Jing, Shang Kexi, Xu Wei and so on.

It was a little quiet before the meeting, and everyone was watching Jing Zhang and Xu Wei.

This time Chongzhen suddenly promoted Zhang Jing and Xu Wei as the commander-in-chief, which was really unexpected.

After Xu Wei came in, there was no expression on his face, but his eyes were actually a little flickering.

He is the oldest among the generals, and it is really not easy to be the commander in chief at this age.

However, the commander-in-chief didn't seem to be interested, Xu Wei remained calm, thinking about it in his heart.

"Zhang Jing, I will call you Zongbing Zhang from now on." Xiao Yongqiu laughed heartily.

"I'm going to be Te Niang's chief soldier." Zhang Jing cursed.

Then he thought something was wrong, plopped, Zhang Jing directly knelt down in front of everyone, all the generals were surprised and stood up one after another.

"This joke is not funny. Everyone knows that in Zhang Jing's eyes, there is only Master Ding, and only our Dongjiang Town." Zhang Jing said very seriously: "I don't want to be the general soldier, but I am the general under Master Ding. People from Dongjiang."

"Also." Zhang Jing blushed and looked at the people around him: "Who dares to joke with me in the future and call me the commander-in-chief. If I fall out with him, I will always be Lord Ding's man."

Zhang Jing swears and curses again, so he almost digs out his heart to prove his loyalty.

When Xu Wei saw it, he quickly plopped down and knelt down.

"We are all Dongjiang people. There is only one general soldier here, and he will always be Master Ding."

"Okay, okay, get out of here, you two." Ding Yi smiled and said, "It's useless for you to be the commander-in-chief. Didn't I tell you to take my soldiers away?"

Everyone laughed.

Zhang Jing and Xu Wei also laughed.

(End of this chapter)