I am one year older than Chongzhen

Chapter 85
Seeing that Young Master Geng was going to take his servants to find someone in person, Li Weida hurriedly said:

"That strong man indeed has dozens or hundreds of cavalry, and he looks murderous.

It's just that they are not in the pass, they all live outside the mouth.

It's freezing cold today, I don't suggest you take your family members out of customs to find someone. "

It seems that those heads were also captured outside the pass. This is not the early Ming Dynasty, and most of the outside of the pass is the territory of the Mongols.

It is indeed more dangerous to go out to find people.

Geng Zhangguang and Geng Zhanghua looked at each other.

Geng Zhangguang said: "Oh! Unfortunately, my father is in prison, and we have trouble sleeping and eating. Even if it is more dangerous to go out and find someone, we must try!"

Geng Zhanghua said: "Our family also has some family members who are skilled in horse bows and horses. We are sure of our safety. As long as Brother Geng can tell us the general location, I believe we can find them."

Li Weida said: "Don't be in a hurry to leave the customs, my family has an agreement with that strong man, maybe there is no need to look for it, the strong man will take the initiative to contact my family in a few days."

"Oh? It turns out that Xiongtai has a contact method!"

"It's not a good way, whether you can get in touch is entirely by chance!"

Next, Li Weida said Huang Yi's "Pagoda Town River Demon" contact method as a joke.

Brothers Geng Zhangguang and Geng Zhanghua couldn't laugh or cry.

Although this method is child's play, it is better than nothing!

Geng Zhangguang got up and clasped his fists, asking Li Weida to immediately arrange someone to write "The Pagoda Suppresses the River Demon", the more the better.

It was easy, and Li Weida agreed on the spot to send at least ten servants to do it that day.

Geng Zhangguang and Geng Zhanghua were full of thoughts, politely declined Li Weida's invitation to host a banquet and invite several adults to accompany them, and left.

Not only the Geng family brothers came to Zhangjiakou with seventeen family members, but also the mother who returned from Taiyuan to Liaocheng, Shandong Province, accompanied by more than [-] people including aunts, sisters, maidservants, and mother-in-law.

A wealthy Zhangjiakou businessman who was under the care of Geng Ruji vacated another courtyard and lent it to Geng's family to live temporarily.

This wealthy businessman is also surnamed Geng, and is Geng Ruqi's nephew.

The fundamental reason for his growing business is not entirely because he is good at management, but the bigger reason is that Geng Ruqi became the governor of Shanxi.

It was also Geng's rich businessman who inquired about the unusual business deal of the Li family's firm and informed the Geng family that what happened next.

After Geng Zhangguang and Geng Zhanghua came back from Li Weida's place, they immediately told their mother what had happened.

A high-ranking official like Geng Ruji has so many students and old officials, and the resources of colleagues, contemporaries, and teachers are quite huge.

Some of them clearly informed the Geng family that the five thousand soldiers and horses of King Qin of Shanxi broke up, and the killing and destruction caused by the looting and fleeing all the way was huge. The emperor was furious, and the situation was not optimistic.

If the Geng family didn't try to rescue him quickly, Geng Ruqi might be sentenced to death.

How to rescue?

It is a way to use money to bribe the censor and give good words to the matter.

It is also a way to bribe eunuchs close to the emperor to help say a few good words.

The most straightforward way is of course that the Geng family's children from the Shanxi governor's battalion fought bloody battles with Jiannu and Tartars in order to save the patriarch, and got the merit of beheading!
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, most governors had a governor's standard battalion, ranging from a few hundred to more than a thousand people.

The number and combat effectiveness of the standard battalion depend on the governor's ability, command and financial resources.

Under normal circumstances, the generals of the governor's standard battalion are the governor's most trusted generals, and the governor's servant team also belongs to the standard soldier battalion for payment.

It can be seen from this that Geng Ruji's talent is far behind Lu Xiangsheng's.

Of course, at this time Lu Xiangsheng was only the magistrate of the Daming Prefecture, much younger than Geng Ruqi's officials.

Geng Ruji didn't know about soldiers but took the initiative to lead soldiers to serve the king. He was really asking for trouble and killing himself.

The governor's standard battalion failed to play the role of the mainstay when the troops collapsed, and Geng Ruji's command of the troops can be seen.

It is not too wrong for the emperor to arrest Geng Ruji and Zhang Honggong, the general soldier of Shanxi, and put them in prison for their crimes.

Because the imperial court had no food to give, those civil officials played tricks and transferred five thousand soldiers and horses of King Qin of Shanxi, almost turning around Beijing.

That was a clear rule of the Ming Dynasty that food should only be provided by the locals on the second day after the guest soldiers arrived at their destination.

Therefore, those officials did not allow five thousand Shanxi soldiers to stay outside the capital for a full day.

The soldiers had no food to eat, they were hungry and they continued to take the wrong route, they must complain, but they don't know what Geng Ruji and Zhang Honggong are doing at this time?
They have time to solve the problem. After all, they have a Shanxi frontier army with a decent combat power of [-].

At the end of Ming Dynasty, there were very few powerful troops!
For the cavalry, the Guanning iron cavalry is number one, and for the infantry, the Sichuan Shizhu white-rod soldiers led by Qin Liangyu are among the best. I am afraid that only the Tianxiong army trained by Lu Xiangsheng can match.

The combat effectiveness of the inland battalion soldiers and guard troops can only bully the refugees.

But the frontier army was completely different. The Shanxi frontier army often fought against the Tartars, and its combat effectiveness was second only to the Guanning army.

The western frontier army of Wuqianshan was disintegrated, how many people will fall into bandits, and how many people will become bandits?

Daming, who was already weak, just got worse!

Geng Ruqi has committed a serious crime.

well!What happened to the historical facts is untestable!
Anyway, the Ming Dynasty in the last days tried to die in all kinds of strange ways, otherwise, how could it be possible for the barbaric, ignorant, and almost useless Man Qing to win the country.

Geng Ruqi and Zhang Honggong were imprisoned for more than a year, and finally executed in the autumn of the fourth year of Chongzhen.

Are they wronged?
They do bad things with good intentions, just a little bit!

From a destructive analysis, it can also be said that there is no wrongdoing.

They were indeed cheated by the officials in the capital, but if they were capable and good at solving problems, the 5000 troops would not collapse within a day or two without food.

With so many "horses", there are always more solutions than difficulties.

I am afraid that neither Geng Ruqi nor Zhang Honggong was with the army at that time, otherwise they would have ordered the sale of horses to buy food, or directly killed horses for meat, and they would have survived the most dangerous moment.

After all, not all the cities in Gyeonggi fell, and Geng Ruqi was a civil servant. He didn't ask for soldiers and horses to enter the city. He just asked a magistrate or magistrate who was guarding the city to give him some food, and promised to exchange horses.

The first level of officialdom crushes people to death. Geng Ruqi is a high-ranking official like Taipusiqing and Youqiandu Yushi, which is more than the officials of the magistrate and magistrate. It is absolutely impossible for this kind of thing to be impossible.

Lu Xiangsheng's ability is completely different. Tianxiong's army has been out of food for three days, and Lu Xiangsheng shares the joys and sorrows with the soldiers. Not only did the army not collapse, but they also fought a big victory and captured them to overcome the food crisis.

However, the views of some historical materials are ridiculous.

They actually said that it was the remnants of the eunuch party who deliberately made things difficult and framed Geng Ruqi.

As soon as Chongzhen came to power, he got rid of Wei Zhongxian, liquidated the eunuch party, and expanded it, implicating many officials.

According to historical records, in the early years of Chongzhen's reign, "the court was prosperous", how could there still be eunuchs who could set up officials like Geng Ruqi?
Besides, Geng Ruqi is also the "one upright" in "All the uprights and Yingchao", how can he be so easy to be tricked by someone?

I'm afraid it was the time when the five thousand Qin king's army collapsed, and the elder Geng Ruqi was not in the army at all.

Or maybe most of the "all positive and positive courts" are a bunch of empty talkers who are harming the country.

They are not capable of solving problems, but they are capable of playing word games and taking advantage of loopholes in the law...

(End of this chapter)