Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Dorgon said: "What do you want to say?"

Duoduo said: "Beware of Yan Yingyuan."

"What do you mean?" Dorgon stared slightly.

Duoduo said: "I mean Yan Yingyuan will come to King Qin."

"King Qin?" Dorgon said sarcastically, "I am waiting for him to come."

After a pause, Dorgon said again: "A field battle is no better than defending a city. This person may have a lot of experience in defending a city, but his schemes are useless in a field battle."

Duoduo said: "This man's schemes are endless."

"It doesn't matter." Dorgon said, "Under the big bow of my Eight Banners elite, any conspiracy is useless. My Eight Banners elite field battle is an invincible existence!"

What Dorgon said was really not boasting.

Ever since the bloody battle at Hunhe River and the withering of the Zhe soldiers and the Baigan soldiers, the Eight Banners soldiers are truly invincible in field battles. At least so far, they haven't encountered evenly matched opponents in field battles.

"Brother Fourteen, you still don't pay enough attention to this person." Duoduo became anxious when he heard this.

Duoduo said in his heart, "I buried nearly ten thousand people under the city of Shanyang, but you didn't listen to the bloody lessons that I summed up. So didn't these ten thousand people die in vain?"Brother Fourteen, don't underestimate the enemy.

"Okay, stop talking." Dorgon was a little impatient.

"No matter how evil Yan Yingyuan is, it is absolutely impossible for him to bring tens of thousands of bravery to defeat my Eight Banners elite in a field battle."

"Brother Fourteen, Yan Yingyuan really can't be judged by common sense." Duoduo said anxiously, "Moreover, the hundreds of thousands of townspeople in Huai'an Prefecture are not ordinary townspeople. These townsfolk are even more fierce than the Guan Ning army."

Duoduo once again told what happened in Suining, Taoyuan and Qinghe County.

Hearing this, Dorgon finally showed a solemn expression on his face, and asked in a deep voice: "You mean, the brave men of these three counties can fight to the last?"

"Yes, everyone can fight to the last pawn."

Duoduo nodded his head and said: "The weapons of these brave men are very simple, with few firearms, poorly made spears, even a lot of bamboo spears, and almost no armor, but they are really not afraid of death. , Not even one of the blunderbusses turned around and ran away, no one dared to believe it, really.”

Dorgon said sternly, "You have to be careful in words like this."

Duoduo nodded repeatedly and said, "Be careful."

Dorgon said: "Okay, then I know."

……

In fact, the worries of Dorgon and the Duduo brothers are unnecessary.

Because the party struggle in Nanjing is about to start, the military power of Yan Yingyuan and other scholars will soon be deprived by the Ministry of War. This is the civil servant of the Ming court, and the party struggle is launched at any time.

For the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty, party struggles only seized the day and night.

Among the four cabinet assistants, the only one who has a political bottom line is Shi Kefa.

Others like Gao Hongtu, Jiang Riguang, and Xie Xuelong, you say they are corrupt officials, but they really are not, especially Gao Hongtu, who is outrageously clean.

Call them mediocre officials, but they actually have abilities.

But you say they are good officials, you are not right.

These three are really not good officials, it's fine if they don't know current affairs, and they don't care about national interests.

At the cabinet meeting this morning, Shi Kefa finally quarreled with Gao Hongtu and the three of them. …

Shi Kefa said: "Do we have to push the court now? Although Shanyang is defending, the battle in Xuzhou is in full swing, and the holy majesty and more than one million soldiers and civilians in Xuzhou city are still surrounded by groups. As the cabinet ministers of the Ming court, Don't think about how to mobilize troops to assist the king to rescue him, but are anxious to expel the heroes who followed the Holy Majesty from Beijing's siege out of the bureaucracy, isn't it appropriate?"

Gao Hongtu frowned when he heard the words, and said with some displeasure: "What does Shou Kui mean by this? What does it mean to be expelled from the bureaucracy? Meng Zhaoxiang was not demoted, but promoted to Dazong Bo. Don't say such harsh words."

Shi Kefa said to himself: "There is also the [-] Xiangyongs trained by the Huai'an Mansion. Although there was no decree at the beginning, you all know what the Holy Majesty meant. What's more, the money for the training of Xiangyongs was also raised by the Holy Majesty himself. , the Ministry of Households has never paid out a penny or a grain of grain, is it really okay for us to deprive Yan Yingyuan and other King Qin of their military power now?"

"This is inappropriate." Jiang Riguang was also a little displeased by what was said, and frowned and said, "It was originally the responsibility of local officials and the Ministry of War to train Xiangyong in the border state capital to assist in guarding the flood areas. It is a special case of urgency to act in a hurry, so what you are doing now is to let the authority return, how can you say that it is deprived?"

Shi Kefa said angrily: "Yan Yingyuan has already proved his ability in the Shanyang Great Victory, do you really have to hand over the Xiangyong of Huai'an Mansion to Zhi Tingjian and other officials?"

Now Gao Hongtu was even more unhappy, and retorted: "Shou Kui's words are wrong. Even if the power of recruiting and commanding Xiangyong belongs to the local officials of Huai'an Mansion, Yan Yingyuan and other Qin Wang scholars are still in Huai'an Mansion, building slaves. If they violate the border again, they can still play their due role in the defense of the city."

"Then you don't intend to be king anymore, are you?" Shi Kefa was completely angry.

Gao Hongtu didn't give in at all, and said, "Without the Emperor Qin's edict, it would be a false edict for us to send troops without authorization. Do you want to learn from Cao Mengde?"

"You?!" Shi Kefa was speechless.

At this time, Xie Xuelong, the only one who hadn't spoken yet, hurriedly smoothed things over and said, "Don't talk about it, don't argue about it, the time for Ting Tuo is coming soon, we should go there, don't keep King Yong waiting."

Shi Kefa lost his temper, and said coldly: "My servant will not participate in this court event."

Gao Hongtu said tit for tat: "Forget it, since Shou Kui's body is unwell, if you don't participate, then don't participate."

After finishing speaking, Gao Hongtu flicked his sleeves and left the guard room, Jiang Riguang left immediately after, Xie Xuelong wanted to change something, but he opened his mouth and finally said nothing.

Jiangnan's officialdom is somewhat complicated, and Shou Kui is just a false name.

If Shoukui cannot represent the interests of Jiangnan officialdom, he is not Shoukui.

Watching the three of Gao Hongtu disappear outside the door of the duty room, Shi Kefa was so angry that he really wanted to give Yongwang a piece of paper to beg for the bones on the spot, but when he thought that Xuzhou City and the Holy One were being surrounded by the large army of slaves, the Ming Dynasty was in a precarious situation In the midst of this, he forcibly endured the anger, all for the prosperity of Daming!
For the Ming Dynasty, there is nothing that cannot be sacrificed.

What does it matter if Shi Kefa suffers a little bit of grievance?
……

Nangong's court push ended soon, and there was no suspense about the result. …

Meng Zhaoxiang was successfully "promoted" by the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Officials to the Minister of Rites, but there was no "Scholar of the Kadong Pavilion". Fan Zhongjie was promoted by the prefect of Huai'an to the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Officials.

In addition, Wang Duo, the former Minister of Rites, became an official.

In fact, Wang Duo is only fifty-four years old this year, and he is still very early in his career.

But since the beginning of this year, there has been a wave of public opinion in the south of the Yangtze River, wanting to liquidate the officials who fled to the south who had surrendered.

Not long after that, this public opinion began to deviate from the direction of the struggle driven by people with ulterior motives, and began to target officials in Beizhi, Shanxi, and Shaanxi.

The reason for the liquidation is also high-sounding.

Because these officials have relatives who served as officials in the pseudo-shun and even Jiannu dynasties.

This is the case for Wang Duo. Some of his brothers were officials in the Dashun Dynasty and some were officials in the Qing court. The key point is that his hometown is in Shanxi, which is now a territory of the Qing court.

So Wang Duo was forcibly "resigned from office".

Gao Hongtu took the court push results and presented them to Zhu Cizhen.

Zhu Cizhao watched a movie with a few young eunuchs last night, and was very sleepy at the moment, when he saw Gao Hongtu handing over a memorial and a vermilion pen, he immediately took it.

"Your Highness, Meng Zhaoxiang and Fan Zhongjie are both positive votes, and they also received the most votes."

Seeing Gao Hongtu pointing at two of them, Zhu Cizhao didn't think much about drawing two circles with the ink brush.

Zhu Cizhen, the Yongwang who supervises the country, has already approved the red, and this time the court push has formally become legally effective. Meng Zhaoxiang is about to hand over the power of the Ministry of Officials and take up his post in the Ministry of Rites.

Fan Zhongjie also left Huai'an Mansion to come to Nanjing.

So before the court was over, Meng Zhaoxiang left Nangong with a dark face.

When he returned to the Ministry of Officials to be on duty, he saw Wu Linzheng, Wu Ganlai, and Chen Liangmo waiting.

Seeing Meng Zhaoxiang coming in, Wu Linzheng and the other three stood up at the same time, and asked impatiently, "Master Zuo Zhong, what's the result of the court's push? Are we going to change our name to be old?"

Meng Zhaoxiang asked Wu Ganlai and Chen Liangmo with a dark face, "Who exactly are you two looking for?"

Only then did Wu Linzheng and the other three realize that Meng Zhaoxiang's expression was a little off. Could it be that Ting made something wrong?
Chen Liangmo let out a soft hiccup, and said in a somewhat embarrassing manner: "The officer is looking for Lu Lang, the supervisory censor, and his teacher is Fang Gonggan, Zhan Shifu of Zhan Shifu. Fang Zhan Shi made it clear through Lu Lang that he will be there When the Ting promoted the candidate of Da Zongbo, he proposed to directly join Dongge Dashi and arrange maintenance, did Fang Zhan not mention it?"

"Fang Gonggan didn't say a word." Meng Zhaoxiang said with a dark face.

"What?" Chen Liangmo said angrily, "This hypocrite, villain!"

Hearing this, Wu Ganlai also panicked: "The next official is looking for Luo Wanxiang from Huke. This person has brother-in-law friendship with Shen Shaofang, the right servant of the Hubu. After Zuo Shilang, he asked the court to select the right servant of the Ministry of Officials, and to recommend Mr. Wu."

"You've been raped too." Meng Zhaoxiang shook his head and said.

"Shen Shaofang never said from the beginning to the end that he wanted the court to push the right minister of the Ministry of officials."

"Ah? This old man!" Wu Ganlai was furious when he heard the words, "How dare you play tricks on me."

Before the party struggle even started, it ended in a disastrous defeat for Meng Zhaoxiang's side.

Meng Zhaoxiang and the others obviously underestimated the struggle experience of the Donglin Party, and they seriously underestimated it.

Let’s not talk about Donglin Party’s abilities in other aspects, but its experience in political struggle is still extremely rich, otherwise it would not be able to survive the brutal suppression of the Eunuch Party, and launched a counter-offensive at the beginning of Chongzhen’s accession to the throne.

Wu Ganlai and Chen Liangmo alone want to overthrow the Donglin Party. They are really overconfident.