Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 46 Thunder Means
Relying on the emperor's supreme authority and the skillful political skills of both kindness and power, Chongzhen killed Gao Jie in one fell swoop, and successfully divided Gao Jie's more than [-] troops.

By the dawn of the next day, eight people including Li Chengdong, Hu Maozhen, Gao Jinku, Yang Chengzu, Tang Yinghu, Miao Shunhu, Li Xiangyun, and Guo Hu had all entered the ranks of the general army and led [-] to [-] soldiers of the headquarters. Ma, camped overnight and went to the station assigned to them by Chongzhen, which was basically in Xuzhou.

No one went wrong.

It can be seen that these generals are all sober in the world.

No matter how good Yangzhou is, it is not as attractive as being the commander in chief.

What's more, even if Yangzhou City was really robbed, Gao Jie would eat the meat alone, so it would be nice if they could share some soup. It's not worthwhile to rebel and become a traitor just for a little soup.

After all, I still haven't tasted the sweetness of being a warlord.

By dawn, there were only [-] soldiers and horses left outside Yangzhou City.

This ten thousand is Gao Jie's pro-army, led by his most trusted nephew Li Benshen.

At this moment, Li Benshen was both nervous and expectant.

The eight members of Li Chengdong were promoted from generals, garrison or guerrilla to the commander-in-chief, and all of them had already led the troops northward to the state capitals, so it was Li Benshen's turn next.

Ordinarily, Li Chengdong and the others are all chief soldiers, so there is no reason to give him a deputy chief soldier.

But before the answer to the mystery is revealed, I feel somewhat uneasy in my heart.

What's more, Li Benshen didn't know why Gao Jie didn't return to Daying until now, and when he asked Li Chengdong and the others, they kept it secret, and if he asked urgently, he said that he asked Xingpinghou himself.

This made Li Benshen a little inexplicably nervous, thinking that nothing would happen, right?
Finally, the eunuch who passed the decree came again, but this time it was not Gao Qiqian.

It is a eunuch with a bigger background, eunuch Wang Chengen, the eunuch of Bingbi, the supervisor of ceremonies, and the admiral of the Jingying eunuch.

Li Benshen had met Wang Chengen before, so he greeted him with a flattering face and said, "Eunuch Wang, are you going to see the Holy One now?"

"No, you don't need to see me anymore." Wang Chengen waved his hand, and immediately shouted in a high voice, "Come here, take it with our family!"

The four barbarians following behind Wang Chengen immediately rushed up like wolves and tigers, and knocked Li Benshen to the ground in one fell swoop, with his head trampled under his feet.

Become hasty, Li Ben was stunned.

More than a dozen pro-military generals are also confused, what's going on?
"Gao Gonggong, why is this?" Li Ben said deeply, "Why is this?"

"There is a decree!" Wang Chengen opened his voice and shouted loudly, "You have not knelt down to accept the decree."

When more than a dozen generals looked at each other in blank dismay, the cavalry who had been standing outside the camp all night suddenly drove over, and with this cavalry came another huge infantry.

The infantry even pushed the vans.

It is not known when this infantry arrived.

Black masses of cavalry and infantry have surrounded them.

Gao Jie's pro-army immediately became agitated, and they finally realized that something was wrong.

But at this time Gao Jie was not around, and Li Benshen was under control again. The highest-ranking officers in the battalion were the dozen or so commanders who surrounded Wang Chengen, and the rest were sentry officers, captains, and even senior officers.

Wang Chengen once again shouted at the dozen or so commanders in a sharp voice: "Kneel down to accept the order!"

The dozen or so always hesitated for a moment, and finally knelt down one by one.

This old eunuch is an imperial envoy after all. Unless they dare to kill officials and rebel, they can only kneel down obediently to accept the order, but even if they rebel, someone must take the lead, right?
What is missing now is the courage to take the lead.

Just as Li Benshen wanted to stop him, Yi Ding kicked his entire face into the mud.

Seeing more than a dozen generals kneel down, the other soldiers also became discouraged.

If Gao Jie or Li Benshen took the lead, these people would really have the guts to rebel, but now that Gao Jie is not around and Li Benshen is captured by the court's imperial envoys, they will be discouraged without a backbone.

The cavalry and infantry approaching the battalion swarmed in.

The entire camp fell under control, and Chongzhen finally appeared outside the gate.

After Chongzhen, Huang Degong, Gong Yonggu, Xu Dingguo and others followed.

Huang Degong, Gong Yonggu, Liu Wenbing and others admired Chongzhen's combination of kindness and power, and how they split and disintegrated Gao Jie's army overnight. Xu Dingguo, Liu Qiguang, Wang Yinglong and others were secretly shocked. Unexpectedly, really unexpected, Chongzhen acted so sophisticatedly, he really underestimated him before.

The two barbarians brought Li Benshen to Chongzhen.

"My lord?!" Seeing Chongzhen, Li Benshen was also very surprised.

Chongzhen didn't even look at Li Benshen at all, and Li Benshen must die.

Because Li Benshen was Gao Jie's nephew, and he commanded Gao Jie's army in the middle camp, he could be said to be Gao Jie's hard-core confidant, but this was not the reason why Chongzhen wanted to kill Li Benshen.

Chongzhen wanted to kill Li Benshen because he had seen big money!
There is an old saying that no achievement is too high, but there is actually another sentence.

The next sentence of the unspeakable merit is that more money is not rewarded.

It is difficult for a person who has eaten delicacies from mountains and seas to eat bran swallowed vegetables.

A person who has a wealth of ten thousand, no matter how rewarding he is, he will not be grateful.

The property Gao Jie robbed will definitely be handed over to his confidant for safekeeping. Li Benshen is his nephew, so of course he is the best candidate, so Li Benshen must have seen big money.

Therefore, rewarding Li Benshen with tens of taels or hundreds of taels of silver will not be appreciated at all.

Just as Chongzhen rewarded Tang Tong with forty taels of silver before, but in the end he angered Tang Tong, why did I send you this forty taels of silver?Who are you insulting?

Therefore, keeping Li Chengdong and the others into the rank of chief soldier, and rewarding some gold and silver in the future will make them grateful, but Li Benshen can't do it, no matter how Li Benshen rewards him, he won't fall well.

Instead, he will only remember that it was Chongzhen who hacked his family's money.

That's right, Chongzhen has already set his sights on Gao Jie's floating wealth.

Gao Jie robbed all the way from Shanxi to Henan, and then all the way from Henan to Nanzhili. The gold and silver treasures he grabbed on the way were by no means small sums, and he just wanted to use this floating money as military pay.

Therefore, if Gao Jie had to die, Li Benshen must also die.

In the same way, the second Liu, that is, Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo, must also die.

Zuo Liangyu, although like Erliu and Gao Jie, is also amassing a lot of money, and has become a de facto separatist warlord, but in a short time, there is probably nothing he can do about him.

Daming still points at him to guard Jingxiang.

All this is a long story, but it is actually just a change of mind.

"Kill it." Chongzhen left a sentence and went straight into the camp.

Yi Ding, who resisted Li Benshen, immediately drew his waist knife and chopped it down.

Seeing this scene, the dozen or so generals who were kneeling on the ground and the nearby family servants fell silent, so they should be killed?

Chongzhen soon came to Gao Jie's courtyard, Wu Batan and Jin Xuan were worried that there was an ambush inside the courtyard, so they immediately rushed to Chongzhen's front and opened the curtain with a saber.

I saw a soft couch and a lot of wooden boxes placed in the shaft.

Quite a few boxes were open, and what was inside was an ingot of silver.

Gao Qiqian, who was following Chongzhen, immediately showed a greedy look, and he was eager to try, Long live, you can let the old slave count the money for you, okay?

Chongzhen said: "Wang Daban."

Wang Chengen stepped forward and said, "The old slave is here."

Chongzhen said: "Hurry up and count your belongings and register them one by one."

Turning around, Chongzhen said to Jin Xuan again: "Jin Qing, Gao Jie must have other dens besides this big camp. You should find out where his dens are right now, and then lead troops to confiscate his property! This dog The things that are being robbed are the people's fat and anointment of Daming, so naturally they should be used to contribute to Daming!"

"Your minister receives the decree." Jin Xuan turned around and walked away.

Chongzhen said to Huang Degong again: "Jing'anbo, Gao Jie's ten thousand relatives will be handed over to you. You should carefully screen them out. If they can be used, they will be given a chance to redeem their crimes. If they are really unusable, they will be executed immediately." .”

"The minister leads the decree." Huang Degong cupped his hands, turned around and walked away.

After finishing all this work, Chongzhen went to the couch in Xingyuan and lay down.

In less than a moment, there was a thunderous snore.

This month, Chongzhen was really exhausted.

……

Chongzhen was exhausted, and Huang Jiarui, the governor of Nanzhi in Yangzhou city, and Ma Minglu, the deputy envoy of Yangzhou military preparations, also stayed up all night, sticking to the top of the city.

Last night, Gao Jiejun spent the whole night outside the city.

Huang Jiarui, Ma Mingpao and the soldiers and civilians in Yangzhou were also worried all night.

It wasn't until the sky was bright that the soldiers and civilians of Yangzhou discovered to their astonishment that most of the rebel army that had surrounded Yangzhou had withdrawn, leaving only the rebel army outside the west gate.

Ma Mingpao said in astonishment, "What's going on?"

"Are you asking me?" Huang Jiarui said angrily, "Who should I ask?"

Ma Mingpao was bored, and said again: "Futai, do you want to send a group of people to go out and have a look?"

Huang Jiarui hesitated for a moment, but still shook his head and said, "Forget it, one more thing is worse than one less thing. Maybe this is Gao Jie's trick to get him, we can't fall for his tricks."

While talking, a group of cavalry suddenly approached the city gate.

When they got closer, they realized that the leader was wearing a boa robe, a three-mountain cap on his head, and had a white face and no beard.

"This father-in-law, does he look familiar?" Ma Mingpao whispered.

"It's Eunuch Gao!" Huang Jiarui had already yelled, "Gao Qianqian!"

While the two were talking, Gao Qiqian had already arrived at the city gate, and asked in a shrill voice, "Which adult is there in the city? Our Ning former supervisor, Gao Qiqian, has something important to do when he enters the city."

"Grandfather, wait a moment." Huang Jiarui signaled Xiangyong to put down the hanging basket.

Facing a great eunuch like Gao Qiqian, no one dared to neglect him.

But he didn't dare to open the city gate easily, so he could only use a hanging basket.

Gao Qiqian quickly came up on the hanging basket, and asked in the first sentence: "Our family has heard of the name of Yangzhou skinny horses for a long time, you immediately find some Yangzhou skinny horses for our family, hurry up."

(End of this chapter)