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Chapter 127 Can't be Cannon Fodder for the Emperor
With the emperor's appreciation and promotion, Shen Shuren's new book "On the Thieves", of course, spread at the fastest speed in the capital and even the surrounding northern Zhili area.

All of a sudden, the court officials, local officials, and ordinary scholars with a high reputation in Beizhili all had to cheer and buy a copy to read it.

As for scholars and even lower-level scholars, the imperial court has no control over them for the time being.Many scholars are not rich, have no time to read idle books, and have no energy to pay attention to current affairs.

The vast majority of people who have read "On the Thieves" can't help but feel refreshed in their hearts.

But on the bright side, out of the consideration of literati's relative importance, many people still choose to criticize.

Especially when people chat with classmates, the same year, and colleagues about "Theory of Rogues", if others must have high opinions, but you will only follow suit, and if you can't come up with some shocking opinions to reverse the verdict, you will also be criticized. look down upon.

Especially in Shen Shuren's book, there are too many things predicted by the Bold God, and many people calmly ridicule them with the mentality of seeing a joke exposed.

For example, including the six parts in the capital, except Yang Sichang, who was released outside, and Jiang Dejin, who has a good relationship with the Shen family.The rest of the ministers of officials, rites, punishments, and works, as well as most of the ministers, all sneered similarly:
"Huh? I've seen a lot of people who talk about war on paper, but it's rare for Shen Shuren to speak so convincingly. Do you dare to speak out and follow Song Yi's prediction that Xiang Liang will be defeated?
Even Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are bound to be better than Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying in winning people's hearts, dare to say so confidently.This is something that can be messed up at any time, we'll just wait and see if Luo Rucai, a cunning person like Luo Rucai, can get along well in the end. "

After everyone talked about it, they didn't bother to directly refute it theoretically, and waited to see the show directly from the perspective of the result.

But no matter what, during this period of time, scholars inside and outside the capital talked about this topic the most, and the popularity would last for at least half a month or even a month or two before being topped by new hot search topics.

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The words are divided into two parts.

In the capital, the recent discussions on Shen Shuren's new theory have been so intense.On the Huguang battlefield where Shen Shuren directly served, there were even more discussions about the wise and martial deeds and farsighted judgments of Lord Bingbei.

One day in late June, half a month after the end of the Battle of Tongbai Mountain.

Shen Shuren had just roughly arranged the work of "searching and arresting the remnants of the bandits who fled into the mountains into pieces". At the same time, he followed Liu Guoneng to recover Xinyang County in Runing Prefecture.

Finally, the troops can be withdrawn from the mountains and stationed in the Huainan River Valley Plain on the edge of the Dabie Mountains, and they can breathe a little easier.

Shen Shuren was about to bid farewell to Liu Guoneng, but on this day, the imperial court's order for promotion and the document requesting them to send troops to reinforce the Henan battlefield had already been sent to Xinyang County——

It is said that the envoys of the imperial court originally ran to other places, but they rushed to Xinyang after hearing that they were here.The position of the generals in wartime is inherently erratic, and delays in sending letters are common.

Facing the angel, Shen Shuren and others could only accept the order respectfully, and the eunuch who delivered the order took his time and said the reward first.

"...I am hereby promoted to Shen Lin, the former Hubei military preparation officer, to serve as the Huguang military preparation officer, to join the capital censor, and to coordinate the affairs of Huguang and Runing, Luzhou, and Anqing mansions."

"...Liu Guoneng, the commander-in-chief, will be promoted to the rank of General Dangkou, and will return to the division immediately to lead the reinforcements to Luoyang..."

Under normal circumstances in the Ming Dynasty, miscellaneous numbers were not given to generals randomly, and military positions were systematically conferred, that is, general soldiers and the like.But for the chief soldier who has made meritorious service and is not easy to be promoted, he will be given the title of general.

Zuo Liangyu had won the title of "General Ping Zei" before. Liu Guoneng had never won the title of General in history. At the end of Ming Dynasty, there was no such thing.

Apart from Shen Shuren and Liu Guoneng, other major generals also received promotions.

Zuo Zixiong was promoted to general, Zhang Mingzhen and Yang Jinjue were promoted to guerrilla.

Other military officers below the guerrilla level do not need to be directly sealed by the emperor's will, and they will be dealt with as usual under the assignment of Yang Sichang.

Originally on the defensive, one or two of the best performers can be promoted to the capital, and some of the best performers can also be promoted to the defense, so there is no need to go into details one by one.

In terms of civil servants, Zhang Huangyan, the general judge of Huangzhou, was promoted to Tongzhi of Huangzhou, and Yan Yingyuan of Xiaogan County was officially promoted to the general judge of Suizhou.

Even Zheng Chenggong, who was originally just a patrol envoy of the seventh-rank officer under Yanfa Road, was given credit by Shen Shuren this time for "raising red cannons for the officers and troops, assisting in the drill and directing the artillery to defeat the enemy", and took the opportunity to be promoted from the sixth rank to the top. product, concurrently serving as the general judge of Huangzhou.

For the prefects in Huangzhou, Suizhou and other places, the imperial court would naturally send another person to come. Shen Shuren's subordinates were not high enough civil servants, so it was impossible to be the prefect directly.

Fortunately, the Shen family can also spend some money and try their best to find someone with the right relationship with their own family and a high enough level to be the magistrate, so as to ensure that the local area will remain the power and monolith of the Shen family in the future.

This matter can be delayed for a few months, and there is no prefect for the time being, and the daily affairs can also be handled temporarily by fellow prefects and general judges.

In the future, Shen Shuren will slowly select from among his friends of the same year who passed the same exam last year, and find a few who will rise faster in the future.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the penultimate batch of Jinshi who passed the examination was generally promoted faster because there were too many vacancies.Wei Zaode can go to Shoufu for four years, and it is not against the sky for others to go to the prefect in one and a half years.

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"Congratulations to Mr. Du Yushi! The meritorious service is outstanding, and the court will naturally reuse it. The last general will rely on Mr. Du Yushi's support in the future, and he will definitely advance and retreat with Mr. Du Yushi in the matter of suppressing thieves!

Xinyang is newly restored, and the people are dying. Today, we have to prepare a little wine to celebrate. When Mr. Bingbei returns to Huangzhou, it will be much more lively. "

Later that night, at the banquet celebrating his promotion in Xinyang County Yamen, Liu Guoneng was a little embarrassed, and he was full of praise, but he did not forget to say a few words of humility.

His job as a host was really ineffective, he had just recovered a poor place, and he couldn't produce any good wine or meat, so he could only ask his subordinates to temporarily hunt some wild animals to entertain Shangguan.

"General Liu, you are welcome. I am happy with you. You are now a general who is a bandit. I am a mere censor, and I haven't even joined the governor. We are friends of the same generation. I am not a person who can't bear hardships. I go out with the army. At that time, wild vegetable dumplings are also available. Today, there is wine and meat, which is already very good."

Shen Shuren picked up the glass, and when the wine was dry, he put down all kinds of food with chopsticks. He looked approachable and not picky at all.

In the Ming Dynasty system, the chief soldier was already a second-rank military officer, so strictly speaking, Liu Guoneng's rank is not low.

According to the law of the imperial court, only civilian officials above the governor level can generally become the upper officials of the general army, without special authorization.

For example, Shi Kefa next door, when he first became the censor of the capital five years ago, theoretically he could not govern the general Huang Degong through the relationship between superiors and subordinates. After he was promoted to governor of Anlu the next year, he officially became Huang Degong's superior.

Shen Shuren's current promotion route is tantamount to copying Shi Kefa five years ago.

After Liu Guoneng congratulated him for a few words, he couldn't help but bring the topic back to some unsavory things - after all, the imperial documents urged Liu Guoneng to go north again to reinforce Luoyang.

Shen Shuren is theoretically an army from Huguang, and should not reinforce Luoyang.But because he had invited Liu Guoneng as a reinforcement before, and he happened to be there in time, it was inevitable that he would also get into a little trouble of "the able one works harder".

Liu Guoneng was still loyal to Daming, so he didn't want to directly disobey the strict orders of the court.

Historically, in September of this year, when Li Zicheng continued to advance eastward after completely occupying the Luoyang Basin, he attacked Liu Guoneng's Ministry in Ye County and Yancheng, and Liu Guoneng also died here.

Therefore, at this moment, he asked directly: "Master Shen, the last general is willing to obey the imperial court's request for reinforcements this time, but we have just fought a bloody battle and the prisoners have not yet been reorganized.

Don’t take these captives, they will inevitably cause chaos in the rear, and if you take them, you are afraid of defecting. If you only use the main force, you can use only 1 people.

It's not that I don't repay the king's kindness, nor that I am greedy for life and afraid of death, or that I am afraid of leading my brothers into dangerous situations.I would also like to ask Mr. Shen to clarify my doubts. How should this reinforcement be reinforced? "

When talking about such an unpleasant topic, Shen Shuren couldn't help sighing.

Promotion is not free, the higher the position, the greater the responsibility.

Of course Shen Shuren knew what was going on here, and he was not willing to confront Li Zicheng and wade into this muddy water.

On the one hand, because of his own weight, he knew that his previous extermination of Erhe was more or less due to luck and situational factors.In addition, the absolute strength gap is not too big.

The newly recruited soldiers have not yet been reorganized, drilled, or brainwashed.If he followed Li Zicheng immediately, he would have to mutiny and defect to the enemy.Therefore, the reinforcements he and Liu Guoneng can use add up to more than 1, and he has to keep people at home.

On the other hand, Shen Shuren's previous plans were all based on "when the layout reaches that point, Chongzhen will still die".If history changes to the point where Chongzhen is not dead, everything will be completely out of control.

Chongzhen was suspicious and liked to kill ministers indiscriminately.If Shen Shuren was finally transferred to be a Beijing official, then everything would be over.Not only will he be in danger, but the great cause of saving the nation from peril will also be severely frustrated.

Therefore, the line that Shen Shuren had always thought of was to "specially attack Zhang Xianzhong, mainly expel Li Zicheng, and force Li Zicheng to the north as much as possible."

However, his own development is too fast after all, it has only been over half a year since Chongzhen 14 years ago, and he has already developed to this level of power.

Historically, in May of the 15th year of Chongzhen, Chongzhen was able to secretly order Sun Chuanting to kill He Renlong who refused to fight against the governor (note that this is He Renlong, not He Yilong, He Renlong is a military general of the court, and He Yilong is a thief The leader), Zuo Liangyu's domineering, will not be able to be questioned and controlled by the court until after this.

Therefore, according to the original history, Chongzhen still has about a year to ensure the authoritative control of the place.Before this time node, the order of the imperial court still needs to be obeyed on the surface-and the reason why it was in May of the 15th year of Chongzhen, Shen Shuren felt that this had something to do with the annihilation of Hong Chengchou's entire army outside the pass and Hong Chengchou's surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

After Hong Chengchou surrendered, the elite of the Nine Frontiers were wiped out, and the emperor's control and majesty over the local warlords was completely wiped out.After that, the warlords can make their own arrangements.

In the last half a year, the emperor's chaos still had to find a way to get over it.

(End of this chapter)