Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 537
Song Qingshu wanted to give Hong Chengchou a bad start and let him be more honest in Lianghuai, but this guy's posture was too low, but Song Qingshu was not prepared and helplessly walked forward, and said with both hands: "Master Hong, this You can't do it! I'm down from office!"

"Song Xiaoyou, there are no high officials or low officials here, only the Mr. Song who sold wine back then and the foolish drinker who came to drink every day. This is Hong's formal thanks to Song Xiaoyou for saving your life! Xiao Cao, You too, why don't you come to thank Song Xiaoyou!"

Cao Bianjiao was very reluctant, but Hong Chengchou bowed his head, and he had no choice but to bow down with a sad face.

"Thank you, General Song, for saving your life."

As expected, he is a senior official who has mixed up with the governors of the five provinces. When he stayed here with Song Qingshu, Hong Chengchou didn't talk about official business. People's friendship has been narrated for more than half an hour. Relying on the family card, it has eliminated a lot of barriers for so many years. However, during the conversation, he always carefully avoided a sensitive person, Hongniang Xing.

The subordinates on both sides were a little dazed. Seeing his supervisor running all the way to do chores, Cao Bianjiao's face was always in a dull state, and Li Xiangjun next to him showed a wave of worry.

About 40 minutes later, when the two were still talking about the girl in the tavern facing the street, the door was hurriedly pushed open again, and a staff officer came in panting heavily with an urgent letter, and reported without thinking. : "Marshal, Haidyu No. [-] has completed its sea trials. Mr. Zhang is here to report, and you can send troops at any time..."

Speaking of this, the reckless military Sima just saw the situation clearly, and quickly shut up. Li Xiangjun glared at him in extreme annoyance, while Song Qingshu reached out to take the letter paper indifferently, seeing how he opened it, Hong Chengchou was very knowledgeable. They hugged each other.

"Xiaoyou Song still has business to do, so Hong resigned, turned into a dragon, and brought the burden. This is a souvenir Hong brought from the capital. Please accept it with a smile!"

People gave gifts to the prime ministers of the five provinces, but it was the opposite when Song Qingshu came here. After leaving his things behind, Hong Chengchou really pulled Cao Bianjiao to say goodbye and left, as if they really came to thank and reminisce about the old days, and Cao Bianjiao's astonishment could be heard at the door What is the question of sending troops, so there was the sound of Hong Chengchou pressing him down, Li Xiangjun was stunned for a while, and then he rushed up and slammed the door shut, and immediately his almond eyes widened angrily.

"Walking without eyes or without a word of mouth! It's not proper to be so muddled and stiff when working with the commander in chief! You have been demoted now! Immediately transfer your resume from the staff office to the military affairs office, and leave immediately !"

Hearing Secretary-General Li Xiangjun's masculine and furious reprimand, the unlucky young staff officer bowed out of the door with a mournful face, and once again confirmed that the door was locked, Li Xiangjun rushed to Song Qingshu's desk impatiently.

"Marshal, what does the surname Hong mean? If you don't go to Huguang to deal with Huang Chuangzi, Huama Liu's defeated soldiers came to our Lianghuai River to fight, and this one is singing this song again. What kind of conspiracy does he have? "

After reading the crooked lines of the logistics minister Liu Zongmin's report and putting it aside casually, Song Qingshu smiled indifferently.

"Who knows? Maybe it's just for cheap. After all, among the towns, Huai Town is the strongest and the richest. He Hong Chengchou came back, and instead of going to Shaanxi to clean up his old department, he came here, it must be of some use to us." Conspiracy, I hope to use the manpower and material resources of Lianghuai to help him make achievements, just guard against him, Secretary Li, go back and organize a special staff team to watch him, no matter what requests or orders he has, just delay it."

"Hehe, I've always gone to other people's place to have a good time, now it's my turn to give me a gift!"

The internal rules of the Qihuo army are strict, and no gifts are allowed. Jiaduobao has a special anti-corruption department. For the sake of business, no one opened his eyes to give him a gift. After giving the order, Song Qingshu jokingly took the revenge that Hong Chengchou brought, but unexpectedly, with a thud, the heavy wooden box fell out, and a gold-plated copper box fell out. print.

"Governors of the five provinces, hunt on behalf of the sky!" Picking up the seal in astonishment, Li Xiangjun yelled as if seeing a ghost, and immediately opened the package with the dignified Song Qingshu.

There is really nothing valuable in it, all of them are fatal, such as soldier talismans, tiger talismans, top secrets from the Ministry of War, a lot of military information from the southern province, especially a few imperial edicts, all of which are secret edicts under Chongzhen, such as He transferred Liu Liangzuo's army into the Huai River, pulled out Anqing, and transferred Huang Degong to attack and kill himself. A blacklist included him, Song Qingshu, Liu Zongmin, Sun Chuanting, down to Li Tiezhu, Zhou Yuji, and even Fu Shan, the prefect of Anqing. When he was away, Fu Shan, a true friend, also helped him block a lot of dark knives.

Chongzhen wanted to kill himself, but Song Qingshu was not surprised. After all, the relationship between Lianghuai and the imperial court is somewhat similar to the relationship between Tang Dynasty Jiedushi Fanzhen and Chang'an, but Hong Chengchou sold the emperor and stuffed all these things to himself. What means?
Holding these imperial edicts and reading the seals for a long time, Song Qing put the seals of the prime ministers of the five provinces back into the box with a gloomy expression, and handed them to Li Xiangjun.

"Return this to Mr. Hong, or organize a staff team to keep an eye on him, and immediately expedite it for [-] miles, and let the capital Jiao Dalin and Wang Yaozhi find out what the emperor said when he summoned Hong Chengchou? , What is the big move of the imperial court recently?"

"Subordinates obey!"

Holding the box, Li Xiangjun went out resolutely, watching her close the door again, pinching a few top-secret imperial decrees, Song Qingshu couldn't help nodding, he had a premonition, as if he snatched it from Jiannu. The crutch that came back was about to be forced into his hand.

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A piece of timely news, it may be ten thousand taels of gold, or ten thousand lives. In the capital, Song Qingshu was really cruel, and used all the skills of the spy war movies on TV in the later generations, and brought his own scholars to Beijing Catch up for exams, work in some low-level positions, don't look at the small officials, you may be able to peep, but many of them are real.

It took only thirteen days for Feige to send the letter, and the information Song Qingshu wanted was on his desk. However, the information came a bit late, because Hong Chengchou had already started to have bad luck.

Emperor Chongzhen really threw out Hong Chengchou's plan of defending the four directions and trapping thieves in Zhongzhou at the court, and the consequences were as expected. What abandoned the ancestral land, sinners through the ages, fell into the majesty of my Ming Dynasty, hacked to death, someone really impeached Hong Chengchou and secretly took refuge in Li Zicheng, what Luoyang proclaimed the emperor, made him king, what he said had nose and eyes, under the excitement of the crowd, Chongzhen The emperor reluctantly took Hong Chengchou back to the prison, but issued a strict decree, ordering him to immediately integrate the Jianghuai army and go north to fight Li Zicheng.

The emperor was still too short-tempered. He couldn't accept the fact that the convective thieves in the Ming Dynasty had changed their offensive and defensive postures. He still wanted to fight Li Zicheng desperately, just like a gambler who lost his eyes.

"Recently, Master Hong has been really restless. He ran to Zhenhai Guard, Baoshan Institute, Wusong Guard, Jinshan Guard, and Haining Guard. In short, he ran to more than 10 guards along the river. In name, he really had a hundred thousand guards. The big army, but the gang of farming soldiers are not fools, one by one asked for a few hundred thousand taels of military pay and rations. Jiang Yikui, Minister of the Nanjing Household Department, was afraid that Hong Chengchou would let him ask for military pay, so he actually went home under the banner of sickness. Now in Nanzhili, The name of Hong Bing's polished governor, however, has been widely spread."

Recently, I have been thinking about fighting with Hong Chengchou and reading information. Secretary-General Xiaonizi's words are full of complacency and disdain. However, looking up from the secret letter from the capital, Song Qingshu is surprised. It was hard to scratch his head.

"Nanjing Household Department won't give this money, let's give it, send someone to contact Master Hong, and provide him with 50 taels of military salary and 20 dan of military food in the name of begging army, and ask him to order all the guards along the coast to gather at Nanhui Central Guards, And didn’t the emperor’s secret decree order Huang Degong’s troops in the Huangzhou area to attack and kill me? Use the decree to transfer Huang Degong’s troops to Nanhui!”

This series of orders really made Li Xiangjun a little silly, hesitating for a few seconds before she asked back in disbelief: "Officer, this, isn't this asking for trouble!"

"Nanhui already has our twelve divisions, a [-] southeast army, hehe, my two divisions can fight and they can't find the north. Huang Degong's tens of thousands of horses are a little tricky, but they are also under control. What's more, besides, Governor Hong tried his best to give me such a big bag of local specialties like Mr. Song, so I have to use it no matter what!"

Holding those letters, Song Qingshu had a gloomy smile on his face.

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These days, Song Qingshu is in the Bund New District of Shanghai County, Songjiang, and Hong Chengchou has been staying in Songjiang Mansion. However, this old butcher, the executioner of the peasant army, has a poor life. The emperor sent him out on business, but he forgot to give him money. He paid more than 200 million taels of military pay, and he didn't even have 2000 taels of travel expenses, so he had to live in the Songjiang Post Station.

"Supervisor, Supervisor, good news!"

At this end, Hong Chengchou was looking at the official document with a sad face in the room, and Cao Bianjiao outside, like a tiger-headed boy, barged in with great excitement, shouting from a long distance away.

"The head of that surname Song seems to have been caught by the door. He sent us 50 taels of military pay and 20 dans of military rations, and asked us to gather an army at the south of the Songjiang River. The soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty were also able to enter South Zhili, and now with an army of 15, the supervisor can completely suppress the military power of the Song thief, and if he dares to resist, he will be killed!"

Clenching his fists aggressively, Cao Bianjiao seemed to see Song Qingshu lying on the ground blackened by his own eyes, but hearing this in Hong Chengchou's ears, it made him feel like a deflated balloon, both relaxed and complicated, After a while, he murmured.

"He, Song Pingliao, still accepted this nomination certificate!"

(End of this chapter)