Chapter 676: Nanjing Garrison Eunuch

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There were about 1,600 Cantonese soldiers in the Wusongkoushui battalion, who withdrew from Korea in the 28th year of Wanli, and then stationed at Wusongkou with the deputy general Deng Xianwu. Deng Xianwu was promoted to the chief soldier of Wusong because of his merits, but unfortunately died of illness in the thirty-second year of Wanli, and after his death, the general soldier of Wusong has been vacant.

The current governor of Yingtian, Cao Shipin, has played the imperial court several times, asking Jiang Liangdong, a guerrilla general in charge of the battalion, to be the chief soldier of the water battalion, but there is no follow-up.

Cao's recital clearly understands that the civil rebellion that occurred in Suzhou in recent years to expel the weaving eunuch Sun Long and the Taicang Shi Rebellion to the serious riots that threatened the rule of Jiangnan, combined with the order of his governor Xingtai to move from Jurong to Suzhou, clearly understands that his appointment is the right to impeach and suppress the locality.

However, if we want to suppress the localities and maintain law and order, it is necessary to purge the garrison. The key to the purge is really the implementation of the official seal, and now the garrisons in various places are not Wu Song's family system disordered, there are many shortages, and all the guards have shortcomings.

As the governor of Yingtian, Cao Shipin really had the intention to sort out the military and civilian system in office, but he just presented it sparsely, but it was like a stone sinking into the sea, connecting the current to the court and down to the locality, not only the rewards and punishments of military generals are unknown, but there are more civil vacancies.

The turmoil that occurred in Wuxi a few days ago made the governor even more worried.

Compared with the previous two days, all kinds of news were flying all over the sky, making it difficult for people to distinguish between true and false, now, the governor of Yingtian, Suzhou Mansion, Changzhou Mansion and Zhinandu have generally figured out the truth of the Wuxi civil uprising.

All the clues and intelligence point to a person, and this person is obviously the culprit of the chaos in Wuxi, this person is the self-proclaimed admiral of the Qin Commander, the maritime eunuch, and the eunuch Wei who is also in charge of the military seal of the rear camp of the right guard of Wuxiang.

"Eunuch Wei was angry with Mr. Donglin, Fang brewed the great change in Wuxi, countless casualties, and now he blames the gentlemen of Donglin in order to shirk his responsibility, his heart should be punished, and his crime should be punished! The lower official asked the ministers to send troops to arrest them immediately, so as to set the record straight! ”

Suzhou prefect Zhou Zhou Wu firmly believed that what Xiuwu Gong Li Sancai's letter said was the truth, and he was also the "hardliner" in Suzhou to deal with this matter.

A few days ago, there were gentry in Suzhou who gathered on the canal to clamoring for the release of the flag camp on the canal. Although the government tried its best to maintain it, it persuaded the gentry not to be radical and wait for the ministers to decide.

However, the ministers were slow to express their position, which disappointed some of the gentry. It is even rumored that Fuchen and Wei Jian are raccoon dogs, and they want to forcibly reverse black and white.

Therefore, Zhou Zhou Wu deeply felt that if Fuchen did not deal with it immediately, the situation would inevitably evolve out of control, and at that time, it would be a big mess like Wuxi.

"If the ministers don't make a decision, the lower officials are afraid that the incident of expelling their grandsons nine years ago will be repeated, and there will be chaos inside and outside the city at that time. Among the people arrested by the Wei eunuch, there is Mr. Jingyi, and he really can't delay any longer. ”

Zhou Zhouwu's remarks were echoed and supported by some officials, who came forward to express their opinions, most of which were to ask Fu Chen to send troops immediately. They mentioned that Mr. Jingyi, Gao Panlong, was also arrested by Eunuch Wei, and if he could not be rescued immediately, with Gao Panlong's status in Jiangnan Shilin and the weight of the people, a big chaos would be inevitable.

Cao Shipin is also a headache, he is supposed to govern the water, because of the meritorious treatment of Huanghuai, he served as the prime minister of the river to supervise military affairs, the right attendant of the Imperial History and Engineering Department of the Inspectorate, and then the governor of Yingtian, became the governor of the minister.

It is not easier for the governor to control the water than in one place, and there are many parties in the south of the Yangtze River, and everything he does must be constrained by another. In the past few years, the only major thing he has done is to support the people of Suzhou to oppose the weaving eunuch Sun Long's tax increase, "the public is straightforward, and the people are saved", so that "Wu people are virtuous", and the people of Suzhou have built a shrine for them in Maoshan, which can be described as very famous.

In my heart, there was a civil unrest in Wuxi, and Donglin Academy was destroyed, and more than 100 gentlemen and students were arrested, which caused a lot of noise in the south of the Yangtze River.

However, this matter cannot be compared with "driving Sun", because the weaving eunuch Sun Long has no soldiers, but the admiral Wei eunuch has forbidden soldiers.

If the army was forcibly sent to arrest him, the Wei eunuch would not be arrested, and the soldiers and horses under the jurisdiction of the governor of Yingtian and the forbidden army would have a greater impact than the civil unrest in Suzhou and Wuxi.

Since the founding of this dynasty, have you ever heard of a local official who dared to send troops to surround the emperor's forbidden troops, not to say that the governor can't, even the governor's cabinet ministers are afraid and their own soldiers don't dare.

Therefore, Cao Shipin is really in a dilemma now, and it is difficult to make a decision.

He couldn't say that he didn't care about this matter, and he couldn't be invited by officials from Suzhou Prefecture and other officials, holding the tea bowl and frowning slightly, but he couldn't show any expression. But if these officials have other ideas, the reputation can be bad.

Being an official in the land south of the Yangtze River is no better than other places.

Cao Yigong, a staff member of Fuchen, knew what the benefactor thought, and saw that the officials were only shouting to send troops to save people and arrest the Wei eunuch, but no one was willing to consider the benefactor, so he got up and said to everyone: "Everyone, Wei Gelding is an internal prisoner, and the Houying Banner Army is a forbidden army. ”

"How can it be big?"

Zhou Wu said hatefully, "In recent years, there have been repeated cases in various places to expel and kill mine supervisors and tax envoys. In my opinion, Fu Chen should be decisive, and should not hesitate, the time and place are favorable, and if there is hesitation, he will only give people a handle. ”

What he said was a hidden threat, Cao Shipin glanced at the Suzhou Mansion in his prime, snorted secretly, and didn't say anything.

Cao Yigong knew why Zhou Zhou Wu dared to do this, because this prefect was backed by Li Bad, the Marquis of Fengcheng, the commander of the Nanjing garrison, and was friendly with the Qingliu and Donglin Party members in the southern capital. has some backgrounds, and I won't take my own Fuchen, who was born in Beizhili, in my eyes.

This should be done by the heavens, and it is not easy to do.

Although it has jurisdiction over Suzhou, Songjiang, Changzhou, Huizhou and other eleven prefectures, but the Jiangnan provinces are directly managed by the six ministries of Beijing, the governor has no right to dispose of personnel in these mansions, nor has the right to collect money and grain.

"What the prefect said is very true, my people in Suzhou have a tradition of resisting tyranny, do you know that Sun Long doesn't dare to come to my Suzhou now!"

It was Liao Wenwen, the magistrate of Wu County, who made a lot of efforts when Suzhou expelled the weaving eunuch Sun Long. So much so that Sun Long, who is now hiding in Hangzhou, often said to people that he hated two people the most in his life, one was Ge Cheng, who was still in prison, and the other was Liao Wenwen, who was the magistrate of Wujiang County at the time.

Speaking of which, Sun Long is really wronged.

He twice supervised Suzhou and Hangzhou weaving, the administration was simple and inactive, respecting the local gentry, restricting the weaving yamen and eunuchs to make tax envoys, and more often to the emperor to say tax exemption, relief to the disaster, and work for relief, won the praise of the people and the people, and people called him a virtuous eunuch. But I never thought that just because I found that there were profiteers who concealed the loom and evaded taxes, so I wanted to clean up and set a unified tax rate in the weaving shop, but the gentry who used to call him a "virtuous eunuch" instigated the people to expel him, if he didn't run fast, he was afraid that the people would be killed.

Today, although nine years have passed, Sun Long washes his face with tears every time he thinks about it, lamenting that he has been benevolent and righteous all his life, and finally became a thief in the mouth of the world.

Cao Yigong saw that the governor still didn't speak, so he said to Liao Zhixian: "I just said, after all, Eunuch Wei has soldiers. The hard-line approach will only provoke unnecessary casualties, and even more put the Fuchen and the Suzhou gentry into an unjust place. ”

"How can it be unjust to save the gentleman and arrest the villain?" Zhou Zhou Wu retorted angrily and looked at the governor Cao Shipin, "When it is decided, it will be decided, and it will continue to suffer from it, if the ministers can no longer make a clear decision, the lower officials can only go to the canal in person to ask for someone." ”

"That's right, the big guy is going to ask for someone together, I am all court officials, see if he Eunuch Wei can arrest us together!"

The officials were outraged.

Seeing this, Cao Yigong couldn't help but say: "It's better to be like this, Fuchen can Wen Wuxiang's right guard on the canal to camp the banner army, and they will immediately release the arrested gentleman and many Donglin scholars, if the other party refuses to release people, it is not too late for Fuchen to send troops to persecute him." ”

This is to give his benefactor some leeway, there is always time to come and go, and the court must have gotten the news a long time ago, and it will be there in a few days. As long as the will is delayed and the benefactor acts according to the will, there is no danger of trouble. What's more, even if the benefactor listened to the opinions of these officials in Suzhou Prefecture and learned from the practices of other officials in various places to attack this Wei eunuch, he would have to transfer troops. Otherwise, how could some officials suppress the rear camp banner army on the canal.

It takes time to transfer troops, there are not many soldiers and horses in Suzhou at present, the distance is the closest, and it can be used is the Wusongshui battalion, and the guerrilla Jiang Liangdong is a cronie of the benefactor, and he brought it from Huizhou single-handedly, and he is very loyal. In the surrounding prefectures and counties, there are thousands of people transferred, and the Wei eunuch can always know the benefits.

Cao Yigong's opinion on this matter actually didn't want to make a big fuss, as long as Eunuch Wei released him, the benefactor would be able to explain the past. How the imperial court dealt with the incident that eunuch Wei made in Wuxi was a matter for the imperial court. This matter is not a party to the argument now, and the official document submitted by Wuxi County shows that there is another inside story. Whether it is found out or not, I am afraid that the imperial court will also send Ti to ride over, and it is not what Jiangnan said.

"Why bother, Teng Xiang Zhuwei is also the soldiers and horses of the imperial court." The implication of Zhou Wu's words is that there is no need to be afraid of the forbidden army of thousands of people on the canal, as long as the ministers are written and occupy the public and the righteousness, then the Houying Banner Army will really dare to risk the disapproval of the world and the local force.

"It's the imperial court's soldiers and horses, but the adults dare to guarantee that they will listen to Futai?" Cao Yigong smiled bitterly, this Governor Zhou is really radical, he really wants to take advantage of this matter to show off.

"This..."

Zhou Zhou Wu remembered that he had sent someone to the canal two days ago to negotiate with the flag army of the rear camp of the right guard of Nawu Xiang, and he couldn't help but be annoyed. The reason is that the flag army of the rear battalion of the right guard of Wu Xiang is arrogant and tight, and he has no contact with the local area at all, and the people sent by his Suzhou Prefecture even go up by boat.

Therefore, if you want to solve this matter, you must come forward with the governor, whether it is to talk or press, Cao Shi has to hire this minister, he Suzhou Mansion can't do it, at most it is to organize the gentry to make noise and scold on the side of the canal.

Seeing this, Cao Yigong was about to persuade them not to worry, but he heard the benefactor suddenly say: "This official has written that Nanjing is guarding the eunuch Liu Gonggong's office, and if Liu Gonggong comes forward, this matter will be easy to solve." ”