In September of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the Nanyue Army, which was ordered to go north to reinforce the Liaodong front, anchored in Shanghai for rectification and replenishment of grain, vegetables, and water. But he met Du Xun, a eunuch who went south to deliver the decree.

The same eunuch, Shouhan had no good impression of this former eunuch in his heart, but as a eunuch of the prison army, like Du Zhizhi, Shen Zhixiu and others, Li Zicheng's army surrendered as soon as it arrived. However, these eunuchs did not have a good reputation in the history of Banbanqing, and it was okay for them to surrender, at most they changed their masters. And those Donglin, who have always prided themselves on their loyalty, known as the sound of wind and rain, the sound of reading, family affairs, state affairs, and world affairs, but knelt down in front of Duoduo's horse and asked to surrender, and the hand-handed name cards were piled up.

Then, the original position that is indispensable is retained.

However, more than 100 years later, it can't escape the name of the second minister, leaving a name in the history of thousands of years, but unfortunately, it is the name of the thief. (Speaking of which, the unkind author has something to say again, and now he jumps out to accuse the government of being bad, that wrong character, will it also be Donglin?) Once there is something wrong with the country, will they be Qian Qianyi, who welcomes the imperial army in front of the horse and welcomes the imperial army on the street with a small flag, or Ma Shiying, who scattered all his wealth to recruit the rebels to resist until he was finally stripped of the skin and grass by the Qing army? ）

“…… Ning Yuanbo, the governor of Nanzhong, the food and salary of the soldiers and horses of all walks of life, and the affairs of the two Guangzhous and the pacification of Li Shouhan, if he was able to defeat the enemy, he made outstanding achievements, and when he came to the aid of the president, he controlled the soldiers and horses of Denglai, Jimen, Tianjin and other troops, Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo listened to the soldiers and horses in Shandong and other departments, and all the rewards and punishments were borne by Ning Yuanbo. Thought that the Liaodong army and horses were backing up, and they were planning for reference. Hong Chengchou's Liaodong Army has been fighting with the soldiers and horses of Jiannu at this time, and all the members under Li Shouhan should work hard to suppress the slaves, in order to repay the king's kindness, and on the day of success, I should not hesitate to reward the prince! ”

Li Shouhan lay on the ground in fear, but his mood was extremely complicated. Now, in addition to the titles of Liangguang, Fujian and other places, he has more titles to aid the president, and control the soldiers and horses of Denglai, Jimen, Tianjin Governor and other departments. It seems that the military situation in Liaodong is really unbearable for Emperor Chongzhen, who knows where to reach out once the Nanyue army reaches out. Wherever the sky changes. But at the moment, not to mention the official position, it is ordered to accept the territory and dispatch of moderation, and the emperor did not hesitate to throw it out.

Although at this time, the status of the military attaches has greatly surpassed the old system of a hundred years, not only the military leaders of all walks of life are rampant. In the event of a major expedition, they can also widely participate in the military strategic planning of civilian officials (except for those who do not have the ability to strategize). It seems that the status of the civil and military sides has achieved a delicate balance. But it also depends on who you are against. When encountering arrogant and capable civilian officials such as Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, the military aircraft is a major event, and the commanders of the general army from all walks of life obediently obey the dispatch. I didn't dare to take a breath of the atmosphere. On the contrary, when they encountered Fu Zonglong, Ding Qirui and others, the general soldiers who had neither ability nor strength, Zuo Liangyu, He Renlong and others abandoned them like a shoe, and the court was helpless to take these martial artists.

Although Li Shouhan has always eaten himself and does not want to take food and salary from the imperial court, he naturally does not need to pay attention to those civil officials, but now with the emperor's will, it is only natural that officials in various places will be deposed by the Nanyue Army.

In the holy decree, he was also authorized to control and command the troops and horses of Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo in Shandong at this time. Although after the death of Lu Xiangsheng in battle, the matter of Wuqiao is that Li Shouhan has no good impression of the soldiers and horses in the mainland, but he can control the soldiers and horses of the two towns, and even more control the three governors.

Controlling soldiers and horses, controlling governors, this power is a dream of any civil and military official. Since Jin Guofeng's death in battle, for the sake of unification of affairs, there is a provision in the Liaodong Army that when the chief soldier, the governor and the eunuch, and the army are in the same city, the general army will control the soldiers and horses. However, the control of the entire region of soldiers and horses, from the governor, the general army and below all obeyed the dispatch, life and death to seize the power in one, with this power, in addition to Hong Chengchou in the past, now there is another Li Shouhan.

It seems that the matter of Liaodong has put great pressure on the emperor, so that he has to find ways to mobilize troops, horses, money and food, and do everything possible to increase the chances of victory on the Liaodong front. Shi Lang, who was kneeling behind Shouhan, secretly calculated in his heart that the emperor's purpose for doing this was nothing more than two. The first is to mobilize people and horses to cooperate with the outside to eliminate the Jiannu army, which has finally formed a stalemate situation, and the second is that even if the military is at a disadvantage for a while, with the sharp artillery fire of the boat division of the southern Guangdong army, the besieged army can be rescued. Therefore, he spared no effort to make Li Shouhan, who was famous in battle and took the initiative in handing over money and grain, but had an extremely bad relationship with the Chinese officials of the DPRK, to control the soldiers and horses, and as the commander of one side, the odds of victory were much greater.

After Du Xun read out the holy decree, his solemn and solemn face suddenly converged, and in a blink of an eye, he turned into a smiling Maitreya Buddha, "Our family is fortunate that the emperor will not give up, and he will be sent to serve by the uncle's side, and he will be the eunuch of the prison army, so that he can just watch the demeanor of the uncle's big thief soldiers, and when he returns to the capital, he has some boasting capital when he gossips with others." ”

Du Xun's words are half true and half false.

Really, he is indeed very willing to be this eunuch. Several times the Nanyue Army entered the guard, and all those who were involved with the Nanyue Army gained a lot, from money to official positions, they were all full of money. is the ancestor of the two ceremonial eunuchs, the great eunuch Wang Dehua and Wang Chengen, who are also full of confidence in speaking in the court. At every turn, he said, "Our family has fought with Jiannu, how many of you have fought against Jiannu?" A bunch of ignorant scholars! ”

Not to mention the various new fruits of Nanzhong that are sold in the city every day, as well as those dazzling jewelry, gold and silver utensils, which thing can not make a huge profit? It's a pity that none of these things can be touched by his father-in-law Du. They were all rewarded by the two princes and princes to their own confidants.

Eunuchs can't be officials, can't marry wives, and are more interested in wealth, and it's difficult to understand their love for gold and silver, plus the big eunuchs in the palace can't store dry food in the kennel, and they can't show off in front of their colleagues if they earn some silver. Du Xun, who was just a eunuch everywhere before, where can he compare to them being rich?

Thereupon. This time, I heard that there was such an errand, and Du Xun went bankrupt and had to go up and down to ask for this errand of the eunuch who announced the decree and the eunuch who supervised the army. I plan to follow the Nanyue Army for a while, first, to earn a lot of benefits, and secondly, I also have my own strong mark in the credit book.

"Well said! Say! Dugong has worked hard from afar, so he can rest in Shanghai for a few days, and after the army arrives, I will go north together. ”

"Uncle, when our family left the palace, the emperor once had a word, if it was a matter of Jinzhou. The title of the uncle is to be changed. Perhaps, the seal is just around the corner. At that time, our family will have to call you Master Hou. Congratulations in advance. ”

Hearing this, Shouhan couldn't help but feel a sudden movement in his heart. smiled and said: "Thank you for your father-in-law's good words." Shouhan thanked me in advance. But. Thunder and rain. It's all Jun'en. No matter what the intention is, a certain family can only lead the army to move forward desperately. ”

When the two of them spoke, everyone next to them. They all pricked up their ears, and their faces were complicated, Feng Hou?

Li Huamei on the side showed joy in her eyes, the Ming Dynasty got up from a guard to the current earl, and there is a rumor to be a marquis, I am afraid that there is no second person to think about it except for Daddy!

"Chongzhen Xiaoer, what's the use of seducing with this false name? If a certain family does not turn your hundreds of thousands of people into ashes, so that you have no hope of Zhongxing, you will not be regarded as a descendant of the Li family. Li Peiting, who was dressed in the uniform of an official of the Nanyue Army and knelt in the crowd to listen to the holy decree, was gritting his teeth and creaking.

"As long as your hundreds of thousands of people come to naught, and the thieves in the gate swarm like a flood and fire, your country will completely change your surname. At that time, it will really be Kyushu Li Jizhu! ”

"At that time, the world will be in chaos, and who will have the strength to compete with the lord?"

"Once the lord gains the country, tens of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains are mixed into one, my Li family's great revenge will be avenged, and I will have to become a meritorious minister from the dragon! Compared with the scenery of the ancestor Cheng Liang when he was alive, I am afraid that it is more than that! ”

After reading the holy decree at the moment, the Shouhan had to set up a banquet to entertain the angel and the new Qinwang military supervisor and eunuch Du Xun, which is naturally the proper meaning of the title.

At that moment, the entire business district was suddenly plunged into jubilation. The generals who accompanied the guards to the north were even more immersed in joy. Every time the Shouhan plus official enters the knighthood, the generals at all levels below are rising with the tide.

Zhang Xiaohu, who led the naval fleet from Tamna Island to transport horses and mules to Shanghai for the army, was even more straightforward: "Great, now that the lord has been promoted to the president, Denglai, Jimen, Tianjin and other places are under the jurisdiction of the lord, and the soldiers and horses of the two towns in Shandong are also under the jurisdiction of the lord." Now, Jiaozhou Bay, which we are optimistic about, is going to be built well! That's a good port! For next year's budget, Lao Zhang has to compete well, get more money for the sailors, build more big ships, and cast more cannons! ”

Huang Yiwei, the head of the business zone, also had bright eyes: "How many dingkou and acres are there in Shandong, Denglai, Tianjin, and Jimen?" Displaced people are everywhere, disasters are continuous, not to mention that the current Dingkou in Nanzhong, Taiwan, Myanmar, Bangladesh and other places can be solved, as long as the ships of the sailors are enough, even if Fusang is occupied, the population is enough! ”

A long-prevailing steward also said happily: "I don't know the rank, in recent years, we have bought land in Shandong and other places for planting cotton, and it has been a bumper harvest. Cotton fields everywhere can produce hundreds of thousands of quintals of cotton every year. I'm afraid that the armor worn on the body at this time is woven from cotton yarn produced in Shandong cotton fields. If the lord masters Shandong, Denglai and other places, the Songjiang cloth and Hengtang yarn will not be a problem! ”

Since the Battle of Jinan, several members of the royal family of Jinan have taken over their royal villages, and Long Shengxing has been growing cotton in this area. An organization similar to that of the Production and Construction Corps has been adopted, and Wangzhuang has been turned into an organization that integrates soldiers and the people, with firewood, rice, oil and salt distributed every month, so that cotton farmers do not have to worry about food and clothing, as long as they take good care of the cotton. After several years of hard work, this area has not only planted tens of thousands of acres of island cotton and long-staple cotton, but also provided tens of thousands of supplementary soldiers for the Nanyue Army. It is precisely because of the existence of these granges that there have never been hungry people, bandits, horse thieves, poles and the like that have swarmed elsewhere in this area. On the contrary, it has become the ground that the people of Shandong yearn for, and from time to time thousands of displaced people pass through these Zhuangzi, go to Denglai and other ports, board big ships and go south to find a way to survive.

Mo Yu, the brigade commander of the Guards Brigade, twisted the beard on his cheeks and said with a big grin: "Explain it first." I will only charge into battle to defend the lord in the Guards Brigade, and I will never go to these places above. ”

Denglai, Jimen, Tianjin, Shandong, everywhere, in addition to Denglai and Shandong proximity, the rest of Jimen and Tianjin are not connected by land, however, these are in the Southern Guangdong Army, which is known for its naval division and can complete a voyage of thousands of miles, it is simply a piece of cake, and the moat in the eyes of others. It is the thoroughfare in the eyes of the Southern Yue Army.

Compared to the joy of the people at the banquet. Li Peiting, the great treasurer of Long, had a gloomy face, in stark contrast to everyone's joyful remarks, and he only treated the emperor's decree with silence. He was dressed like an officer in the Nanyue Army present, wearing a tight-fitting green shirt. Waist Pedri sword. Wearing a hood. The green shirt is covered with short-sleeved shirts, which has the elegance of a literati and the heroism of a warrior.

Sit there. I don't go to change the cup with others, even if the wine is dry. A person is full of people, let alone such an important person? The crowd gradually turned their attention to him, only to hear him sigh suddenly.

"Why are you sighing?"

He said coldly: "The lord is strong, with hundreds of thousands of male soldiers, his merits are high, and his prestige is tens of thousands of miles away. The emperor has a suspicious heart, if it is not bad as expected, if the official army defeats the Liaodong Tartars after the Jinzhou War, the good days of my Nanyue army will come to an end! ”

The atmosphere in the tent cooled down, and the people immediately fell silent.

After a while, Zhang Xiaohu said angrily: "We have all seen the merits of the lord and his loyalty to the imperial court!" If there was no lord sent us every year to transport grain and money to him, I am afraid that the emperor Lao Tzu would have been hungry! Where is the money and food for tartars? Could it be that Emperor Lao Tzu wants to play the trick of cooking rabbits and dead dogs, and hiding all birds? ”

Mo Yu also shouted: "This kind of trick, I only see it in the play, if the emperor really wants to do this, won't it make the soldiers of the world feel cold?" ”

Huang Yiwei was indignant: "We don't rely on the emperor, don't we also come to this point?" Suspicion is suspicion, my Nanyue army is rich in money and food, and the soldiers are fine, who will I be afraid of? ”

"Da Ming is worried about internal and external troubles, in this world, which one can be separated from the lord? In case something happens, don't rely on my Nanyue Army to come forward to save the day? ”

Chen Tianhua, the commander of the second town, said calmly: "Lord Li, what do you think the emperor will do?" ”

Li Peiting felt a burst of joy in his heart, and smiled on his face: "Everyone has thought about it, but the situation has not yet reached that point, the emperor is now holding his salary to fight the fire, although he is afraid of my Nanyue army soldiers, but the rogues in the mainland and the Tartars outside the customs are like a fire, which is much greater than our threat to his throne!" Therefore, there will be no obvious moves that are unfavorable to our Nanyue army, at most, like the previous poaching of Wu Biao, those in our Nanyue army who tend to be inflammatory, greedy for wealth and nobility, will be allowed to dig into the corners of our Nanyue army! If a certain family is not bad, if the official army wins after the war, the marquis will be the culmination of the lord's life's work. ”

He analyzed: "The merit is high, the minister is strong and the lord is weak, and the emperor is suspicious, lest it cause greater chaos." With Chongzhen's character, he should have adopted a strategy to paralyze us, slowly drawing it. Just like when he first ascended the throne, he calculated Wei Zhongxian and Wei Gonggong, and solved the former Jiliao Governor Yuan Chonghuan in the second year! ”

"Please think about it, in the eyes of the court bigwigs and the emperor, what is my Nanyue Army? Domain? Or a feudal town? The military system, official position, official system, and tax system are all different from the imperial court system. You are not blind, please think about it, in the officialdom of the mainland, can there be such a situation where political officers and military officers on our side get along so harmoniously and equally? Has it ever been a craftsman in the mainland who has been adopted to enjoy a certain level of official status and thus provide food and clothing for his family? Have there ever been businessmen who have to pay business tax, value-added tax, income tax and many other taxes? Has there ever been an emperor or prince who wanted to take the lead in paying taxes on money and grain? At present, the court is in difficulty, and it is like a night pot for our Nanyue army, and it has to be used in a hurry. However, every time our Nanyue army went out to fight, the military achievements were endless, and the results were abundant, and the court officials had to pinch their noses and make us wait to enter the room. If one day the imperial court pacifies the Liaodong rebels, and the rogues in the interior are also leveled one by one, what should our Nanyue army do in the end? Is it to hand over the soldiers, horses, money, and grain to the imperial court, and let those beetles come to ravage the paradise we have worked so hard to open up for decades into the Central Plains at this moment? ”

Zhang Xiaohu sneered on the side, and said with murderous intent: "Hand it over? This piece of the world of our Nanyue Army has been exchanged for the blood and sweat of countless people, if you want to take it from us, unless you use more blood and sweat! ”

"Not bad! Let the emperor kid take hundreds of thousands of heads! ”

"That's it! Into my hub! ”

Seeing that everyone present was excited because of his analysis, Li Peiting secretly rejoiced in his heart, and he continued to analyze for everyone: "This time, because of the merit of the lord, the emperor had to deal with the snake, and he also added aid to suppress the post of president, and gave four places, but you also need to see that this is established when the emperor has a request for my Nanyue army. What if in the future, the court soldiers are strong and strong, and the life of the four seas will no longer ask us? Isn't it time for swords, guns and artillery to be aimed at our Nanyue army? ”……

The next day, Shouhan took his eldest daughter Li Huamei, Mo Yu, commander of the Guards Brigade, Shi Lang, the commander of the sailors, and others to take the eunuch Du Xun into Beijing on a fast boat to meet Chongzhen.

He ordered Chen Tianhua, the commander of the navy, Zhang Xiaohu, and others to lead the army to slowly go north and meet in Dengzhou and other places. (To be continued......)