Although the cabinet and the imperial court had reservations about the statement reported by Jingying that they had killed 100,000 thieves, pursued them for dozens of miles, and were suspected of killing the giant Li Zicheng, or they did not believe it at all; However, Li Huayu's report on behalf of the Shandong soldiers and horses to recover Kaifeng, kill more than 1,000 elites of the old camp of thieves, and have thousands of elite cavalry, made the officials from Chongzhen to the six departments and Jiuqing Han Zhan Kedao nod yes. thinks that this is a more reliable report of military merits.

The son recovered the famous city and county for the imperial court, and the imperial court was naturally embarrassed to reprimand Lao Tzu harshly. Moreover, the submissions of the household department and the internal supervisors also reminded Chongzhen and the bigwigs that now is the time when the green and yellow are not accepted, and they have offended the father and son, but they are afraid that the military rations in the capital and the nine sides are another big problem!

As a result, the cabinet and several big eunuchs of the ceremonial supervisor urgently discussed secretly, adhering to the will of Emperor Chongzhen, and preparing to take advantage of Li Huayu's recovery of Kaifeng to reward Ning Yuanbo.

"The emperor means to give Uncle Ning Yuan his old man a promotion to the rank of marquis! Even Zuo Liangyu, you all have to give an earl, and Ning Yuan's old man doesn't wait for him, and the court's face is really unbearable. It's just that whether to seal the Marquis of Ning Yuan, or to write another name, but to ask the cabinet to make a good living with the Ministry of Rites! ”

The cabinet and the officials of the Ministry of Rites had to rack their brains to work hard for Ning Yuanbo's new title, and when they were ready to plan out before Zuo Liangyu, Ding Qirui, Yang Wenyue and others arrived in the capital, a shocking bad news spread to the capital.

A general under Zuo Liangyu, named Yang Weicheng, traveled for many days after Zuo Liangyu's defeat, evaded the search and suppression of Cao Sanjia, and luckily escaped the search and killing of the people in eastern Henan, and hired a small boat to escape to the north bank of the Yellow River.

Seeing King Zhou, who was also taking refuge in Zhangde Mansion, this Yang Shen General couldn't help but cry bitterly.

The imperial court has an army of 200,000. was defeated by Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai and others in a battle, and more than 100 miles of corpses were ambushed, and more than 100,000 horses were all obtained by Li Chuang, Cao Cao Xian and others. All the food, baggage, armor and weapons of all the departments were owned by the thieves!

At first, everyone didn't dare to believe such shocking news, but just now the news came that Li Zicheng was killed again, how Li Zicheng was resurrected in the blink of an eye. On the contrary, Zuo Liangyu, the imperial court, secretly leaned on himself as a pillar stone, and faintly supported him to compete with Li Shouhan's generals, and collapsed in one drum? !

Just when the court was skeptical, the official document of the governor of Henan arrived.

It carefully explained how more than 100,000 people in Zuo Liangyu's army, together with Ding Qirui, Yang Wenyue and other troops, were defeated by the two thieves!

Liaodong was defeated, and more than 100,000 people were turned into flowing water, and Yudong was defeated, and nearly 200,000 people were wiped out. How many 200,000 available soldiers in the imperial court can afford such a toss?

Under a series of blows, Zhu Youzhen finally found it difficult to resist such a big blow. On the spot, it was when the cabinet members played the right game. In a hurry, a mouthful of blood spit out!

Is this worth it?

Wang Chengen, Zhou Yanru, Chen Yan, Wei Zaode, Wu Liangfu and other eunuchs and ministers who were present rushed up, calling for Chongzhen to wake up, and those who were busy summoning the imperial doctors, they were at a loss, but they were rushing around in the warm pavilion, their faces were full of tears, and they were each performing their own performances.

OK. Although it is said that the prescription of Tai Hospital is also one of the ten ridiculous in Beijing. There is a name for itself, but that is also who scores. His Majesty the Emperor was in a hurry. vomited blood and fainted, if this is not diagnosed and treated, below the courtyard of the Tai Hospital, everyone will have to go to the prison or the edict of the Suppression Division to see the cell head! Under the careful consultation and careful diagnosis and treatment of several imperial doctors, Chongzhen finally woke up leisurely.

Chongzhen, whose face was as white as paper, opened his eyes slightly in the whispering of everyone. In addition to the cronies and eunuchs around, there are several important ministers in the cabinet, and in addition to the warm pavilion, the eunuchs and housekeepers in the palace of Queen Zhou are also eagerly waiting for news.

"Herald."

The little eunuch and several officials of the cabinet immediately spread out pen and ink paper, ready to record the emperor's will.

"The Inspector waits. framed important ministers of the imperial court, and did not advance, lingering in Qilu and other places, extorting prefectures and counties, and harassing localities. Afraid of thieves like tigers, they dare not enter the place where the Henan thief army is entrenched. As a result, the imperial court ordered its army to be restrained, Zuo Liangyu was defeated, and Ding Qirui, Yang Wenyue and others were martyred. All the scepters were committed to the thief. ordered Jinyi Wei to go south to arrest Hou Sui. When Jinyiwei did not arrive, he was guarded by Shandong officials! ”

Leaning on the huge pillow that Wang Chengen had fetched for a while, Chongzhen continued to deliver the message.

"The thief waits for him, and it is said that his family is rampant in Guide, and there are many rebellious and unrighteous things. And there are thieves and soldiers who enter and return to Germany, send people to guard their family mansions, and have military orders to cut down those who move every grass and tree without permission. The generals of Kaifeng immediately marched east to Germany, confiscated their belongings, and collected all the money for military salaries! ”

As soon as these words came out, Zhou Yanru and the others were immediately frightened. It's early summer in May, but it's like falling into a cold hell! The cold sweat on his body soaked the robe!

The emperor even knew about such a thing, but he still sent Hou Sui out of the Beijing Governor, in order to ask Zuo Liangyu to fight in the face of him, an old chief. I am afraid that Li Zicheng and others will protect the property of the Hou family's house, in order to have a little love with Zuo Liangyu in private. Now that Zuo Liangyu was defeated, the emperor immediately turned his face, and re-imprisoned Hou Sui, not to mention it, but also raided Hou Sui's home. I'm afraid that this Lord Hou may not be able to get out of the edict in this life!

(The most pitiful thing is not Hou Xun, but his famous talented son in Jiangnan, who was originally a hot freshly baked supervisor, and a large amount of gold and silver presented by Zuo Liangyu's hands, on both sides of the Qinhuai River, in the city of Nanjing, this Hou Gongzi walked there with a bunch of talented people in the river around him, and he was a figure riding a horse across the diagonal bridge full of red sleeves.) As a result, this feeling of being between the clouds and mist was not tired, but a hollow heel fell from the clouds to the mud. After the superintendent's son became a criminal minister, the officials of Jiangning County could find trouble with you, and Zuo Liangyu's large amount of gold and silver was gone. It's really called, the bedside is golden, and the strong man is shameless. The eldest prince of Donglin, who is the best at finding reasons for his failure in others, naturally remembered this hatred on the Li family father and son, and in order to take revenge, he took a series of measures in the future. This is a later story, so I won't press the table for the time being. ）

"Proposed purpose, Ning Yuanbo's father and son have made great contributions to the country. Tired of the king. Stack the famous city, annihilate the giants. The court deserves to be rewarded. With the promotion of the duke, a qiē ceremonial dress system, referring to the rules of the Duke of Qianguo. ”

Chongzhen is also a person who can discern interests and disadvantages, if he was able to use the soldiers and horses and influence of Hong Chengchou and even Zuo Liangyu to secretly suppress and confront Li Shouhan, now Zhu Youzhen's classmates. is a gambler who gambles in the middle of the night, and after dawn finds that he has no capital in his hand, and the gamblers at the same table are staring at his wife and children one by one. How can you not grasp your only financial owner and pillar?

Refer to the standard of the Qianguo Gong Mu family? That was undoubtedly to give up the governing power of Liangguang and Fujian, which were now under Li Shouhan's control. Moreover, in order to move the army north, the Southern Guangdong Army has sent forward troops into Hunan, Zhejiang, and southern Jiangnan, although most of the troops who came were road construction teams, surveying mountains and rivers along the way, and building roads and wharves. This influence and authority has expanded invisibly.

"Alas! Thousands of calculations, but it is not as good as heaven! "For several months, he has been trying every means to implement the emperor's will, and has constantly made various small moves to suppress and calculate Li Shouhan and the cabinet bosses of the Nanyue Army.

However, the form shì is stronger than the person.

In the capital, with the gradual passage of time, various rumors have emerged.

Do not wait for the Cabinet and the Celebrant to issue the decree. The city was already full of rumors.

Most of them are rumors about how Zuo Liangyu was defeated.

"Those elite thieves who broke into the camp are all fierce horses under their crotches. With a fire gun in his hand, he galloped to the front of the Zuoping thief army and horse. After the formation of thousands of firecrackers was over, the men and horses stood like a wall, and when the leading thief gave an order, thousands of firecrackers opened fire in unison! Although the poor Zuo Ping thief general's subordinates have always been known as elites, how have they ever seen such a tactic? This method of warfare. Even the Liao thieves who disturbed Gyeonggi back then may not be able to withstand it! ”

After the two rounds of firecrackers fired a volley, all the thieves and firecrackers shouted in unison, and each of them raised the spurs in their hands and went straight to the left camp to kill! Pity the officers and soldiers of the left battalion, who were first bombarded by the thieves' cannons, followed by firecrackers. The formation has long been chaotic, how can it be the opponent of thousands of elite old thieves fire gun assault? At that moment, tens of thousands of elite battalions under the command of Zuo Liangyu, the general of the Ping Thief, shouted and dispersed in unison! This standard camp was in chaos, and suddenly led to an uproar among the tens of thousands of troops on both sides of the north and south, and the officers and men of the three armies rushed south in unison, snatching the road and trampling on themselves, and countless people died! All kinds of military equipment, food and salaries were discarded for dozens of miles! ”

In the teahouse, the idlers in the capital only frothed at the mouth and talked about the battle of eastern Henan that they had obtained from various channels, Zuo Liangyu's army was defeated like a mountain, and more than 100,000 people were beaten by tens of thousands of Shaanxi thieves and fled, running for hundreds of miles and did not dare to stop for a while.

"That Zuo Ping thief, who has been a thief for many years, is naturally as deep as the sea with the feud between the three families of Chuang Xian. Now that there is such an opportunity, how can the three families let it go? At present, the Zhenshan camp is the mainstay, and the fierce thieves of each department take turns to chase and kill. The Zuoping thief fled to Xuchang, the thief brigade chased to Xuchang, fled to Nanyang, and the thief chased to Nanyang, if it wasn't for the Li family's eldest prince who recovered Kaifeng to lead our heroes in Beijing to the south, I'm afraid that at this time, Xiangyang can't be saved! ”

Various folk versions of legends, under the secret promotion of various forces, are circulating without increasing the price.

Under the cover of Shanxi merchants, the details of the battle in eastern Henan were widely disseminated in order to show off their military value. Basically, for the same purpose, the Nanyue military system and the nobles in the capital are also cheering for their children without moving.

These rumors, naturally, have been reported by the fans of the incident as the dynamics of the capital level by level, and they have reached Chongzhen's ears, one is happy and the other is worried. Happily, the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp have finally been trained and can fight against millions of thieves. The worry is, the thief is so strong, how to deal with it in the future?

Chongzhen, who was lying on the sickbed, was thinking about whether he should transfer the Beijing camp from Kaifeng back to the Beijing Division, and when he was able to rectify the three major camps based on these two people, the eunuch who went to Tianjin to deliver the decree brought back extremely bad news.

"When my grandfather learned the news of the defeat in eastern Henan, he was also angry, bedridden, and difficult to see. At present, the subordinates are waiting for the eldest prince to rush from Shandong to Tianjin to preside over the overall situation. ”

"Lord Li saw the slaves and maids on the sickbed and said, the lord is worried about the humiliation of the ministers, the lord humiliates the ministers and dies, and now everything in the court is not going well. How can the ministers accept His Majesty's addition to the rank of knight? This Ning Guogong's reward is also requested to take back his life! ”

"Alas! O important minister of the country! "The government and the opposition learned that Li Shouhan refused the court's reward so much, no matter what he said about this domineering general on weekdays. At least at this time, I can't help but extend my thumbs up to admire. Ask yourself, if you change them, you will never be able to do this.

(Li Shouhan himself said: "Damn, Lao Tzu can afford to promote Lao Tzu to a knighthood, and Lao Tzu's credit is no worse than Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Zhang Yu and others.") However, you damn people, it's not good to get a Guogong, get a Ning Guogong for Lao Tzu! ”）

After Li Huayu arrived in Tianjin, this Li Dagongzi did not take the court as seriously as his old son, so he just ordered someone to write a note to the court, and on the grounds that his father was seriously ill and needed to be recuperated in the south, Li Shouhan was sent to the sea ship and went south to Shandong.

When the imperial court sent officials from the Ministry of Rites to hurry to Tianjin with Chongzhen's holy decree and reward. The whole line is already empty.

"Father, this important matter of the court will be handed over to them! Our Li family is worthy of the people of the Central Plains, and the second is worthy of the court of the Zhu family! On the sea boat, Li Huayu faced his father's accusation that he was too reckless, and he was a little unimpressed.

In addition to leaving the chaos in Gyeonggi and Liaodong to the imperial court to clean up, Li Huayu did a major thing that shattered the glasses of the imperial court when he went north.

In Kaifeng City, he received a message from the military department that the Tuning Machine Battalion and 3,000 battalions of soldiers and horses went north and returned to the formation. Li Huayu sneered and ordered someone to summon the two chief soldiers.

"Lao Luo. Ancestor, our fate of working together is also over. "The message of the Ministry of War was handed to two Beijing generals who were famous in Shandong and Henan, and who were promoted to become wealthy." Now the imperial court has another important use for the two, and will transfer you back to rectify the people in Beijing. Naturally, I can't stay here any longer. But let's work together, and you see, if there's anything you need, just say it. A certain family must fulfill the two. ”

The two commanders looked at each other, what else could they say? Food, weapons, armor, and salaries. Horses, all of them are perfect, and none of them are deficient.

"Where does the eldest prince say, although the blessing of the mark is shallow, and he can no longer make meritorious contributions under the uncle and the eldest prince, but if the eldest prince is useful to the subordinates in the future, just give an order!"

"That's it! If you blink your eyes, you will be fed by a big girl! ”

"It's good! Two of you, there is a document here, and you need to send it out jointly with me! ”

The men and horses of the Beijing camp slowly moved north, Li Huayu took the two garrison brigades of the Dongfan Army and the Nanyue Army to hold down the position behind, and the brigade left Kaifeng and came to Shandong.

An emergency military situation signed by three people was sent to the capital by speed.

Behind them, more than 100,000 Ming troops had been swallowed into their stomachs, and their mouths were full of oil, including almost the entire Cao family in the area south of the Yellow River in Henan, and they entered Kaifeng City almost on tiptoe.

"Millions of thieves, coerced a large number of officers and soldiers, and attacked Kaifeng day and night with hundreds of red-clothed cannons. The ministers and others for His Majesty to protect the soldiers and horses, endured the pain and withdrew from Kaifeng, and fought and left. ”

If he goes back ten years, Li Huayu's approach will be waiting for him to kill his head and steal his family. Just kidding, giving up the provincial city without authorization and giving the famous city to the thieves is light to kill the head and rob the family. However, what ability and means does the current imperial court have to deal with these commanders? What's more, the imperial court is still full of enthusiasm for these generals at the moment.

"Master Li is really a trustworthy person!" Luo Rucai, who entered Kaifeng, greatly appreciated the deal with Li Huayu. In exchange for a Kaifeng city, Zuo Liangyu was exchanged for more than 100,000 horses, this deal, no matter how it is calculated, is very suitable.

In addition to admiration, the two families of Chuang Cao each sent people to send 100,000 displaced people to Shandong. And Zhang Xianzhong, who had completed the rectification of his subordinates, was impatient to re-erect the banner of the Eight Kings of Xiying, replaced his handsome banner with the banner of the general who fumin and fought against thieves, and went south to Jianghuai to prepare to meet with Lao Huihui, Ge Liyan and other Shaanxi villagers first, and then make a good fuss between Jianghuai.

For his son's practice in Kaifeng, from the bottom of his heart, Li Shouhan is very appreciative. If you don't clean up the old forces in the imperial court, the power that Jiangnan Donglin can rely on, how can this Ming country be cleaned up? I'm afraid that guys like Jiangnan will have to face Duoduo's butcher's knife again. The old man in the princess's grave who was the prototype of the pig brother had to kill in Yangzhou for three more days before sealing the knife.

That's good! Lao Tzu played the same as the principal in the field, playing a means of retreating as advance. All the soldiers and horses in Liaodong, Tianjin, and Jimen were withdrawn. I'll throw this mess at you and let you clean it up. Lao Tzu used this time to be in Nanzhong, in Liangguang, to put the internal affairs in order, and when you can't clean up the mess, we Lao Tzu will bring a lot of money and food, hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers to the north to clean up the Ming Dynasty, the picturesque country.

Li Shouhan, who had made up his mind in his heart, no longer entangled his son with the matter of Kaifeng's abandonment and Tianjin's withdrawal of troops, and began to talk and laugh with his subordinates.

Dozens of large sea ships went south along the Bohai Bay, went straight to Dengzhou, Jiaozhou and other places, and after preparing to land in Jiaozhou Bay, they asked the lord to sit for a few days, one to rest, and the other could take a look at the summer grain harvest scene in Denglai and Shandong.

However, Li Shouhan can enjoy the scenery here, and the court is beaten by another slap. (To be continued......)