Chapter 129 Blessing and Virtue

Emperor Chongzhen was also very satisfied with the performance of Wang Fu, a veteran of Dongjiang Town. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info has to say that he really underestimated the skill and courage of this veteran before.

Back then, Wang Huazhen, a high-minded nerd governor of Liaodong, fought for power with Xiong Tingbi, and finally succeeded in getting Xiong Tingbi, but he didn't get anything good, in the face of the attack of Jianyu, not only lost his troops, but also lost a large number of cities and fortresses on the front line, resulting in the complete corruption of Liao.

However, it is such a person, but he also inadvertently did a very insightful good deed, that is, a group of elite warriors were recruited from the army, led by Mao Wenlong, who went deep behind the enemy to carry out a war of playoffs, and it was this group of people who developed and grew, and finally became Dongjiang Town.

The group of people led by Mao Wenlong was only 1890 people at that time, and such a team of less than 200 people actually turned the rear of Jianyu upside down.

At that time, Mao Wenlong was still a guerrilla, and Wang Fu, as one of the generals of the Ming army who volunteered to follow him, played a role in it.

Later, with the increasingly fierce war in Liaodong, the role of Dongjiang Town is also getting bigger and bigger, and the imperial court's reward for Dongjiang Town is naturally becoming more and more heavy.

Wang Fu, as an old man who watched Mao Wenlong start with his own eyes, could not have no opinions in his heart, but the imperial court only knew about Mao Dashuai in Dongjiang Town, and did not know that these veterans who risked their lives together to go behind enemy lines back then.

Even if they have opinions, they don't dare to show them, after all, their promotion, the court never asks, and it is always Mao Dashuai who decides with a word.

But even so, with the continuous rise and prosperity, Mao Dashuai, who is becoming more and more rigid and self-serving, is increasingly dissatisfied with the old guys who followed him to fight behind enemy lines.

Because these people know his details too well, they didn't feel anything bad when they fought side by side in the past, but now whenever they think about it, they feel uncomfortable.

And these old guys, from time to time, don't give themselves face, in front of a large group of obedient and filial sons and grandsons, they feel that they are damaging their majesty when they think about it.

And Wang Fu and other old people who followed Mao Wenlong to create Dongjiang Town, such as Du Gui, Lin Maochun, Shen Shikui, Chen Jisheng, Qu Chengen, Yan Zhengzhong and others, naturally could not be like Mao Chenglu, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi and others who defected later, willing to be Mao Wenlong's righteous son and grandson, of course, it is impossible to change the surname Mao.

In the eyes of Mao Wenlong, and even in the eyes of the imperial court, Dongjiang Town's surname is Mao, which is his Mao Wenlong's own place, but Wang Fu, Du Gui, Lin Maochun and other old people, although they don't say it on their lips, they don't think so in their hearts, after all, the creation of Dongjiang Town, but they fought together with a knife and a gun.

Therefore, when the imperial court sent the superintendent army Yushi into Dongjiang Town to verify the soldiers' salaries and no longer let Dongjiang Town go freely, the non-Mao veterans in Dongjiang Town were all welcome.

And this is also the fundamental reason why Chen Jisheng happily stood on the side of the imperial history of the supervising army, followed Mao Weizhang to recruit troops, and then went to Tuntian, Jeju Island to train troops and open up new base areas.

Mao Wenlong's reuse of the young righteous sons and grandsons naturally caused the private dissatisfaction of some other non-Mao veterans, such as Wang Fu, Shen Shikui, Du Gui, and Qu Chengen, but they were dissatisfied, except for Dongjiang Town, they had nowhere else to go.

Therefore, when the edict of the imperial court to select and transfer generals to Beijing for military training came, and Mao Wenlong took the opportunity to recommend the veteran Wang Fu out like driving away Chen Jisheng, in fact, the veteran Wang Fu was also relieved in his own heart, so there was no resistance at all.

After all, no matter how good Dongjiang Town is, now it looks like it has become the Mao family, and as Mao Wenlong's comrade-in-arms before his career, he is really too old to bend down and lose his face, and it is impossible to change his surname to Mao like Mao Chenglu and others later, and be his righteous son and grandson of Mao Wenlong.

So after leaving Dongjiang Town, arriving in Beijing, and meeting the emperor, Wang Fu devoted himself to the major event of training soldiers for the imperial court, and his performance was naturally extraordinarily hard.

Regarding the inside situation of Dongjiang Town, Emperor Chongzhen understood it clearly from Gao Shiming's mouth.

Today's Gao Shiming seems to have become Emperor Chongzhen's most trusted minister besides Wang Chengen and Fang Zhenghua.

This man is plain on the surface, but in fact he is quite skillful. Not to mention the performance of controlling Yi Luan Si and cleaning Jinyiwei before, let's just say that he went to Dongjiang Town, which is like a hidden dragon crouching tiger and a tiger's den in Longtan, and was able to make Mao Wenlong, who was already domineering, at least obedient on the surface, which is a great skill.

After staying in Donggang Town for more than a month, Gao Shiming returned by boat and made a comprehensive report to the emperor on the situation of the islands in Donggang Town, as well as the fact that Mao Weizhang and Chen Jisheng had landed on Jeju Island and had set up camp to defend it. After that, Gao Shiming, who was deeply trusted by the emperor, disappeared again.

The reason why Gao Shiming disappeared was naturally that the emperor gave him a tricky task.

This task is to supervise the relevant personnel of Jinyiwei, Dongchang and the Criminal Department, and rush to Luoyang and Jinan separately to make corresponding preparations for the upcoming Fuwang case and Dewang case, and at the same time, as the representative of the emperor, coordinate the three law divisions to finalize the long-delayed case of the attack and the red pill case as soon as possible.

Since the emperor ordered the retrial of the attack case and the red pill case, the main energy of Li Guowei, the first assistant of the cabinet, has been devoted to this, especially after Qiao Yunsheng, the secretary of the Criminal Department, took office in Beijing, Li Guowei and Qiao Yunsheng, as well as Li Biao, the left capital of the Imperial Palace, and Liu Zongzhou, the Zhengqing of Dali Temple, these ministers at the level of Jiuqing, officially put these two historical doubts on the trial agenda.

Under the specific handling of Hui Shiyang, the squire of the Criminal Department, Gong Yonggu, the commander of Jinyiwei, and Fang Zhenghua, the commander of Dongchang, these two cases were quickly combined into one case.

However, the deeper this case of rebellion is investigated, the more difficult it becomes.

If you want to confirm Zhang Cha who was killed in the case back then, it was not a madman who strayed into the East Palace, but a failed assassination of the crown prince Zhu Changluo at that time, and Li Kezhuo and Cui Wensheng in the red pill case later, not carelessly let the emperor eat medicine that should not be taken, but deliberately used poison to kill the monarch and rebel, we must find out the mastermind behind the scenes and find out the people who will benefit from it.

And this person is obvious, that is the most favored son of Emperor Wanli, Zhu Changxun, the king of Fu.

But this person, after all, is the prince of the clan, and he is also the uncle of the current saint, whether to pursue his guilt, how to investigate his guilt, and to what extent it is appropriate, is indeed a thorny problem for Li Guoyi, the first assistant of the cabinet, and others.

However, the conundrum of how King Fu should be convicted was not over, and another conundrum, that is, the question of how King De was to punish the crime, came up immediately.

The current King of Germany, Zhu Changjie, is over fifty years old, although he has passed the year of knowing the destiny of heaven, but he does not know what Tianli Guoren Ethics is.

Emperor Chongzhen ordered Wang Guoxing to personally bring people to Jinan to investigate him, initially because Lu Shanji and Wang Zegu found that the Dewangfu had destroyed the salt law and opened the salt field privately, and privately forged the imperial court salt, prohibited the sale of private salt, and made huge profits from it.

Lu Shanji and Wang Zegu's original intention was not at all to treat the king of Germany, Zhu Changjie, to death, but they just wanted to ask the emperor to issue an edict and warn the Dewang Mansion not to obstruct the rectification of the salt industry in Shandong.

Unexpectedly, the emperor didn't think so, and soon sent Wang Guoxing, the envoy of Jinyi Weibei Town, to personally lead people to Jinan to investigate and search for evidence of his crimes.

At this time, even if the Dewang Mansion was unlucky, not only did it quickly confirm the crimes of the Dewang forgery of salt quotations and private salt works, but also found out a lot of bad things.

There are a few violations of the law, such as the money law and the minting of bad money. It stands to reason that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty still gave many privileges to the vassal kings in various places, among which the minting of private money was one of them.

As a vassal king, you can mint private money in the territory, this is no problem, but the private money you mint must first be Feng Ming Zhengshuo, for example, the Apocalypse Tongbao is the Apocalypse Tongbao, and the private money you mint must also be engraved with the words of the Apocalypse Tongbao, otherwise even if you are a prince and have the privilege of minting money privately, it will not work.

At the same time, the copper content of the private money you mint can only be higher than that of the copper coins minted by the imperial court, but not lower than that of the imperial court.

The purpose of this King De is naturally to collect money, to buy copper coins from the imperial court, and then melt them, mix them with lead and iron, and then cast them into new money, and then rely on the power of the Dewang Mansion to force circulation in Jinan and even Shandong, and to buy and sell strongly, and the copper content of this kind of money is less than one-third of the copper coins issued by the imperial court, which not only seriously damaged the Ming money law of the imperial court, but also caused many merchants in Jinan to die.