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Chapter 205: Victory and Return

The Ming army has not won a victory for a long time, especially the Wuqiao mutiny last year, which has brought great damage and damage to the place. Now that the Ming army has returned from victorious, there are actually not many people coming to welcome them, because the people are basically busy fleeing famine or being displaced.

Dengzhou is basically close to military town now. The people in front of him are governor Chen Yingyuan and governor Deng Bingwen. They did their best to organize the people.

Although Dengzhou has seven counties, they are really not powerful, so there are not many people, especially Laizhou next door, which has strong disaster relief, which inevitably caused many victims to flock to Laizhou.

The long-term development of the Denglai area may also maintain this trend, that is, Dengzhou is responsible for military affairs and comes to the state to be responsible for people's livelihood.

This time, the expeditionary fleet was welcomed. The prefect of Laizhou Liu Yuanqiao and the prefect of Dengzhou Deng Bingwen were all here. Although the prefect of Dengzhou was in charge of the seven counties, he was far inferior to that of Liu Yuanqiao, the prefect of Laizhou.

Among the three eastern prefectures, Laizhou's people's livelihood and economy are the best. It was brilliant during this disaster relief, especially the composition of this expeditionary fleet, which was facilitated by Liu Yuanqiao, so his status is far higher than that of Dengzhou's prefect Deng Bingwen in any aspect.

Dengzhou was originally defined as military and political affairs, and it was the place where the imperial court stationed a large army, so the power of the Dengzhou general was also very high. He could govern the guards and three major camps of the other two prefectures, and there was also a governor here. Therefore, Deng Bingwen was actually a role that was overwhelmed, not like Liu Yuanqiao who was the top leader in Laizhou and dominated the party.

However, as the governor of Denglai, Chen Yingyuan was very happy that his generals fought such a big battle, so he personally ordered that all the gentry and local ranks of Dengzhou military and political circles and local gentry and celebrities come to welcome them.

The military has also made a great appearance this time. Although Dengzhou is known as a military important place, its current military strength is really small.

Gao Ruowang was not interested in military affairs and asked several subordinates to work and take responsibility. Another point was that the court's support was not large, which meant that the investment in money and grain was often not expected. Coupled with corruption and interception at all levels, it could recruit not many soldiers.

Originally, Dengzhou was the governor's garrison, and it was also the garrison of Dengzhou Camp.

But even the governor Chen Yingyuan could not stand his original strength. Jiaozhou places have always written letters to ask them to help eliminate the Jufeng thieves, but even the Jufeng thieves dare not go to the expedition.

Earlier, Gao Ruowang actually sent troops to attack the Jufeng bandits, but was killed by these bandits and fled in panic. He knew how trash their official troops were.

They must have appointed the Qiang General of the Guards of the new Dengzhou Camp, but the Qiang General of the Guards was also killed in the process of suppressing the bandits. However, he was a little embarrassed to be killed, that was, he did not fight with the Jufeng thief's crossing the mountain peak, and was frightened by his opponent. He fell off his horse and was trampled to death by his own horse.

Gao Ruowang still reported it in the name of his death. In fact, his original intention was to win a good result and a good pension for his subordinates. Who knew that he was found out by the governor Chen Yingyuan, who scolded him for being shameless, which made both sides not very happy.

The fact that the military and political affairs of Dengzhou cannot be restored before was mainly because the court's support was insufficient.

During the Wuqiao Mutiny, hundreds of thousands of troops were gathered here. However, after the mutiny was pacified, these troops from all over the country retreated one by one, or guarded outside the pass, and perhaps pursued and suppressed bandits. There were indeed not many people who stayed in the local area. In this regard, the original intention was to reduce the pressure on the local area, but the pressure on the local area is too light now.

Gao Ruowang is not Liu Bu and the others. In order to train the monks, Liu Bu and others tried their best to pay money and spent a lot of money to make it.

Gao Ruowang, on the other hand, draws 10% according to the rules. The so-called draws 10% according to the rules refer to the military pay and military rations allocated from the above. They all intercept 10% according to the rules in case of emergency needs.

Of course, when these food and money were transferred to him, they had already been deducted a lot. Without money or food, how could they train a good soldier?

But today, since Zheng Zhibao took over, the situation has been different.

Liu Bu ordered Xiao Ning to lead a thousand servants to Dengzhou to listen to his father-in-law's office, which was considered to support his father-in-law's work.

These thousand servants saw that they were all tall, strong and tough, and they were wearing brand new mandarin duck battle jackets. All of them were good armors such as fish scale armor or Mingguang armor above the flag, and there were also a team of more than 100 knights. Seeing such luxurious equipment, even Chen Yingyuan drooled.

He knew the strength and strength of the Liu family's army, but to this point, it was beyond his surprise. He just sent his father-in-law to support him, and he had such personnel. It was probably not that the Liu family's strength would be below this.

Dengzhou is a military town, and people who are engaging in the local area are basically reluctant to know the military and have a little knowledge of the military. When you see the style of the Liu family's army, you will know that this is an elite army.

In fact, it is actually quite simple to observe a unit now, and there is no professional vision. In Sun Chengzong's words, it is to look at the soldiers of a unit. Even if they are not pale and thin, they are considered elite.

If you understand it a little more simply, it is a unit that can be eaten, even an elite unit.

All the Liu family soldiers were energetic, strong, and extremely high morale. Just by looking at their neat queues and majestic steps, they could be judged as elite troops.

Chen Yingyuan was very unhappy about Zheng Zhibao being the general of Dengzhou. He knew that after Zheng Lai as the general of Dengzhou, he would definitely not cooperate with his work. He would definitely be in a sensation with Liu Yuanqiao and completely emptied him, the governor.

In the past, Liu Yuanqiao served as the governor of Laizhou, and he had almost wiped out his name. Now his brothers are also the general of Dengzhou, which is almost the same as the soldiers of the three Eastern Palaces.

The general of Dengzhou is just a local name. In fact, its full name is the chief of the 24th office of the three main camps of the Governor of the East Three Prefectures.

Zheng Zhibao is not a weak general like Gao Ruowang. He has his own fleet. Now his in-laws have sent more than a thousand most elite soldiers. With the huge financial resources of their Liu Zheng family, they will probably be able to gain a foothold in the local area soon.

Chen Yingyuan originally wanted to make the other party a move and then leave after he couldn't do it, but now it seems that it's not easy.

Chen Yingyuan was actually quite bad for being the governor of Denglai, because his performance in all aspects was average, and he was already regarded as the worst governor of Denglai in history by local gentry and powerful people. The government and the people suggested that the position of governor of Denglai be removed because it was useless and consumed only money and food. Compared with the best governor of Denglai Yuan Keli, one in the sky and the other underground.

Yuan Keli was a Jinshi in the 17th year of Wanli. He went through the four emperors of Wanli, Taichang, Tianqi and Chongzhen. He was a minister of the four dynasties and was rewarded by the five generations of eternal honor. He served as the Promoter of Suzhou Prefecture, the Censor of the City, the Zuo Tongzheng, and the Minister of War (emperor). Yuan Keli, together with Yuan Chonghuan and Yuan Yingtai in the late Ming Dynasty, were also known as the Three Yuans of Wu.

This person even heard of Liu Bu. He was called the Later Jin Crusher by later generations. He was a great man. Unfortunately, Yuan Keli was influenced by Gao Panlong, Feng Congwu and other Donglin scholars were too deeply influenced by the faction of the party and officials. The conflicts with Wei Zhongxian and the eunuch party intensified. He submitted a memorial to the emperor. After that, he was reluctant to enter the office and was abandoned at home, stayed in the door, and eventually died of illness and was able to die a good life.

During the Tianqi period, Guangning was lost, the government and the country were shaking, and the capital was martial law. Emperor Tianqi was worried about border affairs day and night, "It was necessary to suppress Denglai, so he was appointed as the official of the government with a wise and axe, and was appointed as the left-right chief censor Yuan Ke, and the governor Denglai and other places were prepared for troops to defend the sea and manage military affairs in the east."

Yuan Keli, a great man who was pacified for three years, prepared troops, built cities, recruited refugees, and stationed troops among the islands, and advanced sea defense step by step, so that the old slave could not see the west.

In particular, he led the Denglai Navy to contact the islands and recovered Lushun, causing hundreds of miles of land in southern Liao to be reclaimed to the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the government and the people celebrated each other and thought that the establishment of a town had not achieved such a victory.

Yuan Keli made drastic moves in office, contacted the islands, recovered Lushun, recruited surrenders and rebels, and almost destroyed Jiannu. He successfully instigated the old slave's son-in-law Liu Aita, which caused an unprecedented blow to the Jiannu army, and immediately dismantled the Han generals of the Later Jin Dynasty. Historical records, Yuan Keli "accepted Liu Aita's surrender, and used the slaves to carry two, and the Chinese rebel generals were killed by slaves and barbarians.

Unfortunately, after Liu Aita surrendered, he was not valued by Yuan Chonghuan, and eventually died in the battlefield. Or the Ming Dynasty was so bad that he was so representative that he didn't know how to treat him as a typical example, but instead used it as an ordinary war future. Liu Bu sighed: "If I could recruit such a person, I would take him as my ancestor and would never let him go to the battlefield."

Yuan Keli's hard work in managing the coastal defense was constrained by Wei Zhongxian everywhere. In the end, Yuan Keli made anger and resigned from his post.

This is the characteristic of the Ming Dynasty's political struggle since Wanli, that is, the party is the same and the differences. As long as you are the same as me, no matter what you do, it is right. If you don't go with me, then it is wrong. This is the case with Wei Zhongxian's eunuch party, and the gentlemen led by the Donglin Party. Under such an exchange, how can the Ming Dynasty be destroyed?
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