Back at the Qianqing Palace, before Chongzhen had time to take a sip of water, the first assistant, Wen Tiren, had already sent over the imperial edict to promote Chen Qiyu to the position of Shangshu of the Ministry of War and governor of the military of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Huguang, and Sichuan.

Chongzhen opened it and took a look, and a beautiful calligraphy and calligraphy came into his face. Regardless of the content, the font alone was pleasing to the eye. "Wen Tiren is quite effective at doing things." Chongzhen was still very satisfied with Wen Tiren.

In Chongzhen's view, Wen Tiren, as a "lone minister", did not form any clique or seek selfish interests in the court, and devoted himself to official affairs conscientiously. Such a person would prevent Chongzhen from losing his mind.

1 Wang Chengen, who was accompanying Chongzhen, took advantage of the situation and said: "Your Majesty still has a discerning eye, otherwise Mr. Wen, this thousand-mile horse, will be buried among all living beings."

This was a pleasant thing to say. Although Chongzhen's expression did not change, his brows and eyes were full of smiles. Handing the imperial edict to Wang Chengen, Chongzhen said calmly: "Use the seal."

Then as if he thought of something, Chongzhen said sadly: "I regret that I should have listened to Lu Jiandou's honest and honest advice, otherwise Pei Xiaoer of Hanzhong would not be in such a dire situation that it is now difficult to cure."

Wang Chengen's heart trembled when he heard these words. There are no bad parents in the world, and by extension, there are no bad kings and fathers in the world. Chongzhen's words were a disguised admission of his own mistakes. If this was applied to others, it would naturally sound like It is so light that it has no weight, but when it is placed on an emperor, it is like a heavy burden falling suddenly. It is often accompanied by changes in the structure of the court, involving changes in the life and death of hundreds of millions of people.

Sure enough, after Chongzhen sighed, he asked: "Is Lu Jiandou still in the prison?"

Wang Chengen knew that he had to speak. He first put away the jade seal in his hand, then turned around and said respectfully: "Go back to the emperor, he is still in the prison."

"You go to the prison and release Lu Jiandou and bring him to see me."

In history, during the Chongzhen Dynasty, although rogue bandits arose in droves and spread to several provinces, it was not because all rogue bandits did not know the benefits of occupying a piece of territory and developing slowly, which they could not do.

The imperial court is not a fool. A group of rogue bandits wandering in all directions may seem to be doing great harm, but in fact they are like duckweeds without roots. As long as they concentrate their forces and defeat a few times, the rebel bandits will be almost gone. On the contrary, if there is an army of bandits, After raising an army, conquering cities and territories, without killing people, without looting money or food, and developing oneself step by step steadily is the greatest threat to the imperial court.

The monarchs and ministers of the Ming Dynasty naturally knew how Taizu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang developed in the past. The emperors and ministers of the Ming Dynasty understood the principle of building walls high, hoarding grain widely, and becoming king slowly.

Therefore, no matter how many rebels there are or how great the damage is, as long as the trend stabilizes, that is the priority target of the imperial court. At that time, the Pei family army occupied prefectures and counties in southern Shanxi and attacked four times with great momentum, so Chongzhen He immediately mobilized an army of more than 100,000 to encircle and suppress him, fearing that over time, the people's support would change.

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After the Pei family's army wandered in all directions, Chongzhen gave up the encirclement and suppression of the Pei family's army and treated them the same as other rogue bandits. Unexpectedly, without paying attention, he allowed the Pei family's army to take root in Hanzhong.

At this time, in Chongzhen's mind, Pei Xiaoer was once again mentioned as the first person to be dealt with first, and his status directly surpassed that of Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and others who were wandering in all directions, and could be compared with the Manchu slaves outside the customs who repeatedly crossed the border.

"I obey." Wang Chengen agreed and slowly withdrew.

Guangshan County.

Zhang Xianzhong's camp has received an uninvited guest in recent days. Unexpectedly, Zhang Xianzhong, who has always been irritable, did not drive him out directly. Instead, he stayed in the army for the time being.

Zhang Xianzhong came from a poor family. He worked as a police officer before, and later joined the army. In the army, he developed a violent character and extremely hated the Ming Dynasty bureaucrats. This also led to the fact that in all the cities that Zhang Xianzhong captured, the wealthy households and officials in the cities had no

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At this time, Zhang Xianzhong has been having a bad time in recent days and has lost the arrogance he had a month ago. A month ago, he had just plundered Queshan, Shangcai and other places, and was about to besiege Runan again. Unexpectedly, he was captured from Huguang

Zuo Liangyu, who came over, led his troops to sneak attack and returned with a heavy defeat.

Later, Zhang Xianzhong, unwilling to fail, wanted to re-attack and deliberately headed north, pretending to attack Xiangcheng, luring Zuo Liangyu to go north for rescue, while he ambushed him on the way.

However, Zuo Liangyu was much smarter than Wang Pu and did not fall for the trick. Instead, he used the trick and defeated Zhang Xianzhong on the Xiangcheng Road. In the following days, Zhang Xianzhong and Zuo Liangyu fought many times, and Zuo Liangyu seemed to be Zhang Xianzhong's natural enemy.

, in any battle, Zhang Xianzhong will be defeated.

After several major defeats, Zhang Xianzhong suffered heavy losses. Even Zhang Xianzhong himself became afraid of Zuo Liangyu and did not dare to fight Zuo Liangyu. He led the remaining army to flee to Guangshan County area, preparing to see that the situation was not going well.

Fleeed south into the Dabie Mountains.

At this time, hundreds of people in Zhang Xianzhong's tent surrounded the middle tent, and not even a fly could fly out.

In the camp, Sun Yueshao looked at Zhuang Yuanzhen who was calm beside him with some confusion, and said worriedly: "Sir, you said that the general asked us to follow Wang Bingzhong to the south of the Yangtze River, but now the man named Wang has gone to Zhang Xianzhong's camp.

What does he want? We still have more than 1 million taels of gold and silver. If something goes wrong, even if we chop off our heads, it won't be enough to apologize."

Zhuang Yuanzhen sat at a table and looked at the dilapidated tent with some curiosity. When he heard Sun Yueshao's complaints, he said impatiently: "You ask me, how do I know what the man named Wang wants to do?

Anyway, the general trusts this man surnamed Wang. Let us listen to this man surnamed Wang. Then we will do whatever he says. Besides, our money is not hidden. Our people are watching and we can’t get it out.

What's up."

Sun Yueshao wanted to say something else, but seeing Zhuang Yuanzhen's attitude, he could only bury all the words he wanted to say in his heart, and kept looking at the big tent not far away. At this time, Wang Bingzhong was discussing with Zhang Xianzhong.

I don't know how the negotiation went.

Zhang Xianzhong's tent was crowded with people, including his four adopted sons Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, Ai Nengqi, Sun Kewang and others. Zhang Xianzhong had a yellow face, looked at Wang Bingzhong unkindly, and said with a smile: "Pei Xiaoer sent me here."

?Don’t you know that I have a mortal feud with that boy named Pei? You dare to run into my military camp with such arrogance, aren’t you afraid that I will kill you?”

At the beginning, Zhang Xianzhong and Pei Xiaoer robbed Anyi, and in the end Zhang Xianzhong was defeated by Pei Xiaoer and fled in embarrassment. Now thinking about it, Zhang Xianzhong is still itching with hatred and wants to eat Pei Xiaoer's flesh to satisfy his heart.

Just hate.

It's just that he hasn't met Pei Xiaoer in the past two years. Zhang Xianzhong can only hide this hatred in his heart. He didn't expect that Pei Xiaoer would take the initiative to send people to find his camp today.

Wang Bingzhong didn't care, but glanced at the generals in the tent, and said calmly: "I know that my general has enmity with the eight kings. However, the enmity between the eight kings and our army is an internal enmity within the rebel army, not a small one.

hatred."

"Then what is a great feud?" Ai Nengqi asked.

p "Of course it is the enmity between the rebels and Baoming. The reason why our rebels raised armies was not because we were forced by the imperial court and could not survive, so we rose up in anger and overthrew Baoming. What's more, my trip is precisely to resolve the conflict between the two of us.

It comes from the grievances between families."

"That's easy to say, how do you resolve it?" Before Ai Nengqi could finish speaking, he was stopped by Zhang Xianzhong, "What's the point of talking to this person? That Pei Xiaoer and I have different fates. We want to resolve the grievances between us, unless that

Pei Xiaoer personally knelt in front of me and let me do whatever I wanted. Come on, pull this man out and chop him down."

As soon as Zhang Xianzhong finished speaking, a warrior immediately pulled Wang Bingzhong out of the camp and beheaded him. Unexpectedly, Wang Bingzhong neither shouted for mercy, nor was he so frightened that he was shaking like chaff, but followed the warrior straight out of the camp.

The guy Pei Xiaoer sent must be a fool. Ai Nengqi cursed in his heart. With such a pretense, they naturally wouldn't want to kill Wang Bingzhong directly. If they really wanted to kill him, why bother talking nonsense to him?

As early as when I discovered Wang Bingzhong's group, I took action directly.
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