He Yiqing knew his own suffering. He had read the books of sages and wanted to bring peace to all the people in the world. However, after a few years in the officialdom, reality told him how ridiculous his original idea was. Who is willing to do such a thing? However, interests determine
After everything, He Yiqing could do nothing, even not come to Henan, but what would be the result?
He Yiqing did not answer Sun Chuanting. In his opinion, Sun Chuanting was still living in a dream. But Tie Mo had to give a satisfactory answer. No matter what, he must at least get his son back first. After hesitating for a long time, He Yiqing lowered his head.
He arched his hands and gave a salute, "Tie Superintendent, I will report to the court tomorrow. In recent days, I have been feeling very unwell. It's time to go home and recuperate."
Saying these words almost exhausted all the energy in He Yiqing's body. This meant that he almost gave up his official career, bowed to Tie Mo, almost disrupted the cabinet's deployment in the Central Plains, and he would certainly not be accepted into the officialdom.
Sure enough, Tie Mo nodded with satisfaction and gestured to Zhou Dingshan next to him, "Don't worry, Mr. He, Mr. He's life is not in danger. However, I suggest Mr. He to renew his string as soon as possible while his body and bones are still good!
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"???" He Yiqing was stunned for a moment, and then his whole body seemed to collapse, and his face turned pale as paper. He soon understood that it was over, his son's life was cut off, hate? Yes, the hatred in his heart was overwhelming.
, but there is also some helplessness. If Tie Mo is more cruel, his son's life will be lost, but living like this, will the rest of his life be meaningful?
"Superintendent, why are you doing this? The subordinate has already made a concession." He Yi cleared his throat and asked expressionlessly. Tie Mo slammed the table and said angrily in a cold voice: "You still have the nerve to ask
Why, you should go back and ask your good son! He Yiqing, I might as well tell you, if you dare to talk nonsense again, believe it or not, I will even cut your whole family into pieces?"
He Yiqing suddenly felt a chill in his heart. He just opened his mouth, but didn't dare to say a word. He was sure that Tie Mo could do it. This guy completely ignored the court's laws and dared to do anything. Others do this.
Everything was done in secret, but Tie Mo had the guts to say this in front of everyone. He was completely confident.
At this point, He Yiqing could only sigh. He really shouldn't have come to the Central Plains in the first place, let alone follow his wife's plan. In the end, He Yiqing was the only one who was unlucky. Tie Mo was not a fool, he would not really go.
The capital was confronting those in the cabinet, so all that was left was to take action on He. His adopted son He Tang was killed on the spot, his own son He Minghan became a cripple, and He Yiqing was forced to retire and return to his hometown.
He retired from old age and returned to his hometown. He was only in his forties, in the prime of life and in the prime of life. But reality often forces people to bow their heads. When He Yiqing retired, the future pattern of the Central Plains was roughly determined. The imperial court wanted to continue
group
The governor of Henan, that will be a matter later, but after this incident, officials at all levels in Henan should also use their brains. At least people like Min Zhengyuan and Li Zhengqian have become die-hard Iron-Mo party members, and Yu Chenglong is almost the same.
In the days that followed, Kaifeng did not seem to be affected by the turmoil. In the eyes of the people, it was just the border troops who went to Lishan to annihilate a wave of grass bandits. At most, it added a bit of talk after dinner. There was some officialdom.
According to the rules in the officialdom, no matter how much trouble anyone makes, it will be fine. They cannot expose it to outsiders. If the common people know what is going on here, will the court become a laughing stock?
After Hai Lanzhu returned safely, she did not rest for too long. She started to get busy the next day. She and Xiao Ruxue met with many local wealthy families in the Central Plains for several days, including the Zheng family in Xingyang and the Wang family in Dengfeng. They all reached a preliminary agreement.
In this way, the market in northern Shanxi finally opened its door to the Central Plains. It is not that the cabinet is unaware of the situation here, but they have no good solution. This is a matter of private shopping malls. No matter how overbearing the cabinet is, it cannot force others to do business.
In recent days, the Central Plains has become increasingly stable, and the remnants of the rogue bandits have also been wiped out. Of course, there are still some remaining forces that dare not take the lead now. The situation in the Central Plains has improved, and the people's lives have returned to their original state, but the people of Bashu can't.
After Zhang Xianzhong retreated along Zhushan, in order to avoid being chased by officers and soldiers, Zhang Xianzhong
, fled all the way to the west, and a few days later they broke through the Jiudaoliang River mouth and poured into Sichuan. Qin Liangyu, who was stationed in northern Sichuan, was still leading troops outside, and Wu Guofu, the veteran general in northern Sichuan, had also died in the battle, leaving no one in northern Sichuan to stop Zhang Xianzhong's troops from entering Sichuan.
Later, it only took one day for the remaining troops of Zhang Xianzhong to attack Wushan.
Wushan is located in the eastern part of northern Sichuan. You can enter Shizhou to the south, plunder Jingxiang to the east, and capture Wanxian and Kaixian, which are relatively wealthy in northern Sichuan, to the west. The terrain of Wushan is dangerous, easy to defend but difficult to attack. Zhang Xianzhong occupied this place.
It can be said that he has found a good habitat for himself. Zhang Xianzhong's occupation of Wushan was also planned for a long time.
He saw that Gao Yingxiang went to Shizhou, and then occupied Wushan. Shizhou had become Gao Yingxiang's territory, and the chieftains and the court were all attracted to Gao Yingxiang. On the contrary, no one wanted to take care of the Wushan area to the north of Shizhou.
By taking advantage of Gao Yingxiang's opportunity to attract the court's attention, Zhang Xianzhong could do many things in Wushan.
Zhang Xianzhong has always been a fierce guy. He doesn't care about reputation at all, let alone what others think. The day after occupying Wushan, Zhang Xianzhong gave an order, and a tragic thing happened in northern Sichuan.
On the first day of August in the fourth year of Chongzhen, the rogue bandit Zhang Xianzhong, who was entrenched in Wushan, ordered his troops to rush to Wanxian County. After the rogue bandits arrived at the boundary of Wanxian County, they burned, killed and looted, and all the crops in the field that were not yet mature were cut down. After leaving, the bandits burned, killed and looted.
When he was in Wan County, Zhang Xianzhong
The commander set a fire and almost burned Wanxian County to ashes. This looting alone left more than 200,000 people in Wanxian County homeless and without food to eat. The already barren northern Sichuan suffered this
The disaster was like entering hell, and the people's lives were unsustainable.
Not long after, Zhang Xianzhong asked people to open porridge shacks in the towns west of Wushan. Anyone who was willing to follow Zhang to rebel would have food and clothing. At one time, tens of thousands of refugees from Wanxian County poured into Wushan, and in the blink of an eye, Zhang Xianzhong opened a porridge shack.
There were tens of thousands of people in the village, and the power was rapidly expanding. Don't the refugees know why they have no food? But they want to live even more. At this time, they will listen to whoever tells them to live.
This is not the first time that Zhang Xianzhong has used this trick. He also did it in the past in northern Shaanxi, and it worked repeatedly. Zhang Xianzhong understands very clearly that as long as there are enough refugees, he, Mr. Zhang, will not worry about not being able to recruit people.
Otherwise, we would not have so simply thrown away the lives of tens of thousands of minions in Nanyang Mansion.
Of course, Zhang Xianzhong would not be stupid enough to think that if he had more people under his command, he would be able to cause trouble everywhere. After recruiting many refugees, he ordered Ai Keqi and others to train and brainwash these refugees. Compared with Zhang Xianzhong's high-profile work, Shizhou's
Gao Yingxiang was not so happy. After entering Shizhou, he realized how complicated the situation in Shizhou was.
Eight hundred mountains, eight hundred tribes, three thousand rivers and dozens of chieftains. Facing Gao Yingxiang, an outsider, these chieftains suddenly became united and wanted to drive Gao Yingxiang out of Huguang. Guizhou was not at peace either. Chieftain An's family
He and the Song family also sent troops to the Shizhou border, intending to take advantage of the chaos while Gao Yingxiang was making trouble with the Shizhou chieftain.
Gao Yingxiang had a headache. Before coming to Shizhou, he didn't expect these chieftains to be so difficult to deal with. If he really wanted to fight them, he was really not afraid of these chieftains. The key was that if they couldn't beat them, they would hide in the mountains and go up the mountains. These people were deep-sea dragons.
All of them were very fierce. Zheng Guosong, who was under Li Zicheng, fought several battles with chieftain Huang Yuqing and suffered several painful losses.
After all, the men from the North are not very good at mountain warfare, and they have no idea about the terrain in Huguang. Gao Yingxiang, who has a head as big as a bucket, finally accepted Niu Jinxing's suggestion and began to shrink his troops and concentrate on attacking.
Several cities in Shizhou. The peasant army no longer struggled with the chieftains, but turned around and attacked Shizhou. Now the court was a little upset.
To put it bluntly, the imperial court had jurisdiction over Shizhou, but in fact the military and political power in Shizhou and other places were still in the hands of the chieftains. The peasant army attacked Shizhou, and Xiangyang and Jiangling Prefectures intended to mobilize troops to reinforce Shizhou, but Shizhou
The chieftains headed by the Huang family in the state directly refused. Having Gao Yingxiang is enough to make people upset. If the imperial court sends troops to cause trouble again, will the chieftains not be able to survive?
The chieftains of Huguang said they would not let the court control it, but the peasant army attacked Shizhou, and the chieftains had to send troops to rescue them. Now, the chieftains' troops could no longer hide in the mountains. When they arrived near Shizhou, a large-scale confrontation broke out
, who were the rivals of Li Zicheng's chieftains? A few days later, Shizhou changed hands, but Gao Yingxiang was not too happy.
Shizhou took it, but it was Li Zicheng who made the greatest contribution. His reputation as Gao Yingxiang was far inferior to that of Li Zicheng. If not for various considerations, he would not have followed Niu Jinxing's suggestion and forcibly attacked Tusi Dazhai.
The successive incidents in Shizhou and Wushan had a huge impact on the imperial court, especially in Wushan. Qin Liangyu was most worried. The imperial transfer order had not been issued yet, and she was already anxious to return to northern Sichuan, but she had other ideas. In the evening,
Qin Liangyu left the camp and rode to Kaifeng. After finding Tie Mo, she raised her hands and said, "Supervisor, the situation in northern Sichuan has deteriorated, and Qin has to go back early."
"Of course it should be. Commander-in-Chief Qin can go back tomorrow. As for food, fodder and military pay, I will pay the full amount to everyone. If the court asks about it, only I will explain it to you!"
Qin Liangyu breathed a sigh of relief. What she was most worried about now was money and food. Money and food were needed not only for the war, but also for disaster relief in northern Sichuan. However, northern Sichuan was poor. Now that the iron governor was so generous, it solved a big problem in her mind.
"General, on behalf of the millions of people in northern Sichuan, thank you for your great kindness, general..." Qin Liangyu said halfway, hesitating slightly. Tie Mo smiled and said, "General Qin has other things to do? Although
explain!"
"This... Supervisor, before, General Wu and the bandits fought in a bloody battle at Jianmen Pass, and Erlang in northern Sichuan suffered heavy casualties. Now there are too many soldiers and horses in northern Sichuan, and their combat power is worrying. The general is thinking...
.Can the Superintendent send a group of elite troops to go to northern Sichuan with the general? Superintendent, rest assured that the general will try our best to satisfy him in terms of salary... There is no need for the Superintendent to worry..."
Mentioning the old general Wu Guofu, Tie Mo's mood dimmed a little. What Qin Liangyu said was true. With the existing troops in Bashu, trying to restrain Zhang Xianzhong was nothing more than a fantasy. However, if troops were deployed to northern Sichuan, the situation would be a bit complicated.
"Commander Qin, it's not impossible to send troops to help you. I don't want to see northern Sichuan being tortured repeatedly, but have you ever thought about what the imperial court would think if I sent troops there?"
"I have thought about this matter, but for the sake of the people of Bashu, I don't have to worry about so much!" Qin Liangyu spoke sincerely and had a very firm attitude. She thought very clearly that she would do whatever could be done to anyone who could help Bashu relieve its worries. As for the imperial court
No matter how you look at it, I can’t care about it for the moment.
"Hey, since General Qin has thought about it, I won't say anything more. Let's do this. I will transfer Geng Zhongming and Chen Yaofeng, and send five thousand more elite troops to accompany you back to northern Sichuan. As for food and salary
I will try my best to resolve this matter, so there is no need to trouble General Qin."
"Thank you, Commander-in-Chief, for your kindness!"
Qin Liangyu was so excited that he bowed and gave a great gift. Geng Zhongming and Chen Yaofeng were both shrewd and changeable, and the other brave. The five thousand elite soldiers may not seem like many, but the combat effectiveness of the northern Shanxi frontier army was enough to withstand an army of thirty thousand.
Tie Mo quickly stood up and supported Qin Liangyu, and said with a little sigh: "General Qin doesn't have to be like this. I don't want to see the Ming Dynasty being ruined by rogue bandits. I can help if I can. The reason why I sent troops to northern Sichuan is,
I also know General Qin’s character, and if it were anyone else, I wouldn’t dare to hand these people over with confidence.”
Qin Liangyu could only smile bitterly in return. Sometimes, he really felt that the court was unfair. Regardless of whether the Iron Governor had selfish motives or not, he had made great contributions in suppressing the bandits. Not to mention that he had not given any reward so far, and he still got it.
A governor of three provinces and a governor of Henan.
Just as the Superintendent said, if you hand over the soldiers and horses in your hand casually, they might be used as cannon fodder by others. However, she, Qin Liangyu, would not do such a thing, just to take out so much food before the Iron Superintendent
To Bashu Erlang, she, Qin, can't do those ungrateful and bad things.
Early the next morning, Tie Mo passed on the news of dispatching troops to Bashu. Others were fine, but Chen Yaofeng and Geng Zhongming were about to get busy. Especially Geng Zhongming, he had more to do than this.
At noon, Geng Zhongming carried a jug of wine to a mansion, which was Kong Youde's temporary residence. After entering the courtyard gate, he saw Kong Youde sitting under a big tree eating watermelon with several lieutenants. Geng Zhongming coughed twice.
After making a sound and winking, several lieutenants understood and hurriedly made excuses to leave. Without the outsiders, Kong Youde put down the watermelon in his hand and said with a smile: "Brother Geng, what's the matter, you can't say it in front of everyone?"
"Nothing, let's have a drink and chat. Brother Kong, we brothers haven't talked about what's on our minds for a long time, right?"
