Chapter 356
Beijing, the spring breeze in February is like scissors. Although the spring breeze was howling outside, it was as warm as spring inside Wenyuan Pavilion, which even made Wang Yingxiong break into a slight sweat.
This is not surprising. Even Zu Dashou in Jinzhou and even Huang Taiji in Shenyang have used heating. It would be a shame if these figures who hold the power of the Ming Empire don't use it.
The tired look on Wen Tiren's face deepened. News that Ning Haijun and Li Guofu were directly bombarded to death by Wu Sheng with a coastal defense gun and that even the body was not found reached the capital, which scared Wen Tiren into a cold sweat.
All along, what he wanted to see most was to drive Cheng Shijie to a dead end and force Cheng Shijie to quarrel with Emperor Chongzhen. From then on, Cheng Shijie could only rebel.
But the problem is that Cheng Shijie wants to rebel because he is unpopular and cannot achieve great things. But the problem is that Ning Haijun's combat effectiveness is an issue that no one can ignore.
Just like now, Cheng Shijie took action. Unlike how they dealt with Gao Qiqian, he sent a force to ambush him halfway and put the blame on some bandit. Emperor Chongzhen and the Manchu civil servants were also at the same level. But Cheng Shijie's reason was a slap in the face.
Li Guofu did not report his itinerary to Wusongkou, but the coastal defense artillery fired shells directly at Li Guofu's boat. This is an open artillery bombardment. This is Cheng Shijie demonstrating, using practical actions to tell Emperor Chongzhen and the Manchu civil servants who has the final say in the army.
Now that Cheng Shijie has taken action, they feel a sense of fear. You must know that the current Ning Navy still has part of it in Yanqing and part of it in Jingan Fort, that is, Miyun County. It has nearly seven or eight thousand troops. The defense line of Fudong Road.
As Luo Yonghao said: "In the eyes of prostitutes, there is no woman in the world who is not for sale. The upper limit they can understand when they hear rumors that a woman is not for sale is that the price has not been agreed upon!"
Wen Tiren is like a prostitute in Luo Yonghao's eyes. He thinks that Cheng Shijie will definitely be like him, doing everything possible for political struggle, including seeking refuge with Huang Taiji. In Wen Tiren's eyes, once Cheng Shijie breaks up with Emperor Chongzhen, the greatest possibility That is to say, to join Jiannu, with Cheng Shijie's ability, Huang Taiji will definitely give Cheng Shijie a good price, or if he fails to pay this price, he will become the king.
Now Wen Tiren is anxious: "Master Wang, it's best for you to go!"
"Come out of seclusion now?"
"You must get out of seclusion immediately!"
Wen Tiren looked helpless: "We must find out what Huang Taiji means!"
The current situation is an offensive and defensive shift. If Cheng Shijie defected to Huang Taiji, then they would be far less useful to Huang Taiji than Cheng Shijie. After all, Cheng Shijie was too good at fighting.
Wen Tiren frowned even more tightly.
Facing the pressing pressure of the reform forces from outside Liaodong, the Wenchen Group certainly will not sit still and wait for death. They have been preparing a counterattack. It is too difficult to overwhelm them by making more dazzling political achievements than Cheng Shijie, but what the party strives for is never political achievements, but power. It just so happens that the power of this country is in their hands. Using the power in their hands, they are confident to destroy all forces that threaten their status!
Ordinarily, Cheng Shijie is on the verge of breaking out now, and they should mess with Cheng Shijie less. But the problem is, they can't do this, they must push Cheng Shijie to death.
Wen Tiren coughed after reading several memorials and said: "This won't work. We don't have much time to waste with that stubborn donkey. Let's find two famous young men to give us advice!"
"Dead remonstrance" means to remonstrate with death and risk one's own life to remonstrate. If the emperor does not accept it, they will be killed on the spot on the pillar of the hall. This method of remonstration is quite tragic and is rarely used.
Seeing that Emperor Chongzhen even had Li Guofu die, he wanted to endure such a thing. Their civil servant group had to take him down, so they had no choice but to make this move!
The reasons for impeaching Cheng Shijie are also ready-made. Wu Sheng, under Cheng Shijie, bombarded Li Guofu. For this reason, he was impeached for his low-level crimes and his disobedience.
In the Imperial Study Room of Bauhinia City, at this moment, Emperor Chongzhen was actually very angry. Emperor Chongzhen thought about using Li Guofu's head to calm Cheng Shijie's anger. In fact, even if Cheng Shijie didn't take action, he was still planning to transport the money to the capital with Li Guofu, and he would give Cheng Shijie an explanation in the name of accepting bribes to rectify Li Guofu's death.
After all, Li Guofu proposed to annex Liaodong and sow a wedge between him and Cheng Shijie.
But the problem is that Cheng Shijie's methods are too cruel. Even if he sends a small force to ambush Gao Qiqian, Emperor Chongzhen will recognize it and lose face. However, bombarding the supervisory troops sent by Emperor Chongzhen will But it's a slap in Emperor Chongzhen's face.
Now he wanted Cheng Shijie to lead the Ning Navy to quell the Dashun Army entrenched in Shandong, Henan and the northern part of South Zhili. After all, the Dashun Army controlled hundreds of miles of the Grand Canal. The price of food in the capital has skyrocketed. Emperor Chongzhen's scalp was numb, but something like this happened again.
Emperor Chongzhen, who was complaining endlessly, did not realize that a greater crisis was approaching him.
Of course, this has nothing to do with Cheng Shijie.
Cheng Shijie did not leave Tianjin Wei, but stopped at Tianjin Wei. He guessed that Emperor Chongzhen would talk to him. If he were to put himself in his shoes and change the positions of Cheng Shijie and Emperor Chongzhen, Cheng Shijie would definitely put down his posture and save his life first. Let’s get through the immediate crisis.
Just like Meng En, the commander of the Ning Navy Guards Division, no matter what the reason was, he directly mobilized Ning Navy soldiers to force Cheng Shijie into the palace without Cheng Shijie's permission. There was no way he could let it go.
At the same time, including Chief of General Staff Zhou Ning, first of all, Cheng Shijie will replace Meng En as the commander of the Guards Division with Li Dingguo on the grounds that Meng En is injured and is not qualified to serve as the Commander of the Guards Division. At the same time, Wu Sheng was transferred back from Wusongkou and resumed his position as deputy chief of staff of Ning Haijun. He swapped Zhou Ning and Chang Yu and promoted Chang Yu to chief of general staff of Ning Haijun.
Although they are just the same, the authority is quite different.
Tianjin Wei was not yet the Tianjin City of later generations, but there was already a strong commercial atmosphere in the late Ming Dynasty. Cheng Shijie lived in a manor near Chaoyin Temple, which was an internal property of Ning Haijun.
Originally, Cheng Shijie was waiting for Emperor Chongzhen's attack, but he never thought that Emperor Chongzhen's attack was not waiting for him, but Yang Yuniang was waiting instead.
"Meet the Marshal!"
Cheng Shijie said with some confusion: "Why are you here?"
"Slave, there are some personal matters!"
When Yang Yuniang spoke, she could not hide her joy.
Since it was a private matter, Cheng Shijie didn't ask. If Yang Yuniang is willing to say it, she will say it. If she is not willing to say it, she will definitely not say it.
However, Yang Yuniang looked at Cheng Shijie and seemed to be uninterested, so she asked, "Commander, aren't you wondering why I came to Tianjin Guard?"
Cheng Shijie smiled lightly and said, "Did you find your family?"
This matter is easy to guess. If it is a business matter of Liaodong Bank, there is definitely no need for her to come. Since she is here, it means that it is a matter of his life experience. Her master Feng Sanniang is still alive, and Yang Yunniang's biological parents are lucky enough to be alive.
However, Cheng Shijie is not optimistic about this family meeting. There are too many things like funerals. However, Yang Yuniang is a little different, because she is too rich now, not ordinary rich, even if her biological parents have to pass away. One hundred thousand taels of silver is nothing to Yang Yunniang!
Of course, Yang Yunniang is still full of expectations.
Cheng Shijie did not hit Yang Yunniang. At this time, Hou Si sent information.
"Commander. Lanzhou intelligence!"
Cheng Shijie was also worried about Lanzhou's intelligence, but he was beyond his reach.
Fortunately, this information was sent very timely. It can be said that the Battle of Lanzhou started on the eighth day of November in the eighth year of Chongzhen. The originally defeated Gansu troops, led by Zhang Jiwu, the commander of the Lanzhou Guard, persisted for more than ten days. After running out of ammunition and food, When Jue Lanzhou was about to fall, Ning Navy Cavalry under Qi Yan arrived in Lanzhou. With the cooperation of Qi Yan and Admiral Ning, Lanzhou fought to the end. When Lanzhou was about to fall, Zhao Wencai led more than 18,000 Ning Navy Cavalry. Riding to Lanzhou.
At that time, Zhao Wencai's troops divided into four groups and bypassed Lanzhou to attack Jungar's old, weak, sick and disabled people in Zhuanglang. When Zhungar's army returned for reinforcements, Zhao Wencai led his men to take the opportunity to break through the Lanzhou encirclement and rush into Lanzhou City. They persisted until the 19th day of the first lunar month of the ninth year of Chongzhen. Sun Chuanting led his army, and his servants Ding Wang Chengsi and Sun Jian attacked the Jungar camp at night. At this time, the Jungar army saw that the situation was not good and took the initiative to retreat.
The siege of Lanzhou was finally lifted, but Lanzhou was trapped for more than two months. More than 34,000 officers died in the battle, including more than 7,000 Ning Haijun cavalry. Fortunately, although Ning Haijun suffered heavy losses, he still Defended Lanzhou City.
It can also be said that the nine-sided crisis has finally been resolved. The elimination of the nine-sided crisis does not mean that the Ming Dynasty will be fine. There are still two larger groups of rogue bandits in the Ming Dynasty. One of them is the Dashun Army led by Song Xiance. There was also the army under Li Zicheng, which after occupying Nanyang, invaded Jingxiang.
After more than two months of siege, Xiangyang City was captured on February 15, the ninth year of Chongzhen. With the capture of Xiangyang City, Prince Zhu Changcheng of Xiang, one of the most greedy vassal kings in the Ming Dynasty, was captured by Li Zicheng. They raided the house and hung Zhu Changcheng from a tree, which meant that the property that King Xiang had worked so hard to obtain also became Li Zicheng's property.
In fact, Li Zicheng first robbed the Tang Dynasty family property in Nanyang and then the Xiangwang family property in Xiangyang. For a time, he had a large number of weapons and steel. The soldiers and horses included Nanyang Guard, Xiangyang Guard and other guards to join the army. Li Zicheng's The soldiers and horses seemed to blow up like balloons.
It is known as an army of more than 500,000 people. Of course, most of it must be water, or civilians acting as cannon fodder, but it is still very easy to deal with the Huguang army, which has been at peace for a long time.
Tang Hui, the governor of Huguang, mobilized troops to extinguish the uprising. At the same time, he urgently reported to the Ministry of War, requesting troops to be sent for support.
There was no way, millions of refugees in the Jingxiang mountainous area rose up under Li Zicheng's instigation, and the entire Jingxiang area turned into an erupting volcano. The scumbag troops in Huguang could not extinguish this volcano!
News of the fall of Jingxiang reached Beijing. King Xiang was the only vassal king killed by the rebels in this time and space. This forced Emperor Chongzhen to go to the Ancestral Temple to plead guilty.
The current Emperor Chongzhen is also in a very difficult situation. The defenses of Xuanfu and Datong have become ineffective. He finally managed to hold down the Mobei Mongolian army that went south. If the nine-border army is mobilized, if the slaves break through from there, it will be divided. It only takes a few minutes, but although the Ming Dynasty has many armies, most of them only exist in the military register of the Ministry of War.
The Tianxiong Army only has so many troops. He also hopes that this elite can join the nine-border defense line and stabilize the nine-border defense line. The only way is to mobilize Ning Haijun to fight against the rogue bandits, like the autumn wind. Help him sweep away the bandits just like sweeping fallen leaves!
But the problem is that as soon as this proposal was put forward, it was immediately opposed by the ministers. Cheng Shijie's disobedience was clearly revealed. He dared to bombard Li Guofu, the supervisor of Ninghai Navy today, and he dared to bombard the Forbidden City tomorrow. Who dares to protect Cheng Shijie and his Ning Haijun from rebelling?
If we follow this logic, it is natural that Ning Haijun cannot be mobilized.
Cheng Shijie naturally didn't know that anyone was still thinking about his army. He was currently enjoying a hot bath. Cheng Shijie was enjoying the hot bath while listening to Hou Si telling him the gossip about Tianjin Wei.
(End of chapter)
