After Zha Damou said this, Xu Fukui, the governor of Jiliao, looked at Zha Damhou with a look of astonishment.
He couldn't believe that Zha Damou would say such a thing.
So, after a while, Xu Fukui asked: "Did Li Chengliang give you other instructions?"
"Say it!"
Zha Damou then said: "To be precise, it was the Privy Council who directly issued a new edict to me, the town minister, because the Privy Council personally no longer has the authority to command me, the commander-in-chief of Ji Town."
Xu Fukui chuckled: "But I should understand that I was also involved in smuggling and shared the stolen money. And I don't think I received it, so the court shouldn't know about it, right? So, he, Li Chengliang, asked you not to cooperate." Governor, do you really dare not to cooperate?"
"Don't worry about it now."
"Because my subordinates were ordered to do this."
As Zha Damou spoke, he took out an imperial letter: "It is hard to disobey the emperor's orders. Sometimes, subordinates have to cooperate with the people in the ministry to do things that are sorry to the court."
"伱!"
"You are not from Li Chengliang, but from the emperor?"
At this time, Xu Fukui asked in shock.
Zha Dashou laughed and said: "It is about eating the emperor's salary and being loyal to the emperor. This town has been the emperor's people since he became an official. This is something that everyone in the world should know. So, why are the ministers so surprised?"
"What a mantis stalking the cicada and the oriole behind!"
Xu Fukui said something at this time and punched the battlement:
"I shouldn't be so smart that I want to get rid of Qi Jiguang out of greed!"
"Your Majesty has ordered me to serve as the commander of the Imperial Guard, so that I can act expeditiously and capture all the important criminals. Now you listen to my order, put down your weapons, take off your armor, and extinguish the fire. Otherwise, you will be punished for treason!"
At this time, Zha Damou shouted loudly to the southern soldiers who were imprisoned in Wengcheng at the gate of the city, and took out the imperial letter in his hand.
"Zha Dashou! You despicable and shameless person, how dare you lie to us!"
At this time, Xu Tong couldn't help but raised his head and shouted again.
Zha Damou asked in return: "You yourself, together with the officials of Xu Butang, committed corruption and perverted the law, and you also wanted to trap the Nanbing brothers in injustice, so that they were almost deceived by you into rebelling. Aren't you despicable?! "
"rebellion?"
"Commander, the Governor Jun we saw was not ordered to fight against the bandits. Why did he want to rebel?"
"Commander, what's going on! Why were we locked up in Wengcheng by the Beibei soldiers with a thousand-jin gate as soon as we arrived, and now they say that we were almost deceived into rebelling?"
…
The southern soldiers at the bottom all looked horrified at this time, and they also asked about Xu Tong, Sun Tingpei and Jiang Fu.
The ordinary southern soldiers and the low-level sentry and flag officers naturally did not want to rebel. After all, there was no shortage of soldiers' pay and they had their own preferential treatment. They only wanted to kill the bandits and make meritorious deeds, so they all questioned Xu Dong at this time.
"Shut up, everyone!"
Xu Tong yelled loudly at this time. After the people below became quieter, he glanced at Zha Damou with an aggrieved look, and then replied:
"The person surnamed Zha is right. We and Xu Butang lied to you. The purpose was not to let you go to defeat King Kou Qin, but to let you go to the capital to threaten the emperor and make rebellion, so that we could cover up the truth." The crime of corruption and perverting the law.”
"However, Governor Xu Fukui also lied to us. He actually planned to silence us all. And now, the person named Xu has been deceived by the person named Zha."
"Then why do you want to drag us down?"
"Usually you just beat us and scold us, but now you want to trick us into rebelling together! Why are you so bad?!"
At this time, a man named Wu Tianshang, who was sitting in the camp, was so angry that he pointed at Xu Tong and questioned him.
Then, Wu Tianshang took off his waist knife first and shouted: "Brothers, we listen to the court, put down our weapons, and don't be buried with the Shangguan who deceived us!"
"It's obvious now that our superior officer did something bad and wanted to blackmail us. Zha Zongzhen is His Majesty's man and doesn't want to see us being blackmailed, so let's not follow him!"
With a crash, many southern soldiers put down their muskets and spears at this time, and looked at the three generals Xu Tong, Sun Tingpei, and Jiang Fu fiercely.
Xu Tong smiled bitterly and looked at Xu Fukui: "Xu, don't you think you have a lot of tricks? Don't your staff call you the reincarnation of Zhuge? Don't you still want to silence us? What happens now? In the end, you still have to do it." You are not toyed with and applauded by the emperor who is far away in the capital!"
"Can you still silence us now? You do! You also want to kill all the southern soldiers so that they will no longer trust the court. You kill them."
"You should kill!"
Xu Tong shouted again and laughed loudly.
Xu Fukui, the governor of Jiliao, only had a sullen face at this time.
He just wants his servants to escort him out in order to have a chance to escape. However, he is worried that the southern soldiers in Wengcheng will hit him with stray bullets and arrows, so he wears heavy armor today. He couldn't move at all, let alone expect his servants to carry him out of the siege.
Like Xu Tong, Sun Tingpei and Jiang Fu also sneered at this time, and they also knew that they had been cheated.
Just suddenly.
Xu Tong directly drew the knife and wiped his neck, then fell to the ground. The blood spread directly to Wu Tianshang's feet, which also surprised Sun Tingpei and Jiang Fu.
Seeing this, Sun Tingpei and Jiang Fu nodded to each other and drew their swords.
"You don't have to commit suicide. You are only involved in smuggling and drifting. It may not be a capital crime."
Zha Damou shouted at this time.
The two just smiled, glanced at the officers and soldiers behind them, and wiped their necks.
"hateful!"
Zha Dashou couldn't help but cursed, and then said: "Since the main criminal has committed suicide, open the city gate, let out the soldiers guarding the camp, and keep the camp closed until the court handles it!"
After saying that, Zha Damou looked at Xu Fukui and the few loyal servants of the Xu family who were protecting Xu Fukui: "Xu Butang, do you still want to resist?"
"Don't dare!"
Xu Fukui replied and ordered to his servants: "Remove armor and disarm!"
"yes!"
As a result, Xu Fukui and several of his servants were also locked up by Zha Dashou.
Xu Fukui couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh after being locked up: "I never thought that I wouldn't understand as well as a military minister!"
…
"You know better than Xu Fukui."
"It just so happens that the Ministry of Rites has already submitted the inscription that the minister will be promoted to the title of Duke because of his meritorious service. I will approve the imperial edict to be drafted by the Minister of the Red Order and the title of Duke of Lin, regardless of hereditary succession."
"You don't have to say that your heirs are incompetent. Looking at ancient times and modern times, there are only a few people who can earn the position of Duke for their fathers. Basically, it is considered rare to be able to maintain the shadow of their fathers."
Xiyuan.
Zhu Yijun was talking to Li Chengliang.
Because Li Chengliang needed to report to Zhu Yijun about the private letter sent to him by Governor Ji Liao, he entered the palace and informed Zhu Yijun about it as soon as he entered the palace.
After Zhu Yijun heard this, in order to reward Li Chengliang's loyal and wise behavior, he approved the long-delayed appointment of him as a duke and said a few words.
Li Chengliang was awarded the title of Duke because Li Rusong and Ma Gui made great contributions to regaining the Hetao together.
Originally, the court was supposed to confer the title of Duke to Li Rusong, but it could not give Li Chengliang the title of father. As a result, he was lower than Li Rusong. So, Li Rusong petitioned to confer the title of Duke to his father, which could be regarded as fulfilling his filial piety after being loyal. The Ministry of Rites After deliberation, it was believed that Li Rusong's request should be granted and Li Chengliang should be granted the title of merit first.
After Zhu Yijun received the title book from the Ministry of Rites, he was reluctant to approve it.
This was not because the emperor was stingy with famous weapons and was unwilling to give ministers promotions, but because he wanted to see Li Chengliang's performance again.
Let’s take a look at how Li Chengliang performed after becoming a general and becoming a prime minister.
You must know that once a person's title is raised by one level, it means the higher his political status, which means that Zhu Yijun must be more cautious and consider the impact when dealing with this person.
Especially the conferment of high-level titles such as Duke and Duke.
Fortunately, Li Chengliang passed his test, and it was at this time that Zhu Yijun officially picked up the ink pen and personally marked the matter in the Ministry of Etiquette's title book.
Li Chengliang was also full of joy at this time, and he hurriedly prostrated on the ground: "I thank your Majesty for your kindness!"
As Li Chengliang, who was transferred to Beijing as a civil servant when he was the Marquis of Ningyuan, it was a regret for him that he could not become the Duke of the country like Qi Jiguang.
After all, it would have been better if Qi Jiguang had not been granted the title of Duke, but Qi Jiguang was granted the title of Duke, and it was still in front of him every day, so his regret in this regard was even stronger.
Now Zhu Yijun has made up for his regret. For him, it is naturally deeply felt, and he immediately started to pay homage.
Zhu Yijun shouted "Ping Shen" and asked Li Chengliang to retreat.
After Li Chengliang retreated, Zhu Yijun picked up Zha Damou's secret memorial and read it, and said to Zhang Jingxiu: "The Zha Damhou you Jinyiwei has developed is good. You should continue to develop such reliable people in the army."
"According to the order!"
Then, Zhu Yijun looked outside the hall.
Outside the hall, Li Chengliang was walking quickly out, very energetic.
Zhu Yijun just smiled faintly when he saw this, and for a moment he couldn't help but think that the Ming Dynasty was constantly expanding externally and innovating internally, and the noble army valued military merit, which undoubtedly meant that there would be more and more cases of military generals being awarded titles for their meritorious service in the future. , or even guaranteed. In this environment, a talented and famous general became famous as a young boy, and then became a generation of military gods with outstanding military exploits.
But if this is the case, I am afraid that the military merit title may not be enough.
It is necessary to subdivide the titles of dukes, princes, and princes into several levels. Otherwise, a young general who has made great achievements and made a duke must not retire after being made a duke. Or if he wants to lead troops again, he can only be made a king directly. ?
However, Zhu Yijun has no plans to do so now. After all, his ruling group is still busy dealing with the Tokugawa family and the luxury tax.
"Has Jin Yiwei found anyone worthy of development recently?"
Zhu Yijun asked Zhang Jingxiu at this time.
Zhang Jingxiu replied: "Your Majesty, there are some. Wu Tianshang from Jizhou is good."
Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this.
And at this time.
In Jizhou, after Wu Tianshang was released by Cha Dashou, he was taken to a dark room.
Zha Damou met him in person and said, "We, the Jinyi Guards, have been paying attention to you for a long time."
Wu Tianshang opened his eyes wide after hearing this.
(End of chapter)
