The scholar who was called Brother Wang looked shocked.
He said: "So, the two provinces of Shanxi and Shaanxi, as well as Datong in Henan, have all fallen into the hands of tiger thieves. This is different from what the imperial court has said."
He frowned deeply.
As a scholar, even if he is not a scholar, he still insists that the Ming Dynasty is Zhengshuo, and tiger thieves are always traitors.
"Brother Wang, you have been in the capital, so you don't know much about things outside. It's a pity that the tiger thieves are just thieves and bandits after all, and it is difficult to become a great weapon." Cui Wen sighed.
The scholar surnamed Wang frowned when he heard this and said, "As Brother Cui Wen said, the tiger thieves have already entrenched themselves in the three provinces and are beginning to look like dragons."
"Brother, it makes sense to say that." Cui Wen said, "The tiger thieves set up Pi Island. Although it hurt some people with lofty ideals in Dongjiang Town, this is a good thing in my opinion. It is better than Mao Wenlong who will be difficult to control in the future." , but the tiger thief should never use weapons against Lushun."
The scholar surnamed Wang said: "Tiger thieves are still enemies of the Ming Dynasty after all. There is nothing wrong with attacking Lushun! Is there something else to say here?"
As he said this, he looked surprised.
"Although the tiger thieves are thieves, they are still Han people. They are just like my Ming soldiers in Lushun. If they use swords and soldiers in other places, it can only be said that they are brothers fighting for property. But where is Lushun? There is fake gold under the eyes, and tigers When thieves attack Lushun, they are killing each other, which will only make Huang Taiji, a slave chief, gain nothing." Cui Wen explained to him.
Hearing this, the scholar surnamed Wang nodded repeatedly and said: "Brother Cui Wen is absolutely right. Tigers and thieves are not sons of man. They do not care about justice for their own selfishness. Thieves are thieves. They are a group of short-sighted people. Even if they gain power temporarily, they will not last long. .”
The image of a dragon that was still in his mouth before turned into a short-sighted one in an instant.
In the eyes of scholars, as long as you are not in line with my wishes, it is wrong.
The two people at the table were no longer talking about the Three-Xian Jue. You and I were scolding each other like a Tiger Flag.
And on a table behind the two people, there was a middle-aged man sitting, holding a bowl of tea in his hand. He would take a sip from time to time. His free fingers would gently tap the table to follow the rhythm of the three-stringed string, and he would hum softly. intonation.
"Boss, are we just here to listen to these two idiots insulting the Tiger Flag?" There was a young man sitting on the bench beside the table.
I saw his angry eyes waiting for Cui Wen and the scholar surnamed Wang on the back of their heads.
"You can't lose a piece of meat by talking about it. You don't hear similar words very often these days." The middle-aged man sitting at the same table said disapprovingly.
The young man is a secret agent of the Huzi Banner's Foreign Intelligence Agency, named Lu Chunbo.
I saw him saying with a dark face: "There are indeed many scholars these days who are shouting bad things about our Tiger Flag. My subordinates are really angry. It's like killing these people with a knife."
"Scholars are all virtuous. If you can't beat them, they will ruin your reputation with their mouths." The middle-aged man said with a chuckle, put down the bowl of tea in his hand, and said, "That's enough for now, it's time to go back."
After saying that, he stood up from the bench, turned around and walked out of the tea shop.
Lu Chunbo stood up, took out a dozen copper coins and put them on the table, then chased after the middle-aged man who had left earlier.
As the news of the Tiger-Character Banner's attack on Lushun spread, more and more people in the capital began to talk about the Tiger-Character Flag. Under the explicit or covert guidance of scholars, the Tiger-Character Flag had a bad reputation in the capital and surrounding areas. There were even incidents where many scholars openly rallied to boycott the Tiger Flag.
For this reason, some shops in the capital with plaques related to the three characters "tiger" flag were implicated, and scholars rushed in and smashed them.
After beating up these scholars, they walked away without anyone daring to care.
The smashed shop can only admit that it is unlucky.
No one dares to really argue with these scholars, otherwise not only the store will be smashed.
Naturally, there were some things that involved fishing in troubled waters. Many shops were openly looted by thugs on the street under the pretext of doing harm to the imperial court. Of course, there was definitely someone behind the scenes deliberately instigating this.
This also caused heavy losses to those shop owners with no background or simple background, and they even had to resell their shops at low prices.
The whirlwind caused by the scholars caused chaos in the capital.
Naturally, all the sins were blamed on Tiger Flag.
It is believed that without the Tiger-Character Banner's war against fellow Ming soldiers in Lushun, various things would not have happened in the capital. In addition, with the fueling of the scholars in the capital, the Tiger-Character Flag's already bad reputation in the capital fell to the bottom.
After Emperor Chongzhen in the Forbidden City learned about all the things happening in the capital, he was not only not angry, but also very happy.
I think scholars still have their hearts set on the Ming Dynasty. For those shops that were damaged, they all blamed the Tiger Character Flag. If the Tiger Character Flag had not rebelled, the damaged shops would not have suffered unreasonable disasters.
In short, the Ming Dynasty was right, the emperor was right, and the scholars were right.
As the Lushun incident unfolded, a decree was quickly sent from the capital to Dengzhou.
If you want to solve the Lushun problem, you can only rely on the Dengzhou Navy.
Regarding the Tiger-Character Banner's attack on Lushun, one faction in the DPRK supported sending naval forces to support Lushun, while the other side wanted to abandon Lushun and hand over Lushun to the Tiger-Character Banner, who would then face the Jinzhou slaves.
As soon as the dispute between the two factions started, Emperor Chongzhen suppressed it.
Emperor Chongzhen was reluctant to let go of every piece of land acquired by the Ming Dynasty. In other words, he claimed to be the emperor who would revitalize the Ming Dynasty, so he naturally did not want to be stained with the loss of land.
At this time, Sun Guozhen, the governor of Denglai, had been promoted to the governor of Denglai from the Fujian Xunhaidao political participation in the seventh year of Tianqi. He worked with Nan Juyi, the governor of Fujian, to recover the Penghu Islands and drive away the red-haired barbarians who occupied the Penghu Islands.
With this merit, it is natural to succeed Li Song and be promoted to governor of Denglai.
He was also one of the few civil servants of the Ming Dynasty who was proficient in water warfare.
Therefore, even if the Dengzhou Navy was defeated in Pi Island, Emperor Chongzhen did not remove Sun Guozhen from his position as governor, but still kept him in office.
However, as the governor, Sun Guozhen became cautious.
Having participated in the battle to recapture Penghu Island, he knew very well how powerful the red-haired barbarians were. Even though the Ming Dynasty occupied a favorable location and had a steady stream of reinforcements, the Battle of Penghu lasted for seven months.
Our own casualties were several times that of the red-haired barbarians.
The battle with the Tiger Flag in the waters of Pidao made him understand that without the advantage of geographical location, the Dengzhou Navy was no match for the Tiger Flag Navy.
A big ship is better than a small one, and a big cannon is better than a small cannon.
This truth was shouted out by officials of the Ming Dynasty Navy during the Jiajing period. Sun Guozhen, who has been patrolling and defending for so many years, knows this truth better than those officials in the capital.
Therefore, after the news of the Tiger Character Banner's invasion of Lushun came back, he could not sleep all day, fearing that the imperial court would order the Dengzhou Navy to solve the crisis in Lushun.
