Chapter Twenty-Four: The Guards
"I've seen the second uncle."
"Yuan Qi Shaoli."
The uncle and nephew saw the ceremony, Min Yuanqi bowed to the whole salute, and Min Qiande also returned the half salute, after the salute, Min Qiande immediately said: "Li Kecheng has already come to me to make peace with me, saying that Yang Shida's matter was caused by you, and you should bear this matter." I pushed him back yesterday, so why do you bother to take it on yourself? You make up for 1,000 households, and the rest of the 100 salt boats are added to the harvest, do you make up for it, if you make up for it all, how many times will your little family fund be enough to make up? ”
Min Qiande's words were not very good, but they were out of good intentions.
Min Yuanqi has only been home for a day, and it is also a day in Huai'an, but the fermentation of things is quite fast, it should be that the next few Weisho salt ships have been intercepted and added to the silver.
Yang Shida seemed to be quite angry, and Li Kecheng and others suffered unjustified disasters.
Now there are at most two or three salt ships that have been intercepted, and in another ten days and half a month, it is estimated that more salt ships will be intercepted.
Min Qiande said with great dissatisfaction: "Li Qianhu really doesn't do business, and what he thinks about all day long is these things related to his own money." A scoundrel like Yang Shida spent money to drill a miscellaneous official, and he danced chicken feathers as an arrow. If our Yunti Pass is still your father's palm print, whether it is impeachment upwards or a few group fights with Yang Shida and his gang, this money will not be paid a long time ago. Damn, we are a group of military men with guns and sticks, and we have to pay money to scoundrels, green skins, and wanderers, and our ancestors have lost their faces for eight lifetimes! ”
Min Qiande was indeed quite angry, when Min Qianli was alive, the guard was still like a guard, and there were still some rules for everything. Even if there is no force, a group of military men can't make the scoundrels ride on their necks to and pee.
But Li Kecheng is good, he only cares about getting a few more acres of land, collecting a few more stones of grain, frying more silver to sell, and saving more silver. Most of the affairs of the Thousand Households Office are pushed to Min Qiande and a few people, Li Kecheng only cares about currying favor with the bosses in Huai'an City, the more such people, the more mixed and moisturized, in the past ten years, Li Kecheng has gained a lot of weight, and the Thousand Households Institute has become more and more decayed.
Now people like Yang Shida are bullied to thousands of dignified households, but Li Kecheng is just bullying Min Yuanqi who dares to resist, which is even more despicable.
"Second uncle, Li Qianhu didn't mean to target him, he just cherished his money." Min Yuanqi said with a smile: "This is a good thing, the little nephew has some spreads, and he is afraid that Shangguan will make trouble if he has nothing to do." If the silver can make Shangguan happy, this is a good thing. ”
"He's just lard blinded to his heart, he thinks about silver in all his, and ignores if he doesn't have silver...... Min Gande put the teacup in his hands and said angrily: "The Shi Pavilion Department has written that the military governor's office has been guarded, Yangzhou Wei, Hezhou Wei, Chuzhou Prefecture, Sizhou Wei, Zhenhaiwei, Taicang Wei, Shouzhou Wei, Yizhou Wei, Jinshan Wei, Xin'an Wei, Suzhou Wei, Xuzhou Wei, Anqing Wei, Suzhou Qianhusuo, Zhongdu Guard...... All guards and guards should prepare grain and grass equipment, including mules, donkeys, carts and horses, and the guards and Ding Zhuang on duty must be prepared, waiting for the order of the king of duty, the guards are on duty in turn, and the vehicle baggage and Ding Zhuang set off with the soldiers of the king of Qin, and crossed Shandong along the canal to the king of Beijing. I said to Li Kecheng, this is a big deal, the emperor was trapped in our world to receive the grace of the Ming Dynasty, and defended the territory for the Ming Dynasty for nearly 300 years, how can he sit idly by when the emperor is in danger and the son of heaven is in danger? Besides, the military order is like a mountain, if thirty or forty guards can all contribute sincerely, it is not difficult to gather fifty or sixty thousand garrison sergeants and tens of thousands of Ding Zhuang. Li Kecheng said that the flag army is now exhausted, there is no food in the warehouses of the guards, and there is no money and food to mobilize, and it is necessary to wait for the military department to allocate money and grain before they can prepare...... He's a fatherless bastard, and I'm so angry. ”
Min Qiande was originally a rather dignified middle-aged man, although the military attache robe on his body was not as new as Li Kecheng's, it was also clean, the outer robe was snow-white inside, and a simple Qi knife hung from his waist, which was the appearance of a cautious military attaché.
But at this moment, Min Qiande is also powerless.
Shi Kefa did issue an order to the guards of the Nanjing Governor's Mansion, ordering the guards to prepare the soldiers and horses, and at the same time assemble Ding Zhuang, as well as vehicles, mules, horses, ships, etc., there are dozens of guards in the north and south of the river, if they can be fully dispatched, it will be two or three hundred thousand soldiers and horses, plus the Beijing battalion soldiers, that is, three or four hundred thousand soldiers and horses.
Duoduo went south, and according to statistics, there were more than 200,000 people in the city of Nanjing, but the result was that he surrendered without a fight.
The guards are rotten, but at this time, Li Kecheng can see clearly, the guards are poor, the banner army is tired, and the center does not allocate money and food, how can the guards have the ability to gather troops and prepare money and food to prepare for the north?
If this is at the beginning of the country, Taizu gave an order, and the general gathered three or four hundred thousand soldiers with a military order, and Li Chuang would be leveled in an instant, even if he fought all the way to Liaodong, it was commonplace, but at this time, he couldn't say such a thing.
"Second uncle." Min Yuanqi whispered: "Jingshi is surrounded? ”
"How can it be so fast? It seems that the soldiers are divided into two roads, one way to the north to fight Taiyuan, and the other way Liu Fangliang led the troops to attack Henan and Hebei, and even went down to Weihui Huaiqing Zhufu, and now it is a big name, and the river is ...... The emperor's road to the south was cut off, yesterday there was the latest copy of the palace, it seems that the emperor also feels that the situation is not very good, break through the two ways to attack, the south of the road is to cut off the road to the south and Caoyun, if Baoding is laid, threatening Tianjin, the capital will be killed. At this time, it can be determined that the rebellion is necessary to win the Beijing Division! On the top of the Di copy, the emperor ordered the general soldier Wu Sangui to lead the Liaodong soldiers and horses into the Beijing Division, as well as the general soldier Tang Tong of Jizhen Town, and Liu Zeqing, the general soldier of Shandong Town, to join the Beijing Division. Wu Zongzhen and Tang Tong don't know the news, but Liu Zeqing, hehe, hehe......"
Min Gande couldn't help sneering, Liu Zeqing received the order of King Qin, but he saw that the situation was not good, and fled south after the disaster in his hometown of Shandong was not light, and now he has run to Huai'an.
Shi Kefa is counting on these generals to take the guards to King Qin? Min Qiande shook his head and smiled bitterly, but he was also disheartened.
It is conceivable that not only Li Kecheng, a thousand households, will not move, but also the commander of the Dahewei in Huai'an Fucheng, as well as Huai'an Wei, as well as Taizhou Wei, Yangzhou Wei, Yancheng Qianhu Office, these nearby guard stations, will not do anything.
Unless it is Shi Kefa who takes the Beijing battalion soldiers and grain and grass, personally presses to various places, mobilizes the garrisons of the guard post and Ding Zhuang, and the violators will be severely punished, so that the military attachés of the guard post will be whipped like a whip...... There is no other way.
"It depends on the garrisons of Taiyuan and Datong and Xuanfu...... Min Qiande said worriedly: "Taiyuan is guarded by the governor Cai Junmen personally, and the king of Jin is here, Ningwuguan Zhou Yuji Zhou's general army fought very fiercely, but he was still defeated and died. Break the rebellion in the next will clear the surroundings of Taiyuan, if you go down to Taiyuan, you will continue to attack Datong in the north, and then go down to Xuanfu, the two major military towns in the northwest of Beijing Division are defeated, the flanks are opened, and Liu Fangliang threatens Baoding Tianjin in the south, and the road in the south of Beijing is cut off, dangerous, too dangerous. ”
Min Yuanqi said calmly: "In January, the court proposed to move south, or invited the crown prince to go south to supervise the country, but it was rejected by the emperor, and the situation was already very bad at that time, and the emperor did not make up his mind, no wonder others." ”
Min Qiande frowned and looked at this nephew, a little dissatisfied in his heart, and wanted to reprimand, his lips smacked a few times, but in the end he still didn't say anything.
Li Chuang New Year's Day in Xi'an called the emperor, and then swore to go north, Lian Ke Lianjie, to February to lay down Fenzhou, Puzhou, Huaiqing, across Shanxi and Henan two places, divided the troops to plunder, the front of the army has been able to threaten Shandong and Caoyun, at this time the situation is already very sinister, at that time many times the court, the Di copy issued the world, because there is no minister to support the south, the court is undecided.
And the matter of inviting the crown prince to go south was directly vetoed by the emperor himself.
In Chongzhen's words, I have not succeeded in cooking the world for more than ten years, and the crown prince is young, what can he do when he goes to Nanjing?
At this time, the emperor was still afraid and suspicious, Chongzhen's personality was extreme, rigid, and had an eager and irritable side, which was the so-called resolute and strict, and a timid and suspicious side, always worried that he would be overpowered and used by his subordinates. Once there is something, he likes to blame his subordinates, to be honest, although the emperor has been in power for seventeen years, but the emperor's mind and wrist are still a bear child who has not grown up. It's just that this bear child holds the supreme power, and there is no power to restrain the emperor, and Emperor Chongzhen is jealous of widowhood, killing people like mowing grass, and the emperor doesn't care about human life at all......
Just because he is not responsible, his subordinates still dare to give advice, or love to kill, but if he is responsible, his subordinates still dare to fight for fame under such an emperor.
is black-hearted and has no responsibility, which subordinate dares to sincerely serve such an emperor?
In the Chongzhen Dynasty, especially after the end of the period, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty dared to tell the truth, nothing more than Huang Daozhou and Liu Zongzhou, a few people, but these people were all Confucian ministers, and they were all in Confucianism, and they did not have the ability to apply it to the world, and their words were meaningless, and they couldn't even get to the point.
By January of the seventeenth year, Li Zicheng's troops had already captured the Ningwu Pass, and the partial division had also laid down several government troops in Henan to enter Hebei.
At this time, Chongzhen still didn't dare to say that he moved south, counting on the ministers to come out, and it was seventeen years later, which minister didn't know the emperor's temperament, who would be the first bird?
Xue Guoguan and Chen Xinjia's encounter is ahead, who among the ministers wants to come out with this?
The emperor had no support, and it was inconvenient for him to speak, coupled with his illusions, and finally formed the current situation.
As for not sending the crown prince south, it is Chongzhen's selfish suspicion, the big position is in front, the temptation of supreme power is in front, Chongzhen not only doubts the minister, but also doubts his son.
If he is trapped in Beijing, and the ministers support the crown prince in Nanjing, and refuse to contribute to the king, and sit back and watch himself trapped in the capital?
Or imitate the story of Tang Suzong Lingwu, directly succeed to the throne, and worship Chongzhen as the Taishang Emperor, even if he flees south from Beijing, the loss of power is inevitable.
Chongzhen is only thirty-four years old, how can he want to lose his position and power like this?
With such a suspicion, the crown prince did not go south in the end, and was later captured by Li Zicheng first, but he was treated kindly, because Li Zicheng thought that his father was at fault, and killed many princes and thieves of the Ming Dynasty, but he was very kind to Chongzhen's sons.
Later, the Qing army entered the city, and in a hurry, the crown prince and several other princes fell into the hands of the Qing army, and all of them were secretly executed, and many princes were killed by beheading.
Chongzhen has already harmed his own son for his own selfishness, and he also harmed Daming.
Nanming is not completely without opportunities, if the crown prince goes to Nanjing, the name of righteousness is beyond reproach, the Donglin Party and Ma Shiying will not fight each other on the matter of establishing the emperor, and the four towns in Jiangbei will not have the opportunity to support it by force, Zuo Liangyu will not clear the monarch's side, and a civil war will not break out.
The name and the truth are unified, and Nanming's fighting spirit will be much stronger than in history, even if he loses for a while, he will shave his hair and the opportunity to turn the tables will come.
Pity......