PS: Continue to beg for a monthly pass!

In early spring and March, the willow buds are already green and the grass and trees are turning green in various parts of Gyeonggi. A few swallows flew in and out under the eaves, latching on to the spring mud to repair their war-torn dwellings.

Standing on the edge of the canal, looking at the distant army and the banner of Rulin, Li Peiting didn't know what it was like to be in his heart. After more than ten years of hard work and more than ten years of travel, today the lord has finally re-entered the court and become a knight.

According to his proposal, Shouhan took the Guards Brigade into Beijing, and all the horses, no matter which of the Korean and Chinese bigwigs, came to greet them, all according to the situation of marching in battle, with forwards, scouts, Chinese troops, and guards.

"In this way, if there is a change, this generation will be the talisman of the lord!"

Just in case, Li Huabao, who had been marching with his father, temporarily stationed himself in the barracks outside Chaoyang Gate on the grounds that he was unwell, and commanded the remaining two brigades to prepare for battle, and all artillery fire was released. If something happens, even if all the artillery is scrapped, the city gate must be taken within an hour.

Li Peiting specially explained to Lu Yunsheng and other officers of the Guards Brigade, "Even if the emperor Laozi kneels down and kowtows to you, you must not leave the lord five steps away!" ”

These officers knew that there was a lot of danger in this place, and they all accepted the order at the moment and sang in unison.

The officers wore their new brocade robes on the outside and cuirass on the inside, but fortunately the weather was warm, so they did not have to wear cotton clothes.

"If there is a change in the city, Huabao. There are two things you must keep in mind. ”

Li Peiting pulled Hua Bao aside and instructed him in a low voice.

"Uncle, please advise."

"Don't think that it is a good thing to enter Beijing and be entitled, Chongzhen, a child, is used to paralyzing opponents with such means, and this is the case when dealing with Wei Zhongxian and Yuan Chonghuan. You remember, once there is a change, you must wave your army and slam the city, so that Chongzhen and everyone in the court will not dare to poison the lord. Here's the thing. ”

"Huabao remembers, if there is news from the city. Siege the city right away! The master must have thrown the cannonball on Chongzhen's head. Let him be afraid of the concubine! ”

"Good! Good! The children can be taught! ”

Seeing that Hua Bao didn't regard Chongzhen as his monarch at all, Li Peiting couldn't help but twist his beard and laugh.

"This second thing, you must send someone to Nigu to tell your eldest sister Huamei, first, the food hoarded there will be less fire. The second is to immediately go south to the mouth of the Yangtze River. Cut off the canal. Shelling of Nanjing! ”

"Uncle, don't worry! At that time, I will burn the grain and grass in Tongzhou to Chongzhen, so that half of the people in Beijing will starve to death this spring! ”

If the bigwigs of the DPRK and China heard the conversation between the two uncles and nephews, they would definitely be scared. "You use such vicious means to guard against the imperial court, and the imperial court will not dare to take such a risk to attack Ning Yuanbo!"

"Big shopkeeper, isn't it time for us to set off?"

Next to the convoy, Lin Wenbing reminded Li Peiting.

"All those things are loaded? What about people? ”

"Back to the big shopkeeper, I have already handed over to several quartermasters of the old camp last night, and the three thousand pieces of armor, seven thousand weapons, one thousand bows, and nearly thirty thousand arrows selected from the captured Jiannu armor staff have all been wiped and oiled, and they are tightly wrapped. Of the 400 heavily armored dead soldiers captured before, except for 80 selected by the lord for sacrifice, the remaining 300 were handed over to us and went north with us. ”

"What about the twenty?"

Li Peiting was very concerned about the whereabouts of the twenty dead soldiers who were missing.

After being captured, he clamored and was ordered to be beheaded in public. These guys can't be honest anymore. ”

"Alright! Leave! ”

"The big shopkeeper has an order, let's go!"

Dozens of carts came all the way to the mud.

On the day that Shouhan was ordered to enter Beijing, the same content of the Di newspaper was delivered to Xuzhou.

In front of the state yamen, which had just killed hundreds of people, dozens of corpses were still bleeding from their necks, and a dozen wild dogs greedily looked at the corpses that had been hastily rolled up with reed mats, and these corpses would be thrown into the mass graves outside the city after a while, and become a delicious meal for their mouths.

In the yamen, Zuo Liangyu, who had just killed hundreds of leaders with a dragon pole and a rolling mine pole, sat on the handsome seat in a relaxed mood, listening to the accompanying master read to him the newspaper received by the state yamen.

"What, Li Shouhan's house was made an earl? What is Ning Yuanbo, who is still a straight thief? ”

When the master read this paragraph, the people in Zuo Zhen were in an uproar.

Ma Jinzhong, who surrendered to Zuo Liangyu in the Guangshan area last year, roared and scolded with Wang Yuncheng, Zuo Mengeng, Liu Guoneng and others to vent the resentment in their hearts.

In the Wuqiao Incident, Liu Guoneng suffered the greatest loss, and nearly 300 of his old battalion soldiers were killed, and there were not a few wounded, although there were more than 100 people who fled back afterwards, but the inspection team still lost 4 or 500 people. The second was Zuo Liangyu, whose family was wiped out by the bayonets and firearms of the Nanzhong Army, and more than 200 were injured. Armor staffs, mules and horses lose more.

In order to make up for this loss, after receiving the documents of the Ministry of War for each fifty boards, Zuo Liangyu quickly led the troops south to Henan, gritted his teeth and exterminated the poles and rogues in various places, and no longer accepted the bribes that he was used to and thieves. They seized jewelry, gold, silver, money, food, mules and horses, and selected the best of the captured thief soldiers to replenish their ranks.

In the camp of Zuozhen, there are veteran thieves such as Liu Guoneng and Ma Jinzhong, who have registered famous trademarks, how can those pole bandits and thieves in Henan and other places be the opponents of Zuozhen? It has only been half a month since he arrived in Henan, and he has reported three successive victories, exterminated seven or eight poles, and beheaded thousands.

The generals of the left battalion have harvested countless children's jade silks, and the sabers and guns in the battalion have gradually recovered.

Unexpectedly, at this time, I heard such a ruinous news.

The enemy family actually sealed the knighthood!

"Donkey balls! It's fucking unreasonable! We traveled thousands of miles to enter Beijing to come to King Qin, didn't we just grab something. How many houses were burned, how many civilians were killed? He, Li Shouhan, gave us such a ruthless hand, and the court of this dog day also gave him a knighthood! Mixed 100,000 Ma Jinzhong scolded while secretly rejoicing in his heart, that day, he fortunately went to Botou and did not go to Wuqiao, "If we go to Wuqiao that day, it will be my old horse who loses soldiers and horses!" More than once, he had drunk and talked to his henchmen about it.

"That's it! Why is he Li Shouhan! Zuo Mengeng, who was called the eldest young marshal and the commander of Zuo Zhen's family by the generals, was flushed with alcohol. He cursed incessantly.

Zuo Liangyu, whose face was slightly purple. turned around from behind the handsome case and walked in front of Zuo Mengeng. looked at this adopted son with a smile on his face.

"My son, can you imagine why the imperial court is so partial to Li Shouhan and favors him?"

"Father. Tell me. ”

Zuo Mengeng's wine-scented voice has not yet landed. Zuo Liangyu had already waved his face and bowed left and right in greeting.

"For what? Just because he has tens of thousands of tigers and wolves in his hands. Able to fight against Jiannu and behead tens of thousands of troops, which one dares to disadvantage him?! Don't you slap him well?! ”

A series of big slaps made Zuo Mengeng dizzy, and Venus appeared in front of him. The corners of his mouth and nose were bleeding outward.

Seeing this, Zuo Zhenzhong's generals were also frightened and got up, but they didn't dare to step forward to dissuade them, so they had to listen to Zuo Liangyu beating and scolding there.

"Even if he doesn't have the title of President Ma on his head, when he hears that his team is coming, he still doesn't know that he wants to take a break from his guns? When marching, there are no scouts left and right, no rangers, and when people open the city gate, you will rush into it in a hurry, and you are not afraid that others will set up an ambush in the city and wrap your dumplings?! ”

Playing a little tired in his hands, Zuo Liangyu simply raised a kick and kicked Zuo Mengeng to the ground, screaming and scolding in his mouth.

"The inferior is guilty, please spare the young marshal!"

Ma Jinzhong, Liu Guoneng, Wang Yuncheng and others kowtowed one after another, pleading for Zuo Mengeng. If he continued to fight like this, Zuo Mengeng would have to be beaten to death by the angry Zuo Liangyu. Chewing the meaning of scolding his son in Zuo Liangyu's mouth, all the generals are embarrassed, this is scolding Zuo Mengeng, this is undoubtedly scolding all the generals in Zuo Town.

The general does not read military books, does not understand formations, does not know banners, does not know the golden drum, and relies on a small number of families to win a battle with a bang, and when defeated, he is defeated for thousands of miles. This is a common problem of the Ming generals at the moment. There are only 1,000 soldiers who can really rely on 1,000 soldiers.

Seeing that everyone came out to plead for his son, and also knew that the purpose of this performance had been achieved, Zuo Liangyu got off the donkey and restrained his fists and feet. "For the sake of the generals' face, I will spare you this time. If there is something like this in the future, it will not be forgiven! ”

"Thank you, handsome! Thank you, Dashuai! ”

Zuo Mengeng was also helped up by his two personal soldiers, he didn't care about the wine, food, soup and oil stains all over his body, and knelt in front of Zuo Liangyu with a vague mouth, "Thank you father for the fight!" Thank you for your teachings. ”

"My son, get up and speak."

Zuo Liangyu changed his face.

"It's not that Ben Shuai is demanding of Yu Er, we are in troubled times at the moment, if we want to protect the head of the whole family, then there must be one thing that must be firmly grasped in our own hands!"

"Please show me!"

The generals sang in unison.

"That is an army, tens of thousands of elite soldiers who can win battles and fight evil battles, no matter if he is the emperor, the elder of the pavilion, the prince or the marquis, you have to rely on our snort, look at you and my faces!"

Hearing that the marshal pointed out a path of promotion and wealth, rampant lawlessness, but made the court helpless against him, he couldn't help but become eyebrows dancing immediately.

"I am willing to serve the commander!"

Lu Guangzu, Li Guoying, Zhang Yingxiang, Xu Ensheng, Hao Xiaozhong, Jin Shenghuan, Chang Deng, Xu Yong, Wu Xueli, Zhang Yingyuan, Xu Yuxian, together with 100,000 Ma Jinzhong and Liu Guoneng of the Collapse of the Sky, all intervened and saluted.

"Ben Shuai flipped through the accounts, these days, the officers and soldiers of our town have suppressed thieves in Gyeonggi, Henan and other places, and the seizures are also rich, including hundreds of thousands of taels of gold and silver, jewelry, jade, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and rare books. Ben Shuai has a matter, and he is willing to discuss one or two with you. ”

Zuo Liangyu's complexion changed again, and he eased up a lot, as if the person who swung the big slap and made Zuo Mengeng's mouth bleed just now was not him.

"Our town recently clashed with the Nanzhong Army, and now it is called the Nanyue Army, although he was caught off guard. However, the armor is also a critical pass, didn't the sage say that if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools? Ben Shuai intends to take the seized goods from our town to Nanjing, the capital to buy the ordnance and armor sold by the merchants of Nanzhong, what do you think? ”

These words were like a shocking stone, so that the dozen or so people present couldn't react for a while.

After a while, Liu Guoneng and Li Guoying asked Zuo Liangyu about Ai Ai: "Marshal, what you heard under the mark is to send someone to stay in the capital and buy ordnance and armor from the Southern Barbarian merchants?" ”

"Yes!"

"But Marshal, we have just had a big fight with the Nanyue army, how can this group of merchants be willing to sell us such important things as weapons and armor?"

"That's right! Aren't they afraid that we will take the best ordnance produced in Nanzhong to avenge Wuqiao's killing of our soldiers in the future? Liu Guoneng added.

"I don't know, Nanban is greedy. As long as it is real money, it is enough. Even the gall of the living is willing to sell! All we have to do is ship the gold and silver to Nanjing. to their shop. Good swords, guns, armor, firearms, and Franc machines, as many as you want! ”

Zuo Liangyu sat behind the handsome case, fiddling with the saber at his waist very firmly.

"But. Handsome. ...... our military pay today? ”

Lu Guangzu hesitated.

He wasn't worried that the merchants of Nanzhong would not sell weapons and armor to Zuo Zhen. Rather, they worry about whether there is enough money to pay. In the past few days, Zuo Zhen has launched a large-scale attack to exterminate many rogues and poles, in addition to reporting the decapitation merits. He also incorporated the strength of these armed forces into his own battalion to expand his strength.

At present, compared with other Ming troops, Zuo Zhen is very maverick, not only is there no vacancy, but on the contrary, there are many more people coming out. These horses have no names in the establishment issued to Zuo Liangyu by the Ministry of War. In other words, a bunch of black households.

How to feed this group of guys who are used to big bowls of wine, large pieces of meat, big scales of gold and silver, and change clothes has always been a problem that has plagued the generals of Zuozhen.

Now that he has just had some savings because of the extermination of several bandits, in addition to paying arrears and beating up the bigwigs in the DPRK, Zuo Liangyu also has to buy a large number of ordnance, where does the money come from?

"You're so honest!"

After listening to the statements of his subordinates, Zuo Liangyu couldn't help but look up to the sky and laugh, laughing so much that everyone felt a little ridiculous. Say that these murderers don't blink, and they are honest guys who slaughter villages to get money? Isn't that the same as slapping them in the face? When and where did they deal with the word honesty?

"Although Ben Shuai is illiterate, he also hears more newspapers from gentlemen on weekdays, I ask you, what is Li Shouhan's background? It's just a hereditary garrison title of a thousand households! But he fed tens of thousands of strong troops, what did the court say about him? Or what I just said, as long as we have soldiers in our hands and an invincible army, then everything will not be a problem! ”

"But, Marshal, this is the matter of military salaries?"

Lu Guangzu still didn't turn the corner.

"It's simple!" Zuo Liangyu smiled coldly, "Someone in the capital wrote to me, saying that various items could be used to offset the payment for the Nanban merchants. In addition to gold, silver, and jewelry, books, papers, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and even people, regardless of gender, age, age, ugliness, black and white, can be traded as long as there is nothing wrong with the body. ”

"Donkey Ball's!" When Ma Jinzhong heard this, he immediately jumped up, turned his head and ran, and was stopped at the door by Zuo Mengeng, who had just rubbed the ointment on his head and face.

"Old Ma, why are you doing this?"

"Dashuai, don't you know, a group of muddy people in my camp were burning books and cooking when I went out, these losers!"

In the midst of a burst of laughter from the generals, Zuo Liangyu motioned for Ma Jinzhong to return to his seat and sit down, "Old Ma, I'm afraid that if you go back, their meal will be finished." Forget it, in the future, a military order will be issued by Ben Shuai, except for those who resist my left town, no one shall be killed in vain. Do not destroy all kinds of utensils that you do not know. My son, you led the family members to supervise and handle this matter, and to clarify all kinds of utensils, and promulgated them in the various camps. After that, if you destroy any utensils that can be exchanged or kill people who can be used for trading, the officers will be punished with forty military sticks, and the soldiers will be beheaded on the spot and ordered the whole army! ”

As a result, Zuo Liangyu's department, which was known for slaughtering cities everywhere and robbing the wealth of the people and the government, gradually evolved into a department in history, and deviated slightly on its own road to warlordization. Although the robbery and plundering of people's wealth is still the same, it has become more refined, no longer just robbing those gold and silver soft things, but focusing on a more long-term view.

Rare books, orphan books, calligraphy and paintings, porcelain, antiques, and even all kinds of fine wood furniture are on Zuozhen's loot list. Everywhere they passed, the good civilians who had been facing each other with swords and spears were tied up with long ropes and escorted to the nearby wharves, where they were handed over to the merchants of Nanzhong to be transported by ship to Guangdong and Guangxi, and then transshipd.

"Father, didn't the newspaper say that in order to give Li a clean slate, the emperor killed dozens of imperial historians, and his son planned to order someone to bring some money to these people's homes to comfort him." After the banquet was over, Zuo Mengeng and Zuo Liangyu's father and son sat opposite each other, and the young marshal made a suggestion to his father.

"Why?" Zuo Liangyu's red face was not happy.

"Father, my Zuo family and the Li family are already like fire and water, and conflicts are bound to continue in the future. This person has the emperor and the eunuchs in the palace to cite him as Austrian aid, so he is naturally fearless. I plan to use the strength of the Korean Chinese officials to form alliances with military towns in various places to fight against Li. Moreover, my father was born in Liaodong, and in my left town, Lu Guangzu, Li Guoying, Jin Shengheng and others are themselves from Liaodong, and they have a good alliance with the Guanning Army, which is beneficial and harmless. ”

"And the father and the Hou family are even more graceful and supportive, and Hou Fangyu, the son of the Hou family, is now very famous in the Restoration Society. If he befriends the Fushe, contacts Donglin, and praises his father from top to bottom, what can he do with Zhu Youzhen? ”

A few days later, Zuo Mengeng went to Nanjing with a large amount of money, and then went to Wujiang to sponsor the spring meeting of the Restoration Society.

For a time, the government and the opposition praised Zuo Liangyu one after another.

There are scholars of the Fushe Society who praised Zuo Liangyu as Guo Ziyi of the Zhongxing Tang Dynasty. (To be continued......)