There is no such thing as an impermeable wall.

The season has just entered March, Agate Mountain was defeated by Zuo Liangyu and others, even lost gold seals, gold rods, heavenly flying knives, Ling Qi, Ling arrows, divination money, loss of horses, mules, armor and military funds and other thousands, strategist Pan Duao, two concubines Ao Shi and others were captured, and Zhang Xianzhong, who was killed by 16 generals such as the sweeping king, seemed to be resurrected in full blood overnight.

Lianke Zhuxi, Zhushan, Fangxian, Xingshan and other county towns defeated the officers and troops stationed in this area, and easily expanded the army among the mountain people by more than 10,000. The eight kings of Xiying washed away the shame of defeat in Shuiyouba, Chaxi, Qianjianghe, Kejiaping and other places. Bing Feng vaguely had a rendezvous with Luo Ru, who was leading the nine tribes of people such as Tianxing, the whole 100,000, and the sweeping king out of eastern Sichuan at this moment!

On 11 March, the Cao Ying rangers and the Xiying advance met on the ground of Wushan, and the two armies officially met. Luo Rucai, who was cornered by Qin Liangyu's white pole soldiers, asked to be attached to Zhang Xianzhong, and the high-spirited Zhang Xianzhong immediately led 2,000 elite men and horses of the old battalion to meet him.

Not to mention the 2,000 old battalions, all of them have horses and armor, but they are all Nanban equipment, and more than 300 of them are carrying firearms on their backs. Seeing that Cao Cao's eyes were a little hot, Guo Tianxing and others were even more salivating.

"It's nothing! After a few days, settle down a little, find a place near the big pier and camp for a few days, and let us show you the cannons of our Xiying! ”

Pretending to be ordinary, but his heart is full of joy, Zhang Xianzhong twisted the beard that he took care of and bragged with the villagers.

When Yang Sichang got this series of bad news, he was checking the military discipline and city scenery in Xiangyang City.

In order to hide people's eyes. Under the service of his family, Lord Yang Sichang Yang, the prime minister of the thief suppression, took off his official civilian clothes, changed into a temporary blue half-worn round-necked lake and other green cotton robes, tied purple silk thread around his waist, and wore a seventy-percent Xinyuan Qinggong satin folded scarf, with a rectangular light jasper in front of it. This was the ordinary dress of ordinary scholars and gentry in the field at that time, and there were many characters dressed like this in Xiangyang City.

It's just that Yang Sichang was originally born as a son, a young man, and in recent years, he has made two books of rites and soldiers, and he is a scholar of Dongge University, and he is an auxiliary minister. The so-called migrating qi and trophic body. It's how to do it, and it's not good to dress up normally, and it can't hide the grace, dignity and majesty that you have cultivated for a long time. He himself looked at a large bronze mirror and felt that it was not easy to cover the eyes of the people, and his cronies and staff said that it was inappropriate.

When they were in Beijing, they heard that when Xiong Wencan was prime minister, officials of all sizes and local gentry in Xiangyang City were bribed by Zhang Xianzhong. Everywhere is the dedication of the meticulous work and the sitting. There is no way to find it. So they were very worried that Yang Sichang would show his feet if he went out like this, in case he was assassinated. Yang Sichang immediately changed into the old clothes and hats of the servant Yang Zhong, and called this set of clothes and hats for Yang Zhong to wear. They crept out the back corner door. Yang Zhong was in front and he was behind, like an old servant following the young master. Yang Zhong is delicate and fair-skinned, dignified, and looks forward to God, but he also looks like a person with status. The lieutenant general and the four lieutenants of the Chinese army were all dressed as merchants, hiding sharp blades, protecting them from a distance in front and rear. Yang Zhong also hid weapons. Yang Sichang walked through a few streets and approached the West Gate to look at it for a while. He saw that the streets were full of people, and it was quite lively. Although since his arrival he has been guarded at the important street entrances, and there are horse infantry patrols, the streets are still very mixed; There was an alley where almost all prostitutes lived, leaning on the door and squeezing eyebrows with passers-by; The city gate is not strictly checked, and people are almost allowed to enter and exit at will. All these circumstances made Yang Sichang very dissatisfied. He thought, Xiangyang is the fundamental place to suppress thieves, and he is so negligent, can he succeed in suppressing thieves!?

"My lord, this is pretty good in Xiangyang City. In the cities near the left, deserters and thieves are mixed, thousands of arguments, entering and exiting together, I don't know who is a soldier and who is a thief? Nowadays, there is a shortage of food and wages, and all battalions and towns have been in arrears for several months, and there are many Beijing and Chu soldiers who have slipped away at night because they feel that the conditions for serving as soldiers are poor, and there are those who have ganged up to rob and loot the village community. Adults should turn a blind eye! ”

On the way back, the lieutenant general of the Chinese army made a brief report to Lord Yang on the situation he had mastered, which was regarded as relieving the siege of his colleagues in Xiangyang City.

Thinking about the arrogance of He Renlong, Zuo Liangyu and other town military horses, Yang Sichang couldn't help but be gloomy, hastily undressed and went to bed, but he tossed and turned on the bed.

Yang Sichang got up without knowing the sky, looked at the draft of the recital prepared for him by a staff member last night, and changed a few more Yu before it was finalized. He took up his pen and wrote two letters to his colleagues in the cabinet and the Ministry of War, telling them that he had arrived in Xiangyang and was beginning to look after things, and that he was determined to "exterminate the thieves" in order to repay the emperor's kindness. He was known among the ministers of his time for his proficiency in writing, and his letters were short, concise, well-written, and full of military confidence and optimism. After writing this, he took two copies of the notice posted yesterday and planned to enclose one copy to both the Ministry of War and the Cabinet. He secretly thought that with such a significant reward of 10,000 silver dollars, maybe someone would really behead Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng to offer them.

"Don't be an an's starvation, especially a praying mantis. Coming and going to Chu and Shu was rampant, and there was no way to make soldiers.

Yuntun rain and sudden divisions, snakes and pigs rush to hide? Xu Er's soldiers and civilians were tied up and surrendered, and the knight was rewarded for his merits. ”

In his mouth, this poem was written on the back of the proclamation, Yang Sichang was proud of his words, and the servant came in to report that Lord Chen Zanhua had an urgent business to see. Yang Sichang said "please", the servant hurriedly opened the curtain, and a close staff member surnamed Chen bowed in. Yang Sichang himself is a diligent person in managing affairs, and some of the staff members selected are also more diligent and do not dare to sleep lazily in the morning. However, he was deeply surprised that the staff members came to the festival so early to present important matters.

"Dude is here so early......

"My lord, I have a confidential matter to present to you!"

"What?"

"My lord, the sacrifice of thieves is so rampant, how can it quickly resurgence after the victory of Agate Mountain, and there is a faint tendency to burn the prairies, can you know the reason?"

"I want to hear about it!"

The staff member looked left and right, speaking in a Shaoxing official dialect, and slowly lengthened his voice. "The student has prepared an impeachment recital for the adult, please look at it!"

"Brother Chen, what is this?"

After taking the thick impeachment book, Yang Sichang was not busy opening it, he wanted to know which general under his command was this to impeach? If it is a general soldier or deputy general who has led the troops for a long time, I am afraid that this inscription can only be a text.

"Do you know how the thief is resurrected? It was this person who instructed his subordinates to secretly fund food, grass, weapons, and medicines! Only by offering thieves can they clean up the embers, coerce the good people, and continue to cause trouble! ”

Chen Zanhua's words were righteous and strict, which really scared Yang Sichang.

If this is true, then the officers and soldiers will lead the enemy to collaborate with thieves. This crime is not satisfied, and it is almost the same. But. If this recital goes up, I am afraid that it will force the officers and soldiers of the department to mutiny! It's better to think long-term!

"Is there any evidence?!"

While opening the question book, Yang Sichang asked Chen Zanhua in the official dialect with a thick accent in Changde, Hunan.

"Yes! There are confessions from captured thieves, as well as testimonies from officials and soldiers in Yicheng and other places! There are also knives, guns, armor and other things captured by our army! ”

"Wait! Yicheng? Isn't that Wu Biao's model brigade station? Dude means that Wu Biao has a private relationship with the thief?! Yang Sichang's very elegant face was suddenly full of blue and black. He had a murderous intent on the Chen Zan in front of him.

Wu Biao is a team that he and Chongzhen, Wang Dehua, Wang Chengen and others took a lot of effort to get from Li Shouhan. After a lot of wits and courage with the eunuchs of Chongzhen and the celebrant eunuchs, he got this elite army under his command and used it to deter the group of arrogant generals. This guy said that the officers and soldiers of Yicheng were thieves?

Isn't this looking for death?

Shaanxi soldiers and thieves still have some hometown friendship, Zuo Liangyu thieves because of the drop of thieves in the army, Wu Biao's department is all Cantonese. How to collude with Shaanxi thieves?!

"My lord, Li instructed his businessmen to covet small profits, and even sold and offered thieves grain, grass and ordnance to the thief, causing the adult's strategy to suppress the thief to fall short, and making the thief go against the trend.

It turned out that it wasn't Wu Biao! These words made Yang Sichang breathe a sigh of relief. Since Wu Biao was transferred to Huguanglai, from grain and grass to supplies, it is much worse than in the capital, not to mention the same time in Guangdong. When I was in Guangdong, the lord gave us a pound of meat every day, and I was sick when I ate it! It's good now, but you may not be able to eat a pound of meat in a month! I knew that this was the case, and I should have eaten meat in the first place! For this reason, Yang Sichang had to comfort him with kind words, and allocated some money from his line to let them purchase some meat by themselves, but unexpectedly, it also caused a backlash from other officers and soldiers.

This is also easy to do, "If you can kill thousands of slaves, this official can also be treated like this!" "With a strong army in hand, Yang Sichang naturally will not look at these Huguang officers and soldiers.

Wait a minute! A thought flashed through Yang Sichang's mind, Li Mou? Could it be?

"My lord, Li Shouhan, as a member of the imperial court, does not want to repay the kindness of his father, but colludes with the traitor, which is really heinous! The student's recital is to ask Li to be arrested and imprisoned, and the sentence will be canonical. Collect their land, seize their armies, seal their treasury, and use their assets! ”

What a ghost! Dig up your house and drop your ancestral grave! Can't please a good dead drop!

Rao is Yang Sichang is a child of a family, but he can't help but scold this Chen surnamed Zanhua in his heart in the vernacular of Changde like a shrew scolding the street. He had heard people say in a trance that this person had close contacts with many big families in Nanzhili, and many of the masters employed in the family were his fellow brothers or children of the clan. Thinking about it this way, Yang Sichang seems to see the crux of the problem.

"This is the inscription for the impeachment of General Lee?" Yang Sichang didn't bother to read it, he tapped the article lightly with his fingers, and there was a slight hint of sarcasm in his words, this stupid pig, I don't know what benefits Lu Dao has received from others in private, and he plans to buy ginseng from this official? I didn't go to the good life to see the Di Bao, Li gave the emperor three cannons in February, all of which were heavy cannons that could fire 32-pound shells, and the cannon body was very light and well-cast. Emperor Dayue personally inscribed the cannon and said: General Dingliao, General Pingliao and General Zhenliao, sent to the front line of Jinzhou outside the Guanhai to be handed over to Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, and Hong Chengchou also specially thanked him.

Such a character, but you want the official to impeach him? Don't say that you just said that a few businessmen in his territory are suspected of trading with Zhang Xianzhong, you just caught himself and Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and a few big thieves drinking and eating meat together, and the emperor will pretend not to see it.

Not for anything else. Just the 500,000 stone japonica rice and 500,000 silver dollars sent to the emperor's inner palace every year, as well as the costumes and clothing of the people in the court, how much heart did the emperor save and how much brilliance did he add?

The great eunuchs from the emperor to the celebrant eunuchs, including Hong Chengchou, who was in the position of Jiliao Governor at this time, didn't that one obtain countless benefits from the trade with Nanzhong? is Yang Sichang himself, who served as the prime minister of the thief suppression in Huguang, doesn't he have to rely on the grain, grass and ordnance provided by the merchants of Nanzhong?

"Needless to say, dude's writing must be excellent. It's just that it lacks a lot in terms of the general trend. Yang Sichang was too lazy to talk nonsense about this Chen Zanhua, and ordered someone to take out a bunch of copies in bamboo baskets. Please take a look at them one by one.

These are all transcripts of the impeachment of Li Shouhan by officials and gentry from all over the country. Dude can see for himself. ”

Yang Sichang leaned the back of the chair. Straighten his sedentary and somewhat bent back as much as possible, and he could even feel the clicking sound of his spine straightening.

It can be seen that this thief has long been angry with people and gods! Shilin is already a joint discussion! Chen Zanhua has not yet noticed the change in Yang Sichang's mood, and he is still speaking out there.

"Brother, let's go back and rest for the time being! You look at a lot of impeachment transcripts, but they don't go out. Some people were even beaten to death by the court staff. Lord Li's merits are clearly seen inside and outside the court. Why would the dude go out of his way to write about chasing after the wind and shadows? A staff member who was very close to Yang Sichang happened to have something to ask Yang Sichang for instructions, and when he saw this scene, he couldn't help but open his mouth to persuade him.

"Not so! The impeachment of those who preceded it. Either I didn't catch Li's real evidence, but I just heard about it. Either they are soft-spoken, so they are not taken seriously by the government and the opposition. This is not the case with the student's question book, the facts are all there, and there are witnesses and material evidence, if it is issued in the name of the superintendent, it must be paid attention to by the government and the opposition! The end of the Li thief has come! ”

"I'm afraid that Li Shouhan's end has not arrived, and your end has come first." The staff member muttered in his heart. With the current status and influence of Li Shouhan in the minds of the emperor and the imperial court, it is said that a few businessmen under his rule did some business with the thieves, and this matter is strictly speaking, it can't be pulled on his head, Zhang Yunling, Zhang Siwei, Wang Chonggu and others, which one of them was not in the Shoufu University Scholar and in the position of Governor of Xuanda, and the children of the family were close to the children and made money by doing business with the Mongols? At that time, these people were not prosecuted for the crime of collaborating with the enemy, how can they be held accountable now?

When the time comes, Li Mou called to hit the sky, and the court had to ask for a few heads to appease one or two, this Chen Zan's head is estimated to be just right. The staff looked at the head of the six yangs on Chen Zanhua's neck with a bit of playfulness, imagining what kind of law the imperial court would use to clean up this group of people if that day came. Was it escorted to the entrance of the vegetable market and eaten with a knife, or was it like Yuan someone, who was cut by 3,600 knife fish scales? Or is it to abandon the city, and the family is not allowed to collect the body?

"Brother Chen, you are deliberately ridiculous!" Yang Sichang threw the splendid article back to Chen Zanhua.

"Lord Li is diligent in the king's affairs, uses his private wealth to raise soldiers for the use of the country, and even worships Da Nei with hundreds of thousands of dollars and grain every year. A little profiteer seeking improper profits, how can it involve Lord Li! ”

Yang Sichang didn't make his words particularly clear, and in his drawer, there was a letter he had just received from Zhang Kentang, the governor of Fujian, who had lived in Guozi Lane outside the East Gate of Huating County, Songjiang Prefecture for generations. Now he is the governor of Fujian as the imperial historian of the capital.

In his letters, there are many complaints and grievances.

"Although he is the governor of Fujian, it is difficult for the government and military orders to come out of the government office. The military order is controlled by Zheng, and the government order is controlled by the family. And now there is the so-called three provinces of coastal defense yamen, which are issued in official documents at every turn, calling and drinking, the dominance of the warriors, and the disaster of the late Tang Dynasty domain is not far away! ”

In the letter, this Zhang Kentang poured bitter water on Yang Sichang.

In order to fight for control of the waters of Fujian, the two armies, also under the banner of the Ming Dynasty, have been fighting since the end of last year, and at first they only attacked each other with gunboats at sea. After the Chinese New Year, the two families intensified.

"In the first month of this year, it is reported that the naval division of the Nanyue Army cruised outside Qingyu on the outlying island chain of Xiamen with several large and small gunboats. On the 28th day of the first lunar month, the gunboats of the naval division of the Southern Guangdong Army hoisted the red flag and went straight to the south shore of Xiamen Island, and the gunboats of the naval division of the Zheng Army went out to sea to meet the battle, and the artillery of the batteries on the south bank also opened fire. Zheng Jun was killed in the battle on this day, and 23 were wounded. On the 4th day of February this year, the gunboats of the Nanyue Army again approached the southern shore of Xiamen Island, and the Zheng Army immediately bombarded the 24-pound guns of the fort and hit the gunboats of the Nanyue Army several times. The naval division of the Nanyue Army was defeated again and went to the open sea, and the Zheng Jiajun was killed and wounded in the battle is unknown, but the morale was greatly boosted. On the 7th day of the first month, the naval division of the Nanyue Army inspected the merchant ships in the waterway between Xiamen and Kinmen, and collected taxes, Zheng Jun intervened with five red-haired boats, and expelled the naval division of the Nanyue Army to the bay behind Yuzai with artillery fire, and the shells hit the gunboats of the Nanyue Army many times, killing nine members of the Nanyue Army, and escorting the merchant ships related to the Zheng family to the route to Japan, and the Zheng family sailors were wounded six and two were killed. After this battle, although the gunboats of the naval division of the Nanyue Army still stayed in the Qingyu area, the gunboats of the Zheng Army made a big move to patrol the defense day and night. On the 10th, the naval division of the Nanyue Army lifted anchor and left, leaving a letter to be brought back by the fishing boat, the content of which is unknown. ”

"The warriors attack each other, but we don't dare to play the Son of Heaven with just a few words, and we will lose the court in vain!"

In this letter, Governor Zhang screamed helplessly.

"Even when it comes to the official arms and war with the imperial court, the court officials don't dare to play the Son of Heaven, and a few businessmen smuggle for profit, but what can they do?"

Sent away Chen Zanhua, Yang Sichang also had no intention of enjoying the rather sumptuous breakfast, and looked at the budding magnolia flowers under the corridor for a while, and wanted to search for the stomach to make a few poems, but he was bored for a while.

"Thieves and thieves are in trouble with the country, and the warriors are in chaos!" He lamented.

"Kill the thief! Only after the thieves are exterminated can the imperial court have the strength to deal with the Jiannu traitors in Liaodong, and can it flatten the military ministers of the feudal towns like Li Shouhan, and return the world to a bright and quiet world! ”

After making up his mind, he turned around and returned to the study to continue to give Wu Biao and other subordinates an order to prepare to enter Sichuan to pursue Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and other departments, but at a glance he saw that the deputy general of the Chinese army was standing at the gate of the courtyard to check the defense and military appearance of the soldiers of the standard battalion.

"There's an errand for you, and it's important to do it neatly!"

Two days later, Chen Zanhua was ordered to convey the military order of Inspector Yang to the left army, but on the way back, he was robbed by a small group of bandits and unfortunately killed.

When Inspector Yang heard this, he couldn't help but sigh, "God is jealous of talents! (To be continued......)