Chapter 464: Auspicious or Omenous?
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Ta Long, who was escorted into Beijing in a so-called car, was very depressed and sad.
Although there was nothing rude about Nanyuejun treating him, on the contrary, the food and living supplies were handled with reference to his daily supply as the lord of Burma, and there were a few attendants who followed and took care of him. But how can it be pleasant for this country to break the taste of the captured king of the dead country?
On that day, as the king of Burma, Ta Long led tens of thousands of troops, with hundreds of war elephants and more than 200 artillery pieces, to recover Yangon, intending to take the main artery of Burma, money bags, and rice baskets back into his hands.
But he didn't want to, first the artillery battle was lost, and before his artillery team could finish the column, he was ignited by the rocket that burst into it from the opposite side, and the cannon was blown into the sky. Following the intention to pounce on the opposite side of the Nanyue army with war elephants, but the other party used a series of rockets to fall in the battle elephant formation, all animals are afraid of fire, the smarter the more afraid, hundreds of war elephants are frightened by the rockets that continue to fall from the sky, although they barely maintain the formation under the control of the elephant slave, but the speed of the attack is very slow.
Then, the shells of the Nanyue army flew into the ranks of war elephants.
Although those war elephants are covered with iron armor, and the elephants themselves have rough skin and thick flesh, ordinary weapons cannot effectively kill them at all, but knives and guns can't deal with you, and artillery can't deal with them? The fire can't penetrate your iron armor and thick skin, and the shells of the artillery can't kill you?
Deng Xianda concentrated all the artillery of the three garrison brigades and one mixed brigade under his command. Divided into two artillery groups and constantly bombarded the war elephants, after two volleys, those war elephants had already screamed and turned their huge bodies and rushed away on the road from which they came, trampling all the way without stopping, whether it was people or horses, vehicles or baggage, just crashing into the past, hundreds of war elephants that had become crazy because of panic rushed and trampled out of a bloody road in the dense military formation of the Burmese army, and the officers and generals of the Burmese army at all levels, and the nobles could not control the situation even if they shouted through their throats.
The collapse of the Burmese army is imminent!
Don't do it at this time. Deng Xianda will not do this command anymore.
The Nanyue army took advantage of the situation and launched a charge. Along the Irrawaddy River, the sailors went up the river and constantly bombarded the Burmese troops on the shore with artillery, constantly disrupting the slightly formed Burmese army. The brothers of the army are constantly harvesting lives and capturing prisoners with their firearms and knives and guns.
The two groups of men and horses chased and killed for dozens of miles in a row. The wide rivers and the fast-flowing Irrawaddy River can all use that colloquial phrase. "The river is red!"
Night. When he was barely encamped and rested, he checked the losses of the army, only to find that he had only engaged once during the day. Tens of thousands of horses have already stopped six out of ten, and those who barely escaped are also injured and frightened.
At night, several of Talon's uncles and uncles, led more than a dozen brothers, entered the imperial camp at night, and bitterly persuaded Tahlon to stop the army and leave a way for the Burmese people to survive. He did not listen, but threatened him with his long sword. Everyone was helpless and tied him up to go out of the camp to the Nanyue army.
However, this is what the group of members of the Reckless Ying family who tied him up to surrender to the Nanyue Army camp said, and Deng Xianda didn't bother to understand the facts.
On the one hand, he sent people to escort this group of people to Hue by sailor speedboat to meet the lord, and on the other hand, he cleaned up the remnants of the Burmese army scattered all over the country. The Siamese soldiers who confronted the Burmese army in the border area between Siam and Burma were even more like eating Wilgang after being beaten with chicken blood, attacking frantically all the way, as if they wanted to wash away the grievances accumulated over the years.
The Burmese Mang Ying Dynasty, which had been in power on the Indochina Peninsula, seemed to have collapsed.
In the court, the triumphant Wang Dehua presented Emperor Chongzhen with many objects that symbolized the status of the Kingdom of Burma, such as the treasures of the King of Burma and the albums, and read aloud the seal of Ningyuanbo Li Shouhan and the pair of auspicious Rui from Bengal.
Zhu Youzhen, who was standing on the throne, was like being in the clouds.
Just after a series of defeats, he lost his teacher and land, and even fell into his relatives, forcing him to fast every day to the Taimiao and Fengxian Hall to cry and mourn, and he was almost ready to make an edict. On the same day, when he received the news that Luoyang had been breached and King Fu had been killed, he cried when he summoned the ministers and the courtiers, the second military department, and the branch ministers: "I can't protect my uncle." "The royal sleeves are wet", and the ministers had to prostrate themselves and ask for guilt. One day shortly thereafter, Zhu Youzhen went to see his grandmother Concubine Liu, dozed off soon after sitting down, and woke up feeling unseemly, so he hurriedly apologized to the concubine and said: "When the ancestor was a god, there were few things in the sea, and it was difficult for his son to be bitter. After two nights, the provincial documents were not handed over, and they were upset and wasted. Since he is too old to be strong, he is worn out by national affairs, and he is poor and poor. In front of the concubine, he didn't hold himself to this point. This concubine, who had experienced the peaceful scene during the reign of Emperor Wanli, also cried for it when she heard this, and cried bitterly for a long time with her grandson emperor, and the palace maids and eunuchs who were waiting on the side all knelt down to ask for guilt, and did not dare to look up.
What's more, he heard from the factory and the guards that several Hanlin had privately begun to draft an edict for him to clarify the world's crimes.
But now, this Uncle Ning Yuan, who is thousands of miles away, has not only sent a large amount of money, grain and fruits to the palace, but also sent him a huge reputation.
The handsome master is far away, and he insists on his superiors to ask the guilt before driving, this is not what many kings dream of?
Today, I can tell the ancestors and ancestors that the descendants of the Mang Ying family, the culprit who constantly harassed the border land of Yunnan Province during the reign of the Divine Sect, have been taken into Beijing by the ministers of Erchen's subordinates to ask for guilt!
"Your Majesty, slow down!"
Just when Chongzhen opened his mouth and instructed the cabinet and the ministers of the ceremonial supervisor to come up with a charter to reward the officers and soldiers of the Nanyue Army and commend the meritorious personnel; The same edict was issued, announcing that Ning Yuanbo was offering auspicious white tigers to the world to boost the morale of the army, and some people in the imperial history queue came out with words that ruined the scenery.
"Your Majesty, please treat Li for harboring evil intentions and resisting the crime of disobeying the order! Punish its nine clans! ”
This statement shocked the world.
Everyone in the court looked for the source of the voice.
The man who spoke saw that the attention of the crowd was drawn to him. I couldn't help but get a great sense of satisfaction in my heart, and began to talk eloquently: "Your Majesty, on that day, Your Majesty issued an order, and ordered the master of ceremonies to read it out, and Weichen also knew the will. He ordered Ning Yuanbo to transfer several brigades of elite divisions to prepare their own food and equipment to listen to the dispatch in front of the army of Liaodong Hongdu, in order to prepare for the needs of the Liao thieves. ”
But now Ning Yuanbo has not sent a pawn to cross the sea to the north, but only sent his generals and children to perfunctory His Majesty, first sent his sons and daughters' in-laws Zheng Zhilong, the general soldier of Fujian, to come, and today sent his eldest daughter to Beijing to offer the so-called auspicious. Such acts. What is it that is not a disobedience?! Since the minister went to school, the first thing he learned was that his parents' orders should not be violated, and now the monarch's father has his life, and he dares to prevaricate. His heart is clear. His heart can be punished! ”
"Since Ning Yuanbo was able to take the southern thief who was harassing during the Shenzong period to Jingshi for questioning. Then he also has the ability to bring a cadre of Liaodong thieves who have disturbed Liaodong and offended His Majesty many times into the Beijing Division for questioning, so as to solve the great trouble in the hearts of several generations of kings of the Ming Dynasty! ”
"Ran Ning Yuanbo didn't care about my emperor's worries. I don't want to serve Sheji, in order to avoid sending troops, I don't hesitate to open the border provocation, the east road destroyed Burma, the west road captured Bang Ge Ra, the minister is stupid, since Ning Yuanbo has this soldier, horse, money, grain, car and ship, why not go north to Liaodong? Where to go to the land of miasma malaria? ”
In order to prevaricate His Majesty and block the mouths of everyone in the world, Ning Yuanbo deliberately offered the so-called auspicious white tiger, and his heart was even more obvious! The white tiger is transformed by the stars of the West, the so-called Westerners, the main weapon torture and killing! What is the intention of this fang to offer the white tiger? If you count the date, the day when this fang will load the white tiger on the ship is the time when the two thieves will attack the city and plunder the land in various parts of the Central Plains and kill my Ming clan! ”
A series of sonorous and powerful words were spoken aloud in a tone full of a sense of justice, and they reverberated in the space of the court, shaking the center of people's ears. Someone peeked at Chongzhen on the throne and found that he had turned pale with anger, his hands were tightly clasped on the armrest, and his fingers had been stuffed into the mouth of the dragon head.
Li Huamei, who was standing at the gate of the hall waiting for the order to enter the hall and hand over the grain, rice, silver dollars, equipment, gunpowder, military uniforms and other things to Chongzhen by the escort, was so angry by these words that her face turned red, and she turned around and was about to leave.
"Miss, no!"
Shi Lang, the sailor who accompanied Li Huamei to escort him up, quietly reminded her in her ear, "If we leave in a rage at this time, we will just fall for the tricks of this group of dog thieves." They will splash more dirty water on the lord and our Nanyue army! ”
It was Sichuan Daoist Shiwei Zhou Yin who spoke, with a generous statement and a posture of asking for the king's life.
"Your Majesty, a few days ago, Zheng Zhilong, the chief soldier of Fujian, entered Beijing on the order of Ning Yuanbo to deliver the seal of the report, and His Majesty rewarded him with five thousand yuan of silver, plus a jade belt, and his son Zheng Sen commanded the hereditary Jinyi Guard, please ask, this kind of reward, the former governor Yang Sichang offered a reward for the arrest of the thief between Jianghuai, Sichuan and Shu, Zheng Zhilong is just a messenger, what virtue can be worthy of such a generous gift?"
Yes, Zheng Zhilong, who led the Nanyue army to escort Ta Long and Qian Liang into Beijing to wait for orders outside the palace gate, could not be calm, and this group of imperial historians aimed their guns at him.
But fortunately, the court became a pot of porridge in a blink of an eye.
"Ning Yuanbo's loyalty can be to the sky! What do you know about this group of Confucians? ”
"The so-called White Tiger is definitely not an auspicious omen, but a bad omen for the eternal sword soldiers!"
"Zheng Zhilong's district envoy is so rewarded, and today he sent the lord of Myanmar to Beijing to ask for guilt, how should the emperor reward Li? Once there is no reward, how should the imperial court restrain Li? ”
"If Uncle Ning Yuanbo has different intentions, how can he pay tribute to the imperial court's money, grain, and equipment again and again? Now that there is no army on the front line in Liaodong, the food that is not eaten by the South Central Army, and there is no army that has no armor and equipment in the South Central Army. ”
"Zhou Gong is afraid of rumors, when Wang Mang Lixian is corporal! All the great traitors and evils are extremely good at acting! ”
"According to the ranking, could it be that my Liaodong soldiers can't fight without his Li family's grain, grass and ordnance?! I am a loyal and brave soldier of the Ming Dynasty, how can I buy it with just food and weapons? ”
"That is, I have hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, and I can't fight without food? The princes also looked down on the soldiers' hearts of loyalty to the country! ”
"Not bad! Without the Li family's money and grain, we can send more money and grain in the Central Plains, Shandong, Kifu and other places. I have a lot of resources and resources, and there are many people, and a little bit of everyone has a head on them, which is enough to recover Liaodong. ”
That's true! On the same day, Mr. Yang Dawen was weak in order to suppress the thief's salary, and he levied the salary in various places, which was originally said to be only temporary for one year, and the next year he urged the levy of 2.8 million yuan. For a year, my people will be tired. It has been set to tilt; and the suppression of the cowards and the repression, the edict as before, has been reverted to the quota; Yang Sichang asked the soldiers of the Nine Sides to be trained to suppress and destroy the Kou, and the edict was restored as before. It has been reverted to a quota. Today, we can do the same, and ask the people of the world to endure the pain for a while. After the world is peaceful. has his own saint and son of heaven to compensate and comfort Li Min's child. ”
"Exactly! There are 5 million old salaries, more than 9 million new salaries (referring to Chongzhen's three-year increase in Liao salary and 10 years of additional salary), and 7.3 million yuan in training salary. With such a huge amount of military salary, only 30% of it needs to be allocated to Liaodong. You can wipe out Jiannu in one fell swoop! ”
"No, no! Yang Sichang discussed an increase of 2.8 million salaries in the Ministry of War, and wanted to train 120,000 soldiers for the purpose of suppressing thieves. Shaanxi, Henan, Jiang, and Chu reported 80,000 soldiers, but they were still registered soldiers. It was also discussed to increase the training salary of more than 7 million, and the Xuan and Ji border soldiers were drawn and trained to integrate into a strong team. The battalion system is varied, and the soldiers who are still in and out of here are also the soldiers. It can't be suppressed, it can't be practiced, and the poverty of the four seas is already very bad. ”
"The training is levied, and the trained soldiers and horses are safe? Jidu drew 45,000 soldiers, and so far 35,000; The governor drew 30,000, and so far 2,500; Baozhen has trained 10,000, and now it is 2 or 300. Ruoshan (Shanhaiguan) and Yong (Yongping) soldiers are 78,000, Jizhou (Jizhou) and Mi (Miyun) soldiers are 100,000, Changping soldiers are 40,000, Xuan (Xuanfu) Da (Datong), Shanxi soldiers, and Shaanxi trilateral soldiers are more than 200,000 each. Are the people safe and sleepy? Recently, every word of soldiers and horses of the border ministers is said to be thousands or hundreds, and the tens of thousands of new and old soldiers and horses in the town are not mentioned. It is because of the training salary and the lack of soldiers and horses. Recently, the officials of the province have been chasing after the people by taking advantage of their salaries and fame, causing the people to be miserable, and they are greeted by thieves, and they are not even greeted by thieves before they see them. Although the three salaries are urgent, not only the salary, but also the salary. There are no soldiers outside, no people inside, and the salary cannot be completed, so the blame lies with the person who discussed the salary. ”
"The original sucked up the blood of Baisheng, and Yang Sichang was poisoned in the world."
"The people of the Central Plains are suffering! Liao, salary, and training salary, and it is absolutely impossible to levy it again! Someone from Chen's hometown sent a letter to, saying that Henan has been plagued by locust drought for many years, and the year is a great hunger, and people dare not go to the valley, and the valley is expensive. The rice and wheat buckets are worth three thousand, and the grain is two thousand seven hundred. Cannibalism, there are fathers who eat their sons, wives who eat their husbands, there are no lone travelers on the road, although the east and west villages do not dare to go back and forth. It died in the ravine and was cut by the crowd, and the bones were supported in an instant. The officials beat and killed the fortress, and they can't be forbidden. Those who do not succeed will be thieves. So the rats and dogs steal thousands of people for the group is innumerable, such as a dragon, Zhang Juanzi, Song Jiang, Yuan Laoshan, all of them. And Linying a dragon, Shouzhou Yuan Laoshan, its disciples are especially numerous, chopping wood and breaking Jun, going back and forth to the suburbs of Liang and Song Dynasty without a void day, day by day. If it is increased again, I am afraid that the incident of Xiangyang and Luoyang will be repeated in Nanyang, Lu'an and other feudal domains! ”
The imperial historians in the court gave full play to their professional expertise in messing around, constantly changing the topic, and changing the focus of people's attention from whether Li Shouhan should be rewarded or not, to the source of military salaries in Liaodong, and whether to continue to levy three salaries to all parts of the Central Plains, and continue to increase them.
Gradually, people's firepower began to concentrate, and the muzzle of the cannon gradually pointed to Yang Sichang, the thief supervisor who was favored by Chongzhen for a while, and called General Yanmei.
The faction that supported Yang Sichang led by Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and the imperial historians who misled the country and the power of the country and the treacherous power of the country launched a fierce debate, and its fierce process was no less than the controversy between the black faction and the powder faction on a certain person and issue of common concern in the major forums of the 21st century. Your hair-slapping and slapping is just too pediatric.
At this scene, Zheng Zhilong, Li Huamei, Shi Lang and others who were at the gate of the hall didn't know what to do, they were shocked, mocking, sneering, and all kinds of expressions were mixed together. Is this the court of the Ming Dynasty? Is there still a bit of court's decency in this?
Just as several of the Imperial Historians and the Lang Zhong of the Military Department were about to start a close contact with each other with great interest that touched the body and soul, a roar came from the throne.
"Enough! You are the minister of the court, why is it so ridiculous! ”
Chongzhen's thunderous anger made a hand-to-hand battle that was about to be staged in the court suddenly disappear invisibly. It is also strange to say, why did the border army, which has always been known as the elite, dare not fight hand-to-hand with Jiannu, but these court ministers are so keen on hand-to-hand combat?
The anger of the Son of Heaven suddenly calmed the ministers. The sober-minded ministers were re-divided into two camps, the black faction and the pink faction, glaring at each other angrily. The arrogance of the black faction has been greatly weakened, especially many imperial historians have calmed down, deeply feeling that the storm is coming, of course, there are also some black factions that belong to the more resolute kind in the end, they still chant words in their mouths and shouted loudly, Li Shouhan This fang is a big thief of the country, there is a holy decree and dares not to obey the edict, so rebellious, so domineering, it is really no king and no father, and there is no king!
However, they seem to have forgotten that the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty resisted more times than their hair.
"Wang Chengen, scatter the dynasty!"
Seeing that there is no excitement to watch, Li Huamei turned around a little stupidly and was about to leave, but was called by a eunuch with a smile on her face.
"Please stay for the time being! The emperor has a will, and today the court is noisy, and in the evening in the queen's palace, the county lord Niangniang, Zheng Zongbing, General Shi and other meritorious soldiers are entertained. ”
"This father-in-law, are you mistaken, we are not a county lord, we are just the daughter of a man who has no king, no father, and no ruler!"
"Mother, don't be like their crows! The two princes and princes have ordered that tonight the emperor will reward the county lord with the name of the lady and the honor guard costumes. The slave maid is here to say hello to the mother first! (To be continued......)