When Li Xiao and others were taking the recruits to practice standing in the military posture, the report article sent by Zu Dashou to the Ministry of War finally arrived at the Ministry of War. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

When this letter arrived at the Ministry of War, Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the Ministry of War, was sitting at his desk in a daze.

Zhang Fengyi, the word Jiubud, is a native of Daizhou. Wanli forty-one years of Jinshi. From the third year of Chongzhen (1630) to the ninth year of Chongzhen (1936), he served as the secretary of the military department. During the Chongzhen period, he was the longest reigning secretary of the military department.

It's just that this Zhang Shangshu, although he has been in office for a long time, has few commendable achievements. If you use one sentence to evaluate this military secretary Zhang Fengyi, that is, this Zhang Shangshu can be called the pasteur of the Ming Empire, tearing down the east wall and making up the west wall to survive and survive, but he is by no means a cadre who can re-support and build the old and dangerous building of the Ming Empire, which has long been decayed.

In the words of Sun Chengzong, the late Jiliao Governor: "Feng Yi is contemptible and cowardly, dark and cunning, working for profit, and skillful at avoiding trouble." ”

In the past few years of Zhang Fengyi's reign, the Ming Dynasty has deteriorated, first the Liukou burned and looted the ancestral tomb of Fengyang, and then the Qing army Tartars ravaged the Ming Tombs in Beijing. It is recorded in "Chongzhen Ye Compilation" that when the Qing army excavated the Ming Tombs in the ninth year of Chongzhen, a Taoist priest who claimed to be able to see the rise and fall of Qi once fell and sighed: "Sorry for my emperor, the northern and southern imperial tombs have been dug by thieves, and the dragon veins are broken, how can I survive!" ”

In the end, in the impeachment of a group of officials, Zhang Fengyi was afraid day and night, and finally secretly ate rhubarb in order to commit suicide slowly, and finally committed suicide before the court punished the crime.

Seeing this piece of beheading 43 Tartars sent by Zu Dashou, Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the Ministry of War, was overjoyed in his heart, and it can be said that it can be described as a timely rain for the seedlings that were about to die of drought.

No one knows how sad Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the military department who is quite elegant and calm in appearance, and has the demeanor of a scholar, has been sad for this period of time, he is now anxious every day for the raging bandits in Shanxi and Henan, and the attacks and infighting of political enemies such as Zhou Chunxiu and Yushi Ge Zhengqi in the court have made Zhang Fengyi even more miserable and difficult to sleep.

Now Zu Dashou's victory recital made Zhang Fengyi, who was suffering, let out a long sigh.

43 Zhenjianzhou Tartars, this is a great victory against Houjin that the imperial court has not won for many years since the great victory of Ningjin in the last year of the Apocalypse!

Zu Dashou wrote in the chapter that since he was back in charge of the Liaodong Forward Battalion, he has worked hard to govern the country, trained the soldiers, and used his life as a soldier to serve the imperial court. Recently, under their own careful planning and planning, the Liaodong General Zu Dabi Department and the Li Xiao Department of the Guangning Zhongtun Institute bravely attacked and rescued the Jinzhou grain transportation team, and eliminated 43 Tartars in one fell swoop, all of which won the first rank.

Zhang Fengyi happily remembered that after the defeat of Dalinghe that day, Zu Dashou fled back to Jinzhou, and the public opinion of the court was turbulent, and he was bound to punish him. It was only by himself that he tried his best to protect this person from Emperor Chongzhen, so that Zu Dashou could continue to serve as the commander of the forward battalion. So now, a large part of the military exploits reported by Zu Dashou will naturally be counted on his head, at least this merit of knowing people and doing his job, but he did not run.

Zhang Fengyi's thin face showed a smug smile, and he seemed to have seen the emperor's happy appearance when he saw this recital. So, he couldn't wait to put Zu Dashou's recital on his body, and hurried into the palace to meet Emperor Chongzhen.

Forbidden City, East Warm Pavilion.

A young man wearing a yellow dragon robe and a hinged gold double dragon wing crown sat on the throne of the coiling dragon, holding a piece of music and looking at it carefully.

On either side of the young man stood two eunuchs with their heads bowed, and they stood cautiously, occasionally sneaking a glance at the young man who was engrossed in reading the cantata.

This young man is Emperor Chongzhen, who was 23 years old when he had just ascended the throne for six years.

At the age of 23, it is the age when contemporary college students have just graduated. However, unlike the energetic, joyful and cheerful intuitive impression of young people imagined, this Emperor Chongzhen, the ruler of the Ming Dynasty, has a haggard face and premature aging that is completely inconsistent with his age. His eye circles are dark, there are crow's feet at the corners of his eyes that have been formed by staying up all night without resting, and there are extremely obvious dots of gray hair on his sideburns.

Emperor Chongzhen, the last ruler of the Ming Dynasty, was unable to do anything in the face of the increasingly erosive situation on the entire land of China. Since his accession to the throne, news of the defeat of the Ming army has come one after another, making him angry and sad. The young emperor often had the same nightmare, that is, he was in a huge whirlpool, and although he struggled incessantly, it was useless, and finally he was sucked deeper and deeper by this huge black whirlpool until it was swallowed up.

Especially in recent times, the thieves who have flowed out of Shaanxi have become more and more rampant, since last year into Kou Shanxi, in the first half of this year, and invaded and ravaged the southern half of the entire North Zhili, and now, and the chaos went south to invade Henan, although the imperial court shot the head of the Liukou some time ago Zijin Liang Wang for his own use, but the 36th battalion of the Liukou troops did not suffer much loss, still with Cao Wenzhao, Zhang Yingchang, Zuo Liangyu, Deng Xi, Ni Chong, Wang Pu and other Ming troops, fierce battles in the west and north of Henan.

Emperor Chongzhen was extremely worried about the situation in Henan, and he attributed the reason why the Liukou were active in the three provinces of Qin, Jin, and Henan to the ineffective fighting of the officials and the army, and the reason for selfish self-preservation. In order to strengthen his control over the army, he sent eunuchs Chen Dakui, Yan Siyin, Xie Wenju, and Sun Maolin as the inner army, and served as the supervisors of Cao Wenzhao, Zhang Yingchang, Zuo Liangyu, and Deng Xi respectively.

The young emperor didn't expect that because of his impatience, he would do bad things, and the original Ming army was constantly fighting with each other, and now there was a eunuch sent by the imperial court as an internal official of the prison army, which made the situation even worse. The various units suppressed the Kou Ming army to protect themselves and do more selfishness, avoiding the Kou and not fighting. In the words of "History of the Ming Dynasty", it is "a group of commanders who are fighting each other, and supervising the army with a lieutenant official, and the intention is good." So all the armies had no fighting spirit, and they looked at each other, and Mo Li entered first, so the thieves had nothing to fear. ”

All kinds of bad news came one after another, which made the emperor feel depressed and bad.

The eunuchs around him almost never saw his smiling face, and on the contrary, he was scolded by the angry emperor from time to time. When the emperor was furious, the eunuchs were even more unobtrusive, so they had to grit their teeth and endure it, letting the emperor who was hurt in his heart vent the anger in his chest.

“。。。。。。 The thieves showed the Taoist gods and other according to the Lan Dynasty, plundered everywhere, intercepted and killed the people, and the officials and soldiers were difficult to suppress, and the thieves in Shanxi could not be pacified。。。。。。 ”

Reading and reading, the seal of Xu Dingchen, the governor of Shanxi, was slammed to the ground by Chongzhen.

"All useless! After years of suppressing bandits, the rogues are still so rampant, what's the use of raising you! Chongzhen stood up, his fingers empty, and he gritted his teeth and shouted angrily.

The surrounding eunuchs were silent.

At this moment of dead silence, the surprised voice of Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the military department, suddenly came from a distance outside the hall. "Your Majesty, good news! Good news! ”

Chongzhen saw that in this cold weather, under the guidance of a little eunuch, Zhang Fengyi, who trotted into the hall, had a fine face of oil sweat on his face, but what was more obvious was the joy that could not be concealed.

"Zhang Aiqing, how happy is it?"

"Congratulations to the emperor, congratulations to the emperor, my Liaodong soldiers fought fiercely with the Tartars in the field, returned with a great victory, annihilated all the Tartars, and won a total of 43 Tartar heads!" Zhang Fengyi held the concert in his hand and quickly knelt on the ground and saluted.

A eunuch quickly took the chapter from Zhang Fengyi's hand and respectfully placed it on the imperial case in front of Emperor Chongzhen.

Chongzhen looked at it quickly, and gradually, the grim expression on his face began to stretch.

The eunuchs beside him were surprised to find that the emperor's haggard face showed a rare smile.

It was a joy that bloomed after being repressed.

The young emperor read the piece in his hand several times, and his smile became brighter and brighter. Excitedly, he got up and paced, his mouth groaning, and his eyes were full of hope.

"Aiqing is flat! It is rare good news, the good news of the Liaodong soldiers this time, let me rely on the spirit! ”

Zhang Fengyi got up and found that the emperor, who had always had a sad face, was looking at him with a smile, his eyes warm and relieved.

"Your Majesty, this battle is a rare victory in recent years, and it is really thanks to Your Majesty's blessings." Zhang Fengyi continued to congratulate.

Chongzhen laughed, he walked back and forth a few steps, suddenly thought of something, turned to Zhang Fengyi and asked: "Jiubao, the Li Xiao mentioned in the recital, but the person who won the sixth level of the Tartar head reported last time?" ”

"Your Majesty, this is the person."

"Oh."

Emperor Chongzhen had a strong intuition that this Li Xiao, who was regarded as a supporting role in both of the two concerts, was likely to have far more than the number of these performances, and it was very likely that there were even greater merits that were forcibly divided by Shangguan.

This kind of unspoken rules of Ming officialdom, the emperor actually knows it, but he is helpless. After all, this has been the case for a long time, and there is a cap on each person's promotion to an official position. Then, this person's extra military exploits were naturally divided by Shangguan, and this practice was really normal in the eyes of these Ming Dynasty generals.

This reported figure is very delicate, and it is almost the limit of the promotion that Li Xiao, the official of the hundred households, can be promoted in a single battle. Now in the context of the successive defeats of the Ming army, the Tartar head is even more precious, so the amount required for promotion is much less than before. It used to take about 30 heads to get to 1,000 heads, but now only 18 are enough. Then, this Li Xiao, who was only promoted to 100 households half a month ago, can be promoted to a 1,000 households with the 18 Tartar heads he has captured.

The young emperor became more and more curious and appreciative of this 21-year-old young general Li Xiao, who was only two years younger than himself.

"This person should be extraordinary, if there is a chance in the future, I will let this person come to Beijing, so that I can see the next party." The emperor groaned in his heart.

Afterwards, the emperor smiled at Zhang Fengyi, who was respectfully waiting for his own speech, and said: "This battle feats are quite rare. Zhang Aiqing also has a lot of credit. However, the military department can send people to check the authenticity of the first level in detail, and if it is true, the meritorious personnel should be rewarded heavily. ”

Hearing the emperor's praise, Zhang Fengyi's face was full of joy, and he bowed his head more and more respectfully and replied: "Please rest assured that the emperor will immediately send someone to Liaodong to investigate." ”

Emperor Chongzhen, who had a smile on his face, stood up and said to Zhang Fengyi: "After the first level is verified, I will be escorted to Jingshi immediately, and I will personally go to Taimiao to comfort my ancestors." ”

Zhang Fengyi bowed to the ground: "Weichen respectfully obeys the holy decree." ”

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