It's no wonder that Liao Daheng picked his scalp before arresting people, Liu Yuliang is really not easy to catch.

Liu Yuliang is a native of Mianzhu County, a scholar in the 47th year of Wanli, and a bachelor of Hanlin.

Liu Yuliang is short and strong, very good at figuring out his intentions, and even better at political showmanship, and is born to be a good actor on the political stage.

Liu Yuliang saw that Fang had a lot of events today, and the emperor did not like literature and paid attention to martial arts, so he left behind the appearance of Hanlin scholar Wen Crepe, danced with knives and sticks every day, talked about military affairs, and even wrestled with servants for play. If someone asks him for a subset of scriptures, he assumes a posture of disdain; When someone talked to him about military affairs, he assumed a confident posture. He refused all the work related to literary affairs in the Hanlin Academy, such as revision, direct lectures, and canonical examinations.

Over time, Liu Yuliang became famous in the imperial court for his familiarity with military affairs.

Due to the emperor's blue eyes, in August of the tenth year of Chongzhen, Liu Yuliang, who had prosperous official fortunes, was promoted from the right attendant of the Ministry of Officials to the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and entered the cabinet together with Fu Guan and Xue Guoguan. Just ten months later, the first assistant Zhang Zhifa and Nankong Yanmai Kong Zhenyun were ousted within two days, and Liu Yuliang's long-awaited opportunity finally came. He tried his best to eliminate Xue Guoguan and fellow villager Wang Yingxiong and others, and finally became the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty.

It's just a pity that people are not as good as heaven, and Liu Yuliang's luck is really not good.

He became the first assistant at the end of the summer, and at the end of the autumn, he met the Tartars to enter the Koujing Division.

On September 22 of that year, the Qing army advanced to Qiangziling and Qingshankou, and the governor Wu Aheng and the general soldier Lu Zongwen were killed in battle. Two days later, martial law was imposed in Jingshi.

In the winter moon, the Qing army, under the leadership of Dolgon, moved to An'an and Fengrun, bypassed the Beijing division from the north, and drove south. Everywhere you go, the towns are raided. The famous city of Jifu has broken forty-three in a row.

At this time, Liu Yuliang, who had been abused by the emperor's face and subordinates, finally couldn't sit still. He told the emperor that he had voluntarily applied to be sent to the front to supervise the military situation. When the emperor heard the great joy, he mistakenly thought that he was going to lead the army desperately, and hurriedly ordered him to replace Lu Xiang as the governor.

Liu Yuliang took the order, his eyes fell to the ground in fright, and he hurriedly reported to the emperor: That's not what the minister meant! The minister just went to the inspector, not to lead the troops in person!

The emperor had 10,000 grass and mud horses in his heart, and he didn't want to turn his face with his first assistant at this juncture, so he had to change the edict according to Liu Yuliang's intention and re-order Lu Xiang to be promoted back to office.

Liu Yuliang passed this hurdle through the danger, and no longer dared to stay in Beijing, so he hurriedly set off to the south.

As soon as he walked to Baoding, Liu Yuliang received the shocking news: Governor Lu Xiangsheng died in Jiazhuang, Julu County! The prison army that was also in Julu and tens of thousands of Guan Ning iron cavalry were defeated when they heard the enemy, and there was no trace!

The defeat ahead, as the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty and the supreme commander of the front, he can't stop at Baoding Mansion, which is hundreds of miles away.

Liu Yuliang mustered up 120,000 courage and cautiously continued southward.

Out of Baoding, through Boye, to Anping, only out of one hundred and fifty miles, the front reconnaissance cavalry came again to report: Qing soldiers are great!

Liu Yuliang's heart was scared, and his face turned white. There is no reason to run, and I am afraid of losing my official position when I go back. is in a dilemma, and he wants to die, which is probably Liu Yuliang's mood at that time.

Fortunately, the subordinates of the organic spirit made a suggestion in time: Anping City is small and newly broken, and it is not suitable to defend it, so it is better to go west quickly and defend Jinju!

When Liu Yuliang heard this, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly led his army to rush to Jinzhou, which was hundreds of miles away.

However, Liu Yuliang did not expect that his bad luck was not over yet, and he would meet Chen Hongxu, the governor of Jinzhou, an outlier in the officialdom who did not enter the oil and salt.

Chen Hongxu is a native of Xinjian County, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, and his diploma is a talent. But if you underestimate him, you will definitely be hammered to death by his fans.

Chen Hongxu is a famous genius in the Ming Dynasty, as famous as Xu Juyuan, and his literary style is from Ouyang Xiu and Zeng Gong, especially good at ancient style writing, and is known as Jiangyou (Note 1) genius.

Liu Yuliang ran to the foot of Jinzhou City, out of breath, and made people report to their homes loudly, but a cold voice in the city said:

"The overseer has come to ward off the enemy. Now that the enemy is coming, how can I avoid it? If you don't pay the responsibility for the grain, you want to enter the city, but you don't dare to listen to the fate! ”

The meaning of this passage is, didn't your Inspector Boss come to fight the Tartars? Now that the Tartars are coming soon, why did you run away again? The military rations and horses were not paid, and the contemptible people were responsible as magistrates. You want to come in with so many people (eat and drink for free), I'm sorry, I can't afford to wait!

It is conceivable that Liu Yuliang was in the city at that time, and he was so angry in his heart.

Liu Yuliang Chi impeached Chen Hongxu, thinking that the emperor would not abandon his first assistant and support a small Zhizhou.

As Liu Yuliang expected, the emperor got Liu Yuliang's dismissal, so he ordered Jinyiwei to go to Jinzhou to arrest Chen Hongxu.

Things soon changed.

That Chen Hongxu really has some ability. The Qing army besieged Jinju in November for more than 40 days. Chen Hongxu led the soldiers and civilians of Quanzhou to fight up, and took advantage of the fog to attack the Qing army camp, which turned the people of Jinzhou and a city into safety, and became the only city that has not been breached since the Qing army entered the customs!

As soon as the arduous city defense battle ended, Xu Guangyao, a hundred households of Jinyi Guard, came to Jinzhou with the emperor's holy decree and took down Chen Hongxu, the hero of the city defense. Suddenly, the city of Jinju was in an uproar, and the army was angry and the people were angry. They scolded, isn't this Qin Hui out of the court?

also deserves Liu Yuliang's bad luck, an important geographical factor makes his situation worse.

Jinju belongs to the North Zhili and is not far from Jingshi. If the people of the state have opinions, it is very convenient to organize a group to go to Beijing to sue the imperial court!

The people and the people went to the court to sue for grievances, which is a major event in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad. As soon as the incident came out, in the respective circles of the emperor's relatives, nobles, officials, eunuchs and ordinary people, Liu Yuliang's ugly state after leaving Beijing was quickly spread all over the place.

When the emperor saw this, he also suddenly realized that his prime minister had left his sight, and it turned out that it was this bird virtue!

The wall fell down and everyone pushed it, Liu Yuliang lost his position, and naturally someone in the court wanted to take advantage of it. His old rivals Xue Guoguan and Yang Sichang quickly formed an alliance, taking advantage of the good opportunity of Liu Yuliang being trapped in Tianjin and not being in the court, and constantly used the opportunity of the ticket to give Liu Yuliang a problem on the front line. Soon, they seized on Liu Yuliang's mistake and accused him of a big crime of disrespect, and wanted to behead him politically and physically.

Why did the emperor invite you to be the first assistant? Solve the puzzle! It's good for you to be the first assistant, but you can't solve problems, but keep generating problems!

However, although the emperor was extremely disappointed in Liu Yuliang, after all, he had been the supreme of the world for eleven years, and he somewhat understood the cruelty of party struggle in his heart.

After court debate, the emperor finally gave Liu Yuliang a lenient punishment, sent him back to his hometown of Mianzhu County for retirement, and gave him a plaque of "Shoufu Please Ying", which finally saved him a little face.

Zhu Pingjin set up the Counselor's Office and specially hired Liu Yuliang, the former first assistant, as the chief counselor, precisely because he took a fancy to the fact that Liu Yuliang, as a political figure, had completely ended his political life in Beijing.

However, the research work of the Shu Wangfu obviously needs to be further deepened.

Liu Yuliang himself is indeed a dead tiger, but he is not fighting alone, there is a big family behind him.

Liu Yuliang stinks in Beijing, but in his hometown of Mianzhu, thousands of miles away, he and his family are gentry leaders who are respected and loved by the people. It cannot but be said that there is a great contrast between the evaluations of these two places.

If the old fox Liao Tycoon wants to move Liu Yuliang, he must face up to this contrast, so after careful consideration, he ordered all the Liu family to be detained while kicking the ball to Zhu Pingjin, the son of Shu.

At the same time, the old fox Liao Tycoon also took an action unobtrusively.

His note was not sent directly to the messenger of the Communications Bureau, but was sent by Zhang Fakong, the highest-ranking civil servant of Sichuan Province, the political envoy of Zuo Bu, the first speaker of the Taiping Senate.

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The political secretary is commonly known as the feudal department, and the chief official is the political envoy of the left and right, all of whom are from the second grade. After the institutionalization of the provincial governors' inspections, the duties of the feudal department gradually solidified into the yamen in charge of the civil affairs of a province, which was slightly equivalent to today's provincial government.

The political envoy is the largest pro-people official in a province, and he is also the direct boss of each prefecture, prefecture and county.

Mr. Zhang has passed the age of the sixtieth year, and he went straight to Gu Xi, but Mr. Zhang neither looked at things nor did he do anything, in short, he stayed in the stack so far.

The alternating season of spring and summer is the peak period of the incidence of the disease in the elderly.

Zhang Fakong's asthma disease has recurred, so he took a leave of absence and has been recuperating at home. The governor ordered Mr. Sun to come and ask Mr. Zhang to work hard, and he had no choice but to sit in an official sedan chair, accompanied by his son Zhang Yiheng (Note 2), out of the heavily guarded city gate, and along the Da'an Road towards the north of the city where Zhu Pingjin, the son of Shu, was located.

The season in the north is the most beautiful in autumn; The season in Sichuan is the most beautiful in spring.

At the turn of spring and summer, there are no large fields of rape flowers in the fields, and the countryside is much less brilliant.

Zhang Yiheng rode on the horse and looked at one sheepishly

The scenery on the road, a numb expression on his face.

"Heng'er, cough, cough, what do you want?"

Looking at his only son, Zhang Fakong was slightly dissatisfied.

He leaned forward and exposed his face in the sedan window: "Heng'er, you also have to pick up Jingyi and study it seriously!" The fallen leaves return to the roots, and the old man has been in the eunuch for half his life, and one day he will return to Shaoxing. You're almost forty years old, so you have a fame, and you can live up to your ancestors and your parents......"

Zhang Yiheng interrupted his father impatiently: "Dad, don't mention this matter!" Children are neither the material of the scientific field, nor the material of the official! Besides, in the best place of the world, people who take the test can line up from the examination shed to the city gate! The child is afraid that it will be difficult to get fame when he is his father's age! ”

Zhang Yiheng's rude refusal did not make Zhang Fakong angry, but made him feel a little guilty.

The Ming Dynasty paid attention to being an official in other places, from the sea in eastern Zhejiang to the southwest border, thousands of miles. Zhang Fakong's health was not good, so his son and wife had to follow and take care of him, and his son's studies were delayed. Besides, his wife has a strong personality (Note 3), Xu is too strict with discipline when he was young, this son's personality is very introverted, he is usually taciturn, and he does not like to interact with people, so he is indeed not the material for mixing with officialdom.

If you can't be an official, your fame is just a glamorous outfit. Good looking, but not much use.

"You don't want to study, so what do you want to do? You can't mess with those Xiyi monks for the rest of your life! The monk Na Xiyi is a monk, the six desires are pure, and there is no root and no descendant. Ay! Since ancient times, there are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is greater. You don't want to gain fame, this human thing has to be ......"

Zhang Fakong had no choice but to take his stubborn son, and he refused to let go of the opportunity to persuade, so he had to use the nagging of the elderly to impress his son.

If you are not an official, you can succeed, but you must have a career; It's okay not to marry a woman, but you have to have offspring. You can't live like this for a lifetime, so that the Zhang family has no queen, and the incense will be cut off!

Perhaps because he couldn't stand his father's nagging, the son, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke:

"Dad, there is real knowledge there is only a monk in Xiyi! The son heard that there was a scholar in Italy named Galileo, who knew everything about mathematics, astronomy, and physics, and he also saw the sun and the moon with a telescope...... These aren't university questions? It's so much more interesting than those shitty eight-strands that are struggling around! Besides, weren't those Xiyi monks also favored by the prince and made an official? Avens told me that he was now at the battalion level......"

"Cough, cough, I am in China, the kingdom of the Celestial Empire, how can I be comparable to the people of Yi? The long skill of Yiren is just the skill of a craftsman. Now that the fortunes of my Ming Dynasty are declining, the prince of the world protects the country and the people, and wants to exterminate the thieves on the battle array, but in fact, he is just using his strengths, and it is only expedient for a while......

If you say that the righteousness is profound, it is naturally my Confucianism and authenticity! The son of the world is wise and wise, how can he not know these truths? You see, those officials were all appointed by him, and sooner or later the court will issue a decree to reprimand ......"

"The Imperial Court? Dad, you can't help but say this! Didn't you also become the chairman of the Pacific Senate, and you also wrote a sprinkling article praising and singing? The silver money that the prince rewarded every month, aren't you also happy to let your subordinates go to the yamen to receive it? He also said that this silver banknote is more colorful than the bullshit of the imperial court......"

"Presumptuous! How can you talk to your father! Ahem, ahem! Zhang Fakong was a little annoyed and angry.

He leaned his head heavily on the chair and ignored his son. Thinking that his sixtieth birthday had passed but there was no grandson under his knees, a trace of sinister color seeped through his eyebrows.

However, in the blink of an eye, Zhang Fakong's anger turned into joy. Because he suddenly thought of a good way to achieve the best of the best, not only to kill the Xiyi monk who made his son lose his soul, but also to let his son get married, let himself hold his grandson, and let his son return to the right path from now on, and have a future that reassures him.

"Heng'er, do you have any intention of going out of the Shu Palace?"

Zhang Fakong struggled to put a smile on his old face, re-exposed his head to the car window, and cautiously tentatively said.

Note 1: In ancient China, the west was the right and the east was the left, because the emperor sat in the north and faced the south.

Note 2: Zhang Kongjiao, the word Lu Sheng, will be a person. The date of birth and death is unknown, he has a son Zhang Yiheng and a wife Kong. The history of the Ming Dynasty said that Zhang Kongjiao was Chen Qichi's assistant and served as the judge of Sichuan. The plot needs it, Xiangmu moved flowers and trees, let Zhang Kongjiao be Zhang Fakong, and let Zhang Yiheng be Zhang Fakong's son. Zhang Fakong is a native of Yunnan.

Note 3: According to the history of the Ming Dynasty, two years after Zhang Kongjiao was martyred, his wife Kong thought that the dead were not buried, and she was angry and killed herself in front of her son.

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