Chapter Ninety-Six: Luring the Snake Out of the Hole
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is a day in mid-April. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
In the afternoon of this day, Lin Side had just come out of the barracks and was walking towards the residential area of the officials in Fushan Bay. But I saw a folding fan in the hand of a fortune teller on the side of the road.
This fortune teller is Xiao Zishan, an agent sent by the Wenxiang Sect to connect. He set up a fortune-telling booth on the way from the Fushan military barracks to the official's residential area, just to connect with the Yinzun envoy who was lurking in the Wenxiang Sect.
Because he knew Lin Side's appearance, he recognized Lin Side at a glance. Seeing him coming from afar, Xiao Zishan stood up and waved the folding fan in his hand.
The folding fan is painted with a Maitreya pattern of a pot-bellied smiling face. Written on the front are four eye-catching big characters: "Tiezuizi Mountain".
Lin Side frowned, knowing that the Laizhou Smelling Fragrance Sect must have sent someone again. He took his guards and walked towards the fake fortune teller's booth.
This fake fortune teller is none other than Xiao Zishan, a painting of praise and painting in the Fushan Army's entry into the Wenxiang Sect.
However, this time, he was sent by Wen Desi, the leader of the Smelling Fragrance Sect, to learn about Lin Side's activities in Fushan Bay.
"This lord! But what is the future? Xiao Zishan asked Lin Side with a smile.
"Exactly, but it's noisy here, can you go to the teahouse and say something about it?" Lin Side asked.
"Oh, but this hexagram has to be added." Xiao Zishan said with a smile. Then he put away his stall and followed Lin Side to the teahouse not far away.
After a while, the two of them entered this quiet tea house. After the "Doctor of Tea" left, Lin Side asked, "The envoy was sent by the sect master?" ”
"Exactly! Yinzun Envoy, the sect leader sent Benzan to paint this time, firstly, to understand the recent activities of the envoy, and secondly, to bring the latest Buddhist decree of the sect leader. Xiao Zishan said imposingly.
Lin Side didn't dare to slack off, and carefully explained the recent activities, and casually gave a small ingot of five taels of silver.
In fact, he has gained quite a few recently, because the agents of the Military Intelligence Department sent by Zhang Er took the initiative to join, and more than 20 people were developed at once.
Of course, there are also seven or eight stupid men and fools among the displaced people in Shandong, these people have been in contact with the Wenxiang Sect before, but they did not expect to find the "party" organization when they arrived in Fushan Bay, so they naturally joined in.
"Yinzun Emissary, you have done a good job, Benzan will definitely report to the sect leader truthfully!" After Xiao Zishan accepted the silver taels, he praised with a smile.
"In this way, I thank the envoy! Please tell the envoy about the Master's decree! Lin Side didn't dare to stay for a long time, so he urged Xiao Zishan to speak quickly.
"Okay, I'll talk about it. The sect leader heard that the ordinary people of Fushan Bay were deceived by this Wang Rui, and after a few days of full food, he forgot Maitreya's mercy, so he asked me to bring you a message, you can find more gentry and landlords to develop. These people are well-read and may be more knowledgeable about Buddhism. Moreover, most of them are good in the countryside, and they can drive a piece! Xiao Zishan said seriously.
"Obey the orders of the Sect Master. Then he departed first. Lin Side said goodbye and hurriedly left through the back door of the tea house.
Xiao Zishan saw that there was no one around, and he also left through the front door and returned directly to the hotel he rented.
"Director Zhang! Do you want to arrest this Smelling Sect spy quietly? On the opposite side of this tea shop, Zhang Erzheng was eating noodles with a subordinate.
"Eat your noodles! Adults are going to use them to lure snakes out of their holes! Zhang Ertou whispered without raising his head.
"Wow, that's delicious!" After Zhang Er finished speaking, he continued to gulp down the egg noodles in the bowl.
At the beginning of June of the second year of Chongzhen, the Denglai Governor's Mansion sent someone to report that there would be a big man from the imperial court and the Denglai Governor's Mansion coming to Laizhou to inspect and announce the decree, and let Wang Rui return to Laizhou to be on standby at the Guerrilla General's Station.
The cause of the incident was caused by Wang Rui, after Wang Rui's report document and Manchu head were sent to the Yamen of Denglai Governor, Denglai Governor Sun Guozhen was very happy, and immediately asked his staff to write a beautiful song of flowers, and sent it to Beijing together with the head of Manchu to report the victory.
This is a real victory, more than 700 real full heads, all of which have been tested by experienced people, and there is no false in the slightest.
Let's just talk about the "Ningjin Victory", and in the end, I didn't see how many full heads were cut.
This news made Lord Sun Guozhen, who was in an unstable official position, so happy that he almost jumped, and he immediately wholeheartedly worked around for this victory.
In May of the seventh year of the Apocalypse (1627), Hei Zi (Huang Taiji) led the army to attack Jinzhou, which was garrisoned by Zhao Shujiao, and attacked Yuan Chonghuan and Zu Dashou and Mangui to garrison Ningyuan, and did not retreat, and the Jin army turned back to attack Jinzhou, still defeated, and Huang Taiji had to lead the army to retreat.
In this way, it's just that Guancheng was not captured by Jiannu, and it was boasted as a "great victory of Ningjin" by the boastful and unlearned Yuan Inspector.
said that it was a great victory, but Jiannu didn't see him kill a few, where is this great victory?
Therefore, this Yuan Chonghuan brags about cowhide, and the thickness of his skin is better than that of "turning the city wall".
However, these things have nothing to do with Wang Rui for the time being, Wang Rui, the little wings of the butterfly that crossed over, could not affect Ning Yuan.
But for Denglai, his butterfly wings are really fanned. In history, Sun Guozhen was the governor of Denglai in May of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, and Chongzhen was dismissed in September of the first year and returned to his hometown to live idle.
However, because of the previous two times to send nearly a thousand Japanese heads, and coincided with the new emperor's accession to the throne, the court felt that this Lord Sun was quite talented, so he stubbornly stayed in office until the summer of the second year of Chongzhen.
But although Sun Guozhen is a native of Cixi, Zhejiang, he is not the Donglin Party, and he was able to serve as the governor of Denglai at that time because he took the path of Wei Zhongxian, who was "nine thousand years old".
Now that Emperor Chongzhen swept away the eunuch party and reused the Donglin party, known as the "Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty", there were Donglin party people who were eyeing the fat difference of the governor of Denglai, Lord Sun.
This Denglai Governor's Mansion has jurisdiction over and supports Guanning and Dongjiang, and also governs the two Denglai Prefectures, which handles countless materials, money and grain. According to the rules of the late Ming Dynasty, the official position of the governor of Denglai is a proper fat shortage.
Therefore, the Donglin Party, a group of shameless civil officials who "can't do anything, corruption is the first", have been eyeing this place early.
When the Donglin party members were about to impeach Sun Guozhen on a few charges, they never thought that the good news of Lord Sun would be delivered in time again.
Although the minions of the Donglin Party made it difficult in every way, they couldn't stand the more than 700 Jiannu heads sent here.
Emperor Chongzhen was naturally overjoyed when he heard it. After the nuclear work, Sun Guozhen was immediately promoted to the rank of squire of the military department, and the prince Shaobao Guanglu was added.
Although Sun Guozhen focused on boasting about his own merits in the recital, he did not skip Wang Rui's credits.
He said in the report: "Wang Rui, a guerrilla in Laizhou, has always had the heart to serve the country. Today, when the Holy Son of Heaven is in power, he is training hard to strengthen the army and killing the enemy wholeheartedly. On that day, the general should be sharp, take the lead, and fight hard. Although he was injured several times, he still shouted to kill the slave to repay the king, and the reason for the department was to kill more than 300 Jiannu people."
Emperor Chongzhen was interested in Wang Rui's deeds of killing the Japanese invaders. This time, seeing that this great victory has the credit of Wang Rui, even if he ordered the military department to agree on a reward as soon as possible, he should not chill the hearts of the soldiers who killed the enemy.
In fact, there are quite a few henchmen of the Donglin traitor party in the military department, and of course they do not want Wang Rui, Sun Guozhen's right-hand man, to be promoted. But I can't stand it, and I sent a real real slave head, and it was Jane in the heart of the emperor.
In the end, although after several ruffles, it was agreed to promote Wang Rui to the general of the Laizhou Road Division, to give him the rank of general of the Che Cavalry, and to give Yin Yizi the title of Jinyi Wei Baihu.
However, the losers of the Donglin Party are unwilling to let go of Wang Rui easily, and they are unwilling to defeat the last bit of wealth of the Ming Dynasty.
In the hearts of the civilian officials of the Donglin Party, there is only the interest of their gang of pretending to be coerced. As for what court or nationality, it is not in the scope of their thinking at all.
Therefore, during the court discussion, several bigwigs of the Donglin Party mentioned that they would transfer Wang Rui's department to reinforce Guanning.
Emperor Chongzhen was already wary of the Donglin Party's mouths at this time, although he was not willing to do so, but he couldn't refuse with a dark face.
Of course, deep in his heart, why don't he want a strong army to go to Guanning as a national barrier.
After thinking about it again, Emperor Chongzhen finally agreed to send Wang Rui's troops to Liaoxi for reinforcements, and even sent his cronies and eunuch Wang Chengen to Denglai to grant the seal and proclaim.
What awaits Wang Rui and the Laizhou Army?