Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

Volume VIII Troubled Times

Chapter 5 The situation in the DPRK is turbulent and the troops are withdrawn

Section 5: The Crime of Ling Chi

Li Tianhao, Zhao Kaishan, and Wang Dangdang heard that they were about to be knighted by the imperial court, and they kept asking Liu Yunwei about it, wanting to find out what titles everyone had been titled, and their expressions were full of joy.

Seeing this, Liu Yunwei couldn't help but smile and said, "As for what title the imperial court has given you, the governor doesn't know, and you won't know until the imperial court's will arrives." But counting the time, the reward of the imperial court should arrive in a few days, and you can only wait a little longer. ”

Seeing that everyone couldn't help but be happy, Liu Yunwei was happy, but there was an extra layer of worry between his eyebrows. After a while, seeing that everything had been arranged, Liu Yunwei asked everyone to go back to work.

"Governor Yuan wait a minute, follow the governor to the back hall, the governor has something to explain to you."

Yuan Chonghuan was stunned when he heard this, and everyone also looked sideways, not knowing what happened to Liu Yunwei today.

In this meeting, Liu Yunwei never ignored Yuan Chonghuan, not only did he not assign a task to him, but he didn't even mention the great achievement of bombarding Nurhachi, which made Yuan Chonghuan sit like pins and needles, and his heart was full of doubts, I don't know what happened, did he do something to make Liu Yunwei dissatisfied?

Everyone saw that Yuan Chonghuan was called by Liu Yunwei in the back hall, and they were all very puzzled, and they all talked about it in twos and threes, only Yuan Mingxuan seemed to know something, and he was not surprised at all, but shook his head slightly, his expression was full of sadness, anger and helplessness, and he ignored the people who were full of theories, but left without saying a word.

After Yuan Chonghuan followed Liu Yunwei to the back hall nervously, he stood aside very crampedly, not knowing what Liu Yunwei meant, so he never dared to say anything, so he could only wait for Liu Yunwei to speak first.

However, Yuan Chonghuan waited for a long time and didn't see Liu Yunwei speak, so he looked up, only to see Liu Yunwei staring at him expressionlessly, his eyes were full of anger, and Yuan Chonghuan was suddenly startled.

"Inspector, is there anything wrong with the lowly position? Please also ask the superintendent to make it clear. ”

Yuan Chonghuan said sweating profusely, feeling apprehensive in his heart, waiting for Liu Yunwei's response.

"There are two letters from the Governor here, one is written by Wei Zhongxian to the Governor, and the other is the information obtained by the Investigation Division. The content of these two letters is related to Governor Yuan, I wonder if Governor Yuan has anything to say to Governor Yuan? ”

Hearing this, Yuan Chonghuan's face suddenly changed greatly, and after being entangled for a while, Yuan Chonghuan still gritted his teeth and said: "I don't know what the letter says, and I ask the supervisor to show me." ”

"Bang!"

Liu Yunwei slapped the table suddenly, slammed the two letters in his hand on Yuan Chonghuan's body, and shouted: "Look good at yourself!" It's a good thing you do! ”

Yuan Chonghuan hurriedly opened the two letters, and after only one glance, his face was bloodless, and he hurriedly knelt on the ground and said, "Inspector, I ......"

"Shut up!"

Liu Yunwei didn't listen to Yuan Chonghuan's explanation, directly interrupted Yuan Chonghuan's words, and asked: "This governor only asks you one sentence, is there or not this matter?" Say! ”

"Yes!"

"You're really in touch with the enemy!"

Yuan Chonghuan gritted his teeth and said: "Inspector Qiqi, the lowly post did send a letter to Nurhachi, and the letter wrote that he wanted to negotiate peace with him, but that was a delaying tactic for the lowly position!" At that time, the superintendent was still in the south to quell the rebellion, and the Hanwei army had not been assembled, and more than 200,000 Jiannu were about to come to the city. The humble position really just wants to make peace with Nurha, so as to buy time for the superintendent to go north and the Hanwei army to assemble, and there is absolutely no dissent! ”

When Liu Yunwei heard this, he stepped forward and kicked Yuan Chonghuan to the ground, pointed at Yuan Chonghuan and shouted, "What is your identity?" What qualifications do you have to make peace with Jiannu! Even if it is a delaying strategy, you must not make such a decision, this is the bottom line of being a Ming general, do you understand? You are sending the evidence of treason and captivity to Wei Zhongxian! Now those ministers in the court also know about this and are preparing to take this opportunity to suppress the four towns of Jiliao. I think you're dizzy, you don't have a brain! ”

When Yuan Chonghuan heard this, his face suddenly turned like ashes, and he sat on the ground silently with his eyes lost.

Liu Yunwei scolded for a while, then took a few deep breaths, calmed down, sat down on the chair dejectedly, and said: "Although you have made great achievements, the evidence of collaborating with the enemy to negotiate peace is ironclad, and you can't run." In my opinion, you better go home and save your life first. ”

Yuan Chonghuan was shocked when he heard this, so he nodded a little dejectedly, and then suddenly remembered something, and was about to speak, but saw Liu Yunwei wave his hand and said: "Okay, don't say it again, there is no turning point in this matter, you go and clean up first, and the governor will send troops to send you back early tomorrow morning." As for the court, the governor will take care of it. ”

In the early morning of the next day, Guo Yi led a hundred guards to wait outside the south gate of Guangning, and after a long time, Yuan Chonghuan rode out of the city in a cloth suit, saluted Guo Yi, and said: "This time there is General Lao Guo!" ”

Guo Yi clenched his fists and said, "Lord Yuan, don't see outside, let's go." ”

While they were talking, the two suddenly saw a team of iron horsemen appear in the distance, and their clothes turned out to be Jinyi Guards!

Guo Yi's face suddenly changed greatly, and he hurriedly said, "Lord Yuan, go back to the General Soldier's Mansion!" ”

Yuan Chonghuan also saw that the team of brocade guards was violent, and they did not come to announce the decree to reward everyone, nor did they talk to him, so he hurriedly rode back to the city.

It didn't take long for Liu Yunwei to see the team of brocade guards in the general army's mansion, and asked a thousand households led by him, "I don't know what you have to do?" ”

After saluting, the Qianhu said: "I have seen the superintendent, and we are here to arrest Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Liaodong, by the will of His Majesty!" ”

"Why!"

Liu Yunwei glared angrily, said angrily, and immediately stopped those brocade guards.

The Qianhu trembled and said: "Inspector Qiqi, that Yuan Chonghuan and the slave chief Nurhachi have four letters, that is the enemy country, and the sin is unforgivable!" We also came to arrest us on the orders of the emperor, and I ask the superintendent not to embarrass us and other little people. ”

Liu Yunwei glared at the brocade guards, and his heart was already full of anger. At this time, Liu Yunwei was not only angry with the ministers of the court and Wei Zhongxian, but also very dissatisfied with Yuan Chonghuan. Because of the matter of Yuan Chonghuan and Nurhachi's private peace discussion, the four towns of Jiliao were very passive, not only lost their lives, but also let the ministers of the court and the central government get the handle of the Han Weijun and the four towns of Jiliao! Wei Zhongxian and those Wenchen in the court will definitely find an opportunity to suppress the four towns of Jiliao after disposing of Yuan Chonghuan, and they will not let the four towns of Jiliao expand endlessly!

Seeing that Liu Yunwei never spoke, the Qianhu said cautiously: "If the superintendent doesn't have any instructions, I'll go and get someone later." ”

"What result did the Three Law Divisions set for Yuan Chonghuan?"

"Back to the superintendent, it's Ling Chi."

Liu Yunwei closed his eyes in pain, stopped talking, and just waved his hand to the brocade guards.

An hour later, more than a dozen Jinyi guards helped Yuan Chonghuan into the prisoner car, and the group went out of the city from the south gate of Ningyuan and headed towards the capital. All the generals and officials under the jurisdiction of the four towns of Jiliao were under Liu Yunwei's strict orders, and none of them went to see Yuan Chonghuan off.

Ten days later, Yuan Mingxuan told Liu Yunwei a piece of news: "Yuan Chonghuan was executed by Ling Chi at the entrance of the vegetable market in the capital. ”

Hearing the news, Liu Yunwei said expressionlessly: "It's okay now, because of one Yuan Chonghuan, our four towns of Jiliao and the imperial court and Wei Zhongxian have completely broken up." ”

Yuan Chonghuan thought for a moment and asked, "Supervisor, do you believe that Yuan Chonghuan collaborated with the enemy?" ”

Liu Yunwei said with a wry smile: "This matter is absolutely true, no matter what Yuan Chonghuan's purpose is, he has done this step, so it is not a pity for him to die!" The only thing I feel worthless is how could Yuan Chonghuan be so stupid as to think that one of his letters could stop Jiannu from going south? Obviously a smart person can't even think of this? Did he really not think about it or didn't think about it at all? ”

Yuan Mingxuan sighed and said, "Perhaps, Yuan Chonghuan doesn't want to fight a decisive battle with Jian Serf so soon." After all, Yuan Chonghuan knew the strength of the Han Wei army, once the war started, Jiannu would be defeated nine times out of ten, at least it would be a big loss of vitality, and once Liaodong was quickly pacified, the millions of taels of silver and millions of stones and grains that the imperial court spent on Liaodong every year would be gone! ”

Liu Yunwei frowned and didn't speak, but his face was very ugly. After a long time, Liu Yunwei said: "Is self-interest or the country more important? Why don't so many people understand the simple truth? Li Chengliang didn't understand it back then, so he raised a thief and raised a Nurhachi; Today, Yuan Chonghuan didn't understand, and wanted to delay the timing of the decisive battle, but he was cut by a thousand knives. Why? ”

"Benefits! No matter how intelligent a person is, as long as he is fascinated by interests, he is not far from death! ”

Liu Yunwei sighed and said, "Okay, let's not talk about these troubles, let's just do our own things and be worthy of our hearts." By the way, how are the people of Liaodong settled now? ”

Yuan Mingxuan thought for a moment and said, "Half of the placements have been completed, and in about a month, they will all be resettled." ”

"That's good." Liu Yunwei remembered something and asked: "Let's settle the people here with great fanfare, are there any people in the rest of Liaodong who have heard the news?" If there are too many people, I'm afraid that our four towns of Jiliao will only be able to hold on! ”

"Alas!" Yuan Mingxuan sighed heavily and said: "Supervisor, now that no people have arrived, the Qing soldiers have taken over all parts of Liaodong east of the Liao River, and blocked the east bank of the Liao River, and those people can't get over." ”