Besides, they had to patiently explain to him that whether it was the White Lotus Sect or Zhao Quan, they did have the intention to do such an evil thing, but they really didn't have the ability to suck a person's soul without hurting the person's body, which was completely beyond the White Lotus Sect's evil arts.

"There are also a lot of people under Zhao Quan who can do witchcraft, aren't the symptoms of these people harmed by witchcraft?" Qi Jiguang still didn't want to believe that the tragedy here had nothing to do with the White Lotus Sect.

"I'll talk about this later, but there is no real evidence yet. However, it is true that they instigated the border generals to abandon the defense of the Great Wall, and this account must be settled with them. Besides, he snorted coldly.

Although it is said that both sides often use tactics to induce surrender or buy, it is somewhat reasonable to continue to use these small tricks at a time when both sides have expressed good faith in negotiations.

"Have you clarified Li Zhipeng's matter?" Qi Jiguang asked again.

"Almost, he didn't fully confess, but he also recruited most of it. He was nothing more than a general whom the White Lotus wanted to buy, and the other party asked him to flee without a fight and give up the Great Wall fortress when the Tatars attacked. Although he accepted the bribe, he did not agree, and he was still hesitating. ”

"Damn! The other party bribed him, but he didn't immediately report it to the governor and the court, and he should be killed for this point! Qi Jiguang scolded angrily.

"He really deserves to die, and the question now is, whether to convict him of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, in that case, his family will be all finished." Besides, I can't bear it.

"When he did these things, he should have thought about his family, he didn't care, so why should we think about it for him." Qi Jiguang didn't feel the slightest bit unbearable, and felt that his family should also be punished.

It is said that one person does things and one person bears it, but the law stipulates joint sitting, and the purpose of adding this clause is also to make the person who commits the crime increase the cost of the crime, which is called not being able to eat and walk around. This point is not fair or unfair, but it is a legislative principle that has been inherited since the Qin and Han dynasties.

"What I'm most worried about now is not this, but the other commanders, and it's hard to say whether the other commanders have been successfully bought by the White Lotus Sect. If two or more commanders and five or more commanders are bribed, this pass will be like a bubble and will have no defensive function at all. Besides, he looked in the direction of the Great Wall and said worriedly.

"Your worries are justified, the White Lotus Sect will buy and lure them down, of course they won't just find one Li Zhipeng. But now no chief military officer has reported it to the imperial court, and there is a mystery behind this matter. ”

Hearing this, Qi Jiguang immediately felt the seriousness of the situation.

What can I do about this, can't all the homes of all the commanders and commanders be raided and interrogated? In that case, the morale of the border army will be completely destroyed, and the Great Wall will also be self-destructed.

"What do you think should be done in this situation? I haven't spoken to Governor Wang yet. Besides, he asked.

The two of them were talking about the defense of the border in the middle of a pair of shell people, which was a good place to prevent others from eavesdropping, and absolutely no one would have the guts to enter here to peep and eavesdrop on information.

"First take Li Zhipeng to make an example, and then announce that these people will automatically stand up and explain the situation, if they don't take the initiative to explain and find out afterwards, they will all be dealt with according to Li Zhipeng's fate." Qi Jiguang's eyes flashed fiercely.

Qi Jiguang is usually a very elegant general, and he is also a veritable Confucian general, but he will never be soft when he should be ruthless.

"I'm afraid this method is useless, there is no real evidence, these people will not take the initiative to explain the situation, in that case, it is equivalent to admitting their big crimes, even if they promise not to punish them, it will leave a stain on their resumes." Besides, he shook his head.

It wasn't that he hadn't thought about this method, but he immediately gave up, because soldiers were the least afraid of intimidation.

"Then there's nothing to do, by the way, didn't you catch a leader of the White Lotus Sect? If he confesses, the situation will be in broad light, and this is a weight to balance them. ”

"yes, but I can't find this person now."

Besides, he smiled bitterly, when he mentioned this incident, he hated Xiaojun's teeth itching, and he really wanted to find him and bite him a few times before he was relieved. At such a critical time, he held such a key person in his hands, but he made Xiaojun disappear without a sound! What's going on?

"Gone? How so? Qi Jiguang looked at it both in surprise and in amusement.

"Well, that's ......"

Qi Jiguang is not an outsider, and he told him what happened.

"Brother Xiaojun is a very stable person, how could this go wrong?"

Qi Jiguang also knows Xiaojun, when he is training, he often goes to the house to drink, and he is familiar with Xiaojun when he comes and goes, and Qi Jiguang also admires this master of the empty door.

"I don't know, so there's no other way around now. Yesterday, the city gate was closed, and you were asked to go to the military camp for martial law, I wanted to wait for the guy surnamed Yan to confess, and then I wiped out all the people of the White Lotus Sect, but who knew that Xiaojun was gone. Besides, he said with a look of crying and laughing.

"No wonder you opened the city gate, without the confession of the guy surnamed Yan, it is useless to close the city gate." Qi Jiguang said.

"This is just one of them, the second reason is that there is such a strange thing, if you don't open the city gate and let the people go out of the city freely, it will provoke a civil uprising." Besides.

Besides, there was a deep sense of frustration, everything was originally well calculated, let Xiao Jun use some trick to get the confession of Lord Yan Helm, and then began to wipe out the characters related to the White Lotus Sect in the city and the military camp, and the defense of the border pass was sure to be foolproof.

It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven, no matter how much he can calculate, he can't calculate that Xiaojun will make a mistake here.

"But there is also a gain, if the Tatars attack in the autumn of this year, the breakthrough will be in the area of Xuanfu Datong." Besides.

This is the most valuable information I got from Li Zhipeng's mouth, just because of this, I really want to pardon him, but unfortunately he can't do this. Those who are guilty must be punished, and those who should be killed must be killed, otherwise the law will lose its dignity.

"Last time they broke through from here, if they still choose this place as the breakthrough point this time, it means that they are indeed prepared."

Qi Jiguang said that he was prepared, that is, King Alta and Zhao Quan had put a lot of effort into the border generals, and they would definitely have achieved results, so they would use this place as a breakthrough again.

The last time this place was breached, the imperial court also put a lot of effort into the defense of the border passes, invested huge sums of money to increase the defense facilities, strengthened the fortresses in various sections of the Great Wall, and increased the number of troops.

It can be said that among the nine border gates, except for Shanhaiguan, it is the strongest here.

"If you can't do it, you can only mix sand." Besides, he smiled bitterly.

"Sand?" Qi Jiguang didn't understand.

"Two-thirds of the chief military officers and command rooms here will be transferred, an equal number of chief military officers and commanders will be transferred from other places, and two general military officers transferred from abroad will be used to monitor a local chief military officer, and two command envoys transferred from abroad will be used to monitor a local commander. In this way, even if some people have different intentions, they will not dare to move. Besides.

"Okay, you're clever at that. But will the court agree? Qi Jiguang agreed.

However, he thought about whether the imperial court would approve of such a major change of guard just because of a little suspicion without evidence, and the transfer of the chief military officer was not a one-man move, but the old team under his command would be transferred, and the same was true for the commander, which involved a major change of guard of nearly 100,000 people.

"I don't know, I sent letters to the emperor and Lord Zhang, and I proposed the solution, and it was their business to agree or not." Besides, it means that he can only do this.

Even if he has full power, he will not be able to do such a major change of defense, which requires the support of the military department and the household department, and will also cost a lot of military spending for no reason.

Each army needs a lot of military expenses every day to go on the road, and it is not very expensive to stay in place.

Just like the 10,000 people he brought with him, when he was training in Beijing, he just got a double salary, plus some welfare benefits, which was generous enough, and now he followed him on the road, and the daily increase in expenses was simply several times, and now they are all subsidized out of his own pocket, and the emperor simply ignored this stubble.

Besides, he also wanted to take a trip outside the Saiwai, and after completing this transaction, it would be more than enough to earn back the silver spent, so he dared to toss like this, otherwise he wouldn't be able to toss for a few years with his more than one million taels of silver.

"If you don't go out to negotiate, it's good to be the governor here." Qi Jiguang said with emotion.

Besides, sitting here, with the elite of the 10,000 brocade guards as the backing, even if they lend a few dares to those chief military officers and commanders, they don't dare to have any dissent.

Besides, these days he has a certain prestige here, and the governor-general and the commander-in-chief are also afraid of him, and they all know that this minister is a foolish guy, and he is ruthless, and he really dares to kill.

The general governor is still mainly appeased to his subordinates, and in many matters to his subordinates, but bargains with the imperial court. Moreover, it is an alternative, it does not talk about any emotion at all, and there is no need for means of appeasement, it is simply deterrence and suppression.

Since Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, there have been fewer and fewer figures who govern the army with an iron fist, that is, Qi Dashuai has always been known as a strict military discipline, and orders are forbidden, but it is still not majestic compared to the situation.

Besides, he shook his head and smiled bitterly.

He is not worried about the uselessness, he is here to show his skills, but also for the end of the year to warm up for the coastal trip, where to go, he faces a hundred times more severe than here, the degree of trickiness may be more than a thousand times, if he can't do everything here, then the coastal trip and the matter of sitting in Fujian should be cooled quickly.

Compared with the eight wealthy clans along the coast, the local forces of the border army are simply horsetail tofu, which cannot be mentioned, not to mention the various forces on the sea, where the local color of the official army is stronger, and it is not as dedicated to court affairs as Wang Chonggu and Fang Fengshi, but only cares about their own local interests.

Coastal.

Moreover, looking at the infinite distance along the coast and the direction of Fujian, it was as if he had seen a road full of thorns unfolding under his feet, stretching all the way to the endless sky.