The fourth volume of the sharp blade out of the sheath Shenzhou moves

In the early morning, on the sea off the coast of Jinzhou City, warships gathered at this time.

Lu Xinrong and his subordinates stood on the dock, overlooking Jinzhou City from afar, looking at a small boat that was slowly approaching, and said in a low voice:

"What does Governor Qin mean, why did he inexplicably want to contact Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, and ask them to come over for something?"

Between the words, there is arrogance that cannot be concealed.

Dare to be affectionate, he looks down on Guan Ning Tieqi from the bottom of his heart.

The subordinates squinted at the departing boat and guessed, "Maybe Lord Qin Du wants to be ruthless!"

After all, our troops are a little insufficient, but I don't know if they dare to leave the city and obey the arrangements of the adults. ”

Lu Xinrong nodded, put his hands behind his back expressionlessly, walked to the fishing rod on the side of the boat, and fished by himself.

At the same time, Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, who had just gotten up, did not wash up immediately after getting up, but walked into the courtyard and punched first.

When he was approaching the age of sixties, Hong Chengchou's boxing was no longer used to fight and kill, but was only used to strengthen his body.

After a set of punches, his body was sweating slightly, and at this time, the long servant brought out from home came over, holding a wooden plate, Hong Chengchou carefully scrubbed his teeth with green salt, and then rinsed his mouth and face.

Changing into a bright red official robe and wearing a black gauze hat, he changed from a kind-looking old man to a majestic governor.

said that he was an old man, but in fact, Hong Chengchou's face looked very young, and sometimes he was even mistaken for a middle-aged man in his early forties.

According to the average life expectancy of Da Ming at this time, his age has far exceeded the average life expectancy of people at that time, and his body is excellent, only his sideburns are a little white.

He was tall and straight, unlike ordinary people at that time, who were prone to hunching over when they were old.

His age, his experience, and his official position as a cabinet scholar and governor of Jiliao, as well as the elegance and extraordinary wisdom he always displayed, all of these are convincing.

At the beginning of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Hong Chengchou was transferred to the governor of Jiliao, led the Shaanxi soldiers to the east, and joined forces with the two towns of Shanhaiguan Make and Ningyuan Wusangui.

Jinzhou has three cities, Songshan, Xingshan and Tashan, which are in charge of the chief soldier Zu Dashou, and they are horns.

After Hong Chengchou changed into his official robe, he left the back house, and his governor's mansion was within Ningyuan of Shanhaiguan.

Ningyuan City is not big, the Ming Dynasty successively served in Liaoyang or Guangning, starting from Chongzhen, the governor of Jiliao can only work in Ningyuan.

And the area under its jurisdiction is from the entire Liaodong to only a corner of Shanhaiguan, no matter why, everything else was lost to Jiannu.

Soon after entering the signing room and sitting down, there was a sound of the rubbing of the nail leaves outside, and then a group of generals walked into the room and bowed in front of Sun Chengzong's case.

"The last general, Wu Sangui, has seen Lord Cabinet."

"The last general, Zukuan, has seen Lord Cabinet."

"The last general, Cao Bianjiao, has seen Lord Cabinet."

There are more than a dozen generals on the side of the three people, such as the generals of Liaoxi and several brothers and nephews of the ancestral family.

However, they did not have the qualifications to be called by name, and when the three generals saluted, the rest of the generals could only salute from afar.

Hong Chengchou showed a smile on his face, arched his hand in reply, and then said, "Three of you, please get up." ”

"Lord Xie Gebu."

The three generals stood up straight together.

Under Hong Chengchou's deliberate envelopment, the relationship between the three of them and Hong Chengchou is somewhat close, although their title to Hong Chengchou is still very official, but the words reveal cordiality.

Wu Sangui is the nephew of Zu Dashou, the chief soldier of Jinzhou, Zu Kuan is his general, and Cao Bianjiao is Hong Chengchou's confidant. In the Jiliao region, the power of the ancestral family can be described as deep-rooted and towering.

To this day, if any governor of Jiliao did not have a good relationship with his ancestral family, it would be impossible for this governor to continue to serve smoothly.

Zu Dashou is a family of generals in Liaodong, and his ancestors and fathers are all general soldiers, so it is more difficult to say that Zu Dashou has a more difficult official career.

It's not that the ancestral family is weak, since Liaodong and Liaozhong have been defeated many times, the Li family and other Liaozhen Jiangmen families have completely declined, and the ancestral family based in the Ningyuan area has been affected very limited.

The ancestors of the ancestral family have been operating in Ningyuan for 200 years, and their grandfather is the general soldier who guards Ningyuan, and his father is also the deputy general soldier of Liaodong.

The reason why Zu Dashou was promoted to the chief soldier in the Chongzhen period is very simple, that is, he led his troops to escape in several important battles.

The most important thing is that in the battle of Shaling in Guangning, Zu Dashou led his family and personal soldiers to run away when the situation was not good on the battlefield, and sold 60,000 friendly troops cleanly.

Although he will not end well if he stays, a general has no heart to fight to the death, and will only retain his strength, so he will naturally not be trusted and respected by others.

However, the strength of the ancestral family is already an unavoidable reality, even if it is as strong as Sun Chengzong, he can only choose to continue to appoint Zu Dashou back then.

And put on a posture of trust and dependence, and tendered and wooed the ancestral family and ancestral birthday.

With Sun Chengzong's status and ability, coupled with the ability to actually handle military and political affairs, Zu Dashou can be regarded as respecting the old grandson from the bottom of his heart.

Of course, this kind of respect is still based on interests first, just like when Sun Chengzong went to Liaodong, Sun Chengzong fought across Wang Zaijin to gain the respect and support of these military leaders.

Before the situation is clear, the ancestral family and Zu Dashou will not rashly bet on Sun Chengzong's side.

So far, the original choice has paid off, based on Zu Dashou's experience of repeated defeats and repeated defeats and escapes, being able to be awarded the post of chief soldier can be regarded as Sun Chengzong's promotion.

Otherwise, there will be no actual achievements, even if the ancestral family is now the first general in Liaodong, Zu Dashou can still only do his guerrilla.

With the rapid rise of Zu Dashou's status, the Zu family was awarded official positions.

Zu Dashou's brothers Zu Dale, Zu Dacheng, Zu Dabi, and his nephews Zu Zeyuan, Zu Zepei, Zu Zesheng, Zu Zefa, Zu Zerun, Zu Kefa, etc., are all officers at all levels, from the general army to the deputy generals, staff generals, and guerrillas, and are stationed in Ningyuan, Dalinghe, and Jinzhou Zhucheng.

In order to commend the merits of the ancestral generation of Zhenliao, after Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, he specially ordered to build the merit archway of the fourth Zhenliao of the Zu family in Ningyuan City.

What's more, how can Hong Chengchou's identity be compared with Sun Chengzong?

Wu Sangui saw that Hong Chengchou was in a good mood, glanced at Cao Bianjiao slightly, stepped forward and said, "Lord Hongdu, the last general will recommend Lord Cao to be responsible for this grain transportation task. ”

Hong Chengchou sighed slightly in his heart, but still turned his head and said to Cao Bianjiao; "General Cao, what do you think?"

"In the end, everything will be at the mercy of Lord Hongdu!"

"Okay."

Hong Chengchou just likes Cao Bianjiao's down-to-earth character, among the generals in Liaoxi, Wu Sangui gives him the feeling of being calm and having the style of a general.

And Cao Bianjiao is rude and realistic, and he will do things very well when he assigns them, Cao Bianjiao's advantages are like this, so Hong Chengchou can tolerate his rudeness.

"Lord Hongdu!" Cao Bianjiao then said: "Since you can transport grain in, why don't you withdraw the people." ”

"Difficult." Hong Chengchou said: "We must be on guard against the return of the Jianyu army at any time, and some old and weak, women and children will be removed from the mountains while transporting grain, but more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians want to withdraw from the mountain in a short period of time and then withdraw to Ningyuan with the army, how difficult is this?"

And once there is a war when Jianyu returns to help, and the people on the mountain come down in a short period of time, and they have not been transferred, wouldn't it be handed over to Jianyu to be slaughtered?

If this happens, even if no one is impeached, the old man will not have the face to stay in the position of superintendent. ”