Zuo Liangyu, who rushed back to Huguang from Nanyang Mansion, was proud of the gold, silver and grain, compared to the news that Zuo Mengeng was scattered with that little bit of people and horses at the beginning.

When he saw these things, Zuo Liangyu couldn't believe it, although it wasn't a lot, but it was not just the promised armor and weapons, but also a lot of urgently needed food, gold and silver.

The more than 10,000 soldiers and horses were scattered, and although less than thirty percent had been gathered so far, the surrounding generals and civilian officials were tacitly suppressed.

With so many people on both sides killed and defeated in battle, if the thieves can still go out to ask for merit and reward, saying that a certain unit has suffered heavy casualties in order to recruit and suppress the rogues, they can often get some subsidies, but this is the nature of a war between the officials and the army, and it is better to expose the past.

The parties Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong both have their own thoughts, and no one mentions what happened in those days, and the soldiers and horses of the towns who fled back to Henan will not say a word.

Besides, even if you want to get to the bottom of it, such things often happen urgently, and there is no one to prove it, and those who are scattered are either collected by their respective officials, or they are far away from Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places, where to find them.

Since it was no longer possible to carry out this matter, the prefect of Nanyang was instructed by Li Xianfeng, the governor of Henan, to order the evacuation of all government personnel at the place where the fire broke out, as if it had never happened at all.

Speaking of which, are there fewer amazing things like today?

As soon as I heard the news that Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong were fighting and that the official army was scattered by tens of thousands, there was news that Wang Zheng had absorbed Liu Guoneng's ministry, which was really unreasonable, but this matter was still approved by the Ministry of War with high efficiency.

Many people sighed in their hearts, it is good to have someone in the court, and the face of the celebrant has to be given.

Zuo Liangyu, who was drinking in the camp at the time, actually didn't feel anything when he heard this, and even suddenly realized "oh".

It turned out that he only remembered that there was such a number one person under his hands.

Liu Guoneng was originally under the jurisdiction of the Left Army on the surface, but that was what Xiong Wencan meant, and now Xiong Wencan was beheaded by the emperor Lao'er, and Liu Guoneng has become a child that no one wants and no one cares about.

Without such a character who has no sense of existence, and is even contrary to his own yang and yin, Zuo Liangyu is too late to breathe a sigh of relief, how can he think about it.

I think that when Yang Sichang first entered the cabinet, he could really be called the four characters of power leaning towards the government and the opposition, that is, he advocated appeasement, so that Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai had a chance to breathe when they were poor.

Later, in order to make up for his mistakes, Yang Sichang arranged a net all night long, and this strategy worked very well, and all kinds of thieves fell into a low ebb, but when Li Zicheng was about to be found by the Soushan officials and soldiers, and was escorted back to Beizhili to ask for beheading, the war broke out again in Liaodong.

The Liukou and the Qing army always coincided like this, and the imperial court had no choice but to send officials and troops to reinforce Liaodong again and appease those Liukou.

Up to now, most of these rogues who have been appeased have the eight kings Zhang Xianzhong and Cao Cao Luo Rucai taking the lead, and most of them have chosen to come back, just like Liu Guoneng who is desperate to do things for the officials and the army, only a small part of them.

The original beautiful plan of the five provinces to cooperate in the suppression is no longer out of date, Yang Sichang still takes this net to fish, in the final analysis, it has become a broken net that leaks everywhere, and he has been fooled once, and few fools will be caught.

Yang Sichang led the Beijing camp supervisor to suppress the bandits and won several beautiful battles at the beginning, and wrote in the note to Chongzhen that "all the thieves will be eliminated in March".

As a result, since then, he has been beaten by Zhang Xianzhong and led by the nose.

Half a year has passed, in addition to leaving the situation of chaos in the Central Plains, there is also a gap that the imperial court cannot fill in any case, such as an increase of 140,000 troops and an increase of nearly 3 million.

In fact, this is not all Yang Sichang's fault, the idea of the world's rich households sharing the sound is beautiful, but it is too unrealistic, these should be the rich households to share the money, and now it is completely pressed on the people.

The people were out of breath, and naturally shouted the slogan of "Welcoming the King" to revolt.

Yang Sichang is a favoritist, and the ideas he puts forward are often very serious, and they are the most intuitive way to solve things, and Chongzhen knows this, so he spares no effort to believe.

But he didn't know that Yang Sichang also had a lot of problems, and he often decided who to impeach and promote according to his own preferences.

Lu Xiangsheng is a capable minister and a Confucian general, who can not only call for wind and rain on the battlefield, but also be pure in the court, but he is not good at greeting.

It stands to reason that these two diametrically opposed characters have one who can solve the problem, but no matter who comes out to supervise the teacher, the result seems to be doomed.

As a result, many fortune-tellers even shouted that the destiny was coming.

Lu Shaobao, the so-called governor of the world's soldiers and horses, couldn't even manage a border town back then, in fact, he had always led the Tianxiong army to fight in isolation, and in the end he died in battle but he didn't even have a shadow.

Yang Sichang came out in the same way, now it is already at the end of the road, the order is passed everywhere, it is Yang Feng Yin disobeys, there are no good ideas under the exhaustion, and Zhang Xianzhong led him by the nose, as for the Shandong army that suddenly remembered, he had already been thrown out of the clouds.

The officials and soldiers of the five provinces followed him and became firefighters fighting fires everywhere, and it was often Zhang Xianzhong who broke through here, and left with the displaced people after a large-scale looting, and then Yang Sichang was late with talents.

For many nights, the Yang Pavilion who was once high-spirited in the court had long since disappeared, and he really became an old man in the twilight.

At this point, he has no idea, that kind of despair and helplessness, in fact, if you put yourself in your shoes, Yang Sichang's ability is here, he has indeed tried his best, and no one will have a better result.

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The Shandong army has opened up the situation in Kaifeng Mansion, and countless large gentry from all over the country come to visit the camp every day.

Wang Zheng accepted it with a smile, and the gifts given by these people have always been accepted in full, in order to make them feel at ease, since the Shandong Army has accepted the gift, it means that everything is easy to discuss.

However, the good times did not last long, and a very bad news came from the Shandong Military Division.

Originally, at the beginning of this year, in order to unify the decrees of various places, Emperor Chongzhen issued an order to recall the prison army and the eunuchs who were outside, which was a good thing.

But the bad thing is that Chongzhen didn't know who he believed in the rumors, and he actually gave Shandong a special treatment.

Just last month, a eunuch named Lu Jiu, suddenly came to Licheng with a few Beizhi Liti horses, at that time Wang Zheng was also ordered to aid in Henan, and went out to meet only Huang Yang, the deputy general soldier of Shandong, Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong, and Li Yan and Guan Qingtian, who were left and right in the military council department.

This Lu Jiu came with a holy decree, saying that he wanted to be the prison army of Shandong, and at that time, even Yan Jizu was a little skeptical that he had heard it wrong.

After Li Yan's side knock, he learned that Lu Jiu was actually not a subordinate eunuch of the celebrant eunuch, otherwise there would not be no news over there.

It turned out that he was a steward of the Qianqing Palace who was specially waiting for the current emperor, and this kind of eunuch was often a close attendant of the Son of Heaven.

This time, Chongzhen seemed to be determined to intervene in Shandong, not only ordered Lu Jiu to be rewarded, but also raised his grade by several levels, so this Lu Jiu was also very arrogant, like a fighting raising his neck.

Emperor Chongzhen thought that the establishment of eunuchs in the supervising army, coupled with the decentralization of the governor, was enough to restrain the general army in Shandong, thinking that if he improved Lu Jiu's rank, he would be able to make him die for the imperial court and do his best for himself.

When Wang Zheng heard the news, he just felt as if there was a stone blocking his heart, and he couldn't feel comfortable, and he was very uncomfortable.

As a last resort, Wang Zheng had no choice but to push away everything at hand, go out for a walk in the camp and blow the wind, and then see those soldiers shouting and practicing before gradually relieving his strength.

It was only two sticks of incense to walk around the barracks a few times, but Wang Zheng thought about a lot of things, and what came to mind the most was the deeds of those rabbits and dead dogs that he heard in later generations.

There are many things in Shandong that are shady, and it would be a big deal if Lu Jiuzhen meddled everywhere in the name of the Son of Heaven.

Li Yan also said in the letter that at present, Shandong needs Wang Zheng to go back to preside over the overall situation, so after Wang Zheng calmed down, he decided to lead the army back to Licheng as soon as possible.

On the one hand, it is necessary to deal with the matter of the eunuch Lu Jiu as soon as possible, and on the other hand, it is also necessary to make full preparations and wait for the news from Liaodong.