The fifteenth year of Chongzhen has just arrived, and the entire Shandong Liufu realm has fallen into a war.

Under the military order of Zhongliebo and Zuodu Governor Wang Zheng, Shandong seemed to be swept by an invisible hurricane, up to the state capital of the big city, down to the local small county, almost no place could be left alone.

Under this hurricane, almost any person or family who had different intentions for the Shandong army and Wang Zheng was completely purged, and it was a silent war.

Those local officials who have always been friendly with these people have always relied on them, but this time they no longer worked, and even the governor's yamen and the three divisions yamen, no one dared to say anything to disobey the king's struggle, and they were completely resigned to it.

As for Governor Yan Jizu, he has long since stopped asking about government affairs, and every day he teases the birds in the house, watches the plays, and lives a leisurely and contented life, which is a bit of a pleasure.

Come to think of it, the Shandong army is the dominant family in the territory, as if it is a local authority, how can the empty shelves without power and power fight with them, and even the way to impeachment is completely blocked.

A bird flew out of the mansion, and it was about to be shot down by the bird, and the person couldn't run a few steps before he was caught.

Bankruptcy is still a good result, some are ruined and spurned, some have their entire houses razed to the ground, and the rest of the family has been lucky enough to escape with their lives, but this is in exchange for almost all of their wealth and reputation.

To put it bluntly, he has already boarded the thief ship of the Shandong Army, and he can't get off at all.

The news that someone's whole family was killed, that someone suddenly died in the night, or that he was imprisoned by the security department and beheaded at a later date, this kind of news continued to reach everyone's ears, and the landlords and gentry who had been attached to the Shandong army early all felt lucky.

After this large-scale murder in Shandong, any order issued by Wang Zheng would be immediately respected by the local authorities, and the efficiency was increased by at least several times.

The people of the time said: "Everywhere the loyal martyrs order, they are unimpeded." ”

With such a big movement in Shandong, the powerful families in Haizhou, Kaifeng, Guide and other places who were originally forced to attach themselves to the Shandong Army also felt that they should make long-term plans while breaking out in a cold sweat behind their backs.

From this point of view, Wang Zheng is ruthless this time, he will definitely not be satisfied with only the six provinces of Shandong, sooner or later it will cover his side, if the same order comes to such a time, how should he choose?

The emotions of fear and panic gradually spread among these external civil and military heroes.

Speaking of which, although they are also under the jurisdiction of the Shandong Army, in order to stabilize the place, Wang Zheng does not have too many constraints and regulations on them, except for tightening the military power.

Almost all of the wealthy families in Shandong and the surrounding provinces are thinking about the same thing, for the sake of long-term planning, I am afraid that this thief ship in Shandong will have to get on the ship.

Wang Zheng holds the sword of the Shandong Army, looking at the surrounding places, there is no one to stand out, and anyone with a discerning eye can see from this incident that the theory of imperial court checks and balances is indeed in name only for Wang Zheng.

Mo said that Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong, even Lu Jiu, the eunuch of the prison army sent by the imperial court, and the newly established Jinyi Wei Yasi, did not even dare to release a fart during this time, and it was completely submissive and only seeking self-preservation.

This incident is actually Wang Zheng to deliver a message to these people, he is not a literati who cherishes his reputation, the so-called old rule that the law does not blame the public, does not apply to him, even if there are many offenders, it is the same as an order to kill all of them.

Following the imperial court, Mo said that he was not full of food and clothing, and it was very likely that he would be beheaded like those governors and governors, but with the Shandong army, although he couldn't get by, his life was gradually stable.

Wang Zheng finally decided to clean up the whole of Shandong, and at this stage, Li Zicheng had to repair for a while to gather the victims and subordinates due to the new defeat.

At the end of December of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, the Chuang army marched north from Ruzhou.

When the officers and troops heard about this, they broke up without a fight, and the army basically did not encounter any decent resistance, and the momentum was like a bamboo, and the area of Dengfeng and Xuanyuan Pass was broken down, and "a tiger" Li Guo killed a member of the Ming court generals, and the army regained its prestige and took advantage of the situation to enter the siege of Yiyang, Henan Province.

When the superintendent Ding Qirui heard this, he immediately led Zuo Liangyu to the rescue, but when he passed through Yuzhou, Nanyang Prefecture, the left army was in chaos for no reason, and more than 2,000 soldiers scattered and went to Ruzhou to break the department.

Zuo Liangyu was severely reprimanded by the supervisor Ding Qirui, and no longer continued to move forward in anger, Ding Qirui did not have the headquarters of soldiers and horses, and he went to find death rashly, so he could only stay with Zuo Liangyu in Yuzhou to collect the remnants and wait for reinforcements.

On the other hand, Zhang Xianzhong got Luo Rucai's cavalry of 500 south, and he had been dormant, and when he heard that Ding Qirui and Zuo Liangyu had rescued Henan, he immediately took up the banner of the Eight Kings and resurrected.

The remnants of the fifth battalion of the left of the revolution that had been defeated by Wang Zheng, the tens of thousands of thieves in the four battalions raised by Lao Hui Ma Shouying, Zuojin Wang He Jin, Liu Xiyao, and Wang Lin of the chaotic land, heard about it, and Zhang Xianzhong immediately regained his prestige.

The same was at the end of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong took advantage of the emptiness of the Huguang official army to capture Shucheng and Lu'an one after another, gathering tens of thousands of victims, and the momentum was huge.

In February, Zhang Xianzhong led his troops into Kelu Prefecture and killed the prefect Zheng Luxiang.

Emperor Chongzhen, who learned of this, was furious, and then the court discussed one after another to no avail, and Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the military department, proposed that Sun Chuanting could be reinstated as the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi.

This proposal was opposed by many ministers, but there was no other way.

In Liaodong, Chongzhen has already regretted it after being transferred back to Wang Zheng, but if he is transferred back again, won't he slap himself in the face, he will inevitably be ridiculed by the world, and in the end he can only stop mentioning this matter.

As soon as the Shandong army withdrew, the good situation in Liaodong immediately changed, although Huang Taiji had been confused by the news of Hai Lanzhu's death, although he did not drive the army again, but he requisitioned 100,000 Qing soldiers to reinforce Songshan.

At this time, the reinforcements of the Mongol Korling tribes had arrived, and the Qing army under Dolgon's department had swelled to nearly 200,000, so they separated from Jierharang to besiege Songshan Fort and Jinzhou City.

Chongzhen once mentioned Yang Shenwu, the governor of Shuntian, as the superintendent and ordered him to command the troops in the pass to rescue Hong Chengchou.

But Yang Shenwu was only resigned, and he didn't dare to go out of the customs at all, Chongzhen couldn't, and ordered Fan Zhiwan, the squire of the military department, to go out of the customs to help, but he still didn't dare to go out to fight.

In the end, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, only one deputy commander-in-chief Jiao Yin led the headquarters to help, but before Chongzhen's will to comfort and promote, he heard a bad news.

As soon as the deputy commander-in-chief Jiao Yin led his troops out of Shanhaiguan, he was intercepted by Dorobelle Yue, and Duoduo beheaded Jiao Yan in a array, and thousands of white flag cavalry then defeated the Ming army out of Guan, and now the whole army has been annihilated.

As soon as Jiao Yin died, no one dared to come out, and now there was no effort left in the court to even have the usual fierce quarrels, and the important ministers of the Ming Dynasty just stood there with their heads bowed, without saying a word, lest Chongzhen mention himself, and the silence in the court was terrible all day long.

Not long ago, a spokesman proposed that since Zhongliebo and Zuodu Governor Wang Zheng were appointed as the commander-in-chief of Shandong, they had won against Li Chuang undefeated, and he could be ordered to be the commander of the reinforcement and suppression, hold the big seal, control the reinforcement of the troops and horses in various towns, and suppress Li Zicheng.

Chongzhen was furious when he heard this, and directly blasted the official out of the court, seeing this, those officials who had this intention were frightened, and since then, no one dared to mention it with the strategy of Wang Zheng to suppress thieves.

Things have dragged on until now, it is the end of February of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, and the Spring Festival has just passed, but there is no festive atmosphere in the lobby of Daming.

Not long ago, there was news that Zhang Xianzhong had risen in Huguang and was connected to several places.

Originally, there was only one Li Zicheng, who had turned Henan and Shaanxi upside down, but at this time, there was another Zhang Xianzhong, and the officials and troops in Huguang and Jiangnan were all contained, and the situation became more and more erosive.

Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the military department, knew that Chongzhen was jealous of Wang Zheng in Shandong, and in terms of his temperament, he would not use it until death, so there was only one person who could take on the big responsibility at the moment, and that was Sun Chuanting, who was imprisoned in prison with Yushi Shi Bangyao.

After several days of court discussions, Emperor Chongzhen finally made up his mind to summon Sun Chuanting on the platform and use him as the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi to suppress Li Zicheng and other peasant troops.

However, in addition, for the Shandong side to once again come to the victory of the thousand-level army, Chongzhen just waved his hand to let the celebrant give condolences and never mentioned it.