Chapter 136 Return to Zhenningyuan

The reason why Lu Shanji persuaded Man Gui was that considering that the situation in Ningyuan City was unclear, and he didn't know how far it had developed, he had to think about how to deal with it in advance after he went back. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

For Lu Shanji, a literati who had been trained in the shogunate of Sun Chengzong, everything that was planned and then acted on had already become an instinct deep in his bones.

The second consideration is to keep it secret first, the mutiny in Ningyuan City has not yet spread in Jinzhou, Yizhou, and even the front line Dalinghe and Guangning, and there are tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians inside and outside Yizhou City, and it also needs 5,000 cavalry under Mangui to be safe, you whining and chirping with the cavalry suddenly south, once it causes panic and chaos among the tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians who are building the city at the moment, it is still a trivial matter if the new Yizhou city is not built well, if it causes a similar mutiny, then the loss will be even greater, and it will be even worse.

In this way, Lu Shanji, Man Gui, and Wu Xiang, the general of the Chinese army who is now the governor of Jiliao's Governor's Mansion, and Cao Wenyao, the general of Guangning, who happened to come to ask for instructions, gathered in the temporary line of the supervisor in Yizhou City from the moment they received the news, discussed until dawn, and finally settled on a few articles:

First, Wu Xiang took the Chinese army to rush back to Ningyuan to understand the situation.

Second, when Ningyuan's situation was clarified, Lu Shanji led the governor back to Zhenningyuan to deal with the mutiny.

Third, the Liaozhen General Soldier Man Gui continued to lead the cavalry of his headquarters to sit in Yizhou, and cooperated with the Italian missionary Wei Kuangguo and the Portuguese retired officer Gao Kaus to continue to guide the soldiers and civilians of Yizhou to complete the construction of the new city of Yizhou with a fortress as scheduled.

Fourth, Cao Wenyao, a general of Guangning, immediately returned to Guangning, and sent messengers to Jinzhou and Dalinghe, ordering He Kegang, deputy general of Jinzhou, Zu Dale, and Jin Guofeng, general of Dalinghe, to guard against the assault of Jianyu.

After all this was done, it was dawn. The second wave of Ning Yuan messengers who rushed to Yizhou City to deliver the letter also happened to arrive.

This wave of messengers was a messenger jointly sent by Yang Guozhu, a guerrilla of the Chinese army who stayed in the Governor's Mansion, and Zu Dabi, who was in Ningyuan City, that is, a general banner under the guard of Ning Yuanwei of Zu Dabi, named Tian Xiong.

Lu Shanji finished seeing the messenger named Tian Xiong, and finally had a preliminary understanding of the situation, when he saw that the banner played by the rebels was to oppose the abandonment of Guangning and ask for the payment of arrears, he finally secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, it seems that the situation of the Ningyuan mutiny is not as serious as he imagined, even if the soldiers of the Zhenwu Battalion and the Guangwu Battalion all participated in the mutiny, it is only three or four thousand people.

In the historical Ningyuan Mutiny, a total of thirteen battalion leaders participated, and the rebellious soldiers added up to a total of 10,000 or 20,000 people, the scale was much larger than today, and the damage and losses caused were much greater.

The most problematic thing is precisely because there are too many soldiers involved in the mutiny to be severely punished, otherwise it may lead to a larger mutiny.

Therefore, in history, Yuan Chonghuan only scribbled and symbolically killed a few scapegoats who were pushed out to carry the black pot, and none of the real masterminds behind the scenes were punished as they should be.

Similar to Peng Qigu, Yang Wenkui, Yang Shengyuan, Zuo Liangyu, Li Guofu and others, in the end they were just demoted or transferred.

Among them, Yang Wenkui and Yang Shengyuan's uncles and nephews sacrificed the garrisoned Yongping Mansion City when Jin invaded Gyeonggi two years after Chongzhen, and chose to surrender to Jin Jianyu.

As for Zuo Liangyu, not to mention it, after this incident, he didn't take the court and civil officials into account at all, and finally developed into one of the biggest warlords in the late Ming Dynasty.

Of course, there will be no such good thing now.

Although the news brought by Tian Xiong was not so specific, when he learned that the Governor's Mansion and the General Soldier's Mansion were still in the hands of reliable people, and that the rebels did not occupy the city gate, but were still blocked in the city, Lu Shanji did not hesitate anymore, but immediately made a decision, and after arranging other matters, together with Wu Xiang, Sun Zhan, and Tian Xiong, he took more than 1,000 cavalry soldiers of the Governor's Biao Chinese Army, one person and two horses, and quickly went south and returned to the town of Ningyuan.

Along the way, it is natural to pass through Jinzhou, Songshan, Xingshan, and Tashan without entering, but just send people into the city to inform the guards to guard the city.

In this way, along the way, the horses did not stop, people did not get off the saddle, and they rode 300 miles in a day and night.

Finally, at dawn on the morning of the fourth day after the Ningyuan Mutiny, Lu Shanji and his party rushed to the north gate of Ningyuan City.

Lu Shanji asked Tian Xiong to come forward to report, and at the same time asked Wu Xiang to call the cavalry to replenish the water immediately.

After a while, the north gate of Ningyuan City opened, and Zu Dabi, who was stationed above the north gate, quickly went out of the city to meet the supervisor, and at the same time reported the situation in the city to Lu Shanji.

Zu Dabi said: "Master Governor, now that the rebels in the city have returned to the camp, the Governor's Mansion and the General Soldier's Mansion are safe and sound. It's just that the soldiers of the Zhenwu Battalion and the Guangwu Battalion are still detaining the deputy envoy Guo Daren to hold on to the battalion, and he and Yang Guozhu dare not act rashly, and the two compartments are safe and sound at the moment. What to do next, please show the Inspector. ”

After listening to Zu Dabi's report, Lu Shanji pondered for a moment and asked, "Where is Bai Yangcui in the Governor Lang Zhongbai now?" Where is the general sentence Zhang Shirong and the official Su Han? ”

Zu Dabi lowered his head and said: "Report to the Governor, Zhang Tongju and Su Tuiguan have been killed by the rebels, and the Governor Lang Zhongbai has fallen into the hands of the rebels. It's just that Bai Langzhong's death has a lot of strange things, and it can't be said clearly under the mark. ”

Lu Shanji looked at Zu Dabi and said, "What do you think is strange?" ”

Zu Dabi said: "I heard from my subordinates that the rebels occupied the transfer station, Bai Langzhong was discovered by the rebels, and immediately took the initiative to say where the silver vault was, and the transfer station was not destroyed, and Bai Langzhong was not abused before being brought back to the Zhenwu camp, and he came forward to make peace in the middle, and was willing to ask the court for pardon on behalf of the rebels. It's just that for some reason, only one day later, the situation suddenly changed, and Bai Langzhong committed suicide by hanging himself from the Zhenwu camp. marked it and thought that if it weren't for Bai Langzhong being tortured in the Zhenwu camp, there must be something else to hide. ”

After hearing this, Lu Shanji nodded, silently, and after a while, after seeing that the cavalry under his command had replenished food and water, he said to Wu Xiang: "Wu Xiang, the general of the Chinese army, listens to the order!" ”

Wu Xiang, who was riding a horse and accompanying him, immediately dismounted and knelt on the ground and clenched his fists and said: "Mark Wu Xiang to listen to the order, please show the master!" ”

Lu Shanji took over the conversation and said: "You quickly take five hundred cavalry, follow Zu Dabi into the city, get in touch with Yang Guozhu, the guerrilla left behind in the Governor's Mansion, and take him to the top of the North Gate City Tower to meet the headquarters!" ”

Wu Xiang said, "Mark the order", then turned on the horse, and under the leadership of Zu Dabi, quickly entered the city.

The rest of the people, under the leadership of Lu Shanji and Sun Xuan, followed Tian Xiong into the city and quickly completed the defense of the north gate of Ningyuan City.

Lu Shanji also had to be cautious, after all, Zu Dabi and Ning Yuan's rebellious soldiers had the same background, they were both from generations of military families or generations of generals in Liaodong, and now the situation in Ningyuan City is complicated, in case of a little carelessness and falling into it, then not only can it not be quelled, but it may also cause greater turmoil.

Because of Emperor Chongzhen's attitude towards Liaodong Jiangmen, Lu Shanji is very clear, whether it is to transfer Zu Dashou and Zhu Mei, or to reuse Man Gui and He Kegang, or to leave the position of Jiliao Governor to himself, he has a purpose, that is, to firmly dismantle the previous monolithic Liaodong Jiangmen family, and at the same time mix sand into Liaodong Town as much as possible.

At the same time, Lu Shanji also knew very well that he was not Yuan Chonghuan, although he had worked with Jiangmen in Liaodong for several years, he was not like Yuan Chonghuan, who was completely involved with them and took care of their interests everywhere.

Therefore, now that there has been a mutiny in Ningyuan, when both Man Gui and Chen Renxi are not in the city, Lu Shanji does not dare to guarantee that he will be safe in Ningyuan City.

On the morning of July 28, when Lu Shanji was standing on the tower of Ningyuan's north gate, thinking about these questions, the news of Ningyuan's mutiny was finally sent to the Beijing Division.

This time, the news was first transmitted back from the underground station of the East Factory in Ningyuan City.

For more than half a year, after the Great Purge, the East Factory has undergone careful management and expansion of the layout of Founder, and now it is also all over the world.

Different from Jinyiwei, the sites of Dongchang distributed in various places are all underground, and on the surface, they may be pawnshops, warehouses, and commercial restaurants in various places, but in fact, they are secret sites stationed in various places by Dongchang.

Although he is a layman, Fang Zhenghua is a layman, but under the repeated orders of Emperor Chongzhen, he is now getting more and more up-to-the-road, and Dongchang's intelligence network has made his business at the mercy of a scale that has begun to take shape.