Chapter Eighty-Six: Judgment (Part II)

Cao Conglong's full official position is the governor of Zhejiang and other places, the right attendant of the military affairs department and the right deputy of the Imperial Palace, such an official position means that he is a civilian official in the army, Chen Wen does not intend to ruin his family's reputation, cause greater difficulties to his family, and by the way, lead to the stillbirth of the imminent opening of the military supervision system, so Cao Conglong will not move even a finger before getting the verdict of the Lu Jianguo court.

It proves that Cao Conglong launched a rebellion during the army's expedition, imprisoned without authorization, released Qing prisoners and led to the slaughter of many villages, blackmailed the garrison with his family to give up his letter land, which led to the capture of Jinyun County by the Qing army, and the cut off of military supplies caused the Ming army to be forced to abandon the imminent capture of Quzhou and Chen Jin, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian in the city. Of course, there is still a civil official outside Sun Yu, whose butt can't be cleaned.

Guilty Chen Wenhui tried to send people to Fujian to hand over to the court of Lu Jianguo, and they would decide whether Cao Conglong was guilty or not, but even if the evidence of the crime was conclusive, he would definitely do what he had to do just in case.

The entire governor's yamen had been completely emptied, and everyone was outside the high walls, at least a hundred meters away from the room where Cao Conglong was being held, where he had lived not long ago.

Along the way, Chen Wen walked with his hands, accompanied by Zhang Jun with two personal soldiers carrying wine jars and food boxes. Walking to the room, Cao Conglong sat in front of the bed, quietly watching Chen Wen come in with his own soldiers, and the three personal soldiers put the wine and food on the table without saying a word.

When Cao Conglong was captured alive, he was afraid that he would bite his tongue and commit suicide, so Chen Wen asked people to stuff a walnut in his mouth. But a few days later, after Cao Conglong said that he would wait for Lu Jianguo's edict, he managed to show that he would not commit suicide.

Cao Conglong died in Chen Wen's territory, even if he was not killed by Chen Wen, it is difficult to clear his suspicion, but the tradition of Confucian scholars and doctors is that before committing suicide or being executed, they must try to have a long talk with relatives and friends, and even if they can't do it, they must try to write a desperate poem, not only to defend themselves in the history, but also to show their noble aspirations.

Chen Wen said that he had no right to execute Cao Conglong, and would report his charges to Lu Jianguo, and that Cao Conglong's suicide could indeed splash Chen Wen's dirty water, but it did not conform to the moral concept of a courtier and the tradition of Confucian scholars. Coupled with the fact that the contradiction between him and Chen Wen was more of an irreconcilable relationship between the road and the idea, rather than a personal grudge, Cao Conglong expressed his attitude under the witness of Sun Yu, and finally removed the imprisonment methods such as binding to prevent him from committing suicide. After that, he should eat and drink every day, just waiting for the court of Lu Jianguo to evaluate his merits.

To this day, Cao Conglong may still believe that he is right, and it is not his personal problem that Nai's bad luck will lead to a setback in the attack on Taizhou. When Chen Wen saw the attitude of those who were rebellious to civilian officials today, he confirmed this view.

The three personal soldiers brought by Chen Wen had already left, so he sat down on a chair and motioned for Cao Conglong to come over and drink together.

In response to Chen Wen's invitation, Cao Conglong said that loyalty and treachery are not mutually reinforcing, and if Chen Wen changes his mind and wants his life, then ask Chen Wen to leave after leaving the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and after he finishes writing the desperate poem, he will eat by himself and wait for execution. If Chen Wen came to humiliate him when he was bored, Cao Conglong showed his attitude of sending off guests.

Cao Conglong's reaction did not surprise Chen Wen, but he was not interested in continuing to invite, anyway, there was only one room in the room where Cao Conglong was held, Cao Conglong was sitting on the edge of the bed, and Chen Wen simply poured himself a drink.

Chen Wen's rogue posture immediately angered Cao Conglong, but after drinking a glass of water and wine, Chen Wen blocked Cao Conglong's words before he could speak.

"Governor Cao, you are also my Chen Wen's third supervisor. Ming people don't say dark words, Lu Wenlong's remarks deceived himself, and it may be useful to deceive some idiots, but Fu Jun, I'm afraid he won't believe it. ”

Lu Wenlong's determination that there was no evidence that Chen Wen had conspired to kill Wang Yi and Wang Jiang was purely a figment of his dissatisfaction with Chen Wen. So he didn't believe those words from the beginning, but later broke with Chen Wen, and needed to use it as a cannonball to write it into the text.

Seeing that Cao Conglong chose to acquiesce, Chen Wen smiled and continued: "Fu Jun, do you know why you failed? ”

As soon as these words came out, the anger in Cao Conglong's eyes was ignited almost instantly, and he saw him stand up, pointing at Chen Wen and shouting: "Victory and defeat have their own days, what do you know as a vulgar martial artist?!" ”

But Chen Wen didn't react to this, just continued to eat and drink, as if he was just talking to himself. On the contrary, Cao Conglong saw that Chen Wen was indifferent, so he had to sit back angrily, not planning to refute Chen Wen's humiliation again.

Poured the wine again and tasted it slowly, until a glass of wine entered the mouth, Chen Wen reminisced for a moment, and then continued his self-talk: "When the Fu army launched a rebellion, I had just taken Longyou County, and it was a fluke, if it wasn't for Ma Jinbao to retain his strength to seize the Quzhou Water Camp boat, even if I entered the city, it would be difficult to capture it, after all, it was really easy for the Quzhou Water Camp to take Ma Jinbao away, and I didn't have a sailor who could compete with the Quzhou Water Camp." ”

Cao Conglong was a civil official of the supervising army in this matter, and Chen Wen did not hide it at all, but recalled that he heard that Chen Wen had repelled the Governor Battalion, took Longyou County, and even took advantage of the opportunity of the Qing army's internal strife to capture Ma Jinbao.

However, in the next second, Cao Conglong relieved himself from this, and welcomed Lu Jianguo back to Zhejiang, in the eyes of him and other civil officials, it would definitely cause an anti-Qing wave like in the second year of Hongguang, and compared to Chen Wen's lone battle, he would definitely have a better chance of recovering the entire Zhejiang, and then prosper the Ming Dynasty, so he was not wrong at all.

"After taking the county seat of Longyou, I led the army to continue westward, and the Dubiao battalion was repelled by my Nantang battalion due to the half-crossing attack, and lost the confidence in the field, so I had to defend the capital city of Quzhou to wait for reinforcements."

"In the following days, the Tartar Quzhou Water Camp suffered a lot of losses due to the infighting, and was squeezed into the water gate by my Jinhua Town Water Camp and was unable to compete for the channel of the Qujiang River, and our department was besieged on three sides. Among them, there is not only the supervision camp, but also the Quzhou green camp and the Chuzhou green camp. What's more, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, Chen Jin, the dog traitor, was also surrounded in the city, as long as the water of the moat was drained, I could use the collapse method to break the city, and then the entire Jiangnan Tartar will be hit, and the great cause of Zhongxing Daming will be one step closer. ”

"As for the reinforcements, there are Tartars in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, and Fujian, and even Wang Zhigang, the general soldier of the left road in Fujian who is encircling and suppressing Pingjiang Bo Zhang Zisheng in Jiangxi, was also forced to be transferred, but they were blocked by our troops in Jiangshan County, and the troops did not have an advantage, so they had to let our troops besiege Quzhou Fucheng."

Cao Conglong was also very clear about this matter, and the battle situation at that time was indeed very good for the Ming army. But the fighter plane is fleeting, he is a soldier of the army, even if he has no military experience, just read "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and is known as a soldier, but the truth is still understood. So much so that when Chen Wen mentioned this matter, Cao Conglong couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart.

At the same time, the Tartars of Hangzhou also sent a large army to try to encircle Wei to save Zhao, among which the Hangzhou garrison Eight Banners, the Tibiao Battalion, and the Fubiao Battalion were all strong troops, but these strong soldiers were blocked in Anhua Town and could not advance an inch. I remember that the Fu army went there when he was inspecting the counties, and I wonder if your Excellency has anything to say about the fortress I designed. ”

Wang Jiang's recital last year, as well as the exchanges in the past few months, Cao Conglong also has some understanding of Chen Wen, his people are really amazing in training and using troops, there will always be amazing things that ordinary people can't think of and do, not only the prediction that Zhang Mingzhen once praised, the training and improvement of the mandarin duck array, and then counting the current fortress, these are all evidence that this person is quite clever in military affairs, and even Cao Conglong has to admit it. It's just that by now, the two sides have torn their skins, and it is useless to say anything more.

"However, with the rebellion, the army had to withdraw to Longyou, and the two armies of the Tartars in Fucheng and Jiangshan County converged, and now they were approaching, turning defense into attack, and the form of western Zhejiang was completely reversed. And because the warehouse in Yushan Town was burned down by the Taizhou Green Camp, now the army on the north and south lines has no food and grass supply......"

"What did you say?!" Hearing Chen Wen's calm words, the shocked Cao Conglong stood up immediately, and then asked Chen Wen: "You said that the warehouse in Yushan Town was burned down by Taizhou Green Camp, when did this happen?" ”

It is impossible for Cao Conglong to know about this matter, because first Liu Cheng and then Chen Wen, the two of them have blocked the news, and not many people know about it at all. But as Chen Wen said the time of Ma Xin's raid on Yushan Town, Cao Conglong first stood there for a while, and then spit out a series of "impossible", and even walked to the table, accusing Chen Wen of deceiving him with great anger.

"Impossible?"

Hearing Cao Conglong's self-deception, Chen Wen shook his head, and then sneered: "You wrote all the plans to attack Taizhou from Yushan Town on the inscription, and you especially thought that no one knew, you are called covering your ears and stealing the bell, and what is the difference between the plan to encircle and suppress the four-way march back to the division back to the public, causing the Wang Shi to be broken by the old slaves, and the Liao affair has been bad since then!" ”

"Why are you worthy of a soldier?" (To be continued.) )