Chapter 35 What I Saw and Heard in Shenyang

However, it was said that Yang Lian, Xiong Tingbi arrived in Shenyang with Yuan Yingtai, who was in Liaodong, and Zhang Quan, the imperial historian of Liaodong. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info originally didn't want to participate in the imperial history, but Yuan Yingtai felt that he couldn't escape the blame for what happened in Shenyang, so in order to be objective and fair, he simply called Zhang Quan to go with him.

After everyone arrived at the yamen of the Shenyang prefect, Chen Fuke and a group of civil and military generals were already at the yamen to greet them. At the meeting, everyone first greeted each other, and then Chen Fuke took Yang Lian and Xiong Tingbi to walk in front, and Yuan Yingtai and Zhang Quan followed behind into the prefect's yamen hall.

Before everyone sat down, Yang Lian held the holy decree in his hand and said loudly: "Fengtian carrier, the emperor said, Chen Fuke, the prefect of Shenyang, is well versed in military affairs, cooperates with the generals, and defeats the enemy under the city of Shenyang. ”

Yang Lian walked over with a smile and handed the holy decree to Chen Fuke with both hands, and Chen Fuke hurriedly kowtowed to the south to thank him.

After everyone sat down and tasted tea, Yang Lian asked Chen Fuke again: "Lord Chen, I still have a few holy decrees here, and I need to announce them in person, I don't know where He Shixian's general soldiers and Chen Ce's general soldiers are?" ”

Chen Fuke hurriedly replied: "Back to Lord Yang, Lord Chen and General Soldier He are still in Fushun, Fushun is not long in the future, the situation inside and outside the city is still dangerous, the two general soldiers are still clearing the remaining bandits, and tomorrow General Tong will return to Shenyang to change guards with General Qi who is stationed." ”

"Oh, that's the case, it seems that we may have to go to Fushun, I don't know what Brother Feibai wants?"

Xiong Tingbi nodded and said, "I am willing to go with Brother Yang." ”

Yuan Yingtai saw that the edict from the imperial court had been read, so he opened his mouth to ask Chen Fuke about the Shenyang rebellion.

It's okay not to mention this matter, as soon as Chen Fuke mentioned it, he immediately said with an angry face: "Before we recruited some Mongols to defend the city, there were many people in the city who resolutely opposed it, and the lower officials went around to appease and coordinate and finally suppressed the dissatisfaction, how did it happen that three days ago, the defenders of Inner Mongolia in the city suddenly rebelled, burned down one hundred and forty-five houses, killed and injured six hundred and twelve Ming troops, and the lower officials have ordered the detention of the deputy general Zhu Wanliang, comforted the affected people, and pacified the rest of Zhu Wanliang, there is no danger at present. ”

After hearing this, Yuan Yingtai couldn't help but sigh: "I neglected for a while, and almost let innocent people die under the knife of thieves, I will ask the court to surrender the guilt, and the responsibility here is all borne by me alone, and I am willing to bear it with all my might." ”

When everyone heard that Yuan Yingtai was willing to take responsibility, they breathed a sigh of relief, and the atmosphere eased slightly, but unexpectedly Yuan Yingtai said: "It's just that this Chief Chen and General He are eager to make meritorious contributions, ignoring the safety of Shenyang, and under the bewitchment of demons, they insist on sending troops to Fushun." The slave chief is newly mourned, Lao Tzu said, so the resistance is similar, and the mourner wins, so how can there be no reason not to be punished? In my opinion, this time to conquer Fushun, the merits and demerits are compensated, I don't know what you think? ”

Yang Lian was a little dumbfounded, and said in his heart that Yuan Yingtai didn't say this to himself yesterday. Yang Lian looked up at Yuan Yingtai, who looked solemn and avoided answering.

Yuan Yingtai was also uncomfortable at this time, yesterday he was even ready to reward this overseas stranger, but later learned that Zhu Wanliang, who supported him, had been taken into custody, and he suddenly fell into a deep contradiction.

In October last year, Yuan Yingtai replaced Xiong Tingbi to take over the Liaodong Economic Strategy, and he has always been worried about the untrustworthy right-hand man under his command. The situation in Liaodong is extremely complicated, and most of the generals were born under Li Chengliang. Later, when Xiong Tingbi passed through Liaodong, when the Sarhu army was defeated and many positions were vacated, Xiong Tingbi sifted out some low-ability and undesirable generals, and at the same time discovered some new generals to come to the forefront. When Yuan Yingtai took office, it was calm for a while, and it was difficult for his tentacles to penetrate into this group of Liaodong military generals, and he could not place his own people.

Yuan Yingtai had to rely on guest generals for a long time, such as Hou Shilu, the general soldier of Ningxia in the northwest, but Hou Shilu was not a fellow traveler with him. It wasn't until later that Yuan Yingtai met the deputy general Zhu Wanliang, and he had to stand under his command because of the defeat, which was the force that was really desperately pinched in his hands.

It's just that the timing is not good, this Zhu Wanliang actually gathered a crowd to gamble, and there was a camp roar, this kind of thing is not big, it is not small, it just coincides with the rebellion in the city, and it is not good to take the blame for this incident, which is unacceptable to Yuan Yingtai. It is impossible for him to let his people be regarded as backstabbers casually, so that who else will follow his story in the future.

Although Xiong Tingbi had been silent beside him, he had been a Liaodong economist, and he saw things very quickly, and he quickly understood Yuan Yingtai's thoughts, so he looked at Chen Fu Kenunu without moving.

Chen Fuke has also been an officialdom for many years, how can he not understand the truth, and hurriedly said: "What Lord Jingluo said is also reasonable, but this matter is not up to the lower officials to decide, so the lower officials think that if they do not reward the meritorious men of the Fushun War, they are afraid of being criticized, and Zou Tai, the eunuch of Shenyang Town, is also in the Fushun army, and I am afraid that this good news has been sent to the capital by him, and the lower officials just don't want to talk about the merits, and I am afraid they will not be able to face the pressure of the imperial court." ”

Chen Fuke's words are neither soft nor hard, and when he listens carefully, he seems to be soft and thorny, and he is all right at Yuan Yingtai. Yuan Yingtai couldn't bully the small in front of Qin Cha at this time, so he had to snort.

Seeing this, Yang Lian hurriedly said: "Brother Dalai, this matter still needs to be cautious, besides, if it is really a great achievement, it is also an affirmation of Brother Dalai's strategy through Liaodong, why should Brother Dalai mind, Zhang Xun pressed, don't you say?" ”

Zhang Quan is neither the Donglin Party, nor the Qi, Chu, and Zhejiang parties, and has always bowed his head to this kind of controversy involving parties, and when he saw Yang Lian asking him, he said: "What Lord Yang said is very true, and the lower officials also think that it is not too late to make a decision after seeing each other first." ”

Yuan Yingtai saw that Yang Lian did not support his opinion, and knew that this matter was difficult to adjudicate, so he no longer insisted.

After chatting for a while, Yang Lian proposed to go to the south gate to see the giant bird, which was unanimously agreed by the other three. So everyone got on the sedan chair and soon arrived outside the south gate. When entering the city just now, because they were in a hurry to perform their official duties, everyone hurriedly glanced over, and when they arrived in front of the giant bird, they couldn't help but be shocked by the huge body of the giant bird.

Xiong Tingbi lowered his head and stroked the wheel of the giant bird, then looked up at the belly of the giant bird, and asked Chen Fuke with a look of surprise: "When this giant bird came, did Lord Chen see it?" ”

Chen Fuke smiled slightly, and said: "This giant bird's name is called the flying chicken, and the officials have never seen it when they came that day, and the general soldier He was fighting outside the city at that time, and I heard him say that the giant bird galloped by, crushing for several miles, and the Tartar enemy was defeated and fled." ”

"It's very interesting, but I wonder if this flying chicken will be able to fly again?" Yang Lian asked curiously.

"You can fly, listen to this overseas stranger Shen Jia say, if this flying chicken has a suitable landing site, it can arrive in the capital in half an hour."

Hiss~, everyone was amazed. If you can arrive in the capital in half an hour, wouldn't you be able to travel around the land of China in one day, Zhuangzi said, soaring up to 90,000 miles, that's it.

Xiong Tingbi said thoughtfully: "Brother Wenru, if this flying chicken can carry people, then the rebellion thousands of miles away can be resolved in a few days, and it can even go deep behind the enemy and attack the city. ”

When Yang Lian heard this, it seemed to make a lot of sense, and he heard Yuan Yingtai add: "There are natural disasters in various parts of China every year, and the transportation of disaster relief grain in various places is extremely slow. ”

"Xia Guan didn't expect this flying chicken to be so useful."

The officials laughed and chatted about the magic of flying chickens. If Shen Jia was present at this moment, I am afraid that he would have to admire the insight of these Ming Dynasty officials.

After watching the plane, Chen Fuke took everyone to the warehouse to visit the ironclad chariot.

Chen Fuke is already familiar with this chariot, and he is introducing this chariot at the moment.

"On the afternoon of the 21st, the slave chief attacked, this iron-armored giant beast galloped into the army, fired several incendiary flower bombs, hit the enemy's rear camp, the Tartar slave chief was shot, a few days ago it was confirmed that the slave chief died in Fushun, this iron-armored giant beast does have the ability to kill people in the invisible among the ten thousand armies, according to that Shen Xiaoge, if there is enough diesel fuel and personnel maintenance, plus enough ammunition, this monster can sweep the Tartar lair."

Xiong Tingbi circled the chariot for a week, climbed on the roof of the chariot to take a look, and came down to Chen Fuke and said, "Why didn't you take the chariot to Fushun this time?" ”

Chen Fuke hurriedly said: "It's not that Brother Shen doesn't want to, but this giant beast is said to be very precious, not to mention drinking oil, and can't drive far, I heard Brother Shen say that this giant beast has to be overhauled after more than 3,000 hours of continuous movement, and Brother Shen said that there is no personnel in Shenzhou to repair and maintain, and if it breaks, it will be troublesome, so he took another 'ironclad car' with relatively simple maintenance to Fushun." ”

Everyone was shocked, it turned out that there was more than one ironclad beast.

Yuan Yingtai had another idea at this time, Chen Ce didn't let Zhu Wanliang participate in the Battle of Fushun, probably because he didn't want Zhu Wanliang to make meritorious contributions. Thinking of this, Yuan Yingtai asked where Zhu Wanliang was detained, and then left the treasury with Zhang Quan, preparing to visit Zhu Wanliang.

Yang Lian was just a messenger and didn't want to meddle in specific Liaodong affairs, so he simply asked Chen Fuke what kind of person this Shen Jia was.

"Lord Yang, this little brother Shen is very smart, but he doesn't learn the Zhuzi scriptures, he told the old man how to guide public opinion in the city, at first the officials didn't think so, but after trying, they found that the magic is endless. For example, this rebellion in the city, originally the people were panicked, and many merchants had to move their families away, so in order to stabilize the people's hearts, the lower officials rode horses to personally inspect the city for three consecutive days, and the city was much calmer in the past two days, which was really useful. Chen Fuke said with a smile.

Seeing that Yang Lian seemed to be a little suspicious, Chen Fuke hurriedly added: "At the beginning, the lower officials also felt that this was a deceptive trick, thinking that it was a disdain for the side door, who knows how many times the lower officials' staff tried and found that under certain conditions, maintaining the situation in the city is also infinitely useful, and at the same time, it can also prevent rumors from damaging the credibility of the government." Xia Guan was also worried that this person would confuse the public, so he asked the two lieutenants of Jinyi Wei to accompany him, these days are also very usual, there is nothing strange. ”

Yang Lian saw that Chen Fuke's face was upright, and he didn't seem to be fake, so he turned his head to look at Xiong Tingbi. Xiong Tingbi is in charge of the local government, and he advocates knowledge and practicality, and when he heard that this solved specific problems, he was also quite communishable to this overseas stranger.

Yuan Yingtai and Zhang Quan hurried to the Shenyang Prison to see Zhu Wanliang. Zhu Wanliang didn't recognize Yuan Yingtai at first, but after Yuan Yingtai called his name softly, Zhu Wanliang realized that Master Jingluo had come to Shenyang, and hurriedly fell to the ground and cried.

"My lord, my lord, the villain is really wronged, they sent all the Shenyang garrisons to Fushun, and the villain was not allowed to go to Fushun, but let the villain be trapped in Shenyang, where there are not enough soldiers and horses, the villain is really wronged."

Yuan Yingtai was originally a very rational person, but at this time, Zhu Wanliang was crying, which suddenly made Yuan Yingtai feel that Zhu Wanliang seemed to have great grievances, so he couldn't help but say angrily: "You guy, sending you to garrison Shenyang, originally had a merit in stabilizing the rear, and it was a great achievement, but there was a camp roar in your camp, what is the explanation?" ”

Zhu Wanliang was extremely smart, and when he saw that Yuan Yingtai seemed to have the intention of exculpating himself by saying this, he immediately fell to the ground and kowtowed three times, crying: "Lord Jingluo, I am newly defeated in Jifeng Fort, and all the soldiers on hand are newly recorded, and there was a rebellion in the city that night, this recruit was frightened in his heart, and this incident had to happen, the villain is a capital crime, the villain is a capital crime, and I also ask Lord Jingluo to save my life." ”

Yuan Yingtai saw Zhu Wanliang crying miserably, and his heart suddenly softened, and he couldn't help but say: "You stay here for a few days first, no matter what, you can't escape the crime of leading soldiers to gamble and neglect military law, and I will find someone to release you in a few days." ”

After speaking, Yuan Yingtai came out of the cell. Zhang Quan didn't speak behind Yuan Yingtai, and at this time, seeing that Yuan Yingtai intended to exonerate Zhu Wanliang, he pulled Yuan Yingtai's sleeve and said: "Lord Yuan, Zhu Wanliang's army is full of loopholes, and you must not be lenient and break the rules and regulations of the past." ”

Yuan Yingtai glanced at Zhang Quan and said lightly: "The situation in Liaodong is complicated, and now is the time to employ people, you can't offend Zhu Wanliang for trivial things, just let him make meritorious contributions." ”

Zhang Quan saw that Yuan Yingtai insisted on this, so he stopped arguing.