Chapter 295: Constantly testing the bottom line of the imperial court

With Li Jing's typical thinking of later generations, the strength is enough, just send troops to fight directly, what other faces, slogans, and fooling the people below are enough, overthrow the Ming court, take the route of Li Zicheng in history, and send troops from Shaanxi,

Conquer Shanxi, go to Ningwuguan and go straight to Datong, Xuanfu, and then enter Beijing Miyun, just besiege the capital directly, Li Zicheng can do what tens of thousands of peasant troops can do, there is no reason why he can't do it today with 100,000 elite soldiers. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"My lord, if you do this, you will inevitably incur the infamy of the world,"

Ning You got up and shook his head and said, and then went all the way to the east, "There are two or three hundred thousand rebellious people in Shanxi, I will wait for the army to go to the southern line, take the opportunity to annex the officials and troops along the way, occupy the county seat, first establish the basic political power, mobilize the people to fight, and then carry out the plan to drive the wolf and the tiger, isn't the imperial court now starting to exterminate the Liaodong army in Shandong to make a rebellion?" ”

"Let's directly drive these 200,000 thieves to Shandong, and then occupy Henan along the way, with the land of Shanxi as the foundation, and Henan Mansion as the frontier, drive the homeless people to collide with the back road of the official army first, it is best to let the official army and the thief army lose both, and then send a partial division, or as a homeless person, or as a rebel, directly cut off the Cao Yun, and force Shuntianfu to starve to death, wouldn't it be faster?!"

"That's a great deal."

Tan Wu, who thought he had read a few books recently, couldn't help but come out,

"My lord, since you can win the world, why not make your name famous? He is also good to keep a history as one, the Ming court to this day, long since the death, so, why not sit back and watch its rivers and mountains change, thieves and officials and soldiers fight each other, we sit on the profits, wouldn't it be more beautiful? ”

"I also have this method, but after all, the peasants are suffering, now two or three hundred thousand thieves are cholera in Shanxi, so that the local people are not happy, and they have changed their children and eaten, if I first rush out of Datong, go straight to Beijing, exterminate the Ming court, after the country changes hands, and then send troops to level the thieves, it is also a rebellion."

I have to say that Li Jing's cognition is also correct, with the army first cut off the ruling center of the Ming Dynasty, and the rest of the dragons are leaderless, which is basically a fate of being exterminated.

Of course, he knew that this was the old road of Li Zicheng, when Li Zicheng sent troops to Beijing, his strength was roughly the same as him, and he only occupied Shaanxi and the southwestern part of Shanxi, Huguang and Henan Mansion, but most of Li Zicheng's soldiers and horses were officers and hungry people who surrendered in the Ming Dynasty, and their combat effectiveness and discipline were not as good as their own.

Moreover, the new firearms drilled with water conservancy are much stronger than the old firearms in terms of range, rate of fire, and stability, and they can now build 1,000 of these firearms per month, and they continue to expand, and they only need to equip a town, and the imperial court is hardly their opponent.

As for the Manchurian Tartars outside the Guan, not to mention, don't look at their joy now, but the actual strength is less than 30,000 or 40,000 people, as long as they take Beijing, block the Great Wall, do not make Li Zicheng's mistake, and conquer Shanhaiguan first, then the Tartars will not pose much of a threat.

As long as it is carried out according to the plan, it can continue to consume the strength of one country and three parties, and then send troops to sweep, and the resistance will be much smaller, but there is also a problem in this way, that is, the rich places in the north will be destroyed.

Henan Prefecture, Beizhili and Shandong have always been the most important provinces in the north, and the population is also very large, if it is so troubled, without a year or two of work, it is destined to be unable to stop, and the number of innocent people killed and injured will increase exponentially.

"Lord, dare to ask Lord, what is the foundation? A clan that has been slaughtered? Or is it the official of the former imperial court? Or are you a scholar who yearns for the Ming Court? ”

At the critical moment, Yu Ning of the former Ming Dynasty, who was in charge of the civil council of Shaanxi, came out and said a decisive word, and took advantage of the gap of several people to think, and continued,

"I have heard that the lord loves the people like a son, and when I see it today, if this is the case, the ministers are grateful on behalf of the people."

"But my lord's ambition is in the world, and this year the Ming court has no way, resulting in the displacement of the people, and they are all changing children and eating and not being able to live, it is the time of the heavenly sin, the dragon among my masters, should be the plan of the world, and the people of a province will live the people of the world."

"My lord has always taken the people of Li as the foundation, so that the corrupt officials and corrupt officials who are rampant in the township, the people of the fish and the flesh, the local heroes and the powerful, are all swept away, the people of Li are all happy, they have never heard of it in ancient and modern times, the lord is the first person in the past and present, and the ministers are all subordinate to the lord, and they are willing to drive."

"This is biased, I have heard that birds die for food, people die for money, you and other local heroes, rats and other people, do not know the current affairs, vainly try to resist the heavenly soldiers, but there are so many heroes and strong in the world, why don't the lord send thieves and officials and soldiers, borrow a knife to kill people, slaughter the local heroes, the lord's army is then stationed, the people of Li will be grateful to Dade, do not forget."

Speaking of this, Xu Yifu knelt on the ground and said with a sincere expression, "Please ask the lord to plan for the people of the world, for the livelihood of the community, for the foundation of the ancestors, and to drive away the wolf and the tiger, and when the time is ripe, the world will be determined in one fell swoop!" ”

"Please take the lead in driving away the wolf and devouring the tiger, and determine the world in one fell swoop!"

Those generals listened to the blood boiling, and they fell to the ground.

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On February 27 of the fifth year of Chongzhen, Li Jing set up a news platform in Xi'an, and selected to be familiar with poetry and literature, and knew how to write and ink.

On the same day, under the persuasion of the ministers of civil and military affairs in Xi'an, Li Jing decided to gather troops and horses for drills, and Keri prepared to cross the Yellow River eastward, implement a plan to drive away the wolf and devour the tiger, and prepare to deal with the imperial court with the help of the exiles and the Shandong rebels.

And Shanxi Daizhou Ningwu deputy chief soldier Zheng Renbao sent 5,000 people, in the southeast corner of Chun County, the original Qinghe Li family gathered in the east, built a mausoleum, changed the original Huiji Temple to Xiansheng Temple, five miles to the southwest, built the Yongchang Tomb, respected Li Jing's father Li lived as the Yongchang Prince, and built the tomb with the gift of the Ming Dynasty.

The action was so big that Zhang Fengyi, the governor of the three sides who was far away in Dai County, also heard about it, and was immediately shocked, and first sent someone to investigate the truth, but he was firmly monitored by the officers and soldiers of the second town of the begging army, and was not allowed to approach the vicinity of the royal tomb, but when he heard the rumors, he knew that it exceeded the specifications of the imperial court.

In order to posthumously seal the ancestor of the Li family, he commanded the affairs of the Shanxi Metropolitan Division, and was a four-grade official, and there were regulations for the regulation and burial after death, but the construction of 5,000 people must be a big transgression, but there was no evidence, so Zheng Renbao was angrily recruited to rush to Dai County to question.

"Come on! After each entered Dai County, they surrounded the governor's yamen and left one person. ”

Zheng Renbao was also ordered by Li Jing to use the place of the prince's mausoleum to test the bottom line of the imperial court step by step, after all, he needs a name to act, and a mere rank of general of Zhengxi can no longer be satisfied with him, so he said that with Ningwu General Li Denggao, if according to the past, transferred to the head of the Zhengxi General's Mansion, wouldn't it be self-surrendering?

Therefore, the imperial court wants to send Zhang Fengyi as the abbot of Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Henan provinces to suppress bandits, so who should the vacant position of the governor of the three sides be handed over?

Extending further, it is the Shaanxi Political Envoy Division, which is now occupied by Li Jing's people, and retreated?!

Don't even think about it, Li Jing wants to retreat, and the group of people who follow him will not retreat, not to mention that he himself is not willing to retreat, since hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the begging army are unwilling to retreat, then the court can only retreat, or the two sides should not do so, and still maintain the situation in Shaanxi.

But as long as Li Jing leads the army into Shanxi, even if this layer of window paper is pierced, either the imperial court canonizes Li Jing with full authority over Shaanxi affairs, or Li Jing is completely self-reliant, and then converges with Shanxi Liukou, goes straight to Beijing, and breaks with the Ming court.

But this is the last step after all, and Li Jing was not stupid enough to come up to break with the court at the beginning, so he borrowed his father's mausoleum to test the reaction of the court first.

Under these circumstances, Zheng Renbao personally led the first battalion of the first brigade stationed in Chun County to the north, and at the same time strictly ordered the third battalion of the second brigade stationed in Fanzhi to go south, join the main force of the third battalion of the second brigade stationed in Dai County, and surround the governor's mansion.

Then under the escort of the heavily armed generals, he directly entered the Governor's Mansion with a big grin, and the soldiers of the standard battalion guarding the Governor's Mansion did not dare to stop it at all, but there were three or four thousand begging officers and soldiers outside, and their eight hundred soldiers in the Beijing battalion, where was the opponent of this group of tigers and wolves.

"It's ridiculous, this official was ordered by the Holy Son of Heaven to inspect the three sides, and a deputy general soldier of Ningwu dared to lead troops to break in, it really damned it!"

Zhang Fengyi lived in the main hall, and said scoldingly, he didn't believe that Zheng Renbao dared to take his life, after all, there was no difference.

"That's right, the subordinate came with the troops, and was about to ask the lord, where is the lord? What's the matter? ”

Zheng Renbao came in laughing, his eyes kicked, and he didn't look at Zhang Fengyi in the slightest, if it weren't for the fact that he hung up the title of a military secretary, I'm afraid that today, he would have to get off his standard camp weapon, and then sweep the door directly.

"You."

As soon as he heard this, Zhang Fengyi's officialdom was an old fritter, where did he not understand, this was clearly the rhythm of turning his face with himself,

"This official is the secretary of the military department of the dynasty, how can he not manage the military affairs of Shanxi?!"

Zheng Renbao asked tit-for-tat, "My lord's words don't make sense, Shanxi military affairs, but I dare to ask my lord, how to say it?" ”

"You!"

In front of the beggar soldiers who entered the lobby, Zhang Fengyi didn't dare to continue the dispute, his own position was the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, but he stayed in Shanxi, which was not under his jurisdiction, and there were not many soldiers and horses at hand, and Zheng Renbao was not his direct subordinate, which made him the most embarrassed.

Fa Minfu built the royal tomb, there is no evidence not to say, and he does not belong to his own family, he is not an official, nor is he a local official in Shanxi, so he can't get involved at all.

But this didn't bother him, I saw Zhang Fengyi get up directly and roared, "This official wants to go to the Son of Heaven to participate in your play." ”

"Listen to it~" Zheng Renbao sneered, not looking at him at all. (To be continued.) )