The military generals at the end of the Ming Dynasty, most of them were still commanded by civilian officials at this time, and to put it mildly, the magistrate of one and seven grades had enough confidence to reprimand the hundred households of one and six grades at will. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Even the thousands of households and local garrisons of Wupin, in front of the prefect and the prefect, are about the same as a dog.

In the history of the Ming Dynasty, there was no shortage of chief military officers, and the deputy general led the troops through a certain place to find the local county seat to buy grain, and the county magistrates who guarded the border often closed their doors and did not talk, one did not release food and the other did not open the door, anyway, let their own army fight with the enemy hungry outside the city, it can be imagined,

These generals who have experienced the killing of Mao Wenlong by Yuan Dudu that day, the one who can still sincerely believe in the ethics of civil officials.

That is, Sun Yuanhua, who rescued and took them in regardless of his previous suspicions, and reused them in order to get their gratitude and respect, and if someone else came casually, I am afraid that he would have been beheaded a long time ago.

Not to mention that he was going to be the king and command the soldiers and horses of Liaodong at the beginning.

"Enfu is going to the court to face the saint, and we will all be in Dengzhou, waiting for the news of Enfu."

Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde also knew that the matter was getting bigger, and they also knew the news of the rebellion of the guards of Dongjiang Town, who were stationed in Jinzhou and Lushun in Liaodong, and almost all of them had rebelled.

Those civil officials in the court who are hostile to the generals and the civil officials from Shandong will definitely attack them desperately, after Sun Yuanhua goes back, he may not be able to move the court, and at the moment, this sentence is just to comfort Sun Yuanhua's heart.

"If only you had such thoughts."

Zhang Tao, the former chief military officer, also came up at this moment to say that he was also born as a general in Liaodong, and at this moment, among the rebels, to put it bluntly, most of them were his subordinates, but he was so loyal to the imperial court that he was really unwilling to lead this group of former subordinates to rebel.

Therefore, this time, everyone saw the past feelings, returned his family, and personally sent him to the wharf, and prepared a sea boat for them to go north to Beijing through Tianjin.

Thinking back to the chaos in Shandong for a few months, Zhang Tao has no bottom in his heart, and he doesn't know what the future holds.

This time, when he returned to the imperial court, it is still a problem to save his life, but Sun Yuanhua is different, he is not only a civil official, but the official is the right to the imperial history, and the governor of Denglai Affairs, on this level of identity, there is some security.

What's more, his teacher Xu Guangqi is the second assistant of the dynasty, a scholar of Dongge University, and a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, with such a backstage, after going back, there may not be anything wrong.

Thinking like this, he couldn't help but sigh, then looked at the sky, and urged, "It's not too early, General Li, General Kong, I have one last word, I hope you can listen to it." ”

"Commander-in-Chief, please speak."

Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde glanced at each other, and then spoke at the same time.

"Turning back is the shore, this is going to the capital, even if I fight for this life, I have to ask for a way to avoid death for you, I hope you can encourage yourself and get out of the sea of suffering as soon as possible."

Zhang Tao didn't believe in Buddhism, but during the month he was imprisoned in Dengzhou City, he always thought about it, could it be that this fate should be destined to have such a catastrophe after all?

"Yes,"

Li Jiucheng kept silent, but Kong Youde nodded when he heard this, and then personally took a silver plate from his subordinates, and brought it up with both hands.

"Enfu and the general soldiers, this goes to the capital, passing through Tianjin and other places, the subordinates and others remember the past kindness, toothless and unforgettable, and specially present two hundred silver tattoos, I hope that the enfu and the general soldiers will not dislike it."

Saying that, he knelt on one knee, not judging by the current status of the two sides, Sun Yuanhua glanced at him with a wry smile, didn't say anything, and then stopped and looked at Dengzhou City for a long time, for a long time.

turned around and went directly to the boat, during this period, several people did not move, Kong Youde did not dare to look up, and when Sun Yuanhua got on the boat, Zhang Tao reluctantly came up to help Kong Youde up, and said with a wry smile,

"You've got a heart."

After speaking, he glanced at the official silver on the plate, shook his head and said,

"We are now guilty of sin, and we dare not expect anything else, so the general also asks himself to stay and treat the soldiers and civilians of Denglai more kindly."

Zhang Tao got on the boat without the slightest nostalgia, he really couldn't lift any thoughts, his heart was filled with the possible fate after returning to Beijing, but he couldn't help but return to Beijing, after all, he was still the chief soldier of the imperial court, and the ancestral tomb clan was under the rule of the imperial court, otherwise, he really had a little thought, and he could do it with these people.

"I don't know what the future looks like?!"

Looking at the sea ship that was gradually moving away, Kong Youde sighed in his heart, thinking that once it didn't work, his fate could be imagined.

In essence, to this day, Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng and others are still lucky, trying to look forward to the appeasement of the imperial court, because they were born in the imperial army and know the strength of the elite in Liaodong.

"Let's think about what we're going to do."

Li Jiucheng, who has been in charge of commanding the army to fight, is relieved at this moment, Sun Yuanhua is certainly kind to him, but he cares more about Zhang Tao's attitude, because he is the one with the highest prestige in Denglai in the Liao army.

If Sun Yuanhua is willing to rebel with them and elect Sun Yuanhua as the generalissimo, it is not impossible, because when it comes to marching and fighting, Li Jiucheng still has to go.

But once Zhang Tao obeys, then according to his identity as the general soldier in the past, all the brothers will be indisobedient, where will Li Jiucheng go at that time?

If he wins, his status will not be raised by half a point, and the court will be forced to appease him, and he will be a general and deputy general at most, and in the future, he will have to bear the title of Wuqiao Mutiny and Liao Army Rebellion, because he and his son Li Yingyuan, who served as the head of Qian, took the lead in raising things.

It is conceivable that the future will definitely be difficult, and once he loses and is surrounded by the imperial court, the end will be even worse.

Once defeated, at that time, the court will privately negotiate peace, and the court will inevitably ask it to hand over the first evil, who to hand it over? Is this not me?

Therefore, Zhang Tao was unwilling to surrender, nor was he willing to join the rebels, and insisted on going back to Beijing, this choice, Li Jiucheng supported from the bottom of his heart.

For this kind of former benefactor, killing, it is definitely not possible to kill, raise it, and I am afraid that he will figure it out one day, take everyone to do it, and let it go is the best choice, as long as he is gone, the Liaodong people and horses on the eastern boundary of Denglai Mountain will all take him as the head of the horse.

"Marshal Du, do you really expect the imperial court to sincerely appease us?"

Kong Youde asked uncertainly, but in his heart, for now, he was still inclined to be appeased by the imperial court.

"Fufu, yes, as long as we can ensure our status and the safety of our lives, we will be officials again, and we will never mention any rebellion."

Li Jiucheng's rebellion is really a coincidence, to put it mildly, that is, the dry firewood happened to encounter a fire, and his head dried up as soon as it was hot.

At the beginning, the imperial court allocated more than 20,000 taels of silver to buy horses to aid Liaodong, but as a result, this batch of silver was allocated from the central government, and it was reduced by half first.

But the remaining silver is definitely not enough to buy a horse, Li Jiucheng is a total, yes, be greedy, anyway, if you buy a war horse, you have to die.

In this way, he happened to learn that his son Li Yingyuan led his men and horses to have a violent conflict with the local soldiers and civilians in Wuqiao, and after he found Kong Youde, he hit it off and launched a mutiny, which was actually similar to making a fuss, in order to force the court to make concessions and save his life.

But who can know that the territory of Shandong is originally hostile to the Liao people, and now when they heard that the Liaodong soldiers had rebelled, they did not come up to surround and beat them, but their combat effectiveness was not as strong as that of the Liao soldiers, and they were beaten into the water.

"Wait and see."

Kong Youde looked at the direction of the sea ship from afar, and finally said something.

……

Xi'an City, the capital of the most powerful dynasty in feudal history, has been the capital of the Western Zhou, Qin, Han, Sui and Tang dynasties since the pre-Qin period.

The vicissitudes of life, time has passed, this thousand-year-old ancient city has ushered in a new conqueror, the general of the Ming Dynasty to conquer the west, and Li Jing, the general officer of Shaanxi to suppress and aid the army.

This day had just ended a busy day, and he deliberately changed his dress, asked someone to pass Li Mao, and then brought seven or eight personal guards, and left the former Ming Court Qin Wang's Mansion, all the way out of East Street.

"How many days has it been? Is the night market recovering so quickly? ”

Li Jing looked at the vendors on both sides of the street, and said to Li Mao with joy on his face.

"Big brother, although there are not many former court officials in this market, our brothers are not dry food, as long as they follow the previous rules and do not oppress the good at will, these small people will naturally come out to beg for a living."

Li Mao's words are half true, most of the peasants and citizens in China, no matter in any period, have their own unique way of survival, plus when the beggar army broke through Xi'an, there was no large-scale massacre and destruction, but only chased and annihilated the men and horses of the official army, so the daily life of the city was not greatly affected.

After the beggar army captured Shaanxi, it allowed the opening of warehouses to help the poor, resulting in many peasants who should have waited for death, craftsmen in the city, shop men and handymen, were able to barely survive, and even many of the city's already small and rich families hurriedly came out to find some income when those big merchants and official shops were not open.

This day, who will come anyway, isn't it? Anyway, the beggar army doesn't kill people.

"Uncle, why are you still out to do business at such an old age?"

Li Jing has been in contact with major military affairs, and rarely goes to the street to observe the people's feelings, but this time when he came out, although there were more than 100 people in the town behind him in makeup, it did not affect his mood at all.

Stopping in front of a shop that made handmade groceries, seeing the appearance of the stall owner, who must be in his forties, he suddenly picked up a gadget on the stall and looked at it, seemingly unintentionally hearing the news.

"If I don't do business, what will my family eat?"

The stall owner was greeting other guests, and when he heard this, he turned his head and glanced at the two young men casually, and saw that they didn't look like they were dressed like any superior people, so he said angrily.

"Has it been too peaceful on the streets lately?"

"It's too peaceful, can it be peaceful, every quarter of an hour, there are soldiers patrolling the city passing by here, but I said, you have been looking at it for a long time, do you want the splendid bag in your hand?"

The uncle glanced at him suspiciously, although the city is stable now, but everyone may not dare to go out at will, don't look at them setting up stalls to guard, in fact, it is just a picture of food and clothing.

"How much? I want it. ”

Li Jing took a few casual glances at the red brocade hand-tattooed purse, and even felt that it was not as popular as his little sister's female red, but he was not short of these few silvers, so he didn't nun his mouth.

"Chenghui, thirty wen."

As soon as he heard that there was business to do, the uncle suddenly said with a smile, and then came up and stretched out his hand, wanting to ask for money.

But after Li Jing finished speaking, he was stunned, he went out by himself, and he still brought silver? Not to mention copper coins.

turned his head to look at Li Mao, who knew that this guy was even more desperate, and shook his head directly and decisively, "Big brother, I don't know yet, how can you have silver when you go out?" ”

What he said is, don't look at Li Mao, as the chief soldier of a town, to control 11,000 men and horses, but his military salary, in fact, is not much, a month, a total of 150 taels of silver.

For others, such as the capture of the beggar army, the generals who won the war, and the weapons and property of the enemy were captured, they had to first confiscate the calculated value of the silver, and then according to the assessed battle loss ratio, an additional reward was distributed in proportion, but these silver were first distributed to the soldiers who had made meritorious contributions in the battle.

Then in the turn to get the general, as a town commander Li Mao, can be divided into dozens of hundreds of taels, after entering Shaanxi, he first commanded the first battle, the capture is not counted, but this battle, according to the whole army to divide the profits.

So he didn't have much, and the second time he hit Han Wangfu, a big victory, the same capture was not counted, but it was good to die, Chen Da immediately broke away from the fourth brigade and formed the sixth brigade, so this time the profit was divided, the fourth town only took half, and the rest half was divided by the second brigade of the Qinwei town at that time.

Then there was the battle of the Gansu town of the king of Posu, Li Mao finally made a fortune this time, and it was his turn to share three thousand taels of silver, but soon, after asking for a few mothers-in-law, he was forced to send most of the silver back to Shanxi and hand it over to his father for safekeeping.

And the income of the Chamber of Commerce, saved in the past few months, there are thousands of taels, but all of them have been taken away by his father, and he can only live on military salaries now, after entering Shaanxi, he married two concubines, 150 taels of silver a month, and barely survived.

In addition, what is the matter of a dignified general soldier who goes out with his own silver?

"Uncle, you wait, I'll find someone to get the money."

With an embarrassed face, Li Jing was about to call the guards hidden in the shadows to come over, when he heard an exclamation from the stall owner, and then quickly cleaned up the stall. (To be continued.) )