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On February 17 of the fifth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Xuanda, led the general Li Bei to lead 2,700 troops, and gathered with Xu Dingchen, the governor of Shanxi, and Zuo Liangyu, the deputy general of Changping, and other 5,000 troops to support the army.

Zhang Zongheng had nothing to do, so he sat down and sighed and said.

"The thieves attacked Liaozhou very urgently, we came with troops, and fled to Henan Mansion in the east, fortunately, Liang Fu, the chief military officer of Baoding, led 8,000 troops, Daimyo, Shunde, Guangping three prefectures of soldiers Lu Xiangsheng also led the Tianxiong army 2,000 elite westward to suppress the thieves, but the thieves entered Zezhou and escaped into the Shanxi boundary, Henan soldiers and horses had nothing to do, so they had to sigh at the provincial border.

Due to the increasingly severe situation of the thief, Xu Dingchen, the governor who had conflicts with Zhang Zongheng, gradually let go of his prejudices and slowly came together.

"How can this governor not know, but the Jin soldiers attack the thief, the thief will escape into Henan, if the Yu soldiers attack the thief, the thief enters Shanxi, and the two places attack the thief at the same time, then the thief will go into the mountains and wilderness to hide, look for an opportunity and go out, labor and money, and the thief will not be eliminated, what can be done?"

Zhang Zongheng is also completely out of temper at the moment, this thief and thief is really a case of beating the house and robbing the house, no matter which officer and army they fight, they can't beat it, but no officer or army can catch them, so they will flee as soon as possible.

But the officers and soldiers chased it, and there were other thieves who were out to wreak havoc in the back room.

Don't chase it, when the thieves take the city, the officers and soldiers will be questioned.

It's a dilemma.

"Your Excellency the Governor, the officials have some plans, I don't know if I should say it or not?"

Zhang Zongheng's head was as big as a fight at the moment, and he was eager to find a solution, "Tell me quickly." ”

Xu Dingchen wiped his beard and sat on the chair, "Don't you hear about the civil turmoil in Xunyang in the past, and the things in Shandong today?" ”

Zhang Zongheng is so old-fashioned, he has thousands of furrows in his heart, and when he heard it, he immediately understood, but he shook his head and said, "It's not appropriate, it's not appropriate." ”

Seeing that Xu Dingchen was still smiling, he relaxed his mind and said, "Xunyang Yifu, after all, is the internal affairs of Huguang, although there are millions of victims, but sending a governor and a governor can be pacified, and Shandong is also the same, although Liu Shilang of the military department is the supervisor, but it still does not go out of the boundary of Shandong,"

After analyzing it in this way, he said, "But now the thieves are different, fleeing in all directions, entering Shanxi today, crossing the Yellow River tomorrow, and then rising to Huguang and Sichuan, and then fleeing to Henan for a long time, and the land of the five provinces, Your Majesty will not be willing to hand over the power to your subordinates." ”

Zhang Zongheng figured out the context of the central government of the Ming Dynasty, that is, there was no one to send in the central government, and when he heard about the chaos in Shandong, the first assistant Zhou Tingru sent three ministers as governors, but the first two were worried that they would go down to the place and could not quell the chaos.

Just a 30,000 rebellious army in Shandong, the frightened court officials did not dare to take office, and finally forced Liu Yulie to take command of the rebellion with the title of squire of the military department.

When it comes to Shaanxi, Shanxi, Huguang, Henan, and Zhili, who should be in charge?

"If Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides in the past, is here, it may not be impossible."

Xu Dingchen glanced at the Governor Xuanda who was seated and told him bluntly.

"That's right, but it's a pity."

Zhang Zongheng didn't think so at all, and he was not angry at Xu Dingchen's words, the local governor, the governor of Jiliao, wanted to guard against the Tartars entering the Kou, and he couldn't be easily mobilized, and the remaining governors of Baoding basically had no sense of existence in the court.

As for himself, let alone mention, if it weren't for the fact that there was no one to replace him right now, the imperial court would have been reluctant to replace him, so it was okay, Zhang Zongheng didn't miss this position at all, whether it was the chaos in Shanxi or the broken things of Xuanda, he didn't want to care about it.

"I heard that now the new trilateral governor Zhang Fengyi Zhang is based in Daizhou, why don't you and I sponsor this person and transfer him to the military governor of the five provinces to suppress bandits full-time?"

Xu Dingchen can't do this method, and he has another plan, anyway, he is tired of this endless chase and running, and the soldiers and horses under his command are even more tired from the journey, and the people turn over on their backs, otherwise they will not lead the troops to stay here.

"This law is a great good."

Zhang Zongheng's eyes lit up, so he went up to Xu Dingchen and summed it up with each other, and felt more and more that this method was good, no matter how bad it was, it wouldn't be much worse.

As long as the officers and soldiers can cross the border and be chased by the thieves, they will inevitably bite and hold on, and the thieves will have no way to go to the sky and no way to go to the ground.

So Gu jointly played and asked the court.

Unlike in history, Zhou Tingru and Wen Tiren were making bad moves, this time, both the emperor and the cabinet happily approved this matter, but as in history, there were fierce differences over who would serve as the governor of the five provinces.

Emperor Chongzhen was willing to send a subordinate from the cabinet, so that the people below would not listen to the dispatch, but in essence, he was worried that this position was too important and handed over to others, and he did not trust it.

How can the cabinet accept such a hot potato, Zhou Tingru stirred up this matter in history, because Emperor Chongzhen has always asked to send people from the central government, and the rest of the court ministers are willing to serve as the governor of the trilateral Hong Chengchou.

Now that Hong Chengchou is gone, let's replace the corresponding Zhang Fengyi on top, it just so happens that he still has the title of Shangshu of the Ministry of War, and he serves as the governor of the five provinces to suppress bandits in his original position, which is more than enough.

But how can things be so simple, the central and local governments are arguing, the emperor and the cabinet are arguing, and this matter is gradually making trouble, so that when Li Jing, who is reorganizing the army in Shaanxi, receives the news, the imperial court has not yet made up its mind.

"Shanxi and Henan are urgent, but I don't know that the most urgent person should be me."

When Li Jing received a secret report in Xi'an City, he hurriedly invited his generals and civil officials in Xi'an to come to discuss, and the imperial court did not allow Li Jing to send civil officials, but at the same time, he couldn't send them, so Li Jing rewarded himself.

Therefore, there is Ning You, who is the chief military officer of the begging army teaching town, and also holds the title of senator of the Shaanxi Civil Affairs Department, and the local state capitals below are also managed in this way.

"Metropolitan Governor, Zhang Fengyi is a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, how can we be afraid of him? As long as he dares to enter the Shaanxi department, he will ask Guo Zongbing to take him down at the crossing of the Yellow River. ”

Ning You saw that the beggar army was at its peak at this time, and he didn't pay much attention to the imperial court.

was temporarily recalled by Li Jing this time, he thought something was going on.

"No."

Li Mao didn't care about the long journey, and immediately exited when he heard the words,

"In the past, the interception and killing of the predecessor was nothing more than taking advantage of the fact that the court did not know, pretending to be a thief, and now this Governor Zhang is constantly sending people to cross the Yellow River to investigate the situation in Shaanxi, if he comes in person, he must be careful and proper, if he kills this person again, we will have no chance of easing with the court."

Li Jing also nodded, "Yes, I have recently received a steady stream of military salaries and food from the imperial court, and it is time to move, seeing that it is about to enter the summer, the corpses pickled in lime in the treasury cannot be preserved for too long, this time, I will give this governor a big gift." ”

So he turned to the clerk and senator beside him, "Have you ever chosen a region?" It is also good that this Governor Zhang will send someone to personally inspect it. ”

"Don't worry, I'll have already arranged it,"

The clerk senator didn't care about slackness, he got up directly to answer, and then pointed to the map,

"The previous time I waited for the Ming court's war report, has been maintained in the Pingliang generation, and now it is here to plan a decisive battle with the main force of the thieves, 100,000 thieves are just right, and then the captives who refuse to be naturalized will be selected to try to escape, and then there are thieves such as Hao Lin'an, Liu Daojiang, Li Dusi, etc., all executed, and handed over to the court for acceptance."

"This is very good, but don't do things too much, otherwise this Governor Zhang will have the peace of Shaanxi, and it will be troublesome if he does not want to take up the post of governor of the five provinces."

Li Jing and the generals below looked at each other and smiled, but they still carefully instructed.

"The Metropolitan Governor just rest assured, our secret agents of Tiance Guard have been careful to block the spies of the imperial court, and they can't get any news, so they have to look at us,"

Wei Xiaobao said on the side, since the army entered Shaanxi, most of his men and horses have also been active in Yanan and the border area, but now, the main responsibility is to prevent the secret agents of the imperial court from entering Shaanxi, but at the moment, it seems that he is doing a good job.

"Okay, if you work harder, you must create the illusion of some thieves raging in Linzhao and Fengxiang and Hanzhong, Tan Wu should also cooperate when necessary, and your troops will be pulled out to practice, so that the Sichuan army on the opposite side can take a look, and bring us some evidence by the way."

When Tan Wu heard this, he immediately laughed and said, "The last general must do his best to confuse the imperial court." ”

After Li Jing nodded, he had another plan, "This Governor Zhang has always wanted to peek into the situation in Xi'an, and he won't bother the two masters, Tan Wu, you will work harder, pull the army down to Xi'an to take a look, and then throw the corpses of some thieves, so that you can give an explanation to the imperial court." ”

"Whoa."

"The garrison brigade will shoulder the defense of Shaanxi in the future, and Tan Wuxian will also take over the defense area in the southeast of Shaanxi, and Li Mao's army can lean a little eastward, I see that once this Governor Zhang becomes the governor of the five provinces, he will definitely hit the border of Shaanxi, and we will also use this name to send troops to Shanxi."

"Select people in the army who know the roots, sneak into Shanxi and Sichuan first, and be sure to gain a firm foothold in the local area, and Tiancewei and Shencewei must also prepare now, and be sure to understand the bottom of the two provinces in detail."

This is full of preparations, and the generals below are all gearing up, only Li Mao came up with a little shyness and whispered something in front of Li Jing.

"Nonsense, how can you rob a woman from a good family? Could it be that my military law is not established?! (To be continued.) )