Cao Huachun also just received a letter from Wang Chengentuo Jinyiwei, and was about to look for an opportunity to show the emperor, but he didn't expect the emperor to ask first than him. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Yes, well done, you still deserve my trust. Tell them to work hard, and there will be no less reward after the deed is done. Emperor Chongzhen was overjoyed in his heart, and he rarely promised a reward in person.

"Yes, I will tell them to do their best for the Emperor. However, Wang Chengen also wrote to him that he was afraid that there would be problems with food and wages on the way to quell the rebellion, so he asked His Majesty to order officials from all over the country to do their best to raise salaries for them. Cao Huachun tried his best to fight for Wang Chengen's interests.

"Well, I will issue an order asking the local governments to do their best to raise food and salaries for all the officers and soldiers who go to quell the rebellion." Emperor Chongzhen knew that his ministers liked to work against him, and if he ordered to take care of that army and horses alone, the ministers would definitely jump out against it. I had no choice but to issue an order, requiring officials in various localities to be diligent and errand to treat the counterinsurgency army equally. I hope the ministers will not dwell on such matters.

Wang Chengen wrote to Cao Huachun under Zhang Chu's coercion and inducement. Coercion does not play much role in Wang Chengen, although Wang Chengen is young, he will not do anything harmful to the royal family because he is afraid of death, but everyone has weaknesses, Wang Chengen's weakness is that he does not want to let himself go out of the palace for the first time to do a bad job, from now on the eunuchs may not be able to go out of the palace to do things for the emperor, and the eunuchs will never come out of the emperor to lose the trust of the emperor. He thought about it for many days and decided to write a letter to Cao Huachun to urge Zhang Chu to ask for food, so that the imperial court would lose some food at most, and it would be good to relieve the emperor a little pressure in case Zhang Chu fought with the rebels.

Wang Chengen, the prison soldier, was very depressed, he and the little eunuch he brought were gathered together, and he had to ask the advice of the guards who guarded them wherever he wanted to go, and someone followed him everywhere he went, only to understand that he was not here to supervise the army, they were imprisoned by the security army. The most unbearable thing for Wang Chengen and others is the poor food they eat, and it was really difficult to swallow for the first few days, until they were hungry and had no choice but to know that some eating was better than starving.

Later, Wang Chengen was called by Zhang Chu to have a long talk, and there were several times when it was time to eat, Zhang Chu was still unsatisfied, and when he was left to eat together, Wang Chengen found that Zhang Chu ate worse than them, so he didn't report his grievances on the issue of eating.

Zhang Chu asked Wang Chengen to talk, mainly to see what kind of spirit could make Wang Chengen and Emperor Chongzhen die together, and there were fewer and fewer people who could sacrifice for their beliefs in the era when Zhang Chu lived. There is also a need to understand Emperor Chongzhen, and it is very important to understand the opponent. And the high-level power struggle is too strange to Zhang Chu, and the people and things at the top of the court are all of Zhang Chu's interest.

The two of them began to ask and answer questions and answers like prisoners, and gradually relaxed after a long time. Zhang Chu found that there was a reason why Wang Chengen could be picked out by Cao Huachun among many eunuchs and cultivated as a successor. Wang Chengen was intelligent, flexible, and loyal to the emperor, and his years of education in the palace made him very well-behaved and decorative. Zhang Chu felt that this person was still quite good. Wang Chengen's feelings for Zhang Chu are also changing, at first he felt that Zhang Chu was very arrogant, very disrespectful to the emperor and their eunuchs, and he didn't talk big or small, and later he found that Zhang Chu really didn't have any other evil deeds except for his unpleasant speech. It seems that he is really ready to send troops to quell the rebellion.

Zhang Chu did not let Wang Chengen wait, and after more than ten days, all walks of life were assembled, and the team of the security army to Shandong to quell the rebellion officially set off.

Although Zhang Chu told Guo Zhiyi that the security army only had a team of 5,000 people, there were not only so many people when the troops were dispatched, and the soldiers who participated in the battle were indeed only 5,000 people, Zhang Chu recruited 10,000 young men as the people who transported the baggage, and the whole team suddenly became very large.

Setting out from Shanxi to Shandong, Zhang Chu was indeed frightened by hunger, and when he set out on the expedition, he not only used mules to pull a cart of baggage, but also specially made thousands of wheelbarrows. The biggest advantage of this kind of car is that it has low requirements for road conditions, and the car can pass through almost a place where people can pass, and only one person can operate it. The cart was also loaded with all kinds of supplies, and Zhang Chu gave people the feeling that he was going to make a big move. In this way, Zhang Chu was still unwilling, and added a long grain bag to everyone in the team, which contained the traditional food fried noodles of northern Shaanxi. However, Zhang Chu carried out a little reform for them, first fried wheat, and then crushed with all kinds of beans that were also fried, and added a small amount of salt to make fried noodles, which can be stored for a long time, and can be eaten dry or with water, and a soldier carrying a bag of fried noodles can ensure that he will not starve for more than ten days. The water conservancy mill in Zhongyang and the people in the city worked for several days before they could grind enough fried noodles and hand them over to Zhang Chu and them to take away.

Wang Chengen, the prison army, must be indispensable in the team, and Guo Zhiyi must also be responsible for transmitting information in order to protect the prison army, and he must also accompany him. Sun Yuanhua was originally arranged by Zhang Chu to conduct research quietly in Zhongyang, but he insisted that his peers should personally put down the rebellion he caused. Zhang Chu had no choice but to let him follow, but Zhang Chu did not have any confidence in Sun Yuanhua's combat effectiveness, but sent someone to protect him well in the camp, this baby can't have a problem, and when he arrives on the battlefield, he just let him look at it from a distance, and his task is to study and improve weapons.

The security army sent to Shandong, large and small vehicles one after another, the wheels rolled straight ahead, Zhang Chu rode a horse and walked in the team, thinking that he was about to enter the territory of Shandong, and his heart was very excited.

Zhang Chu was full of respect for the people of Shandong, not only because the deeds of the great hero Wu Song were widely spread throughout the country, but also because Zhang Chu had heard the story of a Shandong gold mine in his previous life.

In the most humiliating years of the Chinese, Shandong was occupied by the U people, and in order to feed the war with war, the U people wantonly plundered the resources of various parts of China, and the gold mines in Shandong became the object of the war and robbery of the U people, and a large number of soldiers were stationed to supervise the Chinese mining there, in this case, the miners of the Zhaoyuan gold mine in Shandong secretly mined tens of thousands of taels of gold under the noses of the U people, and these tens of thousands of taels of gold were transported to northern Shaanxi to support the anti-enemy struggle, and it is not surprising that gold was secretly mined from the mining areas occupied by the enemy. The people of Shandong are strange in that they can risk their lives to send the gold they have mined thousands of miles to northern Shaanxi for the war of resistance, which not only has to go through the test of life and death, but also to resist the innate greedy nature of people. (To be continued.) )