Shi Kefa couldn't help but hesitate.

When Zhao Kang, the general manager of Yang Chao's personal soldiers, came to the military department to find him with Yang Chao's flying pigeon handbook, he was naturally shocked when he saw it for the first time, but when he came back to his senses, he couldn't help but wonder that Yang Chao's series of actions seemed to be towards the north.

It seems that he had long guessed that Li Zicheng would attack Beijing, a general with a heavy army in his hands, trying every means to enter the capital, as a civil official, if he does not have a sense of crisis, it would be too dereliction of duty.

So Shi Kefa didn't believe this biography at the first time, this is too coincidental, Yang Chao escorted Wang Chengen back to Beijing normally, just treat it as a military attache and eunuch, but why do you want to bring pigeons? Why did he stay in Huai'an and why he insisted on sending his men to Beijing, a series of doubts made Shi Kefa have some worries about Yang Chao.

To say that Yang Chao has ill intentions, Shi Kefa doesn't want to believe it, but he can see this kind of single-minded move to Beijing.

On behalf of Yang Chao, Zhao Kang asked Shi Kefa to immediately issue a document to dispatch Yang Chao's army to the north of King Qin, and by the way, he wanted to take the 20,000 people to the north.

20,000 people, plus 5,000 elite soldiers, Yang Chao has more than 20,000 people, although the people have never been counted as soldiers, but Shi Kefa received information that when he was in Zhejiang, these people were all armed with weapons, obviously they could also fight.

Bringing 25,000 people into Beijing, no matter how unwilling Shi Kefa was to believe that Yang Chao had bad intentions, he had to guard against it.

So for the first time, he was superior and did not publish the article.

Because everything is just one side of Yang Chao's words, Shi Kefa neither received an edict from Beijing, nor did he receive any news from other directions, the recent news shows that Li Zicheng is still fighting with Zhou Yuji in Shanxi, and the victory is not decided, who dares to say that Li Zicheng rushed out of Shanxi and fought under Beijing.

He couldn't listen to Yang Chao's words and give orders.

As a result, Wang Pu could not receive the order to send troops for a long time. Knowing that the news came one after another, especially the secret decree issued in the name of Chongzhen, Shi Kefa had to worry.

Perhaps the emperor was really in danger.

Even if it's a rumor. It's hard to believe it three times, let alone be true. Something that is completely logically conjectured.

At this time, Shi Kefa was in a hurry, if the emperor was really in danger, and he sat in Jiangnan but did nothing, wouldn't it be a sinner through the ages, as a loyal minister, this was unacceptable to Shi Kefa.

At this time, he relented and issued a document to send troops, but he refused to send his people to the north. Wang Pu could only go north with 5,000 elite soldiers, and there was no civilian man to transport supplies, which obviously slowed down his marching speed, he was not like Yang Chao, he could get the full self-control of the Wang family, he couldn't move the Wang family by himself, and with Wang Pu's character, he didn't ask anyone.

Along the way, he constantly harsh his soldiers and ordered them to march quickly, but various problems along the way made it difficult for him to deal with them. All kinds of supplies could not be obtained from the local city at all, and they did not dare to loot, so they had to stop for a day when they were in Yangzhou. Waiting for Yangzhou to supply and supply.

According to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty, the guest army must receive supplies on the second day, and there is no consideration for the rapid march.

As a result, when Yang Chao had returned south from Tongzhou, Wang Pu had not yet arrived in Huai'an, but his soldiers were tired.

Seeing the complaints one by one, Wang Pugan couldn't help but be angry, especially Li Wuliu's yin and yang weird words, which made him even more depressed, but there was nothing he could do.

Wang Pu is a brave general. But I didn't expect that this march would be more difficult than fighting.

After leaving Huai'an, there were a series of routs on the road. It made Wang Pu extremely annoyed, and there was still no good way to solve them. These routs are not good at fighting, but they run very fast, not to mention cavalry, that is, infantry, Wang Pu found that the soldiers in heavy armor could not catch up.

It was a torment along the way, and the speed of the march was not the same as when Yang Chao was there, and it was just to provoke others to ridicule him, Wang Pu made up his mind, next time this kind of task, he will never do it, whoever likes to do it, he Wang Pu is a desperate charge, and he can't get a fine job.

It's easy to finally get to Linqing, and after Linqing, it's almost to the ground in Gyeonggi, and Wang Pu finally breathes a sigh of relief.

At this time, it was already May, and more than a month had passed since Wang Pu set off from Nanjing at the end of March.

What made Wang Pu even more relieved was that as soon as he arrived in Linqing, he received news from Yang Chao, and quickly reported that Yang Chao had arrived in Texas and was resting in Texas, so that Wang Pu could send an advance force to respond.

Wang Pu didn't say a word, and he didn't want to send it first, he personally took a thousand headquarters to Texas.

finally met Yang Chao's face, and after some conversation, Yang Chao suddenly became strange.

"Why are you so embarrassed along the way. Shouldn't Huang Fengfu help you with logistics? ”

To be honest, Yang Chao does not have much special place compared to Wang Pu, the reason why Yang Chao leads the troops smoothly is that on the one hand, there are sufficient manpower, on the one hand, there are all parties to give face, and on the other hand, there is a capable logistics department at any time.

Yang Chao remembered that Huangfeng Mansion originally followed him, and after he left Huai'an, he left Huangfeng Mansion where to sit in town, the purpose was to receive Wang Pu's backup, but after Wang Pu went all the way north, Huangfeng Mansion did not follow, which made Yang Chao very strange.

"The one surnamed Huang has become bad during this time, and he drinks and has fun with a group of people in Huai'an all day long."

Wang Pu complained about Huang Fengfu.

Yang Chao is extremely curious, Yang Chao, the person of Huangfeng Mansion, has not been able to see through, from a humble background, but he is not greedy, he is diligent and conscientious, never afraid of difficulties, nor complaining, conscientious, exemplary, and his image in the army is also very good, and the soldiers think that he is a very decent scholar.

Why did it change when I arrived in Huai'an? Becoming a pleasure-goer?

Yang Chao couldn't help but ask, "Did Huangfeng Mansion tell you anything?" ”

Wang Pu thought for a while and said, "No." Before I left, he said he would follow immediately. Later, there was no shadow, probably because he was greedy for Huai'an pleasure and refused to endure hardship. ”

Yang Chao is even more strange.

Suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly asked: "Who does Huang Fengfu associate with in Huai'an?" ”

Wang Pu said: "What else can there be, isn't it those sour and rotten literati." By the way, there is also a eunuch. ”

"A eunuch?"

Yang Chao was even more puzzled.

"Where's the eunuch?"

Wang Pu thought about it and shook his head, this guy couldn't provide enough evidence at all, and Yang Chao thought to himself that maybe the problem came from which eunuch.

This eunuch's name is Lu Jiude, and he is definitely a powerful person.

All the eunuchs who were not defeated after the fall of Wei Zhongxian had two brushes.

This Lu Jiude is one of the best, not only was he not implicated, but he also rose all the way, the reason is that he does have real skills, and what he does all the year round is practical, as a eunuch, there is only one position to do practical things, and that is to supervise the army.

Lu Jiude supervised the army all the year round, he did not provoke other armies, civil and military generals and eunuchs did not get along, but was very able to unite the generals, and made many meritorious contributions in the process of supervising the army, and was promoted all the way to the position of Fengyang supervising the army, and partnered with Ma Shiying.

As a result, after the news that the capital had fallen, the emperor was dead, and the prince did not know what was happening in the north, Lu Jiude immediately rushed to Huai'an, why did he go to Huai'an, because Huai'an had several vassal kings, and it was the closest to Nanjing.

In particular, one of the vassal kings, named Zhu Youxiang, the feudal lord Fu Wang, is the grandson of Emperor Wanli, the cousin of Emperor Chongzhen, and the blood relationship is the closest.

Coincidentally, when he was on an errand in the palace in the past, Lu Jiude served Zhu Youxiang's Laozi Lao Fu Wang Zhu Changxun, and Fu Wangfu has always had a close relationship, when the Wanli Emperor wanted to establish King Fu as the prince, but the civil officials of the Donglin Party did not agree, and insisted on letting the eldest son Zhu Changluo succeed to the throne.

Therefore, the bad news in the north suddenly made Lu Jiude think of the issue of King Fu's succession, which not only completed his friendship with the old King Fu, but also won the most favorable position for himself in the future.

So he immediately went to Huai'an, found King Fu, told the reason, and began to help King Fu operate.

At this time, Nanjing also knew the news from the north, Shi Kefa felt guilty, and secretly scolded himself for not suspecting Yang Chao, ruining the country's major affairs, and was disheartened for a while, and almost had the idea of resigning, but at this time, the emperor was gone, and he was looking for someone to resign from the military department, and the Donglin Party found him, instigating him to immediately support the new monarch and ascend the throne in Jiangnan.

But who to erect?

The answer given by the Donglin Party is that Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, according to the distance between relatives, Zhu Youxiang, the king of Fu, is well-deserved, and the other has a competitor, and the vassal king who is also the grandson of the Wanli Emperor is Zhu Youlang, the king of Gui, but unfortunately the king of Gui is far away in Guangxi.

Therefore, Fuwang Zhu Youxiang is the best candidate, but the Donglin Party does not dare to appoint him.

The reason is very simple, during the Wanli period, it was the desperate struggle of the Donglin Party that made King Fu not become the prince, and now the feng shui is turning, and King Fu deserves the right to inherit, but they dare not let King Fu be the emperor.

So I chose Zhu Changshu, the king of Lilu, and Zhu Changshu happened to be in Huai'an at this time, he fled to Huai'an with Zhu Youxiang, to be precise, Zhu Youxiang fled with him.

Li Zicheng fought back and forth in Henan, the cities of the vassal kings of King Fu were breached, the old King Fu was cooked and eaten by Li Zicheng, Zhu Youxiang fled to Zhu Changshu, but then Zhu Changshu was in Wei Hui, but Wei Hui was also attacked by the peasant army, and they fled to Jiangnan, along the way, there were also King Zhou and King Chong, who were also fleeing vassal kings, and later King Zhou died on the boat during the journey.

Zhu Youxiang and Zhu Changshu fled to Huai'an and finally settled down.

But soon he was restless again, Beijing fell, Chongzhen was martyred, the prince did not know what to do, and the civil officials in Jiangnan discussed supporting the new monarch, but the civil officials were afraid that the support of King Fu would be retaliated, and King Fu was also afraid that the new emperor would be unfavorable to him, because if Zhu Changshu ascended the throne, it was obviously not as legal as him, so would the new monarch cut the grass and eradicate it.

At this time, Lu Jiude came to the door and helped Zhu Youxiang give advice, and Zhu Youxiang immediately obeyed his words. (To be continued...... ）。