Chapter 18: Seven Years of Spring Waves

Zheng Shilian and his group entered the mansion, and after meeting Zhu Dadian, Zhu Dadian politely asked them to sit down.

"What is the important thing you are here this time?" Zhu Dadian asked.

"Tell the military gate, we are here to sue Wu Anbang, the chief soldier of Dengzhou." Zheng Shilian said, took out a piece of paper, and respectfully handed it over.

Zhu Dadian took the paper and looked at it, Zheng Shilian said: "On the ninth day of the first month of March, Wu Anbang plotted against the Zhao family in Huangxian County and privately led troops to attack. That Zhao family is a big local household in Huang County, Zhao Gui is the dynasty to raise people, six years died in the rebellion of Kong Youde, his son Zhao Yan was deeply saddened, saw Shandong is not quiet, then abandon the pen from Rong, diligent practice of the township, has exterminated the thirteen gangs of bandits around the official road, Laizhou to Dengzhou section is clear. ”

In addition, the Zhao family spread porridge sheds in Dengzhou and saved countless displaced people. He also lent cattle and seeds to the homeless people, so that they could settle down and produce, so that they would not be left to the place where thieves would be a disaster. ”

"Really?" Zhu Dadian was a little skeptical.

"The military can send someone to Dengzhou to investigate." Zheng Shilian clenched his fists and said, the words changed sharply, and continued: "The Zhao family has the heart to serve the country with fists, but Wu Anbang instead led troops to attack for other people's wealth, which is really chilling. The Zhao family couldn't sit still, so Zhao Yan led the township to fight with Wu Anbang on the bank of the river. ”

Zhu Dadian continued to look at the paper, and when he saw the three major crimes and seven evil deeds of Wu Anbang listed above, his eyelids couldn't help jumping, and there was a group of businessmen's joint signatures below.

"How did the wave battle go?" Zhu Dadian asked.

"Zhao Yan led the township to bravely behead 721 rebels, and captured 1,835 rebels." Zheng Shilian learned the results of the battle from Zhao Yan's letters to him.

"In this way, Zhao Yan can also be regarded as keeping to himself." Zhu Dadian's expression changed, and his attitude suddenly changed a lot. I wanted to directly transfer troops to suppress before, but when I heard this record, I couldn't help but immediately change my attitude.

That Zhao family is a hard bone! At this moment, the Liaodong cavalry has returned to Liao, how can he have the soldiers and horses he can handle, if the attack fails, then his guilt will be great.

Moreover, these Shandong big businessmen jointly guaranteed the Zhao family. With a pig's brain, I knew that the paper in hand would be handed to the emperor in a few days. Those Taoists in Shandong have a close relationship with these big businessmen in Shandong!

"Tonight, there will be a wine and banquet in the teaching workshop, will the military gate have time?" Zheng Shilian suddenly said something that didn't make sense.

"There's some free, hehe!" Zhu Dadian suddenly laughed heartily.

"That night, I will ask the military gate to appreciate the face." Zheng Shilian also smiled.

Zhu Dadian was naturally happy, and it was inevitable that he would have to make another sum of money in the evening.

Sure enough, when a banquet was held in the teaching workshop that night, Zheng Shilian presented Zhu Dadian with a thousand taels of gold, weighing dozens of catties, and Zhu Dadian happily asked the servant to carry the gold back.

That night, Zhu Dadian drafted a chapter, denouncing Wu Anbang as a troubled place, and decorating Zhao Yan's courage to suppress bandits in Dengzhou's self-training township for a while, and then sent it to the capital overnight.

Zhu Dadian, although he has national integrity, he cannot be honest. Therefore, Zhao Yanzhen asked Zheng Shilian to help him bribe Zhu Dadian.

The bribe was naturally made by Zhao Yan himself.

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However, Chongzhen received two recitals, one played by the political envoy of Shandong, and the other played by Zhu Dadian, the governor of Shandong.

The two compromises detailed Wu Anbang's crimes, and exaggerated the exploits of the Zhao family in Huangxian County.

Chongzhen couldn't help but be furious, and immediately ordered Zhu Dadian to arrest Wu Anbang for questioning. At the same time, Zhao Yan gave a good impression in Chongzhen's impression.

Because although Zhao Yan defeated Wu Anbang, he stayed obediently after all and did not cause trouble everywhere. This is different from thieves and anti-thieves, and he can take the initiative to train and suppress bandits, which can be regarded as a talent.

Chongzhen, who has been on the throne for seven years, feels a little powerless at this moment. Chongzhen had a bad impression of Wu Anbang before, and ordered him to attack Kong Youde, but he returned to Ninghaizhou.

Previously, because Wu Anbang had soldiers at hand, it was inevitable that he would be a little afraid when dealing with Wu Anbang. At this moment, Wu Anbang has only three or four hundred soldiers and horses in his hands, and it is not easy to deal with it.

As for how to co-opt Zhao Yan's Xiangyong, Chongzhen asked Zhu Dadian to deal with it, and then sent him the handling opinions for further approval.

At this moment, Chongzhen didn't know that this name, which had a good impression in his heart at this time, would become his gnashing of teeth in the future......

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Wu Anbang has been actively gathering the rout troops in Ninghaizhou these days, and forcibly pulled thousands of people into the army, and formed an army.

He has been hesitating these days, and at the same time, he has a strong hatred for the Zhao family, and at the same time, he is a little proud.

It is estimated that the Zhao family will be exterminated in a short time! It's just a pity that the secret recipe of the glass mirror.

However, the development of the incident was out of Wu Anbang's expectations, on this day he was fighting at home with his concubine in his arms, and suddenly a group of officers and soldiers rushed into the General Military Department and directly took him out of the bed.

After a while, Wu Anbang got a piece of news like a thunderbolt from the sky, and he was arrested and questioned by the emperor.

These officers and soldiers were sent by Zhu Dadian, and there is no need to use any tricks for a general soldier like Wu Anbang, who has no soldiers and horses, and he can directly send people to arrest him.

Wu Anbang was defeated by the loss of soldiers and horses, if he still kept most of the soldiers and horses, it must be Chongzhen who wanted to move him to think about it.

At this moment, he is just a bare-bones general soldier, purely a commodity pushed by everyone on the wall.

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In the spring of the seventh year, the most shocking news in Shandong was the news that the Wendeng camp led by Wu Anbang was disabled. Subsequently, Wu Anbang was arrested and questioned by Governor Zhu Dadian. And the one who crippled Wu Anbang turned out to be a local tyrant in Huang County.

In addition, there was an even bigger wave in the spring of the seventh year, that is, Chen Qiyu, the governor of the five provinces, was dismissed from his post and questioned, and in comparison, the waves in Shandong seemed so small.

In his capacity as the military governor of the five provinces, Chen Qiyu transferred officers and troops from all walks of life to gather in Shaanzhou (now Shaanxi County) in Henan, and then moved south to attack the peasant army in Junxian and Zhushan in Hubei.

Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other troops were approached by the official army and moved west from Henan to Shaanxi, and Chen Qiyu learned that the thieves were moving westward, and immediately followed.

When the peasant army walked to the Hanzhong plank road, they strayed into a dangerous place, where the mountains were high and the roads were steep, the residents were sparse, and there were not many places for the peasant army to loot.

The main roads were all guarded by the officers and soldiers, and it rained for fifty or sixty days, and the peasant army had fallen into a desperate situation. ”

In order to get out of this difficult situation, the leader of the thieves decided to resort to false surrender. They ordered the gold and silver seized from the army to be gathered, and sent people into the Qiyu camp to bribe left and right.

Chen Qiyu thought that the thieves really surrendered in a desperate situation, and they could be accomplished without much effort, so he decided to appease him. After he reported to the imperial court, he received the support of Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the military department, and was personally approved by Emperor Chongzhen, and then reached an agreement with the thieves to recruit peace: Chen Qiyu sent a pacification officer for every hundred people according to the number of peasant troops to monitor and be responsible for repatriation to their hometowns for resettlement; The prefectures and counties are supplied with grain and grass by the local political axe; At the same time, the official army was stopped from marching to avoid conflict.

More than 40,000 people were appeased, and the thieves skilfully survived the difficulty by this method, and on the same night, "they bound all the pacification officers, or killed them, or cut off their ears, or rebuke them with rods, or tied them up and threw them around." Raiding Baoji, Linyou and other places, it is impossible to control the vertical and horizontal. ”

Chen Qiyu woke up like a dream at this time, and he knew that he had fallen into a big disaster. He first blamed Li Jiayan of Baoji Zhixian County, saying that he obstructed the Fuju and killed the radical changes; Then he shifted the responsibility to the governor of Shaanxi to practice state affairs. Zhu Youzhen did not understand the actual situation, and because this appeasement was approved by himself, out of the psychology of protecting his shortcomings, he successively ordered the arrest of Li Jiayan, Lian Guoshi, and others, and ordered Li Qiao to take over as governor of Shaanxi. Soon, because Gu Guobao and Fu Yongchun, the Shaanxi Inspector, and others in the matter, they all accused Chen Qiyu of mistaking the matter, and Zhu Youzhen decided to dismiss Chen Qiyu and ask him about it.

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