Chen Yongfu led Wang Dou all the way to the governor's yamen of Kaifeng City, which was located on the west street of the Bell Tower in the southwest of the Zhou Palace. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info the Political Secretary Office, according to the Prosecutor's Office, all command the embassy, Xuan Wuwei command the division, are all located in this area.

Chen Yongfu politely asked his son Chen De to entertain Wang Dou's general, Xie Yike and others, and then he led Wang Dou into the governor's yamen hall. It seems that Chen Yongfu has something urgent to say to Li Xianfeng, the governor of Henan, and he entered the back hall for a while, leaving Wang Dou to drink tea in the hall and wait.

After a long time, a large number of people came out of the wind, in addition to Chen Yongfu, there were Henan Governor Li Xianfeng, Henan Governor Gao Mingheng, Deputy Military Envoy Wang Yinchang, Kaifeng Prefect, Xiangfu County Governor and others.

There are also more than ten local officials, large and small, such a large formation, it is obvious that Li Xianfeng and others attach great importance to Wang Dou's arrival.

“…… The thieves trapped Lushan, Jiaxian, and Yiyang, and there was a faint tendency to peep into Luoyang. The land of the pro-feudal domain, there is no room for mistakes, this Fu is careful day and night, the treasury of money and grain, and the election committee seeks brave officials to manage the leader, so as to protect Luoyang from the unexpected. However, there are few soldiers in Henan, chaos and thieves, and every worry about this is painful. ”

After a few cold greetings, Henan Governor Li Xianfeng shook his head and said a lot of truths, but Wang Dou just listened quietly.

Seeing Wang Dou's impassive appearance, Li Xianfeng had no choice but to cough and go directly to the topic: "The affairs of the world, don't be anxious about the difficulties of the monarch's father, I heard that General Wang fought the giant deer, fought the valley, the slave chieftain fled from the wind, and the generals of the department were the most powerful, and they were not caught by hand?" ”

"The rogue is rampant, the military situation is boiling, this is a great opportunity for the safety of the world, this Fu proposed to ask General Wang to stay in Henan and work together in the national crisis. With the power of the general, a few rebellious people can be captured, and the great difficulty can be appeased. If the general agrees, he will be rewarded with a heavy salary and will never break his promise. ”

Wang Douluo bowed slightly: "Rebel against the great evil of the world, seek the righteousness of the thief world, Li Chuang is a thief, goes against the way of heaven, and commits the anger of the people." Although the last general is not a general in Henan, it is difficult to sit back and watch this crisis. However, the responsibility of the local government is not the original responsibility of the last general. This general is carrying the military department, and he must go to the land of Shuxiang, otherwise the military law is ruthless. Fei Mo will not want to stay in Bianliang, but he can't. ”

Li Xianfeng and Gao Mingheng looked at each other in surprise, among the martial artists, there are really too few people like Wang Dou to talk like this.

Gao Mingheng has always paid attention to Wang Dou, seeing him sitting quietly, his eyes are deep, his expression is neither humble nor arrogant, and he has a higher evaluation of Wang Dou in his heart.

There are many rumors about Wang Dou, especially the war since the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Wang Dou went thousands of miles to help, and was willing to follow Lu Xiangsheng to death, which made Gao Mingheng very emotional, and even envious of Lu Xiangsheng. With such a loyal and brave general under his command, he can also smile at Jiuquan, right?

After that war, Wang Dou became famous, and even Emperor Chongzhen issued an edict to spread Wang Dou's training methods to the world, but it was actually very unsatisfactory in various places. The three salaries were levied, money and grain were levied, and the people were chasing fire everywhere, and the people were becoming more and more miserable.

So far, Jizhen has only trained 3,500 new troops, Baoding Town is even less, only 300, and the rest are nine sides, and it is really difficult to say how many new troops there are. The Ministry of War ordered each prefecture of the Ming Dynasty to train at least 1,000 new troops, 700 in one state, and 500 in one county, and most of the soldiers and horses were only left on the military rolls.

The same is true of Kaifeng Mansion, the three salaries were levied, and even the new army of 1,000 was not trained, if such officers and soldiers can stop the vigorous development of the rogues?

However, the thieves in Henan Mansion in western Henan, Ruzhou and other places are becoming more and more prosperous, and the officers and soldiers there cannot stop Li Zicheng and others from attacking the city and plundering the land.

It was easy for Wang Dou to come, I heard that he had an outstanding record, and the Qing soldiers fled in front of him, just in the backyard, Chen Yongfu was also full of praise for Wang Dou's army, such a strong army, presumably to attack the Liukou, the odds of victory are very great.

Looking around, there is no force to adjust, such as the last straw, Wang Dou's army, Li Xianfeng and Gao Mingheng have to stay in the local area.

Gao Mingheng said: "This is a matter of survival, and I ask the general to stay for the time being." On the side of the imperial court, on the side of the Yang Pavilion, the official and the governor will be named, and the general will not be embarrassed. Kaifeng, where Luoyang's relatives are located, the military situation is like fire, and it is expected that Yang Gebu and the emperor will not lose this opportunity and hope to relieve the country's difficulties. ”

Wang Dou pondered for a long time and said: "Even if the local troops in Henan are insufficient, the last general will stay in Kaifeng, and the urgent need of the monarch and father will be combined to destroy the thief, but it is ......"

Wang Dou looked at everyone with blazing eyes: "The last general is willing to be at the disposal of your lords, there is a way that the soldiers and horses have not moved, the grain and grass go first, and the soldiers must not fight hungry." I don't know ...... the money and food, and the various expenses."

Governor Li Xianfeng was a little displeased, he had already said that he would definitely pay him heavily afterwards, and this Wang Dou also bargained with him. However, now the status of the warriors is not trivial, and if the civil officials want to sit in a secure position, they must rely on the warriors to fight, especially when there is a time to ask for the general of Xuanfu Town.

Gao Mingheng was silent and asked Wang Dou how much food he wanted.

When Wang Dou said the number, everyone was taken aback and looked at each other: "Pay three months' salary first, count the silver, 100,000 taels of silver including Anjiayin, and 20,000 stone of grain and rice." ”

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Coming out of the governor's yamen, Wang Dou turned back to the camp, from everyone's eyes, Wang Dou saw the words "lion big mouth", but Wang Dou didn't care, if he wanted to stay in the local area, he had to pay a certain price, and his army couldn't fight hungry.

Before returning to the camp, Chen Yongfu also invited Wang Dou to a wine shop in the Drum Tower for a banquet, where Wang Dou met with the general soldier Wang Shaoyu, the guerrilla Liu Jianyi, and Luo Tai. However, these three people don't have a very good impression of Wang Dou, typical wine bags and rice bags, eating empty salaries, and drinking soldiers' blood may have a hand, and letting them fight is to embarrass them.

Chen Yongfu secretly said to Wang Dou, hoping that Wang Dou would stay, and he would strongly persuade Governor Li and others to agree to Wang Dou's request. He also expressed his hope to help Luoyang with Wang Dou and seek wealth together.

It can be seen that Chen Yongfu is a person with certain ambitions, and in history, when Li Zicheng opened the seal, he was also loyal to his duties, and when Wang Dou went out of the city, Chen Yongfu has been sending him off. Especially his son Chen De, who has already had a hot fight with Xie Yike.

In November of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the sand river on the edge of Zhuxian Town.

The weather was already quite cold, and the soldiers of the Shunxiang Army in the camp all put on their own red cotton wool coats, gloves, and warm wool caps under their iron helmets. When Wang Dou entered the camp, he heard a report from the guards, saying that Chen Yongfu, the deputy general of the Kaifeng city guard, was visiting.

Wang Dou nodded, he had just returned from Zhuxian Town, and he had worshiped Yue Fei Temple in the town, and he followed Xie Yike and other guards, and he also brought the wooden New Year paintings bought in the town, as well as local five-spice tofu and other specialties, which was also quite fruitful.

Since the Tang and Song dynasties, this Zhuxian town is the main road of water and land transportation and the commercial port of Kaifeng City, and it is the only land and water transshipment terminal in Kaifeng, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Foshan Town in Guangdong, Jingdezhen in Jiangxi, and Hankou Town in Hubei, and called the four famous towns in the country.

At this time, there are more than 40,000 merchants in the town, and the population is more than 200,000, which is the natural and man-made disaster in Henan at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the local trade is still very prosperous. Zhuxian Town left the city forty miles away, Wang Dou general Shunxiang army camped here, one is close to the Sha River, the military horses drink water conveniently, and the other is also the meaning of admiration for this historical town.

When he returned to his Chinese army's big tent, Wang Dou saw Chen Yongfu sitting in the tent drinking tea, and his son Chen De was fidgeting back and forth. Seeing Wang Dou coming back, Chen Yongfu stood up with a smile, Wang Dou hurriedly took a few steps, and said, "It's really a sin to let Chen Junmen stay for a long time. ”

He raised the dried spiced tofu in his hand and said with a smile: "It's better to come early than to come by chance, the last general bought some local products, just in time to enjoy it with Chen Junmen." ”

Chen Yongfu laughed: "The blessing of General Wang, the general will have a blessing." ”

After the two sides pushed and sat down, Chen Yongfu said with a straight face: "General Wang, the general came this time to discuss with the general about rescuing Ruzhou on the order of Governor Li. ”

Wang Dou nodded, calculate, it's time.

On that day, after he met Li Xianfeng, the governor of Henan, and others, he asked for 100,000 taels of silver and 20,000 stones of grain and rice. However, Li Xianfeng and the others really had no choice, and Wang Douyan was clearly in charge of the military department, and he would have to go to Sichuan on the deadline, so he could only stay in Kaifeng for three days, leaving little time for Li Xianfeng to hesitate.

The next day, Governor Li Xianfeng led all the officials of Kaifeng to go to Wang Dou's military camp to have a look, and after seeing Wang Dou's 7,000 elites, he made up his mind. After hearing this, he visited the king of Zhou, and then the officials of Kaifeng Mansion discussed it and agreed to Wang Dou's conditions.

In the end, Wang Dou had the mercenaries hired by the officials of Ruokaifeng to stay, and of course, Wang Dou also had a fierce bargain with Li Xianfeng and others.

Wang Dou's meaning, this silver is 100,000 taels, grain and rice are 20,000 stones, he wants to receive it first and then wait for it, how can Li Xianfeng agree? What should I do if Wang Dou collects the money and runs away? You know, if you want to raise these silver rice, it will cost him a lot of effort.

After bargaining, Wang Dou finally gave permission to give 30,000 taels of silver first, 10,000 stone of grain and rice, and the rest of the silver can be given a few months later, but if the military rations are exhausted in front of them, they need to be replenished quickly, which is the bottom line. Li Xianfeng thinks it is acceptable, although it is difficult to raise grain and grass, it is not out of his own pocket, and if he can relieve the siege of Luoyang, it is completely worth spending this money and grain.

After watching Wang Dou's army formation that day, Li Xianfeng was full of confidence in the Shunxiang army, which was a real tiger and wolf army, full of chances of winning against Liukou. Moreover, Wang Douru relieved the siege of Luoyang, and he, the governor, had the merit of saving the domain, and it was obvious that the prospects were good.

The two sides hit it off, and Li Xianfeng quickly sent an official letter to the Beijing division and Yang Sichang who was far away in Sichuan, saying that the Liukou would besiege Luoyang, and the local troops were insufficient, so he temporarily borrowed Wang Doujun as a guest soldier to save the people from fire and water.

Li Xianfeng played a trick, and the official document sent to Yang Sichang was a few beats slower than the official document sent to Beijing, and the official document arrived in Beijing, causing a lot of controversy in the cabinet.

Although in the heart of Emperor Chongzhen, the extermination of Zhang Xianzhong is much more important than the extermination of Li Zicheng, but it is related to his uncle, after careful consideration, Emperor Chongzhen still decided to agree to the request of Li Xianfeng, the governor of Henan, and temporarily leave Wang Doujun in Henan, exterminate Li Zicheng, and relieve the siege of Luoyang.

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Lao Bai Niu: The following is one battle after another, see how the Shunxiang army fights the Liukou. Compared with Dong Nu, what is the combat power and tactics of the thieves, Lao Niu tries to write as truthfully as possible.