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"The last general, Li Rusong, the general of the Shenji Battalion, meet Zhang Gelao!"

In the Forbidden City of the capital, in the court room of the East Warm Pavilion where Shoufu was located, Li Rusong knelt on his knees and saluted respectfully to a middle-aged man sitting on the warm kang.

"Hehe, General Li is polite. Hurry up, please" said this, but the middle-aged man was still motionless and sitting cross-legged on the warm kang, Zhang Siwei on the side glanced at Li Rusong, who stood up this time, bowed his head and bent over and stood there respectfully, waiting for Zhang Juzheng's lecture!

"Damn, what luck is Lao Tzu? Before I paid tribute to Zhang Xiangye, Zhang Xiangye summoned me? Or is it in the chaofang? It wouldn't be that he was going to take the master down on the spot and pull it out to chop it, right? Lowering his head, he felt that Zhang Juzheng was looking at him, and Li Rusong felt like a mouse being looked at by a cat.

Zhang Juzheng (1525-1582), a native of Han nationality, was born in Fengyang, Anhui Province, and Jiangling, Hubei. The word uncle is big, the young name is Zhang Baigui, also known as Zhang Jiangling, the name is Taiyue, and the nickname is "Wenzhong".

In the complex political struggles of Jiajing, Longqing, and Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Juzheng can be said to have defeated first and then won, and finally completely defeated Gao Gong, won the absolute trust of Empress Dowager Li and the young Wanli, and became a well-deserved first minister in the Ming Dynasty. Such a person is also a ruthless person who does not rub sand in his eyes, and he will be ruthlessly and completely killed to his political enemies and guys who do not like his eyes.

However, Li Rusong relaxed after a while, raised his head, and looked at Zhang Juzheng with bright eyes without any timidity.

If ordinary people face a strong figure like Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, they will definitely not be able to stand the pressure just by staring at him, and they will be as scared as a mouse. But Li Rusong has been in Liaodong since he was a child, either killing Tartars or socializing with horse bandits, and he has seen a lot of corpses and mountains and sea of blood. Those tragic scenes are 10,000 times more powerful than Zhang Juzheng's gaze, Li Rusong quickly adjusted after the initial nervousness and discomfort, and stood there without being humble or arrogant.

"Hehe, Ziwei, no wonder you praise this kid. Sure enough, a talent, he is the pillar of the country" stared for a moment, seeing that the other party was not trembling like an ordinary official, Zhang Juzheng's eyes flashed with a touch of approval, and Zhang Siwei said with a smile.

Hearing this, Zhang Siwei's eyes flashed with a touch of pride, and he smiled silently. Li Rusong was an important ally of his Zhang family, and although he had acted recklessly before, causing dissatisfaction in the imperial court and Zhang Juzheng, it was obvious that with Li Rusong's excellent performance, these dissatisfaction began to gradually disappear.

"General Li, I heard that you killed a lot of Tartars in Liaodong. Among them, there are many Jurchen leaders who have submitted to my Ming Dynasty, and whether Jue Chang'an, the commander of the Jianzhou Jurchen Left Guard, died in your hands? Immediately, Zhang Juzheng suddenly changed his words and asked.

"Qi Xiangye, Jue Chang'an was humbly ordered to go to the Atai camp to persuade Atai to surrender, and then suddenly there was a rebellion and he was killed by the rebels. When he heard about this incident, he was very sad, and he had already sent someone to investigate the matter, and he would definitely give an explanation to the Jianzhou Jurchen Zuowei" Li Rusong bowed down and said respectfully, his tone was calm without the slightest emotion.

"Then according to Jinyiwei's report, you wantonly raised troops in Liaodong, privately divided the fields, won the hearts of the people, and intended to rebel, can there be such a thing?" Zhang Juzheng said after closing his eyes for a long time as if the old monk had settled down.

"Liu Zizhong, the grandson of the turtle, accepted so many bribes from Lao Tzu, and sold me when he turned around! I will definitely want you to look good in the future" Hearing this, Li Rusong knew that the critical moment had arrived, and secretly scolded Liu Zizhong for being insidious, but at the same time he was relieved.

If the imperial court really suspected that Li Rusong was plotting rebellion, or had the intention of separating Liaodong, Zhang Juzheng only needed an order, and countless wolf-like Jinyi guards would have already tied Li Rusong into the prison. There is no need for Zhang Juzheng to go to great lengths to do this, it is obvious that he is just suspicious, but he is not sure and at the same time he is very sure of the previous merits of the Li family's father and son, so he will ask about it in the courtroom.

"Enlightened Xiangye!" Thinking about these clearly, Li Rusong didn't say a word, knelt directly on the ground, and said with tears of satisfaction and tears:

"My Li family has been loyal and good for generations, and I only want to serve the country. However, Liaodong was exhausted, and the military land was occupied in large quantities, and the soldiers sacrificed their lives and sacrificed their lives to fight with the Tartars for the country, but they couldn't even eat a full meal. How can you serve your country wholeheartedly? Rumatsu and my father, in order to protect their family and defend the country, reclaimed wasteland in the dangerous mountains for the use of sergeants. Just so that the soldiers can have no worries and serve the motherland wholeheartedly. Those who framed Rusong's father and son are all selfish fools who want to occupy the military camp and use the country's blood and sweat to fatten themselves! Their families have thousands of riches and thousands of acres of fertile land, and they secretly burn and loot with Tartars, but they refuse to give a penny or a grain to reward the soldiers. Even when he saw the Tartars coming, he retreated to the fortified city and couldn't defend it, and as soon as the Tartars left, they wantonly slaughtered the people and killed the good and risked the merits! Speaking of this, Li Rusong burst into tears, and the whole person had a little more tragic momentum.

"There is such a thing!" Suddenly, there was an angry voice from behind the screen in the room, sounding like a child.

"Obediently, Wanli's grandson is also there! Okay, let's see how my brother deals with you" Li Rusong's ears twitched, and he suddenly understood, I am afraid that the emperor behind the screen is the emperor Mingshenzong Wanli.

"Rusong father and son are dedicated to the country, please take a look" said Li Rusong stood up directly, took off the court clothes on his body, and revealed his body full of scars.

"Since Rusong followed his father and became an officer in Liaodong, there have been countless battles of all sizes, and none of them escaped from the battle. If Xiang Ye believes the one-sided words of those moths, he is willing to die to prove his innocence! Please give me poisonous wine! Glancing at the stunned Zhang Juzheng and the others, as well as the little emperor Wanli who secretly poked his head out of the backstage of the screen, Li Rusong said with a sad face.

"Ahem" At this time, there was a coughing sound behind the screen, and Zhang Juzheng also came to his senses and got up and walked behind the screen. After about a stick of incense, Zhang Juzheng walked out, glanced at Li Rusong with a complicated expression, his eyes were full of love and relief, and then sighed and said:

"Don't get so excited, little one. If the old man and His Majesty didn't believe you, they would have arrested you a long time ago, so why bother so much? You go down, and you personally take General Li to handle all matters in the three provinces. Tell the people of the Shenji Battalion that General Li is the old man and the general of the Shenji Battalion appointed by His Majesty, and if anyone is still talking nonsense behind his back, he will be punished without mercy! Speaking of which, it is obvious that both Wanli and Zhang Juzheng have completely believed that the Li family father and son are loyal ministers and good generals of the country.

Zeng Province Wu, the word three provinces, the number of the hermitage, in his later years, he called himself Ke Nunnery. In the Ming Dynasty, Huguang inherited Tianfu Zhongxiang County.

The ancestral lineage is from Pengze, Jiangxi, great-grandfather Zeng Xun, grandfather Zeng Hui. Father Zeng Fan, Jiajing forty-one years of Renshu science and technology jinshi. Zeng Shengwu was born in the eleventh year of Jiajing (1532), and was a member of the Bingchen branch in the thirty-fifth year of Jiajing. At the end of Longqing, he was the governor of Sichuan with the imperial history of the right capital, and the "Ming History Manuscript" called it "a good general, good governance of the border", "diligent in doing things, and many Jianbai". In the first year of Wanli, Sichuan Xuzhou Tusi was in charge of the barbarian rebellion, and Liu Xian led 140,000 officers and soldiers to the expedition, "more than 60 Kezhai, 4,600 prisoners, more than 400 miles of land, and 93 Zhuge bronze drums." In June of the third year of Wanli, he was promoted to the left waiter of the military department.

After Zhang Juzheng's death, Zeng Shengwu was implicated, and the Zhejiang Provincial Supervision Imperial History Kingdom impeached Zeng Shengwu for "colluding with Feng Bao and relying on each other as a traitor", "sending Feng Bao a few taels of gold and silver, and plotting to be promoted". Gao Gong's "Last Words on the Sickbed" said: "In the sixth year of Longqing, Zeng Shengwu instructed his protégé and Hu Ke to impeach Gao Gong in Cao Daye, and promised to be a high-ranking official. ”。 In December of the tenth year of Wanli, he was ordered to give office. In April of the twelfth year of Wanli, Qiu Huan and Jinyi Wei both commanded Cao Yinglong and the eunuch Zhang Cheng to go to Zhang's house to raid the house, and Zhang Juzheng's eldest son Zhang Jingxiu was beaten into a trick and confessed that he had transferred and hidden property to Zeng Xingwu, Wang Zhan, and Fu Zuozhou, which was worth about 300,000 taels of silver. Zhang Jingxiu hanged himself after the last death, and wrote a desperate letter before he died. Qiu Hu sent people to confiscate the property of Zeng Xingwu and others, and brought Zeng Shengwu and Wang Seal to justice, "Zeng Jiao scarf Qingyi, Wang Zhi was imprisoned and begged, and Zhongguan was scepter." In March of the twelfth year of Wanli, Tang Yaoqin wrote to the engineering department to ask for a heavy punishment of Zeng Xingwu. In October of the twelfth year of Wanli, he had no family property, and he was originally from the people, and he would never be used. He is the author of "The Story of the Stone Bridge of Qiangongba". "History of the Ming Dynasty" has no biography.

At this time, although Zeng Xingwu had not yet been appointed as a squire in the military department, his outstanding military talent had been valued by Zhang Juzheng and promoted vigorously. Zhang Juzheng sent him to take Li Rusong to the military department to handle all matters, and at the same time followed Li Rusong to the Shenji Battalion, undoubtedly to show everyone his attitude and the royal attitude: whoever suspects Li Rusong is a female cadre!

"The last general Xie Xiangye and His Majesty's trust, the last general in Liaodong has long heard that His Majesty is Yao Shun alive, Xiangye is the resurrection of Jiang Taigong, and today I saw that it really deserves its name" wiped a handful of tears, Li Rusong saluted in the direction of the screen with reverence on his face, and said respectfully.

"Ha Luha, General Li doesn't need to be polite" At this time, the little emperor Wanli walked out from behind the screen and said with a smile.

"See Your Majesty, long live my emperor, long live, long live" Li Rusong didn't have time to put on his clothes, fell to his knees and shouted loudly.

"Grandson Turtle, Lao Tzu has never knelt down to anyone in Liaodong except for my father, and he actually knelt so much today? The coming day is long, Lao Tzu must make up for it! While secretly scolding Wanli and Zhang Juzheng in his heart, Li Rusong was also relaxed in his heart.

Wanli is still young, and in Li Rusong's opinion, he still relies on and trusts Zhang Juzheng, and after greeting for a while, he left. And Li Rusong followed Zeng Shengwu and went to the military department to go through the formalities and prepare to settle in the Shenji Battalion.

"The difficulties in Liaodong are over, it's time to pull the relationship and prepare to kill those grandsons who gave Lao Tzu eye medicine"