In the process of Emperor Chongzhen's large-scale elimination of the remnants of the Wei Party, Emperor Chongzhen gently spared one person, and he was Mao Wenlong, who was stationed in Dongjiang Town. Emperor Chongzhen was not stupid, he knew that Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Town was a great threat to the Later Jin army.

The establishment of Dongjiang Town was almost all established under the management of Mao Wenlong, so in the hearts of tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Dongjiang Town, Mao Wenlong's prestige is very high. Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen not only did not remove Mao Wenlong from his official position, but even did not take back the Shangfang Sword given to Mao Wenlong by Emperor Tianqi.

You must know that in order to support Yuan Chonghuan's unification of affairs in Liaodong, Emperor Chongzhen gave Yuan Chonghuan the Shangfang sword, and the Shangfang sword in the hands of other generals was collected by Emperor Chongzhen.

But Emperor Chongzhen let go of Mao Wenlong, the remnant of the Wei Party, and the Donglin Party would not let him go. The rise and fall of a country is absolutely insignificant compared to the major events of partisan struggle. The great interests of the country should be subordinated to the small interests of our Donglin Party!

It can be seen from this that don't look at the fight between the Donglin Party and the Wei Party, in fact, they are all raccoon dogs, and they are completely as black as crows in the world. Relatively speaking, the behavior of the Wei Party, which stood on the emperor's side, was in the interests of the emperor.

At this time, Yuan Chonghuan, who had a background in the Donglin Party, went to Liaodong to become a supervisor. What's funnier is that Yuan Chonghuan has a relationship with the Wei Party and the Donglin Party, and whichever party gains power, Yuan Chonghuan will change into a person from this party, and he will not suffer at all.

After Yuan Chonghuan arrived in Liaodong, in addition to quelling the affairs of the mutiny, he began to take the step of completely controlling the power of Liaodong.

At this time, in Liaodong, in addition to Mao Wenlong in Dongjiang Town, there were several military attaches with the greatest influence and power: Zu Dashou, Zhao Shujiao, He Kegang and Man Gui. They are all people left behind by the old superintendent Sun Chengzong, because Sun Chengzong is a member of the Donglin Party, so these military attaches should be from the same faction as the current Yuan Chonghuan, and they should also have a common language with Yuan Chonghuan.

But among them, Man Gui is an exception, he is also a Mongolian, so Man Gui's temperament is relatively straight. As we have already said, the military attachés of Liaodong are a little unimpressed with Yuan Chonghuan's previous achievements.

And although the other military attaches thought so in their hearts, they didn't show it on the surface. And when Man Gui faced Yuan Chonghuan, he was basically driving pigs in the small alley - straight to the point. In this way, the relationship between Yuan Chonghuan and Man Gui can be imagined.

However, Man Gui is not completely lacking in heart. When he knew that Yuan Chonghuan had come to Liaodong to be a supervisor again, Man Gui immediately took the initiative to write to the imperial court and asked for a transfer. And the court officials who were familiar with the discordant relationship between Yuan Chonghuan and Man Gui also met Man Gui's requirements. Man Gui was transferred to the general army of Datong.

In this way, Yuan Chonghuan achieved An's goal without blood, and in the process of seizing power, he began to fight outside.

Yuan Chonghuan first started the Dongjiang Army of Kamao Wenlong in terms of military salaries and offerings. Of course, Mao Wenlong would not buy it, he argued with Yuan Chonghuan on the basis of reason, and on the other hand, threatened Yuan Chonghuan: If Yuan Chonghuan does not send enough military pay and supplies to Dongjiang Town, Mao Wenlong will take the army to the Denglai area of Shandong to directly strengthen it.

Originally, Yuan Chonghuan was here to clean up Mao Wenlong, how could he be intimidated by Mao Wenlong's two threatening words? As a result, Yuan Chonghuan continued not to provide Mao Wenlong's military salaries and offerings to the Dongjiang Army.

That Mao Wenlong's banditry came up, and he really led the army to cross the sea to the Denglai area to rob it. This action suddenly made Yuan Chonghuan, who has always been self-centered, unable to suppress his anger.

And Mao Wenlong's robbery in Denglai this time also made the people of Denglai deeply hate the Dongjiang Army. In the future, this attitude of the common people of Denglai will cause a major event that will affect the political situation of the Ming Dynasty. I won't mention it here for the time being.

At this time, Yuan Chonghuan felt that if he wanted to fully grasp power in Liaodong, he must pull out the thorn in Mao Wenlong's eye from under his nose.

Therefore, Yuan Chonghuan arrived at Phi Dao by boat on May 29, the second year of Chongzhen, to meet Mao Wenlong. On the fourth day of the sixth month, Yuan Chonghuan first paid 100,000 taels of silver to the military attaches and soldiers of the Dongjiang Army. Then, Yuan Chonghuan ordered Mao Wenlong to prepare to recover Zhenjiang Lushun.

But for this unreasonable order, how could Mao Wenlong agree? Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Army was a guerrilla force behind enemy lines, not a regular army. It is possible to harass and contain the Houjin army, and to directly confront the Houjin army is to completely seek death.

So, Yuan Chonghuan advised Mao Wenlong not to occupy the pit and not, and to resign as soon as possible and return to his hometown to retire. This is also an opportunity for Yuan Chonghuan to give Mao Wenlong zuihou.

However, Mao Wenlong directly rejected Yuan Chonghuan's advice. In Mao Wenlong's thoughts, he had such a powerful force as the Dongjiang Army, and Yuan Chonghuan couldn't help himself. However, Mao Wenlong never thought that Yuan Chonghuan was such a bold person.

On the fifth day of the sixth month of the next day, Yuan Chonghuan summoned Mao Wenlong and the main military attache of the Dongjiang Army to his big tent. He took out Shang Fang's sword, announced Mao Wenlong's crime, and immediately beheaded Mao Wenlong to show the public.

That Mao Wenlong had no psychological preparation at all, so he was killed by Yuan Chonghuan in such a daze. And those military attaches of the Dongjiang Army saw the Shangfang sword that Yuan Chonghuan took out, and thought that Emperor Chongzhen had asked Yuan Chonghuan to kill Mao Wenlong, so they watched their commander being killed by Yuan Chonghuan.

Next, Yuan Chonghuan also made some military salaries, designated the Dongjiang Army as the successor commander, and even staged the scene of Zhuge Liang crying Zhou Yuling, in order to appease the Dongjiang Army. On the surface, the Dongjiang Army also temporarily stabilized.

However, in the hearts of the military attachés of the Dongjiang Army, they had a deep fear and vigilance against Yuan Chonghuan's killing of Mao Wenlong. The meritorious Mao Wenlong can be easily killed by Yuan Chonghuan, so these little military attachés will definitely have a hard time in the future.

In the days to come, a large number of military attaches and soldiers in the Dongjiang Army defected and defected to Huang Taiji's Houjin. However, although their behavior is also excusable, as long as they are traitors, they are the most despicable. No matter how many terrific reasons these traitors have.

Mao Wenlong had all the vices of the military attache at that time in the Ming Dynasty, and even intensified them. If you put it in the moral law**, if you really kill him ten times, it is not considered to have wronged him.

However, Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Army pinned down a quarter of the Houjin, that is, the strength of the two banners. Coupled with the geographical environment of Dongjiang Town, it was the main route for the Han people who were captured by the Later Jin in Liaodong to escape.

We already know that the mature women who are in power in Houjin are really mainly cultivating grain. In the past, they basically used the captured Han people as slaves to cultivate food for them.

After a large number of Han people fled, some mature women who were really strong had to cultivate grain themselves, which also weakened the strength of the Houjin army in disguise. Therefore, Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Army actually contained more Houjin troops. With this alone, Mao Wenlong can cover up all the ugliness.

Besides, Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Army was developed by him with 200 soldiers to tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians, and Mao Wenlong is indeed a very capable general. And he was also loyal to the Ming court, and he also actively fought against the Later Jin army.

Such a general, Yuan Chonghuan said that he would kill him, wouldn't that completely self-destruct the Great Wall? In addition, Yuan Chonghuan's killing of Mao Wenlong is also an extremely serious illegal act.

Yuan Chonghuan had the Shang Fang Sword in his hand, and Mao Wenlong also had the Shang Fang Sword given by the Emperor of the Apocalypse, so Yuan Chonghuan had no power to kill Mao Wenlong at all. The reason why Zuihou was successfully killed was only that Yuan Chonghuan lied that it was an order from Emperor Chongzhen. Isn't this a solid false proclamation?

And when Yuan Chonghuan's killing of Mao Wenlong spread to the capital, Emperor Chongzhen was shocked. In the heart of Emperor Chongzhen, he was very clear about Mao Wenlong's role in Liaodong. Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen didn't want to get rid of Mao Wenlong at all, and he didn't even take back the Shang Fang Sword in Mao Wenlong's hand.

However, Emperor Chongzhen thought of Yuan Chonghuan's oath of five years of Pingliao, and under the persuasion of those Donglin Party ministers around him, with the principle of not using suspicious people and employing people, Emperor Chongzhen still chose to support Yuan Chonghuan.

Emperor Chongzhen affirmed Yuan Chonghuan's act of killing Mao Wenlong in the reply to Yuan Chonghuan's recital on the reasons for killing Mao Wenlong, and first plugged the loophole of Yuan Chonghuan's false transmission of the holy decree from the legal point of view. and ordered the division to arrest the remnants of Mao Wenlong. In order to maintain Yuan Chonghuan's authority.

Even when Yuan Chonghuan asked the imperial court to increase military salaries to stabilize the morale of the Dongjiang army, Emperor Chongzhen pinched his nose and admitted it. also met Yuan Chonghuan's requirements. However, Yuan Chonghuan's behavior has deeply planted a thorn in Emperor Chongzhen's heart.

And when Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong and reached the ears of Huang Taiji in Shengjing, Huang Taiji looked up to the sky and smiled. Huang Taiji didn't expect that the two thorns on the back gold waist would be solved so easily. Among them, Mao Wenlong's thorn was actually pulled out by the Ming Dynasty officials themselves.

The current Houjin army, because there is no threat from the east and west, is completely free. And in Huang Taiji's heart, he can finally carry out the grand strategy of fighting against the Ming Dynasty.