Chapter 496: The tricky Wu Shigong

Originally, in the impeachment chapter like snowflakes, Ye Zhong's red would definitely be ignored. Even this recital could not attract the attention of the cabinet and the celebrant at all, because Ye Zhong's rank was too low. In the final analysis, Ye Zhong was just a little eunuch under Xiao Yuegui, the supervisor of Henan.

Fortunately, although Zhu Dadian, the governor of Caoyun, also impeached Wu Shigong, he still reported Wu Shigong's merits on the edge of the Huai River in his recital. Although this credit is a great way to cut corners after sharing profits, it at least confirms the accuracy of Ye Zhong's meritorious performance.

It was only at this time that Emperor Chongzhen and the ministers of the imperial court were surprised to find that there were so many big victories in the Central Plains bandits, and what was even more surprising was that these big victories were actually created by the notorious Bai Ding and his troops.

This situation aroused the curiosity of Emperor Chongzhen, and he immediately ordered to go down and read Wu Shigong's recital, so as to confirm the two sides and find out the truth of the matter. Emperor Chongzhen has been on the throne for seven or eight years, and he is already very familiar with the urine nature of those civil officials, so he already knows that he can't listen to and believe partially.

But the eunuch who received the order went down to look around, but found that there was no Wu Shigong at all. Wu Shigong is very "conscious", adhering to the principle of "not in his position, not in his politics!" "Excellent style. Since he has been dismissed from his official position, he simply did not waste his efforts in vain.

Besides, in the past, Wu Shigong's recital could not be handed over to Emperor Chongzhen's case. Wu Shigong's small garrison, although the General Administration Department also received his recitals, but basically after reading them to the scholars, they were forwarded to the Ministry of War for processing. This is also the reason why Weishenme Wu Shigong needs to write a private letter to Emperor Chongzhen if he wants to send a message to Emperor Chongzhen.

However, this rule is not the imperial court's sole target for Wu Shigong. Just imagine that every military attache above the garrison in the Ming Dynasty asked for military pay last time every month. Then Emperor Chongzhen has to be annoyed to death?

And it's not just Wu Shigong, even Li Lu and Zhao Ming's recitals can't be found. This time, they no longer dared to take Wu Shigong's downwind boat, and they were both shuddered at the bad consequences of being afraid of being famous and being afraid of being strong.

And after careful searching, Emperor Chongzhen found a strange phenomenon again. Local officials in Runing, Guide, and Nanyang Ye counties have hardly impeached Mr. Wu.

It was Wang Chengen's words that solved Emperor Chongzhen's question: "The son-in-law of the Xue Hou family still seems to have made a small contribution, but the relationship with his colleagues is too bad." Emperor! Good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles! ”

Of course, there is also an official who returned to Germany to impeach Wu Shigong, that is, Yu Zilian, the magistrate of Ningling County. Yu Zilian also knew that he had caused a big disaster by taking away the militia, and he was afraid that Wu Shigong would impeach him first. So it's better to strike first.

Moreover, the content of Yu Zilian's impeachment is quite appalling, he said in the recital: Wu Shigong wantonly amassed wealth in Runing and Guide, accumulated troops and soldiers, and invited people's hearts and minds, and his plot was wrong. The imperial court should be more wary of Wu Shigong.

Don't say it either. The one who knows himself best is definitely the enemy. This Yu Zilian's recital is also the closest to the truth. But how could such a lonely piece of music attract the attention of the imperial court? Again. The personal feud between Yu Zilian and Wu Shigong is not a secret. The imperial court also regarded this appalling-looking piece as an opportunity for Yu Zilian to take revenge.

So Emperor Chongzhen immediately summoned the first assistant Wen Tiren and the sick military secretary Zhang Fengyi to discuss the matter. Wen Tiren's answer is very simple: Now the suppression of bandits is the first priority, with Wu Runing's strong army, it is always an arm, and as for other crimes, you can be punished, cut officials or settle accounts after the autumn. It's better to stay still for the time being!

Here, the imperial court did not want to transfer Wu Shigong away at all, and another military attache was transferred to lead the Runing army. It was not that those court ministers were negligent, but that the system of the Ming Dynasty decided that it could only be like this.

If the civilian government leads the army. So it's nothing to transfer a civilian official. However, if the military attache leads the army, if a military attache is transferred, according to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, the transferred military attache will take all his family members away. That is, all the officers of this army will be taken away. And all of a sudden, without officers, any strong army will immediately become a weak brigade. Therefore, unless the military attache abolished all the backbone of his family, the imperial court would not arrest and execute the military attaché who had lost the battle, let alone transfer the military attaché casually.

This is also the reason why the military attaché of the Weishenme Ming Dynasty preserved his strength. This can also be seen from the fact that although Wu Shigong was swept to the end before, the imperial court still wanted him to stay in the Runing Army for meritorious service. If Wu Shigong is let go, Wu Shigong can justifiably take all the officers of the Runing Army away, because those officers are all family members who signed a contract with Wu Shigong! All of them are Wu Shigong's personal belongings.

And now Wu Shigong no longer has an official position, so punishments such as fines and official cuts are useless, and there is only the autumn queen to settle accounts. However, Emperor Chongzhen and these ministers are also a little tricky, Wu Shigong has no official position, it is difficult for him, unless Wu Shigong is guilty of those big crimes of killing heads, otherwise, because there is no way to punish, he can only watch Wu Shigong do whatever he wants.

But the next few heavyweight pieces made Emperor Chongzhen and the important ministers of the court even more determined, and they could no longer let Wu Shigong be free.

The first is the recital of Hong Chengchou, the governor of the five provinces. In this recital, Hong Chengchou was furious with Wu Shigong. After Hong Chengchou entered Henan, he saw and heard along the way, of course, he was very impressed by the strength of the Runing Army, so he wanted to take Wu Shigong and the Runing Army under his account.

Unexpectedly, Hong Chengchou immediately ate a closed door. Wu Shigong not only took the initiative to look for Hong Chengchou, but even Hong Chengchou summoned the generals to Xinyang to discuss matters, but Wu Shigong unceremoniously refused.

Not only that, Wu Shigong also sent Hong Chengchou an ultimatum-like letter: warning Hong Chengchou's army to strictly observe military discipline when it passes through Runing Mansion.

This made Hong Chengchou half angry. Who does that Wu Runing think he is? Did he think he was the Emperor of Runing Mansion? Do you think that the official title of the governor of the five provinces is not ......?

But Hong Chengchou discussed with his staff and found that he was indeed unable to order Wu Shigong, the governor of the five provinces. Now Wu Shigong is no longer in the officialdom, and the rank in the officialdom is useless to him, and Wu Shigong has no obligation to obey the orders of Hong Chengchou, the governor of the five provinces.

And the Runing Army, which can also be said to be the Minzhuang recruited by Wu Shigong in Runing Prefecture, is a non-governmental organization that defends his hometown. It's okay to let them defend Runing Mansion, but if they want to be transferred into the army of bandits, it depends on the mood of Wu Shigong, the leader of the Runing Army. (To be continued......)