"My lord, what's going on?"

After Yang Huaizu returned to the Zhiwei barracks, there were angry Zhiwei officers and soldiers everywhere, and Yang Huaizu also felt speechless for a while.

"Xu thief ......" Yang Huaizu rushed back to Beijing from a hurry to change horses, and saw He Baodao, Li Yunrui and Jin Qiude, especially the last one, Yang Huaizu really didn't know how to comfort this sad father: "Xu thief and Wei thief, they are crazy......"

Yang Huaizu didn't know how to express his anger, he even thought this matter was funny, and at this moment he was already laughing in his heart: "If you don't come here, Hou Ye will have to leave and will go to the south." ”

The Zhendong Hou Mansion now prohibits idle people from entering, Yang Huaizu originally wanted to visit Huangshi but was persuaded by He Baodao, and Jin Qiude also asked him to fight hard and avenge the dead.

"Gentlemen," Yang Huaizu first announced that tomorrow the Zhiwei would leave the Beijing Division as planned, advance to Shanxi as the vanguard of the new army, and then arched his hand to the officers of the Zhiwei: "This time, we must behead the head of the thief, in order to repay the Hou Ye, and comfort the spirit of General Jin in the sky." ”

……

Shanxi, since the Shun army entered Shanxi, the Ming army heard the wind and surrendered, only the general soldier Gao Jie did not dare to surrender, he was in charge of Li Zicheng's inner camp of the king of the confidant, because of Li Zicheng's wife Xing fornication, the camp was betrayed to the officers and soldiers, and won the reward of the imperial court. Liu Zongmin and others, who went on an eastward crusade with Xu Ping, kept shouting that if Gao Jie was caught, he would use his heart and liver to pay tribute to the brothers who broke into the camp and died because of his betrayal. Gao Jie was naturally well aware of the hatred of the Shun army's high-level for him, but he did not have the courage to resist the Shun army's edge in Shanxi, so he continued to flee east and went straight to Shandong.

Except for the Ming army on this road, the other Ming troops heard that Wang Li Zicheng even pardoned Liu Yongfu and Mizhi County Order, neither fought nor fled, and sent envoys to ask for surrender without waiting for Xu Ping to arrive. Before sending troops, Li Zicheng and Niu Jinxing instructed Xu Pingfan to be the Ming officials and generals who came to surrender, and they should be dealt with in accordance with the principle of "using their old positions", Xu Ping is also doing this now, he once smiled at Yu Shenhe: "Even if the king doesn't say so, I have to do it too, where do we still have soldiers and generals to replace these generals." ”

Then Xu Ping learned about the changes in Jingshi:

"My lord, the new army has sworn to leave Beijing and is heading towards Shanxi."

After hearing the news, Xu Ping's first thought was that Huang Shi tore up the agreement with Li Zicheng, but after seeing the specific report, Xu Ping became very puzzled: "Shanlan camp rebellion? How could the Shanlan camp rebel, and I don't know anything about it. ”

Yu Shenhe had already vaguely heard something from Xu Ping about the agreement between Huang Shi and Li Zicheng: "My lord, the last general thinks that this may be an excuse for Huang Hou, he feels that we can't do it after the Kaifeng flood, and he doesn't plan to fulfill the contract." ”

"Take the life of the golden god for this?"

Xu Ping was speechless when he asked Yu Shenhe in one sentence, and he hurriedly read the newspaper carefully: "The last general is reckless, I didn't see this paragraph just now, this thing is really strange." ”

Soon there was an update of the military information, and a name mentioned in the Di newspaper caught Xu Ping's attention, and he called Liu Yixuan, the officer of the Third Teaching Team and the armored battalion, and pointed to a person in the Di newspaper and asked, "Brother Liu, is the Jin brother you mentioned, is this this person?" ”

Liu Yixuan was also surprised when he saw Jin Mancang's name, and it was mentioned that he rescued Jin Shentong's body, covered the breakthrough of Zhendonghou, and was a witness to Wei Landu's rebellion: "Could it be that Brother Jin contributed to this?" ”

"It seems that this is the case, alas, Brother Jin is both wise and brave, but it's a pity that I don't know the inside story." Xu Ping felt that things had become very tricky, and Shunjun and Zhendong Hou had resolved such a grudge, and it was obviously impossible to resolve it without going to the battlefield: "Wait until you see Brother Jin, and then ask him what is going on." Since this kind of thing happened, Xu Ping understood that the other side must think that the other side had torn up the original agreement, and since this is the case, there is only one way to fight to the end.

"What are you going to do now?"

"We are going to march straight to Taiyuan, and then Xinzhou," Xu Ping had already considered this situation in advance - this was also the worst scenario he could imagine, the new army with all the main force to reinforce Shanxi will surely boost the morale of the Jin army: "After capturing Taiyuan, our army will be able to obtain a solid position in Shanxi, and I will lead troops to surround Taiyuan to hinder the new army, so that half of our Shanxi and Shaanxi will not be lost." There is also Xinzhou, if Xinzhou can be obtained before the new army, then the new army will be blocked in the north of Shanxi and cannot peep into Taiyuan. ”

"Jiang Pai has arrived in Taiyuan with 40,000 Datong soldiers to help Shanxi Governor Cai Maode defend the city together," At present, Xu Ping has only 20,000 troops around him, and Li Dingguo's 15,000 people and Li Guo's 15,000 people are divided into two other roads, shocking the Shanxi Ming army: "Do you plan to attack Taiyuan?" ”

"I have to attack, if we let the new army enter Taiyuan and merge with Jiang Pin, our army will face more than 100,000 Ming army field troops, while the new army has not yet arrived, we must first try to lure Jiang Pai out to fight with us, my plan is to bypass Taiyuan and go straight to Xinzhou, Jiang Pai will definitely not let us cut off his contact with the new army, as long as he comes out of Taiyuan City, our army will have a chance to defeat him in the field."

"What if Jiang Jian insists on resisting in the city?" Yu Shenhe immediately pointed out the shortcomings of this plan: "We need to leave a considerable amount of troops in Xinzhou to resist the new army, even if Jiang Pai is unable to go out of the city to fight, it will be difficult for our remaining troops to quickly take Taiyuan, which is bound to require a long siege, once we fall into a long siege, our food may not be able to keep up." ”

"But it's better than letting the new army enter Taiyuan, if the Jin army realizes that our forces are actually very weak, they may turn back in a swarm, the strength of our army is not that it can't fight with the new army, but it is difficult for us to fight with the combined forces of the new army and the Jin army." Xu Ping believes that even if the worst-case scenario mentioned by Yu Shenhe occurs, most of the rest of the Jin army will take a wait-and-see attitude before the battle in Taiyuan is clear, and the strength of the new army will not be fully exerted if it is blocked from Xinzhou: "Since the new army went to Shanxi to participate in the war, with the strength of our army, there can only be one thing at any time: fight with them in order to get the Jin army out of the battlefield; Or to engage a new army without the assistance of the Jin army, and not to do both at the same time. ”

Xu Ping rushed to Taiyuan day and night with the three battalions of guards, armor, and marksmen, and the cavalry battalion of Liu Zongmin, and informed Li Dingguo, Li Guo, and others to speed up the march and come to join him as quickly as possible.

……

Although he learned that the new army was coming to Shanxi for reinforcements, Jiang Pai still did not have much courage to hold on, and it was rumored that the Marquis of Zhendong would personally lead the troops to leave Beijing to fight, but now since the Marquis of Zhendong is still lying in Beijing and does not know whether he is alive or dead, Jiang Pai has lost the determination to continue to resist in Taiyuan - there is not much.

"There will be a battalion of the new army rebelling and betraying Huang Hou," this news made Jiang Pai feel very frightened: "It seems that there are many people under Huang Hou who lack confidence in winning, otherwise why would they betray Huang Hou?" ”

"However, most of the generals of the new army still support Huang Hou and the imperial court." Jiang Ping's staff said: "Although Huang Hou can't come this time, He Shuai is the number one fierce general under Huang Hou, and he may not have no chance of winning." ”

"If even Huang Hou's subordinates are all reversed, then what else do I have to wait? General Xu came with hundreds of thousands of troops this time, and King Shun who followed him at the back door was even more general, is our 40,000 people enough to fill in the gaps? Jiang Jian didn't think that He Baodao could be compared with Zhendong Hou: "Of course, it may not be impossible to win, but let's not act recklessly, let's go back to Datong first, if He Shuai can indeed gain the upper hand, it's not too late for us to help again." ”

Jiang Pai said that he would leave, ignoring the bitter pleas of the governor Cai Maode, and led the army to leave Taiyuan on the same day. He didn't even stay in Xinzhou, and rushed back to Datong, an important town in northern Shanxi Province, which was relatively safe for the time being.

Losing Jiang Pai's army, there were less than 20,000 Jin troops left in Taiyuan City, and the governor Cai Maode still wanted to die and struggle, and on the third day after Jiang Pai left, the armored battalion had arrived twenty miles outside Taiyuan City. Cai Maode summoned the generals of the Jin army in the city and called on everyone to defend the city to the death and wait for the new army to come to the rescue.

After the meeting, nearly half of the Jin generals who learned that the Shun army had come to the city immediately fled out of the city to surrender to Xu Ping, and after nightfall, a few of the remaining half fled, and Cai Maode received a report that the remaining generals were also privately discussing whether to continue to resist.

In the early morning of the next day, Cai Maode, who knew that the generals were no longer reliable, personally went to the city to encourage the soldiers defending the city, and called on everyone to hold on to the city and wait for help.

But before the governor could finish speaking, the defenders of the castle tower made an uproar:

"No matter how abundant the grain and grass are, sooner or later they will run out......"

"Liberated Kaifeng four times, and was defeated by the Shun army every time, why did Lord Cai say that Taiyuan could break the siege?"

"General Xu never slaughtered a city."

Some soldiers shouted: "When the grain and grass are finished, if General Xu doesn't give us food, Lord Cai should let us eat people, right?" If General Xu returns the grain, the imperial court should send a horse supervisor and a dog supervisor to irrigate the city, right? ”

Previously, in order to encourage local officials and scholars to do their best to serve him and suppress the army, Chongzhen had released Hou Xun back to his hometown, and Cai Maode found that he was already alone. The mutinous soldiers did not come up to take this bare-bones commander, and looked at the governor with a sneer, as if they were looking at a dead man.

Cai Maode stumbled back to the governor's yamen, and after a while he heard thunderous cheers from outside the city, and an old servant ran in in a panic: "Master, the thief has entered the city!" The thief chief is Li Laiheng. ”

"Got it," Cai Maode raised a wine glass on the table, drank all the medicinal wine in it, and let out a final scolding: "Wei Landu, you traitor, you are really innocent!" ”

……

Kim Qiude's memoirs, compiled and published by his descendants, caused an instant sensation, and many historians regarded many historians as rare first-hand materials for writing about many little-known secrets of the army. As for the changes in Beijing that led to the hatred of his son, Jin Qiude was even more colorful, scolding Xu Ping and Wei Landu, two thieves with wolf hearts and dogs, as early as when he was in Shandong, he was complicit, and Wei Landu in Kaifeng was even more greedy for life and afraid of death, and fornicated with Xu Ping to betray the lord and be ungrateful. It also categorically refuted those rumors about the changes in Beijing that damaged the reputation of the former kings, and denounced them as shameless rumors created by people who were greedy for life and afraid of death in order to survive.

Another two years, Jingshi

"Master, Dr. Li is here."

A handsome young man who was dressed gorgeously and was sitting at the stone table reading a book hurriedly got up when he heard this, tidied up the clothes on his body, and walked quickly to the door of the flower hall to greet the distinguished guests.

"Dr. Li is here."

The host greeted guests of his age.

"Brother Wei, it's been a long time."

After the guest and the host sat down in the elegant and exquisite flower hall, the host asked straight to the point: "Doctor Li, tomorrow's matter, will you help me or carry me?" ”

As he spoke, the master's arm shook slightly, and the tension in his heart was accidentally revealed.

"Brother Wei," the guest stared into the host's eyes, "give up, this proposal is impossible to pass." ”

"Why?" The master shouted: "Am I going to let the people of the world slander my father like this?" The master shouted angrily: "My father was loyal to the king and died unjustly, but just because it involves the dignity of the ruling king, almost all the insiders are silent, if I don't clear my father's name, I am really a son of man in vain!" ”

"No one said that Brother Wei can't and shouldn't seek to repay his innocence for the ancestors, and Brother Wei knows that I am also full of doubts about the changes in Beijing, but this proposal ......" The guest shook his head and said: "If Brother Wei feels that someone deliberately slandered the ancestors, he should go to the court to seek justice, instead of coming to the State Secretary's Court." ”

"Doctor Li, when did you become a lobbyist in the Qi Palace?" Over the years, he has run into walls everywhere in the court, which has made the master angry: "I have searched for the best lawyer in the world, but no one says that I can win this lawsuit." ”

"This lawsuit is indeed unwinnable, there are a lot of things in Jin Qiude's book, but in these places he also uses 'I think', 'I think', anyone can know at a glance that it is his personal thoughts, and the law of the country does not sin people because of words, let alone what a person thinks."

"But when you read this book, you think it's true!"

"Brother Wei, do you really think that the Secretary of State can legislate and not allow people to think about anything?"

"I didn't ask for this, I just asked for an official history, and the witness must answer truthfully, otherwise it will be perjury."

"It can't be." The guest was still shaking his head.

"Why can't it be? Every dynasty has to revise the history of the previous dynasty, why don't we repair it? The master was even more indignant: "Now that there is no emperor, do we still have to be ashamed of His Holiness?" ”

"What Brother Wei said is that we don't have an emperor anymore, that's why we don't revise history." The guest took out a booklet and handed it to the host, on which were written four big characters "Taizu Record": "Has Brother Wei read this?" It was written by some of the idle prose writers of the Beijing Division, they called the first king Taizu, and even gave the first king a temple number with more than 20 words, although none of the people involved in writing the book were the old department of the first king, and the Shi's praise in it was even more flattering, but the book sold well, and many people were willing to buy it, so it was reprinted in one edition. Brother Wei, we don't have an emperor anymore, whether someone is willing to sing praises like this book, or is willing to scold the former kings and thieves like the previous "History of Zhuang's Ming Dynasty", as long as they pay for themselves, the country will not care. And what you have to do, Brother Wei, is to let the state pay for the revision of history, and use the people's taxes to achieve your wishes, which is absolutely not good. ”

"Revision of history is a great thing, I have contacted many university gentlemen, and they are all willing to participate in it, and Yuanfu also said that as long as the Secretary of State does not obstruct it, he also thinks that history should be revised." The master said excitedly: "Doctor Li, isn't General Xu a friend of Xianweng?" Don't you get a fair evaluation like General Xu? ”

"General Xu is indeed a good friend of my late father, if General Xu won the battle back then, now I ...... Hehe," the guest chuckled lightly, and added, "But now that I am the doctor of the Secretaries of State, I vow to work for the benefit of the people during my term of office, and to be enemies of those who harm the people, even when facing the ruling king." Yes, the country has had a lot of money over the years, but there is not a penny that is not the hard-earned money of the people, and even Yuanfu has no right to spend any penny on someone's wishes. Brother Wei, you are already a rich party, why don't you use your own money to do this? I believe that the money that Yuanfu can use to repair history will not be something you can't pay. ”

"But a lot of people don't tell the truth!" The master cried out, "I need to be told the truth, even if it is not what I believe, as long as it is the truth, I will admit it, and what I hate most is a lie." ”

"That's the difference between me and Brother Wei, and I hate liars, and I don't believe what is being said about the changes in Beijing. But I think that 'not to sin for words' is not only that the guarantor does not have to be forced to say things against his will, but also that a person does not have to be compelled to speak the truth, except in court. ”

The host pursed his lips and stared at the guests, and after a long time, he shook his head: "Doctor Li, I have been planning for this matter for more than a year, and I must win this time." ”

"I know that Brother Wei has many friends in the State Secretary Yuan, and he is also Yuanfu's guest, but Brother Wei should know that I have never lost a lawsuit when I was a lawyer, and after entering the State Secretary Yuan, all the proposals I am responsible for, whether they support or oppose it, have not failed......"

"I know Dr. Li is very eloquent."

"It's not a matter of eloquence, it's that I've always been on the side of reason," the guest didn't mind at all that his host interrupting him rudely, and continued: "The proposal of the House of Secretaries of State is to be voted on publicly, and tomorrow I will mention Brother Wei's power, Brother Wei's generosity, and Brother Wei's many friendships. And I will also explain the reason for my opposition, Brother Wei's friends, even if they want to help Brother Wei again, they must have a reason to support it, otherwise the people will see clearly in the newspaper: they are abusing power for personal gain. Brother Wei, do you want to harm your friends? Ruining their careers? ”

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