"Lao Tzu is guilty?" Zhang Ke roared angrily, "What is the crime of Lao Tzu working hard to lead his subordinates to defend Laizhou? Lao Tzu took the initiative to lead his troops to chase the enemy, what is the crime of beheading thousands? Then everyone in Chen Zhen colluded with the anti-thief, and the anti-thief actually went all the way, what was the crime of Lao Tzu slaughtering Chen Zhen? ”

Li Chongzhen said coldly: "You are the chief soldier of Laizhou, and the imperial court spends money and food to support you and others to protect the territory and the people, but as the chief soldier, in the face of the rebellion and the homeless people, you will not come out of the city, let the thieves wreak havoc in the whole Laizhou, and let hundreds of people be carried by the thieves, is there still any credit?"

The thieves on the other side were obviously defeated by me, and most of them were innocent people, is it merit for you to lead the troops to chase down and slaughter thousands? Even if there are a few thieves among the people of Chen Zhen, how can they all be thieves, don't you ask what is the reason for slaughtering Chen Zhen indiscriminately?

It is precisely because of a tyrannical and abusive general like you that I have made the displaced people everywhere and made countless people rebel!

How dare you say that you are not guilty? ”

Zhang Ke stiffened his neck and said: "The officers and soldiers in this world are like this, and even if Lao Tzu is guilty, it will not be your turn to deal with it, you are just a general, Lao Tzu is a dignified general soldier, do you want to rebel if you commit the following crimes?" ”

Li Chongzhen smiled faintly: "It's not that I want to deal with you, I am also acting on the orders of Zhu Fuzun." ”

Zhang Keda looked at Zhu Wannian incredulously: "Zhu Fuzun, I obey your words in everything, help you kill the officials who want to rebel, and help you defend Laizhou, you actually treat me like this?" ”

Zhu Wannian was very embarrassed, of course the order to arrest Zhang Keda did not come from him, and he also commanded the Praetorian Guard, but he did not dare to deny it......

"General Zhang, you have merit in defending Laizhou, but you shouldn't have slaughtered the people," Zhu Wannian sighed, "You hand over the army first, stay in the city with peace of mind, I will tell you in the imperial court, and try to save your life......."

"Ah!!h Zhang Ke screamed in pathy.

"General Li, are you really doing this on the orders of the imperial court?" Zhu Wannian glanced at the back of Zhang Keda, who was escorted down, and turned to Li Chongzhen.

Li Chongzhen nodded: "I don't know if it's an order from the imperial court, but before coming, General Zhou did have an order, and my Praetorian Guard will not tolerate the local army that brutalizes the people." This general soldier will be handed over to Zhu Fuzun for the time being, and I will send someone to take over his army, and in the end, the top will deal with him like this, and it is not my concern. ”

"......" Zhu Wannian didn't know what to say.

Not long ago, Li Chongzhen told him that the sentry detectives had found out that Zhang Keda had killed Liang and slaughtered the people of a town, and said that he would arrest Zhang Keda when he entered the city.

Zhu Wannian objected at the time, saying that the time of the Great War was the time to employ people, and these matters should not be pursued at this time. Li Chongzhen moved out of the top, saying that he was acting on orders from above.

Li Chongzhen is the general of the Praetorian Guard, the Praetorian Guard was created by the emperor, and the emperor is in Jinan City, thinking of this, Zhu Wannian agreed to cooperate.

It's really because Zhu Wannian is uneasy about his situation. The emperor's actions in Jinan, Yanzhou and other places shocked all officials in Shandong, and Zhu Wannian was no exception. Which official is not greedy these days? Zhu Wannian usually accepts filial piety and bribes, if the emperor sends someone to Laizhou, Zhu Wannian is afraid that he will not be able to please himself.

However, the pride of being a non-commissioned officer and the painstaking reading of the sage books made him unable to make the decision to become a thief, not to mention that he had to take care of his relatives in his hometown. So even if the thief army came to the city, Zhu Wannian had to grit his teeth and defend the city.

Now that Laizhou City is preserved, as the prefect, he is meritorious, and he should not be questioned by the emperor, Zhu Wannian secretly rejoiced. Therefore, Zhu Wannian did not dare to refuse the request of Li Chongzhen, who received the order from "above".

Unexpectedly, what Li Chongzhen received was not the emperor's instructions, but only the military order of Zhou Yuji, the general soldier of southern Liaoning......

Li Chongzhen quickly sent troops out of the city and controlled Zhang Keda's army. Under the deterrence of the Praetorian Guards, coupled with Zhang Keda's deep siege in the city, these local troops did not dare to resist.

After that, Li Chongzhen left 1,000 Praetorian Guards to defend the city, and he took the remaining soldiers and horses out of the city and attacked other states and counties occupied by the Wenxiang Sect rebels.

With the Praetorian Guards guarding the city, Zhu Wannian ordered the disbandment of the temporarily recruited Qingzhuang Xiangyong, and then carried out the aftermath.

However, many officials in the prefecture and county were killed because they intended to collude with the thieves to sacrifice the city, and for a time there were no officials available under them, and it was very inconvenient to do things.

Although Zhu Wannian was born as a jinshi and became a high-ranking official like the prefect of Zhengsipin, he was actually not familiar with many specific affairs in the yamen.

According to the system of the Ming Dynasty, a chief official like him is usually only in charge of officials, and the specific affairs are handled by the officials in the yamen, which is the so-called clear and turbid.

Of course, Zhu Wannian also had a few staff masters around him, helping him watch these officials. Now, most of the officials in the government have been killed, what is the matter with just a few masters?

Just when Zhu Wannian was about to recruit some officials to help with things in the yamen, a group of people suddenly came from Qingzhou Mansion, claiming to have come to Laizhou as officials on the orders of the emperor.

Half of these people turned out to be clansmen, royal blood! There are also some people who wear shabby shirts, and they look like poor scholars, and only a few of them wear black official clothes.

"Fan Mingwen, the inspector in the Lower Lai Prefecture Mansion, was ordered to come to the Lai Prefecture Mansion to reorganize the county yamen." A young man in a black official robe said to Zhu Wannian.

"I have been looking up for a long time, dare to ask where your ancestral home is and when did you go to school?" According to officialdom practice, Zhu Wannian asked.

Looking at the age of the other party, it should not be a Jinshi background, at most a lifter, or a showman, as long as you ask which year to go to school, you can ask the student officer at that time, and you can always have some relationship with the other party. Mutual relationship and friendship are also the practice of Ming officialdom.

Fan Mingwen smiled abruptly: "I am not a talented person, and I have no fame, I graduated from the Royal Business School and was ordered by the emperor to serve as the inspector of Laizhou Mansion." ”

didn't even have a fame, Zhu Wannian was dumbfounded, but he didn't dare to show it on his face. He had heard of the Royal Business School, it seemed that it was the place where the emperor began to cultivate merchants, but he didn't expect the emperor to appoint merchants as officials! But what kind of official position is this inspector, does Daming have such an official position?

"The patrol envoy is subordinate to the Jinyi Guard in terms of establishment, and it is specially used to supervise the officials." Understanding the doubts in Zhu Wannian's heart, Fan Mingwen said empathetically.

Oh, Zhu Wannian suddenly understood, in order to solve the problem of employment in the clan, the emperor placed these clans to be officials in the government, in order not to let these clans be bullied, or to supervise these clans not to be corrupt and bad, he specially set up such an inspector!