When Chongzhen issued an edict in the capital and finally made up his mind to move Zuo Liangyu.

Shen Shuren just returned from the Luyang front line to the south, going to Suizhou and passing through Dengzhou. So Chongzhen's decision, he doesn't know at the moment.

Fortunately, Shen Shuren met Yang Sichang who was posing in the north on Dengzhou Road, and Yang Sichang certainly knew what he wrote in Chongzhen's invitation. So the two sat down and chatted, and Shen Shuren could also roughly know the follow-up development.

These two people, it was Yang Sichang who arrived first for a long time, and after the arrival of Shen Shuren's troops, he heard that Ge Lao was here, of course, he also had to rest and visit him. So the two met in the Yali of Dengzhou County.

When he saw Yang Sichang, Shen Shuren was very surprised and sincerely suggested:

"Elder Ge, why are you personally going north to supervise the teacher at this moment? If it is in the morning, Luoyang has not yet broken the city, you should be so worried. Now that Luoyang has been broken, the matter of fighting Li is self-made, and it needs to be considered in the long run, so why rush into it? ”

Yang Sichang is already full of gray hair and deep wrinkles, compared with when the two first met more than two years ago, he is a different person.

Yang Sichang watched Shen Shuren become more mature and stable, and his blood was strong, and he was also envious, and he felt that many things were wrong in his heart.

"In the past two years, the old man has boasted to His Majesty about Haikou, but in the end he has achieved nothing - if you have to say that you have achieved something, you have found that you are a great Ming loyal and good man with both ability and political integrity, both civil and military, and I am really ashamed."

Yang Sichang sighed with emotion, and couldn't help crying, "Thinking about that day, when you first came to Hefei to meet me, you were still in Shi Kefa's yamen, and you came to the door with Wu Meicun's letter of request.

To tell you the truth, at that time, I really thought that you were a sycophant who was good at drilling camps, but I was about to appease Zheng Zhilong and coordinate the overall situation to appease the generals, and I needed a clever person like you to call, which gave you a way.

Unexpectedly, I really looked away back then, and thanks to the old man, I looked away. Your talent in civil and military work is a hundred times better than your talent in mediation and matchmaking!

In just two years, he donated eight petty officials from prison students and Cao Yun to miscellaneous officials. Accumulate merit and promote the seventh grade, and the two lists of Jinshi in the imperial examination were transferred to Hanlin for revision. He also participated in the Cao Yun change of the law and made meritorious contributions, released a government to the same governor, destroyed Liu Xiyao to be promoted to the prefect, pushed Li Jin to promote the military preparation, and destroyed the imperial history of Erhe and Jiadu...... The future of this Ming Dynasty really depends on you. ”

Shen Shuren was beside him, listening to Yang Sichang's chatter, and seemed to become particularly nostalgic, but that tone made him have a bad premonition.

When many people get old, if they have Alzheimer's disease, or neurasthenia and hysteria, they like to miss the old very much, and they can't pull it out when they are stuck in the past, and it is easy to "people are dying and their words are good".

Yang Sichang's various verbal inventory performances made Shen Shuren more and more suspicious of whether he had germinated a will to die, would he really be as worried about hunger strike as in history?

He was thinking about persuasion, but Yang Sichang just took a sip of water, relieved his breath, and continued to chatter, not giving him a chance to speak at all, at first glance, it was a symptom of a paranoid old man with a nervous breakdown.

“…… Fortunately, this time, the old man finally did a good thing, striving to move Zuo Liangyu away from Wuchang and break his foundation, as for his wings, he can only be slowly consumed, I hope that his conscience is still clear, and he can change his past and fight with Li Zicheng.

As for why I want to go to Nanyang to supervise the teacher at this time, which you just asked, I also hope that Your Majesty can see my attitude and suspend the punishment.

If it really comes to the point where something can't be done, the old man will not be humiliated. In the future, it will be up to you, Fu Zonglong, Fang Kongzhi, and Shao Jiechun to continue to encircle and suppress the thieves. ”

In Yang Sichang's words, he could no longer hear the slightest arrogance of a person who had been in the top position for a long time, and he was obviously several levels behind Shen Shuren's official position, but he spoke as an equal, which was a typical sadness greater than heart death.

Shen Shuren seized the opportunity to speak, and he hurriedly persuaded: "Elder Ge, there are some things that I shouldn't say, but you rushed to the north to supervise the division in person this time, even just to show Your Majesty your determination to pursue Li Zicheng, it is really a bit risky, and it is easy to 'deal with real disasters for the sake of false fame'."

Although Zhang Xianzhong has not made waves these days, he is entrenched in the mountainous area of western Hubei and Sichuan, and the imperial court officials and troops have always been unable to do anything about him, and most of the areas of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River are still in Zhang Xianzhong's hands. As long as he wants to, he can still flow out at any cost.

Xia Guan heard that you had posted a notice in Xiangyang before: If you can capture Zhang Xianzhong, you will be rewarded with 10,000 taels of silver and made a prince. However, a few days later, he found a letter distributed by the thieves near the station, which read, 'Whoever has beheaded the cabinet will be rewarded with three coins of silver'.

You're dumbfounded and suspicious...... Don't blame me for bringing this up, I just want to say that it's not appropriate for you to rush north this time, and that's why. ”

Shen Shuren was talking, seeing that Yang Sichang's face was pale, he gritted his teeth, so he had to interrupt the main topic he wanted to elaborate on first, and then comfort Yang Sichang a few words.

It turned out that Yang Sichang issued a reward for Zhang Xianzhong's head, and was ridiculed by Zhang Xianzhong's meticulous work, these things all happened in history, and at the end of last year.

It is nothing more than that in this life, due to the butterfly effect of the Shen Shuren, the reward has been increased, and a piece of "Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates killed him to join the marquis, and the imperial court killed Zhang Xianzhong to seal the prince", which is also the meaning of Chongzhen.

But Zhang Xianzhong's leaflet satirizing Yang Sichang, the content has not changed, and it is exactly the same as in history. This incident is a great shame for Yang Sichang, and the people around him usually don't dare to mention it, and he deliberately avoids this painful memory, so he has almost forgotten it.

But Shen Shuren couldn't take care of Yang Sichang's emotions and miss a big thing. There were some things he had to say:

"Elder Ge! Zhang Xianzhong was able to do this last year, which shows that he has done a lot of die-hard work! It is by the side of Ge Lao, at least in the garrison in Xiangyang City, there are his eyes and ears!

Now you rushed to the north because Li Zicheng killed King Fu, and did not make all preparations in advance, just to show loyalty and posture to His Majesty. This is very likely to make Zhang Xianzhong notice the flaw immediately, and maybe he will take advantage of the emptiness left after you go north! ”

Shen Shuren thought about this in his heart, of course, because he was worried about the inertia of history - Zhang Xianzhong did this in history. In order to prevent this situation, Shen Shuren actually reminded Yang Sichang a few months ago.

It's just that there are only thieves in the world for a thousand days, and there are no thieves for a thousand days.

Zhang Xianzhong hid in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River and Jingshan Mountain, and the governor of Huguang, Fang Kongzhi, and the governor of Sichuan, Shao Jiechun, could only passively encircle and defend the danger, but they could not go deep into the mountains to pursue and eliminate. This gave Zhang Xianzhong the initiative to choose the battlefield and the timing of the battle. He can always wait for the opportunity to move, and wait until Yang Sichang reveals his flaws.

In April, when Yang Sichang was just reminded by Shen Shuren, he also guarded it for a while, but there was no change in three months, and sooner or later there would be a day of relaxation.

At this moment, when he was awakened by Shen Shuren again, he realized that he had indeed missed something, and he was carried away by Li Zicheng's killing of King Fu.

After Yang Sichang calmed down, he thought about it carefully and admitted sincerely: "There is indeed a hidden danger...... It's the old man who cut it. Now, now that I have gone north, it will take several days to march back to Xiangyang.

Since the virtuous nephew was going to go south to return to the division, Xiangyang would entrust the virtuous nephew to take care of it and assist in the defense in the future. You have been promoted from Hubei Military Preparation to Huguang Military Preparation Officer, and you have also added the Imperial History of the Imperial Capital.

I see that the last appointment of the imperial court has assigned the Huguang prefectures north of Hanshui, plus Xinyang, Henan and other places, to you for inspection, and I simply handed over to you the soldiers who stayed in Xiangyang.

"The Exotic Reclamation of Vegetable Skeletons"

If Your Majesty really issued an edict to let Zuo Liangyu move to the town, the defense of Wuchang and Hanyang will also depend on you - but you don't lose your sense of proportion when you are young, and the scope of your title of Imperial History of the Imperial Capital does not include Wuchang and Hanyang.

Therefore, for these two prefectures, you can only exercise the right to prepare for military affairs, preside over the inspection of local defense, but you cannot interfere in civil affairs! lest you be impeached! ”

Yang Sichang made it clear that after he went north, the authority of the Shen Shuren was distributed.

That is to say, if everything goes well, in the future, Shen Shuren can exercise the power of military and civil affairs in Xiangyang, Suizhou, and Huangzhou, the three prefectures of northern Han, Huguang, plus Xinyang, Henan.

In addition, it is also possible to exercise the power of assisting in the defense of the army in Hanyang Province and Wuchang Province south of the Han River, but there is no civil power power.

Added up, it is the military power of six provinces, and the civil and financial power of four provinces.

In the vicinity of the Dabie Mountains, the Shenshu people are the soil emperors, and in the vicinity of Wuhan in later generations, the Shenshu people still have to collect a little.

After fighting for Daming for more than two years, his prototype as a warlord finally appeared, and he was so justified that he couldn't change his name, and he didn't do anything disobedient from beginning to end.

However, these are not the most important things at the moment, and it is the most important thing to be able to handle the transfer of power smoothly.

If you don't get what you eat, don't get too happy.

Shen Shuren was always worried about Zhang Xianzhong's affairs, and he didn't have time to talk to Yang Sichang in detail and ask for instructions that day, but he just took Yang Ge's instructions and asked him to write down the orders in writing, and then Shen Shuren drove from Dengzhou overnight and continued to go south.

Originally, from Xiangyang to Dengzhou, the march also took three days, and Shen Shuren traveled in two days.

Finally, on the night of July 12, they rushed to Xiangyang City.

What he didn't expect was that on the same evening, more than an hour before the Shenshuren's troops arrived in Xiangyang, a thief army disguised as the people who had been expelled by the thieves came to Xiangyang City to deceive.

I really can't blame Shen Shuren for this, because he hasn't taken office yet, he hasn't taken over the defense of Xiangyang Mansion yet, and he can't be blamed for what happened on the way back to take office. When the lawsuit went to Chongzhen, he couldn't find fault with Shen Shuren.

However, although they didn't block the moment when the thieves deceived the city, the Shen Shu people were lucky enough to block the thieves in the city - if the Shen Shu people came two hours earlier, maybe this group of thieves sent by Zhang Xianzhong would not have taken this risk when they saw that Xiangyang was well defended.

Seeing that the second boot of history finally landed, Shen Shuren actually had a sense of relief.

He didn't have the heart to think about the fate of the vassal kings and magnates in the city, so he immediately commanded his soldiers and horses to divide his troops to surround Xiangyang, trying to ensure that every city gate was blocked, and he definitely couldn't let the thieves who infiltrated the city escape. In addition, we must also be on guard against the possible rear army of Zhang Xianzhong at any time.