Yangzhou.

Yangzhou is located in the Jianghuai important place, is the whole world famous rich place, the strategic location is even more dangerous, is the Qing army to attack Nanjing must pass through.

In the event of a loss, the Qing army could reach Nanjing.

So in history, it was Gao Jie's department, which had the strongest soldiers in the four towns of Jiangbei, who was stationed in Yangzhou, but the problem was that Gao Jie died four months ago.

In the history of the Suizhou Change, Gao Jie was ordered to organize the Northern Expedition and wanted to recover Shandong, but he was betrayed by the rebel general Xu Dingguo and booby-trapped at the banquet, and offered his head to the Qing captives to ask for merit.

After Gao Jie's death, his subordinates were leaderless, which was originally a good opportunity for the Hongguang court to appease his people and take back military power.

But our Cabinet Department missed this great opportunity.

Gao Jie's wife, Mrs. Xing, is witty and resourceful, and Gao Jie often says to people: "Xing has a strategy, and I can help myself, not because I am greedy." ”

It means that he praises his wife for having the style of a general, and her intelligence is still above her appearance.

Mrs. Xing also often privately persuaded Gao Jie to return to Nanming and fight against the Qing captives, although Gao Jie was unruly, he was obedient to Mrs. Xing, so he began to pay tribute to Shi Kefa.

Later, Gao Jie died in Suizhou, and his subordinates heard the wind and wanted to take revenge on Suizhou, Shi Kefa came to reconcile, but he couldn't stop it.

In order to prevent the people from suffering from unjustified disasters, Xing's son Gao Yuanjue asked Gao Yuanjue, the son of Gao Jie, to worship Shi Kefa as a teacher in public to deter the generals.

If Shi Kefa could immediately accept this young marshal apprentice who was sent to the door, Gao Jie's subordinates might have surrendered to Nanjing.

But at this time, Gao Yi's Shi Gebu was confused.

Although Shi Kefa has been appeasing Gao Jie, in fact, he essentially looks down on these martial artists who lead soldiers, and when he heard that Gao Yuanjue wanted to worship himself as a teacher, he shirked it in every way.

As soon as Gao Jie died, his subordinates were scattered, and it was difficult to be restrained by the Hongguang Imperial Court at that time, and Shi Kefa's actions made Gao Yuanjue and Mrs. Xing lose their prestige in public.

In the end, even Gao Yuanjue could not control his father's subordinate generals, and these people knew that the Shi Pavilion Department actually looked down on them, so they became angry and slaughtered in Suizhou and scattered.

In the end, most of them were surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, which made the strength of the green battalion of the Qing army in Jiangbei suddenly increase by as much as four to five times.

It is precisely because of this that the situation in Jianghuai has been difficult to open.

The government office.

A fast horse came from Nanjing.

"Fengtian carried the emperor, and the edict said: Shi Kefa, the secretary of the military department and the scholar of Wuyingdian University, has been supervising the teacher for more than a year and has made no achievements.

Today, the imperial court has decided to join forces to drive away the prisoners, and wants to recover Shandong, but it is even more obstructive in every way, and it is not tolerated in the national policy, but it is loyal and dedicated to state affairs. He was dismissed from the military department, and the scholar of Wuyingdian University, patrolling Jianghuai, and still supervising the town soldiers. Chin this. ”

Shi Kefa prostrate on the ground and did not get up for a long time.

He never thought that the new emperor would unify with the cabinet so quickly, according to this kind of holy decree, shouldn't the cabinet have issued it?

Even if the cabinet agrees, the six ministries have no opinion?

"Scott Department!"

"Cabinet, the imperial court is destroying the Great Wall, we want to advise Your Majesty to restore the official position of the cabinet!"

For a time, the crowd was furious.

Shi Kefa is still very popular in Yangzhou, in order to avoid turmoil in the people's hearts at this time, so Zhu Cihong also let him continue to stay in Yangzhou.

But in fact, Shi Kefa really wanted to go back to Nanjing.

The reason why he asked himself to supervise Jianghuai at the beginning was because he failed in the party struggle between the DPRK and China and was squeezed out.

If he was given a chance, he would definitely go back.

Shi Kefa got up silently and said slowly: "Minister Shi Kefa, obey the order!" ”

This is the official decree of the Ming Dynasty drafted by the cabinet vote, Shi Kefa stands with loyalty and righteousness, and if the decree has a name, it can be dismissed, and he has to obey the holy decree.

This is also Zhu Cihong's deliberate approach to the cabinet to unify his opinion in order to prevent Shi Kefa from being disagreed with the orders of foreign monarchs.

"Who's the new Overseer?" Shi Kefa took the holy decree in his hand and turned his head to ask.

Ti Cai didn't seem to want to provoke this famous Shi Gebu, and said with a smile: "If you go back to the Cabinet Department, you will summon Jianghuai, the governor of Sichuan. ”

Plug Yin Tin ......

"Who is the secretary of the military department?" Shi Kefa said: "I want to see who has such great ability. ”

Ti Qi heard that his tone was quite cynical, and muttered in his heart, could it be that he is known as the former supervisor of the Shi Pavilion Department, just this little bit of energy?

However, he still replied with a flattering smile: "The imperial court will promote the restoration of Zhu Dadian, the left attendant of the former military department, to be the secretary of the military department." ”

Zhu Dadian......

These two people, although Shi Kefa disdains them, he has nothing to say.

First of all, Zhu Dadian is his friend, although he is jealous, he still has to congratulate on his face, after all, the prime minister can hold the boat in his belly!

Secondly, these two people are both civil servants with military merits, one is a supervisor and the other is a secretary of the military department, and both have enough prestige.

Plugging Yinxi supervised the troops in Sichuan, and together with Wang Xiang of Sichuan Province and Zeng Ying, the general soldier of Sichuan, he continued to defeat Daxi this year and recovered many lost territories.

Not to mention Zhu Dadian, in the forty-fourth year of Wanli, Jinshi supervised the troops in Shandong to quell the Denglai Rebellion as early as the Chongzhen period.

Speaking of which, Kong Youde is still a defeated under his men.

Listening to the surrounding bureaucrats discussing the injustice of the imperial court's treatment of him, Shi Kefa sneered: "Don't call it like that by the Shi Pavilion Department anymore, now I'm just a governor." ”

"Let's call it Futai!"

"Ahh

That being said, that's people's modesty, and they have to be called how they should be called.

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Due to the rapid changes in the situation in various places after the Jiashen Incident, and the establishment of Hongguang for a year, there has been no achievement, so that now the general army is everywhere, and even the governor and the superintendent are no longer fresh.

In Shandong alone, there are two general soldiers of Dashun and Daming, as well as three governors.

Among them, the general army of Dashun is Zhao Yingyuan, and now there are two named Zhao Yingyuan, one of whom was surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in Beijing, and the second is the Shandong general soldier appointed by Li Zicheng.

The Ming Dynasty appointed Liu Zeqing, the chief soldier of Shandong during the Chongzhen period, but this goods is now one of the four towns in Jiangbei, and he was awarded the title of Dongping Bo because of his decision.

Although Liu Zeqing is still the commander-in-chief of Shandong, his subordinates are not in Shandong, this kid is afraid of death, and after hearing that the Qing army has entered the customs, he ran directly to Jianghuai.

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen in history, Liu Zeqing was promoted to the general army of Shandong, and when the Dashun army approached Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen issued a single holy decree to let him lead his troops to enter the Weijing division quickly.

But Liu Zeqing did not dare to be the enemy of the Dashun army, and lied that he was injured after falling from his horse, and refused to obey the edict.

Soon the Dashun army entered Shandong, he led the main force to flee south to Huai'an, and on the issue of the Nanjing ministers discussing the establishment of the monarch, he at first catered to the Donglin party members Qian Qianyi, Lü Daqi and other advocates to support Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu.

Later, Huang Degong, Gao Jie, Liu Liangzuo and Ma Shiying had already decided to support Zhu Yousong, the king of Fu, and Liu Zeqing immediately changed his body and joined the ranks of supporting Fu and became one of the four towns of Dingce.

Hearing the news of Shi Kefa's withdrawal, Liu Zeqing was a little worried.

Because Shi Kefa has supervised Jianghuai for many years, what kind of temperament is he, and most of the generals of the four towns have already figured it out and understand that it is impossible for Shi Kefa to control the situation.

When Gao Jie was there, due to the large number of generals under his subordinates, the four towns also obeyed Shi Kefa's orders.

As soon as Gao Jie died, Shi Kefa refused to apprentice to his son Gao Yuanjue, and even exposed his heart of looking down on martial artists in front of the soldiers of the four towns.

Since then, the soldiers of the four towns have been openly respectful to Shi Kefa, but they are not in tune, and they are as loyal as Huang Degong, and they have also torn up the orders of the superintendent many times.

In this regard, Shi Kefa was also helpless.

In history, after Duoduo dealt with Shandong, he went south to Yangzhou in May, and Shi Kefa repeatedly ordered the Jianghuai towns to gather in Hangzhou.

But the truth is, no one comes.

Shi Kefa's actions against Gao Yuanjue in Suizhou have lost the hearts of the people, even if Zhu Cihong does not remove him this time, this supervisor will already exist in name only.

So when Liu Zeqing, who was in Huai'an, heard that Shi Kefa had been removed, his first feeling was worry.

This newly appointed plug Yinxi is said to have some skills, and he can make the Sichuan Ming Army bow to him in Sichuan, which shows that this person is not simple.

Emperor Liu Zeqingtu had not had enough of his life, so he was naturally worried about the damage to his status.