"His Majesty, the ministers and Wang Wen, led the army to arrive at the Xuanwei Division of Yungui Shiren on the 8th of this month, and were warmly welcomed by the local barbarian chieftain Wu Sigan, and continued to the south on the 12th of this month after resting and replenishing.

On the 15th, the army arrived at Liping Mansion, joined forces with the local officers and troops of Guo Xuan's subordinate of the Guizhou General Army, and entered Guiyang Mansion to confront the thieves. ”

On the 18th, Wang Wen, who joined the army, set up a recruitment office in Duyun, sat in the rear, and the minister and Guo Xuan, the general soldier of Guizhou, divided the troops into two roads, and marched west to suppress the thieves.

Guo Xuan went west from Pingyuewei to Jinjiyi to block the enemy's way back.

On the evening of the 18th, the minister led the main force of the southern expedition of 100,000 people, from the Pingfa Division to Shangmaqiao, the officers and soldiers of the Beijing Division were not familiar with the local roads and language, and the hired local people were induced to be ambushed.

Our officers and soldiers took the lead, repelled the ambushed thieves, pursued more than 20 miles by victory, beheaded the general to seize the bridge, smashed a thief's lair, wiped out 25 Miao villages, and beheaded 3,816 levels.

Guo Xuan's general army has another good news on the North Road, and Liu Juyao, the right governor of the southern general, worships the Beijing division and prays for holy news! ”

Morning meeting.

Cao Jixiang stood on the steps and read Liu Ju's good news from Yungui word by word, and the court fell silent, it was obvious that everyone did not expect that this runaway general who wanted to enter the city during the defense of Beijing would be so brave.

This is the strangest of all.

In the past, when the good news entered Beijing, it should have been a continuous congratulatory voice, but now it is silent, and even the silver needle can be heard clearly.

Zhu Di looked at them coldly and said, "Are you dumb?" ”

"Liu Ju was in Xizhimen at that time, and he was the first main force, I personally killed out of the city and saw it, 20,000 defenders of Xizhimen, lined up outside the city, and finally came back with a few hundred people."

"Which of you can stop you in Xizhimen?"

As soon as these words came out, Zhu Di expressed his attitude.

Shi Heng immediately echoed below: "Your Majesty is right, Your Majesty is in the battle formation, and he has the most right to speak, and the minister was also ordered by Shaobao to rush to Xizhimen at that time, and the battle situation is so tragic that the memory is still fresh!" ”

"Hehe, you're right." Zhu Di glanced at Shi Heng, who seemed to be honest, and naturally understood what dirty things he had done in private, but he didn't expose it, just said:

"At the end of last month, I asked the household department to discuss the reward for the hundreds of people who came back after the Xizhimen War, how was the discussion?"

Jin Lian, the secretary of the household department, was originally the secretary of the criminal department, and the reason why he was able to change from the secretary of the criminal department with a low status in the imperial court to the secretary of the household department was because of the work of Deng Maoqi in Shandong Pingding.

Speaking of which, this is inseparable from Liu Ju's defeat in Shandong.

At that time, the water thief Deng Maoqi rebelled in Shandong, and the momentum was so great that he even controlled Caoyun for a time, so the imperial court sent Liu Ju, who was then the governor of the right capital, to lead the army to conquer.

But no one expected that Liu Ju had suffered several defeats at that time, although the losses were very small, but it was very bad for the prestige of the official army, and the water thief Deng Maoqi then attacked the state capital in Jining, Shandong.

As a last resort, Liu Ju was replaced, and three people followed.

In addition to Ningyang Hou Chen Mao, the other two people, Jin Lian, the secretary of the Criminal Department who joined the army, and Dong Xing, a middle-level officer who was still unknown at the time, were the biggest beneficiaries of the pacification of Deng Maoqi.

Chen Mao and Jin Lian also avoided the civil fort change that shocked the world soon after because of Chen Mao's defeat in Shandong.

The previous Hubu Shangshu Wang Zuo, the Hubu left and right attendants Ding Ming, and Wang Yong all died in the battle in Tumubao, which gave the Hubu Shangshu Jin Lian, who was still in Shandong at that time, an opportunity that could not have been.

Because Jin Lian once served in the household department, and he also had the merit of pacifying the water thieves in Shandong, he was exceptionally promoted to the head of the household department and recalled the Beijing master, and he only came back in the first year of Jingtai this year.

Speaking of which, Jin Lian and Chen Mao both benefited from Liu Ju's defeat in Shandong last year, which seemed impossible to defeat.

There is also a small role, which also started by relying on this matter, that is, Dong Xing, who later made the first contribution to the pacification of Guangzhou giant Huang Xiaoyang.

This Dong Xing, who was just an unknown petty officer in the first half of last year, suddenly followed Chen Mao in the battle to pacify Deng Maoqi in Shandong and made great contributions and was promoted to the governor of the capital.

Then, Huang Xiao, the giant of Guangzhou, raised a rebellion, and the official army was ineffective, so he urgently transferred Dong Xing, the governor of Shandong, who had just been promoted to Shandong, to lead the troops and horses of his headquarters.

Originally, the imperial court didn't expect this Dong Xing to pacify Guangzhou, because it was said that there were at least tens of thousands of water thieves under Huang Xiao's subordinates who could fight well.

But no one expected that Dong Xing only needed two battles to completely quell the huge "Huang Xiaoyang Uprising" in Guangzhou, and killed the thief leader Huang Xiaoyang outside Guangzhou in the first battle.

Zhu Di had seen this good news at the time.

Later, Dong Xing described the battle situation in great detail in the second battle.

"The thief head Xiao Yangzhong lost his life, the head of the letter was in Beijing, and he was in the city, and the rest of the puppet general soldiers, the marshal of the five prefectures, Qingguo Gong, Zeng Gong, and more than 100 people were ambushed."

When Zhu Di saw this, he still felt that Dong Xing was a very good person.

After all, he was the main general at that time, and killing the thief leader Huang Xiaoyang was a great achievement, and he could completely engulf this military feat, but Dong Xing didn't.

In the good news, he just wrote honestly, and the thief head Xiao Yang lost and died.

The later description almost confirmed that the reason why Dong Xing was able to emerge in this era was because he had two brushes.

Zhu Di, as the emperor who personally led the troops, could see the authenticity of the description of the battle situation in this good news.

"The Xiao Yang Party retreated from outside the city of Guangzhou, and refused to defend it in Sanshan and Daliangbao. The minister thought that he could not give the thieves a chance to recuperate, so on April 15, he led the officers and troops of his headquarters to attack Sanshan. ”

"The thief army gathered more than 600 ships to engage in battle, and the ministers divided their subordinates into five posts, and the two posts on the side were the left and right wings.

"On the 16th, the thieves were chased to Wudoukou and Beishui Fort. On the 18th, the chasing thief arrived in Pan Village and Chonghe Jindou. Before and after encountering the enemy and refusing to fight, more than 20 people were captured, more than 300 people were beheaded, and more than 300 ships were burned. ”

"Hejin Dou is the hometown of the traitor Huang Xiaoyang, the minister thinks that it must be the thief's nest, and it must be cleaned up, so as to deter the remaining thief, so he killed the thief and bound the remnants of the thief Xiao Yang's remnant party to Jingshi."

It was this second good news that caused an uproar in the imperial court.

Many officials and imperial historians began to deduct words, saying that Dong Xing did not do a good job in Shandong, and started by slaughtering Deng Mao's seven subordinates and making meritorious contributions, and he was a complete executioner.

There are even more officials, taking the so-called joint name of the local people in Guangzhou, impeaching Dong Xing in Huang Xiaoyang's hometown of Hejindou for implementing the "three-light policy", brutally suppressing, burning houses, and digging graves, so that Hejindou suffered a catastrophe.

These notes have been suppressed by Zhu Di, but there are too many, and it is not a way to press it like this, so you have to send someone to investigate.

So, the original name was Xu Hui, and now the name is changed to Xu Youzhen, Yudu Yushi stood up as the host of the investigation of the matter in Guangzhou and Shandong.

The so-called times create heroes, and everyone has an opportunity of his own.

Dong Xing, as a small person who rose on the cusp of the times, is a real self-made man.

He is not like Chen Mao and Guo Xuan, the general soldier of Yungui, who have the achievements of their ancestors, and when Zhu Di first heard this name, Dong Xing was already twenty-eight years old.

At that time, he was originally just a local middle-level officer in Jining, Shandong Province who knocked down a large area with a brick, but such a person led the headquarters to victory one after another when the water thief Deng Maoqi was in turmoil.

Zhu Di didn't believe that Dong Xing would be such a person, and the reason why he sent Xu Youzhen out was just to block the mouths of those Yanguan Yushi.

Compared with the mouths of civil officials, Zhu Di believes in the results of the secret investigation of the East Factory.

After all, the affairs of the court cannot all be the words of the officials.

If someone at the bottom rises, and the top desperately suppresses and smears them as much as possible, then even if there are good talents in the people and the army, it will be difficult to show their talents?

Most of the Jing Nanxun nobles led by Zhu Di at that time were people like Dong Xing, so they still had a good impression of this kind of little people who rose by virtue of their own abilities.