Li Zicheng did hate to meet Niu Jinxing late, and after the conversation that day, he raised his hand and gave Niu Jinxing the position of Li Yanzuo's participation in the army before, and promoted him exceptionally, Niu Jinxing was the second person in the camp, and the generals of the former battalion couldn't help but be vigilant, for fear that another Li Yan would appear.

And Li Yan's side is also very difficult to live, I thought that the credit for Baofeng can go up, no matter how bad it is, I can get back the position of Zuo Joiner, if I can use Zuo to join the army to know how to prepare for the military, it would be better, but the dream has not been completed, Niu Jinxing will go up.

If it were someone else, Li Yan might have pinched his nose and recognized it, but this is Niu Venus! The nemesis of his fate is now being reused by mistake, how can he not be annoyed? Rao is that he has already restrained a lot of temper, and he is also so angry that he dropped four or five bottles and cans in the camp tent.

Of course, all this is the beginning, and soon the two sides will really start the first struggle, because a not important, but very important thing is put on the agenda, that is, what should He Jiao do?

As the order of Baofeng County, according to the practice of breaking the army, it is to open the knife and ask for beheading, and kill the sacrificial flag, but He Jiao took the initiative to sacrifice the city, and it is naturally not good to commit suicide in vain, but He Jiao is unwilling to surrender to the city, and he also wants to make a deal with the army, kill Guo Junzhen and others, and earn a reconquest.

This situation is complicated, Guo Junzhen Li Zicheng is impossible to kill, Li Zicheng even has the heart to solicit, scolded He Jiao for a while, and the matter was over, but He Jiao was hung up, and the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and he actually began to curse Li Zicheng, not only that, but also threatened to report the military information he saw to the imperial court......

This problem is serious, it was originally a demotion and it is not a good person, Li Zicheng was furious when he heard this, and immediately ordered someone to take He Jiao into custody, and then summoned the generals to discuss how to deal with this "county order" that does not know the height of the sky.

At first, the people in the camp were still relatively conservative, and they all despised He Jiao's character, but after all, they had meritorious service in sacrificing the city, so they wrote letters proposing to simply confiscate some money (Li Yan ordered to protect his property after He Jiao surrendered), and even the most radical Liu Zongmin and others only advocated beating and finishing the matter.

Li Yan wrote a letter strongly opposing the punishment of He Jiao, and the reason is very simple: "If you don't cultivate kindness and righteousness, you can't do the way of faith and righteousness, and you can take the world if you don't hear of it!" ”

He promised He Jiao at the beginning, but now that this kind of moth has appeared, his face will not be wanted, and in the future, the entire officialdom in Henan will treat his words as a fart, and no one will open the door and surrender.

Both sides have their own reasons, He Jiao's life and death is a trivial matter, but it has not reached the point of saber rattling, it stands to reason that things have come to this point, He Jiao is great is to finish the matter in one shot, but at this juncture, there are branches, and the whole thing cannot be ended.

Niu Jinxing, who had just taken office, wrote to Li Zicheng, suggesting that He Jiao should be "kill!" ”

This book can be said to be groundbreaking, no one in the entire camp dared to propose to kill He Jiao, after all, the political consequences of this are not small, the camp has been crawling and rolling for so many years, this truth is still understood, that is, Li Zicheng frowned when he saw the word "kill", and felt that Niu Jinxing's suggestion was inappropriate.

Niu Jinxing wanted to kill He Jiao because of his personal grudges, and in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, He Jiao started to impeach him for slandering the emperor, and finally changed to the end of removing his fame and filling the army.

On the other hand, Niu Venus, guarding the city all day long, struggling to survive, his wife also died of illness, and his son was unable to provide for the imperial examination because of his poor family, if it weren't for Li Zicheng's change, Niu Venus would have been crushed to death by He Jiao in this life, and now he suddenly turned over, how could he let go of this "culprit" so easily?

Of course, in addition to personal grievances, Niu Jinxing also has his own political considerations in it.

As an authentic Ming official "Guan Peisheng", Niu Jinxing's political sense is still very sensitive, and when Li Zicheng promoted him to join the army for the left, he had already analyzed the current situation.

At present, there are only two forces in the camp, one is the Yuan Cong faction who followed Li Zicheng from Shangluo, this group of people includes the Yuan Cong civil officials and the Yuan Cong military attaché, and the other is the Henan faction that entered Henan to join the shares, these people are relatively independent, but the strength is very weak, and they cannot compete with the Yuan Cong faction.

In this context, the camp can maintain general harmony.

However, there are also subdivisions within the Yuancong faction, such as the Yuancong generals headed by Liu Zongmin, Tian Jianxiu, and Li Shuangxi, these people are Li Zicheng's absolute cronies, and the military power is also in hand, and the power can be said to be the largest faction.

The other faction is Yuan Cong Wenchen led by Gu Yan, this faction has limited relative influence, but with the rise of Li Yan, the momentum is becoming more and more fierce, especially with the formation of the army of the reserve army, which can be regarded as a sign that Yuan Cong Wenchen has extended his tentacles into the army, which is why Liu Zongmin and others are so dissatisfied with Li Yan.

Of course, the relationship between Li Yan and Gu Junen is also very delicate, after all, one is the head of the ministers, and the other is a rising star, on the surface, they are very harmonious, but in fact, they also have their own ghosts.

After analyzing the current political ecology of the camp, Niu Jinxing has to find his own positioning, and his positioning should be Gu Yan's subordinates, that is, the Wenchen faction, who needs to fight Li Yan in the ring to maintain Gu Junen's position, but he is not willing to do so.

Whether it is Gu Junen or Li Yan, they are just his springboard, he wants to be the head of the Wenchen, the leader of the faction, not messing with others! Out of this consideration, Niu Jinxing decided to do the opposite, and only on this critical issue let Li Zicheng make a decision in favor of himself can undoubtedly greatly increase his prestige and lay the foundation for him to stand on his own.

Therefore, in public and private, He Jiao is bound to die.

Convincing Li Zicheng is not a waste of Niu Jinxing, in fact, there are two points, first, He Jiao turned his back on the imperial court, and it was disloyal to open the city to surrender, and it was Li Yan who promised to ensure that he was not the king, so even if he was killed, it would not be regarded as the king of breaking his word.

Second, He Jiao is just a corrupt bureaucrat, it is not a pity to kill him, killing him is just evil to thousands of corrupt bureaucrats in Henan, these people are used to the rudder when they see the wind, and they will surrender if they are really desperate, but kill He Jiao to win the hearts of the people of Henan, the people of Henan are tens of millions, whether King Chuang relies on the people to win the world, or does he rely on the bureaucrats to win the world?

These two points won Li Zicheng's heart, what he said is right, I rely on my brothers and people to fight the world, where do I rely on those corrupt officials and corrupt officials? If you kill a He Jiao, you can kill a disgusting dog official, and you can win the hearts of the people, it's like killing two birds with one stone!

In order to help Li Zicheng make up his mind and establish legitimacy, Niu Jinxing also played a beautiful operation, that is, to mobilize the people, he ordered people to write He Jiao's criminal property into a notice, publicize it in Baofeng, send people to read it day and night, and also arranged a lot of fictitious crimes.

At this time, the people of Baofeng suddenly became angry, and they asked Li Zicheng to "do the right thing for heaven" to kill corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and those people who had been harmed by He Jiao also helped the old and the young to howl in the government, and killing He Jiao for a while seemed to have become a unanimous consensus in Baofeng.

Seeing this, Liu Zongmin and the others immediately changed the direction of the wind and admonished to kill He Jiao, and the people were angry, and Gu Junen was an old fox, and he could see that Niu Jinxing was secretly fighting Li Yan, so he immediately withdrew and wrote some ambiguous words, which was regarded as not helping each other, and the ball was kicked at Li Yan's feet......

"They are all good people, but I am a wicked person." Braving the drizzle of Baofeng, Li Yan stared at the notices at the city gate with a gloomy face, Wang Jinbao held an oil-paper umbrella, and Li Laiheng and Huang Jun stood beside him, all staring at those dazzling notices with grim expressions.

"Guanjun, it's better to go to the book and kill He Jiao," Huang Jun looked at the people and cautiously admonished.

"Now that the crowd is raging, it's not worth it if you bring the Guan army in order to protect He Jiao!" Li Laiheng admired this courageous observer, and immediately spoke out to persuade him.

Li Yan was unmoved when he heard this, shook his head and said, "Niu Jinxing's brilliant chess game has forced me to a dead end. ”

"What do you mean by that?" All three were puzzled.

"If I go to the book to kill He Jiao, I will lose my trust in the world if I don't say it before, who will believe my words when the time comes? Who will work with me in the future? Li Yan said with a calm expression: "If I don't go to this book, it will be obvious that I will be working against the entire camp, and then I will leave a flaw for Niu Jinxing to beat me, and let him form an alliance, how should I deal with myself?" ”

Hearing this, the three of them suddenly realized, and couldn't help but scold with hatred: "This surnamed Niu is really vicious, and such a vicious trick has also come out, Guanjun, what should I do now?" ”

Li Yan stared at the crowd in front of him, took a deep breath, sighed and shook his head and said: "I have already lost a son, so I have to admit it, now it is to enter and die, and retreat to die, there is only one word to avoid." ”

Niu Jinxing's game is exquisitely arranged, hitting Li Yan's pain point, obviously this He Jiao can't be guaranteed, but if he can't be guaranteed, he has to put on a posture, and the posture is also very simple, the standing trick in the political struggle is "pretending to be sick", I can't beat you, I won't go down? I'm sick and can't take care of things, and naturally I don't know that He Jiao was killed, so I can hold my hand steadily.

So after that day, the news came out that Li Yan of the army was suddenly infected with a cold, and he couldn't get up from a serious illness, he couldn't get into the decoction, he couldn't read the papers, and he couldn't write any more songs.

Gao Yigong is naturally very single, and seeing He Jiao's deeds, he immediately wrote to Li Zicheng on behalf of the reserve army, stating that he would kill He Jiao.

This time it was good, the camp broke in, and the people sentenced He Jiao to death, and Li Zicheng also got off the donkey and ordered people to escort He Jiao to the market to behead, it is said that on the day of the beheading, even the rain was clear, and He Jiao was still scolding Li Yan until he died, scolding him for not being trustworthy, and he was simply a pig and a dog......

Of course, Li Yan "doesn't know" these things, after all, he is sick, and he can't take things seriously......

In this way, with He Jiao's head falling to the ground, Baofeng's matter came to an end, and the curtain was immediately kicked off by the invasion of Henan's strategy against Henan, as well as the confrontation between Niu and Li, who seemed to have started a direct war.