The Ming Dynasty was not as good as the later generations, and it was easy to transfer assets in the later generations, but in the Ming Dynasty, especially high-ranking officials like Jinyiwei, it was not easy for them.

It is not easy to investigate even a few hundred taels of silver, but once hundreds of thousands of taels of silver are involved, it will be much easier to investigate, Cheng Shijie has always dared to bribe Gao Qiqian, because more than half of Gao Qiqian's family property is stored in Liaodong Bank and kept for interest.

Now this year is not like the Taiping period, rich people can buy land, now it is easy to buy land, the key is that the price of land is depreciating, just like when the house price in later generations is low, unless it is just to buy a house, otherwise the house speculators will definitely not shoot, it is easy to smash the hands, now the endless natural disasters of the Ming Dynasty, either drought, or waterlogging, or locust plague, ten years of farming and eight years of poor harvest, not making money at all.

As for the money collected by Luo Yangxing, it is all kept in the accounts, and there will be a chance to settle it together in the future. By the way, the silver that the Locke family has levied for several generations will be copied over.

Emperor Chongzhen worries about the silver in the treasury every year, what he doesn't know is that the several eunuchs around him, whether it is Wang Zhixin, Cao Huachun, or Gao Qiqian, which one is not worth hundreds of thousands of millions of silver? Gao Qiqian's belongings are all counted, and it is definitely not less than two million taels of silver.

Cheng Shijie's judgment was actually wrong, the first problem was actually Gansu, in all fairness, the problem in Gansu has little to do with the cabinet bosses.

Because it was the Dzungar people who invaded with more than 200,000 troops, the army of more than 200,000 people crossed the border like locusts, they ate up countless villages, drank up countless rivers, swallowed countless tribes, and finally entered the Hexi Corridor with a huge wave swallowing the river.

The new governor of Gansu has just arrived less than three months after taking office, and the previous governor Zhang Yingchen will definitely be held accountable because he stormed the prefecture and the state official was killed. As a result, Zhang Yingchen, the governor of Gansu who had been in office for one year and six months, was dismissed.

Although the governor is a fat poor, governors like the governor of Guizhou, the governor of Gansu, and the governor of Liaodong are actually hot potatoes, and people who have connections in the background are not willing to go at all, and the qualifications who are willing to go are not enough, and Tang Daoheng, the word Pingzi. Tang Sancaizi. Wanli forty-four years of Jinshi. The prefect of Nanchang and Dongchang has talents.

During his tenure as the prefect of Dongchang, Song Xiance rebelled, and after the Dashun army broke through Yanzhou Mansion, they attacked Dongchang Mansion, Dongchang Mansion was conquered, and Tang Daoheng was dismissed.

As a result, Tang Daoheng was not escorted to the capital, but he encountered the Gansu governor Zhang Yingchen being dismissed, but the court could not find a candidate for the governor of Gansu, and this unlucky Tang Daoheng was kicked to Gansu and served as the governor, and he was not punished, but the official was promoted to one level, so Tang Daoheng went to Gansu to serve as the governor.

When Tang Daoheng was in Dongchang Mansion, he was broken through by Song Xiance's Dashun army, because there was no one available, but the problem was that Gansu Town had more than 38,000 soldiers, and there were actually more than 27,000 horses.

Gansu Governor Tang Daoheng deployed in Wuwei, there was nothing wrong with such a deployment, Wuwei is an important military town, to the south is a continuous snow-capped mountain, to the north is a boundless desert, if you want to attack Lanzhou, Wuwei is a must pass, in the face of the threat from the northwest, defend Lanzhou must defend Wuwei.

But the bad thing is that Tang Daoheng doesn't know if he took the wrong medicine, he actually thought about escaping at a critical moment, the Dzungars can fight against the Qing Dynasty for two hundred years, and they have their own advantages, on the obedience and hard-working of the soldiers, and the tacit understanding between the commander and the general, which is comparable to the era of Genghis Khan.

When the Dzungar army arrived at Wuwei City, the Dzungar army set up trebuchets and captured cannons, bombarded Wuwei City indiscriminately, and then formed a tribal army of 40,000 or 50,000 people, all of which were tribes in the northwest, and they were originally cannon fodder.

Forty or fifty thousand cannon fodder were driven by the Dzungar people, attacking the city like ants, and the Ming army based on the city, causing a large number of casualties to these tribal troops, and in just a few days, the corpses under the city accumulated several meters high.

Seeing such a tragic scene, Tang Daoheng was scared, he could actually not reach the front line at all, in this way, the soldiers on the front line did not know where the governor was, so they would naturally resist resolutely, but the problem was that he escaped at a critical moment, which was a great blow to morale. After the attack in the original few days, the Dzungars came from afar, and they were already sleepy and tired, and they were already a little overwhelmed.

But this Tang Daoheng didn't know what to think in his head, he actually wanted to escape, he was only a dozen miles away under the escort of more than a thousand cavalry, and he encountered the siege of the Junggar people, Tang Daoheng saw the dense Junggar cavalry and shouted in fright: "Quickly retreat, withdraw to the city!" ”

These Gansu town cavalry were outnumbered, and they were already lacking in confidence, but when Tang Daoheng shouted at them, their already low morale was vented to the end, and they threw down their weapons and fled one after another, and the soldiers were defeated like a mountain. More than 1,000 cavalry left the city, and less than 100 returned to the city, at this time, the Dzungar people also continued to drive the tribal army to attack the city in line with the principle that cannon fodder is not a person, when the corpses were densely piled up under the city wall, forming a gentle slope.

At this time, the Dzungar people killed on the city wall, after attacking the mighty city, the Dzungar people opened a killing ring in the city, regardless of the people were slaughtered, more than 27,000 Gansu troops only more than 800 foot cavalry escaped from Wuwei City, more than 70,000 Wuwei people, it was less than 1 in ten, only 3,400 people fled to Lanzhou.

Zhao Wencai, who had just arrived in Datong Town and had not had time to take a breath, heard the news that Wuwei had been lost and the Junggar army had swept in. ”

Qi Yan has now changed to Qi Yan, in his own words, he admires Qi Shaobao very much, and has no problem with Qi Shaobao's surname and recognizing Qi Shaobao as his ancestor.

No one can refute the logic of begging Yan, no, Qi Yan, after all, whether it is a Mongolian naturalization or a Jurchen naturalization, Cheng Shijie welcomes it.

Hu Erqi changed his surname to Hu and became Hu Erqi, and there was no problem for Qi Yan to become Qi Yan.

"Please show the general!"

"It's at least two thousand miles from Datong to Lanzhou, where is the cavalry, it's not easy to arrive!"

Qi Yan said: "All the war horses of our department have been replaced with iron-hoof horses, and the last general can arrive in Lanzhou in five days!" ”

The iron hoof horse is the best among the Mongolian horses, the hooves are as hard as iron, and the horses can often gallop in the ghost places full of gravel without worrying about injury, its endurance and explosive power coexist, and it is easy and pleasant to gallop four or five hundred miles in the steppe day and night.

Zhao Wencai said: "Okay, I'll give you three thousand iron-hoofed horses, this time you have one person and three horses, day and night, although it may cover the people of Lanzhou to withdraw!" ”

When the main force of Gansu Town is lost, it is almost impossible to hold Lanzhou, but the problem is that there are too many Junggar troops, and it will be very difficult if all the cavalry under Zhao Wencai rushes to Lanzhou.

First of all, the cavalry skills of these people are far inferior to the Mongols, and the second is that they have no experience in marching over long distances, and less than 20,000 horse-tired cavalry arrived in Lanzhou, and they may not be able to defeat the Junggar people, if they want to defeat the 200,000 army of Junggar, at least 40,000 or 50,000 Ning Navy must be gathered, and there must be sufficient ammunition.

But the problem is that all this is unrealistic now, the harm is less than the lesser, the only way is to save people's lives, people are alive, homes can be rebuilt if they are destroyed, and lost cities can be regained.

"There will be a request at the end!"

Qi Yan knew that this was an opportunity for him, if he completed this task, he and his people could fully integrate into the collective of Ning Haijun, although he was a foreign race, his treatment was far inferior to Hu Erqi, because most of Hu Erqi's clansmen were allocated land, houses, and jobs.

You don't have to herd sheep in the cold and snow, you don't have to eat sand, you can live in a warm big house in winter, and you don't have to worry about eating or drinking.

"You say!"

"I want my people, naturalized!"

"General Ben has no right to be the master, but General Ben can intercede for you, if the marshal does not agree, General Ben will divide my own to you and your people, General Ben's land is not much, if you change to Luzon, each of your clansmen can be divided into twenty acres!"

"General Xie!"

Qi Yan knelt down towards Zhao Wencai: "General, the last general will guarantee to complete the task, if I can't complete the task, I will die in Lanzhou!" ”

"Please!"

……

When Lanzhou's information was sent to Cheng Shijie, Cheng Shijie also felt tricky. There are not many troops that the Ning Navy can put into the battlefield of the Great Wall defense line, only the cavalry troops can maneuver, but the problem is that he is more than 3,000 miles away from Lanzhou, even if the Ning Navy travels 100 miles a day at a speed, it will take more than a month, more than a month, Cheng Shijie dare not imagine that how can he hold it by relying on the Lanzhou army and civilians alone?

Now the only hope can only be pinned on the trilateral governor Hong Chengchou, fortunately, fortunately in misfortune, Hong Chengchou does not seem to have had excessive contact with the bigwigs in the court, and he received letters from the court Jinyiwei have backups.

In fact, Hong Chengchou did not give the face of the bigwigs in the DPRK and China casually. Because Hong Chengchou himself is a big man, he doesn't want to enter the cabinet now, and he is stuck in that rotten quagmire, and he is regarded as a cabinet position by Wen Tiren, Hong Chengchou really can't look down on it.

As Cheng Shijie guessed, the most influential of those Wenchen is actually on Xuanfu East Road, followed by Datong Town, and the influence on Gansu and Ningxia is even smaller.

And Hong Chengchou has extremely strict control over the generals below, once he crosses him, the generals who are on the line with the court bosses, let alone promoted, will definitely be cleaned up by Hong Chengchou first, there is no way to be promoted, Hong Chengchou will find an opportunity to kill the other party. The original Shenmu Ginseng General Ai Wannian, this guy was born in Wuju, and was promoted to Shenmu Ginseng General, and then promoted to Deputy General General.

Because he took the path of Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the Ministry of War, so, in May of the eighth year of Chongzhen, Hong Chengchou ordered Ai Wannian and Liu Chenggong, the deputy general, to lead 3,000 men and horses to fight with Li Zicheng. In Xiangle Town, Ningzhou, Ganjiazhai fell into a heavy siege and was defeated and died.

In all fairness, Ai Wannian can also be regarded as a patriotic general of the Ming Dynasty, but the problem is that as long as he is not on the right path with Hong Chengchou, there will be no good end.

Cheng Shijie wrote a sincere letter to Hong Chengchou, hoping that Hong Chengchou could focus on the overall situation, and told Hong Chengchou that in order to show his sincerity, he would give 8,000 pairs of stainless steel armor, 20,000 crossbow machines, 10,000 horizontal knives and 10,000 spears to the trilateral army for free, which was enough for Hong Chengchou to arm 30,000 troops with these equipment.

After writing the letter, Cheng Shijie looked at Meng En and said: "Meng En, the defense line on the banks of the Baihe River is worry-free for the time being, and Ben Shuai really doesn't worry about the Hetao!" ”

Seeing that Hong Chengchou ignored the bigwigs in the DPRK, Cheng Shijie could also deduce that those cabinet bigwigs found that it was impossible to go to the upper route, so they took the middle and lower route, bribing the officials and gentry, and under their strategy, although the trilateral officers did not dare to provoke Hong Chengchou, but they did not dare to oppose it, but they dared to secretly use small means, for example, the grain and salary that should be transported, delayed transportation, and the pass that could have been held because of the lack of food.

In this way, the situation on the three sides instantly became tense.

However, in fact, the Lanzhou officers were also frightened by the slaughter of Wuwei City, they all knew that the two-legged people could not outrun the cavalry of Junggar, only the remnants of the Lanzhou Wei army were only more than 1,800 people, but after years of development, the Lanzhou Wei had more than 15,000 military households, and the officers who led the whole city actually broke out with extremely strong combat effectiveness.

After the Lanzhou Wei commander was killed in Wuwei, the Lanzhou Wei commander was wiped out, and the Lanzhou Wei commander Zhang Jiwu recruited sergeants and led more than 4,000 lone troops to defend Lanzhou.

Soon after Lanzhou was in a food crisis, they drank blood and water, chewed bark and grass roots, and defended the fortified city, and when the shells ran out, they smashed them with stones, and when the stones were finished, they would tear down the bricks on the floor and throw them at the heads of the enemy soldiers. The fierce Xiliang disciples engaged the Dzungars on the wall, killing flesh and blood.

Zhang Jiwu divided 1,800 elite soldiers into four teams, where there was a gap to the wall, the Dzungars besieged day and night, rushed into the city several times, and were beaten out, the city and outside the city were full of dead corpses, layer upon layer, the degree of tragedy is indescribable.

The army of hundreds of thousands of Dzungar people was besieged on all sides, and all the elite soldiers were pressed up, and they were repelled by Zhang Jiwu and Lanzhou officers again and again, and suppressed by Zhang Jiwu again and again.

This bloody battle with a huge disparity in strength lasted for 20 days, and after the Dzungar people paid a heavy price of 30,000 dead and wounded, finally Lanzhou City was about to hold on, when Lanzhou's reinforcements arrived, the unsuspecting Junggar army was easily broken through by Qi Yan's troops and arrived in Lanzhou City, and at this time, there were only a few hundred wounded soldiers left in Lanzhou City who were tired and hungry and couldn't even stand up.

1,800 remnants of the army were killed and wounded, and the people of Lanzhou were also killed and wounded by more than 10,000 people.

Qi Yan told a lie to the Lanzhou officer: "Cheng Shijie, the commander of the Ning Navy, is leading the army to rush here, and they have already arrived in Datong...... They are in the vanguard! ”

Qi Yan brought not only confidence to Lanzhou, but also more than 3,000 iron-hoofed horses, you must know that the Ning Navy only has a total of six or seven thousand iron-hoofed horses, but in order to let the Lanzhou soldiers and civilians defend it, they can only grit their teeth and kill horses to satisfy their hunger.

Meng En said: "Dashuai, transfer Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, and Liu Wenxiu over!" ”

"Bring them here?"

"They are originally from Shaanxi, and they have an instinctive dependence on Shaanxi, and in the face of the Mongol attack, they will definitely die to the death, and those old thieves ......"

"No, after the battle of the little days, they are no longer thieves, they are our own people!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Pay attention to what you say in the future, don't say anything that affects unity!" ”

"Yes, Dashuai!"

Meng En said: "Liaodong now has General Staff Officer Zhou sitting in the formation, plus General Zhangyu Zhang, Jiannu can't make waves, but now the most lacking thing is a general who is good at using cavalry, although General Zhao Wencai Zhao has good ability, he is just one person, it is difficult to take care of everything, the last general thinks that Sun Ke is expected to participate in the war!" ”

Cheng Shijie actually didn't like Sun Kewang in his heart, throughout Sun Kewang's life, he first followed Zhang Xianzhong to fight everywhere, rebelled because of dissatisfaction after Zhang's death, and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty after defeat, betraying the Yongli court, and finally led to the Yongli regime being completely wiped out by the Qing army. If it weren't for his rebellion, the Qing army might not have been able to defeat Yongli so easily, and history might have changed completely.

But it is undeniable that Sun Kewang is very capable, and his ability to be accepted as Zhang Xianzhong's adopted son is inseparable from his brave performance on the battlefield. He was brave on the battlefield, but he did not lose his cleverness, and every time he encountered the enemy, he was always able to deal calmly and save the day, and enjoyed the title of "a wall" in the army.

After Zhang Xianzhong was killed by an arrow in a battle, Sun Kewang became the de facto leader of the army. He led the rebel army south, took the local armed forces in Guizhou, and then entered Yunnan to quell the rebellion in Shadingzhou. In this way, the whole of Yunnan and Guizhou were occupied. Later, he determined the strategy of "Lianming to resist the Qing Dynasty" and submitted to the Southern Ming court.

In such a difficult environment as Yunnan and Guizhou, Sun Kewang was able to pull out more than 200,000 troops, Sun Kewang played the slogan of "jointly supporting the Ming room and restoring the country" to attract people's hearts, won the support of the original Ming forces in the vast majority of Yunnan, and by the way, cracked down on the local rebellion Tusi, and was able to establish a stable political foundation in Yunnan.

The second is to carry out land reform, although in cooperation with the old Yunnan gentry, but economically spare no effort to hit their economic base, and all the land occupied by the rebel Tusi such as Mufu Zhuangtian, the encroached Weisu Juntian, and even Shaoshadingzhou has been transformed into civilian land that pays taxes according to regulations.

In addition, Sun Kewang also built water conservancy in Yunnan, issued copper coins, developed salt wells, and rectified corruption, so that Yunnan's economy was restored in a short period of time, and at the same time, it also developed rapidly, laying the foundation for the Northern Expedition in the future.

In later generations, some people even jokingly called Sun Kewang Sun Internal Affairs, this war and internal affairs are a good hand, at least, with Sun Kewang's surrender, the situation in Nanming collapsed instantly, which is enough to prove Sun Kewang's ability.

Although the ability is good, the character is not. However, the problem is that Cheng Shijie is now unavailable, Chen Dayong is in Dayuan, Liu Qingsong is in Luzon, and Shen Mingyu is preparing to march south to Annam. The Luzon side is at a critical moment in the purge plan, and once the Luzon garrison is withdrawn, the Luzon side will definitely resurrect.

Now there is no choice but to delay the Annan strategy.

Cheng Shijie thought for a while and said: "Chuan Ben Shuai ordered that the Annan Army was originally planned to go north, and the Annan Army was headed by Shen Mingyu, Sun Kewang was the deputy, and Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu were second. ”

However, what Cheng Shijie did not expect was that his order to transfer the Annan Army of the Ning Navy to the north to resist the enemy was stuck in the military headquarters.

Wen Tiren said that now the situation is good, what does Cheng Shijie want to mobilize 50,000 or 60,000 troops to the north?

Emperor Chongzhen didn't listen to and believe it, but he was actually a little uneasy, after all, in the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, Ning Haijun could defeat Jiannu, and the 50,000 or 60,000 Jiannu could kill more than 200,000 Ming troops to fear the enemy's fear, wouldn't that mean that Cheng Shijie's soldiers also had the ability to crisis the Jingshi?

In this case, Emperor Chongzhen sent Wang Chengen to ask Cheng Shijie instead.

"Princess, why are you here?"

"Oh, my good father-in-law, do you know what good deeds you have done? Just because of you, the whole capital is noisy! ”

Cheng Shijie was confused: "What did Ben Shuai do to make such a big storm in the capital?" ”

"You want to transfer 50,000 elites of the Ning Navy to the north, this thing can be described as shocking, can the capital not be noisy, not make trouble!"

Cheng Shijie felt inexplicable: "What's so noisy about this?" Hundreds of thousands of Mongolian troops have gone south, and now from Xuanfu East Road, to Datong, and even to Gansu, they have become a mess, Wuwei has fallen, and although the sixteen cities of Gansu have been slaughtered, they have all burned their eyebrows, what happened to the Tiaoning Navy going north? If it weren't for the fear of Li Zicheng's resurrection, Ben Shuai would still want to transfer the Tianxiong army to the north! ”

Wang Chengen looked surprised: "The situation is so grim? ”

"It's worse than you think!"

Cheng Shijie put the military information he received in front of Wang Chengen.

After Wang Chengen saw it, he was speechless for a long time: "This ...... How so? ”

"Mobei suffered a rare snow disaster, Ha Qi turned into ice, they Mobei Mongolians couldn't survive, so they had to go south to survive, for thousands of years, hasn't it always been like this?"

Cheng Shijie smiled bitterly: "What's so strange about this? ”

Wang Chengen said: "However, the reason is such a reason, but some people just can't see it!" They objected like crazy, and kept saying that the prince of the country had a heart of disobedience, and that the grandfather of the country was suspected of rebellion in this move, and asked the prince to enter Beijing and defend himself in front of the emperor! ”

A trace of anger burst out of Cheng Shijie's eyes: "It's a good thing that those officials did again?" ”

"It's not just those officials, even Wang Yingxiong and Wu Zongda have made a fuss. Alas, the selfishness of the princes in charge is really too heavy! ”

Wang Chengen smiled bitterly and said: "Those officials said that it is precisely because you martial artists are arrogant, reckless in their military affairs, vainly starting wars, and attracting the Mongols and Jiannu to fight back wildly, why are state affairs so corrupted!" Now the building will fall, Daming is in danger like a stacked egg, now kill Cheng Shijie, and negotiate peace with Mongolia and Jiannu ......"

Hearing this, Cheng Shijie's face became more and more ugly.

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Cheng Shijie's fist hidden in his sleeve was already clenched: "Then what does Your Majesty say?" ”

"The emperor still supports Grandpa Guo, otherwise he wouldn't let our family go on a trip in person."

When Wang Chengen said this, he showed a pleased smile: "The emperor sent the grandfather of the country to garrison the nine sides, and he really chose the right person." ”

Cheng Shijie became a little worried: "Alas, it would be good if Your Majesty could always trust Xiaguan, as long as Ben Shuai is given two years, Ben Shuai may be able to stabilize the entire northwest, including the Mongolian steppe!" ”

"The power of heaven is unpredictable, and no one knows whether the Holy Family can last long, so they can only do their best to obey the destiny of heaven." (End of chapter)