"This is Nanyang Prefecture's Bing Cao Shen Military, and the Military Supervisor of the Army and Horses Du Jiu Military Affairs Cheng Lunying and Cheng Langjun! These three are Zhong He Zhong Jun Envoy, Kong Zhou Kong Jun Envoy, Liu Wugong Liu Jun Envoy, all old Chushan..."
Shi Zhen, Xu Wuqi and Wang Ju were two or three people under Xu Huai in Chushan. However, he met Xu Huai during his second northern expedition to Yan and did not meet Cheng Lunying who was active during the banditry in Tongbai Mountain.
Zhong He met with each other, but it was the first northern expedition to the Yan Dynasty in the late period. Kong Zhou and Liu Wugong were the generals of the Sixian Army in charge of the state's army and horses at that time. Following Dong Cheng's order, they led their troops to accompany Xu Wuqi to escort grain and grain to the north.
Because after the banditry in Tongbai Mountain, the Tangzhou Military and Horse Supervision Department rebuilt the Xiang army that had suffered a devastating disaster during the banditry, and recruited a large number of Jianrui Xiangyong from Tongbai Mountain to serve as new soldiers and horses, so that Kong Zhou and Liu Wugong led
The troops arrived in Taiyuan and were forcibly recruited by Xu Huai. Neither of them could stop them, so they had no choice but to serve as guest generals under Wang Fan, who was the military envoy at the time.
Before the second northern expedition against Yan, Wang Fan and his father Wang Zhen went to the capital to listen. Lu Xiong, Zheng Shou, Wang Kong and others did not have official status, so they naturally followed them to the capital. Kong Zhou and Liu Wugong were the generals of Tangzhou, and that was the end.
After a short stay as a guest, I returned to Biyang.
Therefore, Shi Zhen never had the opportunity to meet Kong Zhou and Liu Wugong.
Tang Tiande stepped forward and introduced everyone to Shi Zhen.
"Thank you Mr. Cheng and all the military envoys for greeting each other in the cold wind. Shi is so ashamed!" Shi Zhen, Cheng Lunying, Zhong He, Kong Zhou and Liu Wugong bowed and saluted.
"Shi Langjun is so polite!" Cheng Lunying, Zhong He, Kong Zhou, Liu Wugong and others returned the courtesy.
"When I came from Ruzhou, Marquis Xu specially asked me to meet Kong Junhou, Liu Junhou, and Zhongjunhou. Now that I can see them, they are really magnificent!" Shi Zhen said.
Kong Zhou, Liu Wugong, and Zhong He looked at each other, and then they understood why Cheng Lunying wanted to drag them out to welcome Shi Zhen's arrival.
Although Wang Zhen also served as Kong Zhou after entering the capital, Liu Wugong asked for merit and was awarded the title of Seventh Grade Kung Fu Lang. However, Kong Zhou and Liu Wugong went north and not only lost all their soldiers, but also fought with Wang Zhen and Chushan.
The whole chain is deeply involved and unclear. Let alone Dong Cheng, the former magistrate of Tangzhou, how could Ning Ci, the magistrate of Nanyang at this time, give them good shoes to wear?
Zhong He's involvement with everyone in Chushan became even deeper.
During the Tongbai Mountain Bandit Rebellion, the Zhong family of Mopan Mountain was brutally murdered by the rebel son Zhong Changqing who led the bandits to annihilate the clan. Zhong He led the remaining clan members to rise up in resistance and became an important force in quelling the bandit rebellion. He gained a reputation in Tongbai Mountain in his early years.
Even above Tang Pan, Xu Xin'an and others, after quelling the bandit rebellion, he was awarded the title of eighth-rank martial arts scholar due to his merits.
However, Zhong He relied on himself as the eldest son of a wealthy family and was good at both civil and military affairs. After all, there was a barrier that could not be broken between Xu Huai, Tang Pan, Xu Xinan and others who came from a rough background and acted eclectically.
After the bandit rebellion subsided, Xu Huai and others escorted Wang Zhen to the north. Zhong He returned to Mopan Mountain to reorganize the clan. He also thought about "correcting evil and returning to the right path" and studied hard to obtain fame, but he did not want the world to be in chaos in the blink of an eye.
The people in Chushan followed Xu Huai in his military expeditions in the south and north over the years, and established illustrious military honors. At that time, they were unknown in Tongbai Mountain and were only small soldiers. Tang Pan, Xu Xin'an, Tang Qing, Yin Peng, and Han Qi were all apprentices in the blacksmith shop.
, people like Xu Sihu are already commanders of the capital of Dai Viet and senior generals at the rank of Duyuhou.
Even Zhong Jichang, a member of the Zhong clan who enlisted in the Tangzhou Xiang Army after the Tongbaishan Rebellion and defected to Xu Huai's command in Taiyuan, has just been transferred to Ruzhou a few days ago.
The position of county lieutenant in Liang County.
Ning Ci was ordered to set up the Nanyang Prefecture Army. On the basis of the original Xiang Army in Tangzhou and Dengzhou, he recruited local soldiers and strongmen, expanded the size of the army four to five times, and also added a number of senior generals such as the capital commander and the duyuhou.
Cheng Lunying personally recruited Zhong He to join the government army. At the same time, Liu Wugong admired Kong Zhou, who was from the Xiang army, but fought bravely during the Tongbai Mountain Bandit Rebellion and had military exploits. However, Ning Ci did not trust them.
Therefore, Zhong, Kong, and Liu were just ordinary military officials in Nanyang Prefecture's Military and Horse Supervisory Department. They mainly assisted Cheng Lunying in handling various military affairs. They did not have military attaches who had already entered the rank of military officers because of their past merits.
An opportunity to lead the army.
Because of the difference in circumstances, Zhong, Kong, and Liu are usually unwilling to talk about the past, nor do they want to have any entanglements with Chu Shan.
This time the three of them were picked out by Cheng Lunying, but they were still very reluctant. They thought Cheng Lunying wanted to please the people from Chushan and picked them out as foils, but they didn't expect that Xu Huai had designated Shi Zhen to meet them.
Shi Zhen did not say why Biyang wanted to meet Zhong, Kong and Qi. He stood at the foot of the city and briefly exchanged greetings with Cheng Lunying, then took a carriage together to the government office.
Shi Zhen finally had to meet Ning Ci and Zhou Yunze directly before he could discuss some matters.
Zhong, Kong and Qi rode their horses, but they were worried.
They are all aware of the dangerous current situation, the estrangement and rift between Chushan, Nanyang government office and Runan County government, as well as the various rumors and suspicions about Chushan circulating in Biyang City at this time, so they have no history of Xu Hou's designation.
When Zhen was summoned to Biyang, he felt honored, but everyone felt uneasy.
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Ning Ci, Zhou Yunze and other Nanyang government officials gathered together in the government office. After Shi Zhen arrived at the government office, the two parties briefly exchanged greetings and got straight to the point.
Tang Tiande had arrived in Biyang earlier to contact Zuo Xiaosheng's army about moving to Xiangyang via Nanyang. Shi Zhen came here to discuss the Nanyang Prefecture's sending troops to coordinate the defense of Rucai and other places.
This incident can be traced back to the time when Liu Xian, the military envoy of the North Jingxiang Road, led the Xuanwei army out of Huaichuan and was annihilated by Yue Hailou's troops on the banks of the Ying River. In order to solve the problem of the shortage of troops and horses stationed in various camps and the deployment of troops and horses on all routes,
Due to a series of problems such as the weak combat effectiveness of the troops and horses under the jurisdiction of the division, Emperor Jianye issued an edict requiring the division of troops and horses to be deployed in all directions and the division to supervise the division of troops and horses in various prefectures to be promoted to the prefecture.
Exercise moderation in camp and participate in defensive operations.
Jingxiang North Road and Nanyang Mansion were designated to send troops and horses to participate in the garrison of Ruzhou, Huaishang and Heluo.
After Zheng Huaizhong led the Shenwu Army to withdraw from Nanyang, although he could not directly intervene in the affairs of the Nanyang Prefecture and the Nanyang Prefecture Army, Zheng Huaizhong looked down on the Nanyang Prefecture Army.
That's it, and at the same time, the Nanyang Prefecture Army was ordered to stop participating in garrison rotation in Ruzhou, Huaishang and other places.
The armies of various prefectures were transferred to various camps in turn to participate in defensive operations. Not only were all military supplies borne by the prefectures themselves, casualty pensions for generals and military merit awards were only nominally distributed by the central government, but were actually borne by the local governments.
Zheng Huaizhong took charge of Nanyang and interrupted the Nanyang Prefecture Army's participation in the garrison in Ruzhou, Huaishang and other places. Ning Ci, Zhou Yunze and others were happy to see the result - after all, the Nanyang Prefecture Army was more controlled by Zheng Huaizhong at that time.
Xu Huai knew that when he approached the Nanyang government office to discuss the matter, the Nanyang government office would blame the matter on Zheng Huaizhong, and Zheng Huaizhong would also take over the matter.
At that time, Chu Shan had a verbal dispute with Zheng Huaizhong, but the final result would only force the Central Committee to favor Chu Shan in other aspects, and would not do anything to Zheng Huaizhong on these trivial matters.
Xu Huai assumed that this matter did not exist at that time.
Now that Zheng Huaizhong, Zheng Cong and his son have led the main force of the Shenwu Army to reinforce Huainan, how could this old debt not be settled with the Nanyang government office?
Not only the accounts in Huaishang, Xu Huai also knew about Ruzhou at this time, so naturally he also had to count the accounts in Ruzhou as well.
This time, Shi Zhen also carried with him the imperial edict issued by Emperor Jianji and the letter from the Privy Council. After sitting behind the long desk, he took out these edicts and turned over the old accounts with Ning Ci:
"In the second year of Emperor Jianji's reign, His Majesty issued an edict to all the road supervisors to send soldiers and horses from the prefecture to guard against the enemy. According to the specific arrangements of the Privy Council, from the end of the third year of Emperor Jianji's reign, Nanyang Prefecture should send one to each of them for half a year.
The army accepted the turns of the Ruzhou camp and the Chushan camp, and participated in the defensive operations against the enemies in the west of Beijing and Heluo. Unfortunately, Yang Shuai died tragically in Ruyang, and the Chushan army fought in Xiangcheng and north of Zhaoling.
The enemy fought fiercely and suffered heavy casualties, but not a single soldier from the Nanyang Prefecture Army was seen. This time, Marquis Xu asked me to come to see Mr. Ning Prefecture. First of all, he wanted to ask what was going on?"
Zheng Huaizhong, Zheng Cong and his son were in Nanyang, so they naturally took over the matter.
No matter what conflicts they have with Ning Ci, Zhou Yunze and other Nanyang government officials, they will never easily tolerate Chushan tainting Nanyang's military government. But what can Ning Ci and Zhou Yunze say at this time?
Not to mention Zheng Huaizhong, Zheng Cong did not issue a formal letter to the Nanyang government on this matter. Even if there was, when would the letter issued by the Runan County government be more effective than the letter from the imperial edict and the Privy Council?
After the Battle of Ruying, Zheng Huaizhong led his troops to withdraw to Nanyang. He did not also take charge of the Nanyang Prefecture. The Nanyang Prefecture was still run by Ning Ci, Zhou Yunze, Cheng Lunying and other officials. In the final analysis, he hoped that Ning Ci and others would lead the Nanyang Prefecture and suppress it.
, urging the Zheng family and his son to lead the Shenwu Army to serve the imperial court and obey the imperial edicts in everything, instead of following the Zheng family and his son to resist the imperial edicts.
"At the end of last year, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Heluo needed to be resettled in Nanyang. The government raised money and food, recruited laborers to build camps, and everything was in a hurry. We thought that after Ruying's victory, Churu's defense would be as solid as a rock, and it would indeed be able to defend the wheel.
"I am slacking off," faced Shi Zhen's sudden attack, but Ning Ci said in a calm tone, "Ning has already gone to the petition to apologize, but everything is at the discretion of the court..."
Ning Ci could spar with Zheng Huaizhong on weekdays, so how could he easily be manipulated by Chu Shan?
There is no way to make sense of this matter, but in fact the central government also acquiesced to Nanyang Prefecture not to send troops to Huaishang, and Ruzhou sent troops to garrison in turns.
The only way Chushan could target and suppress Nanyang Mansion was to write a letter of impeachment.
Now that Ning Ci has taken the initiative to bear all the blame and obeyed the court's decision, what can Chushan do to him?
Remove him from the post of Nanyang magistrate?
That would be a good time to escape from Nanyang and have two days of leisurely leisure time before trying to recover.
"Mr. Cheng Lang also asked Mr. Ning to apologize?" When Shi Zhen entered the city, he was chatting and laughing with Cheng Lunying along the way, but now he looked at him sharply.
Cheng Lunying was suddenly startled, and for a moment he felt like he was sitting on pins and needles, wanting to jump and run away.
Shi Zhen had hinted at the Nanyang government office through Tang Tiande before sending troops to Nanyang Prefecture. Cheng Lunying knew that this matter could not be solved, and thought that Shi Zhen and Ning Ci were in a tit-for-tat confrontation, and finally forced Ning Ci to make a decision.
With some concessions, this matter can be deceived.
Cheng Lunying never expected that Shi Zhen would point the finger at him without even saying a few words to Ning Ci.
In Nanyang Prefecture, with the rapid expansion of the Nanyang Prefecture's army, Cheng Lunying promoted the military affairs of the Military Affairs Bureau to the Military Affairs Bureau. It seemed that he was already above the officials such as the Recorder and the Army, and his status was second only to the prefect Ning Ci and the general magistrate.
Zhou Yunze.
However, in the court, Ning Ci had already entered the ranks of ministers, but Cheng Lunying knew that she was not even a green onion.
When this lawsuit reaches the middle of the court, Zhou He, Gao Chunnian, Gu Fan and others will definitely protect Ning Ci, and Emperor Jianji is unlikely to attack the ministers at this juncture - so Ning Ci has a tough attitude and has his own rights.
His confidence.
This lawsuit will not be traced to Duke Runan, who was the orthodox soldier who reinforced the battle in Huainan, but a scapegoat must be found to settle the matter. Who can be more perfect than Cheng Lunying?
Cheng Lunying seemed to be sitting on the stove, thinking in a panic about how to deal with Shi Zhen's difficulties and questioning. He accidentally caught a glimpse of Ning Ci looking towards him with sharp eyes, and then he seemed to have no intention of looking towards Zhong He and Kong who were sitting with him.
Zhou and Liu Wugong swept away.
This glance didn't matter, the hairs on Cheng Lunying's back stood up...
