Chapter One Hundred and Ninety Seven: Entire Army Destroyed
These days also happen to be Zhu Ling's leisure period. Except for Wang Chengen, King Lu and Wang Yangguang report to him every few days what they have done, the rest is to discuss with the ministers how to deal with the current situation. They also add scouts.
Numerous troops were dispatched to confirm that there were indeed no intruders in the northeastern part of Shandong.
Zhu Dadian personally led an army of 50,000 to recapture Jinan and Dongchang, but it was limited to this. After all, if he pushed forward further, he would be trapped in an ambush. Therefore, at Zhu Ling's request,
It's okay to recover both places, but there is no rush to recover the entire Shandong.
King Lu has also made great progress. He has gained a good reputation before, and there are so many thieves this year, causing a lot of casualties in various places. For the injured, alcohol has undoubtedly become a life-saver.
Things. Fifty taels of silver, really not expensive! At least in terms of life!
King Lu was also a profiteer. He restricted the purchases of some wealthy businessmen and increased prices for those who had been buying in large quantities. It was called controlling output, but in fact it was to raise prices.
Previously, he even secretly sent many of his men to act as bandits to rob wealthy businessmen who bought large amounts of alcohol. In this way, not only could they buy from him, but he could also directly sell these things.
Once in and out, I don’t know how much cost is saved.
The storytellers and actors in charge of Wang Yangguang can not only promote the court, but also get information from many aspects. For example, the news we got today is: Hua Kui's death in battle, and the 800-person army that was gifted by the court.
The robber was killed.
The news first reached Wang Chengen. When he heard the news, he almost fainted and fell to the ground. Then his face turned pale and his eyes were dull. His appearance scared the people around him so much that they did not dare to speak.
"Quick! Go and report to Your Majesty!"
Wang Chengen pointed at the main hall where Zhu Ling was, trembling, and his heart was full of unwillingness and despair. This expression made people around him very confused. I wonder why the father-in-law felt so sad because of the demise of this group of bandits?
Do you want to inform His Majesty?
Seeing that there was no movement from the people around him, Wang Chengen reluctantly stood up with the help of everyone, and then said with all his strength: "Let's go and report to His Majesty! Help me to meet His Majesty!"
At this time, Zhu Ling was studying how to deal with Ma Shiying's rebellious behavior. Wang Jiayan and Shi Kefa were also providing him with suggestions. They also discussed it for two or three hours. Although the general direction was the same, there were still some details.
has not been unified.
"Your Majesty, I still believe that we must disintegrate them internally, so as to avoid unnecessary losses." Wang Jiayan has repeated this sentence many times. It's not that he doesn't dare to do drastic things, he is just more cautious. I care.
There are so many people and things, which inevitably constrains a lot of his thoughts.
Shi Kefa, on the other hand, was a little radical and said directly: "Your Majesty will not be able to appease the officials or calm the hearts of the people if he does not personally drive and conquer. Now our dynasty is already a troublesome both internal and external. If we continue to reduce big things to trivial matters like this,
Doesn’t it mean that others will look down on me, the Ming Dynasty? I suggest that what Ma Shiying and the others have done this time has humiliated the Ming Dynasty to the bottom line!"
Hearing this, Wang Jiayan didn't take it seriously and instead got angry: "According to Mr. Shi, would you rather spend more money, die more people, and delay more time? What kind of thing do you really think Ma Shiying is! Just a clown is trying to do this.
Do you want me, Daming, to take off and do dog dance together?"
Seeing that Wang Jiayan was so quarrelsome and His Majesty didn't say anything, Shi Kefa immediately said: "Some money must be spent! Whether a person dies or not is God's will. And time, as you said, Master Wang, controls Yingtian Mansion and
If the traitors of the crown prince and hundreds of officials are not worth mentioning, do you have to place a knife on the heads of you, me, or even your majesty, in order for you to be worthy of suppressing the rebellion?"
"What I want to tell you is that instead of putting so much effort into this matter, we should focus on how to defeat the slaves and how to exterminate the bandits! Instead of saying that they are not worth mentioning as you said!"
"The rear is equally important! Now that most of Shandong has returned to our territory of the Ming Dynasty, we must not act too hastily. We must develop slowly and plan for it slowly! Only in this way can we advance or retreat without ending up in a big defeat!"
"If you develop slowly and figure it out slowly, don't you also give the thieves the opportunity to figure it out slowly?"
Seeing that the exchange of opinions between the two had reached such an intense level, Zhu Ling, who was watching the show above, could no longer watch the show and immediately yelled: "That's enough!"
Upon hearing His Majesty's scolding, the two just snorted coldly at each other, turned their heads and ignored each other.
"What both my dear friends said is reasonable, but there are also problems. No one is perfect." After glancing at them, Zhu Ling could only try to smooth things over. After all, these two people are also the pillars of the imperial court.
He doesn't want to see anyone being wronged.
"A few days ago, I ordered Zhu Dadian to post Liu Zeqing's portrait in various prefectures and counties and offer a reward for this person. But there are no clues. I wonder whether he ran to the south, or whether he went to Shanxi and Henan areas? My dear friends
How can we tell where Liu Zeqing has gone?"
"South." Wang Jiayan answered first.
"Henan." Shi Kefa followed closely.
Seeing that the two were about to pinch each other again, Zhu Ling was about to scold him again when Wang Chengen arrived in time and resolved the crisis.
"His Majesty!"
A pitiful cry came in, and the three of them saw Wang Chengen walking in with a sad face. Naturally, they were a little confused. They didn't know what happened to make the biggest eunuch in the palace look like this.
"Wang Cheng'en, what are you doing?" Zhu Ling looked at him and couldn't bear to ask.
"Your Majesty!" Wang Chengen was about to say something when he suddenly saw Wang Jiayan and Shi Kefa also there and stopped immediately.
After glancing at the two of them, Zhu Ling also guessed that what Wang Chengen said must be a privately established armed force, and immediately said: "Both dears are members of the same family, you can tell it yourself."
"Hua Kui died in battle, and the entire army of 800 people was wiped out!"
Hearing this, Zhu Ling couldn't help but open his mouth wide, and his eyes were full of shock! A feeling of sadness arose in his heart. He was fine before, but now why is the whole army suddenly wiped out? If there is danger, the local response should be
There is help from the government, and there are not tens of thousands of bandits in Shandong, so why?
However, Shi Kefa and Wang Jiayan looked at a loss, not knowing who Hua Kui was mentioned by Wang Chengen.
"Two dear friends, Na Huakui was originally a bandit who was defeated by Fan Xianchao and Sima Jingru before, and was arrested. In order to wipe out bandits in other places and do some things that cannot be made public, I organized a group of eight
Hundreds of bandits. Let them do what my imperial army cannot do."
Zhu Ling sighed, and the vicissitudes of life appeared in his eyes.
"I never expected that they would be completely wiped out in just a few days."
Suddenly, anger appeared in Zhu Ling's eyes again. Perhaps his heart was full of unwillingness and anger, and he immediately stood up and said: "Go and find out for me how the whole army was wiped out! I want those bandits to return their lives!"