Relying on the emperor's supreme authority and his skillful political skills of combining kindness and power, Chongzhen killed Gao Jie in one fell swoop and successfully divided Gao Jie's more than 40,000 troops.
By dawn the next day, eight people, including Li Chengdong, Hu Maozhen, Gao Jinku, Yang Chengzu, Tang Yinghu, Miao Shunhu, Li Xiangyun and Guo Hu, had all been promoted to the rank of general soldier and led a total of 4,000 to 6,000 troops.
They broke camp overnight and headed to the garrison designated for them by Chongzhen, which was basically in Xuzhou.
No one made any trouble.
It can be seen that these generals are all sober in the world.
No matter how good Yangzhou is, it is not more attractive than being the commander-in-chief and controlling one side alone.
What's more, even if Yangzhou City is really robbed, Gao Jie will eat the meat alone. It would be good if they can share some soup. It is not worth it to rebel and become a traitor just for a little soup.
All said and done, I still haven't tasted the sweetness of being a warlord.
By daybreak, there were only 10,000 troops and horses left outside Yangzhou City.
These ten thousand were Gao Jie's personal troops, led by his most trusted nephew Li Benshen.
At this moment, Li Benzhen felt a little nervous but also a little expectant.
Li Chengdong's eight people were promoted from generals, garrison or guerrillas to the rank of commander-in-chief, and they had already led troops north to the state capitals, so it was Li Benzhen's turn next.
Ordinarily, Li Chengdong and the others are all commander-in-chief, so there is no reason to give him a deputy commander-in-chief.
But before the answer to the mystery was revealed, I felt somewhat uneasy.
What's more, Li Benzhen still doesn't know why Gao Jie didn't return to the camp. When he asked Li Chengdong and others, they kept it secret. If he asked urgent questions, he would just ask Xingping Marquis himself.
This made Li Benzhen a little nervous for no reason, thinking that nothing would happen, right?
Finally, the eunuch who delivered the message came again, but this time it was not Gao Qiqian.
He was a eunuch with a greater background, eunuch Bingbi, the eunuch responsible for etiquette, and Wang Chengen, the eunuch in charge of the capital camp.
Li Benzhen had met Wang Chengen, and he immediately stepped forward with a coquettish look on his face and said, "Eunuch Wang, are you going to see the Holy One now?"
"No, you don't need to see me anymore." Wang Chengen waved his hand, and then shouted in a high voice, "Come here, take it with us!"
The four Yiding who were following Wang Chengen immediately pounced on him like wolves and tigers, and immediately pushed Li Benzhen to the ground, with his head trampled under his feet.
He became hasty and Li Ben was deeply confused.
More than a dozen pro-military troops have confused the president. What is going on?
"Eunuch Gao, why is this?" Li Benzhen asked, "Why is this?"
"There is an imperial edict!" Wang Chengen shouted at the top of his voice, "Why don't you kneel down to receive the edict?"
When more than a dozen generals looked at each other in confusion, the cavalry that had been facing off outside the camp all night suddenly came over, followed by another huge infantry group.
The infantry even pushed sidecars.
I don't know when this infantry arrived.
The heavy cavalry and infantry have surrounded them.
Gao Jie's pro-army troops suddenly became commotion, and they finally realized something was wrong.
But Gao Jie was not around at this time, and Li Benzhen was under control again. The highest-ranking people in the camp were the dozen or so generals who surrounded Wang Chengen, and the rest were sentry officers, captains, and so on.
Wang Chengen once again screamed at the dozen generals: "Kneel down and receive the order!"
The dozen or so people hesitated for a moment, and finally knelt down one by one.
This old eunuch is an imperial envoy after all. Unless they dare to kill an official and rebel, they can only kneel down and accept the order. But even if they rebel, someone has to take the lead, right?
What is lacking now is someone who dares to take the lead.
Just as Li Benzhen wanted to stop him, Yi Ding kicked his entire face into the mud.
Seeing more than a dozen generals kneeling down, the other soldiers also became discouraged.
If Gao Jie or Li Benzhen had taken the lead, these rebels would have had the courage to rebel. But now that Gao Jie is gone and Li Benzhen has been captured by the imperial envoys, they have lost their backbone and have given up.
The cavalry and infantry approaching the camp swarmed in.
The entire camp was under control, and Chongzhen finally appeared outside the camp gate.
Behind Chongzhen were Huang Degong, Gong Yonggu, Xu Dingguo and others.
Seeing Chongzhen's combination of kindness and power, he divided and disintegrated Gao Jie's army overnight. Huang Degong, Gong Yonggu, Liu Wenbing and others were full of admiration. Xu Dingguo, Liu Qiguang, Wang Yinglong and others were secretly shocked. Unexpectedly, really unexpectedly,
Chongzhen is so sophisticated in his actions, I really underestimated him before.
Two Yiding men escorted Li Benzhen to Chongzhen.
"Your Majesty?!" Li Benzhen was also very surprised when he saw Chongzhen.
Chongzhen didn't even look at Li Benzhen, so Li Benzhen must die.
Because Li Benzhen was Gao Jie's nephew, and he was commanding Gao Jie's middle camp troops, he could be said to be Gao Jie's die-hard confidant, but this was not the reason why Chongzhen wanted to kill Li Benzhen.
Chongzhen wanted to kill Li Benzhen because he had seen big money!
As the old saying goes, it's hard to achieve great success, but there's actually a second sentence.
The next sentence about meritorious deeds is that no reward will be given if there is too much money.
It is difficult for a person who has eaten delicacies from mountains and seas to eat glutinous vegetables again.
A person who has a huge fortune will never be grateful to him no matter how much he is rewarded.
The property Gao Jie robbed will definitely be handed over to his confidants for safekeeping. Li Benzhen is his nephew, so of course he is the best choice, so Li Benzhen must have seen big money.
Therefore, rewarding Li Benzhen with tens of taels and hundreds of taels of silver would not be appreciated at all.
Just like Chongzhen rewarded Tang Tong with forty taels of silver before, but in the end he angered Tang Tong, I am sending you these forty taels of silver? Who are you insulting?
Therefore, retaining Li Chengdong and the others, being promoted to the title of Commander-in-Chief, and rewarding them with some gold and silver in the future will make them grateful. But Li Benzhen cannot do that, and Li Benzhen will never be rewarded well no matter how much he rewards.
Instead, they will only remember that it was Chongzhen who hacked his family's money.
Yes, that's right, Chongzhen had already set his sights on Gao Jie's extravagant wealth.
Gao Jie robbed all the way from Shanxi to Henan, and then from Henan to Nanzhili. The gold and silver treasures he grabbed on the way were by no means a small amount, and he could use this extravagant wealth to pay for the army.
Therefore, Gao Jie must die, and Li Benzhen must die too.
In the same way, the two Lius, Liu Zeqing and Liu Liangzuo, must also die.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Zuo Liangyu, although he is just like Er Liu and Gao Jie in amassing money, and has become a de facto separatist warlord, but I am afraid that he will still be used in a short time
Nothing can be done.
The Ming Dynasty also ordered him to guard Jingxiang.
All this is a long story, but it’s actually just a change of thought.
"Kill him." Chongzhen said this and went straight into the camp.
Yi Ding, who was resisting Li Benzhen, immediately drew out his saber and slashed him down.
When the dozen or so people kneeling on the ground and the pro-army servants nearby saw this scene, they suddenly became silent. Are they going to kill them now?
Chongzhen quickly arrived outside Gao Jie's camp. Wu Batan and Jin Xuan were worried about an ambush inside the camp, so they immediately rushed in front of Chongzhen and used their swords to lift open the tent curtain.
I saw a soft couch and a large number of wooden boxes placed in the cabin.
Many boxes were open, containing ingots of silver.
Gao Qiqian, who was following Chongzhen, immediately showed a greedy look and was eager to give it a try. Long live my Lord, just let me help you count the money, okay?
Chongzhen said: "Wang Daban."
Wang Chengen took a step forward and said, "I'm here, old slave."
Chongzhen said: "Hurry up and count your belongings and register them one by one."
Looking back, Chongzhen said to Jin Xuan: "Jin Qing, Gao Jie must have another den besides this camp. You should find out where his den is now and then lead troops to confiscate his property! This dog
What we are robbing is the people’s wealth of the Ming Dynasty, so naturally we should use it to contribute to the Ming Dynasty!”
"I accept the order." Jin Xuan turned around and walked away.
Chongzhen said to Huang Degong again: "Bo Jing'an, Gao Jie's 10,000 troops are handed over to you. You should carefully screen them. If they can be used, give them a chance to atone for their crimes. If they are really unusable, just put them to death."
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"I accept the order." Huang Degong bowed his hands, turned around and walked away.
After finishing these tasks, Chongzhen walked to the couch in the carriage and lay down.
Within a moment, thunderous snoring sounded.
This month, Chongzhen was really exhausted.
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Chongzhen was exhausted. Huang Jiarui, the governor of Nanzhi in Yangzhou City, and Ma Mingluan, the deputy envoy of Yangzhou Military Preparation, also stayed up all night and stayed on top of the city.
Last night, Gao Jiejun spent a whole night outside the city.
Huang Jiarui, Ma Mingluan and the soldiers and civilians of Yangzhou also worried all night.
It was not until daybreak that the soldiers and civilians of Yangzhou were shocked to discover that most of the rebel troops originally surrounding Yangzhou City had withdrawn, leaving only the rebel troops outside the west gate.
Ma Mingluan said in shock: "What's going on?"
"You ask me?" Huang Jiarui said angrily, "Who am I going to ask?"
Ma Mingluan expressed his displeasure and said, "Futai, do you want to send a team of people out to have a look?"
Huang Jiarui hesitated for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Forget it, one more thing is worse than one less thing. Maybe this is Gao Jie's traitor's hard-to-get trick. We can't fall for his deception."
While he was talking, a group of cavalry suddenly approached the city gate.
When I got closer, I realized that the leader was wearing a python robe and a three-mountain hat on his head, and his face was white and beardless. He was actually a eunuch, and he seemed to be of quite a high rank.
"This father-in-law, does he look familiar?" Ma Mingluan whispered.
"It's Eunuch Gao!" Huang Jiarui had already shouted, "Gao Qiqi!"
While the two were talking, Gao Qiqian had already arrived in front of the city gate and asked in a sharp voice: "Who is there in the city? Our Ningqian Supervisor Gao Qiqian has something important to do when entering the city."
"Father, wait a minute." Huang Jiarui motioned to Xiangyong to put down the hanging basket.
Facing a great eunuch like Gao Qiqian, no one dared to neglect him.
But I didn't dare to open the city gate easily, so I had to use a hanging basket.
Gao Qiqian quickly came up in the hanging basket and asked in his first sentence: "Our family has heard of the name of Yangzhou Skinny Horses for a long time. You must find some Yangzhou Skinny Horses for our family immediately. Be quick."
