Beiyang new warlord

It has to be said that Wen Tiren was really capable of fooling the Emperor Chongzhen for a moment. Zhang Guowei, the governor of the south of the Yangtze River, and Lu Zhenfei, the governor of the south of the Yangtze River, successively wrote letters to plead for Qian Qianyi's grievances. He didn't listen to the memorials of the two local officials, or the testimony of Qian Qianyi and Qu Shixu pleading for his grievances, and the memorials were kept and not published.

However, at this time, another crocodile made a move.

I have to say that this Qian Qianyi is also an old fox, old and cunning. Back then, the Donglin Party and the Wei Zhongxian Eunuch fought to the death, claiming to kill all the eunuchs in the world. In the end, he was lucky and wrote to the former eunuch Wang An According to the inscription, the eunuch Cao Huachun, who is now the chief inspector of ceremonies, is Wang An's disciple. With this relationship, he asked Sun Chengzong's son to ask Cao Huachun for help, and gained a relationship with this great eunuch.

In April, things suddenly took a turn for the worse. With Cao Huachun's intervention, the case of framing was easily exposed. In a hurry, Wen Tiren made a fatal mistake. He instructed his cronies to criticize Cao Huachun for accepting money. Qianyi's bribe of 4 taels was known to everyone in the capital, but in the end it completely angered the eunuch who was also trusted by Emperor Chongzhen. Cao Huachun personally asked the emperor for orders to supervise the case.

There is an old saying that goes well, under the three trees, what can you ask for?Coupled with the fact that Cao Huachun’s factory guards sentenced him to death, as the accuser, Zhang Hanru, the master of Changshu, was the first to be overwhelmed. He was also arrested. In early April, Cao Huachun proudly presented the results of the interrogation before Emperor Chongzhen.

Looking at the blood-stained confession, Emperor Chongzhen was also shocked to say that sentence that was quite heavy in the political arena in the late Ming Dynasty.

"Benevolence and Party!"

The reason why Wen Tiren was successful was that he figured out the thoughts of Emperor Chongzhen, and knew that Emperor Chongzhen hated party struggles, so he made himself an image of a lone minister, deliberately looking for trouble, and attracted Chao Wenwu to attack him, expressing With that pitiful appearance of being isolated and helpless, he successively defeated Qian Qianyi and Zhou Yanru who were divided into cliques. But this time, Cao Huachun exposed not only his crime of framing Qian Qianyi, but also the fact that he formed a clique. It is equivalent to cutting off the trust of Emperor Chongzhen.

On the other side, Wen Tiren, who didn't know it yet, was still repeating his old tricks, asking for leave and leaving the court, and at the same time writing a letter to the emperor to resign, trying to show that the situation had nothing to do with him at this time, but when he was full of joy, what was waiting was Emperor Chongzhen's three cold characters.

let him go!

In April of the tenth year of Chongzhen, Wen Tiren, a scholar of Shoufu University who had been in power for eight years, was dismissed and returned to his hometown.

However, even if the court was ups and downs, it had nothing to do with Mao Jue, who was far away in the Dongjiang River, but because of the super inefficiency of the Ming court, coupled with the political struggles of the past two months, Mao Wenlong had already arrived at the military department of the capital in February. After retiring from old age and returning to his hometown, he recommended Mao Jue to take over. It was not until mid-April that he passed the cabinet to the Supervisor of Rites.

It was Cao Huachun who was in charge of criticizing the red.

At this time, it was the time to counterattack Wen Tiren, and Mao Jue was considered unlucky. The deepest impression he left on Cao Huachun was that a few years ago, he took refuge in Wen Tiren and pushed Ming Dynasty to launch a war against the Tokugawa shogunate. Cao Xi of the army also repeatedly sent back news that Dongjiang Mao Jue was domineering. He was a domineering general with a label of Wen Tiren.

"The former reckless general Mao Wenlong was born as a remnant of the eunuch party. His majesty thought of the emergency of the Liaodong war, so he forgave him and let him continue to supervise the Liaodong army. This official does not care about the emperor's favor, but is lazy in state affairs. He opened the border market without permission, was greedy, and abused the border people. , now you want to retire and pass on the position to that treacherous warrior Mao Jue, it is simply unreasonable!"

With a bang, the memorial was thrown from the table to the ground. The eunuch jumped up angrily and turned around. He picked up the memorial, turned and walked towards the backyard.

Morning the next day.

After Wen Tiren left, a huge vacuum of power was left behind, which was greedily contested by various cliques. From the re-ranking of the first assistant to the second assistant in the cabinet, to the position vacated by the expulsion of Wen Tiren's cronies, no matter what the Donglin Party, the Chu Party and the Zhejiang Party , all of them were red-faced, mixed with this, the resignation of a Dongjiang soldier could hardly cause any waves, but when he heard it from the ears of all the ministers, it was like being struck by lightning.

"Today, Liaodong's general seeking captives, Zuo Dudu, Dongjiang general Mao Wenlong returned to his hometown, Ningyuan's deputy general Huanglong was appointed as Pidao's general, and Haining County's military commander Qu Shisi was appointed as Jianjun Dao. He will take up his post today. I respect you!"

"His Majesty!"

His granddaughter did not marry for nothing, she almost vomited blood in a hurry, Yushi Chen Zanzhong stood up from the court regardless, kowtowed to the ground, and argued hastily.

"The Mao family has been in Dongjiang for many years. The soldiers and horses in Dongjiang town are all the old generals of the Mao family. There are conflicts, and now the Liaodong general is transferred to the Dongjiang River. I fear that there will be a risk of repetition. I suggest that Mao Wenlong’s son Mao Jue should be used to succeed Pidao’s general army, so as to make things easier for the border!”

Chen Zanzhong had to be in a hurry. It wasn't that he loved Mao Jue so much. It was because this young man's boldness and ruthlessness left a deep impression on him. He could foresee that once this imperial decree was spread to Dongjiang, it would cause this young man What a man's anger.

Colluding with pirates to attack Hangzhou, he can do it, because it is not impossible to rebel at this time. Don't you see that the last one of the three major expeditions in Wanli is Ningxia.  Playing the position of the general army that Xingmo's family should have enjoyed, led to the mutiny in Ningxia.

Dongjiang is reversed, and Mao Jue will be fine for a while. At worst, he pats his ass and takes his troops to join Houjin. According to the current situation outside the customs, even the Ming Dynasty really can't do anything to him, but his Chen family is the Mao family. In-laws, it's a disaster!Don't you see Li Ling of the Han Dynasty?

It's a pity that his suggestion was most in line with the needs of the imperial court, but it was not what Emperor Chongzhen liked. For such a military and national event, the emperor glanced at him lightly.

"I heard that Dong Jiang Mao Jue is Chen Qing's grandson-in-law?"

In a word, Chen Zanzhong stopped abruptly, and returned to the court tremblingly.

He was too clear, according to Emperor Chongzhen's character, what he said was useless.

In the court hall, the tumultuous scramble still continued, but Chen Zanzhong seemed to have lost his soul, completely turning a deaf ear to it, all buzzing voices in his mind

Chapter 352. Humiliation

Sitting in front of the round table of Tieshan's conference, Mao Jue felt disgusted. Looking at the secret report in front of him, he felt as if he had eaten a fly.

It's really similar to Qian Qianyi, people sit at home, and the pot comes from the sky.

In fact, this matter has long been premonitioned, and Lao Cheng's nail was buried. As early as February, Wen Tiren made a move against Qian Qianyi, and the news from the capital had already made Mao Jue, who came from later generations, have a premonition. However, when things came true, it was still so unacceptable.

Seeing Mao Jue's unhesitating expression, the group of generals who had been gathered early to wait for the news also became restless. Seeing Mao Jue throwing the secret letter on the table, Wen Meng couldn't wait to pick it up. In the past two years, Mao Jue Forcing the officer to learn, he did not know a lot of Chinese characters from the original Dou Dazi, and now he can be regarded as a little ink, and he can understand it. It also fell hard on the table.

"The dog's court on his dog's day!"

The letter spread quickly, and the meeting room, where a needle drop could be clearly heard, quickly became abuzz.

"What? Send a dog from Liaodong to control our Dongjiang?"

"This rowed the Dongjiang River to the bottom of Liaodong, let us listen to the orders of those dogs!"

"You want someone else to replace the general's chief soldier? He's XX!"

The sound of surprise was finally interrupted by a bang, and Wen Meng slammed on the table, and Wen Meng jumped up.

"The emperor is not benevolent and we are not righteous! Our brothers followed the general and bled and sweated for so many years to be familiar with the court! In the end, we ended up like this, and sold his mother's life? We should just do the opposite!"

Almost immediately, Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming jumped up one after another.

"That's right, this Dongjiang, I will recognize the Mao family! Whoever the hell wants to take the position of the general, I will be the first to cut him off!"

"That's right! It's been so many years anyway! Wouldn't we be able to live in peace without that dog court? It's the other way around!"

However, apart from the three of them, there were very few who responded. Even Mao Jue's confidant generals, Shen Rong, Pang Hai, and Liu Chong were a little dumbfounded, let alone those Dongjiang local generals, like Tian Tao, He Momo, the two brothers of the Zhao family.

In this era, the righteousness of the imperial court is not as simple as talking about it, but the reality is that it weighs heavily on people's hearts. If you want to rebel against Ming Dynasty, a wave of fear will first make people breathe heavily and show fear on their faces.

Seeing the silence of the crowd, Wen Meng became even more furious, patting the table and yelling.

"What kind of soldiers are you bringing? The general's personal soldiers! You have enough food and pay every month, but the general owes you? You are rewarded every year, and you go to battle with the same fate! Now you can't even hold your fart, okay? Wow, I, Wen Meng, have been with you white-eyed wolves for so long! I will kill you now!"

"General Wen, enough is enough!"

Seeing that Wen Meng was really about to take out the revolver, Mao Jue stretched out his hand to restrain him, but seeing Mao Jue looking around, a group of Dongjiang generals still followed with a spirit.

"I didn't say anything! The last general only follows the general!"

"Dongjiang belongs to the Mao family! The Zhao family is only a vassal of the Mao family's tail!"

This time is when standing in line, fearing the imperial court, why not fearing Mao Jue, and Mao Jue is kind to everyone present, in fear, it is Zhao Cheng, who can be regarded as foreign generals, who are the first to express their opinions.

With a bang, a dagger was stabbed on the table, and Liu Chong finally stood up, his voice was much more sincere.

"The last general joins the general as a personal soldier! The last general's life belongs to the general! General, the last general begs for orders. If the surnamed Huang dares to take a step in Dongjiang, let the last general kill him!"

"General, Shen Rong please order!"

"General, Pang Dahai, please order!"

In such a murderous look, Mao Jue still had a cold face, sitting on his handsome chair, in such a dull atmosphere, Fan Wenju, who was regarded as the head of Dongjiang civil servants, finally coughed.

"Everyone, General Wen, Fan thinks it's wrong to rebel!"