I'm really not the carpenter emperor

Hong Chengchou has passed this test. If he takes office, there will be disharmony in history, and there will be no reappearance.

Now that the Lord has arrived, it's time to express his attitude.

Zhu Youxiao called all the four cabinet ministers, Zhang Minghe, Gu Bingqian and others to him, and said solemnly:

"That day, I wanted to keep Xiong Tingbi in Liaodong, and all the ministers wanted me to dismiss him and question him. Now that Liaodong has finally recovered, you are eager to do this kind of thing."

"Six arts of a gentleman, I'm afraid you have already stepped on your feet!"

Seeing everyone looking at each other, Zhu Youxiao snorted coldly and continued:

"Let me just believe this Gu Bingqian. I have made up my mind. I will use Hong Chengchou to govern Liaodong, and with the power of the whole country, I will stick to Liaodong and resist the rebels."

"If there is any further discussion, I will not forgive you lightly!"

Chapter 48 Jian Slave Comes Again

"But Your Majesty..." Zhang Minghe seemed to have something to say.

Zhu Youxiao raised his head, his eyes seemed sharp, and said solemnly: "You all go back, Mr. Ge left the scriptures to talk about it on Yanri."

Zhang Minghe lowered the order of the leader, secretly swallowed a sip of body fluid, and secretly decided that from today onwards, whenever the battle report of the Liao affair came, he would check it carefully.

This Xiong Tingbi is so trusted by the emperor, does he have any real ability?

Everyone had nothing to say, and retreated one after another. About half an hour later, the chief minister of the cabinet, Ye, finished speaking to Gao Ri and returned home.

Not long after, Zhu Youxiao issued an order:

"Minister of Rites, Gu Bingqian, a Bachelor of Jin Wenyuan Pavilion, joined the cabinet to assist the government, and participated in confidential matters."

Gu Bingqian's entry into the cabinet marked that the so-called "eunuch party" advocated by the Donglin party members officially began to participate in the government and oppose it.

……

The capital of Liaodong, Liaoyang City.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the northern frontier defense has always been the top priority.

On the defense line stretching thousands of miles from the Yalu River in the east to Jiayuguan in the west, there are nine important frontier defense towns. Liaoyang is one of them, and the capital of Liaodong Town is located.

"Liaodong Chronicle" records: Liaoyang City lasted more than ten years from the fifth year of Hongwu to the 16th year. On the basis of the old city site, it was built and expanded several times to become a square city with a perimeter of more than 24 miles.

At this time, Xiong Tingbi was standing on the city wall and looking north, wearing Shangfang's sword and armor.

Behind him, [-] soldiers transferred from Shenyang City were slowly entering the city. Including the original defenders in Liaoyang City, the total number reached [-].

The rest of the tens of thousands of elites were stationed in Guangning, Shenyang, and other towns and forts in various guards.

Because the proposal for a new governor of the imperial court was pending, all of them, including Wang Huazhen, the right counselor who divided his troops in Guangning, were under the command of Xiong Tingbi alone.

Looking at the dust gradually rising in the distance, Xiong Tingbi sweated in his hands.

When he was a child, because of his poor family, he used to be a cowherd boy. Even though he studied hard and became an official, he was still less refined and scholarly than the children of famous families.

Xiong Tingbi has a straightforward personality, but also has the habit of being conceited and abusive, and there are few good friends in the court.

Before Zhu Youxiao's imperial decree arrived, he actually had no confidence in whether he could continue to stay in Liaodong.

At this time, a Zan Hua walked up to him and said, "Report to Taiwan, the imperial court's decision has come down."

Taitai is the general honorific name given to the big officials in the borderlands in the Ming Dynasty. In addition, there are also special respectful names for Liaodong Jinglue who joined the army.

After receiving the document, Xiong Tingbi felt mixed feelings.

Moved, angry, puzzled...

In the middle of the court, the Kodao officials handed in the rules to impeach him, but the emperor still tried his best to protect himself as a strategy, and he was arbitrary, and made an exception to promote Hong Chengchou, a doctor of the Qingli Division of the Ministry of Punishment, as the governor of Liaodong to settle the dispute.

Xiong Tingbi didn't know Hong Chengchou very well. He only hoped that this person would not oppose him in Liao affairs.

In the current situation in Liaodong, if you take one wrong step, you will lose everything!

It was good news. While Xiong Tingbi was grateful to Zhu Youxiao, he also slowly squeezed out two words:

"ass."

From Zan Hua's point of view, Xiong Tingbi should be happy after hearing the news, but he didn't expect him to curse with a black face.

Zan Hua was a little dazed, and subconsciously asked: "Tai Tai, what did you just say?"

Xiong Tingbi glanced at him when he heard the words, which made Zan Hua shudder.

The gust of wind is like a blade, and it can even penetrate the cotton armor that the soldiers have just issued. It makes people tremble and uneasy, and they are afraid of the bitter cold at the border.

It's just that in Zan Hua's eyes, this chill immediately pales in comparison to Xiong Tingbi's full of anger.

I only heard Xiong Tingbi say: "Zhang Minghe, Wang Huazhen, and the Donglin Party, these stupid asses who are still in the party struggle!"

Zan Hua suddenly realized when he heard the words, and didn't say any more.

On a spring day, a gust of warm wind blew to the capital, and Zhang Minghe, who was at home searching for various war strategies after Xiong Tingbi arrived in Liaodong, suddenly sneezed.

……

More than ten miles northeast of Shenyang City, the Pu River is located.

In the early spring, there was still snow outside the customs. Due to the impact of the Little Ice Age, compared with the Central Plains, farming activities had to be postponed until April and May this year.

Since Jiankang barbarians invaded the border, Qinghe and Fushun fell one after another. The Songliao Plain in Guangrou has not seen spring plowing for many years.

In the land that has been occupied by Jianlu, the city is massacred, their hair is shaved, and they surrender. Such things happen every day, and countless Ming people become slaves.

"The world is feasting, and the people are doing farming."

The words of peace in the world promoted by the Donglin Party members only exist in their fantasies. The land of Liaodong is swept away by the wind, and scarlet blood seeps into the frozen soil.

At Puhe, the military flag of Ming Dynasty was burning beside countless howling and running people. The hope in the hearts of the people of Liao was reduced to ashes and despair in the loss of one castle after another.

The body of You Shigong, the general soldier of Puhe, was exposed in the wilderness. He was shot with more than ten arrows all over his body, and was stabbed in both eyes by the Jian captives.

Surrounding You Shigong's corpse, there were more corpses of Ming soldiers and ordinary people.

Some people who had already fallen looked helplessly at the Jianlu cavalry chasing the people and taking the women captive on horseback, wishing they could jump up and fight Jianlu again.

They stood up with the last breath, but they were greeted with more rapidly spinning arrows.

At the beginning of March in the first year of Tianqi, the slave chieftain Nurhachi led a heavy army to take Shenyang, and first went to Puhe. The commander-in-chief, You Shigong, led thousands of Ming troops, all of whom died in battle.

Nurhachi marched in with his army, massacred all the people in Puhe city on the grounds that he had helped the Ming army defend the city, and entered Shenyang.

Xiong Tingbi has set up a defense system comparable to Jintang on the front lines of Shenyang and Liaoyang since he was appointed as Jinglue.

At this time, Shenyang was personally guarded by He Shixian, the deputy commander of Liaodong. Around the outer city, there were more than ten ravines as deep as one person, with sharp wooden bottoms inside, making it difficult for rats and beasts to walk.

Within the deep ditch, there were another two-foot-deep trench with wooden fences, horse-blocking walls, artillery carts, and pickets. Nurhachi took advantage of the situation to attack, and retreated after a fierce battle for half a day, calling out:

"Shenyang is really an iron city!"

At night, the Houjin army had already surrounded Shenyang outside the city, with a battalion for several miles. Nurhachi even said that once Shenyang was broken, all pigs and dogs would be slaughtered.

Inside the camp, unlike the people shouting and neighing outside, it was completely silent here.

"Amin, didn't you issue a military order to take Shenyang in the First World War?" Nurhachi was furious, and used one hand to knock the mountain and shake the tiger, "Since you have already ascended the city, why did you retreat!"

The profuse Khan was furious, and the rest of the later Jin generals were all trembling.

Especially Amin, who led the vanguard to the city during the day, his eyes were full of anger, fear, and various emotions.

He shook his huge body, and said in a low voice:

"Great Khan, the He clan is brave, and more than a thousand members of his family can hold back the more than [-] Ba Yala soldiers from my nephew's army. Please, Khan, give me one more chance to personally present the head of the He clan!"

Nurhachi knew that his nephew, although disobedient to everyone, was very brave in battle, so he didn't intend to punish him.

He snorted coldly, and said: "Seeing that you are quite brave in battle, and you are the first to climb to the top of Shenyang City, let me spare you."

"Thank you for sweating!" Amin wiped off his sweat and stood up after speaking.

As soon as Amin got up, Nurhachi ordered someone to bind a Zhengbai Banner who was weak in fighting from the outside, and pulled out a shiny tiger-headed broadsword, and slashed it down.

The latter stared wide-eyed and was about to shout, but then his hands and feet trembled, and there was no further movement.

Nurhachi handed the blood-stained knife to Amin, and asked, "Can you take Shenyang down tonight?"

Amin trembled all over, raised the knife and roared:

"Nephew is going to fight again, let's all be on top! Please don't worry, Khan, nephew will take the head of that dog He Shixian today!"

"Okay, this is my Jianzhou warrior!" Nurhachi laughed.

Chapter 49 Raid

"They're here again..."

At the head of the city of Shenyang, flying horses flew out of the slave camp, mixed with a large amount of dust, rolling towards them.

The soldiers of the Ming army stationed here looked gloomy, because everyone knew that Xiong Jinglue in Liaoyang had already fought in darkness, and there were no reinforcements at all.

"Marshal He is here!"

Suddenly, more than [-] generals from Liaodong Capital Division came forward, surrounded by a big man, and then some soldiers carried spirits on a wheelbarrow.

The fragrance of wine is overflowing, which seems to dilute the tension of the approaching war.

He Shixian stood on the wall, looked at the young faces below, laughed a few times, waved his hands and said loudly:

"Give all the wine to the brethren!"

After a while, He Shixian took a bowl of spirits, looked around, and asked, "Are you afraid?"

"Not afraid! Not afraid!"

"After fighting for so long, it's enough to kill early!"

"Hahaha, good!" He Shixian said: "This time the tartars are here, I'm afraid they are going to play for real, we Ming men, we must not be underestimated by the tartars!"

"Drink this bowl of wine, carry the military flag of Ming Dynasty, and cut down these bastards!"

After saying that, He Shixian drank generously, threw the wine bowl on the ground, turned around and shouted: "Open the city gate!"

When the Ming army at the top of the city was sharing the wine, the cavalry of the Hou Jin army had already entered the moat, and they stopped their horses. Fearing the power of the firearms at the top of the city, they sent out a sentry cavalry of about [-] people to test it.

The sentry cavalry had turned to the enemy building in the outer city. Seeing that the Ming army hadn't fired the cannon yet, one of them murmured in his heart:

"Could it be that Minggou's artillery is broken?"

"Haha, as I said earlier, this Minggou's firearm has loud thunder and little rain, so it won't work if it hits it."

"Go back quickly and report this news to Dorobeile. Maybe when he is happy, the future will come!"

A few of the rear Golden Whistle Riders exchanged a few words in Tartar, guessing that the artillery of the Ming army had broken down, and they were planning to go back to report in comfort.

Suddenly, shouts erupted in the city of Shenyang, and the gates of the city opened wide.

He Shixian personally led nearly a thousand members of his family, and galloped out from the south gate on horseback. The twenty or so rear golden sentry riders turned pale with shock when they saw this, and they pulled their horses back one after another.

"Kill the Tartars!"

He Shixian took the lead and chased after him. He easily chopped down two tall Jiannu sentry cavalry one by one.

The rest of the Ming army followed from Shenyang City, and rushed towards the Hou Jin army who was waiting quietly on the other side of the moat.

The Hou Jin army did not expect the Ming army to go out of the city to meet them. They were panicked and uneasy. Amin led his troops to meet them and fought for a few times. He was shocked to find that He Bu was brave.

Seeing that He Shixian had one man and one horse, fighting with his own cavalry was like a tiger joining a herd of sheep, and he felt that he was not an opponent.

Amin's eyes rolled wildly, pretending to resist, but in fact, he didn't want to hurt himself too much.

As soon as the front retreated, the remaining Jin troops were in chaos.

The Hou Jin cavalry was defeated all the way, He Shixian took advantage of the sharp advance, and suddenly, the Hou Jin soldiers and horses came to encircle him from all sides.

"It's careless!"

He Shixian suddenly realized that when he raised his whip and chased him, he had fallen into Jiannu's plan to lure the enemy deep.

The former army was besieged, and the remaining troops pursued the Ming army and tried their best to move forward, trying to rescue them, but He Shixian yelled: "Quickly retreat to the city, and we will not be able to guard it!"

"Just tell Xiong Jinglue that I, He Shixian, am sorry for him and the emperor!"

After He Shixian shouted, he turned around and entered the Houjin army. Nearly a thousand members of the family fought to the death without retreating, and were gradually submerged in the wave of Houjin soldiers.

The rest of the troops chased after the Ming army and were ordered to retreat into the city. Unexpectedly, the Jurchens had already broken into the city through the north gate. After a fierce street fighting, Shenyang was defeated.