Chapter 327: The aftermath of victory, too confused

A year later, the two sides of the Wo Water became the most fertile land in Henan, but no one dared to cultivate these two places. Whenever the flowers bloom, this area is colorful and very beautiful.

All the local tyrants in Henan who participated in the battle between the north and south of the WoShui, both big and small, had their own official positions. To their surprise, the official positions granted to them were directly granted to them, including those who were granted their titles in their original homes, Guide Mansion, Kaifeng Mansion, Huaiqing Mansion and Zhangde Mansion.

Although they have brought a lot of people, Jiaozhou Camp also has a check-in procedure. The number of soldiers who can receive Jiaozhou pay silver is almost one-tenth of the previous number, and the best one is only one-fifth.

Originally, this is similar to the inclusion of the act. The determination of the number of troops requires a very troublesome bargaining, but Jiaozhou Camp has the power of great victory, so who dares not say more?

Moreover, if you have an official position on your behalf, you are a local official in Henan. This is an unexpected surprise. If you have any unexpected requests, you will be punished by God.

However, everyone also found it strange that Li Meng was a military general from Shandong, so how could he be appointed as an official in Henan? Moreover, the big guys in Kaifeng City had no objection, which was really incredible.

Although the Jiaozhou Camp has not assigned a large number of troops, it has left them a way out. If you want to increase the source of troops, you can send your servants and confidants or children from your family to come for training. Several battalions stationed in Guide Prefecture and several battalions of the Yanzhou Army can be trained on their behalf.

In addition to traveling, Jiaozhouying is responsible for the expenses of food and accommodation, which seems to be a great thing. However, after the Jiaozhouying system is trained, you will always consciously or unconsciously trust Jiaozhouying.

Li Meng didn't stay in Guide Mansion for too long. Jia Dashan was always nervous about his nephew Jia Quan's rash charge. He was afraid of being implicated, so he felt relieved after receiving Li Meng's comfort. After the inspection, more than 1,500 people were left, and a large camp was formed.

In the two farms on both sides of the Yellow River, two regular camps were trained from the village Ding. In addition to the two battalions originally arranged, Jia Dashan, the garrison in Zhecheng, had five battalions of troops. Li Meng was extremely generous. All the rich landlords who came to help the war this time were handed over to Jia Dashan to lead them. These people gathered together and had about two battalions of troops.

Moreover, if the local tyrants are mobilized, no matter what regular army or irregular army, as long as they have a young and strong family, they will be brought into the team at that time. In this case, Jia Dashan can call for nearly 20,000 troops and horses at any time, and there are also some backbone teams that are quite capable of fighting.

Back then, Jia Dashan was rampant in eastern Henan under the name of "Li Zhenhai". However, local officials and the wealthy families did not sell his accounts at all. One of his nephews went to propose marriage. However, the other party refused disdainfully, saying that my family was loyal and loyal for generations, and he could marry you, those of you, who had fallen into the arms.

Although he was extremely angry at that time, he was helpless. Tens of thousands of people were in the village, but the villagers were not easy to attack. If they wanted to siege, the yards and forts of all their homes were extremely solid. Mobilizing the villages could also bring a large team, and it might not be necessary who would win or lose.

He could only bear it in a dusty state, with a prestige on his face, but in secret he felt like he could not raise his head. But this time it was different. Li Meng and his subordinates did not enter Zhecheng County and Guide City. They just stayed in his manor for two days and after a little rest, they led the army to leave Henan.

But next time, the family who had retired from his nephew's marriage hurriedly came to the door and said they were willing to get married again. The dowry and other things were easy to talk about. When he was still a good citizen, the magistrate of Zhecheng County was polite to meet, but it was condescending. The Jia family should be careful to laugh.

But after this battle, the magistrate of Zhecheng respectfully called him "General" and did not dare to look up at Jia Dashan. The general and the bowing of his fists were raised.

At that time, Jia Dashan almost burst into tears. He felt that he had never lived in vain in his life. At the same time, he felt so comfortable. No wonder everyone was willing to be an official. This feeling of being a superior person is indeed fascinating.

Li Meng only encouraged him a few words, but Chen Liu and Zhang Jiang both asked Jia Dashan "passionately" that the battalion under his command was just selected from his Ding Zhuang, and had not been trained by Jiaozhou Camp, so whether he had to arrange some veterans and officers training for him.

When Jia Dashan heard about this, his first reaction was that the Jiaozhou Camp would annex his own team, and these soldiers were the capital to settle down and could not be given up like this. At that time, they fought with Chen Liu and the others. Jia Dashan was also a responsible and fierce man.

But Chen Liu's fierce aura is a bit heavier than his. He should be careful when talking when meeting. He was worried that he would not agree, and the other party would threaten and force him.

Who would have thought that when Chen Liu and others heard their statement, they were just laughing at the past and not mentioning it. At present, the military generals and soldiers under Li Meng were in Guide Mansion and around him, and Jia Dashan felt that it was amazing to be able to give up on him so much.

I had dinner with several elders from the Jia family in the evening. The Jia family is now the largest clan of Guide Mansion. The old Yue family said that there was a minister in Wanli year. He usually shook the earth and the other ones, but now he is just a fool. If our Jia family had not fought the thieves desperately in front of him, you would have lost your family.

After the war, the old Yue family sent someone to marry our family. Jia Dashan was the eldest son of the family and several uncles were always helping him to housekeepers. This time, everyone was proud and their attitude towards Jia Dashan was not the same as before as insulting the family and shamed the ancestors, but glorifying the ancestors.

Jia Dashan proudly told what he said in the morning, but unexpectedly one of his uncles wanted to beat him with a crutch, but he couldn't beat him.

"Are you a bastard kicked by a donkey? He, Shandong's Shuai, would you care about your men? Xiao Liuzi said that the head of a thief was cut by nearly 100,000 on the Wohe side. He, Li Dashuai, was caught by our family's wealth, just like an ant, and he would die if he stepped on it."

After cursing, several old men came back to their senses. "Dashan, this is what Marishal Li wants to praise you. Our family has no shortage of land and population. It is a stable official. With this big tree, you can have whatever you want!" "Don't be careful, hurry up and prepare a heavy gift to those people, and talk about it carefully. See if there is room for maneuver."

Originally, he had a happy meal, but Jia Dashan ate half of it, and ran out in a panic. The more he thought about it, the more he regretted it. The other party put the Golden Avenue in front of him, but he was still stupid and refused to leave. He didn't know if there was any chance, so he immediately went to his house to get fifty taels of gold and secretly asked to see Chen Liu.

Chen Liu, the general of the Yang Army of Huai, had known that the other party was coming, so he met Jia Dashan with a smile. He refused and took Jia Dashan's fifty taels of gold and said that he was going to do it for him.

That night, Chen Liu went to Li Meng's commander's account. However, Chen Liu just entered the commander's account and reported, "Master, Jia Dashan has come to find him again." Then he handed over the fifty taels of gold to Li Meng's personal soldiers, and Jiaozhou Camp achieved the overall position. He had dividends in the farmland and the business bank. People at Chen Liu's position would be rare.

Since he agreed to send officers to the Jiaozhou Camp, Jiaozhou Camp was not polite at all, and directly stuffed a group of people who had made contributions and performed well in this battle, below the Thousand Generals. More than 10,000 squads, 70% of the generals were officers from the Jiaozhou Camp, but Jia Dashan had no defense.

I accepted the other party's arrangement with joy. As long as the camp is bigger, my official position will be higher and higher. If I were willing to be independent, I would not have defected to the government at that time.

Jia Dashan even took the initiative to propose to Li Meng that he would not be good at returning to De Mansion in the future. He had to negotiate with several Qianmai to determine that Li Meng was naturally the one who was the one who was the one who was there.

By the way, a young man who was stuck in Jia Dashan's army had a firm look and almost no smile to become the deputy general manager.

Even though he was arranged in a non-Shandong army, the promotion rate from an ordinary soldier to a deputy general manager was still a bit large, but no one raised any objections. The young man's brother died in the war, and he also killed many enemies in the military formation and refused the favorable conditions for retirement.

At that time, Wang San, Zhuang Dingbing, now Li Meng named him "Wang Yu", and has become an officer in the Guide Army.

Shandong soldiers and horses fought against the bandits, beheading two thousand. Although the victory was not great, it was still published in the newspaper in October and distributed to the world.

After the Battle of Songshan, the court needed a victory to whitewash its face and calm the minds of the subjects in the world. After encircling and suppressing Zhang Xianzhong's eunuch in Huguang, Liu Yuanbin, the eunuch of Zhang Xianzhong's army, and led his troops back to the capital, he was immediately promoted to the eunuch of the military and horses outside the capital.

The Jingying camp is divided into the city, outside the city, and most of the city are officials, rogues, and they have no combat power at all. In other words, the Jingying camp outside the city is often pulled out to fight, so the soldiers and horses outside the Gongcheng City are equal to the largest military head near the capital, second only to the eunuchs in charge of the imperial horses.

The eunuch Liu Yuanbin thought that he had left Shandong and led his troops out of Beijing to pursue him, so he would not have to be humiliated by Shandong General Li Meng. But by chance, he became a big eunuch who was admiring the troops outside the capital. His position was extremely high. If Cao Huachun had not lost his power, he would not have been his turn to do it.

But at this position, Liu Yuanbin was not happy for a few days, and immediately felt that he couldn't sleep well, because the troops in the capital were to guard the capital and the emperor was in the city.

What brought Liu Yuanbin into his back was not the Tartar soldiers who were besieging Jinzhou and Songshan outside the pass, but the general Li Meng in Shandong.

When Liu Yuanbin was in Shandong, he was lawless and domineering, and did not take the laws and regulations of the court seriously. The governor and the military supervisor were all kept in captivity, and many of them were on their own. When he was in Shandong, the military supervisor Liu Yuanbin prepared a pot of poisoned wine for himself, and he would commit suicide at the critical moment.

But after leaving Shandong, whether in Huguang or in the capital, Liu Yuanbin suddenly discovered that no one noticed Li Meng. Even if he talked occasionally, he was just "Oh, it was the Shandong general who won a battle with the Tartars by luck." "Oh, it was the reckless man who snatched Qinhuai Shuangmei home." "Oh, it was the salt dealer."

No one knew the power of Shandong's troops, but they only knew some anecdotes. Someone originally said, "Oh, that eunuch party remnants..." But when Liu Yuanbin said this, he pointed at the monk and scolded the bald man.

In the court, the internal supervisors and important officials also disdained the Shandong general Li Meng. First, the official was confused and actually submitted a joint report saying that Yang Sichang was guilty, and second, there were so many generals in the world who held the title of general, so what could a Shandong general manage?

But Liu Yuanbin was a large army and local people, knowing that there was such a silent strong army around him, and that this person was so deep. It was really uncomfortable.

Emperor Chongzhen was stubborn and even though he needed the eunuchs of the internal officials to supervise the military, if the internal officials took the initiative to express any opinions, he would be suspected.

Especially although this Shandong general Li Meng is not likable, he wins one battle today and one tomorrow. If he says in front of Emperor Chongzhen, "This general Li Meng has the intention of rebellion", as long as there is one minister in the court who is incompatible. He jumps out and says that it is the eunuch who frames the heroes, and he will definitely be the one who is imprisoned and is punished.

If it were the emperors in other places, they would always doubt it, but the eunuch Liu Yuanbin, who was always confused about the ideas of Emperor Chongzhen, felt confused.

After returning to the capital, he also used the relationship between the Dongchang and the Jinyiwei to visit Shandong through his previous relationship. Who would have thought that the news that was sent back was said that Shandong General Li Meng'an was abiding by himself and had no intention of being indiscriminate.

The eunuch Liu Yuanbin was so confused that he had to be depressed and obedient.

This time, when he was transferred back to the capital, according to most people's judgment, there was no extra force in Jingji, Shanxi and Henan. The only remaining seeds in Liao Town still had to be deployed in the Shanhaiguan area. The only troops of Shandong General Li Meng guarding Jingji together with Liu Yuanbin.

Liu Yuanbin, who got this speculation, could not find a reason to object. He had a lot of nightmares at night and couldn't sleep well. When he heard that Li Meng led his army to Henan to pacify the thieves, he felt relieved.

Everyone knows that if the bandits were allowed to enter Shandong, it would be a huge disaster, but Liu Yuanbin hoped that Shandong soldiers would be defeated so that he would stay in the capital with peace of mind.

September learned the news. It was said that Jiaozhou Camp fought with the riots. He won a great victory and beheaded more than 2,000 people had reported this number over the years. If we counted it together, the population of the Ming Dynasty was almost killed by the officers and soldiers. If we had to add it, the number of killing thieves reported was not enough.

The more than 2,000 soldiers in Shandong must have been cheated and faked. Everyone sneered at it. Liu Yuanbin also breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the Shandong soldiers might not be as strong as he imagined, but in less than two days of peace of mind, there was a vague rumor coming, saying that nearly 60,000 soldiers and horses in Shandong were beheaded, but they were just buried on the spot.

He obviously made great contributions, but he was unwilling to show others that this kind of rumor and news that was completely contrary to common sense would not believe it. Emperor Chongzhen and his ministers would not believe it. He beheaded nearly 60,000 yuan. At least this contribution would be granted a title of marquis. He could get the top glory of the general in almost the blink of an eye. Why didn't he?

Moreover, although the Shandong general's reputation in the court was not good, he never had "dominate" and "arrogant" comments. He seemed to be a normal military general, so how could he have made merits?

It is indeed incredible to behead more than 60,000 yuan. It is not only common sense to betray the merits, but the admiral and eunuch Liu Yuanbin knew in his heart that these things were true, and Li Meng would definitely do this.

Li Meng must have a strange intention...

I know that someone has a strange intention, but no one believes it when I say it. This feeling is really depressing. This kind of worry seems unreasonable to outsiders.

However, for Liu Yuanbin, if Li Meng's troops from Shandong came to the capital, they would be much closer than the Tartars outside the pass and the bandits in Henan.

Therefore, Liu Yuanbin's arrangement of troops outside the capital focused on Tongzhou. This arrangement was ridiculed as a turning point. Even though the enemy was a Tartar and a bandit, you didn't set up formations in the north and west, but you were in the south. Do you still know how to set up formations in the marching and formations? It turns out that you are an ignorant eunuch.

During Li Meng's time in Guide Mansion, Fang Yingzhong, the eldest son of Fang Family in Yangzhou Prefecture, had always lived in Huai'an Prefecture. There was also the Fang family's property here. No one would have any opinions if they lived here.

The Fang family has always been relatively low-key, but this time Fang Yingzhong lives in Huai'an Prefecture City, and guests from all walks of life are endless and lively, which is surprising. Everyone doesn't understand why Fang Yingzhong suddenly changed.

The Shandong Salt Gang has just launched an activity in the Lianghuai area. Various channels are not complete, but a vague sound of wind is heard, saying that the troops stationed near Zhongdu, Fengyang, were preparing to divide their troops, and it is said that they were going to garrison Huai'an Prefecture and Yangzhou Prefecture.

At present, the border bandit army of Fengyang Prefecture is approaching, and the troops in Fengyang Zhongdu are not enough, so why do we have to divide our troops to Huaian Prefecture and Yangzhou Prefecture?

These two prefectures and counties are clearly in the garrison of Jiaozhou Camp, and outsiders are trying to intervene. Jiang Xianchuo is also very alert. The left-behind high-tech only has three battalions, and it is not enough to guard the military camp. If the army comes over, it will be really unstoppable.

Shandong Salt Gang and Lingshan Trading Company tried their best to inquire there, but there was no definite news, but the situation became increasingly wrong.

Originally, there were also landlords who were attached to the Tuntianzhuang Village at the junction of Huaian Prefecture and Fengyang Prefecture, but recently they were attacked by "bandits" and their whole family was killed.

The infiltration of these by Jianghu Road, Green Forest Road, and Shandong Salt Gang is much deeper than the open land. The bandits and horse bandits there dare to attack the vassals of Jiaozhou Camp. They are really blind, but they mobilize all their efforts to investigate, whether from Nanzhili, Shandong, or even Henan. Even those in Huguang have found out, or to put it more accurately, gangs of all sizes actively confessed to themselves and said they were innocent.

In the end, the only thing that can be suspected is that there are still soldiers and horses stationed on the Anhui border in Fengyang Zhongdu. The vague rumors are becoming more and more true.

Jiang Xianchuo and Gaoke, on one hand, delivered letters to Li Meng, and on the other hand, went to send letters to Ma Gang and Zhao Neng, the left-behind land in Shandong. If there was any abnormal movement, the troops from Lu would go south to quell the rebellion at any time.

However, the war didn't last long. First, Li Meng's official good news came, and it became much quieter openly and secretly. Then there was the news in private - beheading 50,000. Everyone was stunned when they heard this news, shocked, and silent.

Some people don’t believe it. But they believe in more people in the land. In private, the news has been spreading wildly.

The undercurrent of the two Huaihe Rivers was suddenly extremely quiet. The landlords and small merchants who were preparing to move to the village farms all lived in their original place with confidence and boldness, and they would never encounter any danger again.

Jiang Xianchuo suddenly realized that no matter how he used his relationship, he could not find any movement. It seemed that the other party had stopped all his actions.

"Uncle, uncle, the young man returned to Yangzhou Prefecture. The old man's mansion closed the door and prevented the villain from entering. The young man's family was driven out and rented a house to live in."

In the Fang family's courtyard in Huai'an Mansion, there were no more traffic a few days ago. The door was closed tightly. Fang Yingzhong sat in the living room in a daze. A servant in a blue hat beside him reported with a pale face, and the other servants hid.

"Where are the second and third brothers?"

Fang Yingzhong asked in a hoarse voice, the servant's face turned even more depressed and said in panic:

"The second master and the third master are the same. The door is closed and it is said that the house is haunted and dare not let outsiders enter."

With a "slam", Fang Yingzhong smashed the teacup in his hand to the ground and cursed:

"Haunted, a ghost who makes fun of melon. I think it's the second, and the third brother has a ghost in his heart..."

After saying that, he stood up and walked around the living room with anger. The servant stood aside and dared not speak. After walking a few times, Fang Yingzhong sat down again, picked up a wine pot on the coffee table beside him, poured a glass of wine, hesitated, handed it to the servant, and said warmly:

"Fang Lu, you have worked hard for so many days. Drink some wine and liven up your blood."

Fang Lu stared at the glass of wine, his face was even more bloody, but after a slight pause, he took the glass of wine with a wry smile and bowed and said:
To be continued...