Chapter 522: The Ming Dynasty has no loyalty

This is Liu Yuanbin's military camp. There are only ten Shandong representatives dressed in the merchants, but they are talking happily in Liu Yuanbin's official office. Liu Yuanbin sat blankly behind the Shuai Case. The few confidant generals below all bowed their heads deeply and dared not look at people.

Shandong's hint is actually very obvious. Everyone knows what the other party is saying, but what they are asking them to do is a bottom line in their hearts.

From childhood to adulthood, these people have developed this feeling in their hearts: the emperor is heaven, how can man do what he does to heaven? What God makes people do? Heaven can determine the life and death of man. This is all natural. Suddenly, a few people came over and asked them to do it in reverse. How could they turn around for a while?

The merchants who came over, except for the person who led the way to say hello, a eldest son of the Liu family in Jinzhou, were all intelligence personnel from the Inspectorate Department.

The Shandong Inventory Department, in addition to integrating the upper-level resources and uniform allocation, the original structure has not changed much, and it is divided into two lines: light and dark. The Lingshan Trading Branch Branch and other Shandong shops with names are open institutions, and the Shandong Salt Gang is still doing secret activities.

The shops in the open are obliged to cover people in the dark, so these spies are often dressed up as businessmen. The composition of the Shandong Salt Gang is the most complex in the entire Jiaozhou camp, with all kinds of religions and everything. At the beginning, it was indeed a mixture of fish and dragons, but after several cleanings, the rest were those who were loyal to Shandong and acted according to the rules.

Coincidentally, the remaining people were mostly those thieves and giant green forest bandits in the past, and there were also a few local tyrants. Before entering the Shandong Salt Gang, these people had a lot of scenes. They were all born into a bare-handed and born adventurers.

The four people who came here today were famous in the underground society in Shandong back then, but they never felt as energetic as they are today.

Although they were calm and calm and talked to Liu Yuanbin, the first-class eunuch in the Ming Dynasty, they all felt that life would be like today, and this life was not wasted. They were just people in various places. What kind of virtue can they have? They could talk about such a earth-shaking conspiracy here. Of course, it was the power of the great commander, but they would not live for the rest of their lives in vain.

In this room, I fell into an inexplicable silence. The soldiers on duty outside shouted worriedly and asked everyone in the room if they wanted tea.

This is also a secret code. If no one answers the answer, it means that there is a problem inside and people outside will rush in and take action immediately.

A genius general scolded in a muffled voice, and the house continued to be quiet. The envoys sent from Shandong were not panicked, and they were waiting for a reply in a calm manner.

This quietness is already annoying. Several generals under Liu Yuanbin's seat exchanged glances with each other, and then looked at Liu Yuanbin sitting on it. Liu Yuanbin, who was just in his early fifties, was hunched over in his seat and did not look up. This was not a solution.

A guerrilla under Liu Yuanbin received encouragement from his companions. He hesitated and coughed. This finally attracted Liu Yuanbin's attention in the seat. Looking at the guerrilla expression, Liu Yuanbin nodded and asked in a muffled voice:

"My gentlemen, the soldiers and horses in various places in the Beijing camp were scattered first, but they could almost raise 50,000 or 60,000 people. In addition, the remaining 70,000 soldiers in the border town of Xuanfu always came out. To say what Liu Dugong blamed, our confidant soldiers were less than 20,000. If you really make trouble, it would be difficult to protect yourself!"

If Liu Yuanbin really did something with his 200,000 soldiers, even though he was the admiral Liu Yuanbin controlled the more than 200,000 soldiers in the Beijing camp, there were also nobles and civil officials leading the Beijing camp. Once there was a fuss here, other places would directly refuse to obey the command in the name of the other places, or they would raise troops to support the king.

There was a man talking, and the atmosphere was a little more lively. Another general said in a romance:

"If it's really a big deal, our own troops will collapse. But there is nothing else that can be restrained except our own personal soldiers and servants, and I can't say for sure!"

Several envoys from Shandong looked at each other and looked contemptuous. If they had not deducted ordinary military pay to support their relatives and soldiers and had such different treatment, how could they not be able to control the troops? How could such troops be enemies of Shandong? It was a complete joke.

The messenger who had spoken before waved to his companions, and the few people gathered together and whispered a few words. The man stood up again and said with a smile:

"General Liu Shen, General Zhao Shen, Wei Guerrilla, Li Guerrilla, you have a total of about 1,500 personal soldiers. Including Eunuch Liu's personal guards, this is 2,700. Including the soldiers Liu has trained in the past two years, the total number of soldiers is about 5,000."

After saying this, even Liu Yuanbin, who had been hunching over there, opened his eyes wide, and the generals below were even more decisive. It turned out that Shandong knew the names of their people, and even how many personal military generals they had in their hands were clear. Such an enemy was a bit terrifying.

"Five thousand people, who set up camps in the east of this city to defend themselves. With the rest of the local chickens and dogs, how can they defeat them? If there is really a dangerous moment, Eunuch Liu, my general has a promise. As long as you persist for eight hours, my Shandong troops will arrive."

After saying this, the room was quiet again. After a while, he heard Liu Yuanbin laughing a few times. He straightened his body again on the chair, and his voice became louder. He spoke:

"Since the Duke of Qi has achieved this, there is naturally no reason why our family and the children below do not do it, but there are a few requirements to talk about."

Since he was willing to make a request, everything would be easy. The messenger who spoke was a little polite and bowed and said:

"My father-in-law, please speak. Shandong is not unreasonable. Any reasonable thing will be satisfied!"

These words are soft and hard, but Liu Yuanbin doesn't care about this anymore. He said after a moment of pondering:

"Our family property has been agreed upon. I believe that Shandong will not invade the property. However, our family has heard of the practice of military farms in Shandong. Our family does not care about the rest of the Jingying people. But our family brought the more than 20,000 Chu troops from Huguang. If we were to be enclosed in the farm like other prisoners, our family would not do it. We would also ask the Duke of Qi to give them a favor and give them a better place. Our family would not ask for anything else, and let them become ordinary people. After following our family for so many years, we would have to have a place."

Several Shandong envoys looked at each other again, and one of them answered quite affirmatively:

"Since Eunuch Liu said this, this is not a problem. However, you must first go out for three years as a civilian household in the military farm to go out for the people. This is also a rule in Shandong. My father-in-law must understand it."

The more Liu Yuanbin talked about the spiritual sutra, the more he was, nodded, and said again:

"Just just now, our family has about 5,000 troops that can be used as Erlang. These troops were also trained for a lot of money. It is a pity that they just dispersed in vain. Our family is shameless to ask Duke Qi and his elders to arrange it. Can these people be organized into armed salt stewards to maintain local public order? First, the brothers have a way out, and second, they also help Duke Qi."

After saying this, the merchants sitting below looked at each other, but the atmosphere suddenly became tense. Several military generals under Liu Yuanbin put their hands on the hilt of the knife.

If we arrange these more than 5,000 combat-capable Ming army, we must also accept the military generals and officers above and place them in the local area as armed salt stewards. This matter has become a bit big. These merchants did not receive this authorization in advance. Liu Yuanbin said on the top:

"Our family knows that the Duke of Qi is a trustworthy person, but this matter is too big, so we have to set up a better way of retreat."

The merchants looked at the direction of the capital city, gritted their teeth, and the man who stood up to speak stood up again and said hesitantly:

"Eunuch Liu, I can't make the decision on this matter for you, and I have to report back to the Duke to make a decision. However, I said rashly that this matter is not a big problem, but these thousands of soldiers are probably going to be trained and adapted first. It is still uncertain which province to be stationed in. I have to give you this permission and can't make any more guarantees."

Having said that, it was enough. Liu Yuanbin hesitated and said:

"Please come back. We should do that matter before the New Year as much as possible... If it cannot be done, it is because Shandong soldiers are invincible, so come and do it yourself."

Before these envoys sent by the Inventory Department came, they had actually done a lot of preliminary work, and today's interview is the end.

Although the admiral Liu Yuanbin, the eunuch of the Beijing camp, answered vaguely and had always put forward conditions during the discussion, the last sentence had already achieved a better result than expected, and was enough to go back and report it and make contributions.

Both sides were always polite, but when they were sent, they did not give it to the courtesy, and a general with sufficient status came out to send it out. They just sent a personal soldier leader to bring people to deliver it.

Those confidant generals and Liu Yuanbin were all staying in the official office just now, and they must have discussed what happened just now.

The sound in the room was very low, and even the closest personal soldiers standing could not hear what was said in it, so they could only vaguely say a few words.

"……The five cities of the military commander, the young ones are acquaintances..."

"…The palm print of the Imperial Horse Supervisor was originally…"

"There has been a long time ago..."

When it was almost dark, many people from the camp here ran towards the city. In a big car shop in the south of the capital, a knight put a letter on his body and rushed to Shandong. If possible, the news would be sent back almost the day after tomorrow.

The surveillance from the Sishandong Salt Gang system stared outside Liu Yuanbin's military camp. The eunuch promised to take action before the New Year, but it was the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, but there was no movement at all.

On the 26th day of the 12th lunar month, one of the several Shandong businessmen who came to visit Liu Yuanbin on the 23rd came to his camp.

Li Meng sealed the letter confirmed by confirmation, promising that if this matter was done, Liu Yuanbin and his 20,000 Chu troops would be arranged to be in the Huguang area. Those who were unwilling to join the army would be divided into civilians after three years of military farming. Liu Yuanbin's more than 5,000 people would be placed in prefectures and counties on the junction of Sichuan and Huguang to be armed saltmen.

After receiving this letter, Liu Yuanbin and his military generals completely relaxed, and another request in the letter made them more at ease. Duke Qi asked them to maintain public order in the capital and not allow vicious incidents such as riots and robbery in the capital, and to maintain the original state as much as possible and make a smooth transition. Shandong's orders mean that it is not a warlord who can get away with a vote, but has long-term considerations.

On the night of the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, I heard one or two firecrackers occasionally in the capital. I don’t know who was heartless and preparing for the New Year.

However, the entire capital soon became quiet. The emperor was in despair, the rich were watching, and the common people were waiting. Shandong was not a Tartar, but a well-known soldier came.

The second update just passed and the third update was not here. On the cold winter night, the camp where Liu Yuanbin was located suddenly became noisy. Seeing the people from all departments running out in neat clothes, I knew that this was an action that had been prepared long ago.

During the running, if anyone's movements are slow, the officers will not scold them, and will just beat them with a stick or a whip. In about half an hour, the soldiers have already finished line-up, which is a rare high efficiency for them.

The wooden platform directly in front of the camp was brightly lit, and the admiral and eunuch Liu Yuanbin, who rarely appeared in front of the soldiers, stood on the wooden platform surrounded by several generals.

Not long after, every soldier received shocking news that a traitor in the Forbidden City tried to plunder the emperor to the Tartars outside the pass. Now the time is urgent and there is no need to care about the rules. The army goes directly to Beijing to serve the king.

As long as you are not a fool, everyone knows what to do when you enter the capital, but Liu Yuanbin has never been harsh on the soldiers, which is enough to control the troops. Everyone can even guess who is flashing behind the entry into the capital this time. After the lecture, the battalions, led by the generals, drove towards the east gate of the capital.

At this late night, the nine gates of the capital were closed, but when the army opened silently to the door, the officers and soldiers from the middle and lower levels were surprised again. The city gate was already open, and there were even lanterns for them to illuminate...

On the 29th day of the 17th year of Chongzhen, the people of the capital who got up early in the morning found that they were fully armed soldiers guarding the Beijing camp at various intersections. The entire capital had an atmosphere of solemnity, and the news gradually spread at noon.

Emperor Chongzhen was assassinated by the Qing Tartar assassin who sneaked into the capital. The leader, eunuch Wang Chengen, sacrificed his life to save his master, and unfortunately died.

The assassin has been surrounded and annihilated by the troops of the Beijing camp who entered the city overnight. The admiral Wang Chengen, who temporarily maintained the order of the capital, issued a statement:

"The capital is in chaos, please ask Duke Qi to come to Beijing as soon as possible to preside over the overall situation..."

The Chongzhen Chronicle ended on this day. It is said that when the assassins killed the emperor, they did not use swords, but strangled to death with white silk.
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