Chapter 86 During the trial
Cao Conglong's official position is full of the title of Governor Zhejiang and other local admirals, the Right Assistant Minister of the Military Affairs Department and the Right Deputy Censor of the Censorate. Such an official position means his identity as a civil servant in the military supervision department. Chen Wen does not intend to ruin his reputation and cause greater difficulties to his family, and by the way, the soon-to-be-started military supervision system has died. Therefore, Cao Conglong will not move even a finger before he gets the verdict of the Lu Supervisory Court.
It proves that Cao Conglong launched a rebellion during the army's expedition, imprisoned without authorization, and released Qing army prisoners, resulting in massacres in many villages. He threatened the garrison to abandon the land of trust, which led to the capture of Jinyun County by the Qing army, and cut off military supply, resulting in the Ming army being forced to give up the imminent capture of Quzhou Prefecture and the Zhejiang-Fu Governor Chen Jin in the city. As for the charges of corruption and framed others, Chen Wen estimated that Han Qizheng would consciously add it to Cao Conglong. Anyway, in addition to Hai Rui, after the Hongwu Dynasty, there is still another civil servant, except Sun Yu, who can't clean the butt.
The entire governor's yamen has been completely emptied, and everyone is guarding the high wall. The room where Cao Conglong was imprisoned was at least 100 meters away.
Along the way, Chen Wen walked with his hands behind his back, and Zhang Jun and two personal soldiers accompanied him with wine jars and food boxes. When he arrived in the room, Cao Conglong sat in front of the bed and watched Chen Wen come in quietly. The three personal soldiers placed the wine and food on the table without saying a word.
When Cao Conglong was captured alive, he was afraid that he would bit his tongue and commit suicide. Chen Wen asked someone to stuff a walnut into his mouth. But a few days later, Cao Conglong tried to express his attitude of not committing suicide after Chen Wen said that he would wait for the imperial edict of the State of Lu.
Cao Conglong died in Chen Wen's territory. Even if he was not killed by Chen Wen, it would be difficult to clean up his suspicion. However, the tradition of Confucian scholars and officials, he must try to have a long talk with his relatives and friends before committing suicide or being executed. Even if he cannot do it, he must try to write a desperate poem, which not only defends himself in history, but also demonstrates his noble ambitions.
Chen Wen said that he had no right to execute Cao Conglong and would report his crime to the Lu Jianguo. Cao Conglong could indeed throw Chen Wen over dirty water, but it did not conform to the moral concept of being a minister and the tradition of Confucian scholars and officials. In addition, the contradiction between him and Chen Wen was more of an irreconcilable between the road and the concept, rather than a personal grudge. Cao Conglong expressed his attitude under the testimony of Sun Yu, and finally removed the imprisonment methods such as binding to prevent him from committing suicide. Since then, he should eat and drink every day, and wait for the Lu Jianguo court to evaluate his merits and crimes.
To this day, Cao Conglong may still believe that he is right, but his bad luck will lead to the setback of the attack on Taizhou, which is not his personal problem. When Chen Wen saw the attitude of those civil servants who were accused of rebellion today, he even confirmed this view.
The three personal soldiers brought by Chen Wen had already left, so he sat on the chair and signaled Cao Conglong to come over to drink together.
Regarding Chen Wen's invitation, Cao Conglong said that he was loyal and treacherous. If Chen Wen changed his mind and asked him to live, then he would ask Chen Wen to leave after writing the poem "Ink, Paper and Ink" and "Ink," and wait for execution. If Chen Wen came to humiliate him when he was bored, Cao Conglong expressed his attitude of seeing off guests.
Cao Conglong's reaction was not beyond Chen Wen's expectations, but he did not continue to invite him. Anyway, there was only one room where Cao Conglong was detained. Cao Conglong sat by the bed, and Chen Wen simply drank it himself.
Chen Wen's rogue attitude immediately angered Cao Conglong, but after drinking a glass of water and wine, Chen Wen blocked Cao Conglong's words before he spoke.
"Governor Cao, you are also my third military inspector. If you don't say secret words, Lu Wenlong's remarks may be useful to deceive himself and some idiots, but Fu Jun will probably not believe it."
Lu Wenlong found that Chen Wen had planned to murder Wang Yi and Wang Jiang's two military supervisors did not have any evidence. It was purely because he gave people dissatisfaction with Chen Wen. Although Cao Conglong had no administrative or military experience, he had been with the Lu Supervisory Court for many years, and this thing could be seen. So he did not believe those remarks from the beginning. He later broke up with Chen Wen and needed to use it as a shell to write it into the manifesto.
Seeing that Cao Conglong chose to make a default, Chen Wen smiled and continued, "Fujun, do you know why you failed?"
As soon as this said, Cao Conglong's anger almost instantly ignited. He saw him grow up and pointing at Chen Wen and shouting sternly: "There are days of victory or defeat. What do you, a vulgar martial artist, know?!"
However, Chen Wen did not respond to this, and just continued to eat and drink, as if he was just talking to himself. On the contrary, Cao Conglong saw that Chen Wen was indifferent, so he had to sit back angrily, not intending to refute Chen Wen's humiliation.
He filled the wine again and savored it slowly until a glass of wine was in his mouth. Chen Wen savored it for a moment before continuing his words to himself: "When the Fujun launched a rebellion, I had just taken down Longyou County. It was a lucky thing. If Ma Jinbao had not seized the ships of Quzhou Water Camp to retain his strength, even if I entered the city, it would be difficult for me to capture him. After all, it was easy for Quzhou Water Camp to take Ma Jinbao away alone. I did not have a navy who could compete with Quzhou Water Camp."
As a civil servant in the military supervisor, Chen Wen did not hide any of this matter before. He just recalled that he heard that Chen Wen repelled the Dianbiao camp, took down Longyou County, and even took advantage of the internal strife of the Qing army to capture Ma Jinbao alive. At that time, the sigh of "God Blessing the Ming Dynasty" began to echo in his mind again, causing a trace of sorrow to flow into his heart.
However, the next second, Cao Conglong came back from it and welcomed the Lu Jianguo back to Zhejiang. In the eyes of him and other civil servants, he would definitely trigger a wave of anti-Qing as in the second year of Hongguang. Compared to Chen Wen's lonely battle, he would definitely have a better chance to recover the entire Zhejiang and then revive the Ming Dynasty, so he was right at all.
"After taking down Longyou County, I led my army to continue to advance westward. The Dubiao camp was repelled by my Nantang camp because of the attack on the half-cross. I lost my confidence in field battles and had to defend Quzhou Prefecture City to wait for reinforcements."
"In the following days, the Quzhou Water Camp of the Tartars suffered a lot of losses due to the internal strife. The water camp of the Jinhua Town was squeezed into the water gate and could not compete for the Qujiang water. Our troops were surrounded by cities on three sides. Among them, there were not only the Dubiao camp, but also the Quzhou Green Camp and the Chuzhou Green Camp. More importantly, the dog traitor Chen Jin, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, was also surrounded in the city. As long as the river water of the moat was discharged, I could use the method of reopening the city. At that time, the entire Jiangnan Tartars would be hit, and the great cause of Zhongxing Ming would be one step closer."
"As for reinforcements, there are all Tartars in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, and even the Fujian left-leaning general Wang Zhigang, who was encircling and suppressing Pingjiang Bo Zhang Zisheng in Jiangxi, was forced to come over. However, they were blocked by our troops in Jiangshan County, and their troops did not have the advantage, so we had to let our troops siege Quzhou Prefecture."
Cao Conglong was also very clear about this matter. The situation at that time was indeed very good for the Ming army. However, the fighter opportunity was fleeting. He was the Minister of War. Even if he had no military experience, he was known as a military officer just after reading "The Art of War", but he still understood the truth. So when Chen Wen mentioned this, Cao Conglong couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
"At the same time, the Tartars in Hangzhou also sent large troops to try to surround Wei and rescue Zhao. Among them, Hangzhou stationed the Eight Banners, Tibiao Battalions, and Fubiao Battalions were all powerful brigades, but these strong soldiers were blocked in Anhua Town and could not make any progress. I remember that Fuzhan had been there when inspecting the counties. I wonder if you have anything to say about the bastion I designed?"
Cao Conglong has some understanding of Chen Wen after his memorial last year and his interactions over the past few months. He is indeed amazing in training and using military forces. There are always amazing actions that ordinary people cannot imagine. Not only the predictions that Zhang Mingzhen once praised, the training and improvement of the Yuanyang formation, and the current bastion, these are all evidences of this person's cleverness in military affairs. Even Cao Conglong has to admit it. But to this day, both sides have to tear their faces apart, and it is useless to say anything more.
"But the rebellion was apart, the army had to withdraw from Longyou. The two armies of the Tatars in Fucheng and Jiangshan County merged. They were approaching and turned into defense to offense. The western Zhejiang situation was completely reversed. Because the warehouses in Yushan Town were burned down by the Taizhou Green Camp, the troops on the north and south sides had no food and grass supply..."
"What did you say?!" After hearing Chen Wen's calm words, Cao Conglong stood up immediately and asked Chen Wen: "You said that the warehouse in Yushan Town was burned down by Taizhou Green Camp. When did this happen?"
Cao Conglong could not know about this, because first it was Liu Cheng and later it was Chen Wen. The two of them blocked the news one after another, and not many people knew about it. However, as Chen Wen told the time when Ma Xin raided Yushan Town, Cao Conglong stood there for a long time, and then he vomited out a series of "impossibility", and even walked to the table, arguing Chen Wen with great angrily criticizing him for deceiving him.
"impossible?"
Hearing Cao Conglong's self-deception, Chen Wen shook his head and then sneered: "You wrote all the plans to attack Taizhou from Yushan Town into the manifesto. I don't think anyone knows it. Your name is called "The Eyes and the plan to march back to the army and encircle the troops to publicly make it public, resulting in the defeat of the Wang Army by the old slaves. What's the difference between the Liao incident and Yang Hao, who has been ruined since then!"
Chapter completed!