The news of Liu Cheng’s defection was confirmed, which was a few days after Ni Liangxu’s death.

In the past few days, Ni Liangxu's body was first discovered, but all the objects that could be identified on him were taken down by Liu Cheng and others. He also rarely interacted with others on weekdays. It was not until the martial arts school confirmed that he was missing, not skipping classes, that there was a result.

There was only one knife wound on his chest, which was a fatal injury. The shape of the knife edge was quickly confirmed to be a saber in the Ming army of Zhejiang. Moreover, with the confirmation of Ni Liangxu's identity, Liu Cheng, who was taking sick leave to rest during the investigation based on his interpersonal relationship, was also missing. Following this clue, the fact of defection was quickly confirmed.

"After investigation, the traitor Liu Cheng was bewitched by a Jiangxi scholar who was Zou Zhuoming and decided to defect. Ni Liangxu, a martial arts school, was probably unwilling to rebel, so he was silenced by Liu Cheng..."

"Liu Cheng."

After careful recollection, this man who took the initiative to join the army at the foot of Dalan Mountain was appointed as the captain of the Fourth Yuanyang Formation Killer Team because of his extraordinary martial arts. After the battle of the Siming Mountain Palace, with the expansion of the Tiantai army and the attack on Jinhua Prefecture, he rose step by step. He defended Yiwu without a wall when Fubiao Camp went south, and was promoted to the rank of guerrilla general. At that time, he was the senior general under the five generals, Li Ruixin, Wu Dengke, Lou Jiye, Yin Yue and Chen Guobao. Qian Bin, deputy general of the Zhejiang Inner River Naval Division, who died in Lanxi last year, was just a guerrilla general at that time, and was just a guerrilla general.

But even such a general with a bright career in the officialdom was at both ends of the rat head in the Cao Conglong Rebellion. The word "True" can make people crazy.

"Because of suspicion of Liu Cheng's defection, our company sent a special person these days to review the rebellion of Cao Conglong, the governor of Zhejiang in the sixth year of Yongli. It was found that in the fifth year of Yongli, Liu Cheng became the garrison of Dongyang County. There was a servant in his family. Cao Conglong had been serving in the house before the rebellion, but he disappeared afterwards. The situation was chaotic at that time and no one was found. Yesterday afternoon, the personnel sent to Dongyang County also brought back the news that the body of this person was dug out in the backyard of the house where Liu Cheng lived at that time, and it was confirmed that he had silenced him."

During the Cao Conglong Rebellion, Liu Cheng sent someone to take a detour to Chen Wen to report the message, while on the other hand, he colluded with Cao Conglong. Luo Chengyan's white-headed rebel army was able to escape the difficulties smoothly, all of which were the work of the person behind him. However, once he found that Cao Conglong could not accomplish anything, he killed Lu Wenlong first to silence him, and then turned against each other, preventing Cao Conglong from supporting him.

This person is indeed very strict in his work. At that time, facing the huge military pressure from Chen Jin and Jin Li, the internal punishment was also very chaotic due to the removal of gentry affiliated with the rebels, and the investigation could not be fully carried out. There was no sufficient evidence, and it was a relatively safe plan to put it in the training camp as a training officer to refrigerate. At that time, including Liu Cheng, a total of four officers were refrigerated. The other three now have children, and are content with their own responsibilities, and live a small life with their wives and children. Only at that time, Liu Cheng, who was the highest-level, never remained at peace.

"According to the investigation, Liu Cheng rarely interacts with these three officers on weekdays, but he has a lot of contact with Ni Liangxu. There are also several officers who have some interactions with him on weekdays. This is a list."

After taking the list, Chen Wen glanced at him, Wu Dengke, An Youfu, and several other resumes knew that they were officers of his old subordinates.

"In addition, through interrogation, we learned from the gentry who helped Liu Cheng and others escape from Jinhua Mansion that the scholar named Zou Zhuoming was the grandson of Mr. Nangao Zou Yuanbiao. This time, he came here in the name of paying homage to his friend on behalf of his deceased father, and this person had also accepted the official position of Hong Chengchou's Nanchang Shogunate."

"Zou Yuanbiao?"

“That’s right.”

Zou Yuanbiao was one of the three lords of the Donglin Party who could be alongside Gu Xiancheng and Zhao Nanxing. He was even older than Huang Zongxi's father Huang Zunsu. Zou Yuanbiao's son Zou Deqi was a Jinshi in the 15th year of Chongzhen. He was the last magistrate of Luodingzhou, Guangdong in the Chongzhen reign and died in Guangdong in July of the fourth year of Yongli.

"Even the deceased father is used. Hong Chengchou, a traitor, can really teach people to learn bad things. I really don't know if this can bring Zou Yuanbiao's aura to life."

While Chen Wen was making fun of him, he repeatedly thought about how to minimize the impact of this vicious defection incident. However, the officer in the intelligence department in front of him no longer cared about the cautious words and actions he had in his daily life and knelt on the ground.

"Master, internal supervision is the responsibility of the last general. If such a thing happens, it is also the fault of the last general. I hope that the last general will let the last general remove this bastard himself for many years!"

"This is not your fault. None of the three officers defected. Only he, who performed best in the past two years, defected."

The principles and systems of internal supervision were decided by Chen Wen after the Cao Conglong Rebellion, and were mainly targeted at those officials in important positions, military generals and Chen Wen's subconscious enemies - the gentry class.

These people are the main targets for the intelligence personnel responsible for internal supervision of the Military Intelligence Department, and the refrigerated figures like Liu Cheng were originally within the scope of supervision. However, his performance in the defense of Jinhua and Wu Dengke and An Youfu's squatter caused Chen Wen and the Military Intelligence Department to lower their supervision level according to his excellent performance according to the system. As a result, as soon as the referee turned his head, the guy directly sealed his eyes, which was beyond everyone's expectations.

"The Military Information Department's current mission is to find out where this person is. However, do not alert the enemy. I will make a decision on how to deal with it."

"I will obey the order."

After the officers of the Military Intelligence Department left, Zhou Jingting came to Chen Wen's office. He was responsible for propaganda work, so he was naturally indispensable for handling this matter.

"The Duke of the State is the one who is the chief officer of Liu Cheng, who is joining the China Revival Association, to reject the application."

Chen Wen had known about this for a long time, but he didn't expect that Zhou Jingting couldn't wait to take the blame as soon as he entered the door.

"Master Zhou, do you still remember the oath?"

"Remember."

"Then do you think Liu Cheng can do what he said in the oath?"

The answer is obvious, but Zhou Jingting still feels guilty that "if I agreed to the application at that time, Chen Wen's old subordinate might not have defected."

Zhou Jingting is Chen Wen's brother-in-law, and his feelings for this anti-Qing group are naturally completely different from those of other civil servants. Not only is it the place where he serves, but also the private property of his brother-in-law. Now that the private property has lost some scum and was picked up by the Qing Dynasty, in addition to his anger at the betrayer, self-blame is inevitable.

Logically, Liu Cheng followed Chen Wen for a longer time, so Chen Wen should be even more angry. In fact, as soon as he learned about Liu Cheng’s defection, he was furious. However, after looking at the world with a historical perspective for a long time, he quickly recovered.

Because he knew that no matter how good the system was, it would not be able to cater to everyone's needs, and no matter how powerful the brainwashing machine was, there would always be a rebellious mentality. In the rise of every group in history, there would always be defectors of one kind or another. People are individuals and cannot adapt, and leaving is not surprising. Just like in later generations, aren't they willing to like the working environment and job change?

Of course, job change is not useful in this era, because job change now refers to changing jobs, but rather inclined feelings in relationships between men and women, or cheating. If you say this, Zhou Jingting must not be shocked, especially because his sister is Chen Wen's wife...

Liu Cheng is actually not as simple as changing jobs. War is a matter of life and death, and the war with the Qing Dynasty is even more related to the survival of Chinese civilization. As an officer within the Ming army in Zhejiang, Liu Cheng knew a lot of information that was still secret to the Qing Dynasty, and it would also cause internal uneasiness. It can be said that it would cause great damage and impact.

The only thing that is thankful is that Liu Cheng does know a lot, but the refrigeration he has been able to obtain in recent years may not be as much information as he imagined. Otherwise, why should he take the risk to bring Ni Liangxu? Isn’t it just the relevant knowledge that Ni Liangxu learned in the martial arts school?

"I once said in Dalan Mountain that the road I want to walk is full of thorns and bumps. I will not stop and wait for people who can't keep up. As for those like Liu Cheng who have to be a chariot for some rights, I don't mind crushing it."

Hearing this, Zhou Jingting stood up unconsciously. Chen Wen was not affected by this little bit of causticism and was still full of fighting spirit in the future. Naturally, he could not waste time complaining about himself.

"When the Military Information Department found out the situation, it criticized severely at the China Revival Association and the Zhejiang Dibao. As for Ni Liangxu, he first collected the body, conferred the position of general officer, and conferred the descendants. In addition, burying him among Zhou Qingui's group of people, where is his destination."

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"I am stupid. The more ruthless the Zhejiang Di Daily criticized Liu Cheng, the more ruthless the Tartars would use him."

Zhou Yueying had no objection to Ni Liangxu's handling. She had seen this man with her own eyes and had a quadruple confrontation with him. She was burying the Sun family's debts and using the combat power of the Ming army in Zhejiang to threaten Ni Liangxu's consideration for the safety of Luo Chengyan's Baitou Army, thus achieving the goal of escape. In addition, Ni Liangxu's actions in the past two years, which all show that this is a man who values ​​friendship. Burying him and his brothers of life and death is a kind of comfort to him.

However, she raised objections to Liu Cheng's handling, because Chen Wen's approach may have weakened some adverse effects in the Ming army occupied areas, but it will inevitably backfire on the Qing Dynasty, and instead promoted Liu Cheng.

"Don't you think that when Liu Cheng came to the Tartars, we would be able to understand how much more effort the Tartars still have?"

When Zhou Yueying heard this, she was stunned and then quickly covered her mouth. However, there was a hint of doubt and confusion in her eyes.

"You've been thinking wrong."

Seeing Chen Wen shook his head with a smile, Zhou Yueying was relieved. Since Chen Wen led the army, although there have been many sayings outside that he was full of cunning, in Zhou Yueying's opinion, he has always been straightforward to the Tartars. Even if he uses some strategies, he is often open-minded. Naturally, it is impossible to do what she just guessed, and send an officer to the Qing Dynasty as a senior undercover agent for no reason.

"My husband means that if Liu Cheng is not allowed to use it in the Tartars, it means that the Tartars still have confidence and strength; if that guy is needed to use it in the Tartars, it means that the Tartars are in a dire state and have reached the point where they refuse to let go of any life-saving straw?"

It is now the eighth year of Yongli and the eleventh year of Shunzhi. On the side of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the Southwest Ming army, with the Daxi Army as the main body, occupied Yunnan, Guizhou, and most of Guangxi and a small part of Sichuan, Huguang and Guangdong, but it is divided into two factions: Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo. The strength has gradually surpassed the Fujian Ming army and the Kuidong Ming army. Now the Zhejiang Ming army second only to the Southwest Ming army has successively recovered the eight prefectures in Zhejiang and gradually got rid of the two-line siege of the Southeast Qing army. With the military pressure of the Zhejiang Ming army sharing, the Fujian Ming army is also stronger than in history, but there is only half of Zhangzhou on the territory; as for the Kuidong Ming army, it is still the same.

In contrast, the Qing Dynasty had a complete north of the Yangtze River, and south of the Yangtze River also controlled Jiangxi, Jiangnan, most of Sichuan, Huguang, Guangdong, Fujian, and half of Guangxi, and Zhejiang.

Overall, even if the Southern Ming side was combined, its national strength and military strength were far from comparable to that of the Qing Dynasty. Especially north of the Yangtze River, how much strength the Qing Dynasty still has? This is a complete mystery to the generals of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

Liu Cheng, a man from the Han people, or a rebel general of the Ming army in Zhejiang, who is now in the most powerful situation, can perfectly show Chen Wen how much war potential the Qing Dynasty still has. It has great benefits for future policy implementation and overall attack opportunities. As for Liu Cheng who failed to survive in the Qing Dynasty, he would at most be a traitor who died, and there would be no regrets.

"The wind will not last forever, and the rain will not last forever. My wife is so smart that she can understand it at a glance."

Zhou Yueying turned her body and pouted with a serious bow.

"That's what I say, but I'm probably saying in my heart that I'm a stupid woman."

"Who dares?" As he said that, Chen Wen waved his fists. "Who dares to say that my Chen Wen's wife is stupid? I don't think I'm very ear-scraping and slapping him."

Covering his mouth, a sweet echoed in the study. After a while, Chen Wen put the tender horns in his palms with both hands, and then slowly said: "Madam, I may not be going to war again in a long time, I am afraid I will not be able to accompany you and the child for the time being."

As soon as this was heard, Zhou Yueying couldn't help but feel a little bitter in her heart, but she also knew that men should put career first, and there were very few people who could help Chen Wen, so naturally she could not distract Chen Wen.

"Don't worry, husband, I have so many servants in the mansion to take care of me, and my mother said that I would come to accompany me for a while, and there would be no trouble. Besides, husband is a great hero and the hope of the people of the Han family in the southeast. Do not think about me."

He held Zhou Yueying in his arms, but Chen Wen had no idea what to say. In this way, he was relatively speechless, but his mind had already been integrated. It was not until a long time later that there was a knock on the door.

“It’s time to have a meal.”
Chapter completed!