Chapter 415: Thunder and raindrops

On the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, the ministers in the court who were also reluctant to go home for the New Year came to the hall. The young officials had not yet written a letter. Emperor Chongzhen, the cabinet chief minister and the Minister of War, sang and released the wind, saying that it was after the test results were released this morning.

Just give these soldiers from Shandong a ceremony to offer victory, so that they can be glorious in front of the world, and then carefully examine it to give the right to offer victory ceremony.

This is an extremely harsh requirement, but compared to the statements made by the Celestial Court in the past, this is already a huge concession. Even the young people in the court who are willing to be direct ministers will no longer speak out.

The Ministry of War, Ministry of Justice, Shuntian Prefecture, Jinyiwei, and the Dongchang Office were responsible for checking the officials, monks and coroners at the head level, no matter how reluctant they were, they were all taken out of their homes by their superiors, and even the south gate of the capital was opened because they had already opened.

It is not entirely true that the Ming Dynasty court was inefficient. On the morning of the 29th day of the 12th lunar month, anyone who had the right to maintain public order in the capital would set up defenses in various parts of the southern city of the capital to prevent anyone who wanted to leave the city to watch the fun was forcibly driven back. The Lingshan Trading Company, which had been connected, also felt that the situation was wrong and quietly retreated.

The statement in the court did not express much that the court was preparing to give them a ceremony to offer victory. In other words, Emperor Chongzhen did not want any move to encourage the other party to win such a great victory.

As the end of the year approaches, it is already a cold weather. The heads pulled by the cart are left outside without worrying about smells, rotting and other things.

The soldiers of Jiaozhou Camp who came to send their first-level victory were not neglected or were furious about victory. They just quietly took the roster and cooperated with the officials to inspect.

These soldiers from the military and local areas of the Dengzhou Army and the local governments of Jiaozhou camp seemed to be less enthusiastic than the imperial officials who checked the heads. They were completely in a public manner and were actually the heads of the Tartars. The actual handbook of the victory was not only adulterated, but also the possibility of finding faults.

Moreover, there are soldiers sent from Shandong next to each cart, so it is unlikely that they will commit fraud. There are many officials from each yamen, and the workload is not too large for each person. Moreover, a lot of them were completed yesterday, and a group of officials from the top were thinking about how to find faults.

From early in the morning, officials from various yamen communicated with each other and hid aside to whisper, but as the inspection progressed, the military ground outside the south gate gradually became quiet.

Every official had nothing to say. They felt fear, and a fear that emerged from their hearts gradually occupied their entire bodies.

People sent from the Ministry of War to the Dongchang are used to seeing life and death roles. Several judicial yamen have seen scenes that are thousands of times more terrifying and disgusting than this. To mention torture and torture. Dongchang and Jinyiwei are the best methods in the world. Jiaozhou Camp tried its best to clean the blood and then use lime and medicine to deal with them for a certain amount. It doesn't look so terrifying.

But as the test progressed, these officials who were reluctant and wanted to find fault and were full of anger at Shandong soldiers gradually became scared. More than 30,000 heads were loaded on more than 200 large chariots. What a big killing, whose heads were these heads, those strong Tartar soldiers who were afraid of by the Ming army. The upper heads in the military field did not represent that terrifying killing, but represented the huge strength behind the killing.

After checking, it was not tiring to work, and the weather was very cold, but everyone gradually sweated. It was cold sweat. Everyone dared not look up. They always felt that there was a giant or a giant beast looking down at everything they did in the sky. If they did something wrong, they would probably be crushed to pieces.

When they were sweating coldly, everyone felt colder and colder. This was not because of the cold sweat and the cold wind, but because of these big trucks transporting spoils. A murderous aura slowly spread.

How strong can Shandong's soldiers be? Everyone is thinking about this question in their minds.

The team led today was Lin Yuanwailang, the Ministry of War. He and several minor officials were also in front of one of the big trucks. Lin Yuanwailang deliberately slowed down and checked there.

This is also the way for the leader to work. After finishing his work, almost the entire team will complete the work. Lin Yuanwailang has a higher status and wants to be clearer and farther than the surrounding officials who have tested the points.

If the country is stable, the authority and power of the central government must be suppressed, so as to ensure that its orders can be issued smoothly and that local obedience and respect are guaranteed. This is the basis for national stability and existence. If the local government's power and authority exceed the central government.

There are several consequences of this reversal, one of which is division, and the entire country is even weaker. If there are strong enemies outside, it may be the one who gets a bargain. Another situation is that the local area is strong enough to far exceed the central government, and the status of both sides will change and the local area becomes the central government.

The Tartars have been raging for so many years, and the Ming army has been defeated repeatedly. Many loyal ministers and generals have died in the battles inside and outside the pass. The most heartbreaking thing is that the commander Hong Chengchou led 130,000 Ming troops out of the pass, but the entire army was wiped out in Songshan. The Jurchens were invincible. This kind of words about the Jin Kingdom in the late Northern Song Dynasty are now used on the Qing Jurchens, and they are justified.

Reading the book of victory, the Eight Banners of the Jurchens, the so-called True Tartars are about 8,000, and the Eight Banners of the Mongolians, which are the so-called Two Tartars, are almost the same number. The Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, the Sanshun King's troops, and the Mongolian scattered soldiers on the grassland are all powerful enemies.

Now the Ming army has occasionally won a few, more than a dozen heads. No matter how many Jurchens, Mongolians and so on, they just rely on the real Tatars to repay their merits and fight against the army. The Ming army was the same fear of these braided ones.

Lin Yuanwailang also remembered that the number of people entering the pass in the previous few times was not so many, and even the number of the Eight Banners of the Jurchens was not so much, but they were also traversing in the Ming Dynasty, and Pojun killed generals.

The many people who came this time must be much stronger than the previous few times, but the Tartar army was so powerful that it was completely wiped out by Shandong soldiers and horses in Hejian Prefecture.

What is the concept of total annihilation? In other places, the Ming army has not had the word "full annihilation" for a long time. This is the most difficult result to fake. If you want to have a total annihilation, you must have ten times the enemy's troops. There were many times the Ming army ten times the Qing Tartars, but they never won.

So what kind of strength do Shandong soldiers have? How can Shandong afford such a large army? No matter how much comparison, the central court and Shandong local government have already tilted their strength. It is really unknown what will happen in the future. I am here to follow the above will and investigate and try my best to find out what I have any opinions.

The officials of the Ministry of War are somewhat familiar with military affairs. Therefore, the tens of thousands of heads on the military field shocked them even more, making them feel even more uncomfortable.

Mr. Lin raised his head with a pale face, cleared his throat, and stopped outside for a night's head. Now the smell of the ground is actually much lighter. But Mr. Lin still felt a little disgusting, and he raised his voice and shouted:

"Have you ever found the results?"

Mr. Lin could guess that his colleagues in the Ministry of War might be similar to what he thought, but he was afraid that the other yamen would be serious. That would really bring a lot of trouble to him.

Unexpectedly, he made a loud proposal, and the officials and coroners from all the yamen in the entire military field all looked up and replied loudly:

"Sir, we have finished the inspection here, which is consistent with the list of the winning bids, and it is true."

"We are also..." "We are the same as you guys..."

The answers were heard one after another. Almost everyone has one thing in common, that is, their faces are generally very bad-looking, and they all feel a little nervous. Mr. Lin’s shouting really tastes like a timely help, and no one wants to check it out here.

Lin Yuanwailang took a note, found a wooden table nearby to cushion, and wrote the routine dot test results on the note. Then he put it on with a copper seal himself and wrote the dot test results with a pen. Then the leaders of the team led by each yamen attached signatures to the note.

The officials of the Ministry of War looked at each other and didn't know what to say. The officials in other yamen who had dealing with outsiders had similar expressions. This was really too strong.

Mr. Lin looked up at the sky and looked at the position of the sun. He found that it had been more than an hour after the inspection. But when he was just careful, he felt that it was too long and thought that he had been checking for several hours.

"In the thirteenth year, I remember Shandong's victory, saying that a certain general led his army to fight fiercely with the Tartars in Qihe County, beheading more than 800 people. It seemed that this was Li Meng!"

"Yes, I'm still in charge of this good news. When I came here, Yang Laoge's head was so angry that he jumped up. He didn't believe it was true. As a result, Liao Town and the Ministry of War jointly inspected the ground, without any adulteration. This was the promotion to general and the rank of left governor."

"Tsk tsk, there is real material. Do you still remember Zhang Ruoqi's incident? The court did not give a salary..."

Lin Yuanwailang, the Ministry of War, was still listening carefully, but when he heard this, he turned around angrily, stared at the two heads of the Ministry of War and shouted fiercely:

"This place with so many people, you guys have so much to say, shut up quickly!"

The situation in the capital is quite subtle at the moment, so you can't cause trouble for yourself at this time.

When these officials from various yamen came to check the head this morning, they were all in a fierce manner and were full of trouble. But now, everyone was depressed and uneasy. Looking at these heads in this military field, it seemed that they saw the unpredictable army of Shandong, which was arranged here. The sword light was so cold that the more they were stunned, the more uncomfortable it became. No matter how the boss would be caught by his superiors when he returned to the capital to report, let's leave now!

He came in a mighty manner, but he was in a hurry. The head of the convoy leader had no polite or flattering expression on his face, and he didn't even smile. He was completely cold, but he also felt a little strange. The attitude of these Beijing officials seemed to be running away. What happened.

The officers and soldiers of Dengzhou who came to deliver the victory at the head of the Dengzhou Army were angry and extremely angry at this time. Originally, their team was selected to come to the capital to deliver the victory at the head of the capital, but their companions thought it was a big advantage.

Whether the court will give generous rewards? Any soldiers from Shandong are basically not very extravagant. They have not paid any salary in recent years. In the daily training preaching, this matter will always be mentioned by officers at all levels. The soldiers all know that their military salary, food and fodder are completely supported by Marshal Li.

If you make such a great contribution and come to the capital, you will definitely receive cheers and rewards from all sides. What is the most important thing about joining the army is to make the glory of the winner.

But after arriving, the soldiers of the Dengzhou Army suddenly realized that the winner might not be cheered. At least they were treated as enemies in the capital. They were so clear in categories and handled so well, but were checked over and over again, just like a suspected thief.

In Hejian Mansion, the brothers fought desperately with the Tartars. This man watched as Mr. Qian, who was shot to death by the arch of the Tartars as the soldiers around him, fell beside him. However, the brothers earned their lives to kill the Tartars' heads. They would be treated with such suspicion. The officers and soldiers of the Jiaozhou Camp Dengzhou who were sent to the heads were extremely angry.

This is a complete insult, and it is very disrespectful to the martyrs who died on the battlefield. The soldiers who were sent to the heads finally understood why someone had to remind him before coming that no matter what he encountered in the capital, he should not be angry and not take action. Your mission this time is to send the heads to the capital, and the reaction of watching the capital is coldly.

Seeing the officials of the capital hurriedly turning back to the capital, for some reason, the leader of the team always remembered the Tartar soldiers who fled in a panic on the battlefield.

I don’t know why. The man almost gritted his teeth and said this in his heart: You can’t escape.

After these officials who left the city returned to the city in panic, the various yamen had just started their normal work. The officials of each yamen looked at the results reported by the officials below, and each was amused and crying. Then they were furious and angry. After being an official in the capital for so many years, they didn’t even know how to pick the people below?

Don't you know what the above wants...

At noon, the officials of the yamen received news again, saying that some young men were already preparing to go to the court to write a letter and report the results of the test to the emperor.

Since everyone knows this news, it must be that the entire capital has spread. As for how the news is spread, it is not uncommon. The entire capital is like a sieve and cannot hide anything. However, everyone understands that once the news is spread, it will be difficult to make a fraud.

In the evening, an order was passed in the palace, saying that it was New Year's Eve, and the emperor was preparing to hold a ceremony to offer a victory in the military site outside the capital.

Before the city gate was closed, a little eunuch came outside the city. It is said that the emperor personally accepted the good news from the local area and should be serious and do a grand ceremony. However, Emperor Chongzhen's attitude is now well known to everyone, so naturally the people below would not find this by themselves.

The young eunuch sent to the palace didn't have much time to go out to work, and he didn't understand what was going on inside and outside the capital. He had originally planned to see the hero, but after hearing the emperor's attitude, the young eunuch also knew what he should do.

When he arrived at this military site, the little eunuch raised his nose to the sky and said in a coquettish manner:

"The Emperor is coming to Yu to see the victory and results tomorrow. You must be prepared!"

After saying that, he left. That's right, he said this, and arranged everything in response, what to pay attention to and how to prepare, and nothing was said.

If that person who knows how to do things, now walk a few steps to the little eunuch, stuff some silver and say something kind of polite and pleasing. Maybe the other party explained clearly with a smile on his face, and the matter was done so smoothly. But the big-headed soldiers of the Dengzhou Army, apart from practicing tactics and daily training, did not know so much about the worldly ways? Of course, the reason why Jiaozhou Camp chose these soldiers to send their heads was not to make them understand the worldly ways, but to let them do it meticulously according to the requirements of the Jiaozhou Camp.

Having said that, such a small eunuch was sent to pass the imperial eunuch. This eunuch was so young, maybe he could follow the rules of the cabinet to recognize words. The emperor accepted local offer. It was an extremely important ceremony, with many rules in all aspects. What could such a small eunuch know?

Not to mention him, even if the capital wants to do this matter itself, it still needs to be discussed with the old eunuchs from the inner court and officials of the Ministry of Rites, otherwise it will be incomplete.

I sent this little eunuch to come with the idea of ​​asking the Dengzhou army to do something badly...

The little eunuch who suddenly came over before dark made a very brief notice, causing the Dengzhou military officers and soldiers who came to send their heads to the head to be extremely confused. They had no idea how to start.

They had no idea about the fact that Jun Qian lost his etiquette, but they wanted to understand this matter as soon as possible and then return to Shandong. The capital was really a messy place. They didn't want to stay here for a longer day, so they might as well go back to Shandong and enjoy the victory with their comrades.

On New Year's Eve, there are indeed too many things to celebrate on New Year's Eve in the 15th year of Chongzhen. Although the bandits became increasingly powerful in Huguang and Henan, the officers and soldiers fled all the way, and the situation was uncontrollable. However, after all, the army that entered the pass was completely wiped out, which was a great joy. This may not only be victory, but also hope.

Many families start to set off firecrackers to worship their ancestors from the morning. One of the other things they do is to look around the roads where the emperor left the city. It is said that the emperor wants to go out of the city to see the Shandong soldiers and horses' victories. Who said that they don't know why they are struggling on New Year's Eve, but after all, it is a celebration, and it's good to watch the fun.

But soon, a large number of Jinyiwei, Shuntian Prefecture's yamen runners, and soldiers from the Five City Military and Ma Si began to guard Jing Street at various intersections. As a result, the people used to watch the fun. At most, they scolded a few words, but today, they just greeted them with whips and spears.

Those who were a little disobedient were beaten up with shamelessness. The happy people in the capital were all beaten to cry and shouting at their parents. Their thoughts were gone for fun and soon they dispersed.

When the people were almost driven away, the emperor's carriage and the chariots and soldiers followed the ministers and appeared on the streets. The number of people was quite small, which was about 400 people. The emperor's patrol was extraordinary, and the scale of more than a thousand people could be called shabby.

According to the emperor's statement to Wang Chengen, "This scene is nothing more than letting the people of the world know that I will go back when I go, why waste such a large constitution??" The trusted eunuch Wang Chengen also answered respectfully:

"Your Majesty sets an example and is a country that is diligent and thrifty, which is the example of the world."

The listless Emperor Chongzhen and the same listless eunuchs, ministers and guards slowly left the southern gate of the capital. Of course, besides Emperor Chongzhen, even if he was excited, he would pretend to be listless.

In addition to the South Gate, the 12th Regiment Battalion stationed outside the capital was stationed in the 12th Regiment, who sent 3,000 soldiers to serve as guards. There were 400 soldiers from Shandong, and there were some shortcomings in the safety of the 400 people who went out of the court.

The military site is only three or four miles away from the south gate, and it is not a wilderness outside the capital. Although several wars have hit the foot of the capital, a large number of residents are still gathered, and there are also a large number of people coming to drive away the civilians and soldiers. The closer they get to the military site, the quieter they are.

Emperor Chongzhen felt that the carriage had stopped, and it was extremely quiet outside. He didn't know what was going on, but suddenly he heard the accompanying Jingying Governor shouting loudly:

"Your Majesty, you don't kneel down to greet you when you see it, and stand straight there. Are you not afraid of the crime of deceiving the monarch?"

When I lifted the curtain and looked out, I saw hundreds of soldiers standing solemnly in the direction facing the team, with square formations and awesome momentum.

Suddenly, one of the hundreds of soldiers shouted:

"Your Majesty, General Zhendong and General Shandong, I will offer you 36,421 heads of the Tartars to Your Majesty. God blesses the Ming Dynasty, long live Your Majesty!!"

"God blesses the Ming Dynasty, long live Your Majesty!!!"

Such a non-ruleful and extremely short shouting was powerful, and the last sentence was shouted and issued by hundreds of people. For a moment, Emperor Chongzhen and his group could not say anything.
Chapter completed!