I want to be emperor

Chapter 269 Frontier Army Goes South
It is also unclear whether those troops are under the jurisdiction of his governor of Henan, and the troops there are under the jurisdiction of Hong Chengchou.

For example, Zuo Liangyu, this person used to be under the jurisdiction of Hong Chengchou. Hong Chengchou sent him to Ruzhou to sit in the town against the thieves. After Hong Chengchou returned to Shaanxi with his troops, he also left Zuo Liangyu behind.

Later, Hong Chengchou's military jurisdiction over Henan was revoked, and he lost direct contact with Zuo Liangyu.

But, Zuo Liangyu doesn't listen to Chen Biqian...

Zuo Liangyu thought he was a guest army. Although he was fighting in Ruzhou, he was not under the supervision of the governor of Henan.

You, Chen Biqian, just obediently give money and food, and don’t force others, or I will turn against you...

In short, Chen Biran was the governor of Henan Province, and he was at a loss for more than half a year. Strictly speaking, he has not yet entered the state...

But just like that, when the bigwigs of the imperial court were discussing who should be the governor of the Eastern Front, a group of bigwigs fought with the Chongzhen people, and finally found that only Chen Biqian was the most suitable...

As mentioned earlier, the Ming court has its own set of rules for the promotion of official positions, especially for the promotion of this kind of feudal officials. Not everyone can directly become a governor of such a feudal official.

First of all, the level must be sufficient, and you must have the titles of Qiandu Yushi, Youdeputy Yushi, and the Right Minister of the Ministry of War. At the same time, you must have rich local experience and certain experience in leading troops, so it is best to have served as a governor or governor.

As a result, there are not many suitable candidates left.

Coupled with factional struggles and the like, no matter whether it is the former Prime Minister of the Military Affairs of the Five Provinces or the current Governor of the Eastern Front Military Affairs, in fact, the people who come and go are selected among those few people...

When looking for the prime minister's military personnel from the five provinces before, Chongzhen was even forced to retaliate against Yang Sichang because the few qualified candidates were not good.

No way, Chongzhen really couldn't find a second person who was more suitable than Yang Sichang.

Now that Yang Sichang has recovered, and now he is going to set up the governor of the Eastern Front, he is another candidate who has caused Chongzhen and several bigwigs a headache for a long time.

Many people recommended Zhu Dadian, but Chongzhen was still very unhappy with Zhu Dadian. In the second half of last year, Chongzhen just demoted this person and asked him to stay in his job to serve his crimes and meritorious deeds. One stroke to the end.

Speaking of which, Zhu Dadian was also unlucky.

Before last year, Zhu Dadian had a prosperous official career. He was the governor of Shandong in the fifth year of Chongzhen.

At the beginning of the eighth year of Chongzhen, Gao Yingxiang and others marched eastward, entered Fengyang, and destroyed the imperial tomb. The four prefectures of Huai and Yang fully presided over the military affairs of Jiangbei.

But it didn't take long before he was reprimanded by the court for "lost the state and county, and overdue the thieves", and was even demoted for a time...

At this meeting, Zhu Dadian can't protect himself, how could he get Chongzhen's approval and go one step further.

And several other people are not suitable. It is worth mentioning that Gan Xuekuo, governor of Shaanxi, is about to be demoted.

After this person took office as the governor of Shaanxi, he was devastated by all kinds of thieves, and he was simply not qualified for such an important position as a frontier official. In addition, he didn't get along well with Hong Chengchou and other bigwigs.

Therefore, it is a foregone conclusion that this person will be dismissed, and the imperial court has already started looking for the next governor of Shaanxi.

It is said that Xie Sheng, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials of the imperial court, has already begun to grind his fists, preparing to kick Sun Chuanting, the Prime Minister of Shuntian Mansion, who has often disgusted him recently, to Shaanxi to become the governor, and secretly praying that Sun Chuanting would be killed as soon as he took office in Shaanxi. The thief hacked to death...

Zhu Dadian, Gan Xuekuo and others failed to live up to expectations. In the end, the big bosses of the court, especially Emperor Chongzhen looked around, and there was only Chen Biqian left who could barely use it.

Ever since, Chen Biqian, who had just taken office as the governor of Henan Province for more than half a year, did nothing but gained a reputation for "goodness", became the governor of Henan, Fengyang, Anlu, Jiangxi and other places, and concurrently managed military affairs. water transport.

During this process, Chongzhen conveniently removed Zhu Dadian's Governor of Water Transport and other titles, leaving him only the title of Governor of Fengyang.

He also gave Zhu Dadian a decree to reprimand him, to take the blame and make meritorious deeds to protect the thief. If he does well, he will be promoted and get rich.
After such a toss, the Ming court completed a series of military strategic deployments against the thieves during the first month of the ninth year of Chongzhen.

Let Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides, that is, the military affairs of Shaanxi, Ningxia, Gansu, Yansui and other places, mainly sit in Shaanxi, continue to suppress Gao Yingxiang and other thieves, and at the same time fight against the protection of the thieves going west to Hanzhongfu and other places and Gao Yingxiang and other thieves.

Let Chen Biqian, the governor of Henan, Fengyang, Anlu, Caoyun, Jiangxi and other places, preside over the war on the eastern front and prevent the bandits from entering the Central Plains and the southern Zhili area.

Let Prime Minister Yang Sichang take charge of the military affairs in Huguang, Yunyang, Sichuan and other places, preside over the war on the southwest front, and fight against the thieves who captured southern Chu and entered Sichuan.

Facing the Great Chu Empire in this way, a big net surrounded on three sides was formed!
The Ming court's strategic planning is pretty good. At least it knows that the encirclement and suppression of security thieves cannot be done by one governor and two governors, but requires the efforts of the governors and governors in the surrounding areas.

However, it is limited to this.

Apart from arranging high-level personnel, and then mobilizing some troops from Xuanda to the south to support Chen Biran, the Ming court did not do anything else.

And for the matter of money and food, they directly pretend to be ostriches, no matter who they are, they all answer in unison: no money!
Yang Sichang asked for money and food to start a new standard army, but the court said that there was no money, and I would not stop you if you wanted to do it.

Hong Chengchou asked for money and food to appease the rebels in Shaanxi. When Gao Yingxiang and other bandit soldiers were defeated and their momentum weakened, he took the opportunity to appease the rebels and restore people's livelihood. The court also said that there was no money, but you still have to do people's livelihood work. If you can't do it well, you will be punished...

Chen Biqian was very sensible, he didn't ask the imperial court for money and food, anyway he knew it would be in vain.

Chen Biqian only asked the court to send some troops from other directions for reinforcements, preferably some frontier troops.

The imperial court agreed to this very happily, and directly dispatched a total of more than 1 frontier troops from various towns in the north to go south, but only gave orders to transfer troops, and the imperial court naturally did not care about how to solve the money and food along the way.

But the frontier army who had received the transfer order and went south didn't care, and was even elated.

If we don't give money and food, we won't give money and food. As long as we go south to the hinterland of the Central Plains, it is best to go to Nanzhili Jiangbei or even Jiangnan.

These 1 multilateral troops went all the way south. When they left the border area, they were all hungry and malnourished. When they reached the Henan area, their complexions had recovered a lot, and each of them was thick. stand up.

Among them, 2000 multilateral troops were sent by Chen Biqian to the front line of Anqing Mansion, preparing to join the Anlu Governor Shi Kefa in the battle.

So many frontier soldiers are saying, no wonder Dongren want to enter the customs every year, this Central Plains is much stronger than the bitter cold land in the north.

Money and food is more than one!

And stay away from the frontier, you can also stay away from the East.

As for the fake Chubao thieves, these frontier generals didn't take any security thieves seriously at all.

These frontier troops have such confidence.

These 1 multilateral troops were either drawn from the front line of Xuanda, or from the front line of Jiliao, and some were drawn from Baoding and other places.

These frontier troops all have a common feature, that is, they face the threat of Tartars and captives all the year round.

These people have fought a lot with Dongyao, and they can be regarded as people who have seen a strong army. Naturally, they look down on the Ming army in the inland area of ​​the Central Plains.

In the past, the Ming court often transferred the Ming army in the hinterland of the Central Plains to the Jiliao line to fight against Dongyao, but the results were not good.

Now, even the ordinary soldiers of the frontier army know that the officers and soldiers in the inland of the Central Plains cannot fight, but the chieftain white soldiers in Sichuan can make do.

And those security thieves are all soft-legged shrimps from the Central Plains Guards, which are not very capable.

Because if they were to fight with the frontier army, they could also hang up the officers and soldiers in the hinterland of the Central Plains to fight...

Under such circumstances, if you let the frontier soldiers think how strong the rural protection army can defeat the officers and soldiers in the hinterland of the Central Plains, they will not believe it.

However, this is just the thinking of most soldiers of the South Frontier Army, and it does not mean that everyone is like this.

Among the southward frontier army, Wu Sangui, who was recruited by the imperial court on behalf of his father and led [-] Guanning soldiers to the south, felt that the bandit protection army was strange and he might not be easy to deal with.

In Ruzhou City, Wu Sangui, who led the army to arrive here, was still not allowed to enter the city, and finally had to find a Zhuangzi to camp outside the city.

Wu Sangui looked at the closed city gate not far away, and Ruzhou City, which looked like an enemy, had a gloomy expression on his face: "Damn it, sooner or later, I will let you all look good!"

After walking this way for so long, passing through so many places, and not even being able to enter a single city, it didn't frustrate him to death.

In the early years, when he led the army to fight in Shandong, he did a lot of meritorious service, and Zhu Dadian also valued him. At that time, although some local cities did not allow them to enter, he would not say A city along the way is not allowed to enter.

But he himself knew why this happened, because a frontier army going south passed by a county one day, and the local county magistrate kindly let them camp in the city, and prepared food and wine to reward the army.

As a result, when this army of officers and soldiers entered the city, the already hungry and poor frontier army couldn't hold back even half an hour, and started looting mode as soon as they entered the city...

Looted the entire county, including the official warehouses and the warehouses of the gentry in the city!

After the incident came out, the generals over there directly threw out a few scapegoats, patted their buttocks, and continued southward with a group of officers and soldiers who had gained a lot.

Then, the government in other places learned to be smart, and they all closed the city gates to prevent entry...

(End of this chapter)