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Chapter 789 Fu Zonglong's Decision
At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, in order to prevent a certain force from becoming powerful and threatening the imperial power.All systems are set up on the basis of mutual containment and mutual checks and balances as the main principle.

"There are six ministries and nine ministers to rule the world, and there are thirteen governors to divide the counties and towns. The Metropolitan Procuratorate is set up to clean up the imperial court, and there are thirteen inspectors to distribute and impeach. The Ministry of War and the Commander's Mansion To maintain the inside, and the distribution, press, and capital divisions to control the outside, it is worthy of the name, and the prevention and inspection is encrypted."

However, as the Ming Dynasty has been established for a long time, there are internal and external disadvantages and contradictions.

The three local divisions restrained each other, failed to respond well, and were unable to deal with various crises that emerged. The imperial court had to set up governors to control the localities, and solved various problems that emerged one after another.

Afterwards, the power of governors established by the imperial court was heavy, and they often invaded the power of the three divisions and the commander-in-chief.

With the continuous increase of the power of the governor, the responsibility of the governor has also become heavier.If it is not serious, it will be the end of being dismissed from office, or even endangering one's family and life.

It is not the first time that Fu Zonglong, the new governor of Henan, has served as a governor, and he knows the pros and cons of it.

Regardless of your great abilities and achievements, once you fall to the suzerain, you will end up losing your head.

Zhang Shun attacked Fu Fan, Chong Fan and Tang Fan successively. At that time, Henan governor Xuanmo was defeated and died, which was regarded as escaped disaster.

And Fu Zonglong took office ahead of schedule, although he fell into Chongfan and Tangfan, there are still sophistry.

If Zhou Fan falls again, then he can find a geomantic treasure land and "hang his own southeast branch".

Now that the "intruder" and "Cao thief" have arrived in Suizhou, and there are many mules and horses under their command, if they do both, they can reach the city of Kaifeng in only two or three days. How can Fu Zonglong, the governor of Henan, stay?

Fu Zonglong is also a veteran general with deep knowledge of military affairs.But it's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice, and there are not enough people under her command, so she has to take risks.

He and the rebel army have been confronting each other here for more than a month, but he didn't see any movement from the rebel army, so it was inevitable that he made some mistakes in judgment.

Fu Zonglong pondered for a long time, and couldn't help but make up his mind secretly: Now the world is full of chaos, how can everything be as expected?I confronted the thief for a long time, but I didn't see any movement from the thief. You can see his cowardice!
So, why don't I lead the army east?First work together with Zhu Dadian to defeat the "intruder" and "Cao thief" and then go west together.

Fu Zonglong had made a plan, so he dispatched Zuo Liangyu's messenger, and sent someone to send a letter in his own hand early, to Zu Kuan, the commander in chief who aided in the suppression.

At that time, Zu Kuan's Liaodong iron cavalry, mainly barbarians, went south to the Central Plains, unable to speak the language, and only engaged in brutality.

Wherever it went, houses were burned down, Jianyin women committed all sorts of crimes, and the people complained.

It was stationed in Xinzheng, and there were many private followers of thieves, which Zu Kuan could not defend.

It just so happened that Fu Zonglong, governor of Henan Province, sent a letter, so Zu Kuan mobilized all his troops and went to Kaifeng Mansion with his battalion.

The distance from Xuzhou to Kaifeng is [-] miles, and from Xinzheng to Kaifeng is [-] miles.

Fu Zonglong was afraid that Zhou Fan would lose, so he hurriedly ordered Zu Kuan's Liaodong cavalry to go first, and he led the army to arrive later.

At that time, by coincidence, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai's rebel army also rushed to the vicinity of Kaifeng City.

Suizhou is [-] miles away from Kaifeng, due to the delay in the exchange of letters between officers and soldiers, and the fact that the two men had many mules and horses to travel, they arrived at Kaifeng mansion quite quickly.

Then Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai are not stupid, of course they don't think that they can take down Kaifeng city which is famous for its wealth by relying on their two defeated soldiers like bereaved dogs.

According to their thoughts, they just took the opportunity to scare Zhu Dadian, governor of water transportation and governor of Fengyang, so as to take the opportunity to throw off the pursuers.

But they never expected that the new governor of Henan, Fu Zonglong, would take office so quickly.

Xuanmo, the original governor of Henan Province, died at their hands.According to their minds and the court's usual efficiency, the court ordered officials to come and go, and it would take four or five months to arrive in Kaifeng no matter what.

By mistake, a mistake in judgment becomes a fatal mistake.

At that time, it was late in the sky, and Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai rushed to the outside of Kaifeng city in a mess.

Zhu Dadian was not necessarily the best among the governors in the late Ming Dynasty, but he was also a qualified minister anyway.

He has elite soldiers such as Li Chongzhen and Mou Wenshou under his command. Although they are not as famous as the "big and small Cao" and Zuo Liangyu, they are enough to crush Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai who have no foundation.

Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai, although one is good at attacking and the other is good at fighting, facing the officers and soldiers with many generals and well-equipped armor, they have been defeated repeatedly and cannot win.

Fortunately, the two of them set up ambushes twice along the way, caught the officers and soldiers by surprise, and recovered some ground, so that Zhu Dadian and others did not dare to persecute them too much.

Seeing the tall Kaifeng city in the distance, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai were overjoyed and prepared to go south around the city.

Or go to Dengfeng to join the "King of Shun", or go to Ruzhou to hide in the high mountains, or go to Nanyang to enter Shangluo and other places in the west.

Just when the two of them were thinking clearly, a group of people from far away just happened to rush over.

The two looked at the banner carefully, and couldn't help being surprised, only to find out that it was the banner of the governor of Henan.

Luo Rucai couldn't help but asked: "Then the Governor of Henan, Xuan Mo, was beheaded by your nephew Li Guo? Where did this governor come from?"

Where did Li Zicheng think to understand this?He couldn't help but anxiously replied: "Hurry up, why don't you have time to ask about this?"

When Luo Rucai heard the words and knew it wasn't about this, he quickly got on the horse, kicked the horse's belly when he sat down, and fled south.

Then Li Zicheng and the others didn't give up much, and hurriedly rode horses and donkeys, and fled to the south of Kaifeng mansion with the strength of the animals.

The officers and soldiers in front of them were the standard battalion of Henan governor Fu Zonglong. It was very unexpected to meet Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai's second battalion suddenly.

In the past two days, he led his subordinate battalion to do both the road and the road, and he was already exhausted.

After finally arriving at Kaifeng City, I was about to enter the city to rest.

I just heard a spies report that they found a large group of people outside Kaifeng City.Just to be on the safe side, Fu Zonglong brought his troops here to check.

The rebel army's run immediately revealed their identities.Fu Zonglong, governor of Henan, didn't know that the people in front of him were the main force of the "thief"?
Fu Zonglong couldn't help being overjoyed, he led the crowd to chase after him regardless of fatigue, and at the same time hurriedly asked the soldiers to carry his orders, and ordered Zu Kuan, the commander-in-chief who had arrived in the city ahead of time, to lead his iron cavalry to kill the enemy!
When Zu Kuan's subordinate Yi Ding arrived in Kaifeng, he was still dishonest and caused a lot of trouble.

Now that the governor is not around, he cannot be restrained.Other officials in the city and the king of Zhou used the power of Hu Dawei, the deputy general of Shanxi, to deal with him.

Zu Kuan and the others were weak, so they restrained themselves a little.

After he received the letter from Henan governor Fu Zonglong, he thought to himself: The county magistrate is better off now. I am a guest army, so I am not afraid of them.

It's just that Fu Zonglong also served as the governor of Jiliao, and he can be regarded as his superior, so he should not be offended.

That being the case, I just made this great contribution, so that this guy can be more towards me.

Thinking of this, Zu Kuan quickly scolded: "Be more honest, bring dry food and weapons immediately, and prepare to go out of the city to fight!"

(End of this chapter)