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Chapter 130 Li Zicheng returns to Zuo Liangyu, Zhang Xianzhong returns to Shen Shuren

When Chongzhen issued an edict in the capital and finally made up his mind to move the town of Zuo Liangyu.

Shen Shuren just returned to the south from the Luyang front line, going to Suizhou, passing through Dengzhou.So Chongzhen's decision, he currently does not know.

Fortunately, on Dengzhou Road, Shen Shuren met Yang Sichang who was going north and posing. Of course, Yang Sichang knew what he had written in his memorial to Chongzhen.So the two sat down and chatted, and Shen Shuren could get a general idea of ​​the follow-up development.

For the two groups of people, Yang Sichang arrived half a day first, and after Shen Shuren's troops arrived, they heard that Elder Ge was here, so of course they wanted to take a rest and pay a visit.So the two met in Dengzhou County Yali.

When seeing Yang Sichang, Shen Shuren was still very surprised, and sincerely made a suggestion:

"Elder Ge, why are you going north to supervise the division in person? If Luoyang hadn't been broken in the morning, you should be so worried. Now that Luoyang has been broken, the battle with Li Zicheng needs a long-term plan. Why rush forward?"

Yang Sichang already had white hair and deep wrinkles. Compared with when the two first met more than two years ago, he was a different person.

Yang Sichang looked at Shen Shuren becoming more mature, stable, and full of vigor, and he was also envious, and felt a lot of right and wrong in his heart.

"The old man has boasted to His Majesty for the past two years, but in the end he has achieved nothing—if he insists on achieving something, he would have discovered you, a great Ming Zhongliang who has both ability and political integrity, as well as both civil and military skills. I am really ashamed."

Yang Sichang sighed with emotion, and couldn't help crying, "I think back to that day, when you first came to visit me in Hefei, you were still in Shi Kefa's yamen, and you came to the door with a request letter from Wumei Village.

To be honest, at the time I really thought you were a flatterer who was good at making money, but I was about to appease Zheng Zhilong and take care of the overall situation to appease the surrendered general, and I needed a clever person like you to order me around, so I gave you a way.

Unexpectedly, I really missed my eyes back then, and thanks to the old man.Your civil and military talents are a hundred times better than your mediation talents!
In just two years, I went from being a supervisor to donate an eighth-rank petty official to being a miscellaneous official in water transportation.Accumulated meritorious service was promoted to the seventh grade, and two Jinshi in the imperial examination were transferred to Hanlin to write.He also participated in the reform of water transportation and made meritorious deeds, released the magistrate of a prefecture, exterminated Liu Xiyao to be promoted to magistrate, pushed Lijin to promote military preparations, exterminated Erhe and added Qiandu censor... Does the future of Ming Dynasty really depend on you? "

Shen Shuren was beside him, listening to Yang Sichang's rambling, he seemed to become very nostalgic, but that tone gave him a bad feeling.

After many people get old, if they have Alzheimer's disease, or neurasthenia and hysteria, they like to nostalgia, get stuck in the past and can't get out of it, and it is easy to "talk well when a person is about to die".

Yang Sichang's verbal inventory and performance made Shen Shuren even more suspicious of whether he had developed a will to die. Could it be that he would really be as worried about hunger strike as in history?

He was thinking about words of persuasion, but Yang Sichang just drank his saliva, took a breath, and continued to babble, not giving him a chance to speak at all, which seemed to be the symptoms of a paranoid old man with neurasthenia.

"...Fortunately, this time, the old man finally did a good deed. He tried to move Zuo Liangyu away from Wuchang and break his foundation. As for his wings, they can only be slowly consumed. I hope his conscience is still alive and he can feel the pain. Change the past and fight Li Zicheng well.

As for why you asked me to go to Nanyang to supervise the teacher at this time, it is not because I hope that your majesty will take my attitude and suspend the punishment.

If it really comes to a time when things cannot be done, the old man will not be humiliated.In the future, it will depend on you and Fu Zonglong, Fang Kongxuan, and Shao Jiechun to continue to encircle and suppress the bandits. "

In Yang Sichang's words, the arrogance of someone who has been in the top position for a long time can no longer be heard. He is obviously several levels behind Shen Shuren's official position, but he speaks as if they are on equal footing.

Only then did Shen Shuren seize the opportunity to speak, and he quickly persuaded: "Mr. Ge, there are some things that I shouldn't say, but this time you hurriedly went north to supervise the division, even if it was just to show His Majesty your determination to pursue Li Zicheng. In fact, there are some risks, and it is easy to 'make real disasters for the sake of fame'.

Although Zhang Xianzhong hadn't made waves these days, he was entrenched in the eastern Sichuan mountainous area in western Hubei, and the imperial court officers and soldiers had been unable to do anything about him. Most of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River were still in Zhang Xianzhong's hands.As long as he wants, he can escape at any time at any cost.

The lower official heard that you, Mr. Ge, posted a notice at the Xiangyang resident before: Anyone who can capture and kill Zhang Xianzhong will be rewarded with ten thousand taels of silver and be made a prince.But a few days later, a letter distributed by the thieves' eyes and ears was found near the station, and it was written that "those who kill the pavilion will be rewarded with three coins".

You are also dumbstruck because of this, and you become more and more suspicious... Don't blame me for mentioning this, I just want to say that it is inappropriate for you to rush north this time, that's why. "

As Shen Shuren was talking, seeing Yang Sichang's face was pale and he gritted his teeth, he had no choice but to interrupt the main topic he was going to explain, change his words and comfort Yang Sichang first.

It turned out that Yang Sichang issued a reward for Zhang Xianzhong's head, and was ridiculed by Zhang Xianzhong's euphemism. These things all happened in history, and it was at the end of last year.

It is nothing more than the butterfly effect of Shen Shuren in this life, so the reward was increased, and a line was directly added that "Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates killed him to become a marquis, and the court civil and military killed Zhang Xianzhong to make him a prince", which was also what Chongzhen meant.

However, Zhang Xianzhong satirized Yang Sichang's leaflets, but the content remained unchanged, exactly the same as in history.This matter was a great shame to Yang Sichang, people around him usually dare not mention it, and he also deliberately avoided this painful memory, so he has almost forgotten it.

But Shen Shuren couldn't take care of Yang Sichang's emotions and missed a major event.Here are some things he had to say:
"Ge Lao! Zhang Xianzhong was able to accomplish this last year, which shows that he has a lot of loyal and meticulous work! Even beside Ge Lao, at least among the garrison in Xiangyang City, he has his eyes and ears!

Now, Mr. Ge, you rushed to the north because of Li Zicheng's killing of King Fu. You didn't make complete preparations in advance, just to show your loyalty and pose to His Majesty.This is very likely to make Zhang Xianzhong notice the flaw immediately, maybe he will take the opportunity to do harm in the emptiness left by you after you went north! "

Shen Shuren thought about this matter, of course, because he was worried about the inertia of history—this is what Zhang Xianzhong did in history.In order to prevent this situation, Shen Shuren actually reminded Yang Sichang a few months ago.

It's just that there are only people who can be thieves for a thousand days in the world, but there are no people who can guard against thieves for a thousand days.

Zhang Xianzhong hid in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River and Jingshan Mountains. Governor Fang Kongzhang on the Huguang side and Governor Shao Jiechun on the Sichuan side could only passively surround and guard the dangerous points, but they were unable to go deep into the mountains to pursue and eliminate them.This gave Zhang Xianzhong the initiative to choose the battlefield and choose the timing of the battle.He can always wait for the opportunity, until Yang Sichang reveals his flaws.

In April, when Yang Sichang was reminded by Shen Shuren, he had been guarding against death for a while, but nothing happened in three months, and sooner or later he would relax one day.

At this moment, after being awakened by Shen Shuren again, he realized that he had indeed neglected, and was dazzled by Li Zicheng's killing of King Fu.

After Yang Sichang calmed down, he thought about it carefully, and sincerely admitted: "There is indeed a hidden danger...it's the old man who has to deal with it. Forget it, now that I have gone north, it will take me several days to march back to Xiangyang.

Since the good nephew was going to go south to return to the teacher, Xiangyang will ask the good nephew to take care of it and help defend it.You have been promoted from Hubei Bingbeiqianshi to Huguang Bingbeiqianshi, and you have also added the Yushi of the capital.

I see that in the last appointment of the imperial court, all the prefectures in Huguang north of the Hanshui River, as well as Xinyang, Henan and other places, were assigned to you for inspection. I simply handed over the soldiers who stayed in Xiangyang to guard the soil.

If His Majesty really orders Zuo Liangyu to move the town, the defense of Wuchang and Hanyang will also depend on you—but don’t lose your sense of proportion, your title of imperial censor does not include Wuchang , Hanyang.

So for these two governments, you can only exercise the power of military preparations, preside over the inspection of local defense, but you must not interfere in civil affairs!In order not to be impeached, you are suspected of having a separatist regime! "

After he went north, Yang Sichang assigned Shen Shuren's authority clearly.

That is to say, if all goes well, in the future, Shen Shuren can exercise the power of military affairs and civil affairs in Xiangyang, Suizhou, and Huangzhou, the three prefectures of Hanbei in Huguang, and Xinyang, Henan.

In addition, it can also exercise the power of the defense army in Hanyang and Wuchang, which are south of the Hanshui River, but they have no civil power.

Added up, it is the military power of six prefectures and the civil and financial power of four prefectures.

Around the Dabie Mountains, Shen Shuren is the emperor of the earth, and in the vicinity of Wuhan in later generations, Shen Shuren has to keep a little bit of it.

After fighting for Ming Dynasty for more than two full years, his rudimentary form as a warlord finally appeared, and his name was so righteous that he couldn't change his name. He never did anything against him from the beginning to the end.

However, these are not the most important right now, and the most important thing is to be able to handle the transfer of power in a stable manner.

Don't be too happy if you don't get what you want.

Shen Shuren was always worried about Zhang Xianzhong's matter in his heart, so he didn't have time to talk to Yang Sichang about the past and ask for instructions that day, but he took the instructions from Elder Yang Ge and asked him to write down the order in writing, and then Shen Shuren set off from Dengzhou overnight and continued southward.

Originally, it took three days to march from Xiangyang to Dengzhou, but Shen Shuren traveled both days, and finished the journey in two days.

Finally, on the night of July [-]th, they rushed to Xiangyang City.

What he didn't expect was that on the evening of the same day, more than an hour before Shen Shuren's troops arrived in Xiangyang, a group of bandit soldiers disguised as ordinary people expelled by exiles came to the city of Xiangyang to cheat.

Shen Shuren really can't be blamed for this matter, because he hasn't taken office yet, and hasn't taken over the defense of Xiangyang Mansion yet, so he can't be blamed for what happened on his way back to take office.Even when the lawsuit went to Chongzhen, Shen Shuren couldn't be blamed.

However, even though they didn't stop the bandits from deceiving the city, Shen Shuren managed to block the bandits in the city at any rate. If Shen Shuren had come two hours earlier, maybe the gang of bandits sent by Zhang Xianzhong would have met Xiangyang. The defense is tight, so you don't take this risk.

Seeing that the second boot of history had finally landed, Shen Shuren actually felt relieved.

He didn't even think about the end of the vassal kings, dignitaries and rich people in the city. He immediately ordered his troops to divide and surround Xiangyang, trying to ensure that every city gate was blocked, and the thieves who infiltrated the city must not be allowed to escape.In addition, beware of the possible appearance of Zhang Xianzhong's rear army at any time.

(End of this chapter)