Daming iron-blooded Chief Assistant

Chapter 168 Seven Sides Governor
Seeing that Tianqi would not compromise, the cabinet began to procrastinate. When Tianqi asked, he was still deliberating, and made up his mind to delay the matter.

Apocalypse, who was in a hurry to build the Crystal Palace, saw that the cabinet was acting like this, and was very disappointed with the Donglin cabinet. He felt that the cabinet had become an obstacle, and then handed over the Dongchang to Wei Zhongxian
At this time, Wei Zhongxian reached the peak of power one year ahead of schedule, and he also understood what Apocalypse asked him to do?Immediately organize party members to besiege the Donglin cabinet.

In the early summer of May, there was a hailstorm in the capital. Taking advantage of the unseasonable hailstorm, the Donglin ministers also used the theory of the induction between heaven and man, saying that it was caused by Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka clan's disorderly government.

This completely enraged Tianqi, and Zhou Zongjian, who shouted the most fiercely, was recommended to dismiss Zhou Zongjian, Wen Zhenmeng, and Taipusi Shaoqing Manchu, originally to kill their heads.

The Donglin Cabinet pleaded for mercy, and Tianqi took the opportunity to propose Zhang Zongxian's appointment as Governor of the Seven Frontiers. Taige then compromised and agreed to the appointment.

In June, the apocalypse decreed that Zhang Zongxian was appointed as the governor of the seven borders to control the military affairs of the seven towns of Yansui Town, Guyuan Town, Gansu Town, Ningxia Town, Xuanfu Town, Datong Town, and Piantouguan Town, and led the Ministry of War with the title of Minister.

Zhang Zongxian learned from Wei Zhongxian in April that Tianqi intends to control the military affairs of the Seven Fronts and preside over the reform of the Seven Fronts Military Town.

At first, Zhang Zongxian decided that the cabinet would definitely not agree, and would obstruct it. Even if he agreed, he would be dismissed from the position of governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, and go to control the military affairs of the three towns of Xuanfu Town, Datong Town, and Piantouguan Town.

It never occurred to Tian Qi that in order to build the Crystal Palace, Tianqi would forcefully appoint him despite the fact that half of Daming's elite fell into the control of one person.It also allowed Wei Zhongxian to control the East Factory in advance.

The ministers of Donglin were also immortal, and they used the induction between heaven and man to talk about things. At this time, Tianqi completely believed that he was the emperor who was destined to belong to the emperor. Donglin directly hit the muzzle of the gun,
Zhang Zongxian also understood what Tianqi wanted?The original unintentional move actually allowed me to achieve a position that I didn't even dare to think about.Immediately ask the Investigation Section to transport 100 million taels of silver and escort it to the capital for Tianqi to repair the Crystal Palace.

In June of the second year of Apocalypse, Zhang Zongxian received the imperial decree of appointment, and immediately took one thousand Legislative disciples, plus three thousand senior squad leaders of the Legislative Army, plus two thousand ordinary soldiers, selected from the army, as the governor's mark. Camp to Datong.

In addition, Boren was ordered to mobilize ten cavalry brigades to move to Zhenluwei, Yulinwei, and Xuandewei to prepare for emergencies.

Datong Town is the most unstable border town among the Nine Borders. The generals here oppressed the soldiers and treated the soldiers as worthless. The heavy labor and cruel punishment caused Datong Town to repeatedly cause large-scale rebellions.

The most exaggerated thing is that the Datong Frontier Army had a record of not paying monthly rations for 13 years, and it was conceivable how miserable the lives of the soldiers were.

Before the Sarhu War, reinforcements from the nine frontiers were mobilized to Liaodong. The soldiers in Datong Town dispersed before leaving Shanxi and became bandits, which was caused by the border generals' arrears of payment.

It can be seen that these frontier generals in Datong Town have been rotten to the bone.

After Zhang Zongxian arrived in Datong, he first asked the people from the standard battalion to station outside the city, but he did not immediately regroup the army, but pretended to be tired from the journey and stayed behind closed doors.

Then Zhao staff was sent to open the Taiping Bank in Datong City. Before the opening, he sent a post to all the frontier generals in Datong Town, from as small as a hundred households to as large as the general, and invited everyone.

And Zhao's staff also hinted that these frontier generals, if they don't come at that time, they will not give the governor face.

The frontier generals in Datong Town have all heard of Zhang Zongxian's ruthlessness, he would kill if he got the chance,
I thought that when the governor came, he would quickly and decisively place troops, and then kill a few people to establish his prestige. These generals had already planned to directly ask their subordinates to instigate a mutiny when the governor ordered troops.

The rebellious army slaughtered the governor first, and then washed Datong City. When the time comes, the court will have to rely on them to quell the mutiny. After the governor is dead, no one will dare to investigate the military land again.

As a result, Zhang Zongxian stayed behind closed doors when he came, and ignored anyone who came to see him. This made Datong's border generals a little confused. After Zhao's staff posted a post, they understood that the governor wanted to be filial!

It turned out that the governor was with them all the way!Not as unkind as rumored!

Thinking of these Datong border generals here, they felt that the governor should be given this face, and they all prepared gifts, and rushed to Datong with their own soldiers to participate in the opening of the Taiping branch.

On the day when the semicolon opened, there were crowds of people, not only all the border generals of Datong Town arrived in Datong City, but also those hereditary border generals who had no real power. People brought presents.

In order to receive these frontier generals, Zhao's staff specially booked a restaurant, and these frontier generals also brought a large amount of cash, thinking of saving it in the Taiping to save face for the governor, so as not to embarrass them later.

Zhao's staff also pretended to accompany them, and kept saying that the generals would give the governor face in this way, and they would definitely give everyone a few good words in front of the governor.

These generals also tried to inquire about the clearing of the military fields. Zhao's staff immediately said that the governor considered that the soldiers in Datong Town were all thorns, and he was more cautious about clearing the military fields before preventing them from causing trouble.

After hearing this, the generals in Datong felt that the governor was afraid of them, so they drank with confidence.

After drinking until midnight, Zhang Zongxian opened the city gate with Shang Fang's sword, put the governor's battalion into the city, and quickly took control of the entire Datong City.

Then he arrested all the drunk Datong generals according to the list.

By the time these generals came to their senses, they had all been disarmed. Zhang Zongxian did not tie them up, but drove them to the school yard in Datong City, and let the soldiers of the Standard Battalion pour cold water on them , Give them a good sober up.

Some generals realized that they were in a bad situation when they woke up. After seeing the governor’s military flag, they realized that they had been tricked, so they began to swear, and constantly encouraged other generals to make trouble. Some generals drank too much and vomited. While scolding mother.

Zhang Zongxian looked at the ugliness of these generals, and ordered with a sneer:

"Someone here will tie up those noisy drunkards to Ben Du, and give them a good sober up with water."

The soldiers of the standard battalion immediately pulled the scolding generals out of the crowd, tied them to a tree beside the school field, and then poured cold water on the generals' heads until they stopped talking.

With these side generals as role models, the rest of the people did not dare to open their mouths. It was still a bit cold at night in Datong in June, and this group of side generals had just sobered up, and they huddled together like a group of drowned rats.

Seeing that they were all sober, Zhang Zongxian asked the people in the standard battalion to drive these frontier generals to the barracks and separate them from their relatives.

Those who were tied to the tree were released from the tree and locked up alone.

(End of this chapter)