Chapter 33 The fourth quarter breaks through from the blind corner of history

But destiny is destiny. The causal cycle of fate cannot be stopped by manpower. The peasant army began to break through. Break out from the dead corner of history. They found a faint ray of sunshine from the dead corner of history. That's a meter of sunshine. They will escape to the sky along this meter of sunlight. They surrendered to the Royal Forest Army.This was a well-planned surrender show. The reason why they chose to surrender to the Imperial Forest Army instead of other participating troops was because the Imperial Forest Army were proud and underestimated the enemy. If an army is proud and underestimates the enemy, it will often miss the victory that is easy to win.The Peasant Army is willing to gamble.They took advantage of the fact that Wang Pu, the general of the Imperial Forest Army, had many family members from Shaanxi, established a relationship with them, and gave them heavy bribes, hoping that they could speak to Wang Pu and accept the surrender of the peasant army.

When the fellow villagers saw the fellow villagers, their eyes were full of tears.Now that the villagers are rebellious and in trouble, how can they not help?But Wang Pu, the commander-in-chief, heard about this situation, and he had a little bit of a joke in his heart: if he surrenders, he must be resettled, and the resettlement will incur a series of expenses.This is troublesome.Of course, what's more troublesome is that after these "bandits" surrender, there is no guarantee that they will not rebel in the future.If I go against it again, then I will get burned. Who told me to agree to their surrender?If they don't accept surrender, they will definitely be wiped out.However, is it really possible to wipe them out with absolute certainty?If it doesn't work, then I'm going to be a benefactor.So this is also troublesome...

Life is his grandma's, this is troublesome and that is also troublesome. Wang Pu hesitated again and again, spinning in a series of troublesome circles, but he couldn't break out of the encirclement. The eunuchs Yang Jinchao and Lu Jiude told him categorically: Accepting the surrender of the "bandits" is our best choice at present.Think about it, to whom are the "rogue bandits" surrendering, to our imperial forest army, then whose credit is this, it must be our imperial forest army!But if we destroy them, not to mention whether we can succeed, even if we succeed, whose credit is this?Is it your Wang Pu alone?wrong!This credit belongs to everyone. Your old man is also one of the troops participating in the war. How much credit can you have?So all in all, accepting the surrender of the "bandits" is the best choice.

Wang Pu: It's nothing else, but will this "bandit" turn back after surrendering?this…… Yang Jinchao and Lu Jiude smiled: Mr. Wang, do you think this is important?It would be nice to be able to keep an eye on the things in this world.Go back and then turn back?Are we not going to divide and conquer and break each one down?There are many means, but only one purpose. First, hold this big fish by the Yellow River firmly in your hands—this fish has left the Yellow River. Tell me, is there still a way for it to survive?Ha ha…… It's really hard to say, and the lights don't turn on.Wang Pu suddenly felt enlightened.Yes, a thousand birds in the forest is not as good as a bird in the hand. The most important thing is to hold it in the palm of your hand first.

No matter what in this world, it is always right to hold it in the palm of your hand first. What can be seen is sometimes invisible. So it is better to see once than to hear a hundred times, and to grasp a hundred things is worse than seeing a hundred times. The truth of life is sometimes so rough. The Henan governor and the inspector also felt that the principles of life were too rough. I have seen forced ones, but I have never seen such forced ones.Wang Pu, Yang Jinchao, and Lu Jiude almost kidnapped them to meet the bandit leader. There are twelve bandit leaders in total, and the leader is Zhang Miaoshou.They lined up and knelt in front of these high-ranking officials of Ming Dynasty.

Wang Pu, Yang Jinchao, and Lu Jiude laughed, sincerely. The governor and the inspector couldn't laugh: this kneeling, what kind of momentum is that, the movements are uniform, revealing a murderous look and a faint dignity - will these people be willing to accept surrender? The governor and the inspector expressed their doubts to Wang Pu, Yang Jinchao, and Lu Jiude, but they didn't want Wang Pu, Yang Jinchao, and Lu Jiude to cast doubtful eyes on them: What?Jealousy, we took the lead, we must fight so that we can go to the emperor to receive the reward?Forget it, we called you here today, that is, we want you to be witnesses, to witness how we accepted the surrender of the "bandits"... Others, it is useless for you to think too much, haha...

The only request Zhang Miaoshou and others made to Wang Pu was to return to his homeland and be an obedient citizen. Wang Pu changed a word, which is called "return to the homeland and be an obedient citizen". Zhang Miaoshou agreed. He was not born as a scholar and has no interest in word games.He only knows that life is to be fought out, not played out by word games. You can fight for a splendid country with empty hands, as long as you have real strength and wisdom. As long as Wang Pu agrees that they go back to their hometown, then they can prepare to break out.They quietly spent a lot of money to buy durable and good shoes, preparing for the dark crossing of the Yellow River.At the same time, the peasant armies in Wu'an, Linxian, and Shexian gradually gathered near the Yellow River, and arrived at Guanyang and Changquan, the narrowest part of the Yellow River between Yuanqu, Shanxi and Jiyuan, Henan, within the scheduled time. Ready to forcibly cross the Yellow River at any time.

At this time, Wang Pu, Yang Jinchao, and Lu Jiude were busy announcing the good news to the emperor, telling the emperor that the "rogue bandits" were willing to put down their butcher knives and start a new life because they were desperate, and that there would be no more "rogue bandits" in Ming Dynasty.From now on, no matter in the Central Plains or Shaanxi, everyone lives and works in peace and contentment, and everyone abides by the law--My lord, the ideal of great harmony in the world is about to be realized in your hands, you are my sage king of Ming Dynasty! But a heavy snowfrozen the fanatical obscenity of Wang Pu, Yang Jinchao, and Lu Jiude, and finally made Chongzhen Longyan furious—the Yellow River froze at this critical moment, and the ice was so thick that hundreds of thousands The "Liu Bandit" rode his horse across the Yellow River calmly, and broke out of the encirclement of hundreds of thousands of Ming officers and soldiers without anyone noticing it.

This is really a natural and man-made disaster!The once-in-a-hundred-year heavy snowfall and the bastard Imperial Forest Army have dealt a heavy blow to Chongzhen, the king who tried his best to govern. what to do?What to do—now, what else to do? Chongzhen felt physically and mentally exhausted for a while. The peasant army really ran wild like a wild horse. After crossing the Yellow River, they quickly conquered Mianchi County on the south bank of the Yellow River, and then marched towards Xin'an and Luoyang. . The peasant army's offensive was in full swing, but the officers and soldiers chased and intercepted each other at their own pace, seemingly disorganized.The Peasant Army happily discovered that the nets cast by the officers and soldiers were full of loopholes and could not catch them at all.

Most of Henan fell, and Huguang, Shaanxi, and Sichuan were also in distress at the same time. Chongzhen was shocked to find that the powers of governors in each province had been increased, but there was a lack of coordination and unified command between provinces.The cunning "traffic bandits" took advantage of the inter-provincial space to shuttle freely like a fish in water. If this continues, Daming's country may not be guaranteed. It seems that it is an imminent choice to appoint another governor above Fuzhen in each province. Life is all about choices. Once, Chongzhen wanted to avoid this unpleasant choice, but this choice has been chasing him like a shadow, and he has paid a heavy price.

Since you can't avoid it, then accept this choice.Chongzhen decided to set up the governors of the five provinces to coordinate and command the military operations of the five provinces to suppress bandits.However, this governor cannot be Hong Chengchou, but Chen Qiyu, the current governor of Yansui.This man is eager to win, he is decisive in killing and attacking, and his military achievements are not inferior to Hong Chengchou.Let him be the governor of the five provinces, and coordinate and command the military operations against bandits in the five provinces of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Huguang, and Sichuan. Chongzhen made this decision with good intentions.The reason why he dared to use Chen Qiyu boldly was because of his competitiveness. As long as a person has a competitive heart, it is not easy to unite with others.And Chongzhen is most afraid of this alliance - what if he, Chen Qiyu, joins Hong Chengchou to deal with me?The consequences are disastrous! So to be an emperor, the most important thing is to be able to employ people. Using the most correct person at the most critical time is a university question related to wealth and life. But this time, Chongzhen had an intuition: using Chen Qiyu should be the right one.He and Hong Chengchou form checks and balances with each other, and Daming's country is safe. After Chen Qiyu took office, he immediately put into work.He commanded generals from all walks of life to march towards Shanzhou, Henan, and then went south with superior forces to encircle and suppress the peasant army. At this time, the peasant army was moving to Hanzhong, Xing'an, Yunyang, and Fangxian, and the governors and governors of the provinces would not attack easily as long as the peasant army did not come to their door.Chen Qiyu's new official took office three times, and led a large army to sweep twice, causing the peasant army to retreat to Hannan immediately.Chen Qiyu won the first battle, which made Chongzhen feel refreshed all of a sudden: using Chen Qiyu, it was definitely his grandma who used it right! But Hong Chengchou frowned.Now that the "traffic bandits" in the five provinces are all gathered in one place, Qin's affairs are very worrying.Hong Chengchou, as the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, once something happened in Shaanxi, he could not escape the responsibility-the emperor used the wrong person, the wrong person!No one is easy to use, but Chen Qiyu is the one to use.Let's not talk about him for the time being, the important thing is that Chen Qiyu has no overall concept.Shaanxi is the base of "rogue bandits".Now that the "rogue bandits" have returned to Hannan, Juanniao returns to its nest, and after recuperating, it will make trouble again.Could it be that Chen Qiyu, the governor of the five provinces, doesn't understand this? ! What's more terrible is that he has no soldiers and no pay in his hands - where did he go?They were all requisitioned by Chen Qiyu and sent to other provinces.Therefore, it is necessary to get back the Shaanxi soldiers and Shaanxi salaries as soon as possible.Hong Chengchou sent a letter to Chongzhen, asking the emperor to call back the Shaanxi soldiers and Shaanxi salaries as soon as possible to ensure the peace of Shaanxi. Chongzhen was silently happy when he received Hong Chengchou's memorial.Hong Chengchou, Hong Chengchou, your vision is still short-sighted, and your emotions are still problematic.It seems that it was right not to let you be the governor of the five provinces.You should have a holistic view. Now that the "bandits" retreat to Hannan, still in shock, it is a great time to wipe them all out in one fell swoop.Therefore, you should not only use the Shaanxi soldiers to suppress the bandits, but you should use the troops of the five provinces, so that you can accomplish all in one battle.In addition, your letter should not be written to me, it should be written to Chen Qiyu, who is now the governor of the five provinces.You leapfrogged to the report, which means that you look down on Chen Qiyu and are not convinced.Why are you unconvinced?It's still a matter of temperament, he Chen Qiyu used to be your subordinate, but now you have become his subordinate, it's hard to understand. Between people, sometimes ability determines everything, and sometimes temperament determines everything, but in the end it is temperament that determines everything. This is the watershed for whether great things can be achieved. Chongzhen felt sorry for Hong Chengchou for a while, looking back at himself, he felt that his tolerance didn't seem too big, and he couldn't help feeling sorry for himself.But soon, he got rid of this nameless emotion, and began to issue orders to Chen Qiyu: It is better to use Remnant Yong to chase down the poor bandits, gather troops from five provinces, and go straight to Hannan to eliminate the "rogue bandits". There is Xing'an Prefecture in Hannan. There is a carriage gorge in Xing'an Prefecture. Tens of thousands of peasant troops were trapped in the carriage gorge. There is a lonely thinker among the tens of thousands of peasants. His name is Li Zicheng. Once, he was a monk.Later, he was laid off.Now, he's a rebel leader. When a person's survival bottom line is broken, survival will become the first desire. To rebel is to survive.But in Chexiangxia, survival has become an unattainable luxury. The carriage canyon, the long carriage canyon, the forty-mile long carriage canyon, has now become a carriage canyon where no bird can fly out.Because the main force of the officers and soldiers of the five provinces has surrounded the Chexiang Gorge with three floors inside and three floors outside. Breaking through has become a fantasy.The shadow of death follows like a shadow. Li Zicheng actually doesn't like thinking very much, but now he has to think. The wealth and lives of tens of thousands of brothers are all on him, so he can't think of a surefire solution. Reckless means annihilation. Perhaps, there is no better way than surrendering. The last Mianchidu incident constituted a typical case of the Peasant Army's non-violent breakthrough.Can it be done in the same way this time? Maybe the risk is very high, but life is made up of one period of risk followed by the next period of risk. Seek safety in danger. All procedures are exactly the same as last time.Last time, he bribed Wang Pu's servant, the general of the Imperial Forest Army. This time, Li Zicheng ordered the gold and silver treasures collected to be given to Chen Qiyu's entourage. Maybe Chen Qiyu didn't care about this, but his entourage did. Li Zicheng looked at the past from the perspective of the bottom society, and precisely stripped and absorbed certain desire carriers for my own use.As a result—Chen Qiyu was persuaded to accept Li Zicheng's surrender—the carrier of desire gave full play to its functions under the influence of money.Li Zicheng achieved his goal. In fact, half of Li Zicheng's success is due to his strategy, and the other half is due to Chen Qiyu's character. Chen Qiyu is a proud and arrogant person.If Li Zicheng chooses to fight with him, then Chen Qiyu will definitely accompany him to the end.Now, since King Li Chuang, who is well-known in the world, is willing to give up his sword and admit defeat, Chen Qiyu is still very happy. Subduing the enemy without fighting is a great victory.This kind of victory is something that can be met but cannot be sought-he is a hero's heartfelt convincing to another hero, a hero surrendering his personal dignity and reputation to another hero, which is much better than just destroying his troops .Deep down in his heart, Chen Qiyu is still willing to admit that Li Zicheng is a hero. In this era, anyone who can strike out is a hero.Although Li Zicheng came from a humble background, he was a reckless hero, but a reckless hero is also a hero.Not to mention Chen Qiyu himself, the governor of the five provinces, is about to accept the surrender of a reckless hero-he is not only a hero, his grandmother is simply a hero of the world! But Fu Yongchun, the imperial censor of Shaanxi Province, felt that this matter was unreliable. In this world, the two words victory and defeat are linked together.If you don't defeat him, how can you win? Especially this Li Zicheng, a reckless hero recognized by the world, how could he give up so easily? A false surrender is clearly a false surrender!Li Zicheng wanted to reproduce the scene of crossing Mianchi again!As long as they walk out of the carriage gorge, these tens of thousands of "rogue bandits" will be vicious tigers coming out of the mountain, and it will not be easy to exterminate them when the time comes?Why is Chen Qiyu so confused that he can't even see such a simple scheme? ! Maybe Fu Yongchun spoke too aggressively, maybe Fu Yongchun's official rank was too low, Chen Qiyu ignored everything he said. Fu Yongchun cried. - A big man cried in front of another big man.Fu Yongchun said that he was crying for Chen Qiyu, the emperor, and Daming—as long as Li Zicheng walked out of the carriage gorge, Daming would be in trouble again! Chen Qiyu felt deeply disappointed.He didn't like a man crying, especially when he had the chance to win.Crying is a bad omen, a bad omen, and at such a moment, he wants too much to stay away from these things. Of course, Chen Qiyu is not extremely conceited.After Fu Yongchun said so many things, he listened to one sentence, that is, these tens of thousands of "rogue bandits" must not be allowed to leave the carriage gorge at the same time, otherwise there will be trouble.It is necessary to cut the "rogue bandits" out of the Chexiang Gorge in small pieces, just like cutting meat. Only in this way is a surefire solution. Chen Qiyu began to move the knife carefully.He allowed Li Zicheng to leave Chexiang Gorge with 36,000 people in batches and return to his hometown to work in agriculture.For the sake of safety, Chen Qiyu also sent 360 pacification officers to monitor the repatriation, but it was just monitoring. In general, Chen Qiyu still practiced humanitarianism towards these returning peasant troops.He stipulated that the local governments along the route should not obstruct and attack these peasant troops at will, and at the same time provide them with food and grass unconditionally. Chen Qiyu believes that people's hearts are made of meat, and he should treat people with sincerity. Most of these peasant troops are from Yan'an Prefecture. From Chexiangxia to Yan'an Prefecture, they have to pass through Hanyin, Shiquan, Xixiang, Hanzhong, Baoji and other places along the way. sleep, and some even became sworn brothers, exchanging armor, bows and arrows with each other.Chen Qiyu saw it in his eyes, and was delighted in his heart: Such a harmonious coexistence, the great harmony in the world is nothing more than this... Just when Chen Qiyu felt good about himself, the tragic scene in Baoji turned the situation into a sudden turn for the worse. Li Zicheng led the peasant army away from Chexiangxia, but he had been looking for an opportunity to instigate rebellion. The reason why he didn't rebel along the way was because he wanted to leave Chen Qiyu's main force. Walking to Baoji, Li Zicheng found that a turning point had appeared. The maker of the inflection point was Shaanxi governor Lian Guoshi.When Lian Guoping heard that the peasant army and the officers and soldiers had become sworn brothers, exchanging armor, bows and arrows with each other, he felt that something was wrong. Yesterday, they were sworn enemies, but today they are brothers exchanging arms. How can there be such a touching story in this world? The "bandits" are paralyzing the officers and soldiers!Lian Guoshi ordered Yang Lin to lead his troops to station in Baoji County, strictly prohibiting the peasant army from entering the city.Baoji is an important town in Shaanxi. Once Baoji falls, it will definitely endanger Xi'an.Lian Guoshi didn't want to take the risk. But the leader of Zhao'an army took Chen Qiyu's governor's document and ordered Li Jiayan, the magistrate of Baoji County, to open the city gate. Naturally, Li Jiayan didn't dare to take this risk, let alone Yang Lin's troops were waiting behind him. Thus, a deadlock arises. One wants to enter the city, and the other will never allow it to enter the city.The two sides stalemate there, forming a short-term dynamic balance. This is the deadlock of history, and the deadlock of history will be broken sooner or later. In fact, it was not the peasant army that broke the deadlock first, but Li Jiayan, the county magistrate of Baoji.Li Jiayan first allowed thirty-six peasant troops to enter the city, sent them to the tower, and then beheaded them at lightning speed for public display. Thirty-six bloody human heads fluttered in the wind on the Baoji City Tower, and 36,000 peasant troops were silent outside the city gate. No one understood why Li Jiayan did this, he was trying to arouse public outrage.Maybe, he just wanted to use this action to suppress the peasant army, and hoped that they would not get close to Baoji City; maybe, he believed that Yang Lin's troops were behind him, and he would not have a big problem even if he made a little outrageous move; maybe , he suddenly wanted to regain a sense of being a county magistrate, to taste what it was like to kill; maybe, there was no other reason, just because he was crazy. After a short silence, Li Zicheng blew a long whistle, and the peasant army killed more than fifty deportation officers around him in one go, avenging the dead brothers, and then He launched a fierce attack on Baoji City. Baoji quickly fell because the peasant army was angry. If the peasant army gets angry, ten Yang Lin will not be able to defend a Baoji City. Then Linyou also fell. Then, one, two, three, four, five, six and seven counties fell. Shaanxi fell into chaos again6. Facing the chaotic situation in Shaanxi, Lian Nation feels that the "rogue bandits" were indeed pretending to surrender before, but now that they have come out of the cage, they are sure to turn Shaanxi upside down.Chen Qiyu was too naive, and made the same old mistakes that some people in the court had made before.Daming, you're in big trouble again. Moreover, judging from the current situation, I am afraid that it will be difficult for me to retreat completely. Blame Li Jiayan's unimaginable thirty-six knives. These thirty-six knives not only cut off the heads of thirty-six "rogue bandits", but also cut off his career in state affairs. It will also cut off the head of his state affairs. Because for Chen Qiyu, he needed the thirty-six knives too much. This is a divine sword. This divine sword not only resolved the crisis that the failure of the Fuju Bureau might bring to him, but also truly blurred the original truth of a matter, which to a large extent affected the emperor's understanding of Shaanxi. The correct judgment of the ins and outs of the incident. If it weren't for Li Jiayan's unbelievable thirty-six knives, the "bandits" would have turned their backs in the end, then there is no doubt that Chen Qiyu would be the second Wang Pu, and he would bear all the consequences of the failure of the conquest; After seeing Li Jiayan's unbelievable thirty-six knives, the "bandits" took advantage of the situation to turn against it, and this matter became extremely subtle-Li Jiayan became the eternal sinner who destroyed the overall situation of the bandits, and Lian Guo was in it , how can escape the relationship? Alas, life is like this sometimes, a person who is not so important, one day inexplicably makes an action that is not so important to him, but viciously affects another person's smooth life. Because this other person is very helpless to live with him in the same organization and system.From then on, they were closely related, shared weal and woe, and they had to become grasshoppers on a rope.Although, when it comes to ancestors, these two people have nothing to do with his grandma's eight lifetimes. Lian Guoshi quietly shed tears for himself and for this cruel and vicious unspoken rule in the world. Chongzhen was indeed confused. How do you say that this "traffic bandit" is against it? Chen Qiyu's fault, or state affairs, this is a question that must be clarified. But this is again a difficult question to figure out.When Chen Qiyu first proposed to appease the bandits, Chongzhen was still a little hesitant, afraid of repeating the same mistakes.But Chen Qiyu said that Li Zicheng and the others only wanted to survive, and they didn't want the resettlement fee from the court, and they would go back to their hometown unconditionally to be obedient citizens. He also said that if there was a battle in Chexiang Gorge, the two sides would fight each other, and the court would definitely lose troops, so Chongzhen reluctantly agreed. He believed in Chen Qiyu, and at such a moment, he could only trust Chen Qiyu, not Hong Chengchou or anyone else.It's an either-or choice. But the "traffic bandits" turned against it in the end, and it was against Baoji.Is this an accident of history, or an inevitability of history?Chongzhen wanted to make it clear and clear.Because it is related to Chen Qiyu's ability, and whether this person can still be used in the future. Chongzhen picked up Chen Qiyu's memorial and examined it carefully.In the face of a historical detail, Chongzhen's suspicious eyes widened: Li Jiayan, the magistrate of Baoji County, first allowed thirty-six peasant troops to enter the city, sent them to the tower, and then beheaded them at lightning speed for public display. What is Li Jiayan doing?He is deliberately intensifying the conflict!At the critical moment when the Fuju Bureau was advancing all the way, Li Jiayan suddenly came here. Is it a personal act, or is there another mastermind?If it is the latter, then who is the mastermind?What is his real purpose? Li Jiayan——practicing state affairs——Hong Chengchou!It must be like this, it must be such a chain of official interests.These three people have always been the main suppressors, and they must be very dissatisfied with Chen Qiyu's appeasement, or in other words, they are dissatisfied with Chongzhen's use of such a person.Seeing that Chen Qiyu had succeeded in appeasing the bureau, they took the risk and set up a blood-spattered Baoji, forcing the "traitors" to surrender without hope, and had no choice but to rebel again.Could it be...Could it be that the party struggle in my Ming Dynasty has infiltrated into the army, and has already started vigorously among the governors of the three sides and the governors of the five provinces?Chongzhen shuddered. Of course, whether the situation has really reached this point remains to be seen and further confirmed.Hong Chengchou can stay still for a while, this man is still good at fighting.Practicing state affairs can no longer be done, and must be resolutely and thoroughly removed from the position of governor of Shaanxi, arrested and imprisoned, and severely punished.By strictly handling state affairs, killing chickens for monkeys, warning Hong Chengchou not to fight for power and profit, and form cliques. Chongzhen wanted to do it, and he admired his foresight and achievements. Proofreading.