Chapter 205

The Ming army has not won for a long time, especially the Wuqiao mutiny last year, but it has brought great damage and destruction here. Now that the Ming army has won and returned, there are not many people to welcome, because the people are basically busy fleeing famine or displaced

Now Dengzhou is basically a military town. The people in front of it are Governor Chen YingYuan and magistrate Deng Bingwen. They do their best to organize the people to come.

Although there are seven counties in Dengzhou, they are suck in their efforts, so there are few people, especially the disaster relief in Laizhou next door. Many victims inevitably flock to Laizhou.

The long-term development of Denglai region may also maintain this trend, that is, Dengzhou is responsible for the military and Laizhou is responsible for the people's livelihood.

This time, Liu Yuanqiao, governor of Laizhou, and Deng Bingwen, governor of Dengzhou, came to welcome the expedition fleet. Although Dengzhou governor governs the land of seven counties, he is far inferior to Liu Yuanqiao, governor of Laizhou, in terms of momentum and status.

Among the three eastern prefectures, Laizhou was originally the best in terms of people's livelihood and economy. It made great achievements in this disaster relief. In particular, Liu Yuanqiao contributed to the composition of the expedition fleet. Therefore, his status is far higher than Deng Bingwen, the governor of Dengzhou.

Dengzhou was originally defined as a military administration, a place where the imperial court stationed a large army, so the power of Dengzhou's general army is also very high. He can administer the guards of the other two houses and the three camps, and there is also a governor here. Therefore, Deng Bingwen is actually an angry role, unlike Liu Yuanqiao, who is the leader and dominating in Laizhou.

However, as governor of Denglai, Chen YingYuan was very happy that his general had fought such a big battle, so he personally ordered all walks of life of Dengzhou military and political circles and local gentry and celebrities to welcome him.

The military also showed great style this time. Although Dengzhou is known as a military important place, its current military strength is really small.

Gao ruowang had no intention of military affairs and asked several of his subordinates to work and be responsible. Another point is that the support of the imperial court is not strong, which means that the investment of money and grain is often not expected. Coupled with corruption and interception at all levels, it can recruit few soldiers.

Originally, Dengzhou was the garrison of the governor and the garrison of Dengzhou camp.

But he couldn't see his original strength, even Governor Chen YingYuan. Jiaozhou always wrote to ask them to help eliminate the Jufeng thieves, but even the Jufeng thieves didn't dare to levy and suppress them.

Earlier Gao ruowang actually sent troops to attack the giant peak thieves. As a result, he was killed by these mountain thieves and fled. We know how rubbish they are.

They must have appointed a new garrison commander of Dengzhou battalion, but this garrison commander was also killed in the process of suppressing bandits, but he was a little ashamed. That is, he was scared away by his opponent without fighting with the giant peak thief's crossing the mountain. He fell off his horse and was trampled to death by his own horse.

Gao ruowang reported it in the name of being killed in battle. In fact, his original intention was to strive for a good result and a good pension for his subordinates. Who knows, he was known by Governor Chen YingYuan. He scolded him for his shamelessness, which made both sides unhappy.

Dengzhou's military administration could not be restored, mainly because of the insufficient support of the imperial court.

During the Wuqiao mutiny, hundreds of thousands of troops gathered here, but after the mutiny was calmed down, these troops from all over the country withdrew one by one, or guarded outside the pass, perhaps to pursue and suppress the roving bandits. Few stayed here. On the one hand, their original intention was to reduce the local pressure, but now the local pressure is too light.

Gao ruowang is not Liu bu. Liu Bu and his disciples worked hard to cultivate Ding Jun, but they spent a lot of money to smash it out.

Gao ruowang draws 10% according to the rules. The so-called 10% according to the rules refers to the military pay and grain allocated from above. They all intercept 10% according to the rules in case of emergency.

Of course, when these food and salaries were allocated to him, he had already been deducted a lot. How could he train a good soldier without money and food?

But today, since Zheng Zhibao took over, the situation is different.

Liu Bu ordered Xiao Ning to lead a thousand servants to Dengzhou to listen to his old father-in-law, which was regarded as supporting his father-in-law's work.

The 1000 servants saw that all of them were tall, strong and tough, and they wore brand-new mandarin duck battle jackets. All above the general flag were good armours such as fish scale armour or Mingguang armour, and there was a team of more than 100 knights. When they saw such luxurious equipment, even Chen YingYuan drooled.

He knew the strength and toughness of the Liu family's Ding army, but it was beyond his surprise that the Liu family's strength would not be lower than this. He just sent to support his father-in-law.

Dengzhou is a military town, and the local people basically know the soldiers reluctantly. They know a little about soldiers and horses. Seeing the style of Liu's army, they know that it is an elite army.

In fact, it is quite simple to observe an army now. There is no professional vision. In sun Chengzong's words, it is to see the soldiers of an army. If they are not yellow and thin, they are even elite.

If you understand it a little more simply, it is a well fed army, even an elite army.

Liu Jiajun is full of energy, strong and high morale. They can be judged as elite troops only by their neat queues and majestic steps.

Chen YingYuan was very reluctant for Zheng Zhibao to serve as the commander in chief of Dengzhou army. He knew that after Zheng Lai served as the commander in chief of Dengzhou army, he would certainly not cooperate with his work. He would certainly collude with Liu Yuanqiao and completely overhead him as a governor.

In the past, Liu Yuanqiao served as a prefect of Laizhou, which has almost elevated him. Now his brother also served as the commander-in-chief of Dengzhou, which has almost gathered the soldiers of the three eastern prefectures under the banner.

Dengzhou general army is only a local name. In fact, its full name is the chief of the 24 offices of the three camps of the governor's east third house.

Zheng Zhibao is not a weak chicken commander like Gao ruowang. He has his own fleet. Now his in laws have sent more than 1000 elite soldiers. With their huge financial resources, it is estimated that they will soon be able to gain a foothold in the local area.

Chen YingYuan originally wanted to put the other party together, and then let him leave after the other party couldn't do it, but now it seems that it's not easy.

Chen YingYuan is actually quite bad to be governor of Denglai, because his performance in all aspects is average. He has been rated as the worst governor of Denglai in history by local gentry and powerful people. The government and the public have proposed to remove governor of Denglai, because it is useless and consumes money and food. Compared with the best governor of Denglai, Yuan Keli, it is a heaven, An underground.

Yuan Keli, a scholar in the 17th year of Wanli, experienced the four emperors of Wanli, Taichang, apocalypse and Chongzhen. He was a minister of the elders of the four dynasties and was rewarded by the grace of the fifth generation. He successively served as a pushing official of Suzhou government, a city patrolling censor, Zuo Tongzheng, a minister of the Ministry of War (false title). Yuan Keli, yuan Chonghuan and Yuan Yingtai in the late Ming Dynasty were called Wu Sanyuan.

This man has even heard of Liu bu. He was called the Houjin crusher by later generations. It's a pity that Yuan Keli was too deeply influenced by Donglin scholars such as Gao Panlong and Feng Congwu. He was involved in the struggle between the party and officials. He intensified the contradiction with Wei Zhongxian and castrated the party. After that, he refused to be an official. He was abandoned at home, closed his door, and finally died of illness.

During the apocalypse, Guangning fell, the government and the public shook, and the capital was under martial law. Emperor Tianqi worried about the border affairs day and night, "it is not public to suppress Denglai, so he conferred the Duke with a festival axe, added left General Administration, Yuan Keli, right Jindu imperial historian, governor Denglai and other places to prepare troops to defend the sea and praise the collection of military affairs in the East".

Yuan Keli, a big ox man, strove and boarded for three years, worked hard to prepare for horses, expand land and build cities, recruit refugees, garrison troops among the islands, and step by step promote maritime defense, so that the old slave curled up on the spot and peeped into the West.

In particular, he led the Denglai navy to contact the islands and recover Lushun, so that hundreds of miles of land in southern Liaoning was recovered to the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the government and the public celebrated, thinking that there had been no such victory since the establishment of the town.

When Yuan Keli was in office, he made great efforts to contact the islands, recover Lushun, recruit and subdue traitors, and destroy JianNu. In particular, he successfully plotted against Liu Aita, the son-in-law of the old slave, which caused an unprecedented blow to the JianNu army, and temporarily disintegrated the Han officials of the later Jin Dynasty. According to historical records, Yuan Keli "accepted the surrender of Liu Aita and took two slaves with him. For a time, Chinese rebels would be killed by slaves.

Unfortunately, after Liu Aita was demoted, he did not get the reuse of yuan Chonghuan. In the end, he died in the battle, or the Ming court was rotten to the bone. Such a representative figure did not know to treat him with courtesy and publicized him as a model, but used it as a general general. Liu Buhe lamented: "If I can recruit such a person, I will give him up as my ancestor and will never let him go to the battlefield."

Yuan Keli's painstaking management of coastal defense was constrained everywhere by Wei Zhongxian. Finally, Yuan Keli resigned angrily.

This is the characteristic of the struggle between the government and the parties in the Ming Dynasty since Wanli, that is, the same party and the different. As long as you are a party with me, whatever you do is right. If you don't join me, whatever you do is wrong. This is the case with Wei Zhongxian's eunuch party and the righteous men led by the Donglin Party. How can the Ming Dynasty not be destroyed under such cross frying?

After Yuan Keli left, Mao Wenlong lost control, became more and more arrogant, and was finally killed by yuan Chonghuan, which not only led to the deepening gap between yuan Chonghuan and Yuan Keli, but also led to the elimination of yuan Chonghuan's death. Finally, JianNu had little worries at home. The party struggle in the Ming Dynasty was fierce, he died heartily, and finally destroyed the Great Wall.