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Part One: Penghu Storm Chapter 262 Double Happiness

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    "The rogue bandits caused trouble and ran rampant. They killed the governor Li Hongye, the registered censor Ma Rujiao, and even Tang Jiuzhou died. Tell me, what should you do now?"

    In the Wenhua Hall, Chongzhen looked livid: "Do you want me to fight in person? Or do you have to wait for the bandits to go to Fengyang to dig my ancestral grave again? Do you have to wait for the bandits to hit me before you are happy?"

    "Your Majesty, please calm down. I am guilty." The ministers said in unison.

    "Guilty, guilty, what else can you do besides saying you are guilty!" Chongzhen said with anger still lingering.

    "Your Majesty, urgent report from Liaodong!"

    Hearing the words "Liaodong Urgent Report", everyone from Chongzhen to the ministers felt a sense of foreboding. Has Liaodong suffered another defeat?

    While he was upset, he saw a general from Liaodong running into the Wenhua Palace and saying loudly: "The commander-in-chief of Liaodong Army, Zu Dashou, is reporting to your majesty. In December of the eighth year of Chongzhen, the Jinlu took Gushan Beile Duduo as their commander-in-chief.  A big violation of the border, our border officers and soldiers fought a decisive battle with the Jinlu at the Daling River. Wu Sangui, the commander of the right battalion of the Liaodong forward, and Ding Yunyi, the Taiwanese general, were both brave and good at fighting. Among the Jinlu's ten thousand troops, they entered and exited nine times. Ding Yunyi killed the Jinlu.  The powerful generals Ershun, Mengbaha, Horhaqi, Zhehan, Wu Sangui and other powerful Jin generals Narbu, Cheng Liuba and Feiharasi were beheaded at our border, a total of 3,000 of them were beheaded.  Level 908, captured 812 people, great victory at Daling River!"

    "Thiskilled so many Jinlu generals? Beheaded so many heads?" Chongzhen did not react from the huge joy for a while, and kept mumbling something.

    "Your Majesty, what a great victory at Dalinghe! My Ming Dynasty is mighty, Your Majesty is mighty!" The ministers said in unison.

    "Haha, yes. Great victory at the Daling River, great victory at the Daling River! The Ming Dynasty is mighty, the soldiers of Liaodong are mighty!" Chongzhen finally woke up, and his excitement could not be contained at all. Since His Majesty ascended the throne, the ministers have never seen His Majesty so happy.  .  In laughter.  Chongzhen suddenly thought of something: "Wait a minute, besides Wu Sangui, who else is there?"

    "Taiwanese General Ding Yunyi!"

    Chongzhen was a little confused: "Didn't Ding Yunyi go back to Taiwan after he suppressed the bandits in the Central Plains? Why did he go to Liaodong again?"

    "Go back to Your Majesty, Ding Shen will choose war horses for Taiwan. So I went to the border, and it happened to be the second battle of Daling River. General Zu used Ding Shen's strategy to falsely defeat three times and lure the enemy deeper. Ding Shen and the two generals  Thousands of cavalry burned Duduo's camp and destroyed its supplies and supplies. After that, Wu Sangui and Wu Shen generals clashed with the enemy and defeated the Jinlu!  Yes. Mr. Zu, please forgive me.¡±

    "He is guilty." Chongzhen said with a smile: "Such a good news came to me so late. I will punish him by drinking three large bowls of wine. And that Ding Yunyi. He went to Liaodong to buy horses, but he was punished by me.  For such great military exploits, I will punish him by drinking a jar of wine!"

    Those ministers all had smiles on their faces, but they had never seen His Majesty make such a joke.

    "Good news! Good news!"

    At this moment, another voice suddenly came from outside the palace.

    The monarch and his ministers looked outside together. Good news?  Where did the good news come from?

    "Great victory, great victory! Capture the rebel leader Gao Yingxiang alive! Capture the rebel leader Gao Yingxiang alive!"

    With a "whoop", Chongzhen suddenly stood up, and the ministers were also completely shocked.

    "Could it be that Hong Chengchou finally caught Gao Yingxiang?" Chongzhen, who was still immersed in the excitement of the Liaodong victory, could hardly believe his ears.

    "Your Majesty, it's not Commander-in-Chief Hong, it's Taiwanese General Ding Yunyi, Commander-in-Chief of Shangqingche, and General Zhaowu who captured Gao Yingxiang alive!"

    Chongzhen and the ministers were stunned for a moment. What happened?  What's going on?  Ding Yunyi had just killed Jin Lu in Liaodong and suffered a huge defeat. Why did he go and arrest Gao Yingxiang again?

    "Ding Yunyi captured Gao Yingxiang? You didn't report your mistake, did you?" Chongzhen said doubtfully.

    "Your Majesty, Huangfu Yunjie, a subordinate of General Ding Shen, is waiting outside the palace for the announcement."

    "Quickly, call him in!" Chongzhen walked a few steps in front of the dragon chair and sat back down again, feeling uneasy. What he was worried about was not anything else but making sure not to make a mistake.

    "I bow to Taiwan"

    "OK OK!"

    Huangfu Yunjie had just spoken, and Chongzhen had already said impatiently: "Forget the false courtesy, tell me quickly, what is going on? Have you really caught Gao Yingxiang?"

    "Return to Your Majesty." Huangfu Yunjie read aloud: "Ding Shen will ride fifty-three and want to return to Taiwan. On the way, he captures the bandit spy Han Xiaolu. When he learns that the bandits want to rob the war horses, Ding Shen will devise a plan to use justice.  My younger sister Shao Luchun took the risk and sneaked into the camp of Shaanxi rogue bandits, and successfully lured the bandit leader Gao Niying.Arriving at Zhuilonggou in Shanxi, General Ding Shen took the lead. With fifty-three cavalry, he defeated the thieves' three hundred cavalry, and captured Gao Ni Yingxiang alive. He was currently being escorted to Beijing when a special minister was sent to report his victory.  I am afraid that there may be something wrong on the road, so I specially request your Majesty to send more troops to assist.  "

    "Quick, quick, lead five hundred Imperial Guard troops to pick up Ding Yunyi. We must not make any mistakes." Chongzhen shouted out, then he was stunned for a long time, and suddenly burst into tears: "The bandits dug up my imperial mausoleum. I deeply hate it and have no face."  To our ancestors, Ding Yunyi, Ding Xiangwen, help me, help me avenge this blood feud"

    After crying for a while, he suddenly laughed loudly: "Ding Yunyi, Ding Yunyi, I am not wrong about you. You are a pillar of our Ming Dynasty. You are the most famous general in our Ming Dynasty!"

    "Your Majesty!" The ministers all knelt on the ground.

    "Get up, get up, all get up. Today is a day of great joy. Double happiness is coming to the door. Double happiness is coming to the door. The golden prisoner has been defeated, and the thief's leader has been caught. You don't have to kneel to me, and no one has to kneel!" Chongzhen's voice had a certain tone.  He became trembling: "I want to see Ding Yunyi, and I also want to see his adopted sister. I want to reward them well. I will give them whatever they want!"

    The ministers looked at each other and smiled. Your Majesty is in such a good mood today. It seems that everyone is having a good time.

    "Ding Yuanzhao, the right minister of the Ministry of War." Chongzhen suddenly shouted.

    "My minister Ding Yuanzhao is here."

    Chongzhen was delighted: "Ding Yuanzhao, you have given birth to a good son. One of your sons is worth a hundred thousand soldiers. I heard that Ding Xiangwen took a concubine before marrying a wife. Are you not happy?"

    Ding Yuanzhao trembled in his heart.  How did your majesty know this? He quickly said: "I dare not deceive your majesty. This is what happened. Taking a concubine before you have a wife is a violation of etiquette."

    "I can't care about it, I can't care about it." Chongzhen said with a smile: "People like Ding Xiangwen have some losses in etiquette, so what's the problem? It's a pity that he has already married Deng Lianyu from the Deng family of Jiangnan Confucianism, otherwise this  I will marry him personally. He has done so much for me by marrying two concubines. If he has ten concubines, everything will be fine."

    Ding Yuanzhao did not dare to say a word. Wang Chengen, who was beside Chongzhen, also frowned. His Majesty may have lost his composure on this special day.

    "Huangfu Yunjie."

    "I'm here."

    "When can Ding Yunyi arrive in the capital?"

    "We can probably arrive tomorrow."

    "Wang Chengen, Ding Yuanzhao. You two will go out of the capital for ten miles on my behalf. Welcome Ding Yunyi!"

    "I take orders."

    There are dark clouds when you go to court, and spring breeze when you go to court. This change is so fast that it is difficult for people to adapt.

    After going to court, Chongzhen still had not recovered from his excitement: "Wang Cheng'en, Ding Yunyi has made such extraordinary achievements, how about I directly mention him as the commander-in-chief?"

    "Your Majesty, the ministers are so bold, but the ministers think it is inappropriate." Wang Chengen said unexpectedly: "In just over two years, Ding Yunyi was promoted from an inspection to a general. The speed of promotion has been staggering. Skip again.  He was promoted to the rank of Commander-in-Chief. Even if the ministers don't say it in person, they will start to talk about it over time. "

    Chongzhen gradually calmed down from his excitement, and Wang Chengen continued: "The last time His Majesty promoted Ding Yunyi to the rank of staff general, and then promoted Zheng Zhilong to the rank of officer, it was because Fujian was far away and constrained each other, so Taiwan had Zhang Kentang, Zheng Zhilong and  Ding Yunyi's three forces, if Ding Yunyi is suddenly promoted to the rank of commander-in-chief, the ministers are worried that as Ding Yunyi becomes more powerful in the future, no one will be able to restrain him, which will be detrimental to the court, so please think twice. "

    Chongzhen pondered for a while: "Ding Yunyi is still loyal to the court. Do you think he has evil intentions?"

    Wang Cheng'en said calmly: "Ding Yunyi is loyal, this is certain for me, but if a loyal minister becomes more powerful, he will have his own ideas, this is for sure. Therefore, your majesty made him a deputy general, on an equal footing with Zheng Zhilong."  That¡¯s okay. What Fujian needs is balance. If Ding Yunyi¡¯s official position is higher than Zheng Zhilong¡¯s, I¡¯m afraid Zheng Zhilong won¡¯t accept it.¡±

    Chongzhen nodded slightly and suddenly said: "Wang Chengen, Ding Yunyi saved your life, but you didn't speak to him?"

    "The minister is loyal to Your Majesty, not Ding Yunyi." Wang Chengen said calmly: "The minister does owe Ding Yunyi his life, but if Ding Yunyi harms my name one day, the minister will never blink an eye when he takes his head."

    Chongzhen sighed and seemed to be deeply moved: "The only true loyal minister around me is you, Wang Chengen! I know that there are many criticisms of you from the outside, saying that you are ruthless and unscrupulous in doing things, but I ignore them all, because I know,  Even if one day, everyone betrays me, in the endThe first person who stays with me must be you!  "

    "Your Majesty knows the inner minister's heart" Wang Cheng'en said with gratitude, but then he regained his composure: "Your Majesty asked Cao Huachun to secretly investigate Wen Tiren's matter, and the results have been obtained."

    "Oh, tell me quickly." Chongzhen asked hurriedly.

    Wang Chengen calmed down: "Wen Tirenyin is cruel and vicious, and he will never let go of anyone who has offended him. After Qian Qianyi was squeezed out by him, he has been living in the countryside, interacting with some literati and Confucian scholars at that time, and his life was miserable.  One day, a local man named Zhang Hanru came to the door and asked Qian Qianyi to help him with a private matter. Qian Qianyi knew that this person had bad character and refused.  Wen Tiren went to the capital to report Qian Qianyi, saying that he had made a group of cronies in the countryside and spread strange rumors and slandered the government all day long. Wen Tiren took this opportunity to arrest Qian Qianyi and others"

    Chongzhen nodded slightly. He knew that Qian Qianyi had been squeezed out by Wen Tiren before, and he also had some responsibility for this matter.

    Once the emperor and his courtiers, after Chongzhen ascended the throne, he vigorously eradicated the favored ministers of Xi Zong. He dug up the eunuch group headed by the traitor Wei Zhongxian, with no less than a hundred people sitting in it. In order to eliminate the remaining poison of Wei Zhongxian, Chongzhen made great determination  The replacement of court officials resulted in the dismissal of a large number of officials, resulting in a serious shortage of officials.

    The cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty limited to six members, called the first assistant, the second assistant, and the group assistants.  In order to supplement the cabinet members, Chongzhen, in accordance with the ancestral regulations, first selected six or more candidates jointly nominated by the nine ministers, and then decided by drawing lots by Emperor Chongzhen himself. The former procedure was called Huitui, and the latter procedure was called Meibu.

    After Wei Zhongxian was eliminated, the power in the DPRK was once again in the Central Plains. Wen Tiren believed that the time had come and was eager to try. He wanted to speed up his ambition to steal power, but unexpectedly there was no hope of joining the cabinet.  Wen Tiren was not willing to give up. He thought about it and went to see Zhou Yanru, the Minister of Rites.

    Zhou Yanru was deeply trusted by Chongzhen and was considered a popular figure in front of the emperor, but he was not nominated for this meeting and felt aggrieved.  Wen and Tuesday hit it off because they share the same problem, and secretly discussed a conspiracy to overturn the results of the cabinet election, deny the recommendation of the committee list, and exclude important ministers, so as to squeeze into the cabinet.

    They first did a good job behind the scenes, winning over cronies among the courtiers, spreading rumors, and spending huge sums of money to bribe eunuchs as traitors.  They chose Qian Qianyi, who was at the top of the recommendation list, as a breakthrough point to find faults and make great efforts in his materials. Wen Tiren was the first to attack and submitted the so-called "divine traitor and party" to Chongzhen.  They used bad words to attack Qian Qianyi, dug up old accounts, and used them to make use of the topic, specifically choosing crimes that Emperor Chongzhen hated deeply to pin on Qian Qianyi.

    In the second year of Tianqi, Qian Qianyi was ordered to take the examination in Zhejiang. After the examination, Qian Qianqiu, a talented man from Jiahe, was admitted as the first place in the provincial examination.  Later, it was discovered that Qian Qianqiu's composition examination paper quoted a popular poem: Once upon a time, he climbed into the sky. Unexpectedly, this poem touched the taboo of the court, so he charged Qian Qianqiu with the crime, canceled his qualification for the examination, and sent him to the border area.  Qian Qianyi was also implicated. First he was fined his salary, and then he was demoted to civilian status and sent back to his hometown.  This was six or seven years ago, and Qian Qianyi had already been recalled to the court, restored to his original position, and received Tianqidi's forgiveness.

    In the memorial, Wen Tiren not only mentioned the old case again, but also falsely accused him of making friends with party members, engaging in malpractice for personal gain, taking bribes, and harboring evil intentions.  These crimes were what Emperor Chongzhen hated the most in his life. After reading the memorial, Chongzhen became furious.

    Qian Qianyi was dismissed again.

    Now that Wang Cheng'en brought up these matters, Chongzhen put all the blame on Wen Tiren: "Wen Tiren is so hateful and jealous of virtuous people. I think your assassination has nothing to do with him. This time he is framed again.  Qian Qianyi, I must dismiss Wen Tiren as an official."

    "Your Majesty is wise." Wang Chengen said calmly; "But this time the court is overjoyed and it is not appropriate to take action on him for the time being. The ministers thought that they could wait until Ding Yunyi left the capital before taking action."

    Chongzhen nodded, and then said bitterly: "I, I must take off this old dog's head this time!"
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