Xie Ming

Chapter 255 Huang Degong Enters the Hall

On the tenth day of May, the sun sets in the west!
Huang Degong, wearing armor and holding a sword, broke into the door of the Ministry of War!

"Hahaha"

"Xianzhi, Xianzhi!"

"I miss you so much!"

"I am Huang Degong, the first one to arrive again, right?!"

"Haha, we two brothers haven't seen each other for a while, huh?!"

Huang Degong kicked the ignorant official who was blocking the road away, then took big steps and came close to Shi Kefa in a few steps. He slapped him on the shoulder with his big hand!

"Eh!"

"Brother Shi, you have lost weight recently!"

"What's going on?!"

"Fuck you, tell me, is there anyone bothering you?"

"Don't worry about anything else, brother, let me kill the man for you first, and then we can worry about it!"

Huang Degong spoke rudely, but to Shi Kefa, he acted like a righteous brother!

"hehe."

"Lord Jingnan is always joking!"

"Thank you for your concern!"

"Thank you for your concern!"

"Please, please!"

"Let's discuss business first!"

"There's a lot to do today, let's go inside and have some tea, we still have something to talk about!"

In response to Huang Degong's remarks, Shi Kefa neither responded nor refuted them. He went with the flow, neither distancing himself from them nor distancing himself from them, and he also kept a sufficient distance between his words and handled them with caution.

Seeing the situation, Huang Degong didn't say much. He just laughed it off and walked into the inner hall.

As soon as he entered the front door of the hall, the smile on his face disappeared instantly.

"Prince?!"

"too"

"Eh? That's right!"

"Xianzhi, did the prince actually reach Nanjing?!"

"The young official you sent to tell me the news, oh, what an accent he had!"

"I've listened to this and that, but I still can't understand it!"

"Your Highness the Crown Prince?!"

"Where is the prince?!"

"Also, there is that one... Oh, yes, the Shangshu from the capital!"

"Who are these people? Huh?!"

Huang Degong has a loud voice and is the first to make a splash.

He uttered these words as he entered the hall a few steps. I don't know whether he really didn't understand or was just pretending to be confused and reckless!

"Eh!"

"I'm talking to you, you idiot!"

"Raise your voice higher!"

"If it were any higher, the roof of the Ministry of War's meeting hall would collapse!"

"Bury us, and there will be nothing to discuss!"

"You're almost fifty this year, right?!"

"Why is it that this temper won't change? Huh?!"

"What are you yelling about? What's the hurry?!"

"Shouting and yelling all day long!"

"I don't know how long my old bones can stand your torture!"

"Humph!"

"I'm used to being tough here, so that's all!"

"But today, open your eyes and look carefully, what kind of occasion is this!"

"Quickly calm down!" "This guy from the capital, ah, Ni Yuanlu, the great minister Ni, is also sitting here to rest!"

"You are making a fool of yourself by yelling like a ghost!"

"Laugh at my Yingtian Prefecture, which is still barbaric and uncivilized!"

"In the end, it was us, the old officers, who were incompetent in disciplining the children!"

The person who spoke with a hoarse old voice was none other than the old man in brocade clothes who had made such a grand appearance in front of the government office yesterday!
Yesterday, with the introduction of Shi Kefa, Ni, Lin, Li and others also learned that this was the current Nanjing Minister of War, Qiu Weizheng!
[Qiu Weizhen, courtesy name Yongzu, is sixty-seven years old and is from Dongguanzhuang, Luocun Town, Zichuan District.]

[In the 1619th year of Wanli (), he passed the imperial examination and became a Jinshi, but had not yet been appointed to an official position. He went before the emperor and cried in the palace, saying that his mother had suffered from hunger and cold, and that he should repay her kindness with filial piety. The Wanli Emperor was touched by his filial piety and allowed him to return home to serve his mother.]

[During the Chongzhen period, Qiu Weizhen served as an official, and was successively appointed as the censor of the four departments of ritual, criminal, household, and military affairs, and later promoted to the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue in Nanjing.]

[In the 1640th year of Chongzhen (), Qiu Weizhen was transferred to Nanjing as the Minister of War. ]

In recent years, due to the need to raise money for wars, and the fact that the incumbent Minister of the Ministry of Revenue is old and incompetent and unable to be in charge, since last year, this man in Yingtian Prefecture, Nanjing City, has been the head of the two most important departments, the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of War.

Just now, he spoke a few short sentences, seemingly criticizing Huang Degong for his faults!
In fact, it was also used as a deliberate attack.

He wanted to quickly set the tone for the relationship between the two parties when Huang Chuangzi first met Ni Yuanlu and others.

After all, Ni, Lin and Li are officials serving in Beijing, and they are outsiders!

He is calculating in his mind, you, Huang Chuangzi, should have an idea in your mind.

Don't be confused and join the wrong side or climb the wrong branch. If you do that, everyone will be in trouble and it will be difficult to resolve the issue!
After he finished speaking, Qiu Weizheng became even more pretentious. He leaned his body sideways, covered his mouth with his head, and put some cakes into his mouth.

Looking at his posture, he seems to be getting stronger with age and is able to handle things with ease.

At this moment, in contrast, Huang Degong, who had stamped his feet upon hearing this, had a look of slight surprise on his face!

In his hurry, his heart was racing, so he took advantage of the situation to speak in a joking manner.

"Hey hey hey"

"I wonder who it is!"

"This isn't Minister Qiu, this is Old Master Qiu!"

"What a great guy! It's rare to see such a big lineup today!"

"You actually worked hard on it yourself!"

"hehe."

"Hey, old man! How are you feeling lately?"

"Are you well?!" In front of this person, Huang Degong could only act as a younger nephew, so he obviously restrained his words and responded with a smile.

"Humph!"

"You still have the nerve to say that!"

"Thanks to you and the generals of the four towns!"

"It's me, the old man!"

"I have been waiting in this meeting hall of the Ministry of War for a whole day and night with you gentlemen!"

Qiu Weizheng pretended to complain, but his words were all intentionally close.

How could Huang Degong not recognize this tune? So he followed up with another sentence, hoping to continue.

"Hey hey hey"

"Old man, this is not a sudden accident, we are delayed."

"You say." Huang Degong had a lot to say.

But at this moment, outside the gate of the Military Deployment Office, there was suddenly another report interrupting from outside!
"Report——"

"Report!"

"Yangzhou General, Left Commander, Liu Zeqing has arrived!"

【Liu Zeqing, 45 years old, courtesy name Hezhou, also known as Quezhou, was a native of Caozhou (now Heze), Shandong Province, in the late Ming Dynasty.】

[When the Ming court deployed troops in Liaodong, he was a capable general and served as the Ningyuan and Qianwei defense commanders. Later, he was promoted to the position of assistant secretary of Shandong Dusi and was given the title of assistant general.]

[In the third year of Chongzhen (1630), the Later Jin army attacked the iron factory, intending to cut off the food supply to Fengrun City. General Yang Zhaoji, who was defending Santun, sent Liu Zeqing to rescue him. He encountered the Jin army fifteen miles away from the iron factory. After a fierce battle, it was difficult to determine the winner. Later, he got reinforcements and moved to Zunhua, attacking the city from both sides. For his merits, he was promoted two levels and became the deputy general! ]

[In the fifth year of Chongzhen (1632), he was impeached for withholding military rations, and the emperor ordered him to make amends by performing meritorious deeds on the battlefield.]

[In the sixth year of Chongzhen (1633), he was promoted to general. In the same year, he was appointed as the left governor.]

[In the eighth year of Chongzhen (1635), he led his army to protect the grain transport in Shandong. ]

[In the ninth year of Chongzhen (1636), the capital was under martial law, and he led troops to defend the capital. The emperor appointed him to stay in Tongzhou and conferred him the title of Left Commander-in-Chief and Grand Tutor to the Crown Prince.]

[In the 1643th year of Chongzhen (), this man once again led his troops to reinforce Kaifeng Prefecture and fight against the bandits.]

[Afterwards, Li Zicheng marched eastward, and Liu Zeqing and his army were defeated and fled south in panic, coming to Jianghuai, and now stationed in Huai'an and Yangzhou! ]

(End of this chapter)