The thief of the fortress dominates the world

Chapter 144 Yuan Manzi Arrives

Ten miles outside the south gate of Datong City, there is a pavilion, known as the Ten-mile Pavilion, and basically all the cities in the world have such a pavilion.

Its function is not for pedestrians to rest their feet, but for seeing them off or welcoming them.Generally, those who can receive this kind of treatment are basically noble people.

Today, outside the ten-mile long pavilion, there is a group of well-dressed people waiting here. The leader is a tall general who wears fish-scale leaf-length armor and a sword hanging from his waist. The bright red civil servant uniform, with a peacock civil servant embroidered on the patch on the chest.

The military commander of these two men is Li Yongnian, the commander-in-chief of Datong, and the civil servant is Mu Zuo, the magistrate of Datong.The group of people following them were naturally the civil and military officials of Datong City.

At the back of the officials are the respectable gentry of Datong City, everyone is dressed up today, and they are all looking at the official road coming from the south with their necks stretched.

On both sides of the official road stood two rows of soldiers with chest and belly protruding, but compared with the costumes of these dignitaries and dignitaries, the battle robes and armor of these soldiers were not much different from beggars.

Different from the anticipation, apprehension and other expressions on the faces of officials and gentry, the expressions on the faces of these soldiers are numb.For them, it was just following orders, and there was nothing to be happy about.

What so many people are waiting for here is Yuan Chonghuan, the Minister of War of Daming, who is now very famous.There was news that Yuan Chonghuan would go to Datong to supervise the division in person to launch a counterattack against the Manchu Qing in an attempt to regain Liaodong.

Now that the news has been confirmed and the imperial decree has been promulgated, these people are waiting here for Yuan Shangshu and Governor Yuan, hoping to give this immediate boss a good first impression.

The reason why this Lord Yuan is famous is not because he is the Minister of the Ministry of War, but because he single-handedly presided over the battle to suppress and exterminate the bandits. He used a trick of encircling from all sides, commanding all the armies to collect the net and sweep the world's two largest tributaries. The bandit team - Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were surrounded in the Shangluo valley, waiting for them to run out of ammunition and food, and then annihilate them in one fell swoop.

You must know that Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, the two gangs of rogues, are very powerful. They roamed around the world and attacked cities and territories. There are many such princes who have been captured or killed by thieves.

Therefore, almost no one in the world does not talk about thieves.

The imperial court's encirclement and suppression armies retreated one after another under the fierce attack of the bandits, so that the bandits became even more unscrupulous, and even shouted slogans that they would go to the capital to pull the emperor off his horse.

The Emperor Ming was furious and wanted to send another army to exterminate the bandits, but there was no one available.When the officials from all walks of life in the court heard that they were going to fight the thieves, they all hid back. The emperor was so angry that he beat up many people, but there was still no one who was handsome.

Just when the emperor was in a state of desperation, a memorial was handed up from Jiangnan. It was Yuan Chonghuan, a small magistrate in Jiangnan, who asked to lead troops to wipe out the bandits, and was willing to issue a military order. If not, he was willing to lose his head.

When the news came out, the ruling and opposition parties were in an uproar, basically all voices were ridicule and ridicule.There are so many things that the senior generals and ministers can't handle, and you, a little magistrate, dare to speak wild words, you really don't know what to do.

But the emperor was like a man who fell into the water grasping a life-saving straw. He sent someone to recruit Yuan Chonghuan to the capital, talked with him for a day and a night, and the next day he decreed to promote Yuan Chonghuan as the left servant of the Ministry of War, acting as secretary, and also He became the actual leader of the Ministry of War, one of the six ministries of the imperial court.

Moreover, the emperor also gave him a flying fish suit, and granted him the great right to mobilize the troops of various provinces and select generals, and he was fully responsible for exterminating the bandits.

This news shocked the government and the public even more, because few people knew the name Yuan Chonghuan before, at most, people from the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of War had a little impression of him, that is, this man had a very special hobby when he was the magistrate, that is, To exterminate bandits.After being the prefect for three years, he has basically wiped out all the bandits and bandits in the territory under his jurisdiction, and even those who survived have gone to other prefectures.

Therefore, these green forest people nicknamed Master Yuan Yuan Manzi, which means that this person is too tough to be provoked.

In addition to these things, this man seems to have no remarkable deeds.

Therefore, after the imperial decree, many people shook their heads, waiting to see Yuan Chonghuan's jokes, waiting to see him lose his head, and waiting for His Majesty the Emperor to lose face.

What can't be done by so many of us big bosses, can you, a little prefect, do it?
But Yuan Chonghuan did have a lot of energy, and he had to do what he was looking for.He doesn't care how others ridicule, joke and ridicule, just pretend he didn't hear it, with a dark face every day, he dispatches troops around, and selects many generals he likes from various provinces, such as Sun Chengzong, Hong Chengchou, Cao Bianjiao, Zuo Liangyu, etc. People, and then on the one hand, let the relevant provinces raise food, grass and military salaries, and on the other hand, lead these generals and soldiers to study how to defeat the enemy.

In the end, a ten-sided encirclement strategy was developed. Simply put, it was the same as hunting. The ten-way army drove the thieves to the center from all aspects, and finally drove them into the battlefield selected by the officers and soldiers, and then came to catch the turtle in one urn.

No one believed that he could do this, because the tyranny of the thieves had frightened many officials, not to mention that Yuan Chonghuan, a fool with a group of generals, could accomplish this.

However, the facts quickly surprised everyone who was waiting to see the joke and Yuan Chonghuan's head fell off, and their faces were slapped.

In less than half a year, Yuan Chonghuan really forced the two thieves, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, into the Shangluo valley.

Half a year ago, when the thieves were powerful, many people felt that the sky was about to change, and began to half-heartedly find a way out for themselves.As a result, I didn't expect that in less than half a year, the situation has undergone earth-shaking changes.This caught many people by surprise, so they immediately looked at Yuan Chonghuan, a barbarian, with admiration.

His Majesty the Emperor was even more delighted, and directly gave Yuan Chonghuan the title of Minister of War, and also named him a Bachelor of the East Pavilion to work in the cabinet.Although he was ranked last in the cabinet, this has fully demonstrated the trustworthiness of His Majesty the Emperor, and Yuan Chonghuan became the hottest figure in the court for a while.

The little magistrate who was ridiculed and ridiculed by others has now become the most popular court official in the dynasty, and Yuan Chonghuan's formerly empty courtyard suddenly became busy with traffic.

But Yuan Manzi quickly let everyone learn another meaning of his title Manzi.He shut the door on anyone who came to visit him with gifts.

And let out the word, if you want to talk about business, please go to the Ministry of War to sign the deposit room.Want to talk about something personal?I'm sorry, but I, Yuan Manzi, have no personal matters to discuss with the princes of the court.

All the officials were shut down, and they scolded Yuan Chonghuan and Yuan Manzi one after another, saying that he was determined to be a lonely minister.

Yuan Chonghuan didn't care.

However, this attitude made His Majesty the emperor, who was suffering from party disputes, very satisfied, he trusted Yuan Chonghuan more, and began to consult him about the Liaodong War.

Just at this time, the Manchu Qing attacked Datong again, and Datong City sent people to the imperial court for emergency.

The emperor summoned Yuan Chonghuan for consultation, but Yuan Chonghuan offered to go to Datong to supervise the division, and issued a military order to the emperor for five years to pacify the Liao Dynasty.

The emperor was even more happy, and directly granted Yuan Chonghuan the title of college student in Wenyuan Pavilion, and took the post of minister of the Ministry of War to supervise Datong, to control the civil and military affairs of Liaodong, and to preside over the war against the Qing with full authority.

In this way, Yuan Manzi came to Liaodong full of ambition.

The civil and military officials in Datong have different thoughts. The civil officials are a little afraid of Yuan Chonghuan. Everyone has heard of his bad temper. They didn't want to come but they couldn't help it.

The military generals were happy in their hearts, they preferred to deal with such straightforward bosses.

Just when everyone was thinking about their own thoughts, a flying horse came galloping from the pipeline, and the knight shouted loudly: "Here we come, we come, Governor Yuan is here."

Hearing the knight's report, all the civil and military personnel in Datong were refreshed, and they opened their eyes wide to look at the official road.

After a while, the horseshoes on the official road were rattling and dusty, coming towards this side.

　The second one arrives.Yuan Manzi came, and when he came down, Master Jiang and Dameng began to fall in love and kill each other.There is one more.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)