Liu Liuzhe saw Zhou Zheng's disdain, glanced behind him, and saw no one following him, and then said: "Second Young Master, now the Northwest is almost in Li Zicheng's hands. The ruling and savages are panicked, and they all say they will change their dynasties."
Zhou Zheng sneered with his hands behind his back, and said, "It's him? He may be able to accomplish something, but he is absolutely incapable of starting a country. He does not possess such courage and ability."
Li himself has extremely serious shortcomings. This shortcoming prevents him from truly achieving great things. At the same time, this is also the fatal shortcoming of the gangsters.
In history, even if the Qing Dynasty did not enter the customs, Li Zicheng's Dashun Kingdom would not become the second Ming Dynasty.
Naturally, Liu Liuche would not disbelieve Zhou Zheng's words. He nodded like this before and said, "Then, Second Young Master, what shall we do?"
Zhou Zheng stopped, looked at the direction of the capital, and said with a smile: "Beijing is getting more and more jealous of me, so I'm better off first. Later I wrote the memorial and said that I was unwell and asked for rest."
Liu Liuzhe immediately continued: "Second Young Master, I know this. This is about retreat for advancement, right?"
Zhou Zheng turned his head to look at him and said, "If you don't know this, I will kick you into the water."
Liu Liuzhe chuckled, and then said: "Then, what if the court borrows the donkey from the slope to accept the post of the Second Young Master's Ji Liao Supervisor and takes away the military power?"
Unless Zhou Zheng, the governor of the Liao Dynasty, leaves the station or someone betrays him and takes him suddenly, the court can only resort to the usual trick-deceit.
Of course, it wouldn't be better if the ministers were acquainted and gave up voluntarily.
Zhou Zheng smiled and said, "What I want to see is the attitude of the court, not for their consent."
Liu Liuzhe immediately understood, and said, "The second young master is still clever."
Liu Liuzhe knew about the relationship between Zhou Zheng and his first assistant Zhou Yanru, and also vaguely guessed that the person in the palace was Li Zhong. With these two people, Zhou Zheng could stop it before it happened.
Zhou Zheng looked at the direction of the capital for a while, then turned around and said, "Let someone do something on the canal and block the money and grain from the south for two months."
At present, the imperial court is extremely short of money and grain, so it can only be expropriated from Nanjing and sent to the capital. This is the imperial life-saving straw. Two months later, Li Zicheng's troubles will be much less.
Liu Liuzhe thought for a while and said, "Let the dead men go."
Zhou Zheng said, the number of dead men under his hand has grown to five hundred people, and they have done a lot of hidden things.
Zhou Zheng paced and said, "Give Li Zicheng a little more support."
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After staying in Shanhaiguan for a few days, Zhou Zheng went to Tianjin Wei again. After removing some unstable factors, he completely controlled Tianjin Wei and arrived in Shandong by the way.
Before Zhou Zheng arrived in Jinan Prefecture, the court received Zhou Zheng's memo.
Standing in front of Chongzhen were the chief assistant Zhou Yanru and the left servant Zhang Jinyan of the Ministry of War.
Chongzhen's expression was withered, his brows were frowned, and his whole body was full of anger, but his tone was very calm and said: "Zhou Zhengyun's memorial said that it was an old injury, the pain was unbearable, and he could not take care of it. He asked to return to Beijing to recuperate.
Zhou Yanru had received the news before this memorial book arrived in Beijing, and at this moment did not speak pretending to be pensive.
But Zhang Jinyan quickly said: "Your Majesty, you must never agree to it."
Chongzhen's withered face concealed his true expression, and said lightly: "How to say?"
Zhang Jinyan immediately said: "Your Majesty, now everyone in the world hopes that Zhou Zhengyun can command the northwestern army and wipe out the thief again, but the court did not dispatch him. What is he? This is an expression of dissatisfaction. If your Majesty really agrees Not only did the cold stop Zhou Zhengyun's heart, but also the governors, governors, and soldiers in the northwest..."
Chongzhen's brows tightened, he hummed in his nose, and said, "Shoufu, what do you think?"
Zhou Yanru only then spoke and said, "Your Majesty, Zhang Shilang is right, but Zhou Zhengyun holds the military power of Liaodong, Tianjinwei, and Shandong. He just let it go, and the minister is a little worried."
More than Zhou Yanru is not at ease. As Li Zicheng continues to grow up, Zhou Zheng’s position is constantly being highlighted, especially the military power in his hands. The three places add up to 200,000, most of which are elites. Gyeonggi is close at hand. Who can rest assured
Chongzhen's face twitched. Just about to speak, Zhang Jinyan said in a panic: "Your Majesty, you can't move. If Zhou Zhengyun thinks the court is suspicious of him, really... what can I do if he is forced to turn?"
Chongzhen's eyes suddenly flashed with cold light, and the murderous intent was as real.
Zhou Yanru looked at it with a slight shock in his heart.
Daming had reached a very critical moment, and the emperor was very sensitive, especially his opponents with powerful officials.
Recently, Zhou Yanru regretted entering the dynasty again and regretted not listening to Zhou Zheng's advice.
However, now I can't help him, Zhou Yanru pondered for a moment, and said, "Your Majesty, Zhou Zhengyun and His Majesty, and the court is a man of great merit. You can't condemn him without guilt, let alone allow him to recuperate."
Chongzhen raised his brows, his face twitched a few times, and his voice was a little cold, saying, "Then you guys, what should I do?"
Zhang Jinyan immediately said: "Your Majesty, reward, this time, I must reward again!"
Zhou Yanru glanced at Zhang Jinyan, why he hadn't noticed before that this person could speak so well.
Chongzhen's eyes flickered for a while, and he nodded lightly, saying: "It should be like this. Enter the cabinet, add titles, rewards, the cabinet formulates the decree, and delivers the decree before the year."
Zhang Jinyan raised his hand again and said: "Your Majesty, Zhou Zhengyun can't return to Beijing. He wants to continue to guard the prisoners. The rumor of'Nu Kou He He' can't be taken carelessly."
Chongzhen said, "Well, that's what I mean."
Chongzhen still had a strong vigilance towards Jianluo, and the danger of almost subjugating the country when a soldier approached the city ten years ago is still in sight.
If Jianlu really colluded with the thieves and broke through again, then the country would really be subjugated.
Jianlu, absolutely cannot enter the customs again!
Zhou Yanru had a weird heart and glanced at Zhang Jinyan. How did he feel that this person was also Zhou Zheng's person, but he knew in his heart that he was not.
Chongzhen's decree really reached Ningyuan before the end of the year.
In addition to various rewards and nonsense to appease, Zhou Zheng was promoted to Wenhua Palace Scholar, Prince Taibao, the official position is the first grade, and continues to supervise Ji Liao.
Zhou Zheng's position rose sharply, and it became very prominent throughout the Dalai University.
The people around Zhou Zheng are naturally overjoyed. As Zhou Zheng's status improves, they will ascend to heaven.
Facing the tide of congratulations, Zhou Zheng and his close people only said one sentence:'The court has not lost its reason. '
The reward for Zhou Zheng had another effect. It was a great encouragement to the court, especially Li Banghua who suppressed bandits in the northwest and all walks of life. I thought that the court was finally going to transfer Zhou Zheng to suppress bandits in the northwest. Frustrated Li Zicheng's offensive, and continued successes were passed to the court.
To this end, Chongzhen was overjoyed, and especially rewarded Zhou Yanru and Zhang Jinyan.
The court hadn’t been happy for long. After the new year, in the first month of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng declared himself emperor in Xi’an, the country was named “Dashun”, he was changed to Yuan Yongchang, and he became a hero, and vowed to march east and overthrow the Ming court. (End of this chapter)