Dominate the Country

[The divine beasts of our dynasty are invincible!!]

The Qing Dynasty in the 18th century is not the Great Heaven and Dynasty of the 21st century [these two words are censored], one phone call can communicate without limit. In the middle of the Qianlong period, if something happened in western Henan, even if it was extremely urgent, it would take five or six days to report to Beijing.

Just when Beijing had just received the news of the defeat of Yancheng, and did not know that the Chen family thieves in their eyes had officially raised the banner of anti-Qing and restoration of Han, Chen Ming was also trying his best to adjust his deployment and prepare for the next war. At this time, an unexpected person appeared in front of him.

Li Jiannan! Li the lawyer?

"You said Wang Jun wanted me to attack Ruzhou City?" Chen Ming really wanted to dig his ears with his fingers. Did he hear it right?

"Grand Commander. You heard it right. Wang Zhizhou wants you to attack and capture Ruzhou City. Wang Zhizhou can guarantee that the money and food materials in the city will be well preserved and there will be no major losses. As long as you send troops to Ruzhou, Ruzhou will be broken." Li Jiannan said so. He called Chen Ming the Grand Commander, but it is also the honorific title of Chen Ming outside.

The first boss of the General's Mansion is his father Chen Hui, who is called the Grand General; Chen Ming, as the military commander, adds a big word in front of him, which is also a respectful title for him. But this shout always makes him feel that his title of Grand Commander seems to be more noble than the title of General. At least for ordinary people who have little culture.

But this can't be blamed on him. Chen Ming originally just wanted to give himself the title of "General Manager of the Army", and the title of Commander was changed by his father himself.

"What is the reason for this?" Chen Ming stared at Li Jiannan.

As a lawyer, Li Jiannan has a good psychological quality. He has been trained by walking around Ruzhou several times before, so he remained calm when Chen Ming looked at him directly. "Grand Commander, Wang Zhizhou is from Handan, Hebei. There are hundreds of Wang family members, young and old, in Handan. Such a terrible disaster has happened under his rule. If the court really makes a decision, Wang Zhizhou will die, but the whole Wang family may be doomed..." Li Jiannan knew that he had to give Chen Ming a convincing answer. And this answer was indeed very convincing.

"I agreed. We will send troops this afternoon. You can go back and tell Wang Jun. You have to let him remember: Chen Ming's advantage is not easy to take."

"Don't worry, Grand Commander. Wang Zhizhou is definitely a law-abiding person." Li Jiannan's eyes flashed with joy. He came to Lushan without anyone noticing, and Wang Jun paid a real 100 taels of gold. Li Jiannan had already started to head north after hearing the news of the Qing army's defeat in the Battle of Yancheng. He couldn't stay in Ruzhou anymore, so he decided to go to Luoyang. At this time, Wang Jun's long-serving servant came to the door. One of them had money but no one, and the other needed money. One hundred taels of gold was equivalent to one thousand taels of silver. Li Jiannan was tempted.

Chen Ming didn't notice the joy flashing in Li Jiannan's eyes. He was very curious about what Li Jiannan was going to do. From the fact that he ran to Ruzhou City early, it can be seen that he and the Chen family army are not the same people. Now that Ruzhou City is about to be destroyed, will he continue to run or stay?

"Ruzhou City will be captured soon. I wonder where Mr. Li is going next?" Chen Ming straightened his back inadvertently: "My father is very impressed with Mr. Li's eloquence. He once said that Mr. Li is familiar with the law and is good at speaking. Why doesn't Mr. Li come to the court to take up a position?"

Li Jiannan, who was thinking about the golden gold, seemed to be electrocuted. The shock that suddenly burst out in his eyes and his body suddenly shuddered, which made Chen Ming, who was smiling warmly, laugh.

Li Jiannan, no matter how powerful he was, couldn't hold back at this time: "Grand Commander, you are joking, you are joking. I am just a lawyer. I have been joking with my superiors and subordinates. I am notorious. I really dare not tarnish the reputation of the court." Looking at Chen Ming with pitiful eyes, Li Jiannan seemed to be saying with the expression on his face: Uncle Chen, you are just teasing me. Just treat me as a fart.

Watching Li Jiannan's hurriedly leaving figure with a hint of joy on his lips, Chen Ming didn't know what kind of interesting role this Li Jiannan would play in his world in the future, and Li Jiannan didn't know what kind of opportunity he had lost by retreating today.

Decades later, Li Jiannan, with white hair, could still clearly recall the scene at that time. That scene was like engraved in his heart with a knife, making Li Jiannan dare not forget it. Li Jiannan had regrets in his heart. If he had been a little less courageous, a little less, and agreed to Chen Ming's "staying guests", what would his second half of life be like?

Although he was also very successful at that time. But the unknown fate can always make people more interested and nostalgic.

Now Chen Ming and Li Jiannan, who left in a hurry, would not know that for a person's fate, Chen Ming's more joking than sincere invitation just now was a crucial decision.

...

Three days later, Ruzhou City fell, and the prefect Wang Jun set himself on fire in the yamen. [Also river crab! ], the state judge Hu Ruolin died on the top of the city wall. He was hit by the flying thunder cannon of Chen’s army and his body was shattered into pieces. There was also the state’s instructor who jumped into a pond and died after the city was breached.

Before the Chen family army arrived in Ruzhou, a group of gentry and wealthy families in Ruzhou either left or secretly communicated with them. Anyway, there was no bloody killing after the Chen family army broke into the city. Then the Chen family army went northwest and took the Yiyang County, which had been taken before but abandoned. For Yiyang County, this marked that the Chen family army had completely taken control of the county. And if they went north from Yiyang, that was Luoyang.

The appearance of the Chen family army in Yiyang caused chaos in Henan Prefecture. The gentry and wealthy families in Yiyang, Dengfeng and Songxian counties near Yiyang County fled north to Luoyang City. Chongshan, the governor of Heshanru Road, sent a series of memorials to Beijing, urgently requesting reinforcements. Luoyang is not like Ruzhou. As an important town in the northwest of Henan and a place that has left a lot of ink and color in Chinese history, Luoyang has always been the second largest city in Henan, second only to the provincial capital Kaifeng.

Beijing has been very lively these days. In the teahouses and restaurants in the streets of the whole city, the leisurely-looking Eight Banners uncles and the richly dressed sons of officials and merchants were all talking about the distant western Henan.

It was really incredible that during the prosperous period of the Qing Dynasty, such a powerful banditry appeared in the hinterland of Central China like Ruzhou. Nanyang Town was beaten to pieces, Guide Town and Yunyang Town joined forces, and Henan Provincial Governor Fude was also slapped in the face.

Just when the Eight Banners sons in the city and the people in the capital under the imperial city were looking at whether the Beijing Banner soldiers would be dispatched, such as the Firearms Battalion, the Chen family thieves in Ruzhou fired another shot - they raised the anti-Qing and restore Han banner. Immediately, a bunch of smiling Han Chinese children lowered their heads, their lips were tightly clenched, and a group of Eight Banners uncles performed in Beijing opera houses and teahouses what it meant to be filled with righteous indignation, what it meant to be irreconcilable, and what it meant to be patriotic.

But before the excitement of Beijing City had even subsided a little, the news of Ruzhou's fall came. Fortunately, none of the officials such as the prefect, the prefect, and the teacher of Ruzhou did such a shameful thing as surrendering to the enemy, but the incompetent magistrate Wang Jun will never be removed. And in the days to come, as the Chen family army grows step by step and brings heavy blows to the Qing Dynasty, Wang Jun will be the best target, and he will be pulled out by a group of Eight Banners uncles who are patriotic and whipped again and again...