Dominate the Country

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The Ruzhou Rebellion could not be quelled by simply punishing these officials and generals who committed crimes. Qianlong had to send out famous ministers and generals to mobilize the armies of all parties and deal with the next Central Plains War with the attitude of fighting a big war.

Qianlong had forgotten about the war in Myanmar. No matter how many defeats the Qing army suffered in the war in the corners, it could not shake the country ruled by the Qing Dynasty. But Henan was different. The Chen family who gathered troops to rebel was different from their Fu Han General Mansion. They were all pure Han people. As long as they were Han people, they deserved the highest vigilance of the Qing court. Their influence on the whole world was completely different from that of the Burmese people of foreign races.

In the Yangxin Palace, Fuheng, Yin Jishan, Liu Tongxun, Aligun, Yu Minzhong, and Liu Lun, six military ministers, were all present.

Qianlong only recruited six of them. The urgent report from Xinyang was sent directly to the palace. Yongrui was qualified to submit a memorial to Qianlong directly. The news of the defeat at Gunhe had not spread yet. Qianlong recruited these six Manchu and Han ministers he relied on the most, hoping that they could come up with a practical solution to the rebellion in Ruzhou, and then find a way to cover up the tragic losses of the banner soldiers stationed in Jingzhou.

"Your Majesty, Huguang Admiral Fu Yong, Jingzhou Deputy Governor Chang Xuan, Yunyang Town General Ma Wenjie, Xing'an Town General Qi Jianan..., died in an attack while suppressing bandits, they were loyal to the country, although they lost the battle, their situation is pitiful, the Ministry of War will discuss and give them a generous and generous reward."

Fu Heng heard the decree issued by Qianlong before, and secretly sighed that Asaha was extremely unlucky. Asaha sent people to do many things in the capital but ended up like this. It would be better for him to confess his crime early and go to the northwest to eat sand, at least he could survive. Fu Heng no longer said a good word for the two guys who were destined to have no political future. But what he said was also very good. Fu Yong and others were defeated and their crimes were serious, but no matter how serious they were, they were already dead. At this time, the court should give them preferential treatment to maintain the court's face.

"Your Majesty, Anhui Provincial Surveillance Commissioner Chen Huizu fought in Yancheng twice. Although he did not achieve any success, he worked hard."

"Former Shaanxi Admiral Wang Tenglong can serve in the army and make meritorious contributions while serving his sentence." In any case, this is also a person who fought a battle with Chen Ni, and he is more or less useful. Yu Minzhong thought so.

As the top scholar in the second year of Qianlong's reign, he was three years younger than Qianlong. He had a smooth career and served as the academician of Shandong and Zhejiang. He had no experience of being a local official, but was promoted by Qianlong to the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue and entered the Military Affairs Office. It was smoother than it could be. Later, he became the president of the Sikuquanshu, but from Yu Minzhong's resume, we can also know that he is like Yongrui before, a prime minister of peace for his whole life. If something big happens, he has almost no say, and can't come up with a good plan in a hurry.

"Your Majesty. After the defeat at Gunhe, Chen Ni will definitely move to Nanyang. You should quickly order Ni Daliang and Zhang Dajing to prepare for it. It is necessary to defend the southern part of Nanyang, otherwise Chen Ni will kill into Yunyang..." Then something big will happen. Liu Tongxun, who was the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, has some understanding of Yunyang, a place that is not in Shaanxi but closely related to Shaanxi.

Liu Lun, who just entered the Military Affairs Office this year, kept his mouth shut and waited for everyone to speak. His personal resume is very rich. He has handled cases, served as an imperial censor, served as the prefect of Shuntian Prefecture, and supervised the money, grain and supply of military vehicles for the expedition, but his qualifications are the shallowest. And the easy things have been said, and Liu Lun was a little bit caught for a while.

"Your Majesty, the Governor of Gansu and Shaanxi, Wu Dashan [Guarjia clan], has been stationed in the northwest for a long time and has a good reputation. Your Majesty can order him to send troops quickly and attack Ruzhou again to contain the Chen rebels and relieve the pressure on the government troops in Nanyang." Yin Jishan unconsciously regarded Zhang Dajing and Ni Daliang's troops as weak, and regarded the mobile troops of Chen's army under Chen Ming as strong. What's funny is that when he said this, Qianlong and the others present did not realize that there was anything wrong.

In the face of failures again and again, everyone unconsciously regarded the Chen's army as a force beyond the scope of a town's military strength.

The Governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, Wu Dashan, sent troops quickly, and the Governor of Huguang, Ding Chang, also needed to send troops quickly to reinforce Nanyang.

And why did Yin Jishan only mention the Governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, Wu Dashan, and not the General of Xi'an? This is because the city of Xi'an is particularly chaotic this year. In February, the former Xi'an General Rong Bao was changed to Guangzhou General, and was succeeded by Yili General Su Yu. As a result, Su Yu did too much and was dismissed and questioned after only one month. The Xi'an General was temporarily served by Shaanxi Governor Mingshan until Hangzhou General Fulu arrived in Shaanxi in April. In other words, the owner of Xi'an General's Mansion changed three or four times in the first half of this year. Although Fulu was a hero in quelling the rebellion of the two Hezhuo brothers, he was able to fight, at least better than Wu Dashan, but he had just arrived in Shaanxi and had not even warmed up his butt. He had not yet recognized all the generals under his command. How could he lead the troops to fight?

Sending troops to Shaanxi was an urgent matter, not a slow matter. What Liu Tongxun said was recognized by the people present. If Yunyang, a place full of refugees, was really taken down by the Chen family army, this rebellion that was not in the eyes of the Qing emperors and ministers a few months ago would become a big mess that corrupted several provinces and shook the world.

"I think the reason why the four provinces suffered a great defeat in the first battle was that the troops from various routes were not well connected. I think that the next battle to suppress Chen Ni should be led by Gansu, Shaanxi, Huguang and other provinces, and another important official should be appointed to supervise the north and south."

After Yin Jishan and Aligun spoke successively, Liu Lun also spoke. He did not analyze this and that from the perspective of military strategy, but started from civil affairs. Liu Lun bluntly expressed his concerns about the discipline of the Qing army. Under the current situation, the evil deeds of the Qing army during the expedition, that is, pushing the people of western Henan to Chen Ni, will greatly make up for Chen Ni's insufficient military force, and make the court's already difficult suppression even more difficult. Liu Lun proposed and pleaded that Qianlong personally issued an edict to strictly enforce the military discipline of all official troops. Those who dared to kill and plunder indiscriminately would be punished by military law!

One by one, the six Manchu and Han military ministers kept throwing out opinions that were either very useful or just for show. Qianlong's face, which was originally unconcealed, eased a lot. Then they talked about the matter of 1,500 banner soldiers. Liu Tongxun, Yu Minzhong, and Liu Lun, the three Han ministers, all shut their mouths. This matter depends on what Fuheng and others say. Han ministers only need to face a pair of ears on this matter.

Fu Heng remembered that Yongrui said in his memorial that the deaths of Fuyong, Changxuan and others and his own injuries were "assassinated" by Chen's army. The gunman of Chen's army was shot dead and wounded in the rainy night, and the Qing army in Xiping City was in chaos. The army was defeated in an embarrassing and unworthy way. This made him think of Baoning's death. Wasn't Baoning also shot dead in the Goshaha, far away from the battlefield?

When Fu Heng said this, everyone's face changed. They realized that Chen's army should have mastered a secret weapon that could shoot farther and more accurately. Qianlong himself immediately thought of a certain kind of musket. There was no such weapon in his palace arsenal, but from his grandfather Kang Mazi to his father Yongzheng, and then to himself, they had all heard of the musket called a rifle.