Chapter 426 Plow the court and sweep the holes! Shut up!

"Ma Shiying!"

Zhang Gui stared at the sand table for about half a while and did not answer Zhou Yuji. He only called out directly.

Before Zhang Gui left the customs to supervise the army, he did not choose the traditional way of recruiting assistant officers by others. Instead, he took the initiative to advertise in the newspaper for recruitment. Officials in Beijing were welcome to sign up to serve as assistant officers who would follow him out of the customs, which was equivalent to a court official.

However, many self-proclaimed civil servants are still unwilling to get closer to Zhang Gui, who is a foreign relative, and are still not interested in Zhang Gui's method of open recruitment.

However, there are still many civil servants who are willing to work or want to follow Zhang Guimen's path in order to get lucky and take the initiative to sign up.

Ma Shiying, then the household minister, was one of the officials who took the initiative to sign up.

Zhang Gui chose Ma Shiying.

There is no other reason. In Zhang Gui's opinion, historically he was able to seize power in Jiangnan during the Nanming period, where a number of Donglin Party officials were at home, suppressing the Donglin Party to the point of obeying him, and forcing Donglin boss Shi Kefa to do so.

Ma Shiying who went to Yangzhou undoubtedly had some tricks.

What Zhang Gui needs now is a few more clever people who can calculate and be his confidants.

It is not enough to rely solely on the honorable men in history.

After all, although a gentleman will remember his kindness for his recommendation, he will still be unwilling to give up his principles for him, Uncle Zhang Guo, in the face of major issues of right and wrong.

Otherwise, there would be no need for Wen Tiren to give him advice on how to get rid of Ma Guangyu cleanly.

Zhang Gui also discovered because of this incident that officials who were said to be treacherous officials in history were actually quite useful sometimes.

Therefore, he decisively promoted Ma Shiying to the newly established Liaodong Left Chief Envoy, who accompanied him out of the country and managed the frontline food and grassland and democratic movements as well as liaison with the capital.

Following Zhang Gui's order, Ma Shiying opened the tent curtain and came in. He didn't even bother to shake off the snowflakes on his red robe, and said, "Please give me your instructions, Grand Master!"

Because civil servants valued the title of Grand Master very much, Ma Shiying also preferred to address Zhang Gui as Grand Master.

After Ma Shiying said this, Zhang Gui ordered: "Use my seal to write an urgent letter to the capital's Nine Thousand Years Old, Chen Gebu and others, and directly issue an order to kill the censor who impeached Premier Zhou! Ming Ming

The edict states that speaking officers must not speak ill of the commander in chief before the war is over, so as to disturb the morale of the army. This should be the law!"

"yes!"

Ma Shiying was stunned for a moment, then quickly agreed.

Affected by Tianqi's rent-seeking of power to Zhang Gui for his own royal interests, Zhang Gui actually had the same power as Zhang Juzheng, that is, he could directly command the Supervisor of Ceremonies and the cabinet to act according to his will.

Zhou Yuji and Ma Shiying also knew this.

But what Zhou Yuji and Ma Shiying didn't expect was that Zhang Gui would be so decisive and ruthless in the matter of Censor Bibi's military affairs.

The military situation was so fierce that Zhou Yuji naturally couldn't stop Zhang Gui from doing this for him.

Ma Shiying would naturally not disobey Zhang Gui. Even if he wanted to persuade Zhang Gui not to do so, he would not do so in person.

After the urgent delivery was sent back to the capital, Wei Zhongxian sighed: "It's my uncle after all!"

Then, Wei Zhongxian asked the cabinet ministers present: "Fellow cabinet ministers, who among you will vote for this draft?"

Chen Zizhuang suddenly stood up and said: "This matter is extremely difficult to decide. You should not be good at discussing military affairs if you indulge in officials, but you don't dare to be so harsh. Does Uncle Zhang Guo treat civil officials as military commanders in the army and kill them at will?"

Wei Zhongxian did not expect Chen Zizhuang's reaction to be so big, but when he thought that civil servants had their own bottom line, he could understand Chen Zizhuang's reaction for a while.

"I'll do the voting."

Wen Tiren stood up and said something.

Then, Chen Zizhuang looked at Wen Tiren in surprise.

Wen Tiren didn't look at Chen Zizhuang, but took the imperial censor's memorial from Wei Zhongxian, walked to his case, drafted the ticket, and quickly wrote a striking word "behead", and then added

Wrote down other content requested by Zhang Gui.

Wei Zhongxian looked at Chen Zizhuang's dazed look, smiled slightly, and after Wen Tiren handed over the memorial, he became more respectful to Wen Tiren: "Everyone said that Mr. Ge knew the general situation, but now we have discovered that the rumors are indeed true."

"Where, where."

Wen Tiren said with a smile.

Wei Zhongxian took the memorial that Wen Tiren had drafted, immediately approved it, and then ordered the royal guards to get the censor.

The censor who was good at discussing military affairs and impeached Zhou Yuji was quickly beheaded in public.

When the censor heard the order to kill him, he didn't understand how he could be beheaded for just a few beeps.

But no matter what, from then on, other commentators decisively chose to shut up.

Here, Zhang Gui and Zhou Yuji commanded the army to exterminate the front lines of the Jiannu, and there was no further disturbance from the officials.

Not only did the army of more than 100,000 people not directly accelerate the occupation of Hetuala because of the smooth march, but they withdrew back in an orderly manner. Even the small groups of Jiannu soldiers who had been harassing various places did not pursue them. They only set up camp and posted sentries on the outside.

Pull up circles of barbed wire.

At the same time, the armies of the Ming Dynasty selected their elites after resting and recuperated, and went deep into the villages and villages of Jiannu to arrest people in full force.

"Kneel down and don't kill! Kneel down and don't kill!"

Most of the serfs who were employed by the Jiannu were exiled or plundered Han Chinese. Some of them could understand Chinese and even read Chinese characters. Therefore, when the elite Ming army penetrated deeply into the Jiannu villages, they still held them captive.

When the banners were used to arrest people, these slaves in uniform knelt down obediently, either by the huts or by the fields, and were then tied up and taken away by the Ming army.

At the same time, after capturing these people, the Ming army set fire to the villages and villages. All the farmland was opened, and the young crops were directly cut off by organized soldiers.

When the Ming army withdrew and the Jiannu banner soldiers hiding in the mountains came out to scout, they found that the villages near the mountains and forests where they were hiding had long been deserted, and no one was inhabited. Even the wells were blocked with mud and dung.

"It's so vicious!"

After Jierhalang learned of this situation, he gritted his teeth and punched the tree trunk nearby, causing the snow to fall.

Although the Jurchens were originally a fishing and hunting people, due to the influence of Han civilization, they had already evolved into a farming regime and relied more on agriculture. Otherwise, they would not have been able to maintain tens of thousands of troops.

Therefore, Zhang Gui and Zhou Yuji's strategy of destroying their fields, cutting off their seedlings, and exterminating their families was a blow to Jiannu, and Jierharang could not calm down no matter how calm he was.

"I thought that the Ming army would be so eager to capture Hetuala because of greed for success that they would be exhausted from traveling long distances, and the food and grass supply line would be lengthened, and they would even divide their troops to defend each village, which would give us the opportunity to defeat each one. But I didn't expect it.

, they are not in a hurry to occupy Hetuala, nor do they want to separate the villages, but directly burn the villages and destroy the fields! This Zhou Yuji is Zhou Yuji after all, and it is indeed much stronger than the Juniper and Liu Wei back then!"

At this time, Gang Lin couldn't help but say something to the side, frowned and stuffed a handful of snow into his mouth.

Like Jierharang and other Eight Banners aristocrats, he had already experienced the luxurious life of the Han bureaucratic class after following Nurhaci in conquering Liaoyang, Shenyang, and Guangning in the Ming Dynasty in his early years, and his taste and stomach also drank all kinds of hot famous names from the south. Tea is used to eating delicacies from the mountains and the sea, so now it is very painful for him to escape into the deep mountains and old forests and eat snow to satisfy his hunger and thirst like his ancestors.

But now that the Ming army has destroyed wells everywhere, he now has to endure this pain.

After Ganglin said this, Jierhalang said: "The more important thing is not this Zhou Yuji, but that since the Ming Dynasty had uncle Zhang Guo, there is no situation where civilian officials restrict the generals in front! Logically speaking, They haven't taken Hetuala for so long, they should have been impeached by the officials! Or have the officials in Mingting really learned to shut up now?"
Chapter completed!