Wanli Youming

Chapter 498 The vassal king is angry, why are the civil servants so hypocritical!

Chapter 498 The vassal king is angry, why are the civil servants so hypocritical!

Zhu Huakui, king of Chu, did not feel overjoyed after beheading Luo Zun, but rather disappointed. He did not expect that the rebellion would turn out like this. I believe that he will collude with the governor to rebel against him and force him to kill Luo Zun.

Because if he didn't kill Luo Zun, Luo Zun would kill himself in order to prove his innocence.

Even if his Chu Palace gave up the rebellion, Luo Zun would still produce some evidences that could confirm that he was going to rebel, otherwise he would never be able to clean up the crime of possible collusion with the Chu Palace, and would be suspected by the emperor.

Therefore, now that Zhu Yijun made his and Luo Zun's affairs public, the King of Chu really regretted conspiring with some literati to rebel.

But the arrow had to be fired, and he could only continue on the road of rebellion.

However, the rebellion of the king of Chu, which had no civil servants who dared to secretly support it, became very difficult from the very beginning. The left and right governors and inspectors of Huguang were unwilling to support him in raising troops, and he had to order them to be executed.

Li Hualong, the deputy envoy of military preparations, Wu Yuexiu, the inspector, and Cao Xibin, a guerrilla from the Biaoying Battalion of the governor, came from Jingzhou to attack Wuchang.

The king of Chu had to lead his troops to attack Huangzhou by ferry. Fortunately, Zhang Gang, the magistrate of Huangzhou, was afraid of death, so he decisively chose to surrender, allowing him to march to Qizhou smoothly.

But after he passed through Qizhou, he met Yuan Changzuo, the governor of Jiangxi, and Xu Yiwei, the prefect of Jiujiang. Return to Qizhou.

"Nowadays, there are pursuers behind and stubborn enemies before. Doesn't it mean that Zhu Yijun has already provoked the wrath of heaven and people?! Doesn't it mean that the bureaucrats in the world have long hated tyranny? Doesn't it mean that looking forward to a lonely righteous teacher is like looking forward to rain?"

"Why would each of them prefer to die rather than surrender, or to fight to the death rather than surrender, but Zhifu Zhang still had to surrender because of internal support to cooperate with Kaesong."

Because the attack was not going well, after the king of Chu returned to Qizhou, he asked Wang Bihe and Zhu Yunqian with a depressed face.

He was not yet twenty, and he did feel the difference between the voice of the literati he heard and the performance of the literati he saw, and he was also puzzled.

At this time, Wang Bihe could only persuade the King of Chu, saying: "Your Highness, please don't be impatient. The sage said, 'Therefore, when the heavens will send you a great mission, you must first suffer from your heart, exhaust your muscles and bones, starve your body, and empty your body." , doing what he did, so he moved his heart and forbearance, and once benefited what he couldn't do.'Now this is just a test for His Highness from heaven. Yuan, Xu, Li, Wu and others are just a few. They can be partisans of treacherous ministers. If you are a villain, you will naturally not fully support us, the King of Chu, in raising troops, especially when the general situation is not clear."

The king of Chu asked again: "Then why do most of the officials in Wuchang and Huangzhou don't follow the righteous teachers? They even form villages to protect themselves, and they even persuade Gu to withdraw his troops and kill himself to apologize for his crimes!"

"Back when Zhang Juzheng cleared up his farmland, he didn't see them forming villages and not allowing them to clear their land. Why is it that the king is so stubborn now that he doesn't want to sell food to the orphans? All the envoys who went there were detained."

Wang Bi said: "They are also waiting and watching. In their hearts, they hope that His Highness will not be able to succeed. It is just for the safety of the family, and they dare not support it openly, or even oppose it openly. Please forgive them."

"Then who will be considerate of Gu?!"

The king of Chu asked in a loud voice, and said: "The attack on Kyushu lasted for three days, and even Qizhou was defeated by his night attack. Since they all hate Zhu Yijun so much, and hate tyranny so much, they should all stand up and support Gu. Gu Cai, how come everyone is not only silent but also denounces Gu!"

As soon as the king of Chu said that, he took a picture of a private tabloid just obtained in front of Wang Bihe, which published the contents of Li Hualong, Yuan Changzuo and other civil officials urging him to surrender and commit suicide, and even condemned him.

Wang Bihe only glanced at it, did not look further, and only said to the King of Chu in a sharp voice: "Your Highness! Please calm down, you must know that Chengzu Jingnan was not so smooth at the beginning. , and only 18 followers, now His Highness still has tens of thousands of elite soldiers, hundreds of counselors, and dozens of clan relatives, what are you afraid of?!"

Young people are still foolish. After Wang Bihe scolded him so seriously, the King of Chu not only didn't feel that he was offended, but was quite pleased with it, so he nodded and asked, "Do you think we can really succeed in Jingnan?"

"It's up to people!"

Wang Bihe replied, and said: "Back then, Taizu and Chengzu didn't know when they would be successful in the early days of their rebellion."

The king of Chu asked again: "Then what should we do now?"

"Although Luo Jingyang didn't surrender to us, he mentioned that the proverbs are still very good. Now we should accumulate food and grass, recruit more powerful soldiers, and win the hearts of the people."

"To be more specific, it is now time to stick to Wuchang and Huangzhou, resolutely mobilize troops, and abolish tyranny."

Wang Bihe said.

After hearing this, the king of Chu asked: "Where do the strong soldiers come from, and where do the money and food come from?"

"Your Highness, please donate money from the palace to recruit strong men from all over the world to serve as soldiers."

Wang Bihe said.

The King of Chu pointed to the golden seat under him and said, "Besides the golden seat given by the Taizu, there is nothing else of value. If you really need to pay the royal palace for silver, you can use it to turn it into silver."

Naturally, Wang Bihe would not destroy the golden seat, so he had to say again: "Then the only way to increase rent and tax is for the common people."

"How can this be done!"

"Wouldn't it be that the people were forced to starve to death and turned against the orphans, and when the monsters did not turn back, they would not be starved to death, but after the orphans formed an army, they became starved and killed?"

The king of Chu was a little hard to make up his mind.

Wang Bihe said: "Your Highness, the people will not starve to death if they are taxed and rented up, because they can sell the land, bring their families to the city to settle down, and then apply for recruitment and become volunteer soldiers for the prince to serve God. !"

Wang Bihe said again: "At present, there are actually not many young and strong refugees who can be recruited as soldiers. It is because Luo Jingyang is an official, so recruiting soldiers really needs to force the people to lose their property. Now, with the tax reform Force them to enlist in the army, even if it is reform and recruitment, the dilemma will be solved!"

"Well, there is not only the money and food for recruiting soldiers, but also the source of soldiers for recruiting soldiers!"

Wang Bihe looked at King Chu after speaking.

The king of Chu couldn't help asking: "After the expansion of the army, the military expenditure is not a small amount. In the early stage, it can be supported by the money and food from the two prefectures of Wuchang and Huangzhou. But when the interests of the people of these two prefectures are exhausted, what will happen in the future?"

"As for the cost of raising troops in the future, it will naturally depend on the people of the new land. After His Royal Highness succeeds in pacifying the situation, the people's tax will be reduced, and you can just rest and recuperate."

"In order to overthrow the tyranny and restore peace to the world, the people have to suffer first. After all, everything must be bitter before it can be sweet."

Wang Bihe replied.

The King of Chu nodded after hearing this and said: "Qing can be described as an orphan's son, so let's do this to improve and raise money!"

……

So, next, the people of Wuchang and Huangzhou prefectures were added 20% in name and [-] years of regular tax in fact, and they were exempted from the corvee of the local gentry. its tax.

For a while, the number of self-cultivators selling land increased in large numbers, and the local gentry took advantage of the opportunity to acquire a large amount of land at low prices.

On this day, the student Zhou Changning said with a smile to his father, Zhou Xishou, the official servant, "Father, it is great that His Royal Highness the King of Chu ruled Wuchang. Not to mention our land tax and Dingyin, it is more convenient for us." Tian Chan, my son wants him to sit in the world!"

(End of this chapter)