Wanli Youming

Chapter 499 Putting down the rebellion, the king was kidnapped

Chapter 499 Putting down the rebellion, the king was kidnapped

Zhou Xishou glared at him directly.

Zhou Changning hurriedly held his breath and stood aside.

Zhou Xishou whispered to him: "You can't say this kind of thing again, especially in front of outsiders, otherwise, once I hear it again, I will kill you, a rebellious son without a king and a father!"

Zhou Changning bowed his hands and said yes.

"You have to remember that some things can be thought but cannot be said."

Zhou Xishou then instructed him again.

Zhou Changning said yes again.

And Zhou Xishou then laughed in a low voice: "As you said, it doesn't matter whether the King of Chu succeeds or not. As long as he revolts, it will be good for us. If he succeeds, he will naturally abolish the current Xinli and Zhang Taiyue. If he fails to implement the new policy implemented since the restructuring, the land and store properties of the King of Chu will be sold by the government, and the government will sell them at a low price in order to turn them into silver dollars for storage as soon as possible. It is us who are still cheap Those who are not against the imperial court, if we can still contribute to the imperial court when his defeat has already appeared, maybe we can still get praises and honors."

Zhou Changning nodded after hearing this: "So, the King of Chu shouldn't have rebelled."

"Who made him afraid that His Majesty would find out that his loan lending corrupted the government, and he couldn't bear to have a large part of the loan profit stolen by the court. These days, if you don't live by idling, you will either become a king or a thief."

"Not only the common people should follow this path, but also the rich and powerful should follow this path."

"However, you have to remember that although you can gain security by staying out, it is easy to miss good opportunities. Therefore, when opportunities are hard to find, you still have to make some efforts to fuel the flames."

"So, after Wu Zheng became Luo Jingyang's aide, his father secretly told him that when the king of Chu or his confidants were discussing with Luo Jingyang, he should say that the court had impeached him for colluding with the king of Chu to plot chaos. You shouldn't just tell Luo Jingyang about it in front of Luo Jingyang."

"In this way, Luo Jingyang will have to die, and the king of Chu will have to fight back!"

After Zhou Xishou said that, he got up and looked towards the direction of Chu Palace, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

And the story of King Chu's killing of governor Luo Zun and his rebellion soon spread to the capital by express delivery.

Therefore, Shi Xing, the right servant of the Ministry of War, resolutely went up first and said: "The king of Chu is planning to rebel, and it is appropriate to send troops to attack. I invite your majesty to personally conscript to demonstrate the prestige!"

Zhu Yijun smiled after seeing Shi Xing's Zhang Zou: "I don't need to suppress a stupid king to stand up, and issue a ticket to the Privy Council to plan this matter!"

The Privy Council sent Liu Shizeng, the governor of Yunnan, who had made great contributions in the war against Burma, as the deputy envoy of the Privy Council and the right deputy capital censor, the governor of Sichuan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Guizhou, and Henan provinces and the governor of Huguang. Rebel.

The way the Privy Council did this was equivalent to only sending a civil servant who was familiar with military affairs to coordinate the governors of the provinces around Huguang to suppress the king of Chu.

but.

In fact, the king of Chu hadn't persisted until Liu Shizeng received the imperial decree to come to Huguang, and he began to retreat steadily.

A few days after he issued a decree to pre-collect the summer tax in advance, Wu Yuexiu, the inspector, went back north of the river with Wei Cheng, the commander of the guard, and marched to Jiangxia in a hurry. And he personally led a group of guards who were rewarded with a lot of money to rush into the Chu rebels stationed here, beheading dozens of people, and the Chu rebels were defeated.

The reason why the King of Chu rebels collapsed was mainly because the military officers who surrendered to the King of Chu were basically military officers who were unwilling to be strictly controlled by the court, wanted to enslave soldiers, and wanted to collude with inferior feudal vassals to restore the old rituals. Naturally not so good, not to mention the deduction of military pay, many soldiers will be deprived of food, even when they are not going to attack the city, they can't even have enough to eat, not to mention that the newly recruited soldiers are all self-employed farmers who have just gone bankrupt. Soldiers are only for survival, and they will collapse at the touch of a finger.

This also allowed Wu Yuexiu, a young civil servant with little real skills and command experience, to be able to lead his troops to recover Jiangxia with blood and courage, and they came to the city of Wuchang.

Simultaneously.

Li Hualong, the deputy military commander, also led the guerrilla Cao Xibin to successfully capture Qizhou, killing more than [-] rebels, and cutting off the way for the King of Chu to leave by boat.

"Bing Xian, Jiang Xia has already been captured by the Xun Press."

After regaining Qizhou, Cao Xibin told Li Hualong, who was about to sleep with the soldiers, that Wu Yuexiu had arrived in Wuchang.

Li Hualong turned over immediately after hearing this: "What a Wu Xunyong! After all, he is a young man who wants to improve more than Ben Xian! Pass the order, don't rest, and go to Wuchang overnight, so that the King of Chu will not be taken by Wu Xunyong alone! "

"Bing Xian took the lead today and was the first to climb the city gate. He must have been exhausted. Why not rest here and lead some soldiers who still have strength to go to Wuchang."

Cao Xibin persuaded at this time.

Li Hualong refused: "Since we are preparing for the army, we have the responsibility to protect the people and protect the country. If we sit and watch the rebels poison the people for one more day, we will be guilty for one more day. Therefore, there is no need to persuade you anymore. I have to go personally and make the soldiers The morale is not weakened, and the people of Li are rescued from the fire and water, so as to suppress the rebellion as soon as possible."

After speaking, Li Hualong really got up and walked out of the hall, put on his iron helmet again, took off his sword, and told Cao Xibin:

"In order to prevent the soldiers from complaining about continuing to march, you pass on my Jun order, saying that if you can take Wuchang before the Wu patrol, in addition to asking for rewards from the imperial court, this constitution will not give up all this year's salary, and give it all to you. They! But they are not allowed to plunder the people, lest the rebels get the support of the people."

Cao Xibin bowed his hands and said yes.

Therefore, Li Hualong really rushed to Wuchang with Cao Xibin's troops that night. Even though it rained at night, the officers and soldiers did not mutiny. Make a profit.

And this time.

Zhu Huakui, king of Chu who returned to Wuchang, did not know that Wuchang was besieged.

Because Wang Bihe didn't tell him, he chose to hide the matter from him.

Wang Bi and himself even started to create some fake news during this period to deceive the king of Chu and the officials and gentlemen in Wuchang, saying that the prefect of Yuezhou had voluntarily surrendered to the king of Chu, and that the army had captured Jiujiang and Huaining and was approaching Nanjing. , It was even reported that Ling Yunyi, Minister of the Ministry of War of Nanjing, and Nanjing Xungui had responded to the news that the king of Chu had jointly punished the tyrant.

The King of Chu was overjoyed when he heard about it, and began to think about choosing a concubine.

Some officials and gentlemen were also coaxed by Wang Bihe into believing that King Chu could accomplish things, and they offered to bribe Wang Bihe to ask for officials.

Wang Bihe also took the opportunity to sell his officials and nobles, and appointed many scholars as the cabinet ministers and ministers of the puppet regime as the chief assistant of the cabinet.

of course.

It’s not that Wang Bihe doesn’t know the situation. As a Juren, he just doesn’t want to believe the situation. He also thought about the addiction of the chief minister of the cabinet. Get asylum through bribery.

Therefore, when Li Hualong, Wu Yuexiu and others led troops to Wuchang City, Wang Bihe resolutely chose to join forces with the guard commander around the King of Chu to make Wang Shoukui control the King of Chu, and knelt down to welcome Li Hualong and Wu Yuexiu.

So far, the Chu rebellion was put down in less than a month.

The King of Chu himself was still in a daze, and when he saw Wang Shoukui asking him to be kidnapped out of the city to meet Li Hualong and Wu Yuexiu, he asked, "Why did you kidnap Gu?"

"Because His Highness rebelled, Chang Shi Wanggong and his ministers repeatedly persuaded and refused to listen. Now we have no choice but to follow the righteousness and tie His Highness to see the patrol in order to prevent the whole city from being slaughtered by the officers and soldiers!"

Wang Shoukui said.

The King of Chu was stunned when he heard this, and suddenly asked Wang Shoukui: "You betrayed Gu, did Gu treat you poorly?"

"Naturally not thin, but Your Highness is sorry for the guards below. The pay is always [-]% short, but His Royal Highness's palace has accumulated millions of dollars, and now after the tax increase, it has increased by hundreds of thousands of silver!"

Wang Shoukui said.

After hearing this, the King of Chu couldn't help taking a few steps back: "So you really lost?"

The watchman nodded.

After hearing this, the king of Chu asked: "Where is Wang Changshi, I just want to see him."

"I have led civil and military offerings to surrender."

Wang Shoukui replied.

"hateful!"

After hearing this, the King of Chu looked at Wang Shoukui again: "Didn't you say that the salary I paid was not enough, so I will give you all the money in the palace. How about you protect the orphans and go to the chieftain of the Miao people?"

Watchman Kui said: "It's too late, Your Highness, it's too late for you to be generous!"

(End of this chapter)