Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 188 King Qi Takes Command
"The catastrophe is coming, the world is dark, the Ming court has no way, and the Mahayana is triumphant!"

"kill!"

On the second day of October in the second year of Tianqi, Xu Hongru called himself "Zhongxing Fudi" and changed his name to "the first year of Mahayana Xingsheng".

On the third day of October, Wang Haoxian, the remnant of the White Lotus Sect and the son of Wang Sen, the founder of Wenxiang Sect, together with Yu Hongzhi, raised flags in Shenqiu County, Kaifeng Prefecture, and Suizhou, Guide Prefecture, and besieged the county town under the name "Zhongxing Left and Right Generals". There are tens of thousands of people.

At the same time, rebellions broke out one after another in Kaifeng, Guide, and Yanzhou prefectures. There were more than a hundred people on a small scale, and more than a thousand people on a large scale. For a while, rebels wearing red scarves gathered and attacked the surrounding counties.

On the third day of junior high school, Yuan Keli, the governor of Shandong, came to Yanzhou in person and commanded the three battalions of Jimo, Wendeng, and Dengzhou to march from Surabaya to Yuncheng, which was occupied by the rebels.

Without knowing it, Xu Hongru led [-] Wenxiangjiao elites, tens of thousands of them out of the city, and left [-] Wenxiangjiao elites to guard Yuncheng, and the army attacked the surrounding counties.

When the news came back to the capital, the atmosphere inside and outside the capital was busy and tense.

Outside the capital, the horsepower of the four cavalry guards, which had been stored for a month, has recovered, and they are preparing soybean feed, military rations, vinegar cloth, salt crystals, etc. for the expedition. They have also transferred [-] stone bullets and [-] catties of gunpowder from the armor factory to prepare for the expedition.

In the imperial palace of the capital, many ministers and workers were arguing even more on the Qianqing Hall in the third year of junior high school.

"This matter is due to the ineffective report from the Fusi of Jinyiwei South Town."

"I ask the Fusi of Zhinan Town to command the acquaintance, Cui Yingyuan's crime!"

In the Qianqing Palace, Cui Yingyuan knelt on the road between the ministers on the left and right, and more than [-] ministers including the cabinet, six divisions, six ministries, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate were crowded in the Qianqing Palace.

On the dragon chair in the hall, Zhu Youxiao looked at the officials, frowned, and then looked at his calm brother, and then he calmed down.

"okay!"

When all the officials asked Cui Yingyuan to be punished, Zhu Youxiao suddenly opened his mouth, and everyone shut their mouths and bowed their heads in silence.

Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao also said:

"Nanzhen Fusi has already spread the news on September [-], not to mention when will Nanzhen Fusi become the place that needs to be responsible for the rebels?"

"As far as I know, Meng Chengguang, a doctor of the Five Classics of the Meng Mansion, and Yuan Keli, the governor of Shandong, both went to the Shu, but the cabinet suppressed them in the end, right?"

"The minister waits for ten thousand deaths..." When Zhu Guozuo saw that the emperor wanted to shield Cui Yingyuan, he immediately knelt down with a large number of officials who had agreed to suppress him, singing ten thousand deaths.

However, Zhu Youxiao didn't bother to pursue this matter. After all, the harmony of the court was not what he wanted, so he said:

"Currently, the rebel army is very strong. Even though Yuan Keli sent a battalion to encircle and suppress them, there are still many rebel soldiers."

"What is the cabinet going to do?" Zhu Youxiao asked Ye Xianggao, and Ye Xianggao immediately bowed back when he heard the words:

"The old minister thought that he could send straight soldiers to the south to wipe out the rebels."

"No! If Shangzhi soldiers and horses are sent, how can we guarantee the safety of Zhili?" Zhu Guozuo in the cabinet immediately dismissed it when he heard this, but at the same time his sinking mind became active, and he said in a cadence:
"Long live, I think you can ask Wang Shangshu of the Ministry of War to command the Xiaoqiwei, Tiancewei, Habayashiwei, and Longxiangwei near the capital to go south to suppress the rebellion."

"Old boy..." Zhu Youjian frowned when he heard that Shen Yu wanted to use his military power, and Wang Xiangqian, as the Qi Party, actually didn't want to get involved in the disputes between the Five Parties and the King of Qi, so he stepped forward and said:

"Long live, the old minister is old, it's an embarrassing task..."

Wang Xianggan slapped Shen Yun in the face, but Shen Yun had no temper, because what Wang Xianggan said was not wrong.

As a person born in the [-]th year of Jiajing, Wang Xiangqian is now seventy-six years old. It is a bit harsh for an old minister to ask him to go south to command troops and horses to suppress the rebellion.

"Long live! The minister is willing to lead the army to suppress the rebellion!"

Suddenly, someone spoke loudly and knelt down on the road set aside by the two groups of civil servants.

For a moment, everyone was a little curious about who this person was, but when they turned their heads to see this person, they immediately scolded him in their hearts.

Kneeling on the long avenue at this moment is none other than Wan Yanyang, a member of the Donglin party who was punished by Zhu Youxiao.

Wan Yanyang is just a censor who doesn't know about soldiers, but now he stands up and wants to lead the soldiers beyond his control. Don't expect a mutiny to happen before the army leaves the city.

Zhu Youjian was also very speechless after seeing it. If he really handed over more than [-] horses from the Four Cavalry Guards and more than [-] horses from the Shangzhi Guards to Wan Yanyang, the money he had accumulated for two years would probably be brought over by this guy. In the hands of this group of rebels in Shandong.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian could only bow and say:
"Brother Huang, my younger brother is willing to lead the troops."

As soon as Zhu Youjian opened his mouth, everyone looked at him instantly, and Wan Yanyang also said:
"Long live, the ancestral system has already said that vassal kings are not allowed to lead troops!"

"Which ancestral system said that? Did my Ming Dynasty have such an ancestral system that was harsh on the clan?!" Zhu Youjian reprimanded Wan Yanyang in a long voice:

"Besides! Changes in the sky are not enough to be feared, ancestors are not enough to follow the law, and human words are not enough to be sympathetic!"

"If adhering to the ancestral system can make the world peaceful, so that all people can eat enough and wear warm clothes, then there will be no wars in the world, and there will be no so many dynasties!"

After all, Zhu Youjian glanced at the crowd, the coldness and ferocity in his eyes made those who met his eyes lower their heads.

Even Wang Xiangqian, Ye Xianggao and Zhu Guozuo, who had seen Emperor Longqing and Emperor Wanli before, and who were under the shadow of the emperor at that time, could not help avoiding his gaze with guilt.

But such a move made Liu Yixiu, Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and the other three among the officials feel cold.

This is the courage of an emperor. It should have appeared on the person sitting on the dragon chair, but now it appeared on Zhu Youjian.

Even the three emperors Longqing, Wanli, and Taichang did not have the courage of Zhu Youjian to directly criticize the ancestral system.

In other words, among the dozen or so former emperors in the entire Ming Dynasty, none of them dared to completely overthrow the ancestral system!

During Zhu Yuanzhang's period, there was no ancestral system, and Zhu Di made some modifications to the ancestral system, but Zhu Youjian was different. He completely criticized and tried to overthrow it.

He dared to do this because he challenged the entire civilian power, and the strength of the challenge came from military power.

Even if Sun Chuanting's group of men and horses related to civil servants are excluded, behind him there are still [-] soldiers and horses including Shangzhi and Waigongweiying. This is his confidence.

The first batch of more than [-] students at Yanshan Institute have been studying for two years and are about to start their third year of study.

In the first year, the students of the Yanshan Institute are required to know how to read and write, and from the second year to use both arts and sciences.Beginning in the third year, basic military and political courses will be added, followed by classes in the fourth year.

In other words, at present, he has more than [-] students who have studied basic physics, mathematics, and civil engineering.

Perhaps they are not capable enough to serve as officials, and the same is true for their age.

But in terms of the number of more than [-] young men who have reached the age of [-] among them, these [-] people are more than [-] subordinates.

The mathematics they have mastered is enough for them to do some simple accounting calculations, so after the showdown, even if the civil officials in Beizhili, Shanxi, and Liaodong all put down their picks, Zhu Youjian can still use the Gongwei battalion to implement military control.

The eighty-four generals of the Shangzhi and Waigongwei camps in the three provinces are the eighty-four officials, and the [-] subordinates and more than [-] military officials are the executors of military management.

He has never been a hothead, but only dare to shout when he has the hole card!

It is precisely this strength that made many officials shut up and no longer mention the so-called ancestral system.

But at the same time, such behavior is also a challenge to the imperial power.

Because if there is a vassal king to lead the army in the future, he can use Zhu Youjian's words to refute the civil servants.

Therefore, if Zhu Youxiao agrees with Zhu Youjian's words, it means that he may have to face the situation of many vassal kings leading troops in the fief in the future.

Many civil servants lowered their heads, but they were all waiting to see what the emperor would do.

Are you willing to add a threat in exchange for Zhu Youjian being able to lead the army, or are you willing to completely eliminate a threat.

Everyone was waiting, including Wei Zhongxian, Liu Ruoyu, Cao Huachun, Wang Tiqian and other people close to Zhu Youxiao.

"The law of the ancestors does not say that the vassal king cannot lead troops, it only says that the vassal king cannot leave the vassal land..."

In one word, Zhu Youxiao added a threat to himself and gave many vassal kings an excuse to lead the army.

In other words, Zhu Youxiao is planting mines for the vassal kings everywhere, a mine that can cut down the vassals.

In terms of the salary of the vassal kings of various places, even a big vassal like Zhou Fan only has more than [-] taels of silver.

Excluding daily expenses, it would be nice to have two hundred thousand taels.

Although these long-inherited great feudal clans have a lot of squeezed money, even if these money can recruit tens of thousands of troops, what about the cost of raising troops in the future?
You know, the emperor has more than [-] soldiers and horses in his hands, and even if he leaves the civil servants, he can support more than [-] soldiers and horses for more than half a year with the finances of the Imperial Horse Supervisor.

It is simply difficult to achieve rebellion with the soldiers of the vassal king.

On the contrary, if the number of royal guards recruited exceeds the limit of the imperial court, then the emperor will have an excuse to cut down the vassal.

"Announce to the world that King Youjian of Qi will be granted the title of Zuozhu State, and General Zhaowu will be appointed to counter the rebellion strategy. He will rule over Shangzhi, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi and Beijing.

"Sir, take the lead!"

Zhu Youjian knelt down to receive the decree, and felt the blood in his whole body boiling.

After studying and honing the art of war for more than two years, many insights can finally be displayed!
"Long live!" Suddenly, another person spoke at this juncture, and this person was Wang Xianggan, Shangshu of the Ministry of War.

However, Wang Xiangqian did not intend to dismiss the emperor's will, but said:
"Although Emperor Xuanzong was in front of me in Ming Dynasty, and His Royal Highness King Qi also commanded the Baimaguan Huanshi and raided the three guards of Daning, but after all, he is still a young man."

"Therefore, I have the courage to ask His Royal Highness King Qi how to put down the rebellion?"

Wang Xiangqian was giving Zhu Youjian a chance to shut up everyone's mouths, but Zhu Youjian said rebelliously when facing the opportunity:

"Although the rebels claim to be one hundred thousand, they are nothing more than a mob. If I go straight to the army, it is enough to put down the rebellion within a month!"

"You are not joking?!" Wan Yanyang's eyes lit up in the crowd, and he questioned Zhu Youjian, but Zhu Youjian glanced at this person, and bowed to Zhu Youxiao who was on the dragon chair:

"Just mobilize the top four cavalry guards, and Xu Hongru can be captured alive in [-] days!"

The tone is not small...

Listening to Zhu Youjian's words, all the ministers sneered in their hearts, and even thought of Zhu Youjian's embarrassing appearance twenty days later.

"Dare to ask King Qi, when can the army leave?"

Zhu Guozuo took a step forward, pressing harder and harder, but Zhu Youjian said, "Immediately!"

"Can today be counted as one of the twenty days?" Shen Li continued to ask.

"Naturally!" Zhu Youjian continued to respond.

"What if the thief cannot be captured in [-] days?" Qi Party official Ying Zhen stepped forward and asked.

"Don't say anything in the future!" Zhu Youjian responded in a loud voice, then turned around and bowed to Zhu Youxiao who was on the dragon chair:

"Brother Emperor, please wait for the good news from your younger brother."

"Brother...be careful..." Zhu Youxiao hesitated to speak, and finally could only comfort him with a word of caution.

Then he waved his hand to signal Sanchao, and Wei Zhongxian next to him saw this, and immediately said in a hoarse voice: "Sanchao..."

As soon as it was sung, everyone sang long live, and then withdrew from the Qianqing Hall.

Zhu Youjian didn't want to stay longer because he had arranged enough, so he turned around and prepared to return to Xuqin Palace.

However, when he got on the elephant leg with the support of Cao Huachun, he saw a person opened the car window of the elephant leg and followed the elephant leg outside the car window.

"What are you doing?" Looking at Yang Lian outside the window, Zhu Youjian frowned tightly, while Yang Lian looked around and squeezed through his teeth:
"You already knew that Xu Hongru would conspire against you, didn't you?!"

"This is just your personal speculation." Zhu Youjian frowned slightly, but Yang Lian followed Xiang Ren and continued:
"I should have guessed a long time ago that you don't fight an uncertain battle. If you dare to say that you can take Xu Hongru in [-] days, you must have already made arrangements."

"You have to know that there is no joke in the army. If you can't take down Xu Hongru in [-] days, if you don't say anything else, you don't want to keep the name of the soldier!"

"Heh..." Zhu Youjian was amused by Yang Lian, leaning on the window with one hand, and said to Yang Lian:
"Mr. Yang doesn't believe me?"

"It's not that I don't believe you, it's that [-] days is too short." Yang Lian said heartbrokenly:

"It's a full nine hundred and fifty miles from the capital to Yuncheng, the home of the rebels."

"More than nine hundred miles, it took Man Guiguang six days to travel, how about you?"

"I don't need to be worried, but Mr. Yang, you need to worry about those hypocrites in your so-called Qingliu." Zhu Youjian responded, and Xiang Ren also passed through the back left door at this moment.

"Hmph!" Seeing that Zhu Youjian brought up the internal affairs of Donglin again, Yang Lian stopped and said, "You can take care of yourself."

After finishing speaking, he turned and left, and Zhu Youjian also said to Cao Huachun who was driving the elephant:

"This Yang Lian has a knife mouth and a bean curd heart, with a mean face."

"Your Highness, but what Yang Du said was correct, the [-]th day is too short." Cao Huachun, who was driving the car, also had an unnatural expression, obviously knowing that it would be difficult to capture Xu Hongru who had a crowd of [-] on the [-]th. .

"Don't worry about this, tell me, where are the artillery of the four cavalry guards?" Zhu Youjian mentioned the things on the battlefield, his eyes bright.

Naturally, he wouldn't talk nonsense about twenty days, if he dared to say it, he must be sure.

Each of the four cavalry guards has [-] cannons, totaling [-] pieces.

Four days ago, Zhu Youjian asked Cao Huachun to transport these artillery pieces to the south along with [-] catties of gunpowder and [-] stone bullets from the armor factory.

What is now installed outside the city is nothing more than gunpowder and stone bombs for subsequent counter-insurgency.

If Zhu Youjian remembers correctly, there are still many ambitious people who rose up in the follow-up of Xu Hongru's rebellion.

"It has already arrived in Liaocheng, Dongchang Prefecture, Shandong, but the rebels seem to be attacking Qufu now." Cao Huachun was a little uneasy.

"The target of the rebels is not Qufu." Zhu Youjian was not nervous and explained to him:

"If Xu Hongru wants to threaten Daming, he must send troops to attack Jining, which is the key point of water transportation, and then take down Zoucheng and Teng County."

"They should go to Nanwang Lake and north of Shushan Lake. At that time, the rebel army will face Yuan Keli's third battalion. With the strength of the rebel army, it will only take one round to be repelled."

"Xu Hongru will definitely return to Yuncheng at that time, and if we catch up in time, we can directly defeat the enemy."

"If he can't catch up, it's enough to do it on his way back to Yuncheng."

After the words fell, Xiang Ren also came to the gate of the East Palace. Zhu Youjian jumped out of the car immediately, and then spent a cup of tea time walking into the Xuqin Palace, where he had someone load the armor for him, and then someone called Lu Wenzhao , Lu Xiu.

"Your Highness!"

Half an hour later, Lu Wenzhao and Lu Xiu arrived at Xuqin Palace and changed into armor, while Zhu Youjian was still wearing ordinary clothes.

"Assemble the four cavalry guards in Nanyuan, and distribute the [-] taels of silver that I prepared, and the army will set off in an hour."

"Yes!" Hearing this, Lu Wenzhao immediately led Lu Xiu back and escorted [-] taels of silver to Nanyuan.

At the same time, Zhu Youjian also walked out of Xuqin Palace.

With a height of five feet and three inches, he is considered to be the figure of an ordinary person in this era, and the bulging muscles under the clothes can be seen as a Lianjiazi.

Cao Huachun sent Zhu Youjian to Donghua Gate, and Zhu Youjian got off the chariot, then got on his horse, and said to Cao Huachun:
"Keep an eye on the inner court and protect the emperor brother."

"Your servant obeys..." Cao Huachun answered honestly.

"Drive!" Accompanied by the sound of driving, Zhu Youjian ran southward under the guard of more than a hundred horsemen from Donghuamen.

Seeing this, Cao Huachun sighed and left Donghua Gate.

At the same time, in the tower of Donghua Gate, Zhu Youxiao frowned as he watched the distant figure, not knowing what to think.

He didn't go to see off his younger brother, he only dared to watch from afar from the tower.

Because he was afraid that after he went to send him off, he would not let the other party leave in the end, so he ordered a change of generals.

"Tell Lu Wenzhao to protect King Qi well. If King Qi sneaks up on the battlefield, he is the only one to ask!" Zhu Youxiao ordered worriedly.

"The maidservant leads the decree..." Wei Zhongxian, who accompanied him, responded, and then stretched out his hand to support Zhu Youxiao, and the two walked out of the tower and walked towards the palace.

At the same time, Nanyuan was also bustling. The distribution of [-] taels of silver led to the joy of more than [-] cavalry, and all the army horses were fed enough horse food.

The soldiers entrusted [-] army clerks to help write a family letter and brought back silver taels, just because it was the first time for all of the four cavalry guards to go to the battlefield except for Habayashi, and none of them knew whether they would be able to come back. Therefore, the family letters are very long.

This also led to the fact that when Zhu Youjian arrived in Nanyuan with [-] Tiqi, there were [-] soldiers and thousands of people writing letters from home.

Regarding this, Zhu Youjian frowned and said angrily:

"Where is the commander of the four cavalry guards?!"

"The end will be..."

Seeing Zhu Youjian coming on horseback, the four commanders who were still chatting trotted over, but Zhu Youjian raised the whip and pointed: "What time is it?"

"Return to Your Highness, at four o'clock in the afternoon..."

The Commander of the Habayashi Guard stepped forward and bowed to answer, but Zhu Youjian scolded angrily:
"When did I issue the military order to assemble?!"

"Uh... three quarters in the afternoon..." Commander Habayashi Wei looked embarrassed and tried to explain: "Your Highness, soldiers..."

"What are the rules for me to go up straight!" Zhu Youjian interrupted the other party, and the other party also lowered his head and said:

"Military orders are like mountains..."

"If that's the case, what's the crime for delaying the assembly time before the war?" Zhu Youjian asked, and the four commanders also said in unison:

"The general will whip thirty!"

"Use torture!" After Zhu Youjian said, the soldiers of the army's supervising team did not dare to say anything, but the four commanders knelt on the ground and took off their armor.

The supervising team whipped them behind their backs, and each hit made dust. After a few breaths, the clothes began to glow red, and finally blood stains appeared.

When the fifteenth was being whipped, Zhu Youjian raised his hand to signal to stop:

"The battle is imminent, the remaining [-] lashes will depend on you after the battle and then decide whether to continue to torture. Rise up and call all the troops!"

"The last general takes orders..." The four commanders clasped their hands in cold sweat with pale faces, and then ordered people to gather troops and horses, and at the same time asked people to apply medicine and bandages on themselves.

A quarter of an hour later, [-] troops assembled, one man and four horses, almost filling the corner of Nanyuan.

Zhu Youjian rode his horse in front of the battle, and after inspecting the army, he returned to the generals and ordered:
"Today, Gu promised His Majesty and the officials to capture Xu Hongru alive within [-] days."

"You have been in the army for more than a year, you should know that Gu never lies."

"Xu Hongru raises the flag to rebel, the crime should be punished!"

"Of course! Among the [-] thieves, most of them are ordinary people, but they were deceived and followed blindly, so those who surrendered were not killed."

"In this battle, you will be the general, and you will be the first soldier, and the same is true for Gu!"

"Those who die in battle will be paid five times their salary as compensation silver, and ten acres of land will be used as compensation land. In addition, for those who escaped during the battle, the whole family's land will be taken back, and the deserters will be beheaded as a public display!"

"Wan Sheng... Wan Sheng... Wan Sheng..." Hearing Zhu Youjian's promise to the pension, the middle-level generals began to sing Wan Sheng, and the soldiers behind them also began to follow blindly.

More than [-] people sang Wan Sheng, singing and singing, and they became Qi Wang Wan Sheng unconsciously.

Zhu Youjian raised his hand to boo, and more than [-] people began to shut up in a row.

When the last row of soldiers also shut up, Zhu Youjian said:

"Yu Majian has already raised food and grass for the army in Huangdian in northern Lu and Northern Henan. The whole army is now going south. After receiving the artillery from various armies in Liaocheng, the commander of Long Xiangwei Liu Daocheng will lead the troops to support the eastern part of Henan. If Wang Haoxian can be captured alive , Yu Hongzhi, remember your first merit."

"The last general takes orders!" Liu Daocheng bowed in response.

"Cao Meng, Commander of the Xiao Cavalry Guards, after you lead the artillery in Liaocheng, divide your troops and go south along the canal to encircle and suppress the small group of rogues."

"The last general takes orders!" Cao Meng bowed in response, and Zhu Youjian also said:

"Fan Ming, Commander of the Habayashi Guard, you lead the remaining [-] artillery pieces from Liaocheng to the south and take down Yuncheng."

"The last general takes orders!" Fan Ming bowed in response.

At this time, Zhu Youjian looked at the commander of Tiance Guard, and ordered:
"Tian Cewei is under my jurisdiction. You don't need to rest in Liaocheng. Go east and south, and go straight to the leader of the bandits, Xu Hongru. I want to capture him alive!"

"The last general takes orders!" Hearing that King Qi personally commanded Tiance Guard, the commander of Tiance Guard bowed excitedly in response. At this time, Lu Wenzhao also rushed to the front of the army with three hundred guards in brocade clothes. Everything is ready.

Seeing this, Zhu Youjian stopped talking:
"Let's go!"

(End of this chapter)