my days with tyrants

Chapter 287 The Collapsed World

While Yang Feng was leading the reclamation team to work hard to grow rice in Huining, His Majesty the Emperor in the capital was still facing an intensified rebellion.

Sapphire finally began to attack Kaifeng.

He continued to bombard the city with 24 heavy siege artillery equivalent to [-]-pound guns, and finally blasted down a section of Kaifeng city wall.

But the subsequent assault into the city ended in failure.

Of course, this result is not surprising.

All the attacking officers and soldiers were worried, for fear of accidentally injuring the prince, especially when King Yan personally led troops to block the gap to fight, which made them dare not continue to use artillery. After all, the responsibility of killing King Yan was really not Frontline generals like them can afford...

Of course Sapphire is not afraid.

In fact, Lan Yu wished that a fool could give King Yan a shot.

But the problem is that there are no such fools!
Those thousands of households who have to lead by example are not stupid!
If you can't beat Kaifeng, you can continue to fight at most. This kind of siege is normal for several years, and it's only been a few months now. I really can't say that their attack is slow, but if they really want to kill King Yan, even if the emperor won't behead him afterwards , that would inevitably lead to dismissal...

In fact, the possibility of beheading is extremely high.

"Do you want to trap me in injustice by killing my uncle?"

Then, in order to prove his filial piety to his uncle, His Majesty the Emperor will definitely chop off a few heads.

understand!

The angry Lan Yu played one after another, asking the emperor to issue a decree clearly announcing the rebellion of the feudal lords, and to revoke his imperial decree not to harm his uncles, otherwise he would not be able to fight. It will appear on the front line, and then the officers and soldiers will immediately restrain their hands and feet.Before that, the King of Liao even went out of the city with his guards for a surprise attack. Although he was finally blocked by the Shenji Battalion, the Liao King himself charged forward with a spear, and the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion hurried out of the way for him.

Don't dare not let it go.

If he was killed by a volley of guns, who would be able to withstand the anger of the little princess?

The Shenji Battalion was selected by all guards in the capital. Who doesn't know that Princess Hanshan exists in the capital second only to the emperor. If you dare to kill her own brother, believe it or not, she killed your whole family?

Even Sapphire has ordered, other vassal kings are fine, but Liao Wang must not be hurt, after all, he can't afford to offend this little ancestor now, not only Sapphire, but all generals are the same, whoever is in the bank No deposit?Who doesn't have any business with Mount Wutai?Enrage the little princess, wait for her to spend money and play to death!
In fact, for those generals, they dare not kill any vassal king?
The emperor did not dare to make a decree.

The emperor has to consider everything after decree.

But Zhu Yunxi did not issue such an imperial edict in the end.

The main reason was that the civil servants were against it. They persuaded Zhu Yunxi that the reason for the trouble was the death of King Xiang in the final analysis, so His Majesty the Emperor could no longer let those uncles die on the battlefield.In addition, it is useless to kill a vassal king, but it makes the situation even more unmanageable. In the current situation, as long as Kaifeng is opened, these vassal kings are captured, and then they obediently submit to the emperor, the guards behind them will naturally no longer resist .If they were killed, their guards would be nothing more than to support their sons. If King Yan was killed, brothers Zhu Gaochi would really have to fight to the end.

Zhu Di is not dead, as long as he is caught, he can make all the troops in Beiping give up resistance with one word.

In short, the emperor not only rejected Sapphire's request, but reiterated it again.

Sapphire had no choice but to attack again.

But the city has quickly dug trenches in the gap and piled up artillery forts.

His offense was thwarted.

At the same time, Li Jinglong and Cao Zhen's joint attack on Wuchang was also frustrated.

Actually they came close to success.

The two families attacked on two sides. After all, the cannons on the Wuchang city wall blocked the Yangtze River. In fact, the two officers and troops could not meet by water, so they could only attack on one side. On Cao Zhen's side, Qu Neng and his son had already led their men to charge forward with bravery. They entered Wuchang City, but their strength was small, and they were essentially just used as containment to cooperate with Li Jinglong.

The latter failed to attack the city.

Qu Neng, who attacked Wuchang alone, had to face the full counterattack of the defenders.

Finally had to retreat.

Qu Neng was still injured, and his subordinates were even more indignant.

An angry Cao Zhen accused Li Jinglong of releasing water.

However, it is possible for him to release water. After all, he led an army of [-] to attack Wuchang, and he also had a Shenji Battalion under his command. There is no reason why Qu Neng's poorly equipped Sichuan army could attack the city wall, but he couldn't do it.You must know that the guards in Sichuan have hardly replaced any new equipment in recent years. After all, after the settlement of Yuelu Timur, they have not fought a war there for six or seven years, and there are only some rapid-fire guns at most.In fact, the elites of the Sichuan Army headed by Qu Neng didn't use firearms at all, and they were still the most traditional way of fighting. Even they could climb up Wuchang City with all kinds of firearms, but Li Jinglong's well-equipped ones couldn't do it?
However, Li Jinglong also defended himself later, and accused Cao Zhen of deliberately releasing a large number of King Xiang's guards in Jingzhou to go south, which caused the strength of Wuchang's defenders to soar, and he failed to attack the city.

Then the two coaches blamed each other.

But Zhu Yunxi finally chose to transfer back to Li Jinglong and be replaced by Cao Xing, Marquis of Huaiyuan.

But this move caused dissatisfaction among Li Jinglong's subordinates.

After all, both Cao Zhen and Cao Xing are just marquises, and Cao Zhen has been in Sichuan for more than ten years, and he has been alienated from the noble generals in the capital. idle.Li Jinglong's subordinates are all new generals in the capital, and now the emperor favors Cao Zhen because of his background, which obviously makes Li Wenzhong's generals feel unfair.

Internal conflicts began to emerge.

In fact, this is also inevitable. The Ming army was originally factional.

Behind the little emperor is the Chang Yuchun faction, or the current Sapphire faction, and it must be this faction that is reused. It will be a matter of time before other factions are dissatisfied.

As for the attack on Suzhou, because the main forces were in two battlefields, and Zhu Yunxi didn't think those gentry were really capable of holding on, so Wu Shou'an was still the main force, but Wu Jie, the son of Wu Fu, the Marquis of Anlu, was sent there.The main reason is that the latter has been in Zhejiang many times before, and now the mobile forces that Zhu Yunxi can mobilize can only be the Zhejiang Guards, and not only to attack Suzhou, but also to suppress the local gentry and guard against Ma He, who is still missing at sea.The latter posed a serious threat to the coast, although theoretically he had not yet betrayed the emperor, and the emperor had decreed that he should be relieved of his command and ordered Penglaibo Qi Bin, who was guarding Fusang, to lead a navy southward from Fusang to take over the fleet.

but……

You have to know where he is first!
I don't know where the fleet is currently and how to send orders?

Beijing.

"Any news about Ma He?"

The little princess asked the green slave annoyed.

She just came back from the palace, and she still wanted to persuade her nephew to wait for Yang Feng to come back, as long as he ordered to negotiate with the vassal kings, anyway, the vassal kings have no ability to attack outside, as long as the relationship is eased, the funeral will come soon On this day, the vassal kings were allowed to go to Beijing to attend the funeral.

Of course, without troops.

But under normal circumstances, if you don't lead troops, you will definitely be punished by Zhu Yunxi.

This is also inevitable.

Although Zhu Yunxi didn't kill his uncles, it didn't mean he didn't take the opportunity to solve his clan reform.

Detain all these uncles, those who agree to live in the capital, take their family members directly to the capital from the fief, and those who agree to divide the land to fend for themselves, of course, the guards should also be released, and the family can only leave one guard.Anyway, now that Mongolia has surrendered to the Western Regions, there is no need for them to guard the frontier fortress, and the family does not need to leave a guard, or even a single guard, just give them a piece of land.In fact, it can be thrown directly to the Western Regions. After all, the Western Regions are so bright that Zhu Di himself is really not good. Kings like Qin, Su, and Qing can go to the Western Regions. They can be equipped with a few guards.

In short, as long as you enter Beijing, you have to take the opportunity to solve it.

At least the group of vassal kings in the north must be dismantled, otherwise it would be too dangerous for more than a dozen vassal kings to form a group at once.

In short, if you don't bring troops into Beijing, there will be no good results.

But it is impossible for Zhu Yunxi to agree to lead troops.

Tens of thousands of elites have arrived in the capital, and he is afraid that his uncles will unite to raid the palace!
In this way, we can take the opportunity to disclose the news about Yang Feng in Liaodong.

Then Yang Feng would come back if he wanted to, and if he didn’t want to, she acted as a guarantor on Yang Feng’s behalf, and the war ceased during the funeral. The emperor negotiated with his uncles to find a mutually acceptable solution and sign a covenant in Xiaoling. It's the perfect solution for everyone to abide by this covenant and continue to maintain family love.

But was rejected by the emperor.

He doesn't need to negotiate with his uncles, he is the emperor, they are ministers, even the elders, he has the final say.

It made the little princess very annoyed.

"Should have gone to Keelung, and I suspect that he wants to collude with Fujian. The bank in Fuzhou reported that the local gentry are very supportive of the Suzhou matter, and even want to take the opportunity to respond, but they have no excuses. If Ma And in the name of the King of Yan, if they make enough promises to them and land in Fuzhou with a fleet, the Fujian gentry will probably raise troops under the order of the King of Yan. In the end, just opening up maritime trade is enough for the Fujian gentry to work hard for it. It's not the worst case, the worst thing is that they added the yellow robe to the King of Yan. No matter Liu Jiang in Suzhou, Yao Guangxiao or Ma He in our city, they are actually with Brother Zhu Gaochi.

The Zhu Gaochi brothers wanted their father to be the emperor.

After all, Zhu Gaochi would be the prince. "

Chun Ji said.

This North Korean woman has really grown up these years. After all, Yang Feng has always regarded her as his personal secretary. The little princess is precisely the manager, she is the personal secretary, and Zhang Ying is the director of the mainland business.

Lu Nu is the director of business outside the Great Wall.

The remaining one, Gulina, is the director of the Western Regions business.

As for why Liu Rong is called Liu Jiang, it is actually his father's name, and then he was in Suzhou under his father's name, and someone reported to the court that Liu Jiang, a general under King Yan, was the mastermind of the rebellion in Suzhou, so that can only be nonsense up.

Because Liu Jiang was still in the Western Regions at this time.

Song Sheng can testify.

Therefore, the rebellion in Suzhou had nothing to do with King Yan, it was caused by Qi Tai and others. In order to frame King Yan, they deliberately let him lie about Liu Jiang, a general under King Yan, but they didn't know that Liu Jiang was still in the Western Regions, so this kind of attempt to marry The conspirator who harmed King Yan made people laugh.

"I'm so pissed off. What on earth is he trying to do? Is he getting entangled by that bitch in Huining?"

The little princess said angrily.

"Princess, haven't you ever thought that the emperor and Daxing emperor had the same thoughts when you ordered the master to go to sea?"

Haruhime said with a mysterious smile.

"Uh, nonsense, nonsense, they have such a good relationship."

The little princess said in a flustered manner.

"At that time he was the grandson of the emperor, but now he is the emperor."

Chun Ji said meaningfully.

The little princess was speechless, of course she understood that her nephew, like her father, actually wanted to drag Yang Feng into the sea and kill him, she just didn't want to admit the reality, so the reason why Yang Feng still refused to go south was because It's revenge, he just watched Zhu Yunxi's jokes on purpose.

"Should I tell the emperor about Ma He?"

Chun Ji asked.

"What to say is just speculation,"

said the little princess.

Then she sighed sadly.

Ten days later, Ma He led a fleet to raid Fuzhou, and the guards of Fuzhou surrendered without a fight. Then the Fuzhou gentry Tanshihupa welcomed them, followed by the Fujian chief envoys, all commanding envoys. Whether the emperor's edict is true or not, his duty is to guard the place, so he shut himself up and waited for the matter to be clarified.

To put it simply, they are not involved in this war.

Only five days later, He Rong, who had been promoted to the Marquis of Dongguan because of the Annan War, played the three envoys in Guangzhou and Guangdong at the same time, and the statement was the same as in Fujian.

Another province exits.

Of course, shut yourself up.

To put it simply, we will not accept the order of the court for the time being.

You hit first.

Let's talk about the results.

But during this period, the gentry in Fujian and Guangdong provinces can happily run to the sea.

Well, they're mainly for that.

The purpose of Ma He's trip to Fuzhou was actually to tell them how vast the world and unlimited wealth overseas were, and now that they had been given the opportunity, it was up to them whether they could grasp it or not.

Don't you want to do something?

But Wang Bi, who guarded Annan, refused to accept the emperor's imperial edict to transfer him back to Beijing. The reason was that Annan was newly appointed to be guarded by generals. After the king of Chu went north, no one could suppress the natives except him.But this is what he said, but in fact he deployed his troops as if he would go north to Guangxi at any time, so the officials and troops in Guangxi did not dare to go north to Qin Wang.

Of course, they would not be kings in the first place.

In fact, most of the guards in Guangxi are stationed in Annan.

Because Annan had just won, most of the armies that originally conquered Annan had not yet withdrawn.

On the other hand, Xiping Hou Musheng from Yunnan quickly dealt with King Min's guards without bloodshed. In fact, it was the guard house in Yunnan, but it was reorganized into King Min's guards, and they gave up resistance if Mu Sheng said a word.Then Mu Sheng imprisoned King Min's family members in the palace, but there was only so much he could do. After all, there were chieftains all over Yunnan. Under the current situation, if the guards in Yunnan dared to go north to serve the king, the chieftains would immediately rebel.

In this way, the emperor's world was going to collapse at an extremely fast speed.

(End of this chapter)