The white porridge and pickled mustard is enough, why am I wearing a royal robe?

Chapter 188 Mutiny and Surrender

Lai Zongdao's guess was correct. Rather than killing the Kitchen King, Emperor Chongzhen wanted to subdue the Kitchen King. One Kitchen King could withstand thousands of troops!

Especially after this battle.

He was able to take out the Kitchen King's magical weapons continuously.

The Twelve Divine Soldiers asked the Kitchen King to use the strength of ten thousand people to resist the siege of an army of seventy thousand people!

No, ten thousand people is too inaccurate, maybe hundreds of thousands!

Not to mention anything else, just letting the Stove King be placed in the northern part of Liao Dynasty during the Ming Dynasty was enough to make it difficult for the Liao people to advance southward.

If there is an army going north, led by the Kitchen King, they might be able to completely solve the troubles of the Liao people in the north! Completely wipe out the Liao people!

Together with the famine of the Ming Dynasty.

This is the work of a thousand years, which will not only revive the Ming Dynasty, but also allow him to reach heights that none of the emperors of the past dynasties have been able to reach!

This was too tempting for him.

He has always wanted to revitalize the Ming Dynasty and has done many things, but nothing seems to have worked. Now that he finally has a way, how can he not try it?

Qingyang, barracks.

Hearing what this brother said, Zhangze lowered his head and looked at the porridge in the bowl, "It is said that the Stove King transformed the porridge into a thick porridge that won't fall down when inserted with chopsticks. What else is there?"

If the Kitchen King really had this ability, he would have ascended to the throne long ago.

To be precise, it makes the Stove King, who was already famous in Shaanxi, even more powerful.

Seeing what the emperor said, some ministers who originally had some opinions stopped saying anything. They knew that if they refuted, the emperor would definitely ask them to come up with a feasible solution.

Zhangze tapped the bowl with his chopsticks. What they drank was gruel. The food and clothing expenses of the army were not a small sum. Although a lot of people died now, logically speaking, the food should be better.

There was a sound of swallowing and spitting around.

The news about the Kitchen King had spread throughout the camp, but no one believed it at the time.

The Kitchen King is now very powerful, and if the imperial court launches another encirclement and suppression campaign like last time, they will not hesitate to join the Kitchen King's forces to seek protection.

"You said this is true or false."

However, the governors of the five provinces could not do anything about the Kitchen King. They could not let the emperor use his methods to directly kill the Kitchen King. The emperor obviously did not have this intention.

"Haha, Captain, we didn't know what you said at the beginning. It's just like the legend that the Kitchen King can transform into countless grains. Who can believe this? Haven't we seen it until now?"

"I heard that when the Kitchen King attacked Yan'an City, he summoned countless amounts of food outside Yan'an City and captured Yan'an Mansion without spending a single soldier."

Emperor Chongzhen said.

"Just what you said."

A fire gun can kill many people within two hundred steps.

However, when they actually faced the Kitchen King's magic weapon on the battlefield, they realized that the magic weapon was a real magic weapon. The artillery and fire blunderbuss were so different from the magic weapon.

Some rebels who could not survive the uprising soon moved closer to Yan'an Prefecture. They started the uprising because they could no longer survive, not for the right to become kings and hegemons. Now they have a backbone and a place where they can survive. Naturally, they fled one after another.

"Then who knew at the beginning? Which of you believed it? Do any of you believe it?"

Moreover, Lai Zongdao's suggestion can only be justified in terms of righteousness, but if the Kitchen King is finally surrendered, the world will have nothing to say. Instead, it will stabilize because of the various benefits brought by the Kitchen King.

The imperial court's 70,000-strong army failed to encircle and suppress the Kitchen King, and the Kitchen King suddenly became famous.

When the people around him heard this, they all raised their heads and looked at the bowls they were holding. The slight fragrance of the white porridge seemed to have dissipated.

Then Shaanxi is still full of disaster victims along the way?

"The Stove King is really a god. If he had known that we were going to fight such gods, we might as well have deserted." Zhang Ze is a centurion of the Hubei Front Army. He holds a rice bowl in his hand and looks at the people under the camp. The brothers said with an annoyed look on their faces.

"There are also pork rice, eggs soaked in tea, duck egg porridge, beef soup and so on," someone said.

Emperor Chongzhen drafted an imperial edict, and then some eunuchs wrapped up the imperial edict and led some soldiers towards Shaanxi.

How many years have passed, more than two hundred years ago, the last time a rebel was appeased by the court was in the late Yuan Dynasty.

"Captain, you didn't believe this news at first," said one of his ten captain brothers.

Some rebels who have become kings are maintaining a wait-and-see attitude. After all, they want the world, and the Kitchen King is obviously someone who wants to fight for the world.

The remaining soldiers from the five provinces gathered here.

Although it will not reach the point where refugees are everywhere in northern Shaanxi.

And the magic weapon, the bird's magic weapon, can't the artillery kill many people from such a distance?

Someone said with a forced smile.

Many brothers died, and no one believed that the Kitchen King was real.

"Kitchen King, Kitchen King, I hope you can be wiser, otherwise," Emperor Chongzhen sighed, otherwise, his Ming Dynasty will only lose one talent, and the way to rejuvenate it that he finally found will also be destroyed.

Zhangze said.

What a magic weapon, it's just a group of unsophisticated people who saw these strange new weapons and thought they were magical means.

The current disaster year is not easy for the south either.

Not to mention pork, they have never tasted the white porridge that won't fall down when you insert chopsticks into it.

Is there such a man of God in this remote and remote area of ​​Shaanxi?

But in fact nothing has changed.

Someone said this, and this sentence suddenly silenced everyone around him.

Looking at the food in his hand, he thought about the food transformed by the legendary Stove King.

What a life it was.

Who is the rebel?

"Do you think the Kitchen King really feeds all his subordinates these things?"

Zhangze suddenly asked.

This sentence made the brothers in the surrounding camp stunned.

"No, I heard that in the Kitchen King's place, only those who have meritorious service can eat. It seems to kill people, two or three. The Kitchen King's camp has 10,000 people, and only a few thousand people can eat. "

This is not a secret in the camp, and recently there have been a lot of things about the Kitchen King in the city.

What kind of treatment do you get from a heavenly soldier? You get three meals a day, like pork and beef.

What kind of pension after death in battle?

and many more.

"three people."

Someone counted on their fingers and said, "I have been fighting for three years and I have only killed two people."

"I killed five people," a ten-capion captain scratched his head.

"That's different. How many wars have we fought in these years? Who are we going to fight against?"

Zhangze curled his lips and said, "What about these bandits? They will attack a city today and a whole place tomorrow."

"We are surrounded and suppressed again."

"Dandan said that in this battle, how many of us died, how many of the people on the opposite side became those Lao Shizi heavenly soldiers and ate that food."

Zhangze said with some envy, "Besides, not everyone over there can eat the pork and beef, but here, hey, only the general can eat it. We brothers, who can eat it?" .”

He, a centurion, eats all these things, and he may not be able to eat meat for a few months.

Look at the Kitchen King again.

Among the three or four soldiers under his command, one person ate this good food.

Zhangze had lost many brothers and was already in a bad mood. Thinking of this made him feel a little aggrieved.

The expressions of the brothers around him also changed.

"Yes, at least on the other side, if you bleed, you can get military merit in your hands. Even if you die, you will get a lot of compensation."

"Look at us again, how many brothers have died. Do those brothers get pensions?" Someone said angrily.

Many soldiers mutinied in the late Ming Dynasty. Why? They were poor. Soldiers were not paid, and food was not good. These things could not be guaranteed, let alone compensation for those who died in battle.

In their battle this time, it would be good for each of the dead brothers to have three taels of silver.

On the other hand, the Kitchen King's side, no matter what, as long as he dies, he will receive twenty taels of silver.

"Hi."

"Don't mention it," Zhangze was also very depressed. Those were his good brothers who died without receiving the treatment they deserved.

These officers and soldiers are worse than thieves.

But no one said this. Being a thief and treason are both punishable by beheading.

Who dares to say.

"Governor Chen, there are rumors circulating in the city, and things about the Stove King are spreading everywhere."

"Not just in the city, but also in the military camp."

One of Chen Qiyu's adjutants raised his hands and said.

Chen Qiyu's face was ashen, and he looked as if he had aged ten years. He looked like a dying old man.

"Pass it on, this matter is beyond my control," Chen Qiyu waved his hand.

He was still waiting for news from the emperor.

To describe it in four words, it means "waiting for the consequences".

Let others have a headache about the Kitchen King.

This is a bottomless pit, unless the whole country can directly fill it up, but with this encirclement and suppression, which is like adding fuel, there is no way to defeat the Stove King.

It will only make the Kitchen King stronger and more powerful.

All the adjutants and governors looked at this scene with helpless expressions on their faces.

If the generals are like this, what can those who help them do?

"The imperial edict has arrived!"

Let’s talk.

A shrill voice came from outside the door.

An old eunuch came in holding a bright yellow scroll.

Behind him were four eunuchs and four soldiers.

Chen Qiyu straightened his body, walked out from behind the desk, and stood in front of the governor with his hands folded.

"I have clearly investigated what happened in northern Shaanxi. The governor of the five provinces, Chen Qiyu, is responsible for the defeat, and the other cooperating governors are responsible."

The eunuch slowly read out the imperial edict, and the expressions of the surrounding governors changed. In the end, the blame for this imperial edict fell on them.

Although only part of it.

"Chen Qiyu was deprived of his position as governor of the five provinces and demoted to civilian status. The remaining governors were punished with the loss of their salaries for three years, and the pay of his soldiers was halved."

"Your Majesty, take the order."

Chen Qiyu breathed a sigh of relief. This punishment was much easier than what he had expected. It was just stripping away the official position of governor of the five provinces and demoting him to a civilian. Looking at Yang He, the nine tribes were allotted.

"I'm waiting for you to receive the order."

The other governors had different expressions and were fined with three years of salary. Their salary was not much in the first place.

Soldiers' pay was halved. Soldiers' pay was not much in the first place. This time the soldiers and horses were mobilized, and they were also paid after the war.

Their losses were not too great. At least their lives and the black gauze hat on their heads were saved.

Geng Ruqi's face was very ugly. Originally, because of the pay after the war, his soldiers were quite critical.

Right now, the military pay is actually being reduced by half, and the reduction is the military pay that has not yet been paid out.

This makes him have no face to face those Shandong men.

However, it is hard to disobey the emperor's order, and the edict has now been read out by the eunuch.

If he doesn't obey, then he is resisting the decree!

"In addition, the emperor intends to confer the title of Kitchen King. In the past few days, there is no need to gather troops to deal with the Kitchen King."

The eunuch told the news that shocked the surrounding officials.

The emperor wants to confer the title of Stove King.

Doesn't this mean that the emperor compromised with the Kitchen King?

The blood of so many soldiers was shed in vain.

It's really a big joke that it needs to be sealed.

Geng Ruqi's face turned darker.

The other governors also felt a little uncomfortable.

On the contrary, Chen Qiyu was the most open-minded about this matter.

The other side, the Kitchen King, will either respond with the strength of the whole country, or it will be like this.

This is a helpless compromise. It is impossible for the whole country to deal with the Kitchen King. The emperor has no such decision. This is a real gamble on the fate of the country.

On the other hand, if it were sealed, there wouldn't be so much bets.

The news brought by the eunuch spread quickly.

There was an uproar in Qingyang, and the emperor personally named him Kitchen King.

The first two battles with the Kitchen King were earth-shattering, with hundreds of thousands of troops sent out.

In the end, he was granted the title of Stove King.

The court has really become a joke.

"Do you think the Kitchen King will accept the title?"

In the streets and lanes of the city, the people were discussing this matter.

"Probably not. Who is the Kitchen King? How could a mortal be granted the title of reincarnation of a god?"

"Yes, don't the people under the Kitchen King's rule say that the imperial court is a traitor? How could the Kitchen King accept the throne?"

Lai Zongdao was right. If the Stove King accepted the title, the prestige he had finally won would be gone.

Moreover, once this imperial edict was promulgated and the news spread, the blow to the Kitchen King's prestige began.

The people in the city were discussing whether the Kitchen King would accept the decree, but the soldiers in the city were already angry.

Originally, they suffered a defeat, many soldiers died, military pay was delayed, and they were already angry.

Now, Emperor Chongzhen actually put the responsibility for the defeat on them.

Half of the military pay was directly deducted.

The most important thing is that when they went to the officials to ask for military pay, they said they didn't have it!

How could these soldiers endure this kind of thing?

Immediately, 300 people from the remaining camp in Shanxi mutinied and fled. Immediately afterwards, two battalions with a total of 400 people from the Hubei and Sichuan armies mutinied and fled. They carried their weapons and cotton armor and headed towards Heshui under the rule of Kitchen King.

Some people even followed these mutinous soldiers out of the city.

Qingyang City suddenly fell into chaos.

Chen Qiyu, who was demoted to a refugee, immediately smiled bitterly and shook his head when he saw this scene, but something else came into his mind.

He looked around, as if he had made a decision, and then disappeared from the street.

However, the old eunuch who came with the imperial edict had already headed towards the place where the Stove King was with Emperor Chongzhen's imperial edict appointing the Stove King.

(End of this chapter)