Chapter 516
Before leaving, Luo Chengzhao Du Fuwei and Fu Gongyou talked for a long time.
Finally, he chatted with the veterans of Yu Juluo and Tu Wanxu for a long time, and asked them to take care of the young men of Du Day and Fu San in the future.
Originally, Luo Cheng wanted to bring these two veterans to Liaodong. After all, although he is old, he has more experience. It is also a treasure to have such veterans in the army who have experienced many battles. But the emperor asked the two to stay in Jiangnan as prefects, and Luo Cheng had no choice.
Finally, he went to the prisoner camp and talked about the uneasy prisoners about immigration to Liaodong. Luo Cheng promised that after he arrived in Liaodong, he would start over. Even if the emperor said that these rebels had to farm for the army for ten years before they could regain their freedom and all the land was granted to the land. However, ten years would be used to clear the crime of rebellion, which was actually worth it.
"Master, Shichong is here to send the Master north."
Wang Shichong came from Jiangdu. He was awarded the title of Jiangnan Pacification Envoy by the emperor and was responsible for the aftermath. The more than 20,000 Jianghuai soldiers who were originally summoned to quell the rebellion are now subordinate to him.
Even Du Fuwei and the others have to obey his command now.
"Why should you be so polite with your brother?"
Wang Shichong specially prepared many gifts for Luo Cheng and loaded a few large carts, all of which were good things, and there were even many beautiful people from Jianghuai. Luo Cheng couldn't take them away.
"If the Grandmaster doesn't accept it, you will look down on me, Wang Shichong."
"Hahaha, that's right, then I'll accept it."
After Luo Cheng left, Wang Shichong just sneered.
Twenty-five thousand men went south to quell the rebellion. After three months, they headed north to Liaodong. When they arrived, they were 25,000, but when they left, they were still 25,000. Hundreds of men lost in the middle, and they were all replenished on the spot.
In order to hurry, this time, I set off from Jiangning and took a boat to Jingkou, but I did not cross Jiangdu again. I did not walk through the canal. Instead, I went directly from the Yangtze River to the sea, and then went north along the coast to Donglai County, through the Miaodao Islands to Lushun, and then to the mouth of Liaohe River.
On the boat on the Yangtze River.
Luo Cheng looked at the pile of gifts brought up and looked at them. They were indeed some good things and all kinds of rare and strange things.
"I recorded everything in the military account and sold it back. The money was used to give the money to our military servants."
"Where is the beauty, Wang Shichong is very generous. He gave away eighteen beauties, all of whom were 28 beauties. I think they are still virgins."
"Eighteen, are you thinking of me? It's not suitable to stay women in the military camp. In this way, when you arrive in Liaodong, I will give them to Brother Shan and the others."
"I have to give Lao Cheng and Yuan Qing two, and comfort these two guys," Hou Mo Chen Yi said with a smile.
"I can't use it now for them." Wang Ziming said with a smile.
The sails are gone.
The smile on Wang Shichong's face had completely closed. He turned around and said, "Go to Jiangning."
As soon as he arrived in Jiangning, Wang Shichong summoned a large number of military and political officials, including Yu Juluo, Tu Wanxu, Du Fuwei, Fu Gongyou, Zhao Yuankai.
Then he immediately announced that he would obey the imperial edict and strictly identify the rebellious backbones.
This identification immediately identified more than 50,000 people from the 150,000 rebels, and also involved thousands of local wealthy families in seven counties.
For a moment, people were in panic.
At this time, Wang Shichong announced that he could atone for his sins.
The so-called atonement is naturally to pay money.
Most of the thousands of wealthy households involved were actually related to some rebels, and most of them were undesirable disasters, but Wang Shichong ignored them and had to atone for his sins and pay for them.
He even clearly marked the price and claimed that he was innocent.
If you give money, you can get rid of your sins. If you don’t give it, you will be a rebellious backbone and you will have to be executed.
In the end, countless powerful households in the seven counties were extorted by Wang Shichong and went bankrupt, but in the end they still couldn't raise enough money to atone for their sins.
Yu Juluo and Tu Wanxu came out to persuade him, but Wang Shichong didn't care at all, and only said that he was subject to the emperor's will.
So, after most of the month, Wang Shichong's family plundered countless money, and finally killed more than 30,000 people.
Originally, as Luo Cheng told him, even if he wanted to kill some backbones, he would only kill a hundred people or more at most, but Wang Shichong killed more than 30,000 at once.
More than 30,000 were killed in seven counties, and more than 1,000 families were confiscated.
In the end, Wang Shichong let the others go and let them immigrate to Liaodong, but Wang Shichong was extremely cruel. Everyone was not allowed to take away any needle or thread except what they were wearing.
More than 100,000 rebels, as well as 300,000 to 400,000 rebel families, were ordered by Wang Shichong to move to Liaodong.
Regardless of the wealth and poverty in the family, once he is on his immigration order, all his property will be confiscated and he can only walk alone.
He sent troops to escort the road, and only provided a little food every day on the road. As for the rest, life and death are fate.
After doing this, the Jiangnan rebellion, which was originally quelled by Luo Cheng with one blow, immediately became excited again.
Countless people in Jiangnan were indignant. They refused to obey the arrangements of the government, refused to hand over the wealth they had accumulated from generation to generation, and refused to leave their hometown to go to Liaodong like begging for food.
They fled, they killed officials, and they robbed.
Although there have not been any more people like Liu Yuanjin who claim to be the emperor, the counties in the south of the Yangtze River are already filled with fleeing people, countless mountains, forests, and waters, and gathered fugitives.
At this moment, the emperor actually issued another edict to Jiangnan.
"Three Conquests Goguryeo!"
As before, the emperor summoned troops from all over the world again and recruited sailors and crew members from Jianghuai to join the army.
Similarly, the people of Jianghuai also received the task of delivering grain and transporting grain.
This is simply adding fuel to the fire.
Originally, after Liu Yuanjin's rebellion and Wang Shichong's "appeasement", the counties in the south of the Yangtze River are now in dire straits. The emperor still has to recruit soldiers and send husbands. Who can bear it?
So more escapes, more rebels from thieves.
Wang Shichong blackmailed and plundered a lot of money, and sent ships to Luoyang every day, most of them to the emperor and some to the nobles. Of course, he also left many for himself.
The south of the Yangtze River was already in full swing, but the emperor of the eastern capital Luoyang had no idea.
The 400,000 people who were originally said to move to Liaodong, Wang Shichong had been struggling for a long time, but he could not even send one of them across the Yangtze River.
It's at the end of September.
Luo Cheng led a soldier to Donglai Port.
As soon as I entered Hong Kong, I heard a message.
Zhou Fashang, the prefect of Donglai, was critically ill. When he heard that Luo Cheng had arrived, he asked Luo Cheng to come and meet him.
Luo Cheng rushed to the prefect's mansion, and Zhou Fasan had only one last breath. He took Luo Cheng's hand and said, "I am here again, but I am unable to take advantage of it. I will die if I don't want to leave the world. If I make a decision, I will not succeed. I will ask the general to take Donglai County for a while and wait for Your Majesty's order."
After saying that, the 58-year-old famous general bid farewell to the world with infinite regrets in his eyes.
He fought hundreds of thousands of times in his life, but eventually died before the beginning of the three battles. He never destroyed Goguryeo and suffered the shame of Liaodong.
My father, who was the chief clerk in Donglai, told Luo Cheng that Zhou Fashang had actively prepared for the war when he heard the orders of the three commandments, but he disappeared in a blink of an eye.
Another pillar fell down from the Sui Dynasty.
Lai Hu'er was still in Luoyang at this time, and Luo Cheng couldn't take care of Henan's affairs now, so he could only ask his father to help him take care of it first. Then he wrote a memorial, and reported that the prefect of Ming Donglai Zhou Fashang died of illness, and asked the emperor to send the emperor to take over the position of prefect and the position of chief supervisor of the navy in the future.
If nothing unexpected happens, Hu'er will definitely come to take over.
However, he also sent a letter to Luo Yi, asking him to see if he had any chance to help his father, the chief clerk, to the position of Donglai County Magistrate. In this way, after he came to the commander of the troops to the expedition, his father, the second-in-commander of the county magistrate, could still take over Donglai County.
The emperor has issued an order to conquer Goguryeo three times, but now it is September, and Liaodong has begun to cool down. So we can't fight this year, so we can only start mobilizing, and we probably have to wait until the first month of next year to formally send troops.
Before this, Luo Cheng, the prefect of Liaodong and a general who was also aware of the military affairs of Liaodong and western Liaoning, was regarded as the highest commander of the Liaodong War Zone.
No one could have predicted whether several local battles would break out before the army set out.
Chapter completed!