Chapter 477: Killing a Cheng Yaojin halfway
On the second day, everyone was surprised by the imperial edict of the inner court, and even rushed to report it first. However, the Dibao did not comment too much on this edict, but just copied the content of the edict in its original form.
The morning court that day seemed extremely special. No one stood up and talked, and no one was competing against each other. Instead, they remained silent. Many people had seen some tricks and felt guilty.
After the scattered dynasty, under the instruction of the Cabinet Bachelor, almost all officials began to be asked about their tendencies and issued forms to apply for joining the party.
For Zhu Jun, the so-called party must be a flexible party. A flexible party does not have a strong organization, does not require too large propaganda institutions, and does not need to pay any party dues. Only in this way can it be controlled well. As for the party's program, it is naturally Zhu Jun's instructed to fill in. Zhu Jun's idea was that in a hundred years, the two flexible parties will gradually be gradually controlled by the two invisible hands of imperial power and capital. Needless to say, the royal family also occupied a large enough share in the Ming Dynasty in terms of capital. If the Ming Dynasty royal family is the largest capitalist in the world, the second largest capital scale is probably only one-tenth of the royal assets. Therefore, using the power of capital to integrate the so-called political party and play with its policy direction is more hidden and easier than the rule of imperial power.
The writing of the party program was completed by two cabinet ministers, Mu Tianbo and Yang Side. The most important thing is the first two articles. The first is to declare the Emperor of Ming Dynasty as the honorary chairman of the two parties, and the two parties set up directors to handle party affairs. The second is the goal of the two parties. Needless to say, it is naturally to maintain the royal family, maintain the dominant position of the Ming Dynasty, and ensure development.
After everything is ready, a list is presented to Zhu Jun. The two parties have gradually developed some prototypes. The number of party members is 321, while the number of party members is 398. Most of these are the components of officials.
Once these people are registered, they will leave their mark on them. At least the so-called party struggles have come from behind the scenes to the forefront. Those despicable and shameless tricks are easier to be exposed. In order to maintain the image of the party, both sides will not ignore the influence, which will make the state's handling more at the level of debate.
Zhu Jun's drastic reforms did not cause turmoil in the court. After all, the political situation was loose, and to be more precise, it was like a tea party for those with the same political views, but it was exposed to the sun in the form of an organization.
At this moment, India also reported that the situation in India was changing in a row. First, King Xunke pretended to agree to the negotiations, and then mobilized his forces to launch a surprise attack while showing goodwill. On the other hand, the Nanzhen Prefecture Office controlled the movements of King Xunke and then used a plan. Then nearly 100,000 people from the Haidu Legion and the colonial legion took an encirclement in East India, and wiped out King Xunke's army in one fell swoop, capturing King Xunke, Prince Pandit, and twenty-one ten thousand men. The thousand men were in numbers.
After reading the memorial, Zhu Jun immediately issued an order to let Yang Side handle the negotiation issue with full authority. The current situation is absolutely beneficial to the Ming Dynasty. As for cede land and compensation, the more ruthless the better the better the slaughter of him. How can he relieve the hatred in his heart?
Negotiations were brewing in the entirely unequal way of the new Chengdu city of East India. The captured King Sunke did not suffer much torture. The Governor's Office even held a banquet. It was naturally impossible to treat him as a guest of honor. However, he did not treat the barbarian king as a prisoner. King Sunke was placed under house arrest in an empty house and could not contact anyone. He was in a very bad mood. It was not until the fourth day after the imprisonment that Decai came over in military uniform.
"His Royal Highness King Sunke, on behalf of the Governor General of the Great East India, I will inform you. In an hour, the Governor General's Office will hold a negotiation with your country. If you want to continue to live, please sign a few documents."
King Xunke asked palely: "What document? How will General. Ming treat me? Where is my son Pandit?"
"Please rest assured. The result will satisfy you. I am right outside the door. If you are ready, you can summon me. We can set off immediately. I believe you understand your situation now.
"Terr hurriedly ended the conversation and left the empty house.
An hour later, he set out in a carriage and horses of King Sunke and arrived at the Governor's Office. Here, the main officials of the Ming Dynasty had been waiting for a long time. Even the British Governor Johnson came to participate in the game with great enthusiasm. The British hoped to receive appropriate compensation, or could cede land from the Haiti as a port for the new land. In the last battle, Johnson believed that the British army had made great sacrifices. The number of people in the death toll exceeded 900. If there was no compensation, I am afraid that even the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet, Yang Side, would not be able to say anything.
Yang Side sat high in the upper head of the Governor's Office, and the rest of the officials sat on both sides. This situation was not like a negotiation, but it was more accurate to say that it was a trial.
"Sir, bring it to King Barbarian." As soon as King Xunke's car arrived, a servant came in to report. The officials present couldn't help but cheer up. Yang Side said: "Bring it up."
After a moment, King Xunke, who was haggard, walked into the Yatang. Someone moved a chair in the middle of the Yatang, which gave him some face.
Yang Side looked at the 'barbarian' with a stern face, then slowly drank a sip of tea: "Are you King Xunke?"
He made De act as a translator on the side and said Yang Side's question in Indian language. King Xunke nodded, and a helpless look appeared in his eyes: "Yes."
Yang Side sneered: "Do you know the crime when you launch an army for no reason? You go back on your word and ignore the kindness of the Celestial Kingdom and secretly launch a sneak attack. Do you know the crime? The Celestial Kingdom is a country of etiquette and has always regarded good neighbors as good as good people. You attack my border again and again. What is this for?"
After the translation of De, King Xunke's face was a little ashamed. Although he was just a pretext for starting a war, he was the provocative side after all, but now he was defeated in a dusty state. Under the questioning of so many people, it would be impossible without regret.
If he hadn't provoked that war a few months ago, things might not have worsened to this point. Now that he has lost, and he has lost again and again, even if he is thick-skinned, he may not be able to help but regret it now.
"My emperor is gentle and far-reaching. Although your sins are unforgivable, the Celestial Empire has decided to continue your royal heir and preserve your ancestral temple. As for some terms, Lord.
Clearly, how?"
King Xunke nodded helplessly. He didn't nod, and he didn't use it. It was just the meat on the board. It was just for cutting: saving his life was the greatest tolerance of the Han people. He didn't want much, but he just hoped that he and his two sons would be safe. As for the king's heir and territory, he didn't want to care about it at all.
"I have seen your territory. The Ming Dynasty will cut off 70% of it, which means that when 300,000 square kilometers, we will send people to investigate and demarcate the boundary. As for the compensation, there is no need to worry about the king. My Ming Dynasty has sent a group of people to rush to your king's capital. We can take what you need." Yang Side didn't plan to negotiate with this guy at all. He just asked him to come and inform him.
"I'm afraid there's a little difficulty." King Xunke's face warmed up slightly. Although these conditions are harsh enough, they are much better than he expected. At least he is safe, and his king's heirs can also be retained, and even some of the land can be retained. The problem is that: "In fact, the land of the country is not entirely owned by the royal family. Many nobles in my country have mostly enfeoffed them. Once they lose their land, they are afraid..."
King Xunke expressed his concerns. Among the hundreds of nobles in Xunke, there were more than a dozen ten thousand men with fiefs of tens of thousands of households, and the rest were even more than a hundred centuries. According to the laws inherited by the Mughal Dynasty, although the nobles were all attached to King Xunke, King Xunke did not deprive them of their rights to land, let alone to cede land to outsiders in order to save their lives. Once this is done, even if the Han people continue to maintain King Xunke's rule, the nobles below had already organized people to overthrow King Xunke.
Yang Side suddenly did not understand what King Xunke meant. After all, for him, the fact that the nobles opposed the king was extremely puzzling. At first, he thought that Cao Cao had appeared in Xunke. Later, it turned out that the state system here was a feudal system similar to the Western Zhou Dynasty two thousand years ago. The so-called feudal system was divided into feudals, and the king was granted the same surname and meritorious officials as small princes, and was considered a vassal. The throne of the princes was hereditary and had ruling power within their territory, but they had regular periods of the king.
Pay tribute and provide military empowerment and other obligations. The small princes nominally surrendered to the king and provided manpower and material resources when the king launched a war. The nobles had the obligation to be loyal to the king, and they also had the right to the territory. If King Xunke ceded 70% of the land to the Han people, it would mean that three-quarters of the noble territory would be confiscated, which was extremely unfavorable to the nobles. Then someone would stand up and learn to be Chen Sheng and Wu Guang.
King Xunke's worries seemed too much to see Yang Side, so he curled his lips: "Don't worry, if anyone dares to object, the Heavenly Kingdom will deal with it. You just need to stand on the side of my Great Ming Dynasty and serve carefully."
King Xunke was back, and everyone was overjoyed. The news that the nobles of South India, big and small, had heard that King Xunke was wiped out, and almost all the nobles who participated in the war and the civilians who forced the expedition were captured by the Han people, which made the entire South India panic, and many nobles were even more frightened, fearing that the Han people would take revenge.
At this moment, King Xunke not only returned, but also brought his army, a Marati cavalry composed of 4,000 men, a elephant cavalry of 5,000 men, and a king's guard composed of 20,000 men. However, many people found that the captured nobles did not return. Not only that, the soldiers provided by the nobles were not seen.
The capital where King Xunke returned, here he ordered all the nobles to convene for a meeting. Hundreds of nobles, large and small, began to set off after receiving the king's orders. They were worried and inquire about inquiries, and rushed into the capital from all directions.
Soon, all the nobles were arrested and pulled out by the King's Guard without any warning. Their charge was treason, and they were all on the gallows.
King Xunke even confiscated the noble's property and reorganized a large army. This army of 30,000 people, along with the Marati cavalry, began to drive people into the confiscated noble territory under the guidance of several Ming envoys. Yang Side meant that these ceded lands must be completely uninhabited and no natives were allowed. Therefore, King Xunke transformed himself into the director of the Urban Management Bureau, and the violence in it naturally does not need to be discussed in detail.
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The three towns in Wuhan are Wuchang, Hankou and Hanyang. The Yangtze River and Han River meet here. Hankou and Hanyang area belong to the north of the Yangtze River and Wuchang belong to the south of the Yangtze River. Therefore, since the Ming army went north, the entire three towns in Wuhan were divided into two. Wuchang in the south of the Yangtze River was the provincial capital of Hubei Province of the Ming Dynasty. In Hankou in the north of the Yangtze River, it also became the residence of the Hubei Provincial Governor's Office of the Qing Dynasty. The two sides faced each other across the river, and both set up defenses on the banks of the river to guard against each other.
Since Hubei Province was divided into two, the imperial court only established the Three Divisions and established the Governor's Office, with Li Xiao as the governor of the Wuhan Military Region stationed here. The entire Wuchang City was also heavily guarded by military forces, and curfewed immediately at night. Even during the day, it was still three steps and five steps, which was a whistle.
Li Xiao, who had just returned from the Nanjing military parade, was still immersed in the aftertaste of the military parade, but was lost by a news report. The news was that the content provided by the Wuhan Beizhen Fushi Office was about Li Laiheng, the leader of the thirteen army in Hubei. Li Laiheng was originally from northern Shaanxi. When he was a teenager, he joined Li Zicheng's peasant army and was adopted by Li Zicheng's nephew Li Guo. After the Qing army entered the pass, Li Laiheng followed his adoptive father Li Guo and Gao Yigong and other Dashun army commanders to join the Ming Dynasty to fight against the Qing Dynasty in Hunan, Hubei, Guangxi, Guizhou and other provinces.
Li and Gao died one after another. Li Laiheng led tens of thousands of troops from Guizhou to enter the Sichuan-Europe border. With the arrival of the flag, Liu Tichun's troops met and joined forces with other local anti-Qing armies to form the + East Thirteen Army. Li Laiheng selected Maolu Mountain in Xingshan County, Hubei Province as a base to cultivate the mountain fields for self-sufficiency. The Thirteen Army quickly expanded to hundreds of thousands of people. After the Ming Dynasty restored Jiangnan, Li Laiheng, who was sitting in Xingshan, Hubei, was very excited and immediately contacted the Ming army. Since Xingshan was in Jiangbei, the entire Xingshan was still under the rule of the Manchus. Although the Manchus were unable to eliminate the rebels hiding in the deep mountains, they were also covered with defense lines around Xingshan to prevent the Jiangbei rebels from contacting the Ming army in Jiangnan. In this way, both sides
However, it was close, but due to the interference of the Qing army, it could not be contacted frequently in time.
Just a few days ago, the Beizhen Fushi Fanzi, who was in charge of contacting the Thirteen Army of Kuidong, received a message, and Li Laiheng's attitude suddenly changed.
Li Xiao couldn't help frowning. Among the anti-Qing forces in Jiangbei, the Thirteen Kuidong families had the largest number of soldiers and the strongest strength. Why did Li Laiheng suddenly become cold to the Ming Dynasty? This is crucial. The emperor repeatedly talked about uniting all anti-Qing forces. The Thirteen Kuidong troops suddenly had problems under the nose of their defense zone, so he couldn't explain to the emperor.
After more than ten days, the movie who ventured over Jiangbei came back and finally revealed the whole story.
Three months ago, the group arrived at Xingshan and found Li Laiheng. Xingshan, Hubei is located in Jiangbei and is the largest mountain range in Hubei. In the jungle, Li Laiheng brought hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians to hunt here, and had to deal with the encirclement and suppression of the people at all times. However, the arrival of this group broke the tranquility of Xingshan.
The person who came was Yang Qilong, who claimed to be the Prince of Zhu. Since Yang Qilong failed to assassinate Zhu Jun in Qiongzhou, he immediately fled and took more than a dozen confidants north and arrived in Hubei in disguise as a business trip. Then he stayed in Hankou for a while. With the help of the congregation, he bribed a Qianzheng, a green camp who had closed the mountain, mingled into Xingshan, and dealt with Li Laiheng.
The Ming Dynasty had already launched an arrest against Yang Qilong. Although Li Laiheng was bored in this place where birds could not shit, he still had a certain understanding of external information. When he learned that the other party was Yang Qilong, he immediately caught him. After all, he was Duke Lin of the Xinshi Dynasty and considered himself a subject of the Ming Dynasty.
But during the process of asking, Li Laiheng's mood began to change. Yang Qilong seemed to be ready, and smiled and faced the stubborn man with a bronze skin: "Come here to save the general's life, will the general be hospitalized like this?"
This is the usual term used by lobbyists, and it is also a provocation and opening remark. Anyone who has read historical books or has heard of them knows that Li Laiheng was furious and threw him away first.
Yang Qilong fell and was angry, but instead laughed: "The general is the Duke of Lin of the Ming Dynasty. Naturally, he can't listen to the words of the emperor now. But ten years later, when all the old and young people in the mountains are slaughtered, he may remember that if the general wants to kill, he will be killed immediately."
Li Laiheng admired Yang Qilong's fearless spirit. At least this man was considered a man. Li Laiheng thought so in his heart. It was precisely based on this that he planned to listen to the rebel who assassinated the Xinshi Emperor.
"The general's adoptive father, Li Guo, is probably clear about this. The Xinshi Emperor and the civil and military officials in the Ming court are also familiar with each other. Isn't the general afraid?"
Yang Qilong's words hit Li Laiheng's deepest hidden worries in recent years. Yes, he is the adopted son of Li Zicheng's nephew Li Guo. Although the Dashun Army and the Ming army cooperated with each other to resist the invasion of foreign races after the Qing army entered the pass, hatred between the two sides was inevitable. Although the Xinshi Emperor had a clear attitude after leaving Myanmar and entered Yunnan, there was no sign of discrimination or settlement of accounts after the autumn, there was one thing that was always indifferent to Li Laiheng's heart.
Li Zicheng was still a general of Gao Yingxiang's subordinates. During the meeting, he proposed the plan to divide his troops and attack four routes. He was agreed by the leaders of various divisions. He led his troops to capture Fengyang, Nanzhili, dig up the ancestral tombs of the Ming royal family, burned down the "Huangjue Temple" where Zhu Yuanzhang once became a monk, and killed more than 60 eunuchs. Since then, the root of disaster has been laid today. Rebellion can be done, and the court can also recruit peace, but if you dig someone's ancestral tombs, it means that you are irreconcilable. Since then, the Ming Dynasty hated the Dashun Army, and even more hateful than Zhang Xianzhong, because the idea of going south was proposed by Li Zicheng, and digging the grave was the most active. In addition, the invasion of Beijing and forced Chongzhen to death, Li Zicheng was a thorn in the Ming court's side.
Although the Ming Dynasty's court has repeatedly advocated not to worry about past grudges, Li Laiheng is Li Zicheng's nephew, no matter what, this cannot be erased. If one day, the new emperor will settle the score in the autumn...
"Hmph, do you think I will believe your nonsense? General Li Dingguo is Zhang Xianzhong's adopted son. Now he can still gain the trust of His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, let alone me?" Although he was told to the point, Li Laiheng still would not believe this guy's nonsense.
"How can the general be compared with Li Dingguo? This man embraced Yongli in his early years, and later traveled thousands of miles. In order to protect the Yongli boy's life, he did not know how many battles he had experienced. For the safety of the Yongli boy, he did not hesitate to enter Myanmar to defeat the Burmese army, so he warned the Burmese King that the general was far away thousands of miles away at that time, but he had any kindness to Yongli? What's more, those Ming ministers always regarded the King of Chuang as a thorn in his eyes and a thorn in his flesh. They didn't criticize Zhang Xianzhong much. Even if the boy of Yongli did not blame him, ten years later, it would be said that someone would bring up the old things again, how could the general be safe?" Yang Qilong sneered: "And Li Dingguo had not participated in the battle to attack Fengyang, nor did he participate in the excavation of the Ming Emperor's ancestral tomb. As far as we know, the general seemed to be a powerful general under Li Zicheng's army back then. Among them, Shaohuangjue Temple seemed to have a general. Hehe, where to go, the general would better think clearly."
Li Laiheng's face also became gloomy. It was human instinct to seek profit and avoid harm. Li Laiheng insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty for more than ten years for the sake of justice in the world, but it does not mean that he is willing to accept the fate of the cunning rabbit's death and the lackeys.
"The general has 50,000 troops and more than 200,000 people. He is not talented, and has more than 100,000 congregations in various places in Jiangbei. If the general joins hands with the emperor, he will not be able to achieve a career. At that time, no matter what Yongli is, he is named Yang Qilong, but he is the true Chongzhen bloodline. Then Yongli is just the legacy of King Gui. Speaking of orthodoxy, how can he compare with the emperor? As long as the general is willing to cooperate with me, we will conquer the world in Jiangbei." Yang Qilong's smile became deeper.
"Wait, let Li think about it carefully. In the future, Mr. Yang will be wronged.
"Li Laiheng's attitude changed, but he still asked Yang Qilong to be detained first and then decide what to do after he considers it.
Chapter completed!