Chapter 68: The Sovereign

In the Guangxi Rebellion, Zhao Yanheng still had the right to read the concerts of the previous dynasty after he ascended the throne, and only then did he sort out the outline of the entire incident from the piles of newspapers from all sides.

In January of the twenty-sixth year of Yuan You, that is, in January of this year, Jiang Zhongyuan argued that he was tricked, in fact, this person was arrogant and lascivious, lustful and mediocre, so that he was made a game, so that the arsenal where the four mansions were located leaked, then Wang Yuhui and his gang first stole Jiang Zhongyuan's seal, and then took away tens of thousands of ordnance with this letter, including the storm car and the ladder for the siege.

In the last life, there were no rumors that the governor wanted to inspect Guangxi's military affairs, Jiang Zhongyuan did not come to Kunming, after the arsenal was stolen, Jiang Zhongyuan was coerced and lured, and he also hurt the killer, and the people who knew it were all in his hands, and after more than half a year, he also actively investigated, or used a small force or ransomed with money, and recovered some of the ordnance, so a fool is a fool, so Wang Yuhui and his gang had money and soldiers, and finally attacked Longzhou in the winter of that year, and went down to the city in one day.

The capital is thousands of miles away from Longzhou, when the news came to the capital did not attract enough attention, said a word of chaos among the people, then transferred the then Guangdong capital secretary Fang Zusheng into Guangxi, crowned the governor of Liangguang, and led the soldiers and horses around the country to quell the chaos, the chaos is more and more chaotic, Fang Zusheng also got back gangrene in the army and suddenly fell ill, the last secret before his death, said that the Zhennan Hou Mansion colluded with the servants to make trouble, and presented more than ten weapons in the hands of the people as evidence.

Fang Zusheng was in charge, and he lost the city and land one after another, and the court was about to ask for the guilt, but before he died, he secretly told the Zhennan Hou Mansion for a beating, and he couldn't believe it, and he couldn't believe it all. Then the Marquis of Zhennan tied up Jiang Zhongyuan to argue, Jiang Zhongyuan was secretly executed, the Marquis of Zhennan temporarily led the governor and governor of Liangguang, and continued to quell the chaos, but unfortunately the Marquis of Zhennan was old, and he did not know the system, when the rebel army was at its peak, it entangled hundreds of thousands of people and captured more than 20 counties in the thirteen prefectures of Guangxi, including the Jinxing Mansion where the Marquis of Zhennan was located, the Marquis of Zhennan committed suicide in defeat, and the Jiang family was also slaughtered by the rebel army.

The third governor and governor of Liangguang was Zhu Qin, the Duke of Xuanguo, who led 20,000 fine horsemen to the south, and dispatched 80,000 horses along the way, taking over the rest of the Hou of Zhennan, changing the previous policy of suppressing and appeasing, concentrating troops, and comprehensively exterminating, when Zhao Yanheng married Zhu Miaohua and returned to the fiefdom of Xiangyang, there were staff members in front of Zhao Yanheng to bitterly show that his father-in-law Zhu Qin killed too much, the bones piled up into a mountain, and the blood stained the Li River, Zhu Qin killed 200,000 chaotic people, regardless of young and strong, men, women and children. The remnants of the rebellion fled south to the country of eight hundred daughters-in-law, and were intercepted by Dao Zhaosan and escorted from Yunnan to Beijing, because Qian Tong was greedy for the wealth looted after the rebel army captured so many cities and Zhou Xi, the son of Zhou Yuanji, the governor of Yunnan, defiled the daughter of Dao Zhaosan, Dao Zhaosan defected and rebelled, released the prisoners, and more than 1,000 Han people died in the Lin'an Rebellion, among which Li Fei's eldest brother Li Su was stabbed several times, his arms were cut off, and he died of blood.

Zhao Yanheng gently stroked Li Fei's face, some things he didn't want to admit, and he couldn't deceive himself, Li Fei entered the palace with anger, she calculated King Jing, and then assisted herself to ascend the throne, and later committed to him, just to see Qian Tong Zhou Yuanji and others who caused the change in Lin'an brought to justice.

His father favored those people, and the right blessed those people, so Li Fei went to get close to the right and avenge the murder of his brother and husband, and the cause of his father's death in his previous life became a mystery!

When the damned people are dead, she doesn't want to live anymore.

Li Fei saw that Zhao Yanheng had a sad look on his face, and there were endless secrets hidden in those deep eyes, Li Fei was inexplicably a little moved, and asked softly, "What's wrong with you?"

Zhao Yanheng hurriedly collected his mind and said vaguely: "It's nothing, I'm just thinking about some people and things in Guangxi, Guangxi is surrounded by mountains and forests, things have been stolen, it is not easy to recover them, the eyes and ears of the imperial court in Guangxi do not have enough clues, you have to interrogate Jiang Zhongyuan first, after interrogating him, you still have to move troops, who will lead the troops, many things have not been properly arranged." ”

The Guangxi Rebellion killed hundreds of thousands of people and consumed a year's taxes from the imperial court, and by the time he succeeded to the throne, the treasury was empty, and there were a bunch of messy accounts in various places, which was really a mess. Zhao Yanheng calmed down and thought about it, he had to take care of it both in public and private, but he was very sober, he was only King Xiang now, not an emperor yet, he couldn't go beyond it, to touch his father's rights, and the various forces in the southwest have their own system, the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, he, the prince, is noble, but if he is mixed into these forces, he has to be careful.

Mainly, he was also worried about the admonition in the chaos that tampering with the fate of the Li family would change his imperial life.

Li Fei was very alert, and immediately said: "I understand, what the Hou Shizi and his wife in Zhennan did, I will watch quietly, and also, Mrs. Hou Shizi in Zhennan, it seems that she wants to be close to me, it seems that she is close to me, and she is also guarding against you." ”

"Mrs. Hou Shizi of Zhennan?" Zhao Yanheng keenly captured this title, raised his eyebrows and said, "Isn't your relationship with the Qianguo Mansion very good?"

"No, the Li family has been in Yunnan for sixteen years, and they have been appeased a lot by the Qianguo Mansion. Li Fei didn't want to give people the impression of being indifferent, so he explained a few more words, and said: "The personnel of the Qianguo Mansion are complicated, and the foreign relations are also complicated, so I said that this Mrs. Chen, in the year when her youngest son inherited the Duke of Qianguo, begged the court to allow their mother and son to settle in Beijing. My eldest brother was escorted back to Lin'an two years ago, and who looked at the Li family unpleasantly, and he hasn't found out yet. ”

The Li family expected that it was the Cai family in Beijing who borrowed Mrs. Chen's handwriting, but it was only an expectation, and it could not be investigated, there was no evidence, and even if the evidence was found, there was nothing that could be done.

The Li family was relegated to the southwest, and was not only appeased by the Qianguo Mansion, but also monitored by the Qianguo Mansion, and the grievances and grievances in this are also difficult to explain.

Zhao Yanheng's wife in his previous life was Zhu Miaohua, Zhao Yanheng has always thought that he and Zhu Miaohua are strangers in this life, and he doesn't really want to ask Li Fei and the complicated feelings of the group of relatives in the Xuanguo Mansion, so he discussed with Li Fei and said, "With me, I can transfer Li Xun back." ”

No matter how tragic Li Xun's death is, it is also a matter of the previous life, Li Fei in the current world shook his head and said: "I won't tell you, I am not such an upright person, I have already written to my eldest brother about this, and the eldest brother said that his errand does not need to work for you, he is willing to stay in Lin'an like that, and be the post man of Jianshui." ”

Zhao Yanheng thought about the fate of Li Xu in his previous life, and said with peace of mind: "Even if there is no major turmoil in Lin'an, the dispute between several tribes and territories, the friction between the Han and the Yi people, and the local officials, I also know that there are some evil deeds of prestigiousness and looting the people's fat and ointment, and that place is not peaceful." ”

Li Fei saw that Zhao Yanheng had discussed all the big and minor matters with her, and some warmth gradually surged in his heart, so he and Zhao Yanheng talked a lot.

"I have lived in Lin'an for more than a year, I know that there is not peace, poverty, ignorance, xenophobia, where the backward is still prevalent in the trade of things, once I and my eldest brother went to the scene, I saw two Yi people, one with a bag of japonica rice, one with a bag of buckwheat, said that one pound of japonica rice for three pounds of buckwheat, the person who took the japonica rice was weighed, he had eighteen catties of japonica rice in his hand, and then eighteen catties of japonica rice can be exchanged for how many catties of buckwheat? Both of them are about twenty years old, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, but they can only stare at each other standing there, one pound of japonica rice is exchanged for three catties of buckwheat, and eighteen catties of japonica rice for how many catties of buckwheat can not be calculated, and the two of them look like two fools. Then my eldest brother was kind enough to tell them that eighteen catties of japonica rice could be exchanged for fifty-four catties of buckwheat, and the man holding the buckwheat tied the sack containing the buckwheat and looked at the eldest brother vigilantly. My eldest brother can speak three local languages, but as soon as he speaks, others can also hear that he is Han, and when my eldest brother is kind enough to say it again, eighteen catties of japonica rice can be exchanged for fifty-four catties of buckwheat, and these two people each carried sacks on their backs and left. ”

"Every grain of grain is grown by their hard work, they don't trust my brother, or they don't trust the Han people, with my brother's words, it is eighteen catties of japonica rice for fifty-four catties of buckwheat. Mrs. Hou Shizi of Zhennan said, the bandit leader Wang Yu will encourage servants to resist taxes all the year round, what is the situation in Guangxi, I don't know, what is the situation in Lin'an, I have heard a little, it is not easy for the imperial court to collect taxes every year, in addition to the fierce customs of the people, in addition to disobeying the decree, I also want to say a fair word, the taxes ordered by the imperial court, when it is really time to pay, will only be more and not less, and the more part will fatten the private pockets of the officials, if you do not resist a resistance, I don't know how much it will be exploited. However, they live in a closed environment, they do not understand the language, they do not know how to read, they do not know arithmetic, sometimes they are exploited and do not know, and when they are exposed, this resentment accumulates in their hearts, and when they accumulate too much, they will cause chaos. ”

"The eldest brother has lived in the local area for seven or eight years, and he has seen too many such things, and he is poor and ignorant, so there is a lot of chaos, and after the chaos, it is even more difficult. The eldest brother said that he volunteered to stay in Jianshui and teach those people, some simple words and arithmetic, and learned the minimum transaction, and he couldn't calculate how much buckwheat he exchanged for eighteen catties of japonica rice. ”

Li Fei didn't want to say that the eldest brother was too great, because it was not completely selfless, ten years of trees, a hundred years of cultivating people, and the virtue of education can be praised by others. Now that the emperor is not dead, her three elder brothers are exiled, and even if they are pardoned, they can't go to the scientific examination as officials, but her three elder brothers are talented and ambitious, and they are so unwilling, so they always want to do something meaningful within the scope of permission.

After Zhao Yanheng heard this, he stopped thinking about Li Xun coming back, and just secretly sent a few people to Lin'an to protect Li Xun.

The night gradually fell, Li Fei returned early, Zhao Yanheng was alone at night to watch the sky, the monarch ruled the country, looked up at the sky to know the changes, and looked down on the ground to take the image, Zhao Yanheng looked up all night, smiled indifferently, in this life, he is not a monarch!