Chapter 119: Heavenly Years
The uprising of the White Lotus Sect in Shaanxi is in line with what Xu Wenlong said before his death, "Burn with fire, change the heavens and the earth". Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ infoThere have been rebellions of the White Lotus Sect in the past, but they are not as loud as this time and shake the government and the opposition.
"In Shaanxi County, the White Lotus Sect rebelled," King Yan frowned and looked at the latest news: "It's not optimistic." These thieves have conquered Chu County, fought to Luoyang, killed Lu Chang, and went north to attack Huizhou. β
"Before the imperial army arrived in Shaanxi," Zhang Yu, who was sitting at the bottom, asked, "Han Zhongwei should send troops, I don't know who the local commander is?"
"You don't know," King Yan said: "On the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, Hanzhong Wei sent troops to arrest Gao Fuxing, and the troops were stationed in Tumen of Yangping Pass. Geng Bingwen and Guo Ying had just arrived in Wen, and they sent 15,000 troops to General Wu Wang, the commander of Shaanxi, and 18,000 troops to General Yu Qi, the commander of Sichuan. Listen, the arrest is done the same as the work of the government officials, because these gang of rebels are all from the exiles, and they are the army when they are gathered, and they are peasants when they disperse, and the officials and soldiers have never been able to really exterminate them. β
The rebellion in Shaanxi at the beginning of this year was a continuation of last year, because last year Gao Fuxing and Tian Jiucheng rebelled, and then they were defeated by the official army, and their subordinates were captured 4,000 people.
King Yan is to the point, this White Lotus rebellion can be attributed to the rebellion of the displaced people, it can be said that the main reason for the displaced people in the early stage of the dynasty was to avoid the war and solve their own survival problems, and the White Lotus Sect members were in a situation of being surrounded and suppressed. Now it is not the displaced people who were born later because of the heavy servitude and land annexation, but since they all come down to the displaced people, they have the same characteristics, and no dynasty can avoid the problem of displaced people from ancient times to the present, and the characteristics of the displaced people's uprising are that they are unable to engage in a head-on conflict with the official army, and they are always in a situation of being surrounded and killed by the official army. It is easy to choose to surrender when cornered, but after getting out of the predicament, he quickly returns to his old business, "twisting and turning", and is capricious.
"Although the momentum is huge, it is said that tens of thousands of people have gathered," Yan Wang said: "But in my opinion, it is just duckweed without roots, but it frightened my own nephew, Xi'an is so far away from Xianxian County, there are four guards around, and there are tens of thousands of soldiers from the palace, and he actually let him connect the four songs, asking the army to enter Shaanxi quickly." β
"If this is changed on His Royal Highness," several generals said with a smile: "I'm afraid that I won't wait for the officers and soldiers of the guard, I will only kill us with them, and I won't blow it, ten days and a half months, I will see the difference!"
"Shang Bing is young after all, and he doesn't have enough experience," King Yan said: "If my Brother Qin is still here, it won't be the situation it is now." β
The emperor also knew that Zhu Shangbing, the king of Qin, who is now inheriting his father's throne, was too young and had not gone through any battles, so he did not blame much, not only let Guo Ying and Geng Bingwen go to the army to enter Shaanxi, but also ordered Shang Bing to train soldiers and armor soldiers, and always patrol Luo to prepare for the unexpected.
Referring to the emperor's love for King Shang Bing of Qin, Zhu Neng smiled and said: "Isn't it the same with Your Royal Highness! The prince and the second prince went to Kaiping, and His Royal Highness also earnestly instructed him to send letters to Kaiping three times in one day, just to remind the prince that the horses were rushing on the Kaiping embankment, and this love of licking calves is not unique to the emperor!"
"You remember clearly," King Yan pointed at him: "Speaking of the matter of Kaiping Racecourse, your kid has always said that he wants to go to Kaiping to see the horses before, why don't you follow Gao Chi and them to see it this time?"
Zhu Neng calmed down: "It's not that the minister doesn't want to go, it's that the minister's father has a recurrent illness, and His Royal Highness also knows, the minister's father, usually has nothing to say, this time he is sick, it is earth-shattering, scared me where I dare to run outside, serve the bed to do some filial piety, speaking of the son's only one little wish, I hope that the father is strong, no illness and no disaster, this is the best." β
"What, your father's illness," King Yan said with concern, "It's still caused by the wind chill that he suffered from when he came back from Jingshi, right?"
"Yes," Zhu Neng patted his thigh: " Last year October from the Beijing Division returned, there was an illness, or not suitable for the climate of the Beijing Division, in October, put Beiping is just a snow, just when the charcoal was born, wear a light jacket on the line, my father thought so, brought two pieces of cotton jacket to go, I said no, the climate of the Beijing Division is different, let him bring the fur fur, he did not listen to me, this time back to the sick, sick and refused to take medicine, carried a few days but really carried the past, who knows that the root of the disease is still there, at the end of the year drank wine, sweat did not go out, and another illness, this disease is also menacing, really frightened meγ β
"The climate in Beijing and Beiping is naturally different," Li Wang also said: "Although it is cold in the north, it is dry and cold, and it is rare to hear of frostbite." Rich people burn the dragon, no money can also burn the hot kang, no matter what, it is hot, but the south is damp, that is, cold, cold from the feet seep up, many suffer from joint disease. β
King Yan said: "You also came and went from Jingshi, and it seems that you also feel a lot of feelings." β
"This old bone can be summoned by the emperor once and give a reward in person," Li Wang really sighed with emotion: "I can't express my gratitude." The feeling that the minister had at that time, he hated that he couldn't go on the battlefield again, and drove for the emperor once, even if he died immediately, he was willing. β
This is going to talk about a big event in September last year, saying that the emperor suddenly came to the temple one day, saw the image of the heroes who were worthy of enjoying the temple, remembered the many heroes who died, and wanted to give grace to the survivors, so he ordered the world to send the military ministers into the court.
On September 20, the 29th year of Hongwu, there were more than 2,500 people who should be sent to Beijing in response to the edict, and the emperor summoned all of them and rewarded them. For example, those who served in the army from the year of Renchen (the twelfth year of Yuan to Zheng) to the year of Jiachen (the twenty-fourth year of Zhizheng), and who were officials before the eleventh year of Hongwu, commanded one hundred taels of silver and two hundred ingots of banknotes, commanded ninety taels of silver and one hundred hundred ingots of banknotes, commanded eighty taels of silver and one hundred and sixty ingots of banknotes, commanded seventy taels of silver and one hundred and forty ingots of silver for Zhengqian households and Yiwei Zhengyin, and gave sixty taels of silver and one hundred ingots of banknotes for the deputy thousand households, Wei Zhenfu and Yiwei deputy silver, one hundred taels of silver and one hundred ingots of banknotes, and fifty taels of silver and one hundred ingots of banknotes for one hundred households.
Those who joined the army from Renchen to Jiachen and became an official after the twelfth year of Hongwu were rewarded differently from those who joined the army after Yisi and became an official after the twelfth year of Hongwu, but every military minister who came to Beijing had money to give, including Li Wang, the deputy of the left guard of Yanshan, and Zhu Neng's father Zhu Liang.
Li Wang recalled that the emperor had said to them, "At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, there was a war of war...... You have risen up from me, calmed the troubles together, and worked hard. The world is established, and meritorious deeds will be rewarded, so that you will live in official positions, and your descendants will be hereditary, and you will always enjoy wealth and prosperity. When I thought of the army, I was young and strong with you. Now I am old, and so are you. I haven't seen each other for a long time, and I often miss you, so I call you to see you. The meager things given are used to support the elderly. You return to your home and raise your children and grandchildren for the rest of your life. β
"When I first joined the army, I saw the emperor from a distance on the boat in Chaohu," Li Wang sighed: "I can see clearly at that glance, the emperor is really heroic, scolding Fang Xuan, with a flick of his fingers, thirty-three years have passed, I see the emperor again, the emperor, the emperor is also old, the emperor said that he misses us all these years, and also said that he has experienced hardships with us, until today, alas, it is still the same sentence, does the emperor still have a day to go into battle in armor? If there is such a day, I just fight this old bone, and I have to follow the emperor!" β
The emperor's move was a measure to gather the hearts of all the military ministers and prevent them from turning against him after the prison of Daxing Hu Lan, but it did make all the generals grateful. Because the emperor also promised: "If my children and grandchildren keep the infinite world, then your children and grandchildren will also enjoy infinite lordship." β