Chapter 234 Boiling Nan Zhili
"Damn, how could this be. www.biquge.info "Zhang Pu cursed anxiously, and next to him was Chen Zhenhui with a worried face.
The last time he heard about Wang Siyuan's conspiracy and conspiracy with the officers of the guard on the flower boat, he vaguely felt a bad trend, and he was sensitive, and felt that there would be some chaos in the Jiangnan territory, so he stayed in Nanjing City after that, and did not leave, with him, as well as Chen Zhenhui, who participated in the banquet at that time.
The two stayed in Nanjing City together, tasted wine and read, and stayed in Qinhuai overnight, so they were not romantic. Not long after, the pirates pretending to be the Japanese pirates led by Wang Siyuan went ashore to plunder and plunder the population, and even his hometown Taicang was robbed, only Yingtianfu, where Nanjing was sitting, was still peaceful, and no Japanese pirates came over.
Although the looting of his hometown made Zhang Pu a little sad, his speculation was unexpectedly accurate, and it made him a little happy in his heart, and he was still very predictable. With such a happy and a little worried mood, he continued to stay in Nanjing, and Chen Zhenhui was also frightened by this unscrupulous widow, and did not dare to go home, so he had to stay together, intending to participate in the township test of Nanzhili.
It's just that what happened later made Zhang Pu a little incomprehensible, there were Japanese invaders in the southeast, and it was normal for the emperor to send a large army to quell the rebellion, and it was normal to come from the sea, after all, the emperor had just come with a beautiful front and rear attack with the navy, and the regiment wiped out the Jurchen Eight Banners, and it was normal to use it again at this time.
Moreover, from Zhang Pu's point of view, the emperor is also paving the way for Caoyun to change to the sea, as long as this operation is successful, it is estimated that Caoyun will start from the port and go north by sea.
However, what is surprising is that this naval fleet, which the emperor had high hopes for, was destroyed as soon as it arrived in Ningbo, and even thousands of people died, and the entire imperial naval fleet was wiped out.
His Majesty the Emperor photographed the army that had quelled the rebellion and stopped in Ningbo for repairs and did not move. And the atmosphere in Nanjing City is also a little unsure of Zhang Pu, Xiong Mingyu, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, quarreled openly several times, the reason is very simple, Xiong Mingyu wanted to take the troops to Ningbo, but Xu Hongji did not let him.
In the end, this matter ended with Xiong Mingyu suddenly falling ill and saying that he was not sick, but there were secret rumors that Xiong Mingyu was not sick, but was imprisoned by Wei Guogong.
All kinds of things happened, so that Zhang Pu became more and more unable to see the direction of the wind in Nanjing City, just when he hesitated whether to leave, the sky suddenly changed.
The brigade patrolled the streets, taking over the soldiers of various Fanku Yamen, making Zhang Pu, who woke up, silently feel that the whole world had changed. After exerting his strong communication skills, Zhang Pu finally figured out what was really going on.
Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, raised troops, saying that he wanted to put things in order and put the world back on the right track, he claimed that the edict and the suicide note left by the first emperor were in his own hands, and the current emperor was not right, but a conspiracy to usurp it, and it was a plot to kill the first emperor before he was able to ascend the throne.
As a noble who rests with the country, he will never allow such a thing to happen, so he raised an army, wanting to set things right and put the world back on track, hoping that people with lofty ideals in the world can rise up and gather to respond.
After figuring out what happened, Zhang Pu's heart settled, and after he was idle, he was still in the mood to point out a thing or two to Xu Hongji's text, and scornfully ridiculed it as an idiotic remark.
However, what happened later was like singing a big opera, not only slapped Zhang Pu's face hard, but also made the literati gentry stunned and dumbfounded.
After Xu Hongji occupied the city of Nanjing with his own soldiers and horses, the next day, there was a response to the guards of Tianfu, led the crowd to vote, the next day, the Yangtze River drove to cover the sky and the sun, before plundering the southeast of the 20,000 bandits said, feeling the righteousness of the Duke of Wei, especially led the crowd to vote, wanting to contribute to the great cause of Kuang Fu Sheji.
And Xu Guogong also lived up to everyone's expectations, he called himself the chief officer of the rebel coalition army, and in the face of Wang Siyuan, the leader of the 20,000 pirates who came to vote, he directly granted the position of deputy chief officer of the rebel coalition army.
On the third day, the Xu family of Huating County, Songjiang Prefecture, gathered a team of only 3,000 people, occupied Huating County, and responded to the banner of Wei Guogong and announced that they would join the rebel coalition.
Subsequently, the gentry families who owned a large amount of land in the local area followed the example of the Xu family, gathered the long-term workers and tenant farmers, directly seized Zhanzhou County, declared an uprising, and joined the rebel coalition army.
In the end, even the group of coolie men who had nothing to do for a long time and made a living from Cao Yun, I don't know where they heard the news that the emperor was going to cancel Cao Yun and change it to sea transportation, they also made trouble, got this team, occupied a county seat, and looted.
In the face of this chaotic situation, the county magistrates and prefects in various parts of Nanzhili can't be curbed at all, and the family has a network foundation in the local area, and all the grassroots clerks are controlled by them. Fortunately, after all, they are all in the same vein as Shilin, and they are all related to each other, and they don't look up and look down, so they won't be very embarrassed, don't force them to join, you don't want to hang the seal and go.
In this relaxed environment, few officials were able to resist either joining the rebel coalition or hanging up their seals and heading north. In the end, it was amazing that not a single official was killed in this wave of uprisings.
After all the places responded, they gathered towards Nanjing, after all, there is a big hill there, Wei Guogong, and the other party claims that there is the existence of the emperor's testament and edict, so it naturally has a dominant position, and it is natural to pass.
In this way, more than half a month has passed, except for Fengyang Mansion, the entire Nanzhili has been reversed, and all the prefectures and counties have raised troops to join the Wei Guogong and join the rebel coalition to recruit Zhu Youxiao, who killed his father and usurped the throne.
As soon as Zhu Youxiao came to power, he issued a signal to reform, and then there was a series of actions, removing Beizhili, changing it to a province, increasing the number of police departments, and gradually building a police station in the state capital below, and all the subordinate institutions of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple were dispatched to seize the rights of the county prefect.
There are no fools in the world, Zhu Youxiao's various actions all show that he is a different emperor, and everyone believes that he will make a big change to the system of the world. Then, all kinds of rumors that had been circulating in the past, such as the abolition of agricultural taxes, the nationalization of land, the imposition of commercial taxes, the abolition of imperial examinations, and so on, were either normal or absurd.
They all believed that the emperor would definitely implement these rumored things sooner or later, and this would definitely touch the interests of the locality, and the interests of the vast majority of the people.
Therefore, it is not inconceivable that there is a scene of all the incidents in Nanzhili, as long as a person shakes his lips, Nanzhili will change the sky.
If Zhejiang hadn't had Yu Zhigao's tens of thousands of troops living in Ningbo, under this trend, I don't know how many states and counties would follow suit. There is no shortage of clear-eyed people in the world, after seeing through the emperor's thoughts, I don't know how many people are dissatisfied in their hearts, they do not lack strength, what they lack is just an opportunity.
[Author's digression]: Please forgive me.