Chapter 187: Mutiny
On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the city of naturalization.
All the generals gathered together.
"Now the Ming Dynasty has decayed.
The imperial court did not care about the life and death of the people, and constantly increased taxes, levied and extorted extortion, and the people were not able to make a living.
The kings, nobles, gentry, officials, and even eunuchs of the clan also occupied large tracts of fertile land by begging and accepting offerings.
They relied on their power to encroach on a large number of official and private land, resulting in more and more people having no land to cultivate.
The people had to go into exile with their families and become exiles.
In the army, the generals withheld the food and salary of the soldiers, drank the blood of the soldiers, and ate the flesh of the soldiers.
It is rumored among the people that wherever the officers and soldiers go, they rob merchants in the name of collecting grain, search for houses, ** women, burn houses, and small people are afraid of soldiers, even more than thieves.
On April 11, the Nanjiang rebel army seized the king of heaven, established the first year of Yongxing, led the people to break through the county seat of Anyuan, robbed the library and released the prisoners.
In early June, Wang Jiayin, a native of Fugu, Shaanxi, led the crowd to make a rebellion, and Wang Er of Baishui County, Shaanxi Province led the crowd from Chengcheng to vote, and his crowd gathered 10,000 people immediately.
Breaking the Fu Valley, attacking the sacred tree, all the civil and military officials of the two counties were killed.
Then the rebels turned to fight in various places in northern Shaanxi, attacking towns and seizing villages, breaking prisons, and opening granaries
In mid-June, throughout Shaanxi, thieves rose up.
Shaanxi Ansai Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, the king of Shaanxi Suide, the king of Shaanxi, Zijin Liang, Zhang Yingjin, the king of chaos, the king of the king, the left hanger, the Luochuan Zhang Cunmeng, the number is not muddy, all responded to Wang Jiayin's call to make a rebellion.
Subsequently, the Guyuan border soldiers were short of pay, and the soldiers took advantage of the starvation of the people to rebel together and loot the Guyuan Prefecture Treasury.
Governor Hu Tingyan and Governor Yue of Yansui passed the buck to each other.
The mutineers robbed the state treasury and joined the starving people.
Shaanxi Governor Hu Tingyan and Yansui Governor Yue Hesheng reported that all parts of Shaanxi were being plundered.
The governor of the three sides, Wu Zhiwang, was afraid of becoming ill, and in June Wuyin, he committed suicide in the Guyuan Governor's Palace.
On July 20, the Jimen garrison was disbanded due to hunger and demand, burning and looting gunpowder.
On 25 July, the Sichuan and Huguang soldiers in the Ningyuan Army in Liaoning Province mutinied due to a four-month lack of pay, and the remaining 13 battalions rose up to respond, binding the governor Bi Zisu, the chief military officer Zhu Mei, the general judge Zhang Shirong, and the push officer Su Hanchun on the upper floor.
The people rose up, and the soldiers mutinied.
Originally, I was quite puzzled, why is a good Ming so good?
Today, I finally got it. ”
Wang Zezhi stopped here when he said this, and he ordered someone to bring in some cotton clothes, weapons and armor.
"The border soldiers are wearing such cotton clothes, and a few people were frozen to death a few days ago, and they took their lives to protect their families and defend the country, and the court did this to them."
It's not cotton, it's a weed.
The weapons are all rusty.
The firecracks are all cracked and dumb.
After the generals looked at it, they fell silent one by one, and they had a faint guess in their hearts.
"Your Excellency, you say, whatever you want to do, your subordinates will follow."
Ziqi knelt on one knee and patted his breastplate and said loudly.
Although Qi Qi didn't know what Wang Zezhi wanted to do, he knew that Wang Zezhi wouldn't talk a bunch of nonsense, and he said so much, he must have something to say.
"My lord, you just have to say that you want to rebel and follow your subordinates." Yang Guo knew the hardships of the border soldiers, and as soon as Qi Qi knelt down, he knelt down secondly.
Li San and Xiong Jiachang followed and knelt down at the same time.
Ma Fu seemed to hesitate, he thought for three breaths before he knelt down.
As for Li Hua, Wang Sanlang and others, they had already knelt down one step ahead of him.
Wang Zezhi glanced at it, and he remembered all the expressions and movements of all the people.
After everyone knelt down, Wang Zezhi said slowly.
"I want to overthrow the Ming Dynasty and establish a new dynasty."
After Wang Zezhi finished speaking, everyone was silent.
"If you make a damn rebellion, Lao Tzu has had enough of it a long time ago." Just when everyone was silent, Yang Guo was the first to stand up and respond.
He has long had enough of the corruption of the border army.
At the border where he is located, the thousands of households here take out part of their military salaries to bribe the military bosses and other powerful officials, so as to pave their way to promotion.
Yang Guo is unwilling to go along with the dirt, so he has never had the opportunity to be promoted.
The entire army of his unit, from top to bottom, was suspected of corruption, either deducting military salaries, food, and forage, or selling the weapons and equipment issued to the soldiers for silver.
Yang Guo looked at the soldiers stationed at the border passes, whether they wanted pay or not, whether they wanted food or not, whether they wanted weapons or not, he had already had enough.
The weapons of his soldiers were all exchanged for his share of the embezzled quota, otherwise their people would have died when they fought Lin Dan Khan in Datong Mansion. Dotted Library
"My subordinates swear to follow your lordship."
"I am willing to die for my lords!"
Everyone swore an oath one after another, expressing their loyalty to Wang Zezhi.
"Good.
The generals listened to the order and withdrew the garrisons of Zhenyu, Yulin, and Jiulonggou.
Zag led the cavalry of the Tartar battalion, garrisoned Yunchuan, and guarded the grain road from the tiger's mouth to the naturalized city.
Ah Niu led 2,000 soldiers and horses, stationed in the mouth of the tiger and the right jade city.
Li Hua, leading the reserve troops and prisoners to garrison Datong Mansion.
The soldiers and horses under Li Hua's command do not have my seal, and no one is allowed to call them.
Qi Qi led 3,000 soldiers and horses to garrison Tianchengwei.
Xiong Jiachang led a thousand soldiers and horses to garrison Xinpingbao, and at the same time, Xinpingbao opened the market, Bai Yu cooperated with Xiong Jiachang to spread the news of the opening of Xinpingbao to Xuanfu Town, and I need the merchants of Xuanfu to join in.
Li San and Ma Fu were stationed in Guihua City with me, and the soldiers and horses under their command were temporarily under my jurisdiction.
Yang Guo, you lead 2,000 light cavalry to escort the guerrilla battalion materials to the Datong Mansion station.
Wang Sanlang, immediately train these more than 18,000 border soldiers, I need them to learn the skills of continuous archery as quickly as possible.
Wang Shan, in charge of logistics.
After the year, I need to measure the fields recovered from the seventy-four gentry, and I will send you a thousand border soldiers to use.
Liu Yang continued to make clothes.
Bai Yu added the content of the "Three Jin Commentary" and reported on the fact that the number of soldiers at the border gates was false, and officials at all levels were paid empty salaries.
In Datong Mansion, there are many fortresses and fire road piers that still have soldiers left, and I need to find out their numbers.
Yu Zhong and Xiao Liuzi immediately organized people to investigate.
Yang Zhihui, make more medicines, take more apprentices, I need a lot of military doctors.
For the time being, these arrangements will be made and the meeting will be adjourned. ”
"Obey."
"Yes."
Everyone took the order and left, but Wang Sanlang stayed.
"What, something?"
When Wang Zezhi saw that he stayed, he chuckled in his heart.
"Why do you use tartars, shouldn't you kill them all?"
Wang Sanlang didn't look at Wang Zezhi either, but looked up at the window, Wang Zezhi looked at his side face, and couldn't see joy or anger.
Wang Zezhi was silent for a long time, but still decided to tell the truth.
"Actually, the Tartars are all descendants of Yan and Huang like us, and when we fight back and forth, we are actually killing each other."
Wang Sanlang suddenly turned around and stared at Wang Zezhi.
He wanted to know if what Wang Zezhi said was true or if he was lying to him.
His apprentices, except for Tian Jiao, all died at the hands of the Tartars, and he couldn't let go of these hatreds.
Wang Sanlang is a very stubborn person, originally he did not marry a daughter-in-law is his obsession, but now killing all the Tartars to avenge his apprentice has become his new obsession.
"We are all yellow-skinned, black-eyed, black-haired, which shows that we are the same ancestor."
"Isn't it my race, the color of my skin, my eyes, my hair?" Wang Sanlang asked puzzled.
"The Far North, a much, much farther place than the Naturalization City, where the people are blonde, blue-eyed, and white-skinned."
"Okay, I believe it, Tian Gong has learned all my skills, and the blue is better than the blue."
After Wang Sanlang finished speaking, he didn't look back and left directly.
Not long after he left, Yu Zhong came to report.
"My lord, Wang Sanlang went north alone, and when he left, he only brought a horse and some dry food."
"Let him go.
The herald ordered Tian Gong to take over the post of instructor Wang Sanlang. ”
"Obey."
Wang Sanlang wanted to go and see it in person, and he wanted to know if Wang Zezhi was coaxing him.
Otherwise, Wang Zezhi's use of Tartar soldiers will become a thorn in Wang Sanlang's heart.
"My lord..."Yu Zhong's eyes flickered, and he bowed his head and said nothing.
"Malfoy has defected?"