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Chapter 328 Breaking Yongzhou

Yongzhou is located in the Great Sui Pingshang Road, and it is the first emperor who takes the word Pingshang. This literal meaning is the simplest, because this place used to be a Shang kingdom and then it was destroyed by him. However, if the Great Sui goes through the second hundred years smoothly, then the people of Pingshang may forget the meaning of the word Pingshang.

But not yet.

It has only been more than 20 years since the Great Sui Dynasty destroyed Shang, and people in their twenties and thirties at that time are now the age when they begin to feel nostalgic, and once they lose something, people's memories are often full of the benefits of this thing. For example, lovers, when you let go of the hand that has been holding for many years and is disgusted, maybe in the dead of night, you will curl up in the bed and cry humbly to remember the beauty you have lost.

Often at this time, that beauty will occupy a person's heart.

The same is true of the common people of Pingshangdao, young people in their twenties have not experienced the war, and their impressions of Shangguo all come from the memories of their fathers after dinner. In the old man's reminiscences, Shangguo was a beautiful place comparable to heaven.

To say that it sounds good, such feelings can be called nostalgia, and if it is not good, it is hypocrisy.

When the Shang State fell, the country had already rotted to the point where it was difficult to clean up, otherwise the army of the Great Sui would not be so overwhelming, no matter how elite it was. How many Shang people waved their flags and shouted for the Sui army back then? How many Shang soldiers defected back then? How many businessmen lined up to welcome it back then?

It has only been more than 20 years, and people's hearts have changed.

Because the people found that the good things they were looking forward to did not come, although the Great Sui gave many preferential policies to the people in the southwest, it was impossible for any imperial court to achieve absolute fairness and justice. So there must be some **** jumping out to recall the dead country that once hurt tens of millions of people, everything in their mouths is garbage, and everything in the dead Shang country is beautiful.

After there are more such people, there will always be a man who specializes in this kind of people to stand up. Use your own scalpel to cut off the sick state, and by the way, cut off the head.

This Lang Zhong is called Luo Yao.

Some people call him Luo Butcher, some people call him Luo Manzi.

But everyone has to call him General Luo!

Seven years ago, Ruyi County, Sui'an County, Pingshang Province, secretly plotted and colluded with a man who had renamed himself Chaishang, and the first rebellion against the rule of the Great Sui broke out. If this kind of thing succeeds, then it can be called an uprising, and if it fails, it can only be a rebellion.

This man named Chasan was a man with the potential to be a god, and he secretly operated in Ruyi County for three years, persuading a large number of people to join the Ruyi Sect he founded. Even Ruyi County, the county magistrate and the county Cheng became his disciples, and gave him a large number of gold, silver, jewelry, and two concubines who were like flowers and jade.

Seven years ago, the arrogant pursuit of business thought that he could already stand on the opposite side of the Great Sui. So he called on the people to take up whatever they could call weapons, dung forks, hoes, iron pots, rolling pins...... At first, it was thousands of faithful followers of the Ruyi Sect who first captured the county seat, and then the disciples of the Ruyi Sect began to hype that Chai Shang was the reincarnation of the true Son of Heaven.

What is the True Destiny?

How can the people be convinced that he is the true Son of God?

Simple.

Chasing Shang asked people to dig out a stone with big characters engraved in the river, and write a few words on the stone that he was the true son of heaven to fool a large number of people. Then he pretended to be a ghost again, claiming that he could be possessed by the Ruyi Ancestor, and deceived a large number of people by saying some so-called prophecies. followed him and let people spread the word that he was actually His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who had been incognito since the fall of the Shang Kingdom, so he deceived a large number of people.

As for what Ruyi Ancestor is, the ghost only knows what it is. However, in the description of chasing merchants, even the king of Dalun Ming has to pay homage to the ancestor of Ruyi.

God's prophecy.

Royal blood.

These have always been the things that can convince the foolish people the most, and they are even more convinced than the emperor, who has exempted them from taxes on money and grain for seven or eight years in a row. When he felt that he had already controlled Ruyi County and could expand the "territory" outward, he did not hesitate at all, and immediately named Ruyi County as the prime minister, and the county as the generalissimo of soldiers and horses, and called on Ruyi followers to gather and form an army.

At that time, there was a lot of trouble and a lot of uproar.

And the general Luo Yao's handling of this matter is so simple that people have to sigh and sigh.

Luo Yao, who was practicing calligraphy in the study at the time, heard the report of his subordinates, and he did not stop, but finished writing a poem before putting down the pen in his hand. He asked his subordinates where Ruyi County was? His men unfolded the map and showed it to him. After Luo Yao looked at it, he picked up the wolf that he had just practiced calligraphy and changed the location of Ruyi County on the map, and then pointed to the circle and said a faint word.

"I don't want it here"

So, 20,000 left avant-garde elite armor drove into Ruyi County, not only did not there be a single person left, but there was not a single chicken dog left. After the army enters it, they will kill people when they see them, so where does it matter if they are traitors or not? The arrogant Ruyi Sect leader Chase Shang and his great prime minister, the generalissimo, were so frightened that they abandoned their followers and fled in embarrassment, and the so-called Ruyi County rebellion was put down by Zuo Qianwei in three days.

Sixteen-thousand, three hundred and twenty-nine traitors were killed.

Since then, the Ruyi Sect has disappeared, but occasionally I can hear that the chaser appeared somewhere and continued to proclaim that he was the true son of heaven appointed by the gods. However, this man has a long memory of suffering, and will never stay in one place for more than two days. He thought he was magnificent, but in fact he continued to live like a clown.

When Fang Xie heard Luo Yao's indifferent words to quell the Ruyi Sect rebellion, the big ship had just entered the Pingshang Road. The one who told him about this past was Ye Jinnan, the left avant-garde four pinlang. No one was more familiar with the massacre in Ruyi County than Ye Jinnan, because he was one of the participants back then.

And the plain story from his mouth is the most real and stirring.

Fang Xie has been coiling those five words in his mind, and the story is still floating in his mind after listening to it.

Don't want it here

How hard-hearted can a person say these five words so lightly? More than 160,000 people were killed, and the corpses were piled up as high as half of Mangdang Mountain. But can you say they don't deserve to die? Can you say they are innocent? You can scold Luo Yao for being a butcher and a barbarian, but you can't throw sympathy for those who were killed.

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"This is just the Pingshang Road, and it is still seven hundred and sixty miles away from Yongzhou City."

Ye Jinnan, who finished telling the story, took a sip of tea, looked at the water cut by the big ship and muttered: "I didn't expect the days to pass so quickly, think about it, it seems that it was just yesterday to go to the imperial capital on the order of the general, but in a blink of an eye, it is like flying by for a few months." But I'm finally back, Lord Xiaofang, my errand when you come to Yongzhou, it's over. ”

Fang Xie smiled, looked at the map and asked, "Can't the waterway go straight to Yongzhou?" ”

"No, let's get off the boat in Anlai County in front of us and take the land route, and we will be able to reach Yongzhou City in three or five days if we have about five hundred miles left. I have already sent someone back to report the news, and the general has already sent someone to prepare to meet the Qincha. ”

Ye Jinnan said: "Originally, this river was directly connected to Yongzhou City, but when the Shang was destroyed, the Great Sui Water Division went south from Luoshui, and the Shang Emperor did not hesitate to let people dig the river embankment in order to stop the Water Division, and as a result, Luoshui was diverted and flooded tens of thousands of acres of grain fields. The north of Yongzhou became a side of the land, but the emperor of Shang did not expect that the general would lead his troops to cross through the swamp, and tens of thousands of troops lost thirty percent, but they took advantage of the carelessness of the merchants to directly enter Yongzhou. ”

Fang Xie could understand why Luo Yao was so decisive, the big river was diverted and flooded 10,000 acres of fertile land, it was impossible to wait until the water receded for a few months, and it would take a lot of time to detour. But being able to understand is not the same as agreeing with Fang Jie, and thirty percent of the elite fell in the swamp, which shows that Luo Yao's ruthlessness is not only to the enemy, but also to his own people.

But when you think that he can even kill his own son, what is this?

"At that time, Luoshui was diverted, and the merchants in Yongzhou City thought that our Great Sui soldiers would be blocked. It is said that the emperor of Shang also feasted his ministers because of this, and some loyal ministers said that countless people were drowned, even if they blocked the Sui army, they should not celebrate, but were strangled to death by the order of the emperor of Shang. How could such a dim-witted emperor and such a corrupt court be able to stop the elite division of the Great Sui? ”

Ye Jinnan said proudly: "Although I did not participate in that war, there are still many elderly veterans in the General's Mansion. I once heard them say that when the left avant-garde men and horses covered in yellow mud suddenly appeared outside the city of Yongzhou, the people of the Shang Kingdom were all stunned. They didn't expect the Sui people to be so brave and resolute, and the defenders on the city wall were so frightened that they couldn't even pull their bows. ”

"In fact, the army is already tired after crossing the swamp, where is there still the ability to attack the city immediately. Unexpectedly, the Shang people were in chaos first, and the Shang ministers in the city were divided into two factions, one faction fought and the other faction surrendered, and finally the two factions fought. The main battles are all generals, so after the fight, it becomes easier. They sent troops to kill all the ministers who had surrendered, and then prepared to call on the people to go up to the city for defense. ”

"But at this time, one thing made the military morale of the Shang people very confused."

Ye Jinnan said: "The emperor of the Shang State was ready to quietly send the queen and his two sons out of Yongzhou when the whole city was mobilized, and this matter was discovered by the Shang army patrolling the city and took down his two sons, and the queen was forced to commit suicide. The Shang Emperor was furious and ordered the killing of several generals in the main battle. The people in Yongzhou City were immediately in chaos, who would have the heart to help such an emperor defend the city? ”

As a result, the army of the left avant-garde was ready to attack the city, and some of the Shang troops on the city wall put up white flags. It took almost no effort to conquer Yongzhou City, but it encountered some difficulties when attacking the Imperial City. It was the forbidden army that guarded the palace, and it was this army that killed the generals who forced the queen to death. The total number is only two thousand, but they will not retreat. Not only that, but the Shang Emperor also had a lot of barbarians around him. ”

"However, the general personally led the troops forward, and the forbidden army that had been on the emperor did not last long before it was exterminated."

Ye Jinnan drank all the tea in the cup: "I heard the veteran say that the general killed one person in one step in front of the Shang Imperial Palace, and even killed more than 20 masters of the Shang Imperial Family. even killed the eighth-grade rune master with one punch...... The talisman master on the eighth grade, I haven't seen one of them in my life until now. ”

Fang Xie has heard some of these past events.

But what Ye Jinnan said was so intuitive and so clear.

He had heard too many things about Luo Yao, and every time he heard it, he felt different.

Anlai County

In a long-abandoned and ruined temple, a group of people kneel on the ground to pay homage to a man in a linen robe. The man was about fifty years old and tall. The plain clothes worn on him actually had a sense of immortal elegance. His hair fell down and fell all the way down to his chest.

His hands are folded in front of his lower abdomen, palms facing up. The left hand is superimposed on the right hand, and the thumb is opposite to the palm of the hand to form a circle.

His face was very white and his eyes were bright.

"I am the messenger chosen by the gods, the last royal family of the Shang Kingdom. The man who renamed himself Murong shamefully stole my country and people, and also betrayed the great Shang country. Now I'm back...... Just like a phoenix that has been burned by fire, it will never die. My will will be sprinkled into the world as rain and dew, so that everyone can see the world clearly. ”

He let go of his hand and opened his arms: "Follow me, and you will have eternal life." ”