Although the spring rain is as expensive as oil, the people of Nankang Mansion at this time can only watch the green seedlings in their fields being trampled into mud by King Ning's soldiers and bandits.

The people who worked and did business in Nankang could only watch as the factories were shut down and the trade routes were cut off because of the siege of Nankang by King Ning's soldiers.

The people of Nankang Mansion did not expect that in this era of well-fed and warm clothing, there would be a rebellion.

But for Wang Shouren, the deputy capital of the governor of Jiangxi Province, who was standing in Nankang Mansion City at this time, King Ning's rebellion was already expected by him.

It's just that what Wang Shouren didn't expect was that King Ning would suddenly rebel when he came to Nankangfu City to inspect, and also took the prosperous Nanchang City in one fell swoop.

Looking at the rebels of King Ning who were scattered all over Pingchuan outside the city, and the heads of the people who were raised in front of him by King Ning, Wang Shouren still indifferently commanded the officers and soldiers under his command to fill the artillery with gunpowder, and the musketeers to prepare for shooting.

Wang Shouren recognized the head, which was the head of Zhuang Dian, the deputy envoy of the inspection, and was obviously cut down by King Ning to sacrifice the flag, so as to deter himself from these court officials.

But Wang Shouren was disappointed that there were not many officials who were obviously heroic and unyielding, and now all he could know was Zhuang Dian, the deputy envoy of the inspection, and Pei Xin, the political envoy, and Pang Zhengjia, the envoy of the investigation, had already taken refuge in King Ning, among which Pei Xin became the imperial historian under the command of King Ning, and also came outside the city to persuade him to surrender.

"Brother Bo'an, Zhengde is not the bloodline of filial piety, but a folk wild species, a reckless scoundrel, fourteen idiots, a great treasure, building a leopard house to indulge in lust, fighting cocks and horses, killing traitorous ministers at every turn, and now it is a cruel king who punishes loyal ministers with public opinion, and the torture of peeling the skin and grass is greatly appreciated!"

"His Royal Highness King Wuning is the bloodline of Taizu, Corporal Lixian, he can't bear to be corrupted by the hands of the faint monarch and traitorous ministers, but he obeys the way of heaven and acts to punish the faint monarch, Pei Mou specially sealed the decree of His Royal Highness King Ning, and hopes that Brother Bo'an will know the times and be loyal and traitorous, and take refuge in my king, so as not to misery for the people of Nankang Mansion! After he becomes a great cause, my king will also be blessed with high officials! ”

After Pei Xin said this, Wang Shouren also stood on the city of Nankang Mansion and replied with a smile: "You are obedient to the way of heaven, but Wang is obedient to the hearts of the people, Brother Zong Pu, Bo'an advises you to hang yourself now, and you can also avoid the disaster of the nine clans, Wang Mou will also write on the song that you are a thief who hanged yourself to death, and leave you the name of a loyal minister!" ”

"Humph! He Zhu Houzhao is a faint king, and he is not the bloodline of filial piety, Pei Xin is a minister of the Ming Dynasty, how can he recognize him as a wild king! Wang Shouren, Pei Mou advises you again, you'd better surrender now and obey the way of heaven! Otherwise, after the 100,000 troops under the command of King Ning break the city, you will not be left with the chickens and dogs of Nankang City! ”

Pei Xin became a little annoyed and angry, and said it again.

"Wang doesn't want to talk nonsense with you, if you really follow the way of heaven, Wang only follows the hearts of the people! If you don't believe it, Wang will ask the people in the city for you! ”

As he spoke, Wang Shouren looked back at the militia behind him, and shouted loudly, "Fellow villagers, do you want to rebel with this His Royal Highness King Ning?" ”

"I don't want to! Who wants to rebel! Now that the world is so good, the government has repeatedly reduced rents and interest rates, and only those who are full of food will rebel! ”

A few of the more daring people replied.

In recent years, King Ning has repeatedly invaded the official fields and people's fields because of the expansion of soldiers and horses, resulting in more and more displaced people, Wang Shouren will always take advantage of this to recruit these displaced people to Nankang and Jiujiang to reclaim new fields, or directly open factories in Nankang City to recruit workers, and secretly train soldiers and horses in the name of suppressing bandits and Wu Wending, the prefect of Ji'an.

Therefore, at this time, the people of Nankang City were not cornered because of King Ning's ruthless scraping of the land, on the contrary, they were very disgusted by King Ning's rebellious behavior, especially after Wang Shouren let the officials with the background of the Zhongjun Society secretly publicize, they all knew that King Ning wanted to rebel and become the emperor to make a big mess in the world, and take in some careerists who robbed everywhere.

Because of this, when Wang Shouren asked this question at this time, the people of Nankang Mansion City echoed it, saying that they were unwilling to rebel.

"Then do you think the current emperor is a good emperor, and is it wrong for the current emperor to kill corrupt officials and corrupt officials? Is the emperor going to overthrow it today?! ”

Wang Shouren continued to ask.

"The emperor is naturally a good emperor, the adults have said that our flood last year was the emperor's tax exemption, and today's fields are also given to us by the emperor, how can we not be a good emperor!"

"That's it! It's much better than that King Ning, who only knows how to let his officers and soldiers take our fields! ”

"I don't pay for food!"

"My 100 stone tea leaves will be accepted when I say I will receive them!"

"He also said that we planted his land and asked us to pay taxes and grain, which is more than what was handed over to the government, what good is it for His Royal Highness to Ning Wang!"

"The emperor is much better than King Taning, saying that the cloth is not as valuable as before, and he is afraid that it will hurt the peasants, and he has also shortened the forced labor and given a subsidy!"

"Today's emperor is a good emperor, the first good emperor throughout the ages, and he is the only emperor who gives money to us people!"

……

The people spoke babblingly, and they continued to speak out about the praise of Emperor Zhu Houzhao and the sins of King Ning.

Wang Shouren also laughed a little proudly when he saw this, and the likes and dislikes of the people strengthened his determination to quell King Ning's rebellion, and also made him more convinced that His Majesty the Emperor today is popular with the people, a legitimate ruler who is truly supported by the people, and a true orthodoxy in the world, so he shouted again:

"Brother Zongpu, look at it, look at the public opinion in the world, who is the orthodox Ming Jun and who is the anti-thief who is unpopular with the people, do you still need to distinguish again?!"

Wang Shouren shouted loudly, then waved his hand and shouted: "Fellow villagers, shout with this official to punish the thief, Wei Taiping!" Governor Xu Tai has led 30,000 border troops, Governor Liu Hui and Gui Yong have led 20,000 guards, and a total of 160,000 imperial army such as Ji'an Wu Wending, Huguang Qin Jin, and Liangguang Yang Dan have arrived day and night, because this official has already expected that he Ning Wang will rebel, and now as long as we hold on to Nankang Mansion City, King Ning, the rebel, will definitely be eliminated! At that time, the land occupied by King Ning will also be returned to you! ”

Wang Shouren waved his hand and shouted: "Punish the thief, Wei Taiping!" ”

"Punish the thief, Wei Taiping!"

"Punish the thief, Wei Taiping!"

"Punish the thief, Wei Taiping!"

……

Other officials and civilians in Nankang City also shouted.

Pei Xin naturally had nothing to say when he saw this, he even felt scared, although he reminded himself countless times in his heart that although he was forced to join King Ning, it was also because the current emperor was too cruel and harsh to the gentry, but he still couldn't help but feel that the hearts of the people in the world seemed to be really still on the side of the court, so he felt a little scared, and retreated.

King Ning also saw this scene, and his face darkened for a while, thinking that if he learned that the thousand households who smuggled weapons for him were killed by Wang Shouren and caused him to rebel in advance, he would not let Wang Shouren sneer in this Nankang City.

At this time, Pei Xin also came to King Ning and explained in detail to King Ning the news about the imminent arrival of the 160,000 troops of the imperial court.

King Ning asked Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng, the civil officials who took refuge in him: "Two gentlemen, what is the best way to break the enemy?" ”

"Now Wang Shouren refuses to surrender, Nankang City is no longer in our hands, so we can't go north to cross the river, at present, only sticking to Nanchang is the best policy!"

Liu Yangzheng, who was named the right prime minister by King Ning, replied at this time, as a literati who rebelled with King Ning, he knew better than anyone what King Ning's army was, and naturally did not think that his army of King Ning could defeat Nankangcheng, so he simply suggested that King Ning stick to Nanchang.

Li Shishi, who was named the prime minister of Zuo by King Ning, also agreed with Liu Yangxing's suggestion, as a senior civil official who was once a senior civil official of the imperial court Zuodu Yushi, he hated Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao's behavior of not paying attention to Confucianism, otherwise he would not follow King Ning to rebel with the respect of Zuodu Yushi, but he was not a very clever military strategist, after seeing a group of people in Nankang City and Wang Shouren's determination to defend Nankang, he also retreated, and suggested that King Ning return to his division to stick to Nanchang City.

King Ning is also an ambitious and resourceless king of the second feudal lord, and when he saw that the two prime ministers around him suggested so, he also returned to Nanchang City.

Night.

Wang Shouren got the news that King Ning had returned to Nanchang through the undercover agent of Jinyiwei, so he laughed: "Sure enough, I was frightened by the army of 160,000 troops, and I gave the order to organize the villagers to go to Nanchang Mansion to post notices everywhere, so that more people know about the upcoming arrival of the 160,000 army." ”

Officials in Nam Kham immediately said yes and left.

And Wang Shouren immediately summoned Zhang Lun and other guards of Nankang City, and discussed: "Now that King Ning has rebelled, this official expects that if he wants to take the world, there are only three strategies to do, and the best strategy is to attack the capital with surprise soldiers, which is more difficult to deal with, and will inevitably lead to chaos in the Central Plains; The middle strategy is to take Nanjing along the river and divide the south to stand on its own; The next strategy is to stick to Nanchang, and when the army of our court arrives, he can naturally be easily pacified! ”

"If King Ning has to capture Nankang and Jiujiang to capture the mouth of the river, so Nankang City must hold on!"

Zhang Lun also replied.

"Well, only Nankang is not lost, and King Ning can only stick to Nanchang, although it is false news that there are 160,000 troops coming in the imperial court, but we have trained 80,000 soldiers and horses, but we can take advantage of this to quell King Ning's rebellion in the area of Nanchang City, so as to prevent the war after King Ning's rebellion from spreading to other state capitals, so that the people will suffer!"

As Wang Shouren was talking, Wang Shuo, the Jinyi guard in charge of intelligence, ran over: "Little grandfather, Lord Futai, the big thing is not good, Xu Zhan, the prefect of Jiujiang, is also reversed!" Kill the original sect, respond to King Ning, say that it is the way of heaven, the king of faintness, and advocate that the gentry of the world raise a banner to help King Ning! ”

"What!" Zhang Lun shouted in dismay.

And Wang Shouren couldn't help frowning: "There are really scholars in the world who only care about selfish interests and ignore the righteousness of the country!" These people have read the books of the sages for nothing! It's also really stupid! ”

"Lord Futai, now is not the time to talk about this, as soon as Jiujiang is lost, Nankang City will be attacked by the enemy, I am afraid that there is no need to defend, and it is uncertain whether there will be other officials and gentry who will be affected by King Ning's rebellion and follow in response!"

Zhang Lun said.