Just like Jiang Hao and these Datong gentry have their own thoughts, these frustrated generals in the army naturally didn't think about giving any ideas to their old bosses, they just wanted to find an opportunity to sulk for themselves.

So the meeting was open and began to walk absurdly, and after a general complained about the various policies since the reform of the border army, many generals joined in one after another to complain about the imperial court.

At this time, they still did not dare to point the finger at the emperor by name, so they just pushed the culprits on the General Staff and the cabinet, thinking that it was the traitors in these two organizations who deceived the emperor that made the emperor agree to such an outrageous army reform plan.

Jiang Hao wanted to turn the topic back several times, but he was ignored by these enthusiastic generals, Jiang Liang's brothers Jiang Lin and Jiang Youguang shouted even more unjustly when they talked about the excitement.

"Our old Jiang family has been defending the border for the country for ten years, and there are no less than 100 children who have died in the border affairs, but these faint officials in the court only listen to one side of the word and wantonly bully my family, it is really unbearable for uncles and aunts.

In my opinion, the marshal will not be able to respond to the edict in Beijing. Ah Xuan still doesn't know whether he is alive or dead, if the marshal Shangjing is also imprisoned by these unconscious officials, where should we go to cry out for injustice?

I said, it's better to launch a mutiny to scare the court, and let those unconscious officials know that we are not cattle and sheep to be slaughtered by them..."

The unrestrained remarks of these two people immediately aroused the applause and echo of many rough generals, and also shocked Yang Zhenwei, a foreign general.

These generals with foreign surnames obviously didn't think that this was just Jiang Lin and Jiang Youguang's thoughts, they felt that this might be what Jiang Hao was thinking, but they said it through the mouths of these two clan brothers, so as to observe everyone's movements.

If Jiang Hao summoned them over to discuss the countermeasures, and took the opportunity to force them to stand in line, then wouldn't they have entered the Hongmen banquet when they went to the meeting here.

Therefore, after these generals secretly looked at the expressions on Jiang Hao's face, they finally made statements one by one in support of the mutiny.

The remarks made by the clan brothers Jiang Lin and Jiang Youguang, Jiang Jiu did not acquiesce and did not react at all, and when he wanted to stop it, these subordinates had already begun to express their positions one after another.

At this time, he is not good at saying anything, and if he stands up against threatening the court with a mutiny, he will immediately lose his military morale. These generals, who had just stated that they were going to launch a mutiny, would certainly be angry with him, and either forced him to take the lead in raising troops, or hurried to the governor's palace or governor's yamen after the meeting was dismissed, saying that he was going to rebel.

The faces of the Datong gentry sitting opposite this group of generals were also very wonderful at the moment. Seeing these generals shouting to raise troops to retain the marshal, they threatened the imperial court to revoke Jiang Jiu's order to enter Beijing.

Their first reaction was to fall for Jiang Jiu, who asked them to discuss the strategy of dealing with the imperial court, and it was clear that he wanted to drag them into the water. participated in such a meeting and said that he was not Jiang Jiu's co-party who launched the mutiny, would anyone still believe it?

However, no matter how much they hated Jiang Jiu in their hearts at this time, they couldn't make a false accusation against the other party at this moment, so that they could leave this place safely first. Otherwise, according to the routine, it should be a drama in which Jiang Hao summons a knife and axe hand to kill the personnel who refuse to obey him, and then discusses the plan with the rest of the personnel.

Of course, as people who have read the books of the sages, they naturally will not openly put forward any idea of mutiny like these disrespectful military ministers. There are also dozens of people in this hall, large and small, and once someone presents their heads to the court in the future, won't what they say now become evidence of rebellion?

They could not refute the rebellious remarks of these rebellious ministers and thieves on the spot, and they could use the threat of force at that time as an excuse in the future. But openly giving advice on rebellion is obviously difficult to convince others.

Therefore, after several gentry exchanged glances with each other, they all came up with a plan to delay the army. They raised many questions to Jiang Jiu one by one, such as the lack of troops to defend the city, the insufficient preparation of materials, and what should the field army and enemy troops in Fengzhen do when they hear the news and go south?

Jiang Hao, who had never thought about the rebellion, had answered these questions, and he could only throw the questions to his subordinates. Among these people, not all of them are wine bags and rice bags, at least Yang Zhenwei still has some brains.

Jiang Hao simply skipped those brainless subordinates and directly named Yang Zhenwei's name, hoping that this subordinate could say something useful to cool the minds of others, and find an excuse to suspend today's meeting first.

However, he seemed to have forgotten one thing, the people he could summon to a meeting today were at least the people he thought he thought were his own. It is to ask, how is it possible to crawl out of a flock of ducks a white swan.

Even if there is such a white swan, it will disguise itself as a duck, rather than making itself an outlier hostile to a flock of ducks.

Therefore, after hearing Jiang Jiu's question, he naturally racked his brains to think about the conditions for how to successfully launch a mutiny, "Back to the marshal, I think that it is undoubtedly the best time to launch a mutiny now to persuade the imperial court to dispel the idea of summoning the marshal to Beijing."

Now Governor Yuan has gone to the capital, but the newly appointed Governor of Fengda, Amin, is still waiting in Xuanfu to meet with several Mongolian leaders outside Zhangjiakou.

It can be said that the Fengzhen army and officials are in an embarrassing situation of being leaderless, and the one who sits in the Datong Governor's Mansion is just a chief of staff transferred from Chengde. Although this person had attended a military academy for a few days, he was only a warehouse official, and he was also famous for building cities and summer palaces during his tenure in Chengde.

How can such a courtier, who is fortunate to be close to the palace, be compared with the handsome generals. I'm afraid that as soon as he hears the news of the marshal's army, he will get under the woman's skirt, and we won't need to do anything more.

Just now, the gentlemen said that we have few people, and even if we occupy Datong for a while, I am afraid it will be difficult to hold this city. After years of repairs and additional defense facilities, even with the current 6,000 people, the humble position thought that it could block the 100,000 army.

Moreover, there is no shortage of food, ordnance, and water in the city, and even if the imperial court mobilizes a large army to attack us, it will not be able to defeat us in a year and a half.

But now that the Rolling Chuktaiji Rebellion has just occurred in the steppe, the Mongols' hearts may not have stabilized so quickly. Coupled with the great drought this year, where is there still so many resources wasted on us in the imperial court.

Therefore, after the imperial army cannot be attacked for a long time, it will inevitably try to appease us and others, and then it will naturally be possible to remove the hidden worries in the hearts of the marshal. In addition, there are still more than 100 military cantonments within 50 miles outside the city, and most of these people are sent from the tent of the marshal, and the marshal can send messengers to recall them, even if a third of the tuntian soldiers are recalled, the number of our troops can be doubled, and there is nothing to worry about. ”

Although Yang Zhenwei's explanation did not conform to Jiang Jiu's intentions, he also admitted that after the other party's analysis, the feasibility of launching a mutiny was greatly increased.

Therefore, although he was still a little reluctant on his face, he was really a little moved in his heart, so he couldn't help but turn sideways again and ask the Datong gentry on the right: "What do you think?" ”

After these gentry glanced at each other, they all got up and waved to Jiang Jiu: "We are all under the orders of the marshal, and the marshal said to go east, and we will never dare to go west." ”

Jiang Hao hesitated for a long time, until several relatives were a little impatient, and he had to reluctantly say: "It's not that I was going to live up to the country's grace, but there are villains around Your Majesty, so that I have no way to wait for these loyal and good people to serve the country, so I have to make this decision."

However, we were forced to move troops, and we didn't want to raise an army to rebel, so I first agreed with you on three chapters of the law. First, it is forbidden to kill the officials of the imperial court, especially the officials of the governor's yamen and the governor's office;

Second, this Datong is a place where everyone has lived for so many years, and it can be regarded as another hometown of you and me. The people of the city and we have not looked up and looked down, so we must not condone the innocent killing of the soldiers and the plundering of the women;

Third, we raised troops because of the pressure of the villains in the court, not to oppose the emperor. Therefore, the officers should not incite the sergeants in the name of rebellion, but should explain clearly to the sergeants and try to persuade them to join.

Do you have any different opinions on the above three items? ”

Naturally, the people had no opinion, and the gentry praised the first and second articles very much, believing that they should be propagated as soon as possible, so that the sergeants should not be allowed to miss these educations, which eventually caused chaos in the city.

Although the generals were dissatisfied with the prohibition of killing and plundering women at will, which they considered the best way to incentivize soldiers to join the rebels, they did not continue to oppose these two articles.

Some people really feel that this can successfully persuade the imperial court, so they can't put too many black spots on this kind of action. And some people are darker, they think that the most important thing is to start a mutiny, and as for the soldiers who can control these crazy soldiers after they start to riot?

After seeing that everyone agreed with his proposal, Jiang Hao finally began to name the generals and assign tasks. Jiang Lin and Yang Zhenwei presided over the mutiny in the city, and Jiang Youguang went outside the city to lobby those Tuntian soldiers to enter, no matter how many Tuntian soldiers outside joined, eight o'clock in the evening three days later was the time for the mutiny to be launched.

Once it entered the substantive stage, Jiang Hao finally abandoned the hesitation in his heart and began to arrange it seriously, and finally had a handsome appearance.

However, Jiang Hao was still too weak, and did not leave these gentry under house arrest in the mansion, and waited until the moment of the mutiny. Instead, they were sent back and allowed to report to the General Military Office every day.

These gentry were not those generals who had no concern, but one night later, someone quietly submitted a letter to the Governor's Mansion and reported Jiang Jiu's actions to carry out a mutiny.

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