Chapter 98: Rumors - Prophecy Far Ahead?

Everyone was worried until mid-December, when the New Year was approaching, it was suddenly reported that Zhu Yousong, the king of Xiaofu, inherited the throne in Nanjing.

It stands to reason that King Fu's claim to be emperor happened before June, but because of the closed news, it did not reach Pengzhou until today.

It turned out that when Chongzhen was killed, the ministers of Nanjing, the capital of China, were in a panic, and because everyone did not know whether Chongzhen's three sons had escaped, they decided to find a prison from the princes from all over the country to stabilize the situation.

At that time in Nanjing, in addition to the little Fu King Zhu Youxiang who was close at hand, there were also King Gui and King Lu who were close in blood.

However, due to the old Fu Wang Guangzong's struggle for the crown prince and the deep enmity with the Donglin Party, now the old Fu Wang's son Xiaofu Wang is supported as the prison of the country, and the Donglin Party is emotionally unhappy.

The Donglin Party was the first to fire, and its leader Qian Qianyi threw out a theory of establishing a virtuous person, saying how King Lu was virtuous, so the cadres of the Donglin Party must resolutely support King Lu.

Isn't this a slap in the mouth of the Donglin Party itself? During the Wanli period, the Wanli Emperor thought that the Fu King was more virtuous than the Guangzong, and wanted to support the Fu King as the crown prince, so he came and went with the Donglin Party, and finally made the hatred between the monarchs and ministers, and the Wanli Emperor did not go to the early dynasty for more than ten years, which led to the waste of state affairs.

Besides, from a historical point of view, Guangzong is not good, not to mention anything else, less than a month after succeeding to the throne, the government is unstable, there is a blessed king outside, and Zheng Guifei is on the side, and Guangzong is poor and extravagant, and finally died in vain, and he is a faint monarch alive.

Zhu Youxiang, who was close to Huai'an, saw that public opinion in Nanjing, which was controlled by the Donglin Party, was turbulent, and he came out of power with a gun, and sent his cronies to contact Gao Jie, Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo, and Liu Zeqing, the general soldiers of the four towns in Jiangbei.

First, Liu Zeqing, the general soldier of Shandong, put pressure on Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang, to force his boss to support King Fu as the emperor.

In this way, because of the selfishness of the Donglin Party, the Jiangbei military generals were too powerful, and the imperial court gradually lost control of the border generals, and finally failed to hold half of the Jiangnan.

Since the establishment of the Nanming regime, it has not clearly understood the general trend of national development, and has erroneously pursued the strategy of uniting with the captives to suppress the invaders, believing that the biggest threat to the Nanming regime is Li Zicheng's Dashun Army and Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi Army, hoping to unite with the Barbarian Qing to jointly crusade against these two rebel armies, and finally achieve a situation of separating the north and south from the Barbarian Qing.

Sichuan is located in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, close to the rebels' hometown of Shaanxi, and its strategic location is very important.

If Sichuan is in hand, it can go on a northern expedition like Zhuge Wuhou and form a outflanking trend against the Dashun Army and the Great Western Army.

If Sichuan is in the hands of the enemy, the enemy can completely take a boat down the Yangtze River, so Jingchu and Jiangnan are shaken, and it is difficult to preserve.

In order to recapture Sichuan, the Southern Ming Dynasty ordered the former cabinet scholar, Wang Yingxiong, a native of Ba County, Chongqing, to be the secretary of the military department and a scholar of Wenyuange.

Fan Yixing, a native of Yibin, was appointed as the right attendant of the military department and the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, to be specifically responsible for the suppression of bandits.

Wang Yingxiong, the governor of Sichuan, Lake, Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, opened the Zunyi Mansion and spread the news to various places to jointly crusade against Zhang Xianzhong and recover Sichuan.

Hearing the news, everyone was overjoyed, and everyone sighed that now the imperial court has mobilized heavy troops from the four provinces of Yungui and Huguang (that is, Hunan, Hubei, and from time to time, Hunan and Guangdong) to exterminate the rebellion of the Liukou.

Although Yang Lin was also quite happy, in his subconscious, Zhang Xianzhong was a demon who killed people without blinking, and it was impossible for him to cooperate with him.

Now that the two governors, Wang Yingxiong and Fan Yixuan, have mobilized the soldiers and horses of Yunnan, Guihu, and Guangzhu provinces to jointly exterminate the Great Western Army, at least they don't need to be as worried as they were a few days ago.

Having said that, Yang Lin did not dare to raise the banner of resistance immediately, Pengzhou is located in northern Sichuan, and Wang Yingxiong, the governor of the four provinces, and Fan Yixuan, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, are all in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan.

Emperor Zhu Yousong of the Southern Ming Dynasty ascended the throne, and as a modern person, it is impossible to have any deep feelings for the Ming Dynasty.

But now seeing everyone's jubilant appearance, Yang Lin can't tell everyone that Zhu Yousong's claim to be the emperor is just a return to the light, and the Ming Dynasty will once again fall into a situation from which there will be no return.

In order to celebrate, Yang Lin invited all his friends and generals to have a meal at the Zhizhou Yamen.

In the form of letters, the news of the accession to the throne of Zhu Yousong, the king of Xiaofu, and the appointment of Wang Yingxiong and Fan Yixuan as governors.

As the New Year approached, all the soldiers issued an extra 1 tael of silver for the New Year.

With the accession of Xiaofu Wang Zhu Yousong to the throne in Nanjing, Wang Yingxiong was appointed as the governor of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Huguang and Guangzhou, and Fan Yixing was appointed as the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi.

First I heard a nursery rhyme on the street, on the street, in the dam, the child danced and sang: the thief, the thief, the upper realm sent him to behead someone, if one person can't cut it all, the evil monk will smash the back.

Other children sang: Every year in A, B, C, there is a river of blood here, there are houses and no one to live in, and there is no place to hoe

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There is no doubt that all these nursery rhymes point to the Great Western Army and to Zhang Xianzhong, saying that he is a natural demon, and the lower realm comes to collect people and kill all the Sichuan people.

This is a nursery rhyme made up by people with intentions, but how can the common people of Li Min understand it? Some old men thought that this was a warning from heaven, and leaned on the door one by one, looked up at Changtian and sighed: "Hey, God, you are going to accept people again." God, what bad things have we done that you want us to do evil? ”

Some people say that rumors are fables that are far ahead, and that people with intentions take advantage of the ignorant minds of the common people and deliberately manipulate them to incite local public opinion.

Hearing the folk songs, they were also terrified, and some even took bamboo sticks to teach children a lesson, but children have a rebellious mentality, and when they see adults not singing, they sing more happily one by one.

All of a sudden, the whole CD spread the news that Zhang Xianzhong was going to kill all the people in Sichuan, and for a while, the people of the CD were terrified and uneasy.

In the end, even Emperor Zhang Xianzhong of Daxi couldn't sit still, and hurriedly convened everyone to discuss the matter.

Everyone was hesitant and didn't dare to say it clearly, but Wang Zhaolin, the left prime minister who was born, saw through the mystery behind it at a glance.

This is those who have the Ming Dynasty in their hearts, first make up the ballad, and then teach the children to sing, so that it will be spread in less than half a month.

But how to deal with it, Wang Zhaolin, the leftist prime minister from a well-founded background, chose the most stupid way, that is, to concentrate the readers and prevent them from continuing to make up jokes that are unfavorable to the Onishi regime.

According to Wang Zhaolin, Liu Bei entered Sichuan, and the local people were not satisfied and imposed severe laws and disciplines, so that in less than a few years, there was no one who dared to oppose again?

The Great Western Army, Zhang Xianzhong first entered Shu and announced a three-year tax reduction, what a benevolent move.

But the people of Sichuan are not only not grateful, but they also make up these gossips to slander the saint, and if no decisive measures are taken, it will be irreversible in the future.

For this reason, Wang Zhaolin proposed various measures to suppress public opinion and ensure local stability through severe punishment and strict laws.

Although the capital CD is now built, but after being destroyed by the chaos, the CD has been quite damaged, imitating the system of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to enrich the people and the real Guanzhong, imitating the rich households of the Hongwu Emperor to Nanjing, and migrating the rich and powerful families from all over Sichuan to the CD, first, the emperor took care of it nearby, to prevent these traitors from arranging slander against the emperor, to prevent these people from colluding with the forces of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and second, to enhance local strength

Through a military offensive, he won the victory and relieved the powerful scholars of the suspicions of the Onishi regime.

Sichuan is a basin, Hanzhong is on the basin, if you want to hold Sichuan, you must take Hanzhong, now the Dashun regime retreats to Hanzhong, you can make Anxi General Zhang Dingguo, Funan General Zhang Wenxiu lead the troops to seize Hanzhong, as long as Hanzhong is captured, you can cut off the foreign aid of the Sichuan people, and you can slowly clean up the disobedient Sichuan people.

In addition to attacking the remnants of Dashun entrenched in Hanzhong, it was to suppress the local squires in Sichuan.

Wang Yingxiong, the governor of the four provinces of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and Fan Yixing, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, were stationed in southern Sichuan based on Yungui and Guizhou, and Zhang Kewang, the general of Pingdong, could lead his troops to attack southern Sichuan.

The three knife elements on the east and north of Sichuan and the west of Sichuan were suppressed by the left general Ma Yuanli and the right general Zhang Hualong.

As long as the Onishi Army was able to achieve a military victory, and the rumors were not dispelled, the people would inevitably have confidence in the Onishi regime again.

Seeing that Zhang Xianzhong did not take action to refute the rumors, but forcibly suppressed the rumors through military means, and obviously fell into the other party's hub, the officials who surrendered to Daxi, such as Yan Ximing, Jiang Dingzhen, Gong Wanjing and others secretly shouted that it was not good, but there was nothing to be done, and they did not dare to respond.

Zhang Xianzhong and Wang Zhaolin thought they had a plan, who knew that this rash move would make him fall into a bigger storm

In ancient times, no one wanted to move and leave their homeland.

Now these wealthy Jinshi people are shocked to see the Great Western Army breaking into their homes like tigers and wolves to move to CD within a time limit, and they believe in the credibility of folk songs.

Thinking that this Zhang Xianzhong was born in Liukou, he raised troops for more than ten years in the Central Plains, and already had a reputation for being fierce, he first dug the ancestral tomb of the Ming Dynasty, successively killed the king of Xiang and the king of Chu, and then entered Sichuan, cut off the arms of tens of thousands of captives, entered the CD, and slaughtered tens of thousands of relatives of the Shu Palace.

In this way, fueled by these wealthy squires and literati, the news that Zhang Xianzhong was going to kill all the Sichuan people even heard about Shengdou Xiaomin.