Chapter 245: A Shocking Case
Wang Ning'an, Su Xun, Su Banniang, the three of them spent a whole night, reading all the letters in the wooden box from beginning to end, and when Dongfang Tianming came, the three of them rubbed their sore eyes, in addition to being surprised, even if their hearts were as big as Wang Ning'an, they couldn't believe it. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ ο½ο½ο½ο½
They held the truth of the Lingnan rebellion in their hands, and almost all of them attributed the rebellion to Nong Zhigao, saying that he was a wolf with ambitions, disobeyed control, had a long-term rebellious heart, and rebelled against the Great Song Dynasty, which was a matter of course, and the Lingnan officials were negligent and lazy, did not take precautions, and were seriously derelict in their duties.
Wang Ningan also accepted this kind of speech for a while, but after reading these letters, he realized that this matter was not simple at all, it was not so much a rebellion, but a rebellion by the officials and the people! Man-made disaster, to say the least!
Things have to start from the location of Guangyuan, here is the southwest of Guangxi, among the 100,000 mountains, a number of tribes inhabited, after the establishment of the Great Song Dynasty, nominally belonged to the Great Song Dynasty, but in fact it was just separated from the Central Plains Dynasty Jiaozhi control, Jiaozhi is later Annan, after the founding of the country, ambitious, the southern and northern wars continued, several expeditions to Guangyuan, extortion.
Guangyuan is rich in gold mines, and once offered a piece of 112 taels of dog's head gold to Jiaozhi!
It was a treasure that even the Great Song royal family didn't have, but as a result, the Jiaozhi people not only did not let Guangyuan go, but became even more greedy, and even wanted to take Guangyuan, and then get involved in the Great Song Dynasty.
Nong Zhigao is not an ordinary peasant, he is a big family living in Guangyuan, rich in wealth, good strength, in order to fight against Jiaozhi, he recruited soldiers, strict training, the core of the rebellion is these 5,000 people.
Nong Zhigao knew that with his strength, he couldn't fight against Jiaozhi, so he desperately wrote to the Great Song Dynasty, requesting that it be attached and use the strength of the Great Song Dynasty to deal with Jiaozhi.
At this time, Nong Zhigao asked for attachment, or sincerely, his father Nong Quanfu was killed by Jiaozhi in his early years, and the two sides had a grudge against killing their father, and Nong Zhigao admired the Great Song Dynasty very much, and once studied history books hard, participated in the imperial examination, but unfortunately did not pass the Jinshi. In fact, if you think about it, you also know that Lingnan is remote, and Nong Zhigao's cultural level will not be too high, so how can you pass the exam.
However, if the imperial examination of the Great Song Dynasty could be a little more flexible and gave him the fame of Jinshi, even if it was a special gift, maybe the Great Song Dynasty would have one more loyal minister, rather than a traitor, but unfortunately, how could the high-ranking scholars and doctors care about things far away in the world, and their numbness and dullness brought heavy losses to the Great Song Dynasty.
After Nong Zhigao fell off the list, he returned to Guangyuan, gathered an army, and fought against Jiaozhi. After the officials of Guangnan West Road found out, they sent people to investigate, and the responsibility fell on Xu Yong, the prefect of Yongzhou.
He sent the Yongzhou commander to lead the troops to attack, and this wrong decision directly led to a series of things that followed.
The commander Qian Rui did not take Nong Zhigao in his eyes, and underestimated the enemy's rash advance, but was captured by Nong Zhigao.
After being captured, Qian Rui was greedy for life and afraid of death, he was actually full of nonsense, bewitching Nong Zhigao, saying that he would surrender to the Great Song Dynasty, ensure that he would be crowned with his wife and son, and not lose the position of prince, and he could also help him counterattack Jiaozhi, avenge his father, blood shame, Nong Zhigao was very excited, and nodded immediately.
God is pitiful, Qian Rui is just a mere commander in Yongzhou, an official with a sesame mung bean, and a martial artist, just to survive, running the train with his mouth full, Nong Zhigao is also enough for two hundred and five, so he actually believed it.
He prepared a generous gift, handed it to Qian Rui, and asked him to take it back to Yongzhou.
Qian Rui returned to Yongzhou, and saw that there was no way to hide the matter, so he had to tell Xu Yong the truth.
Xu Yong was so angry that he jumped like thunder, Qian Rui was defeated, and he casually promised to return, which was nonsense! Xu Yong categorically rejected Nong Zhigao's request, but Nong Zhigao sent a big gift, as much as five hundred taels of gold alone, Xu Yong was tempted at that time, he wanted to be greedy for this money, and he didn't want to do anything for Nong Zhigao.
This guy made the most bastard decision, he deceived Nong Zhigao, saying that he was trying his best to help Zhou and let Nong Zhigao pay for it, and he went to make some connections.
As a result, Nong Zhigao believed Xu Yong's nonsense and kept giving him gifts, in addition to gold, Nong Zhigao also gave him a woman, that is, Xu Yong's concubine.
That woman's name is Zhu Xiuer, she is a famous prostitute in Jiangnan, Nong Zhigao spent a lot of money to buy her three years ago, regarded her as a treasure, and in order to attach the Great Song Dynasty, she actually cut her love and gave it to Xu Yong.
When Xu Yong saw it, he was shocked, and immediately accepted it as a side room, feasting, drinking, singing, and having a lot of fun, completely forgetting the things that Nong Zhigao asked to attach.
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Now it's okay, Nong Zhigao lost his wife and folded his soldiers, urged several times, but there was no movement, he knew that he was played by Xu Yong, and finally became angry, and said to his subordinates: "Now I have offended Jiaozhi, China does not accept me, there is nothing to tolerate, and there is no backlash!" β
Subsequently, Nong Zhigao gathered outlaws, hoarded people and horses, and really rebelled.
After the start of the battle, Nong Zhigao was surprised to find that the Great Song Dynasty was just a faΓ§ade, the officials were corrupt, the army was even more corrupt, and the shortage of troops in various places was generally more than seventy percent.
Until this moment, Nong Zhigao's reverence for the Great Song Dynasty was gone, on the contrary, he was ambitious, vainly trying to occupy the entire Lingnan, establish himself as the king, and play the banner of the Great Southern Kingdom.
Throughout the whole process of Nong Zhigao's rebellion, it can only be said that it is completely a bitter wine brewed by the bureaucrats of the Great Song Dynasty who are insensitive and ignorant, and arrogant.
Just imagine, if they can carefully study the situation of Guangyuan, they will find that Nong Zhigao is actually a very good chess piece. He can provide valuable gold to the Great Song Dynasty, and he has a grudge against Jiaozhi, and Jiaozhi covets the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and accepts Nong Zhigao's attachment, as long as he spends a little money, or even gives him a name, he can drive Nong Zhigao and Jiaozhi people to work hard, and when the time comes, the Great Song Dynasty will reap the benefits.
It's just that the stupidity of these people is beyond imagination, and they forced the chess pieces that could be used to rebel against the Great Song Dynasty, so the rebellion in Lingnan is an out-and-out man-made disaster!
As the prefect of Yongzhou, Xu Yong is to blame, or rather, he is the culprit.
When Nong Zhigao defeated Yongzhou, Xu Yong was also captured, Nong Zhigao wanted to kill Xu Yong to vent his anger, until this moment, Xu Yong died, maybe it was not enough to make people hate it, he did another outrageous thing.
In order to survive, Xu Yong told Nong Zhigao that he was willing to help Nong Zhigao as an internal response, leak the military secrets of the Great Song Dynasty in Lingnan, and help the rebels succeed.
Master Nong Zhi held the letters exchanged between him and Xu Yong, and the evidence was ironclad, and he was not afraid that Xu Yong would deceive him. simply let him go, and after that, Nong Zhigao waved his army eastward, all the way unimpeded, and the Song army was defeated for thousands of miles.
In addition to the combat effectiveness, it is also thanks to this Lord Xu.
Every time, he sent the deployment of the Song army to Zhu Xiu'er's residence, and this woman was then handed over to Nong Zhigao, and it is no exaggeration to say that almost the entire Lingnan was buried by Xu Yong.
When Di Qing led the army south, he was cautious, not because he suspected that there were traitors on his side, but because he thought that Nong Zhigao, as a local snake, must have very strong intelligence ability, so Di Qing took deceptive methods, and even Xu Yong couldn't find out the movements.
When he learned that Nong Zhigao was burned to death, Xu Yong was simply ecstatic, the sword that had been hanging over his head disappeared, and he could finally catch his breath, but not yet...... Zhu Xiu'er is still there, and there are still many people in Nong Zhigao's army who know about his actions.
Xu Yong was in a hurry and rushed to Yongzhou, just bumping into Han Ping and them, Xu Yong was worried that the matter would be exposed, so he wanted to kill Han Ping and the others, and never suffer in the future.
In addition, he also instigated Sun Wei to kill the captured rebels.
As long as everyone is dead, no one knows what he did, although he lost Yongzhou, but he made up a lot of heroic deeds for himself, and sprinkled a lot of gold, at most demoted and retained, after a few years, the limelight passed, he could rise again, and in a few years, he was comfortable and comfortable, and went home to be his rich man......
Xu Yong's calculation is too good, but unfortunately, he didn't expect that God has eyes, that Zhu Xiuer is not an ordinary woman, she is scheming.
Nong Zhigao regarded her as a plaything, she hated Nong Zhigao, and Xu Yong was even more shameless, she couldn't wait to drink Xu Yong's blood, when the city was broken, Zhu Xiuer hid all the evidence of Xu Yong's and Nong Zhigao's dealings, and hurriedly left the article "Pipa Xing".
At first, she wanted to directly testify against Xu Yong through Han Ping, but unfortunately she was broken by Xu Yong. But fortunately, another more talented woman cracked her code and made the whole case come to light!
"Unbelievable, unbelievable!"
After Su Xun read it, he couldn't stop rubbing his hands and was full of emotion.
"It is said that the rule of Lingnan officials has collapsed, but I didn't expect that the dignified Yongzhou prefect and the imperial court officials would act as the internal response of the rebels in order to survive, which is unbearable!" Su Xun said angrily: "Lord Wang, this Xu Yong must die!" β
Wang Ningan snorted lightly, "Old Quangong, is it just a Xu Yong?" β
"What do you mean?"
"Sun Wei, is there no problem for him to shield Xu Yong like this? There are so many officials, they are all blind, the corpses are vegetarian, Nong Zhigao rebelled, hundreds of thousands of lives were ruined, and the imperial court spent millions of national funds in order to quell the rebellion, and hundreds of loyal and brave soldiers buried their bones in other places...... This sum of blood debts is not clear, can it be worthy of the people of the world? β
Wang Ningan was so angry that he was about to explode, and Su Xun also looked excited, "Lord Wang has this heart for the country and the people, and the old man admires it so much!" β
To tell the truth, Su Laoquan has always felt that Wang Ningan is very slippery, has too many eyes, and is not a sincere person, but now, Su Xun also has to praise, you must know that this case is opened, how many people will lose their black yarn hats, and how many people will resent Wang Ningan, he can not avoid danger, which can be called bravery!
Wang Ningan sorted out the letter, and then said: "The top priority is to pry Xu Yong's mouth open first, and then send the confession to the capital as soon as possible, and ask Your Majesty to decide, this case must be decided by the Holy Lord." β