Chapter 315: Return to the rivers and lakes
Zhu Qiming only brought ten close guards and rushed to Zhuolu Mountain in civilian clothes. The prince left the public to go out, and there was a violation of the rules in this move, but at this time, few people in the court paid attention to his existence, because the monarchs and ministers in the temple were already anxious.
The changes in Zhejiang and Fujian are intensifying!
The local officials only knew how to "suppress" but did not know "fu", and in the places where the popular uprising occurred, the officials did not dare to go among the common people, and the situation could not be issued, so that many good people were terrified of this, fearing that as soon as the officials and troops came, they would kill all the people without asking the truth. The good people were too worried, and finally turned their hearts sideways: it is better to simply leave the rebels and settle in peace!
Fujian is still changing officials in a hurry, but the civil uprising has already spilled over from Sha and You two counties, and has spread to more than 20 counties in eight prefectures, showing a trend of burning the prairie and flowing rivers of blood everywhere, once again opening the pattern of mutual harm between the government and the people, the rich and the poor, which has occurred periodically in Chinese history.
In the face of a group of peasant troops armed with primitive weapons, the local guard army was helpless, and had no choice but to do so, the orthodox emperor ordered to select elite soldiers from Nanjing and the Tatar army that had surrendered in the early years to go to Fujian to suppress, and later selected tens of thousands of Caoyun troops to join the ranks of the conquest and suppression, but it was still not to help, the orthodox emperor gritted his teeth and ordered Chen Mao, Marquis of Ningyang, to be matched with the general seal of Zhengyi, as the chief military officer; Baoding Bo Liang Yao and Pingjiang Bo Chen Yu were appointed as the left and right deputy chief officers; Counselor Jin Lian of the Criminal Department; Eunuch Cao Jixiang, Wang Jin Admiral God Machine Cannon, Gun. A cadre of honors and nobles commanded part of the troops of the Shenji Battalion and the Fifth Army Battalion, and went to Fujian to suppress them.
For a time, the whole Fujian was in flames, and the land was thousands of miles away.
Unlike the high-ranking local bureaucrats, Deng Maoqi, the leader of the democratic uprising, and Ye Zongliu of Zhejiang were very good at "doing mass work", and they even went to Jiangxi to "let go and mobilize the masses." As a result, the situation in Jiangxi gradually became turbulent and became an important source of troops for the popular uprising in Zhejiang and Fujian.
What's worse is that at this time, the naturalized Yao people in Guangdong and Guangxi made rebellion, attacked the city and the pond everywhere, and the bandits plundered the coastal towns on a large scale, and the whole of Guangdong was in chaos.
This is not over, the Miao people of Huguang and Guizhou also joined in the fun, they attacked the official army and gathered people to make trouble. And the thinking machine on the Yunnan side began to provoke and make trouble again, if it weren't for the orthodox emperor who really had no time to be distracted, Yunnan was afraid that the war would have to resume again.
At this time, south of the Yangtze River, except for a few areas such as Nanjing, northern Zhejiang, Songjiang, and Suzhou, other places were in chaos.
The orthodox government is lenient and peaceful, and the orthodox emperor has a benevolent heart, so he is good at exercising the so-called benevolent government, resting with the people, and caring for the victims, but the internal affairs are so badly repaired, resulting in a boiling trend of public resentment, which is unexpected by the orthodox emperor.
At this time, the north seemed surprisingly calm. Perhaps there are prophets who know in their hearts that this is the tranquility before the war!
Modern people look back on the history of Warat's large-scale invasion of the Ming Dynasty, and always think that the Ming must have done something wrong to Wara, so that they gave Warat an excuse to raise troops. What kind of self-deprecation and masochistic psychology should be this! How could the Ming Dynasty ever fail to Warat?
One of the reasons why Warat invaded the Ming Dynasty was accepted by modern academics was that when the Ming envoys Ma Qing and Ma Yun sent envoys to Wara, they lied to Yeye first about being a princess and a relative, and finally were not recognized by the imperial court, which led to Mr. Ye's anger. Alas, such a misinterpretation of history is simply ridiculous! At this time, there is a princess of the right age in the Forbidden City to marry? The eldest daughter of the orthodox emperor, Princess Chongqing, is less than three years old, and she doesn't know first? Unless the orthodox emperor still has a sister to be married who is not recorded in the historical books, but counting the time when Emperor Xuande was sick, it is unlikely that the orthodox emperor will have such a young sister, is it possible that Emperor Xuande is so diligent that he does not forget to let the concubine spread out when he is sick in bed?
In the end, Warat chose to invade the Ming Dynasty, which is the inevitable result of its expansion all the way! If you fight well, Warat can enter the Central Plains, sweep the Eight Wildernesses, and annex the United Nations; It doesn't matter if it can't be defeated, with the mentality of the Ming court who are war-weary and war-fearful, and who want to demand peace, Wara can put forward harsh armistice conditions and squeeze greater benefits from the Ming Dynasty.
And Warat chose to do it in the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, not for anything else, just because at this time the Ming Dynasty had been tortured by civil strife and weakened.
Without further ado, it is said that Zhu Qiming came to Zhuolu Mountain and looked for Lu Xiyao and Ling Xudao in the vast forest and sea He temporarily stayed away from the chaotic world, like a ranger in the rivers and lakes, for an obsession in his heart, he rode the horse and the west wind all day long.
Later that day, he came to a slightly open woodland, and at a glance, he saw that the afterglow of the setting sun stained the boundless flowers and trees red, reflecting an intoxicating scenery.
The evening breeze came slowly, and there was a certain familiar smell wafting in the air, and I suddenly felt my heart tremble, and the pores of my body opened up instantly.
Flying off his horse and signaling his entourage to stay where he was, he followed the forest path and drilled into the dense forest by himself.
On the right, there was a sound of screaming, as if someone was walking quickly through the forest. He immediately turned, and pounced on the place where the sound of the squirt sounded.
After a wild run, he found that the sound of the rope was always ringing not far in front of him, and the distance between him and himself did not seem to be shortened or opened by half a minute.
With such skills, it is definitely not Sister Xiyao! As soon as he thought of this, he was quite disappointed, and wanted to leave the master in front of him and turn away. Russia's heart moved: What if it is a thief who is tracking Xi Yao's sister?
He drew his sword and sped forward.
But no matter how he accelerated, he couldn't catch up with the man in front of him, and he didn't even see a single hair from the person. What's even more annoying is that the man seems to be deliberately going around in circles with him, turning around, making him a little dizzy, if it weren't for the fact that there is still a touch of red in the sky, he may not be able to find the north for a long time!
Hey, it's evil! He gritted his teeth, picked up his breath again, and sped forward.
Feeling that there was a lot of movement on the left, he turned his head to look, and suddenly saw a group of people in black, the number of people should be no less than fifty, all of them were running desperately, and the direction of running was exactly the same as his.
The man in black obviously also saw Zhu Qiming, and everyone's expressions changed from indifference, to surprise, to shock, and then to shock, they stopped one after another, and the pestle remained motionless.
Zhu Qiming swept his eyes angrily, and those people spread their legs like a conditioned reflex, and suddenly scattered.
How can this be chased! Zhu Qiming ran to the place where the man in black was, and saw that those people were running in different directions, and he was a little troubled for a while, and when he finally selected a tall man in black as the target to pursue, the twilight had sunk.
After chasing after him for a while, he saw that he could catch it, but the tall man in black fell forward, rolled down the slope, and reached the foot of the mountain in a blink of an eye.
Zhu Qiming had no interest in pursuing, he put away his sword with a little frustration, and ran towards the ten guards with the vaguely recognizable direction in his memory.
Turning a hillside, he suddenly saw flames rising in all directions, and countless people poured out from behind the slope, blocking his way.
The men were all girded to their waists, and their torches illuminated their swords.
Not the Man in Black! This thought flashed through his mind, and there was a sound of light footsteps on the other side, and a graceful figure floated out of the crowd. He looked at it and couldn't help but be taken aback.
That's an old man I haven't seen in years!