When Yang Zhen met with Pan Pingfeng's fellow villagers, Zhong Yu also started the first contact mutiny of this trip to Datong, and had formal meetings and talks with a group of Datong officials. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although Zhong Yuwan refused Liu Yingji's kind arrangement and lived in Huayan Temple, the Qincha Xingyuan prepared for him still had its effect. For example, now, Zhong Yu has summoned many Datong officials below Liu Yingji here for questioning.

Even if they were prepared, these officials were still a little apprehensive in their hearts when they faced Lord Qincha, who looked grim and completely different from the kind appearance at the previous reception banquet.

Zhong Yu kept a straight face, his eyes swept over the faces of the officials one by one, and then he said in a voice without any emotion: "The purpose of this official's visit to Datong was clearly stated when he read the holy decree a few days ago, and I will not repeat it today. I have called you here today for this matter, more than two months have passed since the mutiny, I wonder if you have the best intentions to do things for the imperial court? ”

Many officials didn't dare to meet Zhong Yu's sharp eyes, and they lowered their heads one after another, only Liu Yingji and a few others looked as usual. As soon as he heard him ask about this matter straight to the point, Governor Liu smiled: "If you return to Qincha, since the chaos has occurred, we and other Datong officials are so anxious that they will start to extinguish this rebellion while writing a letter to the imperial court." After two months of fighting, there have been frequent good news from the front, and several rebellious armies that have failed to live up to the divine grace have been surrounded and quelled. This rebellion has been put down so far, and it will not take long to completely settle it. As for the details, it is up to Mr. Guo to report to the adults. As he spoke, he nodded to Guo Rong in the seat behind him.

Seeing that Zhong Yu's gaze then fell on him, Guo Rong hurriedly left his seat and saluted with his fists at the other party first, and then narrated in a slightly high-pitched voice: "Since the April rebellion, the last general has sent five armies, totaling 67,000 cavalry, to search for the whereabouts of the rebels and suppress them.

"On April 18, more than 1,000 rebels from Yinchuan Fort were surrounded by our officers and soldiers, and finally after a battle, more than 200 rebels were killed, and the rest were all resubmitted. On 27 April, another rebel army along the Weipingbao Road was pacified, killing 320 rebels and capturing 600. On the third day of the fifth month, the rebels of 3,000 people on Gaoshan Weiyi Road were also surrounded by our official army in the area of Baishan Mountain, and after two days and nights of attack, half of them were defeated, and the rest surrendered......"

In Guo Rong's account, Zhong Yu hears victory after victory, one good news after another, and it seems that this rebellion has indeed been quickly contained by the Datong official army, and even said to be pacified. This finally showed a satisfied smile on his face: "Yes, General Guo is indeed a good commander of the army, and he can quickly make the fastest response and control the problem when this major event happens." ”

"Your Excellency praised it, this is just the end of the general's duty. In fact, the last general also felt guilty, as the chief military officer of Datong, he didn't even know that the soldiers under him broke out in this rebellion because of long-term dissatisfaction, and he was really ashamed of his trust in the imperial court. Please also punish the adults severely. Guo Rong's face was full of shame, and he landed on one knee as he spoke, looking like he was at his disposal.

Zhong Yu knew that this was just the other party acting, so he didn't take it seriously, and said falsely: "Mr. Guo, please get up, this matter may not be your fault." Moreover, you have made a lot of contributions to quelling the rebellion, and even the court will not blame you at will because of this. Naturally, Ben Chin Cha would not have done such a thing. ”

"Thank you for your compassion." Guo Rong got up at this time, and his heart was obviously relaxed.

"However, the victory reported by General Guo just now cannot be remembered by the official for a while, can you please write a battle report and hand it to the ......official later," Zhong Yu asked again.

"Look at the memory of the general, these battle reports have already been written, just waiting to be handed over to the adults." As he spoke, Guo Rong took out a document from his sleeve and presented it to Zhong Yu.

Zhong Yu smiled disappreciatively, took it, and looked at it. When everyone saw that he read the battle report, they didn't make a sound, but just sat quietly in their place and made eye contact. After a while, Zhong Yu put the battle report on his desk and raised his eyes again: "General Guo, hasn't the rebel leader named Nie Fei been broken and taken down by you?" ”

"This ...... If you return to your lordship, this Nie Fei is extremely treacherous, once he launched a mutiny, he escaped into the mountains, and the last general sent 5,000 men and horses to find his traces, but he escaped, so he still has not captured him to this day. Guo Rong said with a look of embarrassment. This was the omission that he was most worried about being caught by Zhong Yu, but he didn't expect the other party to find it quickly.

"Really? In this way, General Guo and the soldiers under your command still need to work hard. You must know that the rebellion is a matter of rebellion, and the DPRK and China are extremely concerned about Nie Fei, and this is the culprit, so you can't help but take it down. ”

"Your Excellency, rest assured, the last general will definitely let his soldiers try their best to find out their whereabouts, and hand them over to the imperial court for disposal." Guo Rong hurriedly said.

"Naturally, that's for the best. Not only the official, but also His Majesty and Elder Zhang Ge, they also wanted to meet Nie Fei in person and ask him why he wanted to live up to the trust of the imperial court and do such a thing that would make relatives and enemies happy. When Zhong Yu said this, his gaze swept over the faces of several key officials, intentionally or unintentionally.

Sure enough, he found that when he mentioned that the imperial court was going to ask Nie Fei about his motives, the cheeks of several officials couldn't help but twitch, and they looked a little nervous. Sure enough, the root cause of this mutiny was not simple.

Now that he had an opinion, Zhong Yu decided to knock on the mountain again: "By the way, General Guo, this official has always been very strange, why did those officers and soldiers of the guard suddenly rebel?" If there were only one or two mutinies, the official would still be able to accept it, but this time there were more than a dozen places, and tens of thousands of officers and soldiers responded to Nie Fei's rebellion at the same time. I don't know if Mr. Guo, or the adults, can you give me an explanation? ”

The matter finally came to a more sensitive position, and the faces of the officials suddenly became solemn. What they are most worried about is that the court will investigate the cause of the mutiny, but this matter cannot be fooled casually, but what should be done?

"I'm ashamed to say that everything is also the fault of this official." Liu Yingji suddenly smiled bitterly and said: "It's not a secret, even in border armies like Datong, soldiers' salaries have always been a problem. An army of 100,000 is in hand, but it is difficult to make up so much money. In desperation, the official had no choice but to pay the garrisons everywhere in turns. I don't want to do it this time, but Nie Fei rebelled because of this matter, and caused today's chaos. ”

"Is it just because of the money?" Zhong Yu frowned slightly and said, "Since the food is insufficient, why don't you ask the court for food?" The official felt that with the importance of the imperial court to border affairs, he would not sit idly by. ”

"How come we haven't asked the court for a salary? It's just that a few requests for money have been sent to the capital and have been lost in the sea, and they have finally ......," Guo Rong said immediately. But before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Liu Yingji: "Mr. Guo, please be careful!" ”

"Is that so?" Zhong Yu was a little angry at first, why didn't the officials of the DPRK and China even pay attention to such a major matter related to national security? But then he thought of something again, and his anger was stagnant, and he knew a little about the situation in the DPRK and China. On the one hand, people are superfluous, and on the other hand, the finances are still a little stretched, don't look at Zhang Juzheng's continuous reform in the past few years, but the mess left by the Jiajing Dynasty is not so easy to clean up. Presumably it is precisely because of the above two reasons that the imperial court did not reply to Shanxi's request for salary in time, right?

Moreover, he also believed that in addition to Datong's side, there would be no shortage of reports from the garrisons in other places asking the imperial court for food and grain, and they would be drowned in many similar reports, so Datong's requests would naturally not be so concerned.

Seeing Zhong Yu showing a thoughtful and helpless expression, Liu Yingji knew that his words had worked, and there was a hint of triumph in his eyes at the same time as Guo Rong.

However, when Zhong Yu regained his mood and looked at them, the two of them changed back to their demeanor just now, with a self-reproachful and helpless expression. Zhong Yu sighed: "In this matter, the imperial court does have a certain responsibility, if it can meet Datong's food and salary requirements as much as possible, it may be able to avoid this rebellion." As he spoke, he narrowed his eyes again: "But the official thinks that things should not be so simple......"

"Ah......" Liu Yingji chuckled in his heart, but he didn't expect that this Lord Qincha was not a master who was easy to fool.

"If it is really because of the issue of soldiers' salaries, the soldiers may be dissatisfied, but they will not be able to do such a blatant rebellion. Even if you are encouraged, I am afraid that there will only be a few responders. Therefore, this official thinks that there is another reason for this matter, what do you think? Zhong Yu said, and looked around the officials present.

Those officials were swept away by his eyes, and their hearts suddenly felt cold, and they didn't dare to look at them, let alone explain their opposition or anything. In the end, I can only pin my hope on Liu Yingji and them.

Liu Yingji also had some drumming in his heart, but he still stubbornly said: "Benfu can't think of any other reason for a while." Perhaps those generals already had a very high reputation in their respective armies, so as soon as they called, those soldiers took risks. ”

"Really?" Zhong Yu smiled noncommittally: "Actually, it shouldn't be too difficult to find out the root cause of this matter. General Guo, didn't you just say that you have broken through several rebels and taken many prisoners? The officer's intention was to talk to the soldiers of these rebels and see what they had to say, so that the root cause of this mutiny could be easily found. ”

As soon as these words came out, Guo Rong's face changed!