Chapter 530: King Ning rebels
Ning Wang Zhu Chenhao rebelled, although it was two years later than in history, and the Ming Dynasty was no longer the previous stormy dynasty, but this ambitious guy was finally carried away by the throne, and raised the flag in Nanchang to rebel, and the banner was even more ridiculous, even saying that Zhengde and Zhou Zhong were not the sons of the emperor, and he wanted to restore the orthodoxy of the Ming Zhu dynasty.
For this King Ning, Zhou Chong has always been wary, especially after the last time he met in Beijing, Zhou Zhong began to suppress King Ning's forces, but at that time his main forces were concentrated on the sea, so the impact on King Ning in Nanchang was relatively small, and only later after he recovered his identity and became the King of Zhao and the prison state, did he begin to really suppress King Ning.
In addition, Zhou Chong also warned Zhengde several times that King Ning had a heart of disobedience, but although Zhengde said on the surface that he would pay attention, he actually didn't take it to heart at all, and even Zhou Chong's proposal to reduce the guards of King Ning's Mansion was interrupted by Zhengde's grin, and later Zhou Chong mentioned it several times, but Zhengde didn't pay attention to it, and Zhou Chong was also very helpless about it.
In fact, it is not to blame Zhengde, when Emperor Xiaozong died, Zhengde took over the emperor's throne at the age of fifteen, and because of the doting of Xiaozong and Empress Zhang, Zhengde's heart is like a child who has not grown up, usually only knows how to have fun, but now that his father has died, he feels like he is missing the biggest reliance, and the whole person has become a little confused and helpless.
It was also at this time that Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning, who was ten years older than Zhengde, appeared, not only often sent fun things to Zhengde, but even often chatted with Zhengde to relieve boredom, although Zhu Chenhao approached Zhengde with his own purpose. But his appearance. But it fills the lack of family affection in Zhengde. Even in Zhengde's heart, Zhu Chenhao is equivalent to his father and brother, and Zhengde is a person who attaches more importance to family affection, so King Ning has always been an irreplaceable role in Zhengde's heart, which is why King Ning can leave Nanchang several times and enter Beijing. Not to mention entering Beijing.
Zhengde's connivance with Zhu Chenhao made Zhou Chong's suppression of King Ning not very smooth, and he could only use the power of King Ning to clear up from the periphery, such as Zhu Chenhao in order to raise money for rebellion, he actually recruited many people in the rivers and lakes, especially the water thieves in Taihu Lake, almost all of whom made King Ning's mansion, which also made bandits rampant in Nanchang, and countless people were attacked by bandits, resulting in the destruction of the family.
Speaking of which, over the years, with the improvement of Daming in all aspects. The situation is also gradually improving throughout the country, and many places are showing a prosperous scene. However, the situation in Nanchang has not improved, but many local people have left their hometowns with their families and fled to the coastal areas of Ningbo and Songjiang to make a living, and even many people in Nanchang have taken the initiative to join the overseas immigration program and move their families to live overseas, after all, although the overseas environment is not very stable, it is much safer than living under the knife of robbers.
In addition, officials in Jiangxi and Nanjing have long been aware of King Ning's movements, and have written to the court several times, pointing out that King Ning has a heart of disobedience, such as Sun Sui, who is the governor of Jiangxi, and wrote to the court seven times to report the fact that King Ning rebelled, but Zhu Chenhao not only laid an emotional foundation with Zhengde, but also bribed Qian Ning, a henchman around Zhengde, Qian Ning not only leaked Zhengde's every move to him, but also helped him intercept the impeachment of local officials against him.
Even Qian Ning also sent Jiangxi's Jinyiwei to King Ning to command, many Jiangxi officials were retaliated against by King Ning because they were unwilling to attach themselves to King Ning, many people died unexplained, and even Fei Hong, the bachelor of Zhishi, almost died in the hands of King Ning, and many of these things were done by King Ning commanding Jinyiwei to help him.
It can be said that in Jiangxi, especially in Nanchang, King Ning is the emperor, and his orders are more useful than Zhengde's holy decrees, and local officials also have to look at King Ning's face to act, and if they are not careful, they may lead to death. In addition, King Ning also had two strategists, namely Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng, who helped King Ning to give advice and make active preparations for the rebellion.
After Zhou Zhong restored the identity of King Zhao, he began to clear Zhu Chenhao's forces, he first ordered the army to enter Jiangxi in the name of suppressing bandits, and cleaned up the lake bandits who were attached to King Ning, and then used economic means to hit the economic income of Ning Wangfu, and even specially sent people to publicize in Nanchang, calling on the local people to move out, although this is obviously somewhat unlikely, but the fewer people in Nanchang, the smaller Zhu Chenhao's influence, even if it is a rebellion in the future, it is difficult to form a scale.
Maybe it was Zhou Chong's suppression that made Zhu Chenhao dare not act rashly, after all, he dared to expand his power unscrupulously before, because he knew that the top level of the Ming Dynasty had been bought by him, and Zhengde was also very relieved of himself, but now a King Zhao suddenly appeared, and his status was only below Zhengde, and he was also wary of himself, so he could only shrink his strength, hoping that he could slowly make Zhou Chong forget his existence.
It's a pity that Zhou Chong knows very well what Zhu Chenhao will do in the future, so he didn't relax his vigilance against Zhu Chenhao for a moment, and even after he became a prisoner, he once again increased his control over the vassal king, and Ning Wangfu was the main place he paid attention to, such as the previous official reform, some officials installed by Ning Wang were all cleaned up by Zhou Chong, plus Qian Ning fell out of favor in front of Zhengde and ran to Xuanfu and Liaodong, which also made Zhu Chenhao lose his understanding of the situation in the capital.
With Zhou Zhong's continuous attack on Zhu Chenhao, the power that Ning Wangfu had finally accumulated was greatly damaged, especially those water bandits and thieves, who couldn't stand up outside at all, and finally had to ask Zhu Chenhao for help, and Zhu Chenhao also needed these people to work for himself in the future, so he hid these people in the palace, his palace has expanded several times, almost occupying half of Nanchang City, and it is more than enough to hide tens of thousands of people.
Zhu Chenhao saw that his strength was constantly damaged, and he also knew that Zhou Chong must have caught the ironclad evidence of his rebellion, so he would hit himself so sparingly, which made him also shocked and angry, if it was before, he would definitely run to Zhengde to cry, and then beat him up, but Zhou Chong is Zhengde's younger brother, and he is much closer than him in blood, so even if he goes to Zhengde to complain, I am afraid that in the end, he will be humiliated.
When Zhu Di rebelled, he raised troops to coerce Zhu Quan, and promised to divide the world equally in the future, but Zhu Quan had no choice but to agree to send troops, but later after Zhu Di won the world, he never mentioned the matter of dividing the world equally, and also took Zhu Quan away from the military power, and sent him to Nanchang as the king, when Zhu Quan was only 25 years old, but he had to spend his life in the wine.
Zhu Quan's civil and military skills, when he followed Zhu Yuanzhang, he also made great achievements, and later when he was in Nanchang, he could only entertain himself with Jingzi, Jiuliu, Ephemeris, Medical Bu, and Huang Lao's skills, which also made him very willing, but unfortunately Zhu Di was strong at that time, and he didn't have any chance at all, so he could only be a vassal king honestly, but his ambition to regain half of his country was never extinguished.
After Zhu Quan's death, his descendants also inherited his will, and have been looking for opportunities to regain their own country, but when it came to Zhu Chenhao's generation, he finally let him wait for the opportunity, it can be said that Zhu Chenhao is carrying the will of the previous kings of Ning, and he has almost paid the price of the first half of his life, and he will not give up no matter what.
It is precisely because of this that Zhu Chenhao saw that the power of Ning Wangfu was shrinking under the blow of Zhou, and the Ming Dynasty was also stronger day by day, if it continued like this, he would have no chance to rebel, so in this case, Zhu Chenhao, who had become a little crazy, resolutely rebelled despite the opposition of his advisers.
Zhou Zhong didn't expect Zhu Chenhao to be so crazy that he would rebel under unfavorable circumstances, which caught him off guard for a while, especially now that Daming's main energy is focused on conquering the northern grasslands and developing maritime trade, so he pays less attention to the country.
The strength of the south is already weak, although Zhou Zhong sent some troops into Jiangxi to suppress bandits, but these troops are drawn from the previous southern army, just formed an army, although there are some cadets who graduated from military academies in these armies, but the non-commissioned officers under their command are not even compared with the elite border army, and even the garrisons in some places in the north are not comparable, at most they can only bully those bandits, and they have to be several times the strength of the other party.
But now Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning, rebelled, killed the governor Sun Sui, and Xu Kui, the deputy envoy of Jiangxi, and then formed a large army, known as 100,000, although the actual strength is certainly not so much, but there are still 50,000 or 60,000, a small part of these rebellious troops are Zhu Chenhao's former private soldiers, and some are bandits and water thieves who have been forced to rebel, plus the ordinary people who were forced to rebel by them, and attacked Anqing by boat along the Yangtze River. Even if you can't seize the throne of the Ming Dynasty, you can at least rule the Ming Dynasty.
According to the original history, after the Zhu Chenhao Rebellion, Wang Shouren, who was the governor of Tingjiang and the imperial history of the capital, immediately organized troops, raised troops to serve the king, and used the strategy of drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle, and did not go to save Nanjing first, but sent troops to Nanchang, and first copied Zhu Chenhao's nest, and as a result, Zhu Chenhao, who attacked Anqing at that time, had to return to the army to rescue, but unfortunately when Huangjiadu in the northeast of Nanchang, Wang Shouren defeated Zhu Chenhao, and this battle also laid the defeat of Zhu Chenhao, but now history has changed, Wang Shouren has been serving in the capital, There is no chance to quell the rebellion at all, and in this case, who can stop Zhu Chenhao's army? (To be continued......)