When Liu Yan, the envoy sent by the Zhou Governor's Mansion, arrived at King Ning's camp, his legs were almost trembling. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

He came this time to surrender to King Ning on the orders of the Zhou Governor's Mansion.

Liu Yan was the master hired by Zhou Yue, and he was surprised in the face of the owner's request.

Of course, he didn't know the consensus reached between Xie Shen and Zhou Governor's Mansion, and thought that Lord Fuzun really wanted to dedicate Anqing Mansion to King Ning.

This can't be blamed on Governor Zhou, because this is Xie Shen's request.

Xie Shen was naturally afraid that Liu Yan, the messenger, would not be able to keep his mouth shut and say that he had missed the big impact plan.

At first, Liu Yan refused to be this messenger.

But the governor threatened him that if he didn't go, his relatives would suffer.

In desperation, Liu Yan had no choice but to come out of the city.

Anyway, he's just a messenger, and the court won't stare at him in the future, right?

For the sake of his family, he could only be humiliated once.

Liu Yan's arrival surprised King Ning.

After all, Anqing has been besieged for several days, and Zhou Yue didn't have the slightest idea of giving up resistance, so why did he suddenly relent, and sent a messenger?

Could it be that the morale of the army is scattered? Or does Governor Zhou feel that if he continues to resist, Anqing City will be broken, so it is better to take refuge in advance to earn a good impression?

In short, Zhu Chenhao is still very happy.

He ordered the messenger to be brought to the tent for questioning.

Liu Yan was taken to the tent by a group of generals with tigers on their backs, and saw a middle-aged man in a dragon robe looking at him steadily.

He said in his heart that this should be King Ning.

I didn't expect King Ning to change into a dragon robe so eagerly, it seems that the rebellion has been planned for a long time.

"The grass people meet the prince."

Liu Yan knelt down and saluted King Ning and said respectfully.

Zhu Chenhao was displeased and said, "You should call me Your Majesty!" ”

Liu Yan secretly complained in his heart, he thought to himself that King Ning must have been slapped by a bunch of rebel ministers these days. These people shouted one by one, and King Ning really thought that he was the Son of Heaven.

How sad and ridiculous!

How to address King Ning is indeed an extremely headache.

If Liu Yan only went out of the city as an envoy to see King Ning once, he could still put the responsibility on the Zhou Governor's Mansion. But if he called King Ning the word "Your Majesty", the nature would be completely different. This means that he approves of King Ning's rebellious behavior and takes the initiative to flatter......

But if he didn't scream, Liu Yan suspected that he would break his leg immediately.

Liu Yan had to comfort himself that no one would know what he had said when he came to King Ning's camp.

The hero doesn't suffer the immediate loss, so let's admit it first.

"Your Majesty, the Governor of Zhou sent the grass people here to dedicate the city."

Sooner or later, this would have to be said, Liu Yan gritted his teeth and stomped his feet.

"Well, he's finally figured it out. I am commanded by the heavens, those who obey me prosper, and those who oppose me perish. ”

Zhu Chenhao was still intoxicated with the dream of the emperor and couldn't extricate himself, and waved his big hand and said: "Now surrender to sincerity, and when I conquer the country, you will all have a heavy reward." ”

Zhu Chenhao shook his majesty and asked in a deep voice: "Since Zhou Yue wants to surrender, why don't you open the city gate and come to see me in person?" ”

"Returning to Your Majesty, this is a helpless move by the Mansion. After all, there were many officers in the city who were still loyal to the imperial court. ”

Zhu Chenhao was dumbfounded, and even suspected that he had heard it wrong.

What does that mean? Zhou Yue wants to surrender to Cheng but has no control over his subordinates? What kind of sincerity is this!

Zhu Chenhao was furious, and his anger naturally reached Liu Yan.

"Get out!"

"Your Majesty, wait!"

At this time, Wang Lun, the secretary of the Ministry of War, stood up and said respectfully: "Zhou Yue must have his difficulties, Your Majesty might as well listen to their plans." ”

Zhu Chenhao suppressed the anger in his heart, waved his hand at Liu Yan and said, "You go on." ”

Liu Yan was frightened, and he made up his mind, and Fang said respectfully: "The intention of the Fuzun is to ask Your Majesty to pretend to attack the East Gate, so that the Fuzun can mobilize those generals who support the imperial court to go to the East Gate." At that time, the Fuzun will open the south gate. His Majesty can send the main force into the city to take over Anqing. ”

This set of rhetoric was said by Zhou Yue to Liu Yan personally, and he told him several times. Liu Yan did not change a word, and retold it to Zhu Chenhao.

Zhu Chenhao fell into deep thought after hearing this.

This week, Yue has a little thought.

If he really didn't have absolute control over the army, it was really not appropriate to open the city gate directly.

In this way, those generals may directly kill Zhou Yue, but Zhu Chenhao has no chance to take over Anqing.

But Zhou Yue had his advantage, he was nominally the supreme commander of Anqing. The arrangement of troops is a matter of his words, as long as Zhu Chenhao cooperates with the feint attack on one side, and then enters the city from the other side, he can easily take this fortified city.

Of course, this is not to say that Zhou Yue is risk-free.

If Zhou Yue's intention to divert the tiger from the mountain was discovered by those generals, it was estimated that he would be chopped into pulp by the angry soldiers. But for Zhu Chenhao, there is no loss. It's a big deal to re-siege the city.

Zhu Chenhao naturally didn't want to miss this kind of thing that would make money without losing money, he pondered for a moment and turned to Li Shishi and asked, "What does Li Xiang think?" ”

Li Shishi shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this move must not be done!" ”

Zhu Chenhao originally wanted Li Shishi to help him make up his mind, but who knew that Li Shishi was pouring cold water on him.

"Why not?"

In the face of Zhu Chenhao's questioning, Li Shishi did not panic at all, and replied calmly: "Your Majesty, if you feint to attack the east gate according to Zhou Yue's intentions and take the south gate, the warships of Hongniwan will have to be mobilized, so that the blockade and control of the mouth of the river bay will be weakened, and if there are enemy ships sneaking in, they will not be able to find it at the first time." ”

Zhu Chenhao thought that Li Shishi had some lofty opinions, but seeing Li Shishi's boastful talk, he sneered: "The purpose of controlling the river bay is to moor warships to prepare for the big battle, and at the moment Zhengde has not sent reinforcements at all, I don't know what Li Xiang is afraid of!" ”

"Your Majesty!" Li Shishi was full of grief and indignation, shook his head and said: "If Your Majesty doesn't believe it, you can give it a try, but the old minister thinks that this is a sign of defeat!" ”

"You are presumptuous!"

Zhu Chenhao's most taboo thing is to hear the word defeat, this old immortal dares to say in front of him, it is really lawless and lawless.

"Come on, drag this rebel out for forty at a cost."

Zhu Chenhao's face was hideous, and he gritted his teeth.

"No need, the minister will leave by himself!"

Li Shishi sneered and walked towards the outside of the account.

He said in his heart, Zhu Chenhao has not yet conquered the country, so he is in such a hurry to establish his authority, and he still takes these die-hard old ministers. How could such a person take over the world?

It's a pity that he was blind at the beginning, and he actually took refuge in this kind of person.

"Yes, yes. Give me a hard beating, a real fight! ”

Zhu Chenhao felt that his authority had been challenged, and said fiercely.

It didn't take long to hear the muffled sound of the board hitting Li Shishi's buttocks and legs, and Zhu Chenhao was a little surprised that Li Shishi didn't say a word.

"Your Majesty, although Li Xiang is at fault, his crime is not to death, Li Xiang is very old, I am afraid that this board will take his life."

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The right prime minister, Liu Yangzheng, finally couldn't stand it anymore.

In his opinion, King Ning was too rigid and self-serving.

King Ruoning is a lord of success, and it is not fatal at all. But King Ning is now rebelling, and this character will kill him and kill everyone.

If Heaven wants to make people die, they must first make them mad.

King Ning is so empty-eyed and mean, which of his subordinates will work for him?

Without these dead soldiers, King Ning is just an ordinary mortal who can't be ordinary anymore, what kind of king wants to dominate the industry and win Kyushu?

Liu Yan on the side was shocked to watch.

This King Ning's temper is too big, right?

Li Shishi is the left prime minister who he leans on as his arm, and he actually said that he would hit the board if he dragged it down, and he didn't give the courtiers a chance to explain at all.

To say that the old Zhu family's habit of playing courtiers has a long history, and it can be traced back to Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Taizu started from the recklessness and finally won in the crowd of heroes, and established the unified Ming Dynasty. This is naturally a great achievement, but Emperor Taizu came from a humble background, and he always unconsciously thought that his subordinates looked down on him.

Therefore, Emperor Taizu created the four books of people, army, craftsman, and stove, and put all the people in the world into the four books.

The business is passed on from father to son, from generation to generation.

In Emperor Taizu's vision, the people of the world follow the noble and lowly guidelines, and the Ming Dynasty will be able to exist for thousands of generations.

But this is just a beautiful idea, not to mention that there are many loopholes in this system when it was implemented after Zhu Yuanzhang's death. Even when Zhu Yuanzhang was still alive, those princes still looked down on this clay-legged emperor in their hearts.

The Jinyi Guard, founded by Zhu Yuanzhang, discovered these news and reported it to the Son of Heaven. Zhu Yuanzhang was naturally furious. He said in his heart, you are eating Lao Tzu's rice and smashing Lao Tzu's bowl, it is really heaven-shattering.

Aren't you unconvinced, Lao Tzu will beat you until you are convinced.

Thus, the 'great' system of the court staff was born.

The court staff who dared to disobey the emperor's orders, the court staff who dared to disagree with the emperor, and the court staff who dared to point fingers at the emperor's private life......

In short, as long as Emperor Zhu is displeased, he will be dragged down and spanked by Jinyiwei.

Scholars are all fine-skinned and tender-skinned, and even if they don't die, they have to lie in bed for months to heal their injuries.

At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, civil officials had not yet developed to the stage of rushing to anger the emperor for the sake of fame in the later stage.

In the face of Zhu Yuanzhang's iron-fisted policy, the arrogant and empty-eyed civil officials finally lowered their heads and chose the former between ass and dignity.

Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang was only the founder of the court staff system, and it was Emperor Zhengde and Emperor Jiajing who really carried it forward.

The number of courtiers who have been scepters by these two sons together may be more than half of the number of scepters in the entire Ming court.

Although Zhu Chenhao is not a genuine emperor, he is also surnamed Zhu, and he has inherited some of the habits of the old Zhu family.

Zhu Chenhao didn't learn much about good habits, but he learned the ability to beat his subordinates and stand up quickly.

There are only a few courtiers around him who can be relied on, and Li Shishi is an important assistant. Not only is he good at making suggestions, but he is also very good at internal affairs and logistics.

But it is such an all-round talent who was abandoned by Zhu Chenhao, saying that the court staff is the court staff, and that if he says humiliation, he will be humiliated.

It is not an exaggeration to describe Zhu Chenhao as mean and unkind, and cold by nature.

Zhu Chenhao raised his eyebrows, the fat on his cheeks tightened suddenly, and he waved his hand extremely reluctantly: "That's it, I'll spare him this time!" ”

Liu Yangzheng hurriedly rushed out to tell the executing sergeant to stop, even so Li Shishi had already been beaten with more than a dozen boards, and he was sweating profusely at the moment, almost fainting.

Liu Yangzheng glanced at the two sergeants, and the two immediately set up the weakened Li Shishi and went down.

Liu Yangzheng sighed, and said in his heart, Brother Void (Li Shishi's words), why are you suffering.

Zhu Chenhao obviously didn't intend to care about this. The people have already struck, and the power has already been established. The next step is naturally to discuss the takeover of Anqing Mansion.

Although Liu Yan's plan did not completely satisfy him, at least it allowed him to see a glimmer of light in the dark.

Zhu Chenhao hesitated again and again, but still agreed to Liu Yan's request and agreed with him to enter the city.

Liu Yan completed the task assigned by Governor Zhou, but he didn't want to stay in King Ning's camp for a moment longer. Obviously, Zhu Chenhao didn't have a good impression of this messenger, and directly asked someone to send him away.

After Liu Yan left, Wang Lun, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and Liu Yangzheng, the right prime minister, also retired one after another.

Zhu Chenhao only left Qian Ning, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, to ask him what he thought about this matter.

From beginning to end, Qian Ning did not express any opinion on this matter, which made Zhu Chenhao very puzzled.

You must know that Qian would rather be a rectum and will be the first to express his opinion at any time.

But he was silent on this matter, there must be something hidden.

Zhu Chenhao is not stupid, of course he knows that this may be a fraud.

But Li Shishi's old man was too unreasonable, and he swept his face in front of the envoy, and he had to stand up for the old man Li.

But this does not mean that Zhu Chenhao has no doubts about Zhou Yue's surrender.

Now he had to listen to Channing's opinion.

There are only two people in the tent, and there is no need to scruple anymore.

Qian Ning pondered for a moment, bowed to Zhu Chenhao and said, "Your Majesty, I'm afraid there is fraud here." ”

Zhu Chenhao was shocked when he heard this.

If it was just Li Shishi who said this, he could have regarded it as alarmist. But now that even Qian Ning said so, Zhu Chenhao had to think about it carefully......

"Tell me, where is the fraud?"

Qian Ning smiled and said, "Your Majesty thinks, why did Zhou Yue ask His Majesty to feint to attack the East Gate?" ”

Zhu Chenhao replied casually: "Because he wants to mobilize the main defenders of the city to go to the east gate, so as to open the south gate to welcome the army into the city." ”

Qian Ning shook his head again and again and said: "It's not so simple, what Li Xiang said has some truth, His Majesty's sailors are all stationed in Hongniwan." Once the east gate of Anqing Mansion is feinted, the sequence of warships in Hongniwan will be disrupted. If an army takes advantage of the chaos to sneak into ......"

Channing didn't continue, but the meaning was already obvious.

King Ning rebelled, and he was strong on this water division.

Without this water master, King Ning's army would be like a chicken and a dog in front of the imperial army. Zhu Chenhao naturally knew this, so he had always protected the warships, and most of the warships were docked in Hongniwan in the southeast of Anqing Mansion, and only a small number of warships were sent in turn to block the river.

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