Chapter 299: The Vassal King's Reaction
The military newspaper rushed to Beijing, and Xiao Fan stayed in Beiping to carry out the aftermath work.
Surrendered to the Yan army, confiscated weapons, curfew in the whole city, restored pre-war order, repaired the damaged city walls and houses during the war, etc., the aftermath work is very cumbersome, Xiao Fan is obviously not a patient person, and he is not good at doing these things.
Xiao Fan was depressed, the city was captured by me, and it was not well governed, and it was spread out to let the Qingliu in the court know, wouldn't it be laughing off his big teeth?
The high-ranking and powerful Marquis Xiao now also feels the importance of face, face is something that cannot be seen or touched, but it really supports the faΓ§ade, as the saying goes, people live a face, trees live a skin, this face is easy to lose, and it will be dirty if you pick it up again.
On the governance of Beiping, there is actually a ready-made expert,ββ Zhu Di, who has been reduced to a prisoner.
robbed other people's cities, and had to order people to help him take care of them, and the robbers were not so unreasonable.
Fortunately, Xiao Fan is a person who is not very reasonable, so in the dungeon of Beiping Mansion, Xiao Fan staged another old-fashioned bloody plot, the knife was on the necks of Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Gaosui, and Zhu Di had to succumb to Xiao Fan's Yinwei and honestly help him come up with ideas to calm the people and deal with the aftermath.
Beiping was captured, but the war was not completely over, there were still many remnants of the Yan army in the north, and the imperial court pacified the rebellion army stationed in Beiping for a few days and then pulled out, and continued to annihilate the remnants of the Yan army in the north, sweeping the Ming frontier south of the Great Wall.
In mid-November of the first year of Jianwen, the forward officer Ping'an led 50,000 troops to the Shanhaiguan.
When the army arrived, Chen Fu, the garrison of Shanhaiguan, put down his weapons and led 20,000 Yan troops out of the customs empty-handed, bowing to the ground, and Shanhaiguan surrendered without a fight.
At this point, the imperial army successfully recovered all the cities and passes involved in the rebellion, and the Battle of Pingyan was over.
The war is over, but the impact on the world is enormous.
Under the instruction of Xiao Fan, more than ten groups of fast riders were quickly dispatched to every corner of the city in the Ming Dynasty, especially the fiefdoms of those vassal kings. β
Within a few days, this sentence spread all over the Ming Dynasty, and the world was shocked for a while.
The vassal kings were stunned and trembled.
More than 20 vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty, the most powerful and the heaviest fourth son of the emperor, Yanwang Zhu Di, was actually defeated by Xiao Fan, and the defeat was so clean and thorough, more than 100,000 people rebelled vigorously, and it took only nine months for the imperial court to be completely pacified.
Brave and strong as the four emperor brothers, they can't withstand the majesty of the imperial court, what are the remaining vassal kings? The hemp rope wears the tofu, and the mention is all mentioned.
The official military report of the victory had just arrived at the palace of the capital division, and before Zhu Yunwen had time to rejoice, the vassal kings quickly reacted, and the military report of the victory arrived at the palace at the same time, as well as the table of the king of Shu.
Zhu Chun, the king of Shu, the eleventh son of Zhu Yuanzhang, Hongwu 23 years in Chengdu, Sichuan, his people are erudite and talented, enlightened and virtuous, quite Zhu Yuanzhang loved, often nicknamed "Shu Xiucai".
Zhu Chun gave Zhu Yunwen the first extreme support for Zhu Yunwen's orthodox status of the Ming Emperor, and congratulated the imperial court on quelling the Yan rebellion, and finally changed the conversation, saying that the wet miasma of Shu was too heavy, Zhu Chun had been in Chengdu for nine years, and he was really not used to the ghost weather in Shu, so Zhu Chun asked Zhu Yunwen to let him go back to Beijing to recuperate in his old age, as for the military and political power of Chengdu, please appoint another official to take over, Zhu Chun only brought a few guards and family members back to Beijing.
Zhu Yunwen was so happy, although the King of Shu's statement was implicit, his meaning was very clear, I won't do it! The regime, all the military power will be returned to you, will I go back to Beijing and be an idle and carefree prince?
The most powerful Yan King Zhu Di was defeated, and the imperial army was at the peak of the army, who would dare to support the army at this time? Zhu Di's failure made all the vassal kings very soberly realize that being a prince is a very unpromising high-risk profession, whoever has more soldiers in his hands will be more dangerous, and the chief military officer Xiao Fan is still leading hundreds of thousands of troops to sweep in the north, who knows who Xiao Fan's dog eyes will target next?
The table of Zhu Chun, the king of Shu, seemed to give the vassal kings a wake-up call, and all the vassal kings had a cold shiver, and then rushed to give Zhu Yunwen a watch, and rode on the official road for eight hundred miles and ran happily.
Among these vassal kings on the table, Zhu Jixi, the second-generation Jin king, is the fastest and most feared.
Because Zhu Jixi is very aware of his strength, if the powerful vassal kings in the world come to the Forbes ranking, Yan King Zhu Di is the first, Jin King is second, and Ning Wang is third...... Zhu Jixi hid in the palace and cried so much that he swore to the sky that he would never want to be the first of this dog! Because Xiao Fan is the first to kill, whoever dares to be the first will destroy him!
When the king of Jin cried miserably, his advisers were also anxious, and persuaded him to quickly submit a table to the court, announcing his support for Zhu Yunwen's orthodox status, and asking the court to cut the domain.
Zhu Jixi, who has just become the king of Jin, is a very mediocre person, but this time he has a rare enlightenment, and he actually knows how to draw inferences, Zhu Jixi pondered for a long time, he felt that just the table was not enough to express his sincerity to the court, and the nearly 100,000 soldiers under the King of Jin were also a powder magazine from time to time, maybe one day he would be blown to pieces, the vassal king should be so dangerous, Zhu Jixi was sad and simply took a sidewalk, Lao Tzu quit, who do you love!
So Zhu Jixi didn't wait for the court to reply, packed up the entire palace, led his family, didn't even dare to bring more guards, and went straight to Beijing, it is better to be an idle prince, no power, at least better than losing his surname, this time even if the Son of Heaven does not cut his domain, Zhu Jixi also decided to cut himself by himself, and resolutely not to be a bird.
The number one feudal king! What's the difference between this and the urging post of King Zhang Yama posted on the door of the head? Didn't you hear the sound of Xiao Fan sharpening his knife? It's horrible...... The news that the king of Jin went straight to Beijing quickly spread all over the world, if the vassal king did not follow the edict of the Son of Heaven, it was a big crime to enter Beijing without permission, but this time was a special period, from the court to the people, everyone knew why Zhu Jixi wanted to return to Beijing, this guy was frightened.
When Zhu Jixi was still on the way, Jinyiwei had already spread the news to the Jingshi Palace.
Zhu Yunwen immediately laughed when he heard the news, and hurriedly made up a will to Zhu Jixi, who was still crying while walking on the road, and allowed him to go back to Beijing to live for a while, which saved Zhu Jixi from being impeached by the imperial historians of the DPRK and the central government.
King Jin, who had just been promoted to the first rank, cut himself down, so King Ning naturally became the first vassal king.
Ning Wang Zhu Quan trembled, and he didn't know whether he was angry or frightened.
Zhu Quan is in his early twenties, about the same age as Xiao Fan. The two were of the same age, but Zhu Quan was ruthlessly calculated by Xiao Fan, until Duoyan Sanwei entered the customs without greeting him and helped Xiao Fan kill Zhu Di, Zhu Quan found that he was dug into the corner by Xiao Fan, and he was so angry that he yelled in the palace.
The reason why King Ning can rank third among the more than 20 vassal kings is because he has an invincible brave cavalry under his command, that is, Duoyan Sanwei who was incorporated by Zhu Yuanzhang, King Ning relied on them to repeatedly repel the Tartars and become the most famous powerful vassal king in the world, now Xiao Fan is like a nouveau riche who has made a windfall, a few boxes of gold are smashed down, Duoyan Sanwei actually became his Xiao Fan's subordinates, King Ning became a bare commander in a blink of an eye, and what is even more infuriating is that with Zhu Di being destroyed, Zhu Jixi dragged his family straight to Beijing, the king of the world's domains, He, the commander of the light pole, inexplicably became the number one bird.
This is simply a slap in the face of his Zhu Quan!
It's just that Zhu Quan is angry and doesn't dare to send it, this matter has spread out and lost the dead, you are a dignified prince on the sidelines, you can't control the subordinates given to you by the first emperor, and let others dig the corner of the wall alive, why don't you just buy a piece of tofu and hit the ball to death?
After the grief, indignant and aggrieved King Ning was angry, he suddenly had the same thoughts as Zhu Jixi, he couldn't do this job! Instead of staying in Daning Mansion and being the commander of the light pole and being suspicious of the ministers today, it is better to ask for the surname to be a single person, pack up the burden and go back to Beijing like Zhu Jixi, who loves to be the first-ranked vassal king, the commander of the light pole occupies the first place, am I wronged?
So, Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, cleaned up the fineness in the palace, got a few big carriages with a few guards, and returned to Beijing in despair.
The most powerful vassal kings of Beiping, Taiyuan, and Daning collapsed, and the vassal kings of the world became more and more shocked, and they inquired about each other in a panic,...... Who's the turn of the number one now?
In the past, it was a very long-faced thing to talk about who was the first in strength among the vassal kings, but now after Xiao Fan knocked Zhu Di down, the vassal kings were very resistant to the ranking of "first", and kicked this glorious title around one by one as if they were kicking a ball, for fear of having something to do with themselves.
Later, they were connected to each other, and all the vassal kings reached a frustrating consensus, yes, let's all be humble about this first title, and collectively submit a table to the court, and ask for a reduction in the domain.
So the vassal kings one by one as if they had an infectious disease, this one said he had a back pain, that said he had a headache, anyway, he couldn't go up to the fifth floor in one breath, and they asked Zhu Yunwen to cut the feudal domain and return to Beijing to recuperate, and at the same time they said very directly to Zhu Yunwen that at present, the Ming Dynasty is politically harmonious, the four seas are leveled, and the existence of the fief seems to be unnecessary, so all our princes suddenly have a common dream, that is, to live in Beijing for a long time, walk dogs and fight cocks every day to play crickets, and the imperial uncles have been on the side for so many years, and the rest of their lives will depend on you.
It was the winter of the first year of Jianwen, just about to celebrate the New Year, according to the rules, the vassal kings should indeed enter Beijing to congratulate the Son of Heaven, so Zhu Yunwen laughed happily, waved his hand, and happily agreed to the request of the vassal kings, all go back to Beijing, let's have a happy and peaceful reunion year together with the Zhu family, I have arranged a wealth of [***] activities for the emperor's uncles, and the gentle and graceful Jiangnan girls are waiting for you in Beijing.
While the vassal kings were grateful, of course, they didn't dare to forget Xiao Fan, the great god, who was leading hundreds of thousands of people to run rampant in the north, and the devils were sweeping around like entering the village. It is said that this guy speaks and acts unpredictable, no one can touch his veins, the winged phoenix is not as good as a chicken, and in the future, the vassal kings will be mixed to death in Beijing, so it is better to have a good relationship with this powerful minister who is like Zhongtian.
So, at the same time that the vassal kings gave Zhu Yunwen a table, a kind and friendly private message flew to Beiping Mansion one after another, and the vassal kings called Xiao Fan brother and brother in the letter, and the affection was like a mother's birth, so he almost dragged Xiao Fan's sleeve and cut off the head of the chicken with him to burn yellow paper.
Of course, the princes' letters invariably and cautiously suggested that Xiao Fan usually have nothing to do and maintain the Hongwu cannon, don't let it go off, even if it goes off, don't bombard my house, I am a good citizen, and I am about to unload my military power and go to Beijing to retire...... The attitude of the vassal kings surprised Xiao Fan a little, and at the same time he was a little emotional, he finally understood the meaning of the phrase "truth is only within the range of the cannon", ugly, but very realistic.
Zhu Di's rebellion was put down, and a series of chain reactions were noisy, and this direct military deterrence obviously frightened the vassal kings and laid a very solid foundation for Zhu Yunwen's next plan to cut the domain.
Pei Binh Province.
All the aftermath matters were carried out almost completely, more than 300,000 troops were sent out by Xiao Fan in five ways, led by Ping'an, Sheng Yong, Qu Neng, Geng Bingwen, and Guo Ying, and carried out a very thorough sweep of the north, all the officials and garrison generals of the city were replaced, and the court officials sent officials at all levels to take over it non-stop, and the unstable people's hearts gradually calmed down under the appeasement of the new officials of the imperial court.
Xiao Fan worked in the Yamen of the Beiping Prefect's Mansion, the original Yan Wangfu was empty, and the generals under his command persuaded him to move in, Xiao Fan categorically vetoed, just kidding, Yan Wangfu is the capital palace of the previous dynasty, and many of the decorations and specifications inside are beyond the system, Xiao Fan is also the emperor's courtier no matter how big his power is, what qualifications does he have to live in the palace? The front foot lives in, and the back foot will be impeached by those officials who are full of food and have nothing to do, at this time he is still leading hundreds of thousands of troops, and his identity is very sensitive, in case Zhu Yunwen feels unhappy, but he will bury a disaster for himself.
In history, people who have made meritorious contributions are arrogant, and people who cannot live for a lifetime are generally very short-lived, Xiao Fan knows very well that if he wants to live to the age of eighty, it is best not to do this kind of meaningless thing that purely satisfies vanity, only those who abide by their duties live the longest, even if Zhu Yunwen treats him as a brother, he can't take a step beyond Lei Chi, low-key is the king.
Speaking of being low-key, Xiao Fan suddenly remembered a person who was not very low-key.
Xiao Fan, who was dealing with the aftermath of the business, stopped his pen and asked Cao Yi thoughtfully: "How is Ji Gang doing?" β
Cao Yi pursed his lips and said, "Yuan Zhong has sent news that Ji Gang's dog has become more and more lawless recently......"
Xiao Fan became interested and hurriedly said, "Tell me, what did this guy do?" β
"Because you quelled the Yan rebellion, the vassal kings have asked themselves to cut the domain, the Son of Heaven is happy, and he has been in a good mood recently, so Ji Gang entrusted your blessing, and was named a Yang Wubo by the Son of Heaven, this guy relied on the favor of the Son of Heaven, he was originally arrogant and domineering, and now he has been sealed an uncle, and he is becoming more and more arrogant, and he went to the Taoist temple outside the city a few days ago, and somehow fell in love with a young female Taoist, unfortunately, this female Taoist priest happened to also be taken by Li Jinglong, the Duke of Cao Guo, Li Jinglong is also a lawless master, The two of them then accumulated grievances because of the female Taoist priest, and they couldn't bear each other, and there was a saying that Ji Gang and Li Jinglong were drinking in the same restaurant, and the two groups were only separated by a private room, Li Jinglong then talked about his old feud with Ji Gang, and then scolded Ji Gang, but it happened to be heard by Ji Gang next door, Ji Gang drank too much at the time, and regardless of Li Jinglong's identity as a national prince, he rushed into the private room and beat Li Jinglong, and the two groups fought, and in the chaos, Ji Gang picked up a golden gourd hammer and smashed Li Jinglong's head open......"
Xiao Fan was dumbfounded when he heard this: "Li Jinglong was smashed on the head by Ji Gang? β
Cao Yi sighed and said: "Yes, an earl actually dares to smash the Duke of the Kingdom, our Daming is really a strange thing, and what is even more strange is that after Li Jinglong sued the Golden Palace, the Son of Heaven just fined Ji Gang for one year and ordered Ji Gang to apologize......
Xiao Fan's heart sank, Ji Gang was favored by Zhu Yunwen to such an extent? I see that I want the class teacher to return to Beijing, what attitude should I have towards Ji Gang after returning to Beijing? What will Ji Gang do to himself?
Just finished the campaign, is it possible that a new war is waiting for you? Don't let people pass?
Xiao Fan let out a long sigh and said, "Li Jinglong is also true, Ji Gang is now holding the Jinyi Guard, what are you going to fight with him, can't the great hatred wait for me to return to Beijing to discuss?" Fighting with the martial arts example, my brain is in water......"
Cao Yi glanced at him strangely: "How do you know that Li Jinglong's brain is in water?" β
"Ahem, I'm just using an analogy......"
Cao Yi said slowly: "I know you are a metaphor, but what I said is the truth, after Li Jinglong was smashed on the head by Ji Gang, he must use an umbrella on a rainy day, otherwise his brain will really get into the water......"
Xiao Fan's eyes were straight, and he was silent for a long time and suddenly scolded a foul word: "Damn! Is it really watery? β
Cao Yi's expression was extremely serious: "It's really in the water." β
(To be continued)