Zhu Dadian received Zhou Maofan's return, and couldn't help but be surprised when he heard that the emperor was in a hurry.

"My lord, how is this good?" Zhou Maofan asked with a shocked expression.

"The safety of Zhongdu is a matter of social security, and Zhao Yan can save the best, not only thanks to the community, but also to us. If the capital falls, there is no duty on us. Zhu Dadian said and hurriedly asked people to draft an urgent report.

In the urgent report, he was afraid that the thieves would commit Fengyang, so he sent Denglai guerrilla Zhao Yan to help the capital.

After drafting, there was no polishing, and people were directly sent to the capital with fast horses.

If the thieves really invaded Fengyang, Zhao Yan could rescue him in time, and he Zhu Dadian would definitely have merit. If he hadn't invaded Fengyang, he wouldn't have had anything to do.

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This time to Fengyang, Zhao Yan's men and horses took the land route, and there were two official roads to the south, one in Qingzhou, straight down to Nanjing. One is in Jinan, south to Yanzhou City, and then the official road is divided into two, one to the southwest to Henan, and the other to the south to Xuzhou.

Under Xuzhou is Fengyang Mansion. Between the north and the south, Jinan and Fengyang are in a straight line, and Fengyang is more easterly. From Huangxian to Jinan, and then from Jinan to Fengyang, the distance is about more than 800 kilometers.

This is the first time that the trip has been long-distance, and many places still look jerky. Although the soldiers of the second battalion practiced horseback riding, their equestrian skills were not as good as those of the cavalry battalion.

After two days, when they arrived at Yanzhou Mansion, some soldiers were already unwell.

Originally, Zhao Yan wanted to increase the speed of the march, but the weather suddenly snowed heavily, and the road conditions became a little worse. Therefore, it can only maintain a speed of 200 miles per day.

This speed is not fast for cavalry, and such a speed can only be kept up by the baggage battalion. The carriages used in the baggage camp are two-wheeled and have a high ability to adapt to the road. However, a carriage can pull five or six hundred catties of supplies, although there are two horses in turn, but the speed is not fast after all.

Walking to Qufu, Zhao Yan saw a huge man-made garden, which was the hometown of Confucius and the place where the Kong family was located.

The artificial garden is called Kong Lin, with the improvement of the status of Confucius and the reproduction of the descendants of the Kong family, under the respect of the emperors of the past dynasties, the area of the Kong Forest continues to expand. The descendants of Confucius continued to improve the specifications of tombs, erected steles, built plaques, engraved stone instruments, and famous scholars and eunuchs had seal inscriptions.

However, behind the prosperous Kong Lin, the people on the road are undressed, and some are even unclothed, and the hundreds of thousands of acres of land nearby are all owned by the Kong family, and most of the people living in Qufu are tenant farmers of the Kong family.

The Confucian family is clothed in the sacred brilliance of control, and Confucianism is a school of thought that has been admired by successive rulers, so no matter how the dynasty changes, the Confucian family will not decline with it.

However, the previous dynasties gave the Kong family such courtesy, but the Kong family's patriotic thoughts were almost none, whether it was a foreign race or something, those who could hug their thighs all hugged their thighs, and there were never any loyal deeds.

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On the seventh day, the army finally arrived in Xuzhou, and when Xu Shou's officers and soldiers saw Zhao Yan's group of troops with horses and horses, they directly shrank in the city and did not dare to come out to ask.

Zhao Yan did not plunder on the ground, and crossed the Yellow River without incident (the previous chapter was written wrong, the Yellow River seems to have been frozen, and the grain should be transported by land, sweating wildly).

The next day, after crossing the Yellow River, he heard that the main force of the thieves had entered Anhui and conquered Yingzhou on the 11th. It was the thirteenth day of the first month when I received this news.

"I'm afraid the number of thieves is no less than 200,000, and they conquered Yingzhou two days ago. If you walk, it is only four or five days from Yingzhou to Fengyang. Liu Heng analyzed the information, "The thieves have horses, if they attack with fine horses, I am afraid they have already arrived in Fengyang." ”

"Ming said that the whole battalion will speed up and strive to reach Fengyang as soon as possible." Zhao Yan ordered.

"There are no less than 200,000 thieves, and we should arrange a strategy to attack them." Liu Heng suggested to Zhao Yan.

"Hmm." Zhao Yan nodded, although the thieves are just a group of rabble, they are good at controlling the enemy by walking, if they can't fight, they will run, and if they can't run, they will surrender.

"Regardless of whether Fengyang is defeated or not, our focus is still on eliminating those thieves. It is impossible for the thieves to stand still and let us clear them, so the way to attack must first make strategic arrangements. Zhao Yan and several staff officers in the army spread out the map and discussed how to exterminate the plan for the thieves who fled eastward this time.

After more than half an hour of discussion, the extermination plan was finally decided.

First of all, defeat the thieves in Anhui. Then the thieves were driven north and driven into the Guide Mansion in Henan.

As the most prosperous region of the Ming Dynasty, the south is the essence of civilization, and no matter how chaotic it is, it cannot be chaotic to the south.

At the same time, the thieves who invaded Pingyang Mansion in Shaanxi Province have crossed the Yellow River from Huaiqing Mansion in Henan Province and have now flowed to Guide Mansion (Shangqiu area) in Henan.

Just rush the thieves who have entered Fengyang Mansion to Guide Mansion, so that the two thieves can meet to facilitate the attack.

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Eleventh said that the thieves went down to Yingzhou, and for those rich people, it was like falling into hell on earth, and the thieves went around robbing their homes and houses.

The door of the rich man's house was broken, and the thieves laughed wildly and rushed into the house, the first thing they looked for was the embroidery building. The rich lady in the embroidery building has always been the first target of these thieves.

Once the thief finds the rich lady in the embroidery building, he will rush into the embroidery building with red eyes, and annihilate the rich lady in the embroidery building with the maid, silver.

Some were directly annihilated and silver to death, while others were sent to the leader of the thieves for the leader to enjoy.

The thieves who invaded Yingzhou this time were led by the King of Sweeping and the King of Taiping, and there were also more than a dozen small thieves, who looted in Yingzhou for one day, and the second one was directly killed to Fengyang at a speed of traveling hundreds of miles.

As soon as they arrived at a land a hundred miles away from Fengyang, the army of thieves received a greeting from the people of Fengyang.

There are no soldiers somewhere, and a certain family is rich, and these Fengyang people have reported it to the thieves.

Fengyang was the place of "Longxing" in the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Yuanzhang's parents were buried here, called the Imperial Mausoleum. Longxing Temple, where he himself was a monk in his youth, is also here. Therefore, Fengyang was designated as the central capital and enjoyed a special status in politics. Although there are splendid palaces, verdant and majestic mountains, and well-pampered eunuchs and local officials, it is a real hell on earth for the local people. In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang once ordered "the people of Fengyang and Linhuai counties should be restored and endowed, and there is nothing in the world." ”

In fact, it is precisely because of Emperor Zhu that there are so many pretentious and errand servants that the common people are overwhelmed. "One family and seven battles, but still not exempt from whipping." The peasants "worked hard for a year" and finally laid a little grain, and the servants followed, "if they did not cooperate, they would be tied to their necks, and if they did not cooperate, they would hang their bodies upside down, and if they did not cooperate with their wives, they would move to other rooms."

In November of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Qian Shisheng, the right attendant of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, was ordered to pay tribute to the Fengyang Emperor's Mausoleum, and wrote a report on the decay of the Fengyang area:

"Fengyang is known as the emperor's hometown,...... When the minister entered the realm, he saw that the land was barren, the houses were scarce, and the tomb was reckless, and he looked bleak. After consulting it, it is said that the Fengtu is indeed barren, and the counties in Jiangbei are under the river, and the dwellings are all Tuci. In the event of a flood and drought, he will be abandoned like a piece of, take the burden of his wife and children, and beg to live in all directions. And the hukou is in exile, and the endowment is accumulated over the years. Urging the levy will never hesitate, and the solicitation is suspected to be empty talk. There is a division that is bound to the positive amount, and it has to be levied with the grain of the household. So the more losses accumulate, and the one who sees it turns to others. This land is said to be wasted, the household registration is said to be consumed, the positive amount is said to be lost, and the accommodation is said to be accumulated. …… I don't mean that the hometown of the ancestors Tang Mu has the image of exhausting the roots, and the heart is hurt. …… Today, the government is heavy, and the people are poor and wealthy,...... And the minister is said to be benevolent, and it is advisable to be the emperor's hometown. That is, it is especially reduced, but Taicang's rice ear. ”

Due to the late Ming Dynasty, officials in various places [***], officials often greedy for the taxes that have been collected, often resulting in arrears. Zhu Youzhen was afraid of setting a precedent and being emulated by officials in various places, so he did not agree to the suggestion of Qian Shisheng, the right attendant of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites.

The folk song of Fengyang, a woman in the Qing Dynasty, sings like this:

Say Fengyang, Dao Fengyang,

Fengyang is a good place,

Since Emperor Zhu,

Nine out of ten years are famine.

Big families sell cattle and horses,

Small families sell their children,

The slave family has no sons to sell,

Carry a flower hub in all directions.

'Since Emperor Zhu came out', this sentence should be deliberately blackened by the Manchu Qing Dynasty. However, it is true that the people of Fengyang go out to beg every year.

After Zhu Yuanzhang became the emperor, he moved the wealthy households in the south of the Yangtze River, 150,000 households, to Fengyang.

But after these people came to Fengyang, they were not at ease, they left the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River and went to the poor place in Anhui, they often felt homesick, and they didn't dare to go back openly, how could they go back? Dressed up as a beggar all the way to ask for food, begging to go back to his hometown to visit, so there is a sentence, since Emperor Zhu, there have been nine years of famine in ten years, whether it is a famine year, they all have to go home to visit, often go home to visit, this situation happened after Zhu Yuanzhang became the emperor, so the folk song left this sentence, "There are nine years of famine in ten years".

However, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the situation changed, although there were still many rich households, but they were really going to beg, which can be described as a monstrous grievance.

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival. Due to the rain in the first two days, Fengyang was foggy early this morning, and the sweeping king, the Taiping king and other departments suddenly arrived in Fengyang.

Due to feng shui reasons, Fengyang did not build a city wall, and was easily attacked by thieves, and when they arrived at the drum tower, the bureaucrats in Zhongdu were still kept in the dark.

Someone did go to report before, and the Fengyang prefect Yan Rongxuan scolded nonsense when he heard it, and beat the messenger with fifty boards, and beat the soldier who reported the news to the flesh. It wasn't until the army of thieves appeared in front of him that he was frightened.

Fengyang stayed behind Zhu Guoxiang to lead the troops to meet the battle, and was swarmed up and hacked to death, more than 4,000 officers and soldiers left behind in the central capital were annihilated, and the remaining 1,500 knelt on the ground and "shouted a thousand years old", kowtowing and begging for their lives.

Fengyang prefect Yan Rongxuan saw that his head was not good, so he changed into prison clothes and hid in prison, but those royal crimes in the prison all looked at him!

Yan Yongxuan suddenly realized that hiding in prison was an unwise move......

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The first shift, three thousand!

There is another chapter at 12 o'clock and another chapter at 3 a.m. But it's best not to stay up late, go to bed early, and watch it tomorrow.

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