Chapter 1144: Battle of the Capital
The men and horses commanded by Tang Yi raised troops from Suzhou in March of the twelfth year of Wanli and swore to go north. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The Shangshan Poetry Society, which is known for its conservatives, under the auspices of Li Panlong and others, published articles one after another, and the people crossed the Yangtze River, and their title was: "Tang bandits and rebels are landing in Yangzhou, and the soldiers and civilians are fighting back"; Five days later, the people drove into Huai'an Mansion, and the Shangshan Poetry Society scolded again: "The shameless thief who turned his back on Gangchang was involved in the important town of the salt industry. ”
Half a month later, when the army marched into Xuzhou and Shandong, they wrote: "The usurper is irrepressible, and the land of the saint may fall." ”
A month later, the title was changed to: "The Tang Army occupies the port of Tianjin." ”
After another three days, "Tang Yi, the former Taishi's first assistant, waved the army to the capital." ”
After turning the day, the title of the column also sent an additional number, "The sage of the world, the elder of the three dynasties, the important minister, the success of the country, the name of the world for 30 years, the Tang Lord is about to enter Beijing, and the people are looking forward to it." ”
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"I want to respect these people, but how can they have anything to respect?" Wang Shizhen snorted angrily, but it was Xu Fatzi, who carefully cut out several articles and pasted them on white cardboard.
"I said, Brother Wen, are you still going to be a family heirloom?"
Xu Wei blinked, "Don't say it, I'll stick this thing at home and let those rabbit cubs watch, if anyone becomes such a person, he will be expelled from the family tree of the old Xu family, and he is not worthy of being a member of the Xu family!" ”
Wang Shizhen was stunned for a moment, and snatched it up, "Give me this, and you can get it yourself." ”
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Both of them are not young, and they still have the virtues of children, Tang Yi is really speechless, and he is too lazy to take care of them.
Along the way, Tang Yi met with constitutional representatives from all over the country, talked patiently with everyone, and asked for opinions. Tang Yi has a gratifying discovery, the scholar group and the imperial power group have always been both cooperative and fighting, especially in the Ming Dynasty, the consciousness of scholars has risen more and more, the rise of psychology, coupled with the decades of propaganda of the Yangming Society, the idea of the hypocrite has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, even in the hometown of Confucius, there are a large number of people in the heart of the sect.
Originally, the big guy still had a trace of fetters and concerns, thinking that the emperor was the Son of Heaven, high and sacrosanct, and there were some things that could only be thought about in his heart and could not be said.
But when Wanli restored the old system and stirred up chaos in the world, the last scruples in people's hearts were put aside. It turned out that there were far more like-minded people than you thought.
More and more people are calling for the abolition of the Wanli throne, the restoration of new laws, and the formulation of eternal decrees to strictly prevent the imperial power from counterattacking, and some people even suggest that the emperor should be abolished directly.
Li Zhen rummaged through the boxes and cabinets and found out the old examples of the Zhou Dynasty.
King Zhou Li, in the name of the state, monopolized the mountains, rivers and rivers, and forbade industrialists and merchants to make a living from the mountains and rivers, which angered the merchants and citizens of the Zhou Dynasty, and they fought back and drove away King Zhou Li.
Subsequently, it was jointly governed by Zhao Mu Gong and Zhou Dinggong, and was known as Zhou Zhao Republic.
The current situation is very similar to the beginning, Wanli abolished the new law, squeezed finance, destroyed industry and commerce, and rebelled with the burghers as the core to overthrow Wanli's rule.
It was just the time to restore the republican system in which the cabinet was co-governed, and the sole rule of the monarch was abolished, and the government was restored.
Li Zhen and others spoke out, the Constituent Assembly in various places strongly supported it, and more and more people joined Tang Yi's ranks. During the entire march, there was little resistance.
Everywhere they passed, the gentry and merchants welcomed them, and the people arrested the fans of the East Factory, the eunuchs stationed in the army, and the mine supervisors and tax supervisors, and showed them to the public.
The original Confucian scholars, royalist celebrities, turned into the vanguard of opposition to Wanli.
They took out the statue of Zhu Yuanzhang enshrined at home and smashed it to pieces. He also rushed to the homes of some vassal kings, dragged them into the public, and beat them up, and the few remaining vassal kings were also killed.
The people were cheering, and their hearts were excited.
After this round of going north, completely eliminate the influence of Wanli and open a new game that has not been seen for 3,000 years, how proud, how proud! Everyone was enthusiastic and confident.
"The more you get to this point, the more cautious and humble you must be!"
Tang Yi reminded with a straight face: "You must know that the people are on our side because they are fed up with Wanli's nonsense, and they don't really support us, or rather, not for the time being." We must not get carried away, if we can't quickly end the chaos, let the people restore their livelihood in a short time, and make the country strong, another bigger wave will overturn us all! ”
"Don't forget, the famine in the north has begun, and last year alone, there were more than a million hungry people everywhere, because of the financial collapse, the provinces are not good for rescue, and the number of hungry people will increase exponentially. We replace Wanli, a month or two, maybe the people can endure, if it is a year and a half, there is no change, Wanli will be overthrown, we will repeat the same mistakes! Don't leave anything to chance, and with our demonstration, it will be much easier to use public opinion to agitate the people. ”
Tang Yi said earnestly: "And this time it is based on the provinces, the establishment of the Constituent Assembly, and the concentration of forces, if Wanli is ousted from power, there are many contradictions between the provinces, if it cannot be restrained in time, will it cause a catastrophe of the division of the feudal towns?" If it really comes to that point, we are all sinners for thousands of generations, can you think clearly? ”
After saying this, everyone was sweating, and they were sweating through their clothes.
Tang Yi led the Tang Party, and along the way, the biggest reliance was his foresight, from fighting with the strict party at the beginning, to driving away Xu Jie, to disposing of the Li family, and now overthrowing Wanli.
Every time, Tang Yi can be one or two steps ahead of others, or even farther.
Especially when this kind of chaos is unclear and countless people are blindly optimistic, Tang Yi's reminder is even more valuable.
There are indeed signs of this kind of secession.
In addition to them, military generals from all over the country were also ordered to march, and along the way they combined with the local Constituent Assembly, with some people on one side and soldiers and generals on the other.
Even if they are all Tang Yi's old subordinates, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not have other ideas. Before the yellow robe was added, Zhao Kuangyin may not have been a loyal minister of the Great Zhou......
It is necessary to control the scale of the war, and it is best not to fight without fighting, only in this way can the military be suppressed.
But after two hundred years of construction, the city is high and deep, how can it be easily taken. All the forces of Wanli are concentrated in the capital, and the eunuchs, nobles, royalists, and clans, they will definitely struggle to the death.
This battle won't be easy, it's really nerve-wracking!
"Prime minister, don't worry, we got the defense map of the capital."
Wang Xijue said excitedly, his face was full of joy, and he rushed in directly. Tang Yi stood up suddenly, and when he saw that it was a disciple, he greeted him excitedly, looked carefully, and then sighed.
"Yuan Yu, you are imprisoned, it's all the fault of the teacher, I should ......"
"Teacher!" Wang Xijue hurriedly stopped Tang Yi, "The master doesn't have to blame himself, it's the disciples who are incompetent, and no one would have expected Zhu Yijun to be so crazy." Fortunately, aren't the disciples okay now! ”
Tang Yi opened his mouth, but he didn't open his mouth after all, some words should not be broken, even if it is a master and apprentice.
"Okay, let's not talk about the past, let's talk about the present, do you have a way to enter the capital?"
"Yes!" Wang Xijue said loudly: "Wanli killed Wang Jiaping, the rabbit died and the fox was sad, Yang Junmin escaped from the capital, and he gave us the defense map of the capital." Now in charge of guarding the Andingmen generation is the younger brother Zhang Yuande of the British Gong Zhang Yuangong, many of his men and horses are from the Jinyi Guard, the combat effectiveness is very poor, and the people's hearts are fluctuating. A few days ago, the disciples sent some people into the capital through the tunnel, saying that Zhang Yuande's subordinates would defect. When the time comes, the inside and the outside should be combined, open the door of stability, and the capital will collapse without a fight, and capture Wanli alive, and turn it back. ”
"Yang Junmin?"
Tang Yi took a deep breath, "He may not be reliable!" ”
"Master, you said he would lie to us? No, Wang Jiaping is dead, he is still being hunted down, it stands to reason that he and Wanli have a common hatred, how can he still be loyal and filial and stand on Wanli's side? ”
"Not necessarily!" Tang Yi shook his head, "Yuan Yu, I calculated that Yang Bo was killed back then, and it was also a disagreement, Yang Junmin didn't like Wanli, but he might not really help us, you go and inform Xi Muyun and Shen Shixing of them, don't act rashly, I will start from others." ”
Wang Xijue was really taken aback, after they got the defense map of the capital, they were overjoyed, and they were bent on taking the capital and taking revenge!
I didn't think that Yang Junmin would deceive them.
"Master, disciple will go and inform them."
Wang Xijue went to deliver the letter, but when he arrived, only Shen Shixing was left.
"Brother Qingchen has already led his men and horses to attack the city." Shen Shixing spread his hands.
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In the silent night sky, suddenly there were several gunshots.
Xi Muyun led the army, lurking less than two miles away from the capital, heard the gunshots, and was shocked! Could it be a success?
It didn't take long for the gunfire to become more and more rapid, and the shouts of killing were heard.
"My lord, the city gate has been opened, Wanli's soldiers are coming, and the brothers at the city gate won't last long!" A liaison soldier, with a black and gray face, stumbled over like a ghost. At the head of the city, three Kong Ming lanterns were raised, which was the signal for the attack.
Xi Muyun didn't hesitate anymore, "Siege!" ”
His men and horses rushed in quickly, don't look at these soldiers are not tall, but they are all experienced in a hundred battles, fighting with Westerners, fighting with natives, each of them has killed people, and they are very fierce.
With a whirlwind, they rushed into Andingmen.
According to the original agreement, all the defectors wore white handkerchiefs around their arms as a distinction. When the soldiers entered the city, they miraculously found that everyone was wearing white handkerchiefs, and the gunfire and shouts of killing had stopped.
The muzzles of the black holes were aimed at them, and when they were hesitating, Gao Yanbo, who was in charge of the guards, showed a hideous smile.
"Shoot!"
Shots rang out, and before the soldiers could understand what was happening, they fell down as if they were harvesting wheat. As soon as Xi Muyun rushed to the city gate, he saw this scene, and his hands and feet were suddenly cold, and bad thoughts came to him: "Fooled!" (To be continued.) )