348 Secession of Sichuan
Because Lu Mou has already gotten what he wants, since he has gotten what he wants, he should not be a villain Lu Haoshan smiled and took out two copies of the fold from his arms and threw them in front of Chen Shiqi, and said lightly: "It is said that Master Chen is talented and has a high level of talent, help Lu Mou to see if these words are appropriate?" ”
Chen Shiqi picked up the first fold and opened it to see, the whole person froze at once, thinking that he was dazzled, and quickly wiped his eyes so that he could see more clearly, yes, this fold is his own handwriting, the content is that Lizhou Wei commanded Lu Wenhua to work hard and talented, Sichuan is now turbulent, only he can keep the peace of Sichuan, and I implore the emperor to appoint him as the commander of Sichuan, the governor of Sichuan military affairs, and there is his official signature and official seal behind the fold.
Is this a dream? When have you ever written such a recital?
After seeing it more clearly, I finally saw some clues, although these handwriting are very similar, but there are some very subtle places that I can still see that this is a fake handwriting, this letter can deceive others but not himself, Chen Shiqi was shocked when he saw it: such a clever method, almost to the point of being fake.
Holding back the anger in his heart, when Chen Shiqi opened another recital, his face, which was flushed with anger, suddenly turned pale, this is a letter written by Lu Haoshan, and the recital praised himself for a while, and then asked the emperor to knight him.
This is a frame-up, this is a naked planting, if these two letters are sent, everyone thinks that they are colluding with this conspirator and rebelling guy, and at that time it is really yellow mud that falls into the crotch of his pants, and it is not shit but shit.
"You, you erection, you actually trapped the old man in injustice, you might as well kill me, the old man, the old man and you fight." Chen Shiqi was so angry that his old face twitched, and the backbone of the literati who could be killed and humiliated suddenly exploded. rushed up to fight with Lu Haoshan.
But before he could rush to it, he was held down by two soldiers, and an old and weak literati was the opponent of these well-trained soldiers, and he was quickly charged, and in desperation, Chen Shiqi opened his mouth and scolded Lu Haoshan.
Lu Haoshan said with a sneer: "Okay, Lord Chen wants to live or die, please take care of yourself, but you have to think clearly, even if you die, you are afraid that you will not be able to keep your name, it is better to consider your relatives and relatives, stay in the green mountains, and you are not afraid of no firewood." Right. ”
Imitating a person's handwriting is not difficult for Lu Haoshan, as for the official seal, that day it was to control the whole city of Chengdu, including all the large and small yamen, and Li Nian collected all the official seals early, so that those officials wanted to issue orders and became ineffective, Lu Haoshan imitated Chen Shiqi's handwriting, and it was effortless to stamp the real official seal.
Chen Shiqi paused for a moment. rushed up and grabbed the two books, tore them apart by two, and gritted his teeth while tearing: "If you want to destroy my innocence, you are delusional." The old man swore to death. ”
Dashan was furious when he saw it, and he wanted to rush forward with his knife, but Lu Haoshan stretched out his hand to stop it, and watched Chen Shiqi tear up the two books with a calm face. said with a nonchalant face: "Okay, Lu Moujing Chen is a good official, and he doesn't care about adults." You know, it's hard for Lu to take out these things once, so naturally you can take them a second time. ”
After speaking, Lu Haoshan led people straight away, leaving Chen Shiqi with a dead face.
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That night, officials of all sizes in Chengdu City asked them to express their position, but they did not have the same "preferential treatment" as Chen Shiqi, but a naked threat, once they did not obey, they would immediately be arrested for fornication and anti-thieves, and some even took blank names to persuade them, and if they did not agree, they immediately filled in the name of the persuaded official, and then raided their homes on the spot.
In the battle of Chengdu, a lot of prisoners were captured, although these people rebelled, but not because they were bold, but forced by life, few of them were hard-boned, they were tortured, they had any confessions they wanted, and they could sign whatever they wanted, which provided little convenience for Lu Haoshan.
Lu Haoshan has long let people secretly collect the bad deeds of many officials and squires, which can also come in handy, which makes some greedy and reputation-cherishing officials and squires have no choice, to be honest, officials in the late Ming Dynasty were corrupt, and how many officials' butts were clean?
For the army, Lu Haoshan used two methods, killing those who did not obey, killing those who did not obey, detaining them, and rewarding them for obedience, and then scattered them and added them to his own ranks.
These people are not those civil officials, or they scold fiercely, that is, they play tricks, these soldiers are different, they have a strong lethality, can not be prevented, these soldiers are exploited on weekdays, most of them are dissatisfied with the court, and they are soldiers to eat, they don't have much consciousness, if they have milk, they are mothers, and whoever gives money will give their lives.
It was a chaotic and mysterious night, and for the common people, they were under the impression that the army was constantly moving all night, with prisoners or wagons carrying goods passing by from time to time, and from time to time women and children crying, which made people shudder.
Early the next morning, many people with a heart found that many officials had a lot of new faces, many positions had more deputies, and all kinds of rumors also spread more, most of them were caught by a certain official for fornicating with thieves, and a certain big family was robbed of the thief's house, etc., the most spread was the Shu Wangfu, it is said that last night those carriages went in and out overnight, and all the goods were gold, silver, goods and grain, but no one knows whether the matter is true or false.
It's very simple, the Shu Wangfu is guarded, no one is allowed to enter and exit at will, it is difficult to inquire about the news, no matter what, the people can rest assured, the Lu commander made a promise not to disturb the people, and cleaned it overnight, those objects are officials and royal people, and they are not guilty of ordinary people, not only do not commit crimes, but also set up a number of porridge sheds to give porridge the next day to help those poor people.
The common people don't have much consciousness, it's none of their business, and whoever becomes the emperor still has to pay taxes and food, and they are content if they can get food and clothing.
When the first ray of sunshine shone on Lu Haoshan's face in Chongzhen's eighth year, the sun was very bright, and the smile on Lu Haoshan's face was also very bright.
Before the rampant wolf and the others entered Sichuan, taking advantage of Han Wendeng's absence, Lu Haoshan had already carried out activities, and those who could be co-opted and those who could not be co-opted let Zhang Rui guide the rampant wolf to attack in order to clear the obstacles, and most of the passes were also deceived with false orders.
When the first rays of sunshine in the eighth year of Chongzhen shone on the vast and rich land of Sichuan, Sichuan was already under the takeover of Lu Haoshan.
After attraction, takeover, coupled with the naturalized yellow thieves led by Zhang Rui and the descendant army cultivated by himself, Lu Haoshan has more than 80,000 men and horses in his hands, and has been growing rapidly.
Taking Chengdu in one fell swoop and controlling the provincial capital of Sichuan, Lu Haoshan didn't have time to celebrate with his subordinates, and he didn't care about tasting the taste of the winner, but started all kinds of takeover work non-stop, and there were many difficulties to face in taking over Sichuan: the placement of old officials, the garrison of various guards, the pacification of local clans, and the hearts and minds of the people, etc., and the first huge challenge facing Haoshan did not come from within Sichuan, but from the outside.
Hong Chengchou led 20,000 elite soldiers to advance in the direction of Guangyuan.
Before Lu Haoshan took Sichuan, Sichuan asked the court for help and flew to the capital like snowflakes, Zhu Zhipeng, the king of Shu, wrote a blood letter, asking the court to send troops to quell the rebellion, Chongzhen and a group of ministers discussed, ordered to intercept the thief Hong Chengchou led the army into Sichuan, and quelled the rebellion as quickly as possible, Lu Haoshan's action was very sudden, and he controlled Chengdu in one fell swoop, and sent heavy troops to block the news, Hong Chengchou did not know about this, or led the elite soldiers to march to Sichuan.
The first and biggest crisis in Lu Haoshan's takeover of Sichuan was to prevent Hong Chengchou from entering Sichuan.
After getting the information, Lu Haoshan left Li Nian, Dashan, and Zhao Gongchang in Chengdu to guard, and he led Tang Qiang, Li Dingguo and others to Guangyuan quickly.
"My lord, we have moved the officials, the royal relatives, that is, the silver treasury and grain depot of the Shu Wangfu have been moved, but the wealthy families in those places have not moved, why is this?" On the way, Li Dingguo asked with some curiosity.
"Officialdom has the principle of avoiding suspicion" Lu Haoshan patiently explained: "Most of these officials are outsiders, and the local people do not have a strong sense of identity with him, move them, and those people who are exploited by them will applaud us, not to mention those royal children, the government can't control them, they are rampant and domineering, many people hate them to the bone, and no one has an opinion on them, but these local clans are different, they are rooted here, with deep roots, and moving them will definitely trigger their counterattack, so they can't move, hum, or rather, I can't move for the time being. ”
Li Dingguo said with some indignation: "These wealthy families, on the surface, are respectful to us, but in fact they are wary of us in many ways. ”
"Don't worry, they'll join us." Lu Haoshan said with a nonchalant face: "For them, land is the capital of their survival, and Sichuan has fallen into our hands, if they don't join us, what else will he live on." ”
"Not in a hurry? My lord, when will it be? ”
Lu Haoshan looked ahead and said calmly: "When we show enough strength, they will take action, at this moment, they should be waiting, well, if you guess correctly, this fight with Hong Chengchou is a test, of course, when Chongzhen gives me the position of commander of Sichuan, it will be more convincing." ”
When Li Dingguo heard this, he nodded thoughtfully and stopped talking.
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The group got up early to catch up with the dark, and finally rushed back to Guangyuan on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, and the scouts reported that Hong Chengchou's vanguard was less than a hundred miles away from Chaotian Pass. (To be continued......)