Bazhou.

The former prefect's yamen has been occupied by the rebels, and now it is one of the leaders of the rebels, Tang Zihe, who is sitting in Bazhou.

Since the rebellion with Zhang Mao and the capture of Bazhou, as Tang Zihe said, Bazhou Fangyuan could not bear the heavy taxes of the government and had been forced to be cornered by the imperial court The people have been exposed and rebelled, and the respondents gathered, plus Bazhou is the land of Hebei, the local martial arts style is quite heavy, and strong men who will be a few hands and feet abound, seeing that Bazhou took the lead in reversing, the people in the nearby towns of Bazhou are lonely, and they have killed officials and rebelled, and countless young people have come to Bazhou.

In just half a month, the rebel army gathered in Bazhou City swelled rapidly from more than 5,000 people to more than 70,000 people, and those men who were ruined by all kinds of harsh taxes and horse politics joined the rebel army without hesitation with a deep hatred for the imperial court.

Tang Zihe sat in the former Yamen Hall, which has become her temporary handsome tent, and the "avoidance" and "quiet" ritual plaques on both sides of the Yamen Hall standing against the wall for the officials' travel honor guards have long been burned as firewood by the rebels, and the plaque of "Mirror Hanging" hanging on the top of the lobby has also been taken off by the rebels, and I don't know which pile to throw it into.

The destruction of the yamen by the rebels was enormous, not only the prefect's yamen, but also the inspection department in the city, the salt road, the eunuch's palace, and so on, all of which suffered, because these places were the source of hatred of all the anti-army soldiers and the main culprits that forced them to embark on the road of rebellion. If it weren't for the leader Tang Zihe who requisitioned the prefect's yamen, I am afraid that the yamen would have been burned by the rebels on the night they occupied Bazhou City.

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Tang Zihe has changed her clothes, and now she is wearing a black and shiny armor, a dark red fashionable cloak behind her back, and a red cloth on her head wraps her hair like a black cloud waterfall.

There were a lot of people gathered in the lobby, and these people were all Hebei heroes who were good at fighting and heroic, even Tang Zihe himself didn't expect that he was just a small move to capture Bazhou. It was as if it had ignited a powder keg on the ground in Hebei. The Hebei heroes who were dormant and waiting for the opportunity were unwilling to be lonely and led people back one after another, and even the White Lotus Sect, which Tang Zihe had betrayed, took the initiative to send a special envoy to find her, only talking about the front edge and not talking about the old grudges, and the words showed the meaning of cooperation. In his words, he had already regarded Tang Zihe as a big man who could sit on an equal footing with the White Lotus Sect Master.

If the name is not right, it is not good. Now Tang Zihe's title in the rebel army is "Generalissimo of Fengtian's Expedition to the West Road". The 70,000 soldiers under his command were divided into 28 battalions according to the 28 nights in the sky, and the generals were all heroes from the north. For example, Yang Hu and Cui's couple, Xing Laohu, Qi Yanming, Liu Zi, Ma Wu, etc. are all called "Du Dudu", and Zhao Qi, who is the first to show talent, is appointed as the "deputy marshal" because of his good strategy, and Zhang Mao, who joined forces to capture Bazhou, is "the generalissimo of Fengtian's expedition to the east road", and led an army to the north to attack the city and plunder the land, and the two armies are called unified, but in fact there is no subordinate relationship, basically they belong to their own affairs, and they have nothing to do with each other.

Quietly looking around the people in the hall, Tang Zihe seemed to be happy and sad, happy that now his climate has been completed, and the great cause can be expected, and the sad thing is that the once familiar figure in his heart, with the growing rebellion, the figure seems to have gradually drifted away.

In the near future, if the imperial court sends that person to suppress and encircle her, how should she deal with herself when she meets him on the battlefield?

A faint sigh interrupted the lively conversation and laughter of everyone in the hall, and everyone looked at Tang Zihe, who was sitting in the middle of the hall.

Tang Zihe came back to his senses, smiled at everyone, and said: "Generals, the Beijing scouts have come to report that the imperial court has sent our generals to suppress us, whose name is Xu Tai, who is the martial champion of the seventeenth year of Hongzhi, and has served as the deputy general soldier of Xuanfu for several years, and the right deputy capital Yu Shi Ma Zhongxi to supervise military affairs, and led 50,000 elite men and horses of the Beijing battalion to Bazhou, everyone, how should we deal with it?" ”

The generals Yang Hu and Cui's couple were originally ringing horses in the green forest near Bazhou, and their subordinates had two thousand people hiding in the mountains to rob their homes, and after defecting to Tang Zihe, because the two fought bravely, they took the lead, but they also fought a few tailwind battles, won more battles, and their morale was also high. ”

Xing Lao Hu is also a hero in the north, in terms of the status of the green forest rivers and lakes, he is a step higher than Yang Hu and his wife, he was stunned when he heard this, got up and asked for his life: "These days of attacking the city and plundering the land, we have already seen how vulnerable the imperial army is, if the generalissimo believes in Xing, he is willing to lead 10,000 horses and horses to annihilate the imperial army!" ”

Zhao Qi was originally a scholar, read some art of war, when the anti-army was raging, he was fleeing with his wife, the anti-army caught him, and was about to insult his wife, Zhao Yi stepped forward, angrily said, "Even under the banner of eliminating violence and peace, you should not plunder and kill innocents", the anti-army saw that his words were righteous and awe-inspiring, so he invited him with courtesy, and after the uneasy Zhao Qi entered the anti-army camp, he cautiously inquired left and right, and was stunned to find that among the tens of thousands of people in the camp, his education level was actually the highest, And most of the rebel generals below also thought that Zhao Qi was the auspicious man in the rebel army, so they recommended him all the way to Tang Zihe's account.

After Tang Zihe and Zhao Qi answered each other, they also felt that he was a talent, and Zhao Qi had been unfavorable for many years, and a hot heart to serve the court gradually turned into revenge against the society, so he stayed in the rebel army very happily and planned to do a groundbreaking career.

Seeing that Xinghu and Yang Hu were contemptuous of the imperial army, Zhao Qi, who had been silent for a long time, said slowly: "The two generals should not underestimate the enemy, this time the counterinsurgency army sent by the imperial court is different from the ordinary officers and soldiers of the guard, they are from the Beijing camp, as we all know, the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp are the most elite soldiers and horses in the Ming court, specially designed to defend the Beijing division to protect the emperor, and the chief soldier Xu Tai who led the troops should not be underestimated, he is the martial champion of the seventeenth year of Hongzhi, and the answer is excellent when the martial arts are raised, and the six arrows in ten are shot in a hundred steps, and the emperor Xiaozong appreciates it very much. Not only was he appointed as the champion of martial arts, but also ordered Liu Jian, a scholar at that time, to give a banquet to Guanglu Temple on behalf of the Son of Heaven, and was later transferred to Beijing as the deputy chief soldier of Xuanfu, and fought dozens of times with the Tartars in the north......

Yang Hu and Xing Lao raised their eyebrows, and were about to continue to ask for their lives unconvinced, Tang Zihe waved his hand and said, "What the deputy marshal said is good, you should not underestimate the officers and soldiers of the Ming Court." The local guard may be eroded. But Jingying is a well-deserved elite in the world, and not all the generals of the Ming court are incompetent......"

Tang Zihe sighed leisurely: "In the final analysis, the Ming court has not rotted to the roots, and the court is still quite powerful." We now occupy three cities. It's not that we're good. It's just that the victory is unexpected, and when the court recovers, our future road will be very difficult. ”

Qi Yanming is the calmest and most prestigious of the heroes here. Hearing this, he got up and hugged his fists and said, "I don't know what the marshal's plans are?" ”

The corners of Tang Zihe's mouth hooked a chuckle: "I have 70,000 soldiers and horses in my hands, and I am about to weigh the catties and taels of the imperial court to see if the so-called famous generals are in vain, 50,000 officers and soldiers of the Beijing battalion are invincible, and they can only win by chance, and the art of war is 'ten will surround it, five will attack it, and double it will fight', 50,000 Beijing battalion soldiers and horses will attack Bazhou, and I will leave 20,000 to defend the city, and the rest will be divided by the criminal tiger and Yang Hu......"

"The marshal means ......"

Tang Zihe's beautiful eyes flashed: "I dragged the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp in Bazhou, you took Henan and Shandong respectively, and there were fires everywhere in the Ming Court, I want to see how many places this Xu Tai can save!" ”

Everyone stood up and clenched their fists, and responded awe-inspiringly.

Tang Zihe leaned back in his chair tiredly, and his autumn-like gaze drifted to the unknown distance.

The Ming court is full of fires, will the emperor send him out? The days of meeting him on the battlefield...... Not far away, right?

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Qinfu study.

Qin Hou Ye was busy and invited an old craftsman who was good at carving jade in the city of Beijing to carve a new thing with good agate, which was incomprehensible to the people of the Ming Dynasty, but it would be obvious to modern people at a glance.

One hundred and eight pieces of agate jade with the same appearance are engraved with four colors of the cylinder Suo Wanfeng, from one to nine and then to the east and west, north and south in the white, the carving is particularly fine.

Zhu Houzhao was lying on the edge of the table, curiously playing the mahjong tiles in his hand, but looking at Qin Kan suspiciously.

"This thing...... For food? Zhu Houzhao put the mahjong to his nose and sniffed it, and after finding that he couldn't smell it, he handed it to Zhang Yong and Dai Yi, who were also curious, and motioned for the two of them to taste it.

Qin Kan sighed: "Your Majesty, when you meet a beautiful woman, the first thought that comes to mind is definitely whether this beautiful woman can eat ......."

"What should that be?"

"The first thought is, of course, whether you can play, Your Majesty, most normal people should have this idea."

Zhu Houzhao understood: "You mean to say that this is in my hand...... Mahjong, is it used to play? ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"How to play?"

"I'll teach you."

Turning over each card, Qin Kan carefully explained the gameplay of mahjong, Zhang Yong and Dai Yi also came up with great interest, and seeing Zhu Houzhao's great interest, they also put on an expression of interest.

After Liu Jin's death, the position of the palm seal of the master of ceremonies was vacant, and there was an undercurrent between the remaining seven tigers in the palace that seemed calm but was actually full of murderous opportunities, and the seven people were all eyeing the position of the palm seal of the master of ceremonies, ignoring the fact that their old partner had just been cut by a thousand knives in this position, and the power was moving, and no one would ignore the highest position in the eunuch industry, so in the palace, in every place where Zhu Hou could not see or hear, the seven tigers launched a battle to the death. A war that did not see the smoke of gunpowder lasted for more than half a month, and there were as many as 100 innocent eunuchs in the palace who died for it.

When the dark war reached a fever pitch, Qin Kan had to stop it, and sooner or later there would be another disaster, and the ministers of the outer court had been killed by Liu Jin in the past two years. And Qin Kan had two eunuch allies, and he couldn't watch them get into trouble.

So one day, when Zhu Houzhao took the initiative to ask Qin Kan about the candidate for the palm seal of the celebrant supervisor, Qin Kan decisively recommended Zhang Yong.

Zhu Houzhao heard that it was exactly what he wanted, especially Zhang Yong and Yang Yiqing had just quelled the rebellion of King Anhua and made a great contribution to the imperial court, Zhu Houzhao had always admired martial arts, so he slapped his thigh, Zhang Yong became the new eunuch of the master of ceremonies after Liu Jin, and the original palm seal of the imperial horse supervisor was handed over to the eunuch Miao Kui, who had been in the border town of Xuanfu and had just been transferred back to Beijing recently.

After Liu Jin's death, Zhu Houzhao also noticed some sensitive things in the palace, not only ordered Dai Yi and Gu Dayong to clean up Liu Jin's remaining party in the palace, but also removed Ma Yongcheng, the head of the inner treasury who had been very close to Liu Jin, to the palm print of the direct palace, and the rich financial department was replaced by the poor health service department, which also served the emperor, and the revolutionary work did not distinguish between high and low.

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The talent of the Chinese people for mahjong is incomparable, this is a very amazing thing, the rules look complicated, only one round to get started, how complex the rules are understood.

So there was a sparse shuffling sound in the study of Qin's mansion, Zhu Houzhao, Qin Kan, Zhang Yong, and Dai Yi formed a table, and they just understood the rules and had a lot of fun, leaving their family and country behind.

"Good thing, tsk, Qin Kan, how long is your heart, it's simply exquisite, Wen can write books and pass them on, Wu can stabilize the country, and even play is unprecedented, you live a much more chic life than I have in this life." Zhu Houzhao shuffled the cards slightly awkwardly with both hands, and praised them while sighing.

Qin Kan casually looked at the cards in his hand, played a west wind out of the air, and said absentmindedly: "The skill of the micro end, the teaching of His Majesty is smiling, a few days ago, the minister was meditating in the study, nourishing Confucianism's righteousness, and he felt it for a while, so he invented this thing...... Fifty thousand! ”

Zhu Houzhao's hand froze in mid-air, and his eyes looked at Qin Kan stiffly: "Haoran righteousness raised such a thing?" ”

Qin Kan stared at the card table and said, "Your Majesty, don't underestimate Haoran righteousness, this qi can raise many different kinds of things......

Zhu Houzhao sneered and said: "If Old Master Kong knew about it, he would probably praise you to death, and the things that his old man didn't raise were actually raised by you......"

Qin Kan kept his eyes off, arched his hand in the direction of Shandong in a perfunctory manner, and sighed: "How can the minister be ......?"

"Okay, okay, if you blaspheme Old Master Confucius again, the Shengyan Gong of Qufu, Shandong Province must be desperate for you and you......"

Qin Kan shook his head and sighed: "Your Majesty, with all due respect, if Xu Taiping can't compete for merit, I'm afraid that the Shengyan Gong in Shandong will be in danger." (To be continued......)