Chapter 413: Nanjing is besieged
"The puppet emperor entangled the thieves Liu Fangliang and others, and conspired with traitorous ministers such as Ma Shiying and Ruan Dayue, killed the loyal Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo, Qian Qianyi, and destroyed the descendants of the saints, which can be described as annihilating human nature and losing all conscience!
Now it is even more stealing the treasure of our emperor and Ming, leviing tyranny, and accumulating beauties, resulting in the Hu people going south, the dynasty is disordered, and the people are not abiding, isn't it against the way of heaven!
The spirit of Taizu is not angry, and the soul of Chengzu is not hateful! The sun and the moon are clear, and the emperor's heir, the holy grandson Zhu Youxiang, can't bear the ancestors' rivers and mountains falling into the hands of thieves, and recruits 100,000 soldiers to swear to punish the traitors in the court, and kill the pseudo-emperor to comfort the ancestors! ”
Fu Wang Zhu Youxiang also raised the banner of rebellion under the support of Tang Shiji, who is now living in seclusion in Yangzhou, and also personally held a big ceremony and issued a document against rebellion.
Like Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, Zhu Youxiang, in order to unite with the gentry in Jiangnan, also announced the abolition of commercial taxes, the implementation of the sea ban system, the suspension of the expansion of social studies and the reward system for faculty officials, and the abolition of all Zhu Youzhen's new policies.
Tang Shiji took the initiative to scatter his wealth to recruit 10,000 troops for the blessed king Zhu Youxiang, and the response of other Jiangnan gentry also gathered 20,000 troops, and therefore occupied Taizhou.
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"Your Royal Highness King Lu, you can be regarded as coming, and the ministers are waiting for you to save my people in Jurong every day! After the Neiying Weichen of Jurong County has been contacted, they will start a riot tonight, and when the time comes, King Lu can easily take down Jurong, and then go straight to Ying Tianfu! ”
The one who spoke was the local eunuch Guo Yong in Jurong, who was once the left attendant of the military department of the Chongzhen Dynasty, and now he also rushed to respond to King Lu.
Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, was naturally very happy to see that he was a squire-level official, and immediately appointed Guo Yong as the secretary of the military department.
"With Guo Butang's help, King Lu will be able to enter Nanjing before King Fu, and then the world will be King Lu's."
Zhang Bingzhen, who had been appointed by King Lu Zhu Changshu as the first assistant of the cabinet and the secretary of the ministry, said this, and King Lu Zhu Changshu naturally laughed proudly.
Although King Lu Zhu Changshu and King Fu Zhu Youxiang acted at the same time, both of them were not subordinate to each other, and both of them called each other a robbery while announcing their rebellion, and both asked the other party to dismiss the officers and soldiers or bow down to the ministers.
And now both of them are also rushing to Nanjing, and they are both vying to get the support of the civil and military officials of Nanjing City as soon as possible, so as to seize the throne first.
Now it seems that Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, is the closest to Nanjing, so Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, is also very proud, thinking that he is not far from the day of becoming the emperor.
At this time, the Guo family did contact people, and took the opportunity to make trouble against the Jurong County Ya.
Today's Jurong County Commander is Yang Bo, a retired soldier of the Guards, and he is a one-armed hero, who has begun to strengthen the city's defenses a few days ago.
But what he didn't expect was that there was an internal thief like the Guo family in Jurong County, which made the city gate broken at the right time.
Yang Bo had no choice but to retreat to the Household Housing Taxation Bureau, and directly gave up the county office, because there was still 120,000 silver dollars in unpaid commercial tax in Jurong County.
A Guo family steward named Guo Jun killed dozens of family members, and directly shot Yang Bo with a bow and arrow, and confiscated the tax office, burning the tax office directly on the spot.
Not only Jurong County, but also other market town tax bureaus in Jurong County were also smashed one after another, and hundreds of grassroots officials were killed.
But the tax money naturally fell into the pockets of the gentry themselves, after all, it was also collected from them.
Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, was also not easy to want, but in order to raise military funds, he simply took advantage of the fire to loot and directly ordered the officers and soldiers to loot Jurong County and the surrounding market towns.
All of a sudden, the entire surrounding states and counties of Yingtianfu were in chaos, and the people's grievances were boiling.
Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, even accepted sixteen concubines in one day, and also coerced tens of thousands of people, plus the gentry who responded, and raised an army of 80,000.
In the end, Jiang Yuntai, the general soldier of Huzhou, also led troops to respond, directly raised an army of 100,000, and went straight to Nanjing.
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And the Fu King Zhu Youxiang was not far behind, after sacking Taizhou and bankrupting a large number of handicraftsmen and Shu landlords, he led 50,000 troops to Zhenjiang with the support of a large number of gentry.
Zhenjiang is the north gate of Nanjing City, and it is also the grain transit station for the Guards to the north.
But now because King Fu is forcing Zhenjiang, the grain route of the entire Ming Guards has encountered a crisis.
And Ruan Dayue, the secretary of the military department, also returned to Nanjing first.
Fortunately, Gu San Mazi, the chief officer of the Guards Navy and Coastal Defense, was still in Zhenjiang, and took ten warships that were originally responsible for escorting the grain route to meet King Fu's army in Dantu.
But King Fu's army retreated back to Jiangdu as soon as he had a face-to-face with Gu San Mazi.
Gu San Mazi simply ordered the three warships to chase after King Fu's army, forcing King Fu to have no way to cross the river.
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King Fu couldn't cross the river because of Gu San Mazi, but King Lu Zhu Changshu came to Nanjing first.
"His Royal Highness King Lu, there are two places in Nanjing City that are the most important now, one is the Imperial Palace, and the other is the Daming Ordnance Institute, where there are many heavy artillery and firearms, so Weichen suggests that we focus on ordering the army to attack these two places."
Zhang Bingzhen said.
At the same time, Guo Yong also nodded and said: "What Elder Zhang Ge said is that now the entire Nanjing City is empty, as long as we take advantage of this to take the palace and the Ming Ordnance Institute first, it is equivalent to controlling everything in Nanjing City, as for the civil and military officials, they will either join and support His Royal Highness King Lu or they can only die!" ”
"In this case, General Jiang led 30,000 troops to attack the Ming Ordnance Institute, and General Mu led a large army to surround Nanjing, and told the civil and military officials of Nanjing City that Lone thought was that they were all blinded by the puppet emperor, as long as they were willing to sacrifice the city and annex it, Lone could spare their lives, and the official position was retained, only killing Ruan Dayue and other traitors!"
As soon as Zhu Changshu said this, Zhang Bingzhen hurriedly suggested again: "You can also add one article, those who dedicate the city first will be named marquis, those who dedicate the palace first will be crowned princes, and those who dedicate princes and queens will also be marquis." ”
"Accurate!"
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For a time, the entire city of Nanjing was panicked.
However, the political situation in Nanjing City is not as easy to chaotic as King Lu Zhu Changshu imagined.
At this time, in addition to Xia Yunyi's Guards infantry battalion and Chen Zilong's training battalion in the Ming Ordnance Station, there was also an infantry battalion of the Guards Zhang Tongchang and the special forces and internal guards of Dongchang and Jinyiwei in Nanjing, as well as the Wucheng Soldiers and Horses Division directly controlled by Ruan Dayue.
Therefore, the military power of Nanjing City at this time was still in the hands of Ruan Dayue and the Guards.
Because Zhu Youzhen had already ordered that the guards of Nanjing City should be commanded by Ruan Dayue.
Therefore, Ruan Dayue has become the military ruler of Nanjing City at this moment.
Even if there were civil and military officials in Nanjing who wanted to respond to Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, they did not dare to act rashly.
A few bureaucrats and gentry wanted to gather their families to open the city gate, but Wang Chengen first took the people from Dongchang to raid their homes, and even Wang Chengen directly threw his head in front of the civil and military officials: "Is there anyone else who wants to be a thief?" ”
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