Chapter 427: The Frightened King Anton

Huainan City was breached, the rebels surrendered, the Huainan King was destroyed, and the rebellion of the Seven Kings became a historical event. Perhaps, in the pen of the historian, the "Rebellion of the Seven Kings" will be used as a negative example, let's recount it again.

When the good news reached the capital, the government and the opposition were jubilant, and the imperial court also officially issued a document to revoke the fiefs of the kings of Guangnan, Qingyuan, Luzhou, Linjiang, Changsha, Fengyang, and Huainan, and all the fiefdoms and property of the royal palace were returned to the imperial court. And the genealogy of the Seven Kings was also cleared from the royal family, that is to say, although the surname of those seven people was Zhang, they were no longer considered royal people.

At this point, the Dahua royal family only left the little emperor in the palace, the Anton King line of Anton Wei, and the King of Beijing who lived in the capital without a fief, which was the lowest point of royal popularity.

Huainan City conquered a very short time, there was no major damage, after the imperial army controlled the situation, the people returned to live in the city, and the market weather quickly recovered. Han Fei ordered the army to clear out the remnants of the rebels, and handed over the governance of Huainan City to the governor of Anhui Province who entered the city with the army, and the imperial army escorted the army to camp outside the city.

The war against the rebels is over, and the next thing is to deal with the aftermath, and the more than 100,000 people who surrendered must be resettled, and the rebels were originally garrisons such as guards in various places. Fortunately, Han Fei was given the title of Generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses by the Queen Mother, and he has the right to dispatch military forces in all parts of the world, so there are many fewer constraints on disposal.

It was impossible for all of the surrendered troops to be sent to the capital for trial, so Han Fei cleared out all the generals in the surrendered army, and the staff and main generals of the Fan Wang, who were responsible for the rebellion of the Seven Kings, were separately detained, and prepared to be escorted to the capital for trial and punished by the laws of the imperial court. As for the grassroots generals, Han Fei was sentenced on the spot, or exiled or escorted to the mine to serve hard labor or sent to the border to serve in the army.

Ordinary soldiers basically follow orders, Han Fei does not intend to punish strictly, everyone deducts half a year's military salary. He disorganized and reorganized the ordinary sergeants, and then transferred personnel from the imperial army and appointed them as generals at all levels of the newly organized local guards, and sent them to various local guard posts. These guards and generals all followed Han Fei to fight and received meritorious service, and from then on, the guards in all parts of the south were regarded as Han Fei's subordinates.

At this time, the new officials sent by the imperial court rushed to Huainan City, and several internal guards brought the edict of Jia Yuanchun, the empress dowager of the West Palace, and Jia Yuanchun urged Han Fei's class to return to Beijing.

The rebellion of the Seven Kings did not last long, and the overall damage to the local pattern was not very large, under the supervision of the inspection officials assigned by the imperial court, the normal order was gradually restored, and there was no need for the army to continue to be stationed outside, and it was indeed time to return to Beijing, Han Fei immediately ordered the whole army to prepare for the return of the division.

The army has two routes, either return by the original way, or take the eastern route from Jinan Mansion back to Beijing, Han Fei thought that in the early days of King Fan's rebellion, King Anton and King Huainan also had frequent contacts, although King Anton did not participate in the end, it was also necessary to deter, so it was decided that the route of the army back to Beijing bypassed near Anton Wei and returned to Beijing from Jinan Mansion.

King Anton is not keen on political affairs, superstitious is to cultivate the Tao and become immortals, and the people in the palace are not prosperous, a concubine and a partial concubine, only gave birth to a son and two daughters, that is to say, if the attendants in the palace are not counted, King Anton's family is only six people.

Since the rebellion of the Seven Kings, King Anton has been restless, regretting that he had been in contact with King Huainan in the first place. As the rebels were gradually wiped out and the seven kings were wiped out one after another, King Anton became even more anxious, for fear of being implicated by the rebels. King Anton kept writing letters to the king of Beijing and other powerful people in the capital, asking them to intercede with the court on his behalf, but all the letters were lost, which added to his fear, and he had a hunch that the court would not let him go easily.

"Lord Wang, the prince of Zhongguo has returned to Beijing with the imperial army......"

"Back to Beijing? It's good to go back to Beijing! "When King Anton heard the report from his staff, his heart was relieved, the army had returned to Beijing, probably Han Fei, the prince of Zhongguo, let himself go, right? He suddenly saw that the staff's face was wrong, and his heart was tense again, and he hurriedly said: "Could it be that what happened to the army returning to Beijing?" ”

"Lord Wang, the imperial army did not return the same way, but came towards Anton Wei!"

"What? The imperial army has come to Anton Wei? King Anton suddenly turned pale, slumped in his seat, and was dazed.

"The prince doesn't have to worry!" The staff hesitated for a moment and said: "Although the prince has a connection with the king of Huainan, he did not participate in the rebellion, and the crime is not serious, so I don't think it will endanger the life of my family." However, the prince's top priority is to take the initiative to submit an excerpt to the imperial court and ask for forgiveness from the queen mother and the emperor! ”

"Yes, yes, sir, hurry up and draft an excerpt for this king and ask the queen mother for his guilt!" King Anton seemed to grasp a life-saving straw and commanded urgently.

King Andong's plea was sent to the capital through the 800-mile express and sent to Cining Palace, but unfortunately Jia Yuanchun, the empress dowager of the West Palace, didn't look at it at all, but just ordered it to be transferred to Han Fei, the Duke of Zhongguo. The excerpt went to the capital by express, but it was sent to the barracks along with the ordinary excerpt and was transmitted by the post station, so that the army was almost received by Anton Wei.

King Anton saw that the fold of the plea was sinking into the sea again, and the army of the court continued to approach Anton Wei, and he was completely desperate, thinking that the court would not forgive him. He personally wrote down a confession of repentance, summoned his confidants, and said: "Sir, the lonely king repented that he was not at the beginning, did not listen to the advice of the gentleman, and cut off contact with those rebels, the sin is in the lonely king, the lonely king decided to apologize to the queen mother and the emperor with his death, please take the confession of the lonely king to see the loyal king, and ask the loyal prince to spare the life of the lonely king's family!" ”

The imperial army was still more than 20 miles away from Anton Wei, and Han Fei received an invitation from Anton Wei forwarded by the imperial court, so he ordered the army to stop advancing and rest in place. The eight kings who were divided into eight kings killed seven kings at one time, and the rest of King Andong, who was addicted to cultivating immortals, had no threat to the imperial court, Han Fei had no intention of getting rid of him, all he wanted was an attitude towards him, and now that he took the initiative to ask for guilt, it was enough.

At this time, the guards reported that King Anton's staff asked to see him, and Han Fei ordered someone to take him in.

"Loyal to the country!" King Anton's staff bowed to the ground, held up a book of folds, and wept: "King Anton regrets having contact with King Huainan, and he feels ashamed of himself to the court, so he has committed suicide by hanging himself, apologized to the court, left a book of repentance, and asked the Duke of Zhongguo to forgive the family of King Anton!" ”

"King Anton is dead? Although King Anton is guilty, he is not guilty to death, why did he commit suicide? Han Fei looked shocked, raised a book in his hand, and said: "This seat has just received the excerpt of King Anton's request for guilt from the capital, and he appreciates his attitude of taking the initiative to ask for guilt, and is about to ask the Queen Mother to forgive him, how can he ......?"

King Anton was shocked when he heard this, and he dared to love King Anton because he was scared of himself and scared to death?

(End of chapter)