Chapter 345: The Saint Raids His Home! [2 more]
Chen Tai looked at Wang Yangming, and couldn't help but sigh lightly for a while: "That's it, since that's the case, this official will go crazy with you!" ”
In fact, as far as Chen Tai is concerned, he has not many choices at all, either he chooses to abandon the city and flee, but if he abandons the city and flees, once it is found out by the imperial court, he will inevitably go to the entrance of the vegetable market.
Either they are defending the city and waiting for help, but unfortunately Chen Tai does not have much hope for the imperial court reinforcements.
It's not that the imperial court won't send reinforcements, as long as you are not a fool, you can see that the imperial court will definitely not sit idly by and watch King Ning sit big in Jiangnan, so the imperial court counterinsurgency army will definitely come as quickly as possible.
But no matter how fast it is, it can't quench your thirst from far water.
Perhaps they didn't even see the shadow of the imperial reinforcements, and they were already destroyed and killed by the rebels.
Greed for life and fear of death is just human instinct.
Now that Wang Shouren has stood up, he looks full of confidence, which naturally gives Chen Tai and others some hope.
It is really that King Ning's momentum is too great, with the support of the wealthy families and magnates in Jiangnan, King Ning's rebellion this time is really smooth, almost everywhere he passes, there is almost no resistance, giving people the illusion that King Ning has the potential to occupy Jiangnan.
It is precisely because of this that when facing the rebels of King Ning, even Chen Tai, who is the governor, is extremely flustered in his heart.
Wang Shouren's eyes swept over the crowd, and he saluted Chen Tai and the others: "Everyone, after this official leaves the city, please be able to defend the city, unless this official personally returns with the army, the city gate must not be opened!" ”
Chen Tai regained a little bit of the prestige of the governor, nodded slowly, and said, "Don't worry, Lord Wang, the old man assures you that as long as the old man still has a breath, he will definitely not let the city fall into the hands of the rebels." ”
Looking at Wang Yangming's departing figure, the officials were slightly stunned, and they all saluted Wang Yangming and said, "May the Lord win the flag and return safely!" ”
In fact, in the eyes of most people, Wang Yangming's departure must be a moth to the fire, a sheep into the tiger's mouth, how can a few thousand soldiers and horses be the opponent of tens of thousands of rebels, I am afraid that there will be only a dead end at that time.
The three thousand soldiers and horses in the city carefully selected by Wang Shouren gathered on the school field, although the military appearance was not very neat, but it was not a rabble, and there was still a bit of military demeanor.
Wang Yangming was dressed in armor and had a sword hanging from his waist, and he had a bit of a general's demeanor.
Looking at the 2,000 people selected, Wang Yangming shouted in a deep voice: "All the soldiers, go out of the city with your official to kill the enemy and serve the country!" ”
"Kill the enemy to serve the country, kill the enemy to serve the country!"
Taking a deep breath, Wang Yangming shouted in a deep voice: "Wang Wu is out!" ”
Immediately, I saw a big man walking out, and I heard Wang Yangming say: "Wang Wu, take your men and horses, and set off with this official!" ”
Wang Wu's face showed a little puzzled, his subordinates were only more than 100 people, but he didn't know what Wang Yangming asked him to take people to do, but Wang Wu didn't ask more, but solemnly received the order, shouted, and more than 100 soldiers behind him suddenly came out of the ranks, followed Wang Yangming out of the barracks.
On the school field, the remaining soldiers looked at Wang Yangming and the others in the distance with a stunned expression.
Chen Tai, Mao Yuan and others, who were about to come out to see Wang Shouren off, happened to see Wang Shouren leading more than 100 soldiers from the barracks and rushing towards the center of the city.
Mao Yuan said suspiciously: "Lord Governor, Lord Wang, he is ......"
No wonder Mao Yuan and the others looked puzzled, it was really Wang Shouren's actions were too strange, it was said that Wang Shouren should lead the army out of the city, why did he only take more than 100 people to the center of the city at this time.
Even Chen Tai was a little puzzled, stroked his beard and shook his head slightly: "The old man doesn't know why Wang Shouren is doing this!" Mao County's order is better to go with the old man to take a look! ”
The center of Ji'an County is naturally the most prosperous place in Ji'an County, and needless to say, such places must be occupied by the gentry in the county.
King Ning's inscription spread all over the south of the Yangtze River, especially in the inscription, listing Chu Yi's crimes, saying that Chu Yi violated the ancestral teachings of Taizu, increased commercial taxes, intended to open the sea, deceived the Son of Heaven, and brutalized loyal ministers.
Of course, Chu Yi brutalized Zhongliang and deceived them or something, in the final analysis, it had nothing to do with them at all, they didn't care who the Son of Heaven was, as long as the Son of Heaven didn't trouble them.
However, it was pointed out in the article that Chu Yi wanted to increase the commercial tax like Liu Jin, and also wanted to open the sea, and nine out of ten of them didn't care about opening the sea or anything, but the addition of commercial tax and mining tax was closely related to them.
The reason why these wealthy gentry were able to get rich was not because they were crazy about making money by doing business and occupying various resources such as minerals in the local area.
Now the imperial court wants to impose additional taxes on these, isn't this cutting meat from them?
Therefore, as soon as the article came out, Chu Yi became an out-and-out traitor in the eyes of seventy or eighty percent of the gentry in the world.
The business in the south of the Yangtze River is the most prosperous, and these gentry in Ji'an County are naturally no exception, and they hate Chu Yi one by one. And on King Ning's side of raising troops against Qingjun, pointing directly at Chu Yi was naturally applauding.
Liu Jianai in Ji'an County is the largest gentry in the county, occupying several mines in Ji'an County, and it can be said that he hates Chu Yi the most.
Now in the living room of the Liu family, an envoy from King Ning's rebels is facing Liu Lian and said: "Master Liu, the prince of my family obeys the order of the heavens, and should be the new monarch of the new generation, and now the eunuchs Chen Tai, Wang Shouren and others are trying in vain to rely on Ji'an County to fight against Wang Shi, but they are beyond their means!" ”
Liu Lian nodded with a smile on his face and said: "What the lord said is very true, these people really don't know the number of days, and they even want to stop the army of the prince, the old man is willing to respond in the city when the king's soldiers are in the city, and he will try his best to open the city gate and welcome the king's army into the city." ”
The envoy nodded with a smile on his face and said: "If the Liu family master can open the city gate for my army, General Zhou will definitely say good words to the prince for the Liu family master, and then the Liu family master may not be impossible to enter the eyes of the prince, and since then the family has prospered, and it is unknown to fly Huang Teng!" ”
Liu Lian couldn't help but laugh when he heard this.
At this moment, outside the gate of the Liu family, Wang Yangming looked at a disciple in front of him and said, "Chen Zuyin, can you be sure that the Liu family is colluding with the rebels?" ”
Chen Zuyin is one of the several disciples brought out by Wang Yangming from Longchang, Guizhou, although he does not dare to say that he is both civil and military, his talent is not bad.
Since entering Ji'an County, Wang Yangming quietly sprinkled a few disciples, and then stared at several wealthy gentry families in the city.
The reason why the rebels of King Ning were able to sweep Jiangxi was that many cities were broken with almost no resistance, partly because of the suddenness of the incident, many counties were not prepared at all, and some counties were also prepared, but they were joined by the gentry in the city and opened the city gate from the inside.
Wang Shouren is such a person, it is naturally impossible not to guard against this, so he arranged for his disciples to keep an eye on a few families in the city early.
Not long ago, Wang Yangming received a summons from his disciples, and a rebel envoy entered Liu's house in the city.
Chen Zuyin said with a straight expression: "Teacher, the disciple dares to guarantee with his life, the rebel envoy is in the Liu family's mansion!" If the disciple sees it with his own eyes, there will be absolutely no mistake. ”
Wang Yangming naturally trusted Chen Zuyin, nodded slightly, and then shouted to Wang Wu, who had wide-eyed eyes: "Wang Wu, go in with this official to catch the thief!" ”
Wang Wu and the others couldn't help but be stunned, with the prestige of the Liu family in Ji'an County, if these soldiers were people in Ji'an County, I am afraid that even Wang Yangming's presence might not be able to order them to attack Liu's Mansion.
But now the soldiers of Ji'an County are the people and horses mobilized from all over the place by the governor Chen Tai and him, and it can be said that there are few people from Ji'an County at all, so they naturally have no fear of the Liu family.
At this time, after listening to Wang Yangming's order, Wang Wu was stunned for a moment, and after reacting, he shouted, and rushed towards the Liu family's mansion first.
With a bang, Wang Wu's single-handled sledgehammer smashed on the gate, and it only took two or three strokes to knock the gate down.
The servants of the Liu family were dumbfounded, watching a team of soldiers rush into the mansion.
When he was accompanying the rebel envoy there to imagine that when the city was broken, he Liu Lian would be appreciated and reused by King Ning, and when the Liu family had been flying since then, a noisy sound came.
Seeing a team of men and horses rushing into the courtyard from a distance, Liu Lian couldn't help but be furious, suddenly got up and strode away to meet those soldiers, and shouted angrily from afar: "It's really a big dog's guts, which general are you with, don't you know my Liu family's ......?"
Just as he was roaring, a figure appeared in Liu Lian's sight, who was it not Wang Yangming.
Liu Lian accompanied Mao Yuan of Zhixian County to entertain Wang Yangming and Chen Tai not long ago, so he was naturally no stranger to Wang Shouren.
When he saw Wang Shouren, Liu Lian couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, his eyes shrank, but he took a deep breath, stared at Wang Shouren and said: "Lord Wang, as the so-called Three Treasures Hall is not going to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, what kind of wind is this today, blowing Lord Wang to Liu's house, it is a long way to go, please forgive Lord Wang!" ”
Wang Shouren glanced at Liu Lian lightly, and said with a sneer: "Liu Lian, you are so bold, you actually colluded with King Ning's rebels, you are guilty!" ”
Liu Lian's face suddenly turned extremely pale, and he looked at Wang Shouren in horror and said in a trembling voice: "You...... You are spewing blood, my Liu family is a wealthy gentry in the county, how can you collude with the rebels, you are simply framed, I want to see the county lord......"
Wang Shouren waved his hand and said, "Search for me!" ”
The rebel envoy was a big living person, so naturally he couldn't hide for long, but he was escorted out in a blink of an eye.
Wang Wu presented an identity token found on the body of the rebel envoy to Wang Yangming and said: "My lord, this is the token found on this person, please check it!" ”
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