As long as this can be done, the Ming Dynasty will regain control of the land south of the Yangtze River, rely on the things in the south of the Yangtze River, Hua Tianbao, increase the commercial tax, mining tax, open the sea, and it is not difficult to continue the life of the Ming Dynasty for one or two hundred years.

King Ning held high the banner of the Qing monarch's side, and suddenly booby-trapped many civil and military officials in Jiangxi, and some officials were directly killed by King Ning, but most of them chose to take refuge in King Ning.

Jiangxi didn't dare to say that it was King Ning's territory, at least King Ning radiated around with Nanchang as the center, attracting many low-level officials.

Coupled with the support of the local gentry and magnates, almost on the third day when King Ning held high the banner of the Qing monarch, King Ning's rebels swept through several provinces around Nanchang.

For example, Jiujiang Mansion, Yingtan, Fuzhou and other places opened the city almost at the same time as King Ning's army approached the city, and there was almost no official resistance.

In just three days, only a few county towns in the huge Jiangxi region chose to resist, while most of the prefectures and counties chose to annex.

At the same time, the army of King Ning, which originally had only 40,000 rebels, was like a snowball, and by the time the army arrived in Ji'an County, the entire rebel army of King Ning had turned over a cup and reached 70,000 or 80,000 people.

Of course, King Ning's army was expanding so fast, and most of them were just ordinary strong men who had just put down their hoes.

Because King Ning promised a high military salary, he gathered a large number of young people to join the army for a while, of course, this was also due to the persecution of King Ning's rebels.

Relying on various means, in just a few days, King Ning's rebels formed a huge momentum.

The county seat of Ji'an.

As Jiangxi's envoys, Wang Shouren and Jiangxi Governor Chen Tai can be said to be one of the few high-ranking officials in the entire Jiangxi officialdom who did not fall into the hands of King Ning.

The two of them sensed King Ning's rebellious move, weighed the balance of power between the two sides, and made a decisive choice to send people to Beijing for 800 miles to rush to Beijing to report the news of King Ning's rebellion, and on the other hand, to lead the people available under their command to retreat to Ji'an County.

The county seat of Ji'an is not large, but there are also several miles of radius, while the rebels of King Ning attacked everywhere to occupy the county seat, Chen Tai and Wang Shouren, who were the governors of Jiangxi, discussed and decisively gathered the available troops around Ji'an County.

It's a pity that this encounter is not like in history, King Ning's rebels are unpopular, Wang Shouren ascended to the top and received a lot of support, gathering a large number of people.

Therefore, in three days, even with Wang Shouren's ability, he only gathered no more than 3,000 soldiers and horses.

Of course, 3,000 soldiers and horses are the able-bodied men who have eliminated the old, weak, sick and disabled, otherwise, if those old, weak, sick and disabled are also counted, there will be more or less five or six thousand soldiers and horses in Ji'an County.

In the county government, the governor Chen Tainai was an authentic civil official, and at this time his face was full of sadness and looked at Wang Shouren, who was sitting there as steady as Mount Tai.

In addition to Wang Shouren and Chen Tai, there are also Mao Yuan, the magistrate of Ji'an County, and the county lieutenant in the county.

Chen Tai coughed lightly, looked at Wang Shouren and said: "Lord Wang, with a small city in Ji'an County, how can it resist the tens of thousands of rebels coming from King Ning, according to the old man's opinion, I can't wait to retreat......"

Wang Shouren glanced up at Chen Tai and said: "Lord Chen, as an official of the imperial court, we have the responsibility of defending the land and the people, although the rebels are powerful, but if I leave, wouldn't I give Ji'an County to the rebels, and how will Lord Chen explain to the Son of Heaven in the future?" ”

Chen Tai said: "But we only have thousands of soldiers to fight, how can we be the opponent of the menacing rebels!" ”

Whether it is Wang Shouren or Chen Tai, when it comes to official positions, these two have to get out several levels of county officials such as Mao Yuan of Zhixian County, so now seeing Chen Tai and Wang Shouren arguing, several officials can't interject, so they can only wait for the two to come up with a result.

Wang Shouren's eyes swept over the officials, and his face was full of confidence and said: "Everyone, King Ning's rebellion is really a great rebellion, its rise is also vigorous, and its death is also sudden, as long as we hold on and wait for the imperial court to send an army from all directions to come, we will definitely be able to easily destroy King Ning's rebels." ”

Mao Yuan looked at Wang Shouren and opened his mouth, as if he had something to say.

Seeing this, Wang Shouren said: "Lord Mao, if you have anything to say, you might as well speak up!" ”

Mao Yuan took a deep breath and said: "Lord Wang, according to the news from our people, King Ning has led a large army to break through Jiujiang Mansion, and now I am afraid that he has taken a big boat, led the army down the river, and went straight to Nanjing City, if Nanjing City is breached......

Wang Shouren couldn't help but squint his eyes, but all Ming officials, who didn't know that Nanjing City was the core of the south of the Ming Dynasty, and Beijing City was called the two capitals of the north and south, if Nanjing City was taken by King Ning, the situation would be extremely favorable to King Ning, and even most of the south of the Yangtze River might fall into the hands of King Ning.

Wang Shouren is proficient in the art of war, how can he not know the importance of Nanjing to the imperial court and to Jiangnan, so he can't let King Ning take Nanjing City no matter what.

King Ning's rebellion is not terrible, what is terrible is that if he takes the city of Nanjing, then it will inevitably form a huge momentum, and then King Ning, a descendant of Taizu and a royal vassal king, can re-establish the imperial court in Nanjing, and stand side by side with the north and south of the Ming court.

"We must not sit idly by and watch King Ning break through Nanjing City, otherwise, even if the imperial army goes south in the future, the cost of quelling the rebellion will be much greater."

Hearing this, the county chief secretary couldn't help muttering softly: "As far as our current soldiers and horses, don't say that it is King Ning's army, I'm afraid that even the rebels in front of me may not be able to stop it. ”

Although the words of this master book are not good, they are also true.

The Ningwang rebels swept through Jiangxi, and almost did not encounter any resistance, but the governor Chen Tai and the envoy Wang Shouren played the banner in Ji'an County, ascended to the heights, and summoned the Ming soldiers from all directions to resist the Ningwang rebels in Ji'an County.

Even a small group of King Ning's rebels who tried to easily accept Ji'an County were easily suppressed by Wang Yangming and others led by the imperial court soldiers and horses.

However, because of this, the actions of Wang Shouren, Chen Tai and others in Ji'an County also attracted the attention of King Ning.

For Wang Shouren's Daming, King Ning naturally heard of it, and even when Wang Shouren was transferred to Jiangxi as an envoy, King Ning also sent people to try to win over Wang Shouren.

It's a pity that Wang Shouren can't get in at all, and the gold, silver, and beauties he sent were all rejected by Wang Shouren, and he decisively drew a line with King Ning, and even King Ning's actions aroused Wang Shouren's suspicions, and secretly sent someone to investigate King Ning's actions.

The reason why King Ning raised troops so quickly was that on the one hand, he was roughly prepared in all aspects, and on the other hand, many powerful and wealthy gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, such as the Xie family and the Mo family, were forced by the pressure of the imperial court, and Wang Shouren's investigation of King Ning's mansion was detected by King Ning.

For several reasons, King Ning decisively chose to raise troops.

Although it is said that King Ning's army swept through Jiangxi very smoothly, it was because the civil and military officials established in Jiangxi officialdom were either killed by him or thrown in, and there was the secret support of the local gentry and magnates, so it was so smooth.

Whether it is the governor Chen Tai or the envoy Wang Shouren, in Jiangxi is a banner of the imperial court, as long as Wang Shouren and Chen Tai are there, then it is impossible for Jiangxi to be completely occupied by King Ning.

For example, in Ji'an County, under the control of Wang Shouren and Chen Tai, it blocked the road to the expansion of King Ning's army.

For this reason, King Ning personally ordered and dispatched a group of men and horses, and Zhou Boling, the general of Zhaowu appointed by him, led tens of thousands of rebels to Ji'an County.

Zhou Boling is one of the many generals under the command of King Ning, who is deeply respected by King Ning, and trained soldiers and horses for King Ning in secret before King Ning raised his troops, but he also has a bit of strategy and battlefield bravery.

Tens of thousands of troops came all the way, and the smoke and dust were billowing out, but they entered the territory of Ji'an County in one day.

In the Ji'an County Mansion, a scout horse rushed into the mansion, knelt on the ground and said loudly: "Report, the rebels are headed by Zhou Boling, and tens of thousands of troops have entered Ji'an County, which is only twenty miles away from the county seat!" ”

"What!"

Chen Tai, the governor who was sitting there, was suddenly startled, suddenly got up and looked at the horse in surprise: "How far are the rebels from the county seat?" ”

Tanma said: "Go back to your lord, it's only twenty miles!" ”

Chen Tai sat on the seat with a puff, his face was full of chagrin, and he looked at Wang Shouren with a little annoyance and said, "Wang Yangming, it's all your fault, if we had listened to this governor earlier, why would we be here!" ”

Wang Yangming couldn't help laughing, got up slowly, and saluted Chen Tai: "The governor is looking too highly at those rebels, there are only more than 10,000 rebels, why do you make your lord so frightened." ”

Glaring at Wang Shouren, Chen Tai flicked his sleeves angrily and said, "Since Lord Wang thinks that the rebels are easy to deal with, then these rebels will be handed over to Lord Wang to deal with!" ”

Chen Tai is just talking angry, Ji'an County is only 3,000 soldiers to fight, how can it be the opponent of the rebel army of tens of thousands.

However, Wang Shouren had a gleam in his eyes and said: "In this way, Wang is respectful and obedient, the governor led a group of men and horses to sit in Ji'an County, and Wang led Wang to meet the rebels!" ”

Chen Tai and Wang Yangming's father Wang Huanai have been close friends for many years, and they can barely be regarded as Wang Yangming's elders, and after listening to Wang Shouren's words, he couldn't help but change his face and said: "Yang Mingxian's nephew, this is a major military event, not a poetry article, you don't want to be strong, if you give your life when the time comes, how can the old man explain to your father!" ”

Wang Shouren frowned and said: "If Lord Chen doesn't believe it, Wang is willing to make a military order!" ”

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