Chapter 86: Quelling the Disorder
When the news of the great victory of the Nanyi Rebellion War reached the Beijing Division, the main battle faction, the main and the faction that were still polishing the folds and noisy were all like ducks with their necks choked, and they all lost their voices.
Even Qi Heng himself didn't expect that this battle could be fought so quickly.
Speaking of which, it's really the right time, place, and people. Of course, the most important thing is the time of day.
Because Pei Bao'er gave him an idea to watch the sky and fight, he sent Qin Tianjian, a small official whose ancestral home is in Ganzhou, to come over for two days, and just encountered an unprecedented typhoon.
How big is it? Not to mention the roofs, people and animals blown away by the wind, even those hundred-year-old towering trees were uprooted by the hurricane, not to mention those small wooden houses that are not very stable, except for the buildings of the rich and noble, the government offices, basically all of them collapsed.
What's even worse is that Nanyi was not fighting at that time, although most of the ordinary people were not involved, but the general environment was chaotic, the officials were either killed, or shrunken turtles, even if there were people with rich life experience and high morality The elders proposed that there was likely to be a major typhoon, but no one paid attention to it at all, or came to mobilize people to evacuate and other work. The broad masses of working people who have not experienced the great typhoon 50 years ago are somewhat unimpressed. After all, this sea breeze comes several times a year, at most it is to strengthen the roof, and if it is really blown away, I will wait for the wind to pass and then pick up some materials and nail it back.
As a result, everyone didn't expect that even the elder who had already passed the age of ear shun was a little surprised, this time the storm disaster was actually much bigger than the one he experienced when he was a teenager!
For a while, not to mention the powerless ordinary people, even the few small leaders who supported the army and respected themselves were stunned by this evil wind.
General Zhennan is not stupid, as soon as he saw that the situation was very good, the army that had retreated and stuck to Jiangxi Province did not wait for the imperial court to reinforce, and took a special envoy of Qintianjian who was familiar with the characteristics of the wind disaster, so he went to Nanyi directly.
There were many factors for the defeat of the Southwest Army last time, on the one hand, it was unfortunate that it was not a coincidence, there was a sea breeze just two days after the fight, and the composition of the personnel in the Southwest Army was complicated, and many of them were landlubbers from the north. On the other hand, at that time, Nanyi's early rice had just been harvested, and although the drought this year also affected Nanyi, the people were forced by the rebels to hand over barely enough military rations. As a result, the Southwest Army, which was eating moldy coarse grain rice, faced the Nanyi rebels with white flowers and rice, and the latter had both home advantage, and defeat was inevitable.
However, this time, the situation has completely changed.
In the matter of war, logistics supply is too important, and where can the soldiers have the strength to fight if they don't have enough to eat? However, although the boundary of Nanyi is large, the land is not fertile enough, and there are many mountains, the only advantage is that the climate is warm, and it can be harvested three times a year. However, this year there was a strange drought, and the harvest was not good, only about 60% of previous years.
The early rice was harvested in June, and most of it was forcibly confiscated by the rebels, leaving only the most basic subsistence food and seeds for the next crop of late rice in their homes. As a result, they were also unlucky, and they had just sown the seeds of late rice before they sprouted, when such a severe typhoon came. At this time, as the current leader of Nanyi, the rebels not only did not provide relief to the victims, but instead intensified the collection of grain, which simply forced them to death. You know, this storm not only destroyed the hope of a rice harvest in the second half of the year, but also brought news that many houses had collapsed and crushed people.
As a result, the catastrophic storm killed many ordinary people and shook the faith of many ordinary soldiers in the rebel army.
In the past, the imperial court ignored them and sent officials to do nothing but for their own pleasure and exacting taxes, and over time, they naturally resented the imperial court, and in contrast, the rebels who promised them a large pie also became amiable. Not to mention that a hundred years ago, the people here were all the people of the South Vietnamese Kingdom, and the rebels raised the name of the descendants of the South Vietnamese Kingdom, and they also believed it.
The imperial army has time, people, and people, and there is really nothing to say about the rebels who only occupy the geographical advantage, just two words, easy to fight!
This battle can be said to be a quick victory, and General Zhennan is an experienced one, taking advantage of the enemy's internal chaos, the Nanyi rebels were defeated, and they all surrendered crying and shouting, and only a small part fled in the direction of Jiaozhi country.
General Zhennan grasped the military power of Nanyi, and the first thing was to settle accounts after the autumn.
He arrested all the officials who had surrendered to the rebels, and escorted them back to the capital for trial, along with the leaders of the rebels. Of course, he himself is not a bad one, and he also tried it before sending him away. After all, the so-called descendants of the South Vietnamese Kingdom made his soldiers suffer a little, and he always had to see the person behind the scenes.
As a result, he didn't see him when he entered the city, and he still didn't see him after three martial law searches throughout the whole process, and he almost wondered if he was running to Jiaozhi, but as a result, the small leaders who were imprisoned couldn't stand the torture and recruited one after another.
They don't have any descendants of the South Yue Kingdom at all, they just tear tiger skins to make big flags and use them to fool the imperial court. When he recruited, he was still very resentful, to the effect that the emperor before you had too black hands, and he laid down our territory and killed the original lord of the country, not to mention the direct and collateral blood relatives, even most of the officials and slaves who were slaves and maids for them did not escape, where can I still get the story of the orphans of the Zhao family. We can't find the descendants of our homeland, and we have to find a name to revolt, don't we think of this stubble?
General Zhennan rolled his eyes, and sighed very much about the wisdom and martial arts of the first emperor and his great achievements during his reign, and turned his head to supervise his subordinates to write a report excerpt.
As for those few who died heroically, he was also very emotional to ask Keqing to write a beautiful gift for him, held a small sacrifice, and paid tribute to the good life, and by the way, he could nominally pray for the innocent victims in this typhoon, and then sent the excerpts for these people to the capital together with the recital for the sins of another part of the people.
Then, General Zhennan sensibly sent a secret letter to the regent, saying that the lower officials were not greedy for merit and power, and that it was only expedient for the army to garrison Nanyi now. Now here is a hundred wastes waiting to be revived, the prince, you have to send one quickly, no, send a group of useful officials to come over to govern it, and by the way, help urge the household department to reward the merits of this war, pension silver and other things, and when these two things are over, the next official can return to Nanzhou with peace of mind. At the end of the secret letter, he also expressed his longing for the prince and other colleagues, as well as his wife, children and mother in Beijing, and hoped that he could return to Beijing at the end of this year to report on his work to relieve his lovesickness.
Qi Heng's impression after reading the secret letter was that the Keqing writing that General Zhennan found this time was very good, and the style of writing was extremely sensual, and it was estimated that it was one of the poisons of his dead ghost father's first emperor period, and he somehow threw it into his door.
Then, he quickly packed Pei Zimeng and the new science and technology scholars and young talents who had no way to get the real shortage and sent them to Nanyi.
As a result, Liu Guogong also stopped.
After all, in the eyes of most people, Pei Zimeng is equivalent to a downward adjustment with no return, even if the official position is promoted by one level, what is the use? is to be a magistrate, then the treatment of the magistrate of the upper, middle and lower counties is still divided into levels, Pei Zimeng made this magistrate, and it can be said that it is the poorest and worst state in the entire Dasheng country.
When some noble ladies heard the news, they muttered in their hearts, isn't it that the regent is tired of Princess Pei, so he sent Pei Zimeng, the most outstanding among the younger generation of the Pei family, to Nanyi?
No matter how much these pampered and upsized ladies despise the rural place of Nanyi, there are also a few people of insight who can see it clearly.
The realm of Nanyi has been stocked for so many years, and it is estimated that the imperial court is really going to be ruthless in its governance, and this small rebellion is just an introduction.
Look, the regent sent all his brother-in-law over to be old scalpers to reclaim the wasteland, don't you other young talents follow the kindness? If they don't keep up this time, in the future, as long as the regent has not fallen, I am afraid that these people will never have a chance to come out. As a result, this batch of selected young talents was very obedient, none of the old fathers and mothers in the family were seriously ill, and none of them accidentally broke their legs while riding a horse, and they all honestly rolled up their burdens and let them go.
These officialdom newcomers are different from the old oilers who were really relegated to Nanyi in previous years, they are young, sharp, and sharp, and may be criticized for being too reckless, but doesn't Nanyi today need such an injection of fresh blood?
Along with these young officials, there was also a special disaster relief team from the DPRK and China. Qin Cha is not an outsider, it is Xie Yushi, who has just returned to the dynasty from the first half of the year's patrol mission, who is related to the regent and the mother of Concubine Zheng, and there is an official of the Ministry of Rites who performed prominently in the hail disaster in the Taihang Mountain area last year, called Pinglin, this is also a practical person under the hands of Princess Pei's mother's biological father.
It can be seen that the regent still attaches great importance to Princess Pei's family, and Pei Zimeng's transfer has no intention of suppressing it, and it is estimated that he will be transferred back in two years, and he may be placed in a critical position in the six departments.
Of course, there are still very few people who think this way.
It is said that the three of them became tigers, and after the news of Pei Zimeng's transfer spread, within a few days, Pei Baoer's invitation to worship and flower stickers plummeted.
Actually, for Pei Baoer, this is a good thing.
But after listening to Bai Lu and Ling Xue talk about the secret, she was a little ridiculous. In the eyes of those people outside, she will be divorced by the Lord Regent soon~
It's also a little exciting to think about.
Qi Heng also came over to explain under Song Yan's suggestion, in order to naturally reassure her, but in her opinion, this guy's intention to deliberately come over to rub the rice while the meal was more obvious.
"Cough, don't worry, I'm not afraid of these gossips."
Looking at her eyes smiling like a little fox, Qi Heng couldn't guess what she was thinking. Hell if she's worried, maybe she's still hoping that those rumors will come true~
He couldn't help but think that when he greeted Concubine Wei as usual during the day, he was seriously mentioned by her, and it was very rare to talk about the life philosophy of family and prosperity, and many sons and blessings, and he didn't ask a word about the major affairs of the court, which was extremely rare.
Qi Heng knows her biological mother very well, a noble daughter from a standard official eunuch, and she is still one of these people with extremely high political literacy, with good character, but unfortunately her temperament does not please the first emperor, and she doesn't seem to care much, so she directly puts all her efforts into cultivating him. He thought that Concubine Wei was just retreating this time, but before leaving, Concubine Wei told him again, expressing her desire to hold her little grandson again next year. He turned around and asked Song Yan, and learned that Concubine Wei had asked people to send things to Pei Bao'er from time to time recently, including those conditioning soups such as fertility aids.
Thinking of the mother's ardent expectations, and then looking at Pei Bao'er's current appearance, Qi Heng suddenly felt that the news of winning the battle was not so happy.