Lu Wan's dismissal and imprisonment for trial has become a foregone conclusion, and the cabinet has also been instructed to reflect on self-examination, and it is necessary to find out the person concerned regarding the interception of the Jiangxi governor Sun Sui's performance, and when Zhengde announced these decisions, none of the officials objected, or rather, they didn't have the courage to blow up their hair.

Under the watchful eye of Zhenguo Gong, none of these can be generalized, Song Nan will never let go of these things, everyone understands this.

On the issue of candidates to fill the vacancies in the Ministry of War, Song Nan proposed that Yang Yiqing take over as the only choice, and the outer court made its position clear with a tacit attitude.

From beginning to end, Yang Tinghe had that indifferent expression, even Song Nan thought that today's things were almost incredible, and candidates for important official positions were always the focus of contention. Yang Tinghe will never admit defeat just like that, he will not just collapse and choose to compromise, he will definitely have his own way, Song Nan is convinced of this.

In the final analysis, all the people who can become powerful people have similar characteristics, that is, they never give up, only strategic forbearance, Song Nan is like this, Yang Tinghe is like this, there are countless examples in ancient and modern China and abroad.

The most important counterinsurgency issue only occupies a small part of this court meeting, because except for Song Nan, no one can take over this matter, and Song Nan is also responsible, for Zhu Chenhao's rebellion, Song Nan has more enthusiasm than any previous army to lead the army, he wants to completely defeat this conspirator, so that the biggest block in his heart is completely bulldozed.

The court decided that Song Nan would be the commander of the army three days later to go out to fight against Zhu Chenhao's rebels, after the court meeting, Song Nan summoned relevant people to summarize the news, the news about the rebels, Song Nan has not yet fully grasped, from returning to the capital to come to the palace to face the saint, and then participate in the court meeting, at this moment it is almost the second watch, he did not even enter his own house, the old mother, wife and children did not take a look, it can really be said that the body is like a spinning top, spinning endlessly, and the tired Cheng dù can be imagined.

Zhang Yong specially arranged chairs in the main hall of Fengtian Temple, and soon after the meeting began, Zhengde ordered someone to send a bowl of bird's nest porridge to Song Nan to satisfy his hunger, which can be described as a favor. Song Nan ignored the envious gazes of all the relevant officials, and did not drink the bowl of bird's nest porridge in front of everyone, but just sat quietly on the chair and listened carefully to the reports of the relevant people of the Ministry of War about the Chenhao rebels.

As early as seven days ago, on the day when Song Nan had just arrived in Quanzhou Mansion, Zhu Chenhao, who knew that he could not prevent Song Nan from returning to Beijing with the prisoners, announced the official uprising of the crusade against Zhengde.

At noon that day, Zhu Chenhao held a feast and summoned officials at all levels in Jiangxi and Nanchang Prefecture to participate, pretending that the Queen Mother had a secret edict to drag him back to Nanchang Mansion to announce that all the officials were originally unwilling to participate in Zhu Chenhao's banquet, but they all tried their best to refuse the invitation, but in the name of the Empress Dowager's secret edict announcement, although the letter was doubtful, but it could not be refused.

In the midst of suspicion, Jiangxi military and political officials all came to King Ning's mansion for a banquet, and before the banquet began, Zhu Chenhao suddenly stood on the threshold of the hall and announced: "Ladies and gentlemen, this king rushed back from the capital, and there was a heavy news announcing that the current emperor is not the biological son of Emperor Xiaozong at all, and Xiaozong was mistaken by the eunuch Li Guang, and reported to the people, and my ancestors did not know blood for eight years. Now the Queen Mother found out about this matter, and ordered me to raise an army to fight against the thieves and restore my Ming bloodline, what do you think? ”

The table suddenly became a clay sculpture and wood carving, many people had long known Zhu Chenhao's ambitions, but they didn't expect to come so quickly, and they rebelled with this kind of mouth; Everyone suddenly realized that today's banquet was probably a banquet of Hongmen.

No one dares to speak out, neither echoing nor conforming, in short, silence is the best way.

A short, dark and thin official stood up, and his anger was suppressed in his words, he was Sun Sui, the governor of Jiangxi who had made a change in his book seven times.

"Lord Ning, where did you start with this? Didn't you say that the Queen Mother had a secret edict? You might as well take the edict out and show it to everyone. ”

Zhu Chenhao said: "The Queen Mother's secret edict is an oracle, and I have just announced it. ”

Sun Sui laughed and said: "Then I can't listen to you, what is the truth, everyone knows in their hearts, Lord Ning, I advise you, it's better to keep to yourself, don't let the former emperor Taizu Yingling be ashamed." ”

Zhu Chenhao said with a blushing face: "Sun Sui, do you insist on believing it when you see the edict?" ”

Sun Sui said: "That's nature. ”

Zhu Chenhao said sharply: "Then it will be fulfilled for you, the edict you want is here." After that, Zhu Chenhao picked up a tea bowl and threw it to the ground, and at the same time as the tea bowl was shattered, dozens of soldiers in full armor in the screens and curtains on both sides swarmed out, pointing at all the local officials, large and small, with their blades.

Zhu Chenhao pointed at Sun Sui and said: "Don't think I don't know what you did to this king behind your back, this king has tolerated you for many days, don't you want to read the edict?" Come, show him. ”

The two guards jumped forward and grabbed Sun Sui's arm one by one, and Sun Sui shouted loudly: "Traitor Zhu Chenhao, are you going to rebel?" ”

Zhu Chenhao shouted: "Do it." ”

A guard stepped forward, holding two copper spoons in his hands, and inserted them into Sun Sui's eyes with great speed and accuracy.

"The edict is here, Lord Sun, can you see it?" Zhu Chenhao asked with a sneer. He turned around and shouted to all the officials present, "Have you seen the edict?" Sue Governor Sun, have you seen it? ”

The officials were terrified and snorted like mosquitoes: "I see." ”

Zhu Chenhao shouted: "The voice is too small, this king can't hear it, I understand, it turns out that you haven't eaten, you don't have the strength to speak, come here, feed them." ”

Two guards rushed forward and dragged an official to jam his neck, the official's mouth opened involuntarily, one of the guards reached out and grabbed a big hoof dripping with hot oil and water and slammed it into the official's mouth, the hoof was connected to the big bone and could not be stuffed at all, the guard reversed the knife coin and hit the large bone joint behind the hoof, and the pile generally wedged the whole hoof into the official's throat. After letting go, the official fell down on his back, and after a while, his hands and feet trembled, and he suffocated to death.

Zhu Chenhao opened his mouth to laugh, and asked again: "Sue Governor Sun, have you seen the edict?" ”

The officials shouted hoarsely: "I see, clearly, clearly." ”

Zhu Chenhao laughed wildly a few times, turned back to Sun Sui, whose face was covered with blood, and said, "Governor Sun, did you hear that?" They've seen it, and you can rest easy now. Sue me, will you follow this king to fight against the traitors? The one sitting on the throne is not the descendant of Taizu at all, you should believe it this time. ”

Sun Sui opened his mouth to spray as soon as he followed the sound, and his mouth of blood sprayed like smoke, spraying a layer of blood mist on Zhu Chenhao's face, Zhu Chenhao shouted angrily, raised his hand and drew the blade from the guard's hand, and with a single wave, Sun Sui's head rolled to the ground.

At the beginning of the rebellion, Zhu Chenhao's strategy was to first stabilize Nanchang and Jiangxi firmly control, and then raise troops to attack Nanjing in the east, and after conquering Nanjing, he officially ascended the throne as the capital. The two prime ministers under him are Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng, Li Shishi is the servant of the criminal department of Zhishi, who is quite famous in Jiangxi, although he is old, but what Zhu Chenhao wants is his reputation. And the chief strategist who really became him was Liu Yangzheng, a man from Nanchang Mansion, who went in and out of Ningwangfu as a staff member all the year round, was proficient in military affairs, good at planning, and was appointed as a military advisor by Zhu Chenhao.

Under Liu Yangzheng's plan, Zhu Chenhao sent people to quickly control the yamen of Nanchang Mansion, and at the same time control the command of more than 20,000 soldiers and horses in Nanchang, and replaced the command with the generals who were dependent on him, and at the same time released the prisoner formations held by each yamen into the army, and moved all the treasury silver of all the yamen in Nanchang Mansion in Jiangxi into the treasury of the palace, which alone required hundreds of thousands of taels of gold and silver.

At the same time, he recruited people into the army in Nanchang Mansion to expand the troops and horses, confiscated the private property of the people's rich households and houses as military rations, and ordered other state capitals in Jiangxi to recruit the generals in the army who had made friends with him to act at the same time, and almost overnight, most of the state capitals in Jiangxi were included in the bag.

On the third day of the incident, Zhu Chenhao personally ordered the execution of dozens of military and political officials who refused to obey in front of Ning Wangfu, and at the same time held a swearing-in meeting, promising that those who followed him to 'beg for thieves' would be rewarded by high-ranking officials in the future, and then sent Xu Qin, Wan Rui, Zhou Rui, Lu Cheng, Xie Feng, Yu Shen, Ma Xiaoliang and others to serve as officials of the main main departments. Nearly 50,000 soldiers and horses were summoned from various state capitals, claiming to be 100,000 soldiers, and marched eastward out of Nanchang Mansion, approaching Jiujiang, Nankang and other places.

On the fifth day, Xu Qin Wanrui led more than 300 soldiers and ships down the river to easily occupy Nankang, Nankang prefect Chen Lin fled without occupying it, and on the second day of occupying Nankang, the army attacked Jiujiang Mansion again, and Jiujiang military garrison Cao Lei and prefect Wang Ying also became deserters.

So far, Jiujiang and Kang have all entered Zhu Chenhao's pocket, and only Anqing is left at the gateway to Nanjing, but in the eyes of the rebels who are in high spirits, this qiē is no longer an obstacle, and Zhu Chenhao has begun to look forward to the dream of occupying the capital of Nanjing and becoming the emperor.