"Dozens of clan disciples of the Tang Dynasty family have all been killed!"

"The hundreds of Confucian scholars in the Tang Palace's Mansion have also been shot!"

"The Tang King himself died of fear, but the prince Zhu Qiqi and the prince Sun survived because they were imprisoned before and did not participate."

Half a month later, Luwangfu.

The governor of the palace, Shi Huang Xinlong, was telling Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, the news he had just learned.

And Zhu Changshu was surprised when he heard this: "Why is this, not to mention that his Uncle Zhang Guo hacked King Fu to death with a knife, he actually killed dozens of clan disciples in the Tang Palace!" What are we going to do? ”

"Your Highness hasn't understood yet, this Zhang Gui is changing the law to cut the domain!"

Confucian official Qin Lixin followed up and said.

"Cutting the domain?"

Zhu Changshu asked in surprise.

"That's right! Apocalypse, the mean and ungrateful monarch, now thinks that His Royal Highness's interests in occupying the world are too great, and he is unwilling to be gracious anymore, obviously just to let the clans support themselves, and also to pay food for the court, but in fact, secretly with the purpose of using various excuses to eliminate the clan! ”

Huang Xinlong followed.

Ding Qirui, the prefect of Weihui, who was also here, also said: "And Your Highness, the royal tomb built by your mansion is already suspected of trespassing, so his Uncle Zhang Guo is not worried that he has no means to clean up your mansion!" Therefore, His Royal Highness is different from King Zhou, and His Royal Highness can only be reversed now! ”

"King Kong is not bad Dazhai Master"

"That's not right! How dare Lone rebel! ”

Zhu Changshu hurriedly waved his hand.

"Your Highness! Are you really going to sit back and wait?! ”

Huang Xinlong hurriedly asked.

Zhu Changshu said: "But if the rebellion is defeated, you will be killed!" ”

"Your Highness, you can't escape, why don't you risk your death! What's more, now Your Highness, you have no other choice. ”

Qin Lixin followed and said.

Zhu Changshu was still a little hesitant, and couldn't help asking, "Is there no other way?" ”

"Yes!"

Ding Qirui replied at this time.

Zhu Changshu said: "Please give me advice!" ”

Ding Qirui said: "That is, I will kill Your Highness now, dedicate your head to Uncle Zhang Guo, and say that you have bad intentions!" The imperial court will naturally choose to believe it, and will take advantage of the situation to cut off the Luwang Domain! ”

"This ......"

Zhu Changshu sighed after hearing this, and said, "Okay, then it's the opposite." ”

"Your Highness Shengming!"

Huang Xinlong replied, and then looked at Qin Lixin and Ding Qirui and smiled.

The three of them were the representatives of the Confucian ministers around Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, because Su Ri did not slander Zhang Gui around Zhu Changshu, so they were worried that Zhang Gui would retaliate against them, plus they were indeed dissatisfied with the new policy, so at this time, they used coercion and temptation to make Zhu Changshu make up his mind to rebel.

Zhu Changshu has never had any opinions, so he let these Confucian ministers manipulate him.

It didn't take long for Zhu Changshu to raise the banner of "Fengtian Jingjing" and began to recruit troops and horses in Weihui City to expand the scale of the guard.

And Ding Qirui, the prefect of Weihui, first controlled Weihui City because he had already taken refuge in Zhu Changshu, and also began to set up a newspaper according to the practice of Xichang in the capital, and directly criticized the emperor Tianqi in the newspaper for reusing traitorous ministers, being mean to the clan, and violating the ancestral system.

Not long after, Zhu Changshu ordered Jiang Zuoshi, the chief military officer of Jingnan, to send troops to Qi County.

Before You Dingping, the magistrate of Qi County, could organize the army and civilians to defend the city, he was assassinated by the gentry in the city, and then these Qi County gentry surrendered the city to the rebels.

Then, in the same way, the rebels connected the five cities of Tangyin, Linxian, Junxian, Anyang, and Cizhou.

Almost the entire province of Chang Duc fell into the hands of the rebels.

Obviously, the gentry in these places did not support the new policy of apportioning the land to the mu and the gentry to pay the grain together, but took the initiative to help the rebels capture the corresponding prefectures and counties.

……

"King Lu is reversed!"

Just when Zhang Gui and Xia Yunyi and their entourage rushed to Weihui, Zhang Gui learned the news from the urgent report sent by the intelligence officers of the West Factory.

At the same time, he learned from the urgent delivery sent by the imperial court that the Emperor of the Apocalypse had urgently summoned him back to Beijing because King Fu had been hacked to death with a knife.

After Zhang Gui learned of this news, he first informed Xia Yunyi of the news of King Lu's rebellion.

After Xia Yunyi heard this, he said with a solemn expression: "It seems that the matter of soldiers is inevitable!" ”

Zhang Gui nodded and said: "Let them willingly concede benefits to the court and the people, it is difficult for them, and now, if they are not willing to passively accept the loss of interests, then they can only resort to the matter of soldiers." ”

Saying that, Zhang Gui said again: "In addition, Your Majesty also sent an urgent delivery, asking Benhou to rush back to Jingshi immediately, in case he has a detailed understanding of King Fu's situation. Therefore, I have to return to Beijing tomorrow, and the matter of counterinsurgency can only be handed over to you first, your standard battalion Liu Zhaoji, the middle and lower-level official schools are all from the military academy, and the combat effectiveness and military discipline are very reliable, which should help you curb the momentum of the rebels. ”

Xia Yunyi replied: "Don't worry! As you say, the rebels are now relying on the gentry to take the city easily, but in reality, there are not many troops to fight. When they capture one, the lower officials will attack one and take the opportunity to exterminate the rebel gentry! In any case, His Majesty has granted the subordinate officials the right to act cheaply in advance, allowing them to organize militia and appoint alternate officials to temporarily act as governors, so that they can take advantage of the opportunity to counter-insurgency to allow more people to get land. ”

Zhang Gui nodded: "That's right!" Ben Hou previously suggested that His Majesty should reform the official system, increase the official selection examination, and allocate staff officers to the ministries and local officials, therefore, you now have a lot of alternate officials and staff officers waiting to be appointed, and all of them are students of my Xilin Academy who support the reform, just take this opportunity to let them govern the local government, so that the new policy can be implemented more steadily in Henan! There is also the opportunity to organize more militias and peasant cooperatives, and his rebels have the support of the gentry, and we have to win the support of the people. ”

Xia Yunyi also nodded: "Master Hou rest assured, as you said, changing the law and innovating is not a dinner party, if any of the powerful officials and gentry are not honest, then we can only mobilize the majority of the common people to teach him a lesson!" ”

"If only you understood."

After Zhang Gui spoke, he looked at Zhu Yujian, who had been established as the prince of the new Tang Dynasty: "Shizi, you and the Tang King entered Beijing this time to explain the situation to the imperial court about the murder of the Qincha by Zhu Qixuan and other clan disciples to His Majesty. ”

Zhu Yujian said: "The country should be agriculture-oriented, and I am willing to take agriculture as the foundation to increase grain production!" ”

After hearing this, Zhang Gui nodded and said, "This is not bad!" ”

The next day, Zhang Gui rushed back to the capital with Zhu Yujian and others.

As soon as he returned to the capital, as soon as Zhang Gui entered the Daming Gate, he saw a eunuch waiting here, and preached the decree: "There is a decree, the Marquis of Suizhou has brutalized the clan, and the crime is extremely evil, so after he entered the Daming Gate, he took off his saber and all the handcuffs on his body, and knelt down to die!" ”

Zhu Qiqi and Zhu Yujian, father and son, who came back with Zhang Gui, were shocked when they heard this, and couldn't help but look back at Zhang Gui.

Zhang Gui was also stunned when he heard this.

Seeing this, the eunuch asked quite majestically: "What, does the Marquis of Suizhou want to resist the decree?!" ”