Chapter 157: The Ministers Force the Palace

On the first day of October, when the ministers above the court were still arguing with Zhu Youxiao, and did not want Zhu Youxiao, the king of Qi, to check the affairs of the five provinces, the soldiers and horses of the Yanshan battalion moved.

It's not just them, but the four horsemen who are moving together.

They set off almost at midnight, and the Jinwu and Shence of the Yanshan battalion, as well as the four cavalry guards of Shuntian, as well as the new soldiers of the sixteenth battalion, led by a not very tall figure, marched towards the west.

The red tassels are long, in the autumn past, about to usher in the beginning of winter on this day, as long as the red dragon of the 80,000 army marched in the vast land of Yanzhao.

Behind them were more than 30,000 men, who drove 30,000 horses.

On the wagon, there were boxes with seals attached to them, and sacks of grain.

The first step they need to face to the west is Yanqingwei's Juyong Pass!

Juyongguan, this place is one of the "nine stops in the world" along the Great Wall of Beijing, and it is the eighth of the "Taihang Eight Mountains".

If you want to go from Shuntianfu to Xuanfu, you have to pass through Juyong Pass, and it is not easy to pass here.

Zhu Houzhao, the Ming Wuzong who tried to go to Shanxi in vain, was blocked by Juyong Pass, and had no choice but to go home.

However, for Zhu Youzhen, this place is easy to get out!

Riding on horseback, Zhu Youzhen, who was dressed in fish scale armor, was dressed in a big fur and a phoenix-winged helmet on his head.

He was only twelve years old in two months, but at this moment, he was not tall and commanded 80,000 regular soldiers and 30,000 people to march westward.

Man Gui, Sun Yingyuan, Cao Wenzhao......

They all left, and only Cao Huachun and Lu Wenzhao were left by his side, while Wang Chengen commanded Leopard Taowei to go south, led the two battalions of Zhuozhou and Bazhou, and began the dismantling of the six prefectures in the south of Beizhili.

"Sigh the law ......"

The 110,000 troops entered the Juyong Pass Trail, which was less than 40 meters wide, and after walking for 15 miles, what appeared in front of them was the Great Wall connecting Yanshan Mountain and Taihang Mountain like a barrier in the distance, and the Juyong Pass located in the mountain path.

When Zhu Youzhen's army appeared, there was a visible commotion at the head of Juyong Pass, and such defenselessness made the army easily march three miles and arrive at the foot of Juyong Pass.

"Who is in command of the troops under the city?!"

Behind the female wall, the Juyong guards looked at the "red dragon" that was pressing a large area, and they were fighting in both arms, but they also knew in their hearts that this army could only pull out one in Beizhili.

"Drive!"

At this time, a brocade-clothed guard in armor stepped forward and held up a holy decree of the highest standard:

"Long live the decree, order the king of Qi to command the soldiers and horses, enter Shanxi, and issue arrears and military salaries to the soldiers of the three towns of Shanxi, and don't open the door quickly?!"

"King Qi?!" Hearing this, the guard almost knelt at the head of the city with no legs, and hurriedly looked up.

I saw that under the gray sky, the flag hunting sounded, and the flag fluttered, isn't it the big word "Qi".

"The last will open the door! This is the door! ”

The guard replied loudly, and then scolded the guard next to him:

"Pull the jack gate and open the city gate!"

"Yes!" Hearing this, the garrison hurriedly sent someone to turn the iron plate in the city gate tower, and after pulling up the jack gate that had been put down, he ordered someone to open the city gate.

"Into town!"

Seeing that the city gate was opened, Zhu Youzhen let the soldiers and horses enter the city without thinking.

He didn't believe that anyone dared to deal with himself who commanded the army, he was not Zhu Qizhen, and the current civil officials were not as good as the pan-Jiangnan in those years, and he couldn't pull out a Vara in the orthodox years outside the Guan.

As far as the current situation is concerned, Nurhachi's 100,000 troops descended from the sky, and they also had to suffer two fists from the Ming army.

But what I have to say is that the command of more than 10,000 troops, the feeling of boundlessness, and the sense of emptiness that the brain power is constantly being consumed, make Zhu Youzhen very depressed.

110,000 horses, people eat horses and chew, and it is convenient to relieve hands along the road, all of which need to be controlled.

Especially when you get rid of it, you can see the picture of feces and urine on both sides of the road.

In this regard, Zhu Youzhen had already restated five orders, and the small relief during the march was acceptable, but the big solution could only be held back.

If you encounter a village, you can take 100 households and sentinels as a unit, stay for a quarter of an hour, dig out the big pit that needs to be relieved, and then sell it to the local people after the soldiers can relieve their hands.

This may sound like an incredible practice, but the fermentation of human and livestock manure is an important fertility.

Therefore, along the way, there is no need for soldiers to dig pits, and dung trucks can be seen in some towns chasing behind the army's buttocks, begging for feces and urine.

If you look down from the sky, you can see that at the end of the army, there are hundreds of dung trucks following the army, and these are the dung dealers who sell nightshade.

A cart of 300 wen, for the Ming army of 110,000 horses, but after driving more than 20 miles, he has already earned four or five taels of silver.

Therefore, when the army poured into Juyong Pass and passed through, the dung cart at the end can be said to have made the soldiers defending the city cover their mouths and noses, and almost want to gag.

Taking advantage of the army's clearance, Zhu Youzhen said to Lu Wenzhao and Cao Huachun:

"Leave the soldiers and horses of the Juyong battalion, pay to take over, and wait for the military order."

"Yes!" Hearing this, Cao Huachun and Lu Wenzhao sent orders one after another.

Lu Wenzhao left a general banner of Jinyi Guard, while Cao Huachun asked the Juyong battalion to stay, using salary as bait to gather all the soldiers and horses in Juyong Pass.

"Your Highness said, according to the silver of your hair, bring your military register!"

Liu Yong, the general of the Juyong battalion, summoned the soldiers and horses of the Juyong battalion and shouted at the gathered soldiers and horses of Juyong Pass.

Such a move made the guerrilla general in charge of guarding the pass very weak-hearted, and his action immediately made Liu Yong angry and drew his sword:

"Do you want to disobey?!"

"Don't dare...... Don't dare to ......" Juyongguan guerrilla had a cold sweat on his face, and he could only ask people to recruit the military register.

Seeing this, Liu Yong also returned the long knife to the sheath, and then sat on the chair brought by the soldiers, and took out a holy decree of a black bull horn shaft against the guerrilla at Juyong Pass:

"Receive the will of Long Live and abolish the reorganization of the Juyongguan battalion!"

"Fuck! Fuck your fart! As soon as he heard that he was going to be cut and reorganized, the guerrilla general Juyongguan, who knew how much black material he had under his buttocks, immediately put his hand on the hilt of his knife.

With this action, the infantry of the Juyong battalion immediately raised the infantry gun, which made the soldiers of the Juyong Guan battalion who were surrounded in the middle sweat break out in cold sweat.

"Are you going to make trouble?" Liu Yong shouted angrily, and instantly made the battalion soldiers who were still watching put down the weapons in their hands.

As a result, only the guerrillas at Juyongguan remained, and there were only about 300 families around him.

They wanted to put down their weapons, but they were unwilling to be taken away from power, and Liu Yong was quick at this time, and snatched the step gun from the hand of the step gun next to him.

Fifteen steps away, Liu Yong raised his gun and shot, but when he heard the sound of "bang", Juyongguan's guerrilla chest ached, his eyes rolled white, and he fell straight down.

"Guerrilla!"

Seeing that their guerrillas had been hit and fell, the three hundred or so family members instantly turned red-eyed, and they drew their swords and were about to pounce on the soldiers of the Juyong battalion.

"Put!"

"Peng Peng Pengβ€”"

The sound of fried beans sounded, just a photo, and more than half of the three hundred family members were killed and injured in an instant, so that the innermost family members didn't have time to react, so they faced the foot guards who raised their guns.

Liu Yong returned the bulb to the bullock, and then drew his knife and said:

"If you put down your blades, the general will only chase the first offender this time, and you can join the army like the sixteenth battalion, and receive last year's and this year's military salaries!"

After that, Liu Yong looked at the Jinyi Wei General Banner who had been watching the play, and the General Banner standing on the carriage saw this, and immediately kicked the back of the box at the top of the carriage.

After the hundreds of pounds of boxes went to the rope, they were no longer fixed, and after a push, they were immediately smashed from the carriage, and countless pieces of silver were scattered on the ground.

The white silver dazzled everyone's eyes, and gradually someone heard the sound of weapons being lowered around.

Even those who were still wailing, looked at the silver scattered on the ground, barely endured the pain, and stood up.

Seeing this, Liu Yong turned his head sideways and said to the lieutenant general in the army: "Re-make the book, according to the salary of the person and the military salary of this year." ”

"The last general commands." When the adjutant general heard this, he immediately asked people to drive out these family members who had surrendered, heal the wounded, and remove the bodies of the family members who had been killed, and then let them read their names one by one, and under the supervision of Jinyiwei, they began to pay arrears and military salaries according to the annual salary of twelve taels.

Juyong Pass is just a microcosm, in the vast land of Yan and Zhao, the marching contingent of the 110,000 army is constantly decreasing.

Yanqing, Baoan, Xuanfu, Xuanping, Datong......

When Zhu Youzhen arrived in Taiyuan with soldiers and horses, there were only six guards left around him, and more than 20,000 people.

At this time, it was already the fourth day since they entered Shanxi and began to dismantle the soldiers and horses in Shanxi.

Jinyiwei's intelligence was not wrong, and after transferring the nearly 30,000 battalions, the troops in the inner city passes of the three towns of Shanxi were extremely weak.

In the huge Taiyuan City, there is only one battalion of 3,000 soldiers and horses stationed there.

When they saw the arrival of the Six Guards, and knew that the Six Guards were coming, they did not start fighting in the barracks, so they obediently accepted the dismissal.

Helplessly, the strength is not as good as others, and the strength of the Six Guards is enough to sweep the Hetao, not to mention dealing with them who were not selected to aid Liao.

The preliminary dust of the matter settled, and Zhu Youzhen entered Yangqu County, Taiyuan Prefecture without any risk.

One after another, they reported on the movements of each battalion, as well as how many soldiers and horses had been dismantled, and how much was real and how much was false.

In the case that the general army of the three towns rushed to aid Liao, the three towns were leaderless and were taken by the six guards and sixteen battalions in one fell swoop.

"Only the Great Wall is left......"

Looking at the good news, Zhu Youzhen, who was in the big tent of the Chinese army outside Yangqu County, pushed away the good news and looked at the map of Shanxi on the table.

On this map, the entire three towns of Shanxi and the Great Wall are vividly depicted.

In the midst of vividness, Zhu Youzhen's eyes have been staring at the Great Wall of nearly 1,500 miles.

In this Great Wall, there are thousands of stone forts, each of which is stationed with a group of Ming troops, and at least five battalions of troops need to be stationed.

Zhu Youzhen was waiting, waiting for news from the five battalions.

It was also at the same time that the news that the King of Qi led his troops to dismantle the Shanxi Guards and the battalion soldiers also spread back to the capital, which shocked the government and the opposition.

The rapid and endless sound of footsteps rushed to the Qianqing Palace like an earthquake.

Hundreds, and even thousands of scholars, came to the gate of the Qianqing Palace, knelt down and held the wat board and shouted "Long live".

Not celebrating, but full of anger.

Among them, Gao Panlong's scolding was the most ugly, and even the commander of the pure army guarding the palace gate couldn't wait to go up and give this old guy a few killing sticks.

The leaders of the six parties kneeling in front of the hundred officials were even more pale, and Yao Zongwen, who was kneeling in the second row, whispered with an ugly face:

"We were all teased by Banzai and King Qi!"

"Banzai doesn't have the idea of letting Premier Qi fight in the southwest, what Banzai wants to do is to abolish Sanxishan Town!"

Yao Zongwen said what Zhu Youzhen and Zhu Youxiao thought, but it was too late.

The four cavalry guards were stationed ten miles outside the capital, and they were operating at night, and with the curfew and lockdown of the city, they only got the news the next day.

Originally, they were guessing where the four cavalry guards went, but only two days later, the news of the slap in the face came.

They thought that the emperor had been arguing with them in the court for the past few days, just for the affairs of the southwest of the king of Qi.

But I don't want to, this is the bright plank road, the dark Chen Cang!

Zhu Guozuo of the Zhejiang Party had an ugly face, and he couldn't imagine how the emperor who had Beizhili and Shanxi would be rampant and domineering in the future if the three towns of Shanxi were abolished.

What's more, they have been wooing Yang Zhaoji, Lu Qin, and Zhang Jixian for a long time, and they are the ones who have not been in the position of the general army of the three towns for a long time.

When the three towns went out of Shanxi, it was also because of Wenchen's guarantee to them that they led their troops out of Shanxi and rushed to help Liaodong.

But now, the news of the three towns in Shanxi being laid off will be transmitted back to Liaodong in less than ten days.

At that time, the three towns of them will be in Liao as a guest army, and it will be impossible for them to take refuge in Nurhachi, so they can only become rootless.

After becoming a rootless ping, it is difficult to become rooted.

Of the four towns in the northwest, only Yansui Town and Guyuan Town have two vacant positions because of Du Wenhuan's departure and the dismissal of the Kou.

What else is there to do? There is only asylum seeking, and who is this asylum? Wenchen?

Don't be kidding, one second ago he was still talking about shelter, and the next second the three of them were copied, doesn't this mean that Wenchen can't play the emperor and King Qi at all?

Since you can't play, why do you rely on Wenchen? Isn't it good to go directly to the king and emperor of Qi?

Thinking that the soldiers and horses of the three towns were about to lose control, Zhu Guozuo's face was pale, but he was helpless.

To put it bluntly, the current five parties of Qichu, Zhejiang, Xuankun have long been reduced to rookies pecking each other.

When Sun Ruyou and Fang Congzhe were there, they could still dominate the court and suppress Donglin.

But the problem was that the two of them were taken away by Donglin and the emperor together, and finally replaced with a muddy Ye Xianggao.

Ye Xianggao, this old boy, his ass is obviously on the emperor's side, how can he help them? It is estimated that in the end, it is also by means of mud and mud to get things over......

Thinking of this, Zhu Guozuo looked at Ye Xianggao and Liu Yixiu, who were kneeling in front of the hundred officials.

Looking at their backs, Zhu Guozuo clenched his fists under his robe.

Not only him, but all of these were also thought of by Qi Shijiao, Tang Binyin, Guan Yingzhen, Gu Tianjun, and Liu Yixian.

Although Liu Yixian knew that the abolition of the three towns in Shanxi was a good thing for the Ming Dynasty, he was even more afraid of the gradually expanding military power in Zhu Youzhen's hands.

In his heart, the Ming Dynasty is right to change the law, but the prince's leading of the troops is the way to take trouble.

The people of the Ming Dynasty are already bitter enough, who can know that the current King of Qi will not grow his ambitions as he grows older?

Thinking of this, Liu Yixiao looked sideways at Ye Xianggao and said:

"Pavilion Elder, King Qi ......"

"It's not good to be old, it's hard to kneel for too long, your back hurts......" Ye Xiang got up suddenly, beating his waist with his hand, and when the Jingjun saw this, he sent two eunuchs to help.

"Colleagues, the old man is old, and he knelt down for two hours, for fear that it would hurt the fundamentals, so he retired first......"

Ye Xianggao trembled, this appearance made many Wenchen see it, and hurriedly returned the salute and asked him to take good care of himself.

Only Liu Yixi, Zhu Guozuo, Yao Zongwen and others saw it, where did this old man hurt the roots? Obviously, he didn't want to work with them to force the emperor to stop the three towns in Shanxi.

His actions made the faces of the leaders of the six parties darken, and many non-party officials, seeing Ye Xianggao leaving, also understood Ye Xianggao's thoughts, and immediately got up and left.

As a result, the original scale of five or six hundred people instantly reduced to just over four hundred.

But even so, Zhu Guozuo still didn't mean to get up, and still knelt down.

Many Beijing officials kneel here, and it is difficult to guarantee the operation of the center, the world belongs to the Zhu family and the emperor.

As long as the emperor did not compromise, they knelt for a long day and used this method to cause chaos in the government to make the emperor compromise.

This method of corrupting the situation of the dynasty was the most used in the Song and Ming dynasties to bully the emperor and weaken.

It's a pity that they think people are simple......

"They thought I was filial piety to the emperor, but I wasn't!"

In the Heart Nourishing Palace, listening to the sound of the courtiers crying and dying in the distance, Zhu Youxiao sneered lightly in his heart.

He looked at Wei Zhongxian and said, "On the tenth day of the boycott, except for Ye Ge Lao, the foreign ministers will not receive them. ”

"Slave and maid obey the order...... Wei Zhongxian responded honestly, and then his eyes gestured to Wang Tiqian, who was guarding the door of the Yangxin Palace, Wang Tiqian understood and immediately walked out of the Qianqing Palace.

He walked out of the Qianqing Palace Road, and when the palace gate was opened and the courtiers raised their heads, he said to the Wenchen led by Liu Yixi, Zhu Guozuo and others:

"Long live a little cold, ten days of boycott, internal and external affairs are handled by Ye Ge Lao."

After that, Wang Tiqian turned around and was about to leave, and Jingjun immediately closed the palace door.

As the palace door closed, the faces of Zhu Guozuo and the others were as pale as pig's liver, and they were ugly.

The Emperor didn't care about their actions, and everyone saw it, so they all looked at the leader of their own party.

Liu Yixiao felt the gaze, sighed in his heart, and then got up slowly, obviously recognizing the facts, thinking about governing the government first, and trying to negotiate with the emperor.

Seeing this, many Donglin officials also got up one after another and followed Liu Yixiao to leave the gate of the Qianqing Palace.

With the departure of the Donglin Party, the original size of more than 400 people was instantly reduced by one-third.

Guan Yingzhen, Qi Shijiao, Tang Binyin, and Gu Tianjun looked at Zhu Guozuo, and although Zhu Guozuo was not convinced, he still got up slowly.

His actions represent the thoughts of the people.

The coercion of the ministers must be useful if the emperor expresses his position.

Some emperors will fight directly in the court, such as Zhu Houzhao, and some emperors will go to the lake, such as Zhu Houxi.

But Zhu Youxiao was undoubtedly a combination of rigidity and softness, and directly chose to tell everyone that he would not see the dynasty.

This is not a question of evasion, but a warning to many civil servants.

If they are more aggressive, then he Zhu Youxiao can also live in the inner court for decades without court, anyway, there are Qi King Zhu Youzhen and Shoufu Ye Xianggao walking in the outer court, not afraid of not being able to implement his national policy.

Even if Wenchen and the emperor turned their faces, at the moment, Zhu Youxiao had the biggest help, which was the Imperial Horse Supervisor and Zhu Youzhen, the King of Qi.

The Imperial Horse Prison has a complete finance, almost a quarter of the current treasury income of the Ming Dynasty, and in the hands of Zhu Youzhen, the king of Qi, there are also the Shangzhi Sixteen Guards, the Shangzhi Twelve Gong Guard Battalion, the Outer Sixteen Gong Guard Battalion, and the Daning Three Guards, as well as Sun Chuanting, Qin Bangping, Qin Liangyu, Qi Jin and others.

How much of a force is that? Only subordinate to the Imperial Horse Guard, there are more than 170,000 soldiers and horses in the Shangzhi and Outer Gong Guard Battalions.

Together with the nearly 60,000 soldiers and horses outside, it is 2.23 million soldiers and horses.

Jiangnan now has Qi Yuanbi's 10,000 Zhejiang soldiers, Sun Chuanting's 8,000 Bijie soldiers in the southwest, and Cao Wenzhao, who has been going south for a long time and is ready to take charge of the Duogan camp, and Mangui of Daning Sanwei......

Sun Yingyuan, who commanded the two guards and horses of Tengxiang and Wuxiang, also went south to the north of Jinan Mansion in Shandong, that is to say, in addition to the northwest, the land of Hebei, the land of Qilu in the Central Plains, the land of Jiangnan, and the land of the southwest, there were emperor's soldiers and horses.

In this case, once the emperor issued a decree, whoever dared not accept the decree would be a rebellion.

"Hit the ......"

The leaders of the six parties were all terrified, they did not expect that the layout of the three towns in Shanxi had already begun.

From the time Zhu Youzhen asked Qi Yuanbi to go to Zhejiang to recruit troops, a nail had been buried in Jiangnan.

The 10,000 new soldiers in Qi Yuanbi's hands may not be able to defeat Jiannu and the southwest, but it is definitely more than enough to fight the guards in Jiangnan!

The Shandong of the Qi Party has Sun Yingyuan leading the troops to the south, the southern part of the three parties of Zhejiang, Xuankun and the three parties in the south of the Yangtze River have Qi Yuanbi's Zhejiang soldiers, and there are Qi Jin, Qin Bangping, and Mangui in Liaodong.

There are Zhu Youzhen in Beizhili and Shanxi, and at this glance, it seems that only Huguang of the Chu Party has not been implicated.

But the problem is, as long as the Chu Party dares to do something, then Qin Liangyu, Sun Chuanting and others will not move, which is enough for the Chu Party to overthrow.

An Bangyan's slogan is to take Chenzhou and reach Changde.

Beat Changde, do you want to beat Changsha? To fight Wuchang or not?

One wrong step and one wrong step, such a closeness was not expected by the ministers, after all, the emperor with military power has not been out for hundreds of years.

Zhu Houzhao doesn't have a younger brother, and he still needs to go to clarify the taxes in Jiangnan, but Zhu Youxiao doesn't need to, as long as he speaks, the 170,000 army will go down in an instant.

Cut off the food of the army? The Imperial Horse Supervisor is self-contained, and the tax can last for at least half a year.

Not to mention that the household department can't intervene at all, but is still waiting for the tax of the imperial horse supervisor to save his life.

"The child has a drug in his belly, ......"

Zhu Guozuo gritted his teeth and left the Qianqing Palace Gate with the ministers of the party.

But just as they left, a brocade-clothed guard trotted past them with a piece of music and rushed straight to the gate of the Qianqing Palace.

All the Wenchen looked sideways, their hearts tightened, and they couldn't help but wonder if An Bangyan, Hao Chongming, and Song Wanhua had set up troops in advance.

But before they could ask, Jinyi Wei Qianhu took the song to let the Jingjun open the door and rushed into the gate of the Qianqing Palace.

Helplessly, the hundred officials had no choice but to leave with a declining momentum, but this brocade-clothed guard Qianhu ran into the Qianqing Palace in a hurry, and immediately knelt down in front of the Yangxin Palace after entering the door, and said loudly:

"Hooray! Eight hundred miles of urgency, the Yellow River broke in Lingbi and Huangpu, and hundreds of thousands of people in Lingbi, Huangpu and other places were affected! ”