"The catastrophe is coming, the heavens and the earth are dark, the Ming court has no way, and the Mahayana is victorious!"

"Kill!"

On the second day of October in the second year of the Apocalypse, Xu Hongru called himself "Emperor Zhongxing Fu", changed the yuan to "the first year of Mahayana Xingsheng", raised a flag in Yuncheng, Yanzhou Prefecture, Shandong Province, and rebelled, killing Wang Jing, the county commander, with tens of thousands of people.

On the third day of October, Wang Haoxian, the son of Wang Sen, the remnant of the White Lotus Sect and the founder of the Wenxiang Sect, together with Yu Hongzhi, raised the flag in Shenqiu County, Kaifeng Prefecture, and Suizhou, Guide Prefecture, and besieged the county seat with the title of "Zhongxing Left and Right General", with tens of thousands of people.

At the same time, rebellions broke out in Kaifeng Prefecture, Guide Prefecture and Yanzhou Prefecture one after another, with more than 100 people on a small scale and more than 1,000 people.

On the third day of the first month, Yuan Keli, the governor of Shandong, came to Yanzhou in person and commanded three battalions of soldiers and horses from Jimo, Wendeng, and Dengzhou to Yuncheng, which was occupied by the rebels.

Xu Hongru didn't know it, and led 4,000 Wenxiang Sect elites, tens of thousands of troops out of the city, leaving 3,000 Wenxiang Sect elites to defend Yuncheng, and the army went to the surrounding county towns.

When the news was transmitted back to the capital, the atmosphere was tense and busy inside and outside the capital.

Outside the capital, the horsepower of the four cavalry guards who had been stored for a month has been restored, and they are preparing beans, military rations, vinegar cloth, salt crystals, etc. to go out for the expedition, and they have transferred 32,000 stone bullets and 40,000 catties of gunpowder from the armor factory to prepare for the expedition.

In the palace of the capital, many ministers were even more noisy in the Qianqing Hall on the third day of the first year.

"This matter is due to the poor reporting of the Fusi of Jinyi Weinan Town."

"The minister asks the commander of the Fusi of Zhinan Town, Cui Yingyuan's crime!"

In the Qianqing Palace, Cui Yingyuan knelt on one knee on the road between the left and right ministers, and more than 60 ministers such as the cabinet, the six sections, the six ministries, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate were crowded in the Qianqing Palace.

On the dragon chair in the hall, Zhu Youxiao looked at the ministers, frowned, and then looked at his younger brother who was not alarmed, and then his mood calmed down.

"That's it!"

When all the ministers asked for Cui Yingyuan's crime, Zhu Youxiao suddenly spoke, and everyone closed their mouths and bowed their heads silently.

Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao also spoke:

"The news has already been spread on September 30, not to mention when will Nanzhen Fusi become a place that needs to be responsible for the local rebels?"

"As far as I know, Meng Chengguang, the doctor of the Five Classics of the Meng Mansion, and Yuan Keli, the governor of Shandong, have all been dismissed, and in the end, the cabinet has suppressed it, right?"

"Ministers wait for ten thousand deaths...... Zhu Guozuo saw that the emperor wanted to protect Cui Yingyuan, and immediately knelt down with a large number of officials who agreed to suppress it, singing ten thousand deaths.

However, Zhu Youxiao didn't bother to pursue this, after all, harmony in the court was not what he wanted, so he said:

"At present, the rebel army is rapid, although Yuan Keli sent a battalion to encircle and suppress it, but after all, there are many thieves and soldiers."

"What is the Cabinet going to do?" Zhu You asked Ye Xianggao about it, and when Ye Xianggao heard this, he immediately replied:

"The old minister thinks that he can send direct soldiers and horses south to exterminate the rebels."

"No! If the soldiers and horses are sent out, how can they ensure the safety of the direct subordinates? Hearing this, Zhu Guozuo in the cabinet immediately dismissed it, but at the same time, Shen Yan's mind became active, and he said in a low voice:

"Long live, the minister thought that he could ask Wang Shangshu of the Ministry of War to take charge of the Xiaocai Guard, Tiance Guard, Yulin Guard, and Long Xiangwei near the capital to go south to quell the rebellion."

"Old boy ......" Hearing that Shen Yan wanted to use his military power, Zhu Youzhen raised his eyebrows, and Wang Xiangqian, as a member of the Qi Party, actually didn't want to get involved in the dispute between the Five Parties and the King of Qi, so he stepped forward and said:

"Long live, the old minister is old, embarrassed to ...... heavy responsibility"

Wang Xiangqian slapped Shen Yun in the face, but Shen Yun had no temper, because what Wang Xiangqian said was not wrong.

As a person born in Jiajing's 25th year, Wang Xiangqian is now 70 or 6 years old, and asking him to go south to command troops and horses to quell the rebellion is really a bit harsh and harsh.

"Hooray! The minister is willing to lead the troops to quell the rebellion! ”

Suddenly, someone spoke loudly and knelt on the road left by the two classes of scholars.

For a while, everyone was a little curious about who this person was, but when they saw this person sideways, they immediately scolded in their hearts.

Kneeling on the long road at this moment is the Donglin Party who has been rectified by Zhu Youxiao.

Wan Yanyang, this person is just a royal history who doesn't know soldiers, and now he actually stood up and wanted to lead the troops without his own strength, don't let the army go out of the city at that time, and there will be a mutiny.

Zhu Youzhen was also very speechless when he saw it, if he really handed over more than 20,000 people from the four cavalry guards and more than 80,000 military horses from the Shangzhi Guard Army to Wan Yanyang, the capital he had accumulated for two years was estimated to be brought over by this guy in the hands of this group of rebels in Shandong.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen could only say:

"Brother Huang, my brother is willing to lead the troops."

As soon as Zhu Youzhen spoke, everyone looked at him instantly, and Wan Yanyang also said:

"Long live, the ancestral system has already said that the vassal king cannot lead the army!"

"Which ancestral system said that? Have I ever had such a mean ancestral system of clansmen?! Zhu Youzhen reprimanded Wan Yanyang in a loud voice:

"Say it again! The sky is not enough to be afraid, the ancestors are not enough to be lawful, and people are not enough to be compassionate! ”

"If we can make the world peaceful and all the people can be fed and warm, then there will be no wars in the world, and there will not be so many dynasty changes!"

After that, Zhu Youzhen glanced at everyone, and the coldness and ferocity in his eyes made the people who came into contact with him lower their heads.

Even Wang Xiangqian, Ye Xianggao and Zhu Guozuo and other people who had seen Emperor Longqing and Wanli, and were in the shadow of the emperor at that time, couldn't help but avoid his gaze.

But such a move made Liu Yixian, Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and other three people among the hundred officials feel a chill in their hearts.

This is the courage that only emperors have, it should have appeared on the person sitting on the dragon chair, but now it appeared on Zhu Youzhen's body.

Even the three emperors of Longqing, Wanli, and Taichang did not have the courage of Zhu Youzhen to directly criticize the ancestral system.

In other words, among the more than a dozen emperors of the entire Ming Dynasty, no one has dared to completely overthrow the ancestral system!

During the Zhu Yuanzhang period, there was no ancestral system, and Zhu Di made some modifications to the ancestral system, but Zhu Youzhen was different, he completely criticized and tried to overthrow it.

He dared to do this because he challenged the entire civilian power, and the confidence of the challenge came from military power.

Even if Sun Chuanting, a group of people and horses related to civilian forces, still has 360,000 soldiers and horses behind him, such as Shangzhi and Waigong Guard Battalions, which is his confidence.

The first batch of more than 40,000 students of Yanshan Institute have been studying for two years and are about to start their third year of study.

In the first year, the students of Yanshan Institute are required to know how to read and write, and in the second year, they will use both arts and sciences. In the third year, students begin to take basic military and political courses, followed by classes in the fourth year.

In other words, at present, he has more than 40,000 students who have studied basic physics, mathematics and civil engineering.

Perhaps they are not capable enough to be officials, and the same is true for their age.

But in terms of the number of more than 3,000 young men who have reached the age of 17 among them, these more than 3,000 people are more than 3,000 officials.

The mathematics they have mastered is enough for them to do some simple account calculations, so after the showdown, even if all the civil officials in Beizhili, Shanxi, and Liaodong are picky, Zhu Youzhen can still use the Gongwei Battalion to exercise military management.

The generals of the 84 Shangzhi and Waigong Guard Battalions in the three provinces are 84 officials, and the 3,000 officials and more than 4,000 military officials are the executors of military management.

He has never had a hot head, but he dares to shout when he has hole cards!

It is precisely this kind of strength that makes many officials shut up and no longer mention the so-called ancestral system.

But in the same way, such behavior is also a challenge to the imperial power.

Because if there is a vassal king who leads the troops again in the future, he will be able to refute Wenchen with Zhu Youzhen's words.

Therefore, if Zhu Youxiao agrees with Zhu Youzhen's words, it means that he may have to face the situation of many vassal kings leading troops in the fiefdom in the future.

Many of the ministers bowed their heads, but they were all waiting to see what the emperor would do.

Is it willing to add a threat in exchange for Zhu Youzhen to lead the troops, or is he willing to completely eliminate a threat.

Everyone was waiting, including Wei Zhongxian, Liu Ruoyu, Cao Huachun, Wang Tiqian and other people close to Zhu Youxiao.

"The law of the ancestors did not say that the vassal king could not lead the army, but only said that the vassal king could not leave the domain......"

As soon as he said this, Zhu Youxiao added a threat to himself and found an excuse for many vassal kings to lead troops.

In other words, Zhu Youxiao is burying mines for the vassal kings in various places, and burying a mine that can cut the domain.

In terms of the fortunes of the vassal kings in various places, even a big feudal like the Zhou domain is only more than 600,000 taels of silver.

In addition to daily expenses, it would be good to have more than 200,000 taels.

Although these long-inherited feudal clans have a lot of squeezed silver, even if these silver can recruit tens of thousands of troops, what about the cost of raising troops in the future?

You must know that in the hands of the emperor, there are more than 400,000 soldiers and horses, and even if he leaves Wenchen, he can raise more than 400,000 soldiers and horses for more than half a year with the finances of the imperial horse supervisor.

It is simply impossible to use the army of the vassal king to plot rebellion.

On the contrary, if the royal guards recruited exceeded the limit of the imperial court, then the emperor would have an excuse to cut the domain.

"Tell the world that the king of Qi will be appointed as the left pillar country, and the general Zhaowu will be awarded, and the rebellion will be suppressed, and the soldiers and horses of Shangzhi, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Beijing, and three provinces will be defeated on the same day!"

"Minister, Commander!"

Zhu Youzhen knelt down to receive the order, and felt that the blood in his whole body was boiling.

After studying and honing the military book for more than two years, many insights can finally be displayed!

"Hooray!" Suddenly, someone opened his mouth at this juncture, and this person was the king of the military department.

However, Wang Xiangqian did not want to reject the emperor's will, but said:

"Although I am in the Ming Dynasty, there is Emperor Xuanzong in front, and His Royal Highness King Qi has also commanded Baima Guanhu City and attacked the three guards of Daning, but after all, he is still a teenager."

"Therefore, the minister has the courage to ask His Royal Highness the King of Qi, how to quell the rebellion?"

Wang Xiangqian was giving Zhu Youzhen a chance to block everyone's mouths, and Zhu Youzhen said recklessly in the face of the opportunity:

"Although the rebels claim to be 100,000, they are just a rabble, and with my direct soldiers, it is enough to put down the rebellion in one month!"

"You have no jokes?!" Wan Yanyang's eyes lit up in the crowd and questioned Zhu Youzhen, but Zhu Youzhen glanced at this person and said to Zhu Youxiao on the dragon chair:

"As long as you mobilize the four cavalry guards, you can capture Xu Hongru alive in 20 days!"

The tone is not small......

Listening to Zhu Youzhen's words, the ministers sneered in their hearts, and even thought of Zhu Youzhen's embarrassing appearance twenty days later.

"Dare to ask King Qi, when can the army set off?"

Zhu Guozuo took a step forward, pressing step by step, but Zhu Youzhen said: "Immediately!" ”

"Is today one of twenty days?" Shen Yu continued to ask.

"Naturally, it's one of them!" Zhu Youzhen continued to respond.

"What if you can't catch the thief for 20 days?" Qi party official Ying Zhen stepped forward to question.

"No more soldiers in the future!" Zhu Youzhen responded loudly, and then turned to Zhu Youxiao on the dragon chair and said:

"Good news for the royal brother and other ministers."

"Brother...... Beware of ......" Zhu Youxiao wanted to speak and stopped, and finally could only appease him with a word of caution.

Then he waved his hand to signal the scattered dynasty, and when Wei Zhongxian next to him saw this, he immediately hung his voice and said, "Scattered dynasty ......"

As soon as it was sung, everyone sang long live, and then withdrew from the Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Youzhen didn't want to stay longer, because he had already arranged enough, and turned around and prepared to return to the Qingong Palace.

However, when he got on the elephant chariot with Cao Huachun's support, he saw a person open the window of the elephant chariot and follow the elephant chariot outside the window.

"What are you doing here?" Looking at Yang Lian outside the window, Zhu Youzhen frowned, while Yang Lian looked around and squeezed through his teeth:

"You already knew that Xu Hongru would rebel, didn't you?!"

"It's just your speculation." Zhu Youzhen's brows stretched slightly, but Yang Lian followed the elephant and continued:

"I should have guessed a long time ago that this person would not fight an uncertain battle, and he dared to say that he would be able to take Xu Hongru in 20 days, and he would definitely have arranged it a long time ago."

"You have to know that there is no joke in the army, you can't take Xu Hongru on the 20th, don't say anything else, don't want to keep your reputation as a soldier!"

"Heh......" Zhu Youzhen was amused by Yang Lian, leaned on the window with one hand, and said to Yang Lian:

"Mr. Yang doesn't believe me?"

"It's not that I don't believe you, it's that twenty days is too short." Yang Lian said heartbrokenly:

"From the capital to Yuncheng, the rebel's nest, it is a full nine hundred and fifty miles."

"More than 900 miles, it took six days to travel to Manguiguang, what about you?"

"This king doesn't need to be worried, but you, Mr. Yang, need to worry about those hypocrites in your so-called clear stream." Zhu Youzhen responded, and the elephant chariot also crossed the back left door at this moment.

"Humph!" Seeing that Zhu Youzhen mentioned Donglin's internal affairs again, Yang Lian stopped and said, "You can do it yourself." ”

After saying that, he turned around and left, and Zhu Youzhen also said to Cao Huachun, who was driving the elephant:

"This Yang Lian, with a knife mouth and a tofu heart, looks mean."

"Your Highness, but Yang Du is not wrong in what he said, twenty days is too short." Cao Huachun, who was driving, also looked unnatural, obviously knowing that it would be difficult to capture Xu Hongru, who had a crowd of 100,000 on the 20th.

"Don't worry about that, let's talk about it, where are the guns of the four cavalry guards?" Zhu Youzhen mentioned the things on the battlefield, and his eyes were attentive.

Naturally, he will not talk nonsense for twenty days, and if he dares to say it, he must be sure.

The four cavalry guards each had eighty guns, for a total of three hundred and twenty guns.

These artillery pieces were already transported south by Zhu Youzhen four days ago, along with 10,000 catties of gunpowder and 9,000 stone bullets from the armor factory.

Now what is contained outside the city is nothing more than gunpowder and stone bullets for subsequent counterinsurgency.

If Zhu Youzhen is not mistaken, there are still many careerists in the follow-up of Xu Hongru's rebellion.

"It has arrived in Liaocheng, Dongchang Prefecture, Shandong, but the current appearance of the rebels seems to be attacking Qufu." Cao Huachun was a little uneasy.

"The rebels' goal is not Qufu." Zhu Youzhen was not nervous, and explained to him:

"If Xu Hongru wants to threaten the Ming Dynasty, he must wave his troops to attack Jining, which is a key point of Caoyun, and then take Zou Cheng and Teng County."

"They should go to Nanwang Lake and Shushan Lake, and then the rebels will face off with Yuan Keli's three battalions of soldiers and horses, and with the strength of the rebels, it is estimated that they will only need one round to be repulsed."

"At that time, Xu Hongru will inevitably retreat to Yuncheng, and if we have time to catch up, we can directly break the enemy."

"If you can't catch up, then it's enough to do it on his way back to Yuncheng."

When the words fell, the elephant chariot also came to the gate of the East Palace, Zhu Youzhen immediately jumped out of the car, and then spent a tea time walking into the palace of Qinqin, asking people to load the armor for themselves, and then asked people to call Lu Wenzhao and Lu Xiu.

"Your Highness!"

Half an hour later, Lu Wenzhao and Lu Xiu arrived at the Miaoqin Palace and changed into a suit of armor, but Zhu Youzhen was still wearing regular clothes.

"Assemble the four cavalry guards in Nanyuan, and send the 120,000 taels of silver I have prepared, and the army will set off in an hour."

"Yes!" When Lu Wenzhao heard this, he immediately took Lu Xiu to retreat and escorted 120,000 taels of silver to Nanyuan.

At the same time, Zhu Youzhen also walked out of the palace.

is five feet and three inches, and in this era, he is already an ordinary person's figure, and the bulging muscles under his clothes can be seen to be a practitioner.

Cao Huachun sent Zhu Youzhen to Donghua Gate, and Zhu Youzhen got out of the chariot, then turned over and said to Cao Huachun:

"Take a good look at the inner court and protect the royal brother."

"The slave obeys the order...... "Cao Huachun responded honestly.

"Drive!" With a sound of driving, Zhu Youzhen rushed south under the guard of more than 100 horsemen from Donghua Gate.

Seeing this, Cao Huachun sighed and left Donghua Gate.

At the same time, in the city tower of Donghua Gate, looking at the distant back, Zhu Youxiao's brows were furrowed, and he didn't know what to think.

He didn't go to see off his younger brother, but only dared to look at it from a distance from the city tower.

Because he was afraid that after he went to send it, he finally ordered a change of generals because he was reluctant to let the other party leave.

"Tell Lu Wenzhao and tell him to protect the King of Qi, if the King of Qi has any dodge on the battlefield, he is the only one who asks!" Zhu ordered worriedly.

Wei Zhongxian, who accompanied him next to the "slave maid and maid ......", responded, and then stretched out his hand to help Zhu Youxiao, and the two walked out of the city tower and walked towards the palace.

At the same time, Nanyuan was also lively, and the distribution of 120,000 taels of silver made more than 20,000 iron horsemen rejoice, and all the military horses were also fed enough horse feed.

The soldier asked the scribe of the 1,000th army to help write a letter to his family and brought back a silver tael, just because this was the first time that everyone except Yu Linwei of the four cavalry guards went to the battlefield, and none of them knew if they could come back, so the family letter was written very long.

This also led to the fact that when Zhu Youzhen led a hundred horses to Nanyuan, there were 20,000 soldiers and thousands of people writing family letters.

In this regard, Zhu Youzhen frowned and said angrily:

"Where is the commander of the four cavalry guards?!"

"The Last General ......"

Seeing Zhu Youzhen coming on horseback, the four commanders who were still talking trotted over, but Zhu Youzhen raised his horsewhip and said, "What time is it?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, ...... at four o'clock in the afternoon"

Yu Linwei commanded the envoy to step forward to answer, but Zhu Youzhen said angrily:

"When is the time when I will issue the military order to assemble?!"

"Uh...... At three o'clock in the afternoon...... "Commander Yu Linwei looked embarrassed and tried to explain: "But Your Highness, the soldiers ......"

"What are the rules for me to go straight to the soldiers!" Zhu Youzhen interrupted the other party, and the other party also lowered his head and said:

"Military orders are like a mountain ......"

"In that case, when there is no war, what is the crime of delaying the assembly time?" Zhu Youzhen asked, and the four commanders also said in unison:

"The general is whipped thirty!"

"Torture!" Zhu Youzhen said that, the soldiers of the army supervised the battle team and did not dare to say anything, and the four commanders knelt on the ground and took off their armor.

The Warlords whipped them behind their backs with whips, each one dusting out, and after a few breaths, the edges of their clothes began to glow red, and finally blood stained.

When the whipping was fifteen, Zhu Youzhen raised his hand to signal to stop:

"The big battle is coming, and the remaining fifteen lashes will wait for the battle to be captured before deciding whether to continue the punishment, get up, and gather all the armies!"

The four commanders of the "last general ordered ......" were covered with cold sweat and pale faces, and then ordered people to gather troops and horses, and at the same time asked people to give themselves medicine and bandages.

A quarter of an hour later, an army of 20,000 assembled, with one man and four horses, almost filling the corner of Nanyuan.

Zhu Youzhen rode his horse in front of the battle, and after reviewing the army, he returned to many generals and ordered:

"Today, Lone promised His Majesty and hundreds of officials to capture Xu Hongru for 20 days."

"You have been in the army for more than a year, and you should know that Lone never lies."

"Xu Hongru raised the flag and rebelled, and his crime should be punished!"

"Yes! Among the 100,000 thieves, most of them were ordinary people, but they were deceived and blindly obeyed, so those who descended did not kill. ”

"In this battle, you are a general, you should take the lead, and the same is true for Lone!"

"Those who die in the battlefield will be given five times the amount of pension silver, ten acres of land will be pensioned field, and those who escape from the battle will have their entire family acres of land recovered, and the deserters will be beheaded for public display!"

"Wansheng...... Wansheng ...... Wansheng ......" Hearing Zhu Youzhen's promise to the pension, the middle-level generals began to sing Wansheng, and the soldiers behind him also began to blindly obey.

More than 20,000 people sang Wansheng, singing and singing, and unconsciously became King Wansheng.

Zhu Youzhen raised his hand to signal boos, and more than 20,000 people began to close their mouths in rows.

When the last row of soldiers also closed their mouths, Zhu Youzhen said:

"The Imperial Horse Supervisor has raised grain and grass for the army in Huangdian in northern Lubei, northern Henan and other places, and the whole army is now going south, after receiving the artillery of each army in Liaocheng, Long Xiangwei commanded Liu Daocheng to lead the troops to support eastern Henan, if you can capture Wang Haoxian and Yu Hongzhi alive, remember your first merit."

"The last general commands!" Liu Daocheng responded.

"Cao Meng, the commander of the Xiao cavalry guard, you divide your troops after receiving the artillery in Liaocheng, go south along the canal, and encircle and suppress small groups of rogues."

"The last general commands!" Cao Meng responded, and Zhu Youzhen also said:

"Yu Linwei commands Fan Ming, you lead the remaining one hundred and sixty artillery pieces of Liaocheng to the south and take Yuncheng."

"The last general commands!" Fan Ming responded.

At this time, Zhu Youzhen looked at the commander of the Tiance Guard and ordered:

"Tiance Wei is under my control, you don't need to rest in Liaocheng, go south to Dong'a, go straight to the thief Xu Hongru, and I want to capture him alive!"

"The last general commands!" Hearing that the King of Qi personally commanded the Tiance Guard, the commander of the Tian Ce Wei responded excitedly, and at this time, Lu Wenzhao also rushed to the front of the army with the three hundred brocade clothes of the guards, and it seemed that everything was ready.

Seeing this, Zhu Youzhen was no longer verbose:

"Expedition!"

(End of chapter)