Chapter 287: The Collapsed World

While Yang Feng was working hard to grow rice in Huining with the members of the reclamation team, His Majesty the Emperor of the capital was still facing an increasingly fierce rebellion.

Lan Yu finally began to attack Kaifeng.

He continued to bombard the city with twenty-four siege guns equivalent to eighteen pounder guns, and finally collapsed a section of the Kaifeng city wall.

But the ensuing assault into the city ended in failure.

Of course, this result is not surprising.

The officers and soldiers of all walks of life who attacked were worried, for fear of accidentally injuring the prince, especially the fact that King Yan personally led his troops to block the gap to meet the battle, which made them dare not continue to use artillery, after all, the responsibility of killing King Yan was really not something that a front-line general like them could bear......

Sapphire is certainly not afraid.

In fact, Lan Yu wished that a fool could give King Yan a shot.

But the problem is that there are no such fools!

Those thousands of households who have to take the lead are not stupid!

Can't beat Kaifeng at most continue to fight, this kind of siege war is normal for a few years, now it's only a few months, it really can't be said that they attack slowly, but if they really want to bombard King Yan to death, even if the emperor won't cut off his head afterwards, it is indispensable to lose his official position......

In fact, the possibility of being beheaded is extremely high.

"Are you waiting to kill my uncle and want to fall into injustice?"

Then His Majesty the Emperor, in order to prove his filial piety to his uncle, will definitely cut off a few heads.

Got it!

The angry blue jade played one after another, asking the emperor to issue a decree clearly announcing the rebellion of the vassal kings, as well as revoking his holy decree that he could not harm his uncles, otherwise he would not be able to fight, and when it came to a critical time, Zhu Di or other vassal kings would appear on the front line, and then the officials and soldiers would immediately tie their hands and feet. Previously, the King of Liao even took the guards out of the city to sneak attack, although he was finally blocked by the Shenji Battalion, but the King of Liao personally charged forward with a spear, and the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion hurriedly made way for him.

Don't dare not let it.

If he really killed him with a volley of guns, who would be able to withstand the anger of the little princess?

The Shenji Battalion was selected by the guards in the capital, who doesn't know that Princess Hanshan is second only to the emperor in the capital, you dare to kill her own brother, believe it or not, she killed your whole family?

Even Lan Yu has instructed, other vassal kings are okay to say, but King Liao must not be hurt, after all, he can't afford to provoke this little ancestor now, not only Lan Yu, all generals are the same, who has no deposit in the bank? Who doesn't have any business with Wutai Mountain? Anger the little princess and wait to be played to death by her money!

In fact, for those generals, they didn't dare to kill any of the vassal kings?

The emperor did not dare to give an order.

The emperor has to consider all the decrees.

But Zhu Yunxi still didn't make such a holy decree in the end.

The main reason is that the ministers are against it, and they persuade Zhu Yunxi that the reason why it has come to this is that in the final analysis, it is the death of King Xiang, so His Majesty the Emperor can no longer let those uncles die on the battlefield. In addition, it is useless to kill a vassal king, but it makes the situation even more uncontrollable, as long as Kaifeng is opened in the current situation, these vassal kings are captured, and then they honestly submit to the emperor, the guards behind them will naturally no longer resist. Kill them, then their guards are nothing more than supporting their sons, like if King Yan is killed, the Zhu Gaochi brothers can really only fight to the death.

Zhu Di will not die, as long as he is caught, he can make the troops in Beiping give up resistance with a word.

In short, the emperor not only rejected Lan Yu's request, but also reiterated it.

Lan Yu had no choice but to attack again.

But trenches had been quickly dug in the breaches and forts had been piled up in the city.

His offensive was thwarted.

At the same time, Li Jinglong and Cao Zhen's joint attack on Wuchang was also frustrated.

In fact, they are close to success.

The two families are attacking on both sides, after all, the cannons on the Wuchang city wall block the Yangtze River, and their two official armies can actually not make peace by water, so they can only attack on one side, Cao Zhen's Qu Neng father and son have led their subordinates to rush to Wuchang City with bravery, but their troops are small, and they are essentially only used as a diversion to cooperate with Li Jinglong.

The latter failed to attack the city.

Qu Neng, who attacked Wuchang alone, had to face the full counterattack of the defenders.

In the end, they had to retreat.

Qu Neng was still injured, and his subordinates were even more indignant.

The angry Cao Zhen accused Li Jinglong of releasing water.

However, it is indeed possible for him to release the water, after all, he led an army of 100,000 to attack Wuchang, and there is also a Shenji battalion under his command, there is no reason for Qu Neng's poorly equipped Sichuan army to attack the city wall, and he can't do it on his side. You must know that the guards in Sichuan have hardly replaced any new equipment over the years, after all, after solving the Yuelu Timur, they have not fought there for six or seven years, at most there are some rapid-fire guns. In fact, the elite of the Sichuan army led by Qu Neng did not use firearms at all, or the most traditional way of fighting, even they could climb up against all kinds of firearms in Wuchang City, but Li Jinglong's well-equipped ones couldn't do it?

However, Li Jinglong also defended himself later, and accused Cao Zhen of deliberately letting go of a large number of Xiang king's guards in Jingzhou before, so the strength of the Wuchang defenders rose sharply, and he failed to attack the city.

Then the two managers blamed each other.

And Zhu Yunxi finally chose to transfer back to Li Jinglong, and then be replaced by Huaiyuan Hou Cao Xing.

However, this move caused dissatisfaction among Li Jinglong's subordinates.

After all, both Cao Zhen and Cao Xing are just marquises, and Cao Zhen has been in Sichuan for more than ten years, and he has been estranged from the noble generals in the capital. Li Jinglong's subordinates are all new-school generals in the capital, and now the emperor favors Cao Zhen because of his background, which obviously makes Li Wenzhong's generals feel unfair.

Internal contradictions began to arise.

In fact, this is also inevitable, the Ming army was originally factional.

Behind the little emperor is the Chang Yuchun system, or the current blue jade system, and it must be this faction that is reused, and it is only a matter of time before other factions are dissatisfied.

As for the attack on Suzhou, because the main forces were in two battlefields, and Zhu Yunxi didn't think that those gentry were really capable of holding on, so he still used Wu Shou'an's department as the mainstay, but sent Anluhou Wu Jie, that is, Wu Fu's son. The main reason is that the latter has been in Zhejiang many times before, and now Zhu Yunxi can only mobilize mobile troops from Zhejiang, and not only to attack Suzhou, but also to suppress the local gentry and guard the sea is still unknown Ma He. The latter posed a serious threat to the coast, although theoretically he had not yet betrayed the emperor, and the emperor had decreed that he should be relieved of his command and ordered Penglaibo Qi Bin, who was guarding Fusang, to lead the sailors south from Fusang to take over the fleet.

But......

You have to know where he is!

I don't know where this fleet is at the moment, and how to give orders?

Capital.

"Is there any news of Ma Wa?"

The little princess asked the green slave with an irritated expression.

She had just returned from the palace, and she still wanted to persuade her nephew to wait for Yang Feng to come back, as long as she issued an order to negotiate with the vassal kings, anyway, the vassal kings were not capable of attacking outward, as long as the relationship was eased, the funeral would be coming soon, and the vassal kings would be allowed to enter Beijing to attend the funeral.

Of course, without troops.

However, under normal circumstances, if you don't bring soldiers, you will definitely be punished by Zhu Yunxi.

This is also inevitable.

Although Zhu Yunxi did not kill his uncles, it did not mean that he did not take the opportunity to solve his clan reform.

Detain all these uncles, agree to be public servants in the capital, take their families directly from the fiefdom to the capital, and agree to divide the territory to fend for themselves, of course, the guards must be lifted, and the family can leave one guard. Anyway, now that Mongolia is subjugated to the Western Regions, there is no need for them to guard the border fortress, a family leaves a guard, or even a guard does not need to stay, just give them a fief. In fact, you can also throw it directly to the Western Regions, after all, the Western Regions are so big and Zhu Di himself is really not good, like King Qin, King Su, King Qing, etc., they can go to the Western Regions, so they can be equipped with a few guards.

In short, as long as you enter Beijing, you have to take the opportunity to solve it.

At least the vassal king group in the north must be dismantled, otherwise it will be too dangerous for a dozen vassal kings to group together at once.

In short, if you don't bring troops into Beijing, there will definitely be no good results.

But if he led the troops, Zhu Yunxi could not agree.

Tens of thousands of elites have arrived in the capital, and he is still afraid that his uncles will unite to raid the palace!

In this way, we can take the opportunity to make public the news of Yang Feng in Liaodong.

Then Yang Feng came back if he wanted to come back, he didn't want to come back, she acted as a guarantor on behalf of Yang Feng, and during the funeral, the war was armistic, and the emperor and his uncles negotiated together, found a mutually acceptable solution and signed a covenant in Xiaoling, and everyone abided by this covenant in the future and continued to maintain family friendship, a perfect solution.

But was rejected by the emperor.

He doesn't need to negotiate with his uncles, he is the emperor, they are ministers, even if they are elders, they have to have the final say.

It annoyed the little princess.

"I should have gone to Keelung, and I suspect that he wanted to collude with Fujian, and the bank in Fuzhou reported that the local gentry were extremely supportive of the Suzhou affair, and even wanted to take the opportunity to respond, but they just had no excuse. If Ma He, in the name of King Yan, made enough promises to them and landed in Fuzhou with a fleet, then the Fujian gentry would probably raise troops under the orders of King Yan. In the final analysis, just opening up maritime trade is enough to make the Fujian gentry work hard, this is not the worst case, the worst thing is that they add the yellow robe of King Yan. Whether it is Liu Jiang in Suzhou, Yao Guangxiao or Ma He in our city, they are actually with the Zhu Gaochi brothers.

The Zhu Gaochi brothers wanted their father to be the emperor.

After all, then Zhu Gaochi is the prince. ”

Haruhime said.

This North Korean woman has really grown up over the years, after all, Yang Feng has always regarded her as a personal secretary, the little princess is the manager to be precise, she is the personal secretary, and Zhang Ying is the director of the mainland business.

Green Slave is the head of the Seychelle business.

The remaining Gulina is the head of the Western Regions business.

As for why Liu Rong is called Liu Jiang, it is actually his father's name, and then he used his father's name in Suzhou, and someone reported to the imperial court, saying that Liu Jiang, a general under King Yan, was the mastermind of the rebellion in Suzhou, which can only be nonsense.

Because Liu Jiang was still in the Western Regions at this time.

Song Sheng can testify.

Therefore, the Suzhou rebellion has nothing to do with King Yan, it was carried out by Qi Tai and others, in order to frame King Yan, they deliberately made him lie about Liu Jiang, the general of King Yan's subordinates, but they didn't know that Liu Jiang was still in the Western Regions, so this kind of conspiracy who tried to blame King Yan made people laugh.

"I'm so angry, what the hell does he want to do, is he being entangled by that slut in Huining."

The little princess said angrily.

"Princess, haven't you thought that when you give the lord an order to go to the sea, the emperor and the emperor of Daxing are of the same mind?"

Haruhime said with a mysterious smile.

"Uh, Hu, nonsense, they have such a good relationship."

The little princess said visibly flustered.

"At that time he was the grandson of the emperor, and now he is the emperor."

Haruhime said meaningfully.

The little princess was speechless, of course she understood that her nephew, like her father, actually wanted to pit Yang Feng to the sea and then kill her, she just didn't want to admit the reality, so the reason why Yang Feng still refused to go south was just revenge, he was deliberately looking at Zhu Yunxi's jokes.

"Then about Ma He, do you want to tell the emperor?"

Harukhime asked.

"Whatever you say, it's just speculation,"

The little princess said.

Then she sighed sadly.

Ten days later, Ma He led the fleet to raid Fuzhou, the Fuzhou guards surrendered without a fight, and then the Fuzhou gentry ate the pot pulp welcome, followed by the Fujian political envoys, all commanded the envoys, according to the inspection envoys, and at the same time played, the foreign ministers could not distinguish the truth of the edict of the emperor of Daxing, and their duties were in the place, so they closed themselves and waited for the matter to be clear.

To put it simply, they are not involved in this war.

Only five days later, He Rong, who had already been promoted to Marquis of Dongguan because of the Battle of Annam, played at the same time as the three envoys in Guangzhou and Guangdong, and the statement was the same as in Fujian.

Another province withdrew.

Of course, retreat.

To put it simply, we will not accept the orders of the imperial court for the time being.

You fight first.

Let's talk about the results.

But during this period, the gentry of Fujian and Guangdong provinces could also run happily to the sea.

Well, they're mostly for that.

And the purpose of Ma He's visit to Fuzhou is actually to tell them how vast the world and unlimited wealth overseas are, and now that the opportunity has been given to them, it is up to them whether they can grasp it or not, but the emperor wants to go to the West to monopolize.

Don't you want to do something?

Wang Bi, who was guarding Annan, refused to accept the emperor's decree to transfer him back to Beijing, on the grounds that Annan needed a general to defend it, and after the king of Chu went north, no one but him could suppress the natives. But he played like this, but in fact, he deployed troops to put on a posture of going north to Guangxi at any time, so the officers and troops in Guangxi did not dare to go north to King Qin.

Of course, they wouldn't have been able to serve the king.

In fact, most of the guards in Guangxi were guarding in Annam.

Because Annan had just been taken, most of the armies that had originally conquered Annan had not yet withdrawn.

However, it was Mu Sheng, the Marquis of Xiping in Yunnan, who quickly solved the guards of King Min, and the soldiers were not bloody, in fact, it was originally the guard of Yunnan, but it was adapted into the guards of King Min, and Mu Sheng gave up resistance in a word. Then Mu Sheng imprisoned King Min's family in the palace, but this is all he can do, after all, all over Yunnan are Tusi, and in this current situation, the guards of Yunnan dare to go north to King Qin, and the Tusi will immediately rebel.

In this way, the emperor's world collapsed at a very fast speed.

(End of chapter)