Yan Neng and Du Shu stood on both sides, Yan Neng still had a fierce look on his face, as if he was not convinced, while Du Shu lowered his head and did not dare to look at Zhu Gaoxu.

He Ruhu waved his hand, and Zhao Gui, Yang Lei and the others rushed forward to control Du Shu and Yan Neng first.

This Yan Neng still had a knife on his body, and he wanted to draw the knife to resist, but he was punched in the face, and after snatching the knife, he knelt on the ground.

He was especially unconvinced, scolding rough words in his mouth, scolding Zhu Gaoxu for being unfilial and disloyal.

But seeing that Zhu Gaoxu suddenly stepped forward a few steps, he snatched Yan Neng's knife from his own soldier and wiped Yan Neng's neck with a fierce knife.

"Ahh

Zhu Zhi said sharply: "The rebel son is really vicious. ”

Zhu Gaoxu slowly walked in front of him with a knife.

Zhu Zhi was still sitting in place, the magic card in his hand was slightly raised, and his eyes flickered a little.

Zhu Gaoxu killed Yan Neng in front of him, he was still a little scared.

However, he is confident that he has a god card in his hand, and Zhu Gaoxu doesn't dare to do anything with him.

"Uncle Fifteen really thinks this broken brand is for me?" Zhu Gaoxu smiled at this time.

"What are you talking about, you rebel?" Zhu Zhi's face was incredulous.

Just as he was speaking, Zhu Gaoxu snatched his magic card with one hand and threw it on the ground.

Kacha, in front of him and the generals, stepped on the god card to smash it with one kick.

Hey, Zhu Zhi's face turned white.

Didn't wait for him to react.

With a thud, Zhu Gaoxu slashed his neck.

"Hmm-" Zhu Zhi looked at Zhu Gaoxu with an incredulous expression, he covered his neck, his body struggled on the chair a few times, and he slipped to the ground unwillingly, and when he fell, his eyes were wide open, completely dead, and he couldn't believe it.

"Uncle Fifteen." Zhu Gaoxu suddenly knelt down, hugged his body, and cried out in an earth-shattering voice: "Gao Xu, it's late-——"

"Yan Neng, you shameless villain, coerced the soldiers to persecute my fifteenth uncle, and dared to kill the imperial court, it is a great rebellion - fifteenth uncle, Gao Xu avenged you-—— woo-"

Zhu Gaoxu knelt down and cried bitterly, his voice was louder than Zhu Di, and even the soldiers outside the hall heard it.

He Ruhu knelt down on the spot and made a sad gesture: "The Great King's Day mourns, the King of Liao was unfortunately killed, and we have to arrange his funeral well——"

"My fifteenth uncle, ah-——-——" Zhu Gaoxu was in extreme pain, and suddenly fainted on the spot.

The scene was suddenly chaotic, and the soldiers hurriedly carried Zhu Gaoxu out to call the doctor.

This matter later spread to Jingshi, and Zhu Di was so sad when he heard that Zhu Gaoxu fainted on the spot, which was unbelievable.

He was conceited that when he entered the Jingshi at that time, he had already acted very well outside the Fengtian Palace, but compared with the rebel, it was not a level at all.

The next day, Yan Neng supported Zhu Zhi with soldiers and horses to fight against the rebel army, and after the defeat, he killed Zhu Zhi and the prince in a fit of rage, and spread throughout the Ming Dynasty.

Behind the proclamation, Zhu Guiyan, the second prince of the palace, and Changshi Dushu all confirmed.

As for whether the clan believes it or not, Zhu Gaoxu doesn't care, and King Jingjiang also resisted at the beginning, I didn't kill him, why did I kill King Liao?

After Jingzhou was breached, Zhu Gaoxu not only got another batch of grain, but also the materials and soldiers from Sichuan could enter Dongting Lake.

Later, Shishou County and Jianli County surrendered one after another.

At the beginning of April, the officers and troops decided to abandon Yuezhou, abandon Dongting Lake, and retreat to Wuchang.

In this way, the logistics and military resources of hundreds of thousands of rebels will not be able to go to Wuchang by water, and if they only rely on land, they will obviously need more people and military surplus, so this trick of the official army is still quite poisonous.

At the beginning of April, Zhu Gaoxu had not left yet, and was still in Jingzhou.

Jingzhou is a heavy city, and Xiangyang in the north is still in the hands of the official army, whether it is to attack Xiangyang in the future, or to prevent the official army in the direction of Xiangyang, it is necessary to station heavy troops here.

He is different from Zhu Di in Jingnan, Zhu Di does not dare to occupy territory, but only dares to guard his three mansions in Beiping.

Everywhere Zhu Gaoxu goes, he has to stabilize his territory.

The imperial court has three guards in Jingzhou, which shows the importance attached to Jingzhou.

Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu also planned to leave 20,000 soldiers and horses in Jingzhou, which was garrisoned by He Ruhu.

At the same time, he also had to settle the affairs of the Liao Palace.

On this day, Zhu Gaoxu called Zhu Guiyan in front of him.

"Gui Yan meets Brother Gao Xu." Ten-year-old Zhu Guiyan looks like a human, very loyal in front of Zhu Gaoxu, looks like a good baby, and has a brother Gaoxu, pretending to be cute.

Seeing Zhu Guiyan for the first time, Zhu Gaoxu thought of his younger brother Zhu Gaosui, who looked like a good baby on the surface, but actually had a bad stomach.

But Zhu Guiyan was so bad at the age of ten, and the dead Bian Jun was the main responsibility, and now let people teach him well, I don't know if there is any salvation?

Zhu Gaoxu has decided to let him go for the time being, not just because Zhu Guiyan helped him and is young, but because he needs someone like Zhu Guiyan in the clan.

A few years later in history, Zhu Guiyan killed countless other people's wives and daughters, and the Ming God of War demoted him to a concubine, which is called the unwritten rule of the Ming Dynasty - the punishment cannot be punished by the clan. (Unless you rebel)

So Zhu Gaoxu thought, leave this little devil first, and after a few years, either he will change his evil ways and return to righteousness, or he will commit evil things again, and when the time comes, he will be killed directly, and those clans will be warned fiercely, and in the future, the Ming Dynasty, the clan will break the law, and it will also be a capital crime.

The Ming clan needs such an urgent pioneer, and they can use him for surgery in the future.

At this time, Zhu Guiyan was already dreaming in his mind, and Brother Gao Xu's great reward for him.

He held his head up, trying to squeeze a cute expression out of his face.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Gaoxu's face was gloomy, and he said coldly: "Gui Yan, at a young age, you will seduce your sister-in-law and poison your brother, your courage is really not small, if you give you 100,000 soldiers and horses, you can also be the king of Han." ”

Hiss, Zhu Guiyan was suddenly frightened, and the next moment he cried on the spot: "Guiyan knows that he is wrong, it is all that Bian Jun, it was Bian Jun who taught me, Brother Gao Xu spares his life." Crying, plopping, kowtowing to Zhu Gaoxu.

He didn't dare to think about any reward anymore, he just wanted to live.

Zhu Gaoxu scared him first, hoping that he could reform in the future.

That's when he got down to business.

"I just got someone to count it." Zhu Gaoxu said in a deep voice: "My fifteenth uncle now has six sons and one daughter. ”

In history, the Liao king had more than 20 children in the end, and most of the children were not born at this time.

Zhu Guiyan stopped crying, knelt on the ground nervously, his eyes were full of flattery.

"There are 750,000 acres of land in Liaowangfu."

"There are sixty-eight courtyards outside Jingzhou, and there are a number of stones of grain stored." This point Liao King is far inferior to the King of Shu, the King of Shu has more than 3,000 villages, he often takes turns to live, and the grain in each village is also piled up.

Zhu Guiyan still listened quietly.

"The palace and the village house have a number of silver, gold, and other treasures."

Zhu Zhi's original fief was in Liaodong, and he stayed in Liaodong for ten years before moving to Jingzhou, and this money was probably all his savings in the past ten years.

His farms and fields are relatively small, which is also because Zhu Di came to Jingzhou after he ascended the throne.

"You take 10,000 acres of land." Zhu Gaoxu said at this time: "Each younger brother and sister is 1,000 acres each. ”

Zhu Guiyan didn't have any expression, he still looked flattering, and he didn't know if he was pretending on purpose, or if he was young now, and he didn't know the huge role of the field, and said: "Guiyan listens to Brother Gao Xu." ”

"You take twenty of them in the village, and the rest of the brothers and sisters divide them equally."

"Another 200,000 taels of silver will be given to you, and 100,000 each to your brothers and sisters."

The corners of Zhu Guiyan's eyes twitched at this time, because he found that Zhu Gaoxu seemed to be the big winner, and ninety percent of his father's wealth went to Zhu Gaoxu.

Also, why wasn't the food distributed to me? He didn't dare to speak out, so he could only praise him again and again and listen to Gao Xu's brother.

"In the future, you will be the prince's money, plus 10,000 acres of land and 200,000 silver, as long as you don't squander it, you won't be able to use it up in a few lifetimes."

"Yes, yes, thank you, Brother Gao Xu." Zhu Guiyan lowered his eyebrows and was pleasing to the eyes.

Zhu Gaoxu said again, in the future, the clan can be an official, you have to be interested, and when you grow up, you can also be an official, but if the official is not good, you will also be punished.

Zhu Guiyan probably understood after listening to it, in the future, his family will have 10,000 acres of land, and he will have more children in the future, but it will not be enough.

The key is that these fields still have to pay taxes.

That's a bit unacceptable.

However, Zhu Gaoxu said: "In the future, the vassal king can leave the fiefdom, and Gui Yan can go to all parts of the Ming Dynasty if he wants, and even go to sea and go to overseas countries." ”

Zhu Guiyan is still a child after all, and when he heard this, his eyes lit up, and he actually looked forward to it.

Zhu Gaochu said a lot, he said it all anyway, and then Zhu Gaochu asked him if he had anything else to say.

Zhu Guiyan thought for a while, and said boldly: "Sister-in-law Liu, now she is helpless-"

"Brother Gao Xu will take care of your sister-in-law, Gui Yan can rest assured."

“。。” Zhu Guiyan.

"What else?"

"Gui Yan is fine, Gui Yan is retiring." Zhu Guiyan turned around and left with tears in his eyes.

Brother Gao Xu bullied me, and I didn't even have my favorite sister-in-law.

Two days later, Zhu Gaoxu came to Baling, Yuezhou.

Zhu Gaoxu defeated Jingzhou, and Baling's officers and troops immediately withdrew, because if they didn't leave, they would face a two-sided attack, and they knew that Jingzhou couldn't hold it, and Baling couldn't hold it.

Baling is the only artery connecting Dongting Lake and Wuchang.

At this time, the boats in Dongting Lake covered the sky and the sun, and thousands of sails competed.

The official army was defeated in Yongfu, Guilin, and Yongzhou one after another, and many ships were sent to the rebel army.

When Zhu Neng retreated from Yongfu, there were seven or eight hundred boats on the river, except for those that were burned and surrendered, they ran to Yongzhou, and finally all surrendered.

After entering Huguang, many of the state capitals were surrendered, and the officers and troops abandoned Changsha and retreated directly to Wuchang, and Zhu Gaoxu could not get off the ship from the place where he surrendered, and with the addition of Sichuan, there are now more than 1,000 large and small ships.

At this time, Qian Xun, the political envoy of Hu Guangbu, was also by his side, and he said to Zhu Gaoxu.

Although there were many boats, most of them were small boats, which were used to transport supplies and grain and grass.

If you transport troops, you can probably transport about 50,000 soldiers and horses at a time, and the soldiers and horses in Huguang, plus the soldiers and horses from Guizhou to Sichuan, are close to 300,000. (Originally, there were more than 300,000, but Wang Zhong assigned tens of thousands of them to the Guangxi Metropolitan Division, and left some in the Huguang occupation area)

300,000 soldiers and horses, six times to go back and forth.

If you want to assemble and transport to Wuchang, the speed of transporting it by ship six times is definitely slower than the 300,000 troops walking from Wuchang by land together.

Qian Xun originally suggested that most of the soldiers and horses should go by land, and a small number of soldiers and horses should take the waterway with baggage, artillery, grain and grass.

But now it was discovered that Zhu Nengling's official army had sunk a ship in the Daorenji River in the north of Baling, directly blocking the route of their sailors' ships to the north.

Zhu Gaoxu stood on the shore, watching the people and craftsmen dealing with the shipwreck in the lake, but he was thinking in his mind, should he attack or defend?

(End of chapter)