Chapter Seventy-Six: Kill the King!
The military discussion broke up unhappily, Niu Jinxing and Li Yan each held their own opinions,-for-tat, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is good not to show weakness, after all, Niu Jinxing took the initiative to provoke the war, and Li Yan categorically has no reason not to fight back.
Roughly speaking, Niu Jinxing accused Li Yan of "the incompleteness of the revolution", while Li Yan criticized Niu Jinxing's thinking as "unrealistic", "scholarly", and "unable to see the general trend of the world".
And the generals under Li Zicheng also quickly chose sides, and the support for Li Yan was nothing more than Li Jin and Gao Yigong, of course, now a Li You has been added, although Liu Fangliang did not express his position directly, but he still ambiguously expressed Li Yan's opinion.
And those who supported Niu Jinxing went to the sea, from Liu Zongmin to Tian Jianxiu, to Li Shuangxi, Liu Rukui, Wang Wenyao, etc., the main generals who broke into the camp were on Niu Jinxing's side.
In fact, things have reached this point, Niu Jinxing's goal has been achieved, which not only further divides the relationship between the army and Li Yan, but also earns a wave of favor from the military leader, and he has actually won a big victory in this wave of games, and in this context, the military discussion has ended hastily.
In fact, Niu Jinxing is not necessarily the spokesperson of the peasant class, and Niu Jinxing is just using the peasant class as a springboard, let alone him, even Li Zicheng is not necessarily a staunch supporter of the peasant class.
Niu Jinxing's mentality is very easy to figure out, on the one hand, he was framed by the Ming court bureaucracy, and there is a bit of a plot of "not meeting talents" in it, and such a person will naturally be more extreme and flamboyant when he does things.
On the other hand, in Niu Jinxing's view, he also takes it for granted, killing the rich and helping the poor, which can not only buy people's hearts, but also solve the financial and logistical problems of the army, what's wrong with killing two birds with one stone?
Moreover, throughout history, those who can achieve things are not to first invite the hearts of the people, pull up enough soldiers and foundations, and wait for the world to stabilize, and then start to slowly clean up the hearts of the powerful gentry, or simply create a new batch of powerful gentry by themselves.
Now that Da Ming is already a dry bone in the grave, what other competitors are there under the big tomorrow? When the time comes, there will be time to sort out internal affairs, win over the landlords and gentry, and even take the prestige of the founding of the country at that time, these things will be done more smoothly, is there anything wrong? In fact, Niu Jinxing's idea is not necessarily wrong, but he doesn't know that there is a Manchu squatting behind him without opening God's perspective, he is just a person in Henan, although he has heard of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but it is only limited to hearing about it, he has no concept of the Manchu Dynasty, no understanding, let alone a specific strategic layout.
After all, according to historical experience, how could the founding dynasty not be able to defeat the Cypriot Frontier Bandits? Even an exception like the Northern Song Dynasty can compete for an alliance with the abyss, so what's there to worry about?
He thinks so, Li Yan doesn't think so, Li Yan is an existence from the perspective of God, and naturally knows the power of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so all his strategic layouts and decisions are essentially not based on the Ming Dynasty as an opponent, but on the future Manchu Qing Dynasty as a strategic opponent.
If you don't do it now, if you are defeated again, the army will face the embarrassing situation of fire everywhere, and it will be difficult for the tiger to resist the wolves.
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Of course, Li Yan's thoughts are his, and Niu Jinxing and Li Zicheng seem to have a pure position.
The most hateful thing is the divine mending knife after Niu Jinxing came down, after coming down, Li Zicheng secretly summoned Niu Jinxing, although he said that he was inclined to Niu Jinxing, but he would not completely ignore Li Yan's plan, after all, Li Yan's level he also knew.
Li Zicheng asked Niu Jinxing what he thought of Li Yan's countermeasures, and why he thought Li Yan had such a decision.
Niu Jinxing naturally maintained the original caliber and criticized Li Yan's strategy for nothing, if these were fine, but Niu Jinxing's last sentence was considered to be Li Yan's death.
"Yan doesn't want to kill the king of Yongning, and Gai doesn't want to bear the crime of killing the domain."
As soon as these words came out, Li Zicheng's face suddenly became gloomy, Niu Jinxing handled it very well, and suddenly pointed to Li Zicheng's worries, Li Yan refused to kill the royal family of the Ming Dynasty, is it because he wants to leave a way back for himself? Does he want to be Song Gongming? That's why you are so ambiguous about the king of the wealthy family?
This matter is not small, and if it is bigger, it can be directly regarded as Li Yan's two hearts, so when it comes to this, regardless of whether Li Yan has this idea or not, Li Zicheng has already begun to suspect him, and immediately rejected Niu Jinxing without saying a word, but in his heart he began to be suspicious of Li Yan.
Therefore, the ending of this matter came out quickly, and the next day Li Zicheng announced that he would "publicly try" Zhu Cai and put this Ming nobleman on trial.
This is very lively, where have the people heard of the trial of the prince? Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty for more than 270 years, I have never seen a vassal king pass through the court, and now he actually wants to judge the prince, and they all gathered and came to see the excitement.
The position of the chief judge, Li Zi traded to Niu Jinxing, who is Niu Jinxing? That's a real character from the field, and there are a lot of political struggles, and the mouth is quite six.
The public trial went on all morning, almost all of them were unilateral outputs of Niu Jinxing, and Zhu Cai was already frightened when he saw the heavily armed soldiers around him, and he still expected him to defend himself? As a result, Zhu Cai is easily portrayed as a tyrannical vassal king who is promiscuous internally and unscrupulous externally, and even the things that steal chickens and dogs and peep at women when he was a child are described vividly, and he is born a bad species, and it is not enough to be angry if he does not kill.
Perhaps because of the perennial experience of charging the army, Niu Jinxing is a first-class good hand in inciting public opinion, and after a few words, the emotions of the people were mobilized, and they began to shout and kill.
Taking advantage of this shareholder wind, Niu Jinxing was shocked and ordered: "Zhu Cai's crime is unforgivable, he confiscated all his family property and abandoned the city!" ”
After finishing speaking, several powerful soldiers immediately stepped forward, and pulled Zhu Cai out for execution, Zhu Cai had already been frightened by the six gods, and the yellow and white flows were all over the ground, and the people who watched laughed.
Heaven is noble, but that's it!
Zhu Cai died, Li Zicheng and Niu Jinxing didn't even leave him with the last dignity, they didn't poison him, they didn't strangle him, but they were beheaded directly in the downtown like Jiangyang thieves, and they weren't allowed to clean it up when they came, so the poor descendants of the Zhu family were directly exposed to the city.
Killing the king, the rebel army has not done nothing, but it is often still decent, it is the first time that it is so undignified, it can be regarded as a fierce slap of the court and Chongzhen's face, of course, Chongzhen's face was sucked, and the people who are happy are the people, and the county citizens of Yongning asked that Zhu Cai was beheaded, and they poured into the streets to celebrate.
The feudal king has long been disturbed by the people, and now Li Zicheng will punish him with a righteous sentence, which is to collect the hearts of the people, and the people of Yongning in order to celebrate, even take out wine and meat to entertain the army, and even more simply directly to Li Zicheng three kowtows and nine bows, and shout "Long live!" ”
With such an effect, it can be seen that Niu Venus's method of killing the king is correct.
Of course, some people are happy, some people are worried, Li Yan only found out about Zhu Cai's killing in the afternoon, but he didn't feel sorry for Zhu Cai, but he was stunned when he heard about it.
It happened that Gu Fuguang was discussing the matter of Ban Zhiwei next to him, and when he saw that he was stunned, he asked cautiously: "Such a big matter, why didn't King Chuang inform Guan Jun?" ”
It stands to reason that even if you don't take his opinion, you should tell him, and as a result, you kill someone without him, what is this? This is distrust!
A sense of crisis climbed up Li Yan's back.
"Didn't anyone report from Gu Senjun's side?" After being silent for a long time, Li Yan raised his head and asked the returning soldier.
"Nope! Gu has been indulging in games in the past few days, and he will not report in the future. The soldier said.
Gambling? Gu Junen would be a plaything to the point of losing his mind Li Yan didn't believe it, and the reason why he didn't report it was very simple, that is, Gu Junen was happy to see the incident go in such a direction, and let Niu Jinxing fight with Li Yan, wouldn't it be the best choice to watch from the wall by himself? "Mr. Gu, the training of the class guards has to be accelerated." Li Yan sighed slightly at Gu Fuguang and spoke.
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Yongning King Zhu Cai was killed, and the first to get the news was not the imperial court, but the Henan officialdom.
The reaction of Henan officialdom was expected, the entire officialdom was shaken, and the vassal king of a country, Taizu Xueyin, was killed by traitors in this way, and his body was abandoned in the city, which really pressed the face of the old Zhu family to the ground and rubbed it.
Although Zhu Cai has no sense of existence in the clan, but when this happens, someone still has to take the blame, and the officials in Henan will act quickly, generally in two steps, first impeaching Wu Dalie, the county of Yongning, who has been martyred, thinking that his defense is not good, and it has only come to this point, it is really damned, if it is not for the martyrdom, it will be necessary to arrest three knives and six holes to relieve the hatred.
The second is Li Xianfeng, the governor of Henan, who thinks that he did not rescue Yongning, resulting in the murder of the vassal king, which is a heinous crime, and he should really be exempted from official exile!
In short, with the killing of King Yongning, a huge war of words was set off in the whole of Henan, with mutual accusations and abuse, which can be said to be full of foreign appearances.
If there are no sober people in Henan, there are also people, one is Li Xianfeng, the governor of Henan, and the other is Lu Weiqi, the secretary of the military department who lives in Luoyang.
After the army broke through Jiaxian, Lu Weiqi was already keenly aware that the army had faintly gained momentum, and the direction of extermination should be adjusted!
As Lu Weiqi said in the last book, "In the battle of Agate Mountain, there is no need to worry about offering thieves, and the coward of northern Henan is just rootless duckweed, how can it be afraid?" However, the thieves have been in the army for more than ten years, and they have been defeated and fought repeatedly, and they have been suppressed repeatedly. ”
Unfortunately, the insight was not adopted by the imperial court, which still considered Zhang Xianzhong to be the most threatening force at the moment, and its resources were tilted towards the encirclement and suppression of Zhang Xianzhong, and it relaxed its vigilance against Li Zicheng.
Li Xianfeng, the governor of Henan, also saw the threat of Li Zicheng, but this person was eager to make some achievements and was eager to make some achievements, and the thieves in northern Henan had been put away by him and were dying, he was reluctant to give up northern Henan at this time to deal with Li Zicheng, how could he not want the credit in hand?
When Li Zicheng slaughtered Zhu Cai, all aspects of Henan, including the imperial court, came back to the taste, but at this time, it was discovered that where was Li Chuang in front of him or the original Li Chuang? After Li Zicheng broke Yongning, he brought 3,000 armor and more than 30,000 servants, including more than 1,000 cavalry, all of whom were iron-clad and armoured.