"You don't really think I'm telling the truth, do you?"

Liu Zeqing couldn't laugh or cry.

"Ah, it turned out to fool Zhu Wannian."

Li Jiucheng didn't turn a corner.

"No, I'm telling the truth." Liu Zeqing said with a smile.

"What the hell do you mean?" Li Jiucheng was even more confused.

Li Yingyuan was also confused.

Seeing their father and son like this, Liu Zeqing had a headache.

If you don't make it clear, you may cause some kind of trouble.

"You still don't understand?"

Liu Zeqing said: "On this journey, except for Yu Dacheng's soldiers, we didn't see a single soldier in Denglai. ”

"So what?" Li Jiucheng was puzzled.

"This shows that Governor Qiu still has the idea of appeasing us."

Liu Zeqing analyzed: "What we brought out are the elites of Denglai, and on the other hand, no one is our opponent. ”

"What does this have to do with your discipline constraints?"

Li Jiucheng still didn't figure it out.

"If you want to get Dengzhou, you have to use a plan."

Liu Zeqing said: "Taking advantage of Governor Qiu's meaning, we restrained military discipline to deceive his trust and seize Dengzhou." ”

The city of Denglai is tall, and it is not easy to take it by storming. The only way to open the city gate is to deceive and open the city gate by trickery.

"Gao, Lao Liu, you still have a way."

Li Jiucheng admired it from the bottom of his heart.

There is another very important reason why Qiu Hejia chose to be appeased, there is no money.

And a big reason for the rebellion in Dengzhou is also the lack of money to pay.

From Liu Zeqing to set off with the Dengzhou soldiers, to the Dengzhou soldiers to kill in a disorderly manner to Laizhou.

For such a long time, Qiu Hejia only scraped together 100,000 taels of silver.

One hundred thousand taels!

Even the daily training of the Dengzhou Army could not last for a few days.

In this case, it was impossible to go out of the city to fight.

Liu Zeqing also took advantage of his mentality, and after passing Laizhou, he quickly arrived at the city of Dengzhou.

Along the way, I didn't meet any officers and soldiers.

When he arrived at the city, Qiu Hejia asked Liu Zeqing to enter the city alone.

Liu Zeqing said that it was too late today and would enter the city tomorrow.

Qiu Hejia agreed.

That night, Liu Zeqing organized a night attack to attack the city.

But it was discovered by the guards of the city.

The rebels, lacking siege weapons, had no choice but to retreat.

The strategy failed, and the rebels showed their fierce faces, preparing to plunder the surrounding area and then attack the city by force.

It was at this time that something happened.

In order to occupy the land cultivated by the Liao, the landlords and squires of Dengzhou instigated the indigenous people to hunt down and kill the Liao. It is also distinguished by accent, killing when you hear a northern Liaoning accent, and beating and expelling when you hear a southern Liaoning accent.

The rebels grew in strength and, led by the common people, launched a frenzied revenge on the indigenous people.

For a time, the whole of Shandong was a mess.

The poor and hateful indigenous people, when they were brutally ravaged by the Dengzhou soldiers, those landlords and squires who instigated them hid behind the tall city walls.

Just wait for the chaos to end, and it is logical to annex the ownerless wasteland, and then spend money to buy tenant farmers to come back and farm.

Seeing this situation, Qiu Hejia did not dare to open the city.

At this time, someone secretly entered the city and secretly met Xie Shangzheng.

At this time, Xie Shangzheng had been driven crazy by the creditors in the city.

Rebel but don't dare.

When he saw the letter sent by the person who came and the man, he said very righteously: "I will receive the grace of the country in this world, and I will never do such a rebellious thing." ”

"General Xie, you don't have to rebel, but you can deal with those merchants in the city?"

The man said unhurriedly, "I've heard that they are all trying to force you to ask for money." ”

"I'm not in a hurry at all, when that batch of goods is sold and I make money, I can pay back these creditors." Xie Shangzheng was hard-mouthed.

If it were so easy, he wouldn't have to worry all day and have trouble sleeping.

The man took out a letter from his pocket, put it on the table, and pushed it in front of Xie Shangzheng.

"What is this?" Xie Shangzheng frowned.

"You'll know it when you've seen it."

The man replied with a smile.

Xie Shangzheng picked up the letter suspiciously, read it again, and his pupils dilated instantly.

His goods were detained!

This is a distress letter, and the person who wrote the letter is Xie Shangzheng's younger brother Xie Shangcai.

In the letter, the younger brother said that the tax collector they had bribed had been arrested.

According to the decree of Liaodong Town, the principle of combining bribery and bribery, the property of Xie Shangzheng, the person who gave bribes, should also be seized.

If it is unilaterally forced to pay bribes, they will be released and compensated.

If the bribes are voluntarily paid, they will be detained for a period of time and then released.

These things have to be reported to the museum, and then acted.

"The person who delivered the letter happened to fall into the hands of our army, and Master Liu was afraid that you would be suspenseful, so I asked me to send it to you."

The man said lightly.

Xie Shangzheng was completely numb.

He finally learned to smuggle, and borrowed money everywhere to get some python satin and smuggled it to the Li Dynasty.

It's all smashed.

Because he took the initiative to bribe, it will definitely take a while to pay it back.

During this time, especially the businessman who learned about it, he would not be given a way to live.

"Master Liu has another word, let me pass it on to you!"

The man whispered, "If you kill all the creditors, do you still have to pay the debts?" ”

Xie Shangzheng was stunned when he heard this, and thought about it carefully.

These businessmen dare to engage in smuggling trade, and they also have a very good background.

Since you won't let me live, I won't let you live.

"Go back and tell Master Liu, I promised to help him."

Xie Shangzheng whispered: "However, after taking the city, kill all the creditors for me." ”

"It's a must." The man nodded.

So, in the early morning of the same day, Xie Shangzheng took Chen Guangfu, the capital secretary, to open the east gate.

The rebels who had been waiting for a long time swarmed in and plundered Dengzhou.

Zhang Keda, the new commander-in-chief of Denglai, hanged himself, and 19 officials who had ordinary relations with soldiers were killed.

A large number of Dengzhou squires were killed by Xie Shangzheng.

Six thousand Ming troops in the city surrendered, and another 1,000 soldiers transferred from other places were also forced to surrender.

Soldiers poured into Qiu Hejia's governor's yamen to support Qiu Hejia as the Son of Heaven.

Qiu Hejia refused, so he was surrounded by soldiers and locked in the house.

They discussed the country name and the year name outside the house, and they also discussed it clearly.

"We raised troops in Denglai, Denglai was a Qi country during the Warring States Period, it is better to set the country name as Daqi."

Xie Shangzheng, who is also a little cultured, suggested.

"It's very sour, I hate these sour and rotten literati."

Li Jiucheng disagreed: "We are all from Liaodong, and Liaodong used to have a country called Bohai State. ”

"Bohai country is not good."

Liu Zeqing objected: "I hate Dengzhou the most, and it is inappropriate to use his country name." ”

Several people argued endlessly over the name of the country, but the name of the year had already been prepared.

There have long been rumors in the market that "if it is good, it will stop", so the name of the year is Shuntian.

But Qiu Hejia in the house refused to be the emperor alive or dead, and resolutely refused to lead the rebels.

The noisy and shouting discouraged these people's minds.

Since he didn't know how to lift, the three of them simply did it themselves.

According to "Water Margin" and Zhu Yuanzhang's deeds, they appointed Li Jiucheng and Liu Zeqing as the marshals of Tianxingdao, and Xie Shangzheng appointed himself the "governor" to sit in the third position.

The three of them divided labor, Li Jiucheng was in charge of the overall situation, Liu Zeqing commanded the army, and Xie Shangzheng was in charge of money and food.

At the same time, Wang Chengyin, Chen Shishi, Mao Chenglu, and Chen Guangfu were crowned as the four major soldiers, calling themselves the Red Turban Army.