This time I went to Beijing, and I didn't go to Chengdu.

Board the boat in Jiazhou, go down the Yangtze River, and take the waterway.

Zhu Ming's daily diet is responsible for the whole process.

Li Yan is too lazy to care, as long as Zhu Ming doesn't run away, he can be sent to Tokyo safely.

He has to go back quickly, his godfather Yang Jian is often sick, and he may die one day. In case he wasn't in the capital, which sixth brother took the opportunity to take the position, wouldn't he lose a lot of money?

Therefore, Li Yan hurriedly traveled and kept urging the boatmen, but he did not have time to get off the boat and blackmail the local officials.

"The front is Gangneung, and Xianggong can come out to breathe." A non-commissioned officer of the forbidden army, standing outside the hatch, said.

Li Bao opened the door and hugged his fists: "Thank you for the reminder." ”

"Not necessarily." The forbidden sergeant bowed his hand and retreated to the side quite respectfully.

Zhu Ming's complexion is good, delicious and delicious, and he actually gained two pounds.

He paced to the deck and looked out over the shore. Left and right, he followed more than a dozen forbidden troops, carrying knives and bows to prevent them from escaping.

In the blink of an eye, Gangneung is reached, and the wharf is full of people.

The grain of the entire Sichuan Province had to be transported to Jiangling for storage, and then the Jinghu Road transshipment envoy was responsible for transporting thousands of miles to Tokyo.

Tong Guan is still leviing Fangla, Sichuan has been taxed again this year, and countless grains and grass have been transported to the southeast to suppress thieves.

Jiangling Mansion City, that is, the city of Jingzhou.

On the opposite shore there is a large lake swamp that stretches all the way to Shishou County, which disappeared after a few hundred years.

Don't look at the bustling city of Gangneung, but the suburbs are sparsely populated. A large number of mountains and swamps could not be reclaimed, and the imperial court resettled many times to reclaim the famine, and the people fled after reclamation, and they could not keep people like Jingnan Road.

Zhu Ming was not allowed to get off the ship, turned to the forbidden soldier and said, "Who borrowed weapons to play?" The bones are rusty. ”

The forbidden soldiers looked at each other and hesitated for a moment, and an officer presented his saber.

Zhu Ming stood on the deck and danced his knife, moving his muscles and bones. After the official ship was replenished, he returned the knife to the officer, and went back to his room to sleep.

The official ship passed through Jiangxi in a blink of an eye, and Jiangxi was not very peaceful.

Liu Jiujun raised troops in Longchuan County, Xunzhou, followed the Longchuan River to fight Huizhou, and easily broke through Heyuan County halfway.

But when he arrived at the city of Huizhou, he found that he had been prepared, and Liu Jiu's army attacked for several days without success, so he turned around and rushed to Meizhou. In the face of the encirclement and suppression of the officers and soldiers, Liu Jiujun plundered Meizhou, and plunged headlong into the mountains at the junction of Jiangxi, Guangdong, and Fujian.

Liu Huasan has been wandering in Qianzhou (Ganzhou) for two years, but he has never been able to capture Qianzhou City, but has been beaten by officers and soldiers to hide in the mountains.

In the early winter of this year, part of the elite border army pursued Fang La, and walked through the waters of the Ganjiang River.

Liu Huasan could not resist the border army and fled south to join Liu Jiu's army. Jiangxi and Guangdong, with more than 30,000 troops, marched in the direction of Fujian.

Fang La's goal is also to go to Fujian!

Tong Guan's forbidden army was divided into three, one returned to Huainan to block Song Jiang, one was in Liangzhejiang to suppress the remnants of Fang La, and the other was chasing after Fang La's main force.

Don't look at the end of Fangla's road, there are still more than 200,000 remnants of Fangla in the two Zhejiang regions alone. But they didn't listen to Fang La's orders, and only nominally obeyed Fang La's master, and a plate of loose sand was easy to break.

The border army and the forbidden army moved south, and the rebel army in northern Jiangxi revived.

There was a miner named Huang Qijia, with many miners and kiln workers, wandering through the northeastern mountains of Jiangxi, and Zhu Ming's father-in-law's hometown was almost ransacked.

Pressing the gourd to float the scoop, part of the elite of the border army had to go north again to suppress the thieves, because Huang Qijia threatened the coin casting field.

In Jiangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Liangzhejiang and other places, the total number of rebel troops exceeded 300,000!

But most of them have little combat effectiveness, and they lack armor, and they will collapse at the touch of an elite officer.

Han Shizhong and Wang Yuan chased into the mountains and beheaded more than 2,000 in a battle.

The rebels were defeated and retreated, and Liu Huasan and Liu Jiujun began to fight among themselves. Liu Jiujun was clamoring to go to Fangla, Liu Huasan insisted on fighting guerrillas in the mountains, and the two fought back and forth.

Liu Jiujun booby-trapped Liu Huasan, surrendered with his head, and accepted the imperial court's recruitment.

The rebel army on the Liangzhejiang Road is also surrendering on a large scale. Those who would rather die than surrender fled into the mountains one after another, and Zhejiang, which is full of mountains, is enough for Tong Guan to spend a long time.

……

Huaiyin.

The Song Jiang naval army was defeated and left, returned to the division to conquer Suqian and Xiapi, and then took a boat directly to Xuzhou.

Xuzhou had already taken precautions, and Song Jiang was difficult to overcome, so he went to loot the 36 prisons and seized a large number of iron tools and money. He also recruited thousands of Xuzhou blacksmiths to capture Pei County, collect ships, and build armor.

Tong Guan's forbidden army was late, and Song Jiang heard the news and attacked the Guangji military city (Dingtao) again, and took Xingren Mansion (Jiyin).

It is less than 200 miles from Tokyo.

The Beijing division was shocked, and the monarchs and ministers were terrified.

Zheng Juzhong requisitioned all the forbidden troops and the Xiang army and went to Xingren Mansion to conquer Song Jiang.

Seeing that he was about to be attacked from the front and back, Song Jiang turned around and ran away in a boat, and fled along the Guangji River into Liangshan Shuibo again.

Immediately, the soldiers divided into two routes, plundered along the way by boat, and immediately ran away after robbery, playing hide and seek with the officers and soldiers.

To this day, Song Jiang has not made much trouble.

The army was less than 10,000 at the most, only two or three thousand at the minimum, and the city was never occupied for more than a month. The officers and soldiers were in a hurry to chase, so he cut off his tail to survive, throwing down the newly recruited miscellaneous troops as bait.

When Zhu Ming took a boat through Guangji, the place where he saw was a mess.

The houses outside the city were burned to the ground, the people were first looted by the Song River, and then by the officers and soldiers, and there were homeless people everywhere, and even the rich families in the city were bankrupt.

"Go back to your hometown and have a look." Zhu Ming admonished.

Li Bao was also a little worried, and said: "I'll go back to my hometown first, and if there is nothing at home, I will rush to the capital to follow Xianggong." ”

Zhang Bo said: "Brother Li helped me go to Zhang's house to have a look. ”

"Good!" Li Bao got off the boat and left with his brother-in-law.

Actually, the Zhang family and the Li family have nothing to do.

The Song River always marched along the river and never left the river too far. If the situation is not good, immediately take a boat and run away, and in order to stuff people into the boat, the looted goods can be thrown away.

No matter how much Fang La lacked strategic planning, he also had his own program of uprising, and he also established a bureaucratic system.

And Song Jiang is a group of rogues, where to grab it.

When the official ship left the boundary of Shandong, it was full of devastation, and some land in the Gyeonggi area actually began to abandon the grass and grow grass.

Li Yan didn't alarm anyone, and quietly sent Zhu Ming to Dali Temple to be imprisoned.

It was a single room, and although it was moldy and smelly, it was not abused, and even the prison food was good.

For several days, no one came to interrogate.

It wasn't until the ninth day that the jailer finally asked Zhu Ming to be interrogated.

Li Bozong, the secretary of Dali Temple, personally stepped out, a little old man in his fifties, and bowed his hand to Zhu Ming when he met: "Please take a seat!" ”

"It's not a good thing." Dali Temple Shaoqing Nie Yu said.

Nie Yu is Zheng Juzhong's person, he has no hatred with Zhu Ming, he just goes through the process and does not let Zhu Ming sit on trial.

This old man, whose home is in the famous mansion of Hebei, was nowhere to be found during the Jingkang period, and the brothers did not have time to run away. In the face of the robbing of thieves, officers and soldiers, and Jin soldiers, although the Nie family hid in Tibet to save their lives, the family property accumulated over the years was robbed.

Li Bozong is Cai Bian's protégé.

Although Cai Bian and Cai Jing are brothers, they do not agree politically.

Li Bozong relied on Cai Bian's relationship and rose to Dali Siqing, and was not suppressed by Cai Jing, but he was not taken care of by Cai Jing.

Li Bozong said: "Zhu Ming was just dismissed, and the body of the Beijing official is still there, so there is no need to force it too much." ”

Nie Yu no longer objected, he just reminded him, and if something went wrong, he could push it to Li Bozong.

"Thank you," Zhu Ming said, "I don't know what to call the two of you?" ”

Li Bozong reported his name and mentioned Cai Bian, and Zhu Ming immediately understood the number of this person.

Nie Yu also talked about Zheng Juzhong, and winked at Zhu Ming.

Li Bozong began to formally interrogate: "Who instructed "Public Security Sparse"? ”

Zhu Ming replied: "It is the duty of a man to advise the king and reprimand the traitorous ministers, so why should anyone instruct him?" ”

Li Bozong asked again: "Why are you arguing about the country's foundation?" ”

Zhu Ming asked rhetorically: "The position of the East Palace has already been decided, and the country has been consolidated, where is the country to talk about the country?" ”

Li Bozong asked again: "Why do you accuse King Yun?" ”

Zhu Ming said: "I am not reprimanding King Yun, but admonishing each other with etiquette. Taishi, Taifu, Taibao, and the emperor, how can they be crowned princes? It's a prince and an emperor, is it in line with ethics? Will you worship your own Son as your teacher? ”

Nie Yu couldn't help but snicker, and hurriedly clenched his fists to block his mouth, pretending to cough: "Ahem, Hugh is talking nonsense!" ”

Zhu Ming also said: "Your Majesty has a lot of opportunities, if you can't sacrifice in person, of course you can let someone act as your agent." The person who sacrifices on behalf of him can be a clan, a relative, an internal servant, or an important minister, but he cannot be King Yun. Donggong is alive, since he is the prince of heaven to sacrifice on behalf of the Son of Heaven, how can King Yun be involved? This is also rude! ”

Dali Temple carefully recorded, not a word was missed.

Li Bozong asked again: "The six people mentioned in "Public Security Shu" are either internal servants or important ministers, why do you slander them as six thieves? ”

Zhu Ming said: "Which of the serious crimes listed in the song was fabricated? If it is a fact, how can it be slandered? ”

Nie Yu couldn't help but speak: "After all, he is an important minister of the imperial court, even if he makes a mistake in governance, he should not be called a thief." What's more, Lu Guogong (Cai Jing) is in charge of the country, sleeps at night, enriches the treasury internally, and expands the territory externally. How can a good minister who has made great contributions to the country be called a thief? ”

Zhu Ming said with a smile: "Today's monarchs all say: 'I can open up land for the monarch and fill the treasury.'" 'The so-called good ministers of today, and the so-called thieves of the people in the past. ”

This is the original words of Mencius, as soon as these words came out, Li Bozong was in awe and bowed his hand to Zhu Ming.

"Be careful!" Nie Yu hurriedly reminded.

Because of Mencius's original words, there is another sentence below: "The gentleman is not a country man, he is not committed to benevolence, but seeks to be rich, and he is rich." ”

Zhu Ming quoted Mencius's words, not only scolding Cai Jing as a thief, but also insinuating that Song Huizong was a thief.

After a casual trial, Li Bozong announced the end of his work and divided the interrogation record into two parts. One was handed over to the Criminal Department, and one was sent to the emperor.

Song Huizong took the time to read it, and laughed angrily: "I dare to say that I am 'Fuji', I am simply unrepentant, and I ordered the Criminal Department to go to Dali Temple for trial!" ”

(End of chapter)