Four months later, there was indeed a rebellion in Ningxia, and it was still a rebellion of the vassal king!

History books: In the spring of the fifth year of Zhengde, Qiu Yue, a guerrilla general in Ningxia, and Yang Ying, a deputy commander-in-chief, led troops out of the imperial Tatars. The commander Zhou Ang and the servant He Jin planned for the king of Anhua, and on April 5, they set up a banquet to trap and kill the chief soldier Jiang Han and the town supervisor Li Zeng.

King Anhua also sent Ding Guang to attack and kill An Weixue and Zhou Dongdu in the official office. Ningxia is in turmoil.

When the news reached the capital, the government and the opposition were shaken!

Emperor Zhengde convened a military meeting in front of the emperor in the Fengtian Temple.

In the Ming Dynasty, the rebellion of the vassal king was an extremely sensitive matter. Taizong's Fengtianjing is difficult to put it bluntly, it is a real rebellion of the vassal king!

At this imperial military meeting, Emperor Zhengde not only summoned the six departments and nine qing, martial arts nobles, but also made an exception to summon Changfeng, a small Dongchang thousand households.

Emperor Zhengde angrily slapped the dragon case: "Deceive the sky! I am not only talking about the king of Anhua, but also three factories and one guard! ”

"Three factories and one guard spend so much silver on the imperial court every year. In the end? King Anhua rebelled, and he didn't know a little news in advance! What is it? This is dereliction of duty! ”

"It is said that the food is the king's lu, and the worry of the king. The factory guard is the emperor's eyes and ears, but this time he has become deaf and blind! Liu Jin, as the supervisor of the inner factory, and also in charge of the West Factory, the East Factory, and Jinyiwei, you can't escape the blame! ”

In fact, Liu Jin's fault is not limited to the lack of news? The rebellion of King Anhua was provoked by him!

If it weren't for the fact that he wanted to make a name for himself in history, he would touch the sensitive matter of Juntun. He also sent his greedy second general Hum Ha to Ningxia to bully the border army. How could King Anhua have a chance to rebel?

But at today's imperial military meeting, no one accused Liu Jin of provoking the Ningxia Change.

Jiao Fang, Liu Yu, Zhang Cai and others are Liu Jin's henchmen, so they naturally will not scold their backstage.

On the other side, Li Dongyang and Yang Tinghe also remained silent.

Because Chang Feng told Li and Yang half an hour ago that they must not impeach Liu Jin to provoke the rebellion of King Anhua!

This is a godsend opportunity to get rid of Liu Jin. Liu Jin's crime should not be "stirring up a rebellion", but "participating in a rebellion".

The emperor can tolerate all Liu Jin's misdeeds, but he can't tolerate Liu Jin's disobedience!

If Liu Jin "participated" in the rebellion of King Anhua. Then the era of Liu Jin in the court will come to an end completely!

If you want to talk about the whole person, Chang Feng's kung fu has reached the realm of perfection.

Emperor Zhengde said angrily: "How could the border army get mixed up with King Anhua? Isn't the factory guard known as having eyes and ears all over the world, knowing half of the things in heaven and all things on earth? ”

"Why didn't you notice anything this time? It's a rice bucket! ”

Emperor Zhengde's words are very heavy. Every sentence slapped Liu Jin in the face.

Liu Jin didn't realize that he was in trouble, but he just thought that he was guilty of negligence. He kowtowed, "The old slave is guilty. The old slave was negligent, and asked the emperor to calm his anger. ”

Li Dongyang suddenly became a peacemaker: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Ningxia is remote, and it is reasonable for the military information to be transmitted slowly. Liu Gonggong is in charge of the Ming Dynasty, Beijing, and thirteen provinces, and there are many opportunities. Occasional negligence is not sincere. ”

"The top priority is to choose a commander and lead the army to Ningxia immediately to quell the rebellion!"

Li Dongyang has something to say, which sounds like he is interceding for Liu Jin, but the sentence "in charge of the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty" seems to be sarcastic about Liu Jin's overstepping his responsibilities.

Emperor Zhengde answered: "Li Dongyang, who do you say is suitable to be this commander?" ”

Li Dongyang said a person's name in a straight voice: "Yang Yiqing!" ”

Inside a courtyard in the west of the city.

Yang Yiqing, who was in Beijing, was lying on a recliner and did not know about the Northwest Rebellion. He's taking a nap and dreaming!

In a trance, he dreamed of a past.

Thirteen years of Chenghua, autumn. Hongdong County, Linfen Prefecture, Shanxi.

On the great plain, which stretches for hundreds of miles, tens of thousands of acres of spring wheat are as bright as jasper.

When the breeze blows, the green wheat waves are monstrous. The "rustling" sound of the friction between the wheat seedlings is like a huge wave crashing on the tidal flats.

On a high ground in the middle of a wheat field. Yang Yiqing, the young new Shanxi judge, looked at the magnificent wheat waves.

Yang Yiqing helped the plain silver official belt representing the six products, and couldn't help but think of Huang Chao's poem in his heart: "When autumn comes on September 8, I will kill a hundred flowers after the flowers bloom." The heavenly incense array penetrates Chang'an, and the city is full of golden armor. ”

Yang Yiqing thought about it: But how can those delicate chrysanthemums in Chang'an City be compared with the wheat fields rising one after another on the rugged Great Plains?

Chrysanthemums are nothing more than the playthings of dignitaries. And this patch of wheat is the hope for the survival of thousands of ordinary people in Shanxi.

Beside Yang Yiqing, there were dozens of local officials and gentry in Linfen. The officials and gentry frowned. There seemed to be deadly fear in their anxious expressions.

Directly north of the wheat field, there was a trench ten feet wide and several miles long. The trenches were filled with firewood and oil.

Behind the trench, five hundred soldiers of the Guards Army in mandarin duck jackets stood upright. Each of them had a torch in his hand. Behind the guards, there was a second trench. The trenches are also flammable.

Behind the second trench, thousands of people stood. Like the soldiers in front, they also had torches in their hands.

Today, there will be an earth-shattering battle here. The young Yang Yiqing is the commander of this big war. His enemies seemed invincible. Because the name of the enemy is called: Heaven!

However, Yang Yiqing firmly believes in a truth that his father taught him: man will win the sky!

"Boom"! In an instant, the heavens and the earth seemed to be galloping like ten thousand horses. Yang Yiqing's enemies are coming! A stream of black dust has grown in the north. The earth trembled, and the black dust roared.

After a while, black dust obscured the sky. The morning sun has no light, and darkness covers the earth.

A locust jumped on Yang Yiqing's face. He caught the locust with his hand and muttered, "I have been waiting for you here for two days and one night." You're finally here. ”

After speaking, Yang Yiqing plucked off the locust's wings, threw them on the ground, and crushed the "enemy vanguard" into green juice with his feet.

The black dust is getting closer and closer to the wheat field. This army is made up of trillions of locusts.

A locust is an inconspicuous flying insect, a child's plaything. Trillions of locusts are an inescapable nightmare and the most terrifying plague for the people.

Yang Yiqing remembered the history books about the locust plague that he had read before: in the third year of Song Chunxi, the locust in Shanxi. The locusts covered the sun, and everywhere they went, the crops were exhausted; In the sixth year of Yuan Dade, the locusts in Henan were harmed, the summer wheat grains were not harvested, the people were hungry, and people were cannibalistic; In the second year of Yuan Zhizheng, the locusts in Shaanxi and Gansu became plagues, and the people changed their children to eat

Come on, locusts. In the history books, everywhere you go, you are invincible. It seems to be a victorious underworld army. Today, I, Yang Yiqing, will end your undefeated body!

I can't lose! I am the special messenger for disaster relief appointed by the governor, and on my shoulders, I bear the life and death of the people of Linfen!

You have encroached on the wheat fields of two counties.

This will be my last line of defense! I must not hand over the life food of the people of Linfen to you, the demons who have jumped out of the eighteenth layer of hell!

Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs. Today, I, Yang Yiqing, want to lead the people to win the sky!

"Boom, boom, boom", the army of locusts is getting closer and closer to the turquoise wheat field.

Dozens of gentry around Yang Yiqing fell to the ground. They kowtowed and prayed to the Buddha of the West: "Buddha Mito! Great compassion Buddha, please give our fellow villagers in Linfen a way to live! “

The magistrates wanted to stop the gentry. In front of Yang Yiqing, a disaster-fighting specialist, the gentry were so disrespectful and lost the face of Linfen.

Yang Yiqing turned his head and said to the gentry in a confident tone: "There are many blind people who repair bridges and roads, and there are many people who kill people and set fires. I went to the west and asked the Buddha, and the Buddha said, "I have no problem." ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Buddha can't control the locust business. Or rather, the Buddha didn't want to care at all. ”

"It is better to seek Buddha than to seek yourself. I have five hundred guards in my hand, and three thousand young men are strong. The spirits in the sky of the Ming God of War Kaiping King Chang Yuchun and Zhongshan King Xu Da will bless me and win today's vicious battle! ”

The gentry raised their heads and stared at the confident young official in front of them. Such self-confidence seems to them to be nothing more than blind arrogance.

How can man overcome heaven when all things are born in nature? Locusts are the sky!

Yang Yiqing's deputy, sixty-year-old Chen Zuen of Hongdong County, Linfen Prefecture, spoke: "Lord Yang, it's almost." Give the order! ”

Yang Yiqing nodded and waved his hand at one of the guards under him. The soldier understood, and drew an arrow from his quiver. This arrow is very special, with a flute tied to the side of the arrow.

The soldier bent his bow and the arrows rose into the air. The flute let out a sharp whistling: "Beep~"

A cloud-piercing arrow, thousands of troops to meet each other!

Thousands of guards in front of the first trench threw torches into the trench. In an instant, the trench became a line of fire and fire.

The army of locusts rushed forward one after the other to the flames. If they don't have brains, they won't be afraid of death. The locusts in front were scorched to ashes, and the locusts in the back walked on the ashes of their companions!

For half an hour, the locusts broke through the first line of defense set by Yang Yiqing with great momentum.

Yang Yiqing gasped.

Chen Laozhi County reminded him: "The first trench has been lost. ”

Yang Yiqing, who was full of confidence just now, seemed to have a hint of depression in his tone of voice now: "Ring the arrow." ”

"Toot!" A second rattling arrow rises into the air.

The local people in Linfen lit the firewood and fire oil in the second trench.

In order to set up this line of defense, they even demolished their door panels and beds, and threw them into firewood and put them in the trenches.

It's an all-or-nothing gamble. If the locusts had eaten up their wheat fields, they would have starved to death. If a person dies, what do they need to do with the door panel and the bed?

"Boom!" Countless flying locusts rushed into the flames. The fire suddenly prevailed!

Yang Yiqing was a little flustered in his heart. If the second trench is lost, the locusts will rush into the wheat field and gnaw away the wheat trees.

If this is the case, the people of Linfen will be greeted in a few months by a great famine 10,000 times more terrible than the locust plague.

Another thrilling half an hour. Yang Yiqing's heart rose to his throat. He had no intention of stopping the almost roaring prayers of the kneeling gentry.

The roar of the gentry resounded through the heavens and the earth: "Taishang Laojun! Yuan Shi Tianzun! Jade emperor! Buddha Guanyin! Land Lord! No matter which way the gods are, please hurry up and manifest your spirits! Let the locusts receive their magical powers! ”

The scene that made everyone's hearts feel like ashes finally happened!

The flames of the second trench burned out, leaving only a few sparks left. Countless locust corpses made a "crackling" explosion sound in the embers.

And the main army of locusts is still pushing forward like a bamboo. Finally, they rushed into the wheat field!

Yang Yiqing once studied that locusts' teeth are jagged. So when they eat the crops, they make a "prickly" sound.

"Sting! Sting! At this moment, Yang Yiqing heard this terrible voice.

The sound of trillions of flying locusts gnawing on green seedlings converged into a life-urging talisman in hell.

Black dust swept across the originally turquoise wheat fields. Like a vicious mountain bandit, he pounced on a naked woman.

Chen Laozhixian's legs were weak, and he sat on the ground with a "flutter".

Yang Yiqing helped his deputy with both hands: "Senior, are you okay?" ”

Chen Laozhi County has been an official for a long time, and I am afraid that it is longer than Yang Yiqing's age.

The desperate Chen Laozhi County said with a crying voice: "It's over." It's all over. I spent six years diverting water from the Yongqu Canal to irrigate the wasteland in Hongdong County. ”

Only then did this ten thousand hectares of fertile land be reclaimed. Looking at the growth of this year's crops, there will be a bumper harvest. The villagers and elders of Hongdong County, you can finally live a bumper old age with surplus food, you are blind! “

Yang Yiqing knew that the sixty-year-old man in front of him was a good official who cared about the people. The fall of thousands of acres of fertile land made his heart bleed.

Chen Laozhixian's crying voice gradually turned into scolding: "God, I say that you are the ancestor of the eighth generation!" Can't you let the people live a comfortable life without worrying about eating and drinking for a few days?! “

The deputy is cursing the sky. In fact, scolding the sky is a disguised admission of the current defeat in the battle against locusts.

Yang Yiqing knew that he couldn't lose his mind like Chen Laozhixian. Because he is the commander in chief of this battle.

The horseman can win the ambition, but the three armies cannot win the commander!

Yang Yiqing's brain was spinning rapidly: after the locusts ate the green seedlings in Hongdong County, they would continue to spread to Tong Province. Next, the crops in 77 counties of 4 prefectures and 20 prefectures in Shanxi will become a meal for locusts.

By that time, Shanxi Province will be thousands of miles away! Hungry!

Yang Yiqing warned himself: If you want to be a commander, you must focus on the overall situation. Those who do not seek the overall situation are not enough to seek a domain. To seek the overall situation, we must learn to choose and trade-off. Life is like a game of chess, and sometimes, sacrificing a pawn to protect a car is the winning way to play chess.

Young Yang Yiqing has already made his own choice at this moment!

He said to Chen Laozhixian: "Old-timers. Now it's the only way to do it. Dig the embankment of the eternal canal and flood the locusts with water. ”

Chen Laozhixian changed his face when he heard this: "Lord Qincha! No! You can't do that! That method will harm the 80,000 people of my Hongdong County! ”

Yang Yiqing raised his head, stared at the flying locusts that were like a bamboo, and said categorically: "Until now, we can only sacrifice the 80,000 people in Hongdong County and the millions of villagers in Shanxi." ”

"To achieve great things, someone has to make sacrifices. Right now, the fight against locusts is the biggest thing. ”

Chen Laozhi county language stop.

Yang Yiqing paused and asked: "Senior, I want to ask you a question: Heaven and earth are not benevolent, and all things are used as dogs, what is the solution?" “

Chen Laozhi replied: "The original meaning of this sentence is that heaven and earth do not care about benevolence, nor do they care about unkindness. It treats everything in the world fairly. It won't be particularly nice to anyone, and it won't be particularly bad to anyone. ”

"But there are a lot of fools who misinterpret it as God treats people as dogs."

Yang Yiqing sighed: "Alas. There is no way, dig a permanent canal and flood the locusts! ”

The eternal canal was dug up. The flood flooded all the fertile fields in Hongdong County, Linfen Prefecture, and at the same time, there was also an army of locusts that covered the sky and the sun.

Two days later, all 80,000 people of Hongdong County were transferred to the south bank of Yongqu.

Yang Yiqing and Chen Laozhi County were busy resettle the people, borrowing money and grain from several neighboring counties. Eighty thousand people finally had a place to live for the time being

Yang Yiqing flooded the wheat fields of Hongdong County, but prevented the locust plague from spreading to Quanjin.

For the handsome, you should be able to choose. Dare to decide. Yang Yiqing is such a handsome talent.

Yang Yiqing woke up and stretched. The past is like smoke, and the young six-grade official is now dying.

His current enemy, Liu Jin, is far more terrifying than the locust enemy back then.

He didn't know that a God-given opportunity to get rid of Liu Jin was coming.

(End of chapter)