Chapter 177: The End of Defeat
The rebel army connected many prefectures and counties in Henan, and burned the house of Jiao Fang, a former cabinet minister who had joined Liu Jin to do a lot of evil, in Miyang, and the soldiers reached Huguang, Xiangyang and other prefectures and counties.
In February of the seventh year of Zhengde, the Ming government sent the right capital Yu Shi Pengze to supervise military affairs, and increased the border soldiers and Huguang soldiers of the Datong Division, and adopted the tactics of blocking on all sides and supervising the follow-up of the troops to pursue the Henan rebel army. In May, Liu Hui was killed by an arrow while fighting the Ming army in Nanzhao, Henan, and Zhao Sui was also captured in Wuchang and later executed in the capital.
The Bazhou base where Qin Liu was located was also conquered by the Ming army. Cui Ying led the crowd to break through and escape, while Ma Ang, Qin Liu and others stayed.
In order to save the lives of Qin Liu and Ma Ang, Cui Ying tied up their family of three. In this way, they were captured by the rebels, not thieves who were willing to work for the rebels.
Qin Liu was imprisoned in the edict.
Qin Liu remembered the experience in the edict prison in his dream, as if he was in a different world.
Liu Xuejiang was arrested and imprisoned, but he was cheated by Emperor Zhengde, who was still the prince.
And she is completely to blame.
But does she regret it?
No.
With the rebels' conquests in the north and south, potato seeds and corn seeds were widely spread.
The bumper harvest of grain will usher in a new round of vitality in this Ming society, where the contradictions are becoming increasingly acute.
When facing Jinyiwei's interrogation, she was not afraid, but smiled at the corners of her eyes and looked gentle.
All men are mortal? Keep Dan in mind.
For more than a year, when she was farming, digging coal, and making steel, she had already considered her own outcome, and she had also discussed this outcome with Maang.
I even discussed it with Da Lang.
Da Lang, she is still a little guilty, a little child, she hasn't enjoyed life much, and she is about to be beheaded.
She asked Da Lang to send him to the grassland, and she didn't know if they had a smooth journey and whether they had reached Duolun safely?
The steel she smelted was fashioned into stirrups, knives, swords, and armor, so that the rebels had weapons and equipment to prevent them from fighting with the court officers and soldiers with wooden sticks.
The potatoes and corn she vigorously promoted made the rebels no longer worry about food and grass.
She did not consider the rebels' rebellion to be a great rebellion.
On the contrary, the rebel army, which had strict military discipline, was only carrying out targeted attacks and plundering against high-ranking officials and nobles, gentry and wealthy tycoons, while those officials with good official reputations and honest and honest officials would not commit any crimes and spare their lives.
These rebels, who originally farmed land and raised horses, were just ordinary people who had been cornered.
If it weren't for the oppression of those big officials with fine clothes and food, who would be willing to give up the comfortable life of their wives and children on the hot kang head, and embark on the road of no return with their heads hanging on their belts and licking blood from the knife edge?
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In the capital, Li Dongyangge, who had an uncertain face and was stomping around in his study, was in a very heavy mood.
He already knew who the woman was.
How is she still alive?
If she turns over alive, the Liu family may make a comeback, but no, the Liu family must not be allowed to rise again!
must nail her identity as a thief, so that the Liu family will not dare to act rashly!
Li Dongyang issued a series of orders, and people came and went in the study, crowded with people, in and out.
And in another mansion in the capital, Yang Shen was also distraught, and the six gods had no owner.
He already knew the news that Qin Liu was imprisoned.
The torture of the edict is famous all over the world, and even if he dies, the prison guards can get words out of the mouths of the dead.
The seeds of the crops she planted for the rebels were brought to her by herself.
If she confesses, she will also be implicated, including her father Yang Tinghe, but I am afraid that the position of the elder pavilion will not be kept.
But she didn't say anything.
These days, the Yang Mansion is calm and quiet, and no one wants to arrest him.
But will he be able to rest assured?
No.
Shouldn't she confess herself and get a chance to get a reduced sentence?
This stupid woman!
I have practiced pipa skills for many years, just to fulfill a promise I made when I was a child. And now, she is afraid that she will never have a chance to hear it again.
The night is like water, and the moon hangs high.
Yang Shen looked at the moon and immediately changed his outfit.
With two boys' hair in a two-cornered bun on his head, wearing a half-arm single yarn, and carrying a pipa on his back, he came to Chang'an Street. He brought a pot of wine, and did not object to the literati who knew him to watch, sitting on the ground on West Chang'an Street, singing the small words he had created, and playing until dawn.
Everyone was amazed.
"Young and promising, last year's and first-class young man, the son of the elder of the pavilion, what kind of madness is this?"
"This lute is played very well. It's just that I can change places. Sitting outside the wall of the Imperial Prison Courtyard and playing the pipa, be cautious and panic! ”
"Zhuangyuanlang is bold, this graceful and suave, Yushu is in the wind, and he still looks like he plays the pipa, which adds to the handsome and elegant!"
Li Dongyang passed by Chang'an Avenue in the early morning and heard the sound of pipa, so he sent someone to inquire, and was replied that this was the revision of Yang Gongzi.
Li Dongyang got off the car. Yang Shen raised a glass of wine to salute Li Dongyang: "It's still early in the last dynasty, I am willing to play another song for my husband." ”
After playing, the night candles in the palace have been extinguished. Li entered the court first, and Yang Shen also followed into the court wearing court clothes.
Today's early dynasty focused on discussing the handling of the prisoners of the rebel army.
And the result of this disposition should be combined with the confessions and evidence of all people, and the conviction should be made in advance.
The crime of Liu Liuer, a migrant woman, will be revealed today.
In the early dynasty, Emperor Zhengde did not appear, but asked the eunuch Jiang Gui to pass on the decree:
"Zhili, Shandong, Henan, Jiangxi, Sichuan and other places have been robbed and mutilated all year after year, all because the first few thieves have joined the disciples. In the middle, most of the good people are afraid of food and are coerced by them.
The imperial court ordered the general to send troops, and repeatedly issued decrees, allowing him to dissolve and surrender himself to his death, and still ordered the division to be commemorated.
Today, the officials and soldiers of all walks of life captured the thief leader Lan Wu, Old Man Yan, Zhao Fengzi, Chen Han, Li Maosheng, Mian'er, etc., Ling Chi.
Wang Chenger, Hu Xueer, Liu San, Yang Hu, Xing Laohu, Liu Liu and others were all killed.
Liu Qi and Qi Yan's names filed the corpses and displayed them to the public.
The people who harbored traffic, such as Wang Qin and Wang Wu, were all beheaded.
The three officers of the town patrol have told the military and civilians:
Those who do evil will take their own death, and those who do good will have their own lives.
I am afraid that the officials of the prefecture and county guards will not be able to compensate with their hearts, and the leading officers will be killed and rewarded for their crimes, which will make people suspicious and uneasy, and the military department will strictly dissolve the officials, and the head of the army will be exempted from the grain gap for three years according to the previous decree, and the fields will be recovered by the invaders, and the original owner will not have cattle and seeds to give them, and the wrecked officials will be lightly reduced, and they will not be killed in vain, so that everyone can be kind and enjoy the peace together. Except for Liao Mazi, the rest of the disbandment is self-reunited, but after the dispersal, he does not change his past wrongs and still reverts to the thief. There are divisions at home and abroad that are known by the example. ”
Yang Shen pricked up his ears and listened carefully, there was no familiar name, there was no familiar name!