"I just went to live in Jilin City, but after a few months I was transferred back. Alas..."
"Didn't I say that after the land here is cultivated, we can live here. Look at it, it's actually not bad. We estimate that we can cultivate a lot of farmland before winter."
"Work harder and stop being so careless."
In early May, compared to the heat of later generations, Changchun in this era still felt a little cold.
Changchun Institute, the Qianhu Institute that Zhu Yuanzhang ordered and Zhu Gaoxu was responsible for supervising the construction, after one year of construction, has become a David Institute that can accommodate 5,000 people.
The entire guardhouse is made of concrete and stone. The city has a circumference of five miles, a height of four feet and a width of one foot. There is a military camp and 2,000 residences in the city. It is twice as large as Zhu Gaoxu's expected plan.
The fire tunnels and fire walls in the city have been built. Now we just need to complete the roof and clean it a little before we can move in.
The military households responsible for building houses and cultivating fields here were Shandong military households who were transferred north together with Liu Wu's three thousand households.
They have a thousand households and more than 2,000 males.
After a winter of military training, they already had the ability to protect themselves, so at the end of April they were assigned to Changchun for construction and land reclamation. As for the original soldiers and horses, they were transferred to Zhaozhou City to participate in the northern patrol.
At noon, after returning here for only five days, they had already cultivated more than a hundred acres of cultivated land outside Zhaozhou City.
This speed would be very fast in the south, but this is outside the customs and is the Bohai Sea.
"Hey, I don't know why His Highness didn't allocate cattle and draft horses to us. If we had cattle and draft horses, we might have cultivated more than a thousand acres by now."
A military household complained, but the trumpet sounded from the top of the city in Changchun.
After the "woo woo" horn sounded, everyone became alert, and the officials from hundreds of households who were responsible for keeping weapons on the ridge also began to be alert.
Although Zhaozhou City was to the north, Changchun was still vulnerable to attacks by the Uliangha people from Liaoze in the summer.
"Brothers from Liaodong, please relax!"
Chu Zhao, the Qianhu official of the Changchun Institute, stood on the road and greeted the brothers in the fields. Everyone heaved a sigh of relief when they heard the news.
Some people lowered their heads and continued to clear up wasteland, waving hoes to dig up wasteland and throwing small stones onto the road.
The difficulty of land reclamation in Changchun is much less than that in Jilin City. Jilin City has many river stones. Except for the hills adjacent to the mountainous area, which have more stones, other places have less stones due to the reclamation of the Liao and Jin dynasties. .
Because of the ease of cultivation and the flat terrain, it is very easy to cultivate fields here.
The military households lowered their heads to cultivate the land until two-quarters of an hour passed, when they saw the Liaodong army approaching from afar on the ten-foot road deliberately set aside.
"so many people?"
"Didn't you say we were going to patrol the north? It's normal to have a large number of people. We also sent out 5,000 people."
Seeing the visitor, many military households took the opportunity to be lazy, wielding hoes and rakes, and watched the group of soldiers from Liaodong slowly approaching.
Not long after, the vanguard had arrived at Changchun Station, and Geng Feng, who was in charge of the front army, also rode his horse to the front of Qianhu Station in Changchun Station.
He looked around and could easily tell that the soldiers in the Changchun Institute had not been training for long, so he asked Chu Zhao: "Which institute are you from?"
"The last general..." Chu Zhao explained their origins. Geng Wei frowned upon hearing this, and then relaxed.
"The Marquis of Jiangyin is patrolling the north, do you have any extra beans and grain here?"
"No..." Chu Zhao shook his head and said: "We only have half a month's worth of food. His Highness said that we should wait for the next time the governor sends food to intercept some of it. May I ask the governor, has this food been delivered?"
Chu Zhao's words made Geng Feng feel relieved. He was most worried that Zhu Gaoxu had enough food, but it seemed that it might not be enough at the moment.
"Give them two thousand stones of grain." Geng Feng told the commander beside him. At the same time, he said to Chu Zhao, "Let your people continue farming while we camp in the north of the city."
"General, take your orders!" Chu Zhao agreed, and then made way for them.
Geng Feng led his troops to the north of the city. The team stretched for several miles, and it took two-quarters of an hour to pass them all.
After they left, Chu Zhao's expression slowly became dull, and an official from a hundred households also walked up to him and lowered his voice: "You really don't want to inform His Highness?"
"His Highness said, let us carry on as usual, ignore them, and don't notify Jilin City." Chu Zhao picked up the hoe on the ground and walked to the field.
Seeing this, the officials of the hundred households also picked up their hoes and followed.
Not long after, they joined the team that opened up wasteland. The only difference was that they received a batch of food in their warehouse.
"Why send them food?"
North of Changchun, when the officers and soldiers began to set up camp, Geng Feng asked Wu Gao who was inspecting the camp. Wu Gao also walked and said: "It's okay to give them food. If Zheng Gongzhi fails, just transfer them to the south."
"If successful, they will also be officers and soldiers of our Liaodong Division, and allocating food can appease them and make them lower their vigilance."
Wu Gao said this while also looking at the map in his hand.
This map was originally given to Zhu Yuanzhang by Zhu Gaoxu, and was copied and sent to Wu Gao by Zhu Yunwen.
There are currently two roads leading to Jilin City. One is from the east of Changchun Station directly through Daheishan to Jilin City.
The other road is the former post road. From Changchun, go north for more than a hundred miles, and then go south along the Songhua River. After walking for another sixty miles, you can reach Jixi Pass in Jilin City.
When they arrived at Changchun, they parted ways with Zheng Gongzhi.
Zheng Gongzhi led two thousand soldiers to Jilin City under the pretense of transporting grain to cut off the vassal state. Wu Gao and others had to disguise themselves as the Northern Patrol and go north, taking a longer detour and camped by the Songhua River in the north, waiting for news from Zheng Gongzhi.
However, Wu Gao was always wary of cutting off the vassal Zhu Gaoxu, so he did not plan to follow the original plan.
"After Zheng Gongzhi goes to Jilin City tomorrow, you and I will camp more than 30 miles north, and then send a thousand cavalry north to the Sheling Mountain Pass. If Zheng Gongzhi succeeds in cutting off the vassal, and notifies the brothers at the Sheshan Ridge Pass, we will go south directly to Changchun. A mountain road.”
"If he fails, we will immediately go south and transfer the military households and food from Changchun."
Wu Gao regarded Zheng Gongzhi as an abandoned son, and Geng Feng also agreed very much.
In these days, he often saw Zheng Gongzhi yelling at them. He was obviously just a patrolling censor, but he was in charge of his affairs as the governor.
Even if that man was alive, Geng Feng and Wu Gao had no intention of working with him.
If they weren't worried that Zhu Gaoxu would really be forced to rebel, they all hoped that Zhu Gaoxu would draw his sword and kill the disgusting guy.
While they were thinking this, the sky gradually darkened.
In his dream, Zheng Gongzhi saw his teacher Fang Xiaoru speak kind words for him after he succeeded in reducing the vassal status, and then he was promoted to a noble rank and served as the Minister of Etiquette.
It's a pity that his sweet dream dissipated before it lasted long. When he was awake, he was used to morning time, so when he woke up, the time was no more than Yin Shi and the sky was still dark.
"Censor..."
The soldiers at the door greeted him, but Zheng Gongzhi nodded and frowned: "Why haven't you packed up and left?"
"Well... it's only 3:30 a.m. now." The soldiers were stunned by what he said. After all, they were marching outside. Usually, the group leader soldiers didn't get up until 4:30 a.m. to cook, and the ordinary soldiers didn't get up until 7:30 a.m. Have a meal.
Normally outside, most people would only set out at around 4:00 a.m., so there was plenty of time.
"Get the order and set off!" Zheng Gongzhi ordered coldly, secretly cursing these soldiers for being lazy.
He felt that since he, a scholar, could get up at the right time, these soldiers should be more hard-working than him. Now it seems that these are all lazy soldiers and cannot be used.
When Zheng Gongzhi thought like this, he didn't expect that he was riding a carriage and the soldiers were walking on their legs.
At his request, the soldiers had no choice but to call up the two thousand soldiers assigned to him yesterday.
For a time, there was a lot of curses in the camp. After hearing this, Zheng Gongzhi became more sure that these soldiers were lazy soldiers.
At his urging, two thousand soldiers and horses set out on the road to Jilin City before Mao hour arrived.
Wu Gao, who was woken up, saw this scene and was so angry that he kicked Ma Zha next to him.
"These brothers fell asleep at midnight last night, but they were woken up by Zheng Gongzhi after only three and a half hours of sleep. If he were allowed to lead the troops out of the fortress alone, they would probably be killed by his men before they met the Hu soldiers."
Geng Feng, who also got up, shook his head and sneered. He lost interest in resting and got up to start patrolling the camp.
Zheng Gongzhi didn't know about their evaluation. At the moment, he was still immersed in the dream of successfully reducing the vassal vassal and being promoted to a higher position.
With two thousand men under his command, he walked towards Jilin City. It took four days to complete the more than two hundred miles of road. When they arrived at Jixi Pass, the Jixi Pass guard also stopped them.
"We are here to deliver food. In addition, His Majesty has decreed that I should be handed over to the King of Bohai County."
Looking at the Bohai soldiers at the city gate, Zheng Gongzhi suddenly became nervous.
Seeing that the Qianhu official wanted to continue asking questions, Liu Wu, who was waiting secretly, also came out. He said to the Qianhu official with a look of urgency: "Wang Kui, don't stop the angel, so as not to give the court a clue."
"But this..." Wang Kui looked at the baggage truck that didn't look like a grain truck and hesitated in his heart.
Upon seeing this, Liu Wu asked everyone to withdraw their horses without waiting for his reaction, and released Zheng Gongzhi with more than 2,000 men to escort the baggage into Jilin Bay.
For more than twenty miles, Liu Wu cleared the way for Zheng Gongzhi and others. This was also the first time Zheng Gongzhi saw Jilin City.
Millions of acres of cultivated land in the entire river bend have been reclaimed. The roads do not look like the brick roads in Jiangnan, nor do they look like rammed earth roads. They look like connected stones.
"What is this made of?"
Zheng Gongzhi asked about the concrete road under Liu Wu's feet. Liu Wu said without thinking: "It's cement. The Bohai County Prince has hidden many things from the court, such as over there..."
Liu Wu motioned to Zheng Gongzhi to look east. As expected, Zheng Gongzhi saw patches of rice when he raised his head.
"Rice can actually be grown outside the customs?" Zheng Gongzhi couldn't believe it, and Liu Wu also said: "It's not just rice, there are many things here. I'm just waiting for you, Zheng Yushi, to take over the Bohai County Queen and read them all."
Before Zheng Gongzhi succeeded, Liu Wu had already started celebrating for him. After hearing this, Zheng Gongzhi felt very excited, but he was still a little wary and asked: "How many soldiers are there around Jilin City?"
"There are a thousand people in Jixi Pass, a thousand people in the military camp, and a thousand people in the city. Among them, I have transferred my generals to the city. Together with the Jinyi Guards in the army, the thousand people in the city are all our people. .”
"Jixi Pass is twenty miles away from Jilin City, and the military camp is five miles away from Jilin City. Therefore, as long as the Bohai Palace is captured quickly, great things will be done."
"Does the palace have no guards?" Zheng Gongzhi asked, and Liu Wu nodded: "Only the Bohai County Prince's Palace has 300 guards, but as long as you give the order, those 300 people will never be able to withstand the arrival of reinforcements from the military camp and Jixi Pass."
"Okay... I feel relieved now." After learning about the situation in Jilin City, Zheng Gongzhi also breathed a sigh of relief.
But when he looked at the group of people in the fields around him, he thought of what Wu Gao said, so he asked Liu Wu: "There are many people in Jilin City who are Jurchens, won't they help King Bohai?" ?”
"All the men are working outside. There are only more than 30,000 students in academies in various cities, but no more than 7,000 of them are over fifteen years old."
"Besides, they have no armor and are no match for soldiers."
"Okay!" After hearing Liu Wu's confident words, Zheng Gongzhi nodded and gradually let down his guard.
Not long after, just as Liu Wu said, the defenders in Jilin City had no defense against them and simply let them enter the city.
Under the leadership of Liu Wu, two thousand Liaodong capital infantry soldiers headed to the Bohai Palace under the leadership of Zheng Gongzhi. Many people watched them warily along the way.
Feeling these looks, Zheng Gongzhi quickly asked Liu Wu: "Why are they looking like this?"
"Everyone has heard that the south is cutting off vassals and being hostile to the imperial court. This is just the Bohai King's strategy to fool the people." Liu Wu explained, and they also arrived at the gate of the Bohai King's Mansion.
"stop!"
One hundred soldiers on duty at the Chongli Gate of the Royal Palace shouted loudly to stop Zheng Gongzhi and others. Upon seeing this, Liu Wu quickly cursed: "This is an angel sent by the imperial court. You dare to hinder it. Are you too impatient to live?"
"Liu Wu! Whose fucking soldier are you? Turn your elbows outward?!"
The young Baihu official got angry after being scolded and began to teach Liu Wu a lesson.
"Of course I am a soldier of the imperial court, and so are you!" Liu Wu puffed up his chest proudly and scolded hundreds of officials at the same time: "Wang Rong, don't yell at me just because your father is the commander. This is Zheng from the imperial court. Censor!"
Baihuguan had a natural basis for daring to angrily attack Liu Wu. Although he was young, his father was the commander Wang Yi. Because of this, he was responsible for guarding the palace, and he also admired Zhu Gaoxu very much.
"Bold Wang Rong, His Majesty's decree is here, do you dare to hinder me from announcing it?!"
Zheng Gongzhi looked at Wang Rong and his hundred men with contempt in his heart. After all, there were two thousand soldiers and horses from Liu Wu and Liaodong Dusi standing behind him.
"I dare not resist the decree, but His Highness has already issued a decree. If someone from the imperial court comes to announce the decree, only angels will be allowed to enter the palace."
Wang Rong spoke coldly, and Liu Wu also drew his sword and pointed it at Wang Rong: "Hold them, anyone who dares to take action is a rebel!"
Under the command of Liu Wu, the soldiers of Liaodong Dusi also stepped forward with guns.
They were well prepared and put on their bright armor before entering the city. With all their armors off, Wang Rong and others were held back with three-foot-long spears, forcing them to retreat with only short soldiers.
"Open the palace gate!"
Zheng Gongzhi spoke coldly. Wang Rong tried to resist, but a flag officer on the side put a knife to his neck.
"Liu Meng, what do you mean!"
Wang Rong gritted his teeth as he was being held up, and the flag officer Liu Meng also said: "My humble position is that of a royal guard. Today I am on an errand under His Majesty's orders."
"What a bastard!" Wang Rong was only seventeen years old and young at heart. Hearing Liu Meng's words, he spoke angrily.
"Don't worry about me, stop them!"
He opened his mouth to give an order, but at this moment the gate of the royal palace opened, and Yi Shiha walked out and said to Zheng Gongzhi on horseback: "Your Highness has an order, please ask Zheng Yushi to enter the palace with the imperial edict."
"Sheath the sword..." Yishiha ordered everyone to sheath the sword with a cold face. After hearing this, the Bohai sharp soldiers showed unwillingness, but they still obeyed the order and sheathed the sword.
Then Liu Meng let go of Wang Rong and retreated to Liu Wu's camp.
Wang Rong touched his neck and looked at Liu Meng sinisterly.
"Wang Qianhu is stationed outside, and Liu Qianhu leads his troops into the mansion with me."
Seeing that Zhu Gaoxu gave up resistance, Zheng Gongzhi immediately asked Liu Wu to lead a thousand troops and horses to rush into the Bohai Palace.
In the Chengyundian Square, more than a hundred Bohai soldiers held long spears and looked at Zheng Gongzhi and others who walked onto the square with unkind expressions.
Compared with the Liaodong soldiers and horses, their number was too small, but their momentum overwhelmed them.
Walking up the high platform, Liu Wu left hundreds of soldiers to guard the more than a hundred elite soldiers. He took the remaining hundreds of people to accompany Yi Shiha and Zheng Gongzhi up the steps, walked up the high platform step by step, and came to the entrance of Chengyun Hall.
The door of Chengyun Hall was open, and inside the hall, which could accommodate hundreds of people, there were more than a hundred soldiers on the left and right. It was obvious that Zhu Gaoxu had transferred the soldiers guarding the back door here.
However, Zheng Gongzhi was not worried about this, because there were thousands of Liaodong soldiers behind him.
Leading his troops into the palace, more than 300 Liaodong soldiers faced off with more than 100 Bohai soldiers armed with weapons.
Yi Shiha walked onto the stone platform of Bohai Palace, where Zhu Gaoxu was sitting.
He was tall, sitting on the couch, wearing armor and holding an iron mace in his hand.
He wiped his mace with a coarse cloth and paid no attention to Zheng Gongzhi, Liu Wu and hundreds of Liaodong soldiers who walked into the palace.
"Bohai County Prince Gao Xu, Your Majesty has an edict, kneel down to receive it!"
Zheng Gongzhi already felt bad when he saw Zhu Gaoxu wearing armor, but when he thought of the Liaodong soldiers behind him, he still plucked up the courage and held up the imperial edict to ask Zhu Gaoxu to kneel down.
However, facing his words, Zhu Gaoxu wiped his mace absently, as if no one else was around, and ignored Zheng Gongzhi and the others.
Zheng Gongzhi was embarrassed in place while holding up the imperial edict. Finally, he became angry and opened the door to read out the imperial edict.
"I heard that the Bohai Sea privately opened a mutual trade, the captives made money, and wrote letters to each other to the king of Xiang to plot rebellion. Now, the judicial officer asked the court to judge according to the law. However, I heard that it is not difficult for people to know their faults. Since they can take the blame and blame themselves, they will become good people again. Edict The king of Bohai County was ordered to relieve his troops and go south to the capital, where he could examine himself, but..."
Zheng Gongzhi read out the edict, and the content was nothing more than Zhu Yunwen attacking him for trading with the Jurchens, and at the same time falsely accusing himself of conspiring to rebel with the King of Xiang.
The Third Division requested to discuss the crime, but Zhu Yunwen still defended himself, and reduced the death penalty to seizing troops and going south, so that the government could introspect themselves.
"Okay!" Zhu Gaoxu, who couldn't stand listening anymore, threw the coarse cloth in his hand on the table and interrupted Zheng Gongzhi.
Before Zheng Gongzhi could react, Zhu Gaoxu looked at Yi Shiha: "How?"
"Everything has been arranged." Yi Shiha agreed, and Zhu Gaoxu's eyes signaled him to retreat without his armor.
Yi Shiha retreated, Zheng Gongzhi also reacted and scolded: "Bohai common people! How dare you be rude to His Majesty!"
Zhu Gaoxu stood up slowly and sneered: "He hasn't said enough yet, but I've heard enough..."
He glanced around the hall and looked at the elite soldiers of Bohai in the hall: "Brothers of Bohai and Liaodong, this imperial edict says that I am treason. Do you think I am treason?"
"In vain!! In vain!! In vain!!"
The voice of injustice began to sing, the soldiers of Liaodong Dusi bowed their heads, and the soldiers of Bohai Sea sang.
This sudden change made Zheng Gongzhi and Liu Wu look ugly. In front of them, Zhu Gaoxu also picked up the mace.
"When I led my soldiers and my Liaodong brothers to defend Jilin City, why didn't Emperor Gao say that I was treason..."
"When I went on an expedition to the Uulianghatu City and beheaded nearly ten thousand people, why didn't Emperor Gao say that I was treason..."
"When I traded with the Jurchens and recruited the Jurchens outside the customs, why didn't Emperor Gao say that I was treason..."
Zhu Gaoxu detailed one thing he had done, and also brought out Zhu Yuanzhang who knew about it.
"Now that he has ascended to the throne, he says that I have conspired to rebel. You have already forced King Xiang to death. Do you want to force me to death now?"
He scanned the crowd and saw that the Liaodong soldiers were more confident. Zheng Gongzhi and Liu Wu also sensed that something was wrong.
"Unfortunately, I am not the King of Xiang. I am the Bohai County King conferred by Emperor Taizu Gao. It was also Emperor Taizu Gao who allowed me to trade with the Jurchens."
"You want to impose a crime, I really think..."
"Do it!!" Zheng Gongzhi shouted, and Liu Wu immediately led more than ten soldiers to draw short soldiers and kill Zhu Gaoxu.
The sharp soldiers from Bohai and Liaodong all around also drew out their short soldiers and fought in this hall.
"Emperor Taizu Gao said: There are no honest ministers in the court, and there are evildoers in the court. We must train troops to fight against them, so as to clear away the evildoers on the emperor's side."
Zhu Gaoxu calmly looked at Liu Wu and more than ten people who were rushing towards him, and slowly said: "Today..."
"Bohai people, don't talk arrogantly!!"
Before he could finish speaking, Liu Wu and others rushed towards him. Zhu Gaoxu jumped down with his iron mace, and Liu Wu and others swung the hammer away.
During the hand-to-hand combat, Liu Wu only felt the sound of broken bones. When he came to his senses, he saw his hand hanging in the air in a strange posture.
"ah!!!"
In one blow, the weapon was knocked away and his arm was violently broken. Liu Wu's tragic situation made the scalps of the soldiers who followed him go numb. Zheng Gongzhi was so frightened that he sat on the ground.
Before they could react, Zhu Gaoxu swung his mace and knocked over the two charging soldiers. He grabbed a soldier whose weapon had been knocked away, lifted him up with one arm, and slammed him on the palace.
The dull voice and Liu Wu's screams reminded Zheng Gongzhi of Wu Gao's words: "The king of Bohai County has the courage of ten thousand men."
"Kill him! He is the only one! Uh-huh..."
Liu Wu, who had broken his arm, retreated, holding his severed hand tightly, and while giving orders to the surroundings, he couldn't help but wailed.
Zhu Gaoxu glanced at everyone, half of his face was stained with the blood of Liu Wu and others.
"kill!!"
Dozens of soldiers came to kill him, but he continued what he had just finished saying: "Today, I am following the will of Emperor Taizu Gao..."
"The Qing Dynasty will be in trouble for the country!!"
"Bohai Chronicles": "At the end of the fifth month, Wu led his troops to rebel and led Gongzhi into the city. Gongzhi sent his troops to surround the mansion. He led his troops into the palace and killed them. He led his guards to bear armor. He beheaded hundreds of people without even getting hit by a single arrow. , was hit once"
"Records of Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty": "At the end of the fifth month, Jianwenjun sent two thousand troops to surround the palace, falsely accusing him of plotting rebellion, and he was responsible for fighting with armor. From the beginning of the day to the middle of the day, he killed hundreds of people with his hands. His body was completely naked and his body was still wet. Injured. They are all stained with blood and strengthened."
(End of chapter)
