"These useless things!"
"I really don't know how his ancestors could give birth to such a waste."
Li Changgeng didn't say such words, but this was how he felt in his heart.
Therefore, after Tang Guozuo said this, Li Changgeng drew out his sword and placed the blade directly on Tang Guozuo's shoulder: "Lingbihou, don't blame me if you continue to persuade the rebels to surrender here. I will chop you down first and then talk!"
Tang Guozuo was immediately stunned.
Other nobles were also stunned.
Li Changgeng then said: "What are you afraid of! These rebels are just a bunch of mobs. Now that you are surrendering, aren't you afraid of the court settling accounts in the future? Besides, you are still alive and receiving the country's favor. If anyone mentions surrender, I will kill you." who!"
As he spoke, Li Changgeng ordered Yang Zhaoji: "Admiral Yang, lead your servants to supervise the battle team and continue to supervise the battle! Anyone who dares to be timid will be killed!"
As Li Changgeng spoke, he asked Gu Mingjiao: "Marquis Zhenyuan, you are on the defensive, do you have any objections?"
Gu Mingjiao smiled awkwardly: "No objection!"
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"Everyone! Everyone! Why are we raising an army? It is to clear the emperor's side and to resist the cruelty of the gentry by the traitorous officials in the court! But now, what are we doing? We are also cruelly abusing the gentry. Is this the way we want to raise an army?! ah!"
At the rebel "roundtable" organized by Xiao Jingao, Cheng Jike, a gentry who participated in the rebellion, began to express his dissatisfaction with the rebels' harsh treatment of the gentry who did not support their rebellion.
The other gentry argued that these gentry were foolish and loyal and deserved to be robbed.
There are also rational gentry who say that there is no way around it. The army needs money to expand, and the common people don't have much money, so they can only rob the gentry who will join them in rebellion.
This kind of "round table discussion" allowed all kinds of voices to be expressed, but no one could be convinced for the time being.
In the end, it was Xiao Jingao who personally slapped the table and yelled "enough". Then the gentry who had followed the rebellion calmed down and looked at Xiao Jingao, who was the backbone of the group.
Xiao Jingao glared at these people and said: "Now we can only see whether the civil and military officials and nobles in the inner city of Nanjing are willing to surrender. If they are willing, we can recruit troops and buy horses just by relying on the treasury and food stored in the inner city of Nanjing. Really If that doesn't work, we can also seize the wealthy nobles in the city and accuse them of being traitors, so that we can offend many powerful nobles in the world without offending those gentry who don't support us!"
After Xiao Jingao said that, he asked Xu Ze: "What did Li Changgeng say? Are they willing to open the city and surrender?"
Xu Ze shook his head: "Li Changgeng said that he would not order the opening of the city unless everyone in the inner city was killed!"
After hearing this, Xiao Jingao punched the desk, gritted his teeth, looked at the other gentry who followed the rebellion and said: "Now it seems that we can only continue to raid the homes of those gentry who oppose us. Only in this way can we have more success." The extra money and food will be used to recruit soldiers and horses, unless you are willing to use all your wealth! Or give the fields to the tenants as a means to win over more tenants to join us in rebellion."
"My Xu family has spent all our savings to recruit local warriors, but we really can't afford it! Let's continue to raid the homes of those gentry who oppose us. Who makes them so ignorant of praise?"
"That's right, my family's fields are all inherited from our ancestors. Why should we give them to those tenants like this? It's better to continue to copy those gentry who don't deal with us!"
"This is reasonable. Since those in the inner city of Nanjing are unwilling to surrender, and we will suffer heavy losses if we attack by force, then it is like this. Anyway, those gentry who are unwilling to raise troops with us can be regarded as colluding with the treacherous officials in the court and are weak and incompetent. , you are the scum of Shilin, if you copy it, you will copy it!"
…
These gentry who participated in the rebellion basically insisted that they would rather confiscate the homes of the gentry who did not rebel with them than spend more money, food and land to recruit troops and horses. Therefore, Xiao Jingao had no choice but to agree.
Therefore, Xiao Jingao then led these rebels to continue towards Zhejiang, and plundered the gentry and common people crazily along the way, which was quite unpopular.
At this time, many people in the south of the Yangtze River began to miss the Zhu Youxiao era before the rebels rose up. After all, although the taxes were stricter and the income was less, at least the world was still peaceful.
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"Your Majesty, Dongchang has come to report that the inner city of Nanjing has not yet fallen. The rebels tried to attack several times, but were beaten back by Li Changgeng, Yang Zhaoji and others! And the main force of the rebels has already attacked Liyang. The prefect of Liyang, Guo Hongxun, Mobilizing soldiers and civilians to hold on and repelling the rebels, the rebels now have to turn to attack other states and counties.”
On this day, Wei Zhongxian reported the latest information to Zhu Youxiao.
After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao hurriedly said: "Very good! How is the capital now?"
Wei Zhongxian hurriedly reported on Fang Congzhe, Liu Ruoyu and others in the capital.
Zhu Youxiao still nodded, and then asked: "Where are you ahead?"
"Zhangjiawan."
Wei Zhongxian replied.
Zhu Youxiao said hurriedly: "Then speed up a little, rest in Zhangjiawan, and take a look at my palace and see what kind of mansion this guy Li Sancai built!"
"yes!"
Wei Zhongxian replied.
After Zhu Youxiao arrived in Zhangjiawan, he moved into his palace.
And his palace was Li Sancai's mansion.
After Li Sancai committed a crime, the mansion he built with golden nanmu was occupied by Zhu Youxiao, who ordered it to be transformed into his palace in Zhangjiawan.
During the Ming Dynasty, because Zhangjiawan in Tongzhou was the end point of the democratic movement of the Grand Canal, commerce was very developed.
As soon as Zhu Youxiao arrived in Zhangjiawan, he was surprised by the rows of shops here. He couldn't help but sigh that if he had never left the capital, he would not have known how prosperous the legendary Zhangjiawan was, and there are so many that look great just from the outside. A luxurious manor in the Royal Garden.
And the officials in North Korea and China would not tell him this.
When Zhu Youxiao lived in his palace, he was even more shocked by the luxury inside. He couldn't help but said: "I don't know until I come out. This Li Sancai lives more comfortably than me, the emperor! Living here is better than me." The Qianqing Palace is much more comfortable."
Han Xu and Xiong Tingbi didn't say anything. Looking at Zhu Youxiao now, they felt like they were looking at a country bumpkin.
Zhu Youxiao did not stay at the Zhangjiawan Palace for long. The next day, he continued traveling south.
In addition to letting the accompanying baggage and some personnel take the water route, Zhu Youxiao himself still took the imperial chariot and took the dry road south. Although he spent huge sums of money to let the Shipping Bureau build ships, he was sensitive to the matter of taking boats by water.
Along the way, Zhu Youxiao did not stop. About a month later, Zhu Youxiao and his southern expedition army arrived outside Yangzhou City.
But at this time, the gates of Yangzhou City were closed, and there were no local officials who led the Jin gentry to greet him in advance like the local officials he met when passing through Beizhili and Shandong.
"The Holy Spirit is here, why don't you open the city to welcome him!"
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