"Because he is of high seniority and belongs to a close clan, and because he had made meritorious service in the campaign against the Eastern Barbarians when he was young, my father made him the king of a prosperous place like Barcelona. But this King of Ningxi is not only Han Hu but also He actually killed the officials I went to negotiate with him. No matter what, Dong Hanchen was a member of the emperor's imperial army and a high official of the imperial court with military honors, but his head was cut off by his Xiyi soldiers. If it hadn't been for me His spy stole Dong Gong’s body back, and I can’t believe it.”
After Zhu Ciwei and others entered the city of Toulouse, Zhu Cizhuo told Zhu Ciwei and his party what he was angry about.
Bang!
"Damn it, this King of Ningxi is crazy about gain and loss. He dares to kill even the imperial officials. Do you know what Huanggang's national law says? Anyone suspected of deliberately killing Han people will be punished no matter who he is! Including all the people. Lord of the vassal!"
Zhu Yihai punched the table on the spot.
"This is indeed excessive. His Highness the Fifth Prince is right to be angry about this. I feel very angry just thinking about it. Where did he put the imperial court by doing this?"
Zhu Youlang followed.
Zhu Ciwei said at this time: "This is not something that King Ningxi can do. It should be that the Western nobles he used did it behind his back, and even deliberately used this method to force him to go against the court! But no matter how you put it, the root of everything is that he, the king of Ningxi, ignored Han and Hu, and actually used the Western Yi, which led to the Western Yi killing the Han people and even the Han heroes. If he, the vassal king, did not condone it, it would not be possible. No other Xiyi has such a chance!"
"Brother is right. It was caused by the indiscriminate distinction between Han and Hu. Dong Gong did not die on the battlefield, which is considered a loss for the imperial court! This account must be settled!"
Zhu Cizhuo replied.
Zhu Ciwei nodded and said: "Now that the Ningxi Kingdom has begun to encroach on territory that does not belong to him, we cannot stay here longer and should send troops to Barcelona as soon as possible!"
"In this case, brother, I will take you to see the airport. During the rest period, we have built many more airports in Western Europe according to the imperial decree. Your Royal Army's aviation brigade will not be used for its purpose."
Zhu Cizhuo said at this time.
Zhu Ciwei therefore said: "This is very good! Our imperial army is only responsible for rectifying the vassal government, so the way of fighting is to directly attack the leader of the country. If we take the leader of the country, we will naturally attack the capital first. We call it a beheading operation. This Zhu Changxun may be the first feudal lord we kill."
A few days later, Zhu Ciwei ordered the imperial army to behead the Ningxi Kingdom.
Therefore, the naval fleet under the Royal Army, which was ordered to set out from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean, first set off for Barcelona.
At the same time, the Royal Army's aviation brigade also flew planes from the airport in Toulouse to Barcelona, patrolling and conducting reconnaissance along the way.
Zhu Ciwei and Yiqian vassal king personally led the army along the coastal plains to Barcelona.
Although Zhu Ciwei did not have much experience in leading troops, the imperial troops he led were all sharp-edged soldiers carefully selected by each army. They used cutting-edge weapons from the Ming Dynasty, and their purpose was only to seize the vassal master, control the vassal country, and rectify the vassal government. , naturally does not require much command ability.
Therefore, it was extremely easy for Zhu Ciwei to march into Barcelona.
…
"Who asked you to kill them?"
"You bastards!"
After Zhu Changxun learned that Dong Hanchen and his guards were killed by Dialon and his mercenaries, he was also very angry. He asked Dialon and Yu Guozhu, cursed in passing, and looked at Yu Guozhu:
"Dialon doesn't know it, don't you? The emperor of the Ming Dynasty is the one who sends troops to kill even an ordinary Han citizen, let alone his imperial army officials?!"
Yu Guozhu looked at Diallon with an expression on his face.
Dialon responded directly at this time: "But if we don't do this, Your Highness the King, you will give up the land in southern Europe and compromise with the Ming Dynasty. This is not what I, the Western nobles, want to see. "
Zhu Changxun glanced at Dialon speechlessly: "But you should know that the Ming Kingdom is very powerful. No country can match it. Even the Ottoman Empire, which you Westerners have always been afraid of, is now defeated by one hundred thousand people led by the seventh prince of the Ming Kingdom. The Ming army is suppressed and cannot move forward, let alone us?!"
"How will you know if you don't try? Although the Ming Dynasty is powerful, it is almost exhausted. Otherwise, it would not just verbally warn the vassals of their excessive behavior, and it would even almost acquiesce to the expansion of their territories by the major vassals! Your Highness the King, why don’t you dare to give it a try? Do you really want to be a puppet manipulated by the Ming Kingdom?”
Dialon asked after speaking.
"You bastard!"
Zhu Changxun casually threw the folding fan in his hand towards Diallon, pointed at him and said: "I only use you Westerners to look after homes and homes to make some money. I don't want you to control me!"
At this time, there was a sudden roar outside.
Zhu Changxun didn't speak any more.
Dialon and Yu Guozhu also looked back out the window.
This sound is naturally the sound of Ming army aircraft.
"Plane, this is a plane! How did this thing become real! Where did they come from?"
Yu Guozhu spoke in horror.
As a Han scholar educated in the Ming Dynasty, he recognized this thing.
Zhu Changxun collapsed on the chair at this time: "It's over. The Ming army must have come to settle accounts with me."
"No, it's impossible for the Ming army to abandon the papal countries in southern Europe and come to Barcelona. Even if they really want to fight, they can't do it so quickly. Even if the fifth prince uses troops without permission, he can't do it so quickly. He has assembled all his ministries. It also takes time to get up.”
Dialon said.
"Your Majesty, we must not get into trouble."
Yu Guozhu also said something at this time.
After hearing what these two people said, Zhu Changxun felt that what they said made sense, so he nodded.
"Report! Your Highness the King, according to the news brought by Franji, the Ming Dynasty King's Master has arrived in the direction of Barcelona, by sea, land and air!"
But at this moment, Chen Tingjing, Zhu Changxun's chief historian, hurried in.
In history, Chen Tingjing, a native of Shanxi, became a bachelor in the Qing Dynasty because of his good study in Neo-Confucianism and his ability to please Kangxi. However, in this life, he was just the chief historian chosen by Zhu Changcheng himself.
After Zhu Changxun heard Chen Tingjing's report, he suddenly felt bad again. He couldn't help but said: "It's really the Ming army?!"
At this time, Zhu Ciwei had already led the imperial army to the vicinity of Barcelona.
Zhu Changchun's escort has been organized spontaneously, armed with Ming-made front-loading rifles, ready to rely on the city and favorable terrain for defense.
However, the imperial army was well-equipped and used the latest sea, land and air combat modes. As soon as these escorts arrived at the city and bunkers, bombs from Ming army aircraft and artillery shells from the navy were dropped.
As a series of bombings sounded, most of the Ningxi Kingdom's escorts were killed or wounded, and they completely lost their combat effectiveness.
Zhu Changchun's Xiyi mercenaries were still stuck in the era of using flintlock guns to form Spanish phalanxes. They were even more vulnerable to the Ming Dynasty's troops. After gathering, they were blown to pieces.
Times have really changed.
What's more, the guard army of the Ningxi Kingdom, which was very arrogant in the Iberian Peninsula, was organized and trained by Ming Dynasty himself, so it was naturally easy to deal with it.
However, Zhu Ciwei did not want to cause too many casualties. After all, the guards of the Ningxi Kingdom were basically Han Chinese who followed Zhu Changxun here.
What's more, Ming Dynasty now needs an increase in population, and has been trying its best to avoid a decline in the global market due to war.
Therefore, after capturing Barcelona's first line of defense, Zhu Ciwei ordered the attack to stop, and ordered the aviation brigade to distribute leaflets into the city to indicate the purpose of the court's visit, thereby advising the soldiers and civilians in the city not to follow Zhu Changxun against the court, and also advised Zhu Changxun to stop Resist, accept the court's rectification, and avoid taking greater responsibility.
"Reorganize?"
After Zhu Changxun saw the flyer, he became even more confused.
In fact, he didn't know the news that the imperial court wanted to rectify the vassal politics in the world.
Because the court did not tell him, and his vassal state was too far away from the central court, and over the years, he only focused on expanding his own interests. After all, he had even forgotten the national conditions, let alone the Ming Central Court. Because of his loyalty, he did not place any informants of his own in the central court, and only now did he know that the court wanted to rectify the vassal government.
"Why did the imperial court suddenly think of rectifying the vassal government? Didn't we let us lead our own troops to manage our own vassal state?!"
Zhu Changxun continued to ask puzzledly.
"Your Highness, it's better to make a decision now. Should we open the city to accept the rectification of the imperial clan? I am worried that if we delay it any longer, the rectification will turn into a counterinsurgency."
Chen Tingjing advised.
Zhu Changxun said helplessly: "Accept, why don't you accept it? I want to disobey, but I have to resist. The central court's scientific and technological strength is too powerful. It has airplanes. We can't compete with it. I just didn't expect that, The imperial court will really send troops to intervene for the sake of Han and Hu indiscriminate matters! Our Majesty, doesn't he want to save the suffering people all over the world? Why do you want to only value China?"
"Your Highness, I forgive you for talking too much. Even if you are in front of His Majesty and listen to what he says with your own ears, you cannot take everything he says seriously. What's more, it is just an imperial edict. Maybe he himself can't be sure which sentence is true and which sentence is false. .”
Chen Tingjing replied.
"This king knows!"
Zhu Changcheng slammed the table, replied, and then said: "But he, Zhu Youxiao, is still like this. He insists on spending a lot of national money and raising troops for the life and death of some untouchables! This place has been entrusted to this country. King, just let me do whatever I want, why do I have to be so lenient! Even if I put all the Han people here in a lower position than the Western Yi, it has nothing to do with him! Really, now it happens It really needs to be rectified.”
Chen Tingjing frowned: "The mouth of the cannibal is short, and the hand of the taker is short. Your Highness should understand that no favor in this world needs to be repaid, especially the favor of the emperor. The deeper the favor is, the more it will be repaid." It should be more serious, not to mention, if the emperor has annexed the eight wastelands and is sitting on the wealth of the world, he will naturally do whatever he wants. If he wants to practice Han supremacy, no one can resist him, and he can only let him ravage him."
Zhu Changxun nodded: "Of course I understand these truths, but I am just lucky, thinking that he will relax when he gets old, and will not care about the life and death of these untouchables, but only wants to live a good life in his old age! You go and do it Well, give gifts as they should be given, I hope the eldest son of the emperor and the group of royal relatives who came on behalf of the clan can intercede for the sake of me being the father of the emperor."
"As you command!"
…
So, next, the soldiers and civilians of Barcelona gave up their resistance.
Zhu Hezhen, a young and junior member of the clan, was ordered by the emperor's eldest son Zhu Ciwei to first lead a group of imperial army infantry into the city of Barcelona and take over the city defense and city security. The city guards and Zhu Changchun's Xiyi mercenaries were also captured. It disarms.
Then, Zhu Hezhen took people to the Ningxi Prince's Palace, which was already the largest Ming-style royal garden in Barcelona, and said: "Uncle Ningxi Prince, I believe that Prince Zhu Hezhen has come to escort you to see you on the orders of the clan. Zuo Zongzheng, please come out, and all your family members must also be taken away to await questioning by the clan government."
When Zhu Changxun heard that Zhu Hezhen reported his family status, he was quite disappointed and said: "What do you mean by the Zongren Mansion? They only sent a young man to escort me! Can the eldest son of the emperor do it himself?"
"Uncle Wang Ningxi, this is not up to you!"
Zhu Hezhen replied and shouted: "Take it away!"
"yes!"
After giving the order to Zhu Hezhen, a group of strong men from the Chongying Camp Official School of Prince Xin's Mansion rushed in and detained Zhu Changxun first.
Zhu Changxun struggled: "It's too much for you to believe that the prince's family is doing this. No matter what, I am a member of the Chang clan!"
At that time, after Zhu Changxun and his family members were taken away by Zhu Hezhen, all the officials of the Ningxi Kingdom, including Dialong and Yu Guozhu, were also imprisoned for questioning.
After that, Zhu Ciwei took Zhu Youlang and others into Barcelona.
"Good guy! The scenery of this city is so beautiful, but our uncle Wang really doesn't know how to cherish it at all. He just follows the imperial court's vassal official motto and governs the country honestly. Why is it not enough? This is really greedy. What a disaster."
As soon as he entered Barcelona, Zhu Youlang exclaimed.
Zhu Yousong also smiled with interest and said: "I wonder if the women here are as good at singing and dancing as the herdsmen in Monan? In that case, I hope that when the court expresses its favor in the future, it can change my title to here."
"The Ningxi Kingdom really needs to be rectified. These Western barbarians in the city are not easy to be defeated! No, the vassal should be withdrawn directly and given to others. I believe that there are people in the court who are willing to give the title to this place."
At this time, Zhu Yihai was observing the people in the city while talking to Zhu Ciwei.
Zhu Ciwei said: "Now we must clean up the prisons, free the imprisoned Han people, and ask why they are imprisoned. Only then can we know who should be punished and who should not be punished!"
After nearly a month of interrogation, all the imprisoned Han people were released by Zhu Ciwei, and Zhu Changcheng's private and national treasury savings were used to compensate. At the same time, all those who needed to be punished for killing, torturing, extorting and beating Han people were also punished. Confined in solitary confinement.
Among them, there are naturally Yu Guozhu and Dialon.
