"If you have something to do, report it early; if nothing happens, leave the court!"
April 16, the nineteenth year of Chongzhen,
With a loud shout from Bingbi eunuch Wang Chengen, the day's court meeting finally officially kicked off.
Above, Emperor Chongzhen sat high with a majestic look on his face.
Below...the few ministers of the DPRK and the Central Government stood there worriedly, with expressions on their faces as if they were dead.
In fact, it's almost the same. Seven months have passed since the De'an Wang family was exterminated.
In the past seven months, King Na Yi's power has never been completely wiped out. Instead, it has become a rogue bandit that continues to circulate throughout the south of the Yangtze River.
And he is not an ordinary bandit. His routes are carefully planned. Not only can they escape the pursuit of the officers and soldiers every time, but they can also slaughter prominent local families.
In the past seven months, thirty-two prominent families have been slaughtered, which caused the entire wealthy families south of the Yangtze River to become uneasy, fearing that they would become King Yi's next target.
The imperial court has sent 200,000 troops successively for this purpose, but the strange thing is that under the premise of numerical superiority, every time it fights with King Yi, it will lose troops and generals. So far, there have been six imperial generals including Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing. Died on the battlefield.
Now the person in charge of these 200,000 troops has become a guy named Li Wenzhong.
No one knows where this guy with the same name as the founding hero of the Ming Dynasty, Cao Guogong Li Wenzhong, came from, but what this guy did made the officials and gentry all over the world hate him with itch.
In everyone's opinion, this man's ability was far away from Cao Guogong's, but he was on par with his son Li Jinglong.
He never dared to fight directly with King Yi, and just followed him. But after they slaughtered those wealthy families, he led a crowd and distributed the land and property directly to the poor people, and then took King Yi with him and couldn't take him away. of food, gold and silver, and continued the pursuit.
How the hell is this a bandit suppression? It's obvious that he's just cleaning up the mess for others.
For this reason, Emperor Chongzhen, under the pressure of hundreds of civil and military officials, issued six imperial edicts to urge Li Wenzhong. He just said that he would not accept the foreign military orders, so he returned them.
Moreover, these 200,000 people are now managed by Li Wenzhong, and the officials and gentry in the world cannot corrupt or win over them.
At first, everyone was still denouncing Li Wenzhong and cursing King Yi, but gradually some people came around.
Li Wenzhong and that Yi Wang are not in the same group, right?
As soon as this idea came up, the officials in Nanjing were shocked. They had never seen an opponent playing like this.
In an instant, many people couldn't sit still, and most of them ran away in just a few days.
Emperor Chongzhen looked at the officials in the hall below, who had only two big cats and two kittens, and sighed helplessly on his face.
"Forget it, there's no point in having the meeting this morning, let's break up!"
The few remaining courtiers left in a hurry as if they had been granted amnesty.
After everyone was gone, Emperor Chongzhen waved towards the outside of the hall, and a figure quietly entered the hall.
"Have you found out the details of King Yi?" Chongzhen asked in a deep voice.
"Your Majesty, you are making things difficult for me. Now everyone in the world is looking for that person's details. Even the powerful wealthy families in Nanzhili and Zhejiang have not made any progress. What can we, the Jinyi Guards, find out? "
"Your Majesty, it's not like you don't know how many overt and covert attacks the Jinyi Guards have received since they went south. It's not easy for a humble person to control the situation in Nanjing City." Yan Jiu couldn't help but pour out his bitterness.
"I know it's not easy for you!"
Emperor Chongzhen suppressed the urge to kill the mud-legged man crawling out of the gutter in front of him with a knife. He narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "It's just that I think this man's behavior is somewhat familiar. Tell me the truth, has the emperor come back?" ?”
"Ah?" Yan Jiu's heart suddenly trembled, and the smile on his face seemed a little forced.
"I already know the answer, you go do it!" Chongzhen understood everything by looking at his expression, and his heart was indescribably complicated.
He waved his hand, indicating that Yan Jiu could leave.
In fact, he had already made a guess in his mind from the moment he found out that the general who commanded the 200,000 soldiers was named Li Wenzhong. Then seeing King Yi's killing style of killing people like rivers of blood, how could he not have thought of his respectable and respected general? The terrible emperor is really back.
Moreover, he also quietly controlled the Ming Dynasty's army and imperial guards. I am afraid that the emperor knows everything about his every move in the imperial city, right?
Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen seemed to have exhausted the last bit of energy in his body and slumped directly on the dragon throne.
Still on the second floor of the inn, Zhu Yuanzhang stood in front of the map with his hands behind his back, concentrating on the current situation.
Ever since his intentions were noticed by the government and gentry group, this group has shown extremely terrifying mobilization capabilities. Under the organization of some court officials, troops have been launched in Huguang, Zhejiang, Guangzhou and other places. In just two months, An army of 200,000 has been formed again to encircle and suppress King Yi, Xu Da.
Apparently after realizing that the imperial army was out of control and that some people regarded them as enemies, the entire official and gentry group abandoned their previous prejudices and began to unite.
Zhu Yuanzhang was not worried about this.
From his father-in-law Guo Zixing, Zhu Yuanzhang understood clearly the limitations of these gentry class. They were too short-sighted and had no strategic vision. They only focused on the piece of meat on their plate from beginning to end. Such a group of guys, Zhu Yuanzhang completely ignored him.
Although these people can organize an army of 200,000 people in two months, in fact, they can't achieve anything, they are just a bunch of chickens and dogs.
Although Xu Da only leads 10,000 people now, these 10,000 people were carefully selected from the original 100,000 rebels, and after more than half a year of fighting, there is already a trace of a truly iron-blooded and strong army. It's not easy to penetrate these 200,000 people, but it's not that difficult either.
What's more, there are 200,000 people following Li Wenzhong!
"Does he know we're back?" Seeing Yan Jiu coming in quietly, Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at him and asked.
"My uncle's eyes are as bright as fire. The emperor has indeed known that you are back." Yan Jiu knelt in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, touched his head to the ground, and answered respectfully.
His current posture is completely different from that in front of Emperor Chongzhen.
"Humph, you're not hopelessly stupid!"
Zhu Yuanzhang snorted and said coldly: "Go and tell him, An An will be his emperor and see how we brought the Ming Dynasty back to life. If you dare to play any tricks with me, I don't mind changing to another emperor."
"Yes!" Yan Jiu agreed with excitement, stood up and left.
"This is the smell!"
"It's so refreshing to work with the uncle!" After walking out of the inn, Yan Jiu sighed happily, waved his hand, and disappeared into the crowd with his people.
