Having said this, Cao Rui turned his attention to his subordinates who were digging three feet into the ground, and said coldly: "As for how stupid your Paoze brothers were after we surrounded Nanning Mansion? They were killed by a big living man. , can you sneak out from under their noses without knowing anything about it? Or do you think that I, as the coach, am just as stupid, and the people who slipped out didn't even notice at all?"
In fact, what this military attache is talking about is not that among the generals who participated in the war, some of them were incompetent. A group of people slipped away under their noses without knowing anything about it. He admitted that Cao Rui's analysis was not unreasonable. But what he wants to say is that the Guilin County Prince's Mansion has always been famous for being the richest in the world, and the best thing about it is money. Will the false emperor bribe that military attache with a lot of money and escape from the defense zone of a certain general who besieged the city?
After all, as long as he has enough money, there may not be anyone who won't be jealous of money. After all, he still knew what some of his colleagues were like. Among the military attachés of the four major battalions, he was not the only one who was greedy for money. Although everyone made a lot of money after entering Guangnan West Road, who would dislike the money? Just looking at Cao Rui's face, he finally swallowed it all.
However, after hesitating for a while, he still persuaded: "How about we screen the captured people to see if there is a false emperor hiding among them? Sir, we have almost searched this city. It is almost full." After digging three feet into the ground, we still haven't found the shadow of the pseudo-emperor's coffin. A lot of this coffin has been unearthed, but it seems that he is not just dead. They can't just burn it."
"If they don't fill the coffin into the well, otherwise we can't find it if we search there like this? But is that possible? Even if he is dead, even if the pseudo-dynasty is at the end of its rope, what we Daqi people pay attention to is burial. He Even though the emperor was appointed by himself, he is still considered an emperor anyway. It is impossible for the people below him to throw a coffin into a well."
Just when the military attache was about to persuade Cao Rui to stop doing useless things, his words were interrupted by Cao Ru with a wave of his hand: "Wait a minute, you just said that we can't find the coffin unless they put it there. Yes? As for the wells, there are only wells in the city that have not been checked yet. You should immediately go down and find a few of the oldest old men in the city to determine how many wells there are in the city."
"Then, I sent people with good water properties to touch me one by one. Grandma, why didn't I think that those bastards hid the coffin of the false emperor in the well. And sent someone to examine the false emperor carefully. Those people in the line, on the days when the false emperor died, did their line burn something? Cremation and going down a well are much better than having the body stabbed by the court."
"What a bullshit emperor, he's just a guy who's always proud of himself. He caused rebellion, and this war brought great disaster to the entire Jiangnan. It's only been three years, and the originally prosperous Jiangnan West Road has become almost a thousand miles away. There are ghosts in the crowd. When the court finds his body, why not poke it? There are also sensible people among them. Compared with poking the corpse, soaking it in some water is nothing."
After hearing Cao Rui's instructions, the military attache looked at his livid face and did not dare to say anything more, so he immediately sent someone down to make arrangements. At this time, Cao Rui, who did not believe in Buddhism, silently thought of the Buddha's blessing. It was not that Cao Rui valued the corpse of the false emperor too much, but because he knew that the military discipline of his subordinates on Jiangnan West Road and Huguang South Road was still good whether they were marching or fighting.
But since entering Guangnan West Road, the harsh environment and supplies have made the military discipline somewhat uncontrollable. Although we can't say that there was burning, killing, and looting along the way, we did a lot of things that caused trouble to local areas. Especially for those barbarian tribes who followed the false emperor and went all the way to the end, their property and women became trophies. During the half-year siege of Nanning City, how many barbarian women were hidden in the camp?
If it weren't for the imperial court's repeated imperial edicts, the Wang Zong and the royal palace of Guilin County were not allowed to be touched. In addition, the army had not entered Jingjiang City. Cao Rui knew that the entire Jingjiang Mansion might be bleeding like a river. But even so, in the entire Jingjiang City, except for the Guilin County Prince's Palace, every family living in the Prince's Palace and Wang Zong's Palace is clean. Moreover, all the other courtyards of the palace where large armies passed were almost completely looted.
Some businessmen with a keen sense of smell have been following the army, looking for opportunities to purchase the property plundered by the army, as well as the plundered barbarian women. According to the court's legal system, if the court really wants to pursue military discipline matters when the army returns to the court, how many people will be implicated? Even if the emperor doesn't want to pursue it, can those Qingliu with bad mouth in the court let go of this opportunity?
Since the reign of the Supreme Emperor, the power of civil servants in the DPRK and China has grown day by day. In order to squeeze out the military attaches and compete for control of the government, those civilian officials would do anything. Most of the people who kill dogs are righteous, but most of them are scholars who betray their hearts. Military attachés have a high status during wartime, but this war cannot last forever. Throughout the dynasties, not all warriors had a high status during war, but they would be liquidated once the war was over.
Disharmony between civil and military forces has been a common practice in all dynasties. Now that the emperor has arrived at Jingjiang Mansion, who can guarantee that this liquidation will not be brought forward? Finding the corpse of the false emperor can be regarded as a crime. Of course, if the five Yi women in Cao Rui's camp are not included. This guy wanted to find the remains of the false emperor, but he seemed to be a general who thought wholeheartedly about his subordinates.
But Fu Yuanshan was right when he said that Cao Rui was a kind person. At least half of this guy really considers his subordinates and doesn't pursue many things. For example, some of his subordinates have been grabbing people all the way since they passed Meiguan, and he never said anything. He even kept asking the court for rewards for his subordinates who actually made a lot of small fortunes.
The harsh conditions made him think of many ways to maintain morale. In some aspects, as long as his bottom line was not touched, he would basically not pursue it. But he could not guarantee whether the court would pursue the case afterwards. The most important thing is whether Cao Rui will implicate himself if the court pursues military discipline matters. Cao Rui also thought about it carefully for a long time, but he always felt that he could not escape.
Cao Rui, who thought clearly about the causes and consequences, was the reason why he insisted on finding the remains of the false emperor. While Cao Rui was thinking wildly here, a military attache hurried up to the tower and said with joy on his face: "I would like to report to you, sir, we have found a coffin in a buried well. Although we don't know where it is. Whose, but the wood looks like it’s not something ordinary people can use.”
Hearing the report below, Cao Rui couldn't help but feel moved. He hurriedly walked down the tower and arrived at the well where the coffin was found. I saw a group of soldiers using ropes to lift a coffin upright into the well and lift it out bit by bit. When he arrived, he looked at the wood of the coffin and couldn't help but said directly: "This is from nanmu, it must be the false emperor."
After that, he kept urging the soldiers to lift the coffin out as soon as possible. After the coffin, which was covered with wax from top to bottom and sealed tightly, was placed next to the wellhead. Looking at the coffin covered with dragon carvings under the wax oil, he sighed and said that the rebel king lacked everything in this rebellion, and indeed the most lacking thing was money. Not to mention anything else, the wax covering the outside of this coffin is all high-quality suet candles.
In the small city of Nanning, it was possible to collect enough suet and wax to seal a coffin, which cost at least tens of thousands of dollars. Although this coffin does not look big, the wood is actually the best nanmu. Although it is sealed with wax oil, there is still a faint fragrance of nanmu. But Cao Rui didn't have much time to lament the luxury of the pseudo-emperor, and immediately had the coffin opened.
After the coffin was opened, everyone discovered that the coffin had been soaked in well water for who knows how many days. But because the entire coffin was covered with a thick layer of wax oil used for waterproofing, no water entered the coffin. The first thing that appeared in front of everyone's eyes was a bright yellow quilt studded with Hetian jade pendants, densely packed pearls, and embroidered with all kinds of dragons.
As this quilt was displayed in front of everyone, a stream of jewels shone directly on everyone's faces. Looking at this quilt, almost everyone present could not help but swallow secretly. Although this quilt is used to cover the dead, it is a bit unlucky, but this quilt is full of eight-point pearls and jade pendants made of fine Hetian jade, none of which can't be removed even if it costs hundreds of thousands.
Those eight-point pearls are already extremely precious even if they are ordinary. But there are at least a thousand pearls inlaid on this quilt. Not counting the pure Wada ones on the quilt, the finely carved jade pendants full of dragons. These pearls alone make the eyes of knowledgeable people look straight. If Cao Rui hadn't been standing here, this quilt would have been snatched away in less than half a cup of tea.
And when this extremely luxurious quilt was carefully opened, a man wearing a pure gold winged crown and a dragon robe embroidered with thirteen dragons was lying on his side, with a seal on the side of his head. The body was covered with various gems and pearls, and the almost unchanged corpse lay quietly in the coffin. Cao Rui couldn't help but be ecstatic when he saw the man in the coffin.
When the false emperor came to Beijing, Cao Rui, who had seen the false emperor himself more than once, recognized the corpse at a glance. It was none other than the false emperor. After seeing the corpse, Cao Rui was overjoyed. He immediately had the coffin nailed again, leaving his deputy to take the rest of the army and horses to recover and wait for the court's order. He left everything to his deputy.
He didn't even bother to write the memorial. He personally took all the cavalry, carefully placed the coffin on a carriage, and rushed to Jingjiang Mansion that night. Because he knew that this coffin was more important than anything else. No matter how many prisoners are captured, they are not as important as the body lying in this coffin to the emperor who is currently in Jingjiang Mansion. And even if the coffin is found, it means that the suppression of the rebellion has been completed.
But he was worried that the army would let the sheep go after he left, and now the emperor was in Jingjiang Mansion. If he went too far, Cao Rui, who was afraid that the emperor would be dissatisfied, repeatedly told his deputy before leaving that he must maintain military discipline after he left. At the same time, be prepared to move in or retreat at any time. At the same time, we must do a good job in clearing up the scattered rebels in the surrounding areas and protecting our own food routes.
After giving instructions to his deputy, Cao Rui almost didn't dare to delay for a moment, and set off overnight, speeding towards Jingjiang Mansion. At this time, Huang Qiong didn't know that Nanning Mansion had been breached. Cao Rui was on his way to Jingjiang Mansion with the biggest loot. Facing the news about the battle report between Zhao Wushu and Guo Chen, he was a little hesitant. At present, Guo Chen has entered the outskirts of Shanchan Mansion.
But the tens of thousands of troops and horses led by the Emperor of Dali himself attracted Guo Chen's attention. It was even restrained, and a large part of the troops were unable to devote all their strength to the Shanchanfu front. In Guo Chen's memorial, he had always requested that while the main force of Shanchanhou Mansion was restrained by Zhao Wuye on the eastern front, he should concentrate his forces to defeat the tens of thousands of troops first.
