Of course, everyone dying is not the ending Wang Shun wants to see.
But changing the goal of the entire army is also not the outcome Wang Shun wants to see.
Wang Shun still shook his head.
"If we say that we can survive and win by changing our goals, then there must be something wrong. Mr. Zhou, you are wrong, I am sure of it."
"It's you who are wrong, Marshal."
Zhou Qixiang sighed: "Now among the whole army, you are probably the only one who still thinks this way. Everyone has clearly understood the current situation and knows that we cannot achieve anything by ourselves."
Wang Shun was a little surprised when he heard this.
"Are you all convinced?"
"It's just that we have clearly seen the fact that we can't accomplish anything on our own. Otherwise, we won't be beaten back and forth, and it doesn't count as being convinced. Marshal, you have to think about the future of your brothers.
Everyone drags their families with you to rebel and make trouble, just to live a good life and have enough to eat. You can't let them have nothing, right? We can't let them all die, right? "
Wang Shun hesitated for a long time and shook his head.
"They will get what they deserve. This is what I promised them. But don't ask for anything you shouldn't ask for. I always feel that it is not good to hang out with that group of people. If we hang around with them for a long time, we will I don't want to become like them."
Zhou Qixiang sneered.
"Then you want those five women?"
"Does women have anything to do with this matter? If you give it to me, it's mine. What does it have to do with other things? If it is related, doesn't it mean they sold their daughter to me in exchange for land?
I asked them again and again, and they just said that it was just their daughter who admired me and wanted to marry me, so I accepted it. If not, I would not want these women and would give them back to them. I had slept with them anyway. , that’s all. "
Zhou Qixiang stared at Wang Shun with wide eyes, his face full of surprise and speechless.
Good guy, if you have reached this level of whoring for free, you are also a talent.
"Isn't this bad?"
"Why is it bad? I can't give them what they want, so I'll give back what they give me. There's nothing wrong with it, right? How do you say that? It's called nothing...nothing...no reward for no merit!"
"But I'm afraid those women will have a hard time in the future, right?"
"Isn't it enough to remarry? You don't have any missing pieces of flesh, you live well, you are not injured or sick, what are you afraid of?"
"But……"
"Stop it, it's settled. If they are unwilling or have other intentions, this marriage will be treated as if it never happened."
Wang Shun insisted on his action goal and continued to implement the policy of attacking local tyrants to allocate land. He insisted on hanging the evil landlords' old wealth on the southeastern branches and letting them fly in the wind.
Zhou Qixiang couldn't convince Wang Shun, and he couldn't understand the white prostitute's thinking mode, so he had no choice but to give up the idea of persuading him.
But it won't work like this. Wang Shun can be shameless and have sex for nothing, but they want to have face and can't have sex for nothing.
So Zhou Qixiang discussed with his supporters for a while, and then held a resolution meeting. At the meeting, everyone unanimously decided to adopt a new way of thinking for future battles and to give up unrealistic ideas.
Facts have proved that Wang Shun, a free prostitute, is a complete minority. He was surprised to find that he had become the only opponent.
After this resolution, the actual leadership of the begging army was transferred to a group of people headed by Zhou Qixiang. However, the grassroots soldiers were voluntarily separated from the Wang Army because they lacked the sense of ownership and obeyed the leadership of their superiors who wanted to face the situation. Smooth leadership.
Wang Shun was gradually marginalized and had less and less power to speak. When Zhou Qixiang and others advocated returning the land previously taken by the Beggar Army to the surviving landowners, Wang Shun strongly opposed it, but still could not change the entire situation.
He was devastated by this and couldn't figure out what went wrong.
Frustrated, he decided to leave the beggar army he had created, and returned the five women to their father to show his determination not to take anything away, and then went to find out why he failed. , the reason for becoming a minority.
After Wang Shun left, the begging army no longer fought for begging.
They no longer need to beg for work, they are ready to become masters.
Throughout October of the seventh year of Hongwu, the situation in Sichuan and Shu had undergone a huge change.
On the one hand, the Chengdu imperial court completely lost the support of the people, and on the other hand, the external army and the rebel army became completely hostile and warlord-like.
The only one Zhao Buxi had a chance to win over was Qi Xiuwei's army.
However, his nephew Zhao Xinyi's bossy attitude successfully angered Qi Xiuwei's subordinates. In the end, his subordinates recommended Qi Xiuwei's general Hou Pu to lead everyone in Langzhou.
Hou Pu beat Zhao Xin violently and drove him out of Langzhou. Zhao Xin fled back to Chengdu with a bloody nose and a swollen face, declaring that his only chance was shattered.
As a result, the four expeditionary armies completely opposed the Chengdu court.
Although the internal attributes of the three rebel armies have changed, their fundamental purpose of opposing the Chengdu imperial court has not changed.
The situation at this moment was completely ruined for the Chengdu court.
Lu? occupied Longzhou, Meizhou and Jiading Prefecture.
Hou Pu is entrenched in Langzhou.
Du Ren was entrenched in Zizhou.
Xie Qingsheng is entrenched in Tongchuan Mansion.
Liu Zhuang and Liu Shi's Bashu army occupied Hezhou and Suining Prefecture.
The new beggar army under the command of Zhou Qixiang occupied Fushun Prison.
The mighty army controlled by Zhu Liang occupied Xuzhou.
The resistance forces of the seven armies were located in various areas of Sichuan and Sichuan. They were eyeing the Chengdu court with evil intentions. Zhao Buxi finally got rid of the situation.
But until this time, Zhao Buxi still refused to admit that he had ruined the situation, and continued to use the tactics of throwing money away. While stabilizing the Chengdu army, he asked Wu Ting to continue recruiting troops around Chengdu to expand the army controlled by the imperial court. quantity.
Then, he convened a state council meeting and called for a full-scale attack on the rebels who disobeyed orders and the bandit troops who rebelled. The Chengdu Front Army was part of the attack, and the more than 20,000 troops commanded by Wu Gong in northern Sichuan were part of the attack.
All in all, he can still counterattack.
And whether it was out of venting anger or some other reason, he decided to kill all the families of Lu Xiu, Xie Qingsheng and Du Ren who had been captured. In addition, although Qi Xiuwei had been placed under house arrest, his subordinates did not obey the order. He forcibly resisted the court, so Qi Xiuwei and his family were also killed.
Kill them all!
Zhao Buxi gave such an order with red eyes.
Wu Ting and Ma Yongkang were shocked, and many officials were also shocked. They repeatedly advised Zhao Buxi not to do this, saying that once he did so, the relationship between the Chengdu court and the four armies would be completely shattered.
Although the four armies are temporarily disobeying orders, they have not openly rebelled. Treating them in this way will only make them really rebel!
But Zhao Buxi couldn't listen to anything.
"This is not considered a rebellion? Then what is a rebellion? Tell me! What is a rebellion?! Only when you send all your family members away like you do you call it a rebellion?!"
Zhao Buyi looked at Ma Yongkang with red eyes and said angrily: "Ms. Ma, I heard that you sent all your family members away! Where did they send them? What? Even you are worried that the court will not be able to survive this Guan? Even you don’t believe me?”
Ma Yongkang shrank, trembled all over, and looked at Zhao Buxi in disbelief.
Shaoqing, he lowered his head deeply and then knelt on the ground.
"The only thing I worry about is my family. Without my family, I can serve the court wholeheartedly! I will die for Your Majesty!"
Zhao Buxi took a deep breath.
"It better be so!"
After denounced Ma Yongkang and others, Zhao Buxi insisted on killing Qi Xiuwei's family and the families of the remaining three generals, announced an order to crusade against them, asked Wu Ting to reorganize the army, and asked Wu Gong to prepare to lead troops south to assist his crusade. .
He was quite hysterical and indifferent.
The consequences of a series of previous decision-making errors and mistakes had violently impacted his psychological defense, which had already been broken through, and he had some psychological problems.
But as the emperor, he could not admit that he had made a mistake under any circumstances. He could only make the mistake happen, and carry out the final action regardless of it.
