Xu Xiongyuan really hooked up with the Jiangnan magnates.
Among the military divisions, those who can speak the language took the initiative to go and persuade the Jiangnan magnates. Half coercion and half lure, for the Jiangnan big clan Yu, but also its daughter promised to Xu Xiongyuan as a concubine.
The bosses were all on board, and some of the rest were half-heartedly persuaded. There were also some smart people who felt that this matter was not right, so they fled to the countryside overnight, preferring to throw away this wealth rather than work together with Xu Xiongyuan.
Naturally, Xu Xiongyuan thinks he is very good at talking, you don't want to cooperate with him, can, people can roll, the money stays.
Liu Yan secretly note down these peaceful magnates, later notified to the monitoring office lurking in Jiangnan, or that, for the honest and decent merchants, the saint likes very much.
While Xue Yuan was rushing to the south of Jinghu Lake on a fast and furious horse, those magnates who had gotten on board the ship of thieves were also planning to use their own forces to pull other magnates on board as much as possible.
The more people, the bigger the fuss, the more precarious the emperor will be, and may not even have to start a war to waste money on troops and horses, the court will take the initiative to oust the emperor to come down to actively meet Xu Xiongyuan?
Xu Xiongyuan was just dreaming beautifully, thinking about the court, the capital, and the throne in the dark.
Liu Yan protected Xu Xiongyuan's dream like a child's childhood dream, and when the Jiangnan magnates contacted the foreign forces, whenever Xu Xiongyuan's face showed his longing for the future, Liu Yan would smile and nod his head and say, "General, everything you want will be realized. All that we want must be accomplished by you, General."
His tone was gentle, mixed with full of hope and piety, and whenever he finished his words of approval, Xu Xiongyuan would be moved to shake his hand before sighing aloud, "What more could I ask for if I, Xu, had Liu Xiaoyou as my confidant."
Whenever Liu Yan did this, he would smile slightly and laugh without saying anything.
Jinghu South and Jiangnan borders.
The three party guard army will be here surrounded tightly, Jiangnan's magnates to send out the envelope, so completely and utterly stopped by the three party guard army, horses and men detained, and even pigeons will be beaten down to add a meat, in short, the wings are difficult to fly.
The men who sent the letter ready to go out of Jiangnan all looked incredulous, and it was not until they were bound and thrown rudely aside that they realized that the officials and soldiers of the imperial court were guarding the border between the two places.
What in heaven's name ......
The people who delivered the letter had chills all over their body, goosebumps rose all over their body, and when they looked to the left and right, they saw densely packed garrison troops standing in a straight posture, a glance surprisingly could not see the head.
He was so black and dizzy.
The people in the province were still studying how to rebel and usurp the throne, while outside the province, the Emperor's soldiers and horses were watching intently. Such a chill that violently ran up from the spine even made many people's knees go weak and their breath suffocate.
The Emperor is watching them plot against him.
Breathing is not coming up, they are constantly wailing in their hearts, constantly roaring loudly, their brains expect those in the province to hear the words in their hearts, and then hurry to run, don't plot against them!
Master, don't plot against the Emperor, hurry up and run with their wives and children! The Emperor knows!!!
Because of the rush of time, the entire Koshin Society's attention was on the powerful, the people's homes, in addition to encountering a few teams of soldiers and horses looting, the casualties were okay.
Xu Xiongyuan's soldiers and horses spread from Huaihua Province to the surrounding provinces and counties, and therefore in Jinghu South recruited 20,000 young adults who have never gone to war to kill people, now the two provinces food scarcity, but after the many magnates opened the private coffers, that inside batches and batches of food, see Xu Xiongyuan eyes are green.
So much food, even if Xu Xiongyuan raise 50,000 soldiers and horses do not have to be afraid of, the emperor's granary is afraid to compare!
Xu Xiongyuan immediately laughed, immediately sent people to transport these food to the army, all open stomach eat. The robbed food on the face of the magnates smile stiff, meat pain heart pumping, but dared not say angry.
Xu Xiongyuan understood this cooperation directly into the things of the magnates is his things, the magnates again reluctant also have no way, the door is open, can only look at Xu Xiongyuan with the troops ransacked, the beautiful name for logistical support.
Many of the many years of assets in the family of the powerful completely disappeared. It was only then that I realized that this Xu Xiongyuan's previous politeness was all pretense, and when the interests are relevant, no matter who you are, anyway, you have already been on the ship of thieves, you can still halfway to defect to the court again?
Once a man with a soldier in his hand is not benevolent, he is a bunch of robbers and hooligans!
Xu Xiongyuan has been having a pretty good time lately.
Jiangnan's young and strong people are also being snatched by him to the military camp, this is more than ten days have passed, and there is no news of attack from the surrounding garrison, Jiangnan's court officials have long been holding their heads and fleeing in a desperate and desperate manner. Xu Xiongyuan often told those around him, "Maybe the dog emperor really can't survive."
The people around him bragged endlessly, giving Xu Xiongyuan the most comfortable ass-kicking experience. They also took advantage of the time between such respite to prepare to think of a grand excuse for rebellion.
Now that this emperor is diligent and loves the people, and his anti-corruption activities are highly supported by the people, they can't use the excuse that the emperor is doing too good a job, and that the powerful are not willing to let the emperor be so diligent and love the people.
In the end, the people of the Koshin Society decided to use the ills of Lu Feng when he was in power to counter the present day dynastic government.
They don't care if it's a disadvantage left behind by the master Lu Feng, for example, the local powerful people are powerful and kill people for evil, this is the reason why you Gu Yuanbai didn't deal with it well!
Anyway, if it's not your fault, then it's your fault. If you don't do anything wrong, how else can we rebel?
And while the people of the A-Shen Society were reveling in the riches of Jiangnan, Xue Yuan also rushed with General Ding Yuan with 10,000 soldiers to the area of Jinghu South.
After they had settled on a route and battle plan with the generals of the garrison, they took a long way around the outside and brought their men from the border of Dai Viet to block the end of the River Indus Road from the rear, preventing this last retreat.
And the garrison has already gotten the message and is ready to fight their way into Jiangnan to clear out the rebels!
Resident for more than half a month, the generals each fist rubbing their hands, flags fluttering in the air in succession, is bound to get this military success!
The army marched, the dust billowed, the ground moved and the mountains were distant, and the garrison approached from three directions, and in an instant was gone from the south of the river.
The despair of the people who fled along the way had not yet been collected, when they saw that the soldiers and horses of the imperial court had already come towards them neatly equipped. These people were directly frozen with anxiety and could not take a step.
Whenever the soldiers met the victims, they would place them in the rear, and distribute the large quantities of food bought by the Inspection Office to the people; some of those among the people had not eaten for two or three days, and when they received the rice and flour handed down from the hands of the officers and soldiers of the imperial court, on their haggard and withered faces were two lines of hot tears.
When this happens, only then do you realize what it means to be a soldier of the state, and only then do you feel that those taxes you pay on weekdays are not unjust, not at all!
Jiangnan even just chaotic, the court sent people. This is too much to give people a sense of security, and when the people who fled rested and ate, they thought left and right, but also turned the route, far behind the soldiers, wanting to follow the army back to their hometowns.
Following this group of officers and soldiers, the heart is in the right place.
When the people of the A Shen Association heard that the court sent troops have entered the Jiangnan, has been two days later, and at this time, the court's troops have been approaching the Longxingfu, from the location of XuXiongYuan is only two hundred miles away.
Xu Xiongyuan felt ridiculous.
Not long ago, Jiangnan's powerful only sent a letter, the world's power seems to be gathered in the body of Xu Xiongyuan, but inexplicably, how the imperial army is a hundred miles away?
Skyfall?
Xu Xiongyuan felt flustered, in addition to panic there is also a kind of anger of being hit in the face in public, he summoned the people of the A-Shen Association, in the deliberation of the anxious tone of violent: "All of you in the end there is no good way!"
The people of the Koshin Society were confused along with them.
They had only just convinced the magnates and brought them on board the ship of thieves, had just emptied several granaries, and a great situation was here, only to have the imperial army two hundred miles away?
Panic spread through the lobby, everyone's face brought out a bit of apprehension.
Someone tried his best to be calm and asked, not without hope, "General, how many soldiers have the court sent?"
"Already went to inquire," Xu Xiongyuan's face was ugly as he said angrily, "When did they come, and we didn't even have any news!"
"Coming so suddenly, I'm afraid it's not a long distance run," Zhao Zhou looked grave, "but a long distance run army should never be too large in size, but ......"
Zhao Zhou always had some bad premonitions in his heart, he couldn't help but say, "General, is it too smooth for us to occupy Jinghu South and invade Jiangnan?"
Jinghu South's government also symbolically struggled a little, Jiangnan's local government has long been running away. And the steep rise in food prices, the news of the plague that came from outside, and the sudden food cuts ...... inexplicably let the Koshin Society start the rebellion.
Confused, by the time Zhao Zhou got the news, Xu Xiongyuan had already eradicated the magnates in Huaihua Province.
Everyone in the middle of the lobby was confused and jittery.
Two hours later, the cavalryman who had gone to spy on the news came back in a hurry and fell in the middle of the lobby, saying in horror, "General, there are imperial troops on all three sides, and at a cursory glance there are at least 20,000 of them!"
Xu Xiongyuan stood up violently.
The middle of the lobby was shaken to silence by these words.
Xu Xiongyuan's facial expression had become uncontrollably hideous, "Gu Convergence--!"
Liu Yan immediately decided to get up, he walked to the middle of the hall towards Xu Xiongyuan bowed deeply, "Jiangnan does not have the Jinghu South of the heavenly dangers, the court soldiers once surrounded on three sides, we are destined to wings can not escape, small people are not talented, willing to be the rear for the general, but also ask the general to return to the Jinghu South, small people will stay in the Longxingfu to try to delay the court soldiers."
Xu Xiongyuan was immediately moved to the point where his eyes were filled with tears, "You actually went to such lengths for me--"
Liu Yan sighed and said seriously, "General please also return quickly, 20,000 imperial elite soldiers are only 200 miles away from us. In case they speed up, they are going to be too late!"
"You're right, you're right," Xu Xiongyuan muttered, panicking, "I'll assign fifteen thousand men to Mister, and I'll leave this place to you!"
Liu Yan nodded, the people in the hall admired his character and could not help but show a few sighs of admiration. Zhao Zhou at this time also suddenly stepped forward, stood beside Liu Yan and solemnly said, "General, I also wish to stay here to break the back."
Xu Xiongyuan covered his face and cried, greatly moved, "What virtue and ability do I have, to be able to get the help of these two gentlemen!"
When he finished crying, Xu Xiongyuan immediately sent people to transport grain and money towards Jinghu South, while there was too much grain, it was a waste of time to deal with it. Liu Yan advised, "General, staying alive is not a worry, you first take care of your life, this is the most important thing ah."
Xu Xiongyuan had to bear the pain of putting down most of his grain and wealth, and rushed back to Jinghu South with 5,000 elite soldiers and 10,000 newly recruited men.
And left the Longxing House of fifteen thousand people, in fact, are newly recruited have never been on the battlefield of the new recruits, in the head of the Jinghu South of the people have one ten thousand, the rest is the days of the newly recruited people in the south of the river.
Looking at such soldiers, Zhao Zhou's face could not help but show a few moments of despair. Soon after, he forced himself to calm down and said, "Brother Liu, let's quickly raise the walls, dig out the trenches, and prepare the things to defend the city."
Liu Yan's eyes narrowed and he said with a smile, "Good."
Xu Xiongyuan escaped in time, and when the man fled with his soldiers, the Jiangnan magnates reacted furiously to how half of the soldiers in the city were missing.
An unpleasant premonition rose in their hearts and they sent people to ask, but after getting the news they were violently pummeled to the ground.
Xu Xiongyuan and Xu Xiongyuan have escaped! The court has sent troops!
The family fortune had just been taken away by the rebels as military pay, and now they were going to be treated as rebels by the Emperor.
Many of the magnates directly fainted in despair.
And on the second day, the people guarding the city felt the vibration of the stone particles on the ground from afar, Liu Yan and Zhao Zhou ascended the city wall, and waited for two quarters of an hour before they saw a black pressurized piece of the army attacking from afar, yellow sand filled the sky, and Zhao Zhou's legs were so weak that he almost had to help Liu Yan to stand.
Liu Yan said in a warm voice, "Brother Zhao, don't be afraid."
"How can I not be afraid," Zhao Zhou smiled bitterly as he stood firm and gave himself and Liu Yan another pep talk, "but since ancient times it's easy to defend a city but hard to attack it, the two of us are working together, and there are still a lot of food left behind by the generals in the city, which will surely be enough for us to hold on for more than a month."
Liu Yan, however, sighed, "I, however, feel that more than a month is too long."
Zhao Zhou looked at him and his eyelids suddenly jumped, "What does Brother Liu mean by this?"
Liu Yan smiled and turned around to go down the city wall, Zhao Zhou was uneasy in his heart and also followed closely behind him, and kept asking after him, "What exactly does brother Liu mean by this?"
The sound of the soldiers and horses outside gradually approached, and the vibration of a large army pressing down on the city could be felt with both feet, Liu Yan went down the city wall and flew towards the city gate, his steps became faster and faster, Zhao Zhou could no longer keep up with him, and at last, Liu Yan walked up to the city gate and shouted, "Open the city gate to welcome my king's division!"
Zhao Zhou was abruptly startled, chills ran up from behind him, he looked at Liu Yan in horror, almost fainting, "You--"
What made him tremble even more was that the people guarding the city gates actually listened to Liu Yan's order and cleanly opened the gates.
The gusty wind swept through the city with the sound of horses neighing, Liu Yan straightened up his clothes, striding out of the city gate, and said towards the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses that were rushing towards him, "Is the one who comes here General Lu Yanmao Lu?"
The lead cavalry escorted the lead general all the way to the city gate, where General Lu rolled over and dismounted, hailing forward, "I am precisely!"
Liu Yan smiled, "My humble servant, Ding Yan, meet the general."
"I will not fail in my mission," said Liu Yan in a loud voice, "to return this Jiangnan, in its entirety, to His Majesty! Hand over these fifteen thousand descended soldiers to the general."
Zhao Zhou in the back saw this what else did not understand, he covered his chest hard to be angry to spit out a mouthful of blood, shock and anger regret in the heart mixed.
They have been caught in the Emperor's scheme from beginning to end, and they have been led by the nose by the Emperor from the very beginning when Liu Yan defected to the General!
Zhao Zhou was furious and had chills down his spine, and under the violence of several emotions, he blacked out and directly fainted heavily on the ground.
Which of the city's magnates defected to Xu Xiong Yuan and which of them fled, Liu Yan knew exactly, he smiled faintly and said, "Then I'll trouble the general to capture all the rebels in the city."
Xu Xiongyuan is still on his way to flee Huaihua Province.
He didn't have the slightest idea of what was happening behind him in Jiangnan Longxingfu, nor did he know that Liu Yan, whom he trusted with all his heart, was the person sent by the Emperor to his side. He is still grieving with the people around him, "Mr. Liu and Mr. Zhao are in such a state for me, that dog emperor doesn't know how to trample on them in case he attacks the city!"
Jiangnan full of grain and gold and silver ah, that is a prosperous Jiangnan ah, just like this is gone!
The man at his side persuaded, "The general has left the two gentlemen with fifteen thousand soldiers, and has already been merciful."
Xu Xiongyuan sighed, "I hope the two gentlemen are safe."
Everyone knows that the fifteen thousand soldiers are useless, and also knows that the two people must be very bad, but there are some things that you just have to know in your heart, and you can't say them out loud.
A group of people rushed to Huaihua Province day and night, and when they had just returned to Huaihua Province and had not yet barricaded the city gates, a sentry who had dispersed out in all directions reported that a large number of imperial soldiers were chasing after them.
Xu Xiongyun was dumbfounded, "Didn't Liu Yan and Zhao Zhou stay behind to break the back?"
The sentry who came to inform him said sharply, "General, run quickly! It's too late to think about this!"
Xu Xiongyuan instantly full of gray defeat, he does not know what is going on, a few days ago was a great situation, but now was forced to flee back to the Jinghu South, and after fleeing back to the Jinghu South, but also where to escape again?
Jinghu South is surrounded by mountains on three sides, the only way to escape is being pursued by the enemy, Xu Xiongyuan is disheveled beyond measure, "Could it be that I, Xu, am going to be trapped and die in Huaihua Province today?"
One day in the sky and the other in the ground, many people followed the face of despair, no matter how can not figure out, this court officials and soldiers in the end how suddenly appeared, how so quickly followed up?
No one spoke in the room for a while, and in the middle of the day, a doorkeeper suddenly shouted in alarm, "General, there is still a way of retreat for Jinghunan!"
Xu Xiongyuan was shocked, "What?"
The gatekeeper said, "There is a thrilling and winding road behind Jinghu South, called Jiang Indus Road, and behind Jiang Indus Road is the territory of Dai Viet, General! Now we can't escape, why don't we flee to Dai Viet, General has soldiers in his hand, he can also fight in Dai Viet!"
Xu Xiongyuan spirit of a revitalization, and hastily brought the map to look up, after a long time, heavily patted on the table, made a decision, "Then take the River Indus Road!"
Because the rear of the enemy forces to chase again, there is a possibility that the long-distance run again the kind of chase, Xu Xiongyuan dare not waste more time, the army pay is also a bite, only let each soldier to bring three days of rations, at once towards the river Indus Road.
Jing Hu Nan was left behind him, Xu Xiong Yuan was as downcast as a dog being driven to the next place, and had long since lost the fighting spirit of some days ago. And his soldiers, also because of these days constantly running away and fighting spirit withered, look shrinking, a little bit of wind and grass can make them terrified to the extreme, in such an atmosphere, after thousands of hard work, XuXiongYuan and others finally escaped to the river Indus Road.
River Indus Road is very dangerous, not paying attention is a ten thousand feet cliff, some horses do not even dare to cross on the river Indus Road, had to be ordered by Xu Xiongyuan slaughter abandonment, with the only remaining horses and soldiers carefully cross on the river Indus Road.
And Xue Yuan, who waited at the end of the Jiang Indus Road, waited for this group of rebels who were like lost dogs.
After the rebels had managed to walk through the thrilling River Indus Road, and their feet had managed to step onto level ground, they had even just raised an expression of celebration and escape, and in the next moment, that expression froze on their faces.
The ambushed court soldiers shouted loudly and pounced out, the dark and pressurized soldiers were even more horrifying than evil ghosts in the eyes of these fleeing people. Xu Xiongyuan's face just revealed a smile frozen in the face, eyes wide, expression like laughing and like crying, strange very.
The flags flew, and the word "Heng" reflected in everyone's eyes.
Every single one of Daheng's soldiers was equipped with experience and strong physique, and they stationed their guns and drew their swords to block every escape route, looking at the rebels with a tigerish expression.
Xue Yuan drove his horse to pace in place a few times and laughed loudly, "The Holy Spirit is so wise that he sent us to station here, General Ding Yuan, look, what's coming?"
General Ding Yuan let out a laugh, "General Xue is right, isn't this coming from the head of the Mourning Dog Rebellion?"
The enemy army has already had the beginnings of a rout, and the people in the rear have already turned to run toward the river indica road, and even quite a few people have lost their footing and fallen into the abyss of ten thousand feet because of the panic and fear in their hearts.
The fear and anger in Xu Xiongyuan's heart rose in one piece as he raised his sword, his expression grim, "Is the imperial court running out of people? Surprisingly, it sent a brat with no hair to capture this general! You kid, have you ever been to war?!"
Xue Yuan's expression was playful, "Is this about Laozi?"
The official position of Du Yu Waiting is from the fifth rank, and the official position of Ding Yuan General is the fifth rank. But the saint ordered Xue Yuan as the main general, Ding Yuan General is a middle-aged man in his thirties or forties, he knows Xue Yuan's power, so he doesn't have any idea, at this time, when he heard Xu Xiong Yuan's words, he laughed out loud.
Xu Xiong Yuan only thought it was mocking him, he immediately laughed coldly and drove his horse to take his weapon, "You brat, today I, Xu Xiong Yuan, want you to see the cruelty of the battlefield, it looks like the imperial court really can't send out any generals, and even you, this little brat, can become the main general! When I behead you, I'll let the dog emperor see how powerful I am!"
Xue Yuan drew out his greatsword, which had been sharpened to a cold shine by him in these days of waiting to kill the enemy, he looked at Xu Xiong Yuan and smiled, "Interesting."
The court won big!
Tripartite garrison army full of 20,000 people almost did not play a big role, they just beheaded those who defected to the rebel forces of the powerful, copied its family property, and then the Jinghu South and Jiangnan two places of the news is strictly blocked in the two places, did not leak out a trace of half a bit of the wind.
The harm suffered by the people was less than expected under the guidance of the Inspection Office and Dong Lingwei, and the lost grain and trampled houses Gu Yuanbai had made arrangements for. After the matters of Jinghu South and Jiangnan were thoroughly dealt with, the matter was only reported in the Dahengguo Newspaper, which was already slowly developing in all directions from the capital.
Other people in the provinces realized that the original Jinghu South and Jiangnan two places in the war, the rebel army robbed its two places of the powerful people, in order to money and food to step on the local powerful, but fortunately the court reacted quickly, dealt with in time, so that the people did not let the people suffered more harm.
Only many powerful merchants were still completely killed by the rebels, who had no humanity, and whose leader Xu Xiongzhi was even cruel enough to set fire to most of Huaihua Province!
When this news came out, the entire capital was shocked.
This was followed by the breaking of the curse!
As the holy emperor's imperial penman, Chang Yuyin first came out to sing the praises of the holy emperor's benevolent initiatives and denounce those greedy and brutal rebels, he wrote an extremely wonderful article, that article read simply makes people want to carry a knife and personally run to Jinghu South to stab the rebels, the text is also delicate and sadly depicts the people of these two places in the war and fleeing the pain of the desperate experience, let people read it as if it were The text also describes the painful and desperate experiences of the people of these two places during the war and the flight, making it seem as if one is reading it as if one were there in person, and one can't hold back tears.
Finally, Chang Yuyin appealed to everyone: "Jinghu South, Jiangnan two places for the counter-envoyage military injury bad also, the people do not return, the day holds the child weeping, the court wants to do this grief of the people, all the rich to donate money, no money to donate rice, for the people of this place to do their part."
Once this article came out, because it was really well written, it soon spread all over the country and was known by the readers.
It was also at this time that these readers became aware of the matter of Jinghu South and Jiangnan, and after shedding tears of grief over the words of the text, large donations were made towards the court.
After Gu Yuanbai read the letters sent up by the garrison to pull together the gangs and gangs that had been robbed from the group of magnates, he also roughly mapped out the relationships and interests between the magnates across the country and the proximity of the interests, and was able to obtain one or two pieces of information from the letters about which ones were honest and which ones weren't, and when he finished organizing them, he heard the news of donations that had been shipped to the capital from all over the country.
He took the Secretary of the Ministry of the household to take a look, the two are a little surprised, and so on after hearing the people counted to report the specific number, the Secretary of the Ministry of the household directly sucked in a breath of air, trembling, was eunuchs to help, turned his head to look at the emperor, suddenly a brain twitch to say a sentence: "Your Holiness, where we still have the rebel army?"
This is also really! It's just too much money to earn!