Yuanzhou Fuyamen, Gao Doushu, the governor of Huguang in the Ming Dynasty, was handling official duties when he suddenly reported that the governor of Huguang, Du Yinxi, had arrived.
"Duke Du is not stationed in Changsha, so why did he come to Yuanzhou?"
Gao Doushu was suspicious and hurriedly opened the middle door to greet him.
"Brother Zhong Yan, why are you here?"
Gao Doushu is seven years older than Du Yinxi. The two have a good personal relationship and are called good brothers.
"Brother Xiang, I am here on important matters. Please read this letter."
Gao Doushu opened the letter and saw that it was written by Chen Bangyan, the governor of Sichuan, asking Du Yinxi to write a letter to recruit the thirteen members of the puppet Chu king's subordinates who were in danger.
"Zhong Yan, are you here in person for this letter?"
"Exactly. Brother Xiang, I feel that just writing a letter is not enough. I have to go there in person. For Huguang's government affairs, please leave it to Brother Xiang!"
Gao Doushu was shocked: "Zhong Yan, you want to go to the state in person? That is a land of tigers and wolves!"
In Kuizhou at the end of the Ming Dynasty, rebels, thieves, and bandits sprang up. The most famous ones were Yao Tiandong and Huanglong, two giant bandits, who were called "Shaohuang" bandits by Shu people.
Later, when the sky shook, Huang Long was killed by Luo Dai, a general under Lu Xiangsheng. There were thirteen people under him who were in charge of the dish, and they were called the Thirteen Houses of Shaking Huang.
To be a hero in the forest, you must get a resounding nickname. If you can't beat you to death, you will be frightened to death.
These thirteen giant bandits are no exception. All of them have illustrious names and crazy bandit names. They are: "Zhengtian King" Yuan Tao, "Zhentian King" Bai Jiaolong, "Neat King" Zhang Xian, and "Black Tiger Huntianxing"
Wang Gao, "King of Forced Rebellion" Liu Weiming, "King of Seizing Food" Wang Youjin, "King of Seizing Food" Huang Yaozi, "Traveling One Hundred Thousand" Hu (Hu) Jiusi, "Second Sentence" Yang Bingyin (Yun), "Sixth Team"
"Ma Chao, "Shun the Tiger Crossing the Star" Liang Shizheng, Jing Keqin, Chen Lin.
"Brother Xiang, if you don't enter the tiger's den, you won't catch the tiger's cubs. In the past, when I recruited the Zhongzhen Camp, I had an old relationship with the Yaohuang Thirteenth Family. I must not lose the important land of Bashu. I have made up my mind."
Gao Doushu stroked his long beard: "Zhong Yan must go, and he must bring Ma Jinzhong with him. His army is guarding Shizhou, and the combination of hardness and softness is the way to appease him."
Du Yinxi smiled: "Heroes see the same thing."
Gao Doushu bowed deeply to Du Yinxi: "Zhong Yan, take care! I will replace Daming, thank you Zhong Yan!"
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Du Yinxi passed through Baojing, Yongshun and Shizhouwei all the way, taking 15,000 men and horses from Wuchang Boma Jinzhong and his own 3,000 "gentleman camp" to ??zhou.
When they heard that Du Yinxi was coming, Generals Jing Keqin and Chen Lin, who were ordered to stay in Kuizhou by Chu King Zhu Rongfan, hurriedly came to pay their respects.
The Yaohuang Thirteen Family have a very good relationship with Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng's old corps. When Du Yinxi single-handedly recruited and surrendered Li Chuang's old corps, Zhongzhen Camp, he also surrendered them and had an old relationship with them.
They did not appease him in time and missed a good opportunity. Later, the generals of the Zhongzhen Camp and the Daxi Army were all knighted, and they were jealous. It happened that Chu King Zhu Rongfan was short of men, so he submitted to Zhu Rongfan, and one by one he became a prince, a prince, and a general.
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"What is Mr. Du here for?"
"Yute came to persuade the two generals to abandon the darkness and surrender to the light."
The second general smiled and said: "What you said is wrong! The prince of Chu is the blood of Taizu; King Jingjiang is just the prince of a side branch. What is dark? What is bright?"
Du Yinxi laughed loudly: "The two generals were deceived by the villain! Don't the two generals know what Zhang Xianzhong did when he conquered Wuchang? All the kings of Chu have perished. Where did the king of Chu come from?
The Crown Prince? Let me check the secret files of the family. If the Crown Prince of Chu were alive, he would be in his sixties, but this one is less than forty. Could he be a living god with good looks? He is not the Crown Prince of Chu, but a charlatan.
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King Zhu Huakui of Chu reigned for sixty-three years, and money piled up in the palace. In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong attacked Wuchang. Local officials in Huguang knelt down and begged Zhu Huakui to donate salaries. Zhu Huakui pointed to the gold-covered throne given by the Hongwu Dynasty and said:
"He has nothing to help the army!" This greatly disappointed the senior officials in Chu. Later, the city of Wuchang was destroyed, and the rebels "took all the gold and silver from the palace, millions each, and the chariots could carry hundreds of chariots." Zhang Xianzhong said with a smile.
"Zhu Huakui is really mediocre when he has such a huge amount of wealth but does not set up a guard!" Zhu Huakui was then thrown into the Yangtze River and drowned. Then, he ordered all the Zhu clan members in Wuchang City to be driven to the river and ordered to throw themselves into the water.
The sound of crying shook the sky, and corpses floated down the river.
The second general, who had been a thief, naturally knew this past incident very well. They had also suspected it, but Zhu Rongfan was so good at deceiving him, and the title he was given was very attractive. They ignored this section.
Now, blocking Yinxi is broken at first, and the second general will be disappointed.
"Thank you Mr. Du for reminding me. It's a pity that the two of us worked so hard to plan for him. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a fake."
Du Yinxi smiled and said, "Don't worry about the two generals. I have already recommended them to the supervisor as deputy generals. After abandoning the dark side and joining the bright side, they will be the imperial officials."
"Thank you so much, Mr. Du. We are willing to recruit the white dragon, Liu Weiming, Yang Bingyin, and Hu Jiusi for Mr. Du."
Du Yinxi was overjoyed: "If this happens, I will record another meritorious service for the two generals."
The matter of recruiting and surrendering the "Zhentian King" Bai Jiaolong, the "Forcing Rebel King" Liu Weiming, and the "Second Sentence" Yang Bingyin are all over.
It turns out that Zhu Rongfan, the pseudo-King of Chu, treated the three generals very well. He undressed and provided food for them and regarded them as confidants. The three generals were grateful for their kindness and could not bear to betray their master.
"A trip of one hundred thousand" Hu Jiusi was doubtful and secretly sneaked back to Kuizhou to see Du Yinxi.
After asking what had happened, Hu Jiusi looked up to the sky and sighed: "I have been wandering for half my life, but unexpectedly I have no place to stand."
Du Yinxi said: "General, why don't you submit to King Jing, who oversees the country, and turn against the enemy to achieve extraordinary feats? The general's sworn brother Yuan Tao has become the deputy general of Jiangjin after submitting."
Hu Jiusi said: "Although Zhu Rongfan is not the crown prince of Chu, he treats me very well. I can't bear to turn against him. I always do things honestly, so I will write a book to Zhu Rongfan, and then go to Jiangjin to join my brother Yuan Tao."
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It turns out that the composition of the thirteen Huang Yao families is complicated, and not all of them are poor people who cannot survive. Yuan Tao and Wu Dading were born in landlord families.
The reason why Yuan Tao, a young master from a landlord's family, became a big bandit and the "king of heaven" is because he committed a morally corrupt thing: raping his aunt.
This matter was offensive to morals and would have caused loss of head in the Ming Dynasty.
Yuan Tao defected to Hu Jiusi and became a bandit. Hu Jiusi treated him well and treated him like a brother.
Hu Jiusi wrote a letter to Zhu Rongfan, explaining that the relationship between the monarch and his ministers was over, and he led 10,000 troops to surrender to Yuan Tao.
Zhu Rongfan was also a happy man, and he let him go without any obstruction.
Not long after Du Yinxi was happy, he became even happier again.
He Zhen, a former general of the Ming Dynasty, came to surrender with five thousand troops.
When Fan Yiheng, the governor of Sichuan, was appointed as a frontier officer in Shaanxi, He Zhen was his subordinate. Later, Prince Azige of the Qing Dynasty attacked Shaanxi, and He Zhen was forced to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.
As soon as Azig left, He Zhen immediately rebelled against the Qing Dynasty in Hanzhong, calling himself General Fengtian and Advocating Righteousness (this was the title used by Li Zicheng). Wu Dading, Shi Guoxi, and Gao Ruli all raised their troops to respond, and the momentum was huge.
When Hao Ge entered Sichuan, He Zhen was defeated and led the remaining troops to hide in eastern Sichuan. Hearing that Du Yinxi was coming, he came here to ask for his surrender.
Du Yinxi appointed him as deputy general and stationed him in Daning, Zhouzhou.
Du Yinxi surrendered three more Tans: Tan Wen, Tan Yi, and Tan Hong. Two years ago, he had surrendered Tan Wen. Tan Wen had been awarded the title of Fucheng Bo by Zhu Hengjia. He thought this would definitely happen.
Unexpectedly, Zhu Rongfan knew that Tan Wen was not easy to fool, so he did not deceive Tan Wen at first, but told him the truth that he was not the crown prince of Chu, but a descendant of King Tongcheng of Chu.
Tan Wen was an orthodox military general of the Ming Dynasty. He felt that although Zhu Rongfan's title was low, he was of Taizu's blood; although Zhu Hengjia's title was high, he was a branch of the old Zhu family.
Influenced by orthodox ideas, Tan Wen refused to submit.
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"Brother Yanruo, why are you here?"
Looking at the sixty-two-year-old Lu Daqi, who was dusty and dusty, Du Yinxi felt very strange.
"Yute came to help Zhong Yan and recruit Li Zhanchun and Yu Dahai to surrender for the Ming Dynasty."
Lu Daqi, whose courtesy name was Yanruo and whose nickname was Xianzi, was from Beiba, Suining County. He was a bachelor of Dongge University in the Longwu Dynasty.
This man was very focused on fame. After King Zhu Youlang of Gui proclaimed himself emperor in Wugang, he went to support him and was worshiped as a bachelor of Dongge University.
After Zhu Hengjia defeated Zhu Youlang, he wanted to surrender to Zhu Hengjia. But Zhu Hengjia came from time travel and remembered many history books of later generations. He did not think highly of him and had no use for him.
Lu Daqi had no choice but to return to his hometown in despair. Hearing that Du Yinxi had come to recruit and surrender the subordinates of the puppet King of Chu, he came here to perform a great service so that he could resume his official position.
Lu Daqi was once kind to Li Zhanchun and Yu Dahai, so he volunteered to be a lobbyist.
Different from the Thirteen Yaohuang Family, Li Zhanchun and Yu Dahai were Ming officers and soldiers with good roots. Their adoptive father, Chongqing Commander-in-Chief Zeng Ying, was a tiger general who was killed in the battle to prevent Sun Kewang and others from entering Guizhou. Sichuan Ming Dynasty
In the army, Zeng Ying's troops were quite effective in fighting, and Li Zhanchun and Yu Dahai's troops were famous for their daring to fight in the camp of Zhu Rongfan, the puppet king of Chu.
"Mr. Lu, why are you here?"
Lu Daqi was a great scholar in the Longwu Dynasty and was kind to the two of them.
When they saw Lu Daqi, they were extremely polite.
"I came here specially to save the two generals."
"Save us? Where did Mr. Lu start from saying this?"
"You two have rebelled, and you don't know it yet?"
"Rebellion?"
"It has been thoroughly investigated that the prince of Chu was drowned when Zhang Xianzhong defeated Wuchang. This prince of Chu is fake."
The second general was shocked: "How is this possible? He also has the golden seal of the deputy marshal of the world's soldiers and horses given by Emperor Yongli himself."
Lu Daqi laughed and said: "The deputy marshal is not a prince, and the prince dare not call him a prince. Moreover, the false emperor Yongli was still alive at that time, so what country can imprison him? This man is obviously rebellious."
The second general woke up like a dream, full of anger: "This thief has deceived us so much! We two want to make atonement for our sins, so how about turning back and killing this traitor for the imperial court?"
Lu Daqi was overjoyed: "If the two generals are willing to fight back, they will do a great job! I will immediately write a letter to Governor Du, Chen Futai. The imperial court will definitely live up to you."
This chapter has been completed!