Outside Pingliang City, flames shot into the sky.
To the south of the West City, thousands of hungry ants under Jin Chanzi's command attacked the city. They climbed up with long ladders and ropes. They were repelled by the city guards and then surrounded and yelled at them, making a lot of noise.
Jin Chanzi was wearing an ill-fitting Feiyu suit, yawning and standing on the gate tower of the East City, listening to the sound of cannons in the distance, watching the fire outside the city soaring into the sky, and rubbing her groggy eyes.
He is a little confused about the current situation.
He is a native of Pingliang Prefecture and was a blacksmith three days ago.
That day, he met a new friend. The friend said his name was Ai Jixian, a Mizhi man who served as a soldier in Guyuan.
Ai Jixian invited him to drink. Drinking was a rare thing in these days. The two of them ordered two pots of shochu and basically let him drink them.
The chat during the dinner was mostly about denouncement of the injustice of the court and the fact that the vassal king was taking advantage of Pingliang's fertile land. The more he talked about it, the more unhappy he became. He was drunk and dizzy. Ai Jixian said that in him, the blacksmith of Pingliang, he saw someone who could achieve great things.
Spirit.
It makes people happy.
Later it was discovered that the waiter and shopkeeper of the car shop were both kidnapped. The people living in the car shop were all veterans. They said they wanted to serve themselves as the master and do something big in Pingliang.
As long as he didn't drink, he would not dare to agree to such a thing.
But he was half drunk, two parts angry, and three parts at a loss. Ai Jixian put on the Feiyu suit in a daze and said that he needed a name for big things. From today on, he would be called Jin Chanzi.
Things went incredibly smoothly, and for some reason, he sneaked into the East City, and the hungry people outside the city responded everywhere.
There are more than 600 clan members above the rank of lieutenant in this connected city, and more than 20,000 craftsmen, servants, singers and performers serve them, half of whom directly serve the Han Palace.
In the year of disaster, the palace's Lumi delivery was not enough, and the whole city was like a firewood pile poured with boiling oil, and it only needed a spark.
This Mars is the leader.
Now they have a leader...
In the blink of an eye, thousands of hungry people from Pingliang were looting the residences of generals and lieutenants outside the city, and then poured into the east city, occupying the market and city walls.
The oppressed craftsmen and servants joined in the chaos and looted, venting their anger on the generals and lieutenants of Dongcheng.
On the night when there was the most commotion in Pingliang City, I fell asleep by the golden cicada in the city gate tower.
If he hadn't woken up in the gate tower of Pingliang City and heard the roar of cannons in the distance, Jin Chanzi would have thought he was dreaming.
But this was not a dream. Outside the city gate tower, the neighbor Niu Laoer was wearing the armor stolen from the killed guard, carrying a hammer and reporting to him loyally.
King Jin Chanzi has more than 7,000 generals under his command. He has three generals, namely Zuo Fu Ai Woxiu, You Bi Ai Jixian, and Pioneer Officer Zhu Quanyu.
Now that he had sobered up, King Jin Chanzi discovered that he was not familiar with these three generals.
Especially Zuo Fu and You Bi, one of them had just had a drink with him, and the other didn't know him at all.
"Where's Zuo Fu?"
Niu Laoer shook his head, he didn’t know.
"Where's You Bi?"
Niu Laoer still shook his head, still not knowing.
"What about the pioneer officer?"
Niu Er knew this and pointed to the west: "Master Zhu is attacking the city!"
Mr. Zhu!
Jin Chanzi knew that this Zhu Danyu was Mr. Zhu from outside the city, a very famous clan member who was deposed as a commoner, and the leader of the beggar group in Pingliang City.
There are several lieutenants and common people beggars under my command. They usually crowd at the city gate to beg from the clan or royal officials who leave the city. If they have surplus food, they will help the orphans and widows of other clans and common people.
Niu Laoer said that when attacking Pingliang City, most of the soldiers were busy looting, but only Mr. Zhu led thousands of people to attack the city.
They were the ones who hung more than a dozen clan generals from the trees in the mountain villas and pavilions in the north outside the city.
There are also several generals whose residences, because they usually show relief and sympathy to these poor relatives without status, were carried around Pingliang City three times by the clan members in sedan chairs to proclaim their virtues and protect them.
Now that he has been repulsed twice, Mr. Zhu's fingers were broken by cannons. He still needs to organize a third attack on the city. He must enter the city and hang the nephews in the palace from the trees.
When the bonds given by blood to people are broken down, hatred will come back with ten times the power of blood.
Jin Chanzi thought about it and said to Niu Er: "Second brother, go find Mr. Zhu and ask him if he wants to be Jin Chanzi. If he wants to be, let him be Jin Chanzi. Let's pack up the money."
Run quickly!"
Niu Er was stunned: "You, you didn't say that yesterday!"
"What did I say yesterday?"
"Let me think about it... across the Guanshan Mountains, with the Jingshui River in the lap, blocking the river outside, and the Longkou inside, blocking the Three Qin Dynasties, and supporting Jifu." Niu Er thought for a while, and burst out from his mouth like a barrage of words.
He piled up words and finally clapped his hands and said: "Yesterday you were going to occupy Pingliang City and become the emperor."
Jin Chanzi raised his hand and slapped himself in the mouth: "I'm a piece of shit. If you drink too much, the world belongs to me. If you wake up, you won't. You listen to me and let go of the name Jin Chanzi. How can we do this?"
If you run out with ten taels of silver, you will die if you stay here."
Jin Chanzi is a blacksmith from a poor family, but he is not stupid. Now he is sober and thinking about it, he has a very clear idea of the thousands of people who raised troops in Pingliang City.
Everyone has wanted to make a scene for a long time, but they are just afraid of death.
Now that he is taking the lead, everyone will rise up, but when the officers and soldiers arrive, they will definitely run faster than anyone else. When the time comes, he will be the only fool left, and neither the palace nor the government will let him go.
The five cows are very beautiful, and they look even better if they are tied with a rope and their necks and legs are pulled.
Not long after, the golden cicada in Pingliang Mansion was replaced by Mr. Zhu.
The blacksmith took more than a dozen families, friends, and hundreds of people, drove two grain trucks, loaded more than thirty kilograms of gold, silver, and copper coins, and quietly entered Nanshan along the path, leaving the battlefield.
Yang Chengzu, who used the pseudonym Ai Jixian, returned to the city gate tower and found that the building was empty and the mountain king Jin Chan, whom he had carefully cultivated, had escaped from his shell.
Quickly find Luo Rucai, who goes by the pseudonym Ai Woxiu, and together they figure out that the first-generation Jin Chanzi has already discovered this problem, while the second-generation Jin Chanzi is a lunatic who only knows how to attack cities, and he just relies on him to attract firepower.
The two organized manpower to begin counting the plundered materials, released horsemen to cover the main road, and transported grain and grass to the mountain road connecting Zhenyuan County in the northeast.
Luo Rucai thought that the defenders on the city and the hungry people attacking the city were very tired, so he sent horsemen to send a message to the west, telling Liu Chengzong that they could set off to quell the chaos.
However, the matter ended up being different from their earlier plan. It was originally a matter to fool the King of Han, Yang He, and Sunday Qiang, but it turned out that they knew about it first, and even specially invited Liu Chengzong to send troops to quell the chaos.
As a result, the Lion Camp set off much earlier than expected, and it was already very close to Pingliang Fucheng.
Soon the news spread back to Luo Rucai. He and Yang Chengzu planned to add fuel to the fire, otherwise the looted food and money would not be transported to the east.
Immediately send troops from the east wall to help the hungry people conquer the west city.
There were bursts of cannon fire at the top of the city, shouts of killing shook the sky, and crowds were bustling inside the city. Many clans in Pingliang had not heard the sound of fighting for a long time, and when a big event suddenly happened, they were all frightened and ran away in confusion.
People rushed to the Han Palace with their concubines and concubines, and the servants in the palace and shop also wanted to rush into the palace, but they were urged by the Palace Chief to send them to the wall to defend the city.
Many clans and their families poured into the royal city, bringing back news of the chaos in the west city of Pingliang. Even among the guard banner troops who lived in the city, there were also small groups of masked robbers. The scene of doomsday made people uneasy.
King Zhu Danyang of Han was young and did not want to be in the palace anymore. He simply handed over all the affairs of the royal city to the palace guards and ran to the corner tower of Guangzhimen alone.
Guangzhi Gate is the north gate of the royal city.
There is too much chaos in the south of the city. The looting outside Xiaoqiang and the fighting on the city wall disturb people's minds.
This royal city has yellow roofs and red walls everywhere, complemented by blue and green colors, symbolizing the surname Zhu and the supremacy of imperial power.
Within the royal city, there is a layout of four gates, two halls and three palaces and gardens.
The four gates refer to the four gates located on the central axis of the palace from south to north. They are the Lingxing Gate at the main gate, the Duanli Gate at the middle gate, the Shende Hall on the left and right in front of the palace, the Chengyun Gate of Bingzhong Hall, and
Guangzhimen as a backdoor.
The two halls are the Chengyun Hall, the main hall behind the Chengyun Gate, and the Cunxin Hall of the dormitory. There are two other dormitories on the left and right of the dormitory.
Sangong Garden is the Liuhu Summer Garden and Nuanquan Imperial Garden to the west of the palace, and the Dongfu Palace to the east where the prince lives.
Based on this central axis, the royal city occupying half of Pingliang City is arranged. This royal city occupies an area larger than the Heshui County seat guarded by Jiang Yingchang.
The royal palace chief Shi searched all over the royal city, and all he could see were princes, princesses, and generals and county lords, but he didn't know where King Han was. He was so anxious that he almost threw himself into a well, only to hear that King Han had gone to the North City to enjoy the lotus flowers in Liuhu Lake. p>
Chang Shi then rode up to the city and said hurriedly: "Your Majesty, there is a chaos in the city right now. If you don't stay in the royal city, why are you coming to the north city?"
The King of Han took it for granted: "The lotus is in season. If you don't look at it, it will be gone... Why don't you enjoy the lotus with me?"
After saying that, King Han turned around and said, "How about you and I go to Guanlan Pavilion together."
Guanlan Pavilion is located in the middle of Liuhu Lake. It is built with glazed tiles and carved beams and painted buildings. It is a good place to enjoy flowers and waves.
Chang Shi was told that he was deceived. He thought to himself: "How long has this happened?" He was still admiring the flowers and watching the waves: "Your Majesty, the bandits will break through the city in a while. It's useless to see anything. The guards are fighting desperately to resist the bandits. It's just the prince who needs to boost their morale."
It’s time!”
"What kind of morale boost?" King Han turned his head and glanced at Chang Shi strangely: "Isn't Pingliang Fucheng their home?"
Chang Shi thought that Pingliang Fucheng was really not the home of the Wei army, so he reminded: "Your Majesty, the home of the Wei army is in the east city, and the east city has been captured."
"Then why don't they drive away the bandits and take their home back?"
Chang Shi looked strange and found it difficult to communicate with King Han, so he said: "The guards recognized that the attacker outside the city was called Zhu Danyu. He was a deposed commoner. He led his family members to attack the city. Many guards were there.
The city has surrendered to thieves."
King Han, who had always been very calm, showed fear for the first time on his face. However, he breathed a sigh of relief and resumed his demeanor as a vassal king. He sat on the turret and said, "Let them guard for a while. As soon as the five soldiers and horses of Guyuan arrive, the bandits will return."
Don’t you obediently confer the first honor?”
"My lord, the main barracks in Guyuan mutinied the year before last. The guerrilla barracks went to Huamachi for autumn defense at the beginning of autumn last month. There are also bandits in the west. Where are the soldiers in Guyuan now?"
King Han was really scared now: "Are there no soldiers in Guyuan?"
When Chang Shi nodded in response, King Han stood up, raised his dark-patterned Shu brocade robe, and finally asked the question: "What good strategy do you have?"
This is what Chang Shi was waiting for, and he bowed and said: "I am just here to ask for pay for the defenders. I hope that the prince will open the treasury to pay the defenders, so as to strengthen the courage of the warriors!"
"You're right, there must be a brave man under a heavy reward!"
King Han was extremely satisfied with this method and looked at Chang Shi with great admiration: "Don't delay me here from admiring the flowers. Go ahead. I will give them five hundred taels of silver to teach them how to defend the city."
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Chang Shi was quite happy at first, but when he heard the amount, he said with a bitter look on his face: "Your Majesty, five hundred taels, only two taels of silver were distributed to each guard."
"Two taels is not enough? Then I will give you a thousand taels. Isn't a thousand taels a lot?"
King Han walked around in circles for a while, then returned to the battlements, shook his head and said: "Four or five coins per person is enough to buy ten kilograms of tooth incense. With this much money, the incense on Kongtong Mountain will definitely be prosperous in the coming year."
"Your Majesty, the guards don't want to buy tooth incense, they just want to buy grain." Chang Shi said: "The price of grain is high, and four or five dollars can only buy a bucket."
King Han suddenly realized, patted his head and said: "You're right, how do they know these things? Then this money is really not much, but don't you know about my money? The loan you gave the year before last has not been recovered this year. It's true.
I don’t want to give out more!”
As he said that, King Han twisted his neck and raised his hand to point to the Changshi: "Hey, you are the Changshi of my Han Dynasty. It is a time of disaster. I don't want to save money for my lord, so I turn my elbows outward. You have a good idea.
, it’s up to you to take care of it.”
"Prince Han's palace will give you one thousand taels of silver. You go find my uncles and brothers, all of whom are princes and generals. They hide in my palace and ask them to contribute money. You can collect ten thousand taels of silver to pay for the sergeants."
King Han patted his thigh and said with a fierce look on his face: "If anyone doesn't pay, throw them out and send all the sergeants to the royal city to guard them. Leave them alone!"
Just as Chang Shi was about to take the order, he was stopped by the King of Han and said: "Wait a minute, go and tell them that I will give you three thousand taels of silver, let the prince of the county give one thousand, and more than forty generals who will govern the country will come out."
Five hundred, more than 80 auxiliary generals will send out 200, and more than 200 auxiliary generals will send out 100 each. This alone is more than 50,000, leaving 40,000, and the remaining 10,000 will be distributed to the sergeants." p>
Good guy, Chang Shi raised his hand and gave a thumbs up: "Your Majesty is wise!"
Chang Shi ran to do something, and the clan members were trying to blame each other, but seeing that the King of Han had already paid for it and set rules for them, no one could do anything about it.
Many princes, princesses, generals and county owners can only pay according to the rules.
But before everyone could send the money to the royal city of Prince Han's Mansion, a broken army ran past the market, shouting and telling the whole city that the West City had been destroyed!
Suddenly everything was in chaos. Even the King of Han was trembling and ran down from the city with the help of his guards.
He collided with the clan members who were running around in the palace, and then picked up everyone and ran north, crossed Liuhu Lake, and fled towards the unbroken North City with a large group of people.
Then a large number of hungry people swarmed into the city, rushing towards the mansions with red walls and bright yellow glazed tiles, shouting, crying, and madly venting their anger.
On the city gate tower in the distance to the east, Luo Rucai supported the battlements and looked at Yang Chengzu aside. The two of them looked uneasy.
He said something bad: "It seems like it's too big."