Yang Feng looked at Linghan, the censor of the right capital, whose beard had turned gray.
"Yes, these rumors are all true."
He said very frankly.
There was no need for the latter to go out of his way to investigate. The rumor that Yang Feng had beaten King Qi and seriously injured him had basically spread all over Shandong at this time, and was even said by the remnants of the White Lotus Sect that he was the reincarnation of Han Lin'er, who came to seek revenge from the Zhu family.
So first depose a vassal king, and then Yang Feng may lead his followers to bloodbath the Zhu family and rebuild the Song Dynasty.
The sun and moon reopen the Great Song Dynasty!
It's not just folk rumors, there is actually a group of bandits calling themselves the White Lotus Sect trying to attack Linqu in the mountainous area south of Qingzhou.
He also raised a banner to welcome King Ming.
Fortunately, the Qi Fan guards arrived quickly and after a fierce battle, dozens of people were beheaded. These bandits had to escape into the mountains and forests. However, the mountains were high and the forests were dense, so it was indeed impossible to eliminate them.
So we had to wait for Shandong Commander Zhou Fang to mobilize his troops.
In short, people in Shandong are now panicked.
Rumors abounded in various places, and even the gentry began to unite to protect themselves, as if a big chaos was about to happen. After all, the loyalty of this province to Zhu Yuanzhang was limited. He wanted to rule the north from the south, and those in the north had been ruled by foreigners for hundreds of years
The people of the year had no feelings for the emperor of the south...
The same goes for Han Chinese!
Ever since the Southern Song Dynasty when they sold them again and again, they had already been heartbroken for the Southern Emperor.
In short, the situation in Shandong is precarious.
In this case, Ling Han took a boat from Haizhou to the north and just arrived in Jiaozhou. He had already heard the truth of the incident locally. In fact, he had already heard about it before he came, but he was sure when he got here, but it surprised him.
Surprisingly, before he could continue the investigation and finalize the case, Yang Feng came directly to the door and confessed...
"I did it."
Yang Feng drank tea and said as if he had no intention of committing a treason.
"Someone coaxed the King of Qi, saying that I came to Shandong to deal with him, so he acted first and sent people to ambush me at Muling Pass. After failure, he mobilized cavalry to besiege me in Jiangyupu.
But it still failed.
His trusted guard general Chai Zhi was captured alive by me.
I generally don't hold grudges, and I will avenge them immediately, so I took Chai Zhi to find him and threw Chai Zhi in front of him. He was too impulsive, so he attacked me.
Then I beat him up.
In fact, I have restrained myself for his father's sake.
But I was still stunned.
However, my body has almost recovered now.
Not disfigured, but deaf in one ear, missing half of his teeth, and then stupid."
Yang Feng said.
He was also eating melon seeds while talking.
Ling Han looked at this little villain with deep eyes.
Telling him so calmly that he beat a feudal king like this is considered extremely arrogant.
"Ambassador, I have no authority to deal with this. I can only make this clear to Your Majesty and ask Your Majesty to make a decision. There are no troops around me, and Your Majesty has not authorized me to mobilize troops. Therefore, I have to ask someone to arrest me."
He said slowly.
This old man is actually very respected by Zhu Yuanzhang.
He was one of the few civil servants of the Hongwu Dynasty who could achieve such a high position and die a good death. Zhu Yuanzhang respected him very much, but this was also related to his origin. He was a former warrior in Henan, which was controlled by the Southern Group in Hongwu.
The dynasty was very special. Because Henan was the main battlefield in the melee at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the population loss was extremely serious...
Of course, there wasn't much originally.
The prosperous place in the Northern Song Dynasty had already been reduced to pieces by the tug of war between the north and the south for hundreds of years.
During the Yuan Dynasty, there was not much population.
It can be said that three-quarters of the population of the Yuan Dynasty were in the provinces south of the Yangtze River, especially Jiangxi. One province alone accounted for a quarter of the country, which together was more than the entire north of the Huaihe River. As for Henan, the former population center of the Northern Song Dynasty, it was only slightly stronger than Sichuan.
. Equivalent to the Bianliang Fu Road that used to go to Fufu, with a total registered population of 180,000. You must know that Kaifeng City in the Song Dynasty had a registered population of 400,000. As for Henan Fu Road with Luoyang as its core, it is even more pitiful, with a total population of only more than 60,000.
Those who are registered here should know that this is the total of twelve counties.
Henan is experiencing continuous wars and is not Zhu Yuanzhang's base, so it is very rare to have a high-ranking official like him.
He is a symbol.
A symbol of the Ming Emperor's rule over Henan.
Zhu Yuanzhang was much more tolerant of northern ministers than he was of southern ministers.
It's because he wants to be gentle to the north.
"That is your responsibility, but I can also say clearly that I will not tie my hands.
Zhang Xianzong told me that Zhan Hui pushed you out to investigate this case because Zhan Hui calculated that I would rebel and resist, and you would definitely be killed by me. Obviously Zhan Hui guessed right. I am not a subject of your Ming Emperor.
Nor will he be loyal to the Ming Emperor. If his son wants to kill me, then I will beat his son into a fool. If he wants to kill me, then I will turn the Ming Dynasty upside down.
I have support from behind.
I still have those White Lotus followers who regard me as the reincarnation of King Ming to take advantage of.
I also have invincible military power.
Even if I can't conquer the world, in fact I have no interest in it, but there is still no problem in establishing a territory in Shandong to protect myself.
As for the rest, let’s continue playing.
Shandong has a population of several million, and the northern provinces have the largest population. There is no problem in squeezing out half a million soldiers if we try hard. Coupled with the firearms I know about later generations, and the supplies that my rear continues to send me.
enough.
The people of Shandong also had little loyalty to the Zhu family.
Then the troubled times in the north of the Ming Dynasty began."
Yang Feng was cracking melon seeds, as if to say how many dishes he had just eaten.
"The ambassador wants to scare the old man? The old man also crawled out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
Troubled times?
Have you ever seen real troubled times?"
Ling Han held the tea cup and sneered.
"Then you can climb it again. Your family belongs to Yuanwu. When Shandong breaks out, Henan will not be spared. There are also many White Lotus sects in Henan. Liu Futong and Han Lin'er used Kaifeng as their capital of the Song Dynasty. You
Do you think your clan, relatives, friends, and fellow villagers will once again fall into the chaos of mountains of corpses and seas of blood? How many will escape this disaster at that time?
I can guarantee that as long as you tell the truth, I will lead the White Lotus Sect in rebellion.
I have this ability.
Then why should I tie myself up?"
Yang Feng said.
After saying that, he stood up, picked up the teapot and poured Ling Han a cup of tea, then picked up his own, clinked the two cups of tea with himself, and then placed Ling Han's cup on the coffee table next to him...
"Ling Gong, here's to the last peace of the Ming Dynasty!"
he said.
After saying that, he drank his glass in one gulp, then turned around and left without looking back.
Ling Han was left silent there.
He knew that Yang Feng was trying to scare him, but the problem was that this guy really had this ability. Now the remnants of the White Lotus Sect in Shandong and even across the country were all rumoring that he was the reincarnation of King Ming.
And he is an invincible warrior.
He is also proficient in all kinds of new firearms, and he even taught them what the Ming army now uses.
Behind him is the Daxia Kingdom, which is said to be able to send him things. If such a person is forced to rebel and protect himself, he is really capable of separatist rule and even trigger a new chaos.
Troubled times of mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
As an old man who has experienced a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, he really cherishes the current peaceful and stable days.
He didn't want to go through troubled times again.
But……
His duty is to investigate the truth!
The truth was already clear, and all he needed to do was write a memorial.
Then his mission is accomplished.
Then the chaos begins.
How to choose?
From the heart or from the heart?
As soon as Yang Feng walked out after threatening Ling Han, he saw another acquaintance appear in the field of vision...
"Brother Lian, have a good walk on the road to Huangquan!"
he shouted.
Lian Zining, who was wearing an old green shirt, looked at him silently.
Then Yang Feng got on the horse.
He came here specifically to scare Ling Han.
Gentleman?
A gentleman can bully others.
Only a gentleman knows how to think about the people.
The King of Qi was just a vassal king who caused great wrath in his fiefdom. Although he was seriously injured by Yang Feng, his injuries had healed. Although he was beaten into a fool, it was obviously a blessing to the people of Shandong...
Everyone set off firecrackers to celebrate.
So for such a person, is it worth letting the most populous province in the north of the Ming Dynasty break out into a rebellion that will definitely be large-scale? Yang Feng's own fighting power, and his endless new things, have been rumored by the White Lotus Sect to be the reincarnation of the Ming King.
All these combined allow him to easily instigate a large-scale rebellion in Shandong, and the war in Shandong will definitely affect Henan.
This is inevitable.
Even if there will be no response from the White Lotus Sect in Henan, in order to resolve the war in Shandong, Henan will still be plundered for military supplies.
People in Henan are still in dire straits.
gentleman?
Then just figure it out yourself!
Should he be a person who upholds his principles and plunge countless people into war, turning peace into a world of chaos and bloodshed? Or should he give up his principles and make a choice against his will to protect the people?
So Zhu Yuanzhang was not prepared to fall out, which was why he sent Ling Han.
He knew that Ling Han was a gentleman.
Gentlemen are the easiest to be solved by Yang Feng.
If someone is obsessed with getting promoted and getting rich, and is willing to step on corpses for his own future, then things will really get out of hand.
What's more, it's not just Yang Feng now.
Yang Feng on horseback watched Lian Zining quietly walk into the inn.
So now Ling Han has to face another pressure.
Does he want to watch a new prison?
Does he want to see tens of thousands more heads fall to the ground just like the empty seal case? If he chooses to satisfy his own principles, then Zhu Yuanzhang will inevitably carry out a large-scale purge in the court. After all, this kind of deception of his own son will harm himself.
I can't stand it when my son turns into a fool.
kill!
I'm sure I'll kill everyone with lots of heads.
So now the lives of millions of people and countless colleagues depend on his choice.
Everyone is bullying honest people!
"Go back and tell your princess that she can rest easy now!"
Yang Feng said.
He doesn't need to wait for the results.
He knew what choice Ling Han would make.
"Ambassador, are those people in the mountains still going to perform?"
The princess's trusted servant beside him whispered.
"Play, of course I have to play."
Yang Feng said.
"But Zhou Fang is already deploying troops to encircle and suppress them."
said the latter.
The White Lotus Sect that attacked Linqu was simply pretended by Qi Fan's own people. The purpose was to scare Ling Han and make him think that there was really going to be chaos. But since such a thing happened, Zhou Fang would definitely encircle and suppress it.
"He is not stupid. He knows the truth. He also wants to scare Ling Han. Not only him, but all the officials and generals in Shandong want to scare Ling Han. They will cooperate with you in their play. They will continue to play for another month and send Ling Han away.
Take it back."
Yang Feng said.
Zhou Fang and the military and political officials in Shandong also want to scare Ling Han, because once the truth is made public, they will also be implicated, not to mention that if Yang Feng is really forced to rebel, they will bear the brunt. They don't want to really come to Shandong.
There was a big chaos, and there was a high chance that everyone would die at that time, so now in order to maintain stability, everyone will force Ling Han.
The man didn't say anything else and hurried back to Qingzhou.
"My friendship with His Majesty the Emperor is gone forever!"
Yang Feng sighed with emotion.
Then he laughed...
"Bah, it seems like we really had some kind of friendship."
he said.
Indeed, what kind of friendship do they have?
"I still don't understand why he gave up this time. He probably wasn't afraid that you would rebel. An emperor like him wouldn't care about this. If he did, he wouldn't be able to conquer the world."
Sister Liu said.
"Maybe it's because I don't have confidence!
He has no good means to easily deal with me for the time being. After all, my strength has been tested on the battlefield. He has already made a matchlock gun. Although it is only experimental, he gave up making a small one and instead directly made a matchlock gun.
Heavy matchlock, probably because he wanted to wait until he trained the first matchlock soldiers, then he could be sure to kill me.
Not yet.
If he wants to take action, he must be absolutely sure.
Otherwise, if he can't kill me, it will be my turn to kill him. He won't do it without absolute certainty.
Rapid-fire cannons definitely won't work, and those things don't have much accuracy.
The grenades are not powerful enough.
It's as useless as making a big bomb by himself. In fact, apart from poisoning, there seems to be nothing he can do to solve me, but at this time, he probably doesn't even have confidence in the poison."
Yang Feng said.
Indeed, His Majesty the Emperor should find it more and more difficult for him to easily deal with him. After all, it is useless to pile up soldiers, at least they cannot trap him. He has already demonstrated his ability to deal with the siege of soldiers in the battle against Japanese pirates. And His Majesty the Emperor
Now there is nothing more than a pistol and a few grenades, but these were given to him by Yang Feng. He should not be sure what Yang Feng meant by daring to give them to him.
As for his own firearms, although the rapid-fire cannon is powerful enough, its accuracy is poor.
The power of the three-eyed gun is weak.
At least for Yang Feng, he is definitely weak.
After thinking about it, it's the heavy matchlock gun.
In the final analysis, His Majesty the Emperor made a decision before taking action, and would not take action until there was a sure way to kill him.
Of course, the key is still not urgent enough.
After all, His Majesty the Emperor probably doesn't think that he only has four years left to live.
He still has time.
He can wait.
"In Hongwu's twenty-seventh year, he still has four years to live. Let's play with him for another four years!"
Yang Feng said with emotion.
In fact, he doesn't really want to rebel now. After all, Zhu Yunxi has been molded into the shape he wants. He just wants to prepare for rebellion to deal with what may happen after Zhu Yunxi succeeds to the throne.