8-34 Acceptance of adoptive father in Tengwang Pavilion
8-35 One Flew Over the Madhouse
Liu Ziguang's army marched into the small county town and immediately implemented military control. Although this place was still nominally under the Ming Dynasty, it had actually been completely eroded by King Ning. All four gates of the county town were controlled, and the county government was surrounded. The poor ten
A government servant was disarmed and squatted aside obediently. The county magistrate, wearing a robe, knelt at the door with fear, waiting for the arrival of the leader of the army.
Liu Ziguang rode a shiny maroon horse, wearing golden armor and a red robe. He dismounted at the gate of the county government office like a god descending from heaven. He pointed the county magistrate with his whip majestically and asked, "Who are you kneeling down?"
When the county magistrate saw the banner of the southwest governor Liu, he carefully replied with a smile: "My subordinate Zhang Haogu is the magistrate of Wuning County, Jiangxi Province. I don't know that the governor has arrived, but I am not far away to greet him. I still hope..."
Before he could finish his words, Liu Ziguang interrupted him rudely: "Whose subordinate are you? There is no Zhang Haogu's name on the list of officials. Let me ask you, who made you the county magistrate? Did you change the original
Where did the county magistrate go?"
Zhang Haogu was not a regular court official, but a county magistrate appointed by King Ning. Naturally, the official department would not have his files. Seeing this gentleman asking him like this, Zhang Haogu was sweating profusely, and the sweat covered the back of his blue official uniform.
He was so wet that he didn't dare to answer, but kept kowtowing.
Liu Ziguang did not embarrass him and said: "Go to Nanchang quickly and report to His Highness Prince Ning that the southwest governor Liu Ziguang has led an army of 100,000 to Wuning. The purpose of the army entering Jiangxi is to annihilate the traitor Zuo Mengeng. I hope Prince Ning can send troops."
Cooperate with me in the battle, Zhang Zhixian, you will have to work hard this time."
Zhang Haogu kowtowed as if he was pounding garlic: "I will definitely bring the message to you for your Excellency."
Liu Ziguang adopted the tactic of courtesy first and then fighting. He knew that relying on his own troops, he could not pull off the beautiful battle like the surprise attack on Jinan that year. It was better to blackmail King Ning and find out his true and false. You must know that although King Ning has turned Jiangxi into a
He conquered the ** Kingdom, but after all, he did not openly rebel against the imperial court. The imperial court wanted to force him to take action first in order to occupy the moral high ground.
Although Zhang Haogu worked in Wuning, a remote county, he was still very well-informed. He had long heard of the reputation of Zhenwu Marquis Liu Ziguang, and he also knew that the imperial army wiped out Zuo Liangyu in half a month.
, now that a hundred thousand troops have arrived at the city, I have just learned that, it can be seen that the Zhenwu Marquis is really like a god with his troops. Zhang Haogu received Liu Ziguang's order, did not dare to be negligent, and rode straight to Nanchang to report the news.
After receiving the report, King Ning was silent for a long time and asked Zhang Haogu: "So Liu Ziguang did lead an army of 100,000 people?" How could Zhang Haogu, a county magistrate with a sour scholar background, tell whether Liu Ziguang led 5,000 or 100,000 troops?
Anyway, he saw a lot of soldiers, so he nodded like a chicken eating rice: "According to my observation, I'm afraid there are more than 100,000. They are all over the mountains and plains. If it weren't for the fact that I could run quickly according to the situation, I'm afraid
They had already killed him."
King Ning said approvingly: "You are very brave. I admire you very much. Go down and receive your reward."
Zhang Haogu went down to receive the reward with a smile. Here, Prince Ning said to the frightened civil and military officials in the hall: "Well done! I was just thinking about meeting this Liu Ziguang. It seems that his Baihong Sword is very powerful.
My dragon prison stick is still very powerful, come here, get your cloak and prepare your horse, I want to show off my skills!"
Zuo Menggeng, as the general of Zhenbei under King Ning, was naturally present at the Yin'an Palace. Zhang Haogu's words just now made him very confused. You must know that the court cannot gather so many people in a short period of time. This situation is unstable.
Meng Geng was still able to grasp it, but before he could express his thoughts, Prince Ning had already put on a suit of golden armor and walked out with two strange-looking sticks.
Zhu Changhui, like most people in the Ming Dynasty, liked reading storybooks and listening to storytelling. His favorite books were about the Romance of the Tang Dynasty, which included the Eighteen Heroes of the Sui Dynasty and so on.
He is familiar with such jokes, but what he admires most is not the positive figures such as Qin Qiong, Luo Cheng, and Li Yuanba, but the backer king Yang Lin. Yang Lin is Yang Guang's uncle. He has superb martial arts, unparalleled military skills, and is good at using two dragon prison sticks. Although
As a prince, he was also a famous and fierce general in the Sui Dynasty. He also had thirteen godsons, known as the Thirteen Taibao. Zhu Changhui admired and yearned for these elements. His situation was similar to that of his backer Wang Yang Lin.
He was also the uncle of the current emperor. He was also "unparalleled in martial arts and military skills." He also had a large group of godsons, and he also used the strange weapon Dragon Imprisoning Stick.
Whenever he was in a mood, Zhu Changhui would put on specially made Mingguang armor and walk around the school grounds with two prison dragon sticks to show off his martial arts. This time, the news of Liu Ziguang's attack greatly stimulated him, so
Practice despite the hot weather.
Zhu Changhui had read a lot about Liu Ziguang's heroic deeds. To be honest, he admired this young man very much. If possible, he would be willing to accept Liu Ziguang as his adopted son. When he thought of this, Zhu Changhui's eyes flashed.
In one scene, Liu Ziguang, who was dressed in a red shirt, was holding a long knife and he was fighting with himself in gold armor. The two fought for 300 rounds without a win or loss. In the end, he used a unique trick to clamp the opponent with the prison dragon stick.
He grabbed Liu Ziguang's long sword and subdued him. Liu Ziguang was reluctant to surrender at first, but in the end he was conquered by his broad mind and prostrated himself to the ground, calling him his father.
Zuo Mengeng saw Prince Ning standing on the steps, drooling, not knowing where he was looking. He just stood there and giggled. He couldn't help but gently pulled the person next to him and asked: "Your Majesty, what is this?"
What's wrong?"
The man was not surprised, and looked unconcerned: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, you'll be fine soon."
Sure enough, after a while, Prince Ning returned to his normal state, mounted his horse with the Dragon Prison Stick, drove around the school grounds several times, knocked away a dozen wooden rakes, and then rode his horse to the crowd and asked: "Look
Have I improved my martial arts enough to be able to deal with Liu Ziguang?" Everyone immediately started boasting and boasted about Prince Ning's three-legged cat skills.
Zuo Menggeng was not a dull person, so he naturally followed others in praising King Ning. This made Zhu Changhui very happy and asked Zuo Menggeng: "I heard that you have two famous generals in Huguang, Jin Shengheng and He Renlong. In your opinion, they
How many percent of my martial arts skills can I achieve?"
Zuo Mengeng said in his heart that even a hundred of you would not be enough for the two of them to chop him down, but he said: "These two people are not as good as my adoptive father. If anything happens, I am afraid that no one in the world can catch the adoptive father's dragon-prisoning stick."
Zhu Changhui was very satisfied with the answer. He flicked the prison dragon stick in his hand, and the eight guards beside him quickly caught it and pretended to be struggling to lift the two prison dragon sticks, which weighed only about ten kilograms.
Zhu Changhui said: "The soldiers will block us, and the water will cover us. Let's discuss a strategy to retreat from the enemy."
After coming out of Yin'an Palace, Zuo Mengeng felt dizzy. He felt more and more that something was wrong with this group of people. From King Ning to the civil and military officials under him, to ordinary soldiers and grooms, it seemed that everyone was there.
Mental problems were not felt at first, but with the arrival of Liu Ziguang's army, this feeling became more and more obvious. No one seriously considered how to retreat from the enemy. Instead, everyone was discussing what to do after retreating from the enemy, and how to recruit 100,000 soldiers.
After surrendering the army, how to arrange Liu Ziguang's position? Should he be the chief eunuch or the thirteenth eunuch? There are also issues such as how to divide the officials after Huguang is captured. This horoscope is not even half-read, and these people started to
It's really mind-boggling to think about these far-off things.
Zuo Mengeng bit his tongue. It hurt. But he was still conscious and not crazy.
, that’s right, they are crazy, and everyone in Prince Ning’s palace is crazy. It turns out that Prince Ning, who is known as Sai Mengchang, has this kind of virtue. No wonder his father Zuo Liangyu has been unwilling to annex Jiangxi. It turns out that
I feel that it doesn't matter whether it is annexed or not. It is better to leave it alone to fatten up. Anyway, taking Jiangxi is only a matter of minutes.
Ning Wang Zhu Changhui is only thirty-eight years old this year, and he can be considered in his prime. His father died early, and his mother and concubine didn't care about him very much. Therefore, he took too much cold medicine when he was a child, which hurt his brain and caused him mild paranoia and paranoia.
Schizophrenia, but the symptoms are not obvious, but others think he has a great personality.
From a young age, Zhu Changhui began to imitate the ancients and recruit a wide range of clients, whether they were literary or military people, vegetarians, Buddhist practitioners, merchants or escorts. As long as they had a skill, they could make a living in the palace, so he had many years ago.
He received the title of Sai Mengchang. Over the years, he did recruit some talented disciples. During those days of national chaos, he helped him gradually control Jiangxi. Later, these talented people were gradually replaced by those who flattered him.
The flatterers squeezed out, from the royal guards to the staff, from the governor of Jiangxi to the officials of the lower states and counties, most of them were controlled by these people. They deceived King Ning and squeezed money, and everyone made a lot of money.
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Of course, in most cases, Prince Ning's performance is the same as that of ordinary people, and he is even better than ordinary people in some aspects. He can write calligraphy very well, can barely compose a few poems, ride a horse, shoot arrows and play Prisoner of the Dragon.
Not to mention the stick, under the bragging of those sycophants and staff, he felt that he was not only a good military commander and a handsome strategist, but also a great talent in poetry and painting.
So he wrote a lot of poems, landscape paintings and hung them in Prince Teng's Pavilion. Over time, this kind of praise only aggravated his condition.
In short, Jiangxi is under the leadership of a semi-madman. Zuo Menggeng has gradually noticed this, and he has begun to consider his own way out again.