When Ju Ming received the news from Pingli County, he was extremely angry.
He was angry at Yang Anshi for disobeying orders, but also couldn't stand Zhang Jin's arrogance in killing his lieutenant.
Zhu Ming knew very well what Zhang Jin meant. It had four purposes -
First, show your loyalty to Ju Ming and show that you are not greedy for money. He will do whatever Ju Ming says.
Second, take the opportunity to establish your authority and completely control the newly recruited troops under your command.
Third, improve military discipline and kill monkeys to scare chickens.
Fourth, stabilize people's hearts and demonstrate benevolence and righteousness.
Zhu Ming called Guan Sheng over and said, "You go to Pingli County to be the deputy general. On my behalf, I will personally reward the soldiers and give rewards to each soldier. As for Zhang Jin, he captured the county seat and restrained the troops for his merits. He was named Baoyi Lang.
The fifth state army is under command."
The troops were created from scratch and were temporarily organized and trained. There was not even a military law corps, and the logistics organization was also empty.
This is to quickly expand the territory and give the generals the greatest power. Everything will be done after occupying the entire Jinzhou.
Ju Ming never expected that someone would be so bold.
After talking about the reward, Ju Ming then talked about the punishment: "Zhang Jinshan killed the deputy general, demoted him to Chengxinlang, changed his power (acting) to command the capital, and punished him with thirty army sticks!"
Guan Sheng expressed his concern: "Will it make him dissatisfied?"
Zhu Ming said: "Privately tell Zhang Jin to expand his army to 3,000 men. When he builds the Fifth Army of Jinzhou in Pingli County, he can atone for his sins and resume his official duties. I will give him a sword as a personal gift from me."
As for me, let him not think too much about it."
"My husband is very considerate," Guan Sheng said sincerely.
There is no innovation in the administrative and military systems for the time being, and everything is inherited from the Song Dynasty court.
Even the salary of subordinate officials is the same, and they have to rely on gray income to survive.
Changing the system is a big project, which will cause short-term chaos and is not conducive to rapid development. On the contrary, the flaws of the old system can be covered up during expansion.
Zhu Guoxiang and Zhu Ming have not yet opened their offices, and all orders are issued in their personal names.
These are extremely abnormal, and we must occupy the entire Hanzhong and consolidate the territory before talking about it.
When the time comes, Zhu Guoxiang will open a government to manage civil affairs, and Zhu Ming will open a government to manage military affairs. They will adjust the official system and salary system according to the situation, and improve the army establishment and military law. Only after these are done can we go to conquer Bashu.
Guan Sheng set off quickly and met with Zhang Jin in private to convey Ju Ming's intention.
Zhang Jin smiled and said: "I know that killing a deputy general without permission is a serious crime. If you use a military stick, just use a military stick."
Several of his goals were achieved, and while the system was not yet established, there was no need to worry about severe punishment. It didn't matter that he was temporarily demoted and beaten with a military stick.
The only surprise was that Ju Ming sent Guan Sheng to serve as his temporary deputy.
It was too obvious that Guan Sheng was the supervisor of Ju Ming's personal soldiers, which made Zhang Jin feel a little scared. If he were given the choice again, he would definitely not dare to kill directly, but would take Yang Anshi to Jinzhou and hand it over to Ju Ming.
At the same time, Ju Ming issued an order to all armies to strictly prohibit similar incidents from happening again.
If you do it again next time, you will definitely have your head chopped off!
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However, it was said that Yang Zhi took the elite soldiers from Tiemao Village and took a boat to Xunyang County in the afternoon when Ju Ming raised his troops.
Arriving near evening, Xunyang County was about to close its city gates, and the officials here didn't know what was happening in the city.
Without losing a single soldier, he captured the city, captured the county magistrate, and killed him directly.
Zeng Xiaoduan, who set out with the army, took over the post of county magistrate, took control of the county government and then made arrangements to calm the people.
On the second day, Yang Zhi expanded his army to 1,500 men in Xunyang County and asked Sun Li to divide his troops to attack Juiyang Town.
There was a patrol in the town who surrendered without saying a word.
There were several groups of water bandits in the border area between Xunyang County and Junzhou. I heard that Ju Ming was raising troops in Jinzhou, and the water bandits came to seek refuge one after another. Yang Zhi requested to formulate a navy army, and he soon received Ju Ming's consent.
As for Shiquan and Hanyin counties, due to the delay in sending troops, all the officials in the two counties abandoned the city and fled.
The entire Jinzhou was like paper. In six days, all five counties were obtained.
The biggest casualty of the rebel army was the execution of more than 20 people by Zhang Jin.
If it were an ordinary peasant uprising, the rebel leaders would probably have already drifted away, and they have no idea how dangerous this would be.
Time goes back to six days ago.
Zhu Guoxiang divided his troops into three groups and directed them towards the three counties of Yangzhou.
Sun Lan and Hua Rong led troops to attack Xixiang County.
Deng Chun and Xu Ning led troops to attack Zhenfu County.
Zhu Guoxiang and Zhang Guangdao led 200 soldiers to join Li Jinyi's Jintan Village army and went to attack Yangzhou City in person.
Zhu Guoxiang landed in a grand manner, and people greeted him along the way.
The people on the dock came to watch this strange army wearing rattan armor. They had already arrived at the city, and no one thought that Zhu Xianggong was rebelling. The gatekeepers nodded and bowed in greetings.
"Take it."
Zhu Guoxiang gave the order softly.
A group of vine-armored soldiers rushed forward and quickly controlled the south city gate. The gatekeeper who was pinned to the ground did not even react.
what's the situation?
The city gate guards looked confused and shouted: "Ms. Zhu, we guard the city gate and only charge a few small coins, but we haven't committed any serious crime!"
Zhu Guoxiang ignored it and led his troops straight to the prefectural and county government offices.
"Prefect, Mr. Zhu has rebelled, Mr. Zhu has rebelled!"
"What?"
Zhizhou Cao Zao thought his ears were wrong: "Who rebelled?"
The subordinate officials exclaimed: "Xianggong Zhu has rebelled and has led troops into the city to kill him!"
"Don't talk nonsense." Cao Zao still couldn't believe it.
"They're really here to kill us!" the subordinate said in a panic.
Cao Zao's first reaction was not to run away, nor to organize the government officials and archers to resist, but to go out with his personal entourage to confirm the news.
Before he even stepped out of the gate of the state government office, he bumped into Zhu Guoxiang face to face.
"Mr. Yuan Zhang, what does this mean?" Cao Zao looked at Zhu Guoxiang with dumbfounded eyes as if he had fallen into an ice cave.
Zhu Guoxiang said: "You are not too greedy, you can avoid death. When I capture Xingyuan Mansion, I will let you leave Hanzhong, but you need to keep your money."
Cao Zao was shocked, angry and frightened: "Mr. Yuan Zhang, the officials treat you very well!"
Zhu Guoxiang said: "The officials treat the people so poorly."
"This is rebellion. Duke Yuan Zhang, please think again!" Cao Zao begged.
Zhu Guoxiang said nothing more and ordered: "Occupy the state government office and the warehouse immediately. Zhang Guangdao, you send people to appease the people and call all the gentry and merchants inside and outside the city."
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Zheng family.
Zheng Lan looked at her children and grandchildren, and she was confused: "It's a disaster, it's a disaster, it's a disaster that will destroy the family! It shouldn't have happened in the first place..."
Zheng Hong was also very panicked, mainly because the rebellion was a bit beyond his imagination.
The family discussed it repeatedly, but could not come up with a result.
Zheng Yuanyi married Ju Ming as a concubine, and gave birth to Ju Ming's eldest son. The Zheng family was officially a rebel in-law.
After arguing for a while, Zheng Hong finally regained his ability to think: "Grandpa, the Zhu family has rebelled, and the Zheng family must rebel if they don't. Send all the family members to serve under Xianggong Zhu, and send some money, food, wine, and food to work in the army. Let's
If the family cannot be related, they can only do things with the Zhu family. When the Zhu family rebels, the Zheng family will follow. When the Zhu family seeks peace, the Zheng family will follow."
The Zheng family is different from the Zhang family.
Although Zhang Gen married his daughter to Ju Ming as his official wife, the Zhang family had numerous former officials and married into many official families. The court would at most punish Zhang Gen himself and would never punish the entire family.
As for the Zheng family, the whole family was wiped out, and they could only go to the dark side.
Fatty Zheng led his clan members and a lot of money and hurried to the state government office to meet Zhu Guoxiang.
Zhu Guoxiang was very pleased and immediately made the appointment: "When you become the magistrate of Xixiang County, you must appease the people!"
"yes."
After being panicked, Fatty Zheng actually felt a little excited.
Although he had been studying since he was a child, he could not even pass the examination, and now he became the county magistrate inexplicably.
The county magistrate appointed by the rebels is also a county magistrate!
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In the waste gold mine.
Gong Xiu learned that Zhu Guoxiang had launched an army to rebel. He was stunned for a while, and then he was overjoyed: "I have wanted to rebel for a long time. Mr. Zhu has done a great job. He summoned five hundred young men and followed me to Yangzhou City to join the army!"
This man has six sons, four of whom are adults and are all heroes with superb martial arts.
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Shangbai Village.
"I knew it, I knew it!"
The old member Bai, whose legs were completely paralyzed, leaned on his chair and kept mumbling: "As soon as he and his son came to the village, I knew they were not kind people. They are really ambitious and plotting to cause chaos."
Bai Dalang asked: "What should my family do?"
Old Bai Yuanwai said: "Your third brother is an official of the imperial court and finally passed the Jinshi examination. Is it possible that the Bai family can become a thief?"
"But...but..." Bai Dalang almost cried.
"Let me think about it, let me think about it again." Mr. Bai was a little out of his mind. Zhu Guoxiang's rebellion was beyond his expectation.
Although Bai Chongyan was admitted to Jinshi, the first official appointment was recommended by Zhu Ming. The second official appointment was recommended by Zhu Guoxiang.
The Zhu family and his son rebelled, can this official continue to serve?
If you are a shitty official, you will at least be dismissed from your post. If you are not careful, you will be removed from your position as editor!
Old member Bai was about to cry but had no tears. The Bai family finally produced a Jinshi, so why did such an outrageous thing happen to him?
"Oh no, Master Gu is taking Gu San down the mountain and is recruiting troops for rebellion in the village!" A servant rushed in in panic.
Old Bai said: "Carry me out quickly."
Bai Dalang quickly followed, and the father and son hurried to the village.
I saw Lao Gu with white hair, holding a big knife in his hand, followed by more than a dozen tea workers.
Gu Shusheng (Gu San) held up a long spear and said to the villagers who came one after another: "The government's taxes are getting heavier and heavier, and the rent you owe the Bai family is getting more and more. How can you survive this day?"
Do you want to go down? Both Xianggong Zhu and Zhu Dalang are very upright, so they might as well join the army with me, and maybe they can become high officials. If you trust me, pick up your spears and clubs and follow me!"
Many young people who listened to Ju Ming's "Journey to the West" back then have grown up and become young men now.
They were naturally close to the Zhu family and his son, so even if it was a beheading business, there were still people who were willing to do it.
Especially those young people who are at the age where they do things regardless of the consequences.
When the Bai family and his son arrived, there were more than forty people gathered around Gu San with sticks in their hands. No matter how much his parents begged to stop him, they were indifferent.
Lao Gu cupped his hands and said, "Except Member Bai, the debt I owe to the Bai family has been repaid over the years. Please don't stop me from recruiting soldiers in the village."
The old white man sighed: "Oh, you are old, why bother to go to that muddy water?"
Lao Gu said: "I have a sworn feud with the government. I thought I would live my life in peace. But I didn't expect that Mr. Zhu also did great things. If I didn't join the army and rebel, I would be sorry for my dead parents."
Old Bai was silent for a while and said to his son: "You can take some of your clan members with you. The Bai family can't escape. Either they will become famous or their family will be destroyed. All they can do is gamble with Mr. Zhu!"
