"That person must do this. Wouldn't he be happy to put Ai's family on the fire and eat it?"
Qingyang saw Lei Cheng walking into the hall with his body bent, frowning and asked coldly.
"This trip south, Li Zhigao, Feng Liao, Gu Qian, Zhu Juezhong and other adults were accompanying me. They all thought that it would be difficult to quell the war without bloodshed; even if there was no bloodshed now, it would be impossible to avoid bloodshed in the future. I secretly rushed to Li five days ago.
When Yang Jin saw your Majesty, other than Huaidong, the nobles were still debating over whether Jinling should have 100,000 people killed, 30,000 to 50,000 people killed, or more than 10,000 people killed or wounded. However, if people really wanted to die, there was no guarantee that the Queen Mother would be affected.
With Your Majesty, Your Majesty insisted that you all should take good measures to protect Jinling and Jiangnan, and also take good care of the Queen Mother and Your Majesty," Lei Cheng said.
"What kind of foolproof plan is this?" Qingyang complained.
Lei Cheng was about to give some more persuasion when he heard the sound of His Highness's footsteps. After a while, he saw two palace maids coming over hurriedly and said: "Your Majesty is so angry that he wants to issue an edict to kill Marquis Yang. Mr. Zhang can't persuade him."
Live, and his forehead was broken by His Majesty..."
"What a mess." Qingyang hurriedly walked with Lei Cheng to the Young Emperor's palace.
From a distance, I heard the sound of things crashing to the ground. When I walked into the main hall of the palace, I saw Zhang Ping and several servants kneeling at the door of the main hall, obviously preventing Yang Bin from breaking out, but Yang Bin was inside the main hall.
He smashed things inside to vent his anger, but they didn't dare to step forward to stop him.
Zhang Pingshuang's white beard and hair have been dyed red by blood.
"How long will your Majesty be fooling around?" Qingyang shouted sharply to stop.
After all, the young man was still afraid of Qingyang and sat back angrily behind the imperial desk.
"Do you think that this position is naturally yours? Do you know how many bones are piled up under your position and how much murderous intent is hidden? Do you think that all the civil and military officials in the dynasty kneel down and kowtow and shout long live, and how much do they really care about you in their hearts?
Fear and respect?" Qingyang waved his hand and asked everyone to leave the dormitory, leaving only Zhang Ping and Lei Cheng beside him. He walked to the imperial case, stared at Bin'er who was slightly unconvinced, and asked sternly, "Do you know that Meng
After the main force of the army was killed in Zezhou, Prime Minister Shen and Marquis Yang thought about moving the capital several times, but Zhou Bingwu, Du Chongtao, Gu Zhilong, Zhang Han, and even Yang Zhitang retreated to Hongzhou, but they still wrote to dissuade the capital move?
Do they really think about the Chu State and want to fight to the death with the Liang army in Jinling? Or, in other words, they just want you and me, mother and son, to be buried neatly for the Chu State, and they can do it without any burden.
Join the new master? Zhang Ping, Yang En taught you the art of ruling the world as an emperor, but he insisted on making you an arrogant person who doesn't know why..."
"..." The young man still sat angrily behind the court case and remained silent.
"Zhang Ping, please tell His Majesty everything you know about the many things that have happened between the late Emperor and Han Qian since the 12th year of God's Blessing. Don't hide or cover up anything." Qingyang also sat down angrily and told Zhang Ping
Called to the front, he asked Emperor Yanyou to leave the palace for the thirteenth year of Tianyou. Han Qian and Feng Yi
, tell the truth about what happened when Kong Xirong, Li Chong and others were attending the Linjiang Marquis Mansion.
In the past, Yang En and Zhang Ping taught the young emperors. Although they tried their best to impart knowledge that could be applied to the world, they would inevitably avoid taboos when it came to the past events of the twelfth year of Tianyou, and they would also deliberately ignore Han Qian's
existence, and highlight the young success of Emperor Yanyou, his brilliance and martial prowess; he even deliberately downplays the cruelty and bloodshed of the Yang family's internal fratricide before and after the Jinling Rebellion.
Including the real cause of Han Daoxun's death, how could he tell the young emperor the truth before?
However, no matter when it comes to the Battle of Xichuan, the reduction of vassalage and the pacification of Jinling, the battles of guarding Tangyi and the Yanyou Palace incident, Zhang Ping has witnessed it personally. There are too many details, and even too many people's inner twists and turns, and the changes in the situation. Even better than Shen Yang and Yang En.
"Alas..." Zhang Ping wiped his forehead that was no longer bleeding and walked over with a bitter look on his face...
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"Do you think Yang En is old and confused, or has he secretly defected to Liang Guo a long time ago?"
Gu Zhilong returned to the house and talked with Fu Gengwen, Xiying and his youngest son Gu Xiongchang about the situation of today's court meeting in Chongwen Palace, but he was still puzzled.
"Yang En is not an old fool. He probably doesn't want to see the blood flowing in Jinling, so he doesn't hesitate to lose his reputation." Fu Gengwen never thought before that Yang En might persuade Cai Chen and be willing to stand up and do this. I can't help but feel sad about the loss of my reputation.
"How do you say it?" Gu Zhilong asked.
"After Liang Jun crossed the river, the possibility of guarding Jinling City with his own troops was slim. However, even if Liang Jun came to the city, all the princes and ministers in the court chose to surrender the city, as well as Jiangdong, Jiangxi, Hunan, Jingxiang and The soldiers and horses in Huaidong heard the news and surrendered, but the kings and ministers of the Liang Kingdom would never forget the past four hundred years ago when Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty pacified Jiangnan and returned to Luoyang with his empress Chen, but the subjects of Jiangnan rebelled twice. That's why Yang Houcai said If you want to win the trust of the kings and ministers of the Liang Kingdom, it is not enough to just surrender the city..." Fu Gengwen said.
"It's not enough to surrender the city. Liang Jun really wants to go on a killing spree? How could Yang En be so sure?" Gu Zhilong asked in surprise.
"Perhaps there are people close to Luoyang around Marquis Yang who can give advice," Fu Gengwen said. "Leaving aside Hunan, Jiangxi, Jiangdong, Jingxiang and other places, Marquis Gu feels that the soldiers and people of Jinling resisted to the death and defended Jinling City to all the states. What is the possibility that the County King Qin’s army will come to the rescue and eventually defeat Liang’s army?”
"This..." Gu Zhilong really didn't want to face the topic of Fu Gengwen.
"Master Fu seems to know very well what Liang Jun wants to do?" Xi Ying looked at Fu Gengwen with a sullen face and asked hesitantly.
Hearing what Xiying said, Gu Zhilong, Gu Xiongchang and his son both looked at Fu Gengwen hesitantly.
"A few days ago, an old friend who had disappeared for several years suddenly came to visit and analyzed the situation for Geng Wen. Geng Wen thought it made some sense, so he sold it to Gu Hou," Fu Gengwen said calmly, "Why, wash it?"
Do you think there is a problem, sir?"
What can Xiying say?
Gu Zhilong shook his head, somewhat too lazy to investigate whether Fu Gengwen had colluded with Liang Jun, and signaled to Xi Yingmo not to dwell on the matter.
Unless he had the determination to "better to pieces than to be ruined", or even if Fu Gengwen had secretly colluded with Liang Jun, would it be possible for him to capture Gong Gengwen and send him to a serious trial?
He believes that what he is more concerned about is what should he do to avoid becoming a sacrifice?
"How do Geng Wen think we can protect our family?" Gu Zhilong asked bluntly, not caring about showing off as Minister of War.
"How can Geng Wen dare to comment on what Marquis Gu should choose? But if Geng Wen thinks about it, maybe someone in the court tomorrow will agree with Marquis Yang and advise the Queen Mother to marry the Liang Lord - of course, no blood will be shed, obviously. Impossible. Even if the Liang Lord wanted to seize Jinling without a fight, Chuzhou would probably have to fight, right? After all, Liang Jun’s Second Central Camp Army, led by Liang General Han Donghu, went south along the Surabaya River, but they made a special trip to Chuzhou Prepared." Fu Gengwen said.
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I don’t know who spread the news. The imperial students of the Imperial Academy were the first to be unable to bear such "national humiliation and humiliation." If Zheng Xingxuan had not received the letter early and sent troops to strengthen the guards of the Liyang Marquis Mansion in time, Yang En might have
He would be taken to the streets and beaten to death by these scholars.
A group of middle- and lower-level officials also wrote letters to impeach Yang En, and in their words they wanted to eat his flesh and bones.
For a time, public sentiment arose in Jinling City, and there were many discussions in the streets. There were many people who wanted to sacrifice their lives and shed blood for the survival of Chu.
On the 19th, according to the established plan, Liang Jun gathered dozens of warships to Caishiji, used artillery fire to drive out the guards at the foot of Cuiluo Mountain, landed on Caishiji, occupied Caishiji, and started to attack Caishiji and Xiaohuangzhou.
In the meantime, they pulled up an iron cable more than two miles long and prepared to build a pontoon bridge across the river.
At the same time, Han Donghu led the Second Central Battalion across the Huaihe River and marched to the gates of Chuzhou City.
The Second Central Battalion Army only had two battalions of thirty-six bottles of light and heavy forward slide artillery, but they were deployed outside the northern city of Chuzhou on the 20th. However, when they failed to persuade them to surrender, they launched a fierce bombardment of Chuzhou City that night.
The Wanghuai Gate Tower in Chuzhou North City and the city gate cave were quickly destroyed. By noon the next day, a gap of more than ten feet wide was opened in the solid Chuzhou North City. The defenders at the top of the city suffered more than a thousand casualties;
On the second day, four light smoothbore cannons were dragged up the city wall. Under attack from shotgun shells, the defenders who tried to counterattack in a dense formation to retake the city wall suffered even more heavy casualties.
On the 23rd, Liang Jun's vanguard troops entered the inner city of Chuzhou and captured Xinwang Palace. Yang Yuanyan, who had been injured by arrows for half a year, tried to stop Liang Jun with a knife, but was hit by dozens of arrows and died again.
Wang Fu Ruan Yan died while drinking a pigeon; Ruan Yan's son Ruan Tao and Prince Xin's son Yang Cong and more than ten people were all regarded as first-class war criminals. On the day after the fall of Chuzhou, they ordered Han Donghu to be tied to the south gate of Chuzhou City and hanged in public...