Chapter 403: Rewarding the Army to Save the Nation
Dao Yan said: "Since His Majesty came to the throne, although he has given many favors to civil servants, for the civil servants in the five provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the ropes are still tied to their heads. Your Majesty still does not allow people from the five provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to serve as officials in the Ministry of Household Affairs.
, none of the civil servants whom Your Majesty trusts most are from the five provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang."
"So they were dissatisfied with His Majesty. At this time, first the rebels rebelled, and then His Majesty Qingjun rebelled. They saw the hope of changing all this, so they supported His Majesty."
After listening to Dao Yan's words, Zhu Di said bitterly: "The people in the five provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang are the worms of the country. Now we are alone and have to accept their help. If I, Qingjun, are successful, I will never turn to these worms."
, we must kill them severely."
"In my opinion, Yunxi is still too soft on them. If they kill a group of people, they won't dare to do anything."
Dao Yan said: "Your Highness, the poor monk thinks that even if he kills a group of them, it is just a temporary matter. He has to hire people from the five provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang as officials. In the end, he must adopt the rules set by Emperor Taizu.
.So it’s not wrong for Your Majesty not to kill anyone.”
Zhu Di said: "I am annoyed when I see these things, so it is better to deal with them cleanly." Of course, it is impossible for Zhu Di not to know this truth, and it is not that he is not good at doing such things, but he still feels annoyed.
Dao Yan said: "Your Highness, if your Highness is successful, these matters cannot always be handled in that way. It would be better to handle them according to Emperor Taizu's rules."
Zhu Di said: "Alas! I know this."
Afterwards, Daoyan originally wanted to discuss other matters with Zhu Di, but at this time Zhu Neng, who was responsible for the expedition of the front army, rode back and said to Zhu Di: "Your Highness, there are things ahead." Zhu Neng's
His expression was indescribably weird, as if he had seen a mouse tying a bell on a cat.
Zhu Di asked strangely: "Zhu Neng, why do you have such an expression? What happened in front of you?"
Zhu Neng said: "Your Highness, someone said they wanted to reward us."
"What? Reward us?" Zhu Di was stunned for a moment and then said: "Take me to see it."
After a while, Zhu Di came to the front of the army and saw a man wearing an eighth-grade official uniform with some short shirts and common people driving a few sheep, thirty or forty pigs and a cow, as if they were going to hand over these livestock.
It was just like the former army. Fortunately, Zhu Di was very strict in managing the army. These people did not dare to accept things from unknown sources without authorization, and the army's formation was not in chaos.
As soon as Zhu Di came here, the man in the eighth-grade official uniform glanced at Zhu Di, who was wearing the prince's uniform, and then he immediately jogged two steps and came to Zhu Di.
Zhu Di's guards were extremely nervous for a moment: they all knew that Zhu Di was actually going to rebel, and they were very afraid that this man was actually an assassin in disguise. For a while, the sound of "swishing, swishing, swishing" a sharp knife being unsheathed came one after another.
However, this man was not an assassin, and he did not get too close to Zhu Di. He knelt down and saluted about three or four steps away from Zhu Di and said, "Your Majesty, Li Qing, the Prime Minister of Wuqiao County, pays homage to His Highness King Yan."
Zhu Di said: "Get up." After Li Qing got up, he asked: "Why are you here?"
Li Qing said nervously: "Your Highness, I have been ordered to reward the army."
"His Royal Highness, King Yan, led his troops south to quell the rebellion in Shandong. It was very hard. I, the magistrate of Wuqiao County, Dong Liang, said: 'His Royal Highness went south from Beiping to here, and he would not be able to carry much food and grass with him.' So I, the magistrate of Wuqiao County, Dong Liang, gathered all the food and grass in the county. The cattle, sheep and pigs are here to reward His Highness for the army that went south to put down the rebellion. I ordered my ministers to come and give them to Your Highness."
Zhu Di remained calm on the surface and said: 'Why do you have the nerve to ask for things from the local area?'
Li Qing said: "Whether it is the guard station or the local government, they are all places of the Ming Dynasty. Now Shandong's Chengdu is raging, and Wuqiao County is also close to Shandong. We have been looking forward to the king's division going south for a long time, so how can we Wuqiao County not Expressed something.”
Zhu Di still had no special expression and said: "In that case, you can put down these pigs, cattle and sheep and go back. Thank you to Dong Liang, the magistrate of Wuqiao County for me." At the same time, Zhu Di ignored Zhu Neng's actions and did not express any expression.
Li Qing bowed and said: "How can He County get His Highness's thanks?" Then he said a few words to Zhu Di, then handed the pigs, cattle and sheep to Zhu Di, and returned to Wuqiao County with his people.
When they were far away, Zhu Di ordered: "Order all soldiers to be on alert! The infantry formed a large formation to resist the cavalry and marched slowly; the cavalry also formed a formation ready to charge at any time."
Dao Yan said: "Your Highness, this is clearly Xian Gao's plan of 'rewarding the army to save the country' during the Spring and Autumn Period. It shows that the front is empty and unprepared. Why does Your Highness put the soldiers on such alert?"
Zhu Di said: "Xian Gao's plan of 'rewarding the army to save the country' is not uncommon. Even I, who have not read many books, know this plan. How can the magistrate of Wuqiao County think that we don't know this plan? Then he How could it be used in this way?”
"Besides, Wuqiao County is not on the route from Dongguang County to Dezhou. We had no intention of entering Wuqiao County in the first place. I think the magistrate of Wuqiao would have thought of it. With so many of us, Wuqiao County would have to use all the people in the county There may not be as many people as our army, and if Wuqiao County is indifferent, the imperial court will not punish Wuqiao County harshly."
"On the contrary, if it attracts our attention, it is very likely to lead our army to Wuqiao County. Wouldn't it be like setting yourself on fire? Falling into the city is a capital crime. On the one hand, it is a capital crime, and on the other hand, it is at most a reprimand. If you are Wuqiao County As a magistrate, if the county is really empty and unprepared, what will you do?"
"So I guess that at least 10,000 people from the imperial court must have come to Wuqiao County. The people leading the army used the strategy of 'rewarding the army to save the country', hoping that this would make our army careless and then take the opportunity to make a sneak attack."
Dao Yan brought his character into the Wuqiao County magistrate, and then discovered that if Wuqiao County was really unprepared, doing so would indeed be a very idiotic act, unless Dong Liang was so patriotic that he even wanted to risk the lives of his own family. extent, otherwise it would never be done.
However, Dao Yan still said: "But what if Dong Liang, the magistrate of Wuqiao County, is really die-hard and uses the strategy of 'rewarding the army to save the country'?"
Zhu Di said to Zhu Neng at this time: "Zhu Neng, take a thousand cavalry to Wuqiao County to explore the situation in Wuqiao County. Whether Wuqiao County is prepared or not, send someone back to inform him." Zhu Neng accepted the order. Lead the troops and head east.
Zhu Di then said to Dao Yan: "So I sent Zhu Neng to test and see if Wuqiao County is really empty and unprepared."
Dao Yan asked again: "Why not let Zhu Neng detain the magistrate of Wuqiao County just now?"
Zhu Di said: "A county magistrate may not know much; on the contrary, detaining him will make the soldiers suspicious. Now I have not announced to the soldiers that we have rebelled. Letting the soldiers know rashly may shake the morale of the army, so I have not detained him."
That person."
After a while, Zhu Neng returned with his troops and said to Zhu Di: "Your Highness, when I led the troops to a place about seven or eight miles away from Wuqiao County, I saw a group of cavalry in front of me, about two thousand people.
, I didn’t dare to move, so I came back with my troops.”
Zhu Di said: "It seems that an army from the imperial court has really come to Wuqiao County, waiting for an opportunity to attack our army. Order all ministries to be more cautious and not to slack off!"