Zou Jianchen was completely unaware of the secret mobilization of soldiers from the imperial camp of the Western Ming Dynasty. He and his good friend Jiang Dinghong, the Minister of Rites, were still pretending to be guides for the scholars from eastern Sichuan in the Qingyang Palace.
The only thing that surprised Zou Jianchen was that another of his conspirators and personal friends, Gong Wanjing, the Minister of War, was also in the Qingyang Palace.
Zou Jianchen asked in surprise: "What business does Brother Gong have in Qingyang Palace?"
Jiang Dinghong also felt strange. Gong Wanjing frowned and said, "This is the King of the East who ordered me to come here to handle the documents, but I don't know where the King of the East is?"
Jiang Dinghong replied: "The four princes are all in the pavilion. Brother Gong can win the trust of the Eastern King... Ha, the official career in the new dynasty is good."
Gong Wanjing laughed at himself and said: "What's the matter? This place is full of thieves. If it weren't for the Jiangnan campaign, I wouldn't even bother to stay in Chengdu."
Zou Jianchen chuckled and said, "Let's be careful first. After these last few days, when Governor Wang enters Shu, the good days of these thieves will come to an end."
The three of them looked at each other and smiled knowingly. It seemed that the plan to overthrow the rule of Xiying was successfully carried out without saying anything. Gong Wanjing then prepared to go to the pavilion to see Sun Kewang, but in front of the door of the highest pavilion in Qingyang Palace, someone had already been blocked.
A group of iron-clad guards blocked the way.
Gong Wanjing asked curiously: "Why did you stop me? It was the King of the East who summoned me to see you."
Ai Nengqi, the Western King, wore two layers of armor and walked out from the iron-coated soldiers with a big bow in his hand. He saw Gong Wanjing coming to the door himself. Without saying a word, he set the arrow on the string. As soon as the string sounded, the Qingyang Palace
Thousands of scholars, including Jiang Dinghong, Zou Jianchen and other gentry, all shouted in fear.
Ai Nengqi smiled grimly and said: "The King of Heaven has treated you so kindly, how do you repay the King of Heaven? There are all the witnesses and material evidence. King Guangen of Yi has already shaken out all the conspiracy of you and others to conspire with Wang Yingxiong to enter Sichuan.
Die! Do it!"
Thousands of Daxi Army soldiers inside and outside the Qingyang Palace were fully clothed and armed with steel knives. They stood on three floors along the corridor and surged forward.
These unarmed scholars were no match at all. Amidst the screams, blood flowed out and filled the Qingyang Palace. The scholars discarded brushes, books and inkstones on the floor, piled up like a hill. Gong Wanjing was shot by Ai Nengqi first.
Then the wolf-like and tiger-like soldiers of the Imperial Camp of Xiying rushed forward and hacked Jiang Dinghong and Zou Jianchen to death.
Zeng Ying and Yang Zhan, who were drinking tea and resting in the side hall of Qingyang Palace, were shocked when they heard the shouts of death and screams outside the palace.
They had participated in or heard about the anti-Western conspiracy in Jiangnan, so they felt guilty. As soon as they heard the screams of killing, they immediately thought that they had also been deceived into the killing array by Sun Kewang.
Yang Zhan was not directly involved in the conspiracy, but Zeng Ying was a central figure in the crime.
Zeng Ying looked at Yang Zhan and said loudly: "We should continue to resist the rebellion, Yang Hou, let's fight back to the east of Sichuan together to welcome the Ming army to Shu. There is still hope for ZTE."
Yang Zhan's face was ashen. Zou Jianchen and others had already sent envoys to instigate him. But Yang Zhan believed that Zhang Xianzhong supported the King of Gui and proclaimed himself emperor after all. In terms of legitimacy, King Zhu Youlang of Gui was compared to Emperor Hongguang of Jiangnan.
The difference is not that far.
Moreover, the military strength of Xiying was much stronger than that of Jiangnan. Yang Zhancai was hesitant and finally sent back the conspiracy letter from Zou Jianchen and others.
At this time, Zeng Ying persuaded them to join forces to fight out of Chengdu. Yang Zhan neither wanted to abandon his friend Zeng Ying, but also did not want to betray Xiying and Gui Wang Zhu Youlang, who he thought could at least stabilize the situation in Sichuan. He was tormented and miserable.
At this time, Dou Mingwang had already led the imperial soldiers into the side hall. Zeng Ying's left and right lieutenants, Dahai and Li Zhanchun, led dozens of soldiers to resist desperately on the steps of the side hall. The blood was flowing on the oars, and the arrows had already reached the side hall.
In the palace, Sun Kewang finally couldn't wait any longer, so he directly ordered the cannon to fire. With one cannon, Yu Dahai and Li Zhanchun who were guarding the door of the palace were killed.
Yang Zhan said helplessly: "Zhang Xianzhong is brave and capable, and has far-reaching wisdom. You are no match for him. What's more, Zhang Xianzhong and the fourth prince are wise, decisive and resourceful. They are talented enough to govern the country. Jiangnan."
Emperor Hongguang and the Emperor of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of our dynasty are both close clan members of the Ming Dynasty, and their moral order is not far apart. Why bother to seduce the Guizhou soldiers into Shu for this matter and start a bloody storm again?"
Zeng Ying was shocked by Yang Zhan's words. He pointed at Yang Zhan and cursed:
"Zhang Xianzhong bullies the emperor, and the so-called respecting the King of Gui is just empty words. I welcome the Guizhou soldiers into Shu to restore the righteousness of the world in Shu!"
At this time, the palace gate was finally breached by Dou Mingwang's troops, and Sun Kewang also entered the palace wearing armor.
After King Dong heard the argument between the two men, Sun Kewang couldn't help but laugh several times and said:
"Mr. Zeng, you are right. We are holding the emperor hostage to control the princes. But isn't that the case with the officials in Jiangnan? I heard that the Emperor Ming in Jiangnan was held hostage by the three towns. In this way, it is not as good as our Xiying.
At least we only have one town in Xiying. The three towns in Jiangnan all have the merit of formulating policies. They are like separatist regimes. Future conflicts will arise from within and attack each other. Is this something that Mr. Zeng could not foresee?
How can these disciples of Li Jue and Guo Si be compared with me in Xiying?"
Zeng Ying staggered back two steps and cursed: "The thieves are talking nonsense, I will wait for Inspector Wang to fight back to Sichuan, Yang Zhan, you will help the tyrants to do evil, and you will regret it later."
Sun Kewang waved his hand coldly and said: "Dou Mingwang, kill him. What Wang Yingxiong? You probably don't know that this Wang Commander recruited thousands of Guizhou soldiers before they reached the outskirts of Sichuan. After hearing that our army was coming to attack,
, will it just collapse on its own?”
Hearing this, Zeng Ying was horrified and speechless. He did not expect that the Jiangnan soldiers he had counted on for so long would be so vulnerable.
Zeng Ying couldn't help but ask the last question:
"No...this is impossible! Commander Wang and Commander He are going to join forces to suppress the upper reaches of the Yangtze River!"
Sun Kewang sneered and said: "Master He? Are you talking about He Tengjiao? I heard from Lin Chengcheng that he had recruited some Zhongkai camp. The Zhongwu camp had a total of 40,000 troops and was preparing to attack Yuezhou in the north. But it has been defeated.
Liu Xiyao of the Dashun Army and his eight thousand men blocked the south of Dongting Lake in one fell swoop. They were defeated repeatedly in battles, and it was a failure every time."
Dou Mingwang no longer waited, he rushed forward fully armed. Although Zeng Ying was also a brave man, he was not wearing iron armor at this time, and he did not carry any other weapons except a ceremonial decorative sword.
He was no match for Dou Mingwang, and was eventually killed by Dou Mingwang's neck being chopped off with an axe.
Yang Zhan shed tears on the side. He looked at Sun Kewang and asked:
"Will King Dong kill me?"
Sun Kewang's face was like water: "I have sent troops to protect Zeng's family, and I will never kill anyone indiscriminately. General Yang, please rest assured. Now that the rebels are in the north, the intruders have not been eliminated. I and you must work together to support the future."
.After today’s Qingyang Palace case, I believe Sichuan will become more stable and there will be no more killings.”
Yang Zhan said with difficulty: "The world will definitely see me betraying my friends for profit..."
Sun Kewang waved his hands and said: "The family members of the Zeng family have to be taken care of by General Yang. The general will not commit suicide and ignore Mr. Zeng's orphan just because of some unnecessary words from the world, right?"
Sun Kewang's words finally convinced Yang Zhan, causing him to put down his sword and give up his short-sightedness of following Zeng Ying to commit suicide.
But Sun Kewang only deliberately showed such kindness and tolerance towards Zeng Ying and Yang Zhan, two princes with heavy military power. Outside the side hall of Qingyang Palace, Sun Kewang showed no mercy to those local gentry who did not have military power.
The land was overrun and slaughtered.
Qingyang Palace was littered with corpses. After a few scholars desperately escaped from the palace, they were killed by Wang Shangli and his army.
Li Dingguo covered his nose, but he still couldn't stand the pungent smell of blood. He couldn't help but feel compassion for heaven and earth. Liu Wenxiu also shook his head and said:
"With such killing, people in the world will regard us as thieves again."
Sun Kewang said coldly:
"It was nothing more than killing more than a thousand gentry sons. When we were suffering from drought in northern Shaanxi, it was common for thousands of people to starve to death in a day.
Later, Hong Chengchou said that he wanted to recruit people, that he wanted to appease, and that he wanted to give out some cards to avoid death, but he suddenly sent out troops to kill all the rebels who had surrendered. The number of surrendered soldiers killed by the Ming Dynasty in those few times was much greater than the number of people killed by Gu today.
Too much! You two have only lived a good life for a few days, have you forgotten these past events?"
Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu were both speechless. Dou Mingwang finally led some imperial soldiers to clean up the corpses. All the corpses of the gentry sons were thrown directly into the Jinjiang River and Qingbai River. In an instant, the river turned red and the corpses stopped flowing.
It's so miserable.
Lin Chengcheng, the envoy sent by Dashun to Chengdu, followed Sun Kewang and observed from beginning to end the "Qingyang Palace Incident" in which Sun Kewang eliminated the internal opposition forces in Sichuan.
He knew that after this battle, Ximing would completely complete its internal integration. In the previous negotiations, Zhang Xianzhong had agreed to take over Hanzhong and Longxi where the Dashun Army was stationed, and would send troops from the west and south to contain Wu Sangui.
Yifan vassal soldiers.
Lin Chengcheng's trip fulfilled his mission. He silently recorded Sun Kewang's brilliant strategy and domineering dictatorship within the Ximing regime, and also recorded the dissatisfaction between Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu towards Sun Kewang.
Lin Chengcheng himself was not very literate, but when he came to Chengdu this time, he was accompanied by some staff members from the Military Academy. Lin Chengcheng was accompanied by the secretary and staff officer Liu Zizhuang, who was from Huangzhou, Huguang. He and his cousin, who were highly regarded by Gu Junen,
Like Cao Benrong, he was a student of Huguang Wenjin Academy and joined the Chu Chuang army very early.
Liu Zizhuang has excellent writing skills and can be regarded as a famous scholar in Chuzhong. Originally, Liu Zizhuang in history would pass the first-class Jinshi examination in the Qing Dynasty in the sixth year of Shunzhi, and he would become the number one scholar and become famous all over the world.
But now his life has taken a different path. He gave up his writing and joined the army. He has made many military achievements by following Lin Chengcheng.
Liu Zizhuang jotted down today's events in the book he carried with him:
"...At that time, the Western Camp pretended to be the Ming Emperor and ordered foreign and domestic orders, mobilized troops and paid them, but none of them were heard. They killed, killed, and plundered at will. Zhang Xianzhong was in the palace of the King of Shu, and he was not heard. The power was all in the hands of the Eastern King... Qingyang
The palace changes, the blood flows in the oars, and the Shu scholars are all gone. It is expected that Zhuan will be better..."