The city of Yangju was so open that people were caught off guard.
As soon as night fell, the army rushed into the city, and then a less intense street battle broke out.
It was not intense because the soldiers guarding the city had no fighting spirit and it was almost a one-sided massacre.
Most of them were defeated soldiers who had fled all the way back from Yazhou. Their morale was low and they even lacked weapons.
Either they were local young men recruited temporarily, but the young men who could be beaten were also given away in Dadu River, and now most of them are crooked melons and cracked jujubes.
Either they were soldiers and horses mobilized by the barbarians from the nearby Xi'er River. They were the ones who did the bad things this time.
They were actually the ones who killed the most fiercely.
The chiefs and chiefs all surrendered. As a private tribe, they were like slaves and did not think about who the enemy was or where to attack.
Furthermore, what should we do with our families on the other side of the Xi'er River? The Xia army's cavalry is about to arrive in one day. Looking at the majestic armored cavalry, no one can think of resisting.
There was no choice but to take the enemy's head to atone for his sins. Anyway, they were Wu barbarians and had nothing to do with them, so just kill him and that would be it.
The morale of one side was high, while the other side had no fighting spirit. The battle soon came to an end. The defenders opened the north gate and fled in panic. Shulu Porun, Yang Shihou, He Delun and others led the cavalry to wait and attack repeatedly.
In an instant, blood flowed out like a river, and the sword was curled.
When Zheng Renmin received the news, he was drinking in the palace. He burst into tears after hearing the news, and then asked someone to bring a sheath, inspiring the last hundred or so guards to rush to the palace gate together.
Dali Imperial City has three gates.
The first palace gate has a double eaves gate tower, and there are bluestone steps to go up on the left and right sides, which are more than two feet high.
At this time, the bluestone steps were covered with corpses. Qiu Zengxiang, the governor of the Luoyan Army, personally led the Mohe infantry, fired heavy arrows, and then climbed up the steps, killing all the way. Chang and his guards were all scattered.
After advancing three hundred steps, we arrived at the second palace gate.
The facade is five rooms wide, with two rows of gatehouses hanging plaques on the left and right, which are where officials work.
When Zheng Renmin rushed out, he collided head-on with Qiu Zengxiang and others.
Under a barrage of arrows, people on both sides fell down. However, Xia Jun advanced to meet the enemy's defeat, but Zheng Renmin's legs were shaking. He was mostly drunk, and the courage he had just felt seemed to have disappeared.
"Catch them alive!" Qiu Zengxiang shouted.
The sergeants subconsciously avoided Zheng Renmin when shooting arrows, and shot at the guards repeatedly.
Qiu Zengxiang changed his wooden raft and went straight to Zheng Renmin.
Zheng Renmin waved his scabbard to block, but his movement was soft and slow, as if he was flirting and sparring. He was hit on the shoulder by a wooden stick and fell down.
Qiu Zengxiang rushed forward, lifted up Zheng Renmin who was screaming in pain, and laughed and said: "The false king has been captured."
The sergeants shouted in unison, killed all the few remaining guards, and then rushed into the third door.
There are more than 200 steps between the third palace gate and the second palace gate. The palace gate has double eaves. Normally, there should be guards and honor guards here, but at this time there is no one, only the palace people who are screaming in fear.
Come and go.
Liu Zhiyuan and Xiang Lijin each led hundreds of sergeants and rushed in. When they reached Zhaobi, they encountered more than a dozen eunuchs holding sharp swords.
What I didn’t say was that anyone with weapons would be killed without hesitation. These eunuchs were loyal and brave, but they couldn’t resist even for a moment, and soon threw their bodies to the ground.
The Xia soldiers swarmed in, trampling on their corpses, carrying bloody sharp knives, and occupied every palace, including Zheng Renmin's palace. They collected all the female scrolls of the Zheng family and took away hundreds of palace residents.
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Qiu Zengxiang walked into the main hall.
This is a majestic hall with a mixed structure of wood and stone. The top is a dense spider web-style caisson structure with no beams, which looks very strange.
There are various furnishings in the front, which are extremely exquisite. The most conspicuous one is the dragon chair.
The sergeants were packing and moving everything away, which made him sigh with emotion.
Is this the doomsday scene when the country is subjugated?
The goods were packed and shipped away and became military supplies for the enemy.
The wives and daughters of the family traveled to a strange place to receive favor from the enemy.
Everything that symbolized imperial power was removed, and anything that could not be removed was destroyed on the spot.
A country that had been founded for more than 160 years fell to the ground like this, and all the last traces of its existence would disappear.
The great power of an emperor lies in gathering the crowd. When you cannot gather the crowd, you will be at the end of your rope.
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Li Tangbin commanded the troops to pursue the remnants of the enemy, and King Yan Shao Mingyi moved to Wuhua Tower two miles outside the city to meet with the Changhe officials who had been escorted there.
"Back then, it was downstairs that Zheng Maisi killed more than 800 Meng family members, right?" Shao Mingyi asked, standing in front of the square pavilion downstairs.
During the Nanzhao period, Wuhua Tower was a state guesthouse for receiving foreign envoys. There was a pavilion in front of the building, which was adjacent to Fangchi. The circumference of the pond was seven miles, and the water was several feet deep. Fish and turtles were raised inside.
It is said that the blood of the members of the Meng family dyed the pond water red, and the infant children were cut in half and thrown into the pond.
Zheng Maisi did something so ruthless that it was natural that people were shocked, and that he ended up as he did today.
However, the complicated situation within the country is also inseparable from this.
"Your Highness, Zheng Maisi has acted rebelliously, so it is better to dig up graves and whip the corpses." Zhao Shanzheng, an official of the Qing Dynasty, said.
The Zhao family also has a brand-new genealogy. I heard that the county magistrate is from Qinzhou, and they are from the same clan as Concubine Zhao, so they are really good relatives.
Shao Mingyi frowned after hearing this and said nothing.
Zhao Shanzheng observed carefully and felt that he seemed to have said the wrong thing.
"Let's not talk about Zheng Maisi's merits and demerits for now." Shao Mingyi said: "Based on the current situation, what can Mr. Zhao teach me?"
Zhao Shanzheng was so flattered by the word "Mr." that his face glowed red. He thought for a moment and said: "Your Highness, you should calm him down and take care of him. In fact, he did a good job in Nanzhao era, and Xijing
The villagers have basically been reorganized into households, and the people are at ease."
"what for?"
"It means that no matter how the outside world changes, they will listen to the court. The Wuman Meng family is the king, and they listen to the Meng family. The Han people Zheng family is the king, and they listen to the Zheng family. If one day, a person from the Baiman family becomes the king,
They will also obey the king."
Shao Mingyi nodded lightly.
It seems that the Nanzhao Kingdom did not do nothing. Although this country has large tribal areas, at least under the emperor's feet, it has done a good job in organizing households and integrating the people.
These people in Erhai Bazi are relatively high-quality people "within the system". They are managed by the system and can be directly called upon by the system, provided that the officials within the system approve of you.
Now that Xia Jun has won their preliminary approval with the sword, if he can be kept calm later and no chaos will break out, as time goes by, this small system on the Erhai Bazi will slowly be embedded into the larger system of the imperial court and become Daxia's
part.
As a captive, the Zheng family managed the business for seven generations before gaining recognition from the system. It was much easier for the Daxia court to do things than the Zheng family, and it did not take that long at all.
But - some things still depend on the person. If you meet an unscrupulous official, even if you have the backing of the court, you may mess up the matter. There is no way to say this.
"Which ethnic group is the majority in Dali? Baiman? Wuman? Or something else?" he asked again.
"Erhai is the place where Wuman dragons thrive. Why did His Highness say this?" Zhao Shanzheng said in surprise: "Near the Xijing City, there are naturally the majority of Wuman people, but if it is the entire Dali Prefecture, it is hard to say."
Shao Mingyi nodded slightly and understood.
First of all, we need to understand the origin of Nanzhao?
They were the Wuman tribe of the Yi language group. After unifying the Six Zhaos, they established their capital in Dali. At that time, Erhai was almost entirely composed of Wuman people, and the few Baiman (Heman tribesmen) were also driven out and annexed by them.
But things are unpredictable.
During the Ge Luofeng period, 200,000 white barbarians from the West Cuan were relocated to Dali and Yongchang. This move had a far-reaching impact.
No one realizes that it is never the top buildings that determine a region’s ownership, but the number of people at the bottom.
Erhai is obviously the base camp of the Wuman and the land of Longxing. However, one hundred and sixty years later, the Wuman not only failed to assimilate the Baiman, but more and more Baiman rose to high positions and even became a prominent local clan.
Not to mention, the Meng clan, the Yi-speaking Wuman leaders, had been killed by the Han Zheng Maisi, which made their situation even worse.
Even an outsider like Shao Mingyi can see that the rise of the Baiman is quite obvious. If the court does not take action, Erhai will sooner or later be far away from the Yi ethnic group, and the "entry" of the Baiman family in the West Erhe River is almost certain -
—It is already obvious what race Dali belongs to in later generations.
The so-called Dachanghe Kingdom established by the Zheng Han people was actually just a transition. They had no foundation and could not unite the Yi-speaking people, so sooner or later Erhai Lake would fall into the hands of the Baiman.
This is the general trend.
Thinking of this, he glanced at Zhao Shanzheng and said: "The situation in Dali depends a lot on Mr. Lai and others."
"Where." Zhao Shanzheng said happily.
He had also heard what King Yan said before. Recommending them, the barbarian leaders of the West Erhe River, to serve as officials in the dynasty had both advantages and disadvantages.
He briefly studied the situation in the Southern and Northern Dynasties and knew that when the children of aristocratic families entered the court and became officials, they could feed back the families where the county magistrates were located and enhance the family's influence.
But there are also disadvantages, that is, it is inconvenient to leave your hometown. It is difficult to react in time to what happens in your hometown. Moreover, they are officials in other places and are like hostages. If they want to take any action in their hometown, they have to worry about them.
Safety - if someone really rebels, the court will kill them with just one sentence.
But is there a choice now?
The imperial court did appoint a lot of native officials, many of whom were in unattractive places. But it seems that Dali Prefecture is going to establish direct jurisdiction over Zhengzhou, so they will have no chance to become hereditary native officials.
What should we do? Resist? What should the tribesmen in Xi'er River do? If they were confident that they could defeat the Xia soldiers, they would not surrender.
Maybe there is another option, to move to a farther place. But it seems that it is not possible under the noses of the Xia people. I am afraid that I will be attacked by the pursuers before I have run out for dozens of miles, and they will be hacked to death one by one.
The corpse was found in the West Er River and fed to fish and turtles.
Whatever you want to do, you have to at least wait until Xia Bing leaves.
"The memorial recommending you to become officials has been sent to the court. There should be no problem. You can just wait for the good news." Shao Mingyi said.
After a conversation with Zhao Shanzheng, he had made up his mind that he must not let those ghosts and ghosts outside the Erhai Bazi disturb the people who had registered households "within the system" in Xijing.
People like Zhao Shanzheng who have great influence in the local area must be asked to leave. Even if the Xi'erhe tribe is still there for a while, the problem will not be big.
If you want to rebel, you first need something important: influence.
In the big families such as the Zhao family, the Gao family, the Duan family, and the Yang family, not just any cat or dog can cause chaos. When you try to instigate others, they first have to ask, "Who are you?" "Who are you?" Where are you from?
I can only add some points to him, but it is not absolute.
First, get rid of these influential people who have served as high officials in the Changhe Kingdom, and slowly process the rest. Maybe you can also win over some truly capable and helpful people. This will be helpful for your future plans.