Cai Yu, the commander of the Fuzhou Guard, was inspired by the king's order and immediately announced that he would go into battle despite being sick and clean up all the soldiers who participated in the mutiny!
The soldiers and horses have not moved, but the food and grass go first.
Sending troops requires a little preparation time, and this preparation lasted more than half a month.
The scale of the mutiny in Yongning City suddenly expanded rapidly as Cai Yu planned to go on an expedition. Tens of thousands of military households in the vicinity rose up one after another to resist the brutal rule of Governor Wang.
In early March, before Cai Yu was ready, Wang Yuan led his troops to the outside of Yongning City.
There were less than five hundred elite cavalry in total, and there were more than a thousand recruits, namely, fleeing military households who had just been reorganized.
The more than 400 elite cavalrymen are now all officers. They must be gathered together to ensure the combat effectiveness of the cavalry unit. Therefore, the more than a thousand newly formed troops do not even have competent officers. They are likely to disperse in a hurry if they encounter setbacks.
Wang Yuan took the king's order flag to borrow troops, and the surrounding garrison commanders agreed wholeheartedly, but they needed to spend time preparing troops.
Wang Yuan didn't wait any longer, so he took the less than two thousand people and went straight to Yongning Prison City.
The towers of the larger Tucheng were densely packed with rebels who participated in the mutiny. Most of them were ordinary people who had never fought in a war. They sincerely wanted to resist the tyranny of the governor.
"Zhongde, are we bad?" Wang Yuan asked, pointing to the people on the tower.
Wang Chong smiled helplessly: "In the eyes of these people, we are indeed the bad guys who are forcing the people to rebel."
The officers invaded the pasture, not to raise horses, but to use it for farming. Farming requires people, and I don’t know how many people depended on such a large pasture for survival. Wang Yuan came to take back the pasture now because he wanted to
If the jobs of tens of thousands of peasants are destroyed, how can those common people who work as tenants for military officers not rebel?
Wang Yuan admired Wang Chong very much and regarded him as his successor. At this time, he deliberately cultivated: "How to quell the chaos?"
"The most important thing is to attack the heart." Wang Chong replied.
Wang Yuan smiled and said: "You take charge."
Half a day later, Wang Yuan set up camp outside the city, while Wang Chong led his cavalry and fired arrows into the city.
Hundreds of letters were sent into the city, nothing more than expressing goodwill and announcing the resettlement method for landless tenants. I don’t know whether it was because the Liaodong officials were too seriously overdrawn, or because Wang Yuan’s promise was too generous. Anyway, there were no rebels in the city.
Believe it or not, Wang Chong's strategy of attacking the heart failed.
"Sir, my disciple is incompetent." Wang Chong felt ashamed.
Wang Yuan comforted him and said: "It's not your fault, it's the soldiers and civilians of Liaodong who have long since stopped believing in the officials' nonsense."
Wang Yuan also had a headache at this time. He only had more than 400 elite cavalry at his disposal, so it was impossible to use them to attack the city, right? As for the remaining more than a thousand recruits, they were basically used to support the situation. It was okay to fight with the wind, so throw them away.
I am afraid that I will have to escape halfway through the siege.
As a general, he is most afraid of impatience.
Wang Yuan was not in a hurry and surrounded the city without attacking, waiting for the rebels in the city to make mistakes.
It was said to be a mutiny, but in fact it was a civil rebellion. It was spring now, and not to mention whether there was enough food in the city, the rebels were still thinking about spring plowing. I am afraid that the whole army would panic after a month of siege.
Taking this opportunity, Wang Yuan sent people to clear Zhang's pasture. At this time, no one dared to stop him.
Wang Yuan hoped that someone would jump out, just in time to establish his authority. He couldn't attack the city, so what was there to talk about outside the city? The more than 400 elite cavalry were not just decorations!
Half a month later, Fei Yuan, the disciple who led the people to clear the pasture, came back and reported: "Sir, the clearing has not been completed yet, but the situation has become extremely bad. Not even an acre of the more than 1,000 pastures that have been cleared has been occupied.
The remaining pastures have been destroyed, and everything you can see is farmland."
"As expected." Wang Yuan was not angry.
As mentioned before, Yuanma Temple in Liaodong had six prisons and twenty-four gardens. Not many years after Zhu Di died, only the two gardens of Qinghe and Luanhe remained, and the other twenty-two gardens and pastures were all occupied.
During the Zhengtong period, the imperial court sent ministers to supervise the horse administration, and only restored all the pastures in Yongningjian (four gardens in total).
During the Chenghua period, only two gardens were left, and the imperial court once again sent ministers to rectify it.
In the Hongzhi Dynasty, it was abolished and the pastures were reorganized, but no results were achieved.
There is no way, neither the governor of Liaodong nor the officials of Yuanma Temple dare to fall out with the local guard office. What is even more difficult is how to resettle the people who farm after the racecourse is restored? Let alone how to resettle those people.
What to do if you rebel?
You can only turn a blind eye!
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Within the city.
Zhang Lu, the deputy commander of the rebel army, said: "Brother, the officers and soldiers are not planning to leave. The people in the city are clamoring to go back for spring plowing."
The rebel leader Gao Hang said depressedly: "Whoever wants to plow the fields can go back. I won't leave anyway, and there is Wang Erlang outside!"
Zhang Lu did not believe in evil: "We have tens of thousands of troops and we go out together to kill the generals. Can the more than a thousand officers and soldiers outside withstand it?"
"Have you ever fought in a war?" Gao Hang asked.
Zhang Lu shook his head and said: "No."
Gao Hang asked again: "Have you heard of Liu Liu Liu Qi?"
Zhang Lu said with a smile: "That's a hero from Hebei. He came to the capital area again and again, and it took several years before he was wiped out."
Gao Hang sighed: "When Wang Erlang first won the first prize, he only had 200 cavalry and dared to charge at more than 10,000 rebel troops. The rebel army was really routed by him. The farmers in our hands are as good as Liu Liu and Liu Qi.
Rebel competition?"
"Is there such a thing?" Zhang Lu was shocked.
"Do you dare to leave the city now?" Gao Hang asked.
Zhang Lu shook his head repeatedly: "I don't dare." After that, he said again, "How about we surrender?"
Gao Hang was furious and kicked him: "You might as well find a rope to hang yourself!"
Zhang Lu covered the sore spot: "I just said it casually, but I didn't take it seriously."
Gao Hang was so angry that he sat back and said, "Bring the person named Ling."
Zhang Lu muttered: "Kill the one named Ling, it's useless to keep him. If you kill him, you can save some food rations."
Gao Hang, who had just sat down, was so angry that he stood up again, picked up the teacup and threw it out: "Since you are a third-grade civil servant, you kill him when you say it? If you really kill him, we will be dead!"
Ling Xiang was not only the Deputy Envoy of Shandong and Minister of Yuanmasi Temple in Liaodong, but also the Minister of Xingtaipu Temple in Liaodong. In terms of official position, he was one level lower than Wang Yuan.
The Minister of Xingtaipu Temple in Liaodong and the Minister of Yuanmasi were originally separated at first. Due to the serious dereliction of Ma Zheng, Xuanzong wanted to abandon Xingtaipu Temple in Liaodong, but was strongly opposed by Wang Ji, the Minister of War. In the end, although there was no real
Although it was abolished, the organization was greatly streamlined, and the two ministers were gradually reduced to one person.
Not long after, Ling Xiang was brought over. This time he was wearing clothes. It was enough to humiliate him. He couldn't stay naked all the time. What if he froze to death?
Prime Minister Ling came with his head high and his chest high, and sneered: "Wang Erlang has already reached the city, right? Why hold on for dear life? It's better to surrender quickly."
Gao Hang threatened: "The morale of the soldiers in the city is unstable. I want to kill you to unite the morale of the troops. What are your last words?"
Although Ling Xiang was so frightened that his vest was sweating, he still held on: "I am a third-grade official. If you kill me, there will be no turning back. You want to wait for Cai Yu to make a move, right? Once I am killed
Kill, even if Cai Yu can succeed, you people will definitely die!"
"Hahahahaha!"
Having seen through his thoughts, Gao Hang suddenly lowered his arrogance and pulled Ling Xiang's hand with a smile: "Master Ling, I have offended you many times before, so I am with you."
Ling Xiang said with a straight face: "If you sincerely apologize, let me go out of the city."
"This won't work," Gao Hang shook his head repeatedly, "Master Ling, how about we make a deal?"
Ling Xiang didn't want to die either, so he sneered and said, "You tell me."
Gao Hang said: "If I die, I will have someone on my back before I die, and then I will chop Master Ling in half. So, I have a way to live, and Master Ling has a way to live. Master Ling, you are knowledgeable, help us
How about showing me a clear path?"
Ling Xiang said: "The clear path is to open the city and surrender immediately!"
"fart!"
Ling Xiang was furious: "You bastard, I sincerely asked for advice, but you asked me to die. It's not like I didn't know what happened in the fourth year of Zhengde!"
In the fourth year of Zhengde's reign, a mutiny occurred in Liaodong. The imperial court allocated money to appease the rebels, and the rebellion quickly subsided. However, they later settled the accounts and killed all the leaders of the mutiny.
This incident was caused by Liu Jin. He sent eunuchs to inspect the farmland in Liaodong, saying that he wanted to return the farmland to military households. Some were indeed returned, but the eunuchs embezzled even more, which made the officers and military households panic.
King Anhua's rebellion was also triggered by Liu Jin, and the reason was exactly the same as the Liaodong Mutiny.
Liu Jin did this all over the country, sending eunuchs everywhere to clear land. He said he wanted to divide the land among the people, but he secretly looted countless people, forcing rebellions everywhere in the early years of Zhengde.
At this moment, the impeachment memorial for the eunuch guarding Liaodong has been sent to the Supervisor of Ceremonies, and has also been forwarded to the cabinet for all ministers to know. The impeachment charge is that Wang Yuan was imitating Liu Jin and using the Qingzhang Ranch as an excuse to murder Fu Fu.
He seized the military households in the state and took the pastures and fertile land as his own, forcing tens of thousands of people to rebel - never mentioning the mutiny from beginning to end.
There were many angry young people in the department who had spoken out against the government, and they were all young people who had never been severely beaten by society. When they got the news, regardless of whether it was true or false, countless public officials immediately followed suit and impeached him.
The Kedao Yanguan and the eunuchs started rioting at the same time, and coupled with the "civilian unrest" in Liaodong, if he had been replaced by another civil servant as governor, he would have been recalled to the capital for questioning.
Cai Yu and Gao Hang had the same idea, they wanted to get things done and get rid of Wang Yuan.
However, Zhu Houzhao, who always ignored government affairs, greeted the Chief of Ceremonies in advance: "All memorials about Wang Erlang will be kept in reserve."
The monarch and his ministers already had a tacit understanding as early as when Wang Yuan asked for errands.
Wang Yuan said at the time: "If your Majesty wants to regain the Duoyan Sanwei, he must raise horses in Liaodong. If he wants to raise horses in Liaodong, he must restore the pastures. If he wants to restore the pastures, there will definitely be a mutiny or civil commotion."
Zhu Houzhao said with a smile: "A mutiny kills soldiers, a civilian rebellion kills people, Erlang is free to do it, I just want war horses!"
At this moment, after hearing Gao Hang's statement, Ling Xiang sneered: "You know that the imperial court wants to settle accounts after the fall, but you still dare to gather troops to rebel?"
Gao Hang said: "As long as Wang Yuan leaves Liaodong, I will naturally be able to survive."
"Do you still think so?" Ling asked instead.
Gao Hang remained silent. He realized that he had been tricked. Governor Wang seemed unable to force him to leave.
Ling Xiang gloated over the misfortune and began to make bad ideas: "Rebellion is like playing cards. You have to have a trump card to bet on it. You will definitely not be able to force Wang Erlang away, so you have to spend money to negotiate with him."
"How to get capital?" Gao Hang asked.
Ling Xiang said: "Pull all your people out and fight Wang Erlang openly. He only has a few soldiers and cannot win or lose. As long as you win, how many soldiers will he have left?"
It is he who begs you, not you who begs him. He wants to help the emperor supervise the horse administration, and his first priority is to raise the horses, not to cause trouble for you. If you are anxious, he is also anxious. Go out to the city to fight, and beat him
All requests are answered.”
Gao Hang was very angry: "If I dare to go out to fight in the city, why do I need to ask you, a bastard?"
Ling Xiang sarcastically said: "There are more than 10,000 people in the city, but they don't dare to fight with thousands of people outside the city, so why don't you rebel and wipe your neck as soon as possible?"
"I'm not a rebel!" Gao Hang's mind was in a mess.
"Do you believe this yourself?" Ling asked instead.
Gao Hang said: "I believe it, but the court doesn't believe it."
"It's all the same," Ling Xiang said with a smile, "Besides going out to fight in the city, what other choice do you have? Wait for Cai Yu to come and save you? There is a mutiny in Yongning City, and as the commander of the guard, he must send troops to suppress it. His strategy is to delay the attack.
How long can it be delayed? If Wang Erlang never leaves Liaodong, Cai Yu will come to deal with you personally sooner or later, so don't think about him wiping your ass!"
After being analyzed by Ling Xiang, Gao Hang slumped directly on the Grand Master's chair. He seemed to have no other choice but to go out to fight in the city.
Even if Cai Yu can continue to delay, the food in the city is not enough, and the morale of the soldiers in the city is even more insufficient than the food. It is estimated that before the food is finished, the soldiers and civilians in the city will make a fuss and leave, and then most of their own people will fight with their own people.
After thinking about it, Gao Hang gritted his teeth and said: "Then fight. If you drag him out to fight, I still won't believe him. Wang Erlang is really smart!"
Prime Minister Ling had a wicked smile on his face: "The general is so heroic and heroic, I admire you very much."