Chapter 187 The Minister of Rites was scolded so badly that he vomited blood!
Xie Sheng couldn't figure it out, why didn't Geng Yuren follow the script that people like himself imagined?
But now Xie Sheng also knew that he had to figure it out even if he couldn't figure it out, so he kept silent and didn't say anything more.
At this time, Tianqi pretended to be a happy face and smiled at Geng Yuren: "Okay! Don't flatter me. You say that I am benevolent, but many people don't think so, and even think that the government I am doing is not benevolent. I also blamed him for his fault, and it was said inside and out that it was I who forced him to rebel against King Lu."
"Your Majesty, all ministers who say this are traitors and should be punished!"
Geng Yuren said something decisively at this time.
After hearing this, Xie Sheng couldn't help turning his back. He glanced at Geng Yuren angrily, and said in his heart: "You Geng Yuren has no shame, flattering your father is fine, but you still want to instigate your majesty to kill us, kill us, What good is it for you! When will you guys be worse than Uncle Zhang Guo!"
Tianqi continued to laugh at this time: "Tell me, why is the minister who said this a traitor and should be punished?"
Geng Yuren now continued to say in order to please Tianqi:
"Returning to Your Majesty, I believe that the new policy implemented by Your Majesty is the most benevolent government in the world! The scholars and people will be blessed by the emperor, and they will not know the famine!"
"As for King Lu's rebellion, it was just a ghostly obsession, instigated by treacherous villains, not because of His Majesty's rebellion! The Zhending Mansion has not yet implemented the new policy, and there are many hungry people, but these people did not rebel even for the sake of starvation. And his Royal Highness Lu Wang is not as good as the common people? He is not hungry enough to rebel against the court, ignoring the emperor's kindness! It can be seen that this is not His Majesty's fault, it is Lu Wang's obsession!"
"Nowadays, there are ministers in the court who blame His Majesty with this. It can only show that such ministers are treacherous ministers who secretly harbor dissatisfaction with His Majesty. Naturally, they should be punished!"
Tianqi therefore said to Zhang Gui: "Zhang Qing is right, this time King Lu's rebellion really gave me the opportunity to realize what a loyal and good minister is!"
At this time, Zhang Gui said: "Your Majesty, it is fortunate that Zhifu Geng didn't surrender to the enemy this time, so he saved some face for the minister. Otherwise, according to Da Zongbo's words, the fact that Zhending Fucheng defected to the enemy without fighting will be counted on the minister. It's on the head, it is said that the prefect Geng was forced by the minister to join the enemy. Now that the prefect Geng is here, I still ask His Majesty to make the decision, and ask the prefect Geng, as if he surrendered to the enemy, whether he will really be forced by the minister."
Before Tian Qi asked, Geng Yuren hurriedly said: "Your Majesty! I really never thought of turning to the enemy! As for Uncle Da Zong's words, he was obviously deliberately trying to provoke the relationship between His Majesty and Uncle Guo, and it was harmful to Uncle Guo. Your Majesty, Although the officials are mild-mannered, I have to admit that this great uncle is really harboring evil intentions! Your Majesty!"
"Prefect Geng, you!"
Xie Sheng was so angry that he pointed at Geng Yuren on the spot, wanting to scold Geng Yuren. He felt that Geng Yuren was really shameless. In order to please the emperor, he didn't care about the feelings of people like himself.
Everyone is still a scholar-bureaucrat!
"Why, Uncle Da Zong, do you really want to see Geng dedicating the city of Zhending to the rebels?! Do you really want to see Geng being a disloyal minister?!"
Geng Yuren asked Xie Shenglai neither humble nor overbearing.
"you!"
Xie Sheng was so angry that his face turned purple, and then, in a hurry, he vomited a mouthful of blood, collapsed on the ground, and gasped for breath.
Seeing this, Apocalypse still called the imperial physician to come for diagnosis and treatment, and he was naturally very happy about it, and said: "I have passed on my will, and in the future, officials of the third rank and above should be responsible for their words and deeds, and don't make rash assertions, especially when it comes to people. When judging merits and demerits! Otherwise, if loyal ministers are killed, I will strictly investigate!"
"yes!"
Next, Tian Qi led the army to pass through Zhending Mansion and head for Shunde Mansion.
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"The tyrant has brought his army to Zhending Mansion, but Geng Yuren, the prefect of Zhending Mansion, chose to betray the wise and benevolent His Royal Highness Lu Wang, and surrendered without a fight!"
"Right now, we can only hope that our Royal Highness King Lu can also personally lead the army to wipe out the tyrant's army, and severely punish Geng Yuren, a leader like Geng Yuren!"
Ming Li Bao, sponsored by Ding Qirui, published such information on the front page.
And the reason why he published such news is that he hoped that King Lu could take the recruited army to conquer himself, and then bring high morale to the rebel army composed of landlords in various prefectures and counties, making it more difficult for the imperial army to defeat My own army of Fengtian Jingnan, just like when Chengzu Jingnan, he would take the lead.
"Gu has been feeling unwell recently, so he can't go on the expedition in person! You should hurry up and discuss who will be in command."
But Zhu Changhao refused to personally conscript. He was afraid that he would not be able to come back if he went.
At the same time, Zhu Changhao was also very dissatisfied with Geng Yuren's sudden change of mind, and said: "This Geng Yuren, what is he thinking, why is he not willing to be an enemy of the court!"
Wang Yongguang spoke at this time.
Zhu Changhao said after hearing this: "Mao Yujian? Does he know about soldiers and can take on this job?"
Wang Yongguang naturally would not say clearly that he recommended Mao Yujian because Mao Yujian was his accomplice and had paid him a huge bribe.
Now that he is here to work with Zhu Changhao, he, an important minister, can naturally embezzle and accept bribes boldly, and form a party for personal gain by the way, instead of having to be careful about receiving some souvenirs like he used to do in the court of the capital.
Therefore, Wang Yongguang only said: "Your Majesty, Mao Taichang is familiar with reading military books. As the saying goes, he only needs 3,000 elite soldiers to go straight to the capital. I have talked with him in detail. This man has a lot of strategy! He can be a great leader!"
Ding Qirui, who has already formed a party with Wang Yongguang, also said after seeing this: "Your Highness, since ancient times, all sage kings have always followed advice and boldly used capable ministers!"
Zhu Changhao nodded after hearing this and said: "What you said is true, then worship Mao Qing as the left minister of the Ministry of War, the prime minister of the military affairs of Henan, Shandong, Shuntian, Shanxi, and Shaanxi provinces, and immediately lead the army to go to war! Allocate money to the palace."
Speaking of this, Zhu Changhao didn't want to transfer the money at first, but thinking that this expedition is related to the success or failure of his great cause, he still gritted his teeth: "Allow 500,000 taels of money to help the salary!"
"Your Highness, Shengming!"
Mao Yujian therefore became the commander-in-chief of the rebel army, and came to Shunde Mansion with 200,000 taels of silver and 120,000 troops.
As for why it was 200,000 taels instead of 500,000 taels, it was naturally because it was lost.
As soon as he arrived at Shunde Mansion, Mao Yujian called all the civil and military officials in Shunde to discuss matters.
At this time, the imperial army led by Tianqi had camped outside the city of Shunde Prefecture.
After Mao Yujian summoned the rebel military officers and generals of the Shunde Mansion, he said: "In the past few days, after reading the Three Kingdoms and many military books in this hall, we have synthesized the subtleties of the ancient battles and evolved a set of battles that can defend against the enemy. Here, you can take a look."
So, after seeing it, all the civil and military officials praised Mao Yujian's knowledge of the soldiers, and only the chief soldier surnamed Tao said out of time: "Although the formation of the Ministry Hall is exquisite, there is a problem. We are fighting against the officers and soldiers with excellent firearms. Moreover, the official army with both infantry and cavalry is not a battle against an army without firearms in ancient times. Is it inappropriate to use the formation of the ancients? Besides, this is a battle to defend the city, so there is no need to form an formation."
Snapped!
Mao Yujian slapped Tao Zongbing on the face: "You Qiuba, how dare you belittle the ancients! Who told you that this hall is going to defend the city, and this hall has made up its mind. Go out of the city and set up an array to fight the official army!"
"Here, why do you want to go out of the city for a decisive battle?"
A military general asked incomprehension at this time.
Mao Yujian was very angry. He didn't expect that these warriors, who were only low-ranking officials in the palace a year ago, would start to question him one by one, and shouted loudly: "If there are any more dissidents, behead them!"
Everyone had no choice but to stop talking.
Early the next morning, Mao Yujian actually led the army out of the city to set up camp.
This scene confused Tian Qi, Zhang Gui, Lu Xiangsheng and others who were preparing to attack the city.
"Why did the rebel army leave the city without defending it, and want to go out of the city to set up an array?"
Because the artillery on his side hadn't arrived yet, Tianqi, who was not in a hurry to attack Shunde Prefecture for fear of increasing casualties, asked a question in confusion.
Zhang Guidao: "Your Majesty, no matter what Mao Yujian thinks, since he is out of the city, and according to our intelligence, this is the main force of the rebel army, then we can't let this opportunity go, as long as we annihilate the main force of the rebel army After that, it will undoubtedly be much easier to suppress the rebellion.”
Lu Xiangsheng also echoed: "Your Majesty, as Uncle Guo said, the opportunity is rare, and I suggested that the troops be divided into two groups immediately. On the one side, most of the troops will use barbed wire to surround the main force of the rebel army outside the city. Lord, take this opportunity to attack the empty city of Shunde!"
Tianqi nodded: "Just do it!"
Thus, Lu Xiangsheng led nearly 50,000 officers and soldiers to move directly towards Mao Yujian, and began to build an encirclement circle with barbed wire around Mao Yujian's army.
Immediately afterwards, Lu Xiangsheng personally led the heavy armored cavalry to launch an attack directly while Mao Yujian's army was still camped.
Mao Yugang, who was holding a special goose feather fan, sat on a high ground in a sedan chair. Before he had time to wave the fan, he commanded the battle just like in the novels he had read. He rushed in with a fine steel spear, directly smashing his army into chaos.
He was stunned when he saw this, and said: "Why did this officer and army not obey the rules, and rushed to kill before the main hall's big formation was set up, despicable, really despicable!"
The plot of Mao Yujian posing outside the city was inspired by the historical battle of Liaoyang. Believe it or not, in history, Liaoyang City was lost in this way during the Ming Dynasty. Yuan Yingtai, the strategist of Liaodong, left the city of Liaoyang undefended, so he went out of the city to set up an array to fight Jiannu, but was defeated by Jiannu one by one.
(end of this chapter)