Chapter 142: Dress Orders Kill Heroes
Many people attended this report meeting, not only people from the Ministry of War, but also people from the Ministry of Supervision, the Ministry of Government Affairs, the Secretary Supervisor and some from Yushan Academy Senior citizens.
Victory is just around the corner, or in other words, victory is already certain.
Whether it is people like Li Yan and Huang Degong who are fleeing the Huaihe River, or people like He Tengjiao who are resolutely resisting in Guangxi, they don't have much time.
Such a report meeting will be organized by the Lantian Imperial Court once a month. With the approval of the Secretary Supervisor, the "Lantian Daily" will publicize the news.
This kind of news has little impact on the people of Guanzhong. The common people do not pay much attention to distant political events. After dinner, they will have a heated discussion and comment on whether their son-in-law will stand up. Make meritorious deeds to reduce your family's tax burden.
The appallingly low battle losses of the Lantian army in recent years have also made the people of Guanzhong less worried about the safety of their nephews than before.
At this time, the Lantian Imperial Court had basically abandoned the disguise they wore, completely exposed their fangs, and no longer did some patient and meticulous work, so as to achieve victory without fighting. The purpose of soldiers.
Whether it is Qin Liangyu, Shi Kefa, He Tengjiao, Zhang Huangyan, or Qu Shichen, as long as these people stand on the opposite side of Lantian, they will all become targets of attack.
When the general trend of the world is irreversible, powerful force becomes the only option.
Whether they like it or not, the Lantian Imperial Court will emerge and become the master of this new world.
However, this is only the initial completion of the great unification. It will take at least one or two generations of hard work to completely surrender the entire empire to Yun Zhao.
This is very similar to the previous dynasties, which were always clear in the early days.
After the meeting, Xu Yuanshou followed Yun Zhao to the big study room without saying a word.
He handed Yun Zhao a piece of paper filled with people's names.
Yun Zhao glanced quickly and found that there were many familiar names on the list.
The first name on the list is-Qian Qianyi!
Under this person’s name is Shi Kefa!
The names of these two people were separately listed by Xu Yuanshou. Under them were Lu Daqi, Zhang Shenyan, Jiang Yueguang, Lei Yanzuo, Zhou Biao, Chen Zilong, Huang Duanbo, Ruan Dayue, Gao Zhuo and Zhang. Jie, Yang Weihuan...etc.
Yun Zhao looked at Xu Yuanshou in confusion.
Xu Yuanshou impatiently tapped on the list and said: "There are some available people here, take your pick."
Yun Zhao did not hesitate to find Qian Qianyi. Shi Kefa, Ma Shiying, Ruan Dayue, these four names are circled in red.
Xu Yuanshou frowned and said: "You can't just choose people with great reputations."
Yun Zhao smiled and said: "Sir, these four people are not needed."
Xu Yuanshou sighedHe said: "That's it, Ma Shiying and Ruan Dajue, why not Shi Kefa, Qian Qianyi... forget it, you are the one who makes the decision after all."
Yun Zhao said with a smile: "We will not use these four people for the rest of our lives. The rest of them will not be able to serve as civil servants for the rest of their lives."
Xu Yuanshou said: "It's a pity."
Yun Zhao shook his head and said: "It's a pity. Talents are only called after they are used. Talents are just chopping firewood!"
"You also said that you want to be an emperor for eternity. How can you be so ambitious and look down upon the three little officials from Jiangyin who were captured alive? Qian, why can't we tolerate these people?"
Yun Zhao said: "Since we have to change, we might as well make it more thorough."
Xu Yuanshou rolled his sleeves and said: "You. The problem of being narrow-minded has not changed at all until now. Hou Fangyu is just a commoner. His reputation has become extremely bad. He has already received the greatest punishment. Life is worse than death. Why do you still send this person to prison? When he arrived at Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou, he ordered the abbot and the monks to keep him under strict supervision. If he could not become a Buddha, he would not be allowed to leave the monastery.
How is this different from being imprisoned? ”
Yun Zhaodao: "For people like you, once the feathers are damaged, life will be worse than death. For people like Hou Fangyu, who is even happy to be a donkey, fame is nothing but an external thing.
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"That's different. The three of them are now my lackeys, so naturally they can't be the same."
"A summer insect cannot talk about ice!"
Look When he came out, Xu Yuanshou was extremely angry. He scolded Yun Zhao loudly and left in a hurry.
Yun Zhao quickly stood up and gave a gift to see him off.
If you don’t agree to his request, you don’t agree to it. The proper etiquette cannot be lacking.
As soon as Xu Yuanshou left, Lantian Dahong Zhu Cunji entered Yun Zhao's study. Before he could open his mouth, tears started to flow down his face. He knelt on the ground with a thud, held up a piece of clothing and begged: " Your Majesty, the pseudo-Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang wrote a letter pleading with your Majesty that King Gui and his family did not actively participate in the rebellion, but were coerced by He Tengjiao and others and had no choice but to do so.
Zhu Youlang longed for the king day and night. The army recaptured Nanning and returned our country to the Ming Dynasty. Now he is trapped in the den of thieves. He really can't help himself. Whenever He Tengjiao and other rebels curse His Majesty with filthy words, Zhu Youlang always covers his ears and dare not hear it. It's embarrassing. "Every day is like a year, Your Majesty."
Yun Zhao swallowed hard and looked at the belt edict in Zhu Cunji's hand in disbelief. At this moment, he felt that he was in exactly the same situation as Cao Cao.
Yun Zhao may have a better idea of what kind of people He Tengjiao, Zhang Huangyan, and Qu Shichun were than Emperor Yongli, who was hanged by Wu Sangui with a bowstring in history.
If there are several people in the Zhu Ming Dynasty who can be called the backbone of history, these threeEveryone should be listed.
Even if these three people were captured alive by Yun Fu, Yun Zhao did not intend to kill them. Instead, he planned to let them live well and let them see with their own eyes how the Lantian Imperial Court governed this broken world. .
These three people will pay homage to Yun Zhao in the future, which will become an important moment that Yun Zhao has been waiting for for a long time in the rest of his life.
On the other hand, Emperor Yongli can be killed as a scapegoat.
Now, those three people are still risking their lives to protect this guy, but he has learned to come up with some clothes and belt edicts. No one else has the backbone of Emperor Xian of Han. At least Emperor Xian of Han is calling on the world. People crusade against Cao Cao.
However, Emperor Yongli’s belt edict repeatedly condemned the loyal ministers and martyrs who defended themselves and defended Zhu Ming’s last bit of dignity. He always hoped that Yun Zhao, Cao Cao of the Ming Dynasty, would kill all of these people as soon as possible. It would be nice to come to Chang'an and be a rich man and live a peaceful life.
Yun Zhao could even imagine that once this belt edict was publicized by "Lantian Daily", the descendants of the Zhu Ming Dynasty would definitely be reviled by the world, and there would probably be no room for improvement.
So, this gift is very important.
Yunzhao doesn't mind keeping this kind of waste alive, because he is more valuable alive than dead. This kind of person must live longer, and it is best to be able to kill the last one alive. The martyrs who wanted to restore the Zhu Ming Dynasty endured death.
Yun Zhao agreed to Zhu Cunji's plea with a smile on his face, and personally made a promise not to kill Zhu Youlang. Then, he quickly went to the prison in Yushan City with the belt edict to visit him. Yan Yingyuan, Chen Mingyu, and Feng Houdun, three famous righteous men who resisted the Yunzhao bandits and the common people, went away.
It’s ridiculous to say that Yan Yingyuan is just a retired magistrate, Chen Mingyu is the current magistrate, and Feng Houdun is just an academic and political instructor in Jiangyin. These three people inspired hundreds of thousands of people in Jiangyin to insist on Jiangyin blocked Lei Heng's army for seventeen days.
Facing these people, the tyrannical Lei Heng's army was in a dilemma. Even if they sent a secret agent to capture Yan Yingyuan's mother and the family members of Chen Mingyu and Feng Houdun, they could not make these three people surrender.
Fortunately, Gu Yanwu, who went to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, went to the city in person to meet these three people. He guaranteed with his own life that Lei Heng's army would not harass the people when it entered Jiangyin. These three people also saw Lei Heng's army with their own eyes. Due to the power of the artillery, the three people who did not want the people of Jiangyin to be burned by the artillery were finally captured.
Lei Heng was furious that the people of Jiangyin had delayed the military flight, so he put the three people into a prison car and sent them all the way to Yushan City.
When it was first delivered, Yun Zhao was overjoyed and went to the prison to meet these three people in person. Unfortunately, they acted as if they were going to sit through the bottom of the prison, even though they knew that they were standing in front of them. That person is Yun Zhao, who still keeps yelling and scolding.
Yun Zhao smiled and left without saying a word.
The second time I went, it was still the same.
Yun Zhao was still not annoyed and smiled, as if he didn't care at all when the three people insulted him.
The third time we went, the three people seemed to be tired of scolding, and they were finally able to say a few words calmly.
Today, Yun Zhao went there with the clothes and belt edict, and wanted to see what these three tough men would look like.
To this day, no one in Manyushan City understands why their emperor has so much patience with three little officials.
They didn’t know that in Yun Zhao’s memory, it was these three officials who had done what even the great officials and the most famous generals of the Zhu Ming Dynasty had failed to do—stop Dorgon’s attack. The army lasted eighty-one days.
With the entire city in ruins and the population of Jiangyin almost wiped out, the three of them sang the most tragic elegy for the collapsed Zhu Ming Dynasty at the cost of death.
The Qing army suffered heavy casualties under Jiangyin City, leaving behind the bodies of three kings and eighteen generals, so that the Qing army was able to cross Jiangyin and continue to ravage those soft bones.
The prison in Jade Mountain City is clean and dry.
In a small prison, Chen Mingyu and Feng Houdun were playing Go, and Yan Yingyuan was watching. Naturally, they had no chess pieces on hand, so they could only use their fingers to draw out the chess board on the ground and use a small Stones and grass roots replace the black and white chess pieces.
It can be seen that their game has reached a critical point, and they are indifferent to the outside world.
"Today, I brought wine."
When the winner of the war on the chessboard was decided, Yun Zhao said with a smile.
Yan Yingyuan raised his head and glanced at Yun Zhao and said, "Would you like a farewell drink?"
Yun Zhao shook his head and said, "There are not many people with backbone left in the Ming Dynasty. Every one of them is worth it." I treat you well. Today, we will only drink and chat. When the drink is over, you can go back to Jiangyin."