Chapter 450: Just out of the tiger's den, and into the wolf's den
His Majesty the Emperor embarked on his way to the south with a burst of crying, but what was surprising was that Yang Prime Minister did not start a full-scale attack next...
No need to attack.
The Raozhou Prefecture Council announced its surrender...
Uh, nonsense, what is surrender? It is obvious that the gentry of Raozhou Prefecture is very wise!
The gentry of Raozhou Prefecture was loyal to the Ming Dynasty. Even if the imperial edict divided their fields, they would obey the order without hesitation. It was definitely not surrender. They were loyal ministers of His Majesty the Emperor, and announced that they obeyed the order and accepted the jurisdiction of Yingtian Jianguo, and then divided the fields according to the order.
Can this be surrender?
This is just a group of loyal ministers obeying the order.
Absolutely not surrender!
Of course, it was mainly because the Red Turban Army bypassed the Xiaogushan Fortress.
They went south to Jiande to break through Shimen Town, which was to go from modern to the east along the Longquan River to the Poyang Lake.
His Royal Highness came from there before, but in fact, the Red Turban Army mainly escorted her.
In this case, the gentry of Raozhou Prefecture settled the score and should surrender quickly. After all, there were too many unlucky people in Raozhou Prefecture. This prefecture or Poyang area had extremely high population density. After all, the water net rice field area of Poyang Lake had a very strong ability to feed the population. At the time of Hu Yuan, the population of this prefecture exceeded that of any northern province. Even Dadu Road, which had the highest population density in the north, was only one-tenth of the registered population. Later, the Ming Dynasty immigrated from Jiangxi to the outside world.
That is, the shredded dam.
This is a ferry, and those who immigrated from Raozhou Prefecture boarded the ship at Washuangba.
During the Hongwu period alone, hundreds of thousands of immigrated from the Washuiba Ferry.
But the high population density means that once these unruly people rebel, the gentry may not even have bone scum. There must be more wolfs and fewer meat. So in order to save their bone scum, it is better to surrender honestly.
Besides, the main business of the gentry in Raozhou Prefecture is actually to start mining in Dexing. The large copper mine brings them wealth, so there is no need to work hard for that little field.
How much money can acre of land be spent?
They have already minted their own coins in the copper mine.
Then after His Majesty the Emperor met with Chen Ce and walked south to Fujian by Tongmu Pass, the Guangxin Council also announced the obedience.
They were alone, and to the east was the main force of the Red Turban Army. If they did not surrender, no one would support them. Could they still play a bloody battle for this?
In this way, Guangxin Mansion also surrendered.
The counties around Nanchang also surrendered honestly.
Then the Linjiang Prefecture Council shyly announced that they also obeyed the order. This group of drug dealers was even more unlikely to fight to the end. As the largest medicinal materials base in the Ming Dynasty, as long as they could do business, they were secondary. By the way, Yang Feng purchased a large number of medicinal materials from them in one year, and they were all old business partners.
Just like this, when Mei Guozhen and others were waiting in Jiujiang for fire to ignite the flames of resistance in Jiangxi, these bastards all surrendered like a competition. When the emperor was there, they had not surrendered, and they even gritted their teeth and turned fierce. As a result, they all surrendered as soon as the emperor left.
These are all smart people.
When the emperor was there, he surrendered to the emperor. This tyrant had made the gentry in Jiangxi suffer, so he would rather surrender to Yang Feng than surrender to him.
Surrendering to Yang Feng means giving Yang Xiangguo enough face.
In the future, we have to follow Yang Xiangguo and give Yang Xiangguo face. Yang Xiangguo is happy and everyone will have a lot of life in the future.
In fact, in addition to dividing land and protecting labor, Yang Xiangguo has no shortcomings.
Although these two shortcomings are a bit big.
One month later.
Fuzhou.
"Long live, why do I think this is a bit strange?
You see, you want to divide the land in Nanchang, and they are like mad dogs, and they even dare to kill the lord, but Yang Feng also divides the land when he goes, so why have they surrendered honestly? Now that Fuzhou has surrendered, didn’t Tang Xianzu shout for a bloody battle to the end? Why did he surrender even without a shot? Ji'an Mansion is Zou Yuanbiao’s hometown, so why did he surrender?
If you can divide the fields, can Yang Feng divide the fields?
This is not right!
If you divide the land, they want to kill the lord, but if Yang Feng divides the land, they surrender?
Aren't they bullying honest people?"
The imperial concubine said angrily.
Well, Tang Xianzu brought tens of thousands of Chang'an troops to surrender to the Red Turban Army in Fuzhou. At the same time, King Yi of Jianchang Prefecture was also surrendered. The poor King Yi was just taken out to save his ancestors' country less than a month before he was sold by the bastards who took him out. The elders and geniuses in the Fuzhou Assembly said that he was him and he was him, and they were all forcing us to resist Yang Prime Minister. We would rather die than obey, so we tied up this rebellious vassal king and presented it to Yang Prime Minister.
And the day before their surrender, the Ji'an Council announced its compliance.
In just one month, all other prefectures in Jiangxi, except for Jiujiang, Ganzhou, Yuanzhou and Nan'an, surrendered to Yang Feng.
Wanli had a gloomy face and didn't say anything.
"Long live, isn't this right? Aren't they bullying honest people?"
The imperial concubine still did not wake up.
"Shut up!"
His Majesty the Emperor shouted angrily, obviously on the verge of losing control.
The imperial concubine Li Zhi was beside him winked. Master Li and Matteo Ricci finally ended their study tour and returned to His Majesty. The four-person group that was in Yingtian back then has finally reunited again.
His Majesty the Emperor took a deep breath...
“What’s the situation in Guangdong?”
He asked.
If this topic continues to be discussed, it will easily make him lose control.
In fact, he had already vaguely guessed the truth since the surrender of Linjiang Prefecture.
The regicide was indeed forced by him to lose his mind and fire the fire. However, the wave of resistance in Jiangxi was acting afterwards. The gentry in various parts of Jiangxi was no longer ready to resist, but they knew very well that the emperor could not defeat Yang Feng, so they could not surrender to the emperor because surrendering the emperor was likely to offend Yang Feng. So they shouted slogans of bloody battles to the end in various places, showing their determination not to surrender, including Tang Xianzu also led the Chang'an army to retreat to Fuzhou and then acted as a stance to resist to the end.
but……
This is acting.
It is to avoid surrendering to him.
After all, Tang Xianzu is also a great playwright, so it is okay to write a script.
Yang Feng must have guessed it, so despite the loud slogans, the Red Turban Army did not really attack, but continued to divide the fields in Nanchang.
In the end, it was until he left Jiangxi and headed south.
Then these bastards surrendered to Yang Feng without hesitation and tried to flatter the bastard.
These dog stuff!
His Majesty the Emperor had the only way to curse in his heart. He was really sad now, as if he saw a group of unlucky bastards, the old man who abandoned him surrounded the new man, and he could only look at the laughter and joy alone on the side.
"When you go back to your Majesty, the imperial court's government orders will not leave Guangzhou City.
Even Dongguan has been controlled by the civil rebellion, but it has not dared to attack the Humen Fortress. Therefore, there is still a connection between Guangzhou and Humen, but almost all prefectures and counties outside Guangzhou are controlled by the civil rebellion. They expelled the local officials appointed by His Majesty, and some local officials were killed. These leaders of the civil rebellion were the original local sage associations and councils. In fact, they restored the old system and continued to be headed by the council and councils.
If it is said that chaos is not chaos, after all, they were in charge of the original place, and it has only been less than a year since His Majesty changed it to an imperial official.
The people are used to them.
Besides, the local officials appointed by His Majesty are all from other provinces and are quite corrupt and abused, and the people do not want these people."
Yu Zigao said carefully.
Admiral Yu came to pick him up. His navy took Humen Fortress as a base. This time he brought more than 50 warships, as well as nearly 100 armed merchant ships from the Nanyang Company. In addition, a large number of coastal civilian ships collected locally in Fujian were enough to transport the 100,000 imperial camps to Humen at one time. At this time, it was still north wind, and the coastal currents, it was basically a few days' voyage to the Pearl River Estuary.
"Who gave them such a boldness? Are they not afraid that I will go back and confiscate their house? Also, I have distributed land to many people before, so these have not resisted?"
The emperor said with some confusion.
"Your Majesty, if you get the land, how could you think of anything else?"
Yu Zigao said with a smile.
Wanli frowned...
"What do they want?"
The imperial concubine said.
"When I returned to the Imperial Concubine, these councils were not going to rebel. They were used to the days without any restraint in the past few years. His Majesty suddenly began to restrain them, especially the decree and the local gentry would be subject to the court's control, so he was dissatisfied. Especially since His Majesty killed many gentry before, they were afraid that after His Majesty returned, they would continue to restrain them with more severe means and wanted His Majesty to sign a guarantee for them. Just like in Suzhou, His Majesty promised to restore the council and the council meeting, and to hold the Guanzhengyuan in the future. If you have anything to do, you should discuss with the Guanzhengyuan."
Yu Zigao said.
"wishful thinking!"
The emperor shouted angrily.
But he then looked at Yu Zigao in confusion...
"How do you know this?"
He shouted.
"Your Majesty, you have been calling out this matter openly. They have also posted posts in various places, saying that they want to join the county to protect themselves. Unless Your Majesty agrees to their conditions and the monarch and ministers jointly make an alliance, the counties will jointly refuse Your Majesty's entry. When I set off, many militias from the county were already rushing to Humen, preparing to block Your Majesty's entry there. I think there will be a fierce battle after Your Majesty returns."
Yu Zigao said quickly.
"Hmph, I'm trying to get a chariot in my mantis arm, and I want a covenant between the king and the minister. Who do they think they are? Yang Feng? Just a group of mobs, and still want to stop me? You should rest first, and set off in five days. I want to see how they mobs can resist the imperial camp!"
The emperor, who had restored his emperor's majesty, sneered.
Yu Zigao quickly withdrew.
"I can't deal with Yang Feng, can't I still deal with them?"
The emperor was sneering there as if he was obviously excited.
Chapter completed!