Chapter 373 Kneel down on the spot: Students support reform!

For a moment, Zhang Gui and Zhu Xieyuan couldn't believe that the government army would win so quickly, so they had to be more stable and only let some government troops cross the river and pursue the shore first.

But at this moment, Liu Zongmin came to report to Zhang Gui: "Entertainment sent from the other side to meet the supervisor and the supervisor."

"Is the peace asking for peace?"

After hearing this, Zhang Gui stood up.

Then, Zhang Gui frowned and looked at Zhu Xieyuan and asked, "Are they realizing that the imperial army is hard to defeat, and they deliberately seek peace to delay the opportunity to mobilize more troops?"

Zhu Xieyuan thought for a while and said, "Uncle, the lower officials think that they can pursue the victory. They should not deliberately seek peace and think that they will fight again! But they really have no power to fight."

"One, according to the information provided by the factory guards, the puppet rebels had no intention of fighting except for the foreign soldiers hired by the foreigners; the other hand, it would be fine if they did not seek peace, but once they asked for peace, this only means that they only had the will to be peaceful, not really want to unify the world! Therefore, I am afraid that those in power would not have the intention of fighting."

After hearing this, Zhang Gui nodded and had to admit in his heart that Zhu Xieyuan was a person in history who commanded Qin Liangyu and other troops to quell the She'an Rebellion in the Southwest. His military judgments were indeed reasonable and well-founded.

He also practiced good deeds, and did not feel jealous because Zhu Xieyuan, a civil servant who was already good at being a commander in history, was better at analyzing the situation of war than himself, so he nodded:

"Then please ask the Minister to serve as the governor to convey the order to advance the army. Liu Zongmin, you go with him. Just say that the governor means the governor! As for the other party who seeks peace, call him and the governor will meet him in person!"

Zhu Xieyuan also had to admit that although his uncle was cruel and ruthless and never looked down on scholars and officials, he was still willing to respect the opinions of his accomplices in major matters and did not act tyrannically or stubbornly.

Therefore, he couldn't help looking at Zhang Gui with admiration, thinking that it was no wonder that Yuan Keli, Chen Zizhuang and others now follow his leader, and even Wei Zhongxian from the Great Palace was very respectful to him. It turned out that it was not just because of the Holy Family Zhenglong.

"yes!"

Here, Zhu Xieyuan and Liu Zongmin left Zhang Gui's commander's tent and came to several military offices where the Ministry of War was in charge of the concentrated military office, which was equivalent to the staff room of later generations, and dispatched various guards to cross the river to pursue them.

As one after another, the official army began to cross the river and landed on a large scale.

For a time, there were all the officials on the west bank of the Yangtze River.

Some officials even arrived near Changsha Prefecture in order to seize the merits.

The gentry along the way organized their hometowns to clean up the traitors, cater to the royal army, and organized the villages to tie up the officials appointed by the pseudo-dynasty or directly kill them, and open the city to join the official army.

Therefore, the entire puppet dynasty ruling area collapsed, and not long after, a large number of prefectures and counties were recovered by the government troops.

The envoy sent by Zhao Shichun to seek peace was met by Yao Zhijing, the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple, who was sent by Zhao Shichun to meet Zhang Gui in this context.

Yao Zhijing didn't expect that he would have such a situation.

Originally, he was the magistrate of Xiangshan, Daming. After receiving the edict that his home would be confiscated if he disrespects the Han Dynasty and demoted the Yi Dynasty. Shortly after he was sentenced to a case of Qu Yi's respect for the Han Dynasty, he suddenly became a rebel minister and was promoted to the censor of the pseudo-degree court by Wang Wenkui and Zhao Shichun when he established another court.

Of course, Wang Wenkui and Zhao Shichun naturally wanted to win over local officials and avoid them not supporting themselves in establishing a new court, so they were promoted to these local officials, and promoted them back to Beijing to take close attention, and then sent their people to various prefectures and counties to serve as official officials, thereby strengthening their control over the local area, making their power in the pseudo-dynasty more stable.

This is also a kind of open conspiracy.

In terms of internal fighting, people like Wang Wenkui and Zhao Shichun are still of good standing.

However, because Yao Zhijing was the first to be an official to respect the Han and demote the barbarians, Wang Wenkui and Zhao Shichun always believed that he was an official who supported reform and reform, and supported respect the Han and demote the barbarians. After he was promoted back to the capital, he had been abandoned and never promoted to him again.

But at this time, in order to be able to divide the river with the Ming Dynasty and seek peace with the court, Zhao Shichun remembered Yao Zhijing, who was beaten to the reformist faction by them, and immediately promoted Yao Zhijing to the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple and sent him to discuss peace.

As soon as Yao Zhijing saw Zhang Gui, he expressed his intention and said, "Uncle Guo, when will the revenge be repaid? There are those who disrespect Neo-Confucianism, some respect Neo-Confucianism, some respect Neo-Confucianism, some who do not abide by the way of sages, and some who do not abide by the way of sages. Why not fight each other? Why not be kind and let us Han people who respect Neo-Confucianism and etiquette come here and go to other places in your Jiuzhou?"

"Didn't the uncle of the country always advocate that Han people should have national consciousness before they value compatriots? Why do you have to kill all the Han people in the world who only want to be disciples of Neo-Confucianism?"

"Don't you understand a truth? If you can't get it on the battlefield, don't think you can get it at the negotiating table. Do you think it's useful to say this now?"

Zhang Gui asked.

Yao Zhijing said: "Anyway, please ask the uncle to see that everyone is Han people, and allow us to govern across the river. We are willing to pay 300,000 taels of gold, 2 million stones of grain, and 100,000 pieces of silk every year."

"Now you know how much Han people are? How miserable are you killed by you in this area? You didn't see it? When you forced them to starve to death, did you think they were also Han people?"

Zhang Gui asked.

"this……"

Yao Zhijing thought for a while and said, "They donated their wages voluntarily, and even if they starve to death, they still have to donate their wages."

"After all, if they are unwilling, they can refuse in principle and leave. However, they chose to donate their wages and starve themselves to death. They also had to support Neo-Confucianism and the ancestral system. Although such loyal and kind people are rare and respectable, they really can't blame us for starving to death!"

After hearing this, Zhang Gui couldn't help but get angry. He had seen shameless people, but had never seen such shameless people. He said:

"Whether they are willing or not, I, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, don't want to see their people become hungry. If you promise to ask for peace today, I am sorry to Your Majesty! In addition, if you are allowed to stand up, I am sorry to China! As for the Han people, if they really die for you voluntarily, then you will organize the people to continue to die for you. Our supervisor will organize the people who are willing to quell the rebellion for the court."

After Zhang Gui said this, he ordered: "Xu Fuyuan!"

The new governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Xu Fuyuan walked in: "There is the official!"

"Send him away! In addition, immediately organize migrant workers along the way and tell the local people that anyone who is willing to support the restructuring of the court and is unwilling to sacrifice for Neo-Confucianism can receive relief food or join the migrant workers' team to work and earn money!"

"yes!"

Xu Fuyuan responded, and then said to Yao Zhijing: "Please!"

Yao Zhijing hesitated for a moment.

Seeing that he was not leaving, Zhang Gui asked, "What else do you want to say?"

thump!

Yao Zhijing suddenly knelt down and said, "The supervising teacher is different from those foolish people who would rather starve to death than donate money to support the ignorant scholarship and restore the ancestral system. The students have always believed that learning should be realistic and always believed that Han people should be respectful. They are just afraid of death and dare not learn to be corrupt scholars and sacrifice their priests. They have always hoped to get the kindness of the king and father again, so they have been humiliated. To this day, they have to meet the supervising teacher. After reposting the Zhao thief's begging for peace, they just want to ask the supervising teacher to accept the students. Even if the students go back and only become an ordinary Han, it is better than the students bullying their own people in the pseudo-kyung and foreign barbarians!"

"Please be sure!"

As he said that, Yao Zhijing kowtowed heavily.

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!