Chapter 289: Capture Zuo Liangyu alive
After riding the boat for a day, Zhu Youxiao was also a little dizzy. After hitting the ground with his feet, he still felt a little dizzy. It was not until he took a few steps that he felt a little more at ease.
What caught Zhu Youxiao's eye was the vast Jingchu Plain. The Dongchang Mono, dressed in white and white boots, was in an arc-shaped sanitation front. Zhu Youjian and Ye Zhen each led their subordinate guards to be arranged on the left and right sides.
Cabinet Grand Secretary Li Mingrui and Sili Supervisor Wang Chengen stood respectfully on the side.
The maid Lingxiang was wearing a Guanyin bag and stood behind Zhu Youxiao. Due to the influence of the small glacier climate and it was late September, even Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but shrink his neck. Seeing this, Ling Xin hurriedly pulled his scarf and smiled like a flower.
The fertile fields are fertile, the shepherd boy rides cows, and the hometowns are planted in the fields. The sunset is setting, and everything is silent.
Looking at everything in front of him, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but smile. This was the tranquility and peace that the Great Ming Dynasty should have. The rebellion of King Zhu Huakui of Chu was just a stone that fell into a calm lake, stirring up a splash of water.
From the King of Chu to the premeditated uprising, to the preparation for uprising, to the direct uprising, in less than ten days, it was pacified overnight due to the intelligence response system of the Dongchang Express and the powerful mobile power of the Imperial Guards.
But this is not a war worth celebrating, and it is even less worthy of being recorded. However, Zhu Youxiao still let the Daming Daily exaggerate the matter, and also uses the delay of space and time to tell the local vassal kings through Daming Daily that the King of Chu had rebelled and had gathered 100,000 troops to occupy Wuchang City, and to control Hongdu in the south and approach Jinling.
Zhu Youxiao's purpose is naturally to let those unhonest vassal kings jump out in advance so as to take advantage of this to cut off these restless vassal kings. Of course, the fundamental purpose is to deprive them of excessive social resources, including their special political and economic treatment.
Zhu Youxiao was not afraid of big troubles. The vassal kings in the late Ming Dynasty were not vassal states in the late Tang Dynasty. Even if they were tigers, they were tigers without minions. If they had not forced or wanted to invade their interests, it would be difficult for them to rebel with the central court or do other excessive things.
But they don’t let them do anything, and they use any reason to seize the social resources they occupy, and then allocate them to the lower class people, or abolish their right to continue legal parasitics, so that they can also become producers of this society.
There is no need to worry about whether other forces will unite with them and use their political advantages to rebel. After all, the Ming Dynasty is not the late Chongzhen period with extremely sharp social contradictions.
Now, with Sun Chengzong suppressing the powerful and helping the victims in the northwest region and implementing the new policy of placing people into the acres, and in addition to repeatedly waived local taxes, he also directly and permanently abolished corvee labor. It can be said that the survival pressure of ordinary people has been greatly reduced, and of course it is not only in the northwest. Agricultural provinces, namely farmers' concentration areas, are also places for rebellion concentrations, Shandong, Fengyang and other places are also implementing new policies to benefit the common people and trap the powerful. Social conflicts have been greatly reduced compared with the seventh year of the Tianqi period. Otherwise,
In the past few days, Zhu Youxiao has not been so easy to suppress the bloody suppression of scholars in Jiangnan, and has not caused any major turmoil. Naturally, there is only one reason, that is, the people today do not want to rebel, they are very satisfied with their current lives, and the one who really wants to mess up the world is the vested interests who have lost their privileges, but they cannot find supporters, and they are labeled as deceiving the emperor and treason by the court as soon as they emerge.
Zhu Youxiao knew that they were very frustrated and had to endure it when they were angry. He secretly didn't know what he had scolded himself as a king and father. Perhaps he was just looking forward to a wolf from the north (such as the Qing Dynasty in history) to take away his country, and then they blatantly slander themselves in history, such as calling themselves a carpenter emperor.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao was not afraid of these vassal kings, but was afraid that they would not cause trouble. It would be fine if they caused trouble. He could just deprive them of their privileges, or even kill them, but it was just a demonstration of the kindness of his emperor.
According to the emergency news from the East Factory, King Fu, King Dai of Shanxi, King Donglu of Shandong, etc., all started to respond after learning that King Zhu Huakui of Chu rebelled, or were also making preparations secretly, at least they sent secret envoys to contact King Zhu Huakui of Chu. It means that King Chu did this righteous thing. I support it. If you ask for money, just say, "You really become the emperor in the future, don't attack us like Zhu Youxiao."
But they didn't know that these restless actions became a proof that Zhu Youxiao would arrest them in the future.
After Wu Changcheng was occupied by the Imperial Guard, temporary military control was immediately implemented. Because the Left Army and the personal soldiers of the royal palace robbed Wu Changcheng, causing great lives and property losses to the people, Zhu Youxiao issued an order directly to detain all the captured rebels and set up a temporary military law office, which was accused by the local people. If any perpetrators were committed, they would be executed directly!
"Your Majesty, Fu Dahai has the latest news. Except for the King of Chu himself, the rest of the Chu Palace, including his family and Miss Wei, have been controlled. The officials in Huguang and the officers and soldiers who took advantage of the chaos during this period have also been surrendered and are waiting for the public trial by the Provisional Military Law Department."
Zhu Youxiao nodded obediently, then turned around and ordered Li Mingrui to rush to Wuchang City first to preside over the trial of the Military Law Department. After all, this kind of public trial against the people also requires literati like Li Mingrui to mobilize and incite, otherwise the people would not know how to accuse these officials and soldiers.
At the same time, Zhu Youxiao asked again: "Where are Ruan Dacheng and Zuo Liangyu who participated in the rebellion?"
"Ruan Dacheng is now as unknown as the King of Chu Zhu Huakui, and Zuo Liangyu is the same. It is reported that he and his subordinates broke through successfully and rushed towards Xiangyang. The Fu Dahai tribe and Qin Botong tribe are intensifying their search and chasing." After hearing what Wu Jin said, Zhu Youxiao had no intention of blame, but just said: "These three criminals must be arrested. They explicitly ordered government officials across the country to offer rewards to arrest these three people! For Zuo Liangyu, they also explicitly ordered the local garrisons to arrest this thief. Regardless of life and death, once captured, they will be escorted to Wuchang Prefecture and give an explanation to the people of Huguang!"
As soon as Zhu Youxiao finished speaking, he saw a horse stepping in front of him. Seeing that he entered the guard line set up by the Imperial Guards and the East Factory, the man jumped off his horse and shouted: "Zuo Liangyu has been captured alive! All his remaining troops have been annihilated and have now been escorted to the Wuchang Prefecture Prison!"
Chapter completed!