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After an intensive investigation all night long, it was finally discovered that Deng Zhongnan, a doctor from the Ministry of Industry, had committed illegal acts of seizing people's fields, and the evidence was conclusive. The evidence was handed over to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the imperial censor Zhao Fang went to court for impeachment.
Qin Mu came to cut the knot with a sharp knife, and immediately ordered his family to be expropriated, and Deng Zhongnan himself was sent to the army.
The ministers all felt that he was making a fuss out of a molehill and that the punishment was excessive.
When Qin Mu then asked Ye Bushuang to raid the Sanjiang Silver Store, everyone could vaguely guess the underlying cause of the matter.
This time, whether Qin Mu was raiding Deng Zhongnan's home or Sanjiang Bank, he had to wait until midnight to carry out the execution. This has never happened before.
For a long time, Ye Bushou has mostly carried out external actions and rarely used them to deal with ministers. In addition, the name "Ye Bu Shu" itself is somewhat confusing, and it is easy for people to mistakenly think that it is just an intelligence agency of the military.
This time Qin Mu used it to ransack his house, deliberately letting it show its fangs a little, just to scare some people. Don't think that you can't do anything to you because you are doing so unnoticed in private. The imperial edict was received.
This incident indeed caused a great shock to the court. Many ministers once again thought of the imperial guards of the Ming Dynasty and came forward to admonish Qin Mu. Qin Mu ignored such memorials. He also ordered the ministers to focus on preparing for the imperial examination and the defense of Jiangbei.
While Jinling City was busy preparing for the war in Huainan, a series of changes took place in Guangdong and Guangxi.
Huang Daozhou failed to launch an army to Qingjun and was imprisoned. Longwu's life and death were unknown. Many ministers, including University Scholar Su Guansheng and Minister of Rites Zhu Jizuo, fled to Guangdong. This incident caused a huge shock in Guangdong and Guangdong.
When heading south from Zhang Xianzhong to Huguang. Zhu Changying, the king of Gui who was granted the title of Hengyang, fled to Wuzhou with his family and died of illness in Wuzhou on the fourth day of November in the first year of Hongguang. The third son, King Anren, Zhu Youai, succeeded him. After Longwu proclaimed himself emperor, Zhu Youai fell seriously ill and died soon after. Longwu named Zhu Youlang the King of Gui.
Now Longwu's life and death are unknown, and there are rumors that Zheng Zhilong has surrendered. Some ministers loyal to Zhu Ming ran around and decided to establish a new king.
First, Qu Shichun, the governor of Guangxi, rushed to Wuzhou to pay homage to Zhu Youlang. He thought that his appearance was extraordinary, so he proposed to support him: "Support him as King Gui. It is the right time. The opportunity is coincidental, the name is just and right, and he can win the hearts of the world."
Qu Shichen said a lot of good things, but the matter did not go well at the beginning. His initiative was firmly opposed by Zhu Youlang's aunt Wang.
Wang thinks Zhu Youlang is too young. The key is that there is no political experience. Moreover, he has a weak personality and cannot bear the heavy responsibility in this troubled time. And now there are not many famous ministers in Guangdong and Guangxi. It was impossible to form a strong center to assist Zhu Youlang.
Zhizi Mo Ruomu, she knew very well which onion family her son was, and she also saw the situation in the world very clearly. Such a crisis was definitely not something that her weak and opinionated son could handle. Being promoted to the throne would actually kill him.
The Wang family asked people to drive Qu Shichun out of the house. Seeing that his reasoning did not make sense, Qu Shiqi simply led people into the house, snatched Zhu Youlang out and took him to Zhaoqing. At this point, the Wang family could only say nothing.
Subsequently, Qu Shichun, together with Ding Kuichu, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, as well as local powerful factions such as Fang Yizhi and Ma Jixiang and the official history of the Ming Dynasty, supported Zhu Youlang to supervise the country in Zhaoqing.
At the same time, the ministers Su Guansheng, Zhu Jizuo, and He Wuju of the Longwu Dynasty who fled to Guangzhou, as well as Gu Yuanjing, the chief envoy of Guangdong, and Lin Jiading, the inspector-general of Guangdong, supported Longwu's younger brother Zhu Yuxuan in Guangzhou and took the lead in proclaiming the emperor. , changed to Yuan Shaowu.
Some of the most important official positions in Shaowu's regime were almost exclusively held by locals from Guangzhou. They also recruited pirates named Zheng, Ma, Shi and Xu from the sea and were awarded the title of chief military officer.
The fuss in Guangzhou made Qu Shichun and others in Zhaoqing very unhappy. Not to be outdone, they also allowed Zhu Youlang to proclaim himself emperor and change the Yuan Dynasty to Yongli. He also sent Peng Yao to Guangzhou to declare an edict to the Shaowu Dynasty.
Su Guansheng killed Peng Yao angrily and immediately sent troops to attack Zhaoqing. Regardless of the general situation of the world, Shaowu and Yongli, the two descendants of the old Zhu family, actually started to play dog bite dog. The two sides fought in Sanshan for the first time. Shaowu was defeated and Yongli went to the Ministry of War. The minister easily won, and the battle resumed in Haikou three days later. It was Shaowu's turn to win a great victory, and Yongli was defeated and retreated to Wuzhou.
The news that the Zhu family's descendants were fighting against each other spread to the areas ruled by Qin, shocking everyone.
Tian Yimu took advantage of Yongli's defeat and retreat, and sent people to lobby Ding Kuichu, the chief scholar of Yongli Dynasty and Minister of War, and asked Han Xiu to lead 2,000 troops south from Shaozhou to capture Yingde City.
Su Guansheng hurriedly sent pirate Xu Long and his navy to block the attack along the Beijiang River, blocking Han Xiu from Yingde.
In fact, except for the Pearl River Delta region, the entire Guangdong Province is basically covered with high mountains and ridges. To reach Qingyuan at the northern end of the Pearl River Delta from Yingde, you have to climb nearly two hundred miles of high mountains and ridges.
Generally speaking, Shaoguan is the gateway from Guangdong to Jiangxi. The main reason is that Shaoguan has a Beijiang River that leads directly to the Pearl River Delta region and merges into the Pearl River in the Foshan area to the west of Guangzhou.
Once Jiangxi's army breaks through Shaoguan, they can sail down the Beijiang River to Guangzhou. Of course, this refers to taking the water route. It is not so easy to take the land route. From Shaoguan to Qingyuan at the northern end of the Pearl River Delta, there are still hundreds of miles of mountainous areas to travel. The defenders only need to send a small number of troops to stop them at every level.
This time Han Xiu's 2,000 men also sailed south from Shaozhou, but his 2,000 men were able to fight on land. Water battles were no match for Xu Long's group of pirates. After losing the convenience of waterways, they were blocked by Yingde. breakthrough.
In Taizhou, Zhejiang, two thousand miles northeast of Yingde, a fierce debate was also taking place within Lu Jianguo.
Lu Supervisor Zhu Yihai mainly relied on Zhang Minzhen, Qian Sule, Zhang Huangyan, Shen Chenquan and others. Five days ago, Qian Sule's second brother Qian Sufan fought fiercely with Yuan Zongdi's troops of the Qin army in Fenghua, and was defeated and captured. The third brother Qian Sulin and the fourth brother Qian Sudian led the remaining soldiers to retreat to Tianmen Mountain.
Yuan Zongdi sent his general Qiao Dawei to surround the remnants of Qian Sulin and Qian Sudian in Tianmen Mountain, and led his army to Ninghai.
In the south, Qin Army General Li Changyi also forced his troops to Huangyan, leaving only Taizhou, Haimen, and Ninghai in the area controlled by Zhu Yihai.
After Lu Zhenfei sent his minister Wei Zhongliang to successfully recruit and surrender Ma Shiying, he continued to ask him to recruit and surrender Zhu Yihai.
Zhang Huangyan scolded Qin Mu in front of Wei Zhongliang that he was Cao Cao and an unfaithful and unjust minister, showing no mercy.
Wei Zhongliang sneered: "If I, the King of Qin, hadn't raised an army to fight against the Qing Dynasty, and if Jiangnan was still trapped under the iron heel of the Northern captives, Master Zhang would still be living in panic like a lost dog drifting on the sea.
Recall that at the beginning, when the Northern Captives came with great force and both the northern and southern capitals fell, you did not want to resist the enemy. Instead, you and the Tang king of Fujian started to fight against each other and fought against each other. Can my king count on you to drive out the northern rebels
Now, the old things are happening again. Zhu Yuxuan of Guangzhou and Zhu Youlang of Zhaoqing are attacking each other again. Everyone in the world is jealous. If the King of Qin hadn't been in front, what would have happened to them
My king was ordered from heaven to raise the flag of righteousness, annihilate hundreds of thousands of soldiers from the north, restore the southeast, and save the people from hanging upside down. The Qin army is everywhere, and the people hold pots to greet them. Since ancient times, those who win the hearts of the people win the world. If you hit the stone with an egg again, what will happen? It is self-destruction;
Those who know the current affairs are heroes. Hundreds of thousands of troops from the North were destroyed by my king. Now you are trapped in a corner of Taizhou with only a few soldiers. How can you stop my great Qin army
My king is not concerned about himself. As long as King Lu is willing to go and supervise the title of the country, my king is willing to confer the title of Duke of the country and share the same relationship with the country. You all raised an army to fight against the Qing Dynasty. Although you failed to expel the northern barbarians, your integrity is commendable, and my king will also use it seriously. Whether to accept my king's official title or to fight against each other, please consider carefully. "
After Wei Zhongliang finished speaking, before Zhang Huangyan and others had time to reply, Zhu Yihai asked first: "Is the King of Qin really willing to confer the title of Duke of our country?"
"Supervise the country!" Zhang Huangyan yelled, with a look of shame and anger.
Regardless of what Zhang Huangyan and others thought, Wei Zhongliang said earnestly: "King Lu, my king is the real dragon emperor. As the saying goes, the Taoist king has no jokes, how can he break his trust in the world? The Queen Mother has now been raised in Jinling for our king. As long as King Lu is willing to commit suicide If you remove the imperial title, my king will be given the title of Duke, and he will be hereditary and share the same blood with the country."
Zhu Yihai no longer wants to play the role of supervising the country. He was chased all over the place one day, and now he is trapped in a big ass place like Taizhou, with soldiers everywhere, three surprises a day, and still supervising the country.
The only thing he was worried about was Qin Mu's credibility, but seeing that Yuan Zongdi's troops were pressing down on the border, and the Zheng family ruled the sea, there was no way to escape. At this time, Qin Mu sent someone to recruit him, which showed that he was somewhat sincere.
As Wei Zhongliang said, those who know the current affairs are heroes. In his opinion, instead of waiting to be a prisoner, it is better to gamble on Qin Mu's credit. Maybe he can really enjoy a lifetime of wealth.
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