please make me king

Chapter 1053 Rebels

"Where is the lackey of 'Shun Thief' going?"

"Kill him for me, kill him for me!"

A group of miners in shabby cotton armor rushed up with long guns in their hands. Zhu Yiyu was so frightened that he retreated several steps, and then asked left and right: "Can you beat it?"

"Nonsense, why don't you run away?" The guards on the left and right were so frightened that they turned around and ran away.

Nima, why don't you wait for me?Zhu Yixuan quickly turned around and followed.

It turned out that after Zhu Yiyi was appointed by Zhang Shun as the county magistrate of Lantian, he had already arrived in Lantian County with twenty guards accompanying him.

It's also his bad luck that he encountered such a thing just after taking office.

Lantian County is located in the southeast of Xi'an, facing the Qinling Mountains and facing Lishan Mountain.

The southeast of the land faces Weinan, Huazhou, Luonan, Shangzhou, and other counties with the Qinling Mountains as the boundary, the Hengling Mountains and Lintong County as the boundary in the north, and Xianning County in Xi'an in the west.

Since ancient times, according to the Qinchu Avenue, it has been known as the "three auxiliary hubs", and it is the main traffic route from Guanzhong to the southeastern provinces.

There are many mountains and mines here. Historically, Lantian jade was once one of the four famous jades in ancient times.

When the timeline reached the Ming Dynasty, Lantian jade had already been mined out, but copper, iron, lead and zinc and other ores were also very rich, so the blacksmiths here are also very famous.

Even Zhang Dudu, the foreman in the rebel army, often sent people here to purchase rough iron and hire blacksmiths.

Due to the prohibition of mining in the Ming Dynasty, most of the mining industry was actually illegal.

Not only do these practitioners not get the protection of local laws, but they have to eat black and white to survive the scene.

Therefore, each of these mine heads has hundreds or thousands of people, and they are kings and hegemons, lawless.

And just before Zhu Yixuan arrived in Lantian, there were rumors claiming that the "shun thieves" wanted to collect all the mines in Lantian, and private mining was prohibited, so there was a lot of trouble.

Originally, it was nothing if the rebels didn't send people, but they did, and it was natural that "yellow mud fell into the crotch, and it was either shit or shit".

"Don't chase after me, okay? In fact, I'm not a 'follower' person, I'm the clan of the Qin clan of the Ming Dynasty!" Zhu Yiyu couldn't help coaxing out of breath when he ran away.

"The clan of the Ming Dynasty? Thieves, that's even more hateful. If you don't cut me to pieces, my hatred will be solved!" The miners chasing after hearing this became more and more angry.

"Zhi Niang, do I have any grudges against you?" Zhu Yixuan asked while running.

"Stop talking nonsense, and accept your life!"

"What should I do? Running like this is not an option?" Zhu Yixuan couldn't help asking the guards around him.

"Let's go, let's go to the north of the city. In the north of the city, there are people from our rebel army who buy ore and rough iron!" Hearing the words, the left and right hurriedly advised.
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"His Royal Highness King Shun, urgent report from Lantian!" Just as Zhang Shun was explaining multiplication to Li Sanniang, who was frowning, the servant could not help rushing in with an urgent letter.

"You write it first, jump over if you don't know it!" Zhang Shun stood up after hearing the words, and took the book to channel.

"Lantian is reversed?" Zhang Shun opened the letter and read it, he couldn't help but be taken aback.

Why do I come from a rebellious background, how else would anyone dare to rebel against me?

"I'll go out first!" After thinking for a while, Zhang Shun waved his hand and said, "Don't wait for me tonight!"

At the end of the speech, Zhang Shun hurriedly walked back and forth, and the secretary hurriedly followed behind Zhang Shun.

Just as Zhang Shun walked out of the room, he happened to see Wang Jinyi and several guards guarding outside, so he could not help but order: "You send people to call Zhu Wanling, Hong Chengchou, Zhang Dudu and Xu Quan to see me in the Hall of Cunxin."

"Yes, King Shun!" Wang Jinyi hurriedly picked four clever people, and went to look for them respectively, while Zhang Shun Shi Shiran went to the Palace of Cunxin to wait.

"That, that..." Seeing that Zhang Shun was finally free, the waiter opened his mouth to say something.

"Boil water and prepare tea!" Zhang Shun ordered without looking back.

"Ah? Yes!" Shi Shu had no choice but to respond quickly, and swallowed back the words he had prepared.

Not long after, Zhu Wanling, Hong Chengchou, Zhang Dudu and Xu Quan arrived one after another, and Zhang Shun couldn't help asking first, "Mr. Zhu, do you know anyone in Lantian?"

"There is no one in Lantian, so many cunning people who underestimate death, gather in the mine, kill people and steal goods, the government can't stop them!" Zhu Wanling responded quickly when he heard the words.

According to the Yellow Book of the Ming Dynasty, Lantian City has more than [-] registered households in Wuli, which has more than [-] households. How can it be said that there is no one?

It turned out that what Zhang Shun asked Zhu Wanling was whether there were big gentry families involved. If this kind of thing happened at a critical point when the rebel army cleared the fields, Zhang Shun would not believe it if no one was behind the scenes.

And Zhu Wanling's answer was also very simple, I don't know if other people participated or not, but we certainly didn't participate, just kill King Shun.

"What do Mr. Hong think?" Of course, Zhang Shun didn't believe Zhu Wanling's words, so he asked Hong Chengchou to confirm it.

"If you talk about gentry and heroes, I have never heard of any capable people in Lantian. There is only one person, but he happens to be from Lantian!" Hong Chengchou pondered for a moment before hesitating.

"Who?"

"Eunuch Wang Cheng'en!" Hong Chengchou replied straight away, "The Lantian Wang family is well-known. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there was a general and an admiral from the Nine Schools. In recent years, this one happened to be born again. Now he is serving as the secretary of ceremonies. The pen eunuch Cao Huachun works under his command."

"Two generals and one eunuch!" Zhang Shun pondered for a moment, then couldn't help but nodded and said, "This matter can be explained clearly!"

Almost all the generals in the early Ming Dynasty belonged to the Weisuo. Presumably the Wang family was inextricably linked with everyone in Xi'an. Later, a eunuch Wang Chengen came out, who also had influence in the local area.

Zhang Shun couldn't help explaining: "The new magistrate of Lantian County Zhu Yiyu wrote a letter, claiming that the rebels are mainly miners, and most of them have cotton armor, and there are about [-] people."

"Before, I wondered where A came from, but now it seems that it has something to do with the guard!"

"Xu Quan listens to the order. I order you to lead five hundred gunners to suppress the rebellion. Is there any problem?"

"Ah?" Xu Quan couldn't help being taken aback when he heard the words, and only then did he understand why Zhang Shun called him over.

He couldn't help but replied with lack of confidence: "Then let me try!"

"The [-] people have completed the practice of the general subjects. Lumi guns, gun knives, medicine pots, fixed medicines, breastplates and hats have all been equipped. Why are they so unconfident?" Zhang Shun frowned and said, "Go, Captain Zhang will hold the line for you!"

"Me?" Dudu Zhang couldn't help being taken aback when he heard the words.

"Yes, Li Daliang and Li You each have [-] people, and I am going to let them follow you to Lantian." Zhang Shun nodded and said.

"After the rebellion is put down, you and Li You will stay in Lantian together. I plan to let Li You use the five hundred people as a basis to recruit miners and set up another battalion to garrison Lantian."

"The people of the Lu clan are tough, so Baodu village can't be left unattended. So after the incident, Li Daliang needs to return to Baodu village and set up another battalion. What do you think?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Dudu couldn't help but nodded.

Although the Lantian miners are tough, how can they be the opponents of more than a thousand elite rebels who have experienced war?
It's just that he was originally a worker, in charge of smelting iron and casting cannons, etc. What does King Shun mean by this?
"After the disposal of Lantian is completed, I plan to set up a smelter in Lantian. You are allowed to conscript miners on the spot, smelt steel, and forge artillery. I don't know if that's okay?" Zhang Shun asked again.

Well, I was waiting here.

It turned out that after Zhang Shun took control of Shaanxi, he formulated a trinity military development plan centered on "grain, iron, and army".

Food is generally not a big problem, and the "army" is now being experimented by Xu Quan. Only steel is imported from other places, and it is difficult to meet the needs of the rebel army's massive expansion.

It just so happened that something happened in Lantian, Zhang Shun was really inspired by those rumors, and planned to use force to control all the Lantian iron mines and blacksmiths in his hands, making it a key part of his military expansion and preparations.

"Okay, what about Zhu Yiyu, the former magistrate of Lantian County?" Dudu Zhang frowned and asked after answering.

"Him? He only cares about persuading farming and mulberry and collecting taxes, and has nothing to do with you!" Zhang Shun happily distinguished the scope of their respective responsibilities for the two.

　As soon as Wang Chengen said he was from Xingtai, Hebei, I was inclined to Hebei, but from the information I found, the information on Lantian was more complete, so I chose Lantian as his hometown in this work.

　　
　
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