East Factory Governor

Chapter 735 An Unexpected Mutiny

In the face of ambition, time is always not enough, and two months have passed in a flash.

Everything is proceeding in an orderly manner.

Under the leadership of an ambitious young emperor and a legendary unparalleled national soldier, this empire that was once on the verge of decay has shown a state of rejuvenation where the dead tree is in spring and the old tree is sprouting.

Among the folks, words like "Chongzhen Zhongxing" have come out.

Empire, on the move.

It's just that the road ahead will always encounter twists and turns.

On February 21st of the fifth year of Chongzhen, a major event happened to the Guanning Army stationed in Jizhen that no one had expected.

Speaking of which, the fuse of this incident was ignited by the Demon Cult.

After the Demon Sect agreed to help Qin Shuhuai train the soldiers and horses of the imperial court, they first sent elites with two hundred five-element flags to enter the Jianghe Gang secretly, and stayed there for seven days to complete the identity change. The imperial troops stationed in Jizhen, Shanhaiguan and Liaodong have been trained.

After receiving the imperial edict for training, all imperial armies, including Yuan Chonghuan's Guan Ning Army, basically accepted these "coaches" who came to train - even though many soldiers in the Guan Ning Army were opposed to letting people from all over the world come to train the army. There were some criticisms about this matter, but because many generals had a good personal relationship with Qin Shuhuai and had seen the fighting power of the Jianghe Gang, so with their support, the training was carried out smoothly.

However, Qin Shuhuai overlooked one point, that is, although the soldiers trained by the Demon Cult were indeed powerful, their training methods were extremely cruel - even a little dehumanized!
How far has it come?

In order to exercise perseverance, the Devil's Cult asked everyone in the ice and snow to practice formation shirtless, and it took an hour or two to practice.One can imagine how cold the winter in the Little Ice Age was. Which of those soldiers was not shivering from the cold?

In a few days, hundreds of soldiers were frostbitten, three died of freezing, and more than a dozen were disabled!This is still based on the fact that the soldiers in this world are more or less able to learn martial arts, and they are more resistant to cold than ordinary people. Otherwise, the number of people who died of freezing and are disabled is far more than this.

But the members of the Devil's Cult don't care about this at all. In their view, this is normal, because this is how they usually train!

In addition to shirtless training, these "coaches" of the Devil's Cult have other perverted requirements, such as training "forbidden" subjects, ordering soldiers to jump into a glacier, or roll barefoot into a fire.

Another example is the subject of formation drills, where two groups of people hold wooden knives and wooden swords to attack each other. If the two sides don't fight until their heads are broken and bloody, they will have nothing to eat.

Of course, there are definitely many cases of beating, scolding and corporal punishment during training.

The proud elites of the Five Elements Banner of the Devil's Cult looked down on these court soldiers at all, and the court soldiers, especially the Guan Ning army who was also somewhat arrogant, could not bear the torture of not treating them as human beings.

As a result, resentment is spreading and conflicts are escalating!
Finally, on the day of February 21, the [-] Guan Ning troops stationed at the Santun Camp in Ji Town could not stand it anymore.

This morning, during the routine formation drill, one of the officers in Guan Ning's army, whether it was intentional or unintentional, slowed down three times in a row, which caused the Demon Sect's instructors to be furious. Beat up.

It happened that the general had a high prestige among the brothers on weekdays, but now he completely angered the soldiers, and these people went up aggressively to argue with the members of the Devil's Cult.

The members of the Devil's Cult saw that there were still people who dared to commit the crime, so they raised their swords without hesitation on the spot and slashed a soldier as a warning. Although it was not fatal, the wound was deep and the blood was soaring.

A group of soldiers are already emotional, what will happen when they see blood?
The answer is self-evident.

Crash, these soldiers fucked up with these instructors!
There are only 20 Demon Sect Five Elements Bannermen in Santunying, and there are 5000 Guanning Army stationed there!Once the riot broke out, it spread rapidly. After a while, the entire camp was full of soldiers who wanted to kill the "coach" with red eyes!
Although Zu Dashou, who was ordered to garrison the Santun camp, immediately suppressed it, it was still a step too late.

There are only 20 people in the Five Elements Banner of the Devil's Cult. Even the elite among the elite, how long can they resist the siege of hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of people?
All the 20 Demon Cult elites were killed!

It is worth mentioning that in the face of the siege of thousands of people, they even killed more than 20 Guan Ning troops!
This mutiny soon spread to the court.

Strangely, half a month has passed, and the imperial court has not indicated at all.

Even Qin Shuhuai didn't speak.

This instead made the three camps and even the entire Guanning Army at a loss.

The most difficult person is naturally Zu Dashou, because it was his subordinate who killed someone, and it was the Duke's man who killed him!

Although he had already tied up all the soldiers who took the lead in making trouble and escorted them to the capital, and applied to the imperial court for his dismissal, the imperial court never responded.

At this time, no news is the worst news. How could Zu Dashou, who has been in the officialdom for many years, not know this?
He is very clear that how the court handles this matter depends most on the will of the Duke.

So, he immediately wrote a sincere letter of apology to Qin Shuhuai, but it was a pity that Qin Shuhuai never replied to him.He was forced to ask someone to go to Sun Chengzong to inquire about the tone of the Duke, but what he got in return was Sun Chengzong's rejection.

Zu Dashou was anxious like ants on a hot pot, and Yuan Chonghuan was also anxious.

As the commander-in-chief of the Guan Ning Army and the governor of Ji Liao, the mutiny happened in his territory, so can he not be in a hurry?
Yuan Chonghuan sent someone to urge Zu Dashou almost every day, how things were going.

Zu Dashou couldn't sit still anymore, so he had to apply for a month's leave from the imperial court in the name of returning to Beijing to treat his back injury, and returned to the capital in a hurry to find Qin Shuhuai.

Of course Qin Shuhuai won't see him!
Because on the first day when the news reached the palace, Chongzhen said in front of Qin Shuhuai that the mutiny in the army was caused by Yuan Chonghuan's lax control of soldiers, and it was hard to absolve himself of the blame!
Now that Chongzhen named Yuan Chonghuan, what are you talking about with Zu Dashou?
Qin Shuhuai knew very well that Chongzhen was playing a big game of chess!
Poor Zu Dashou ran to the Duke's mansion and stood in the ice and snow for a whole day, but he only got a bowl of ginger soup that Qiu Dali asked to send out a special trip. As for the Duke, he didn't even see him.

Zu Dashou was not reconciled, so he went to block the people around Qin Shuhuai from the next day.From Qiu Dali, Qiao Butler to the old Taoists far away in Tianjin, even Wen Tiren and Zhao Bingzhen went looking for them, but these people either didn't see him, or sighed when they saw him, saying they couldn't help much.

In a word, he has a big deal!
Qin Shuhuai temporarily lived in Liushi Academy in order to escape his ancestor's birthday.

Regarding this matter, what he can do now is to appease the emotions of the Demon Cult on the one hand, after all, they have lost people, and on the other hand, he ordered the training to continue in various places, and kill those who defy the training without mercy.

He is also waiting, waiting for Chongzhen's final opinion, although he can probably guess what Chongzhen will do - these days Sun Chengzong has entered the palace from time to time, obviously planning something with Chongzhen.

(End of this chapter)