The rise of the prince

Chapter 117 The Southern Rebellion

Li Ye really waited for almost a day. At noon, he bought eggs and pancakes from a nearby stall. In the afternoon, the big boat from the son-in-law's mansion slowly appeared on the other side of the river. The mast bears the royal banner of the Consort Mansion.

There were more than 20 people escorted by the nursing home of the consort's mansion, plus the boatmen and handymen.

These people are estimated to stay in Kyoto for a few days before heading south.Respectful, respectful, any goods entering or leaving Kaiyuan territory from the wharf must be inspected by the officials of the Kaiyuan government, and the assistant manager of the Department of Shipping.

This time, my sister-in-law sent them the same as in previous years. They were all southern specialties, such as Gastrodia elata and walnuts, some special dried fruits, high-quality rice, and some calligraphy and paintings.

The most valuable are the antique jewelry stuffed with straw on the outside of the two boxes and wrapped in silk cloth inside. Li Ye is not very knowledgeable about these things. He only knows a few sets of porcelain with smooth and clean surfaces and exquisite workmanship. Bracelets, cups, and the most conspicuous one is a pen wash.

The head of the nursing home was Jiao Shan, and he told Li Ye one by one according to Princess Qing'an's account, which ones were given to him, which ones were for the Queen Mother's birthday, and what they were all about.

It was only at the end that Li Ye realized that almost all the large boxes in the ship were given to him, and the only thing that was given to the Queen Mother to celebrate her birthday was the jade pen wash, which looked like a treasure.

His sister-in-law is really good to him, if someone meets the Queen Mother's birthday, she will try her best to please him. He thought that the sister-in-law gave him something just incidentally, but mainly for the Queen Mother's birthday. Now it seems that giving gifts to the Queen Mother is incidental.

Those walnuts and so on are also attached to each box with Bai Juan, on which is written in beautiful fonts what effect it has and how to eat it, presumably because the nursing home can't remember so much, so write it carefully.

The servants that Li Ye brought were not enough, he didn't expect to have so many things, so everyone worked together to carry the goods onto the carriage, and then asked several servants to rush home before coming back.

Li Ye and the two maids were waiting at the pier, and the guardian of the son-in-law's mansion also arranged for them to stay in the palace for the night, but there must not be enough carriages, so Li Ye asked Yan Shen to lead the way, and took a dozen people to walk first. Go, someone must live in the boat and keep watch at night.

While waiting, Li Ye chatted with the head of the nursing home named Jiao Shan in the Concubine's House. Since the Concubine's House dared to let him take on this job, it must have trusted him. On the vast river, it is said that every day should not be done, and the land is not working. In the past few years, there have been many disasters, and I dare not let him take this responsibility if I have no ability.

Li Ye asked him about the situation along the way, as well as the situation in the south, and he answered them truthfully.

According to what he said, there are indeed water bandits on the waterway, but they are not bold enough to dare to attack such a big ship.

Most of these water bandits are fishermen who have lived on the riverside for generations. They usually fish for a living. Those who dare to risk their lives will attack if they see a small boat with few people. The corpses could not be found in the vast river, there was no proof of death, and the government could not send troops.

So I also told him that if he went south in the future, he must not take a small boat and bring more people.

After that, he talked about the situation in Luzhou, and when it came to Jiaoshan, a big man with broad shoulders, he frowned: "Your Majesty, you don't know that Luzhou is in chaos now, people are in panic, and the son-in-law's mansion is not at peace.

In April of this year, there was a rebellion in Ansu Mansion. Luzhou was connected to Ansu Mansion. It took less than a day to go east from the city to Ansu Mansion. The rebels entangled more than [-] people. In those days, the gates of Luzhou City were closed day after day. Dare to go out. "

"More than 10,000!" Li Ye was a little surprised. He had heard of the rebellion in the south this spring, but it didn't cause much trouble. He didn't expect the situation to be so serious. The 10,000+ scale rebellion is not a joke, but why did it subside so quickly? Woolen cloth?Li Ye was a little puzzled: "Is it true that there are [-]+ or ​​is it a rumor? Why did the chaos settle down so quickly?"

"It's the real son. I was ordered by my son-in-law to go to the top of the city to see those people. There are hundreds of miles outside the city of Suzhou. All the hills are full of people. At night, the sky is bright." Jiao Shanhou was frightened. Said: "But the thieves are all dragging their families. There are men, women, old and young. There are only two young and strong men out of ten, but they look really scary."

Li Ye, Qiu'er, and Yue'er were fascinated by what they heard. After all, they had never seen such a scene before, and they felt novelty when they heard Jiao Shan's talk.

"Every time the thieves pass by, the people in the village will either hand over their food and go with them, or they will be killed if they don't leave. No matter how much food is handed in, it will be sold to Sheng Gong, and the rest will be shared equally with everyone.

So there were more and more of them. When they arrived in Luzhou, the magistrate ordered the city gates to be closed tightly, and people from outside the city were not allowed to enter. The surrounding villages were either killed by them, or mixed with them.

Later, it took a few days to attack the city, but they didn't have a building car at all, and the armored ones were only the personal guards of the leading Shenggong, so they had no choice but to bypass Luzhou City and go north. "

Li Ye nodded. It seemed that the leader of the rebellion, that is, the Shenggong, was not of a high level. If things continued like this, they would not be able to go far.

"Then what happened afterwards?" Yue'er asked hastily.

Jiao Shan showed his big white teeth and said with a smile: "What can they do later? They can't attack the city, and there are so many people, and they will soon run out of food. At the beginning, they ate bark, and the bark was eaten up by the people in front. There is no need to eat at all.

Many people were forced to come here, tens of thousands of people, walking for tens of miles, with several mountains, how could the Shenggong see it, walking, scattered, many people ran back secretly up.

Some were caught and killed by Sheng Gong's people, but they couldn't catch them too much.They wanted to go north to Pingzhou, where the city wall was not high, and they could rush in to grab grain.

But when he was still on the road, there was a mutiny because of the food distribution, and his own people fought. When the officers and soldiers left, there were not many people left. The prefect of Suzhou took a big credit. "

"A lot of people died." Li Ye asked.

Jiao Shan nodded: "There must be tens of thousands. The officers and soldiers killed some, but many died of starvation. The Holy Duke forced so many people to gather together, and he would have to eat a few dollars a day even if he just stuffed his stomach. Thousands of catties of grain, how can thieves have so much grain, the people in the front have bark to eat, the people behind can sneak away, the middle is miserable, and those who have nothing to eat can't escape, and at the worst time they start eating people gone."

Li Ye sighed: "At the end of the day, most of them are just ordinary people. Did the Shenggong catch them?"

Jiao Shan shook his head: "I don't know, some people said they were killed by officers and soldiers while taking advantage of the chaos, some people said they didn't kill him and ran away, I don't know, not many people have seen him, and in the end the mountain was full of corpses, he was killed Yes, those who died of starvation, can’t tell the difference at all.”

"That's good, this kill will be peaceful." Yue'er had a sad face after hearing this for so long, and now she finally laughed.

Qiu'er frowned and shook her head: "I'm afraid not necessarily."

(End of this chapter)