Start a Ming Dynasty plane

Chapter 576
Because there were too many victims along the way, Hong Niangzi realized that she did not need to go to Kaifeng to recruit enough people, so Hong Niangzi directly changed her itinerary, disembarked in Zhongmu County, and began to recruit refugees.

This place meets all the conditions of the Red Lady to recruit refugees. This place has been forced to the breaking point by the disaster. The price of a catty of rice here is unbelievably high. Here, the team of the Red Lady was displaced overnight. Thieves Attacked as many as fifteen times.

And after the red lady entered the city, the city of Zhongmou was also in a mess. Bandits attacked Zhongmu City last night, killed the local defenders, looted the wealthy households, and even set fire to an inn full of rotten scholars. A fire directly burned hundreds of people to death.

The entire Zhongmu City was completely out of order. Looking at this messy city, the corners of Hong Niangzi's mouth curled up, revealing an unprecedented smile.

"It's here, let's go on to inform that the flag of righteousness will be erected in the city, storehouses will be opened to release grain, and the victims of the disaster will be gathered."

"Yes."

After hearing the words of Hong Niangzi, more than a hundred people in this group directly erected a flag of righteousness outside the largest restaurant in the city, and wrote a letter: "For the sky, walk the way."

Immediately afterwards, he shouted loudly: "Woniushan Red's big boss wants to accept his brothers here, and all the young and strong who come to defect will be rewarded with ten catties of rice. From now on, if our big boss eats, everyone will have a bite!"
After saying this, the red lady showed her food, she spoke empty teeth, and her words were groundless, if you don't show something real, who will treat you as a bandit.

But when the rice came out, everyone went crazy. In just one morning, Hong Niangzi gathered thousands of people.

When there are people, the Red Lady will take the big guys to rob the local wealthy households and attack the county government. Soon more and more people will join the Red Lady. In less than five days, the team of the Red Lady has expanded like a snowball. 8000 people.

Almost the entire labor force of Zhongmu County, young and strong, joined the team of Hong Niangzi. Hong Niangzi is capable. Under her leadership, this team gradually gained combat effectiveness and gradually became the number one force in Zhongmu County.

And with such a powerful force, Hong Niangzi doesn't want to be trapped in this mere Zhongmou County. The most important thing is that Zhongmou County has no rich households to grab. If you want to revitalize this team and continue to grow this team, Then it is necessary to plot a larger city, for example, Kaifeng.

Kaifeng is now a besieged city, and the siege is wonderful. Since last winter, the prefectures and counties around Kaifeng have more or less snowed. The auspicious snow heralds a good year. Only when it snows in winter, in early spring, when the snow melts, can the crops get enough moisture nourishment.

But the evil door, from last year until this spring, the entire Kaifeng mansion has not had a single snowfall, and before it was too late, many families in Kaifeng mansion ran out of food and had to go out to find a way to survive.

But this year, there is no shortage of rain in Henan, but Kaifeng Prefecture is in drought, which is really an evil door.

And when the spring sowed, it finally got better. Henan, which did not rain, suddenly began to rain for several days, and the crops in other places were flooded again. However, the residents of Kaifeng felt that they could live again, so they hurried to find them. Those who go out, come back and prepare to rush to sow summer grain.

Therefore, the population of Kaifeng became rich again.

Moreover, refugees and others began to gather in Kaifeng Mansion.

The land of Longxing in Huaxia, Henan has a large population and flat land, so the Ming Dynasty established two vassal kings here, one is King Fu who occupies Luoyang City, and the other is King Zhou who occupies Kaifeng Mansion.

This time Henan was hit by a drought followed by a flood, which created a large number of refugees at once, and Luoyang was entrenched by Liu Zeqing, the general soldier of Henan. Seal convergence.

After all, big cities are always more resistant to risks than small cities at any time, and they can also have one more way to survive.

Therefore, more and more refugees from Kaifeng Mansion gathered. The vassal king Zhou Wang of Kaifeng Mansion was a nice man. After learning that the common people could not survive and ran to Kaifeng, he did not drive away the common people. Instead, he used the savings in the mansion to set up porridge shed , donate to the common people, and prolong the life of the common people.

But at this moment, he touched the backlash of the Ming royal family. First, Yu Shiben impeached the king of Zhou, violated the patriarchal law of his ancestors, and intervened in politics as a vassal king.

Zhou Wang felt that he had a clear conscience, so he ignored him. As a result, Gao Mingheng, the inspector in Henan, directly wrote to the court to impeach Zhou Wang to help the victims, buy people's hearts, and intend to rebel.

This suddenly frightened the King of Zhou. He didn't expect that he would be treated like this if he wanted to do something good, so he quickly imprisoned himself in the King Zhou's mansion and asked the emperor to plead guilty.

There’s no way the old Zhu family’s attitude towards vassal kings since Zhu Di started is that you can embezzle and corrupt people, rob people’s daughters by force, and disregard people’s lives. good.

Otherwise, you intend to rebel, because this kind of thing has happened more than once or twice in Daming's memory. Zhu Di is a lesson from the past, and Ning Wang Zhu Chenhao can be regarded as the second example. With these two examples, the Daming royal family The control over the vassal king is not so strict, so Zhou Wang's action of helping the victims without authorization has annoyed the Ming royal family and local officials.

It has to be said that there were reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty. The annual salary of the feudal lords combined to consume more than half of the silver in the national treasury, but these silver were not used by the people, which eventually led to the collapse of the Ming Dynasty's property and finally its complete demise.

And because the King of Zhou stopped providing disaster relief, the refugees who gathered in Kaifeng Mansion could not get food, which naturally caused riots of all sizes, but they were all suppressed by Gao Mingheng.

But the people’s sentiments are like this, blocking is worse than sparse. When the common people have no food to eat, they don’t care what you are. At this time, the common people have only one purpose, which is to eat.

However, Gao Mingheng's command of the Kaifeng defenders was not for nothing, he suppressed the refugees to death. At this time, the refugees did not have a leader in name, so they were naturally scattered, but if someone raised their arms and the refugees formed a group, then these The weak and deceitful refugees will become the king of Hades who will kill Kaifeng City.

After learning about the situation in Kaifeng City, Hong Niangzi's eyes lit up and she said: "This is a god-given opportunity. If I can kill Gao Mingheng and raise my arms, I might be able to lead the refugees to capture this thousand-year-old city. Even if I face King Li Chuang, he will respect me three points!"

The red lady is worthy of being a thief, with the blood of adventurism flowing in her body, and she is also an activist, she will do what she says, and the next day she will lead 30 people to secretly sneak into Kaifeng City, leaving her confidant to manage the five thousand in Zhongmou City. men.

Kaifeng City, Kaibao Temple, Hong Niangzi is sitting at a mutton stall, looking at an iron tower in the temple. This is the famous Kaifeng Iron Tower in Kaifeng Prefecture, which was built by King Zhou.

The red lady looked at the tall iron tower with sharp eyes and said: "If these officials can give these useless money to the common people, why do the common people do this?"

After saying this, the red lady looked at the big maid beside her and said, "Is your news accurate? Will Gao Mingheng come to Kaibao Temple today?"

The eldest servant girl said: "This is the news from the inspector's mansion. I don't know if it is accurate or not, but miss, this Gao Mingheng is a high-ranking official. Is thirty people enough for us?"

The red lady said: "It must be enough. Few of these lackeys of the imperial court are willing to go all out. We just need to kill Gao Mingheng, climb up and call out, and the beggars and refugees around here will help us. When the time comes, open the city gate and clear the city. Let all the refugees in, no one can stop it."

After hearing this, the big servant girl nodded slightly, and several of them continued to drink the mutton soup. Not to mention that the mutton soup in Kaifeng Prefecture is better than other places. Drank several more bowls.

"Shopkeeper, have another bowl."

The red lady opened her mouth and said, the shopkeeper immediately went to serve the soup.

"Shopkeeper, this group of people don't look like good stubble."

Hearing the words, the shopkeeper filled the soup and said: "Now what's wrong with Kaifeng Mansion, let's not bother, and continue to lurk. After Li Zicheng's army enters the city, we only need to mix in with the army and complete the task of the county lord." That's the right thing to do."

"The shopkeeper said yes, but the shopkeeper, selling mutton soup is really making money. We have earned 50 taels in the past ten days, which is higher than our monthly allowance."

"Go, short-sighted, is the work we do a matter of money?"

"Hey, why don't I just talk about it?"

The shopkeeper's white man glanced at him, then smiled and walked over with a bowl of soup: "Hahaha, here we come, your mutton soup."

The shopkeeper smiled and brought the mutton soup to Hong Niangzi.

Then they continued to be busy at the booth. They came to Kaifeng mansion a month ago. At that time, their orders were to monitor Zhou Wang's mansion, monitor the governor's yamen and other high-ranking officials' yamen, and provide information related to Lantian.

But the order they received half a month ago was to hide in disguise and wait for the opportunity to infiltrate the rebel army.

That's right, Lan Tian noticed the crisis in Henan half a month ago, and started arranging a latent mission, and this mutton soup restaurant is just an inconspicuous small role in this latent mission, and such a small role, Lan Tian sent out There are many, these secret spies are hiding in various forms in every corner of Kaifeng Mansion, some are porters, some are small businessmen, and some even disguise themselves as refugees, mixing outside the city, among the rogue teams inside the city, for the purpose of Infiltrate the rebel army, then make meritorious service, get promoted and raise salary.

At noon, a carriage suddenly appeared in the distance. The carriage was of a very high standard. There was a group of guards escorting the carriage. The carriage was driving directly towards Kaibao Temple.

It was Gao Mingheng who was sitting in the car, and Gao Mingheng came to Kaibao Temple to routinely check whether King Zhou obeyed the rules. The opportunity for a salary increase, regardless of whether King Zhou was out of good intentions or with ulterior motives, he took the initiative to open a porridge shed had already touched the fragile nerves of the Ming royal family.

And as long as he clings to this matter, he will be able to hang the name of a loyal minister in Chongzhen's heart, which will be very helpful to his promotion.

And King Zhou is also alert. After being impeached by him last time, he imprisoned King Zhou's mansion. Yesterday, King Zhou's mansion might have been bored. He came to Kaibao Temple to confess his sins in front of the Buddha, and he wanted to come and see King Zhou. , To show loyalty to Chongzhen.

The red lady watched the frame slowly approaching, and she had already touched the knife under the table, and a porter wearing a bamboo hat and sleeping against the wall not far from the sheep soup restaurant also pushed away the hat covering his face, Touched on his shoulder pole.

The atmosphere suddenly became tense, but at this moment, there was a loud bang, which scared Hong Niangzi and the others into a fright, and when they turned their heads, they saw the grand main hall of Kaibao Temple just now It was blown up.

"what's the situation!"

Everyone looked at everything blindly, and at this moment someone shouted from Kaibao Temple: "Hurry up and save the prince, there are assassins!"

"Someone assassinated King Zhou?"

The people around were stunned. At this time, a middle-aged man in official uniform got out of the tightly protected frame of the car and looked at Kaibao Temple with an extremely ugly expression. He shouted: "Go and save the prince."

Gao Mingheng is not a fool, on the contrary, he is very smart. What does the assassination of King Zhou mean at this time? It means that public opinion will change. Originally, King Zhou was impeached, and the matter of self-imprisonment was a matter for the refugees he had favored. Gao Mingheng had finally forcibly suppressed such a huge matter, and the refugees were already emotionally unstable, but now if King Zhou was assassinated and died, the scapegoat would be [-]% on his own head.

Gao Mingheng didn't dare to think about what the crazy people would do at that time, he only felt his head buzzing.

At this time, I could only let my guards rush to Kaibao Temple to rescue King Zhou, but Gao Mingheng transferred the guards away, and Hong Niangzi would have a chance. At this time, Hong Niangzi yelled: "Kill the corrupt officials!"

Immediately following the ambushes, the subordinates shot immediately, and countless voices rushed towards Gao Mingheng. Gao Mingheng had just transferred the guards around him away, and there were only a few guards around him. How could he stop the red lady's surprise attack, he was quickly killed Arrived near.

The red lady was really fierce, and took the lead. Gao Mingheng's guards couldn't stop the red tigress at all, and soon Gao Mingheng screamed, and the head was chopped off by the red lady.

"Avenge Zhou King today and kill the treacherous official Gao Mingheng. Brothers, it's against you!"

The red lady yelled angrily, and the next moment the aroused people in the city roared angrily, and at this moment, a fierce drum sounded suddenly at the city gate. Hearing the drum sound, the shopkeeper of the sheep soup restaurant said: Come together, the refugees are attacking the city!"

Boom boom boom...

Hearing the roar of cannons outside, the waiter at the sheep soup restaurant said: "There are more than [-] cannons in Kaifeng Mansion, and the city is high, and there are more than [-] defenders. Gao Mingheng, if you create chaos, you won't be able to get in."

At this moment, the shopkeeper's right eyelid twitched and said: "Yes, the rogues knew that they couldn't get in, but they chose this time to attack the city. Something is wrong. This time it was Li Zicheng who did it. Could he be so simple? Why do I have an ominous feeling? What about a hunch?"

gurgle~
At this time, the mutton soup in the mutton soup pot was boiling. The shopkeeper took a look, and suddenly exclaimed: "No way! Li Zicheng, hurry up, hurry up, let's go upstairs!"

(End of this chapter)