Red House Shoufu

Chapter 373

The movement of the rebel army was blocked at the west city gate, and they were unable to enter the city for a long time. In addition, news of the party members in the city could not be spread out. By the time the sun rose on the second day after the Mid-Autumn Festival, Chen Ruiwen already knew that the plan had failed.

The brilliance of a gentleman will decline in the third life, and beheaded in the fifth life.The Duke of Qi's mansion was passed down to him, and only a third-class general was attacked. When his son took the title, the dignified Founding Duke's mansion would only be left with an empty shell.

When the Eight Great Masters of Shanxi Merchants approached Chen Ruiwen, he hesitated.However, Duke Qi's mansion is no better than Ningrong and Rong's mansions. Who wouldn't envy the royal family's favor to the Jia family?
Since the current emperor does not accept the allegiance of the Duke of Qi, then change to another emperor.He is very clear about the consequences of the failure of the rebellion, but Chen Ruiwen is a complete opportunist, after hesitating he becomes crazy.

Although the Central Jin Party has little power in the top ranks, the Eight Great Masters of Shanxi Merchants have funded many middle- and lower-level officials, and even Zhang Siwei, the governor of Shanxi Province, is a member of Shanxi Merchants.

And according to Shanxi merchants, Concubine Xue De in the palace is also a member of the Qu family of the Eight Great Families.Starve the timid to death, support the daring to death, for the sake of the dragon, do it!

It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven. In the original plan, the Emperor Zhen should be poisoned to death first, and then the loyal Wang Gao Yongyi, who has been controlled by the Jin Party, raised troops in Shanxi, and Prince Teng of Liaodong cooperated with him to go south.

At that time, when the emperor and Gao Yongyi are both hurt, it will be the time when the real power of the Jin Party will explode.

No one would have expected that the entire imperial palace was firmly in the hands of the imperial concubine Yang's family, because the Taishang Emperor's health was not good recently, and Xukun Palace was managing the meals and so on in the Dragon Head Palace.

Regardless of whether it was Zhen's failure to find an opportunity or other plans, anyway, until the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Supreme Emperor was fine and there was no problem at all.

"Chen Gong, I'm afraid the situation is not good, we should withdraw!"

Liu Qian's complexion is not much better than Chen Ruiwen's. He was pushed up secretly by the Jin Party, and he was pushed up more than 20 years ago.

Liu Qian is naturally not a fool to be able to command and envoy all the guards of the Imperial Army.The four gates of the capital are flawless, and there is no news from the inside of the city, which proves that the plan this time has failed, and it is time to leave.

Chen Ruiwen looked at the top of the city with a livid face. The Panlong flag with red background and golden pattern fluttered in the wind, shining brightly under the sunlight, as if mocking his own overreach.

"Withdraw? Where to withdraw? Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, where can they go?"

Liu Qian whispered in his ear: "How can it be possible to take everyone away, we must keep some people to attract the attention of the court, otherwise we will not be able to leave even if we want to."

"What do you mean?"

Chen Ruiwen looked at Liu Qian in disbelief. He vaguely felt that this rebellion was not as simple as he imagined.

The seemingly hasty plan to raise troops is closely linked, but extremely fragile.As long as a link is missing in the middle, it will be completely destroyed.

For example, the Supreme Emperor was not poisoned to death, the gunpowder under the Fengtian Palace did not explode, and the nephews in the city have not shown up yet...

Then he rebelled with this group of people and finally got nothing. Instead, he became a traitor and traitor that everyone shouted and beat.

"Hey, Chen Gong, I'm telling you something from the bottom of my heart. Datong's original plan was to let the imperial court and Wala fight to the death, and then use Gao Yongyi's hand to weaken the emperor's power. Finally, we are standing up..."

"I know about this, so why did you suddenly force me to raise troops in a hurry a few days ago?"

Chen Ruiwen's eyes were suddenly bloodshot, like an angry wolf, he grabbed Liu Qian's skirt and asked, "Didn't you say that Datong and the capital are all ready? Everything was almost perfect, but in the end it was so hasty?"

Liu Qian replied unhurriedly: "Mr. Chen... Wala was at a disadvantage in the war in Kaiping, and wanted to leave the battlefield and return to the grassland for the winter. They quietly sent a letter to the capital, asking us to disturb the situation in the capital, otherwise the business in Datong will be ruined." I want to keep going!"

"Ridiculous! Do we need so many human lives to do business? If we wait a little longer, maybe our chances of winning will be greater..."

"A business of tens of millions of taels a year, not to mention killing such a small number of people, even filling in all the people in the capital, is no big deal!"

Liu Qian's answer made Chen Ruiwen aware of the cruelty and greed of these members of the Jin Party. He would regret it very much, but he had no chance of turning back.

Since ancient times, rebellion has been a road of no return, either success or genocide.Winner and loser, Chen Ruiwen can only put his hope on Liu Qian.

"Then what shall we do now?"

Liu Qian looked around, ignored the shouts and howls not far away, and said in Chen Ruiwen's ear: "The flag of the Chinese army is still standing here, Mr. Chen and I put on our clothes. Go to the mountains in the northwest to meet the people who came to meet them. When we arrive in Datong, there will be many old in-laws of Duke Qi's mansion in the Nine Sides. Whenever we have a chance, we will come back along the Great Wall!"

"Then the family I'm waiting for..."

"Don't worry, the arrangements have been made, and they will probably have arrived at the foot of Yanshan Mountain by now!"

……

dong dong dong dong!

There was a loud bang on the battle drum at the top of the city, and as soon as the west city gate was opened, an elite cavalry rushed out.

On the flat northern land, cavalry faced infantry without targeted formations and equipment, almost no different from massacres.

An elite iron cavalry of 5000 people, like a sharp knife, ruthlessly penetrated into the chaos army. After three penetrations, it completely destroyed the entire formation of the chaos army.

Chen Ruiwen and Liu Qian, who were supposed to be in command of the Chinese army, had long since disappeared, and the disorderly army who had lost their command scattered and fled for their lives. It is a pity that Zhang Yue delayed the battle until this time to prevent this from happening.

Tens of thousands of troops had already been deployed on the north and south sides of the battlefield. Like a fence, they surrounded all the rebels on the battlefield outside the west city gate. The only exit left was on the small hill west of the battlefield.

Lin Shu had a lot of infantry and less than six hundred cavalry.After receiving the order from the British Duke Zhang Yue, he immediately dispatched Xue Pan to lead the cavalry to intercept the rebels, so that these bandits must not be allowed to harass the people in Gyeonggi.

Then he followed with his infantry, and made the last line of defense, completely locking the group of chaotic soldiers on the battlefield of the west city gate.

However, Lin Shu didn't expect that before the rebels saw their shadows, Xue Pan led a hundred or so people back to the central army.

"My lord, the last general seems to have caught two big fish!"

Lin Shu looked at Chen Ruiwen and Liu Qian who were dressed as wealthy businessmen with a strange expression. Xue Pan might not know these two people, but Lin Shu was very familiar with them.

Since the successful development of the new gunpowder, Chen Ruiwen and Liu Qian have often come to the Ministry of Industry to disturb themselves.During the investigation in Shunyi County this time, Lin Shu had long suspected that someone in the Forbidden Army and the Ministry of Industry was smuggling gunpowder, and the direction of the smuggling was the Tartars outside the Great Wall.

"Brother Xue, you have made great achievements!"

It can be seen from the attire of these two people that they saw that the situation was not good and they were about to run away.It's a pity that these two people would never have thought that Lin Shu would show up here with an army.

It has to be said that Xue Pan's fortune has changed greatly since he entered Beijing.First, Lin Shu and Jia Lian's advice was given to overturn the Jinling case. Although he suffered from prison and exile, this opportunity came along with him.

The family of the Xue family has been changed, and he followed the army to fight a battle in Henan. After returning to Beijing, he became a sixth-rank military officer. In less than a year, he fell into the eyes of the prince by chance, and was promoted from the fifth-rank imperial army to the deputy thousand households. .

Today is even more lucky, picking up the two main leaders of the rebellion halfway, it will be a strange thing if they don't get promoted.

Chen Ruiwen and Liu Qian were unlucky. The two secretly took their confidantes and fled from the camp of the Chinese army. They wanted to go north to Yanshan, but they were scared back by Zhang Yue's ambush on the way.

He had no choice but to change direction and flee to the west. As soon as he walked into the hilly land, he was captured on the spot by Xue Pan, who was leading the cavalry to clean up the bandits.

It is not uncommon for rich merchants to lead their guards to go out to merchants in Gyeonggi, but the four gates of the capital have been closed for two days. Who would appear near the battlefield at this time?

So suspicious, take it away!
Before the startled Chen and Liu could react, Xue Pan rushed over with someone.The deterrent power of the five hundred hand crossbows was so great that everyone's scalp was numb and they didn't dare to move.

When Xue Pan led the two of them to Lin Shu, everything was a foregone conclusion. The fate of the two of them was probably to be cut into pieces by Caishikou.

……

The battle outside the West City Gate was declared over in less than an hour. Despite the rumbling of the cannons the day before, Zuo Xiaowei and You Wuwei, who had lost their coaches, did not even have the courage to resist under the pressure of the imperial army. .

Although the matter involved rebellion, the emperor still ordered Zhang Yue to accept the surrender. After all, they were all citizens of Great Chu. Most of the tens of thousands of soldiers in the two guards were deceived by Chen Ruiwen's false imperial decree.

Lin Shu asked Xue Pan to escort Chen Ruiwen and Liu Qian to Xiuyiwei Prison, and he had to arrange for the Xishan King Qin army led by Lu Chengyi to set up camp.

They were not allowed to enter the city. Fortunately, after Zhang Yue learned about this, he vacated enough space in the Forbidden Army camp, and even sent a lot of wine, meat, food, and medicinal materials.

Although the 5000 people in Xishan King Qin's army failed to catch up with the battle, they still made great contributions in the final stage.More than a hundred people were killed or injured. Lin Shu asked the military medical officer to treat them well. After everything was arranged properly, he took Lu Chengyi into the gate of the capital.

"Lu Duguan, I will enter the palace to renew the order later, so you will wait outside the palace, and it is estimated that His Majesty will summon you."

Lin Shu looked at the situation around the city. Many businesses had already opened their doors, and there were more pedestrians on the street. It seemed that there was not much disturbance in the city, and the emperor's earlier preparations had played a big role.

He said to Lu Chengyi, who was anxious at the side: "You 5000 people are regarded as your majesty's private soldiers. Although you are suspected of being charged with leading troops into Beijing without an edict, your majesty has the final say on this matter. I think your majesty will be pleased with your loyalty. , exonerate their crimes, and reward their loyalty."

Lu Chengyi forced a smile, and respectfully replied to Lin Shu: "Your Majesty is in charge of everything. It is because of His Majesty's blessing that the humble rank and file can gain a stable foothold in the prosperous place of Gyeonggi. No matter how His Majesty disposes of it, everything owned by Xishan is nothing. No complaints."

The two of them arrived at the gate of the imperial city while they were talking. Because of this rebellion, the defense of the Forbidden City was significantly strengthened.

After inspecting Lin Shu's official badge and the imperial decree before leaving the city, the captain of the Imperial Guard who guarded the gate cupped his hands and said, "Scholar Lin, you can go in, but this..."

"He just stayed outside the palace gate and waited for His Majesty to summon him, not daring to cause trouble to the brothers of the imperial army."

Lin Shu smiled and told the school captain guarding the gate, asking them to help entertain Lu Chengyi, and then walked quickly to Fengtian Hall.

The civil and military officials in the court have not been out of the palace for two days and one night. Except for the necessary guards at the yamen, all officials above the fifth rank in the capital are waiting in Fengtian Temple for the peace of the capital chaos.

Fortunately, if the command of the British public Zhang Yue was determined, the sudden rebellion was completely suppressed in less than two days.

The capital was already safe, and the atmosphere in Fengtian Hall gradually eased.Many people from Wu Xun's lineage have made great contributions, and many younger generations have emerged in the suppression of this rebellion.

For example, Jia Rong and Jia Qiang from the two mansions of Ningrong, Liu Xianglian from Li Guogong's lineage, and Xue Pan who just sent Chen Ruiwen and Liu Qian to the Imperial Prison, etc.

In contrast, civil servants not only had few meritorious deeds, but also many middle and lower officials were involved in rebellion.Regardless of whether these people are from the Jin Party or not, these dozen or so middle- and lower-level officials who have opened up various conveniences for the rebels belong to the rank of civil servants.

From the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Households, and even the Yamen of Shuntian Prefecture, there are Jin parties flooding them.These people have done a lot of things, such as opening the way for the rebellious party, distributing gunpowder, ordnance and so on without telling the head of the yamen.

When the topic shifted to rewards for countering the rebellion, the aura of Wen Chen was obviously much lower than that of Wu Xun.

Until the servant's report came from outside the hall, Lin Shu asked to see him outside!

"Chen Linshu pays homage to His Majesty!"

At this time, Lin Shu was full of travel and dust, and his official robe was even stained with blood. If he had tidied up a little before entering the palace, his hair would probably be messy by now.

The emperor seemed to be in a good mood, and said with a smile: "Qing Lin is free of courtesy. During this trip outside the city, the burden on Lin Qing has increased several times. It is thanks to Lin Qing that the imperial court was able to quickly put down the rebellion this time." No, it deserves a reward!"

Lin Shu bowed and replied: "I am ashamed and dare not accept it. It is all because of His Majesty's planning. All the sages and soldiers in the court are loyal to the state affairs and fight the enemy bravely. Only then can the rebels be suppressed and the peace of the people in Gyeonggi be restored."

This rebellion can be put down so quickly, it cannot do without those previous discoveries and preparations.The biggest hero is naturally Zhang Yue, the British prince who commanded the entire Beijing camp, followed by Xiu Yiwei and Daiyu who discovered the secret road in Qincha Temple.

Next is the desperate soldiers on the side of the generals. These are all rules to follow, how to evaluate and follow the rules.However, Lin Shu's credit is not easy to say, some things were laid out a few years ago, and they belonged to the secrets between the monarch and his ministers.

The emperor didn't say anything clearly at this time, but after giving Lin Shu a look, he briefly discussed the follow-up arrangements with the officials.The matter of awarding the reward still needs to be carefully discussed by the center, and it will take a while to come out.

The officials stayed in the palace for two full days, and finally left the Forbidden City before evening.After Lin Shu reported the matter about King Xishanqin's army, the emperor smiled and asked him to go home and rest first, and he would take care of it himself.

When Lin Shu returned to the gate of the house, Daiyu had already led a large family waiting in front of the mansion. There was a brazier at the gate, waiting for Lin Shu to step over.

"Hey!"

Lin Shu pulled himself together, and after stepping over the brazier, he rubbed Daiyu's head and asked, "Have you been frightened these past few days? Has our house been affected by rebellion?"

Daiyu rubbed her sore eyes and smiled sweetly: "I won't be scared. After receiving my brother's letter, I asked Zhuangzi to send half of the soldiers to the city secretly, and half Guarded at home, half went to Sister Yuan's house..."

As she said that, she handed a letter to Lin Shu: "Sister Yuan asked me to give it to my brother, saying that after the capital is stable, I will invite my brother to visit Nanchi!"

(End of this chapter)