Paper Maker: This is the end of the Ming Dynasty in Liaozhai

Chapter 177 Half of Shandong, the eve of proclaiming emperor!
After finishing everything, Su Hao asked Gao Ting and other high-level military officers of Qingzhou Guard to be invited up to reward them for meritorious deeds. He didn't discriminate against Gao Ting and the others, after all, he was also the imperial court officer of Ming Dynasty before. It's still Jinyiwei Qianhu, as the saying goes, if the elder brother doesn't laugh at the second brother, don't laugh at anyone, everyone is the same.

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On the other side, Qingzhou Fucheng.

After arranging the affairs in the prefectural city, Liang Ping took several thousand soldiers and horses to stay in the prefectural city of Qingzhou. Jiang Shizhong and others pulled out their camps again and headed towards Laizhou and Dengzhou prefectures.

Laizhou Mansion is not a traditional big mansion, but promoted from a prefecture to a mansion, so there are not many jurisdictions, only three counties and prefectures: Ye County, Pingdu Prefecture and Jiaozhou, of which Pingdu Prefecture governs Changyi County and Weixian County, and Jiaozhou has jurisdiction over Gaomi County and Jimo County, and Fucheng only has a county directly under the jurisdiction of Fuguo County and Ye County on the outskirts of Fucheng.

For Jiang Shizhong and others with an army of more than 3, the county without a large army has no resistance at all. Even Wei County, known as the capital of Donglai, cannot persist under the Hongyi cannon and a large number of siege equipment. How long, just an hour declared the fall.

Five days later, the army appeared outside Laizhou Prefecture.

"Old Tian, ​​how do you think this battle should be fought?"

Looking at Laizhou City, whose city walls were not inferior to Qingzhou City, Jiang Shizhong frowned and said, "Do you want to attack?"

Although their strength and equipment now occupy an absolute advantage, the price of this kind of heavy city will not be low if they want to take it down. If Qingzhou Mansion hadn't been for Gao Ting to defect, they would have to at least take Qingzhou Mansion. Fighting for more than ten days, thousands of people were killed or injured.

If there are too many casualties here, then it is impossible to take down Dengzhou Prefecture, and the morale will be severely hit. Since Su Hao's incident until now, it has basically been smooth sailing. Battles are easy to win.

Although consecutive victories tend to breed arrogance, leading to the inevitable defeat of arrogant soldiers, but consecutive victories are the best way to cultivate morale. When they first took Jinan Fucheng, their soldiers and horses still had a great deal of respect for the imperial court. Yes, even they themselves are the same, after all, Ming has ruled the world for more than 200 years, and it is a colossus to anyone, but Lien Chan and Lian Jie made these soldiers basically have no awe of the court.

If the morale is broken here now, it is very likely that the awe in the hearts of these soldiers will reappear, which will be very detrimental to the next battle.

"Brother Jiang, do you mean attacking the heart?"

Hearing this, Tian Ming frowned. This siege is actually just a few routines, force attack, relying on human life, water attack, and fire attack. These two methods have too many restrictions, and the effect is not obvious. The last is to attack the heart. Instigating rebellion and destroying morale are the two most common methods of attacking cities. After all, facing some heavy cities, relying on human lives to fill them is not a good choice.

"Ah."

Jiang Shizhong nodded: "Now that the Second Mansion of Denglai is isolated and helpless, the guards must be panicked, and they must attack their hearts first. If it is really impossible, it will not be too late to attack."

"Then I'll have someone send the persuasion letter into the city first."

Tian Ming nodded. If the persuasion to surrender was successful, everyone would be happy. Even if it didn't work, it wouldn't hurt. It's just a strong attack.

Soon, a long arrow shot on the tower with a letter of persuasion.

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On the city tower, Zhou Xian, the magistrate of Laizhou Prefecture, looked at the persuasion letter in his hand, his expression was cloudy and his face was full of entanglement.

Now Jinan Mansion, Qingzhou Mansion, and Dongchang Mansion have all fallen into the hands of the rebels, and the land routes have been blocked. Moreover, judging by the posture of the rebels, it will not be a matter of time before the imperial court wants to put down the rebellion.

Although the taxes collected in the previous summer are still in Fucheng, the food in Fucheng can last for about two years now, but there are not many soldiers and horses in the city, only more than 7000 people, nearly [-] are the guards of Laizhou Guard, and the other [-] The rest of them are all the brave men he recruited. These people don't have much fighting spirit at all. It is almost impossible to rely on these people to stop the rebels.

More importantly, the rebels still have Hongyi cannons, and there are quite a few of them. He knows the power of the Hongyi cannons very well. The soldiers who defend the city don't have much fighting spirit. Can't stand it.

"Commander Luo, what do you think?"

Zhou Xian handed the persuasion letter to Luo Hui who was beside him.

After receiving the persuasion letter, Luo Hui's eyes flashed a strange color. Zhou Xian's attitude is to surrender intentionally, otherwise he would burn the letter as soon as he got it, and he wouldn't even read it. Let alone give him the letter.

But if you see it through, Luo Hui will naturally not say it stupidly. After all, everyone wants face, and if they want to surrender, they have to find a better excuse.

After thinking for a while, Luo Hui said: "Prefect, this rebel army is powerful, with a large number of soldiers and horses, and there are siege equipment such as red barbarian cannons. It is as difficult as climbing the sky to defend the city."

Speaking of this, Luo Hui paused for a moment before continuing: "Even if we die in this city, it is our duty, but the people in this city are innocent. If we stick to it, the rebels will suffer too much damage. Once the city is broken, the people in the city will be slaughtered."

Hearing Luo Hui's words, Zhou Xian had a slight smile on his face. Although he wanted to surrender, he had to go down a step. After all, he didn't want people to say that he was greedy for life and afraid of death. Although this is the truth, it doesn't sound good to say it.

After thinking for a while, Zhou Xiancai then asked: "Commander Luo, how long do you think we can defend, and what will happen to the casualties?"

In Zhou Xian's words, it seemed that he was asking about the security of defending the city, but in fact, he asked Luo Hui to make the steps firmer, so that it would look better when he walked down. Only then had to serve the image of a thief.

Hearing Zhou Xian's shameless words, Luo Hui was extremely bored instantly, but the boredom comes from the boredom, this kind of thing is beneficial to everyone, Zhou Xian wants a step down, they want Zhou Xian to be the first bird.

After organizing his words, Luo Hui said: "Prefect, the rebel army is powerful. If the rebel army attacks violently, I will wait for half a month at most. Most of the soldiers and civilians in the city will be killed or injured. After the city is broken, I am afraid that other soldiers and civilians will also be angered."

"In that case, let's open the city!"

Zhou Xian said righteously: "In order not to harm the soldiers and civilians in the city, I have committed the crime of greed for life and fear of death!"

Hearing this, the surrounding officials were all refreshed. To be honest, no one wants to defend the city. Qingzhou Prefecture and Jinan Prefecture have been captured. Laizhou Prefecture is completely an isolated island. Although there is still Dengzhou Prefecture, But Terengganu is also unable to protect itself, and it is impossible to support them.

More importantly, the treatment given by the rebels to guard soldiers and ordinary people is very good. If you join the rebel army, you will be given money, land, exempted from corvee, and exempted from land taxes. , The rebels were also exempted from Liao's salary and all kinds of exorbitant taxes, and the ordinary people had already regarded those rebels as their saviors.

Therefore, neither the soldiers of the guards nor the common people in the city have the idea of ​​defending Laizhou city to the death. It is a bad idea to force those soldiers and the people of the guards to go up the city wall with knives. .

If they can hold it, they don't mind fighting for wealth. After all, in this situation, they can still hold the city. After the imperial army quells the rebellion, everyone present will have a bright future. Fucheng is completely impossible. The officials who resisted before have all died in the hands of the rebels. They don't want to follow in the footsteps of those colleagues.

Although taking refuge in the rebel army is also a serious crime, but with Zhou Xian as the prefect taking the lead, even if the court really quells the rebellion in the future, Zhou Xian will be the first person to be liquidated. At most, these little shrimps will be exiled, and they will not be killed. After all, there are too many small shrimps like them. If the imperial court really wants to kill them, at least thousands of people will have to be killed, so they can tell whether they will be exiled in the future or killed now.

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Outside Laizhou Fucheng, Jiang Shizhong and Tian Ming were staring at the gate of Fucheng. For them, if they could not attack by force, they should not attack by force. Although they could win, the price would be too high.

At this time, the city gate suddenly opened slowly, and Zhou Xian led the city officials towards the camp.

Seeing this scene, smiles appeared on the faces of Jiang Shizhong and others.

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Jinan Prefecture, Jinyiwei Yamen.

"Master, Jiang Baihu and the others have sent back the good news that Laizhou and Dengzhou have been captured."

Ding Zimo hurriedly came to Su Hao with a piece of information.

"Have you taken it?"

Hearing this, Su Hao's expression turned serious. Taking down Dengzhou and Laizhou mansions means that the time to become emperor has come. This was decided after a long discussion between him and Tang Xiangjin.

For them now, Zhu Yuanzhang's set of accumulating grain widely, building high walls, and proclaiming king slowly is not suitable for them, because Shandong is now the site of the Four Wars, and the power of the imperial court is in the east, west, north, south, even if they do not claim to be emperor. The imperial court will not let them go.

On the contrary, if they proclaim themselves emperors, they can also change their name, and the people under them will return to their hearts and have more fighting spirit.

"Let's start preparing for enthronement."

After thinking for a while, Su Hao said in a deep voice, "There must be no mistakes."

"The disciple understands."

Ding Zimo clapped his hands and said, Xu Hongru also proclaimed the emperor before, but Xu Hongru's enthronement ceremony before was extremely crude, proclaiming the emperor was more like a farce, not only failed to unite the hearts of the people, but made people laugh, now they occupy the Most of Shandong, Su Hao's enthronement ceremony can't be simple, at least it has to be decent.

After Ding Zimo retreated, Su Hao came to the corridor and looked to the northwest, holding five golden particles in his hand, which were the crystallization of dragon energy.

Before, he had always thought about refining these five dragon energy crystals into magical weapons, but it was too late to start. Now that he wants to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor, these few dragon energy crystals can also come in handy. He had already secretly asked People helped to find a few good geomantic treasures. Although they are not the Caves of Flood Dragon, they are not bad. If Su An is buried here, and the dragon energy crystals are buried there, it will definitely protect future generations.

Thinking of this, Su Hao opened the system panel and selected the technique of paper cutting.

1800 points!
comprehend!

A lot of knowledge about making paper utensils poured into his mind. Su Hao took out a piece of white paper and began to fold it. After a while, a paper ingot appeared. After a while, the silver ingots all over the place were shining brightly. The light almost blinded the eyes.

Looking at the silver ingots all over the floor, Su Hao waved his hand, and all the silver ingots turned into sheets of white paper and returned to his hands.

Naturally, he didn't learn the art of paper-cutting because he was bored, but to fulfill the promise he broke at the beginning.

At the time of the burial, he invited hundreds of lonely and wild ghosts from the mass graves to guard Su An's grave, and promised three years of sacrifices, but because of the Fan family's affairs, he broke his promise and did not go to the sacrifices. No other people were asked to offer sacrifices on their behalf.

After all, it was the territory of the Fan family. If someone else was asked to perform sacrifices on his behalf, Su An's cemetery might be discovered by the Fan family, so he chose to break his promise.

Now that he is going to bury Su An, he naturally has to make up for the broken promise. The silver ingots made through the technique of paper-cutting tools contain his mana, which is far from comparable to the paper money made by ordinary people. Using these ingots Enshrinement is enough to make up for his breach of contract.

As night fell, a paper bird fluttered its wings under the cover of night and headed northwest.

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The next day, midnight.

In the wilderness, a paper bird slowly descended from the sky, and Su Hao jumped off the paper bird.

Looking at the cemetery overgrown with weeds, Su Hao was filled with emotions. Time flies like an arrow, and time flies. At the beginning, Su An passed away in the second year of Tianqi. In the blink of an eye, six years passed.

With a wave of his hand, the inner force surged out!

In just an instant, the weeds with a radius of several feet were twisted into grass clippings all over the sky, and were driven by internal force to fly far away, revealing the grave mound glowing with iron and stone.

Seeing this scene, Su Hao also felt a little guilty. These lonely ghosts are poor people. Because of his breach of contract, he was trapped in this small grave for six years. Although those paper figurines let those The lonely ghosts have a place to stay, but that is also the same kind of bondage, as long as he doesn't release the bondage on the paper figurines, those lonely ghosts will be trapped here until the paper figurines decay.

With the release of the paper doll's restraint, hundreds of illusory figures rushed out from the grave. The next moment, the ghosts rushed towards Su Hao as if they saw their enemy.

Seeing the lonely ghosts rushing towards them, Su Hao was unmoved at all. These lonely ghosts are just poor people. They can only stay in places like the mass graves, and they have almost no ability to hurt others. , can't even show up in front of ordinary people, only the kind of people whose yang energy is weak to the extreme will be hurt by these lonely ghosts.

But for him now, if he is willing, a single thought can knock these lonely ghosts to pieces.

It was only when the lonely ghost realized that there was nothing he could do to Su Hao, that Su Hao took a large handful of incense from the paper bird beside him, there were hundreds of sticks.

(End of this chapter)