The days when I ransacked the house in Jinyiwei
Chapter 342 Yang Yiqing, Yang Yiqing!
Chapter 342 Yang Yiqing, Yang Yiqing!
Four months later, a rebellion broke out in Ningxia, and it was a rebellion by the vassal king!
According to historical records: In the spring of the fifth year of Zhengde, Ningxia guerrilla general Qiu Yue and deputy general Yang Ying led troops to fight against the Tatars. The commander Zhou Ang and the minister He Jin planned for King Anhua to hold a banquet on April 5 to trap and kill the general Jiang Han and the town supervisor Li Zeng.
King Anhua also sent Ding Guang to attack and kill An Weixue and Zhou Dongdu in the official office. Ningxia was in chaos.
The news reached the capital, and the government and the public were shocked!
Emperor Zhengde held an imperial military meeting in Fengtian Hall.
In the Ming Dynasty, rebellion by vassal kings was an extremely sensitive matter. To put it bluntly, Taizong's Fengtian Jingnan was a real rebellion of the vassal king!
In this imperial military meeting, Emperor Zhengde not only summoned six ministers and nine ministers, but also made an exception and summoned thousands of households in Changfeng, a small Dongchang.
Emperor Zhengde slapped Long An angrily: "You're deceiving the heavens! I'm not only talking about King Anhua, but also the three factories and one guard!"
"Three factories and one guard spend so much money from the court every year. What will happen in the end? King Anhua rebelled and didn't get any news in advance! What is this? This is dereliction of duty!"
"It is said that eating the emperor's salary means worrying about the emperor's worries. The factory guards are the eyes and ears of the emperor, but this time they have become deaf and blind! Liu Jin, as the governor of the inner factory, you are also in charge of the west factory, the east factory, and the Jinyiwei. It’s hard to take the blame!”
In fact, Liu Jin's fault goes beyond lack of information? It was he who inspired King Anhua's rebellion!
If he hadn't wanted to leave his name in history, he would have touched upon the sensitive matter of military settlements. He also sent his own greedy and sycophantic General Heng Ha to Ningxia to bully the border troops. How could King Anhua have a chance to rebel?
But at today's imperial military meeting, no one accused Liu Jin of initiating the Ningxia uprising.
Jiao Fang, Liu Yu, Zhang Cai and others are Liu Jin's party members, so naturally they will not scold their backers.
On the other side, Li Dongyang and Yang Tinghe also remained silent.
Because Chang Feng told Li and Yang half an hour ago not to participate in the impeachment of Liu Jin and provoke the rebellion of King Anhua!
This is a God-given opportunity to get rid of Liu Jin. Liu Jin's crime should not be "provoking rebellion" but "participating in conspiracy."
The emperor can tolerate all Liu Jin's misdeeds, but he cannot tolerate Liu Jin's disobedience!
If Liu Jin "participated" in King Anhua's rebellion. Then the Liu Jin era in the court will completely end!
When it comes to punishing people, Chang Feng's kung fu has reached the level of perfection.
Emperor Zhengde said angrily: "How come the border troops got involved with King Anhua? Don't the factory guards claim to have eyes and ears all over the world, knowing half of the things in heaven and everything on earth?"
"Why didn't you notice anything this time? You're just a loser!"
Emperor Zhengde's words were very serious. Every sentence hit Liu Jin in the face.
Liu Jin did not realize that he was in danger, but thought that he was guilty of negligence. He kowtowed and said, "This old slave is guilty. This old slave made an oversight. Please calm down, Your Majesty."
Li Dongyang suddenly became a peacemaker: "Your Majesty, I thought that Ningxia is located in a remote area, and it is reasonable for the slow transmission of military information. Eunuch Liu was in charge of the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, and he had to deal with many things every day. Occasionally, he made a mistake and acted out of sincerity. "
"The top priority is to choose a commander and lead the army to Ningxia immediately to put down the rebellion!"
There is something in Li Dongyang's words, and it sounds like he is interceding for Liu Jin, but the sentence "in charge of the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty" seems to be satirizing Liu Jin's acting as a substitute.
Emperor Zhengde answered: "Li Dongyang, who do you think is suitable to be the commander-in-chief?"
Li Dongyang said a person's name in a straight and clear tone: "Yang Yiqing!"
In a courtyard in the west of the city.
Yang Yiqing, who was waiting for his crime in Beijing, was lying on a recliner and still didn't know about the northwest rebellion. He was taking a nap and dreaming!
In a daze, he dreamed of a past event.
In the thirteenth year of Chenghua, it's autumn. Hongdong County, Linfen Prefecture, Shanxi Province.
On the great plain that stretches for hundreds of miles, tens of thousands of acres of spring wheat are as bright as jasper.
When the breeze blows, green wheat waves surge into the sky. The "rustling" sound produced by the friction between wheat seedlings is like huge waves crashing on the beach.
On a high ground among the wheat fields. Yang Yiqing, the young new Shanxi police officer, looked at the spectacular wheat waves.
Yang Yiqing held on to the plain silver official belt that represented the sixth rank, and couldn't help but think of Huang Chao's poem: "When autumn comes on September 8th, I will bloom and then the flowers will bloom. The incense array will penetrate Chang'an, and the city will be filled with golden armor." "
Yang Yiqing then thought: But how can those delicate chrysanthemums in Chang'an City be compared with the endless wheat fields on the rough plains?
Chrysanthemums are just playthings for dignitaries. And these acres and acres of wheat fields are the hope for survival of thousands of ordinary people in Shanxi.
Beside Yang Yiqing stood dozens of local officials and gentry in Linfen. The officials and gentry all frowned. There seemed to be fatal fear in their anxious expressions.
Directly north of the wheat field, there is a trench ten feet wide and several miles long. The trenches were filled with firewood and kerosene.
Behind the trench, five hundred guardsmen soldiers wearing mandarin duck jackets stood upright. Each of them held a torch in his hand. Behind the guard army, there is a second trench. The trenches were also filled with flammable materials.
Behind the second trench, thousands of people stood. Like the soldiers in front, they also held torches in their hands.
Today, there will be a terrifying battle here. Young Yang Yiqing is the commander-in-chief of this war. His enemies seemed invincible. Because the enemy’s name is: Heaven!
However, Yang Yiqing firmly believes in the truth that his father taught him: man can conquer nature!
"Boom!" In an instant, there seemed to be thousands of horses galloping between heaven and earth. Yang Yiqing's enemy is here! A black dust was born in the north. The earth was shaking and the black dust was roaring.
After a while, black dust covered the sky. The rising sun has no light, and darkness covers the earth.
A locust jumped on Yang Yiqing's face. He caught the locust with his hand and murmured to himself: "I have been waiting for you here for two days and one night. You are finally here."
After speaking, Yang Yiqing pulled off the locust's wings, threw it on the ground, and crushed the "enemy vanguard" into green juice with his feet.
The black dust is getting closer and closer to the wheat field. This army is composed of tens of millions of locusts.
A locust is an inconspicuous flying insect, a child's plaything. To the common people, tens of thousands of locusts are an inescapable nightmare and the most terrifying disaster.
Yang Yiqing remembered the history books about locust plagues that he had read before: In the third year of Chunxi in Song Dynasty, there was a great locust in Shanxi. Locusts covered the sun and destroyed crops wherever they went. In the sixth year of Dade in the Yuan Dynasty, migratory locusts caused damage in Henan, resulting in no harvest of summer wheat. The people were starving, and everyone ate each other. In the second year of Zhizheng in the Yuan Dynasty, migratory locusts from Shaanxi and Gansu swarmed. Disaster, people change their sons to eat
Come on, locusts. In the history books, wherever you go, you are invincible. It seems to be the underworld army that is invincible in every battle. Today, I, Yang Yiqing, will end your invincibility!
I can't lose! I am the special disaster relief officer appointed by the governor. On my shoulders, I bear the life and death of the people of Linfen!
You have encroached on the wheat fields of two counties.
This will be my last line of defense! I will never hand over the living food of the people of Linfen to you devils who jumped out of the eighteenth level of hell!
Heaven and earth are unkind and regard all things as stupid dogs. Today, I, Yang Yiqing, will lead my people to victory over heaven!
"Boom, boom, boom", the locust army is getting closer and closer to the green wheat field.
Dozens of gentry around Yang Yiqing fell down. They kowtowed and prayed devoutly to the Buddha of the West: "Amitabha! The great and merciful Buddha, please give our Linfen folks a way to survive!"
The local officials wanted to stop these gentry. In front of Yang Yiqing, a special disaster relief officer, the gentry were so disrespectful and disgraced the Linfen area.
Yang Yiqing turned his head and said to the gentry in a confident tone: "There are many blind people who build bridges and repair roads, and many people kill people and set fires. I went to the West to ask the Buddha, and the Buddha said: I can't do anything either."
"Everyone, the Buddha has nothing to do with the locusts. In other words, the Buddha doesn't want to take care of it at all."
"It is better to ask for the Buddha than to ask for yourself. I have five hundred guardsmen and three thousand young men in my hands. The gods of war in the Ming Dynasty, Kaiping King Chang Yuchun, and Zhongshan King Xu Da, will protect me and win this fierce battle today!"
The gentry raised their heads and stared at the confident young official in front of them. Such self-confidence seems to them to be just blind arrogance.
All things are created by nature, so how can man defeat heaven? Locusts are the sky!
Yang Yiqing's deputy, Chen Zuen, the sixty-year-old magistrate of Hongdong County, Linfen Prefecture, said: "Master Yang, it's almost time. Give the order!" Yang Yiqing nodded and waved to a guard soldier under his command. The soldier understood and drew an arrow from his quiver. This arrow is very special. There is a whistle tied to the side of the arrow.
The soldiers bent their bows and arrows flew into the sky. The whistle made a sharp whistle: "Du~"
An arrow pierces the clouds, and thousands of troops come to meet you!
Thousands of guardsmen soldiers in front of the first trench threw torches into the trench. In an instant, the trench turned into a line of defense made of fire.
The locust army rushed towards the fire one after another. If they don't have brains, they won't be afraid of death. The locusts in front were burned to ashes, while the locusts behind continued to move forward while stepping on the ashes of their companions!
For half an hour, the locusts broke through the first line of defense set by Yang Yiqing like a rainbow.
Yang Yiqing took a breath of cold air.
County Magistrate Chen Lao reminded him: "The first trench has been lost."
Yang Yiqing, who was full of confidence just now, seemed to have a hint of despair in his tone when he spoke: "Sound the arrow."
"Beep!" The second sounding arrow took off.
The local people in Linfen lit the firewood and kerosene in the second trench.
In order to set up this line of defense, they even tore down door panels and beds of their own homes, chopped them into firewood and threw them into the trenches.
It's an all-or-nothing gamble. If the locusts eat up their wheat fields, they may starve to death. If a person dies, what do they need door panels and beds for?
"Boom!" Countless locusts rushed into the fire. The fire suddenly became stronger!
Yang Yiqing felt a little panicked. If the second trench is lost, locusts will rush into the wheat field and eat up all the wheat.
If this is the case, what will greet the people of Linfen in a few months will be a famine that is 10,000 times more terrifying than the locust plague.
Another thrilling half hour. Yang Yiqing's heart rose to his throat. He no longer had the intention to stop the almost roaring prayers of the gentry kneeling on the ground.
The roars of the gentry resounded throughout the world: "Tai Shang Laojun! Yuanshi Tianzun! Jade Emperor! Buddha Guanyin! Earth God! No matter who the gods are, please show your spirit quickly! Let the Locust Immortal take away his magical powers!"
A scene that made everyone feel despair finally happened!
The fire in the second trench gradually burned out, leaving only a few sparks. Countless locust corpses made crackling sounds among the embers.
The main force of the locusts is still advancing forward with overwhelming force. Finally, they rushed into the wheat field!
Yang Yiqing once studied that locust teeth are zigzag-shaped. So when they eat crops, they make a "thorning" sound.
"Stab! Stab!" At this moment, Yang Yiqing heard this terrible sound.
The sound of tens of thousands of migratory locusts eating green seedlings merged into a life-threatening talisman from hell.
Black dust swept over the originally green wheat field. Like a vicious bandit, he pounced on a naked woman.
Chen Laozhi's legs softened and he sat on the ground with a thump.
Yang Yiqing supported his deputy with both hands: "Old senior, are you okay?"
Chen Laozhi, the county magistrate, may have been an official longer than Yang Yiqing.
The desperate county magistrate Chen Lao said with tears in his voice: "It's over. Everything is over. I spent six years diverting water from the Yong Canal to irrigate the wasteland in Hongdong County."
"This is how we have opened up these ten thousand hectares of fertile land. Judging from the growth of crops this year, we will definitely have a bumper harvest. The folks in Hongdong County can finally live a prosperous life with more than enough food. You are blind!"
Yang Yiqing knew that the sixty-year-old man in front of him was a good official who cared about the people. The fall of vast tracts of fertile land made his heart bleed.
County Magistrate Chen's crying gradually turned into scolding: "God, I'm your eighth generation ancestor! Can't you let the people live a comfortable life without worrying about food and drink for a few days?!"
The deputy was cursing. In fact, cursing the sky is a disguised admission of the failure of the current war against locusts.
Yang Yiqing knew that he could not lose his mind like County Magistrate Chen. Because he is the commander in chief of this battle.
An ordinary man can seize the will, but the three armies cannot seize the commander!
Yang Yiqing's mind was spinning rapidly: after the migratory locusts have eaten up the green crops in Hongdong County, they will continue to spread throughout the province. Next, the crop fields in Shanxi's four prefectures, twenty states and seventy-seven counties will become locusts' meals.
By then, the whole province of Shanxi will be wiped out! The ground is full of hunger!
Yang Yiqing warned himself: If you want to be the commander-in-chief, you must look at the overall situation. Those who do not plan for the overall situation cannot plan for one area. To think about the overall situation, you must learn to give and take. Life is like a game of chess. Sometimes, sacrificing your pawn to save your rook is the way to win in chess.
Young Yang Yiqing has made his own choice at this moment!
He said to County Magistrate Chen: "Old senior, now we can only use the last resort. Dig the embankment of the permanent canal and flood the locusts with water."
County Magistrate Chen Lao's expression changed when he heard this: "Master Imperial Envoy! No! You can't use that method! That method will harm the 80,000 people in Hongdong County!"
Yang Yiqing raised his head, stared at the overwhelming locusts, and said categorically: "At this point, we can only sacrifice the 80,000 people in Hongdong County to protect the millions of villagers in Shanxi."
"To achieve great things, someone has to make sacrifices. Right now, the fight against locusts is the biggest thing."
Chen Laozhi, the county magistrate, was speechless.
Yang Yiqing paused and asked: "Old senior, I would like to ask you a question: How can you explain that the world is unkind and treats all things as stupid dogs?"
County magistrate Chen Lao replied: "The original meaning of this sentence is that heaven and earth are neither benevolent nor unkind. They treat everything in the world fairly. They will not treat anyone particularly well, nor will they treat anyone particularly badly."
"But there are many idiots who misinterpret it to mean that God treats people like dogs."
Yang Yiqing sighed: "Oh. There is no other way. Let's dig a permanent canal and flood the locusts with water!"
The permanent canal was dug. The floods submerged all the fertile farmland in Hongdong County, Linfen Prefecture, and at the same time, there was also an army of locusts that covered the sky and the sun.
Two days later, all 80,000 Hongdong County residents were moved to the south bank of Yongqu.
County magistrate Yang Yiqing and Chen Lao were busy relocating the people and borrowing money and food from several neighboring counties. Eighty thousand people finally had a place to live temporarily.
Yang Yiqing flooded the wheat fields in Hongdong County, but prevented the locust plague from spreading throughout Shanxi.
A handsome person should be able to make choices. Dare to make decisions. Yang Yiqing is such a handsome guy.
Yang Yiqing woke up and stretched. The past is like smoke. The young sixth-grade official back then is now very old.
His current enemy Liu Jin is far more terrifying than the locust enemy back then.
He didn't know yet that a God-given opportunity to get rid of Liu Jin was about to come.
(End of this chapter)
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