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Chapter 164 The kidnapper Patriarch was captured by Prince Xiang’s Mansion

Liu Sheng was not surprised when Zhang Dingguo said he didn't know.

Maybe Zhang Xianzhong himself didn't even know about this.

Liu Sheng remembered that he had to deal with the affairs of Prince Xiang's palace before, so he asked: "If the eight kings get Xiangyang, what will they do with Prince Xiang's family?"

This time Zhang Dingguo gave the answer without thinking, "I should kill them all."

According to Zhang Dingguo's understanding, Zhang Xianzhong hated those people who were originally superior, especially King Zhu Ming, and believed that the death of these people was not a pity.

In addition, Zhang Xianzhong said before when he planned to attack Xiangyang that if he could defeat Xiangyang and kill King Xiang, the world would be shocked.

The reputation of the rebels who do this will soar, and heroes from all over the world who are willing to rebel against Ming will come to join them.

Zhu Mingze's prestige will be damaged.

Yang Sichang and others who were responsible for encircling and suppressing them before will most likely be questioned by Emperor Chongzhen.

This is Zhang Xianzhong's experience - he surrendered in Gucheng and then rebelled. Xiong Wencan, who had the idea to recruit him, was imprisoned and beheaded by Emperor Chongzhen. Even Zuo Liangyu, who pursued him and suffered heavy losses, was demoted several levels by the imperial court. Reserved.

Liu Sheng laughed after hearing this, "I also think the Eight Kings would do this. Come on, follow me to persuade the King of Xiang Zhu Yiming to surrender."

Zhang Dingguo was a little confused.

But Liu Sheng and hundreds of personal guards followed him to the gate of Prince Xiang's Mansion.

Most of the palaces of Prince Zhu Ming were palaces, and the most prominent ones were even built after the Forbidden City in Nanjing.

Although Prince Xiang's Mansion is not that exaggerated, it is taller than Prince Chong's Mansion and is a small palace.

Although he had a palace to rely on and more than a thousand guards, he was still "surrounded" by three hundred soldiers from the victory camp.

After Liu Sheng arrived, he asked someone to shout.

"Our commander-in-chief is here! Please ask Prince Xiang to come out and answer!"

After nearly a quarter of an hour, a rich old man with gray hair and beard appeared on the palace gate. It was not known whether he was Zhu Yiming himself.

Liu Sheng didn't care so much. He gave instructions one by one and asked his personal guards to act as sounding tubes and loudspeakers.

"King Xiang, the Eighth King Zhang Xianzhong is less than thirty miles away from Xiangyang. He hates King Zhuming the most in his life. If you are still unwilling to surrender voluntarily, I will leave you to the Eighth King."

Zhu Yiming inherited the throne at the age of 27 and has been the vassal king for 40 years. He is an old man who has lived since the beginning of ten thousand years, and he is still somewhat courageous.

Therefore, the person on the city gate tower at this time is himself, not a substitute.

Historically, Zhu Yiming supervised the battle on Xiangyang City. After the city was broken and he was captured, he stood up and cursed endlessly. He was hacked to death by Zhang Xianzhong with three swords.

But it is absolutely false to say that Zhu Yiming is not afraid of death.

He was unwilling to surrender before because he could not accept the fact that Xiangyang was captured and he did not believe that the rebels would spare his life.

But when he heard Liu Sheng mention Zhang Xianzhong, he knew he had no choice.

Although he was a vassal king, he had also heard of the reputation of the Eighth King Zhang Xianzhong - Zhang Xianzhong's later reputation as a murderous devil was partly a result of official rumors from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but it was also related to his violent temperament and endless bloodlust.

The most important thing is that Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng captured Fengyang and plundered Zhu Ming's ancestral tomb.

In Zhu Yiming's view, if it was impossible for the Kuei rebels who suddenly appeared to spare him, then it was even less possible for Zhang Xianzhong to spare him.

At this time, his legitimate son Zhu Changcheng and others were also worried that the rebels would attack directly and lose the chance of surrender, so they all tried to persuade him——

"Father, if we fall into Zhang Xianzhong's hands, it will really be over. We'd better surrender quickly."

"Yes, yes, surrender."

"The Yibu rebels entered the city and didn't plunder the people. They should have kept their word."

"···"

After hearing the advice from his sons and grandsons, Zhu Yiming couldn't help but sigh, waved his hand and said: "Then surrender - let the stewards sort out the money, food and other account books and hand them over to these thieves, don't let them find excuses to kill people ."

After saying that, Zhu Yiming walked down the city gate tower.

Outside the palace, Zhang Dingguo couldn't help but look strange when he saw Liu Sheng threatening Zhang Xianzhong to persuade King Xiang to surrender.

It may be said that Liu Sheng ruined Zhang Xianzhong's reputation so much, but what he said is true.And he said it openly and in front of Zhang Dingguo.

It's really annoying.

At the same time, Zhang Dingguo was somewhat impressed when he saw that Liu Shengbing made Prince Xiang's Mansion surrender without bloodshed, and also actively cooperated with the rebels to seize it.

I feel that Liu Sheng's style of doing things is somewhat in line with his taste.

But he still asked curiously: "The commander-in-chief is really not going to kill these Zhu Ming clan members? Not to mention whether there are any of them who are willing to serve the common people, even if we want to overthrow the Ming Dynasty in the future, this generation will also become an obstacle for the rebel army to rebuild the world."

Liu Sheng laughed when he heard this, "Becoming an obstacle to the rebel army's re-establishment of the world? Brother Dingguo really thinks highly of them."

People at the time didn't know it clearly, but Liu Sheng, who came from later generations, knew how the Zhu Ming vassal kings behaved after Chongzhen's death.

It can be said that without the existence of these Zhu Ming vassal kings, Dai Qing may not be able to win the world.

Seeing that Zhang Dingguo was thoughtful, Liu Sheng added: "Last winter, the rebel army captured Ruyang and captured King Chong's family. Brother Dingguo, do you know how I dealt with it?"

"Appreciate further details."

Liu Sheng smiled and said, "I used King Chong as a meat ticket to extort 30 shi of grain and [-] taels of silver from Li Xianfeng, the governor of Henan.

Originally, according to the agreement, they could redeem Prince Chong and his family by delivering another hundred thousand shi of grain this spring.But when I left Henan, I heard that Li Zicheng had surrounded Luoyang and I was afraid that it would be captured soon.

I'm afraid Li Xianfeng will have no chance to complete the deal with our Yibu rebels. "

Zhang Dingguo looked quite regretful when he saw Liu Sheng speaking to the end, and for a moment he didn't know what to say.

However, he really admired Liu Sheng's operation.

Using the vassal king as a meat ticket, you can really extort so much money and food. I guess in a hundred years all the kidnappers will worship this man as their ancestor, right?
After coming back to his senses, Zhang Dingguo couldn't help but ask: "Could it be that the commander-in-chief wants to repeat this old trick of King Xiang and ask for some money and food from the Ming Dynasty government?"

"I really want to do this, but I guess it won't work - this Ming Dynasty will start in a few years."

After saying that, seeing that the guards had taken control of Prince Xiang's Mansion, Liu Sheng took Zhang Dingguo and walked in...

Because Prince Xiang’s Mansion was ordered to surrender voluntarily by Zhu Yiming, and all the stewards were asked to actively cooperate and hand over the organized accounts and warehouse keys to the rebels, so the transfer of money, grain and materials from Xiangyang Mansion was carried out relatively quickly this time.

Started at around ten in the morning and finished at around three in the afternoon.

King Zhu Mingxiang was inherited from Zhu Zhanyi, the fifth son of Renzong of the Ming Dynasty. He became a vassal in the fourth year of Xuande (1429) and moved to Xiangyang Prefecture in the first year of Zhengtong (1436).

It has been passed down to Zhu Yiming for eight generations and eleven times, and has been passed down for 211 years.

Although Prince Xiang is inconspicuous among the Zhu Ming vassal kings, it has been passed down for such a long time, and since the vassal was in the relatively wealthy Xiangyang Mansion, it accumulated much more gold and silver than Prince Chong Mansion.

After accounting statistics.

Prince Xiang’s Mansion confiscated a total of 27 taels of gold!

2708 million taels of silver!
Nearly two hundred boxes of various types of jewelry, calligraphy and painting curios!
In addition, Prince Xiang's Mansion also hoarded 18 shi of various grains!

As for the land in Prince Xiang's Mansion, it is a little less than that in Prince Chong's Mansion, with only more than 300 hectares on the books.

The shops in various places are similar to those in Chongwang Mansion, with more than 200.Its own value, plus the money on the books, is worth at least 60 taels.

The royal palace also has accounts for the amount of money and grain in the royal villages in various places. There are about 11 shi of grain and more than [-] taels of silver.

Liu Yushu, who was in charge of statistics, told Liu Sheng that the amount of money and food in the accounts of Wangzhuang, Prince Xiang's Mansion, might be false, especially the food.

Because Xiangyang Prefecture has not suffered as big a disaster as Henan in the past few years, the food left in Wangzhuang in various places should not only be more than 7 shi.

Liu Sheng didn't care.

With the troops he brought, even the money and grain confiscated in Xiangyang City might not be able to be transported away, let alone the Wangzhuangs in various places.

As for whether he ultimately benefited the palace officials, local officials or bandits, he couldn't control it... It wasn't that he couldn't control it at all. It might depend on how the conversation with Zhang Xianzhong goes.

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"Damn it! What did you say?!"

Zhang Xianzhong grabbed the skirt of the captain's clothes in front of him, staring with shock and anger on his face, and his long beard was about to stand up.

Captain Tanma knew Zhang Xianzhong's temper and said quickly: "Eight Great Kings, Xiangyang City has really been captured by another rebel army.

We began to encounter their detective horses near the official road from Yinji to Xiangyang.

There were too many of them, so we tried it out and had to take a detour through the mountains to get outside Xiangyang City.

As a result, it turned out that the Yue City Gate in the west of Xiangyang City had been blown down, and the banner of "Generalissimo Yu Chu Xing Hua" was still hung on the city. "

"Generalissimo of Yuchu Xinghua?" Zhang Xianzhong pushed Captain Tanma away and said angrily: "I don't even dare to call him marshal. How the hell does anyone dare to call him generalissimo?"

Although there are countless rebels from all walks of life who claim to be kings, most of them are green forest bandits.

It is incomparable to a serious anti-thief title like "Generalissimo of Yuchu Xinghua".

Zhang Xianzhong was naturally jealous.

He paced around with his hands behind his back, gasping for air for several times, and then suddenly remembered something. He pulled the captain of the detective horse over and asked urgently: "Where is Dingguo? Have you seen Dingguo?!"

Captain Tanma said nervously: "We haven't seen him."

In fact, he wanted to say that Zhang Dingguo was probably captured by the rebel army, but he didn't dare.

"Command the whole army to speed up and advance!" Zhang Xianzhong let go of Captain Tanma again and shouted loudly, "I want to see what kind of Marshal Xinghua is. He dares to rob me of Xiangyang!"

Zhang Xianzhong has already thought about it.

If Marshal Lao Shizi was really powerful, he would respect him and lend him some money, food, and soldiers.

But if the opponent is lucky enough to capture Xiangyang City, he, the Eight Great Kings, will have to let the opponent know that not everyone can use the title of Generalissimo!

Under Zhang Xianzhong's order, nearly 2 former troops quickly arrived at Yinji.

Yinji was established only 30 to [-] years ago and was still a small market with only a thousand residents. Because it was near Xiangyang, there was no stronghold to protect itself.

This time, they were directly submerged by Zhang Xianzhong's army, and the waves didn't even splash.

Although Zhang Xianzhong was angry that Xiangyang City was occupied, he did not lose his mind.

The sun was about to set, and most of his [-] troops were new soldiers (young and strong civilians). It was easy for trouble to occur at night, and the enemy would take advantage of him if he was not careful.

Then he ordered to camp overnight in Yinji and go to Xiangyang tomorrow.

Shen Wandeng, with a handful of real elite cavalrymen from the Xiaoqi Battalion, found out that Zhang Xianzhong was camping in Yinji, and immediately returned to Xiangyang City to report to Liu Sheng.

　Second more.

　　Good night~
　　
　
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