Daming, originally wanted to destroy it, but the system came

Chapter 385: Serious illness requires serious medical treatment

Thanks to Zhu Chu's reputation in Yunnan for loving the people like a son, he changed his native land and returned to his current status. Although he wiped out hundreds of chieftain families in Yunnan, the result not only did not make Guangxi's Yao and Zhuang people fearful, but also admired him.

After all, after Zhu Ming swept away the chieftain families of all ethnic groups, he did not appropriate the land, but instead distributed it to the poor people.

The Zhuang people are the most united. Even though they have chieftains, they will not oppress or oppress their own people.

In addition, after Zhu Zhen solved Nong Zhenyou's rebellion, he only punished the culprits and did not pursue the Zhuang people in Guangnan Prefecture.

This made Cen Hua hesitate for a while, but finally chose to believe Zhu Zhen and followed him.

As Cen Hua came forward, Zhuang's 100,000-strong army did not dare to stop him, so Zhu Min led an army of 30,000 to the gates of Guilin.

"Open the door, His Royal Highness the King of Dian, the imperial envoy, has arrived. The Guilin magistrate has not rushed to pick him up," Li Jinglong said confidently, raising his head and shouting towards the city.

The defenders on the top of the city looked at each other.

"Go and invite the prefect," someone whispered urgently, but there was no joy on his face. Instead, he looked solemn and his eyes were full of sorrow.

Now not only has the plague become so widespread, it has also aroused the anger of the Zhuang people and even surrounded Guilin Prefecture.

Therefore, Zhu Zhen could only identify the official rank through the color of the official uniform and official hat.

At this moment, they did not dare to question the authenticity of Shang Fang's sword. In fact, they knew very well that Zhu Chu's identity could not be fake.

Once they completely lose confidence in the Ming Dynasty, one hundred thousand Zhuang militiamen will turn the entire Guilin government upside down.

Are you kidding? Can a fake prince lead an army of 35,000 people?

The prefect of Guilin was stunned. He didn't expect that his temporary obsession with delaying the incident would endanger the entire clan.

"Who is under the city? How dare you make a noise? You know that pretending to be an imperial envoy is a serious crime of beheading," the prefect of Guilin scolded sternly.

The city wall of the Guilin Prefecture was also close to ten meters high. The Guilin Prefecture let out a subconscious exclamation, and then fell to the ground with a 'thud'.

For example, the jurisdiction of Guilin Prefecture is equivalent to the cities and counties of Guilin, Ziyuan, Longsheng, Quanzhou, Xing'an, Lingchuan, Guanyang, Yongfu, and Yangshuo in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region today.

But this is not a good thing. If you die on the spot, you will be relieved.

And when she took out her weapon, Zhu Xi discovered that Cen Hua was using double flying weights.

It was a special and difficult-to-control weapon. There were iron tools like meteor hammers tied to both ends of the rope, which could be thrown a long distance.

Zhu Zhen didn't wait long, a civil servant soon appeared on the city wall.

Because official uniforms in the Ming Dynasty did not have embroidery, even Zhu Zhen's python robe had python patterns embroidered all over the body, not just the embroidery pattern on the chest.

Since Guangxi was blocked by the government, others did not know, but the government had heard about Zhu Chu's inspection of the world on behalf of the emperor.

As Cen Hua threw out a flying weight, the heavy iron weight hit the Guilin prefect's head accurately. The huge force and the weight of the iron weight crushed the Guilin prefect's head in an instant.

Cen Hua gritted her teeth and rushed out without flinching.

"If you are still my Ming Dynasty soldiers, leave that dog officer behind. If you don't admit that you are my Ming Dynasty soldiers, then we will open up our posture and I will personally attack the city. But you must think clearly, do you want to Are you going to rebel with that dog official?"

It was impossible for Zhu Zhen to kill only him. Otherwise, so many people died in Guangxi, but only one prefect was killed. How could he explain it?

In addition, Zhu Zhen led the army from among the Zhuang troops, and there was no fighting or friction.

But what the prefect of Guilin didn't know was that the kindness Zhu Chu said was actually a lie.

Zhu Xun took out Shang Fang's sword. The generals of the city's defenders and the prefect of Guilin were all shocked, realizing that the matter was beyond their acceptable range.

However, the prefect of Guilin did not die on the spot. Instead, he fell on his lower back and broke his tailbone and hip bones, but his life was not life-threatening.

Especially when Zhu Chu was in Jiangnan, he chopped off the heads of two prefects. Who wouldn't be afraid?

Under the premise that there is no governor or governor in the local area, the prefect is the highest chief executive of a prefecture. Don't think that the prefect's official position is not important.

It seems that His Highness is here to raise troops to punish the enemy, not to relieve the siege.

But if you can hide for a while, can you hide for the rest of your life?

It now seems that many things happening in Guangxi today are due to the troubles left by Zhu Shouqian when he was guarding Guilin.

Zhu Ming's words were meant for the garrison on the city. You guys should think clearly. The Guilin magistrate has already executed everyone in his family. Do you also want to bring trouble to the nine tribes?

"Brother Liu, I'm offended," the defending general said, and he grabbed the Guilin Magistrate's belt before he could react. Then he pushed his back with his other hand, and easily killed the Guilin Magistrate. Thrown out of the city.

Since His Royal Highness the King of Dian is here, he obviously already knows what happened.

What's more, how could Zhu Chu let him escape this disaster? If he didn't kill him, why would the people be angry? These 100,000 Zhuang militiamen can still be restrained because this matter has not yet been resolved.

"Good guy, I really won't shed tears until I see the coffin," Zhu Zhen laughed angrily.

It was precisely because of the improper conduct of Shang Liang that the prefect of Guilin dared to take serious risks.

If he is really the Dian King, I'm afraid the magistrate's head will be moved.

He could hear that the prefect of Guilin was already sullen. Is there anyone who knew better than him that there was no way to end the commotion now that it was so big?

But not only does this old boy not know the crime, but he insists on going his own way. This is because he wants not to admit his identity, so that he can escape for a while.

And he was damned.

"Damn it, this is bullying us because we don't have a prince of our own. If His Highness Prince Jingjiang is still here, why are we being bullied like this?" The Guilin prefect dared to scream before he died.

At that time, the ones who suffer and get hurt will be other innocent people, right?

Zhu Ming sneered and took out Shang Fang's sword from his waist, pointed it at the Guilin magistrate on the top of the city, and shouted: "Originally, if you weren't really so vicious, I would have thought of being merciful and kill one of you instead of your whole family. . But if you have to bring the blame on yourself, then don’t blame me for being ruthless. All the officers and men on the city are listening to the order. I am the eighteenth son of Hongwu, the King of Dian, Zhu Chu. I hold the Shangfang sword in my hand, and I am responsible for patrolling the world as an imperial envoy. The purpose is to Kill all these crazy bitches in the world."

At that moment, he couldn't bear it anymore and said to Cen Hua who was standing beside Wang Fu behind him: "Don't you want revenge? Don't you want justice? Go and kill him. Cut off his head and sacrifice it to your deceased father's spirit in heaven, and Many people in Guangxi."

The man in the city is the prefect of Guilin Prefecture.

Zhu Ming narrowed his eyes slightly. He had heard for a long time that Zhu Shouqian had created a smoky atmosphere in Guilin, which made the people in the vassal country miserable.

The prefect is in charge of all government affairs within the entire Guilin Prefecture.

Don't say he is just a civil servant, even if he is a military general, he will still fall.

The flying weight is a traditional weapon used by the ancestors of the Zhuang people to defend their homeland and resist foreign enemies.

While retracting the iron weight, Cen Hua reined in her horse and stopped in front of the corpse of the Guilin magistrate. She looked up at the sky with red eyes, silently thinking in her heart, Dad, Hua'er has avenged you.

Although the plague is a sudden disaster, it is not an exaggeration to say it is a natural disaster. After all, the Lingnan region is also an area where miasma is prevalent, and miasma is poisonous gas generated by the natural environment.

But it was precisely because the prefect of Guilin sealed off the plague situation in Guangxi in the name of the imperial government, and did not even allow them to go out to seek survival, that the plague got out of hand, and it was also the culprit that led to the death of countless people in Guangxi.

Countless people died because of him.

It's not an exaggeration to say it's revenge.

Then, the defenders in the city slowly opened the city gate.

Zhu Zhen led the army and began to enter the city.

As soon as he entered the city, Zhu Zhen was stunned.

I saw how miserable the city was. The streets were full of impoverished people, and there were even many lifeless corpses lying on the roads.

This is simply like purgatory on earth.

Even Cen Hua was shocked and murmured: "I originally thought that the dog official just wanted my Zhuang clan to be exterminated, but I didn't expect that even your own people of the Han family would be so miserable."

"What's going on?" Zhu Zhen looked up, his face full of anger.

On the top of the city, the garrison general rushed down quickly. When he heard Zhu Ming's question, he knelt down and clasped his fists and said, "Your Highness, these corpses all died of the plague, because the Zhuang people rebelled outside the city. The army surrounded him, so he didn't have time to take him out and bury him."

"Are you being reasonable? I mean, why is the plague in the city so serious, but you are doing nothing?" Zhu Ming continued to question.

The garrison general is the commander of the Guilin Central Guard.

Guilin was originally called Jingjiang, and in the Yuan Dynasty it was called Jingjiang Road. Later it was changed to Jingjiang Prefecture. The vassal name of King Jingjiang also came from this, and it was later called Guilin Prefecture. When Zhu Shouqian was sealed here, there were Guilin Left Guard, Guilin Right Guard and Guilin Central Guard in Guilin Mansion. The three guards formed the royal guard of King Jingjiang.

However, as Zhu Shouqian was first demoted and demoted to a commoner due to his crimes, he was later transferred to Yunnan. Finally, due to the recurrence of solid state, he was completely placed under house arrest in the capital until he died of illness the year before last.

Therefore, Guilin Mansion now only has this garrison force left.

The commander of the Guilin Central Guard sighed bitterly and said: "I dare not hide it from Your Highness. In fact, the general has long been dissatisfied with the former prefect (after all, he is dead), but the general is just a military general and treats local political affairs. We have no right to interfere. We don't dare to overstep our bounds and report to the imperial court. Moreover, Magistrate Liu also said that he was worried that the plague in Guangxi would spread out. If the disaster spread from one place to the whole country, we would be the sinners of the whole country. So the last general I can only let it go. Please punish me, Your Highness."

In fact, since the Song Dynasty, due to the separatism of the heroes at the end of the Tang Dynasty, those Jiedu commanders took advantage of the situation to support their troops and take advantage of the situation. In addition, Zhao Kuangyin himself was the Chenqiao mutiny yellow robe and gained the world of the Lao Chai family, so he began to promote culture and suppress military force. Use civilian officials to suppress military commanders.

This led to the gradual decline of the status of military commanders.

Even the one who was more modest than Shaobao was actually a civil official rather than a military commander.

Including Qitai, the current minister of the Ministry of War, is also a civil servant.

If a military general wants to mobilize troops, he cannot do so without the permission of the Ministry of War.

In fact, the current status of military generals is pretty good. After all, the Ming Dynasty was founded less than thirty years ago, and the veteran generals who contributed to the founding of the country are still there. Zhu Yuanzhang can be considered to be on par with both civil and military officials.

By the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty, the general group was about to decline.

Zhu Ming stared deeply at the commander of the Guilin Guard in front of him, and couldn't help but think of the commander of the Ningxia Guard Tang Jie.

From now on, these generals have begun to be cautious, and have they even chosen to protect themselves wisely?

After all, the Blue Jade case is still fresh in my mind.

Zhu Ming couldn't help but feel a little upset and said, "You should get up first."

At least no charges have been found against him yet. After all, he is a military commander and is only responsible for guarding Guilin and has no right to interfere in local politics.

But Zhu Zhen looked at the miserable situation in front of him again and couldn't help but sigh.

This is just the tip of the iceberg, just the area in front of the city gate. God knows how miserable Guilin is now.

At that moment, Zhu Min gave the order without hesitation: "Enter the entire army into the city and start rescue work."

But Tang Xin said: "We came here lightly, so I'm afraid we don't have enough herbs."

It’s hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. Even if Zhu Chu has a prescription to cure the disease, what can she do if there are no herbs to cook the medicine?

Xu Miaojin also said: "Furthermore, I see that the faces of the people nearby look hungry. I am afraid that many of them are not dying of illness, but starving to death."

They had received news that as the plague raged, unscrupulous grain merchants were raising prices and even forcing people to sell their sons and daughters just to get a full meal.

A child, a living person, is only worth a meal?

In troubled times, life is worthless, but are these troubled times?

Zhu Min was so angry that he gritted his teeth and squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth: "Then kill him."

A cold air that made the commander of the Guilin Guards feel as if he had fallen into an ice cellar emanated from Zhu Ming's body. Zhu Ming looked into the depths of the city with cold eyes and said: "There is no need to wait for the Zhuang brothers, I will rebel by myself. The whole army obeys the order , Seal all the grain dealers in the city. Find out the old wealth of the landowners in the city, and find out whether there are so-called aristocratic families. I have sealed them all."

"Since they won't let the people live, I will kill them first."

"Post a notice to inform the people in the city that before night, the whole city will open warehouses to stock food, and the government office will distribute medicinal soup to treat the plague. Those who are seriously ill will be carried to the government office and treated by the king himself. As long as he is still alive, I will never die. I won’t give up on anyone.”

"Wang Fu, follow Cen Hua to the Zhuang camp. If the Zhuang children also have patients, they will also go to the city for treatment."

"Don't worry about anything else right now, saving people is important."

Zhu Chu's order meant that the entire Guilin Mansion was about to experience a bloody storm.

Gu Wen opened his mouth with a worried look on his face and looked at Zhu Zhen hesitantly, trying to persuade him not to be so cruel.

But Qian Gui said: "Good. Serious diseases require heavy medicines, and troubled times should be treated with heavy laws. If we don't punish with thunder at this time, it will be difficult to convince the people, and I'm afraid they will lose their support."

Zhu Ming shook his head and said: "Now I just want to save one more person as much as possible. Didn't you soldiers hear my order? Aren't you going to do it?"

"Here."

The entire army responded immediately, and under the leadership of Peng Yue and Niu Sheng, an army of more than 30,000 people began to 'invade' the entire city.

Li Jinglong rolled his eyes, glanced at Wang Fu secretly, and then ran over, taking it upon himself to make 15,000 Ming troops his subordinates.

Because Niu Sheng and Peng Yue each led 10,000 Yao militiamen, these 15,000 Ming troops were temporarily placed under Wang Fu's command.

But Wang Fu was assigned other tasks by Zhu Zhen, so Li Jinglong took advantage of him and became addicted to commanding troops.

Zhu Zhen didn't bother to care about him. This kid was a playboy in the capital before. He should be very good at confiscating homes.

Zhu Chu turned his head and found that Wang Fu had not left yet, so he couldn't help but ask: "Do you have any questions?"

Wang Fu blinked and said: "Actually, you don't have to make a trip, right? I'd better stay and give you a try."

Zhu Chu looked at Wang Fu and found that Lao Wang's face was a little red, and then looked at the young and beautiful Cen Hua beside him, and his heart moved.

Will this old boy be embarrassed?

But this was not the time for teasing. Zhu Ming said angrily: "You represent the attitude of our Ming army. Don't let the Zhuang brothers feel cold."

The reason why Wang Fu was asked to follow Cen Hua was to let the Zhuang people understand that this was the attitude of the Ming Dynasty.

Otherwise, how can we win people's hearts?

Zhu Ming scolded the dead Magistrate Liu in his heart. Even Lao Zhu continued the chieftain officer system for the sake of national stability and to appease various ethnic groups.

You're lucky, you actually forced the Zhuang and Yao people, the two largest ethnic groups in Guangxi, to rebel.

You are really capable and a talented person.

The Yao people have 100,000 soldiers and horses, and the Zhuang people have 100,000 soldiers and horses. These 200,000 troops are enough to sweep through Guangxi, which is now almost terminally ill.

Moreover, Guangxi is adjacent to Jiaozhi. Years ago, Jiaozhi had bewitched Dao Bailan and almost occupied Ningyuan.

In the end, it was Qu Neng who led the 50,000 troops brought from Sichuan to quell the rebellion.

If Guangxi is lost, can he afford it?

By then, how much will it cost to regain the lost ground?

It may even be necessary to start a war with Jiaozhi in advance, especially once the Yao, Zhuang and other ethnic groups completely lose trust in the Ming Dynasty, it will be too difficult to win the hearts and minds of the people.

So what Zhu Ming has to do now is to solve the problem as quickly as possible and give an explanation to the people of Guangxi.

The next step is to deal with the plague first and severely punish those grain merchants who have made a fortune from disaster and have lost their conscience.

Only then did Wang Fu understand Zhu Ming's good intentions. He no longer hesitated, clasped his fists and said, "The general will never dare to disgrace his mission."

Zhu Zhen nodded, glanced at the hundred guards beside him, and said, "You guys should go with us."

"But Your Highness," Guardsman Li Si was startled and said, "We still have to protect you."

Zhu Ming glanced at Li Si in a funny way, then looked at the Guilin Guard commander with amusement, and said deliberately: "Is there someone else who wants to assassinate this king?"

The commander of the Guilin Guard knelt down again and said with a cold sweat: "If you don't dare, you will die."

How could he dare to threaten the safety of the majestic prince?

What's more, his crime was at most a failure to report what he knew, which wasn't even dereliction of duty. He knew the entire situation in Guangxi, but he didn't even have the power to file a report.

Why should he do anything?

To put it bluntly, it was all the fault of Magistrate Liu.

(End of this chapter)