The most reckless man in the Ming Dynasty.

Chapter 182 Zhu Houzhao: I was treated like a monkey!

Got around.

This is really getting wrapped up in.

At first, when everyone was filled with indignation, they still felt their blood boiling.

However, when they were forced to rush forward to exterminate the rebels and bandits, they were visibly panicked.

Tang Hao didn't waste any time and asked Chang Kuohai to lead people to form a supervising team.

"Kill those who are cowardly and afraid of fighting!"

"Those who retreat without permission will be killed!"

"If you can't stand the first one, kill!"

As soon as the three words "kill" were spoken, the supervising team raised their crossbows and pointed them straight at the guard sergeants.

Tang Hao rode his horse and followed behind, watching quietly, with no intention of sending troops to help.

"Let there be chaos!" Tang Hao said with deep eyes, "A group of wolves that know how to bite is more beneficial to the Ming Dynasty than a group of sheep that are left to be slaughtered!"

"This Ming Dynasty is rotten. The court is rotten, the place is rotten, and the guardhouse is rotten. It's rotten from the inside out!"

Tang Hao did not answer, but continued to speak on his own.

"They are the regular army of the imperial court, and they are also the combatable soldiers of the entire Qingzhou Prefecture. Their weapons and equipment are not bad."

"Whether you will accept the situation as usual and accept it as usual, or whether you will brazenly resist with a sword, I am looking forward to it!"

Tang Hao chuckled and said: "So we have to find more comrades who can fight side by side, and find more comrades who know how to resist when they are oppressed. So what if there is chaos?"

"If we want to revive the Ming Dynasty, it will not be easy just by relying on us and His Majesty the Emperor. After all, our enemies are the gentry in this world!"

"I want to bring chaos to the world and to overthrow it all. After all, the gentry and gentry have no military power in their hands. This is their most deadly point!"

It was only at this moment that they finally understood that this ferocious Marquis Zhongshan never told lies, only the truth.

Tang Mu was shocked when he heard this and lowered his head silently.

Tang Mu urged his horse to come closer and reported in a low voice: "Master Marquis, the arrangements have been made. The brothers have formed an encirclement. We promise not to let any rebel bandits escape!"

Faced with the naked threat of death, some people finally gave in.

It will take ten years for scholars to rebel!
A great man once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun!
As long as the world is unrest and as long as the interests of the gentry and the gentry are harmed, they will have to choose to give in and give up the power they already control, otherwise they will wait to be completely overthrown!

A Qianhu stood up, loudly commanded the battle, and led the nearly ten thousand guardsmen straight towards the mine occupied by the White Lotus rebels.

When Tang Mu heard this, his eyes lit up and he immediately reacted.

"No!" Tang Mu hurriedly shook his head, "Bizhi just thinks that this... seems unnecessary!"

Based on Tang Mu's understanding of his own Marquis, Tang Hao was by no means a ruthless person.

"Secondly, and the most important point, corruption in the guard army has long been the norm. It is not just the coastal guard, not just the Qingzhou guard, but also all the guards all over the world. In the final analysis, it is because of the hereditary nature of the officers. If the sergeants want to make changes, they can only plant a seed of "resistance" in their hearts! "

The next morning, the sun rose high.

"This Qingzhou Guard is one of our pilot projects. They witnessed those corrupt officers being beheaded in public. At this moment, they experienced a life-and-death battle and really saw bloodshed. I really want to know, what happens again in the future? What will they do when their officers and generals bully them?"

"But Lord Marquis, if you do this, I'm afraid there will be... military chaos!"

Of course, my Marquis is indeed ruthless towards his enemies, which is nothing to say, but he treats his soldiers and civilians with first-class kindness, and no one can find anything wrong with him!
But the things he is doing now are a bit incomprehensible.

Tang Mu nodded in understanding, keeping all these words in mind.

"You think I have gone too far, don't you?"

"Oh, it's not necessary?" Tang Hao chuckled: "Of course it is necessary, and it is very necessary!"

"First, no matter what the reason is, it is a fact that their Qingzhou Guards Army allowed the rebels and bandits to massacre the people. Afterwards, the court investigated them. A border hero can't stop the mouths of those civil servants and gentry. It is impossible to say that these low-level soldiers will also He will be purged and either sent into military exile or demoted to hard labor!"

To put it bluntly, by doing this, Tang Hao was simply encouraging the lower-level sergeants to commit crimes and encourage the lower-level sergeants to riot and resist. Then can the Qingzhou Guard still have peace in the future?

Hearing this, Tang Mu's scalp was numb with shock, and he looked at Tang Hao with a look of horror.

Don't forget, this time Tang Hao came to quell the rebellion, but he brought five thousand elite troops with him.

The real cruelty lies in the local countryside. Either you die or I die!

To be honest, he still couldn't understand why he didn't let the five thousand elite soldiers take action directly, but let these guardsmen step forward to serve as cannon fodder in vain?

The reason why he forced nearly ten thousand guardsmen to fight in the front line was to catch all these rebels in one fell swoop and avoid having to do anything in the future.

Looking at the battlefield with loud killings in front of him, Tang Mu couldn't help but ask: "Master Marquis, can these guardsmen really withstand it?"

"On the other hand, those rebel bandits don't even have any decent weapons, let alone armor. They fight with inferior weapons such as kitchen knives, hoes and sticks. If they can't win, then these guardsmen should indeed die! "

"The world is too peaceful today. A peaceful and prosperous age whitewashed by the gentry and the gentry. Only when everything is stable and normal can the vested interests of the gentry and the gentry be ensured!"

"So it seems that the Marquis is forcing them to destroy the rebels, but he is actually forcing himself to save himself? With this military merit, they can make up for it!"

"Write these words down, and when Yidao comes back, tell him to send them back to the capital and tell them to His Majesty the Emperor."

"..."

Although the battles in the court were cruel, they were limited to that court.

If they can't clear out the rebel den opposite tonight, they will be the ones who die!

The Guard soldiers walked out of the canyon in silence, almost all covered in blood, but it was not difficult to see from their overall aura that some changes had taken place in these surviving Guard soldiers.

The first thousand households knelt on the ground and said: "Reporting to the Marquis of Zhongshan, all the rebels and bandits have been wiped out!"

"It's just that the bandit leader took advantage of the chaos to escape. Please forgive me, Lord Marquis!"

The bandit leader escaped, and there was nothing that could be done about it.

After all, they were all red-eyed at that time. When they saw the rebels wearing red and white cloth strips on their heads, they rushed to attack them and cut them down. They didn't remember to capture and kill the bandit leader.

Tang Hao said "hmm" and said nothing more.

When the officers and soldiers of the Guard Army saw this, their hearts were in their throats.

The life and death of all of them depended on the thought of the Marquis of Zhongshan.

I don't know how long it took before Tang Mu hurried over, with two tied guys behind him.

"Master Marquis, this is the White Lotus Sect demon who planned this rebellion!"

Seeing this situation, the officers and soldiers of the Guard Army suddenly looked ashamed. They did not expect that these Beijing troops would take action in the end.

When the two bandit leaders saw Tang Hao, they hurriedly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.

Before Tang Hao could ask, the two men told what had happened. It was exactly the same as what Gao Lu, the commander of the Qingzhou Guard, said. They were taken out of Gao Lucong County Prison and were ordered to take Ju. Zhou planned the White Lotus Rebellion.

Now, all the evidence chain is complete.

This also means that Tang Hao can go on a killing spree!

But before that, there are some little things to deal with.

Tang Hao looked at these guardsmen and said coldly: "Clean the battlefield, bury the corpses, and all the property plundered by the rebels will be used as a pension for the suffering people and for the fallen soldiers!"

"The suppression of the rebels this time is the merit of your Qingzhou Guard Army. Of course, you allowed the rebels to harm the people of Qingzhou. This is also the fault of your Qingzhou Guard Army. I will report the truth to the court. As for what the court will do, what will it do? I have nothing to do with it!”

As soon as these words came out, the officers and soldiers of the Guard Army were overjoyed. It was only at this moment that they finally realized that the reason why Zhongshan Marquis forced them to go to wipe out the rebels was actually to give them a chance to make up for their merits!
At this moment, the soldiers all knelt down on the ground with sincerity.

"Thank you Lord Marquis for your kindness!"

"Don't be in a hurry to thank me, the ugly words are ahead!"

Tang Hao sneered and said: "First, don't let any fights over property happen. These are pensions for the fallen soldiers and compensation for the suffering people. I hope you will implement them to the letter, otherwise I won't mind sending you down. Make atonement for those innocent people who died!"

"Secondly, after cleaning the battlefield, immediately send troops to wipe out the bandits who are wandering around. Don't do anything to kill good people and take credit, let alone take the opportunity to harm the people. If I hear about this, then you nearly ten thousand people will Don’t even think about living!”

"Do you understand these two points?"

Faced with the warning from Marquis Zhongshan, no one dared to take it seriously, and they all responded uniformly.

But the first thousand households were still unwilling to give in, and asked bravely: "Dare you ask, Mr. Marquis, that beast Bian Xiong..." Hearing the name "Bian Xiong", the officers and soldiers of the guard army all raised their heads, with faces full of hope. Look at Tang Hao.

This time, if it weren't for Bian Xiong, this beast, they wouldn't have suffered such a disaster for no reason, and their relatives might have been killed!

"rest assured!"

"I will definitely chop him up alive!"

Tang Hao chuckled and left with five thousand soldiers.

This time, their target is not Dengzhou Shuicheng, but the capital of Shandong, Jinan!
At the same time, an urgent document of 800 miles was delivered to the Palace Affairs Department at lightning speed.

The Secretary of General Affairs did not dare to neglect. This kind of eight-hundred-mile expedited delivery was very rare. Generally, except for those who wanted to rebel against the separatist regime, this kind of expedited delivery was rarely used!
Because, eight hundred miles in a hurry, this is the speed of a dead horse!

The transmission of official documents in the Ming Dynasty relies on a network of post stations that extend all over the country. Generally, there is a post station every twenty miles. Once the official document that needs to be delivered is marked with the words "immediate delivery", it must be delivered at a cost of three hundred miles per day according to regulations. speed of transmission.

If there is an emergency, the transmission speed can reach 400 miles, 600 miles per day, and the fastest can reach 800 miles.

When delivering such urgent documents, fast horses are used at each station. Although it is not a thousand-mile horse, each horse runs hard and can run a thousand miles in a day. "Eight Hundred Miles Express" is specially used to express information delivery in emergency situations.

One post passed by another, and the post riders were like shooting stars. It will start in Xianyang in the morning and reach the top of Longshan Mountain in the evening.

This poem talks about the timely and efficient delivery of goods at the inn.

For example, when An Lushan rebelled in Fan Yang, Tang Xuanzong was in Huaqing Palace at that time. The two places were three thousand miles apart. Tang Xuanzong knew the news within six days, and the transmission speed at that time reached about five hundred miles per day!
Zhang Jin, the general envoy, hurriedly brought the people to the Qianqing Palace. Only the emperor had the right to inspect and deal with this eight hundred-mile emergency.

Along the way, when officials saw this courier with a red feather on his head and a dusty face, their hearts beat wildly, and a thought came to their minds: Something big has happened!
At this moment, the young emperor Zhu Houzhao is chatting with the three true kings of the court. This is a mode he prefers recently.

During the Wenhua Palace meeting, Liu Jian, Ma Wensheng and Zhang Fuhua were all civil servants and gentry, and they were in full view of the public, so they would inevitably have scruples due to their stance.

When they come here to discuss matters in front of the Emperor, the three virtuous veterans will feel more relaxed.

Zhu Houzhao liked to listen to Ma Wensheng's speech the most, because this old man from Tianguan really dared to say anything and was not afraid of breaking any taboos.

After all, Ma Wensheng is now an "auspicious" and an eighty-year-old Shuode veteran. Even if he scolds Zhu Houzhao for a few words, he, Zhu Houzhao, can only listen to him honestly without daring to show any dissatisfaction.

The main thing that the four monarchs and ministers discussed was the reform of the salt policy.

Because of the despicable behavior of Zhongshan Hou Tang Hao, the imperial court had to reform the salt policy. Based on the strategies proposed by Tang Hao, a series of new policies were introduced, mainly to combat corruption in the transport department and improve the lives of kitchen households. As the theme, Han Wen, the Minister of the Ministry of Finance, and Tu Yu, the censor of Youdu, have already rushed to the Lianghuai Salt Fields. They have to visit the salt fields one by one and implement them in person.

After all, because of the despicable behavior of the dog thief Zhongshan Marquis, the salt workers in these salt fields all rioted. If they don't send decent court officials to announce the court's new salt policy measures, people may really not buy it.

As for the exchange of profits from the salt administration, the emperor and all parties have basically reached an agreement. The court will take 70%, the kitchen households will take half, and the court will not interfere with the remaining 25%.

This also means that as long as 70% of the annual salt tax revenue is collected and half of the salt tax revenue is received by Zaohu saltmen, the imperial court will not investigate any corruption in the transportation department, and everyone will be aware of it.

Just as the monarch and his ministers were enjoying themselves, Zhang Jin, the general envoy, hurried in with his messenger.

"Your Majesty, three adults, eight hundred miles is urgent!"

Hearing this, the four monarchs and ministers were stunned.

Zhu Houzhao stood up quickly and took the official document from the courier. When he opened it, he became furious and threw the document directly in front of the three elders.

"have a look!"

"Open your eyes and take a look!"

"Is this the peaceful and prosperous age you told me?"

Liu Jian, Ma Wensheng and Zhang Fuhua were all stunned when they saw this. You have a donkey temper. You were fine just now, but you change your face at any time.

Liu Jian, the chief assistant of the cabinet, bent down to pick up the official document and saw that it said that the remnants of the White Lotus Sect had launched a rebellion in Juzhou, and it soon spread!
At this time, the three true kings of the court were a little confused.

Are the remnants of the White Lotus Sect rebelling?

So sudden?

Something’s not right!
Liu Jian was silent, Ma Wensheng frowned, and Zhang Fuhua also had deep eyes.

Zhang Jin also took the official document and read it, and then said urgently: "Your Majesty, the troops must be quick and the troops must be dispatched immediately to exterminate the rebels!"

"The demons of the White Lotus Sect are best at deceiving people and fooling the people. Otherwise, once a prairie fire is formed, the whole of Shandong will be ruined!"

Hearing this, Zhu Houzhao was also a little flustered.

After all, he was only a sixteen-year-old boy. He had only been emperor for more than a year, and someone started a rebellion. Wasn't this a slap in the emperor's face?

But he still couldn't understand why someone suddenly rebelled despite everything going well?
"send troops?"

"I would like to ask you, in this world of peace, why would someone suddenly rebel?"

Whitewashing peace and advocating prosperity are the specialty of civil servants and gentry.

After all, as long as the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty is immersed in the dream they weaved, he will not think about any innovations and work hard to govern. The world is in great rule and the people are rich. What else are you working hard to cure? Everyone can enjoy happiness together!

But now, the demons of the White Lotus Sect have rebelled, which is equivalent to giving the young emperor and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty a slap in the face.

Everyone is fucking rebelling, and you are still here preaching to me about a peaceful and prosperous age?
If the people really live a prosperous life and are full of food, they will follow these White Lotus Sect monsters to rebel!

Facing His Majesty the Emperor's questioning, the three true kings looked at each other in tacit understanding, and then did not speak in response.

Zhang Jin, the general envoy, spoke again: "Your Majesty, you should put the overall situation first!"

"During the Yongle period, there was a rebellion by the demons of the White Lotus Sect in the land of Juzhou, and the momentum swept the entire land of Shandong!"

Zhu Houzhao nodded subconsciously when he heard this. He naturally knew that it was the rebellion of the witch Tang Saier.

"Those monsters from the White Lotus Sect are good at bewitching people's hearts. It is entirely possible for the ignorant people in the countryside to be bewitched by these monsters and rebel. I think the most important thing now is not to discuss the reasons for the rebellion, but how to suppress it. , Your Majesty, please immediately deploy troops to encircle and suppress the rebels in order to stabilize the country!"

These words were impassioned and awe-inspiring, and the little emperor was inevitably moved after hearing this. The focus now should really be on putting down the rebellion. Otherwise, when these rebels become a prairie fire, the entire Shandong region will be affected.

Well, Shandong?

"By the way, where is Marquis Zhongshan?"

Zhu Houzhao's eyes suddenly lit up, and he hurriedly looked at Chen Kuan beside him and asked.

Chen Kuan's eyes flashed, but he still gave the answer honestly.

"A few days ago, Marquis Zhongshan led his army to Dengzhou Water City on an official ship."

"Great!" Zhu Houzhao's face was overjoyed and he immediately ordered: "Immediately draw up a decree and order the Shanhou to lead his army to wipe out the rebels. There must be no mistakes!"

I'm so sleepy, someone gives me a pillow!
The little emperor had blind confidence in the savages' abilities.

What kind of White Lotus Sect rebels are there? As long as my savage Tang Hao takes action, I can definitely pin them to death and rub them on the ground!

Hearing this, Liu Jian, Ma Wensheng and Zhang Fuhua nodded silently, and then all left.

A bright light flashed in Zhang Jin's eyes, and then he left with the messenger.

After they left, Chen Kuan looked at the restless little emperor and finally couldn't help but speak.

"Your Majesty, there is something fishy about this matter!"

Zhu Houzhao was startled when he heard this, and his face instantly turned ugly.

"What do you mean?"

"Has Your Majesty forgotten the purpose of Tang Hou going to Dengzhou to prepare for the Japanese capital? It turns out that just a few days after Tang Hao left, demons from the White Lotus Sect started to cause trouble in Juzhou... This is too strange."

The words stopped abruptly before he finished speaking.

Zhu Houzhao's face suddenly turned livid!
"Then why didn't you say anything just now?"

"Lao Nu and Liu Jian are all thinking about the mastermind behind the scenes, and they only have such speculations, but they are not sure, so they don't dare to speak."

"Are they going for the savages?"

"Have I just fulfilled their wishes with my decree?"

Chen Kuan smiled bitterly and nodded.

Zhu Houzhao suppressed the anger in his heart when he heard this, and then kicked the desk over.

This time, he, the Ming Emperor, was treated like a monkey!

(End of this chapter)