Smuggling Daming

Bringing Hatano Hideko back to the mansion, Ashikaga Kazuki and Tayama Shangyoshi were relieved to see him return safely, and after thanking Zhou Chong, they went back to the residence with Hatano Hideko to prepare to go back. , As for what Hatano Xiuxiang experienced in Jianchang Marquis Mansion, everyone was very tacit and did not ask.

Although Zhou Zhong didn't want too many people to know the news of his departure from the capital, he is now a hot figure in the capital, and many people are desperately wanting to see him, and the news about him is spreading very fast. In fact, he didn't deliberately keep it secret, so many people knew the news that he was leaving Beijing.

The next day, after Zhou Zhong and the others joined Ashikaga Kazuki and Wu Shan's Jinyiwei, they left the capital from Chongwenmen. Originally, Wang Lun was the only one who saw him off. The door was already full of people who came to see him off. Except for Li Dongyang, Yang Tinghe and a few people he knew, most of them didn't know Zhou Zhong at all. What surprised him was that Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling, with a bruised nose and swollen face, also came to see him off.

Although Zhou Zhong knew that, except for a few people, most of the people who saw him off were somewhat utilitarian, but since they took the initiative to see him off, they wanted to make friends with him. To get along in the officialdom, one must have a wide network of contacts, so no matter whether he knew him or not, Zhou Zhong was very enthusiastic about these people who saw him off.

Seeing Zhou Zhong's ability to cope with these send-off crowds, Wang Lun beside him also smiled with satisfaction.When Zhou Zhong first took over the position of Admiral of the Four Seas, he was still a little worried that Zhou Zhong would not adapt to the officialdom, but now it seems that he was a little too worried, Zhou Zhong's performance was even better than he imagined.

After bidding farewell to the people who saw him off, a few people including Wang Lun and Li Dongyang sent Zhou Chong away in person. In the end, Jinxuan and her father Wang Lun bid farewell with tears in their eyes, which made Wang Lun also tearful. .Today, I don't know if I can still see my beloved daughter and my grandson who is about to be born in this life?

After bidding farewell to Wang Lun, Zhou Zhong rode on the horse, and Jin Xuan and the others also got into the carriage. However, they did not go south along the main road, but turned a little bit southeast towards Tianjin Wei.This is because Bazhou, just south of Beijing, is now in a state of war, and Liu Liu and Liu Qi are leading the bombers to fight with the officers and soldiers led by Shenying.

Speaking of which, when Zhou Zhong and the others came to the capital, they passed through Bazhou. At that time, Liu Liu and Liu Qi had not rebelled. Although Bazhou was only more than 100 miles away from the capital, Zhou Zhong only had the impression of poverty there. .The reason why Zhou Zhong had this impression was mainly because there were too many beggars in the city.Moreover, when these beggars saw a convoy passing through Bazhou, they would block the road and beg. If the owner of the car did not give the money, it would be impossible for them to leave. Fortunately, Zhou Zhong's convoy was protected by Jin Yiwei, so those beggars did not dare to stop their team .

Afterwards, Zhou Zhong also asked Wu Shan about it, but the other party told him.Most of the beggars in Bazhou City are farmers who went bankrupt because of the horse administration, and they had to become beggars in order to survive.As a result, Zhou Zhong remained silent after listening to it. He also knew something about horse politics. He knew that this was one of the national policies established by the Ming court in order to keep the cavalry using horses. Maintaining a strong cavalry, but the continuous natural disasters in the north these days, coupled with the heavy burden of the horse administration, has caused countless people in the north to go bankrupt. This is definitely not a good thing for the Ming court.

Sure enough, what happened next also confirmed Zhou Zhong's conjecture. Liu Liu and Liu Qi, the two gangsters, rose up and immediately got the response of some bankrupt people in Bazhou. Thousands of people gathered in a short time, and there were It's getting worse.Fortunately, because of Zhou Zhong's reminder, Zhengde changed his mind and sent an experienced veteran like Shenying to serve as the general to counter the rebellion.

It is precisely because this matter has something to do with him that Zhou Zhong has been paying attention to the situation of the Bazhou rebellion during this time. What makes him happy is that Shenying is indeed very good at leading troops to fight, as he boasted. There is a saying that when he just arrived in Bazhou, he fought against Liu Liu and Liu Qi's rebels, and the result was a complete victory, killing most of the rebels. As for Liu Liu and Liu Qi and other core figures , was also besieged in a fixed area by the army mobilized by Shenying, and the officers and soldiers pressed hard at every step. If there were no accidents, the remnants of Liu Liu and Liu Qi would be squeezed to death soon.

Although Zhou Zhong also knew that, except for Liu Liu and Liu Qi, the rebel leaders, most of the other rebels joined the rebellion because they couldn't survive, so Zhou Zhong also sympathized with them very much, but sympathy belongs to Liu. If Liu Liuqi's rebellion is not eliminated quickly, it will eventually deal a heavy blow to the Ming Dynasty, and countless innocent people will die. Therefore, for the benefit of the majority of the people, Zhou Zhong can only ruthlessly suggest to Zhengde to exterminate them .

Just when Zhou Zhong and his convoy passed Tianjin Wei, good news came from Bazhou again. After Liu Liu, Liu Qi and others were besieged in an area for several days by the army led by Shenying, they finally decided to break out. But unexpectedly, some of their subordinates secretly defected to the imperial court, and leaked the news of the breakout to Shenying. As a result, on the night when Liu Liu and Liu Qi led troops to break through, they were ambushed by Shenying, and the entire breakout team almost The entire army was wiped out, even Liu Liu and Liu Qi died in the rebellion, but Qi Yanming, the other leader of the rebel army, was missing.

Liu Liu and Liu Qi, the two bandit leaders died, and the rest of the rebels had no leader. In addition, they were surrounded by another card, and they couldn't escape. So in the end, most people chose to surrender, and the rebellion in Bazhou finally subsided. .

When Zhou Zhong heard that Shenying lived up to expectations and put down the rebellion in just a few days, and even Liu Liu and Liu Qi died in the rebellion, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh, Liu Liu Liu Qi These two rebel leaders died right after the rebellion. This has completely deviated from the original history. Presumably the Liu Liu Liu Qi uprising that caused great harm to Ming Dynasty in history will never happen again.

Before Zhou Zhong could be happy, he suddenly thought that another key figure in the rebellion, Qi Yanming, had escaped. There are not many historical records about this Qi Yanming, mainly because he died not long after the uprising. , he died in battle, but now it's the other way around, Liu Liu and Liu Qi's brothers died in front of him, but Qi Yanming, who should have died early, escaped, which suddenly made Zhou Zhong feel an ominous premonition. Maybe history is not so easy to change.

Just when Zhou Zhong was distressed by Qi Yanming's escape, corpses were strewn across a big river in the southeast of Bazhou, not far from Tianjin, and the river was also red with blood. In addition, the land on both sides of the river was full of dead bodies, and the soil on the ground was mixed with blood to form a sauce-red mud.

This is the place where Liu Liu and Liu Qi led troops to break out of the siege. Unfortunately, the rebels told Shenying about the breakout plan, so Shenying set up an ambush on both sides of the river. When Liu Liu and Liu Qi's breakout team crossed the river halfway, The officers and soldiers on both sides of the strait suddenly rushed out of the darkness, and they killed the rebels by surprise. Liu Liu and Liu Qi were also unable to command the troops to fight. In the end, they were killed by several times as many officers and soldiers. Among them, Liu Liu was killed by an officer. The one in the middle cut off the head with a knife, and Liu Qi wanted to jump into the river to escape, but he didn't expect that Shenying had deployed archers on both sides of the river, and Liu Qi was also shot to death in the river.

The core figures of Liu Liu and Liu Qi's rebellion were the dozen or so people who were thieves when they were thieves. Now the two leaders Liu Liu and Liu Qi are dead, and other famous core figures are also dead and surrendered, but in the rebel army Qi Yanming, who was on the same level as Liu Liu and Liu Qiping, was nowhere to be seen, not even the rebels who surrendered had seen him.

If it was the past, Liu Liu and Liu Qi, who were the thieves' leader, were already dead, and the rebel army was also wiped out. Even if Qi Yanming escaped, it would not be a big deal. What a storm, but before Shenying came to Bazhou, he was told by Zhou Zhong that he had better arrest all the core figures of the rebellion, so Shenying did not dare to neglect. , and sent more than a dozen teams to search for Qi Yanming's whereabouts nearby.

It is precisely because of this that the officers and soldiers searching for Qi Yanming can be seen on the battlefields on both sides of the river, and even among the aquatic plants by the river. They have been searching for a whole day now, and the sun is about to set. If no one can be found, then they can only withdraw the team and return to the camp.

Speaking of which, although the battlefield is large, there are not many places where people can hide. The battlefield on both sides of the river has been turned over several times by officers and soldiers, and every dead body has also been turned over for the rebels who surrendered to identify them. Unfortunately, they still haven't been able to find them. Qi Yanming, so now the officers and soldiers are focusing their energy on this big river in the middle of the battlefield. Firstly, there are many dead bodies in the river, and Qi Yanming is likely among them. Secondly, there are many reeds growing in this river. Most likely hiding the surviving rebels.

I saw that both sides of the river full of dead bodies were now full of officers and soldiers. These officers and soldiers were holding a long bamboo pole with a hook on the end of the bamboo pole, which could drag the corpses up from the river. A few rebels who surrendered came up to identify them, but it was a pity that the officers and soldiers were very disappointed every time.

It is already early winter now, and the reeds growing in the river have long since dried up, so when encountering reeds that may be Tibetans, the officers and soldiers will set fire to them, and then poke them underwater with long bamboo poles. If Yan Ming hides in the river, he will never escape.

Seeing that the reeds on the river surface were getting less and less, and the sky was getting darker, many officers and soldiers who searched also showed signs of impatience. If it wasn't for the orders from their superiors, they might have gone back to rest a long time ago.However, just when a group of lazy soldiers were holding torches and trying to light a large reed bush, a sudden change suddenly occurred, and a figure covered in mud and blood "whoosh" ran away from the reed bush Get out, and run away along the bank! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)