Guide to traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty

When Ju Ming received the news from Pingli County, he was extremely angry.

He was angry at Yang Anshi for disobeying orders, but also couldn't bear the thought of Zhang Jin being good at killing his lieutenant.

Ju Ming knew very well what Zhang Jin meant. It had four purposes -

First, show your loyalty to Ju Ming and show that you are not greedy for money. He will do whatever Ju Ming says.

Second, take the opportunity to establish your authority and completely control the newly recruited troops under your command.

Third, improve military discipline and kill monkeys to scare chickens.

Fourth, stabilize the people's hearts and demonstrate benevolence and righteousness.

Zhu Ming called Guan Sheng over: "You go to Pingli County to be the deputy general. On my behalf, I will personally reward the soldiers and give rewards to each soldier. As for Zhang Jin, for his meritorious service in capturing the county seat and restraining the troops, he was named Baoyi Lang and Jin. The fifth state army is under command."

The army was created from scratch and was temporarily organized and trained. It didn't even have a military law team, and its logistics organization was also empty.

This is to quickly expand the territory and give the generals the greatest power. Everything will be done after occupying the entire Jinzhou.

Ju Ming never expected that someone would be so bold.

After talking about the reward, Ju Ming went on to talk about the punishment: "Zhang Jinshan killed the deputy general, demoted him to Chengxinlang, changed his power (acting) to the command of the capital, and punished him with thirty army sticks!"

Guan Sheng expressed his concern: "Will it make him dissatisfied?"

Ju Ming said: "Privately tell Zhang Jin to expand his army to 3,000 men. When he builds the Fifth Army of Jinzhou in Pingli County, he can atone for his sins and resume official duties. I will give him a sword as a personal gift from me." Yes, let him not think too much."

"My husband is very considerate," Guan Sheng said sincerely.

There is no innovation in the administrative and military systems for the time being, and everything is inherited from the Song Dynasty court.

Even the salary of subordinate officials is the same, and they have to rely on gray income to survive.

Changing the system is a big project that will cause short-term chaos and is not conducive to rapid development. On the contrary, the flaws of the old system can be covered up during expansion.

Zhu Guoxiang and Ju Ming have not yet opened their offices, and all orders are issued in their personal names.

These are extremely abnormal, and we must occupy the entire Hanzhong and consolidate the territory before talking about it.

At that time, Zhu Guoxiang opened the government to manage the civil affairs, and Zhu Ming opened the government to manage the military affairs. Take advantage of the situation to adjust the official system and salary system, improve the army organization and military law, and only after these are done can we go to conquer Bashu.

Guan Sheng set off quickly and met with Zhang Jin in private to convey Ju Ming's message.

Zhang Jin smiled and said: "I know that killing a deputy general without permission is a serious crime. If you use a military stick, just use a military stick."

Several of his goals were achieved, and while the system was not yet established, there was no need to worry about severe punishment. It didn't matter that he was temporarily demoted and beaten with a military stick.

The only surprise was that Ju Ming sent Guan Sheng to serve as his temporary deputy.

It was too obvious that Guan Sheng was the supervisor of Ju Ming's personal soldiers, which made Zhang Jin feel a little scared. If he were given a choice again, he would definitely not dare to kill anyone directly, but would take Yang Anshi to Jinzhou and hand him over to Ju Ming.

At the same time, Ju Ming issued an order to all armies to strictly prohibit similar incidents from happening again.

If you do it again next time, your head will definitely be chopped off!

…

But it was said that Yang Zhi took the elite soldiers from Tiemao Village and took a boat to Xunyang County in the afternoon when Ju Ming raised his troops.

Arriving near evening, Xunyang County was about to close its city gates, and the officials here didn't know what was happening in the city.

Without losing a single soldier, he occupied the city, captured the county magistrate, and killed him directly.

Zeng Xiaoduan, who set off with the army, took over the post of county magistrate and took control of the county government to make peace for the people.

On the second day, Yang Zhi expanded his army to 1,500 men in Xunyang County and asked Sun Li to divide his troops to attack Tuoyang Town.

There was a patrol in the town that surrendered without saying a word.

There are several groups of water bandits in the border area between Xunyang County and Junzhou. Hearing that Ju Ming was raising troops in Jinzhou, water bandits came to seek refuge one after another. Yang Zhi requested to organize a navy army, which was quickly agreed by Ju Ming.

As for Shiquan and Hanyin counties, due to the delay in sending troops, all the officials in the two counties abandoned the city and fled.

The entire Jinzhou was like paper. In six days, all five counties were obtained.

The biggest casualty of the rebel army was the execution of more than 20 people by Zhang Jin.

If it were an ordinary peasant uprising, the rebel leaders would probably have drifted away, and they have no idea how dangerous this would be.

Time goes back to six days ago.

Zhu Guoxiang divided his troops into three groups, aiming directly at the three counties of Yangzhou.

Sun Lan and Hua Rong led troops to attack Xixiang County.

Deng Chun and Xu Ning led troops to attack Zhenfu County.

Zhu Guoxiang and Zhang Guangdao led 200 soldiers to join Li Jinyi's Jintan Village army and went to attack Yangzhou City in person.

Zhu Guoxiang landed in a swaggering manner, and people greeted him along the way.

The people on the dock came to watch this strange troop wearing rattan armor. The troops had already arrived at the city, and no one thought that Zhu Xianggong was rebelling. The gatekeepers even nodded and bowed in greetings.

"Take it."

Zhu Guoxiang whispered the order.

A group of vine-armored soldiers rushed forward and quickly controlled the south city gate. The gatekeeper who was pinned to the ground did not even react.

what's the situation?

The city gate guard looked confused and cried out: "Ms. Zhu, we guard the city gate and only charge a few small coins, but we haven't committed any serious crime!"

Zhu Guoxiang ignored it and led his troops straight to the state and county offices.

"Prefect, Mr. Zhu has rebelled, Mr. Zhu has rebelled!"

"What?"

Zhizhou Cao Zao thought his ears were wrong: "Who rebelled?"

The subordinate officials exclaimed: "Xianggong Zhu has rebelled and has led troops into the city to kill him!"

"Don't talk nonsense." Cao Zao still couldn't believe it.

"They're really here to kill us!" the subordinate said in a panic.

Cao Zao's first reaction was not to run away, nor to organize the government officials and archers to resist, but to go out with his personal entourage to confirm the news.

Before he even stepped out of the gate of the state government office, he bumped into Zhu Guoxiang face to face.

"Mr. Yuanzhang, what do you mean?" Cao Zao looked at Zhu Guoxiang dumbfounded as if he had fallen into an ice cave.

Zhu Guoxiang said: "You are not too greedy and can avoid death. When I capture Xingyuan Mansion, I will let you leave Hanzhong, but I need to keep your money."

Cao Zao was shocked, angry and frightened: "Mr. Yuan Zhang, the officials treat you very well!"

Zhu Guoxiang said: "The officials treat the people so poorly."

"This is rebellion. Duke Yuan Zhang, please think again!" Cao Zao begged.

Zhu Guoxiang said nothing more and ordered: "Occupy the state government office and the warehouse immediately. Zhang Guangdao, you send people to appease the people and call all the gentry and merchants inside and outside the city."

…

Zheng family.

Zheng Lan looked at her children and grandchildren, and she was at a loss for words: "It's a disaster, it's a disaster, it's a disaster that will destroy the family! We shouldn't have..."

Zheng Hong was also very panicked, mainly because the rebellion was a bit beyond his imagination.

The family discussed it repeatedly, but could not come up with a result.

Zheng Yuanyi married Ju Ming as a concubine, and gave birth to Ju Ming's eldest son. The Zheng family was officially a rebel in-law.

After arguing for a while, Zheng Hong finally regained his ability to think: "Grandpa, the Zhu family has rebelled, and the Zheng family must rebel if they don't. Send all the family members to serve under Xianggong Zhu, and send some money, food, wine, and food to work for the army. Let's do it. If the family cannot be related, they can only do things with the Zhu family. The Zhu family rebels, and the Zheng family rebels with them. The Zhu family recruits peace, and the Zheng family follows them."

The Zheng family is different from the Zhang family.

Although Zhang Gen married his daughter to Ju Ming as his official wife, Zhang's disciples had numerous former officials and were married to many official families. At most, the court would punish Zhang Gen himself, but would never punish the entire family.

As for the Zheng family, the whole family was completely wiped out, and they could only go to the dark side.

Fatty Zheng led his clan members and a lot of money and hurried to the state government office to meet Zhu Guoxiang.

Zhu Guoxiang was very pleased and immediately made the appointment: "When you become the magistrate of Xixiang County, you must appease the people!"

"yes."

After being panicked, Fatty Zheng actually became a little excited.

Although he had been studying since he was a child, he could not even pass the imperial examination. Now he became the county magistrate inexplicably.

The county magistrate appointed by the rebels is also a county magistrate!

…

In a scrap gold mine.

When Gong Xiu learned that Zhu Guoxiang had rebelled, he was stunned for a while, and then he was overjoyed: "I have wanted to rebel for a long time. Mr. Zhu has done a great job. He summoned five hundred young men and followed me to Yangzhou City to join the army!"

This man has six sons, four of whom are adults and are all heroes with superb martial arts.

…

Shangbai Village.

"I knew it, I knew it!"

The old member Bai, whose legs were completely paralyzed, leaned on his chair and kept mumbling: "As soon as he and his son came to the village, I knew they were not kind people. Sure enough, they were ambitious and conspired to cause chaos."

Bai Dalang asked: "What should my family do?"

Old Bai Yuanwai said: "Your third brother is an official of the imperial court and finally passed the Jinshi examination. Is it possible that the Bai family can become a thief?"

"But...but..." Bai Dalang almost cried.

"Let me think about it, let me think about it again." Old Bai was a little out of his mind. Zhu Guoxiang's rebellion was beyond his expectation.

Although Bai Chongyan was admitted to Jinshi, his first official position was recommended by Ju Ming. The second appointment was recommended by Zhu Guoxiang.

The Zhu family and his son rebelled, can this official continue to serve?

If you are a shitty official, you will at least be dismissed from your post. If you are not careful, you will be removed from your position as editor!

Old member Bai wanted to cry but had no tears. The Bai family finally produced a Jinshi, so why did such an outrageous thing happen to him?

"Oh no, Master Gu is taking Gu San down the mountain and is recruiting troops for a rebellion in the village!" A servant rushed in in panic.

Officer Lao Bai said: "Carry me out quickly."

Bai Dalang quickly followed, and the father and son hurried to the village.

I saw Lao Gu with white hair, holding a big knife in his hand, followed by more than a dozen tea workers.

Gu Shusheng (Gu San) held up a long spear and said to the villagers who came one after another: "The government's taxes are getting heavier and heavier, and you owe more and more rent to the Bai family. How can you survive this day?" Do you want to go down? Both Xianggong Zhu and Zhu Dalang are very upright, so they simply follow me to join the army, and maybe they can become high officials. If you trust me, pick up your spears and clubs and follow me!"

Many young people who heard Ju Ming talk about "Journey to the West" have now grown up and become young men.

They were naturally close to the Zhu family and his son, and even if it was a beheading business, there were still people who were willing to do it.

Especially those young people who are at the age where they do things regardless of the consequences.

When the Bai family and his son arrived, there were more than 40 people gathered around Gu San carrying sticks, and they were indifferent despite their parents' begging to stop him.

Lao Gu cupped his hands and said, "Except Member Bai, the debt I owe to the Bai family has almost been repaid over the years. Please don't stop me from recruiting soldiers in the village."

The old member sighed: "Hey, you are too old, why bother to wade into that muddy water?"

Lao Gu said: "I have a sworn feud with the government, and I thought I would survive in this life. But I didn't expect that Mr. Zhu also did great things. If I didn't join the army and rebel, I would be sorry for my dead parents."

Old Bai was silent for a while and said to his son: "You can take some of your clan members with you. The Bai family can't escape. Either they will become famous or their family will be ruined. We can only gamble with Mr. Zhu!"