Chapter 136 Rong Fan's chaos in Shu
Yang Zhan rushed to Shunqing and immediately arranged a tiger hunting operation, digging traps, planting poisonous arrows, ambushing crossbows, and explosives. With Shunqing as the center, he pulled up a large net in the vast mountains of northern Sichuan.
Dozens of tiger hunting teams tracked the tigers day and night. Within a few days, Li Zhiyong and Luo Weiji came to report that 160 tigers had been hunted by soldiers from various places, and the rest that had been lucky enough to escape had fled out of Shu.
Yang Zhan ordered his troops to withdraw and asked them to lead another group of people to search for Zhang Xianzhong's bones in Fenghuang Mountain.
Li Zhiyong said: "Didn't Zhang Xianzhong's head be given to the Qing army a long time ago?"
Jian Kuan said: "I randomly found a corpse that looked exactly like him to fool the Qing soldiers. What Sun Kewang buried with great fanfare was an empty coffin."
Thousands of soldiers searched for several days in Fenghuang Mountain, but still could not find Zhang Xianzhong's body.
Yang Zhan thought with a sense of loss that Monk Miaofeng had repeatedly warned him to turn him into ashes, but now that it has not been done, he doesn't know what disaster will happen.
When will the disaster of Shu come to an end?
The soldiers reported at the door: "The people from Shili want to see the general and his wife!"
Yang Zhan's heart beat wildly. He asked the soldiers to invite Lan Lan and call in the incoming guests.
He already knew what happened in his heart, and it wasn't until he held Lan Lan's hands tightly that he ordered the person to speak.
The visitor knelt on the ground and said: "General Qin has passed away!"
Two great monks, Jian Kuan and Da Banya followed, and a group of six people took a boat from the Jialing River to Shili for the funeral.
Ma Xianglin caught them outside the village, and Lan Lan asked: "Isn't my mother able to hold on? Why can't she hold on?"
"It's all the fault of Nanming's gang!"
Yang Zhan was shocked: "Who did Nanming send? Is it Li Qiande who came to find his mother-in-law again?"
Ma Xianglin said angrily: "This time it is not the right servant, but the left servant! He also claims to be a member of the Ming Dynasty clan and the deputy marshal of the world's soldiers and horses. His name is Zhu Rongfan. A few days ago, he came to see his mother and said that the king of Shu has passed away. You are just pretending.
The name of the King of Shu is fooling the people of the world. Please choose between righteousness and family affection, either to recruit you back to Shili under house arrest or to lead troops to attack you. When my mother heard this, she fainted with anger and woke up without eating.
Drink it and you’ll be dead in two days.”
"Where is that thief?" Lan Lan's eyes, swollen from crying, were burning with anger.
"At that time, my mother fainted and we were in a panic. He ran away and we don't know where he is now."
Yang Zhan comforted Lan Lan: "Don't worry about this villain. He can't make big waves for the time being. We will take care of him after we take care of my mother-in-law's funeral."
Yang Zhan doesn't take villains seriously. How could he know that the most destructive people in the world are villains.
Zhu Rongfan was originally a rogue from the distant branch of the King of Chu. When Zhang Xianzhong attacked the King of Chu's palace, he took advantage of the chaos and obtained the gold seal issued by the Ming Dynasty to the King of Chu.
The entire line of King Chu had been killed by Zhang Xianzhong, so no one exposed him.
He easily gained the trust of Emperor Yongli with his words and appointed him to be in charge of the Zongren Mansion. Later, he was appointed as the left minister of the Ministry of War and the censor of the right Qiandu, and the governor of military affairs in eastern Sichuan.
Emperor Yongli, who was not well-educated, only knew how to send out hats randomly, which made him confused. For example, Li Qiande and Zhu Rongfan were both sent to Sichuan, who cares about whom? The hats they brought to Sichuan were even more confusing, and they sent them out when they saw everyone.
Those who have been given the hat, if they have a little bit of ambition, they secretly rejoice in themselves and are willing to be taken advantage of.
In order to be able to outdo Li Qiande after entering Sichuan, Zhu Rongfan added another hat to himself - deputy marshal of the world's soldiers and horses.
He wanted to take advantage of Qin Liangyu, but he didn't want to anger Qin Liangyu to death, so he had to escape from Shidui and go to the neighboring Zhongzhou.
Zhongzhou garrison general Wang Guangxing was also a Ming general. He was defeated by the Qing troops in Hubei and fled to Chongqing. He was taken in by Zeng Ying and placed in Zhongzhou. After Zeng Ying's death, he got along very well with Li Zhanchun and guarded the country accordingly. Moving to Chungju.
When Wang Guangxing saw Zhu Rongfan's gold seal, he didn't know it was a fake, so he showed great respect to him, and was willing to send 20,000 troops to the prince to send him.
Zhu Rongfan was overjoyed and made up his mind to use Zhongzhou as a base to first control eastern Sichuan and then the entire Sichuan.
While Yang Zhan was still in Shidong handling Qin Liangyu's funeral affairs, he planned to capture Li Zhanchun and Yu Dahai first.
Wang Guangxing obeyed his order and accompanied him to Chongqing to visit Li Zhanchun. At first, Li Zhanchun only regarded him as an old friend of Wang Guangxing and happily entertained him with a banquet.
After drinking for a while, Zhu Rongfan fell down at his desk and burst into tears. Li Zhanchun and Yu Dahai were stunned there, not knowing what had happened.
Wang Guangxing sighed: "Do you know who he is? The Crown Prince of Chu! The Zhu family clan! Alas, how miserable!"
Zhu Rongfan cried and said: "I am ashamed to be a descendant of the Zhu family. I watched the country collapse before my eyes. The whole world was destroyed by the Manchu cavalry. The people were displaced and it was terrible!"
Li Zhanchun asked doubtfully: "Is he really the crown prince of Chu?"
Zhu Rongfan took out the gold seal, and Wang Guangxing helped him bring it to Li Zhanchun and Yu Dahai to see it.
The two generals had no choice but to meet him again and respect him.
Yu Dahai was straightforward and shouted: "There is no hope of salvation in the world. We only recognize the King of Shu now."
Zhu Rongfan cried again, "Where is the King of Shu? When I enter Sichuan this time, the first person I want to see is the King of Shu. Unfortunately, the old King of Shu has already returned to the west, and Zhu Pingxi, the legendary self-proclaimed King of Shu, is nowhere to be found."
Li Zhanchun comforted him and said, "The new King of Shu is alive. I will accompany you to Jiading to pay homage to him another day."
Zhu Rongfan said with the strength of wine: "Yang Zhan can hide it from everyone in the world, but he can't hide it from me. Besides, even if Zhu Pingxi is alive, he is just like me. At best, he is a prince. He must be enfeoffed by Emperor Yongle before he can become the king of Shu. I am the emperor. Imperial envoy, Yang Zhan should accompany him to pick me up!"
Yu Dahai drew out his sharp sword, cut the cases in front of him into two with a bang, and cursed: "You can pretend to be the emperor in front of me, but you can't slander the king of Shu and the general. Otherwise, don't blame me for the short sword in my hand." Eye!"
Wang Guangxing quickly came out to smooth things over, "Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, the prince came all the way and didn't see the King of Shu, so he felt angry. Besides, I have never met the King of Shu."
Li Zhanchun winked at Yu Dahai, who drank bitterly and said nothing.
Li Zhanchun used words to test Zhu Rongfan, "You and Li Qiande are both imperial envoys of Emperor Yongle. Who should we listen to?"
Zhu Rongfan pretended to say: "Can he compare with me, the heir apparent? If you don't believe it, pass my order to him, and he will definitely come to see you."
Li Zhanchun's heart moved. After the last time the general mediated, Wu Dading did not commit the crime again, but Yuan Tao always had old habits that were difficult to change. The reason was mainly because of Li Qiande's fault.
Chapter completed!