Chapter 231 Gentlemen are not boring
Bozhou.
"I did it on purpose."
Wang Yue said to Liu Qi very frankly.
When Marshal Wang returned to Xuzhou with more than three tons of silver, Yan Shenggong's complaint was delivered to the capital.
It was a total complaint of blood and tears.
Burn down the temple of Confucius, kill the descendants of Confucius, and take their men to the grave to dance...
In short, this is what it means. It is so sinful and can be described as crazy. Although he calls himself the giant thief of Nishan, Yan Shenggong's housekeeper was also in the capital before and had recognized Yang Zaixing, who followed him as a minion, so it was confirmed that it was Wang Yue who did it.
Of course, this memorial is of no use at all.
Zhao Huan did not dare to care about Wang Yue. Ten thousand elite cavalry were stationed in Yujin Garden, and there were 100,000 militias waiting for his orders at any time in the city. Zhao Huan dared to issue an order to punish Wang Yue. It was probably not until the next day that the sun was the next day, and the court's officials did not dare to care about it. They dared to speak out for this, and they probably would have floated out in a stinky ditch the next day, and even the memorial was not made public, as if Yan Shenggong had never submitted a memorial, and this time even officials from nearby prefectures and counties did not dare to interfere.
Wang Yue could raid Xianyuan from Xuzhou, and he could also raid them from Xuzhou.
It was not easy for Nishan giant thief Yang Feng to ravage Jingdong Road. Fortunately, everyone kept silent and finally got through this level.
Then……
Wang Yue's army moved from Xuzhou to Bozhou again.
"You are going to pick up the Supreme Emperor, can you just go to pick up the Supreme Emperor honestly and stop wandering around halfway?
How can you pass by Bozhou when you go south from Xuzhou?"
Liu Qi said sadly.
"The weather is too hot, most of my subordinates are in Youyan area. It's only August, and I can only cross the Huaihe River after at least September. By the way, several of them have died of illness in the past few days. If I get infected with the plague again, wouldn't the Supreme Emperor be wiped out without receiving it?"
Wang Yue said.
This is indeed a reason.
At this time, according to the Gregorian calendar, that is, at the beginning of September, the Huaibei area had to be thirty. Wouldn't it be even hotter to continue to move south? Moreover, his subordinates were all northerners, and there were even a large number of Liaodong people. This year, the leap from Liaodong to Jiangdong was easy to get sick and die, which means that he had good defense measures, such as drinking raw water, etc., but even so, several of them died of illness.
Will there be more deaths from illness?
Of course, this is not the main reason. After all, Bozhou is actually not cooler than Zhenjiang.
The real reason is that he has to give the great painter enough time. He went south too quickly, and the great painter didn't have time to integrate all forces and then make arrangements for the battle. So how could he make things worse? He didn't really want to take back the great painter, but he really wanted to take back the great painter, just go alone. His real purpose is to use the great painter to accelerate, blow out all the monsters and monsters in Jiangnan, and then he slapped him to death. So these days he made himself angry and resentful.
Suppress Confucian scholars, torture wages, burn the Kong family...
It is all for the purpose of arousing the same hatred of the enemy in Jiangnan.
Then he forced the officials and gentry of Jiangnan who had not originally welcomed great painters to gather under the banner of great painters to fight him to the end.
But now it is obviously too short.
In less than two months, it was not enough for the great painter to integrate the power of Jiangnan.
He had to give the great painter enough time to continue to do evil, so that he could continue to be unforgivable and let more righteous people turn to the great painter.
The more the better.
"Aren't you afraid that you will become a public enemy in the world?"
Liu Qi said.
"Aren't I like this? I, a monster from the mountain, kill a few people and steal some money, isn't it true?"
Wang Yue said.
"You are so confident that you can defeat the world with your own strength?"
Liu Qi said.
"Look at them, do I need to defeat the world with my own strength?
There is your brother there. Do you think you can go out and tell him now that your Liu family will stand on the right side and fight me, the evil thief, to the end. He and the elite soldiers of your Liu family will not think that you are drunk too much? I am a person who must follow the standards of Confucian scholars. He is indeed a bad person who is unforgivable, but in the eyes of these soldiers, he is the commander who truly shares the joys and sorrows with them.
Or do you ask the militias in Kaifeng Commune, are they willing to be enemies with me?
I guess they will knock you off with a three-eyed gun!
Maybe you can also ask the farmers in Yanshan Prefecture who had previously divided the land, would they be enemies with me?
They will kill you with one hoe!
Even if you go back and ask these people, are they willing to be enemies with me?
They are more willing to destroy your Liu family and then seek me credit for gaining more benefits!
Look, why do you say that I am the enemy of the world? The only Confucian scholars who regard me as their enemy are the Confucian scholars, but the generals like me, soldiers like me, and farmers like me. So what do you think compared to them, a few Confucian scholars who can only read it are?
That's nothing!"
Wang Yue said.
Liu Qi was speechless.
Indeed, on the street outside, his brother was leading the servants of the Liu family, holding a purple-robed civil servant in front of a large mansion. A local village official scolded him angrily. The purple-robed official looked awkwardly. Then his brother suddenly became angry and kicked the village official to the ground, took out a knife and put it on the latter's neck. The latter immediately turned into a terrified begging for mercy. Then he turned around and scolded the slaves and quickly got silver for his brother.
Well, his brother has learned bad things, too.
But his brother and the soldiers laughed so happily!
He had no doubt that when he went out to stop him, how angry his brother and the soldiers who had followed the Liu family for many years would be.
Wang Yue appeared beside him with a teacup...
"Since you can't resist, then just enjoy it!"
The bad guy who turned his brother from a young man full of justice into a leader of a riot.
Then Wang Yue looked outside...
"Sir Feng, you have to hurry up with this salary. If it is less and delayed the welcome of the Supreme Emperor, then I doubt your loyalty to the official family!"
He shouted.
The purple-robed official raised his head and looked at him sadly.
"You don't have to worry about it. Although Bozhou is small, it can still be collected for 500,000 yuan. I just hope you will restrain your subordinates from harassing the people."
He said sadly.
This is Feng Xizai, the governor of Bozhou.
However, his official title is very high, he is a third-rank bachelor of the Secretariat Hall.
In fact, he was demoted by the Secretariat of the Central Secretariat. Bozhou in the Northern Song Dynasty was very special. It was specially used to resettle the central prime minister level officials who failed intra-fighting but could be activated at any time. Among the prime ministers of the Song Huizong Dynasty, a large number of Prime Ministers of the Song Dynasty, had been demoted to Bozhou. Zhang Shangying and Deng Xunwu were all thrown here. The unlucky Feng Xizai originally came to support his old age, but he did not expect to suffer a disaster.
Wang Yue assigned him a 500,000 yuan salary, and then asked the generals of various ministries to take him to take turns to blackmail the wealthy families in Bozhou City and counties every day.
Beat or even kill people without paying.
There is also the kind of despicable and shameless snatching other people's beautiful concubines.
It's not the kind of lust that makes people foolish, but a truly organized snatching women.
It is said that it was Wang Yue's behind the scenes. I don't know how many concubines from wealthy families were broken into the door and directly kidnapped by the rebels, and then loaded on a ship to Kaifeng. I don't know what kind of inhumane destruction they will suffer next.
There is no one who bullies women.
Wang Yue also castrated an uncontrollable military discipline.
But they just robbed women, and they sent them away after they robbed them, and they didn't robbed the common people, but robbed the concubines of the wealthy families.
In short, the whole of Bozhou has caused a lot of crying in the past few days. Many gentry simply fled with their family wealth, but Wang Yue's cavalry patrolled all over the place and robbed them directly when they caught them. Especially those who escaped with their concubines were even richer and even lost their lives. Poor Bozhou, which was originally prosperous, was in such a way that under the harm of Wang Yue, the gentry had a misfortune and had already started to harm Suzhou. The unlucky magistrate Lin Chi regretted it too late, and abandoned his official position and fled amid the curses and beatings of the gentry.
At this time, Suzhou and Bozhou were not gradually declining in later generations.
You should know that at this time, the population of Bozhou even exceeded Yangzhou. Chongning counted more than 130,000 households, and only more than 50,000 households in Yangzhou, which was completely incomparable to Bozhou. This area was completely destroyed by war and the Yellow River diversion. Before this, it was a truly prosperous place in the Central Plains. It was precisely because of the dense population that Wang Yue had evil thoughts and indulged his subordinates to rob the concubines of the rich and then packed them to Yanshan Mansion. Instead of keeping these women for the old men to dominate the powerlessness, it would be better to rob Yanshan and be wives for the young soldiers!
Under his leadership, the soldiers who had no wives in the Western Army have already started doing this.
There are many soldiers in the Western Army who have no wives!
Why do we let these old men occupy so many beautiful girls, but let these energetic soldiers be bachelors?
Snatch it!
Then he sent it back to Kaifeng like those who entrusted Wang Yue.
Let them take them home together after the war, so that they can enjoy the true joy of being a woman.
So Wang Yue's plan was to spend a month here, and to create more horrifying tragedies, force the gentry to continue to flee south, and then spread his evil deeds in Huainan and even Jiangnan, forcing the officials and gentry in Huainan and Jiangnan to have no choice but to follow the great painter and work together to stop him. He didn't care about wasting time, and it didn't matter that he couldn't cross the Huaihe River this year. The important thing was to divide the Song Dynasty into two parts, and the rest was to take it down in one wave.
"Master!"
At this time, Yang Zaixing appeared under the city.
Then he got off the horse and ran to the city wall to salute...
"The Grand Marshal, the Sizhou magistrate fled south and destroyed the Huaihe floating bridge!"
He said.
"Ha, it's finally started. These rebel ministers have all appeared in their true colors!"
Wang Yue said with a smile.
This means that the North-South division of the Song Dynasty officially kicked off.
At this time, there was this floating bridge on the Huai River. When the Sizhou floating bridge was destroyed, it meant that the land connection between Huainan and Huaibei was officially disconnected.
Chapter completed!