Chen Xi suddenly came to Shuning City, which really surprised Qin Xiao and She Yue.
Chen Xi, who was dressed in coarse cloth, climbed to the top of the city. Qin Xiao had already followed She Yue to greet her. When they saw She Yue, Chen Xi and several people behind him knelt down on the ground and said in unison: "See you, Your Highness!"
"Shaojian Chen, get up and talk." She Yue smiled, raised her hand and said, "Everyone, get up."
After Chen Xi and others got up, She Yue glanced at it and already recognized that the four people behind Chen Xi were all his attendants brought from Kyoto. Brother Lu Gan and Lu Ku were among them. These four people were his confidants.
Guards, Chen Xi transferred the tiger away from the mountain in Suzhou City. These four people followed Chen Xi out of the city, and their whereabouts have not been known since then.
Seeing that these people were safe and sound, She Yue felt happy, and even Qin Xiao felt refreshed.
"Princess, are you okay?" Attendant Lu Gan was good at observing. He saw that She Yue seemed to be walking a little wrong when she walked over. He didn't know that She Yue's foot injury had not yet healed, so he asked with concern.
She Yue shook her head and said: "It doesn't matter."
"Master Chen, the fire over there...?" The two groups of people met in Shuning City. Qin Xiao was naturally happy, but at this moment he was more interested in the fire over there at the rebel camp.
Chen Xi smiled and said: "The rebels may not be able to eat for a few days."
She Yue and Qin Xiao understood instantly. Qin Xiao was surprised and said, "Did you burn the rebels' food and grass?"
"That's right." Lu Gan said with a smile from behind: "Young Master is brave and resourceful. We infiltrated into the rebels two days ago. From the very beginning, Young Supervisor planned to burn down the rebels' granary. They
Although they are strong in numbers, as long as the granaries are burned down, the rebels will have no food to eat and will collapse without a fight."
Chen Xi turned to look in the direction of the fire. The fire there was still not extinguished at this time. He said with a smile: "It seems that they have no time to save the food and grass. This is thanks to brother Lu Gan. He came up with a way to burn the food.
First, sprinkle fuel oil in many places in the granary. In this way, the fire will be blown by the wind and combined with the flammable fuel oil. Even if they find the fire, it will not be easy to put out the fire."
Qin Xiao said in surprise: "You guys arrived two days ago?"
"We lured the Hangzhou Camp from Suzhou City, but Commander Zhao soon realized that we had been tricked and led his troops back to the city." Chen Xi said solemnly: "We threw away the pursuers, dressed up in disguise, and inquired about the situation near Suzhou City.
Then he solemnly said: "Princess, the Hangzhou Battalion is now stationed in Suzhou City. In addition, followers of the Queen Mother from around Suzhou City have gathered to garrison in the city. The Suzhou City is now in the hands of the Queen Mother Association. According to the slave's estimation, except for the plains in the city,
With some soldiers and horses, plus the Queen Mother's rebels who entered the city later, the strength of Suzhou City's troops should now be no less than six or seven thousand."
Musk Moon nodded slightly, with a solemn expression.
If she wants to reverse the situation in Jiangnan, she must recapture Suzhou City, but given the current situation, it is simply impossible to recapture Suzhou City.
Not to mention capturing Suzhou City, whether we can hold Shuning City is also a severe test.
"After the common people found out the situation clearly, they have already used flying pigeons to report to Kyoto." Chen Xi said: "In addition, the Suzhou rebellion, such a major event, must have been reported to Kyoto quickly, so the imperial court should have started to discuss countering the rebellion now.
The plan." After a pause, he said: "At first, all the rebels gathered in the direction of Suzhou City, but in the past few days, the rebels have gathered in the direction of Shuning City. The slaves felt that something was fishy, so they mixed up.
I entered the rebel army and found out that His Highness and Lord Qin may be in the city."
She Yue had been in the city for four days. That night, Qin Xiao rode a horse and took the princess into the city. The news must have spread long ago.
Qin Xiao smiled and said: "So the Young Supervisor is lurking inside and preparing to burn down the granary?"
"Exactly." Chen Xi nodded and said: "We have secretly figured out the situation in the granary in the past two days and carefully planned it. Today the rebels used hostages to threaten Magistrate Dong Kaicheng, and we are among the team. That right god general is cruel and despicable
, originally we were planning to wait for two days before taking action, but after thinking about it carefully, we didn’t want to give them any more time and just started taking action tonight. Fortunately, everything went well. The rebel granary was destroyed, which should be a heavy blow to them.
Even if they immediately send people to Suzhou City tonight to ask for food, and wait until it is ready, they will send people to deliver food. The fastest speed will be at least the day after tomorrow. I would like to see it, tomorrow or two days later.
, what will the right god use to feed the bellies of these thousands of soldiers and horses?"
Lu Gan said from the sidelines: "Even regular imperial soldiers and horses, if there is no food and grass for two or three days and everyone is starving, there may be a mutiny, let alone this group of rabble."
Chen Xi thought of something and said softly: "Your Highness, although there are many rebels, according to our observations in the past two days, they have a fatal weakness." He pulled off the black belt from his waist, handed it to Qin Xiao, and said: "
Lord Qin, do you see anything different about the rebels?"
Qin Xiao took the black belt, saying it was a belt. Naturally, it was different from a real belt. It was actually a black coarse cloth belt, tied horizontally around the waist.
"When you said that, I really remembered something." Qin Xiao looked at She Yue and said: "Princess, do you remember that the rebel soldiers all wore belts around their waists, but the colors were different. I remember one of them
Some people are wearing red belts, but most of them are wearing the same black belt as the Young Supervisor."
She Yue nodded, obviously aware of this a long time ago, and asked: "Chen Xi, the belts are different colors, what can you say?"
"Yes." Chen Xi nodded and said: "The red belt tied around the waist proves that before this rebellion, those people had already joined the Queen Mother Society and were true followers of the Queen Mother. They ranged from a year or two to more
In 1978, he was deeply bewitched by the Queen Mother Association and obeyed the Queen Mother Association's advice. He was the real backbone of the rebels. The black belts were ordinary people who were forcibly recruited into the team by the Queen Mother Association from various villages and towns after the rebellion. These
People actually don’t believe in the Queen Mother, and they become part of the rebel army simply because they are afraid of the Queen Mother’s butcher’s knife.”
Qin Xiao's eyes lit up. The information brought by Chen Xi was of course very important.
"Actually, Jiangnan is a relatively prosperous place in the Tang Dynasty." Chen Xi said slowly: "Princess, please forgive me for speaking frankly. If the people in a barren land are taxed, labored, naked and hungry, they will have a hatred for the imperial court.
Resentment, in order to have a full stomach, may really raise a flag to rebel. However, although the taxes of the people in Jiangnan are not light, most of them can still fill their bellies. I, the people of the Tang Dynasty, as long as they are not forced into a desperate situation, let them
If they are well fed and clothed, they will not have any thoughts of rebellion." He paused and glanced outside the city: "So in the slave's opinion, the Queen Mother would choose to launch a rebellion in Jiangnan, although it is indeed a surprise.
, but precisely because of this, the foundation of the Queen Mother Society in Jiangnan is not actually solid."
Qin Xiao nodded slightly and said: "What Mr. Qin said is absolutely true. If the government is exploiting the place, the place is barren, and someone leads the crowd to rebel, it can indeed make many people who have no way to go willingly follow, but the people in Jiangnan are not yet desperate, so apart from those
There are actually not many followers of the Queen Mother who are bewitched who really want to rebel."
"The red belts are bewitched, while the black belts are forced." Chen Xi said: "The Queen Mother will know that the red belts are their devout believers and the real backbone, so they are treated much better than the black belts in the army.
. They want to win over the red belts with this, but just like this, the black belts feel unfair." He sneered and said: "Although the Queen Mother Association's group of people are extremely cruel and prohibit the soldiers from talking in private, in these two days, I can clearly see that
I realized that the black belt has a grudge against the red belt. The rebels are like a pair of sticks. If sparks are thrown at the right time, they will probably start chaos on their own."
Lu Gan suddenly said: "Princess, there is some good news."
"Say." She Yue was in a very happy mood at this time.
Lu Gan said: "The followers of the Queen Mother looted everywhere and forcibly dragged the people into the rebel ranks, which actually aroused the anger of the people in the south of the Yangtze River. As far as we know, many villages and towns have begun to organize themselves spontaneously, and the squires in many places have gathered strong men.
together to protect the old, weak, women and children and their own property. These days the rebels have killed many local officials, which has also frightened more local officials. They have joined hands with local squires to gather young people and build
Weapons and stockpiles of food and grass are a sign of being prepared to resist the rebels."
"That's right." Chen Xi nodded and said: "Just yesterday, a group of the Queen Mother's congregation went to rob a town, but the organized people killed more than a dozen people, and the remaining dozen people escaped back in embarrassment. There was also a group of people who returned.
Before I got close to the village, I found that there were a lot of people ambushing me in the village and I didn't dare to go in." He looked at She Yue and said, "Your Highness, the news that you are trapped in Shuning County has begun to spread. I'm afraid there are already people there.
Many places know that you are sitting in Shuning City to fight against the rebels. As long as Shuning City is not broken for a day, the forces in Jiangnan who resist the rebels will have confidence, and more and more people will stand up to resist the rebels. When we wait
If you persist until reinforcements are sent by the imperial court, then you will be able to put down the rebellion, and you will definitely be invincible."
After She Yue and Qin Xiao entered the city, the news outside the city was blocked. It was impossible to know what changes had taken place in Jiangnan in the past few days. After hearing Chen Xi's words, She Yue felt even more happy and asked: "Do you know
What's the situation in Hangzhou? The Qian family in Suzhou has rebelled, what will the other six of the seven Jiangnan surnames do?"
"So far, I haven't heard that Hangzhou and Yangzhou have also rebelled." Chen Xi said: "I have been wondering whether the other six surnames are waiting for news from Suzhou."
"Oh?" She Yue asked, "You mean they are waiting for news from me?"
Chen Xi hesitated for a moment and finally nodded: "I think that in their plan, using the inner treasury case to lure the princess to Jiangnan is the first step, and the second step should be to do it without the princess being aware of their conspiracy.
Use the princess to attack the Taihu pirates and get rid of the serious trouble. If all goes well and the Taihu pirates are finally eradicated, then the third step is to kidnap the princess and use the princess's banner. In this way, under the princess's banner, all three states in Jiangnan will rebel.
"Sneered and said: "Their first step was indeed successful, but the subsequent plan went wrong. The princess escaped from Suzhou City successfully, and the Qian family's mission failed. Under such circumstances, the Qian family had no way out and had to rebel immediately, but other
The aristocratic family realized that the princess was not under the control of the Qian family, so they did not dare to act rashly."
She Yue nodded slightly, and Qin Xiao also felt that Chen Xi's analysis was indeed reasonable, and sneered: "So Suzhou is trying its best to capture Shuning City and capture the princess. Only if the princess is captured, will the other six surnames dare to start an uprising.
." He put one hand behind his back and said with a disdainful smile: "It seems that the Qian family has become a tool used by the other six families."