Chapter 073 Only unity brings strength (4 updates, 10,000)
"What are you thinking about?" Huang Zhiting saw that Gao Pragmatic had been thinking for a long time but did not speak, and she said uneasily: "Don't have any ideas like 'Cen and Huang join hands to fight against the Ming Dynasty'."
Gao Pragmatic was startled, then smiled and said: "Why do I think so? I am a Han Chinese."
"Oh, that's true." Huang Zhiting breathed a sigh of relief and sighed: "I'm just worried because someone has thought this way before."
"Really?" Gao Pragmatic said in surprise: "Who is so bold?"
Huang Zhiting heard the teasing in his words and said angrily: "Cen Meng, have you heard this?"
"Oh...it's him." Gao Pingshi suddenly said: "I heard about it, but I didn't know that was what he had in mind."
Huang Zhiting was a little curious and asked: "Then what do you think he has planned?"
Gao pragmatic shook his head and said: "He does things without any rules. I thought he just acted according to his temper."
After hearing this, Huang Zhiting shook her head slightly and whispered: "He is not fooling around... Do you know that when he was only a few years old, he went through hardships and almost lost his position as the prefect of Tianzhou. At that time, Sien Mansion was the
The head of the Cen family, Cen Jun, the local magistrate of Si'en Prefecture, has oppressed Cen Meng for many years, and even occupied Tianzhou, making him have the title of magistrate, but he has no family to return to. Fortunately, Cen Jun was also dismissed by the court because he did not take the court seriously.
attack.
At that time, the imperial court mobilized the official troops of Guangdong and Guangxi, the chieftains of Liangjiang and Huguang, and the chieftains of Pianyuan, totaling more than 180,000 people. They divided into six groups to surround Sien, and in one fell swoop they destroyed the Cen family's strongest Sien Mansion.
The first branch. Originally this was a good thing, but in the end, I don’t know what rumors the court believed, or maybe they had murderous intentions against the Cen family, so they demoted Cen Meng to the rank of Thousand Households, and rehabilitated Si’en and Tianzhou Prefectures at the same time.”
Gao pragmatic didn't know the specific situation at that time. This was the first time he heard such a detailed explanation. When he heard the court's handling, he couldn't help but shake his head and thought to himself: The court's move was obviously too hasty. At this time, it is reasonable to move Si'en Mansion.
Where does Tianzhou Zeli come from? Cen Meng is the victim now!
Sure enough, Huang Zhiting continued: "Not only was Cen Meng demoted to a thousand households, but he was also moved to Pinghaiwei, Fujian, thousands of miles away. How could Cen Meng be willing to accept this? So he delayed going and asked his grandmother to report to him several times.
, begging to perform meritorious service in the extreme edge of Guangxi so that he can be sacrificed. There were upright and strong people in the court at that time who also spoke for Cen Meng. However, Xie Hu, the new governor of Tianzhou, was also afraid of going to Tianzhou to take up his post, and repeatedly delayed and refused.
When he took office, the funniest thing is that he also accepted bribes, and was found out and impeached by Chen Jin, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. The court had no choice but to let Cen Meng serve nearby."
Gao pragmatic thought for a while and said: "I seem to have heard what happened next. It seems that there was a quarrel in the court over the Tianzhou incident, and the eunuch Liu Jin had a fight with Liu Daxia, the then Minister of War."
"Yes, but although the two of them quarreled over the Tianzhou incident, they had little to do with Cen Meng after all. What had a big relationship was that after the Jiangxi civil uprising became more serious, the former governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Chen Jin, was re-appointed by the imperial court.
, in charge of military affairs in South Zhili, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, and Huguang. At that time, Chen Zhijun recruited Guangxi wolf soldiers, and Cen Meng, who was only sixteen years old, was ordered to go on the expedition.
Cen Meng fought extremely well in this battle. Five hundred defeated six thousand, and three thousand were killed in formation. All in all, the result was brilliant. Unfortunately, Chen Jin was impeached, saying that the rebel army he recruited was not in good military discipline and was causing harm to the place.
, so he was summoned back to the court. After Chen Jin left, the wolf soldiers returned to their hometown, and Cen Meng also returned to Guangxi. Fortunately, the court still rewarded the merits, and he was promoted from a guilty Qianhu to a commander, and
Actually took control of the old land of Tianzhou Prefecture.
In the tenth year of Zhengde, Chen Jin was again appointed governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and was ordered to pacify the rebellion of Prince Gongxun of Fujiang and the rebellion of Dateng Gorge of Xunjiang. During this period, Cen Meng was falsely accused several times. Fortunately, Chen Jin was aware of everything and prevented him from being wronged. At that time, the court
According to the regulations, Tianzhou must send 3,000 wolf soldiers to Liuzhou for garrison duty. If there are other matters, they must be recruited separately. Sometimes the number of Tianzhou wolf soldiers recruited is as high as 20,000. This time, because of Cen Meng’s meritorious service, the exemption was reduced.
After a few years, Cen Meng recovered his strength and began to prepare for revenge.
Previously, when Cen Jun was the leader of the Cen clan, he ordered Sicheng to send 20,000 troops to attack Tianzhou. In the second year of Jiajing, Cen Meng casually found an excuse to send troops to attack Sicheng. It happened that at this time, the court also dispatched Tianzhou wolf soldiers to quell the defeat.
During the rebellion, Cen Meng thought of Chen Jin's kindness back then, so he withdrew his troops and obeyed the call, and made meritorious service in suppressing the rebellion. However, this time Chen Jin was long gone, and as a result, the court did not give him any reward."
When Gao Pragmatic heard this, he knew it was a bad idea. His strength had greatly increased, his old grudges were no longer avenged, he came to help you fight honestly, but you won and you refused to give him a reward. Isn't this forcing him to disobey you?
Sure enough, Huang Zhiting sighed and said: "From then on, Cen Meng began to distance himself from the court, but he had no objection at that time, but just began to avenge his childhood - he was bullied by Cen Jun when he was a child. Since Cen Jun was then
It was the head branch of the Cen family, but not only the Sicheng family's accomplices, almost most of the Cen family chieftains around Tianzhou were involved. So they began to be retaliated by Cen Meng one by one. They could no longer defeat Cen Meng at that time, and at that time Sien
The government has been changed to Tuguiliu (it is nominally the prefect of Liuguan, but Chieftain Zhao is appointed as the co-president, and all the inspection departments under its jurisdiction are native officials, so Si'en Mansion is only nominally changed to Tuguiliu),
The old main branch no longer existed, and these chieftains of the Cen family had no choice but to recognize Cen Meng as the main branch of the Cen family in name only.
However, this was just their expedient. While they were submissive, they bribed two consecutive governors of Guangdong and Guangxi. Until Yao Rong took office, he did not accept bribes, so these branches of the Cen family bribed Xie Ruyi, the censor at the time. Xie Ruyi designed a frame-up
Yao Rong said that he accepted bribes from Cen Meng and even framed Yao Rong's son. Yao Rong had no choice but to send troops to conquer Cen Meng. Cen Meng asked himself that he had not rebelled against the court at that time, so he planted a yellow flag on the border and wrote a letter of "Repentance and Surrender"
In four words, Yao Rong pretended to appease him, but instead recruited more than 100,000 troops from various places to suddenly attack Cen Meng.
Poor Cen Meng thought that nothing had happened, so he went back to attack Sicheng. This time, the imperial army succeeded in sneak attack on Tianzhou, leaving Cen Meng with no time to recruit wolf soldiers. He only had more than 10,000 men at hand, but he was still in Shimian.
He fought his way out of the ambush and fled to Guishun Prefecture, where his father-in-law Cen Zhang lived. Cen Zhang was not very strong, so how could he dare to take Cen Meng in when the imperial court's 100,000 troops were pressing on the border? So he found an opportunity and quietly surrounded Cen Meng in his mansion.
, and prepared dove wine for him. Cen Meng laughed angrily, scolded Cen Zhang for being a coward, then raised his head and drank the dove wine in one gulp, and died...
You should be very clear about what happened after that. Cen Meng's wife took charge of the affairs of Tianzhou, and she was Mrs. Wa as you Han people called her. She led the Tianzhou wolf soldiers to "atone for her husband's sins" and fought in the battle against the Japanese.
He gained the great reputation of the Wolf Soldiers."
Only then did Gao Pragmatic realize that this was the cause of the Tianzhou Rebellion. It seemed that Cen Meng was not really rebellious.
However, Gao Pingshi still had doubts in his mind, and immediately asked: "But Miss Huang, you just said that Cen Meng was the first person to propose that 'Cen and Huang join hands to fight against the Ming Dynasty', but from the story you just told
Cen Meng has no objection, why is that?"
Huang Zhiting shook her head slightly and said with a wry smile: "He only sent someone to contact our Huang family after he fled to Guishun Prefecture. Although he only had more than 10,000 troops at that time, his father-in-law was afraid of the tyrannical wolf soldiers in Tian Prefecture and was stunned for several months.
He didn't dare to take action, and the movements of the imperial court were also very strange. In short, they did not send troops to attack Guishun Prefecture, so he stayed in Guishun Prefecture for more than half a year, always trying to find a way out.
But at that time, none of the branches of the Cen family dared to help him, so he set his sights on our Huang family, hoping to convince our Huang family to join him first, so that he would be qualified to seduce the branches of the Cen family... us
The Huang family are not stupid, so if they jump on Cen Meng’s pirate ship at this time, wouldn’t they be courting death?”
Gao pragmatic nodded and said: "Miss Huang, I understand what you mean. In fact, you just want to say that the Cen family is in disarray and cannot be united at all."
"Yes." Huang Zhiting breathed a sigh of relief and said with a wry smile: "Mr. Zhang, to tell you the truth, the Cen family is like this, and the Huang family is not much better. I said that the Cen family is in disarray, but in fact it is just a fifty-step laugh at a hundred steps.
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Gao Pragmatic didn't care about her attitude, and just said calmly: "In other words, if you want the Cen and Huang families to exert their true strength, first of all, they must be able to work together."
Huang Zhiting nodded first, and then said in surprise: "Mr. Zhang, what do you mean by this?"
Gao pragmatically waved his hand: "I have already said that I am a Han Chinese and will not advise you to rebel. In this case, what is the girl worried about?"
Huang Zhiting asked dubiously: "Really?"
Gao Pragmatic laughed: "Miss Huang, take a step back and say, you are a member of the Huang family, what does it matter what I, an outsider, think? Do you think that if I say that the Huang family should rebel, the girl will listen to me?"
Huang Zhiting's pink face turned red, she turned her head and snorted, "Of course not."