Chapter 110: Ashes
Waving the fan, the bandits were destroyed.
Wang Shirong on the top of Kunshan City resounded loudly in the air, and under the sun, he was extremely tall. At this time, he was missing a feather fan.
The large number of rebel gentry in Kunshan was impossible to disband the people and tie themselves to the city because of Wang Shirong's words. However, they could not do anything, so they could only curse at the top of Kunshan city with gritted teeth under the city, and most of the gentry in cursing were rushing to Wang Shirong. In fact, 60% of the gentry who rebelled today were called Wang Shirong to rebel. No, when he was owed to the day, Ambassador Wang's methods were really cruel and had no human rights. From the official documents he wrote, he did not know how many scholars had been defeated, how many juren masters had locked up, and how many "wealthy geniuses" had been killed.
Wang Shirong was a poisonous snake to the gentry in Suzhou. Originally, the poisonous snake was hiding, but today it swam out and was still extremely presumptuous in the city. The rebel gentry was agitated and sparks appeared in their eyes and nostrils.
What should I do in front of my eyes if I am angry, and I am hated?
Is this city going to fight or not?
Since ancient times, rebellion has to be a big deal.
As the saying goes, the snake cannot do without a head. The rebel gentry naturally thought of the unified order and elected a leader who was convinced by everyone. In this way, only by clarifying the order can we decide the next action. Otherwise, you say yours, I say mine, you say fight, I say leave, how can you fight this battle?
In terms of influence, the Lu family, Wang family, and Xu family are all famous gentry in Kunshan, and their ancestors have all had high officials. Especially the Wang family, who have had queens, not in the past, but now. The queen of Yongli is the daughter of the Wang family!
Logically, the Wang family could not participate in the rebellion. Although Yongli called the rebel Wu Sangui to kill him, did Empress Wang, Prince and others ask the Taiping Army to rescue him and welcome him into Nandu? I heard that when Empress Wang entered the city, Emperor Dingwu sent the chief assistant Guo Zhiqi to greet him. He himself looked at the palace gate and waited, and respected Empress Wang, Prince and Queen Mother very much.
As the emperor of the dynasty, Emperor Dingwu welcomed Empress Wang and the others into the palace as his nephews, and placed him in the palace himself, giving Prince Yongli a courtesy. This was a perfection and righteousness. After all, Yongli never recognized Emperor Dingwu during his lifetime and called him a "pseudo-Emperor". Now he can do this and treat Empress Wang as the empress dowager, and no one in the world can say that it is wrong.
The Wang family's daughter was the empress dowager of the current dynasty, but the Wang family participated in the rebellion. No one could figure it out, and even if they broke their heads, they could not figure it out.
But the Wang family thought clearly and understood that they had to rebel because the empress dowager in the palace could not help them at all, and the hawks and dogs of the thief scholars never regarded them as royal relatives.
That day, the Taiping Tiger Wolf transferred by Qing Kuangsi knocked open the gate of the Wang family and drove the whole palace up and down into the courtyard. The scene was the biggest pain in the hearts of everyone in the Wang family.
When the man who went to Nandu to report to the news and asked for help was not even in the palace gate, he was tied up by the Taiping Army and taken back, the head of the Wang family was completely disappointed with Nandu and his niece, the queen mother.
In fact, Empress Wang's parents had already passed away a few years ago. Although the Wang family had such a daughter who was the Empress of Emperor Yongli of the Ming Dynasty, they had never written a letter to the queen for fifteen years from the first year of Yongli to the present, and never said the queen in front of outsiders. It seemed that this Empress Wang had nothing to do with their Wang family.
Thinking about it with bitterness, this is the helplessness of the Wang family and the way to protect themselves. Because the entire Wang family lives in the area controlled by the Qing Dynasty, if they often talk about the daughter of the Ming Dynasty queen and show off, they will definitely be seeking death.
Thinking about it in a mean way, the Wang family was worried from the beginning that this daughter, who was not even the prince of the vassal prince, would bring disaster to their family. So they did not admit that they had such a daughter and had such a queen.
No matter what the Wang family thinks, in fact, in the past ten years, they have never had any information with Queen Wang, and there are even many younger generations in the family who don’t know that they have such an empress and aunt.
After the Taiping Army entered Jiangnan, and Emperor Dingwu worshipped Xiaoling in Nandu, the status of the Wang family did not improve, but became more and more embarrassing. Because the newly ascended Emperor Dingwu had nothing to do with the emperor's son-in-law of their family, and had nothing to do with their queen and niece. Even the two sides were still hostile, and they did not recognize each other, and each other wanted to destroy anyone's relationship. In the eyes of the Wang family, Dingwu Dynasty honored Yongli as the Supreme Emperor, this was a ridicule and ridicule, not that the Dingwu Emperor was really willing to respect Zhu Youlang.
But on the surface, the status of the Wang family seems to have been improved a lot. At least, the wealthy locals in Songjiang are much more polite to him than before, and the government is also polite to their Wang family.
This really made the Wang family feel a little illusion that their daughter, who became the queen mother of Dingwu Dynasty, would really make them like royal relatives.
The arrival of Qing Kuang's army made this illusion disappear in an instant.
Fake, everything is fake.
What the empress dowager, what the empress dowager's mother's family, what the royal relatives are all fake and they are bullshit!
Even that emperor is fake!
In the Dingwu Dynasty and Jiangnan, the person in charge of the thief scholars, and the person in charge of the work is also a thief scholar!
The thief scholar is not Li Dingguo, but the thief scholar is Sun Kewang!
If he hadn't been Sun Kewang, the people from the Wang family would have been able to jump into the river now.
The head of the Wang family took a risk and participated in the uprising in Songjiang. The original plan to rebel and the other families worked together to capture Jiading City. However, because the culprits slaughtered Han people everywhere, the gentry who rebeled changed their minds and stopped opposing the Qing Dynasty, but instead surrounded and wiped out the uprising people. In this way, the power of the uprising in Songjiang was quickly divided. The Wang family did not want to wait for death in Songjiang, so they came to Kunshan under the leadership of the head of the family.
After a group of gentry gathered, they elected the leader. Wang Mingzhe, the head of the Wang family, thought that he would definitely be elected as the leader because his family had a queen after all. However, because his family had a Ming Dynasty queen, the rebel gentry did not believe him and was unwilling to elect him as the leader. Of course, the most important reason behind this is that the Wang family came from Songjiang, not from Kunshan. The so-called strong dragons do not suppress local snakes. Why should the people in Kunshan listen to the orders of your Songjiang people?
Become the leader of the uprising and command everyone to get the greatest benefit after the matter is accomplished. Whoever wants to do this beautiful thing, who is willing to give it to others? They have already made a rebellion, and the gentry has long lost their way out. They will either die or be developed, and who is willing to give dowry for others, and the benefits they get from working hard are told to others.
After a long dispute, there was no result.
Seeing that it was getting dark, the gentry realized that this would definitely not work. A new proposal was proposed, that is, everyone recommended Ye Fangai as the leader. This proposal was recognized by most people. After all, Ye Fangai's fame was given by the Qing Dynasty and was also called the thief scholar. His fame and fortune were the highest among all the people present, and the Ye family brought many people. Since this is the case, everyone should be the leader of Ye Tanhua.
Ye Fangai didn't expect that he would become the leader in the end, and he was really surprised and happy. Ye Tiancheng was extremely supportive of his son as the leader. Why did he rebel? He wanted to help his son regain everything he had lost!
This is the final conclusion.
After Ye Fangai became the leader, he immediately restrained each family and asked each family to report the actual strength, such as how many people, how many weapons, how many food and grass, and how many decent officials were appointed. In order to appease everyone and unite everyone, Ye Tanhua would reward him whenever he came, so that a scholar who brought his brother-in-law to participate in the uprising was also appointed as the county magistrate.
Promotion and wealth are a great blessing in life.
Kunshan City has not been abandoned, and Wang Shirong is still in the city, but there are more and more rebel teams gathered outside the city, and the momentum is getting bigger and bigger. With some rectifications carried out by Ye Tanhua, the rebel army looks really good.
However, Ye Tanhua and his gentry saw a lot of people and powerful people, while Wang Shirong in the city saw a bunch of native chickens and tiles. From noon to night, whenever the rebel army came, Wang Shirong would be noticed, and then record their grass-headed flag and approximate number. Every time one came, Wang Shirong would chuckled from the bottom of his heart. He wanted to come more people, because then, the outside of the city would be even more chaotic.
After all, there is a difference between the army and the people. The army is the army, and the people are the people.
When the county security brigade, Zhu Bo and others asked Wang Shirong about his strategies to defeat the enemy, Wang Shirong was confident and asked them to rest assured.
After the night went dark, the city was quiet and there was a hustle and noisy outside the city. There were fires everywhere, and temporary camps were everywhere. The rebels who had served as soldiers in the rebels probably had less than a hundred people. Most of them were farmers and tenants who had never even held a knife, scoundrels, and brave people who wanted to take advantage of the situation. They could not do such "technical work" as camping and camping. Even if someone taught them now, they wouldn't bother to answer. In the minds of most rebel soldiers, rebelled just to rush forward, then shouted a few times, and finally the men above gave some rewards. As for the others, they had never seen them.
The rebel army is now busy with food. A group of teams come from all over the county, some acquaintances and some don't know each other. Now everyone rebelled together to rebel. Do you have to fill your stomach first? The emperor is not a hungry soldier, and the gentry and men may not even stutter.
Eating is indeed a big problem. The gentry knew the great relationship, but they were hasty in their uprising and brought so much food. They all thought that Kunshan City would definitely be taken down in one fell swoop. After entering the city, they were afraid that there would be no food? Some people had never even prepared to spend the night outside the city.
Now, they were all stunned, and they were all silly. All scholars were so good that they could make people fill their stomachs. In the end, with the temporary "help" of several local gentry in Kunshan, tens of thousands of people could barely fill their stomachs. Then they fell asleep in groups of three or five. Eating is a big deal, and sleeping is even more big deal. There must be no tent, and there are also gentry and men. Let's deal with it with them with straw. When Ye Tanhua leads the big deal into the city tomorrow, are you still afraid that there is no place to sleep?
Some sleep, some don’t sleep. There are gambling everywhere, some drinkers, and some Zeng Tianhei secretly ran out, thinking about seeing if there are any villages nearby and grabbing the previous one.
Military discipline is definitely not available. The gentry can only barely restrain the tribe and servants. Other people who are tempted, deceived, or coerced, just begged the other party not to run away and burn the incense, so they still expect the other party to have any concept of military discipline.
Ye Fangai had been a Tanhua and had also seen the military formation during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Therefore, he was very worried about the current chaos outside the city.
Ye Tiancheng was also worried that the swelling and failed to break the city in one day, which had already caused him to have some bad ideas. For the sake of the family and son, Ye Tiancheng cheered up and assigned all the capable people in Yejiazhuang and stared at them carefully.
There were not many officials in the city, and all the gentry all knew about this. Otherwise, they would not have the courage to attack the city, and they would not even consider that the people in the city had the courage to go out of the city to attack them. However, they were not afraid of ten thousand, but they were afraid that if they were afraid, after receiving Ye Tanhua's order, the gentry from various families still sent some capable personnel to stand guard and wait.
Soon, at midnight, outside Kunshan City, which had been in trouble for a day, finally became quiet.
After being tired for a day, others were sleeping with straw, but they were sent by the master to watch the post. Hu Ada was in a bad mood. However, the master was kind to him and gave him a silver ingot when he was in trouble. He also promised that he would marry his maid Xiaohuan when he was done. So no matter how bad Hu Ada was in a bad mood or sleep, he would force himself to stand there and stare at Kunshan.
Suddenly, Hu Ada felt a black shadow flashing in front of him. He rubbed his eyes and looked at him again, but saw nothing.
Damn, what a hell?
Hu Ada was a little surprised. He lifted the bamboo gun, walked forward carefully for a few steps, and then stabbed the grass a few times.
There was no movement, Hu Ada took back the bamboo gun and felt suspicious. When he turned around, his back hurt, and then someone tied his mouth and dragged him aside.
Wang Shirong sent people out of the city to attack the rebel army. He was very bold and confident in sending ten people.
Among the ten people, the captain retired from the Taiping Army, the remaining four were from the county security brigade, three were yamen constables, and two were the inner guards of the Jinyi who reported to Wang Shirong.
Chapter completed!