Zhu Dadian received Zhou Maofan's return and was shocked when he heard the emergency in the Dixiang.

"Sir, what should I do?" Zhou Maofan asked in shock.

"The safety of Zhongdu is related to the country. It is best for Zhao Yan to save him. Not only will he contribute to the country, but we will also have our share. If Zhongdu falls, we will not have our responsibilities." Zhu Dadian said as he quickly asked someone to draft an urgent report.

In the urgent report, he reported that he was afraid that the bandits would invade Zhongdu Fengyang, so he sent Denglai guerrillas Zhao Yan to help Zhongdu.

After drafting, there was no polish, so I directly sent it to the capital with a fast horse.

If the thief really invades Fengyang and Zhao Yan can rescue him in time, he will definitely make contributions. If he did not invade Fengyang, he would have nothing to do.

...

This time, Zhao Yan's men walked by land. There were two official roads to go south, one in Qingzhou and went straight to Nanjing. One in Jinan, heading south to Yanzhou City. Then the official road was divided into two, one to the southwest to Henan, and the other to Xuzhou.

Below Xuzhou is Fengyang Prefecture. Between north and south, Jinan and Fengyang are on a straight line, and Fengyang is a little east. From Huangxian to Jinan, and then from Jinan to Fengyang, the journey is about 800 kilometers.

This was the first long-distance raid, and many places seemed awkward. Although the soldiers of the Second Battalion had practiced riding horses, the equestrian skills were not as exquisite as those of the Cavalry Battalion.

After two days of travel, some soldiers were already feeling discomfort when they arrived in Yanzhou Prefecture.

Originally, Zhao Yan wanted to increase the speed of the march, but suddenly it started to snow heavily and the road conditions became a little bad. Therefore, it could only maintain a speed of 200 miles a day.

This speed is not fast for cavalry, and the baggage battalion can keep up with this speed. The carriage used in the baggage battalion has two wheels and has high adaptability to roads. However, a carriage pulls five or six hundred kilograms of supplies. Although there are two horses to pull in rotation, the speed cannot be faster after all.

When they arrived in Qufu, Zhao Yan saw a huge artificial garden, which was Confucius' hometown and the location of the Kong family.

The artificial garden was called Konglin. As Confucius' status increased and the descendants of the Kong family grew, the area of ​​Konglin continued to expand under the honor of emperors of all dynasties. Confucius' descendants continued to increase the specifications of tombs, erected monuments, erected plaques, erected ceremonies, engraved stone rituals, and famous scholars and officials wrote seals and essays.

However, behind the prosperous Konglin, the people they met were naked, some even had no clothes to cover themselves. The hundreds of thousands of acres of land nearby were all owned by the Kong family, and most of the people living in Qufu were tenants of the Kong family.

The Kong family is covered with the sacred glory of control. Confucianism is a school that rulers of all dynasties admire. Therefore, no matter how the dynasty changes, the Kong family will not decline.

However, the Kong family has given such courtesy to all dynasties, but there is almost no patriotic idea of ​​the Kong family. No matter it is a foreign race or something, all those who can hold their thighs have never had any loyal and heroic deeds.

...

On the seventh day, the army finally arrived in Xuzhou. When Xu Shou's official army saw Zhao Yan, a group of troops who were prepared by horses, they hurried directly into the inner city and did not dare to come out to ask.

Zhao Yan was not robbed on the ground, and crossed the Yellow River safely (I wrote in the previous chapter wrongly, the Yellow River seems to have been frozen, so I will take the land transportation to transport grain, and I will sweat wildly).

The next day after crossing the Yellow River, I heard the return from inquiring about the horse. The main force of the bandits had already entered Anhui and conquered Yingzhou on the 11th. It was the thirteenth day of the first lunar month when I received this news.

"The number of thieves is probably no less than 200,000. Two days ago, it would be only four or five days before that, from Yingzhou to Fengyang." Liu Heng analyzed the information, "The thieves have horses. If they attacked with their elite cavalry, they would probably have arrived in Fengyang long ago."

"Ming said that the entire camp will speed up and strive to reach Fengyang one day." Zhao Yan ordered.

"There is no less than 200,000 thieves, so we should arrange some anti-suppression strategy." Liu Heng suggested to Zhao Yan.

"Yeah." Zhao Yan nodded. Although the thieves were just a group of mobs, they were good at defeating the enemy by walking. If they could not defeat them, they would run away. If they could not escape, they would falsely surrender.

"Whether Fengyang is defeated or not, our focus is on eliminating those thieves. The thieves cannot stay in place and let us clear them, so the way to attack the thieves must first make strategic arrangements." Zhao Yan and several staff members in the army spread out the map and took a look at how to eliminate the thieves who fled eastward.

After more than half an hour of discussion, the final decision was made to eliminate the plan.

First, defeat the bandits in Anhui. Then drive the bandits north and into Guide Prefecture, Henan.

As the most prosperous area of ​​the Ming Dynasty, the South was the essence of civilization. No matter how chaotic it was, it could not go to the south.

At the same time, the bandits who attacked Pingyang Prefecture, Shaanxi had crossed the Yellow River from Huaiqing Prefecture, Henan, and had now flown to Guide Prefecture, Henan (Shangqiu District).

The bandits who rushed into Fengyang Mansion came to Guide Mansion and let the two bandits meet to facilitate the suppression.

...

The 11th said that the thieves went to Yingzhou. For those rich, they were like they fell into hell on earth, and the thieves were fighting for family and houses everywhere.

The doors of the rich people were broken open, and the thieves rushed into the door with a crazi smile. The first thing they looked for was the embroidery building. The rich ladies in the embroidery building have always been the first target of these thieves.

Once the thief discovered the rich lady in the embroidery building, he would rush into the embroidery building with red eyes and wipe out the rich lady in the embroidery building and his maid together.

Some directly annihilated the silver until death, while others were sent to the thief leader for enjoyment.

The bandits who invaded Yingzhou this time were led by the King of Sweeping the Land and the King of Taiping, and there were also more than a dozen small bandits mixed with them. They plundered Yingzhou for a moment, and the second was to directly kill Fengyang at a speed of 100 miles.

As soon as they reached a hundred miles away from Fengyang, the bandits received a welcome from the people of Fengyang.

There were no soldiers somewhere, and a wealthy family was reported to the thief by these Fengyang people.

Fengyang was a place of "Dragon Rising" in the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang's parents were buried here, called the imperial tomb. Longxing Temple, which he served as a monk in his youth, was also here. Therefore, Fengyang was designated as Zhongdu and enjoyed a special political status. Although there are magnificent palaces, lush and majestic mountain tombs, eunuchs and local officials who are pampering in the tomb guards, it is a real hell on earth for the local people. In the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered "to restore the people's labor service and taxes in Fengyang and Linhuai counties, and have no place to do for generations."

In fact, it was precisely because Emperor Zhu came here, and there were many people and the number of servants as a cow, which made the people breathless. "One is called a family and seven soldiers, but they are still inevitable." The farmers "work hard for a year" and finally managed to harvest a little food, but the internal servants followed. "One is not allowed to get along with, the neck is damaged, and if they don't get along with, the body is hanging upside down, and if they don't get along with, the wife is moved to another room.

In November of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Qian Shisheng, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites in Nanjing, wrote a memorial after being ordered to pay homage to the Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum, which reported the decline of Fengyang area:

"Fengyang is known as the imperial town,... I entered the area and saw that the land was deserted and the houses were deserted. I looked at it with a look of bleakness. I once asked about the reason that Feng's land was very barren, and it was in the counties in the north of the Yangtze River, and all the houses were covered with tiles. When I encountered floods and droughts, I abandoned it like a waste of widows, took my wife and children, and begged to live in all directions. However, the household registration was in exile, and the tax was accumulated over the years. When the urged for exile, it was stopped by the reverse, and the gathering was suspected to be empty words. If there was a department that was tied to the main quota, it had to be a household of the household.

The grain tuition was collected from the long-term tax of the seed. So the amount of money was getting bigger, and the people who saw it turned to the other. The land was called deserted, the household registration was called waste, the regular quota was called loss, and the last quota was called accumulation... Unexpectedly, the hometown of Tang Mu, there was a sign of exhausting the seeds and roots, and the heart was secretly hurting it... Today, the tax was heavy and the people were exhausted, and the people were exhausted and the money was exhausted... But my ministers said that the government was benevolent and the hometown of the previous emperor was suitable for the reduction, which was just the rice in Taicang."

As officials from all over the late Ming Dynasty [***] often bribed taxes that had been collected, which often caused arrears. Zhu Youjian was afraid of setting a precedent and was imitated by officials from all over the country, so he did not agree with the suggestion of Qian Shisheng, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites in Nanjing.

This is how the folk songs of Fengyang, a woman from the Qing Dynasty:

Talking about Fengyang, telling about Fengyang,

Fengyang is a good place,

Since Emperor Zhu,

There are nine years of famine in ten years.

The wealthy family sells cattle and horses,

Small family sellers,

I don't have any children to sell them,

Walk around with your body and your flower drum on your back.

"Since Emperor Zhu came out," this sentence should have been deliberately darkened by the Qing Dynasty. However, it is true that the people of Fengyang go out to beg every year.

After Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he moved 150,000 wealthy households in Jiangnan to Fengyang.

But after these people came to Fengyang, they were not at ease. They left the wealthy land in Jiangnan and went to the poor land in Anhui. They often missed home and did not dare to go back openly. How could they go back? They pretended to be beggars and begged for food all the way to go back to their hometown to visit. In this way, there was a saying that since Emperor Zhu left, there was nine years of desolation in ten years. Is it a waste year? They all had to go home to visit, and often went home to visit. This situation happened when Zhu Yuanzhang became the emperor, so the folk song left behind, "There were nine years of desolation in ten years."

However, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the situation changed. Although there were still many wealthy households, they were really going to beg, which was a huge resentment.

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival. Since it rained in the first two days, Fengyang was filled with fog early on that morning, and the King of Sweeping the floor, Taiping and other tribes suddenly arrived in Fengyang.

Due to Feng Shui reasons, Fengyang did not build a city wall and was easily attacked by bandits. When they arrived at the Gu Tower, the bureaucrats in Zhongdu were still kept in the dark.

Someone had indeed reported before that Fengyang Prefect Yan Rongxuan cursed nonsense after hearing this, and beat the news report fifty more and more, and beat the soldiers who reported the news to the point of being furious. It was not until the army of thieves appeared in front of him that they were frightened.

The Prime Minister of Zhu, the remaining officials of Fengyang, led his troops to fight in a hurry, and was killed by rushing up and randomly. More than 4,000 officials in the Zhongdu were killed, leaving 1,500 knelt on the ground and shouted "a thousand years old" and kowtowed to beg for his life.

Seeing that Fengyang Prefect Yan Rongxuan was not in good shape, he changed into prison uniform and hid in the prison, but the royal sin sects in the prison were watching him!

Yan Rongxuan suddenly realized that hiding in prison was an unwise move...

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