Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 223 The Feudal King's Retribution

Taichang understands the principle of not being able to exhaust the water to catch fish, but the vassal kings everywhere seem to have no idea at all.

Shanxi, Henan, and Huguang have a total of more than 20 vassal kings. Except for Tang Wang Zhu Yujian who has suffered so much, he knows how to spend money and food to support the imperial court. The other vassal kings are still unwilling to spend any money and food.

Such selfishness is rare.

They probably think that they don't care about the affairs of the imperial court anyway, they just want to annex the land crazily, make money hard, and enjoy it to their heart's content.

How can there be such a good thing in this world, even if there is, it won't last long!
I have to say that Emperor Yongle's pig raising strategy was really successful.

These vassal kings were not only raised fat and fat, but even their brains became pig brains!
They didn't seem to have any idea that after they annexed all the land, the common people would have no way to live.

They didn't seem to have thought that if they did everything right, they would be punished!
No, retribution is coming.

Their retribution is the rebel army or rebels led by King Jiayin of Fugu.

Fugu King Wang Jiayin, Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang, Zijin Liang Wang for his own use, Eight Great Kings Zhang Xianzhong, Chuang General Li Zicheng, etc. have not yet separated, and they are still a group. They are the biggest group of rebels detected by Jin Yiwei.

At this moment, each of them has at least tens of thousands of horses under their hands, and together, it is indeed more than fifty thousand.

It is not a small expense for so many people to eat, drink, and scatter. Looting the local tyrants and squires seems to be unable to meet their needs. Even if there are 5 horses, the food consumed in a month is 60 to [-] shi. After a year, that is Five or six million stones!

There are a few local tyrants and squires who have so much grain in their homes, even if they store tens of thousands of shi, there are not many.

Moreover, they have almost finished robbing such big local tyrants and squires. If this continues, so many of them will starve sooner or later!
How to do it?

That is of course setting their sights on a bigger goal, the feudal lord.

They just discussed for a while and decided to rob King Zheng of Huaiqing Mansion!
Because the reputation of King Zheng's Mansion is really bad, not only frantically annexing the land, but also treating the people under their rule as inappropriate people, the whole Huaiqing Mansion was aroused by Zheng Wang's family.

This public grievance is the basis of their struggle for hegemony in troubled times. Naturally, they have to take advantage of the trend and clean up King Zheng. In this way, not only can they get a lot of money and grain, but they can also gain a lot of popular support, so that their team will grow bigger and bigger. !

So, while other rebels were still running around in the countryside, Wang Jiayin, Gao Yingxiang and others sneaked into the border of Huaiqing Mansion with their army.

This group of people are real heroes in troubled times. Although their weapons and equipment have not yet been uploaded, they still have a little bit of strategy.

Without the Prince Zheng's mansion noticing, they had secretly surrounded all the counties around the Huaiqing mansion.

It was just before noon that day, when the scorching sun was in the sky, suddenly hundreds of hungry people slowly came out from the mountains in the north of Jiyuan City, and when they were about a mile away from the north gate of Jiyuan City, they all lay down It stopped moving on the slope by the side of the road.

Although the disaster in Henan is not very serious at the moment, the land annexation is too serious, and most of the farmers have become tenant farmers who rent fields under the various vassal princes' mansions.

That is to say, the field does not belong to them, they are just planting it for the feudal prince's mansion.

The rent collected for this kind of land is not the imperial government's [-]-[-] tax. Basically, they can barely guarantee that the family will not go hungry after a year of hard work. It depends on the year. It's okay if there is no disaster, but once there is a disaster, it's over.

The vassal king will not reduce or exempt tenants' rent due to disasters. Once a disaster occurs, these tenant farmers will have to go hungry.

Therefore, the number of hungry people in Henan is no less than that in Shaanxi at the moment, and it is not uncommon for hundreds of people to share a share.

The gates of Jiyuan City are still guarded by Xiangyong at the moment, but there are not many people, because the county king in the city is unwilling to pay some money and food, and the county magistrate has nothing to do. Even if he knows that the rebels are raging, he can only Recruit dozens of Xiangyong to guard at the gates of each city. If there are more, he can't even afford the food.

Xiang Yong, who was guarding the city gate at the north gate, naturally saw these hungry people, but these hungry people did not intend to approach the city gate, and they were not too vigilant.

Who knows whether these hungry people are too tired to leave, or too hungry to walk, anyway, as long as they don't get close to the city gate.

At this time, Gao Yingxiang among the "hungry people" was staring at the shadow of the wooden stick in front of him. The shadow was getting shorter and shorter, and his expression was getting more and more excited.

In the middle of the red sun, the shadow finally disappeared completely, and it was the agreed time to do it.

Without hesitation, he pulled out the machete wrapped in rags and thrust it into his waist, took out his quiver and put it on his back, then got up with his longbow and shouted: "Brothers, copycats, come with me!"

The half-dead "hungry people" immediately jumped up from the ground, picked up the guy and rushed towards the city gate frantically behind Gao Yingxiang.

This frightened Xiangyong who was guarding the city wall. The leading Xiangyong was about to call everyone in to close the city gate. With a sound of "嗖", a sharp arrow pierced through the air and passed directly through the throat!

The other Xiangyongs were so frightened that they ran away immediately, and quickly ran into the city and disappeared.

As soon as Gao Yingxiang rushed into the city, there was already a surge of rebels in the mountains to the north, and tens of thousands of people easily captured Jiyuan County.

At this time, Wen County, Wuling, Meng County, and Xiuwu on the outskirts of Huaiqing Mansion were all performing the same scene. In less than an hour, all five counties were occupied. , Baoping County King, Deqing County King, etc., all the county kings in the Zhengwang Mansion were dragged out by the rebels and chopped down!
Immediately afterwards, the rebels began to open warehouses to release grain. As soon as the grain was released, they began to recruit young and strong again.

At this moment, the entire Huaiqing Mansion was boiling, the common people were cheering, and there was an endless stream of young and strong people joining the rebel army. The number of Wang Jiayin, Gao Yingxiang and others almost doubled in a day, and soon exceeded ten Thousands of people.

Zheng Wang Zhu Zaiyu of Hanoi, the prefecture city, received the news and quickly ordered people to close the city gate, and sent people eight hundred li to rush to the capital for help.

Unfortunately, it's late.

The next day, hundreds of thousands of rebels flocked to Hanoi, the prefectural city.

The reason why Wang Jiayin, Gao Yingxiang and the others did not take their troops to attack Hanoi first was mainly because Zheng Wangfu still had more than a hundred guards. These guards, together with the Xiangyong recruited by the prefect, still had a little strength. It may not be possible to take Hanoi in one fell swoop, even if you take Hanoi Zheng Wang Zhu Zaidong, you may escape.

Therefore, they chose to take down the counties around Huaiqing Mansion first, expand their troops, and then encircle Huaiqing Mansion completely.

Now they don't have any scruples. It's easy for 10 people to attack a city that is only garrisoned by a few hundred people!
On the third day, the city of Huaiqing Mansion was overrun by the overwhelming rebel army. The whole family of Prince Zheng was cut down by the rebels, and all the gold and silver treasures and food stored by the family of Prince Zheng’s mansion, which had been looted for nearly 200 years, were also robbed by the rebels. .

When Taichang received the news, he couldn't help cursing: "It's what you deserve, you want money and don't want your life, now you will be punished!"

Of course, he cursed in private for these words. On the surface, he still pretended to be furious, and immediately sent the cavalry of the Shenwu Battalion to avenge King Zheng's family.

However, he seemed to underestimate the heroes of the world a little bit.

Why did Wang Jiayin, Gao Yingxiang and others choose King Zheng of Huaiqing Mansion?

The notorious reputation of King Zheng's family is only one aspect, and more importantly, to the north of Huaiqing Mansion are the wild Wangwu Mountain and Taihang Mountain!
They should have discussed it before taking action. They robbed money and food and went directly to the mountains. No matter how powerful the officers and soldiers are, what can they do with them?
(End of this chapter)