Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 796 Miaoliu Mutiny (please subscribe!)
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After losing trust in Wang Boyan and Huang Qianshan and dismissing Wang Boyan and Huang Qianshan from their official positions, Zhao Gou appointed Zhu Shengfei as prime minister to replace Wang Boyan, while Wang Yuan officially took over the military post from Huang Qianshan and became a veritable prime minister.

Zhu Shengfei will not say much, he is not very talented, but he can be regarded as a well-behaved prime minister - he is naturally inferior to Zhao Ding and Li Gang, but he is also countless times stronger than Wang Boyan.

Wang Yuan was a high-ranking general in the Northern Song Dynasty, and made many military exploits in the war against Xixia.

When Zhao Gou was the Generalissimo of the World's Soldiers and Horses, Wang Yuan led his troops to vote very early. Because of Conglong's meritorious service, Zhao Gou trusted Wang Yuan very much.

The point is that Wang Yuan has a very good relationship with Zhao Gou's favorite eunuchs such as Kang Lu. Kang Lu and other eunuchs speak well of Wang Yuan in Zhao Gou's ears every day.

As a result, Zhao Gou's favor for Wang Yuan has reached an unrivaled level.

And Wang Yuan himself is actually a relatively capable general.

At the beginning, before Zhao Gou went south, there were thieves in the Hangzhou area.

Zhao Gou used Wang Yuan as his envoy to pacify the bandits in Hangzhou.

Wang Yuan mobilized troops to conscript and suppress, and he was invincible and won a complete victory.

In summary, Zhao Goucai handed over the military power of the Song Dynasty to Wang Yuan.

but--

At this time, Wang Yuan was not in Lin'an, but in Zhenjiang to resist the invasion of the Chinese army.

Zhao Gouyuan thought that with Wang Yuan's bravery, he should be able to withstand the Chinese army, and then he could sit down with Li Yan and have a good talk about how to stop the army and negotiate a peace.

But the cruel reality is that when Yue Fei marched southward, the [-] troops led by Wang Yuan collapsed in one battle.

And Wang Yuan was worthy of being Zhao Gou's favorite minister. Knowing that the Chinese army was incapable of fighting, he immediately fled south.

If you want to say, if you, Wang Yuan, run away, you can run away.

But Wang Yuan has a very big problem, that is, he is very greedy for money.

In the course of successive years of war, Wang Yuan saw so many military generals, who either died for their country, surrendered to China, or were killed by rebels.

Therefore, Wang Yuan felt that accumulating wealth and setting up property for his descendants was the most important thing.

In fact, among the military commanders in the Song Dynasty, Wang Yuan was not the only one who was greedy for money. It should be said that generals in the Song Dynasty generally had this problem.

It's just that Wang Yuan is a bit too much. He takes his treasure wherever he goes, so it can be said that he is inseparable from him.

As for Wang Yuan, who was deeply trusted by Zhao Gou, in the past two years, he had really accumulated a fortune that made anyone envious.

In order to bring all these wealth with him, Wang Yuan actually used more than a dozen large ships to transport his belongings across the Yangtze River first, and then abandoned his soldiers and soldiers. , Thousands of precious war horses also fell into the enemy camp and became the spoils of war for the Chinese army.

For Song Jun, who was already at a disadvantage, this kind of loss was very heavy.

What is even more infuriating is that people whispered that the treasures on the warships were obtained by Wang Yuan's indiscriminate killing of the people when he pacified Chen Tong.

however--

Wang Yuan lost the very important Zhenjiang and made such a big mistake. He should have been severely punished. He went to Wang Yuan's post as a privy envoy and was transferred to the same post as a member of the Privy Council, but did not impose other severe punishments. Wang Yuan still served as the commander of the imperial camp, commanding the imperial forest army following Zhao Gou.

This aroused the dissatisfaction of many officers, and they said one after another: "Why should a cowardly and incompetent person who is greedy for life and fear death command us? did not receive?"

However, eunuchs such as Kang Lu, whom Zhao Gou favored, not only excused Wang Yuan, but also acted as a domineering force, occupying houses and insulting soldiers.

Miao Fu, the commander of the retinue, said angrily: "The emperor has been displaced here, and those people dare to do this!"

And Zhang Kui, under Miao Fu, also angered the sergeant: "If Wang Yuan and those eunuchs can be killed, everyone can live a good life. How can the imperial court punish us?"

However, Zhao Gou completely ignored the thoughts of the sergeants, and issued an edict: "Newly eliminate Wang Yuan who signed the Privy Council affairs, and exempted from submitting letters to charge the official affairs of this court." Books and newspapers play the emperor.

Miao Fu, who prided himself on his family's great contribution, couldn't stand it anymore, and jumped out and said: "You have brought the world to this point, how dare you!"

Although Liu Zhengyan, governor of Weizhou, was promoted by Wang Yuan, he was dissatisfied with Wang Yuan's recruitment of his soldiers. In addition, both of them were dissatisfied with Wang Yuan and the eunuch's dominance, so they spread dissatisfaction in the army.

Due to Zhao Gou's unfair handling of affairs, nepotism, meritorious deeds are not rewarded, but not punished, the emotions spread by Miao Fu and Liu Zhengyan have been echoed by many people.

Miao Fu and his staff Wang Shixiu and the "Red Heart Army" led by Wang Junfu, Zhang Kui, and Ma Rouji agreed to kill Wang Yuan first, and then remove the eunuchs.

So Miao Fu informed Wang Yuan that there were thieves in Lin'an County, and hoped that Wang Yuan would allow him to dispatch troops to exterminate these thieves, lest they support the coming Chinese army.

At this time, Kang Lu's attendants received a secret report. There was a document suspected of intending to rebel. Liu's code name.

Kang Lu hurriedly reported to Zhao Gou.

After Zhao Gou learned of this, he was shocked, and asked Kang Lu to go to Zhu Shengfei immediately, and asked Kang Lu to inform Wang Yuan.

Kang Lu said that Miao Fu and others had recently gathered near Tianzhu Temple, and now they finally knew their intentions, and told Wang Yuan: Miao and Liu's so-called "thieves in the suburbs" were an excuse to let the soldiers go out.

So Wang Yuan prepared to ambush [-] elite soldiers outside Tianzhu Temple to capture Miao Fu, Liu Zhengyan and others.

But Wang Yuan had calculated thousands of times, but he didn't think that Miao Fu and Liu Zhengyan would do it in advance.

Miao Fu and Liu Zhengyan ordered Wang Shixiu to ambush the soldiers under the north bridge of the city. When Wang Yuan retreated from the court, they rushed up and dragged him off his horse.

Later, Miao Fu and Liu Zhengyan led people to surround Kang Lu's residence, hunting and killing eunuchs wantonly.

After slaughtering all the eunuchs they saw, the rebels took Wang Yuan's head and led their troops to encircle the palace and approach the city.

At this time, Zhao Gou also gradually got news of the rebellion.

However, the Song army guarding the palace gate controlled Wu Zhan, had an affair with the rebels, and led Miao Fu's men into the city, shouting "Miao Fu does not fail the country, only eliminates harm for the world."

Kang Yunzhi, the prefect of Hangzhou, brought all the officials to invite Song Zhaogou to the tower to calm the army and the people, otherwise the rebellion would not be stopped.

Zhao Gou climbed up the tower and leaned on the railing to ask Miao Fu why he led the troops to rebel.

When Miao Fu saw Zhao Gou, he still shouted and bowed down, and then sharply accused Zhao Gou, saying: "Your Majesty trusts eunuchs, and if you make friends with eunuchs, you can get a high position. But because of making friends with Kang Lu, I got a high position as a privy envoy. I have done a lot of meritorious service, but I only served as a regiment trainer in a remote county. Now I have killed Wang Yuan and captured the eunuchs who are outside. Please kill him again Kang Lu, Lan Gui, Zeng chose to thank the three armies."

Zhao Gou replied: "If the eunuchs are at fault, they can be exiled to the island. Please return to the camp as soon as possible."

But the rebels refused and insisted on Zhao Gou killing Kang Lu and other eunuchs.

Zhao Gou had no choice but to hang Kang Lu down to the city in a bamboo basket and hand it over to the rebels.

As soon as Kang Lu stepped into the city, he was immediately cut in half by the rebels.

At this time, Miao Fu and Liu Zhengyan also came to their senses, or it could be said that their aides told them: "This matter cannot be resolved, and His Majesty must be forced to take the throne, otherwise, we will have no way to end it."

Therefore, Miao Fu, Liu Zhengyan and others questioned Zhao Gou: "Your Majesty's throne has not come from the right path. If the two emperors return in the future, how will they deal with themselves?"

Miao Fu, Liu Zhengyan and others said: "The Chinese army went south because of your majesty's lack of virtue. Your majesty should follow the example of the emperor and apologize, so that the Chinese army may not go south again."

Zhao Gou didn't want to abdicate, so he sent Zhu Shengfei to negotiate with Miao Fu, Liu Zhengyan and others, trying to make the rebels change a condition.

Zhao Gou would be better off if he didn't.

The more Zhao Gou refused to give up his throne, the more Miao Fu, Liu Zhengyan and others could not allow Zhao Gou to be the emperor, and then they would be liquidated.

Therefore, Miao Fu, Liu Zhengyan and others resolutely let Zhao Gou take the Zen throne, and gave his throne to his three-year-old (xu-year-old) son Zhao Tan.

Zhao Gou saw that the Zen throne was unavoidable, so he ordered Zhu Shengfei to announce to Miao Fu the conditions for abdicating the throne. It must be handled by the Queen Mother (Pan Xianfei) and the enthroned young monarch; the third is that all troops must return to the camp after the edict is issued;

Miao Fu agreed, and Zhao Gou immediately issued an edict to abdicate, and ordered Li Bing, the Minister of the Ministry of War, to draft an edict, saying: Since he came to the throne, Dazhong bullied Da Song because of me, Zhao Gou. I hope that Dazhong can cease military service and reconcile.

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Gou went to Xianzhong Temple to enter and exit by himself.

On the second day, Concubine Pan Xian listened to the government behind the curtain and gave amnesty to the whole world. Miao Fu was appointed as the Xuan envoy and the commander of the imperial capital, and Liu Zhengyan was appointed as the observer envoy and deputy commander of the imperial capital. All other soldiers were innocent. Emperor Shengren and Filial Piety", and renamed Xianzhong Temple Ruisheng Palace, only kept 15 eunuchs, and the rest were dismissed. Miao Fu and others also sent people to investigate, worried that Zhao Gou would keep more servants.

As a result, just as the Chinese army was rushing towards the Southern Song Dynasty like a tiger, Zhao Gou was forced to abdicate. The big mess of the Southern Song Dynasty fell to Concubine Pan Xianfei, a woman with no experience in governing, a three-year-old child and several reckless and brainless people. In Wufu's hands...

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(End of this chapter)