Optimus One Pillar of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 153 King Tu Lu’s Family

After finishing his errands at the Ministry of War, Wang Daoqiu returned home. Today he wanted to spend time with his family, and tomorrow he would set off for disaster relief in Shandong.

Wang Daoqiu was enjoying the warmth of home at home. What he didn't know was that a fierce battle was going on in Yanzhou Fucheng next to the Shandong-Hangzhou Grand Canal. Tens of thousands of newly transformed victims were shouting slogans to attack Yanzhou. city.The soldiers guarding the city used bows and arrows, rolling logs and stones to continuously kill and injure the mob below the city.

The night in Yanzhou City, which had been peaceful and peaceful for a while, suddenly became filled with shouts of killing and screams, turning it into a Shura hell.

Yanzhou defender Li Keda ran back and forth on the city wall. While avoiding the stones falling from the sky, he shouted "kill" all the way to cheer up the city guards.At this time, under the city of Yanzhou, a mob in naked clothes, or several of them holding a pair of door panels together, or one person holding a pot cover or a wooden board, approached the city wall in groups.After arriving at the city wall, they did not climb the city wall. When they got to the city wall, they threw the bag of sand and soil they were carrying under the city wall.

Yanzhou City has not been affected by war for more than a hundred years. The city walls have been in disrepair for a long time and are collapsing year by year. Now the city tower is less than three feet above the ground, which is equivalent to the height of a two-story building in later generations.From such a small height, tens of thousands of people threw sand and earth under the city, and there were tens of thousands of strong men beside them who threw stones at the city. It was like a rain of stones on the top of the city, so that the defenders could not attack the people below the city wantonly.

Soon there were dozens of sloping slopes, each at least several feet wide, almost reaching the top of the city.Seeing the height of the sloping earth slowly approaching the city head, Yanzhou garrison Li Keda was extremely anxious, but he was still there with a big sword in his hand, loudly ordering the defenders not to be afraid of death, and to continue rolling logs and stones to smash down.

At this moment, Li Keda's son, Li Xuezeng, ran over anxiously. Regardless of his father Li Keda's yelling, he grabbed Li Keda's arm and dragged him back.

Li Xuezeng grabbed Li Keda's arm, dragged him to the back of the tower, and said in a suppressed voice: "Father, King Lu said that his personal guards should be kept to protect the palace and refused to be sent to the city to help in the battle. And the people in the city Those common people listened to the shouts of the mob outside the city and only wanted to kill King Lu. They didn't worry about the common people. They also closed their homes and refused to go to the city to fight. Father, the situation is over! To tell you the truth, my son, I have ordered my servants to protect you. With my mother, sister and the others, we left the city through the south gate and fled to the south of Zhili. Let us, father and son, run away as well!"

"How can this be done? Under the Ming Dynasty's military law, if a guard escapes before the battle and loses the city, it is a capital offense."

When Li Keda heard that his son Li Xuezeng asked him to abandon the city and flee, Li Keda thought of the military law of the Ming Dynasty and the consequences of the defender escaping before the battle and losing the city, so he hurriedly refused sharply.

And seeing that at this time, his father still couldn't figure it out, Li Xuezeng was also angry, and angrily scolded: "Father, you have reached this stage, why are you still so confused? Are you just staying here? No need to die? There are tens of thousands of mobs outside the city, but there are less than three thousand defenders inside the city, and the people inside the city are unwilling to help. If this continues, I dare say that within half an hour, Yanzhou City will be destroyed. By then I will Father and son must die."

"Besides, father, all the troubles were caused by King Nalu. Ever since he took office as King of Lu, he has been doing evil things. He treated the people like grass and killed them at will, which made the world angry and resentful. So now that the trouble has come, the people in the city No one is willing to help him, and they all want the mob outside the city to rush into the city and slaughter King Taru's entire family."

"This King of Lu not only harmed the people of Yanzhou, but also secretly sent people to rob the relief grain after the disaster victims arrived in Yanzhou, intercepted grain transport ships from the south, and reduced the price of grain here from the original three cents to one. Jin, he raised it to the current price of fifteen cents per pound. He also took his personal guards to the refugee camps every day to snatch wives and daughters, and used the beautiful ones for his own pleasure, and rewarded his subordinates with statues. He was even lawless and withheld The imperial envoy who went to stop him for disaster relief. Now, the officials finally forced the people to rebel, and all the victims outside the city were forced to rebel. Father, all the disasters were caused by King Zhu Guan of Nalu. Why should I, my father and my son? If you are willing to sacrifice your life for such a villain, let the mob rush in and slaughter King Lu’s whole family!”

What Li Xuezeng said was reasonable. This also reminded Li Keda of all the unjust things done by King Zhu Guan of Lu. At this time, he couldn't wait to let the mob rush into the city and kill King Zhu Guan of Lu. Full of doors.But as a city guard of the Ming Dynasty, he cannot escape before the battle, which will harm his family.

After thinking about the matter calmly, Li Keda knew that if he defended the city now, he would be sacrificing his men in vain.Besides, these mobs under the city, to be honest, they are all forced, and to be honest, these mobs are also pitiful people.The fault was with King Zhu Guan of Lu. He had no conscience and the victims were so pitiful. He still wanted to rape other people's wives and daughters, which was too much.

After thinking about this, Li Keda knew that his son Li Xuezeng was filial and filial. If his father did not leave, Li Xuezeng would not leave either.So Li Keda thought for a while and lied to his son: "Okay, my son, you first take our family's soldiers to catch up with your mother and the others. You protect your mother and the others to Zhenjiang, and first go to your brother-in-law's house to stay temporarily." . I will stay here to organize the garrison in the city for my father, abandon the city and break out to Jeju, and join the imperial army there. At least I can help defend Jeju and save the imperial court from the crime of losing the city for my father."

"Father!"

"Okay, my son, please leave quickly. Seeing you leave makes my father feel free to abandon the city!"

"Yes, father, I will send my mother and sister to Zhenjiang and then come back to find you." "Okay, let's go, let's go!"

After deceiving his son and watching him rush towards the south gate, Li Keda stood on the steps of the city gate building and shouted to a group of city defenders: "Brothers, you have been able to defend until now. You have deserved it." The court. All the disasters were caused by King Zhu Guan of Lu's rebellious behavior. There is no need for you to work for him Zhu Guan anymore. You can escape for your lives! If the court asks about this matter in the future, you can say that it was I, Li Keda, who gave the order. You abandoned the city and broke out of the siege. Your Majesty, Li Keda has been loyal to you."

After saying these impassioned words, Li Keda stabbed himself in public to leave a way for his family to survive.

After Li Keda fell, the soldiers in the city did not have too many emotional scenes.After all, the most pressing thing facing these soldiers now is whether they and their families can survive.So as soon as Li Keda died, the soldiers in the city dispersed and fled to the city.

Without the interference of the defenders on the city, tens of thousands of mobs below the city extended the dirt slope to the top of the city in less than 10 minutes.Then a mob of tens of thousands, like a colony of ants, shouted and crowded up the slope and rushed towards the city.

Hearing the thunderous cries of tens of thousands of mobs, King Lu Zhu Guan, who was hiding in the palace of King Lu at this time, was so frightened that he was trembling and ordered his palace guards to go up to the wall of the palace. guard.

However, the palace guard of King Zhu Guan of Lu was upright and capable. He did not despise being with him. He had already quit his job and found another place.It was someone who tried to persuade him without understanding the current affairs before, but he got killed by him.

Now Zhu Guan's palace guards are all just like him, hooligans who can usually bully honest people, but if they are asked to fight against tens of thousands of mobs, they have neither the ability nor the courage.

Therefore, all of Zhu Guan's palace guards should act upright and awe-inspiring in front of Zhu Guan, and they should live and die with the Lu palace.But as soon as they turned around and left the sight of King Lu Zhu Guan, they took off their work clothes and escaped over the wall before the mob reached the palace.

The palace guards all ran away, and suddenly Lu Wang Zhu Guan was in tragedy. He was caught by the mob without any accident.Then when the wives and daughters of the victims who had been kidnapped by Zhu Guan's men were searched from the Prince of Lu's Mansion in their naked clothes, the mob became angry.On the spot, in front of Zhu Guan, he did to Zhu Guan's wives and daughters what Zhu Guan did to the wives and daughters of the victims.

Tens of thousands of people lined up to take turns, and even if they died, some people would not mind it. After a whole night of tossing, all the women of Zhu Guan's family, including the mother of Zhu Guan's daughter, Yanshenggong, were left alive to the Queen.The mob also organized troops to attack other royal families of King Lu's family, intending to annihilate King Lu's family in Shandong Province of Ming Dynasty.On the one hand, they organized the people of the whole city to come and watch, and they killed King Zhu Guan of Lu with a thousand cuts.

In the end, Zhu Guan's fat pig head, his wives, daughters, and the body of his mother were hung on the Yanzhou city wall, showing the anger of the people to Zhu Ming's imperial power.

And in Yanzhou, Shandong, when the Zhu Zhu Banquet was going on vigorously, the victims of the disaster in Shandong rebelled, and Yanzhou City and several counties around Yanzhou fell.From Shandong, the horse whip passed through one post station after another, passed from one courier to another, and was delivered to the capital Beijing in an expedited manner of [-] miles.

When Tang Bao arrived in Beijing, it was just dark in the Wanshou Palace in Xiyuan.Emperor Jiajing had completely different faces at night and during the day. During the day, he was a majestic king, a devout Taoist priest, he spoke and smiled informally, and looked like a gentleman like Yue Buqun.But at night he is just a hungry ghost in lust, looking wretched.

For example, right now, the Wanshou Palace is as solemn and solemn as daytime, with a group of drums playing and candles brightly lit.Under the yellow curtain, a group of singing girls in cool clothes were twisting their coquettish figures to the sound of drums.Emperor Jiajing on the dragon bed looked like a pig brother, with lust burning in his heart.

The Ministry of War did not dare to neglect after receiving the report of the rebellion of Shandong victims, and hurriedly went to Wuyi Hall and reported to Xia Yan, the bachelor on duty in the cabinet tonight.After Xia Yan read this Shandong pond newspaper, he was ecstatic. He felt that the Shandong victims were transferred to the canal by Wang Daoqiu to do some kind of work-for-relief. Now the victims have rebelled. Wang Daoqiu There is no escape from sin.

Thinking of Wang Daoqiu's miserable state when he was accused and imprisoned, Xia Yan felt very happy.Little thief, you usually bully me, but this time I will take care of you and expel you from the officialdom.

(End of this chapter)