Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 422
"Punish the country's thieves, how can you talk about rebellion? You are in a high position and don't want to be loyal to the country, but you only want to betray the country and seek glory. You are the rebels!"

The two scholars scolded Yang Chao and Zheng Hongkui and others around him in a righteous and awe-inspiring manner.

Although Zheng Hongkui and others were scolded, they seemed to understand something.

"Dudu Yang, these scholars must have misunderstood."

Rebellion, this must be rebellion!
It is not a crime of treason, how can all 1 scholars be sent to the army, so this is not a misunderstanding.

Yang Chao said firmly: "They held weapons in their hands, trespassed into the palace, and scolded us. Is this a misunderstanding?"

"National traitor, you and I will not share the sky!"

At this time, two talented people suddenly exploded, and rushed up with short sticks, but their level was directly knocked down by the soldiers, and they were immediately arrested.

Yang Chao was furious: "Arrest, I will arrest them all, and interrogate them carefully. Who is responsible for them?"

At this time, the guards began to attack, and the soldiers who surrounded Xiucai also attacked, but instead of killing people, they rushed in, beat everyone they saw, and ordered them to kneel down.

In a quarter of an hour, all the scholars were captured.

A total of a thousand scholars broke into the palace, and everyone held long and short sticks in their hands.

Who gave them the courage, and why did they come to the palace.

One of the men who was caught knew best.

Hou Fangyu, one of the four sons, is the one who hates Yang Chao the most.

Mao Bijiang had done the work of Huangfeng's mansion, and Huangfeng's mansion told them that Yang Chao would negotiate with the envoys sent by the Qing court in the Forbidden City today to discuss the matter of betraying the country.

The Huangfeng Mansion told them the content of the negotiation. The Qing government promised Yang Chao to seal the border, make Yang Chao the King of Huai, enfeoff the Lianghuai area to Yang Chao, and Yang Chao would dedicate Nanjing to the Qing court.

Traitorous country is absolutely traitorous. How could the fourth son, who claims to be loyal and upright, accept this kind of thing.

But they couldn't easily believe in Huang Fengfu. After all, among the generals in the world, Yang Chao fought the most with the Qing army and hated him the most. More than a million, although this number is too outrageous, but it is enough to prove that Yang Chao has a deep hatred with the Qing court. Others may surrender to the Qing court, so how dare Yang Chao surrender to the Qing court.

But Huangfeng Mansion has ironclad evidence, that is, in the past three months, the Qing army has attacked Huguang, Jiangxi, and Sichuan, and has been fighting everywhere, but they have not attacked Nanzhili or Yangchao.

Thinking about it this way, the Fourth Young Master believed it, and at the same time they also believed in Huang Fengfu's character, because Huang Fengfu even now cooperates with the Fourth Young Master, begging the Fourth Young Master to save Yang Chao's life in the end, so affectionate and righteous Why can't people be trusted?
So they believed in the Huangfeng Mansion, and adopted the advice given to them by the Huangfeng Mansion, that is, to lead people into the palace and capture Yang Chao and the envoy of the Qing court on the spot. When the Qing court tried to dedicate Nanjing to the Qing court, Yang Chao's reputation would be ruined. The soldiers and civilians in Nanji would definitely abandon Yang Chao and support the court.

The fourth son can welcome the emperor and return to the court, and then he will flourish.

But the fourth son still didn't dare, because all fools knew that it was impossible for a group of talented scholars to break into Yang Chao's heavily guarded palace.

But Huangfeng's mansion still has a backup, he told the fourth son that the soldiers guarding the palace are his confidantes.As Yang Chao's first staff member, it's quite normal to have a few confidantes, so the Fourth Young Master has no reason to doubt it.

The last thing that worried him was whether the confidants of Huangfeng Mansion were reliable or not. When their people were quietly taken into the palace by the guards, they believed it.

Then there was action. They adopted the principle of voluntariness, picked out a thousand talents who were not afraid of death, and brought them into the palace.

It went very smoothly. The defenders of Yuanwumen saw them coming and immediately withdrew their defenses, allowing them to enter the Forbidden City. The same was true for the defenders of Bei'anmen. Yes, 1000 of them are enough to take down Yang Chao at the venue.

Hou Fangyu had even started planning to get rid of Yang Chao directly. Although they agreed to the kind and righteous Huangfeng Mansion to save Yang Chao's life, is it inevitable that those who achieve great things will have to sacrifice?

However, as soon as Hou Fangyu entered Bei'anmen, the situation changed immediately. Soldiers rushed out from both sides of the East and West Palaces. Before they could react, they surrounded them, and then the soldiers shouted "Scholars rebelled."

At this time Hou Fangyu suddenly woke up, they were fooled.

But it’s too late to regret. Think back, everything is full of flaws. Although there is a certain rationality, they will hold on to that line of rationality. Don’t you know that even the law emphasizes that isolated evidence cannot stand, so they will Deduce along that reasonable line, but ignore more unreasonable situations.

What else can I say, the profit makes the mind stunned, the benefits are too great, as long as Yang Chao is taken down, not only will he rebel all at once, and he will exhaust all the evil spirits that Yang Chao has oppressed them all these years, but he will also be able to reach the sky in one step, make great contributions, and go straight to the imperial court Church, to satisfy their desire for power for many years.

So the fourth son was involved step by step in the clumsy conspiracy, just like the street scams are so simple, but people are taken in again and again, it's all greed that blinds people's eyes.

Now Hou Fangyu woke up, but it was too late, he hated, but he was even more afraid, the fear instantly overwhelmed his mind, he is the son of a high official, ordinary crimes cannot cure him, but the crime of treason, even the sky cannot save he.

At this time Hou Fangyu was completely terrified. He hid in the crowd, knelt on the ground obediently like other scholars, and lowered his head more than others, for fear of being recognized by others.

"Dudu Yang, there must be some misunderstanding. How could a scholar break into the palace with a stick for no reason?"

"And just take a stick, I'm afraid these scholars are messing around."

"From our point of view, the scholars are under Meng Lang's control, and a little punishment will do."

Whether it's Wang Xiong from Zhejiang, Zheng Hongkui or even the eunuchs, they all seem to make big things into small things.

Try to downplay the meaning of being a scholar and trespassing on the palace.

Yang Chao had known for a long time that the other forces were eager to see the nobles fighting Yang Chao, and the scholar was the knife in the hands of the wealthy, so they didn't want to see the knife break so easily.

So Yang Chao also nodded, as if he was moved by their persuasion.

But at this time, thick smoke suddenly rose from several places behind him, and then he saw flames.

Soon a soldier came to report: "Governor, Xiucai set fire to Taisheji in Xihuamen, and Xiucai set fire to Taimiao in Donghuamen!"

The significance of setting fire to the palace is too great to be erased.

But Zheng Hongkui still insisted.

"I think there's something strange about it. Could it be that the scholars are being deceived by others."

"It's possible, maybe it was used by a traitor."

"Our family thinks it must be so, probably, it's the work of Jiannu."

This group of people is still washing the ground for the scholar, but they think that it is enough to have a mastermind behind the scenes, which is exactly what Yang Chao wants.

You can't kill a scholar with one trespassing palace, one or two is okay, but 1 scholars are not.

So they proposed that there was a mastermind behind the scenes, and in the end they singled out a few as scapegoats, and that's fine.

Yang Chao happened to be pushing the boat with the current, and the latter was for these people.

"Arrest them all and interrogate them!"

Yang Chao immediately ordered.

The interrogation was easy and transparent, and soon a few talented people were recruited.

They declared righteously that they wanted to overthrow Yang Chao, but after defeating Yang Chao, they planned to welcome Zhu Cijiong, the king of Ding, as emperor.

Zhu Cijiong is still living in Yang Chao’s house. He doesn’t want to be the emperor himself, but most scholars don’t think so. They believe that it is Yang Chao who oppresses King Ding and prevents Zhu Cijiong from being emperor. It is Yang Chao who wants to be powerful. Dominating, wanting to usurp the throne.

Although Qian Qianyi and other officials know the truth, ordinary people like to believe in these conspiracy theories.

So overthrowing Yang Chao, welcoming the third prince of Emperor Chongzhen, and enthroning Zhu Cijiong, the king of Ding, was a very reasonable motive.

This motivation is so reasonable that the internal market of Erlishe is very large. Although the fourth son is inclined to welcome the Longwu Emperor of Fujian and return to the court, the scholars still have the voice of hoping that Zhu Cijiong will ascend the throne.

Therefore, in the first trial, there were a few scholars who were not afraid of death at all, and spoke out in a dignified manner, and put on a posture of calmly sacrificing justice.

Are these scholars really not afraid of death? That's not true. The reason why they dare to say this is because they belong to Yang Chao.

With Yang Chao's power, it is not easy to subdue a few talented people. In fact, although the Huangfeng Mansion in Suzhou encountered resistance from most wealthy families, it was not without defection. More than a dozen families quietly turned to him.

The Huangfeng Mansion accepted the surrender of these families, and then let these people, like other families, send out famous scholars from the family to respond to the four sons of the Erli Society who came to Nanjing to make trouble.

Not only did these few "honestly" confess to Yang Chao's people, even the people who attacked Yang Chao with sticks in the palace were also Yang Chao's people. Dare to beat a general like Yang Chao with a stick?
Although not everyone said that in the fair interrogation, and not everyone wanted to welcome Zhu Cijiong, but one voice was enough, and Yang Chao arranged not just one, but a large group.

It doesn't matter whether others believe it or not, as long as the emperor in Fujian believes it, that's enough.

And will the emperor believe it?
He must believe it, he dare not believe it!

Scholars have voices to welcome Zhu Cijiong, so where does this put Zhu Cihuan?

In the struggle for imperial power, a small voice is enough, but for the emperor, to engage in his power is treason.

Yang Chao didn't directly use force to suppress the scholar, because the literati in the world would definitely oppose it, and the public opinion would definitely attack Yang Chao. Although there was no actual harm, the side effects were too great. Without a good reputation, he would not be able to get the sincere cooperation of others. In the future, Yang Chao's army will be questioned wherever they go, that's not good.

Yang Chao would rather his troops be treated as liberators wherever they go, rather than enemies and rebels.

So Yang Chao didn't use force, he didn't even have to come forward himself, he just asked the scholars to admit that they had plans to establish a new king, and the little emperor would be the first to jump out, and decided that these scholars had rebelled.

Then let's not do Yang Chao's business. On the contrary, Yang Chao will sing a red face and beg for mercy from the scholars.

(End of this chapter)