Chapter 352 An Fu

In these days, Zhang Ning, who was on the battlefield on the Eastern Front, received a secret memorial about Prince Zhu Wenkui, and the provincial eunuch sent someone to send it from Wuchang.

Before, Zhu Wenkui asked for a batch of arms and food, and there were more than a dozen weapons and craftsmen. Yao Ji knew that this matter would certainly not miss the opportunity. She just put a few detailed works while sending the craftsmen. Then she specially arranged for spies to follow Zhu Wenkui's people to hide activities nearby, look for opportunities to contact the spies among the craftsmen, and send the information to the Escort Province.

Therefore, the eunuchs almost knew Zhu Wenkui's affairs well.

Zhu Wenkui's early preparations were quite complete, and his first goal was Anfu County, Ji'an Prefecture.

At this time, it was difficult for the Jiangxi Provincial Administration to contact the capital; and in addition, Jiangxi and other provinces have always had more contacts with the six ministries in Nanjing, and now Nanjing is no longer owned by the imperial court.

Therefore, the rule of the three departments of Jiangxi and the governments of various prefectures is already very unstable, and the timing of the rebellion is good.

Wen Kui summoned some stalls from all over the place, including those who smuggled maritime trade, those who escorted private salt in armed manner, those who organized merchants to traffic in mountain goods, and even those who became bandits. All kinds of leaders were mostly related to the rest of the Jianwen Party.

These leaders gathered their servants and servants, spent money to recruit soldiers and horses to take in some refugee beggars and homeless fugitives. After gathering one after another, there were thousands of people.

The local governments had noticed such a group of armed men, the Wushan Forest, but they could not do anything about it for a while. The number of quick-handed archers and patrolers in various counties was far inferior to that of these bandits, but the patrolers on the road avoided them.

The Ji'an Government Office had no choice but to report to the Three Departments of Shangfeng, and at the same time, the military households of the government were preparing to quell the rebellion.

Soon after, Zhu Wenkui got the arms escorted from Changsha Prefecture, and sent people to sneak into Anfu County to buy some gangster skins, and clearly understood the situation in the county.

Yang Jing was named General of the Southern Conquest by the Crown Prince, and then led his people to attack the city and paid a considerable price to capture Anfu County.

Who is Yang Jing? He worked as a city lieutenant in Nanjing more than 20 years ago. Later, after the city of Nanjing was broken, he fled to Jiangxi and hid. He is now over 60 years old, but Wen Kui found it out.

The grassroots rule of the Ming Dynasty was really fragile. Although there was a Baojiali under the county government, the real management role was the prestigious village heads in the local area, which were basically in an autonomous state. Even if there were not many officials in the county government, the magistrate was involved in taxation, armed forces, public security, judicial, administration and other affairs. Sometimes a villager's goose was stolen and would cause trouble in the county government.

When Anfu County was attacked, there was no army at all, and there was no armor, and there was no control. It could only be garrisoned from the village by relying on the yamen running in service and the temporary issuance of official licences. In addition, there were gentry organizing the people to go to the city.

However, as long as the county government in the mainland is properly governed, there will generally be no chaos. Rebellion will be a big deal. If there are too many soldiers, it will only be based on the superior prefect. There are usually soldiers in the palace.

So Anfu County could not withstand Wenkui's thousands of armed forces without any suspense and soon fell.

After the city was destroyed, the magistrate of Anfu, the county magistrate, the Dianshi and other officials had to face the reality and gave the county's tax booklets, warehouse keys, files and other items in full, begging for the protection of their lives.

But at this time, General Zhengnan Yang Jing was furious because his eldest son and third son were shot to death by arrows while siegeing the city, and his nephew's leg was also broken by a piece of wood thrown from the city.

The white-haired man sent the black-haired man. Yang Jing was in a state of grief and angry, and asked his subordinates to tie up a group of officials and wanted to pull him to the market to behead him and avenge his son.

Wen Kui also has a civil servant as the most important aide. This person is named Song He, who is in his fifties, but he is not an ordinary talent. He is a serious Jinshi. If it were not for his identity as a Yuchen of Jianwen, a Jinshi in the early stage, who had been in the officialdom for more than 20 years, he is now at least a minister in charge of imperial decision-making affairs at the level of the ministry.

However, human destiny is determined, and now he can only be an aide in a group of rebels.

After hearing the news, Song He quickly ran to the market court to stop the execution, and repeatedly told General Yang to postpone it, and then went to the prince to personally inform him.

Song He strongly advised the prince not to kill these officials, otherwise it would be useless to occupy Fu'an County.

Wen Kui hesitated: General Yang’s two sons were killed by the criminals. If he was not allowed to take revenge, he might be disappointed.

Song He said: Your Highness can posthumously confer the title of heroes of the Yang family as their status, or give General Yang a title of marquis to appease him, but he must not kill him for personal gain.

This was persuading her, and suddenly Song He's Changsu rushed to the county government to report that General Yang had already chopped the heads of the officials in the county government government.After hearing this, Song He sighed to the sky and walked to regret.

Unexpectedly, the matter was not over. More than an hour later, some students (scholars) went to the market to collect the bodies. Some people read the sacrificial texts in public to regard the dead civil officials as loyal and martyrs. They also said that Wang from the county school taught everyone knowledge and principles, and that those who are teachers are like fathers.

Wen Kui was furious and cursed to his left and right: I won’t be able to rebel!It’s obvious that this prince can’t cure these sour scholars!

As the winner of the county by force, he encountered a group of nerds who were openly provoked by themselves. How could a passionate young man not be angry?

Can someone point at their noses, curse or insult them, and still smile at them?

Are you a fool?

At this time, another poster said: The people we bought are high-minded. Among the students, some of them were still running between the city wings a few days ago, recruiting heroes to defend the city against us.These gentry usually pretend to be noble and gain prestige. Whenever there is something wrong, they will easily deceive the people who believe in them.

Wen Kui was furious and immediately ordered people to be sent to capture the gentry who had visited the market to collect corpses, and then searched the house and seized their property to be expelled.

Seeing that the prince was angry and knew that his advice would be taken by his ears, Song He changed his strategy and said: Those officials were killed, so he had to claim that the officials and gentry in the county were in a mess and accepted bribes and were corrupt officials; then he was given a list of orders to calm the people and restrain the soldiers.

After hearing this, Zhu Wenkui made a lot of sense, so he agreed with Song He's suggestion and asked him to write an article to Xiao Qiang and the city gate of the county government.

Song He was prepared and immediately took out the document from his sleeve bag: The old minister has already written it.In addition to the Anmin List, there is also a decree here, please check it out.The state has national laws and the army has military rules. We need to establish some rules to clarify what officials and soldiers can do, what they cannot do, what they cannot do, what they will be punished if they cannot do...

The prince said: Mr. Song is very talented, can I trust you?This prince does not doubt the use of people or doubts. Since the law was written by Mr. Song, it will be announced to the entire army and will be implemented today.

Song He hurriedly said: These words are not just a word. If you commit a mistake, you have to follow the rules and not be ambiguous. Only in this way can you gradually form military discipline.Only with rules can Your Highness restrain his subordinates; it will be easier for General Yang to lead troops in the future.

Zhu Wenkui had something else to do, so he took a look at it casually and asked Song He to post the public notice.

Unexpectedly, many things happened to the prince the next day. One of them was that a wounded soldier who was injured in his arms was forcibly placed in a family, and the people in the family asked to find a doctor to treat him, be responsible for his daily life, etc.

Unexpectedly, the wounded soldier saw that his master's daughter-in-law was handsome, so he touched the wing room last night, injured the owner's son, and raped the woman in the room.

The family did not promote it, and swallowed the anger in the idea of ​​not being able to make the family scandals public and fear of being retaliated. Unexpectedly, a small leader went to see the wounded soldier early the next morning. Because the yard was small and inadvertently saw the young wife with the rain, the little leader raped the woman again.

Then the two soldiers started arguing and finally made arbitration in order to fight the young wife.

Song He happened to be in the yamen. After hearing this, he was extremely angry and threatened that the two soldiers had committed adultery and wanted to behead them together to serve as a warning to You.

Zhu Wenkui was also surprised after hearing this, and looked at Song He angrily, and thought to himself: You are speaking lightly.

These soldiers have their own staff, or servants of the leaders, acquaintances from fellow townsmen, or people recruited by money; what are you trying to do with your prince? Just kill them for a little while?

Wen Kui immediately cursed the two soldiers and told them to get out.

Then General Yang came to the yamen and said something.

The cowlin gun sent by King Xiang is very difficult to use, loading is difficult and not easy to fire; it is useless when rushing, and it is better to have a wooden stick. I want the prince to call out the craftsmen and organize them to build swords and weapons.

Wen Kui wondered: So those batch of firearms are not as effective as the knife?

General Yang said: It is better to have it than not. Almost all our soldiers have used bows and arrows. Firearms have to barely replace bows and arrows, but they cannot charge and fall into the formation. They also have to build a batch of long weapons to use them on the battle formation.

Song He couldn't help but say: King Xiang relied on this kind of firearm to defeat the more with few degrees and defeated tens of thousands of official troops.Firearms must have their own merits. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince thought so at the beginning, so he asked King Xiang for this batch of arms.

General Yang said: Mr. Song knows both poetry and books and marching and formation, what should he do?

Wen Kui hurriedly comforted him, and then said: There must be a training opportunity to use that thing. Among the craftsmen sent by King Xiang, they must know how to use firearms. General Yang sent someone to ask, and choose a few people to teach firearms... Of course, it is reasonable to say that you need to grow weapons on the battle formation. I will arrange for someone to build them.

But it is not that easy to build weapons. A stall owner was ordered to do so, but there has been no progress.Wen Kui found out after asking that, first of all, he could not find iron materials and enough blacksmiths.

Someone gave an idea and ordered the collection of iron tools from all households, and pots, hoes, and plows could be melted and forged swords and gun heads.

But Song He and others opposed disturbing the people, saying that it is best to find iron ore in the county directly, but no one knows where there is iron ore.

It is even more difficult to find a blacksmith. People are closed everywhere. Who knows who are blacksmiths among the people?

The craftsman's craftsmanship records some information, but wherever the person was, he finally found the record place and found that he didn't know where he went.

There were also leaders of the Crown Army who rudely kicked open the door and arrested someone to force confession, but they couldn't ask too much about it. The people were so scared that they were unscrupulous when they saw the riots. It was very difficult for soldiers to communicate directly with the people.

There are also various ministries who have privately greedy for property and food, and other problems, which are also very serious...

Zhu Wenkui still has a lot of troubles, and it is not all that. He felt that things seemed very complicated for a moment, and he was overwhelmed.