Chapter 153 He is the God of Plague
After killing Xian Shilang, the 8,000 troops were either captured or killed, and the entire army was wiped out except for a few of them.
The Great Zhou won a good start. Zhang Yongde was used to handing over the work of using his head to Ye Hua. He asked directly: "What should I do next?"
Ye Hua smiled, "Of course it is to expand the results of the battle!"
“Where to call?”
Ye Hua shook his head, "There is no need to fight to expand the results of the battle. Prince Consort, do you believe it or not? I can win a city with my wisdom?"
Zhang Yongde looked at Ye Hua very seriously and said to each other: "I believe you can take down the city. If I don't believe you rely on wisdom, it depends on the bad water in your stomach!"
Ye Hua rolled his eyes in anger, "Stop talking nonsense, pick out a few clever prisoners for me, all of whom are from the north, and I want them to send a letter."
Zhang Yongde was too lazy to ask what news he sent, so he sent the person directly.
Ye Hua stood in front of the prisoners with his hands.
"Listen, General Huangfu Hui, the governor of Chuzhou, has raised the flag of uprising and surrendered to the Great Zhou. He is a northerner and is unwilling to fight the Southern Barbarians." Ye Hua said: "I am the champion of the Great Zhou. I sympathize with you and the northerner. Each of them will give you ten jin of coins. Hurry up and take the money and take your family to the Great Zhou. After the Great Zhou, the emperor will give you land and live and work in peace. If you still follow the Southern Tang traitors, no one can save you!"
After Ye Hua finished speaking, he asked someone to bring the money. The prisoners were stunned for a while and ran away with the money.
"I don't believe they can be obedient!" Zhang Yongde said suddenly.
"I don't believe it either!" Ye Hua smiled, "It's fine as long as someone believes it."
"who?"
"The court of Southern Tang!" Ye Hua said with a smile: "I asked a few days ago that Huangfu Hui, the garrison of Chuzhou, is a person with a story!"
"Story? Then tell me!"
Ye Hua told Zhang Yongde what he knew... Huangfu Hui was a rogue in his early years, and relied on his good kung fu to live in the army.
Once he bet with someone else and lost!
Not only did the military pay be lost, but the money he robbed was lost, and everyone else surrounded Huangfu Hui for the account.
This guy was forced to get anxious. He had no money, so he came up with a bad idea. He told the other soldiers that the emperor only treated the actors well and did not pay attention to the old brothers who fought against the country. It would be better if such an emperor was not protected!
He instigated the soldiers to rebel, but it was true that someone was following him.
Huangfu Hui took his men to kidnap Yang Renyue, yelling that he had fought for more than ten years. Everyone was exhausted and wanted to go home to see his wife.
Of course, Yang Renzhi refused to agree, and persuaded them that the Holy Emperor was in court and had hundreds of thousands of troops, and he wanted to behead him if he disobeyed the military order.
Huangfu Hui is still a good guy.
If you don’t listen to me, then I will kill you!
After killing Yang Renzhi, he found another small school, and the man disagreed and killed him. Finally, he took two heads to see the deputy general Zhao Zaili.
When Zhao Zaili heard about a mutiny, he wanted to climb the wall and escape, but Huangfu Hui pulled his feet off the wall and fell to his nose and face.
Huangfu Hui put the knife on Zhao Zaili's neck, took Yang Renzhi's head to show him, and said that if we didn't follow us, we would be like this. Zhao Zaili did not dare to refute, so he obeyed them and agreed to command the rebels - see if it was not, this is the law of the Five Dynasties!
The rebels burned Beizhou to enter Yedu at night. Zhao Zaili called himself the queen of Liu and appointed Huangfu Hui as the commander of the cavalry and infantry army. Huangfu Hui led hundreds of cavalry and horses to loot and kill them in the city.
He went to a commoner's house and asked what his surname was. The commoner said, "The surname is the country." Huangfu Hui said, "I want to destroy the country." Then he killed all the people's families.
He went to the home of a commoner again and asked what his surname was. The commoner said, "The surname was Wan." Huangfu Hui said, "It's enough for me to kill ten thousand families." He killed all his family.
In those days, Huangfu Hui was like a madman, doing everything he wanted to release all his violent aura. He didn't expect that he could enjoy a moment!
These are the riots of the Five Dynasties. Any soldier can cause a big chaos. There are definitely many people like Huangfu Hui, many of whom died as soon as they were launched.
Huangfu Hui was lucky. The emperor at that time was Li Cunxu. When he heard that the soldiers and generals in Hebei rebelled, he immediately sent Li Siyuan to suppress him.
As a result, halfway through the way, Li Siyuan's subordinates joined forces with Huangfu Hui and other rebels to support Li Siyuan as the emperor. Huangfu Hui had good luck and was appointed as the governor.
Li Siyuan rushed to the capital, but Li Cunxu fled in a hurry, but was killed by the rioters.
Li Cunxu, the Emperor Zhuang of Later Tang, died like this. Ouyang Xiu said that he died at the hands of the actress. In fact, the real culprit was Huangfu Hui.
From the Later Tang Dynasty to the Later Jin Dynasty, Huangfu Hui's life was good.
However, when the Khitans went south, Huangfu Hui was afraid. He rolled the bed and fled to Jiangnan with a group of subordinates, and defected to the Southern Tang Dynasty. Li Jing appointed him as the governor. In recent years, he has risen and continued to rise.
This time, in order to resist the offensive of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Huangfu Hui was also sent out to guard Chuzhou.
Ye Hua spent a quarter of an hour to tell Huangfu Hui's history. Zhang Yongde was not old, and this was the first time he heard that he grabbed his head and said in a turmoil: "Isn't this a plague god? How could Li Jing reuse him?"
"Hahaha!"
Ye Hua laughed loudly, "Yes, it's just a star of destruction! I dare say that many civil and military officials in the Southern Tang Dynasty looked down on Huangfu Hui. We spread news that Huangfu Hui defected to the Great Zhou Dynasty, and guaranteed that someone would believe that Chuzhou would not be within reach at that time!"
After listening to Ye Hua's plan, Zhang Yongde held it in for a long time and said, "You are so sinister!"
Ye Hua laughed loudly, he thought this was the best compliment.
In the next few days, Ye Hua kept releasing prisoners, dozens of people each time, asking them to take various news to Nantang.
Finally, these messages spread in the Nantang, and people's hearts were completely in chaos!
Li Hongji believes that there is no problem with Yancheng's temporary loss. If there is a lack of salt, the world will not be in chaos.
His idea is right, he just ignores the fact that there is still a hoarding thing in the world!
When news of the fall of Yancheng came, salt merchants immediately doubled the price!
During the years when Li Jing became emperor, he seemed to be full of flowers, but in fact he had a peaceful and peaceful life and his national laws were corrupt. Many civil and military officials, even royal relatives and nobles, were all profit-oriented and colluded with wealthy merchants.
With their support, the merchants were unscrupulous.
The salt price soared. People are buying more than the decline. No one is afraid of not having salt to eat, so they come out to buy it. This pushes the salt price up.
In just under ten days, the price of salt rose to a dou of one dollar!
It's messy, it's completely messy!
Not only Jiangbei, but the chaos even affected Jiangnan.
Li Jing couldn't sit still and immediately issued an order to his son Li Hongji, asking him why Yancheng was lost? He asked him to immediately dispatch troops to rescue him!
Before Li Hongji could reply, news of Xian Shilang's defeat and death came again.
Li Jing could no longer sit still, so he hurriedly summoned civil and military personnel to discuss countermeasures together.
The fourth brother, Li Jingda, King of Qi, looked solemn and bowed, "Brother, I just got the news. It is said that the death of Master Xian was, Huangfu Hui was intentional!"
"What?" Li Jing asked in surprise, "This is true?"
"Brother, there are some fugitives who have escaped and said that Huangfu Hui has defected to the Great Zhou Dynasty, and he deliberately sent Xian Shilang to die!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Xuan stepped forward and said angrily: "King of Qi, the words he heard are not worthy of acceptance. Huangfu Hui is loyal and a rare talent. With him stationed in Chuzhou, Guo Wei cannot advance in an instant. He is a hero!"
Li Jingda chuckled, "Sir Xu, I am not going to frame General Huangfu, but just report what I heard to the emperor."
"Then you shouldn't doubt your own people!" Xu Xuan continued to speak out for justice.
But Li Jingda disagreed, "How many years did Huangfu Hui surrender to the Tang Dynasty? He had been in the same palace as Guo Wei before, did he collude with him? Gao Xingzhou, Fu Yanqing, Wang Yin, and Wang Jing, do these people have anything to do with him? Why did Zhou soldiers raid Yancheng? How could they easily defeat Xianshilang? Xu Xueshi, don't forget that Huangfu Hui has a rebellious backbone behind his head! This person is absolutely not trustworthy!"
The two of them kept arguing in the court.
Among civil officials, Han Xizai heard it in his ears and felt a little cold in his heart.
I was originally determined to speak for Huangfu Hui, but now I don’t dare to do so. Once upon a time, when the court hired people, it was no longer a choice of talented people. Instead, it was a southerner, a northerner, your person, my person!
As the emperor, Li Jing not only did not severely punish this sign, but also intentionally or unintentionally indulged it.
Han Xizai understood that Li Jing only wanted to conserve the Southern Tang Dynasty and had no ambition to unify the world, so he used "his own people" more considerate. People like them would only be excluded and constantly marginalized.
Just as Han Xizai was thinking, Li Jing couldn't help but scolded, "Don't quarrel!"
Xu Xuan and Li Jingda shut their mouths together and waited for the emperor to make a judgment.
"Issuing an order to Huangfu Hui, asking him to send troops immediately to retake Yancheng without hesitation!"
Xu Xuan was frightened. Huangfu Hui had limited troops and wanted to deal with Guo Wei again. Where did the troops come from to recover Yancheng? This is to push him to the dead end!
Xu Xuan immediately stood up and wanted to make a comment, but Li Jing turned around and left with a swaying sleeve.
The imperial envoy brought the imperial edict to cross the Yangtze River and sent it directly to Chuzhou.
When Huangfu Hui saw the will, he was stunned.
Without reinforcements, food and salary, and nothing, let him recover Yancheng?
You are going to force me to die! Huangfu Hui smiled, smiling very desolately.
No matter how loyal I am, the Southern Tang Dynasty still does not regard me as my own person!
If you ask me to send troops, then I will send troops!
"Transfer my order, order 5,000 troops and follow me to attack Yancheng!"
Huangfu Hui dressed his armor neatly and meticulously. He stood in front of the bronze mirror and looked carefully. His temples were already gray. He gritted his teeth, grabbed the sword, rushed outside, flew out of the south gate of Chuzhou, and went straight to Yancheng to kill... Just one hour after Huangfu Hui ordered his troops out of the city, Dazhou received a detailed report from the city.
Chapter completed!