Although spring rain is as expensive as oil, the people of Nankang Prefecture can only watch the green seedlings in their fields being trampled into mud by Ning Wang's soldiers and bandits.

People who work and do business in Nankang Prefecture could only watch the factory shutdown due to Ning Wangbing's besiege of Nankang and the trade route was cut off.

The people of Nankang Prefecture did not expect that in this era of warm food and clothing, there would be people rebellion.

But for Wang Shouren, the deputy censor of Jiangxi, who was standing in Nankang Prefecture at this time, King Ning's rebellion was already expected.

However, what Wang Shouren did not expect was that King Ning would suddenly rebel while he came to inspect Nankang Prefecture City and even took down the prosperous Nanchang City in one fell swoop.

Looking at the rebels of Ning Wang who were spread all over the plains outside the city and the heads held in front of him by Ning Wang, Wang Shouren still calmly commanded the officers and soldiers under his command to fill the cannons with gunpowder, and the musketeers were ready to shoot.

Wang Shouren recognized that the head was the head of the deputy envoy Zhuang Dian, who was obviously cut down by King Ning to intimidate the officials of the court.

But Wang Shouren was disappointed that there were not many officials who were obviously brave and unyielding. Now all he could know was Zhuang Dian, the deputy envoy of the Censor, while the governor Pei Xin and the Censor Pang Zhengjia had already surrendered to King Ning. Among them, Pei Xin transformed into the Censor General under King Ning, and came outside the city to persuade him to surrender.

"Brother Bo'an, Zhengde is not the blood of Emperor Xiaozong, but a wild breed among the people. He is a rogue and 14 fools. He has become a treasure. He built a leopard house and indulged in love with him. He fought cocks and horses, and killed ten tribes. Now he is even more punishing loyal ministers with public opinion and promoting torture for peeling skin and solid grass. He can be called a cruel king!"

"Your Highness Wuning is the blood of the Taizu, and is respectful to the wise and inferior people. He cannot bear to the destruction of the Ming Dynasty by the treacherous monarchs and treacherous ministers. He followed the heavenly way and promoted his righteousness to punish the treacherous monarchs. Pei specially conferred the order of His Highness Wang Ning. I hope that Brother Bo'an knows the loyal and treacherous times and surrenders to our king, so as to avoid the people of Nankang Prefecture being tragically damaged! After achieving great achievements in the future, our king will also be given high officials and generous salaries!"

After Pei Xin said this, Wang Shouren also stood on Nankang Prefecture City and replied with a smile: "You are following the way of heaven, but Wang is following the hearts of the people. Brother Zong Pu, Bo'an advises you to hang yourself now, which can also avoid the disaster of the nine clans. Wang will also write in the memorial that you were scolding the thief and hanged yourself, leaving you with the name of a loyal minister!"

"Hmph! He, Zhu Houzhao, is a foolish monarch, and is not the blood of Emperor Xiaozong. Since Pei Xin was a minister of the Ming Dynasty, how could he recognize him as a monarch? Wang Shouren, Pei advises you again, you'd better surrender now and obey the laws of heaven! Otherwise, after the 100,000 troops under King Ning's command broke the city, you will be left with no one in Nankang City!"

Pei Xin was a little angry and said it again.

"Wang doesn't want to talk nonsense to you. If you really follow the laws of heaven, Wang will only follow the hearts of the people! If you don't believe it, Wang will ask the people in the city for you!"

Wang Shouren said, then turned around and looked at the militia behind him, shouting loudly: "My villagers, do you want to rebel with His Highness Ning?"

"I don't want to! Who is willing to rebel? Now that the world is so good, the government has repeatedly reduced rent and interest rates, and only those who are full will rebel!"

Several of the more bold people replied.

In recent years, King Ning has repeatedly occupied the land of official land and civilian land because of his expansion, resulting in more and more displaced people. Wang Shouren would always take this opportunity to recruit these refugees to Nankang and Jiujiang to reclaim new fields, or directly open factories in Nankang City to recruit workers, and secretly trained troops with the prefect of suppressing bandits with Wu Wending, the prefect of Ji'an.

Therefore, at this time, the people of Nankang City were not desperate because of King Ning's fierce slaughter of the land. On the contrary, they were very disgusted with King Ning's rebellious writings. Especially after Wang Shouren asked the officials from the Zhongjun Society who were accompanying him to secretly promote it, they all knew that King Ning wanted to rebel and become the emperor to cause chaos in the world and take in some ambitious thieves who robbed everywhere.

Because of this, Wang Shouren asked this question at this time, the people of Nankang Prefecture all agreed and expressed that they were unwilling to rebel.

"Then do you think the current emperor is a good emperor? Is it wrong for the current emperor to kill corrupt officials? Is the current emperor going to overthrow?!"

Wang Shouren continued to ask.

"The emperor is naturally a good emperor. All the lords said that the flood last year was the tax exempted by the emperor. Now the land is also given to us by the emperor. How can we not be a good emperor!"

"That's it! It's much better than that King Ning. King Ning only knows to let his officers and soldiers take our fields!"

"I still don't pay for my meal!"

"My one hundred stone tea leaves are collected as soon as they are collected!"

"I also said that we planted his land and asked us to pay more taxes and grains than to the government. What's the good thing about His Royal Highness Ning?"

"The emperor is much better than King Ning. He said that cloth is not as valuable as before, so he may hurt farmers, and he will shorten the corvee service and give subsidies!"

"The emperor is the best emperor nowadays. He is the best emperor ever since. He is the only emperor who gives us money!"

...

The people started talking, and kept saying the praises of Emperor Zhu Houzhao and the sins of King Ning.

Seeing this, Wang Shouren laughed a little proudly. The likes and dislikes of the people further strengthened his determination to quell the rebellion of King Ning, and made him more convinced that the current emperor is the hearts of the people, the legal ruler who truly has the support of the people, and the true orthodox world. Therefore, he shouted again:

"Brother Zong Pu, look, look at the public opinion in the world, who is the orthodox wise ruler, who is the rebel who is not popular with the people, can you still need to distinguish it again?!"

Wang Shouren shouted loudly, then waved his hand and shouted, "All the villagers, let me shout for the rebels, Wei Taiping! Governor Xu Tai has led 30,000 border troops, Liu Hui, Gui Yong has led 20,000 guard troops, and has also used Ji'an Wu Wending, Huguang Qinjin, Guangdong and Guangxi Yang Dan and other 160,000 imperial troops have arrived day and night, because I have expected that King Ning would rebel, and now as long as we stick to Nankang Prefecture City, King Ning will definitely be eliminated! At that time, the land occupied by King Ning will be returned to your hands!"

Wang Shouren said this and waved his hand and shouted: "Punish the rebels, Wei Taiping!"

"Punish the rebels and defend Taiping!"

"Punish the rebels and defend Taiping!"

"Punish the rebels and defend Taiping!"

...

Other officials and civilians in Nankang City also shouted.

Pei Xin saw this and naturally had nothing to say. He even became scared. Although he reminded himself countless times that although he had to surrender to King Ning, he was also because the emperor was too cruel and harsh to the gentry, he still couldn't help but feel that the people in the world seemed to be still with the court, so he felt a little scared and retreated in disappointment.

When King Ning saw this scene, his face turned dark for a moment. He thought that he would not have let Wang Shouren show off in this Nankang City if he had not learned that Qianhu, who smuggled weapons, had been killed by Wang Shouren, and he would not have let Wang Shouren show off in this Nankang City.

At this time, Pei Xin also came to King Ning and informed King Ning in detail about the upcoming arrival of the 160,000 army of the court.

Ning Wang asked Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng, the civil servants who defected to him: "Two gentlemen, what are the good strategies to defeat the enemy?"

"Now that Wang Shouren refuses to surrender, Nankang City is no longer in our hands, so we cannot go north to cross the river. At present, it is best to stick to Nanchang!"

Liu Yangzheng, who was named the right prime minister by King Ning, replied at this time. As a literati who rebelled with King Ning, he knew better than anyone else what Ning Wang’s army was. Naturally, he did not think that King Ning’s army could defeat Nankang City, so he simply suggested that King Ning defend Nanchang.

Li Shishi, who was named the Left Prime Minister by King Ning, also agreed with Liu Yangxing's suggestion. As a senior civil servant who was once the left censor of the court, he hated the behavior of Emperor Zhengde Zhu Houzhao not paying attention to Confucianism. Otherwise, he would not have followed King Ning to rebel with the Left Censor. However, he was not a very clever military strategist. After seeing the determination of a group of people in Nankang City and Wang Shouren to defend Nankang, he also retreated and suggested that King Ning return to his army to defend Nanchang City.

King Ning was also an ambitious and unintelligent middle-class vassal king. Seeing that the two prime ministers around him had such suggestions, he also returned to Nanchang City.

That night.

Wang Shouren received the news that King Ning returned to Nanchang through the undercover of the Jinyiwei, and then laughed: "Sure enough, he was scared by the army of 160,000 troops. He sent an order to organize villagers to go to Nanchang Prefecture to post notices everywhere, so that more people could know what the army of 160,000 troops were about to arrive."

Officials from Nankang Mansion immediately said that they would leave.

Wang Shouren immediately summoned Zhang Lun and other defenders of Nankang City and discussed: "Now that King Ning has rebelled. If I believe that he wants to take the world, there are only three strategies to take. The best strategy is to attack the capital with surprise troops. This is more difficult to deal with, and it will inevitably lead to chaos in the Central Plains; the middle strategy is to take Nanjing in Shunjiang and separatist the south and establish itself; the worst strategy is to defend Nanchang. When our court army arrives, we can naturally pacify him easily!"

"If Ning Wang Xing and Zhongce had to capture Nankang and Jiujiang to seize the crossing of the river, so Nankang City must stick to it!"

Zhang Lun also replied.

"Well, only Nankang is not lost. King Ning can only defend Nanchang. Although it is false news that the court has an army of 160,000 to arrive, we have trained 80,000 troops to quell the rebellion of King Ning in the Nanchang City area, so as to prevent the war after the rebellion of King Ning to other prefectures and let the people suffer!"

Wang Shouren was just talking, and Wang Shuo, the Jinyiwei who was in charge of intelligence, ran over: "Young master, Master Futai, something is not good, Jiujiang Prefect Xu Zan also rebelled! Kill the Tongzong Yuan Zong, responded to King Ning, saying that he was following the way of heaven and being a fool, and advocated that the gentry in the world raise the banner to help King Ning!"

"What!" Zhang Lun shouted in shock.

Wang Shouren couldn't help but frown: "There are really scholars and officials in the world who only care about their own interests and disregard the righteousness of the country! These people have read the books of sages in vain! They are really stupid!"

"Mr. Futai, it is not the time to say this. When Jiujiang is lost, Nankang City will be attacked from both sides. I am afraid there is no need to defend, and it is impossible to determine whether there will be other officials and gentry responding to the rebellion of King Ning!"
Chapter completed!