Chapter 82 The Change of Tuqiao
Seeing that Tong Yili and Zhu Dadian, the two national pillars, had reached a consensus, Shi Chaoli quickly stood up and showed his presence: "What are those two gurus waiting for? Hurry up and start doing it, should we invite the prefect of Jinhua first or the prefect of Jinhua first?"
Zhu Dadian is quite like a general: "There must be no problem here in Jinhua Mansion. Tong Chenshi, Quzhou Mansion is going to ask you!"
Tong Yili has always lacked the opportunity to change, but he is not bad at talking about military affairs on paper, so he directly calculates the strength at hand: "This time, the Holy Emperor visits Jinhua Palace, and there are 200 people led by Zhou Zhisheng, and my servants have 300 people. In addition, there are 500 righteous soldiers recruited by Chengyi Bo in the city. After the matter in Jinhua, can you lend me these righteous soldiers?"
Zhu Dadian said openly: "No problem, with me here, there is no need for one soldier in Jinhua Mansion!"
Zhu Dadian's statement is naturally exaggerated. Although he is the number one gentry in the entire Jinhua Prefecture, and after years of operation, Jinhua County has been operated by him, but who can have few enemies to this point? Moreover, there are also a few strange people among the prefecture and county officials, so there were also a few accidents in the process of taking over the entire Jinhua Prefecture.
But overall, it was unpredictable. Only a very small number of officials such as Pujiang County Magistrate refused to accept the reality and were sent out directly by gifts. The rest of the civil and military officials admitted the fact that Empress Zhang came to Jinhua Prefecture and expressed their firm support for Empress Zhang.
Not to mention that Empress Zhang is what people want, Zhu Dadian came forward to support Empress Zhang means that there is not much suspense about this matter. Moreover, seeing so many colleagues on board the pirate ship, everyone has the feeling of not ruling the public. Even if Emperor Hongguang gains the upper hand, he will be generous to others. Moreover, the conditions offered by Empress Zhang and Zhu Dadian are extremely generous, so Jinhua Mansion was accepted as soon as possible.
Then Tong Yili brought Zhou Zhisheng's hundreds of soldiers back to Quzhou Prefecture. Although Tong Yili lacked the opportunity to change and was not a talent for a general, Zhou Zhisheng, the rising star of the sincerity Bo Mansion, performed extremely wonderfully this time, almost the autumn wind swept the fallen leaves sweeping across the entire Quzhou Prefecture.
It’s just different from Jinhua Mansion. Although Tong Yili has always been their immediate superior, Zhou Zhisheng encountered a lot of small-scale resistance this time, but it was only a few small-scale resistances.
Zhou Zhisheng has been there before Empress Zhang, but he has only taken one or two hours to pacify the enemy. Moreover, the whole process shows his decisive decision to kill and make the officials and civilians in Quzhou dare not have any unfair intentions. Moreover, when he took down the entire Quzhou Prefecture, his troops had expanded to nearly a thousand people.
Chuzhou Prefecture heard that Empress Zhang came to Jinhua and took the initiative to return. Now Tong Yili issued an order to Yanzhou Prefecture in the name of "subjecting Jinqu and Yan Chudao". Only then did Nanjing realize that he had been deceived. Empress Zhang did not go to Putuo Mountain at all, but suddenly arrived at Jinhua Prefecture and controlled all the three prefectures of Jinhua, Quzhou and Chuzhou.
Before the court responded, Tong Yili and Zhu Dadian, who supported Empress Zhang, had already won eight counties in Jinhua Prefecture, five counties in Quzhou Prefecture and ten counties in Chuzhou Prefecture, a total of three and twenty-three counties, and were even preparing to get involved in Yanzhou Prefecture.
But what made the Hongguang court even more headache was that Empress Zhang did not officially raise the banner of equality with the court, but only announced that Empress Zhang was preparing to go to Chisong Mountain in Jinhua to worship the legendary god Huang Chuping. The three prefectures and twenty-three counties in Jinqu are still under the Ming Dynasty. Empress Zhang just hopes to become her Tang Muyi for the time being.
Everyone knows that Empress Zhang is talking nonsense completely. This dynasty does not have a system like Empress Tang Muyi. What's more, Empress Zhang was the emperor and empress of the previous dynasty and could stay outside the palace for a long time? However, many civil and military officials did not oppose Empress Zhang's departure from Jinhua, and even thought that this was a wise move.
Moreover, for the court, although Empress Zhang's move to Jinhua was a major event that the sky and the earth were broken, the time for her move was too inappropriate. Now the court has more important things to deal with. Emperor Hongguang frowned and said, "Ma Xiangguo, now the emperor's sister-in-law must find a way to comfort her, otherwise Gao Jie and Huang Degong will be used by those who are interested!"
Ma Shiying also felt worried. He really didn't expect Empress Zhang to cause chaos in the court at this critical moment.
If Empress Zhang dared to be so lawless, he would definitely call Qi Dabing to completely eliminate Empress Zhang and Zhenyi's Mansion as soon as possible.
After all, there are only a few thousand people under Liu Yongxi's command, and Zhu Dadian and Tong Yi stood in Zhejiang, which is only a few thousand weak soldiers. However, the court must now appease both Huang Degong and Gao Jie first.
The reason why Jingnan Bo Huang Degong was listed first is because he was the victim, and this incident is likely to cause a full-scale civil war that endangers the Hongguang court.
The cause of the matter is very simple. Huang Degong and Huang Fei, the general of Jingkou Town, who was taken over by Liu Yongxi, were old friends. Recently, Huang Fei passed by Yangzhou, so Huang Degong specially brought hundreds of cavalry to greet his old friends. However, he did not expect that Xingping Bo Gaojie sent out his troops to intercept Huang Degong halfway.
When Huang Degong arrived at the Tuqiao, Gao Jie's army suddenly arrived. After a fierce battle, Huang Degong only led a small number of personal soldiers to break through the siege, and almost all the other cavalry were lost. Then Gao Jie took the opportunity to sneak attack Yizhen, who was stationed by Huang Degong.
This made the Jingnan Bo Huang Degong, who suffered a great loss, furious and prepared to fight Gao Jie at any time to fight to the death. Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing were also involved in this Tuqiao Incident. An earth-shaking civil war broke out at any time. Now the court can only focus all its attention on appeaseing the four towns in Jiangbei, and have no intention of solving the problem of Queen Zhang.
After all, Empress Zhang is just a female, and she is now moving to Jinhua only because the court has some injustice to deal with it. Compared with the civil war of more than 100,000 people in Jiangbei, Ma Shiying can only agree with Emperor Hongguang's view: "The four towns in Jiangbei are the pillars of the court, and the Tuqiao Incident cannot be used by those who are interested. As long as Empress Zhang does not collude with outsiders, she can temporarily allow Zhejiang to become her Tang Muyi!"
The outsider he mentioned is either someone else, or Zuo Liangyu, who is in the upper reaches of Huguang. Now Jiangbei is at a strife, and Zuo Liangyu is eyeing him and preparing to go east. If he unites with Empress Zhang, the Hongguang court may face an unprecedented crisis.
Just thinking about this, Ma Shiying became angry. Liu Yongxi and Empress Zhang were very lucky. Liu Yongxi robbed the annual monies given to the Qing Dynasty by the court. As a result, Empress Zhang left Beijing and went to sea to make big things turned into small things. Now Zhu Dadian and Tong Yixing swept over twenty counties within more than ten days, and because of the Tuqiao Incident, they could only make big things turned into small things.
He felt that Liu Yongxi and Empress Zhang would not have such good luck next time.
Chapter completed!