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Chapter 1013 Jiangnan Rebellion

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    According to Huang Mingyuan's plan, Yang Guang showed favor to the Jiangnan family on the one hand, and this time selected hundreds of descendants of the Jiangnan family as officials; on the other hand, he used the army to intimidate and garrison troops deep into the states.  The place began to settle down.

    If the established policy is implemented, in a few years, the Jiangnan area may really become Yang Guang's stable rear area.

    Yang Guang and Huang Mingyuan valued the Jiangnan family, but other courtiers did not think so.

    After the assassination of the emperor in Sizhou, Yang Guang ordered his ministers to thoroughly investigate the case, and ordered all parts of the south of the Yangtze River to hunt down the remnants of Wan'antang and capture the assassins.  He also ordered various places to ban the Tianshi Sect and arrest the demons.

    This incident was originally a planned purge of the remnants of Nanchen, and its target was also very clear, that is, the opposition forces.  In Yang Guang's view, this matter will not have much impact on the situation in Jiangnan.

    Inside and outside the country, the most taboo conspiracy to rebel. As soon as the wind blows, the court often catchs the wind and see the wind and rain.

    Moreover, in this imperial society, especially after the emperor issues instructions on a case, judicial officials often try their best to cater to the emperor's psychology, beat suspects into submission, turn trivial matters into major cases, and then wantonly implicate and uncover a bunch of people.  A group of treason criminals.

    Therefore, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, Shang Yi, who was responsible for investigating the case, and the Third Division Yu Shicheng were vigorously hunting down the assassins in the south of the Yangtze River. In line with the attitude of "it would be better to arrest a thousand people by mistake than to let one person slip through the net", they would arrest them if there was even the slightest suspicion.  Tortured.  Under severe punishment, more and more people were arrested, and hundreds of them were forced to admit that they were assassins. Tens of thousands of Wan'an Tang remnants were involved, and the prison was full of prisoners.

    ? What was originally a limited pursuit and suppression campaign ended up spreading and became a major purge of Jiangnan forces.

    When the first batch of criminals were reported to Yang Guang, Yang Guang didn't take it seriously. With a wave of his hand, he ordered these hundreds of people to be executed on the same day, "and ordered them to be executed on the same day."

    But then there were more and more criminals, and even Yang Guang was shocked when he saw them.

    Although the task of punishing evil has been completed, if the killing continues like this, I am afraid that all the officials and gentry in Jiangnan will be killed.  How to win over the Jiangnan family?

    Yang Guang ordered Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment to strictly review these cases.  Dali Prime Minister Zhang Yuanji found this matter quite strange. The criminals accused of being remnants of Wan'antang were involved in all aspects. If they were all remnants of Wan'antang, the other party would have already taken control of Jiangnan in one fell swoop, so there was no need to continue to lie dormant.

    Zhang Yuanji reviewed relevant documents and files and found that most of the people's charges were specious.

    However, Yu Shicheng already had a high prestige in Dali Temple, and this was an investigation ordered by the emperor. In line with the idea that wrongdoers should not be let go, under the power of Long, no one in the judicial department dared to touch Ni Lin.  It became a final decision.

    Yu Shicheng was involved in many crimes in the south of the Yangtze River, and countless people were killed every day.  More and more rebels were caught, and finally it reached the point where all the government officials were thieves.  At this situation, Yu Shicheng was also shocked, but he was riding a tiger and could not retreat, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and investigate the case, confirming everyone's crime of treason.

    Finally, the common people in Jiangnan couldn't bear it anymore.

    On October 4th, Xie Yi, Wang Bao, Gu Ziyuan and others from Wan'an Hall killed the county magistrate in Kunshan, Wuzhou (the seat of governance is now southeast of Qingpu District, Shanghai) and raised flags to rebel.

    Liu Quan, the governor of Wuzhou, was busy mobilizing troops to suppress the rebellion in Kunshan, but at this time, the Jiangnan scholars were filled with anger aroused by Yu Shicheng's tyranny.  At this time, someone took the lead, and the powerful Jiangnan people responded to the call and raised their flags to rebel against the Sui Dynasty with great momentum.  Coupled with the instigation of the remnants of Wan'antang, the whole Jiangnan immediately became chaotic.  These anti-Sui armed forces "executed county orders and either extracted their intestines or gizzarded their flesh and ate them." Their methods were cruel and their influence was bad, seriously shaking the foundation of the Sui government's rule in Jiangnan.

    At this time, let alone continuing the purge, if the rebellion cannot be suppressed, Jiangnan will probably be in chaos.  This turmoil was actually an unwarranted disaster. If local officials had not abused the people for political achievements, they would not have caused such a big riot.

    After Yang Guang heard the news, he was furious and immediately ordered various places to eliminate banditry and stabilize the place.

    In order to completely suppress the bandits everywhere, Yang Guang appointed Huang Mingyuan as the general manager of Wuzhou Road March and Jiangnan pacification ambassador, and led the imperial army and Huainan soldiers to conquer the rebellion in Jiangnan.  Yang Guang granted Huang Mingyuan the right to act expediently, and officials below the fourth rank in Jiangnan could be at Huang Mingyuan's disposal.  In fact, there were very few officials in Jiangnan who were above the fourth rank, and Huang Mingyuan actually became the overlord of Jiangnan officials.

    Before leaving, Yang Guang took Huang Mingyuan's hand and said: "In the land south of the Yangtze River, people's hearts are not attached to them. This rebellion is a good opportunity to completely clean up these rebels. Please remember to put the rebels to death."Fight back and clean it up, and don't let Jiangnan fall into chaos again.  "

    Yang Guang¡¯s character is indeed too strong sometimes. Don¡¯t you know that if he were like you, the hatred would be deep, and the people in Jiangnan would be even less attached to him?  Many things Yang Guang did were not worth the gain in the eyes of future generations. It was not that he was irrational, but that he felt that he did not need to care.

    Of course Huang Mingyuan would not do what Yang Guang asked.  Although after arriving in Wuzhou, the rebellion can be put down smoothly by killing all directions, and it will be even easier to earn a lot of rewards by then, but for the sake of the world, this is not how to solve the problem.

    Although the matter of quelling the rebellion was urgent, Huang Mingyuan still went to Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment, bringing all the files on rebellion cases with him.  This time, Dali Prime Minister Zhang Yuanji handed over all his review of these cases to Huang Mingyuan. Looking at these shocking cases, Huang Mingyuan couldn't help but frown.  This Yu Shicheng was really looking for death. If he hadn't known that Yu Shicheng was a confidant of the emperor, even Huang Mingyuan would have felt that Yu Shicheng was deliberately creating chaos.

    On October 15, Huang Mingyuan led 6,000 imperial troops and more than 10,000 local Yangzhou officers and soldiers to cross the river from Jiangdu Port and attack Yanling (i.e. Jingkou, now Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province) south of the river.

    Yanling is an important pass in the south of the Yangtze River. It controls the south and the north, and is a battleground for military strategists.

    In less than half a month, the unrest in Wuzhou had spread to Yanling and other places.  Although Yanling City was not captured by the rebels, large numbers of mobs raged across Yanling, and the government's rule here ceased to exist.

    Huang Mingyuan ordered the right-leading general Mai Tiezhang to lead three thousand infantry and cavalry directly to Yanling City, defeating all the mobs along the way.

    When Mai Tiezhang led his army to Yanling City, thousands of mobs surrounded the city.  Although these mobs were threatened by private soldiers from wealthy families, they were not organized themselves.  The wheat iron staff defeated him with one blow.  The bandits fled in all directions, and the siege of Yanling was resolved.

    After the siege of Yanling was solved, the army had a safe base to advance, and supplies from the north of the Yangtze River could be successfully transported to the south of the river.

    Huang Mingyuan did not care to stay in Yanling to appease the people. He only left Zuowuhou General Guo Yan with five thousand troops to continue to appease the common people and clean up the remnants of the rebels in Yanling. The rest of the troops continued to go south.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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