The Prosperous Era of Longwan

Chapter 330 329 Mutation

As someone discovered that someone had climbed over the wall in the backyard, the courtyard of the Ministry of Revenue in Xiaoxiaochang was soon surrounded by soldiers from the Zhenwu Camp. Only the southern courtyard wall was connected to another house, so the soldiers from the Zhenwu Camp did not break in, completely surrounding the Ministry of Revenue.

Holding the note given by Huang Maoguan, several clerks got rid of the pursuers from the Zhenwu Camp and rushed to complete their tasks.

Not long after, Xu Pengju, the Duke of Wei, who had received the news, met the clerk from the Ministry of Revenue who had escaped to deliver the letter in the garrison hall.

"What's the situation there now?"

Wei Guangde glanced at the note in his hand and asked immediately.

There was actually no need to read the content of the note, but it said that the soldiers of the Zhenwu Camp were lawless and openly besieged the government office, and asked the garrison hall to send troops to suppress the rebellion as soon as possible.

"Sir, the rebels have surrounded the government office and have not yet entered. Please send reinforcements as soon as possible."

The clerk knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

"They didn't attack the government office?"

Hearing that the soldiers of Zhenwu Camp did not attack the Ministry of Revenue, Xu Pengju was relieved.

What his people saw was that the chaotic soldiers surrounded the place, but did not mix into the crowd to see what was going on. So now that they heard that the chaotic soldiers seemed to have discipline and did not rush in, it meant that there was still a chance to ease the situation.

The soldiers were clamoring for pay, so just give them, not to mention that these military pays should have been paid.

After getting a positive answer, Xu Pengju's mind became active.

Since those soldiers knew what was right and wrong and knew that they could not offend their superiors, it seemed that they were just surrounding there to scare the officials of the Ministry of Revenue and let them pay the overdue military pay.

"Let someone prepare, we're going to the small parade ground."

Xu Pengju instructed the people around him.

On the note, Huang Maoguan was summoning them, the officials in Nanjing, and Xu Pengju had no intention of going at first.

A gentleman does not build a wall, and he is also literate.

Just hearing those soldiers just surrounding the office and making noise, Xu Pengju somehow became bolder.

In fact, up to now, Xu Pengju has not issued any combat orders to other Beijing camps in Nanjing, but only asked them to gather their troops and stand by.

Before the soldiers of Zhenwu Camp rushed out of the small parade ground and ran to Nanjing City to make trouble, he did not intend to issue an order to suppress it.

In fact, at this time, he was sending people to each camp to find out how many soldiers could be dispatched.

Now, he planned to go there in person to see the situation, maybe he could resolve this war.

At the same time, in the eunuch's mansion, the eunuch He Shou was doing the same thing as Xu Pengju, but he did not plan to go to the scene, so he ignored Huang Maoguan's request.

He was a eunuch guarding the eunuch, not a eunuch guarding the Ministry of Revenue. The owed soldiers' salaries were paid, so what was there to make a fuss about.

And the Nanjing Ministry of War, Shangshu Zhang Ao, with a gloomy face, after understanding the whole cause and effect of the incident, also made a similar decision to Xu Pengju.

Although it was caused by the Ministry of Revenue's arrears of military pay, as the Minister of War, he could not stay out of it.

Just before leaving, Zhang Ao sent someone to inform Li Sui, the Minister of War, to go to the small parade ground to see the situation. If necessary, he would need a minister like him who had led soldiers and fought in battles to calm down the chaotic soldiers.

Li Sui was a Jinshi in the fifth year of Jiajing. When he was a doctor in the Ministry of Justice, he took advantage of the establishment of the Eastern Palace and the opportunity of a general amnesty according to the routine. Without the support of the Minister of Justice Nie Xian, Li Sui contacted his colleague Lu Hui and asked the Chief Censor Wang Tingxiang to include the officials who offended by the "Great Ceremony Debate" in the amnesty order.

At this time, Emperor Jiajing had just defeated his opponent and sat firmly on the throne, so their request was naturally rejected.

Although it was not successful, it was praised by many people.

When Li Sui was transferred to the Ministry of Rites, he fell out with Xia Yan, the then Minister of Rites. Xia Yan even ordered the censors to impeach Li Sui, arrest Li Sui, put him in prison, and demoted him to the Tongzhi of Huzhou.

Since then, Li Sui was completely separated from the court and sent to the local area. Later, he was transferred to Quzhou prefecture for the third time and promoted to deputy envoy of Su and Song military preparation.

In April of the 38th year of Jiajing, the Japanese pirates invaded Haimen with hundreds of ships. Li Sui commanded Tongzheng Tang Shunzhi, Deputy General Liu Xian, Deputy Envoy Liu Jingshao, Guerrilla Qiu Sheng and others to resist the enemy, defeated the Japanese pirates and pursued them, occupied their nests, pursued them to Xiazigang, and annihilated all the remaining Japanese pirates. The Japanese pirates in Jiangbei were completely pacified.

Such military exploits made Emperor Jiajing very happy, and Li Sui was promoted to Nanjing Military Minister.

Zhang Ao felt that to deal with these chaotic soldiers, it was still necessary to have ministers like Li Sui who had been on the battlefield to subdue them.

At this time, Li Tingzhu, the admiral of Linhuai, was also very entangled. After receiving the summons from Huang Maoguan, he did not make a decision immediately, but sent people to inquire about other people's things. If someone went to the small parade ground, he would go there to see the situation.

The main officials of Nanjing City made different decisions. Xu Pengju and Zhang Ao rushed to the small parade ground one after another.

Although the soldiers of Zhenwu Camp were excited about the Nanjing garrison and the Minister of War, they still knew what was good and bad. After the sedan chairs of the two arrived, they made way to the left and right, and walked through the crowd under the vigilant eyes of the guards and approached the Ministry of Revenue.

You know, the group of soldiers around were all fully armed. After all, today was a parade. These people did not come unarmed. They were not only wearing the standard face armor of the Ming army, but also equipped with swords, guns, arrows and crossbows.

After all, they were the troops of Nanjing Jingying, and their equipment was much better than that of the local guards.

In fact, when things developed to this point, many soldiers with active minds were also thinking about how to end it.

There was a bit of commotion today, but none of the generals from Zhenwu Camp showed up, which explains the problem.

His immediate superiors didn't think it was wrong for them to argue about their pay. Thinking about it, it was true that their military pay was withheld and they themselves couldn't get the share of military pay that was supposed to belong to them. It was strange that they didn't complain.

Although there was no general taking the lead, more than a dozen people with higher prestige among the soldiers still stood together to discuss how to solve the problem.

After knowing that the sedan chairs of Nanjing garrison Wei Guogong Xu Pengju and Nanjing Ministry of War Shangshu Zhang Hao had arrived, they naturally would not embarrass them, as they were both Shangguan.

However, when the two sedans stopped outside the gate of the Ministry of Household Affairs Office, these people also walked up quickly. They wanted to put forward the conditions that they had to meet after discussing with Xu Pengju and Zhang Hao.

Xu Pengju and Zhang Hao were standing in front of the office door with calm expressions. The door was still tightly closed and had no intention of opening it.

"The arrears of military pay should have been paid in the first place. I will coordinate this matter with the Ministry of Accounts. However, your request to repay the pay that was withheld last year is really not a trivial matter. I must understand the situation clearly before I can reply to you."

After Zhang Hao frowned and listened to the conditions proposed by the leading soldier, he hesitated for a moment before answering.

"As your superior officer, I now ask you to take these people and go back to the military camp to wait for news. What does it look like to be so noisy?"

Later, Zhang Hao said angrily to those people.

After listening to Zhang Hao's words, the expressions of the dozen or so leading soldiers changed slightly, half of them were frightened. After all, these people were the ones they needed to look up to on weekdays.

The other half, on the other hand, were angry. They didn't expect that they had reached this point, and these officials still planned to deal with them in this way.

When the military pay was withheld last year, this is what the people in the Ministry of Revenue said. They would take the military pay like this first, and they would go back and report the soldiers' opinions to their superiors. They couldn't make the decision. As a result, no one paid attention to them until now.

"Go call the door."

After speaking to the soldiers, Zhang Hao ordered his guards to knock on the door of the Ministry of Household Affairs Office. Xu Pengju and Zhang Hao walked into the courtyard with their guards one after the other.

Just when everyone had entered and the doorman at the Ministry of Revenue was about to close the door, the dozen or so leading soldiers looked at each other, and they all saw the fierceness in each other's eyes.

To be able to become the leaders of these people, these ten or so people are naturally not just ordinary people. They are all masters of fighting in the military camp, and they are also ruthless people. Only in this way can they be feared by other soldiers, who usually regard them as the boss.

Zhang Hao's attitude just now was obviously to deal with them. He probably let them go in to discuss, but the result would be to tell them to go back and wait for payment.

Now that the matter has reached this point, even if military pay is paid, how will they be treated in the future?

They cannot be allowed to discuss behind closed doors, they must go in and listen.

Almost instantly, these dozen people moved. They rushed forward before the concierge could close the door, and worked together to force the door open.

The soldiers at the back didn't understand their intentions at first, and they didn't react until someone shouted loudly. Those who were close quickly rushed up and forced open the door of the Ministry of Household Office.

The movement behind him was a bit loud. After all, after the door was blocked by the other party and could not be closed, the concierge tried his best to hold it back while calling the people from the household department next to him to come over and help. No one from the outside could be forced to break in.

During the summoning process, Xu Pengju and Zhang Hao, who had just entered the door and were about to discuss how to deal with the aftermath with Huang Maoguan, were naturally alarmed. However, although the guards around them were not far from the door, their duty was only to protect the master's family, so they were fierce at the door. When pushing, these guards did not rush over to help close the door, but quickly formed a circle to protect their respective owners.

When the door was forcibly pushed open by the soldiers outside, Xu Pengju and Zhang Hao instantly felt their scalps go numb when they saw these soldiers with weapons in their hands rushing in. Xu Pengju already regretted coming to the scene in person, and his intestines were filled with regret.

Although Xu Pengju, after claiming to be a general, usually lamented that no one in the world was worthy of being his opponent, at this moment, such thoughts had already flown to Java.

Wei Guangde received a notification from the family members of the Duke of Wei, and when he found out that Zhenwu Ying had really caused trouble during today's primary school review, he mentally cursed those idiots in the Ministry of Revenue.

If you want to withhold money, just withhold it. Why are you holding back the salary that should be paid? Can you still hold it off?

They are all the breadwinners of their families. If they don't get paid, they are not afraid of starving the people in Beijing. At that time, they are only afraid that things will become even bigger.

It's okay now, as long as no one is killed, it's just a matter of surrounding the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Affairs Office, having a good talk with the soldiers, and repaying the military pay.

Wei Guangde quickly asked someone to pack his things and quickly went to the Wei Guogong Mansion. After all, the walls there were high and there were government guards for protection, so the security was much better than his own courtyard.

When Wei Guangde arrived at the Duke of Wei's Mansion, he was received by his uncle Xu Bangrui. At this time, Duke Xu Pengju of Wei had already gone to the garrison mansion not far away, where he was on guard duty in Nanjing.

We found a flower hall to warm ourselves by the fire and drink tea, waiting for news that the situation would subside.

But not long after, news came from outside that the sedan chair held by Wei Guogong Xu Peng was heading to the small school ground.

Wei Guangde and Xu Bangrui looked at each other with surprise in their eyes. They really never thought that Xu Pengju would dare to go there at this time.

"Ask someone to inquire about the news over there."

After a long time, Wei Guangde suggested to Xu Bangrui that it would be best if nothing happened, but if there were any emergencies, only if we knew about it in advance could we respond in time.

Xu Bangrui nodded slightly. Wei Guangde understood without saying anything that his father's trip was a bit dangerous. They were rebels.

Several servants were arranged to observe the situation there and report news on the small school field at any time.

However, not long after the men were sent out, news came from outside that Wei Guogong and Zhang Hao, Minister of the Ministry of War, met outside the primary school, and the two went there together.

Not long after, news came that their sedan had passed through the crowd of rioters and was about to enter the Ministry of Household Office.

"Guangde, you have led troops before, so this should be fine."

After hearing that the rebels did not trouble Wei Duke Xu Pengju and the Minister of War Zhang Hao, Xu Bangrui asked Wei Guangde.

"They just surrounded the Yamen. They probably didn't intend to use force. Otherwise, that door would have been knocked down long ago."

Wei Guangde shook his head and said with a smile, "Now that Master Taishan's sedan chair has entered the office, I think this time the military chaos can be quelled overnight."

"It's a good thing. I'll ask someone to prepare a table of delicious food, and bring some good wine over. Let's have a good meal here."

Xu Bangrui smiled and immediately ordered his entourage to go down and prepare.

As soon as the entourage here went out to prepare, the servant who had been sent out to monitor the small school grounds rushed into the room.

"Sir, it's not good. Those rebels rushed into the Ministry of Household Affairs Office. I don't know what's going on with the master inside. It's so chaotic now that we don't dare to get close."

After the servant entered the door, he hurriedly shouted and told the news about the small school field.

"What? Wasn't it fine before?"

Wei Guangde actually had a bad premonition when he saw the servant rushing into the house without discipline. When he heard the first half of the servant's words, he stood up in surprise and asked loudly.

"At first, the group of soldiers behaved in a well-behaved manner, but then it seemed that after the master and the others entered the office, chaos suddenly broke out over there. The soldiers began to rush into the office, as if they had rushed in."

The servant hurriedly reported.

"Could it be that they took advantage of my father and Mr. Zhang's opportunity to open the door?"

Xu Bangrui also asked in surprise at this time.

"It's a broken door. It's easy to break open."

Although Wei Guangde didn't know what the Ministry of Household Office looked like, he couldn't say how strong the gate of the Yamen was.

There is a small school ground there, and there are too many military supplies. Dealing with the gate is difficult or simple. If you hit the wood and knock it down, the wooden door should be dismantled in a dozen times. What's more, in the yard, you can't build a ladder there. , you can break in casually, you still need to deceive the Duke of Wei and the Minister of War to earn money to open the door, what a joke.

"Gather the servants and the three guards. Stop guarding the yamen and go to the small school field to save people."

At this moment, Wei Guangde said categorically to Xu Bangrui.

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