Chapter 492: Where Are the Available Troops?
Liu Zhengfu said with an unhappy look: "Each other, the interests of your Lord Zhu are tied up with the Taoist priest, in other words, who doesn't have a few dogs outside." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoYou and the Taoist priest may not all be in the same step, there will always be friction. ā
"What you said is really ugly......" Zhu Mian couldn't help but be a little annoyed.
But this is obvious, there are no surprises under the sun, and officialdom is so virtuous. The tentacles are not only limited to the inside of officialdom, but everyone really has a dog on the rivers and lakes. Those who can tolerate the big ones raise big dogs, and those who can tolerate the small ones raise puppies.
Cai Jingzhi's interests are in Jiangnan, but they are limited to officialdom, but it is no secret that the Cai family has raised a group of smugglers in the north, such as Lu Junyi or something. Under Gao Fangping's command, he raised a group of loan sharks led by Jiang Wen of Fu'an, as well as the Pork Gang.
Liu Zhengfu has always been in close contact with Manichaeans.
Zhu Mian is in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Taoist priests headed by Lin Lingsu are his tentacles, and the benefits generated by the incense and elixir of Taoist temples everywhere have Zhu Mian's very big interests in them.
Historically, Zhu Mian is quite an awesome person, yes, even more awesome than Cai Jing and Liu Zhengfu. Gao Yu only has 60,000 mu of fertile land under his name, and Zhu Mian has more than 300,000 mu, and he is known as the first big landlord in the Huizong Dynasty. Gao Fangping, who was listening to the words of Gao Fangping's private speculation in the back hall, helped him a lot with such an awesome search.
There are no surprises, talking about feng shui has always been the strength of Taoist priests, and the fields are the easiest to apply feng shui to scary. For example, if a person is killed by lightning in a certain area, then Lin Lingsu, who claims to be good at thunder, only needs to give a lecture and say that the area is unknown, and pull some calves, so many believers will migrate and start to sell the fertile land in that area at a low price.
Including that he should be in the bureau to search for strange flowers and stones, and form a flower and stone gang to be transported to Beijing to please Zhao Ji, which is also a high-status Taoist priest who helped him a lot. A collusion between church and state has been formed, and interests have been greatly bundled.
Then as a return for benefits, Zhu Mian did not treat the Taoist priests badly, and helped the Taoist priests to loot the land in the south of the Yangtze River, build the Shenxiao Wanshou Palace, and increase the influence of the Taoists.
In general, Zhu Mian's madness frightened even Cai Jing in the later period, so Cai Jingjing couldn't help but suppress him, and there was a matter in history that Cai Jing instructed Yushi to impeach Zhu Mian. But it didn't work, because Zhao Ji liked Zhu Mian, and after being suppressed by Cai Jing, Zhu Mian only restrained a little, but after a short time, he became arrogant again.
Basically, the most hated person in the entire southeast region is Zhu Mian, and although the other Liu Zhengfu or something is not a good thing, it is far less ugly than Zhu Mian. The main reason is that they don't stop Zhu Mian, this is because Zhu Mian's command is a royal institution, and Zhu Mian is a favorite minister, so they let him, including Liu Zhengfu.
For example, when Fang La rebelled, the banner was "Kill the traitor Zhu Mian", not anyone else. This shows that Zhu Mian is invincible in the looting and harming of the people in the southeast.
Of course, from Fang La's point of view, how bad Zhu Mian is has nothing to do with Fang La, Fang La just used the person everyone hates the most as a fuse, this is politics. Then during this period, Taoism squeezed Manichaeism enough, and while Fang La hated the Taoist, of course, he also hated Zhu Mian and the emperor who supported the Taoist. It's also a political position.
The most painful thing is that a national thief like Zhu Mian almost directly caused such a disaster, and then he can live up to the price.
Yes, Fang La rebelled in the southeast, holding the banner of "Killing the traitor Zhu Mian", but most of the people who were really killed were ordinary people, followed by small rich families and small landlords, and these people were really burned and robbed, because they themselves did not have any self-protection ability.
As for Zhu Mian, what does it have to do with him if he spoils the southeast, how can his treacherous and cunning Zhu Mian be liquidated, of course he ran away with his family wealth and ran back to Beijing to pull a few calves, so he started to be an official again, as for the tens of millions of bitter people in the southeast who died in the catastrophe, it was none of his Zhu Mian's business, and in the end, it was Tong Guan who wiped his buttocks, and he led the army into the southeast to destroy Fang La.
This is history, nothing surprising. It was Tong Guan, Han Shizhong, and Liang Hongyu who killed Fang La. The little tiger head went to the war with his own lunch box and fell in love with his obscene comrade-in-arms Han Shizhong, and then he was harmed and did not hesitate to be a concubine.
These things are complicated, and it seems to be very painful, and for a while, the interests of all parties are entangled in them, which makes Gao Fangping think about it with a little headache.
shook his head and continued to listen to Liu Zhengfu and Zhu Mian's tearing.
Listening to it, there is no substantive content, to sum up, Zhu Mian's intention for coming this time is very simple, that is, he saw the unreasonable things in Liu Zhengfu, so he came to pull the calf and wanted to get some news.
Zhu Mian is a shark, and it is certainly not a secret that Liu Zhengfu colluded with Manichaeism, but this time Liu Zhengfu sent troops to surround the Manichaean stronghold, which is unreasonable, so there must be a reason behind this, and this is the intention of Zhu Mian to talk this time.
Gao Fangping is Zhu Mian, and he must also understand what is wrong with Manichaeism. Perhaps, Zhu Mian's guy also stood in the position of a Taoist priest, and wanted to take advantage of this chaotic period to eat fuzzy, throw some black hammers and stab some black knives in the back.
Damn, there is no good thing, if you change to Gao Fangping, Lin Lingsu's demon way, of course, he will smell blood, so he chases Manichaeism to "take advantage of his illness to kill him".
Liu Zhengfu and Zhu Mian's next words are probably deceitful words, and there is not much useful information.
At about the same time, Zhu Mian said goodbye and left, and when he was leaving, Liang Hongying found that the treacherous and cunning Zhu Mian intentionally or unintentionally glanced at the hidden position of Gao Fangping in the back hall, and then said nothing and left with the guards.
After Zhu Mian disappeared, Gao Fangping walked out.
Liu Zhengfu said: "Did you hear our conversation?" ā
Gao Fangping nodded.
Liu Zhengfu was very direct, and said in an astonishing voice: "Zhu Mian is going to make trouble, do you believe it?" ā
Gao Fangping said: "What will he do, you don't give me an analysis from your treacherous vision?" ā
Liu Zhengfu sneered: "He must have seen the instability within Manichaeism from the fact that the soldiers surrounded the Manichaeism. Those demon Dao are his people, Master Gao, if it were you, you represent the position of the Taoist priest, would you let go of this opportunity? He is determined to incite the Taoist priests to make trouble, damn these people may not be as shameless as you, stabbing a black knife in the back, creating an incident, and making the Manichaeans exacerbate each other's small actions. So it's no surprise that Suzhou City is probably going to start to have some chaos. What do you think will happen after this happens? ā
Gao Fangping touched his chin and said: "He Zhu Mian is the emperor's favorite minister, not the ruler of Suzhou." Once Suzhou is messed up, he is not responsible, and he will bring you down, and I have intervened in Suzhou affairs this time, of course, I will also be brought down, so the biggest beneficiary is him Zhu Mian. ā
Liu Zhengfu slapped the table and said with a miserable smile: "Confidant, it must be your pork ping." You and I are traitors who see the same thing, I never thought that this time the interests of my Liu Zhengfu would be tied to you hooligan! ā
Liang Hongyinglin rushed to Guan Sheng, and looked at Liu Zhengfu's henchmen and guards on the periphery, Khan, I didn't expect their front to be unified, is this the legendary embarrassment? It seems that Liu Zhengfu is a big bad wolf this time, and Gao Fangping is a little fox.
At some point, Gao Fangping asked directly: "Is the Suzhou Xiang Army available?" ā
Liu Zhengfu said with a strange expression: "You can be regarded as asking a key question." The Suzhou Metropolitan Eunuch is called Zhu Zishan, guess whose nephew he is? Hehe, that's right, he is Zhu Mian's nephew, at this critical moment, maybe he can give you and me a pot to Huang Wei, at least he dares to do nothing, so that you and I will be very miserable. Zhu Mian just left in such a hurry, why do you think it is, of course, he smelled blood and summoned his nephew to go to the secret. ā
"Damn...... You didn't say it earlier! Gao Fangping said in horror.
Liu Zhengfu twisted his beard and muttered: "The Zhu family is a super tumor in Suzhou, blame my old Liu for usually taking into account the unspoken rules and face of officialdom, and they don't interfere with the river water in the well, and I don't want to interfere too much with Zhu Dujian." Now you know my troubles, my lord? Suzhou chaos, he is not my Liu Zhengfu's pot alone, the Zhu family is the largest wealthy family in Suzhou City, here, they are deeply rooted, and there is Taoist support. Sometimes it's not like I'm just indulging. ā
Lao Liu is telling the truth in this regard, the unspoken rules in the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty are very serious, and this is what officials say to each other, generally speaking, although military generals have no human rights, but there is a Zhu Mian as a backer, of course it is different, and Liu Zhengfu will most likely turn a blind eye and treat it as invisible.
It is based on these myriad unspoken rules that the Xiang army is basically the private soldiers of the local magnates, so the forbidden army of the Great Song Dynasty is also very large, and it is stationed separately in various places, in fact, it is to maintain the imperial power.
In the use of the Xiang army, the imperial court and the local government have the same rights. However, the forbidden army belongs to the emperor's private army, although it is also a tattered army in theory, but the internal affairs of the forbidden army are rarely interfered with by local tyrants, and the forbidden army has to change its defense, and the army composed of northerners is stationed in the south, which is the guarantee of imperial power, and to a certain extent, the deep-rooted blood relationship between the forbidden army and the local wealthy families has been eliminated.
These are basically the guarantee of the stability of the Great Song Dynasty.
Gao Fangping frowned and fell into thought again, the army in Suzhou seemed to be unusable. It's not that Zhu Zishan will rebel, in fact, this kind of person really doesn't have the courage and talent to rebel, but although Liu Zhengfu is Zhu Zishan's boss, he indulges the right to get used to it, not that he can take it back, at least with Zhu Mian's support, he deliberately dragged his feet and did nothing at a critical moment, Zhu Zishan dared.
And this time the situation is complicated, and it really can't be done without the endorsement of the army. Then it can't suppress the group of Taoist priests who are about to stab the black knife, and it can't suppress Fang La's core forces.
Yes, the key is Fang La's core forces, those are the fanatical death squads with rhythm.
As for those believers who come from all over the world to make a pilgrimage, they are just believers, they need to be guided, they just want to eat a bite of food, and they don't starve to death during this period. But at the critical moment, some people took the rhythm and began to shout the slogan of "Kill the traitor Zhu Mian" to rob and kill people on a large scale.
From the hands of Xu Honggang, the national thief, how many weapons have flowed into Fang La's hands, and how many core dead soldiers have Fang La? These are not known for the time being.
However, Gao Fangping knew that the army was not actually used to slaughter people who did not know the truth, and the real role of the army was to hunt down and kill the Manichaean Holy 1st War death squad hidden in the shadows in one fell swoop after being properly deployed.
It's a tough battle!
If the Yongle Army was here, Gao Fangping would not be afraid of Fang La's hairless chicken at all. Pity......