Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 48 Receiving Military Power in Shandong

Xue Yuanwai was very angry when he saw Zhou Yuantong come and say this. He felt that King Ji was insulting people, and said angrily, "What's going on with King Ji? Do you really think of yourself as someone else?"

"He has no soldiers and no power in his hands. What is it? The few of us don't have tens of thousands of volunteers in our hands. How dare he despise us?"

Hearing what Xue Yuanwai said, the anger in everyone's hearts was ignited at this moment. Originally, they thought that King Ji was their nominal leader after all, and he was still the clan of Daming, so they gave him a face, and some of them went out of line. It's okay for them to bear the matter of face.

But today, King Ji dared to mess with them like this. He said he was going to have a banquet, but in the end he made them wait for a long time, which made them really unbearable.

"That's right, King Ji, don't take yourself too seriously, go and call your master over quickly, maybe you can forgive him today." A man in a plain Taoist robe and a square scarf was sitting next to Yuanwai Xue. The middle-aged man stood up and slammed the table and said.

"Really? Well, since everyone is in such a hurry, let's start now." Zhou Yuantong still sat on the main seat in a leisurely manner and said to Xue Yuan and others.

"Get out of here quickly, this seat is for you too." Xue Yuanwai was furious when he heard that Zhou Yuantong dared to sit here and talk. He clamored for him to get out as soon as he slapped the table.

He originally thought that Zhou Yuantong would be obedient, scared by their anger, and then went to ask King Ji to come out, but when he saw Zhou Yuantong sitting there and clapped his hands, Yuanwai Xue realized that things were not that simple.

After Zhou Yuantong slapped his hands, twenty or so warriors dressed in plain clothes, coarse cloth and short clothes, holding single knives or daggers suddenly appeared in the hall where they were sitting, and surrounded them.

Then I saw Wu Xiaosan standing behind King Ji with a sharp sword in his hand, and King Ji came to the back of Zhou Yuantong with half-pushing.

After all, Xue Yuanwai is a formidable figure who can become Yuanwai Lang and can pull up a brigade of more than 1 volunteers on the ground. When he saw this situation, he couldn't understand what was going on.

It turned out that Zhou Yuantong, who had been talking to him and reprimanded by him, was the mastermind behind the scenes. At this moment, Xue Yuanwai's intestines were almost green, and he just wanted to give himself ten big mouths to eat.

Then, he fanned out the water in his brain to see what kind of water he got into, so as to offend Zhou Yuantong, the great Buddha.

If time can be turned back, Xue Yuanwai is willing to pay any price, even if he kills his most beloved concubine, as long as he can go back to the time when he has not offended Zhou Yuantong.

However, time did not allow him to think so much, because the guard at the sticky pole had already put the cold sword on his neck.

Feeling the chilling feeling in his heart, Xue Yuanwai's brain went blank. Although he had killed people before, and even ordered his subordinates to kill more people, but today was different. He was held around his neck by someone else's sword. It's the first time, but it will also be the last.

"Say it, why didn't you guys say it?" Zhou Yuantong asked Xue Yuanwai and the others pretending to be casual, as if there was no contradiction between them.

"Well, is there any misunderstanding or conflict between us? If there is, it's all my fault. I'm willing to accept the punishment. I'll do it first." Xue Yuanwai was stimulated by Zhou Yuantong's words, and his desire to survive Be inspired.

"Is that what you mean?" Zhou Yuantong turned to look at the others. When the others saw what Zhou Yuantong said, they thought they were punishing themselves by drinking, so they poured wine into their own glasses one by one and drank it in one gulp. do.

At that time, northerners drank a lot of shochu, which was similar to the distilled liquor of later generations, but because of poor craftsmanship, there were more impurities and the alcohol content was not high, but the shochu was stronger.

At this time, they were all choked by the shochu, and their throats were sore as if they were burning with charcoal fire. Shochu shochu, as the name suggests, is naturally very hot, burning people.

But they didn't dare to stop, for fear of angering Zhou Yuantong again, and then he ordered everyone to be killed.

"Okay, let's do it." They didn't expect that they worked so hard, but in the end they got such a light sentence from Zhou Yuantong.

Xue Yuanwai didn't expect that Zhou Yuantong still wanted to kill them. He didn't want to be a fool. He didn't know why he died until he died, so he stood up and said, "Why, why did you kill us?"

Because the guard at the sticky pole didn't get Zhou Yuantong's order, he was afraid of accidentally injuring Xue Yuanwai, so he put the sword off his neck and stood behind him waiting for the order.

"Because you are in the way, kill." After speaking, Zhou Yuantong licked his lips, as if he was tasting the smell of blood in the air.

After killing people, Zhou Yuantong ordered King Ji to be taken down. He is just a tool man, he won't need it for the time being, and it won't be too late to take it out when he needs it.

When the guards at the sticky pole were dragging these corpses away, Zhou Yuantong saw Zhang Yong striding over, and he was not polite, sat directly opposite Zhou Yuantong, and said, "The outside has been cleaned up."

"Congratulations, General. From now on, all the soldiers and horses in Shandong can be dispatched by the General." Zhou Yuantong stood up and raised his glass to congratulate Zhang Yong.

"Don't be too happy, we only have dozens of people, and their rebels outside the city don't know if they will listen to us." Zhang Yong said.

"Don't worry, as long as we bring over a hundred guards of the palace tomorrow, we will accept one family first, and the rest will be easy. By then, the tens of thousands of rebels near Jinan Mansion will become our troops." Zhou Yuantong said triumphantly.

"But if you kill his boss, will he follow us?" Zhang Yong didn't believe that those rebels would really obey their orders.

"Haha, tomorrow I will announce that they are traitors, plan to assassinate King Ji tonight, and then lead the troops to surrender to the thieves." Zhou Yuantong had already thought of a countermeasure.

"The most important thing is that there is a prince behind us. We don't count what we say, and no one listens to it. But the prince, he is the future master of the world, and no one would dare to doubt him." It turned out that Zhou Yuantong planned to have Zhu Cihong endorse, In that case, the soldiers and civilians in Shandong can only choose to believe anyway.

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A few days later, Wu Xiaosan rode a galloping horse to Jinling Prince's Mansion to meet Zhu Cihong.

"What? King Ji is under house arrest, and all the leaders of the rebel army near Jinan Mansion were trapped and killed?" Zhu Cihong couldn't believe his ears. He remembered that he didn't order Zhou Yuantong to do this.

(End of this chapter)