"These useless things!"

"I really don't know how his ancestors gave birth to such waste."

Li Changgeng didn't scold such words, but his feelings were like this.

After Tang Guozuo said this, Li Changgeng pulled out his sword and put the blade on Tang Guozuo's shoulders: "Marquis Lingbi, you are here to persuade me to surrender to the rebels, so don't blame me for chopping you first!"

Tang Guozuo was stunned.

The other nobles were also stunned.

Li Changgeng then said, "What are you afraid of? These rebels are just a group of mobs. Now you want to surrender, aren't you afraid of the court's settlement in the future? Besides, you will still be grateful to the country. Whoever is asking about surrender will kill whoever you mention! "

As Li Changgeng said this, he ordered Yang Zhaoji: "Admiral Yang, you lead your servant to serve as the supervisor team and continue to supervise the battle! Whoever dares to be afraid of the enemy will kill him!"

Li Changgeng said and asked Gu Mingjiao: "Marquis Zhenyuan, are you a garrison, do you have any objections?"

Gu Mingjiao smiled awkwardly: "No objection!"

...

"Everyone! Everyone! Why do we raise an army? We want to clear the king's side and resist the cruelty of the treacherous ministers in the court to the gentry! But now, what are we doing? We are also cruelty to the gentry. Is this the way we want to raise an army? Ah!"

At the rebel "round table" organized by Xiao Jingao, a gentry who participated in the rebellion, Cheng Jike, began to express dissatisfaction with the rebels' harsh treatment of the gentry who did not support his uprising.

The other gentry therefore argued that these gentry were foolish and loyal, and deserved to be robbed.

Some rational gentry also said that there was nothing we could do about it. The army needed to expand, and money was needed, while the people did not have much money, so they could only grab the gentry who did not rebel with them.

This kind of "round table" made all kinds of voices express, but no one could convince anyone for a while.

In the end, Xiao Jingao slapped the table himself and shouted "Enough", the gentry who followed the rebellion calmed down and looked at Xiao Jingao who was like a backbone.

Xiao Jingao glared at these people and said, "Now we can only see if the civil and military officials and nobles in the inner city of Nanjing are willing to surrender. If we are willing, we can recruit soldiers and horses by relying on the treasury and grain stored in the inner city of Nanjing. If it really doesn't work, we can copy the rich nobles in the city, saying that they are both treacherous ministers, so that even if we offend the nobles of many forces in the world, we don't have to offend those gentry who do not support us!"

After Xiao Jingao said this, he asked Xu Ze: "What did Li Changgeng say, are they willing to open the city and surrender?"

Xu Ze shook his head: "Li Changgeng said that unless everyone in the inner city dies, he will not order the city to open!"

After hearing this, Xiao Jingao punched the table, gritted his teeth, and looked at the other gentry who followed the rebellion and said, "Now it seems that we can only continue to confiscate the homes of the gentry who opposed us. Only in this way can we have more money and food to recruit soldiers and horses, unless you are willing to give out all the wealth of the family! Or give the land to the tenants as a means to win over more tenants to rebel with us."

"My Xu family has already used the savings of the whole family to recruit the village heroes, but I really can't do it! Let's continue to copy the homes of the gentry who oppose us. Who makes them so ignorant of the praises!"

"Yes, my family's fields are all left by my ancestors, why just give them to those tenants like this! It's better to continue copying the gentry that is not against us!"

"This statement makes sense. Since those people in the inner city of Nanjing refuse to surrender, we will suffer great losses if we attack. Then that's it. Anyway, those gentry who refuse to raise troops with us are also inseparable from the treacherous ministers in the court. They are weak and incompetent, and they are scum in the scammers, so they will copy them!"

...

These gentry who participated in the rebellion basically insisted that they would rather conquer the gentry's houses than to spend more money, grain and land to recruit soldiers and horses, so Xiao Jingao had to agree.

Therefore, Xiao Jingao then led these rebels to continue to advance towards Zhejiang, and plundered the gentry and the people along the way, which was quite unpopular.

At this time, many scholars and people in Jiangnan began to miss the Zhu Youxiao era before the rebels rebelled. After all, although the tax revenue was stricter and the profit was less, the world was at least peaceful.

...

"Reported to the Emperor, Dongchang came to report that the inner city of Nanjing has not yet fallen. The rebels tried to attack several times, but were all defeated by Li Changgeng and Yang Zhaoji and others! The main force of the rebels had already attacked Liyang. The governor of Liyang Guo Hongxun mobilized the military and civilians to defend and repel the rebels. The rebels now have to turn to attack other prefectures and counties."

On this day, Wei Zhongxian reported the latest information to Zhu Youxiao.

After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao hurriedly said, "It's great! How is the capital now?"

Wei Zhongxian hurriedly reported the affairs of Fang Congzhe, Liu Ruoyu and others in the capital.

Zhu Youxiao still nodded and then asked, "Where is the front?"

"Zhangjiawan."

Wei Zhongxian replied.

Zhu Youxiao hurriedly said, "Then hurry up and go to Zhangjiawan to rest. By the way, look at my palace and see what the mansion built by Li Sancai is like!"

"yes!"

Wei Zhongxian replied.

After Zhu Youxiao arrived in Zhangjiawan, he moved into his palace.

And his palace is Li Sancai's mansion.

After Li Sancai committed the crime, the mansion he built with golden nanmu was occupied by Zhu Youxiao and ordered to be transformed into his palace in Zhangjiawan.

During the Ming Dynasty, because Zhangjiawan, Tongzhou was the end of the Grand Canal's democracy movement, business was very developed.

As soon as Zhu Youxiao arrived at Zhangjiawan, he was shocked by the rows of shops here. He couldn't help but sigh that if he didn't leave the capital, he really didn't know how prosperous the legendary Zhangjiawan was. There were so many luxurious manors that were not inferior to the Imperial Garden from the outside.

And the officials in the court would not tell him about these.

When Zhu Youxiao lived in his palace, he was even more shocked by the luxury here and couldn't help but say, "I don't know if I don't come out. This Li Sancai is more comfortable than me, the emperor! Living here is much more comfortable than my Qianqing Palace."

Han Yu, Xiong Tingbi and others didn't say anything. They now feel like they are looking at a country bumpkin when they look at Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao did not stay in Zhangjiawan Palace for a long time. The next day, he continued to march south.

In addition to letting the accompanying baggage and some personnel go on the waterway, Zhu Youxiao himself still took the imperial cart to the south. Although he spent a huge amount of money to let the Shipbuilding Bureau build ships, he was more sensitive to the matter of taking the waterway.

Along the way, Zhu Youxiao did not stop. About a month later, Zhu Youxiao and his army of southern expeditions came outside Yangzhou City.

But at this time, the gates of Yangzhou City were closed, and they did not lead the gentry out in advance like the local officials he met when he was transiting between Northern Zhili and Shandong.
Chapter completed!