The sent-in Inspector not only helped Yao Ji back the people she needed, but also brought news that she could help her. The Suzaku Army quickly captured Wuchang City.
This is a battle that is doomed to an end before the battle begins, but it is more convincing to take it down.
At that time, the Suzaku Army was mainly attacking the nearest South Gate, and the official army undoubtedly set up key defenses at the South Gate.
Like the previous siege battles, the artillery continued to be bombarded, and the sound of artillery continued to roar all day long.
However, the ordinary mortar cannons mainly equipped by the Suzaku Army and the long-barrel cannon that fire three or four kilograms of solid bullets cannot break a city wall like Wuchang City, let alone the smaller Fran cavalry cannon.
The shelling of several consecutive days destroyed most of the defensive equipment on the city wall, which also played a great deterrent role in the official army defenders who were originally depressed.
The only function was that they still could not reach the city gate; although most of the artillery on the official army's city walls were destroyed, there were a large number of stone-throwing cannons behind the city walls, and they hid behind the high walls and even the mortar cannons of the Zhuque Army were extremely difficult to hit.
There are range-finding soldiers on the top of the city wall to guide the rock-dumping cannon behind the city wall to fire; if the cannon approaches the range, it is undoubtedly a fixed target.
But the deadlock did not last long. Soon after the city was hit by artillery fire, chaos surged, and some of the officials opened the city gate from the farthest north gate to escape.
Feng Youxian's cavalry regiment, which was arranged on the flank, seized the fighter plane and attacked quickly, taking the opportunity to capture the North Gate.
At that time, the officials of the Third Division of Huguang personally supervised the battle and organized several counterattacks to retake the North City; but the chaotic official army could not deal with the unmoved cavalry.
Feng Youxian was able to persevere to the rescuer's infantry army, which took several miles from outside the city to reinforce.
The infantry arrived and the volleyballed over in the next few rounds, and immediately defeated the counterattacking official army.
The Wuchang defenders, known as tens of thousands but had a chaotic organization, failed to defend for ten days, and it became nonsense to wait for the Shenji Battalion to reinforce.
It was not until now that Yao Ji saw with her own eyes that Zhang Ning had already realized the idea of conquering a large territory.
Wuchang City is not just a city, but more importantly, the location of the Three Secrets in Huguang; the Ming Dynasty implemented the three administrative ruling system at the three levels, prefectures and counties, and the three Secretaries of one province coordinated the military, political and judicial powers of each prefecture and county. It was just a symbol and source of power for local prefectures and counties and the central courts. The direct government orders came from the Three Sessions; when Wuchang was lost, the prefectures and counties in various places undoubtedly became a mess, and the vast territory of Huguang and hundreds of millions of people broke away from the direct rule of the Ming Dynasty, waiting for the new king to take over.
As the saying goes, whether Zhang Ning can maintain the rule of this territory cannot be achieved by guns and force alone.
How to establish prestige and righteousness and how to win the support of people, countless people have written books and made suggestions throughout the ages and the present is an extremely complex project; but Zhang Ning has the simplest and fastest way to restore Jianwen!
Not everyone can be an emperor. For thousands of years, rules have been formed in China.
Either you take back the country by force from the barbarian regime. Whoever has the ability will be the most righteous emperor of the country. Restore the Han family and everyone in the world will be convinced by you. It is a clear proof of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang; or the central dynasty itself collapses, and everyone will compete with the Central Plains to divide the level and divide it into fairness and justice. But if there is already a relatively orthodox emperor, whoever has the ambition is rebellion will be punished. Otherwise, if you have soldiers and I have soldiers, you will be the emperor, why can't I be the emperor?
If you can't convince people, the world will be in chaos, and the past of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms is vivid in my mind.
If Jianwen could be restored, everything would be justified, at most it would be a dispute over the throne within the Zhu family.
Because Jianwen had been the emperor, and he was the eldest grandson of Taizu and the person who was personally helped to the throne by Taizu himself; once he had strong supporters again and won the battlefield, it was extremely normal for him to regain people's favor.
……
Yao Ji in Changde ordered the whole city to celebrate the victory and to promote it with great fanfare. At the moment, under the supervision of officials, she went down to the city to have a light and decorate it like a festival.
The royal mansion is also preparing a banquet to invite guests to celebrate the achievements ahead.
The feast invited many people, but Zheng Qiao was the one Yao Ji valued the most.
According to the popular banquet arrangements at this time, it was no longer popular in the Ming Dynasty, like in the Sui and Tang Dynasties or earlier, while drinking and eating meat while enjoying singing and dancing. Shilin prefers to be more elegant, and eat when eating and watching plays.
Guests first sat down to enjoy the food and wine, and then went to the garden to drink tea and dim sum to watch the show.
The people in the royal palace selected two opera troupes to prepare for the program. In addition, Gu Chunhan also wanted to personally take the stage to perform for the VIPs.
In this era, it is not a good thing for women to show up in public, but it was not Yao Ji who forced her, but Gu Chunhan himself wanted to sing "Peony Pavilion".
Her approach is normal. The scholars in the world have learned a lot of knowledge and want to be useful. Gu Chunhan is good at skills and occasionally wants to be recognized in front of others. This is just a natural human nature.
In addition to her previous experience and her lack of status as a concubine in the royal palace, Yao Ji did not object.
After the luncheon, she went to see Gu Chunhan who was dressing up and asked her close servant Xiaoyue to wait for the dressing. Her concern was obvious and natural.
The Peach Blossom Fairy, who had just returned to Changde City, was also watching Gu Chunhan dress up carefully with great interest, and the various uses were very delicate.
Taohua said with envious look: Sister Gu looked simple and elegant at the beginning, but she was so particular. This is the real woman.
Gu Chunhan's left hand was asking the servant to draw his nails, but she looked at the red lips in the bronze mirror. When she heard the Taohua Fairy talk, she stopped and responded: It's not easy to make a temporary effort on the stage, but ten years off the stage.
Yao Ji also spoke, and Gu Chunhan wanted to stand up and listen, but Yao Ji stopped her and just let her be busy.
Only when a man is tragic and fighting outside can women pay attention to these things at home, otherwise how can such conditions be obtained?You think so?
Gu Chunhan hurriedly replied respectfully: Yes.The Peach Blossom Fairy was bolder and pursed her lips and said: I dare not say that he is his own man, for fear that he is not qualified...
Yao Ji was not angry after hearing this. The Taohua Fairy's tone was like being angry and acting coquettish. If she hadn't been close to her, she could have spoken like this?
Yao Ji mentioned gently: Don’t worry about this matter, I keep my word, Ping An always has to listen to me.
The Peach Blossom Fairy recalled the taste and her face turned red: I, it doesn’t mean that.
Yao Ji sighed slightly. Ping'an was not the one who led the army to fight. He was gentle and well-read... After she said that, she took out a piece of letter paper from her sleeve. The Taohua Fairy looked at the letter he wrote. She wrote a good hand, which was originally the hand, not the one with a sword and a gun.
The Peach Blossom Fairy took it as she said, and naturally saw what Zhang Ning wrote about entrusting Yao Ji to contact Emperor Jianwen.
Yao Ji looked at the face of the Taohua Fairy and said softly: I want to persuade his father to come out. Only through Zheng Qiao. Zheng Qia should regard you as a relative like a niece. He trusts you very much, right?Ping'an had never seen his father since he was a child, and now he has to take on the heavy responsibility himself. He must have hoped that his father and son can be reunited and that his parents can rely on... When he said this, Yao Ji's voice was slightly choked.
Madam, as long as I can do what the prince can do, you can just speak up.The Peach Blossom Fairy said seriously.
Of course, Yao Ji knew that she was acting. She performed some dramas better than actor Gu Chunhan, so she naturally would not lie in front of anyone...
When it comes to reunion and reliance, at least Yao Ji has no true feelings at all. Jianwen was just a symbol representing power, wealth and status to her, but later she found that Jianwen could not rely on him at all.
Even though Jianwen gave her a son, she had no feelings for her.
In her eyes, only Zhang Ning is a family because he is a sincere and reliable person.
Perhaps Empress Ma is the person who is truly worth cherishing in Emperor Jianwen. Even though Yao Ji hated Empress Ma from the bottom of her bones, reason told her that only Empress Ma and Jianwen were on the same boat from beginning to end.
And she, Yao Ji, was originally just a palace maid to Jianwen, and she never thought of being absolutely loyal to him.
After explaining to the Peach Blossom Fairy, the opera troupe in the garden will also start performing.
The guests had already taken the seat, but Yao Ji did not show up in the crowd. She only set up a seat in an attic opposite the stage to watch.
Then I sent someone to invite today's most important VIP Zheng Qia to the upper floor.
Not long after, Zheng Qia, a middle-aged man wearing a neat robe, came upstairs.
Zheng Qia saw Yao Ji when she went upstairs. Yao Ji had no cover for her visit today. Her beautiful appearance made Zheng Qia's face change. Zheng Qia hurriedly lowered her head and did not dare to look directly at her again.
This is the concubine of Emperor Jianwen and the mother of Xiang, the warlord of Huguang, today. No matter how charming she is, Zheng Qia dared not have any insignificance.
Yao Ji had a smile on her face, as if she could see through Zheng Qia's instant conflicting thoughts at a glance.
Only now can she dare to be so arrogant because she has the strength to protect her; otherwise, it would be a common man who is innocent and possesses a treasure. There is also a saying that men do not show their wealth but women do not show their breasts, and beauty may not be a benefit...
After Nanjing fell, she and some of the remaining Jianwen party fled out of the city. The imperial guards who accompanied him were also ill-behaved at the critical moment of life and death. Fortunately, an eunuch named Cao prevented in advance, so that she could help her escape from the clutches of the devil.
Zheng Qia, the Grand Secretary of Wenhua Palace (Jianwenfeng) of Zheng Qia, paid a visit to the Imperial Concubine.Zheng Qia bent down and bowed.Because Yao Ji is just a concubine and not an emperor, Zheng Qia, the minister around Jianwen, does not need to kneel down.
Yao Ji sat very dignifiedly and said slowly: After Zheng Shaobao took his seat, all the plays below began to be sung.
Thank you.
Zheng Qiao gently sat on the chair prepared for him, turning to watch the play on the stage.
But at this time he probably had no idea what the actors were singing.
He never dared to look at Yao Ji anymore. He was a gentleman who could describe himself as a gentleman. Don't look at him inappropriately.
At this time, Yao Ji asked Zheng Qia about his current situation with concern, and his words were very appropriate.
Zheng Qia couldn't help but think of Queen Ma's often mean words for a moment, and of course she had a private judgment on their character.
This is a battle that is doomed to an end before the battle begins, but it is more convincing to take it down.
At that time, the Suzaku Army was mainly attacking the nearest South Gate, and the official army undoubtedly set up key defenses at the South Gate.
Like the previous siege battles, the artillery continued to be bombarded, and the sound of artillery continued to roar all day long.
However, the ordinary mortar cannons mainly equipped by the Suzaku Army and the long-barrel cannon that fire three or four kilograms of solid bullets cannot break a city wall like Wuchang City, let alone the smaller Fran cavalry cannon.
The shelling of several consecutive days destroyed most of the defensive equipment on the city wall, which also played a great deterrent role in the official army defenders who were originally depressed.
The only function was that they still could not reach the city gate; although most of the artillery on the official army's city walls were destroyed, there were a large number of stone-throwing cannons behind the city walls, and they hid behind the high walls and even the mortar cannons of the Zhuque Army were extremely difficult to hit.
There are range-finding soldiers on the top of the city wall to guide the rock-dumping cannon behind the city wall to fire; if the cannon approaches the range, it is undoubtedly a fixed target.
But the deadlock did not last long. Soon after the city was hit by artillery fire, chaos surged, and some of the officials opened the city gate from the farthest north gate to escape.
Feng Youxian's cavalry regiment, which was arranged on the flank, seized the fighter plane and attacked quickly, taking the opportunity to capture the North Gate.
At that time, the officials of the Third Division of Huguang personally supervised the battle and organized several counterattacks to retake the North City; but the chaotic official army could not deal with the unmoved cavalry.
Feng Youxian was able to persevere to the rescuer's infantry army, which took several miles from outside the city to reinforce.
The infantry arrived and the volleyballed over in the next few rounds, and immediately defeated the counterattacking official army.
The Wuchang defenders, known as tens of thousands but had a chaotic organization, failed to defend for ten days, and it became nonsense to wait for the Shenji Battalion to reinforce.
It was not until now that Yao Ji saw with her own eyes that Zhang Ning had already realized the idea of conquering a large territory.
Wuchang City is not just a city, but more importantly, the location of the Three Secrets in Huguang; the Ming Dynasty implemented the three administrative ruling system at the three levels, prefectures and counties, and the three Secretaries of one province coordinated the military, political and judicial powers of each prefecture and county. It was just a symbol and source of power for local prefectures and counties and the central courts. The direct government orders came from the Three Sessions; when Wuchang was lost, the prefectures and counties in various places undoubtedly became a mess, and the vast territory of Huguang and hundreds of millions of people broke away from the direct rule of the Ming Dynasty, waiting for the new king to take over.
As the saying goes, whether Zhang Ning can maintain the rule of this territory cannot be achieved by guns and force alone.
How to establish prestige and righteousness and how to win the support of people, countless people have written books and made suggestions throughout the ages and the present is an extremely complex project; but Zhang Ning has the simplest and fastest way to restore Jianwen!
Not everyone can be an emperor. For thousands of years, rules have been formed in China.
Either you take back the country by force from the barbarian regime. Whoever has the ability will be the most righteous emperor of the country. Restore the Han family and everyone in the world will be convinced by you. It is a clear proof of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang; or the central dynasty itself collapses, and everyone will compete with the Central Plains to divide the level and divide it into fairness and justice. But if there is already a relatively orthodox emperor, whoever has the ambition is rebellion will be punished. Otherwise, if you have soldiers and I have soldiers, you will be the emperor, why can't I be the emperor?
If you can't convince people, the world will be in chaos, and the past of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms is vivid in my mind.
If Jianwen could be restored, everything would be justified, at most it would be a dispute over the throne within the Zhu family.
Because Jianwen had been the emperor, and he was the eldest grandson of Taizu and the person who was personally helped to the throne by Taizu himself; once he had strong supporters again and won the battlefield, it was extremely normal for him to regain people's favor.
……
Yao Ji in Changde ordered the whole city to celebrate the victory and to promote it with great fanfare. At the moment, under the supervision of officials, she went down to the city to have a light and decorate it like a festival.
The royal mansion is also preparing a banquet to invite guests to celebrate the achievements ahead.
The feast invited many people, but Zheng Qiao was the one Yao Ji valued the most.
According to the popular banquet arrangements at this time, it was no longer popular in the Ming Dynasty, like in the Sui and Tang Dynasties or earlier, while drinking and eating meat while enjoying singing and dancing. Shilin prefers to be more elegant, and eat when eating and watching plays.
Guests first sat down to enjoy the food and wine, and then went to the garden to drink tea and dim sum to watch the show.
The people in the royal palace selected two opera troupes to prepare for the program. In addition, Gu Chunhan also wanted to personally take the stage to perform for the VIPs.
In this era, it is not a good thing for women to show up in public, but it was not Yao Ji who forced her, but Gu Chunhan himself wanted to sing "Peony Pavilion".
Her approach is normal. The scholars in the world have learned a lot of knowledge and want to be useful. Gu Chunhan is good at skills and occasionally wants to be recognized in front of others. This is just a natural human nature.
In addition to her previous experience and her lack of status as a concubine in the royal palace, Yao Ji did not object.
After the luncheon, she went to see Gu Chunhan who was dressing up and asked her close servant Xiaoyue to wait for the dressing. Her concern was obvious and natural.
The Peach Blossom Fairy, who had just returned to Changde City, was also watching Gu Chunhan dress up carefully with great interest, and the various uses were very delicate.
Taohua said with envious look: Sister Gu looked simple and elegant at the beginning, but she was so particular. This is the real woman.
Gu Chunhan's left hand was asking the servant to draw his nails, but she looked at the red lips in the bronze mirror. When she heard the Taohua Fairy talk, she stopped and responded: It's not easy to make a temporary effort on the stage, but ten years off the stage.
Yao Ji also spoke, and Gu Chunhan wanted to stand up and listen, but Yao Ji stopped her and just let her be busy.
Only when a man is tragic and fighting outside can women pay attention to these things at home, otherwise how can such conditions be obtained?You think so?
Gu Chunhan hurriedly replied respectfully: Yes.The Peach Blossom Fairy was bolder and pursed her lips and said: I dare not say that he is his own man, for fear that he is not qualified...
Yao Ji was not angry after hearing this. The Taohua Fairy's tone was like being angry and acting coquettish. If she hadn't been close to her, she could have spoken like this?
Yao Ji mentioned gently: Don’t worry about this matter, I keep my word, Ping An always has to listen to me.
The Peach Blossom Fairy recalled the taste and her face turned red: I, it doesn’t mean that.
Yao Ji sighed slightly. Ping'an was not the one who led the army to fight. He was gentle and well-read... After she said that, she took out a piece of letter paper from her sleeve. The Taohua Fairy looked at the letter he wrote. She wrote a good hand, which was originally the hand, not the one with a sword and a gun.
The Peach Blossom Fairy took it as she said, and naturally saw what Zhang Ning wrote about entrusting Yao Ji to contact Emperor Jianwen.
Yao Ji looked at the face of the Taohua Fairy and said softly: I want to persuade his father to come out. Only through Zheng Qiao. Zheng Qia should regard you as a relative like a niece. He trusts you very much, right?Ping'an had never seen his father since he was a child, and now he has to take on the heavy responsibility himself. He must have hoped that his father and son can be reunited and that his parents can rely on... When he said this, Yao Ji's voice was slightly choked.
Madam, as long as I can do what the prince can do, you can just speak up.The Peach Blossom Fairy said seriously.
Of course, Yao Ji knew that she was acting. She performed some dramas better than actor Gu Chunhan, so she naturally would not lie in front of anyone...
When it comes to reunion and reliance, at least Yao Ji has no true feelings at all. Jianwen was just a symbol representing power, wealth and status to her, but later she found that Jianwen could not rely on him at all.
Even though Jianwen gave her a son, she had no feelings for her.
In her eyes, only Zhang Ning is a family because he is a sincere and reliable person.
Perhaps Empress Ma is the person who is truly worth cherishing in Emperor Jianwen. Even though Yao Ji hated Empress Ma from the bottom of her bones, reason told her that only Empress Ma and Jianwen were on the same boat from beginning to end.
And she, Yao Ji, was originally just a palace maid to Jianwen, and she never thought of being absolutely loyal to him.
After explaining to the Peach Blossom Fairy, the opera troupe in the garden will also start performing.
The guests had already taken the seat, but Yao Ji did not show up in the crowd. She only set up a seat in an attic opposite the stage to watch.
Then I sent someone to invite today's most important VIP Zheng Qia to the upper floor.
Not long after, Zheng Qia, a middle-aged man wearing a neat robe, came upstairs.
Zheng Qia saw Yao Ji when she went upstairs. Yao Ji had no cover for her visit today. Her beautiful appearance made Zheng Qia's face change. Zheng Qia hurriedly lowered her head and did not dare to look directly at her again.
This is the concubine of Emperor Jianwen and the mother of Xiang, the warlord of Huguang, today. No matter how charming she is, Zheng Qia dared not have any insignificance.
Yao Ji had a smile on her face, as if she could see through Zheng Qia's instant conflicting thoughts at a glance.
Only now can she dare to be so arrogant because she has the strength to protect her; otherwise, it would be a common man who is innocent and possesses a treasure. There is also a saying that men do not show their wealth but women do not show their breasts, and beauty may not be a benefit...
After Nanjing fell, she and some of the remaining Jianwen party fled out of the city. The imperial guards who accompanied him were also ill-behaved at the critical moment of life and death. Fortunately, an eunuch named Cao prevented in advance, so that she could help her escape from the clutches of the devil.
Zheng Qia, the Grand Secretary of Wenhua Palace (Jianwenfeng) of Zheng Qia, paid a visit to the Imperial Concubine.Zheng Qia bent down and bowed.Because Yao Ji is just a concubine and not an emperor, Zheng Qia, the minister around Jianwen, does not need to kneel down.
Yao Ji sat very dignifiedly and said slowly: After Zheng Shaobao took his seat, all the plays below began to be sung.
Thank you.
Zheng Qiao gently sat on the chair prepared for him, turning to watch the play on the stage.
But at this time he probably had no idea what the actors were singing.
He never dared to look at Yao Ji anymore. He was a gentleman who could describe himself as a gentleman. Don't look at him inappropriately.
At this time, Yao Ji asked Zheng Qia about his current situation with concern, and his words were very appropriate.
Zheng Qia couldn't help but think of Queen Ma's often mean words for a moment, and of course she had a private judgment on their character.