Chapter 592 Counterattack
Until now, everyone can only fight to protect their families.
And, maybe there is still a glimmer of hope?
Who wants to die?
This is when the problem arises.
The Sixth Prince and his entourage had already been in Yunzhou for nine days. On the morning of the tenth day, they suddenly heard news that the people of Qingzhou were gathering to rebel.
After all, the princes were still young, and their first thought was a little fear.
What's more, they live in a peaceful and prosperous era.
Shen Qingling has been staying close to the princes these past few days. He said, "Your Highnesses, don't be nervous. I think it's just a mob, nothing serious will happen."
"Uncle, I remember my mother once said that as long as life can be lived, no one would raise their heads to rebel. Now that they are like this, I guess there must be a reason for them to not be able to live anymore, right?"
Shen Qingling looked at the Sixth Prince in surprise, thinking that Concubine Jing's views were quite interesting.
Isn't that the case? "Your Highness, please be patient. I will send someone to investigate. I will also go and meet General Zhao and others." As he said this, he arranged the guards and went to find Zhao Cheng.
Zhao Cheng and the others also had faces as black as the bottom of a pot.
The officials who accompanied them were also dumbfounded.
Especially the Qingzhou governor, anyway, I didn't expect...
If someone rebels, it must be suppressed. After all, General Feng is in Qianyang City, and it will only take one day for him to get there.
Just when everyone was discussing how to suppress the rebellion and preparing to send the news back, Chu Gu came back.
He was wounded by an arrow and stumbled back to the inn with almost his life at stake.
He was brought in front of the crowd by Shen Qingling's men.
But he gritted his teeth and said nothing as he did not see the Sixth Prince.
The local officials were already feeling uneasy, but they couldn't stop it.
The Sixth Prince frowned when he saw him like this: "Call the imperial physician to take a look."
"Your Highness, I'm fine. The arrow wound is not serious. I'm just tired. Several horses have died in the past few days. Your Highness, the situation in Mizhou is not good, very bad." Chu Gu half-knelt, he really couldn't stand anymore.
The local officials had just ordered people to drive them out, so Chu Gu was relieved at this moment.
"The epicenter was Xikou Town in Dongjiang County. Now it's like hell on earth. The earthquake wasn't serious, but local officials were negligent and didn't do a good job of disaster relief. It also rained heavily. Soon the dead began to rot. The river was polluted, and that's how the plague came about."
He took a breath, and the guard beside him quickly brought him a glass of water.
He drank it in a few gulps and said, "There is a total martial law over there now. I heard that there is probably no one left alive in the entire Xikou Town."
"What?" Everyone was shocked.
"What do you mean? They all died of illness?" asked the Sixth Prince.
Chu Gu shook his head: "He didn't die of illness! He died of siege! There have been sieges for the past few months! But the report submitted to the court only mentioned voluntary losses, and there was no mention of plague at all."
Chu Gu had seen it before, so he hated it even more: "These beasts, it's a pity that they besieged them too late, and some people got sick. Then some people went out, but there were people guarding the three states. So there were only refugees from Yancheng outside the imperial city."
"Crazy!" A minister of the Ministry of Revenue turned pale.
"Now the people of Mizhou are too panicked, so they have gathered people to rebel. Local... there is a rumor that the imperial envoy has arrived, but... he wants to besiege the entire Mizhou. He is not here to solve the problem."
Chu Gu said with difficulty: "The people have seen the tragic situation in Xikou Town, and the news has spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred. Now no one believes in the court. When I escaped, the government office in Mizhou had been burned down. The garrison commander General Li was also killed, and more than 30 people in the government office died. All the officials, big and small, did not escape."
Everyone fell into silence.
"How long will it take for General Feng to arrive?" Shen Qingling asked.
"That depends on whether our message has been delivered." Zhao Cheng smiled bitterly.
Since those people dare to do such a stupid thing, intercepting the message will be a piece of cake.
"Don't forget, Lord Wen and his group who came before were said to be in Mizhou, and their whereabouts are still unknown. I'm afraid they also met with an accident." Zhao Cheng said.
When I first arrived, I naturally wanted to look for the group of people in front of me, but I was deceived by local officials who told me that they were all in Mizhou.
It's not that I didn't have doubts, but no one expected that in such a peaceful and prosperous era, the officials here would be so crazy.
"Let our people protect the princes and escape first." Zhao Cheng said.
"General Zhao, I and others are not cowards. Why are we trying to escape?" The Sixth Prince didn't like what he heard.
"I came here to do business, but now things are in a mess and I haven't seen anything yet, and you're asking me to run away?" The Sixth Prince snorted, "Do you think I'm young or I'm a coward?"
"I dare not, but the prince is of noble status, how can he be hurt?" Zhao Cheng thought that although the prince was young, he had a bad temper.
The Fourth Prince and the Fifth Prince did not come at this moment, only the Sixth Prince came.
He snorted, "Don't try to fool me. Father asked us to come here for training. Now that something big has happened, do you dare to say that escorting us out of the city will be foolproof?"
Zhao Cheng didn't dare to say it.
"Now the people of Mizhou don't trust the people of the court, so it's good for us to be here. Do what needs to be done quickly. With your protection, nothing will happen to us." The Sixth Prince waved his hand and said, "Come, take Chu Gu to heal his wounds first. Chu Gu, don't mess around. Heal your illness first and then have a good sleep. I will need you a lot later, so don't show off."
Chu Gu nodded: "Thank you, Your Highness."
Seeing the Sixth Prince so calm at such a young age, everyone present couldn't help but feel encouraged.
The natural thing to do now is to pass the message to General Feng first.
If the previous message had been intercepted, we would have to use some extraordinary measures now.
Zhao Cheng was also a man of swift action. Since he knew that there was something wrong with the officials here, what else could he say? He arrested the governors of the three states and the garrison commander of Yunzhou in the post house. No matter how much they cried out for injustice, he just removed his jaw and locked them up first.
Now that we have captured them, we have to guard against the garrison in Yunzhou City. Although there are not many of them, there are still about 5,000 of them.
They only brought two thousand people in total; after all, they were not here to fight.
On the other side, General Feng waited for several times but received no news and felt something was wrong. While writing a letter to the court, he led 5,000 men straight to Yunzhou.
The ideas are similar. After all, there are three princes here, and these three princes are all popular candidates for the future crown prince. It can be said that they are the most likely to become the crown prince among the emperor and the princes.
Who dares to be disrespectful?
If anything happens to these three princes, they'd better commit suicide to apologize.
So they attacked from both ends, and at midnight that night, Yunzhou was finally under complete control.
There was no time for greetings when they met, because just one day later, there was a riot in Qingzhou. Even more terrifying was that the garrison commander Sun Ziming led the rebellion.
He also had 5,000 garrison troops under his command. In addition, the people in Mizhou were full of resentment, and many of the garrison troops were locals, so most of them joined the rebellion.
(End of this chapter)
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