The most reckless man in the Ming Dynasty

Hetao Dongsheng City.

Tang Hao read Zhu Houzhao's secret letter and couldn't help but sigh.

"As I expected, the gentry secretly emptied the four granaries!"

"His Majesty the Emperor was furious and said that he would bloodbath Jiangnan!"

All the generals present couldn't help but shudder when they heard this.

Those damn gentry really made His Majesty the Emperor anxious this time!

Bloodbath Jiangnan, this kind of thing only happened once in the Ming Dynasty, that is, during the Hongwu period, Emperor Taizu Gao used a "Guo Huan case" to bloodbath the gentry all over the world, especially in Jiangnan. There were countless gentry families implicated in this case and their families were confiscated and exterminated!

But the problem is that Emperor Taizu Gao was the founding emperor, and his imperial prestige was far from ordinary.

And the current Zhengde Emperor Zhu Houzhao, in terms of imperial prestige, can't be compared with Emperor Taizu Gao.

If he really massacred Jiangnan, I'm afraid the Ming Dynasty would be unstable and the country would be in turmoil!

"How did the left wing respond?" Tang Hao asked in a deep voice.

An Guo hurriedly replied: "Yibula said that now is not the time. Dayan Khan's third son Barsborot sneaked into Huoshai's Mengguoljin tribe. Because Barsborot was raised by Huoshai, the two are like father and son. Under Barsborot's persuasion, Huoshai wavered again and seemed to want to lean towards the left wing!"

This is not good news for the Ming Dynasty!

Tang Hao frowned, then stood up and issued a military order.

"The three armies are ready for battle. Send troops to the Mengguolejin tribe tonight!"

"Tell Yibula that I don't have time to argue with him. Either he helps me to wipe out the Mengguolejin tribe in one fell swoop, or I will directly slaughter the entire Right Wing Mongolia!"

"Don't challenge my patience, and don't take my words as wind around your ears. Even without the Right Wing Mongolia, the Ming Dynasty can completely resist the Mongolian prince!"

An Guo heard the words and quickly went to send a message.

The rest of the generals went to prepare for battle.

They all knew that the original strategy of supporting the Right Wing Mongolia against the Left Wing Mongolia must be changed now.

Because the Ming army can't wait now. If they don't return to the court with a great victory, those Jiangnan gentry will continue to confront His Majesty the Emperor. His Majesty the Emperor may really lead troops to Jiangnan and bloodbath the entire Jiangnan area!

The current Emperor is not the previous emperor. The imperial pride in his bones will never allow him to bow to anyone, especially the Jiangnan gentry!

If the emperor gives in once, the crown will fall off, and he will gradually become a puppet controlled by the gentry!

In the early days of Emperor Hongzhi's reign, he was also determined to make progress and work hard, but in the confrontation with the civil officials, he gave in again and again, and chose to give in again and again. The final result was that Zhu Zhongxing completely became a puppet emperor controlled by the gentry, and the Ming Dynasty was impoverished, and the people of the world were poor!

Tang Hao had told Zhu Houzhao these truths a long time ago.

Especially when Tang Hao just met Zhu Houzhao, he faced the civil officials and gentry conspiring to kill the eight tigers. At that time, Tang Hao told Zhu Houzhao that the emperor must not give in.

If you give in one foot, they will give in one inch!

If you obey them and kill the eight tigers today, they will ask you to kill others next time.

If you give in step by step like this, what kind of imperial prestige does the emperor have?

He was just a puppet emperor restrained by civil officials and gentry.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao has always kept this in mind, and he has been extremely tough against civil officials and gentry since he ascended the throne!

This time is no exception!

If the grain lost in the four granaries cannot be found, Zhu Houzhao will definitely lead his troops to Jiangnan.

If the grain cannot be found, then don't look for it. Anyway, there is plenty of grain in the prosperous Jiangnan!

Since these Jiangnan gentry have the courage to go against His Majesty the Emperor, they must be prepared to bear the price!

But in this way, the Ming Dynasty will only be seriously injured, and the gentry will also be in turmoil, which is not conducive to the rule of the court!

Tang Hao sighed and then led his troops out of Dongsheng City.

He had to speed up and recover Hetao as soon as possible.

As for the right-wing Mongolia, either choose to surrender or... die!

That day and night, Yibula, Mandulai and other right-wing noble leaders gathered together.

Yibula said solemnly: "The situation has changed. The Great Ming Zhongshan Marquis is here!"

When these words came out, all the noble leaders present could not help but take a breath of cold air.

The Great Ming Zhongshan Marquis, the fierce first general of the Ming army, is really here?

During this period, they did not do nothing. At least it was difficult to hide the movement on the grassland from the grassland people.

The Great Ming Zhongshan Marquis led 10,000 troops and started from Liaodong to suppress the Jurchens. He killed all the way to Kaiping City. I don’t know how many nomadic tribes and grassland people he slaughtered!

And this fierce and monstrous Great Ming Zhongshan Marquis, with cruel means and cruel actions, slaughtered the tribes without mercy, killed all men, women, old and young, and even did not let go of the children in their cradles!

It can be said that the Great Ming Zhongshan Marquis is a feared existence by all grassland people, even Yibula and Mandulai are no exception!

"This Marquis Zhongshan just sent a message that he will send troops to attack the Mengguolejin tribe of Huosha tonight, and ordered our two tribes to send troops to help, otherwise he will massacre the entire right wing of Mongolia, killing everyone without leaving any trace!"

"What? How dare he?"

"Yes! We are not his subordinates, we are just allied with the Ming army!"

"Why should we obey his orders? Who is he?"

For a while, all kinds of doubts and abuses resounded throughout the big tent.

But Yibula looked at these noble leaders who were strong on the outside but weak on the inside with cold eyes, allowing them to pretend to vent their dissatisfaction.

It was not until the big tent was quiet that Yibula spoke coldly.

"The reason why the Ming army allied with my right-wing Mongolia is not because they are afraid of us, but because the Ming army wants to support the right-wing Mongolia to fight against the Mongolian Khanate of Batu Mengke!"

"Now that the great Ming Zhongshan Marquis has personally taken action and massacred all the nomadic tribes near the border of the entire Ming army, leaving only the Hetao area where we are!"

"In other words, my right-wing Mongolia now faces two choices, either completely surrender to the Ming army to help the Zhongshan Marquis slaughter the Mengguolejin tribe of Huoshai, and then continue to graze in the Hetao area, or the Ming army will regard the entire right wing 30,000 households as targets of attack, and will go all out to suppress them without mercy!"

"What do you want to choose?"

How to choose?

This is a difficult problem.

If they completely surrender to the Ming army, they will completely abandon the grassland and Changshengtian, and become the running dogs of the Ming Dynasty!

But they can choose to be enemies with the Ming army. Can they really win?

What if the beast Batu Mengke also launches an attack when the Ming army is suppressing the 30,000 households on the right wing?

Then the 30,000 households on the right wing will face the desperate situation of being attacked from both sides, and they will definitely be completely wiped out at that time!

Mandulai sighed sadly, and then said: "Surrender! The Ming army is invincible unless we migrate our tribe somewhere else!"

"But Batu Mengke can't tolerate us. Where else can we migrate to except this Hetao land?"

Hearing this, everyone was silent.

It seems that they really have no other choice.

The war between the right wing and the left wing has long reached the point where water and fire are incompatible.

Once they leave Hetao, they will inevitably suffer a thundering blow from the left wing and die without a burial place!

Therefore, the only choice is to surrender to the Ming army and submit to the Ming Dynasty!