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Volume 3 Spreading Wings Chapter 197 The Siege of Fang La

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    Chapter 197: The Siege of Fangla

    Hangzhou City is adjacent to the Qiantang River in the east and West Lake in the west. It covers an area of ??more than 10,000 acres and has nearly 100,000 households. It is the largest city in the south of the Yangtze River. It also governs Qiantang, Renhe, Yuhang, Lin'an, Yuqian, Changhua,  Fuyang, Xindeng and Yanguan counties.

    The fleet followed the canal, entered the Qiantang River, and soon arrived at the city of Hangzhou.  But at this time, the gates of Hangzhou City were closed tightly, and there was a chilling atmosphere on the city walls.

    "Commissioner, it seems that the atmosphere is not right, there is a lot of murderous intent." The soldiers on the city wall disappeared and appeared, which looked very strange.

    "Humph," Wen Shen sneered twice, "We have seen strong winds and waves, so why be afraid of this. Send someone up to call the door now. I want to see if these people really dare to rebel."

    Not long after, two soldiers came to the city gate and shouted: "The Grand Master is here for inspection, please open the city gate quickly."

    A Xiang soldier wearing armor, fur on his head, and holding a spear emerged from the city and shouted to the city: "The governor has issued an order, and the whole city is under lockdown. No one is allowed to enter Hangzhou City."

    "Are you blind?" A soldier pointed at the fleet in the Qiantang River, "The Imperial Fleet is here, and you are waiting behind closed doors. Are you going to rebel?"

    "Iwhat Grand Master, we have never heard of it at all. We only know that the Emperor, Dazai, and Shao Zai have never heard of Grand Master. I think you are Fang La rebels. Like tricking us into opening the city gate, you  Go ahead and dream¡±

    After saying this, the man shouted to the soldiers from behind: "Brothers, let me shoot arrows and kill the two rebels."

    Hearing this, the two imperial guards dared not stay here. They hurriedly withdrew the fleet and reported the situation here to the Grand Master.

    "Fang La?"

    After listening to the report, Wen Shen was startled, remembering that there really was a Fangla Uprising in Zhejiang in the past few years.  And the commotion was quite big. At its peak, it occupied the entire Zhejiang Province.

    "Commissioner, I said something is wrong. It turns out that someone is rebelling." Wang Chao laughed and said, "Now we have something to do. We have been free for a while."

    "Dynasty, after you show our tokens to the guards, I think they will let us enter the city."

    Sure enough, soon the city gates opened wide, Wen Shen led everyone into Hangzhou City, and the ships entered through the water gate.

    This is an old man in official uniform leading a group of people to greet him.  Wen Shen took a closer look and said with a smile: "Isn't this Mr. Cai? He is still as charming as before after several years of absence."

    The visitor was none other than the powerful Cai Jing.  After being demoted a few years ago, he has been serving as the magistrate of Hangzhou.  Here he assisted Song Huizong in plundering granite, which caused great resentment among the people.  The main reason for the Fangla Uprising was because of this.

    "I really envy us when I see that the Grand Master is still as handsome as before."

    Cai Jing is now over seventy, and his eyebrows and beard have turned a lot white. He has aged very quickly in the past few years, especially since he was demoted. It is good to be able to stay sober now.

    "Let's get down to business. I heard that there was a civil uprising under your rule. As a magistrate, you can do well. You can be said to be the first in the Song Dynasty." Wen Shen showed his true self and said coldly: "I see you  Don¡¯t do this Zhizhou, just go home and retire.¡±

    "Come here, take off Mr. Cai's black gauze hat."

    Hearing this, the dynasty sent two people to step forward and remove Cai Jing's official hat.  Cai Jing was trembling all over. It was not until his official hat was taken off that he trembled and uttered a sentence: "Grand Master, this does not comply with the laws of the Song Dynasty. Without an official order, you have no right to remove me from my official position."

    Wen Shen chuckled and took out an imperial edict from somewhere, "What do you think this is? This is the imperial edict given to me by the emperor, authorizing me to be fully responsible for the government affairs of the court. You have caused such a big trouble, so I hope you won't beheaded."  , and you still dare to chirp here."

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    An hour later, Wen Shen took over Hangzhou City.  Among them, two of Cai Jing's buddies who did not know how to live or die openly disobeyed orders, which made Wen Shen very angry and thought to himself: "If Lord Ma doesn't show his power, you don't know that I have machine eyes."

    Not long after, the two men were caught in front of Wen Shen. He scanned the two men carefully. He was about forty years old, tall and thick-set, with a fleshy face. He looked like a fierce character.

    "Why are you openly disobeying the Grand Master's order? Who ordered you to do this? You two don't have the guts to think about it."

    Chao Chao looked at the two men fiercely, and at the same time glanced at Cai Jing from time to time.  When Cai Jing saw this, cold sweat gradually broke out on his back.  Speaking of which, this is really good and has something to do with Cai Jing.

    These two people usually follow Cai Jing's lead, but they are arrogant and domineering in Hangzhou.  Today, Wen Shen withdrew Cai Jing, which deeply affected their interests.  In addition, I don¡¯t know Wen Shen very well and think that he only has two thousand troops.They are definitely no match for their tens of thousands of troops.  Therefore, he persuaded the Xiang army to disobey the Grand Master's orders and cause some minor frictions.

    The dynasty is also a man who has experienced many storms. How could he not understand what these people were thinking, so he found an excuse to fight with the Xiang army.  The result was of course clear. The heavy machine gun fired less than a thousand rounds of ammunition, and the Xiang army surrendered honestly.

    "If you don't say anything, take him out and chop him down," Wen Shen slammed the table and said sternly.

    "No" The two of them looked at Cai Jing with despair after hearing this, "Master Cai, you have to save us. We are all doing it for you."

    "Oh" Wen Shen looked at Cai Jing, "Master Cai, what's going on with you?"

    "Master, this matter has nothing to do with me at all. It is all their own private behavior." After hearing this, Cai Jing was so anxious that he broke into a cold sweat. "Rebels like this should be pulled out and killed."

    "Oh, you're quite sensible." Wen Shen knocked on the table lightly, "But, it's better to understand some things. You two just said that Cai Jing instructed you, can you prove it?"

    "Yes, yes"

    Although the two men did not have clear evidence that Cai Jing instructed them, they knew a lot about Cai Jing's corruption and bribery and bullying of the people.  In order to get a reduced sentence, the two of them told everything they knew.

    "Humph," Wen Shen sneered twice, "Cai Jing, you can do it. I didn't expect you to have done so many unscrupulous things."

    "Master, I"

    Wen Shen waved his hand and said coldly: "Okay, you'd better go to Dali Temple and talk about it and take them all away."

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    Chen Jian, the Zhejiang Road envoy, Zhao Yue, the honest envoy, and Zhao Ting, the general judge, were summoned by Wen Shen to the government office hall.  The three of them looked at Wen Shen nervously and asked cautiously: "Grand Master, why did you summon us?"

    "What's the matter? You still have the nerve to ask Liangzhe Road that there are people rebelling in such a rich land. Don't you think there is a big problem?"

    Zhao Ting said loudly and righteously: "These unscrupulous people have gathered to rebel. We should send a large army to destroy them."

    "Pa" Wen Shen slammed the table, stood up and shouted: "Why are they rebelling? If they all have enough to eat and wear clothes, how can they rebel? I think you are squeezing too much, so that the people can't even eat."  .¡±

    "No" Zhao Ting said with some lack of confidence.

    With a "bang" sound, a teacup flew and hit Zhao Ting on the head.  Blood suddenly flowed from his head, but he still held it back, "Grand Master, these are all done by Cai Jing and have nothing to do with us at all."

    "Humph" Wen Shen said coldly: "Go back now and post a notice to cancel the Hangzhou Manufacturing Bureau and suspend the operation of Huashi Gang, and at the same time, you will be exempted from tax for three years."

    Wen Shen now really wants to kill these three people. A group of corrupt officials have made the wealthy Zhejiang a mess.

    After the three people left, Chao Chao asked: "Commissioner, now we should do a good job in defense. I guess it won't take long before Fang La and others will attack Hangzhou."

    "You are right. Hangzhou is the largest city in the south of the Yangtze River. Anyone with a little vision will set their target here. You should go and integrate the troops now to prevent long nights and dreams."

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    Just when Wen Shen was consolidating his troops in Hangzhou, Fang La led his troops to conquer Muzhou and occupied Shouchang, Fenshui, Tonglu, Sui'an and other counties.  Subsequently, he went west to capture Shezhou, and east to attack Fuyang and Xincheng, approaching Hangzhou.

    In the Fuyang County government office, a man with a resolute face wearing a yellow robe and a mustache looked at the excited subordinates in the hall, nodded and said: "We have occupied most of Zhejiang, and now only Hangzhou is left. As long as we  If we capture Hangzhou, the whole of Zhejiang will be ours. There is a lot of gold and silver in Hangzhou, and as long as we occupy it, our power will be greatly increased."

    "The Holy Duke is right when he says that as long as we occupy Hangzhou, people in other places will definitely be greatly inspired to rise up and resist the brutal rule of the imperial court."

    "Now that we have more than 100,000 troops, it is not easy to capture Hangzhou. However, we must speed up and capture Hangzhou as soon as possible before the imperial reinforcements arrive. To prevent long nights and many dreams."

    It has to be said that peasant uprisings have their own limitations.  After Fangla captured Qingxi County, the first county seat, he called himself Shenggong and changed his name to Yongle.  He hasn't achieved anything yet, so he just wants to be the emperor.  In history, Fang La was quickly wiped out. The main reason was that his vision was very shallow and his city was very small.

    Fang La glanced at everyone and said with a smile: "Tomorrow, we will march to Hangzhou."

    At this time, Fang La felt a little proud and thought to himself: "This feeling of having great power is great. Well, when Hangzhou is occupied,Zhou must find a few concubines for himself, so that he can look like an emperor.  "

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    Fuyang is only about fifty miles away from Hangzhou City. Fang La's 100,000-strong army set off at dawn and arrived at Hangzhou City around the afternoon.  Looking at the fortified and heavily guarded city, Fang La's heart trembled and he thought to himself: "It seems like it won't be easy to fight this time."

    And Wen Shen stood on the tower, looking coldly at the dark peasant army.  As the saying goes, if a person has a million, he will have no boundaries. What is the concept of a hundred thousand?  Many soldiers who had never seen the world trembled in their calves after seeing this, thinking: "There must be too many rebels. We only have more than 10,000 people who can defend it."

    Now it can be described in one sentence: The hemp pole beats the wolf with both ends.

    Chapter 197: The Siege of Fangla

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