Chapter 949: The First Year of Hongjing

Emperor Jing issued an edict to suppress the rebellion, and the princes of the world moved upon hearing the news. By December of the first year of Emperor Jing, the various pacification commissioners, military governors, pacification divisions, pacification bureaus, princes of the royal family in the nine countries, as well as the military governors in the nine countries, etc., all submitted memorials, and the memorials flew toward the imperial capital of the Great Tang like snowflakes. For a time, it actually had a bit of the atmosphere of the founding of the Great Tang!

In the Imperial Study of the Imperial Palace, King Jin sat behind the desk, reviewing memorials like a small mountain. Beside him was the emperor, who still had childishness on his face. The memorials reviewed by King Jin would be transferred to his hands, and then he would look at the content and related comments in detail, and could ask questions at any time if there was anything he didn't understand.

But the little emperor looked at it absent-mindedly, his eyes always couldn't help but aim at the two maids standing at the door of the study.

After reading all the memorials, King Jin wrote a number on the paper, and then compared it with the previous one, suddenly showing anger on his face, slapped the desk heavily, and said, "What a bastard!"

The little emperor was startled, not understanding what had happened.

Prince Jin glanced at him, forcibly suppressing his anger, and patiently explained: "Up to this point, there have already been over a hundred memorials submitted to lead an imperial expedition against the rebel army, and another fifty-plus claiming to have won victories and requesting rewards! Hmph, these hundred-plus loyalist armies, added together, only total over ninety thousand, and they are scattered across the ends of the earth! Each route averages less than a thousand men; are these armies for suppressing rebels or are they bandits?"

What's even more ridiculous is that they are asking for rewards before the battle is even fought. Look at this guy, he is in Northern Qi, but he says he won a battle in the southwestern Ji Kingdom!

And this one, a small military governor in the border area, actually said he wanted to send 200,000 troops to attack the rebels! Hey, this is twice as many as all the other routes combined. He is at least 300,000 miles away from the rebels. How can hundreds of thousands of troops get there? The vanguard unit is a flying boat that can hold 1,000 people. I think this is all he has."

The little emperor took the two memorials thrown over and opened them. The one asking for rewards was nothing, just a bit thick-skinned. Since the Tang royal family declined, there had been a group of frontier officials who asked for rewards whenever they had nothing to do, anyway, it didn't lose anything.

As for the other one, the signature was Wei Yuan, the military governor of Qingyang, Qingzhou, Great Tang. This guy claimed to send 300,000 troops to suppress the rebellion.

When the little emperor saw the words "Military Governor of Qingyang," he suddenly had an indescribable emotion. Then he was puzzled again: there is a Qingzhou in the Great Tang? The little emperor was only sixteen years old and had never thought that it would be his turn to be emperor, so his basic homework was not very solid.

He thought and thought and didn't know there was a Qingzhou in the Great Tang, so he concluded that this person had occupied a piece of land in a remote area, self-proclaimed as the military governor of Qingzhou, and then bribed an official in the imperial court to buy a blank official document.

This kind of thing was also common; there were at least seventy or eighty military governors in the Great Tang now.

After the anger, King Jin pondered for a long time and finally made up his mind, saying, "Treating severe illness requires strong medicine! Issue an edict: anyone who can pacify the rebel army will be given the right to open a government on the spot, and if they have a county, they will be granted the title of Pacification Commissioner!"

The little emperor was a little surprised and hurriedly said, "Isn't this digging meat from the Ji Kingdom?"

King Jin had already made up his mind at this time, calm and composed, "The meat of the Ji Kingdom has long been rotten. Even if we dig it, the King of Ji has no way to deal with it. After this battle, at least two or three counties of the Ji Kingdom will return to the territory of the Great Tang, and we can also have an enclave bordering alien races. After the event is successful, you will also have the opportunity to conquer alien races."

The little emperor was not interested; he just wanted to fight with the maids in the palace and didn't want to go to the border to fight with alien races. Such hard work as leading troops on an expedition naturally had subordinates to do it.

At the junction of Yongzhou and Jiaozhou, there was a continuous camp, covering the mountains and plains, as far as the eye could see.

At this moment, the rebel armies from all routes gathered here to form an alliance, preparing to support a new leader.

In the central army camp, sat more than ten rebel leaders from all routes, with different expressions and temperaments. Generally speaking, they were mainly leopard-headed, ring-eyed, burly, black, and fat. But sitting in the middle of the central camp was a scholar.

On the table in front of that scholar lay over a hundred memorials. He pointed toward these memorials and said: "Whatever memorials are placed in the Emperor's imperial study, we also have the same memorials here. These are all from the various feudal lords responding to the call of loyalty, coming to suppress us."

A burly man said, "So many princes? Added together, there must be millions, right?"

Another person sneered, "The Great Army of the Ji Kingdom was beaten by us, so what are we afraid of?! Although these princes are numerous, they can't fly over."

The scholar smiled, "General Liu Heihu is right. These princes are nothing more than for the sake of rewards, so the troops they sent added together are less than 100,000. And even these 100,000 people, most of them will never reach us in their lifetime." ===== CHAPTER 950 =====