When Ju Ming received the news from Pingli County, he was extremely angry.

He was angry at Yang Anshi for disobeying orders, but also couldn't stand Zhang Jin's arrogance in killing his lieutenant.

Zhu Ming knew very well what Zhang Jin meant. It had four purposes -

First, show your loyalty to Ju Ming and show that you are not greedy for money. He will do whatever Ju Ming says.

Second, take the opportunity to establish your authority and completely control the newly recruited troops under your command.

Third, improve military discipline and kill monkeys to scare chickens.

Fourth, stabilize people's hearts and demonstrate benevolence and righteousness.

Zhu Ming called Guan Sheng over and said, "You go to Pingli County to be the deputy general. On my behalf, I will personally reward the soldiers and give rewards to each soldier. As for Zhang Jin, he captured the county seat and restrained the troops for his merits. He was named Baoyi Lang.

The fifth state army is under command."

The troops were created from scratch and were temporarily organized and trained. There was not even a military law corps, and the logistics organization was also empty.

This is to quickly expand the territory and give the generals the greatest power. Everything will be done after occupying the entire Jinzhou.

Ju Ming never expected that someone would be so bold.

After talking about the reward, Ju Ming then talked about the punishment: "Zhang Jinshan killed the deputy general, demoted him to Chengxinlang, changed his power (acting) to command the capital, and punished him with thirty army sticks!"

Guan Sheng expressed his concern: "Will it make him dissatisfied?"

Zhu Ming said: "Privately tell Zhang Jin to expand his army to 3,000 men. When he builds the Fifth Army of Jinzhou in Pingli County, he can atone for his sins and resume his official duties. I will give him a sword as a personal gift from me."

As for me, let him not think too much about it."

"My husband is very considerate," Guan Sheng said sincerely.

There is no innovation in the administrative and military systems for the time being, and everything is inherited from the Song Dynasty court.

Even the salary of subordinate officials is the same, and they have to rely on gray income to survive.

Changing the system is a big project, which will cause short-term chaos and is not conducive to rapid development. On the contrary, the flaws of the old system can be covered up during expansion.

Zhu Guoxiang and Zhu Ming have not yet opened their offices, and all orders are issued in their personal names.

These are extremely abnormal, and we must occupy the entire Hanzhong and consolidate the territory before talking about it.

When the time comes, Zhu Guoxiang will open a government to manage civil affairs, and Zhu Ming will open a government to manage military affairs. They will adjust the official system and salary system according to the situation, and improve the army establishment and military law. Only after these are done can we go to conquer Bashu.

Guan Sheng set off quickly and met with Zhang Jin in private to convey Ju Ming's intention.

Zhang Jin smiled and said: "I know that killing a deputy general without permission is a serious crime. If you use a military stick, just use a military stick."

Several of his goals were achieved, and while the system was not yet established, there was no need to worry about severe punishment. It didn't matter that he was temporarily demoted and beaten with a military stick.

The only surprise was that Ju Ming sent Guan Sheng to serve as his temporary deputy.

It was too obvious that Guan Sheng was the supervisor of Ju Ming's personal soldiers, which made Zhang Jin feel a little scared. If he were given the choice again, he would definitely not dare to kill directly, but would take Yang Anshi to Jinzhou and hand it over to Ju Ming.

At the same time, Ju Ming issued an order to all armies to strictly prohibit similar incidents from happening again.

If you do it again next time, you will definitely have your head chopped off!

…

However, it was said that Yang Zhi took the elite soldiers from Tiemao Village and took a boat to Xunyang County in the afternoon when Ju Ming raised his troops.

Arriving near evening, Xunyang County was about to close its city gates, and the officials here didn't know what was happening in the city.

Without losing a single soldier, he captured the city, captured the county magistrate, and killed him directly.

Zeng Xiaoduan, who set out with the army, took over the post of county magistrate, took control of the county government and then made arrangements to calm the people.

On the second day, Yang Zhi expanded his army to 1,500 men in Xunyang County and asked Sun Li to divide his troops to attack Juiyang Town.

There was a patrol in the town who surrendered without saying a word.

There were several groups of water bandits in the border area between Xunyang County and Junzhou. I heard that Ju Ming was raising troops in Jinzhou, and the water bandits came to seek refuge one after another. Yang Zhi requested to formulate a navy army, and he soon received Ju Ming's consent.

As for Shiquan and Hanyin counties, due to the delay in sending troops, all the officials in the two counties abandoned the city and fled.

The entire Jinzhou was like paper. In six days, all five counties were obtained.

The biggest casualty of the rebel army was the execution of more than 20 people by Zhang Jin.

If it were an ordinary peasant uprising, the rebel leaders would probably have already drifted away, and they have no idea how dangerous this would be.

Time goes back to six days ago.

Zhu Guoxiang divided his troops into three groups and directed them towards the three counties of Yangzhou.

Sun Lan and Hua Rong led troops to attack Xixiang County.

Deng Chun and Xu Ning led troops to attack Zhenfu County.

Zhu Guoxiang and Zhang Guangdao led 200 soldiers to join Li Jinyi's Jintan Village army and went to attack Yangzhou City in person.

Zhu Guoxiang landed in a grand manner, and people greeted him along the way.

The people on the dock came to watch this strange army wearing rattan armor. They had already arrived at the city, and no one thought that Zhu Xianggong was rebelling. The gatekeepers nodded and bowed in greetings.

"Take it."

Zhu Guoxiang gave the order softly.

A group of vine-armored soldiers rushed forward and quickly controlled the south city gate. The gatekeeper who was pinned to the ground did not even react.

what's the situation?

The city gate guards looked confused and shouted: "Ms. Zhu, we guard the city gate and only charge a few small coins, but we haven't committed any serious crime!"

Zhu Guoxiang ignored it and led his troops straight to the prefectural and county government offices.

"Prefect, Mr. Zhu has rebelled, Mr. Zhu has rebelled!"

"What?"

Zhizhou Cao Zao thought his ears were wrong: "Who rebelled?"

The subordinate officials exclaimed: "Xianggong Zhu has rebelled and has led troops into the city to kill him!"

"Don't talk nonsense." Cao Zao still couldn't believe it.

"They're really here to kill us!" the subordinate said in a panic.

Cao Zao's first reaction was not to run away, nor to organize the government officials and archers to resist, but to go out with his personal entourage to confirm the news.

Before he even stepped out of the gate of the state government office, he bumped into Zhu Guoxiang face to face.

"Mr. Yuan Zhang, what does this mean?" Cao Zao looked at Zhu Guoxiang with dumbfounded eyes as if he had fallen into an ice cave.

Zhu Guoxiang said: "You are not too greedy, you can avoid death. When I capture Xingyuan Mansion, I will let you leave Hanzhong, but you need to keep your money."

Cao Zao was shocked, angry and frightened: "Mr. Yuan Zhang, the officials treat you very well!"

Zhu Guoxiang said: "The officials treat the people so poorly."

"This is rebellion. Duke Yuan Zhang, please think again!" Cao Zao begged.

Zhu Guoxiang said nothing more and ordered: "Occupy the state government office and the warehouse immediately. Zhang Guangdao, you send people to appease the people and call all the gentry and merchants inside and outside the city."

…

Zheng family.

Zheng Lan looked at her children and grandchildren, and she was confused: "It's a disaster, it's a disaster, it's a disaster that will destroy the family! It shouldn't have happened in the first place..."

Zheng Hong was also very panicked, mainly because the rebellion was a bit beyond his imagination.

The family discussed it repeatedly, but could not come up with a result.

Zheng Yuanyi married Ju Ming as a concubine, and gave birth to Ju Ming's eldest son. The Zheng family was officially a rebel in-law.

After arguing for a while, Zheng Hong finally regained his ability to think: "Grandpa, the Zhu family has rebelled, and the Zheng family must rebel if they don't. Send all the family members to serve under Xianggong Zhu, and send some money, food, wine, and food to work in the army. Let's

If the family cannot be related, they can only do things with the Zhu family. When the Zhu family rebels, the Zheng family will follow. When the Zhu family seeks peace, the Zheng family will follow."

The Zheng family is different from the Zhang family.

Although Zhang Gen married his daughter to Ju Ming as his official wife, the Zhang family had numerous former officials and married into many official families. The court would at most punish Zhang Gen himself and would never punish the entire family.

As for the Zheng family, the whole family was wiped out, and they could only go to the dark side.

Fatty Zheng led his clan members and a lot of money and hurried to the state government office to meet Zhu Guoxiang.

Zhu Guoxiang was very pleased and immediately made the appointment: "When you become the magistrate of Xixiang County, you must appease the people!"

"yes."

After being panicked, Fatty Zheng actually felt a little excited.

Although he had been studying since he was a child, he could not even pass the examination, and now he became the county magistrate inexplicably.

The county magistrate appointed by the rebels is also a county magistrate!

…

In the waste gold mine.
To be continued...