The Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was extremely rebellious

Chapter 281 The Three Great Clans of Puzhou Are Angry
The traitor Wang Zhicai was executed by slow slicing!
When the people in the capital heard the news, they were in an uproar again.

Those who were brave enough rushed to the execution ground in Xishi early to grab a spot.

Those who were timid asked around to find out who had gone to see it and what it was like.

This scene is really indescribable, so it’s better not to mention it.

In short, the people in the capital talked about it for many days.

Wanli is not in the capital these days.

After he ordered Wang Zhicai to be executed by slow slicing, he recalled all the soldiers and grain carts of the Shenji Front Camp. Then, he and a group of guards changed into the robes of officers from the Beijing Camp, and rushed to Wanquan Zuowei in Xuanfu Town under the pretext of transporting supplies.

However, he did not enter the Acropolis.

He directly ordered the Shenji Front Camp to set up camp near the mountains west of Wanquan Zuowei.

The next morning, at about 1 a.m., when it was just getting light, he took Li Xuancheng, Shan Sinan, Luo Sigong and a group of expert guards and quietly left the camp to climb the highest mountain nearby.

The mountains here are not high, there are not many over a thousand meters, and the one he climbed is probably only about a thousand meters.

However, climbing a mountain is tiring, and climbing a mountain without a road is even more tiring.

They still had to cut through the weeds and bushes to make their way.

This climb took more than an hour.

When they climbed to the top of the mountain, the morning sun had already risen, shining on the vast mountains.

The mountains and fields in late autumn are not all green. The green is mixed with yellow, white, red, and brown, in strands, pieces, or just a little bit, which is colorful.

Wanli supported his knees with his hands and gasped for a while, then took the kettle handed to him by Li Xuancheng and took a few sips. Then he raised his hand to take the large telescope handed to him by Shan Sinan and scanned towards the north.

You can see very far from this high place. You can even see the Great Wall more than ten miles to the north clearly.

The Great Wall in Xuanfu Town and Datong Town is different from the Great Wall in Jizhou Town.

Jizhou Town was the capital city, and its defense was very tight. The Great Wall in many places was built tall and majestically, with many layers upon layers.

Xuanfu Town and Datong Town are border towns, and the imperial court could not spend too much money to build the Great Wall here.

Therefore, except for the important passes where the Great Wall is built relatively high, the Great Wall in other places is basically about ten feet high.

Especially on these mountain ridges, the city walls are basically built with stones, without even a brick. The arrow emplacements in many places have collapsed, and the city walls have become bare, and no one has repaired them.

At this moment, Xuanfu Town and Datong Town have moved thousands of miles north, and there is no one manning the beacon towers here.

Wanli glanced around silently for a while, and couldn't help but sigh slightly.

There is no way. It is too difficult to build a city wall between these vast mountains.

This is not because the border soldiers are lazy.

He realized how tiring it was after climbing the mountain this time.

He was still breathing heavily at this moment. He hadn't brought anything with him yet, and he didn't have to worry about clearing the way. He just had to climb up.

One can imagine how tiring it was for the border soldiers to climb up carrying the materials for building the city wall.

Therefore, it is common for the Great Wall in many places to fall into disrepair.

During the Gengxu Rebellion in the Jiajing reign, the northern barbarians were invading at their most fiercely. At that time, the Great Wall in the Huangyugou area near Gubeikou, north of the capital, collapsed due to disrepair and no one cared about it, allowing the traitor Qiu Luan to easily lead Altan Khan's army into the capital.

What's more, the Northern Tartar cavalry can't get into the vast mountains here, so who would spend time, effort and money to repair it.

However, just because the Northern Tartar cavalry couldn't get in didn't mean they couldn't get out on foot.

There are always valleys and gullies among the ups and downs of the mountains, and there are especially many valleys and gullies among the low mountains.

If you are familiar with the terrain here, you don't have to cross several mountains and it will be no problem to carry the goods through.

It seems that the three major families in Puzhou are using the familiar terrain here to communicate news to the Northern Tartars and even continue to do business with them.

Now they have occupied the territory thousands of miles north of Jizhou Town. Will the three major families of Puzhou still come here?

It's hard to say. The border towns most familiar to the three great families of Puzhou are Pianguan Town and Datong Town.

The three great families of Puzhou would definitely not be able to pass through Pianguan Town. Although there was no Great Wall built on the Daqingshan defense line, there was a beacon tower every twenty miles. The two nearby beacon towers would scan each other crosswise, and anyone crossing the mountains would definitely be discovered.

Now the defense lines of Datong Town and Xuanfu Town have moved to the north. There are no border troops guarding here at all. If they don’t leave here, where else can they go?
Yansui Town and Guyuan Town?

It is also possible there, because the Tumed tribe's territory is located to the north of Yansui Town and Guyuan Town, and there is no Great Wall built in Yinshan, and there are not even beacon towers built there for constant surveillance.

If the three powerful families in Puzhou want to communicate secretly with the Northern Tartars, it seems that they have no choice but to go through these two mountainous areas.

If he pretended not to know and did not strengthen the defenses of these two mountains, he might have been able to catch a few big fish. Even if he couldn't catch the big fish, he could at least clean up the small fish and shrimp.

Wanli thought about it carefully, then said decisively: "General Shan, send your personal guards to convey my oral order, ordering Yikui to seal off the Zhangjiakou line. Except for the soldiers of the Beijing garrison and the border troops who have been ordered to leave, no one else is allowed to leave."

Shan Sinan quickly bowed and said, "I will obey your order."

Wanli then gave detailed instructions: "Sigong, mobilize the secret guards to disguise themselves as hunters and herbalists and go into the mountains. Post a small flag with a telescope every ten miles to closely monitor. Anyone who enters the mountains and does nothing but head north will be arrested.

This mountainous area all the way to Tianchengwei in Datong Town must be fully deployed with secret guards, and the same goes for Yinshan. You can let the secret guards bring food in directly, and send people out to move food if there is not enough food. In short, these two mountainous areas must be monitored at all times.

All those you capture must be secretly sent to the Northern Pacification Prison, and have Lu Yi conduct a thorough trial to see if he can uncover the whereabouts of the remnants of the three great families of Puzhou."

Upon hearing this, Luo Sigong quickly bowed and said, "Your humble servant understands."

This time, the remnants of the three major families in Puzhou were badly beaten.

They did communicate secretly with the Northern Tartars and even continue to do business through the familiar mountains.

Although these mountain cavalrymen could not cross the mountains, they had no problem doing so as they had been running through the mountains for years. Moreover, as they were familiar with the route, their men could cross the mountains very quickly, and they could cover a distance of over a hundred miles in just two or three days.

Although the northern part of Xuanfu Town has been occupied by the imperial army, this line cannot be broken. They have to send people over to check the situation.

Once the young emperor occupied the Chahar tribe's territory, the connection between Tumen Khan and the Tumed and Kharchin tribes was cut off. The power of the Northern Tartars was effectively split into two. With the current strength of the Beijing Camp and the Border Army, it would be extremely easy to defeat them one by one.

They knew this, and Tumen Khan, Sanniangzi, Chelik and Qingbaduer Taiji must have known it as well.

If the young emperor did not defend the Chahar tribe tightly enough, they could even take the opportunity to instigate Tumen Khan to join forces with the Tumed and Kharchin tribes to retake the Chahar tribe's territory.

By that time, the Beijing army, the border troops and the northern barbarians will fight, and their chance will come.

And on the other side of Yinshan Mountain, the communication cannot be cut off. If the communication there is cut off, they will not be able to persuade Tumen Khan to join forces with the Tumed and Kharchin tribes.

Therefore, while Wanli pretended not to know, they continued to send people into these two mountainous areas.

As a result, he was naturally caught red-handed by the secret guards in the mountains.

The secret guards will arrest as many as they send.

Moreover, after being caught, they would be secretly sent to the imperial prison and tortured to extract confessions.

This time, although the direct relatives of Wang Chonggu, Yang Bo and Zhang Siwei were not arrested, many of their collateral relatives and in-laws who were responsible for running errands were arrested.

More importantly, the connection between the three major families in Puzhou and the Northern Tartars was almost cut off.

Wanli was not polite to these traitors. Anyone who was caught or confessed, as long as he was related to the three major families of Puzhou, would be killed after interrogation.

He chopped them down so recklessly that he would kill all the people from the three major families in Puzhou who had contact with the Northern Tartars.

This time, the three major families in Puzhou were completely furious.

They were already furious about Wang Zhicai being executed by slow slicing, and the young emperor wanted to cut off their ties with the Northern Tartars, making it impossible for them to do business and make money, and also impossible for them to use the Northern Tartars to turn the tide.

Is this still available?

Can they just sit there and wait for death?

That certainly can't be the case.

They decided to fight back at all costs!
The question is, how can they fight back now?

(End of this chapter)