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Chapter 741 Long Live the Emperor! (11)
The Qin Family Army, or Qin Army for short, is named after its commander, Qin Hansheng.

Peasant uprisings in Northeast China have a long history, but fortunately, the Qin family army was stationed there, which prevented the peasant army from expanding its power.

During this period, their commanders changed countless times, most of whom were killed by Qin Hansheng.

Qin Hansheng was a loyal and fierce general. In his previous life, two years before the enemy army breached the imperial city, he died in the defense of a city.

General Qin fought to the last moment. To prevent his body from being desecrated, his men shielded him with their bodies, but they themselves were stabbed more than forty times and hacked to pieces.

This shows how much General Qin was popular with his subordinates.

Unfortunately, this general was too straightforward. He offended more than just Ping Qinian in the court; many officials had opinions about him.

Dong Yunxiang is different from the previous rebel leaders; he is more ruthless, more cunning, and more shameless.

He was repeatedly outmaneuvered by Qin Hansheng, but due to General Qin's several wrong decisions, he repeatedly let Dong Yunxiang, this tiger, return to the mountain, which eventually led to a major disaster.

This time, Yu Muhuai would never allow the tragedy of his previous life to repeat itself.

Yu Muhuai directly stated his opinion in the letter.

Kill the surrendered!
And it can't be a fair and square killing; it has to be an assassination.

The assassination must be carried out skillfully, without letting the peasant army's subordinates discover that it was Cong Guo who did it.

Otherwise, all those peasant soldiers will eventually find out that surrendering won't save them from death, and if surrendering is useless, they might as well fight to the death.

Yu Muhuai placed several pills in a brocade pouch and handed it over to a trusted messenger along with a letter.

More than a month later, news came from the northeastern border.

Dong Yunxiang, the rebel leader who had been a major headache for the imperial court, died.

His cause of death was extremely shameful.

He died in his concubine's bed.

According to eyewitnesses, Dong Yunxiang had been seeing six or seven concubines every night for twenty consecutive days.

The most I ever found in one night was ten.

On the morning Dong Yunxiang died, his beautiful concubine, who was lying next to him, was woken up by being pressed down.

The concubine felt short of breath, as if a heavy boulder was pressing on her chest, making it difficult for her to breathe.

When the concubine vaguely touched her chest, she found that there seemed to be a hard, cold object there.

When the concubine touched it, she realized that it wasn't a stone at all.

It was Dong Yunxiang, who had spent the entire night having fun with a group of women.

However, it was Dong Yunxiang who was already dead.

Because he had been dead for several hours, his body was already cold and stiff.

The concubine immediately regained consciousness and let out a piercing, sharp scream.

Inside the house, a group of women were terrified and wet themselves. The peasant soldiers outside rushed in to check, only to find that their leader was dead beyond any doubt.

The court officials looked at each other, unsure of what to say.

They were suppressing their laughter, wanting to mock Dong Yunxiang's utterly disgraceful death, but since he had already surrendered, laughing out loud like that wouldn't be the proper demeanor of a scholar.

The key point is that even the emperor at the highest point wasn't laughing, so how could they dare to laugh?

Yu Muhuai, who had been pinching his thigh with his hand hidden under his sleeve, suppressed his laughter and then stretched it out to announce that Dong Yunxiang's adopted son, Dong Dingkun, would take over Dong Yunxiang's peasant army.

Since the leader had no children, it was perfectly reasonable for his army to be inherited by his adopted son after his death.

But the court officials couldn't understand why they couldn't incorporate this peasant army, break it up, and then distribute it into other military units.
Yu Muhuai didn't want to explain. She knew very well that the peasant army didn't have the strict discipline and organization of a regular army; most of them were straightforward and inflexible.

Once they've decided on Dong Yunxiang and his adopted son, they can't just change leaders arbitrarily.

In his previous life, Wan Zhixin had done something similar. As a result, the scattered peasant soldiers spent some time in different units, and then all of them defected.

Finally, this scattered group regrouped.

Yu Muhuai concluded that the loose army should be led by its own scattered soldiers.

The peasant army should still be led by someone elected by the peasant army itself.

They may not respect Qin Hansheng, but they will respect Dong Yunxiang's adopted son.

In his previous life, after Dong Yunxiang stormed the imperial city, he soon engaged in battle with the arriving Jian Kingdom army.

After Dong Yunxiang was killed, his adopted son Dong Dingkun refused to submit to Jian Kingdom and led his troops south.

Dong Dingkun changed his name to Xiao Dingkun and joined the remaining small court of Cong Kingdom to continue resisting the enemy army.

Finally, at Hushan, Xiao Dingkun was no match for the Jianguo army and died from multiple arrow wounds before 100,000 soldiers and civilians could jump into the sea.

Although this man came from a bandit background and could not be considered a particularly good loyal subject, he was definitely countless times better than his adoptive father, Dong Yunxiang.

In the end, although some officials raised objections, Yu Muhuai rejected them all.

After this period of time, the ministers also discovered it.

They simply had no way of winning against the emperor in a verbal battle.

Even the censors who made a living through debate had to bow down and admit defeat.

Just a few days ago, a censor with nothing better to do insisted on nitpicking a trivial matter and impeached another official.

Yu Muhuai was certain that the other official was a good official, and that this matter could be considered insignificant.

However, that official, with his silver tongue, managed to exaggerate the seriousness of the matter, escalating it to such a major point that he insisted on having the Emperor make a face-to-face judgment.

Yu Muhuai chuckled, and once again demonstrated her outstanding, unparalleled, and supreme debating skills.

Finally, the stubborn old official actually vomited blood and fainted on the spot.

After drinking the tea brought by the eunuch, Yu Muhuai moistened his throat and, taking advantage of the official's unconscious state, dismissed him from his post.

They claimed it was for his health's sake, to let him go back and recuperate, and to enjoy his old age.

Little did the official know that after waking from his coma, he lost his official position and was dismissed.

In his previous life, Wan Zhixin had a lot of headaches because of these censors.

In the final years of the Cong Kingdom, the court was already in chaos. The officials in charge of remonstrance ignored the situation and continued to speak their minds, chattering all day long, trying to muddy the waters even further.

Yu Muhuai wasn't buying it.

Who else dares to debate? We'll make you all cough up blood!
Finally, Yu Muhuai made the final decision, appointing Dong Dingkun as the new leader of the peasant army.

Once again, the Emperor, with his unstoppable momentum, seized the initiative in the conversation, making everyone accept her proposal.

It's been countless times already; it seems to be the same situation lately. In the imperial court, all dissenting voices have been suppressed one by one by the emperor.

Moreover, her arguments ultimately convinced all the ministers.

Most importantly, the person most likely to suppress the emperor's opinions has not appeared for a long time.

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