The ruthless emperor in the late Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 127
The chaos in the city was quickly subsided, and no one dared to stay on the streets except corpses and sundries.

Almost all of them closed their doors and hid in their houses, while Li Dakai led his men to continue searching for fish that escaped the net in the city. Anyone who appeared in a place that should not be there was arrested.

The mansions of Wei Guogong and other nobles were also completely controlled by the army, and everyone had their hands tied and knelt on the ground.

"Report, please report to the Empress Dowager, Your Majesty, General Li has quelled the civil strife in the city, and Commander Xu has completely controlled Wei Guogong and other honorable mansions."

A general rushed into the hall to report.

The civil servants heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing the words.

Zhang Yan's clenched hands could not help but loosen.

"How about the casualties in the city?" Qian Qianyi looked at the general and asked anxiously, obviously knowing that many people would suffer disaster in this situation.

Everyone also looked at the general who knelt on one knee, but unfortunately the latter didn't even look at them so he didn't even answer, but just looked at the red lady waiting for orders.

"Okay! Li Dakai was ordered to block all gates and wharfs in Nanjing from now on, and implement a two-day curfew in the city. During this period, no one is allowed to go out and move around. Anyone who violates the law will be arrested as a riot, and those who resist arrest will be shot to death!

Xu Lan was ordered to first take all the prisoners from each mansion to the palace for unified detention, and then transport all the property to the palace. Food and livestock can be temporarily sealed in the mansion! "

"Yes!"

The general hurried out again.

Then the red lady looked at the civil servants and said: "Please stay in the palace for the next two days, and eat and drink my palace buns."

After finishing speaking, he ignored them, but helped Zhang Yan up: "Auntie, you are tired too, let your niece and daughter-in-law help you go back to the palace to rest!"

"Ah."

Zhang Yan also ignored the ministers who were already frying the pot, nodded, and left with the red lady.

But all the civil servants raised their beards in anger, apparently they didn't expect that Hong Niangzi would be so terrific, not only completely sealed off Nanjing City for two days, but also imprisoned them in the palace.

"Everyone, haven't you seen the temper of this noble concubine? I'm afraid no one will have a good life until she finishes copying the house!"

Ma Shiying smiled slyly, then found a pillar and sat down cross-legged, and began to close her eyes and meditate.

Sure enough, not long after, Lu Jiude came in with a group of eunuchs, carrying a bed cover and put it aside.

"Everyone, three meals a day, enough tea and water, one bed for each person, find a place for yourself, not allowed to leave the hall, you have to notify in advance if you want to go to the toilet."

Lu Jiude raised his neck and said with a sinister smile.

"It's too much, how can you put all the ministers under house arrest in Fengtian Palace like this?"

"Is it possible that the empress is still worried that I will cause trouble when I go back?"

Everyone was aggrieved. Although there would be no loss of meat for two days, it was too insulting.

They didn't know that Hong Niangzi also learned this trick from Zhu Cihong, but she did it more ruthlessly.

But there is no way around it. First, the manpower is limited, and the relationship network of various nobles is too complex and huge. Second, Nanjing is not as strong as Beijing, and the people here do not have as much awe of the imperial power as in Beijing.

In Beijing, Jin Yiwei's howling can solve the problem, but in Nanjing, it may require a knife.

Following the Hong Niangzi's order, all the gates of Nanjing City were closed, and the soldiers beat the gong to announce the curfew while patrolling the streets.

And the criminals in the noble mansions, no matter men, women, old or young, were all driven towards the palace.

There are only a dozen noble families in the district, and there are as many as ten thousand servants and maids in the family alone, and there are also tens of thousands of relatives in the family.

It can be seen how powerful these nobles are in Nanjing.

In addition to the thousands of gang members and hooligans who were beheaded, tens of thousands of people were also arrested, and some civilians who were too late to escape back to the house were also arrested.

It really took a full two days and two nights to transport all the goods back to the palace, it was piled up like a mountain, dazzling.

Fortunately, there are many houses and palaces in the palace.

Zhang Yan and Hong Niangzi were dumbfounded after making a tour.

"Auntie, I'm going to trouble you to bring someone to sort out these things. There are also these land deeds, house deeds, and IOUs. They must also be sorted out one by one and sent to receive them."

"All right!"

Zhang Yan nodded with a wry smile. He knew that with the maids and eunuchs he had brought, he might have to clean up for half a month.

What Hong Niangzi was most afraid of was statistics and bookkeeping. Seeing that Zhang Yan was willing to take over this job, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and then went to the place where those rioters were detained.

"My lord, these generals have finished preliminary interrogation, and the innocent people have been released. There are still more than 7000 people left. They are either members of gangs or looted land. Please let me know how to deal with it."

"Pick out those who take the lead, and three days later they will be sentenced outside the city, and the rest will be locked up and sent to Qiongzhou together." After finishing speaking, the red lady asked, "How is the takeover of the Beijing camp outside the city?"

"Mother, the middle and senior military officers have been replaced by our own people, and those honorable servants and children have also been eliminated, leaving nearly 4 people." Li Dakai replied hastily.

"Well, if these 4 people have been trained well, can they fight?" Hong Niangzi nodded and asked.

"These people are bloodless. Even if they are training, they may become soft-legged shrimps when they go to the battlefield. Even if they are auxiliary soldiers, the generals think they are a bit reluctant!"

Li Dakai shook his head with a wry smile, asking him to train those 4 people would be a waste of his time.

"It seems that we have to recruit again, but this land in the south of the Yangtze River has been at peace for a long time. Where can we recruit [-] bloody heroes?"

The red lady said with a headache.

Your Majesty asked her to train at least [-] soldiers, and now the [-] Beijing camp is useless, which means that [-] new recruits will be recruited.

"Your Majesty, the people in the mountainous areas in the west of Zhejiang are brave and fierce, and they may not lose to the north. Qi Shaobao recruited soldiers here back then. After rigorous training, they must overcome every attack and win every battle. They have never been defeated."

Li Dakai said with a proud face at the end, obviously from Zhejiang.

"That's right, why did I forget this!" Hong Niangzi patted her forehead, remembering that her husband had told her about the Qi Family Army before.

"Mother, there must be no shortage of money and food now, why don't we just train a Qi family army?"

Li Dakai thought about it and said, looking eager to try.

"Can you practice?"

The red lady rolled her eyes.

She had heard that Qi's army often killed thousands of enemies with tens of hundreds of casualties in field battles, and there were even zero casualties.

The key is that the opponent is not a mob.

As a general who has commanded hundreds of thousands of troops, she knows how difficult it is to achieve this, and it is almost impossible.

"Your Majesty, isn't there a book of war? Can't we practice according to the book of war?" Li Dakai said.

"It's easy to say, ten thousand people are like one person, do you think twenty thousand old brothers can do it?"

The red lady said unhappily.

She knows her brother better than anyone else. Although he dares to fight and kill, his military discipline is not good, and the battles on the battlefield are all based on personal bravery, rather than cooperation.

She has also read Qi Shaobao's book of war, and if she wants to follow the orders and prohibitions mentioned in the book of war, she must not let [-] old brothers be the generals to lead the army.

Li Dakai also understood that it is impossible for the imperial concubine to be uncomfortable with inserting old soldiers to control the new soldiers, so he didn't mention the matter of organizing and training Qi's army.

"However, although you can't train Qi's army, you still have to recruit soldiers from the west of Zhejiang. When the time comes, you will be trained strictly and disciplined. It will still be a strong army. Li Dakai, you will be responsible for the recruitment and training of soldiers. Except for recruits once or twice a month Military pay, and another five taels of silver to settle down in one lump sum.”

The red lady thought about it and said, the south is no better than the north, as long as there is a meal in the north, there are many people who are willing to serve as soldiers, but if the south does not pay for the settlement, he guesses that no one will be willing to do it.

"Yes!"

(End of this chapter)