Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 249 Conflict
The parade team approached the imperial city slowly like a flood, and the momentum grew louder and louder.

Chen Mingxia and other literati even held their heads high and their chests upright, leading a group of common people to walk in front of them righteously.

And above their heads were banners several feet long, and the parade slogans on the banners resounded throughout Jinling City through their drake-like shouts.

In addition, there was someone holding up a white board with a big word "injustice" written on it!

There are even big-character posters by Li Mingrui and others. No one knows how these people thought of these.

In the Ming Dynasty, sometimes many new things can always be discovered, which is not uncommon.

But every time they pass through a street, the street will turn into a mess, and the high-end restaurants decorated with the latest glass in the Ming Dynasty will be smashed to pieces.

The blue-gray wall was also covered with a lot of insults, and it is unknown whose large water tank was smashed, and the water flowed all over the floor, wetting the grain in the grain shop next door.

Of course, the grain from the grain store next door was not spared either, the pearl-like white rice rolled all over the ground, only the shopkeeper knelt on the ground and howled.

Zhu Youxiao already knew that there would be today's parade in Lishui Pavilion, and in addition to Dongchang's report, such parades and demonstrations in various prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River had long been expected.

Wu Jin also asked for instructions on whether to arrest the ringleaders who secretly planned this matter first, but Zhu Youxiao did not agree.

Blocking is worse than sparse, Zhu Youxiao knows that this demonstration is not just the result of the instigation of literati such as Fushe, at least the root cause is not, but the dissatisfaction of the people in Jiangnan with the court and society has reached a threshold. Even without the instigation of these literati, this contradiction would have erupted.

Moreover, the closer the repression, the more harmful the explosion.

Rather than doing this, it would be better to let this social conflict erupt directly when I can handle such incidents with ease and the war in the north has stabilized, so that I can survive without putting it to death!
But this does not mean that Zhu Youxiao is not prepared to allow this kind of parade to continue and continue to destroy the foundation of this city.

Zhu Youxiao didn't intend to let these threats that control the people in the south of the Yangtze River exist forever. If he wants to eradicate these people, he has to make things bigger and resort to force!
On the one hand, Zhu Youxiao issued an order to urge the guards of the two battalions led by Qin Botong to enter Jinling City as quickly as possible.

At the same time, he ordered Wu Jin, the head of the Dongchang stall, to immediately gather all the Dongchang fans in the Jiangnan area to arrest the planners and instigators of the demonstrations at any time.

In addition, Liu Kongzhao's garrison and the yamen's soldiers in various yamen were temporarily formed by Zhu Youxiao as the Nanjing Public Security Force (the original intention was to establish public security, but he was afraid of being caught by the river), with Liu Kongzhao as the temporary admiral , Responsible for maintaining order and protecting important strongholds such as the Royal Weaving Bureau.

After Zhu Youxiao witnessed vicious incidents such as robbery and beatings that often occurred in the entire Jiangnan area under the connivance of officials and gentry at all levels, he once wanted to set up a special force to avoid the shackles of the civilian government and fight crimes professionally, that is to say, Zhu Youxiao wants to use this to deprive judicial and law enforcement powers from the civil service system.

At this moment, the civil service system composed of the chief envoys, the inspectors, the commanding envoys, and the magistrates of Nanzhili is almost paralyzed, without any administrative ability.

This may be because they are deliberately condoning the parade, or it may be because they already only know how to sing the wind and make fun of the moon, and they are used to leaving all affairs to their own staff to take care of them.

In this way, it gave Zhu Youxiao the opportunity to deprive them of power in Jiangnan.

Liu Kongzhao can be regarded as a blessing in disguise, because he defected in Lishui Pavilion and successfully showed his face in front of His Majesty Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Youxiao began to push him to the front.

Liu Kongzhao’s relatives who control a certain amount of military power are now the time when Zhu Youxiao needs to take advantage of them, especially in this situation where he is almost tearing his skin off with civil officials. Zhu Youxiao doesn’t care whether Liu Kongzhao is a capable official or not. But since being able to leave a name in the long history of the late Ming Dynasty should not be too ordinary, at least he can preserve his name.

Here, after Liu Kongzhao reported the current situation to Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Youxiao nodded and heard shouts not far away.

But at this moment, I saw hundreds of officers and soldiers running towards me frantically, and each of these officers and soldiers seemed to have lost a battle. Some had already dropped their weapons on the ground, and even dropped their felt hats. On the ground, it was like fleeing back.

Behind them, there are hundreds of people chasing and beating them with sticks, and behind those people is Chen Mingxia and him all the way to suppress a large group of soldiers and people, who are still shouting their slogans selflessly.

"Down with the treacherous Li Mingrui!"

"Return Dong Gong's innocence!"

"Ban the Royal Weaving Group!"

"It is also beneficial to the people, and the country is governed by benevolence!"

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Seeing this momentum, Zhu Youxiao quickly pulled Wei Min'er behind him to prevent her from being frightened by the battle in front of her. At the same time, she said to Liu Kongzhao: "You soldiers are very bad, even ordinary people can chase them and fight them. What will you do if foreign enemies invade in the future?"

Liu Kongzhao lowered his head in shame. Naturally, his guards were not as powerful as the imperial guards and frontier troops, because most of these guards were honest civilians.

The dishonest ones have tried every means to leave the barracks, and went to make a living on their own.

And the common people in the city who can rush to march and demonstrate near the imperial city are not good and honest people, so in the comparison between the two, the demonstrators have the upper hand.

At this time, Chen Mingxia's side suddenly became quiet, and they all stood still, while Chen Mingxia stared at Zhu Youxiao like a knife.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao didn't notice that Chen Mingxia was in this parade. Before the two battalions of the Imperial Guard came, Zhu Youxiao didn't want to have a direct conversation with the parade, so he took Wei Miner's fragrant shoulders and turned in the opposite direction. He walked over and ordered: "Go back to the palace immediately! Order the commander Ye Zhen to assist the admiral Liu Kongzhao to strengthen defense, strictly guard all important strongholds, and if necessary, kill a few lawbreakers to act as a deterrent!"

But Chen Mingxia suddenly stood up at this time and shouted loudly: "Everyone, the man in front is the treacherous minister Li Mingrui, who killed our Duke Dong, and now he dares to come here to harm a good woman, we must not let him succeed." , let's rush up, grab that treacherous minister, and let him go to see His Majesty!"

"Yes, catch him!" A few Chen family slaves responded, and rushed towards Zhu Youxiao with more than a dozen people who were filled with righteous indignation.

Immediately afterwards, more people came after them.

These crazy parades rushed towards Zhu Youxiao without hesitation like a mad bull, and some of them just picked up the weapons in their hands and threw them at this side.

Seeing this, the Dongchang Fanzi who followed him hurriedly stopped, pulled out his long knife and killed these people. These Dongchang Fanzi were not courageous soldiers of the Nanjing Public Security Force. As cronies of the emperor, they couldn't help but say, Come directly to kill.

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