Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 309
Yuan Keli pondered for a while, then suddenly said in a deep voice: "Although your worry is right, my teacher believes that as long as you can make a quick decision and hold the emperor in your hands, you can rule the world with one stroke."

Li Jing was silent for a while and said: "It depends on how Ma Wu, Zhuzi and Dingguo have arranged in the capital. If the actions don't go well, they will eventually need to storm the palace, and the consequences may be unpredictable."

Yuan Keli waved his hand: "There is no need to think too much about this matter. If there are any unforeseen consequences, then you will be a usurper!"

Li Jing nodded slightly: "Since that's the case, then I'm ready to leave. After I leave, I will ask my husband to take care of me as soon as the family handles business."

"Don't worry, Pingyang Mansion has its own teacher to take care of you, and it will definitely protect this foundation for you!" Yuan Keli said.

Li Jingjing nodded, as long as the foundation of Pingyang Mansion is not lost, even if this matter fails, at most Pingyang Mansion will be used as the base to start a war with Daming.

After saying this, Yuan Keli got up immediately, pointed at Li Jing and said: "Actually, you must have thought clearly about what I said just now, and you came to me just to confirm it with me. Go, no matter how safe it is at Ma Wu in the capital, if you don’t go and sit in the town yourself, you won’t be able to do it after all.”

Seeing Yuan Keli standing up, Li Jing hurriedly got up to support Yuan Keli and said, "Then the student will leave. Take care of you, old man. I will take you to Beijing when the capital is stable."

Yuan Keli waved his hand: "Whether you enter Beijing or not is not important to me. I am satisfied as long as I see you revitalize the country of the Han people. When the situation stabilizes, I should go back to my hometown in Suizhou. After all, I am satisfied." I haven’t been home for almost ten years, and it’s time to go home.”

Hearing the sadness Yuan Keli said, Li Jing felt sore in his heart, and couldn't help but choked up and said, "Sir!"

Yuan Keli patted Li Jing's shoulder lightly, leaning on crutches, tremblingly walked towards his residence.

Li Jing rubbed his eyes, hurriedly supported Yuan Keli and sent him back to the room.

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Coming out of Yuan Keli's room, Li Jing turned around and said to Xiao Wu, "Let your people relax for a couple of days, and don't stare too closely."

Xiao Wu nodded, knowing that Li Jing was talking about monitoring the four assassins arranged by Fan Wencheng.

The four assassins, Xiao Wu, felt both amused and sad for them. The four didn't know that Li Jing already knew their intentions before they arrived in Pingyang Mansion, and had already closely monitored them.And under Li Jing's deliberate arrangement, three of them have joined the Ji Shi Army.

Li Jing had thought about accepting only three people. According to Ji Shijun's rules, soldiers are not allowed to run around casually. If all of them are included, who will send the letter to Houjin?Therefore, Li Jing deliberately kept one person to prevent him from joining the Ji Shi Army.

Now their every move is under the surveillance of others, and they don't even notice it.However, these guys still think that they hide well, and try their best to perform every day in order to get close to Li Jing.

As everyone knows, Li Jing has already used them to send messages to Hou Jin several times, and the messages Li Jing asked them to send are all true.

This time Li Jing asked Xiao Wu to relax, the underlying meaning was to ask them to send back another message.

It's just that the information this time is definitely false, and after sending this information, these four people are no longer useful.

Sure enough, after Xiao Wu finished giving orders, Li Jing began to make arrangements.

Li Jing summoned all the generals, talked about the siege of Gyeonggi, and finally said that he was going to personally bring [-] infantry into King Qinqin, and at the same time ordered the generals to be optimistic about the door.

The next day after the meeting ended, Li Jing received news from Xiao Wu that the assassin who did not join the Ji Shi Army left Pingyang Mansion overnight on a fast horse.Knowing that the news had been sent, Li Jing immediately ordered Xiao Wu to take down the remaining three assassins.

Naturally, Li Jing would not be polite to these three traitors, and only asked Xiao Wu to reveal their identities before beheading them for public display.

Afterwards, Li Jing ordered Shen Zheng, Zhou Hengchen, Yang Liufeng and other civil officials to go to the capital separately, while he himself took his own soldiers and disguised himself as porters, mixed with the team of carriages and horses, and rushed to the capital.

As for the three thousand infantrymen, under the banner of Li Jing, they followed behind and slowly marched towards the capital.

Before Li Jing arrived in Beijing, Ma Wu in the capital received the news of Li Jing's departure. After receiving the news, Ma Wu immediately mobilized all the manpower in the capital, plus the pillars who came to Beijing later and the 5000 people led by Li Dingguo , the total number is roughly around 6000.

6000 people are actually not many, and it is not worth mentioning compared with the Ming army in the capital, but in order to get these people into the capital, Ma Wu spent a lot of effort.

Because during the Ming Dynasty, the government had very strict control over the population. Anyone who was hundreds of miles away from their residence, whether they were doing business or visiting friends, needed to go to the local government to issue a guide.

This thing is equivalent to a letter of introduction and a pass for future generations.If there is no guidance or if it is inconsistent with the above description of the guidance, it will be punished according to the law.

Although at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the population flow was increasing due to the rogue bandits, but for those good people, they still needed to go to the government to guide them when they traveled far.

In addition, even rogues need guides.

Because rogues often lose battles, and after they are defeated, they will flee around. At this time, many soldiers will be placed on orders. good people.

Therefore, for the rogues, road guides can also be used to save their lives at critical times, and it is even more indispensable, but their guides are usually run by themselves after they occupy the government office with a knife, and they have several.

In fact, because of the rogues everywhere, the government made stricter inspections of Luyin, for fear that some rogues would sneak into the city and open the city gate.

This is still the case in the local area, not to mention the capital city, the investigation is naturally stricter.

Therefore, it is not so easy for outsiders to enter the capital.

As for thousands of people from the same province who want to enter the city at once, that is absolutely impossible.Especially in provinces like Shaanxi and Shanxi where rogues are prevalent, the precautions must be stricter. Let alone thousands of people, even hundreds or dozens of people will not do.

Because once the rogues infiltrate the capital and cause any trouble, then Daming will be ashamed and lose a lot of money.

Fortunately, Ma Wu has not been in the capital for nothing these years. Because Jingji Company has many industries in the capital, Ma Wu often goes out of the city and enters the city, and basically gets acquainted with the city gate officials who guard the city.

Moreover, Ma Wu's relationship with the important officials in the capital is not so good. Everyone knows that Ma Wu's background is extremely strong, and no one wants to offend the God of Wealth.

Therefore, Ma Wu was not stopped every time he brought a hundred or so people to escort the goods into the city.

But it’s definitely not enough to just go in and not out. Dozens of people can do it, but hundreds of thousands of people can’t get in. Even if the city gate officials are pig-headed, they will have doubts.

In addition, you can't bring people into the city every day. If you bring people into the city every day, the city gate officials will still be suspicious.

These people are not ignorant of the business of the various shops in the capital.What is your business doing so well?Need to ship supplies every day?
Therefore, in order not to be suspicious, Ma Wu adopted the method of bringing in 100 people and leaving dozens of people, and getting dozens of people into the city every few days, so that people came into the city little by little.

It is relatively simple to get people into the city, the trouble is transporting supplies, especially artillery and firearms.

This is not dozens of guns or cannons, but thousands of guns, hundreds of artillery pieces, and a lot of ammunition.

It took even longer to transport these things. It took Ma Wu more than half a year to finally transport the weapons and ammunition of 5000 people to Beijing.

In fact, this is not the most troublesome thing. The most troublesome thing is how to arrange these people to Beijing.

This is not a day or two, a total of more than half a year, and there are more and more people, food and clothing costs are troublesome, especially in the later stage when there are thousands of people, this is not something that dozens of companies can settle down.

Fortunately, Ma Wu bought several houses in the capital before, and for this operation, he bought several houses at a high price in advance, and added some storehouses, so that these people could barely be settled.

In addition, Ji Shijun's discipline is very good, these people stay in the house every day and don't go out randomly, so there is no suspicion.

Now that Li Jing has finally come to Beijing, the secluded life of these people can finally come to an end.

But Ma Wu knew that the city of Beijing was now heavily guarded, and it would not be too much to describe it as three steps, one post, and five steps, one sentry. So many people rashly took to the streets, it would inevitably arouse suspicion.

Therefore, the day before Li Jing entered Beijing, Ma Wu ordered Zhuzi and Li Dingguo to take these people and sneak into various shops at night, disguised as shop assistants and customers.

The city of Beijing in the Ming Dynasty was in a convex shape, with the lower part being the outer city and the upper part being the inner city.There is also the imperial city inside the inner city, and the Forbidden City is built inside the imperial city. From this layout, it can be seen that the entire Beijing city is actually composed of several layers of city pools.

Among them, the people living in the outer city are mainly ordinary people, the inner city is mainly the place where dignitaries and rich gentry live, and the imperial city is the office space of various yamen.Needless to say, the Forbidden City is the place where the emperor lived and worked.

In other words, Ma Wu's stores in the capital can only be located in the outer city and inner city, but most of them are in the inner city.

Li Jing brought not many people to Beijing this time, only more than 100 soldiers and about [-] commando members.

Although the capital was under martial law, it was not difficult for Ma Wu to bring two hundred people into the inner city. The difficulty was how to enter the imperial city.

After all, it is the office of the yamen, not everyone can come in and out casually.

If you can't enter the imperial city, you can't enter the Forbidden City, and Li Jing's ultimate goal is of course the Forbidden City.

Li Jing's idea is that it is best to sneak into the imperial city, and if there is no other way, he will use a strong attack.

But Li Jing would never attack by force unless it was a last resort, because Li Jing knew Zhu Youjian's character very well, and if he forcibly attacked the city, it was very likely that Zhu Youjian would commit suicide after the city was broken.

If Zhu Youjian died, then Li Jing's careful preparations for so many years would be in vain.

Li Jing is very aware of Zhu Youjian's appeal. At present, even a hundred Li Jings do not have Zhu Youjian's appeal.

But what Li Jing wants to do requires Zhu Youjian's appeal, or in other words, he needs to act under the banner of Zhu Youjian.

Therefore, Li Jing never wanted Zhu Youjian to die like this.

(End of this chapter)