Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 312

Getting off the sedan chair, Wang Chengen cupped his hands at Li Jinggong and said, "General Li, Mr. Wang came as promised, I hope you will keep your promise."

Li Jing clasped his fists and said: "Don't worry, brother Wang, I said that I would never damage any grass or tree in the palace, and I will definitely do what I said. In addition, if Li's subordinates hurt a hair of the emperor, you can do it every day in the future." Point at Li's nose and scold me! Li will never dare to speak back."

After finishing speaking, Li Jing turned around and said to the soldiers behind him: "Have you heard what I said just now? Who would dare to disobey my order, disturb the emperor and the women in the harem, or damage the things in the palace?" , I'll cut off anyone's head with my own hands."

"I would like to obey the commander's order!" All the soldiers responded in unison.

Because the soldiers were afraid of disturbing the neighbors with too loud a voice, they kept their voices extremely low when they spoke, but this voice was even more solemn.

Pointing to the soldiers behind him, Li Jing looked at Wang Chengen and said, "Brother Wang, are you satisfied?"

Wang Chengen smiled wryly and said, "General Li, after today, Wang will be infamous through the ages, so what if he is not satisfied?"

Li Jing shook his head, pointed at Wang Cheng'en and said, "Brother Wang, you are wrong. What you did today will definitely be remembered by the people of Daming in the future."

Wang Chengen sighed lightly and said: "I don't want to gain any fame anymore, as long as I can keep the emperor, I will be satisfied. General Li, come with me!"

Li Jing waved his hand lightly, and the guards immediately guarded Wang Chengen and Li Jing's sides and behind them.

"Which door should we go?" Li Jing turned his head and asked.

Wang Chengen thought for a while and said, "From Daming Gate, to Chengtian Gate (Tian'anmen), and then to Meridian Gate, this is the shortest route."

Li Jingjing nodded and said to Ma Wu: "Order to inform Zhuzi and Dingguo to lead their troops to Daming Gate. After Wang Gonggong and I enter the city, we will occupy Daming Gate, Chengtian Gate, and Meridian Gate in turn."

Ma Wu nodded, summoned a few people to give some instructions, and those people hurriedly took the orders and left.

Then Li Jing looked at Chen Erhu again and said: "You and your subordinates are scattered in the city with Fifth Brother's people, and if you find someone who provokes trouble, just take it down for me. Fifth Brother's people are responsible for appeasing the people, and you must not do anything, so as not to alarm acquaintances .”

Wang Chengen nodded when he heard the news. No matter how tightly he sealed off the news of Li Jing's mutiny, it would definitely come out. At that time, people in the capital would definitely be in chaos. At this time, the fastest way to appease the people is to let the people in the capital come forward to appease them.

Wang Chengen can tell from the fact that Li Jing asked Ma Wu's people to appease the people that Li Jing really didn't want to mess up the capital.

The people Ma Wu used were either natives of the capital, or had lived in the capital for many years. These people had too many acquaintances in the capital, so asking them to appease the people would naturally have a much better effect than Li Jing's people.On the contrary, if they are asked to follow suit to suppress the troublemakers, acquaintances will not understand why they will be panicked.

After Chen Erhu left with his subordinates and Ma Wu's people, Li Jing looked at Ma Wu and said, "Take the things you prepared and come into the palace with me."

Ma Wu nodded and waved to the room, and then more than a dozen strong men came out of the restaurant carrying a few boxes.

Smiling, Li Jing said to Wang Cheng'en: "Brother Wang, you still sit in your sedan chair, and I will accompany you."

Wang Chengen nodded, leaned over the sedan chair, and when he closed the curtain of the sedan chair, he shouted to the four little eunuchs who were carrying the sedan chair: "Forget everything you saw and heard today, otherwise, I will kill you!"

The four little eunuchs were taken aback. They all knew that Wang Chengen was cruel and cruel. Some time ago, the two little eunuchs serving the emperor did something wrong. Not long after the emperor retired, Wang Chengen ordered the two A little eunuch was beaten to death.

Thinking of the death of the two young eunuchs, the four hurriedly said, "We didn't see anything, we didn't hear anything."

Wang Chengen snorted and said, "Let's go!"

With Wang Chengen leading the way, although the city guard of Daming Gate looked at Li Jing and the others full of doubts, they did not dare to stop them and obediently opened the city gate.

Li Jing and others entered the city gate. The city guard was about to raise his hand to order the gate to be closed, when he suddenly felt a chill on his neck, and a person beside his ear said coldly, "Don't close the gate, or you will die."

The city guard was stunned for a moment, and as soon as he turned his head, he felt a pain in his neck. Looking sideways, he saw a gleaming dagger resting next to his neck.The city guard didn't know, so he was about to ask a question, when he suddenly saw hundreds of people quickly entering the city gate. Before he could understand what was going on, these people had already stepped up the city wall, and quickly disarmed the guarding soldiers.

"Wang Gonggong, what's the matter?" the city guard shouted hastily.

"According to the emperor's decree, Li Jing, the general of Shanxi Province, entered the capital of King Qin, the side of the Qing emperor. Now the imperial city is starting to change defenses. If you want to survive, you should stay still and wait for the emperor's order. Otherwise, you will be killed." Li Jing said coldly.

The city guard was stunned, and then he shouted: "You are Li Jing? You are a small general who dares to move the city guard of the imperial city. Are you planning to rebel? Prince, are you also rebelling?"

Wang Chengen shook his head, glanced at Li Jing, and saw that Li Jing waved his hand, and the man next to the city guard slashed at the side of the city guard's neck.

It was Zhuzi's subordinates who occupied Daming Gate. After Zhuzi occupied the city gate, Li Dingguo led the follow-up troops to enter Daming Gate one after another.

Seeing that all the people arrived, Li Jingting nodded and said to Zhuzi: "Leave 300 people here to defend, and you take 3000 people to occupy the rest of the gates of the imperial city. If there is any resistance, you can kill them on the spot. After occupying the gates, Close the gate of the city, and no one is allowed in or out. Do you understand!"

"Yes! Marshal!" Zhu Zi took the lead.

Then Li Jing turned to Li Dingguo and said, "You take the rest of the people and follow me!"

Li Dingguo responded and waved to the soldiers behind him. The soldiers saw the gesture and quickly stood behind Li Jing.

Smiling at Wang Chengen, Li Jing said, "Brother Wang, please!"

Seeing that Li Jing's subordinates were strict in discipline and quick in action, and that more than 5000 people acted at the same time without making any noise, Wang Chengen was very impressed.

Look at the weapons used by Li Jing's troops. How long has it been?Thirty cannons have been set up on the wall of Daming Gate.

Li Jing used [-] cannons in such a big place, so how many cannons did Li Jing use during the Datong Battle?

In the past, Wang Chengen only heard that Li Jing's army was very powerful, but he saw it today, why even people like Cao Wenzhao were willing to follow Li Jing.

The reason is very simple, Cao Wenzhao is the general who leads the battle, which general does not want to lead such a strong army to fight?Which general is willing to fight against such a strong army?

Shaking his head, Wang Chengen waved to the four young eunuchs, and the four hurried forward carrying the sedan chair.

After walking a few steps, Wang Chengen suddenly opened the sedan chair curtain and said to Li Jing, "General Li, tell me the truth, what are you going to do next?"

Li Jing pondered for a while and said, "Brother Wang, you said that if the emperor were to command my troops, would he dare to march in person?"

Wang Chengen froze for a while, then shook his head lightly and said: "Even if the emperor is willing, the ministers will not let it go, they will definitely use the example of the change of the civil fort to hinder the emperor's personal conquest."

Li Jingjing nodded: "Yes, those ministers would not agree to the emperor's going even if they knew it was a victory. In fact, they may not be worried about the emperor's safety. What they are worried about is that once the emperor wins the battle, the emperor's prestige will be destroyed. With a sudden increase, the ministers will no longer be able to hold down the emperor."

Wang Chengen pondered for a moment, then nodded silently.

Li Jing smiled and continued: "So, first of all, I have to eliminate those useless ministers in the court, and arrange some people who can do things to sit in those positions.

At the same time, I have to teach Donglu a lesson. They have more than 8 people here this time, right?Hehe, I have secretly ordered Cao Bianjiao and Hutou to lead their troops to the front line of Dushikou, so that none of the Qing troops along the way will escape.

As for the Qing army around Gyeonggi, it was handed over to Cao Wenzhao to deal with.I figured that the Qing army would have difficulty using their legs and feet when they heard Cao Wenzhao's name, and it was hard to say whether they could run home.

After defeating the Qing army, it's time to deal with the rogues, but we can't deal with the rogues like we deal with the Qing army. After all, they are still my Ming people. I plan to suppress and appease them, and at the same time implement the government orders of the Pingyang government throughout the country. I guess, Within five years, the rogues in the Ming Dynasty should be wiped out. "

Wang Chengen nodded, he knew what Li Jing meant.

With the strength of the Jishi Army, it will naturally take less than five years to eliminate the rogues, but if the existing system is not changed, one wave of rogues will rise again after another wave. Therefore, in order to solve the rogues, we must fundamentally solve the problem of why the rogues rebelled .

Li Jing intends to use five years to implement the Pingyang government system throughout the country.

Thinking of Li Jing supporting 100 troops with the power of one government, and at the same time providing the emperor with 100 million taels of silver every year, if this system is implemented throughout the country, what is it worth to support [-] million troops?
While Wang Chengen was thinking wildly, he crossed the Jinshui Bridge and arrived at Wumen Gate.

Hearing the word Meridian Gate, most people will think of the phrase "beheading at the Meridian Gate to show the public".

In fact, the emperor would never behead prisoners at the Meridian Gate.

The Meridian Gate looks like three gates from the front, but actually there are five gates in total, and there are two yoke gates on both sides of the main gate, but these two gates are usually not opened, only when the emperor holds a grand ceremony in the Huangji Hall. Ministers of civil and military affairs will enter through these two ye gates.

Only the emperor can enter and exit the main gate of the Meridian Gate. When the emperor gets married, the empress can go once.

In addition, after the palace examination, the three who won the first prize, the second place, and the third prize can walk once.

There are two que pavilions on the left and right of the gate tower in the middle of the Meridian Gate, with bells and drums inside.There are regulations on when to ring the bell and when to beat the drum.The bell rings when the emperor offers sacrifices to altars and temples; the drums are played when the emperor offers sacrifices to the Taimiao;

How could such a solemn place be used to execute prisoners?

However, there are many dead people in Meridian Gate, but those who die are definitely famous and important ministers.

The emperors of the Ming Dynasty liked to use lynching (Zhengde and Jiajing were the most), that is, the court stick, commonly known as spanking.The place where ministers are spanked is the Meridian Gate.

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