Chapter 678: The whole body is questioned about the crime and the theory of treason
Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Yijun do not know how to fight. The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty once asked Qi Jiguang why King Yan could win the battle of Jingnan. Qi Jiguang was questioned many times Finally, I told His Majesty that King Yan was indeed very capable of fighting, but it was mainly Zhu Yunzhen's cooperation that ultimately led to this result. In fact, it was impossible for the feudal king's rebellion to succeed.
In fact, as the emperor of a unified empire, Zhu Yunwen could not lose no matter what. Even if King Yan had crossed the river and marched to the city, it would be of no use, because King Qin’s army was rushing towards the capital. Zhu Yuanzhang put so much effort into Nanjing's city wall that even Zhu Yunwen, a pig, couldn't defeat it.
Zhu Yunwen's ignorance of soldiers was the biggest reason for his defeat.
On the ninth day of June, at Fang Xiaoru's suggestion, Zhu Yunwen began to clear the country. He believed that as long as the surrounding areas of the capital were evacuated, the Yan army without supplies would naturally retreat.
This idea seems to have no problem. Even Zhu Yijun doesn’t think there is a problem. It seems that he always does this when encountering a siege. Zhu Di’s army going south only has 80,000 soldiers at full strength. Things like chewing on the city wall. Eighty thousand people were far from enough, and Zhu Yunwen still had 200,000 defenders in his hands.
If Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu were really sure of victory, they would not agree to Princess Qingyang leaving the city for peace talks.
Qi Jiguang told His Majesty that things are not like this. The more you encounter a losing streak and people are panicked, the less you can stand firm and clear the field, because people are tempted and morale is unstable. Once you start to stand firm and clear the field, you will already be trapped in a fight. The more fearful and uneasy the soldiers are, when carrying out the task of strengthening the walls and clearing the country, they will have some thoughts and take all these properties as their own.
The slaughter of cities and massacres often starts with plundering.
When soldiers start to rob under military orders, they will fall into a vicious circle of inevitable comparison. At the beginning, they just threaten with knives, and gradually they put knives to their necks to force people to hand over their belongings. The methods will only become more and more violent, and there is no chance of restraint, because if you are not ruthless, someone more ruthless will definitely steal more than you.
From threatening with a knife to burning, killing and looting, it only takes ten days for even the most elite soldiers to turn into thugs with red eyes. They will burn and kill everything, and even kill each other because they have looted The thugs for several days were extremely wealthy people in the city.
Disorderly killing will completely destroy the organization. The soldiers will not obey any military orders and act entirely on greedy instincts.
Confucian scholars like Fang Xiaoru do not know how to fight. In their view, they only need to strengthen the walls and clear the country to retreat the enemy. However, the generals who defend the city know clearly that when the violence gets out of control, these generals will They will also be in danger, even the Jiedushi envoys in the middle and late Tang Dynasty will be killed.
And the most important thing is, morale is completely gone, everyone is going to rob, who has the heart to defend the city? The Yan army is very capable of fighting. From north to south, many battles have proved the strength of the Yan army. The morale of the Yan army has completely collapsed, and they can still defend the city!
Zhu Yuanzhang never expected that the Yingtian capital defense he had carefully built would be broken just four years after his death.
These Confucian scholars have been shouting all day long about how the mountains and rivers are solid, but virtue is not the danger. Don’t just talk, do it!
In this case, the generals could only choose to open the city to welcome King Yan. This became the only solution. Surrendering King Yan might still survive and let the soldiers in the city plunder. , it doesn’t take a few days to seize Dagongfang, where the martial arts are concentrated, or Nanjing, which is undefended, is captured by the Yan army.
Perhaps when Zhu Yunwen lit a fire and burned himself to death, he still couldn't understand why the generals who had shouted to King Yan to kill him a few days ago turned against him and directly attacked. The Jinchuan Gate opened to welcome King Yan, who had been fighting for four years, to enter the city.
The opposite example is when Yu Qianyu Shaobao was defending the battle in Beijing, he went out of the city to meet the enemy.
We are all fighting to defend the capital, and we are all enemies from the north.
After the Mingbao Sect became a foreign student in Wala, they also defeated the capital city in October. Yu Qian's response plan was not to build a city wall, but to organize a counterattack in civilian houses outside the city. He did not condone the defeated and demoralized soldiers to fortify the walls and clear the country. , but can cut down all the trees used to attack the city, and then fight against the civilian houses outside the city to draw fuel from the bottom of the cauldron and fight against the odds.
While the emperor was captured, Ming Dynasty won the battle to defend Beijing and even brought the emperor back.
Before the 14th year of Zhengtong, there were only two wars in history in which emperors were captured. One was Emperor Huai and Emperor Min of Jin in the Western Jin Dynasty, and the other was Emperor Huizong and Emperor Qinzong of Song in the Northern Song Dynasty. Neither one of them was fought. No matter which one wins the opponent and defends the capital, the final result is half of the country. No matter which one fails to chop off the head of the thief chieftain and turn it into a reward, but Ye Xian's head is eventually chopped off by Alazhiyuan and sent to the Ming Dynasty. Replaced with reward money.
Qi Jiguang told the emperor that even on the ninth day of the sixth lunar month in the fourth year of Jianwen, Zhu Yunwen would not lose the country left to him by Zhu Yuanzhang until he followed the advice of the humble Confucian and began to lose consecutive battles and people's thoughts. When the army is in turmoil and morale is low, it is necessary to fortify the walls and clear the country, and then the defeat is so complete.
On Yimao in the sixth month of the fourth year of Jianwen, Yan soldiers crossed the river from Guazhou and arrived at Longtan from Gengshen. The emperor ordered the country to be cleared, and many people burned their houses.
He first captured the Emperor of Ming Dynasty and did whatever he wanted with him. He even asked foreign students from Wala to play music and imitated the humiliation of Jieli Khan's dance, but in the end he still returned the emperor first. Gave it to Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Qizhen is stupid, but Ming Dynasty is strong.
If you really kill the Wala foreign students, who knows what the crazy Daming will do.
The first time Hai Rui came to Xiashu Town was as governor of Yingtian. At that time, he only thought it was an ordinary inn and was not familiar with what happened back then. However, when His Majesty asked Qi Jiguang in court, Only then did Hai Rui fully understand what had happened in Xia Shu Town, which determined the fate of the empire.
And today, when Hai Rui returned to Xia Shu Town, he was also quite emotional. Li Le asked if he had no confidence in doing things. Hai Rui told him, ask yourself if you are worthy of the people. As long as you are worthy of you, you will be worthy. Confidence, if you don't have confidence, His Majesty will give you the strongest and most powerful support.
This is the Wanli Court.
"Hai Zongxian, why don't you attack Wang Cifu? Wang Cifu is full of shortcomings. It's not difficult to fight him if you catch a few." Li Le was a little puzzled. Why didn't Hai Rui attack Wang Chonggu? Hai Rui said Rui is afraid of authority. Dao Ye will jump out of the coffin and be the first to disagree. Hai Rui is afraid of authority? I scold the emperor Jiajing Jiajing, the master of every family who is clean!
"Because Wang Cifu is capable and virtuous." Hai Rui thought for a moment and answered the question. He smiled and said: "The errands he did cannot be done by others. Without Wang Butcher, your majesty doesn’t want to eat pigs with hair on them, so I’m afraid you have to do it yourself.”
Except for his slight lack of military talent, Hai Rui is very satisfied with your majesty. He would give you twelve out of ten points. He couldn’t be more satisfied. The extra two points were sympathy points, which turned the emperor into a donkey in the mill. There was no one else but Emperor Taizu Gao.
Military talent is such a rare thing that most people in the world don’t have, so don’t worry too much.
“Let me tell you something that some people don’t know, Wang Cifu actually doesn’t understand civil engineering.” Hai Rui shared a little secret that only the court officials know.
"Huh?" Li Le was dumbfounded. It was enough to say that others didn't understand, but Wang Chonggu didn't understand?
Wang Cifu can’t understand the civil engineering drawings? Wang Chonggu has been doing civil engineering for so many years. He doesn’t understand civil engineering, so how can he do it? Arrived?
It is truly a wonder that the leader of the Labor Party does not understand blueprints.
“Yes, he can’t understand it, but he listens to the doctors of the Five Classics and the great craftsmen. If the doctors of the Five Classics and the great craftsmen say what can’t be done, Wang Cifu will do it. In the past, when the national funds were empty, Money was wasted, the palace was being built, and His Majesty made an inspection tour and asked Wang Cifu to backfill it with construction waste and bury it underground anyway to save some cost of earth, stone and wood, but Wang Cifu refused. "Hai Rui said with emotion: "He just won't. Only if you understand can you do it well.”
"So, if Wang Cifu is defeated in a fight, who will do these things?"
"I have lived to this age, and I have thought about it. I am incorruptible, but I cannot ask others to be like me. To be honest, just be capable, and to be greedy, just be greedy and get things done."
To this day, the emperor feels sorry for Liu Hanru and Fan Yingqi. Liu Hanru can run the Sandu'ao private market so well. , was obviously a Xunli, but unfortunately he went astray. Fan Yingqi was addicted to opium because of a toothache. He was originally a very capable Xunli, but he could only stay in the Jiecui courtyard for the rest of his life.
Hai Rui took a deep breath and said: "There are not so many thousand-mile horses in the world. It is already extremely difficult to find someone who can use them while waiting for Bole."
Hai Rui Things have changed. He just sat back and watched as a corrupt official in the government was entrusted with an important task, but he did not impeach him. If he was a little corrupt, it didn't matter. He just treated it as a lubrication. This is the case in human society. Hai Rui doesn't think any system can avoid corruption. The reason why the old boss refused to let Chen Wuyin go when he came to plead for this kind of problem is that there is a fundamental logic in it, that is, the general tacit understanding of Nanya's bureaucrats caused Nanya's de facto loss of control.
There was a secret system in the Ming Dynasty. This was a means specially given by Wang Chonggu to the emperor to exercise imperial power. This system meant that some officials could go directly to heaven to listen. There was no need to argue whether it was true or not, just hear and hear. to inform His Majesty of all kinds of news.
However, the Nanya bureaucrats generally had a tacit understanding and built an information cocoon. Everyone unanimously lied to the emperor and the emperor's eyes and ears.
This is the normal state of the feudal monarchy when the emperor is deceived. It has been a huge difficulty since ancient times to reach the lower levels. But Nan Ya has become so united. Is this Nan Ya still the Nan Ya of the Ming Dynasty?
This is the fundamental reason why Hai Rui must cling to it. He must use this matter to promote the split of Nanya. The centrifugal situation between Nanya and Beiya cannot be like this. It went on.
One Ming Dynasty, two imperial courts, what kind of system is there?
This was Hai Rui's unfinished business. He had felt this centrifugal force when he first came to Yingtian Mansion. As the Wanli Reform continued to deepen, this centrifugal force was still increasing.
Hai Rui stayed in Xiashu Town without going anywhere, and started to deal with Chen Wuyin's case. He wanted to see how these cheap Confucians broke his magic sword. If He came by himself and is probably dead by now. Unfortunately, the Tiqi around him are all from Duntaiyuanhou and coastal defense inspection backgrounds. They are good at intelligence, and they can't hide any trouble from their eyes.
Everyone is equipped with Tiqi with iron armor, protecting Hai Rui in every possible way. Let alone assassins and killers, even a mosquito may not be able to fly in.
With the cooperation of Yingtian Governor Li Le, Hai Rui investigated the case very quickly. In just six days, Hai Rui found out the facts of Chen Wuyin's crime and took advantage of the coal mine to recover the case. Corruption worth tens of millions is a trivial matter, while a major matter is an attachment.
In the Ming Dynasty, military households and craftsmen households wanted their children to go to school. Because the Confucian school in Weisuo had been abolished as early as the Zhengtong period, the children of military households and craftsmen households had to go to school. To annex, taking Xuzhou as an example, you must buy properties in various counties in Xuzhou before you can annex.
This is a common practice in itself, and it is also a common phenomenon after the Weisuo Confucian School was abolished.
However, Chen Wuyin actually did not allow military households to register. Moreover, this practice has been around for a long time. It has become a common tacit understanding in Nanya since the Hongzhi period. Military households could only flee their homes and go to Huguang, In places such as Henan, if you buy property in these places, your children can study.
If Zhang Juzheng and Shen Li were born in Nanya, they would not even be able to go to school. Fortunately, one of them was born in Huguang and the other was born in Henan. Otherwise, the first hurdle for admission would be blocked. Lived.
Shen Li is also a military household. His ancestor Shen Daoxing was a soldier under Zhang Shicheng and served as a servant under Pan Yuanming. This Pan Yuanming was a fellow villager of Zhang Shicheng and a smuggler in salt. Later he surrendered to Zhu Yuanzhang. The reasons for his surrender are also recorded. The purpose is very clear, just to protect the people from the pain of war.
In the fourth year of Hongwu, the ancestor Shen Li was assigned to establish a guardhouse in Yucheng, Guide Prefecture, Henan Province, and the Shen Li family went to Henan since then.
Later, Shen Li's ancestor Shen Ming fought against the Yan army in the Battle of Jingnan and died in Gaocheng, Zhending Prefecture. Shen Ming had an only child named Shen Xiang. This time, the old Shen family who had chosen the wrong side of their lives finally made the right choice. Shen Xiang followed Zhu Di on three northern expeditions and returned with meritorious service. In the beginning, these thousands of hereditary households could only survive from starvation.
Shen Li, like Zhang Juzheng, came from a military family.
The Beggar Emperor has died, but the Emperor’s beggars are still guarding the Ming Dynasty.
The common practice in Nanya is not to prohibit attachment, but to have requirements for the properties purchased. For example, in Xuzhou, property must be purchased in Xuzhou Prefecture, and property purchased in prefectures and counties cannot be attached. Most military households are The poor families and the military households in Fucheng really couldn't afford it.
Of course, you can also choose to give Chen Wuyin a large amount of money to obtain attachments and finally give your children a place to study.
The road is not completely blocked, it depends on how much filial piety you have. This is the current Nanya, a state within a state.
As a result, the proportion of candidates and Jinshi who came from military households in Nanya was much lower than that in other places. This was to control the origins of local officials and then monopolize power. Nanya's tacit understanding started from the source of power, the imperial examination.
Chen Wuyin has been doing this business of beheading for four years. Li Le interrogated Chen Wuyin. Chen Wuyin did not think that he was at all wrong. The whole Nanya was doing this, and he was not alone. Why did he just do it? Was he taken out alone to deal with it? Your emperor is really capable. He can find all the moths. Don't pick the weak ones. Just bully Chen Wuyin because he is easy to bully.
"Really, even a trivial matter can be turned into a profitable business for them! It's really hateful! Hateful!" Hai Rui was halfway through writing the memorial. He was a little angry. He stood up and walked for several days. After a while, he calmed down and continued writing the memorial.
Hai Rui wrote a preliminary summary report of all the situations he investigated and reported it to the emperor.
The emperor's imperial edict was quickly transmitted back to Xia Shu Town: Catch them all and never tolerate them. All bureaucrats at all levels, big or small, who behave like this will be questioned and accused of treason.
Kill!
This was the emperor's instruction to Hai Rui. Originally, Chen Wuyin was accused of corruption, but now there was an additional issue of embarrassment for military households, which aroused the emperor's thunderous wrath.
The corruption in the Xuzhou Coal Mine is, at the most serious level, undermining the New Deal. At the most petty level, it is just an ordinary corruption case. At most, it will deprive you of your official status and honor and go home.
But with this happening, it’s not as simple as just getting out and going home.
The crime of treason is not something that Zhu Yijun blames. The behavior of cheap Confucians like Chen Wuyin is simply hollowing out the foundation of the empire's rule and undermining the emperor's New Deal. If the emperor does not kill him, who can take the emperor's position? Bean bags as dry food? !
In fact, the situation has not deteriorated to this extent at all, because Chen Wuyin's peddling of annexation has become less and less in recent years. It's not that Chen Wuyin doesn't want to make this money, it's because he can't make it.
Nanya Navy has 100,000 soldiers. During many expansions, it has built a school. As long as you serve as a soldier in Nanya Navy, you can obtain naval membership and attend Songjiang Naval School. Even if Even if you don't get the honor in the exam, you can still go to the martial arts school and seek to be a martial arts scholar or a martial arts examiner.
Songjiang Naval Academy is different from the third-level craftsman academy. The Naval Academy is an upward path to pass the Martial Arts Academy, and you can directly become a general, that is, a low-level officer.
Therefore, the armies of Nanya, including the military households in Fengyang, are also trying their best to recruit naval divisions. Over the years, the harm of this kind of attachment has been gradually eliminated by the naval division established by the emperor.
Hai Rui reported in detail the changes in Nanya in his memorial, but the emperor still issued an imperial edict to kill people. This was related to the emperor's consistent stance.
The Ming Dynasty’s civil and military rebellion was too serious. Since Yongle, it has been poisoning the Ming Dynasty for 160 years. If we don’t overdo it, there will be nothing to overdo it. The soldiers at the military garrison will surrender. Li Zicheng voted with his feet and told the Ming Emperor not to bully others like this.
It is no longer possible to cause bad effects, which does not mean that Zhu Yijun wants to let these beasts go. Why should he let them go? Are past grievances no longer grievances?
The trouble must reach the point where Zhejiang Jiuying enters the city to wipe out the bandits before we take action?
In the eyes of the bureaucrats at all levels in Nanya, the emperor was a bit unreasonable. It was so unreasonable to say that going around and around was just a matter of corruption, so the emperor started shouting about beating and killing. With the heart of an official, who will serve as your emperor's errand? This decision of His Majesty the Emperor lacks some humanistic care. They are all the ruling class, why should they be exterminated?
This kind of doubt began to erupt as soon as the imperial edict arrived in Xia Shu Town, but soon the public opinion of Nanya began to disappear, as if it had never happened, because the Songjiang Town Navy Soldiers and a total of 20,000 navy troops came to Yingtian Mansion and began to take over the defense.
Xu Bangrui, who had high hopes for Wei Guogongfu, assisted in guarding Nanjing, and also took charge of the harem, chose to directly hand over the defense.
The entire Yingtian Mansion was taken over by the Songjiang Town Navy, and the streets were full of neatly dressed soldiers. At this moment, these cheap Confucians immediately shut up, except for scolding him Xu Bangrui. Too soon, these soldiers did not dare to say anything more except that they affected the brothel business on the Qinhuai River.
The Ninth Battalion of Zhejiang Province entered the city to exterminate the bandits. It was a lesson learned before. It really made the navy soldiers anxious. If you try to imitate it in a decent way, who can withstand it?
The Duke of Wei's Mansion is Xu Da's Duke of Wei. Xu Da and Zhu Yuanzhang knew each other when they wore crotchless trousers. Similarly, Xu Da is also Zhu Di's father-in-law and Ming Renzong's grandfather. This is a true royal relative who has retired from the country. Therefore, When Chen Lin, the commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty Navy, took over the city defense with the emperor's order and imperial edict, Xu Bangrui gave up without any hesitation.
As long as there is no rebellion, no matter how violent the political storm is, it will not be able to blow through the gate of the Duke of Wei, so Xu Bangrui will not get involved in such noisy matters.
Chen Lin took over the city defense without any hindrance. This was the direct reason why the Nanya scholars shut up. What’s more interesting is that the girls in the brothel were well prepared to receive the humiliation from these Qiu Ba. After all, when you arrive at Yingtian Mansion Stone City, if you don’t visit the soldiers on the banks of the Qinhuai River, not only the girls have never seen them, but even the gentlemen have never seen them.
As for those who don’t have enough money, it’s good to be able to save their lives. What they are most afraid of are those smart-looking women. They are afraid that some military master will take a fancy to them and drag them to the military town to work as camp prostitutes. That is hard work.
Camp prostitutes have been common since ancient times, even on the front line. They are as common as military inns and military merchants. Traveling such a long way, the money earned is not as good as in a building. Moreover, her life is in danger at any time, so no brothel girl wants to be a prostitute.
But the girls in the brothel waited around and did not wait for the soldiers to come, let alone the drama of jealousy.
There are no prostitutes in the imperial camp and navy of the Ming Dynasty.
After the Ming Navy entered the city, they began to clean the capital. The most important task they did was to clean up all kinds of garbage out of the city. In the eyes of the soldiers of the Ming Navy, this Yingtian Mansion was really dirty!
Songjiang Mansion cannot be said to be spotlessly clean, but there is definitely no pile of garbage. It is just piled in the corner, exuding a stench.
The garbage pile at Jinchuan Gate is higher than the city wall. In some places, you can even step on the garbage mountain to enter the city. All the excrement in the city is dominated by excrement. It is piled up in the open air in various 'dung dumps'. In the Dung Yard, the ditches used for drainage in the city are clogged with garbage. At dusk and during curfew, everyone throws garbage on the streets, and no one even cleans it up.
This is the case in the outer city, and it is also the case with places like Dagongfang where nobles live. The tallest one can be two or three feet tall. This is what Chen Lin saw when he brought the navy to Yingtian Mansion. Chen Lin immediately organized The army and the people began to clean up the streets and ditches, and even moved all the dung tyrants outside the city, so that they could breathe easier.
"Yingtian Mansion and Liudu have such a stench, I don't know how you can live there! Not counting the outer city, there are eighteen squares in the inner city, and each of them has powerful forces. I don’t want the money to pay for the garbage removal fee, which is one hundred silver per square meter. I will give it to the soldiers and civilians who clean it up.” Chen Lin was sitting in the Yingtian Mansion Yamen, and the man with the golden sword was sitting in the upper seat, facing the Yingtian Mansion officials. An angry outburst.
It’s really too dirty.
In fact, Yingtianfu, from the top to the powerful and from the right to the poor coolies, couldn't stand the garbage. When Chen Lin made an announcement and mobilized the people to clean up together, in just one day, they participated in cleaning up the garbage. The number of civilians exceeded 70,000, plus 10,000 navy troops. Within three days, the entire Yingtian Mansion was restored to cleanliness.
The reason why we have to collect money specifically from the 18 squares in the inner city is that there are the fewest people in the inner city participating in the cleanup, almost none, so we have to collect money. If you are not willing to contribute, you will pay. There is no free meal in the world. .
"Your Majesty will be arriving in a few days. Let's welcome him like this. Let's see how many heads you can pick off by then! The navy patrols Tianjin every October. No matter whether your Majesty goes or not, or whether he boards the ship, They will clean everything inside and out!" Chen Lin slapped the table loudly.
Internal affairs is combat effectiveness. The military’s strict requirements for internal affairs are actually to cultivate obedience. On the battlefield, this kind of obedience means following orders and prohibitions, and being like an arm to command, so that it can kill the enemy most effectively.
Chen Lin used to go to Nanya in a hurry. This time he took over the defense and went around for a few times before he discovered the problem.
Chen Lin thought for a moment and continued: "Also, the tiles on the roof have been removed and cleaned, and grass has grown! Can you touch up the paint on those places where the paint has fallen off? Don't you mind? It's so shabby, I still find it embarrassing! There is also the Nanjing Imperial Palace. Although it is only a few days old, it has been somewhat repaired. At least the Xiaoling Tomb, Ancestral Temple, Fengtian Hall, Qianqing Palace, and Kunning Palace, which Your Majesty will definitely visit, can all be seen. "
"The city gates are like an old lady losing her teeth. One piece is missing in the east and one is missing in the west. It is shabby. "
The maintenance of the Nanjing Imperial Palace continued until the Zhengtong period, and then completely stopped during the Jingtai period. The palace buildings collapsed and burned and were not rebuilt because the Ming emperor knew very well that he would not move the capital back under any circumstances, and it didn't matter whether it was repaired or not. .
Although the Nanjing Imperial Palace has been completely destroyed, the main building is still there, at least it can be decent.
“His Majesty decreed that no repairs, especially the imperial palace, would be allowed. Large-scale construction would waste people and money.” Yang Cheng, the Minister of Rites in Nanjing, reminded Chen Lin that large-scale construction was not in compliance with the decree.
When Chen Lin heard this, she suddenly turned her head and stared at Yang Cheng and said calmly: "You know how to listen to His Majesty now?! What's the motivation to go against the will? What's the motivation to comply with various new coups? Do I mean to renovate the palace? Are you stuffing your ears with donkey hair? What does it mean to be decent? It just doesn’t look so bad at first glance. You tell me you won’t do it?” >
"Are you really acting like a royal palace, and you are losing His Majesty's people? You are losing the face of the entire Nanya bureaucracy!"
"Are you going to be superficial?"
"Okay, okay." Yang Chengzhen's scalp was numb. When a scholar encounters a soldier, he can't explain why.
(End of this chapter)