Daming Military Empire

Chapter 72

Hearing the sound of horseshoes outside, Xu Wenjue, who was already extremely insolent, became even more insolent. He laughed maniacally and said, "Hahahaha, our troops have finally arrived. If you are sensible, please let go of this son, or you will see me later."

The other people on the second floor were also making a fuss. At the beginning, they didn't dare to make a scene because of the prestige of Jinyiwei. Now that Xu Wenjue said that their troops had arrived, the whole second floor immediately seemed to explode. All kinds of abuse and threats can be heard endlessly.

Zhu Cijiong sat there calmly, watching the final performance of these clowns, he was not worried at all that it was not his own people who came here, not counting the [-] troops under Huang Degong, but the [-] Jing who were equipped with new flintlock guns and grenades The Battalion Imperial Guards were not something the [-] city guards left behind in Nanjing could resist.

Soon, the sound of horseshoes disappeared, and there was a sound of footsteps and armor clashing at the stairs. Four generals in mail armor hurried up to the second floor. When Xu Wenjue saw the four generals coming up, his arrogant face turned into Feeling astonished, he exclaimed: "Huang Degong!"

He has never been to the capital, so he does not know Zhu Cijiong, the emperor of Chongzheng. How could he have never been to the central capital so close? He knows Huang Degong, who stayed behind in the central capital. A rare warrior.

It was Huang Degong, Qin Yiming, Qin Gongming, and Shi Kefa who Zhu Cijiong arranged to frighten the defenders of Nanjing who came up. The four of them came to Zhu Cijiong and knelt down on one knee to salute. The city guards who stayed behind have all been persuaded to return to the barracks, and now the entire city of Nanjing is under the control of the imperial guards."

Hearing this, Zhu Cijiong glanced at Zheng Sen proudly, and said to Xu Wenjue, "This is General Huang who stayed behind in Zhongdu. Aren't you going to tie me up and go to Zhongdu to claim credit?"

Xu Wenjue's face was ashen at this time, Huang Degong was a veteran of the Beijing camp, and he had always been loyal to the royal family, so naturally he would not be so boring as to cooperate with a little prince to pretend to be the emperor.No need to ask, the eight or nine-year-old child in front of him is the real Emperor Chongzheng, and he actually treats him like a little prince, isn't he seeking death!
Thinking of this, Xu Wenjue slowly collapsed, he knew that he was finished.Seeing Xu Wenjue like this, the entire second floor fell into dead silence.

Zhu Cijiong didn't bother to deal with this guy anymore, he said to Luo Yangxing: "Hurry up and send someone to investigate, and let all the irrelevant people go."

After all, he walked straight to Wang Zhengnan's table. This Wang Zhengnan is also a rare and fierce general, but he was too young to catch up with the great battle between the Ming and Qing armies. When he became the chief soldier, even Nanming had already If it is destroyed, it can be said that heroes are useless.

Now that such a hero with strong martial arts is in front of him, Zhu Cijiong will naturally not let it go. Although Wang Zhengnan is still young, Zhu Cijiong is younger than him, and there is still a long way to go in the future. Train him well, no Just in time for Lu Xiang to be promoted to their class.

After Zhu Cijiong's move, Cao Huachun, Huang Degong, and a group of Jinyiwei and Dongchang masters naturally followed closely behind. Qin Mingyue looked at Zheng Sen, and was a little worried after all, so she hugged him in her arms and followed. .

Seeing Zhu Cijiong approaching, Wang Zhengnan and others quickly knelt down on the ground and shouted in unison: "Caomin pay homage to the emperor."

Zhu Cijiong smiled and said: "Wait, don't, I'm not wearing a dragon robe, you don't have to be so cautious, get up."

Everyone was baffled. They didn't know why the emperor was so amiable all of a sudden. Zhu Cijiong had a purpose in doing this. After they all got up, he immediately walked up to Wang Zhengnan and asked with great interest, "If I heard correctly, , your name is Wang Zhengnan, right? You are so good at it, have you ever thought about serving the country?"

Wang Zhengnan was overwhelmed by the flattery, and stammered: "Thinking, thinking, thinking, but unfortunately I never had a chance."

Zhu Cijiong was overjoyed when he heard the words: "Okay, I will give you this opportunity now, first hang a title of Qianhu in the Beijing camp with me, and then lead the army to fight after you become proficient in the art of war. What do you think?"

Naturally, Wang Zhengnan couldn't ask for it, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed excitedly: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness."

Jinling City was very lively that night. First, the annual Oiran Conference was grandly opened, which lasted for more than two hours; With cooperation, they rushed into the city, disarmed all the city guards left behind in Nanjing, and rushed back to the barracks. In the end, countless Jinyi guards arrested the rebellious officials and thieves who plotted to rebel in the city, and they almost ransacked the entire Jinling.

The vigorous arrest operation lasted all night. Almost all the high-ranking officials and nobles in Jinling City became prisoners, and even more than half of the small officials below the fifth rank were arrested. Catch them all.

Is this the end?Of course not, Zhu Cijiong still insisted on the policy of purging eunuchs:

The chief culprits, Xu Hongji and Xu Wenjue, father and son, confiscated the family property and killed the whole family.

The main culprit, Zhao Zhilong, and others confiscated all their property and beheaded them for public display.

If the rest of the accomplices behaved well, they could be given a lighter sentence as appropriate.

Those who can take the initiative to expose the crimes of their accomplices and hand over all the proceeds of corruption will only be demoted to common people, and the crimes will not be pursued.

Those who only handed over the proceeds of corruption and refused to expose the crimes of their accomplices were exiled for thousands of miles.

Those who refused to hand over the proceeds of corruption and refused to expose the crimes of their accomplices were all sent to prison and executed after autumn.

This is terrible, who doesn't want to live, who doesn't want to be free, officials who corrupted the law for the benefit of the Jiangnan scholar-bureaucrat group were bitten out one by one.

First of all, it was just local officials in Nanjing, big and small, and gradually extended to the three provinces in the south of the Yangtze River. They obediently obeyed and violated the decrees of the imperial court of the capital, withheld taxes and suppressed officials from other places, and the whole south of the Yangtze River almost became a small court.

They also opened the door for relatives and friends to do business, and helped them suppress competitors. For example, Rixinglong came to Nanjing to open a semicolon, which touched their interests. They asked the city guards to directly seal Rixinglong and ordered them If you hand in a ransom of 1000 million taels, anyone who has no background will be played to death by them. Even Luo Yangxing, the commander of Jin Yiwei in the background, can't play against Xu Wenjue in Nanjing.

It's a pity that the backstage of Rixinglong is not Luo Yangxing, but Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong. They kicked the hardest iron plate in the world. Now it is a luxury to break bones and tendons. Our little emperor started to be ruthless. If you don't catch them all, you won't stop.

Once bitten off, more than half of the officials in the three provinces in the south of the Yangtze River were bitten out. Luo Yangxing's grasping hands were soft. He thought that this should be almost the same.However, after asking Zhu Cijiong for instructions, the answer he got was: not enough, continue!

(End of this chapter)