Take the arsenal to Da Ming

Chapter 261

Now, Tang Ning already has several princes of the Zhu family, Lu Wang Zhu Changhao, Tang Wang Zhu Yujian, and Lu Wang Zhu Yihai.

These few kings were recruited by Tang Ning in Zhejiang during the Northern Expedition, because he knew that once the Hongguang regime fell, someone would definitely pay attention to these people.

This is indeed the case. After the demise of the Hongguang regime, many people immediately wanted to support Lu Wang Zhu Changhao as the supervisor of the country.

Because in terms of closeness, Zhu Changhao is the most suitable.

However, people are in Tangning's hands, and Tangning's power is the strongest. Without Tangning's nod of approval, they have nowhere to go to support them.

So these people turned to the next best thing. In order to get closer to the center of power in the future, they tried their best to curry favor with Tangning, hoping that they would be able to give them a break by establishing a new emperor in the future.

Among them, in addition to the elders of the Hongguang court, there are also Fang Guoan, Wang Zhiren and others who have a lot of troops.

But Tangning was just making false claims, and then focused on fighting the Qing army.

At this time, the new army severely damaged the main force of Azig's troops, captured Yingtian Mansion, captured Azig alive, and made Tang Ning's prestige even stronger.

A large number of surrendered troops were recovered, which brought the strength of the new army to a higher level.

However, some people just don't know how to live or die, and feel that with their own qualifications and influence in the previous dynasty, they can directly decide who to support as the new emperor, so that by virtue of their support, they can call the wind and rain in the court.

Among them, there are a large number of elders from the previous dynasty, even from the Chongzhen dynasty.

These people are not all greedy for life and afraid of death.

In the official history, many of them organized the anti-Qing struggle until their death.

However, now he is quite enthusiastic about supporting the new emperor.They secretly contacted and colluded with each other, some chose Lu Wang, and some chose Lu Wang and Tang Wang.

Before the new dynasty was established, the secret struggle was already in full swing, but none of them escaped Tangning's eyes and ears.

Tangning had only heard about the party struggle, but she had never experienced it personally, nor had she seen it with her own eyes. At this moment, she understood a thing or two, and she was really insane.

In order to fight against their opponents, in order to have more bargaining chips in their hands, they wooed all possible forces, including the generals of the new army, and Wu Sangui and others who surrendered.

On the other hand, he kept attacking and beating his opponents, except for verbal slander and rumors, and even framed the opponent to kill him, he really did everything he could.

As long as it is not one of your own factions, regardless of this person's ability and role to the country, he is an enemy, and he must find a way to kick him out of the center of power.

Tang Ning was speechless and hated, and even wished to get rid of all those who liked to participate in party disputes.

But if you calm down a little, you can only think about it.

Because if you really attack so many people, the consequences will be too serious.

Even Emperor Chongzhen, who was well aware of the dangers of party struggles at the beginning, did not blindly kill these people even when he was desperate.

Although Tangning wouldn't kill all civil servants in the world, it was still necessary to beat her up.

On August [-]th, Tang Ning had just entered the city for two days, and immediately posted notices with his signature everywhere in Yingtianfu City.

The content of the notice is ten feet long, because there are more than 50 people involved in it, and the numerous crimes of these people are listed, which is simply too numerous to write.

And these people, any one of them, is beyond the reach of ordinary people.

They are all civil servants and military generals of the former dynasty, with respected status.

Among these people were Ruan Dacheng, Qian Qianyi, and Zhu Guobi who surrendered to the Qing army, Ma Shiying and his like who formed cliques for personal gain and disrupted the government, and generals like Tian Xiong who bound Emperor Hongguang to surrender to the Qing army.

The notice listed the various crimes they committed, mainly forming a party for personal gain, disrupting the government, exploiting the common people, corrupting the law and so on.

Some people have dozens of crimes, but the crimes of some people surrendering to the Qing army are just a brushstroke.

Obviously, for those who surrendered to the Qing army, surrender was not their main crime, and this move was also done for those who are still serving the Qing court.

If anyone who has surrendered will be killed, who will dare to do anything in the future?
However, other crimes are enough for these people to have a good drink.

On the next day, Ma Shiying, Ruan Dacheng, Qian Qianyi, Zhao Zhilong, Zhu Guobi, Tian Xiong and more than [-] civil servants and military generals of the Hongguang Dynasty were all put into prison cars.

The people who heard the news from the notice flocked to it, and surrounded both sides of the street with water.

A group of prison cars, escorted by a group of soldiers, moved forward slowly, and the people on both sides of the street were filled with righteous indignation, cheered endlessly, and were very happy.

"Dog officer, traitor..."

"Rebellious officials and thieves will bring disaster to the country and the people, kill them..."

"Kill them, kill them..."

Rotten vegetable leaves, rotten eggs, and even feces were thrown out crazily, hitting the immobile people on the prison van, making people sick.

Any one of these people is a member of one party, and when they are bullied like this, their hearts are filled with grief and indignation.

However, they could only bear it silently, and they had to endure all kinds of insults coming from all directions, which showed how much the people present hated them.

There were also some officials who had formed gangs in Yingtianfu City recently and mixed in the crowd. Seeing this scene, they all felt awe-inspiring, secretly thinking that Tangning's move was really vicious.

They know that this is just the beginning, and then these people will be taken outside the city to be shot.

That's right, shooting was a new punishment that Tangning had formulated, that is, shooting to death with a musket.

This kind of punishment is not considered torture, and even worse than beheading. After all, this method of death can at least leave a whole body.

But it would be a big mistake to think that Tang Ning was kind to these people.

Tangning specially selected a plot with extremely poor geomantic omen outside the city to bury these people who were shot, and named it the Wild Ghost Garden, which means that these people can only become lonely ghosts after death and cannot be reincarnated.

This is not over yet, the notice also stated that Tangning will send someone to write "The Traitor's Biography" in the future, so that these people will be infamous forever.

It was this series of actions that made the officials among the crowd feel that Tang Ning was really vicious, and even felt sad.

Because most of these people have been mentioned as a serious crime of forming a party for personal gain, and now they are not secretly forming a party?Isn't this just killing chickens and monkeys to sound a wake-up call for them?

Could it be that one day, if Tangning saw that they were unhappy, she would charge them with forming a clique for personal gain, and then parade them through the streets, shoot them, and bury them in a wild ghost garden, and then they would be included in "The Traitor's Biography".

That is really a road to the dark, and there is no peace after death.

However, Tangning's move did have some effect. The people who were forming cliques really restrained a lot.

Of course, it is impossible to prevent such things from happening through this method alone. Some people dare to take any risk for the sake of profit.

Therefore, other methods need to be strengthened, and the Department of Anti-corruption needs to continue to flourish. Tang Ning has already ordered Yu Chenglong to bring the backbone of the department of anti-corruption to the north, preparing to quickly put the department of anti-corruption into operation in Yingtianfu.

This alone is not enough, the new monarch must be established as soon as possible, there are three candidates now, Lu Wang Zhu Changhao, Tang Wang Zhu Yujian, and Lu Wang Zhu Yihai.

From a relationship point of view, Lu Wang Zhu Changhao is the most suitable, but he is the first one that Tangning eliminated. He is a cowardly pussy with no assertiveness. Tangning doesn't need him.

Although the future emperor also needs to be restrained by him, he doesn't need a faint king.

Otherwise, the government would become rotten again. After all, Tangning's main focus was on the military.

(End of this chapter)