Chapter 114: Violation of discipline
The resistance of the whole Beijing city is very weak, even some civil and military officials loyal to the Ming Dynasty, when they see the doors opened, a large number of large Chinese troops into the city, they also know that it is meaningless to resist again, except for the death of some more people, they can no longer keep the Ming Dynasty, so many of the soldiers in the city have laid down their weapons, were disarmed by the Chinese army, and quickly escorted to the outside of the capital, and were detained in the original three battalions outside the capital.
As a result, the chaos that Xiao Tianjian was worried about did not continue to last long in the city, and after only three days of purging, the Dazhong Army completely controlled the situation in Beijing.
The Dazhong Army is different from the Dashun Army that fought Beijing City in history, the most fundamental difference between the two armies is in terms of military discipline, although it is undeniable that there are individual generals in the Dazhong Army who can't control themselves, after entering Beijing City, there are some things like robbery and rape, and there are also some soldiers who steal some things by the way, but on the whole, the military discipline of the Dazhong Army is still a hundred times stronger than those generals of the Dashun Army who entered Beijing in history.
Therefore, even if there were some incidents that did not comply with military discipline, the scale was very small, and most of them were carried out in secret, and did not cause greater riots.
What's more, as soon as Xiao Tianjian entered the city, he immediately scattered the military police in the city to supervise the generals of the large and medium military departments in various departments, and these military policemen faithfully carried out Xiao Tianjian's will under Lu Xiangsheng's strict orders, and immediately arrested a group of soldiers who came from Hu Lai in the city, and detained them alone in a place to wait for disposal.
As a result, after the gendarmes began to take control of all parts of the city, this already small chaos was quickly suppressed, so that there was no larger-scale chaos in the Jingshi.
As groups of Ming troops in the city laid down their arms and were escorted out of the city, order in Beijing quickly began to be restored, and now that it is under martial law, no one is allowed to go out on the street without permission, and even some homeless beggars are also under centralized supervision, and the entire capital is calm on the morning of the fourth day after the big Chinese army enters Beijing.
Under the persuasion of the generals and ministers, Xiao Tianjian temporarily moved into the Forbidden City, but according to his orders, with his current situation, there was no need for such a large Forbidden City, so he left only the Wuying Hall as his temporary director in the Forbidden City, and the rest of the palaces were closed.
And the eunuchs and maids in the palace were basically dismissed, but because some eunuchs and palace maids had nowhere to go at this time, so under Lu Xiangsheng's suggestion, Xiao Tianjian had to temporarily leave these eunuchs and maids behind, and they were responsible for taking care of the Forbidden City in the palace, and then took time to consider their arrangements in the future.
Looking at the list of confiscated treasures presented by Liu Yaoben, Xiao Tianjian couldn't help sighing, until he read this list, the historical issue of the amount of silver in Chongzhen's internal treasury was completely clarified by Xiao Tianjian.
Although Xiao Tianjian entered Beijing nearly three years earlier than Li Zicheng in history, Chongzhen's internal consumption is not as much as in history, but after the inventory, Xiao Tianjian still found that Chongzhen can not be regarded as a stingy emperor, among his internal funds, Liu Yaoben led people to only copy out 800,000 taels of silver and 170,000 taels of gold, compared to what some people said in later generations, his internal money has more than 30 million taels of silver, which is really a world of difference, but compared to the only 100,000 taels that some people say, it is also more, for Chongzhen, the emperor, this bit of inventory, it's really not too much! After all, he saved it, and he still wanted to hold on for a while longer, but it was a pity that he used it so sparingly, and the last little yellow and white thing left was still cheaper for Xiao Tianjian.
"Holy! This Emperor of the Ming Dynasty has looted the people's fat and ointment for three hundred years, and he actually hid such a little silver, which is really ...... Could it be that this Chongzhen transferred the gold and silver treasures before he died? Liu Yaoben couldn't accept it, and in the huge inner treasury, only such a little gold and silver was confiscated, so he said to Xiao Tianjian.
Xiao Tianjian shook his head and said: "It shouldn't be, anyway, Chongzhen still tried his best for his country, after so many years of consumption, the huge amount of silver left by his ancestors to him has basically been consumed by him, some people say that there are tens of millions of taels of silver in his internal money, but in fact, it is just imagination!" Chongzhen shouldn't be able to transfer his inner silver, which can basically be said to be all he has left! ”
Li Xin is also a little annoyed, although he is a military person, but he also knows that now the new establishment of Great China has not been long, and there are still many places that have not been taken down, there will be a long time in the future, and it is necessary to continue to use troops, and now the Great Chinese Army has hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, and every month, the military salary alone is astronomical, plus it is necessary to equip the soldiers with all kinds of armor and military tents, as well as a large number of ammunition and all kinds of countless materials, which is a heavy burden for the newly built Great China!
After decades of war in China, the people's livelihood has long been withered, after Xiao Tianjian founded the country, he will clean up the rivers and mountains, and the future will be a hundred wastes to be rebuilt, everywhere is a place to spend money, originally this time to the north, they all want to lay down the Ming Jingshi, get a large amount of silver, at least can relieve the financial pressure, but did not want to toss down, but only in the palace treasury, up to such a little gold and silver, these silver, even their military expenses for the Northern Expedition during this period are not enough, How can we still meet their military needs for a period of time to come? Not to mention using it to reorganize the rivers and mountains! So after Li Xin learned about it, he was a little discouraged.
After Xiao Tianjian put down the list, he smiled indifferently and asked the generals: "Are you a little deflated to learn that Chongzhen only has such a little money left?" ”
The generals didn't hide it, they nodded their heads again and again, and Diao Zheng even scolded Chongzhen for being a fool, the huge wealth accumulated by Daming was tossed away by him, and he didn't even be able to give Jiannu anything!
But at this time, Lu Xiangsheng walked into the Wuying Hall with an unkind face, and after giving Xiao Tianjian a salute, he immediately presented a list to Xiao Tianjian.
After Xiao Tianjian glanced at it, his face suddenly sank, and after reading the entire list, he suddenly became furious, slapped the big case, and said angrily: "This is all?" ”
Lu Xiangsheng nodded and said, "Exactly!" This is the list that has just been counted by the various gendarmerie brigades, and all the people who violated military discipline after entering the city have been counted! There are five hundred and seventy-two people in total, and they are all in custody now! ”
As soon as the generals heard it, they knew that it was not good, after Lu Xiangsheng entered Beijing, he was ordered by Xiao Tianjian to lead the gendarmerie to maintain the military discipline of the Beijing Division, who is Lu Xiangsheng? And what does the gendarme do? Of course, they all know very well, these people are all iron-faced and selfless people, and they attach great importance to military discipline, and the list submitted today, needless to say, must be the list of those soldiers and generals who have violated discipline in the past few days, and they are good-looking now! So they all immediately drooped their heads.
Xiao Tianjian took the list with a cold face and read: "After entering Beijing, there were 42 cases of robbery of people's property in various departments, 37 cases of rape of people's daughters, and 236 people who secretly hid seized property!" Okay! Hum! Well done! One is more energetic than the other! On weekdays, I repeatedly emphasize military discipline! But is that how you lead the troops for me? Could it be that my army is raising some bandits?
There will be 178 soldiers in the first town, 213 in the second town, 79 in the 2nd Guards Division, and in the 4th town......
Hum! Well done! ”
Listening to Xiao Tianjian's sneer and the numbers he read out, the faces of the generals also darkened, because they knew very well that before Xiao Tianjian entered Beijing this time, he had issued an order to strictly order all generals to strictly restrain his subordinates, and they were not allowed to come nonsense after entering Beijing, which they also thought deeply, after all, this is the political center of the Ming Dynasty, and there are nearly a million people in the city. It is also a strict requirement for confiscating any kind of people, and it is a must to seize and confiscate it, not to mention that in order to stabilize the north, this time they went north, and they have stopped coming nonsense as much as possible, and the military discipline requirements are much stricter.
Regarding this entry into Beijing, Xiao Tianjian made it clear in advance that he would not copy anyone's house specifically, and he would make unified arrangements after controlling the Beijing Division, but some of their subordinates still couldn't help but do so many disciplinary violations, and arrested more than 500 people at once, how could this not make Xiao Tianjian angry?
So the generals didn't dare to slack off, and immediately pleaded guilty, but Xiao Tianjian was still angry, pointed at them and asked: "Although the military salary I gave to the generals is not too much, but compared to the Ming Dynasty, have I ever deducted any of your military salaries?" Even if there was an occasional delay, but a reissue was given quickly, and there was never more than three months of arrears of military salaries! But what did your men do?
What is the purpose of our rebellion against the Ming court? Just to fill your pocket? Is it just to satisfy our selfish desires? No matter what you rebelled with me in the first place, but over the years, I have made it clear to you that our rebellion is to save the people of the world and to revive our Han nation!
And what are your men thinking? You brought out such soldiers, it really chilled my heart! What to do, go down and think for yourselves! I'll leave this matter to you! ”
The generals all had a dull face, one by one in their hearts was scolding, none of them dared to scold Xiao Tianjian, but those who lost them were scolded for being a dog blood spray, although Xiao Tianjian let them deal with it by themselves at this time, but how dare they cheat for personal gain!
Therefore, the generals hurriedly said that they would be dealt with severely and would not be tolerated! Xiao Tianjian put this matter aside for the time being.