Chapter 111: The Lord Disappears
And Liu Yaoben led his troops to control the Forbidden City, and basically did not encounter any resistance, and the soldiers of the two battalions quickly controlled the entire Forbidden City inside and outside.
But it's easy to say, but it's really a lot of jokes, think about this group of mud-legged generals, although since Xiao Tianjian started the army, they have seen a little bit of the world, but the so-called world they have seen is at most the homes of some rich families, where can it be compared with such a big Forbidden City!
So after entering the palace, the two battalions of soldiers began to act separately, although they caught some eunuchs to lead the way, but after Zhenge entered the palace, looking at the majestic palace in the Forbidden City, as well as the dense roads, it still made many soldiers of the large army faint in the Forbidden City, and many people were stunned by the luxury here after arriving at the harem.
Many eunuchs and palace maids were stuffed with bulging bags on their bodies, but when they were caught, they searched their bodies and found a lot of valuable things.
The entire control of the Forbidden City was busy until the evening, and Liu Yaoben's biggest concern was not how many things were seized, but where Chongzhen had gone!
The soldiers who entered the palace searched almost all the corners of the Forbidden City, and did not find Chongzhen's whereabouts in the middle of the night, even the crown prince and Chongzhen's other two sons, there was no trace, but in the Kunning Palace, they found Queen Zhou, who had committed suicide by hanging beams, and Yuan Guifei, who committed suicide unexpectedly, caught the Emperor Zhang in Cining Palace, and found Tian Guifei and other concubines who were killed by Chongzhen in other palaces, And in the Forbidden City, Shouning Palace and Zhaoren Palace, he caught Princess Changping, who is only thirteen years old, and Princess Zhaoren, who is only three years old and is still being taken care of by the palace maid.
Chongzhen and his three sons couldn't find it, Liu Yao was panicked, of course he knew the importance of these four people, now the Forbidden City has been controlled by them, but these four people are nowhere to be found, how can this be done?
So Liu Yaoben sent someone to report Xiao Tianjian to learn of the incident, and at the same time, he immediately interrogated the eunuchs and palace maids who had been controlled overnight in the palace, trying to find out the whereabouts of Chongzhen and the three princes from their mouths.
Xiao Tianjian also entered the city overnight, entered the Forbidden City in the middle of the night, and immediately ordered the military police and Yu Linwei to take over the entire Forbidden City.
Looking at the Forbidden City illuminated by the lights, Xiao Tianjian couldn't help but feel emotional, there is still a big difference between the Forbidden City at this time and the Forbidden City he visited in later generations, at least the name of the main hall is different from that of later generations, and the scale is slightly smaller than that of later generations, but looking at this era, the Forbidden City is probably still the most majestic and magnificent palace in the world, he finally stepped into this palace city today as the emperor of the Great Middle Dynasty, and if he wants to calm his mood, I am afraid it is impossible to do it at all.
From the time he drove the army of more than 100,000 Jiannu back to Liaodong north of Jinzhou like a duck at Shanhaiguan, when one of his feet stepped into this former capital city of the Ming Dynasty, he was destined to unveil a new chapter of China, and from now on, the Chinese will no longer have to be enslaved by those Jiannu who have left a pig's tail like a pig's tail on the back of their heads, and they will no longer have to be blinded by their use of the maggot culture for nearly three hundred years. So much so that the best opportunity to make the world's ocean discovery was missed.
Looking at the Forbidden City, which has been controlled by the Great Chinese Army, and looking at these huge and glorious capitals that have cost countless financial resources of the Chinese people and were established by the Zhu Dynasty, Xiao Tianjian felt a lot of feelings in his heart at this time.
He did not deny that the Chinese used their ingenuity to leave such a majestic, splendid, and ingenious imperial city for future generations, so that it would still be noticed by the world hundreds of years later.
However, it is undeniable that such a large-scale construction project, except for leaving a large number of splendid buildings, has not played any valuable role in China's historical development.
Think about it, if it were not for Zhu Yuanzhang's small-scale peasant consciousness and decree to close the sea, with the navigation technology and shipbuilding technology in China's history, in this era, how could those small European countries that have not yet fully risen use their limited resources, limited navigation technology, and some small sea ships that once could not enter the eyes of the Chinese at all, but complete the greatest geographical discovery in the history of the world, and extend their tentacles to all parts of the world, so that the Chinese closed the door to the sea after Zheng He went to the Western Oceanand never cared about what was happening in the world again.
So much so that more than 200 years later, when the European powers drove a large number of warships to the coast of China, and bombarded China with naval guns, and transported a large number of opium that poisoned the Chinese into China in a steady stream, poisoning the Chinese at the same time, a large number of gold and silver, which were the hardest pass in the world, were transported back to their countries, at that time, the Chinese were shocked to find that they had been left far behind by the powers of this world, and could no longer stand proudly on the top of the world with a glorious civilization of thousands of years. and will continue to be divided up by the great powers as a piece of fat, and suffer the humiliation of losing power and humiliating the country.
Although in this era, it cannot be said that all Chinese have ignored the sea, at least in the southern Fujian area, and the Zheng group now regards the South China Sea and even the route to Japan and Korea as their family's back garden, but their short-sightedness also limits their vision to the not vast South China Sea area from the world map, and even those surrounding places, are being invaded by the Dutch, Spaniards, Portuguese and even the rising British, but do not know how to use their power, Go and seize the colonies for the Chinese as well.
Now that he Xiao Tianjian has stepped into this capital, then he will not allow this kind of thing to slide down according to the original trajectory, the Ming Dynasty has been completely decayed, and no one can change their fate, so they can only be swept into the garbage heap of history, so that they can no longer control this once the greatest country in the world, fortunately God threw him back to this era, and made him lucky to be called the terminator of the Ming Dynasty, And not the arrogant Li Zicheng, who is full of small peasant consciousness, to complete this work.
Although Jiannu has not yet been completely defeated, although China and the southern provinces have not yet been unified, and Li Zicheng, the pseudo-Dashun emperor, is tossing around in Shaanxi, and there is still the rising Junggar Department in the west, he needs to clean them up step by step and gradually complete the unification of Greater China, but Xiao Tianjian believes that it is now necessary to start making preliminary preparations for the next step of the Chinese returning to the sea.
The era has entered this time, it can be said that the Chinese are one step later than those Europeans, if with China's current national strength, even after so many years of war, the national strength is already very weak, but compared with those small European countries, even if they are all tied together, it may not necessarily be that they can be stronger than China, and now the era of great exploration has just begun and is not very long, the world has not been completely divided by European powers, and there are still many barren lands for Chinese to fight for.
Although some Western science and technology have led the Chinese in this era, but this lead, is only a small gap, especially after the rise of his criminal army, in terms of firearms, China is not behind Europe, coupled with the existence of his super cheat, he knows better than anyone what direction science and technology will develop, he can take many shortcuts, a little effort, can make China once again greatly surpass Europe, even if the navigation and shipbuilding technology is now slightly behind, But for him, this is not a problem, in short, as long as he Xiao Tianjian lives, then the next step should be to let the world see, Greater China will continue to occupy the top of the world.
Xiao Tianjian rode his horse on the stone road leading to the Huangji Hall under the escort of many Yulin guards, and at the same time was thinking about these things with excitement, and suddenly Liu Yaoben took his generals and greeted him from a distance from the direction of the Huangji Palace, and quickly lined up in front of Xiao Tianjian, and then under the leadership of Liu Yaoben, they stood up and gave a military salute to Xiao Tianjian.
"Your Majesty! Liu Yaoben, the commander of the Second Guards Division, has seen the emperor! By the emperor's order, the last general has taken full control of the Forbidden City! The property in the Forbidden City is now being sealed and counted!
In addition, we have controlled the Emperor of the Apocalypse Empress Zhang in the imperial city, and found Empress Zhou, who had committed suicide by hanging beams, and Tian Guifei, who was killed by Chongzhen, and controlled Yuan Guifei, who committed suicide and did not die, as well as Chongzhen's two daughters, Princess Changping and Princess Zhaoren! In addition, there are 1,700 palace maids who have not yet escaped, and more than 650 eunuchs have also been controlled by us!
But...... But the ministers failed to find Emperor Ming Zhu Youzhen and his three sons, the crown prince Zhu Cihong, King Ding, and King Yong, and asked the saint to forgive them!
However, Weichen is still torturing the captured eunuchs and palace maids in the palace, and is tracking down the whereabouts of Chongzhen and his three princes, please show the Holy Lord what to do next! As soon as Liu Yaoben saw that Xiao Tianjian had entered the Forbidden City surrounded by generals, he immediately reported to Xiao Tianjian about their work for a while, and when he said Chongzhen and his three sons, he couldn't help but make Liu Yaoben a little discouraged.
Xiao Tianjian heard that he still couldn't catch Chongzhen, so he was also a little disappointed, he really wanted to see this Chongzhen Emperor who had been against him for so many years, not to laugh at him for being a loser, but to see with his own eyes what this emperor who had been disputed by many historians in later generations was like, I didn't expect him to move so fast, but he still didn't catch Chongzhen at the first time, and even his three extremely important princes at the moment were not in the palace, which made him a little uneasy.
"Oh? So what is the result of torture? Xiao Tianjian immediately asked Liu Yaoben.
You must know that as long as Chongzhen does not catch it, then the Ming Dynasty can not be said to have been terminated by him, with the current Chinese literati and many soldiers and civilians, in fact, in their hearts do not agree with him, the emperor who ascended the throne by rebellion, as long as Chongzhen runs away, raise his arms and shout, or have considerable appeal among the people, even if any of his three sons, as long as they flee to the area that the Dazhong army has not yet controlled, they will be used to use their identities to immediately set up another court and continue to deal with his Dazhong Dynasty, in that case, the already broken national strength will continue to be weakened, which is not conducive to his domination of the world in the next step.
"There are eunuchs and palace maids in the harem have confessed, saying that in the afternoon they also saw Chongzhen running around in the palace, Chongzhen knew that his world was over, so in a fit of anger, he killed some eunuchs and palace maids with swords, and forced many of his women to commit suicide, some concubines refused to commit suicide, and were killed by Chongzhen himself, and his favorite concubine Tian was killed by him himself!
But when he heard that we had attacked the Forbidden City, Chongzhen took his confidant eunuch Wang Chengen to the Imperial Garden, and no one saw Chongzhen again!
As for his three princes, according to the confessions of the eunuchs and palace maids who served them, they said that before the Holy Army's army arrived outside the capital, they suddenly disappeared, and their whereabouts have not yet been found! Wechen will continue to investigate! Liu Yaoben hurriedly replied.
Xiao Tianjian nodded, and suddenly asked, "What about Xuanwu Gate?" (Xuanwu Gate is the later Shenwu Gate!) When you controlled the Xuanwu Gate, what was the situation there? ”
Liu Yaoben immediately replied: "Your sage, after Weichen entered the palace, he quickly sent someone to control the Xuanwu Gate, according to the generals who went to control the Xuanwu Gate, when they rushed to the Xuanwu Gate, the eunuch guards who guarded the door there had already run away, and they also took away a lot of property in the palace, the Xuanwu Gate has been opened, Chongzhen is likely to escape from the Xuanwu Gate with Wang Chengen, and now Weichen is sending troops to search outside the Forbidden City!" ”
Xiao Tianjian nodded, at this time, Beijing City can be said to be in chaos, the eunuchs and palace maids in the Forbidden City are also running, hiding, Chongzhen has time to run out of the palace, so he immediately ordered: "Immediately send a list to everyone in the city, confess the whereabouts of Zhu Youzhen and his three princes, reward a thousand taels of silver, hide Zhu Youzhen and his three princes, and the whole family will be beheaded!" In addition, immediately send someone to search the coal mountain behind the Forbidden City! If it weren't as I expected, Zhu Youzhen would probably have fled there with Wang Chengen!
In addition, the edict ordered the whole army to enter the city, after clearing out the remnants of the Ming army that resisted in the city, all of them were immediately stationed on the spot in accordance with the original area, and no one was allowed to disturb the people or take advantage of the chaos to rob the property, rape women, and behead those who violated the order!
Your Second Guards Division will leave 500 people to cooperate with Yulin Guard to guard the Forbidden City, and you must not let the things of the Forbidden City disperse! Lu Xiangsheng immediately led all the gendarmes to all parts of the city at once, responsible for supervising the affairs of the army and the people! If someone is found to have violated military discipline, they can be summarily executed! ”
When he entered Beijing, what he was most afraid of was that after some soldiers of the Dazhong Army entered the city, they would not be able to control themselves, and they would take advantage of this good opportunity to plunder and disturb the people in the city.
Although he knows very well that the military discipline of the Dazhong Army is strict, but this is not an ordinary city, there are the most powerful and rich people in the north, and he knows better than anyone else about the wealth of the Beijing Division, in the face of such a temptation, once these Dazhong soldiers who have been transformed from peasants into soldiers will enter the city, it is difficult to guarantee that no one can resist such a temptation and take the opportunity to salvage a sum, which may cause chaos in Beijing, and it will be very unfavorable for controlling the capital in the future.
Now it was not his turn to remind Xiao Tianjian, so Xiao Tianjian took the initiative to send him to be responsible for the picketing of military discipline in the city, which showed that Xiao Tianjian knew very well what to do next, and he did not get carried away because of the capture of the capital of the Ming Dynasty.
So he immediately received the order, and sent the gendarmes in the army and the two battalions of gendarmes who followed Xiao Tianjian to all parts of the capital, responsible for supervising the soldiers and horses of the Dazhong Army in the city, and the province went wrong.
The most important thing now is to stabilize the situation in the capital first, so as not to cause chaos again, even the four gates of the Forbidden City, Lu Xiangsheng also sent military police, guarded the gates, and searched for the soldiers who withdrew from the Forbidden City in the next step, these guys in the province could not control themselves, and took out some valuables and many important documents in the Forbidden City, and dispersed them to the people.
So Liu Yaoben also hurriedly received the order, and most of his soldiers immediately evacuated the Forbidden City, leaving only 500 people, and handed them over to Tietou to cooperate with his Yulinwei to take over the defense of the Forbidden City.
Then Li Xin and others asked how to deal with the imperial concubines and eunuchs and palace maids captured in the Forbidden City, Xiao Tianjian thought about it for a while, then sighed slightly and said: "All those concubines in the Forbidden City, those Chongzhen's concubines, should be properly placed first, and they must not be harmed, after all, they are also pitiful!" It's not their fault! In the future, whoever they come from, let their families bring them back!
As for the eunuchs, according to the old method of Nanjing, all the low-level eunuchs will be dismissed in the future, but for the time being, they will be left first, help seal the property in the palace, and sort out all kinds of documents and materials in the palace, these things are not mine, they belong to the people of the world, and one day in the future, I will return them to the people of the world! As for those big eunuchs in important positions, they will all be detained for the time being, and after the trial, they will be disposed of!
As for the palace maid! I already have three women, and that's enough for me! Don't stay here and charm me! As long as there is a home to return to, you can issue travel expenses, send them home, and marry those who should marry! I will never follow the example of the emperors of the past and leave so many women around me! Surrounded by such warblers and swallows, it is difficult to think of a faint king! I still have a lot of things to do, so I don't have time to keep them around! Let's all be dismissed! ”
After listening to Xiao Tianjian's orders, all the generals admired Xiao Tianjian, he led the troops to fight down this world, what do you want Xiao Tianjian now? These palace maids in the palace and those concubines in Chongzhen are all selected by thousands of people, and I am afraid that no one will be willing to let them go! But Xiao Tianjian was not moved by the beauty at all, and ordered him to be dismissed, such a festival really moved everyone, so the generals accepted the order one after another and began to work according to Xiao Tianjian's instructions.
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