"So, do you want me to hide back in the palace like a mouse, waiting for these rebels to rob the capital and automatically withdraw from the city?" Zhu Youzhen said unhappily to the ministers who persuaded him.

Wang Zaijin glanced back, and the soldiers in the square behind him turned around and admonished Chongzhen again: "Your Majesty, there has been a mutiny in the Beijing camp, and these soldiers standing here may not all be loyal to Your Majesty. If these soldiers were seduced by the familiar rebels in the process of quelling the chaos, wouldn't Your Majesty, who was with them, fall into the net?

Your Majesty's safety is related to the stability of our Daming Society, how can I personally commit danger. is the so-called: the son of a daughter, he can't sit down. The minister asked His Majesty to return to the palace for the time being, and the minister should work hard to calm down the chaos in the capital. ”

Han Yi and Huang Daozhou, who hurriedly came to escort them, persuaded Chongzhen to listen to Wang Zaijin's advice.

And Yang Hao also persuaded Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, in addition to the army under Man Gui who also carried weapons, the other soldiers in the Beijing camp who participated in the sacrifice neither wore armor nor carried weapons, but brought some flags, how can Your Majesty bring a group of bare-handed soldiers to quell the chaos?"

The old minister thought that His Majesty should go back to the palace first and wait for news. As long as Your Majesty is safe, the ministers can take them to quell the chaos with peace of mind. Besides, the target of this group of rebels is Your Majesty, if Your Majesty does not appear, their momentum will inevitably decline, and they will naturally disperse after exhaustion. ”

Zhu Youzhen asked Lian Shanxiang behind him: "Last time, I ordered to move all the weapon workshops in the inner city to the outer city, can this matter be done?" ”

Lian Shanxiang bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, except for the Anmin Factory, the rest of the workshops have been moved to the outside of Xuanwu Gate, and the Liuli Factory is close to the left. ”

After Zhu Youzhen nodded, he said to the ministers around him: "When Taizu founded the country, he did not avoid arrows and stones, and he would come to the front of the battle in person every battle. How can future generations be so cowardly that they don't even dare to face the rebellion?

Besides, today is just a little traitor to bewitch the soldiers who don't know the truth to make trouble, how can I let the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty kill each other because of these traitorous parties? What's more, I can't sit idly by, and the people of the capital will be poisoned by the chaos. ”

After Zhu Youzhen finished speaking, he didn't wait for these ministers to react, so he squeezed out of the encirclement of the ministers and walked to the steps in front of the altar.

He looked at the soldiers of the Beijing camp who had begun to appear a little restless below, and said solemnly: "Fellow soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, I have unfortunate news to tell you. Just when we were here to pay tribute to the dead soldiers, there was such a ** party, they actually instigated the soldiers who stayed in the camp in the northern suburbs to rush into the city.

Ostensibly, they wanted me to repeal the New Deal. But in fact, they wanted to take this opportunity to destroy the trust between the soldiers of the Beijing camp and the people of the capital, and wanted to make the soldiers of the Beijing camp kill each other, and wanted to make the blood of the capital flow.

I want to ask you, do you agree to this ** party's scheme? ”

Half an hour earlier, the soldiers who had erected the square had begun to notice the constant appearance of equestrian messengers outside the square, who had said something to the ministers standing by the altar, and then hurried away.

Even the dullest sergeant knew that something seemed to be about to happen. Seeing that the officials successively summoned several officers of the Liaodong Army in the west, and Sun Chengzong, who presided over martial arts on the right, but ignored them in the middle, this undoubtedly made these soldiers a little uneasy.

Next, the men and horses on the left and right sides all agreed, widening the distance between them and the soldiers of the Beijing camp in the middle, which made these soldiers feel even more frightened.

The three battalions of soldiers who participated in the sacrifice were all new battalions made up of soldiers selected during these days, with an average of 3,000 men per battalion. Standing in front of the soldiers of the third battalion were officers from more than 100 households in the Beijing camp, less than 300 people.

When the Liaodong Army and martial arts cadets on both sides began to watch out for the soldiers of the Beijing camp in the middle, the battalion commanders of the three battalions did not expect that it would be the soldiers left behind in the Beijing camp who mutinied. Instead, he guessed that it was the remnants of the Smelling Fragrance Sect in his camp that made these people so vigilant as if they were facing a great enemy.

Zhu Youzhen's statement to the soldiers in the square to open the city suddenly made the scalps of the officials standing behind him tingle.

They are just afraid that there are remnants of the rebels in this square, and once they learn the news of the rebels, what should they do if they suddenly break out?

However, the worst-case scenario expected by Wang Zaijin, Sun Chengzong, Yang Hao and others did not appear, but after a moment of silence, Xiaoqi Chen Weiguo took a deep breath, and then shouted loudly: "No, don't agree!" We are to listen to His Majesty's orders. ”

As he shouted, the other soldiers quickly and enthusiastically echoed as well, and then the cry resounded throughout the audience.

Zhu Youzhen stretched out his hands and pressed them weakly, and the soldiers suddenly fell silent, and he said again: "Now I want to give you two tasks, one is to persuade those blinded soldiers to return to the camp; The second is to protect the people of the capital from being harmed by traitors. Do you have the confidence to finish? ”

"Yes! Yes! With thunderous shouts, the soldiers answered Chongzhen's question. Looking at the performance of these soldiers in front of him, Zhu Youzhen finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Yuan Chonghuan, who was standing in front of the martial arts students, lost his mind for a moment, but he quickly regained his composure.

Mao Yuanyi, who was standing beside him, said happily: "Your Majesty is really not an ordinary person, the morale is so high, I think this chaos will be suppressed soon." ”

Yuan Chonghuan said with some pity: "In this way, the people in the capital will have to fight in the same room, how innocent are the people in Shenjing." ”

Mao Yuanyi was a little hesitant by Yuan Chonghuan's words, and then said: "You always have to let these rebels know that the imperial court has the ability to suppress them before they can be appeased." Otherwise, in the future, these generals will know that the imperial court has no power to restrain them, and will not regard the mutiny as the only way to blackmail the imperial court? ”

Yuan Chonghuan turned his head and glanced at Mao Yuanyi, before he put on a smile and said perfunctorily: "What Brother Shi Min said is reasonable, these Qiu Ba don't rectify it, and they don't know the preciousness of the imperial court law. As long as we obey the orders of His Majesty and the elders, that's it. ”

After Zhu Youzhen, who was on the altar, saw that his morale had been aroused, he immediately summoned Man Gui, Wang Zaijin, and Sun Chengzong to discuss how to quell the mutiny.

Man Gui believed that the streets between the squares of the capital were wide enough for the cavalry to gallop. The cavalry under his command should be the main force to disperse the rebels on the main streets, and divide the connection between the rebels entering the various squares, and then the infantry of the Beijing camp will clean up the divided squares one by one.

Wang Zaijin and Sun Chengzong had no opinion on Mangui's battle plan, but they believed that they should pay equal attention to suppression and appeasement, first suppress and then appease, and prevent these soldiers in the Beijing camp from developing the bad habit of blackmailing the imperial court, but they should not be forced to fight with their backs.

After Zhu Youzhen listened, he looked at the sergeants in the square, and finally said: "I just said, this is just a group of some traitors inciting the sergeants who don't know the truth, so it is not possible to suppress and appease.

After a while, the sergeants were asked to go to the weapon workshop next to the glaze factory, and let them take the clubs and shields, and if they did not have shields, they would tear down the door panels. Everywhere he went, he shouted three times: Those who returned to the camp before the time of Shen are not to blame for the past. Those who return after the time of application shall be disposed of as leaving the camp without reason.

The chaotic soldiers who formed an array were handed over to the subordinates of the Manchu General Army for disposal, mainly for the purpose of dispersal, unless the other party had weapons, knives were not allowed, and the stragglers who were not displayed were handed over to the Beijing camp for disposal.

The main purpose of today's quelling of the rebellion is to drive them back to the camp in the northern suburbs, not to kill or injure more people. The order goes down, and there is no reward for those who cut off people's heads today. Can the general soldier hear clearly? ”

Vigilant against these border troops who survived the battlefield in Liaodong, Zhu Youzhen directly pointed out the key to Man Gui.

There are two kinds of military merits in the Ming Dynasty: the first merit system and the battle performance, and the merit of cutting off the head is the simplest to calculate, a head ranges from a few taels to dozens of taels, or is given a promotion.

It is precisely because the reward for the first-level merit is so rich that the matter of killing the good and risking the merit has basically not been stopped.

In particular, the area where the border army is located is generally not a densely populated and prosperous area, and killing a few villagers may not be noticed.

Man Gui naturally knew that his subordinates had not done anything to kill good people, and this was the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and if his subordinates killed the wrong person, it would bring him a lot of trouble.

Man Gui hurriedly bowed his head and said: "The minister remembers His Majesty's instructions, but the minister wants to ask His Majesty for permission to send a few officers who are familiar with the inside of the Beijing camp to the minister." The soldiers of this Beijing camp wore similar clothes, and they were afraid that they would not be able to distinguish the difference between the rebel army and other Beijing camp soldiers when the time came. ”

Wang Zaijin and Sun Chengzong were a little dumbfounded by Man Gui's question, they really hadn't thought about it before, but with tens of thousands of soldiers in the Beijing camp, who could really remember everyone?

Seeing that several ministers were at a loss, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but turn his head to Lian Shanxiang and said: "You go to the neighborhood to find out, are there any shops or merchants selling cloth, requisition his cloth first, and then go to the household department to collect the money in the future." ”

Without waiting for Lian Shanxiang to leave, Zhu Youzhen continued to explain to several ministers: "As long as you tear the cloth into strips and tie your left arm, you can distinguish between friend and foe."

And we can tie another one to the right arm to represent the small flag; two represent the general flag; Three represents 100 households; If it is tied around the neck, it represents a thousand households.

In this way, it doesn't matter if the soldier is separated because of random walking, as long as it is classified according to the size of the official rank, and the principle of commanding nearby, the soldier does not have to recognize people, as long as he remembers the official rank, he can join the nearby team. ”

Zhu Youzhen's words suddenly made Wang Zaijin and Sun Chengzong Shu frown, and Man Gui also solved the problem of distinguishing between friend and foe.