Text Volume 1 Dismal Business_Chapter 241 Calm
In the weapons workshop next to the glass factory, the wooden sticks that were originally used for * were taken out and distributed to the soldiers in bundles.
However, there were only 1 or 2,000 sticks stored in the weapons workshop, which was far from enough for these soldiers. When an officer saw the bamboo and wood row on the side, he immediately had an idea and requisitioned nearly 10,000 bamboo and wooden sticks inside, which solved the soldier's weapon problem.
In a cotton cloth shop outside the Xuanwu Gate, hundreds of cotton cloth and dozens of silk were requisitioned by Yuan Xin, the battalion commander.
In the face of this group of vicious sergeants, the old and frail shopkeeper of the shop wanted to stop but did not dare, so he could only sit in front of the shop and cry and wail.
Yuan Xin commanded the soldiers to load cotton cloth and silk into several carriages, and then walked up to the shopkeeper and shouted, "What are you crying about? Could it be that the cost officer can still rob you? Can't you recognize what the official is wearing? Hurry up and get a pen and paper, the official will write you a receipt, and then you can go to the household department to withdraw the money. ”
Shopkeeper Sun immediately suppressed his tears, got up from the ground with a grunt, and shouted to the two guys who were cowering behind him: "Why don't you hurry up and get a pen and paper, didn't you hear the official's orders?" ”
Shopkeeper Sun waited cautiously by Yuan Xin's side at this time, and asked suspiciously, "What the general said is true?" This household department saw the adult write an IOU, can he really give money? ”
Yuan Xin frowned, looked at this obscene old man impatiently, and snorted in his nose, even if he answered.
Shopkeeper Sun immediately calculated in his heart, because of the bad geographical location of his shop, most of these cotton cloths and silks were the inventory of the previous year, and some of them were soaked by the rain and became inferior goods that could not be sold.
Now that the sergeants of the Beijing camp were ordered by the emperor to requisition their own goods, it was obviously irretrievable, so he wondered if he could take advantage of it to make some gains.
Shopkeeper Sun said to Yuan Xin with a smile on his face: "General, the villain is also a small business, when the adult records the accounts for a while, is there some loss?" These are the tea money for the villain to honor the adult. ”
Yuan Xin looked at the 4 or 5 taels of broken silver in his hand, his face was still not much better, and he said in an unkind tone: "This tea money is really only enough to drink tea, and the official will take care of the relationship for you for this bit of silver, and you, a profiteer, are too underestimated by the official, right?" ”
Seeing that Yuan Xin didn't throw the silver back, Shopkeeper Sun suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and he immediately said: "This increased loss, the villain is willing to be half with the adult, as long as the silver money is in hand, it will be sent to the adult." ”
Yuan Xin looked around, no one seemed to pay attention to this, and he said coldly: "Thirty-seven is divided, the third in Xizhimen North Caochang Hutong..."
Towards a quarter of noon, the soldiers of the Beijing camp who participated in the sacrifice finally put up their markers and were assigned weapons.
The soldiers of the three battalions were led by Shi Hongmo, Yuan Xin, and Liu Guofang, while the cavalry under Man Gui was a team of 50 people.
After the two battalions of Shi Hongmo and Yuan Xin entered the Xuanwu Gate, the first battalion went north to Xuanwumen Street, and the first battalion went north along Jinchengfang through the Xingbu Street in the west, squeezing the rebels in the city from south to north to the northwest corner of the capital.
Liu Guofang led people from Chang'an Avenue to the east, bypassing the imperial city to the north, to support the Rong government, and then along Shuntianfu Street to the west, driving the rebels from east to west.
The two sides rendezvoused in the northwest, and finally drove the rebels gathered in the northwest corner out of the city.
The Liaodong cavalry under Man Gui was a team of 50 people to suppress the rebel gangs that gathered on the street or in the square with the intention of resisting.
This mutiny was in fact a farce, and the slogans used by the Marquis of Funing and other nobles to call on these soldiers to participate in the mutiny, abolishing the new policy and restoring the old system, etc., basically had no cohesion for these soldiers.
Whether it is the new policy or the old system, for these soldiers, as long as they are paid on time. When they had robbed enough of the belongings in the city, they immediately lost their enthusiasm to continue participating in the mutiny, and only thought about going back and keeping the looted belongings.
When they heard someone shouting on the other side, the emperor said: After the soldiers who returned to the camp before Shen Shi were not guilty of the past, some soldiers who were already satisfied began to secretly go out of the city and return to the camp with their belongings.
When Zhu Youzhen, under the escort of a team of cavalry under Man Gui, appeared in the Taiping close to Huguo Temple, a group of more than 200 rebels were carrying the cages that they had snatched from nearby people, and they happened to face Chongzhen and others at the mouth of the alley.
When these chaotic soldiers appeared, Zhu Youzhen was also startled, he didn't know whether he should take the initiative to order the cavalry around him to charge, or withdraw from this narrow alley first.
But what he didn't expect was that when the rebels saw him, a small number of them immediately fled backwards, and many more immediately knelt on the ground and bowed to him and begged for mercy.
Wusheng crossed half of Chongzhen's horse's head and grabbed the reins of Chongzhen's mount tightly, for fear that the emperor's mount would be frightened and run into the chaos on the opposite side.
The cavalry leader Zuo Fu stopped in front of Chongzhen, leaned sideways and whispered: "Your Majesty, the road in this alley is narrow, and the terrain is unfavorable to the cavalry. It is better for Your Majesty to retreat with no life, and the humble post is here for Your Majesty to break off. ”
Zhu Youzhen sat on the horse and observed from the cracks in the people, these rebels who were lying on the ground and didn't dare to lift their heads, and said to the guards beside him: "Go and ask them personally, have they listened to my orders, where do they want to go now?" ”
Zuo Fu immediately stepped forward and shouted at these rebels, and soon a veteran said something to him in a trembling voice.
After Zuo Fu Lerma came back, he said to Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, these rebels said that they listened to His Majesty's order and were preparing to return to the camp. ”
Zhu Youzhen immediately paid attention, "Order them to keep to the left, get out of the way, and wait for us to pass before continuing to return to the camp." ”
Zuo Fu agreed, and returned to the rebels again, and after confirming that these rebels had no intention of resisting, this time his expression was much more relaxed.
In addition to the fact that the rebels were flustered for a while because they couldn't figure out the left and right, they were as deferential as a sheep to Zuo Fu, who represented the emperor's order.
After receiving a few lashes from Zuo Fu, the few sergeants in the chaotic queue who were turning around because they couldn't figure out the direction became even more awe-inspiring towards Zuo Fu, who was alone in front of them.
The cavalry surrounding Zhu Youzhen was immediately divided into two columns, one column separating the distance between the emperor and these rebels, and the other column just protected him one after the other.
Zhu Youzhen, surrounded by cavalry, walked through this alley. The rebels who were separated by one person passed by him.
Looking at these rebellious soldiers with insensitive faces, but still holding silk clothes tightly in their hands, only one thought flashed in Zhu Youzhen's mind, these soldiers must not be allowed to go to the battlefield. Because these people may not fight the enemy, but they have no scruples about the civilians of their own country.
Once such a rebellious soldier is allowed to see blood, then the last bit of awe of the court in their hearts will disappear. From then on, military discipline and the majesty of the imperial court could not restrain them, unless it was a stronger army and more brutal in its actions, such as the Houjin army.
Two hours later, except for the northwest corner of the capital, all the other squares were restored to tranquility. Except for when the rebel army entered the west of the river trough, a group of green-skinned gangsters were killed and looted and set on fire, and after being ordered by You Shiwei to be beheaded on the street, basically there was no large-scale resistance everywhere.
There were so many groups of rebels, because they were reluctant to abandon the large pieces of furniture they had looted, and wanted to call their companions to resist the attack of the rebel army, but they were quickly dispersed by Man Gui's cavalry with slashes on the back of their swords.
The emperor's edict to return to the camp, coupled with the persuasion of acquaintances and friends in the rebellion army, the rebels began to withdraw from the capital, and no longer obeyed the general banners and hundreds of households who incited them to make trouble.
Seeing that the general trend had gone, several battalion adjutant generals who obeyed Xungui's orders to instigate a mutiny suddenly knew that something was wrong. They immediately went out of the city with the soft and soft that they had already prepared, and did not even return to the camp.
And the more than 20 general banners and hundreds of households who were commanded by these deputy generals suddenly fell into a dilemma after losing their orders.
Wanting to continue inciting, the soldiers made it clear that they would no longer obey them, wanting to stop there, and fearing that they would be settled afterwards. After all, it was all these middle- and lower-level officers who showed up and openly incited the soldiers in the Beijing camp.
Some of the most nimble officers immediately returned home, gathered some belongings, and fled.
Some officers felt that they could not leave their families behind, so they simply followed the soldiers back to the camp, hoping to escape.
There were also some officers who did not feel the danger at all, they thought that although the mutiny of the soldiers in the Beijing camp failed, the incident of tens of thousands of soldiers in the Beijing camp storming the capital was real, and if the imperial court wanted to hold them responsible, was it not afraid of forcing the soldiers of the Beijing camp to rebel?
Under this mentality of not holding the public accountable, these officers also ran back to the camp in the northern suburbs as if nothing had happened.
At the beginning of Shen Shi, Zhu Youzhen finally stood on the tower of Desheng Gate, and at this time, most of the rebels in the city had been driven out of the city.
On the tower of Desheng Gate, Wang Zaijin, Man Gui, Xu Yingyuan, Sun Chengzong, Yu Zhigao and other generals who quelled the rebellion surrounded Chongzhen.
Sitting on a chair brought by Lian Shanxiang, Zhu Youzhen listened to the reports of several ministers and generals.
Wang Zaijin suggested: "Your Majesty, there are not many rebels in the city now, please close the nine gates and purge the traitors in the city." Then send an important minister to sit in the camp in the northern suburbs, in case these traitors will conspire against each other again tonight. ”
After hearing this, Sun Chengzong immediately stepped forward and took the initiative to apply: "Your Majesty, the old minister is willing to enter the camp in the northern suburbs and appease the troops in the camp, so as to prevent the land of Gyeonggi from making waves again." ”