He jogged along the long street and headed straight for the Jinshui River. Li Tuo's waistband had the highest authority during the war. With it, he could freely enter the Forbidden City late at night without having to notify him in advance.
The new army guarding the city did not dare to neglect and protected him and entered the Forbidden City. As soon as they entered the imperial city and before they reached the Meridian Gate, Li Tuo heard a commotion coming from far to his left, and faint sounds of crying.
At this moment, Li Tuo's position is in front of Duanmen behind Tiananmen. There are doorways on the left and right, the one in the west leads to Sheji, and the one in the east is the Ancestral Temple!
The chaotic sound at this moment is obviously coming from Sheji, and where is the west of Sheji? There are many warehouses and residences in the Nanchizi and Xiheyan areas, where city defense soldiers or handymen temporarily live!
Li Tuo was shocked, "Could it be?"
The accompanying new officers and soldiers secretly whispered, "Master Li, be careful. Prince Dun in the palace is talking to Lord Long Live because of these people..."
"Long Live the Lord suddenly issued an order in the middle of the night to seize the families of all the officers and officers of the Fifth Division of the New Army in the Nanchizi area. There are eight or nine hundred people in this good guy..."
broken! Li Tuo secretly thought that something was wrong, Emperor Tongzhi was really going to build a prison and overthrow their previous strategy!
The fifth division of the Yulin New Army is commanded by Nastu, the illegitimate son of Guiziliu, but one person cannot take charge of an entire reinforced division!
Division commander, deputy division commander, staff, regiment commander, deputy, battalion commander, battalion deputy... all the way up to the company commander are considered mid- to senior-level officers!
These officers totaled a total of three hundred people, and their families were basically concentrated in the imperial city before the war.
Needless to say, the company commander, but some of his family members are in the imperial city, and many of the rest live in Nancheng or outside the city, and the court does not strictly monitor them.
But starting from the battalion level, all the family members of all officials who can be found must be gathered in the imperial city!
One person is a big family, and there must be three or four direct relatives. Counting all the odds, Zaichun has taken more than 900 hostages of the Fifth Division!
What to do with these people? Li Tuo had previously given the young emperor a strategy, which was to only kill the chief culprit and not ask about the subordinates!
The families of Nastu and other high-ranking officers must be dealt with strictly. They will be paraded through the streets to shock people, and they can decide at any time when they want to be executed.
As for the family members of mid-level and low-level officers, Li Tuo wanted to let them go. He would confine them first to see if the news spread, and try not to expand the situation. This would give the court room to ease the conflict.
Everything has been agreed upon, so why did Emperor Tongzhi change it at his request? King Dun must have gone to persuade him!
Li Tuo hurriedly ran all the way, passed the Duanmen and entered the Meridian Gate. Across the Jinshui Bridge, he saw the bright lights in front of the Taihe Gate. The people in the Military Aircraft Department and the eunuchs all turned pale with fear and did not dare to look up at Li Tuo.
After seeing Li Tuo, Xiao Sixi quickly whispered, "Mr. Li, be careful. Your Majesty is in a rage, so please take it easy... don't make yourself look coquettish because of a few ghosts who are bound to die!"
"They are just a bunch of rebellious family members. They will die if they die. Why bother going against His Majesty..."
Li Tuo nodded in thanks, then knelt outside the threshold and said loudly, "Slave Li Tuo, long live the Lord..."
"Come in! Close the door..."
Li Tuo quickly got in through the crack in the door and closed the thick door tightly. When he entered the hall, he saw that Lord Yinggui and Prince Dun, who were on duty today, were all kneeling in front of the little emperor.
Zai Chun ignored Li Tuo's presence and continued to scold the two military ministers, "Haha... don't kill them? Okay, you have gained a good reputation. In the future, no one inside or outside the court will praise your benevolence and righteousness. Am I not the one who will bear the bad reputation in the end?"
"Haha, reputation? Renjun? How much have I suffered for this ruined reputation? In this world, people are afraid of power but not moral. If you give him a good face, they will slap you in the face!"
"Li Tuo... Come here, tell me, shouldn't I kill the family members of these traitors in the Fifth Division?"
Li Tuo was dumbfounded when he heard this, "Long live it! Why is this so good? Wasn't there nothing going on in the first half of the night?"
Zai Chun nuzzled at Ying Gui, "Tell Li Tuo about it... I really didn't expect that these turtle bastards had actually planned it for a long time!"
Ying Gui from the Ministry of War looked as if he was dead, "Li Tuo... This afternoon, King Yu Benge received the latest information, saying that Ronglu's family is hiding in a warehouse in the south of the city!"
"King Yu personally led a team to raid the warehouse, captured a nephew of Ronglu and several of his family members, and brought them back to the police headquarters for strict interrogation..."
"In the middle of the night, King Yu sent the latest confession. His Majesty became angry after reading it... It turns out that Ronglu had already rebelled in Shanxi!"
"Before the court knew about it, he secretly sent his mother, wife and children out of the city...it was all done with the help of Guiziliu!"
"Just leave a nephew to deal with the court. When the news of the Sixth Japanese rebellion came, he immediately fled to the British Embassy for refuge!"
"This is playing tricks on the imperial court! They have been prepared for a long time..."
"You are treating me like a monkey! You bastard, if I hadn't given the British minister a few harsh words, I probably wouldn't have been able to catch this beast!" Zai Chun said angrily, "What a villain, you are so good to them. They kick each other in the nose and face, and if you continue to be cruel, they will all become cowards!"
"The same goes for foreign devils, damn it!"
King Dun sighed, "Li Tuo... the subsequent confession is even more outrageous. Ronglu's nephew confessed, but the family members of the fifth division were actually imprisoned in Nanchizi!"
"Half of them are not direct descendants but collateral descendants of their families, and some are even abandoned sons of their families..."
"This proves that the Fifth Division was instigated by the Japs to rebel not just by one Nastu, but by more than half of the officers who had already planned it!"
"Half of these hostages are distant relatives who don't care about them. If you kill them, the rebels won't even cry twice! They deceived the entire court!"
Li Tuo took a breath of air. He knew this was a thorn in Zai Chun's lungs. The little emperor was most afraid of others treating him like a child, and what a child was most afraid of was that others would lie to him!
He would definitely be unable to control his temper when encountering this kind of thing. Li Tuo thought for a while and knew he had to speak. He smiled and said to the emperor.
"Long live Lord, please calm down. I have a few words to say... This fifth division deserves to die for rebelling, even if Ling Chi is cut into pieces!"
"But first point, now that we know that some of these people are distant relatives or even abandoned children, it doesn't make much sense for us to kill them. In fact, it won't have any deterrent effect!"
"Your majesty, you are wise, don't you know it if you think about it carefully? He is an abandoned son, why should you feel sorry for him?"
