At present, the military power of the Nanjing Jingying Camp and the Jiangsu Waterproof Army is in the hands of the Nanjing Minister of War, and is controlled by the Minister of Nanjing Ministry of War.
The current Minister of War in Nanjing is Li Changgeng, a native of Macheng.
However, although the military power in Nanjing was controlled by the Minister of War in Nanjing, a nobleman would also be selected as a garrison to assist him.
Currently serving as the garrison of Nanjing is Zhenyuan Marquis Gu Mingjiao.
Half an hour before Zhou Yuji and others went to Lanchun Garden, people from Dongchang stationed in Nanjing hurriedly arrived at the Nanjing Military Department.
"Wen Jinyuan, a small clerk in the internal affairs department of Naidong Factory, is now the bookboy next to Yingtian Governor Xiao Jingao. Xiao Jingao has indeed conspired to rebel, and together with Huang Zunyi, Xu Shaoliang and others, he planned to threaten the patrol camp. Zhao Hongsheng and the newly arrived guard Zhou encountered a lucky rebellion. This is a calligraphy by Xiao Jingao, which can be used as evidence. I ask the Grand Sima to take a clear look at it."
As Wen Jinyuan spoke, he took out the rolled rice paper from his sleeve and handed it to Li Changgeng.
Li Changgeng didn't expect that people from Dongchang suddenly came to him for this matter. He couldn't help but hurriedly took the rice paper and read it carefully: "The ink is not dry yet. It is his writing style of Xiao Jingao. It seems that there is no doubt what you said." .”
Liang Heng, the head of the Anti-Corruption Department of Dongchang, said at this time: "The incident happened suddenly. The city defense in Nanjing is supposed to be controlled by your Grand Sima. Therefore, as soon as the lower official learned of the news, he sent someone 800 miles away to deliver it urgently. As soon as I report to Beijing, I will bring him to inform you first and ask Grand Sima to make a decision quickly!"
Li Changgeng was now basically convinced that what these Dongchang people said was true, so he hurriedly asked Liang Heng: "Where are the people from your Dongchang Anti-Corruption Department now?"
Li Changgeng replied: "All three hundred banner schools of the Anti-Corruption Department have entered the inner city."
"Is there any news from the patrol camp?"
Li Changgeng asked.
Liang Heng replied: "Not yet, probably more bad luck than bad."
"Well, compared to the safety of the patrol camp, it is key to defend the inner city of Nanjing first. The grain, silver and palace stored in the inner city of Nanjing cannot fall into the hands of the rebels. In this way, you people from the Anti-Corruption Department of the East Factory will go first We are guarding the Hongwumen area, and I will immediately send an order to the Nanjing Jingying troops to close the inner city!"
After speaking, Li Changgeng immediately wrote his own order, stamped it with a big seal himself, and then shouted loudly: "Come here, pass on my order to seal all the gates of the inner city and the imperial city! Please invite Admiral General Yang and Marquis Zhenyuan of the Nanjing garrison is here to meet you!"
"yes!"
The guard leader next to Li Changgeng replied.
"You go to Zhengyangmen!"
"You go to Jubaomen!"
"You go to Chaoyangmen!"
"You go to Zhenyuan Hou Mansion!"
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Then, the guard leader arranged for the guards below to pass the order.
The Dongchang Anti-Corruption Department went to Hongwumen.
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"After our people arrived at the Dongchang Anti-Corruption Department, there was no one in the entire Dongchang Anti-Corruption Department, and many papers with words on them were burned."
Xu Shaoliang started talking after returning to Xiao Jingao's place.
Xiao Jingao frowned slightly after hearing this: "It seems that they have learned the news in advance."
As Xiao Jingao spoke, he shouted to one of his servants: "Go and call all my servants!"
Soon, the steward's slave appeared at Xiao Jingao's place with all the slaves around Xiao Jingao.
"Where's Wen Jinyuan?"
Xiao Jingao asked.
The housekeeper said he didn't know.
Although Xiao Jingao knew that Dongchang now liked to bury his spy around ministers, but now that he knew that Wen Jinyuan, a book boy he trusted, was also Dongchang's spy, he still gritted his teeth and said, "Damn it!"
"Report! Zhongcheng! My master has come and asked me to tell you that after our people arrived in the inner city, the gates in the inner city were closed tightly. There were many soldiers on the gates. The ceremonial flag of Li Changgeng, the Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, Flags also appeared on the city walls of the inner city.”
At this time, a member of Xu Ze's family came to the governor's office on horseback, jumped off the horse, walked quickly to Xiao Jingao, knelt down and said.
"I know! Tell your generals that Li Changgeng has been in the military for a long time and is a calm man. Although the Nanjing camp is old and weak, it will be okay to defend the city under the command of this man. What's more, we have too few troops and horses, and we have already missed the opportunity. If you have a good opportunity, don't attack the inner city first to avoid increasing losses, just let him surround the inner city."
As Xiao Jingao spoke, he looked at Xu Shaoliang and ordered: "While I am still the governor of Yingtian and the court has not reacted to replace me and mobilize the army, immediately send out a proclamation to recruit more local warriors and tell Yingtian Mansion All Jin gentry, we should work together to uphold loyalty and uphold the integrity of the emperor! If anyone refuses to obey, kill them first and share their wealth! Try to raise as many as possible. When the time comes, the troops will be sent to Huzhou and strive to join forces with the rebel army sent by Huang Gong to Zhejiang to revolt. great cause!"
"good!"
Xu Shaoliang hurriedly replied.
Therefore, Xu Shaoliang took his country warriors to visit the gentry in Yingtian Mansion.
Some gentry who had been dissatisfied with the government for a long time and were quite extreme actually responded and summoned the brave men from the clan to raise the flag of righteousness with them.
But this is only a minority.
Most of the gentry still understood the situation clearly and knew that it would be difficult to overthrow the imperial court with just a few gentry clans rebelling, so they did not agree.
At this time, Yan Zhiji, who had served as Minister of Justice, was unwilling to join Xu Shaoliang and others in righteousness.
"Yan Sikou, you really don't want to stand up to us and ask your side?"
"The treacherous minister Fang Congzhe and others have hijacked the emperor and set up factories to abuse our Jiangnan gentry. This has reached the point where people and gods are outraged. Do you really want to sit back and watch these people continue to harm the world like this?!"
"Moreover, scum like the Xu family and other Jiangnan gentry have conspired to seize the textile interests of our Jiangnan gentry, which has made our Jiangnan gentry less wealthy than before, and the people are in dire straits. Now the court is still going to strictly investigate excessive slaveholding, and it is very likely that we will not be treated as such." The gentry is killing all the people without giving up. Do you really want to sit back and watch this unscrupulous court continue to harm the world like this?!"
The radical scholars who came with Xu Shaoliang also angrily criticized Yan Zhiji, the minister of the Ministry of Justice who had become an official and refused to follow him.
Yan Zhiji banged his crutches on the ground and said, "You are talking nonsense! Do you think you can change the world just by yourself? If you continue to mess around like this, in the future, when the army invades the country, you will be the ones who suffer the consequences of the nine races!"
"The king treats his ministers like grass, and his ministers will regard him as a bandit. Heaven and man have been dissatisfied with this tyranny for a long time. Those who are determined to serve the world should sacrifice their homes to save the people!"
A more radical scholar echoed.
"That's right, after Zhu Youxiao originally rebelled against the party and Zhu Di's lineage, we, the Jiangnan scholars, should have rectified the world long ago and welcomed the emperor Jianwen!"
Another radical scholar put forward his own theory, that is, he wanted to fight against Zhu Youxiao's court for Jianwen.
The more Yan Zhiji listened, the more absurd and outrageous he felt, so he had to tell his grandson Yan Shaoxian: "Shaoxian, see you off! If you want my Yan family to become thieves, you can't do it even if you wipe out all my Yan family!"
"Then I'll make it happen for you!"
Xu Shaoliang did not follow Xiao Jingao's advice at first and kill all the gentry who rejected him, but now he found that most of the gentry were unwilling to follow him in righteousness, and even Yan Zhiji, who was a minister of the Ministry of Punishment, also refused, so he For a moment, he made up his mind to threaten these gentry with force. At this moment, he shouted and gave his country hero a look.
Xu Shaoliang's countrymen hurriedly raised their blunderbuss.
Xiao Jingao asked Xu Shaoliang's Xiangyong to get a lot of firearms from the governor's yamen treasury, so Xu Shaoliang's Xiangyong are now equipped with many firearms.
boom!
Immediately, both Yan Zhiji and Yan Shaoxian were shot and fell to the ground.
"Come in! This Yan Zhiji is the descendant of Yan Song. He just moved to Yingtian in his early years. He stole the traitor Yan's house and divided his wealth equally! The men inside killed all the men and ravaged the women!"
Xu Shaoliang then issued a new order.
As expected, the Xiang Yong he brought rushed in directly.
These rural warriors belonging to the landlords' armed forces followed the Xu family in rebellion. They were originally members of the Xu family or slaves and tenants, and they were willing to follow Xu Shaoliang in the hope of making a fortune from the Xu family's influence. They had no discipline, and Xu Shaoliang also They just controlled these people by letting them plunder, so these country warriors were no different from bandits. As soon as they broke into Yan's house, they burned, killed, looted, and raped women!
Not long after, Yan's mansion was ablaze with flames, and men and women screamed incessantly.
Another gentry, Wang Yang, who was serving as a censor, learned that he had to pay 500,000 taels, so he gathered more than 2,000 brave men from his clan to respond to the righteousness, and he was able to avoid this disaster.
The other gentry were also worried about being wiped out and had to follow in the rebellion.
However, there were also a small number of gentry who would rather have their entire family destroyed than rebel because their family heads abided by the righteousness of the monarch and his ministers.
Xu Shaoliang and other clan warriors who had decided to revolt brazenly massacred these gentry clans who wanted to abide by the justice of the monarch and his ministers.
In the end, Xu Shaoliang recruited more than 30,000 village warriors to start the rebellion.
Xiao Jingao also raised more than 10,000 local ruffians with the title of governor and by releasing money.
Including Xu Ze's camp, Xiao Jingao, Xu Shaoliang and other rebel troops in the outer city of Nanjing totaled more than 50,000 troops.
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Because there were no telegraphs and telephones in this era, the delay in communication was very long, so the capital city of the Ming Dynasty was still as quiet as usual at this time.
Emperor Zhu Youzhao and Queen Zhang Yan were teasing their little baby together, thinking about what the Ming Dynasty would be like when the child grew up.
He doesn't know about the turmoil in the southeast yet.
The ministers in the DPRK are still busy with the New Deal reforms.
Only when an urgent report from the southeast was delivered to the political hall, the monarchs and ministers in the center of the court who were already living harmoniously because of their common interests had to stop what they were doing and start to face this unexpected incident.
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