Not long after the messenger arrived, senior generals from the city defense army came over one after another.
Then, one after another, they were frightened and frightened by the situation in the house.
They saw Yang Wanli lying in the blood and a room full of murdered documents, and thought they had entered some horrific murder scene.
Zhang Shi didn't care about this and calmed them down, telling them not to move.
He told them that Yang Wanli was a sinner and that the emperor had an edict to be read out. He took out the edict, held it in his hand, and showed it to the generals who came in.
The senior generals all recognized the edict and really thought it was what Emperor Zhao Min wanted Zhang Shi to do. They secretly speculated that Yang Wanli had committed some capital crime and needed to be secretly executed by the emperor's order.
This was obviously not something that could be publicized. They could only look at Zhang Shi uneasily and secretly look at Yang Wanli's body.
When dozens of senior officers and men arrived, Zhang Shi raised the edict and asked the generals to follow the order.
All the generals knelt down one after another and received the order anxiously.
Then they were extremely shocked to learn that a coup had occurred in the palace. The original emperor Zhao Hao was deposed by the Supreme Empress, and the new emperor was Zhao Hao's third son-Zhao Dun.
After the new emperor succeeded to the throne, he announced that Yang Wanli and other war-fighting officials had committed the crime of treason. They would all be arrested and executed, and no one would be spared.
As a war official with military power, Yang Wanli committed a serious crime and had to be arrested. However, he resisted arrest and was executed on the spot.
His family members will all be held accountable and imprisoned, awaiting execution, and no one will escape the punishment.
Moreover, all the officials from the main war faction have committed treason and will be controlled and dismissed from their positions. Now the person in charge of military and political power is Shen Gai, Zhang Shi is the deputy privy envoy, and Lu Yongyan is the deputy city defense envoy.
The new emperor ascended the throne, officials changed, and the Southern Song Dynasty court changed its strategic attitude.
Times have changed.
But in the eyes of the officers, it was another picture - a coup.
Silently... a coup?
The emperor has been changed?
The senior generals all felt that the world was too crazy. They were a little restless and found it unacceptable. They felt that it all happened too suddenly.
Zhang Shi was keenly aware of their emotional changes and immediately announced another brand new order.
"Your Majesty issued an edict to stop city defense preparations, accept the Ming Kingdom's ultimatum, and reach an agreement with the Ming Kingdom as soon as possible to end the war. Everyone, there is no need to fight this battle."
As soon as these words were spoken, the senior generals were stunned. The original agitation disappeared, and the dissatisfaction in their hearts also disappeared. They were all covered up by the fact of "no more war".
No more fighting?
End the war?
No need to die?
The generals looked at Zhang Shi with some doubts.
Zhang Shi put down the edict and smiled.
"I know that you are actually unwilling to fight this battle. The reason why you want to fight is because of the emperor's order and because you were forced to have no choice by Yu Yunwen and Yang Wanli. But now they are either dead or imprisoned, and they are no longer the emperor. .
They themselves wanted to destroy the Yellow River embankment of the Ming Dynasty. They failed to handle the matter and aroused the anger of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming army went south, dragged us into the water together, and took us to death together. How innocent we are, why should we die with them? Are you willing to die with them? "
Generals, you look at me and I look at you. No one stood up to express their opinion, but the expressions on their faces betrayed their innermost thoughts.
"You all know the policy of the Ming Dynasty. Once the city is defeated, we will definitely die. The last chance the Ming Dynasty gave us was to surrender. Now, do you want to fight to the death and have your family confiscated and exterminated by the Ming Dynasty, or live? Go down?"
This choice is actually quite simple, there is nothing much to say.
Everyone is an officer of the Song Dynasty. The officers of the Song Dynasty thrived under the education of the Zhaosong family. Everyone understands that you can't work hard to make money, and they know how to live more comfortably than a civilian official.
This answer seems not worth worrying about.
Everyone really didn't want to fight, and they really didn't want to fight the Ming army, especially when the emperor himself did something so unpleasant, but in the end everyone had to share the blame.
They also had serious dissatisfaction with the emperor hidden in their hearts, but they did not dare to express it because they were military generals.
But Shen should be a civil servant, and Zhang Shi was also a civil servant, and this coup was led by the two of them.
A coup led by civilian officials has nothing to do with military generals, and will not directly affect the future of military generals.
But now, it is time for everyone to choose death or survival, which will directly affect everyone's situation next.
As the night fell, the outstanding military generals of the Song Dynasty who thrived under the education of Zhao Song's family made their own choices.
The entire Lin'an city defense army carried out an order to the end in a very short period of time. They stopped fighting, negotiated peace with the Ming army, accepted all the conditions, and then everything continued as usual.
This is the order of the new emperor.
The army was peacefully taken over by the peace faction, without bloodshed or sacrifice.
From this perspective, this coup can be called the Song Dynasty version of the Glorious Revolution.
Because this order is very popular.
The Lin'an city defense army was extremely afraid of the Ming army and did not dare to fight with the Ming army. They did not want to fight this battle at all, but they were forced to do nothing. Now that there is no fight from above, it was too late for them to be happy. How could they make any objections? ?
However, some people died in this coup, but they were not soldiers.
For example, Chen Junqing, the Minister of War, was originally a disciple of Zhang Jun. He had very hard bones and a firm will. He resolutely resisted the Ming Dynasty and resolutely maintained the dignity and dignity of the Song Dynasty.
When the coup troops broke into his home and asked him to surrender, Chen Junqing did not choose to surrender, but decided to resist. When the coup officers told him that the new emperor had ascended the throne and the deposed emperor Zhao Yan had been surrendered, Chen Junqing was furious.
"Traitor! How dare you insult the Emperor of the Song Dynasty! Come and die with me!!!"
Facing more than a hundred heavily armed coup soldiers, Chen Junqing rushed forward with a less lethal scholar's sword and launched a charge.
Faced with this deadly attack, the coup soldiers certainly suppressed him without any effort at all.
The sword in Chen Junqing's hand was knocked off, but he still tried to attack the soldiers with his hands and feet, and bit the soldiers with his teeth, as if he wanted to die with them.
Can this be tolerated?
The coup officer stabbed him through the chest.
Chen Junqing's mouth was full of blood, and he vomited it out. Then he knelt on the ground, holding the knife in the hand of the coup officer tightly with both hands.
Then he died.
After Chen Junqing's death, his two sons wanted to avenge him, but they were killed one by one by the coup officers.
Chen Junqing's wife rushed forward like a madman and was killed by the coup officer with a knife in her throat.
The four most courageous members of the family died, and the remaining family members did not dare to move. They knelt on the ground and cried bitterly, enduring the brutality of the coup soldiers.
That night, a raging fire broke out in Chen's mansion.
Compared with Chen Junqing's fierce resistance, Wang Shipeng, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, was much calmer. When he learned that a coup had taken place in the palace, Zhao Yu had been deposed, and Zhao Dun had ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, he knew that the situation was over and everything was irreversible.
So Wang Shipeng calmly asked the coup officers not to hurt his family. After receiving permission, Wang Shipeng ordered his family to give up resistance, surrender, and not do stupid things.
Then he drew his own sword and cut himself with the sword.
Only Wang Shipeng died in the Wang family. No one else died, but they just cried around Wang Shipeng's body.
