Chapter 351 "Public Security"
King Yu immediately nodded and said: "Then according to Master Gao's method, tomorrow immediately let the right guard of Yanping escort the lonely king north to take over Datong of Xuanfu!" King Yu said
again: "Where is the father? Gao
Gong immediately said: "Your Majesty is hunting west. The situation in the capital is changing rapidly. It is impossible to inform His Majesty of everything. As long as His Majesty can regain the capital, Your Majesty will definitely be satisfied." Gao Gong did not say a word. If it were King Yu
, If the capital can be taken back, then King Yu can directly proclaim himself emperor.
King Yu also said tacitly: "In that case, there is no need to inform the emperor."
On the emperor's side, Jiajing led his ministers out of the west gate of the capital and headed southwest.
The emperor's destination was Baoding and Zhending, Hebei Province.
Baoding Mansion and Zhending Mansion were the front lines against the north during the Northern Song Dynasty, so the city walls were tall and there were also Ming court guards.
On April 28, the emperor fled to Baoding with a huge team, and the Baoding prefect immediately brought people to pick him up.
Originally, the imperial guards and soldiers in the capital were very tired from running wildly along the way.
After they came out of the capital, because there were too many dignitaries in the entire team, these nobles and ministers asked soldiers to help them carry their luggage and protect their treasures.
In addition, these dignitaries were afraid of running too slowly and asked soldiers to help them pull the cart. As a result, the soldiers complained all the way.
He originally thought that he could have some rest when he arrived at Baoding Mansion, but the emperor only stayed for one day. After accepting the banquet hosted by the Baoding Magistrate, he continued on his way to Zhending Mansion without stopping.
Hebei was not originally a prosperous area during the Ming Dynasty. Although the prefect of Baoding had been notified long ago, asking him to raise food and grass, he could not get so much food at once.
The dignitaries in the capital were all bossy and even asked the prefect of Baoding to provide them with banquets.
Relying on the food and grass that they had managed to scrape together, the Red Helmets of the Imperial Guard were troops close to the emperor, and most of the officers were sons of nobles, so they naturally received more food.
The few grains distributed to the soldiers in the Beijing camp were the smallest part.
These soldiers from the Beijing camp had not brought much food and grass out of the city to begin with, but now that they had received less food, the resentment in the military camp was getting bigger and bigger.
By the time the troops arrived at Zhending Mansion, some soldiers in the capital camp had already left the team and began to plunder the place for the invaders.
The prefect Zhending also got the news and immediately opened the city gate to pick him up.
When he arrived at Zhending Mansion, the emperor still didn't feel much sense of security. He rested for a day and ordered the army to continue heading west to Taiyuan.
The prefect of Zhending was the same as the prefect of Baoding. He only entertained the emperor and ministers with a sumptuous banquet. The supplies prepared were basically divided among the dignitaries and the red-helmeted guards. The Beijing camp with the largest number of people received the least. .
After reaching Zhending, it was even more difficult for those petty officials who fled with the emperor.
The officials who originally followed the emperor to hunt west were basically loyal to the officials of the Ming Dynasty.
Many of these low-ranking officials spontaneously followed the emperor after hearing that he was leaving the capital.
After all, Jiajing was in power for more than 40 years, and the Ming Dynasty was not in the bad shape it was in the late Ming Dynasty.
However, these petty officials who followed voluntarily did not receive the attention of the exiled court at all. Not only did they not have food rations along the way, they were even driven by the powerful to do things.
Among this group of petty officials, there was a household head named Hai Rui.
I don’t know whether it was because Hai Rui’s rank was too low, or because Hai Rui was just a civil servant, or because Mr. Xu Ge, who had recommended him as the county magistrate, was secretly protecting him. During the officialdom storm of liquidating Su Ze, Hai Rui was not affected. spread.
He still works as a small chief in the Yunnan Qing Li Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, living a life of hunger and satiety.
This time Su Ze attacked the capital. It was naturally impossible for Hai Rui of his level to be notified to leave the city together. After receiving the news, Hai Rui spontaneously followed the team.
However, Hai Rui still left his pregnant wife and mother in the capital.
Along the way, Hai Rui saw the behavior of the fleeing dignitaries, the emperor's gorgeous carriage, the miserable appearance of the soldiers in the Beijing camp, and the Hebei people who were exploited by the emperor's fleeing army and found it difficult to make a living.
The Zhending magistrate spent a full three thousand taels of silver to pick him up. This money was not only shared by the rich households in the city, but also the people's anointing collected by the Zhending magistrate.
Among the three thousand taels of silver, there were actually herbs and cinnabar prepared for Jiajing's alchemy, as well as southeastern spirits needed by the powerful people who fled the capital.
In addition, the Zhending magistrate also recruited five hundred prostitutes from the camp, specifically to entertain the red-helmeted guards.
There are not so many camp prostitutes in Zhending Mansion. Some of them are even women from good families in the surrounding areas who were captured by subordinate officials and servants to work in the army.
Seeing such a scene, Hai Rui was once again disappointed with the Ming Dynasty. He took out the pen and paper he carried with him and began to write a memorial.
On May 5th, the emperor finally arrived at Taiyuan City with his mighty army.
Taiyuan is a strong city in the world and its geographical location is very dangerous. The emperor finally felt safe and ordered the entire army to rest in Taiyuan for three days.
At the same time, the emperor also summoned his ministers to discuss the next countermeasures.
In order to win people's hearts, the emperor also pretended to be open to the public and asked the minor officials accompanying him to write letters outspoken about the court's gains and losses.
At this time, the emperor finally received news from the capital.
The capital fell and King Yu went north.
This news immediately caused huge turmoil in the Xishui army. The reason is naturally very simple. Basically, the families of the soldiers in the Beijing camp are in the capital. Now that the capital has fallen, it means that these people's families have fallen into Su Ze's hands. .
In the Jin Palace in Taiyuan, which is the temporary emperor's palace.
Xu Jie, the chief minister of the cabinet, first said:
"Your Majesty, now we should abandon the soldiers in the Beijing camp and go west with all our strength!"
The hasty flight north made the originally pampered emperor very tired.
Jiajing was much older. He looked at the other ministers around him. Chengguo Gong Zhu Xizhong, who was responsible for commanding the soldiers in the Beijing camp, immediately stood up and expressed his opposition: "Your Majesty, absolutely not! Without the protection of the soldiers in the Beijing camp, how can the red-helmet imperial
army alone be able to do this?" Protect His Majesty's safety!"
The Beijing camp is the army controlled by Zhu Xizhong, Duke of Chengguo. Only with this army can Zhu Xizhong have the status. Naturally, it is impossible for him to agree to Xu Jie's suggestion.
Xu Jie continued: "The soldiers in the Beijing camp are tired. The soldiers are not good enough. Their families are all in the capital. Now that the news of the fall of the capital has come, the morale of the army is even more unstable. There are more soldiers in the Beijing camp than the Forbidden Army. What will happen is unimaginable." !"
Xu Jie added: "The whole road from Taiyuan to Pingyang and then to Xi'an is the hinterland of our Ming Dynasty. We only need to summon the military guards along the way to protect us. It is better to leave the Beijing camp and move forward quickly to reach Guanzhong as soon as possible!"
Cheng Guogong Zhu Xizhong immediately retorted: "Mr. Xu Ge's words are wrong! The soldiers of the Beijing camp escorted His Majesty all the way to Taiyuan. They are loyal and loyal. Now that the Beijing camp is dismissed, wouldn't it hurt the morale of the army? Even the red-helmeted guards will be sad. I can no longer serve His Majesty!"
"Besides, it is enough for soldiers in red armor to protect His Majesty, but there are so many noble ministers in the Manchu Dynasty. How can we protect him without the soldiers from the Beijing camp?" The emperor looked at
his ministers again. At this time, He Xini, the top seed Contestant and non-stick pan champion Zhao Zhenji stood up and said:
"Your Majesty, I think that the Beijing camp is the most important thing. We can't not abolish it, but we can't rashly abolish it!" This sentence was nonsense. Zhao Zhenji continued: "I think that it can be done. Eliminate half of the soldiers from the Beijing camp and stay in Taiyuan to defend against the Soviet thieves, while the rest will hunt westward with His Majesty."
This plan of He Xini was finally approved by the emperor, and the order to leave half of the Beijing camp was immediately passed on.
Taiyuan is an important trade town in the north. Especially after the Datong Mutual Market, Taiyuan has developed even more business and travel.
After Su Ze took control of the capital, he did not cut off the capital's trade, and even encouraged the development of industry and commerce. Many news spread to Taiyuan along with the caravans.
Whether it was the division of fields, the "Three Principles to the People", or the discipline of the Southeast New Army, these all reached the ears of the soldiers in the Beijing camp.
Many people are thinking about returning to the capital. When they heard the news that half of them were abolished, most of the capital camps wanted to be abolished.
Previously, in order to intimidate the people of the capital, the emperor and his ministers described the new Southeast Army as savages who share wives and eat human flesh. The soldiers were afraid and followed the emperor out of the city.
Now that they have received the news, they no longer want to continue to work for the powerful people in the capital.
The old, weak, sick and disabled were eliminated, and the young and strong will naturally not be let go by the Ming court. The resentment of these young and strong who were selected to continue to flee westward was naturally even greater.
At this moment, a memorandum of thunder quickly exploded in Taiyuan Mansion.
It turns out that Jiajing, in order to show off, or really wanted to seek the opinions of his ministers, asked the ministers who were accompanying him to submit a letter.
Hai Rui, the head of the Yunnan Cleaning Department of the Ministry of Household Affairs, published a "Public Security Shu" at this time.
As soon as this memorial was published, it quickly caused a sensation throughout Taiyuan.
Several famous sayings among them quickly spread among the soldiers in the Beijing camp:
The world assumed that because His Majesty changed his title to the Yuan Dynasty, he said: "The Jiajing people said that every family is pure and has no financial use." The husband's
way is not right, and the ministers' duties are unclear. The first thing is.
A minister holds a salary but is flattering, a junior minister is afraid of sin but is submissive. If your majesty changes his behavior without knowing it, I will hate it every time.
Although Hai Rui used classical Chinese, a sergeant who was literate translated these into vernacular, which immediately caused a huge response in the Beijing camp.
In fact, Hai Rui's public security letter did not make any great principles, nor did he use any new academic knowledge.
He only criticized the emperor based on the traditional Confucian morality within the framework of his original loyalty to the emperor.
Such an article would not even cause any reaction in newspapers in the southeast region.
You must know that He Xinyin openly shouted that "the emperor is under the law" and even shouted that "the emperor and the people are equally guilty". Hai Rui's public security letter still advised the emperor to change his ways and become a benevolent king.
But in the north, this "Public Security Manual" can be regarded as treacherous!
When Emperor Jiajing saw "Public Security Shu", his nose was so angry that he twisted his nose. Only then did he remember the name Hai Rui.
The disciple of the traitor Su Ze! He actually got into my team! The monstrous words confuse the public!
Emperor Jiajing immediately said to Chen Hong beside him:
"Quick! Send the Jin Yiwei quickly to capture the traitor Hai Rui and interrogate him!"
The emperor was hysterical, so Chen Hong naturally did not dare to neglect him. He immediately took the Jin Yiwei to Hai Rui's residence in person. place, he must be arrested and tortured.
Hai Rui was not of high rank and had no backers, so he lived in the camp outside the city where the soldiers from the Beijing camp lived.
Hai Rui sympathized with these soldiers in the Beijing camp and often helped them write family letters, or relied on his knowledge of law to help the soldiers make fair decisions, which earned him the support of the soldiers in the Beijing camp.
When Chen Hong came to Hai Rui's residence with a dozen or so imperial guards, Hai Rui was writing a letter home to the soldiers.
These soldiers were going to ask the caravans traveling between Taiyuan and the capital to take back home letters and report that they were safe.
Chen Hong looked down upon these dirty soldiers from the Beijing camp and immediately ordered his soldiers in uniform:
"Capture the traitor Hai Rui!"
When these soldiers heard this, they immediately quit and blocked the door of Hai Rui's house and asked:
" Why do you want to arrest Master Hai!"
"Master Hai is a good official, why do you want to arrest Master Hai!"
Chen Hong was wearing the eunuch's vermilion official robe, and the Jin Yiwei were all wearing brocade robes, and they looked down upon these Beijing camp mud-legged men.
Chen Hong pinched his throat and said: "Your Majesty's decree! Hai Rui is a traitor, colludes with the Su traitor, disturbs the morale of the army, arrest him and question him!"
Naturally, the soldiers exploded!
"We can't let this castrated dog take Master Hai away!"
Chen Hong was used to being domineering. He couldn't stand being called a castrated dog. He immediately pointed at the soldier in the crowd and said, "
That's Hai Rui's comrade. We arrested him for questioning." !"
More and more soldiers from the Beijing camp gathered at the entrance of Hai Rui. At this time, the Jin Yiwei was already a little timid, but Chen Hong was still arrogant and domineering.
"Kill this castrated dog!"
The soldiers from the Beijing camp couldn't bear it anymore and rushed forward, directly drowning Chen Hong and all the Jinyi guards.
When Hai Rui came out of the house, he saw that Chen Hong had been beaten to death, and the Jinyi guards who came with him were also dying.
Hai Rui was shocked. He was a man with a deep sense of loyalty to the emperor, so he followed the emperor to Taiyuan.
In "Public Security Shu", it is also Hai Rui who hates the failure of steel and hopes that the emperor can change his ways and become the smart emperor again when he succeeded to the throne.
But when things got to this point, Hai Rui was no longer able to control them.
The soldiers from the Beijing camp had killed Chen Hong, the eunuch beside the emperor who was wearing a red robe.
The soldiers quickly conveyed this news to the ears of the soldiers in the Beijing camp. Those soldiers in the Beijing camp who were already dissatisfied with the imperial court or were driven to continue marching westward immediately rushed out of the Beijing camp with weapons and rushed in. In Taiyuan City.
After the emperor entered Taiyuan, the King of Jin who was stationed in Taiyuan gave up his mansion and used it as the emperor's palace.
The dignitaries of the capital occupied the houses near the Jin Palace one after another. The imperial army could live in the city, but the capital camp could only be stationed outside the city.
After the soldiers from the Beijing camp entered Taiyuan, they immediately rushed to the Jin Palace.
Many soldiers were enslaved by the capital's dignitaries along the way, and they hated these capital dignitaries to the core!
After receiving the news, Chengguo Gong Zhu Xizhong immediately rushed to the soldiers in the Beijing camp wearing armor and riding horses.
(End of chapter)