Chapter 128: City Patrol IV

However, even if Zhu Qizhen gave an order now, he wanted to blow up a gap in the thick city wall. It's not an easy thing to do.

Zhu Qizhen simply didn't go down to the city, and walked along the city wall with a large team of guards.

At this time, the city of Beijing did not have an outer city.

And in the middle of the city is Miyagi.

Miyagi has the most complete drainage channels, as well as Sankai. Therefore, Zhu Qizhen doesn't have to worry too much, the place that really needs to be worried about is in the corners of the surrounding city walls.

In the heavy rain, there were still soldiers on duty at the head of Beijing.

Although Zhu Qizhen also knew that if he hadn't gone to the city with such fanfare, the situation in the city might not have been so solemn.

But even so, Zhu Qizhen could see that the Ming army was full of spirit.

The responsibility of guarding Beijing was assigned to Jingwei.

That is, the twenty-seven military guards most trusted by the royal family.

Among them, in addition to the Jinyi Guard, there is also the Tongzhou Guard who guards Tongzhou. The rest were garrisons of the city of Beijing.

These armies are all the old team that followed Taizong to raise troops, and Taizong organized these armies into twenty-two guards, and Emperor Xuanzong organized his own cronies into four guards, plus Jinyi Guard, which is twenty-seven guards.

It can also be regarded as one of the core forces controlled by the royal family.

At this moment, Zhu Qizhen looked at the soldiers of the guards at the head of the city, wearing mandarin duck battle jackets and hats, like statues in the heavy rain.

The formation is also extremely tight. At first glance, it looks like a line.

Many people think that the ancient army array is not good, but they don't know that since ancient times, the array is the soul of the infantry. Especially after the massive use of firearms by the Ming army. The requirements for the array are even higher.

This can be seen just from the examples of war.

Whether it was Mu Ying's three-stage attack, or Zhu Di's battle of Hulan's sudden hypothermia, he used firearms to meet the 30,000 heavy cavalry of the tile spur. It is impossible to imagine without a tight array.

Even at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were depictions of the array of Manchus against the Ming army. In the battle of Salhu, the Manchurians could not attack Liu Ting's formation. You can only use fraud.

Now, on the whole, the strength of the Ming army has begun to weaken.

Zhu Qizhen has realized this.

But this weakness has not yet been reflected in the Beijing army.

Under the emperor's nose, many people did not dare to mess around.

What Zhu Qizhen saw at this moment was the first-class elite of the Ming Dynasty, perhaps much worse than the elite of the founding of the country and the people who survived a hundred battles, but looking at the next two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid it will not be as good as this Beijing army.

Zhu Qizhen's gaze swept over.

But seeing that in the hands of these soldiers, although there are a lot of cold weapons in their hands, there are also a lot of firecrackers, but in Zhu Qizhen's opinion, such firecrackers are more like an iron pipe, with a wooden guard inlaid on the back.

And the design of this wooden guard is also very unreasonable, and it cannot bear the recoil of the fire gun at all.

As simple as you want, you can be as shabby.

Zhu Qizhen took this matter to heart, but he also knew that it was not the time to talk about it.

Then he looked down the walls of the city into the city.

It seems that the heavy rain that followed the earthquake seemed to be leaking, and it was raining endlessly.

All the streets, in an instant, turned into rivers.

Most of the people did not take shelter from the rain in their rooms.

Some are urgently repairing their houses, after all, after an earthquake, the Forbidden City is nothing serious, but ordinary people's homes are not like this.

Strengthen the house and lay tiles in the rain to avoid collapse or leakage.

There are many others, all of which have been drained from the water ladle from the inside of the yard or from the inside of the house to the outside. And the streets became rivers that flowed to the gates.

Many of the gates are no longer closed. Because the displacement is too large.

Zhu Qizhen looked at such a scene and couldn't help but feel sad in his heart.

Yu Qian has not been by Zhu Qizhen's side all the time.

Because Zhu Qizhen saw these situations, Yu Qian also saw them.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen is worried, but he doesn't know where to start.

But Yu Qian is different, Yu Qian also has a lot of officials from the Shuntian Mansion around him.

Yu Qian almost didn't stop for a moment, and the order went down. Let the people below deal with all kinds of situations, and if some houses fail, they simply let the people live in the temple temporarily. In order to smooth the drainage, all the drains were inventoried and people were sent to clean them in the rain.

If yes, etc.

It's just that although Yu Qian has the power to control water, there are some things that he can't do.

Yu Qian came to Zhu Qizhen's side and said, "Your Majesty, there are only hundreds of servants under the command of the ministers. Even if the soldiers and horses of the five armies, Jinyi Wei and other places help, such a situation is not enough. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Do you want to use Jingying?" ”

Yu Qian said: "Yes." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Order Chengguo Gong to take charge and send all the troops out of the camp to help clean up the Jingshi waterway. ”

Yu Qian immediately said: "On behalf of the people of Beijing, thank Your Majesty." Then the minister went to the camp. ”

Zhu Qizhen immediately understood that there were many arrogant soldiers in the Beijing camp. Yu Qian's own identity may not be able to suppress them, if he just sends an order to the past, even if there is a holy decree, he may not be able to make these soldiers obedient.

Yu Qian could only go over by himself.

"It's just that the minister has a word, Your Majesty bears the weight of the world, and you must take care of your body. His Majesty has also seen the situation in the city, and it is time to go back. Yu Qian said.

Zhu Qizhen listened to it and understood, even if he was patrolling outside, could he help? There were even a large number of people to protect him.

Maybe, it helped again.

Zhu Qizhen said: "I know, it's just Mr. Yu, I have been growing up in the deep palace, I don't know the people's suffering, but I don't know the floods reported in various places, is that it?" ”

From Zhu Qizhen's point of view, the situation in Beijing is already quite ugly.

Many markets are inhabitable, and even in the capital, many temples are overcrowded.

Yu Qian was silent for a while, and said: "Your Majesty, the floods in Beijing are actually not as good as the floods of the Yellow River, and the Jingshi is just because of poor drainage and waterlogging. ”

"Even if it doesn't take three or five sunny days, the water level will go down. But in Kaifeng City, there have been many times of flood siege. ”

"The people were swallowed up by the flood, the world is so big, it seems that there is not an inch of dry land, and Beijing is just a small drop in comparison with it."

"Every year, the floods reported are heavier than here."

Zhu Qizhen was stunned for a while, and said, "Mr. Yu, let's go." ”

Yu Qian hurriedly retired.

Zhu Qizhen fought above the city, watching the streets in the city of Beijing turn into rivers. There was no word for a while.

The Empress Dowager has always said that the people are in dire straits, but now it seems that if it is not in dire straits, a flood, in Zhu Qizhen's view, will at least drown more than 1,000 people.

But in Yu Qian's opinion, it is still an ordinary thing.

Every year, disasters are reported in various places, either in the north or in the south.

There will always be.

Zhu Qizhen has long been used to it.

The Ming Dynasty has a wide area, and it is normal for some places to have unbalanced floods and droughts.

But he never thought deeply about what the ordinary words in the inscription represented.

I don't know how many lives there are.

For a while, Zhu Qizhen also began to doubt his plans for external expansion.

The people of the Ming Dynasty don't know how much every year, struggling above the line of death, in such a situation, they still want to fight with the tile spur, regardless of the life and death of the people, there is not much benefit in winning the tile spur?

Is it really appropriate to do this?

However, then Zhu Qizhen wanted to come back again.

The big war between the two countries is not something that Zhu Qizhen wants to fight if he doesn't want to. If it weren't for the death of Tuhuan, maybe it would have been two or three years.

And the military disaster is a more terrifying existence than the natural disaster.

Zhu Qizhen only felt that there was a thousand catties of heavy burden on his shoulders in an instant, and this burden was carried by the Empress Dowager before, so he didn't think anything about it.

At this moment, the burden fell on him, but he felt extremely difficult.

Suddenly, Zhu Qizhen heard footsteps, and a servant ran up anxiously, and saw that Zhu Qizhen didn't find Yu Qian from a distance, so he immediately turned around and prepared to leave.

Zhu Qizhen said to Wang Zhen: "Go and ask, what happened?" ”

Wang Zhen immediately went over, asked the matter clearly in a few words, and immediately came back and said to Zhu Qizhen: "Someone built a house without permission and blocked the waterway, and the official came to the door to ask for the waterway to be vacated, but he not only refused to let it, but beat the official. ”