Chapter 542 - 100,000 Public Trial Assembly
Zhang Mingzhen's shelling was meaningless.
The only function of the nine-jin cannon is to break a few bricks on the city wall, but the huge castle of Jubaomen is estimated to cost tens of millions of such city bricks, and modern experts estimate that the entire Nanjing city wall uses hundreds of millions of such 20-pound green bricks......
Let's chisel slowly!
He had the ability to dig coal with an ear scoop, and used the small cannonball the size of a fist to chisel open this fortress that had stood for 600 years and had not fallen after the Japanese artillery fire.
Yang Dudu is not interested in playing with him for the time being.
Immediately afterwards, the military households in the city began to converge in front of the Chengtian Gate.
"That's a lot!"
Yang Xin stood on the city wall and looked down.
The entire Chengtian Gate quickly became crowded, and this huge square was carefully cleaned up during the previous period of residence of the native soldiers, not only the original dilapidated thousand-step corridors on both sides have been repaired, but even the weeds of the royal road have been removed, and the broken stone slabs have been replaced with new ones. Even the castle towers of the Chengtian Gate and other gates have been repaired, and the Nanjing Imperial Palace has suffered many fires, typhoons, hailstorms and other damages in the two hundred years since it was used as a spare tire, but it was rarely repaired seriously unless it was forced to do so.
It happened that Yang Xin's native soldiers were idle during their residence, and at Yang Xin's suggestion, the eunuchs organized them and carried out large-scale repairs with cement and the like.
It's a new look.
"Grandpa, in fact, there are not only local military households in the city, but also a large number of people who wander here to make a living, at most fifty or sixty thousand!"
Li Mingdao said.
"Where are all the civil servants?"
Yang Xin asked.
The civil officials of the Nanjing Sixth Department and the Metropolitan Procuratorate have never shown up, and they have not shown up on the Jubaomen before.
"Back to my grandfather, Zhou Zuo, a scholar of the Ministry of War, had already gone to the Governor of Changshu before and never returned to Nanjing.
The rest of the Ministry of Household Shangshu went to Yangzhou to supervise the salary, the Ministry of Officials went to Anqing to pacify, the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Dong Qichang returned to Songjiang to pacify, and the Ministry of Punishment Shangshu was seriously ill and had sealed the beggar bones and left by himself, as for the Ministry of Works, Shangshu went to Fengyang to inspect the imperial tomb in Zhongdu.
As for the right capital of the Imperial Palace, one went to the Taiping Mansion to summon the volunteers, and the other went to Huai'an to urge the Huaibei armies to go south to reinforce Jiangnan.
The right deputy envoy has not yet filled the vacancy. ”
Li Mingdao said.
"They're all running fast!"
Yang Xin sighed.
These guys made it clear that they deliberately let Zhang Mingzhen capture Nanjing, they went out of the city in advance, and then controlled the troops on the periphery of Nanjing to clear the siege of Zhang Mingzhen.
The main thing is to block possible rescues.
The Loyal Army, the Dangkou Army, Yang Xin's Fengyang Tun Reclamation Army, these are all targets of prevention, including the naval division controlled by Yang Xin, although the main force of the Nanyang Naval Division has escorted Li Zhizao to the Western Ocean, but the Beiyang Naval Division has not moved in Weihaiwei, and they can go south to enter the Yangtze River at any time.
Those four giant ships are terrifying.
During this time, even the Songjiang side had even begun to build a fort at Wusongkou, because it was afraid that Yang Xin would mobilize the Beiyang Naval Division to go south and threaten the flank of the Datong Army with a forced landing in Shanghai with marines, although it was claimed to defend the Datong Army against the dozen or so light cruisers that received the Ningbo Customs Anti-Smuggling Team.
I have to say that they also broke their hearts in order to let the Datong army have no distractions and capture Nanjing.
They just used the fall of Nanjing to force the apocalypse to make a choice.
But it's obvious that they're thinking too much, Yang Xin doesn't think that the current situation needs other reinforcements, isn't it tens of thousands of Datong troops? Isn't there a huge army in front of him? This is the Ming Dynasty's national defense army, more than 200 years ago, their ancestors used spears to drive aliens out of this land, for the Zhu family for more than 200 years, and now they are responsible for repurifying this land.
He took a big horn.
"Silence!"
He yelled.
His voice echoed through the walls.
Everyone below closed their mouths and looked up at him......
Of course, he was not at the Chengtian Gate.
It's not that he should pretend to be forced casually, he is now in the left gate of Chang'an, which is exactly the same as the imperial palace in the capital, except that the Hongwu Gate in the south has become Daming Gate in the capital.
Yang Xin waved to the side.
Xu Hongji and others hurriedly stepped forward, but there was no Chang Yanling, and the entire Nanjing Xungui Regiment was not Chang Yinxu and Liu Kongzhao, the latter did not participate because he was too young and had just taken the title, and he belonged to the junior generation in the Xungui Regiment, at most he was at the same level as Chang Yanling, he was patrolling the city wall in other directions, and he didn't know the situation of Jubaomen at all. In the push and shove of the soldiers, Xu Hongji and his gang stood by the city wall, they are still watched by these soldiers, like a group of prisoners on trial, but they don't care about any politeness at this time, as long as Yang Xin can let them suffer a little humiliation, just accept it!
Possessions are the most important.
Yang Xin looked at their backs with satisfaction.
There is a total of one duke, eight marquises, and eight counts, including Zhu Guobi, who originally married Kou Baimen in history, but he is actually the Marquis of Funing, and the Duke of Baoguo is Hongguangfeng.
"Silence!"
He yelled again.
The crowd that had just been agitated again because of the appearance of these people quickly shut up.
"You are all military households, you are all loyal and good who followed Taizu to fight the world, your ancestors once swept the world, they expelled the Tartars, restored China, leveled the heroes, and laid down thousands of miles for the Zhu family, so I am curious, what are you doing when this city is attacked by the enemy, and do you still have the blood of your ancestors in your blood?"
He yelled.
There was silence among the military households below.
"Jinyi Guard, Left Five Guards, Henghai Guard, Tiance Guard, Flying Bear Guard, listen to the names of you who once shocked the enemy, do you feel ashamed of your ancestors? Ah, and Ying Tianwei, are you worthy of the name? And Xiaolingwei, do you feel ashamed of Xiaoling when you raise your head? In the face of the enemy's attack, you either live your life in the city as if you don't care about yourself, or you climb the city walls without firing a shot, and even someone goes down to open the gates for the enemy?
Don't you feel ashamed?
Don't you feel shameless in the face of your ancestors?
Now you don't resist in the face of rebellion, will you not resist next time in the face of a foreign race that will make you shave your hair and make it easy for you to obey? Your ancestors drove out the Tartars, and you opened the gates and knelt down to meet the Tartars? ”
Yang Xin continued to roar.
"Grandpa, the little ones are wronged, the little ones can't eat, so they rely on work to support their families, and if they don't work for a day, the whole family will starve, and the little ones also want to serve the country, so why can't they skip eating!"
A dissatisfied voice immediately rang out below.
"Bold!"
Li Mingdao shouted.
"Gonggong Li, let him say, Yang is to let them say something today, we have to rely on your brothers to resist the rebel party, we have to let them speak, say whatever you want, they are all here today, say everything in their hearts, and solve the difficulties of the brothers in order to work together, and then fight the enemy together.
The brother said he couldn't eat.
What about your fields? It's not that the military households are without land, and as far as I know, each regular army in Nanjing has at least 30 acres of fertile land, right? According to the calculation of five buckets per mu, it is only a dozen stones, and with the yield per mu of Nanjing, I am afraid that thirty acres will have to collect sixty or seventy stones, is it not enough to support the family? Yu Ding's land was halved, but the grain he handed over was also halved, not to mention supporting his family, even less than Zhaoyi's militia. ”
Yang Xin said.
"Back to Grandpa, there is not a single acre of land."
The man shouted.
"What about your land?"
Yang Xin asked.
"In the Mansion of the Duke of Wei, it is now the private land of the Duke of Wei, and it is his domestic slave who farms the land."
The man shouted.
"Nonsense, how can you smear people's innocence out of thin air? Which guard are you, don't talk nonsense! ”
Xu Hongji was instantly anxious and shouted without hesitation.
"Grandpa, what the little one said is true, the grandpa can investigate it in detail, and it's not just the small ones, most of the small Weili fertile land has been encroached upon by the Wei State Mansion, and the military households of the same Wei either serve as tenants for the Wei State Mansion and pay sixty percent of the rent for one acre of land, or work in the city to make a living like the small one. Moreover, not only the small Weili, but also most of the other Weiliang fields were also encroached upon by their families, and the military households either worked for them as tenants, or worked, or fled to other places to make a living.
The small Wei is now registered in less than 40% of the original military households.
Brothers, Wei Guogong and these people surrendered to the enemy, led Kou into the city, there is Yingguo Gong, it is indispensable to bring them to justice, we are still afraid that they will do anything, we have been bullied enough over the years, any grievances are said to Yingguo Gong, Yingguo Guild will uphold justice for us, and we can live a good life like the militia with Yingguo Gong in the future.
If you want to live a good life, tell the crimes of Wei Guogong's family! ”
The man raised his arms and shouted.
"I said, Ying Guogong, the youngest daughter was robbed to the mansion by Wei Guogong and tortured to death, and she is still dead!"
Another man cried.
This lead works very well, of course, mainly because the sentence of living a good life like a militia is too lethal.
Immediately afterwards, the emotions of those military families were mobilized, and they began to accuse these nobles of their crimes.
In fact, it can't be said that it is a revelation, after all, it is all well known, and the guards under the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies in Nanjing are the cakes on the plates of these nobles, and the rest is just whether they look good or not, but it is obvious that these nobles don't need to think about this problem, they just don't look good, and no one will care anyway.
The encroachment on the property of the health office is a basic operation.
It was also a basic operation to make military households work as slaves for their own families.
When Zhu Guobi married Kou Baimen, he directly ordered the military households to line up from the brothel to his house.
As for bullying men and women......
Grab is to look up to you, who is not beautiful is rare.
However, when someone deliberately brought the rhythm, the fire of hatred among those military households began to burn, not to mention these main crimes, but also small things on weekdays, such as unfair law enforcement, corruption and bribery......
Well, these are really trifles for their identity.
Soon a rally of hundreds of thousands of young people began to denounce it.
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