By the afternoon of that day, the city of Nanjing had completely calmed.

The dead bodies of the Imperial City were cleaned up.

It's just that the blood everywhere has not been cleaned, in fact, it is difficult to clean it thoroughly without a heavy rain, only in front of Chengtian Gate because of Yang Qing's water towers, so it has been thoroughly cleaned, avoiding a bloody color in front of the main gate of the Ming Imperial City.

The door is closed inside, and you can't see it.

The defeated soldiers in the city included Li Zushu and Tang Guozuo who fled and Guo Zuoyong took the initiative to surrender, after all, if they didn't surrender, it would really be counted as a rebellion, and it was useless for them to have iron coupons at that time, and after surrendering, they were treated the same as the Xu family.

The three of them were ordered to commit suicide.

It is absolutely impossible for them to live, and everyone else is dead, and they must die too.

The men of their clan were exiled and thrown to Hainan Island to open mines, leaving only one male in Nanjing to inherit their titles from Li Wenzhong, Tang He and other founding fathers, and live with those female dependents, but they were allowed to go home for a month every three years. The property only retains a mansion, to be precise, a mansion after the seizure of the house, all other property is confiscated, real estate, shops, gold and silver treasures are not left, and according to the title, each family retains part of the property, the duke 5,000 acres, the marquis 3,000, the earl 1,000, and the rest of their possession, including the encroachment, up to millions of acres of land, all of which are collected by the royal family.

As for the liquidation of their property, it will take a long time, anyway, the family raiding group composed of Jinyi guards and eunuchs has already closed the mansions.

This one is slowly liquidated.

And the dead body of Dongning Bo Jiao Mengxiong was finally found in the pile of dead bodies, his ancestor was Jiao Li, a Mongolian general stationed in Ningyuan during the Jingtai period, and he also had an iron coupon given by Yingzong after his restoration.

This is the end of the era of the nobles.

Although they all retain their titles, they are all looking for a small child to inherit, and then a bunch of women guard such a child, in the mansion they retain, relying on the court's Yulu and the reserved land to live, food and clothing must be worry-free, their Yulu is not low, even an earl is more than a thousand stones, plus those fields are enough to feed hundreds of people, as for the power, it is definitely gone, don't think about the extravagant life for the time being, just live like an ordinary landlord!

As for those exiled to Changhua, they can actually be pardoned in the event of an amnesty, but they must not want to have such a good thing until the development of iron ore is on the right track, and the premise is that they do not die of exhaustion or disease.

As for iron ore development......

Anyway, the trees weren't all cut down at this time!

Besides, when they come back, they are just a bunch of ordinary people, and they won't have any power to speak of.

However, Yang Qing still faced a problem.

The military apparatus of the Ming Dynasty was paralyzed.

Of course, it was only theoretically paralyzed, because the Ming army was equivalent to the Governor's Office of the Five Armies of the General Staff, except for the generals of the military towns who were named as governors but led troops outside, all the governors in charge of the center were all dead. The left governor of the Chinese military governor's mansion is Xu Hongji, the right governor is Zhu Guobi, and the remaining nobles are all the left and right governors of the other four armies, and several of them add up to form the theoretical command body of the Ming Dynasty, and the management and training of all the armies in the country are all decided by them, although they are all decorations, that is, the Ministry of War sends a document and they stamp it and forward it, but after all, this is the military system of the Ming Dynasty!

Now the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies is gone!

"Let's streamline it, then!"

Yang Qing said indifferently: "There are ten governors in the five military governors' mansions combined, and a bunch of acquaintances and affairs, what's the use of these?" It's a pure waste of silver, just restore the ancestral system and set up a metropolitan governor! At this time, it was all emptied, and there was no need to take another step. ”

"Who will be the Grand Governor?"

Zhang Guowei stared at him and said.

"Zhang Shangshu, who is the governor of the capital, is it up to us as courtiers to have the final say? Do you civilians still want to get their hands on military power? This has to be decided by the prison state! ”

Yang Qingyi said rhetorically.

Zhang Guowei wanted to spit in his face.

You just said that you want to be the governor of the capital, why bother with your little lover? What's more, the military power of the metropolitan governor is set up in one, although the transfer power is still in the military department, but this is nothing more than an order issued by Princess Kunxing, if Yang Qing is the metropolitan governor, then the result will definitely be a change in the military department, and the efforts of civil officials for hundreds of years will be completely in vain. To put it bluntly, the key to the strength of the civil officials and the weakness of the military attaches lies in the military power in the hands of the civilian officials, and the ten governors of the five armies are furnished, and the emperor's will is to go to the military department through the cabinet, and the military department mobilizes the army and then gives the order to the five military governors' offices, and the five military governors' offices send orders to the local guards. However, because the military affairs of the governors in various places are civilian officials and have Shang Fang Sword, even if the Governor's Office of the Five Armies does not transfer this order, the civilian Governor's Military Affairs can also mobilize the army, and if it can't be adjusted, it should be Shang Fang's sword.

For example, the unlucky Mao Wenlong.

In this way, the cabinet, the military department, and the governor-general's military affairs three-level civilian officials constitute a complete unified army system, and the governor's office of the five armies, which should have been in it, has become an ornament.

But Yang Qing is different as the governor.

He is only the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and he can't give direct orders to the army, even if he asks Princess Kunxing to give an order according to his wishes, then the cabinet and the six-department and six-section governors are waiting to be blocked, as long as there is a procedure, but Yang Qing will stare dryly, saying that if he wants to arrest people now, he must have to sign a driving sticker from the criminal department!

But what about him as a governor?

He can give orders directly to the generals everywhere.

Even he can bypass the governor's military affairs, if he bewitches his little lover, directly transfers the governors from all over the country and does not appoint new ones, and then he directly orders the commander-in-chief, then the civilian officials have no choice, after all, the governor's military affairs or the governor's affairs, none of them are fixed official positions, even if they are actually fixed, but they are still temporary in nature. Therefore, Princess Kunxing transferred a certain governor or governor to the imperial court and then no longer filled the vacancy, which also had nothing to say to the civil officials, and there was no such official position in many places in the Ming Dynasty, so the command of those general soldiers was equivalent to going back to the governor's mansion directly, and it became Yang Qing directly under the jurisdiction of those general soldiers, and the only thing left for the officials to deal with Yang Qing was military salary, but the problem was that Yang Qing could use the inner treasury.

There was much more silver in the inner treasury than in the household.

It was impossible for the civilian officials to control him financially, and the final result was that the civilian officials completely lost control of the army, and they also lost the qualifications to fight against Yang Qing.

This is a matter of principle.

There is no room for compromise.

This determines whether the efforts of civil officials for more than 200 years will be in vain, and determines the question of whether the Ming Dynasty will be a scholar or a military nobleman in the future.

"Marquis Zhongyong, we really have no right to decide whether the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies will be changed to the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and we have no intention of getting involved in military power, but please understand that Marquis Zhongyong understands that this is the system set by Taizu, and maintaining the system set by Emperor Taizu is the responsibility of all the courtiers of the imperial court.

Zhang Guowei said righteously.

After saying that, he walked away proudly.

"He, what is his attitude?"

Yang Qing said to Shi Kefa.

"Loyal and brave marquis, let's stop in moderation!"

Shi Kefa patted him on the shoulder meaningfully and said.

Then Shi Kefa also left.

Obviously, Lord Yang's ambition is too inflated and it is almost Sima Zhao's heart, even if Shi Kefa has been kicked out of the Donglin Party, but as a civil servant, he still can't make concessions on the issue of principle, and if Yang Qing becomes the governor of the capital, then it is not a matter of his dictatorship, but he has the conditions to threaten the Zhu family of the Ming Dynasty, as a courtier loyal to the Ming Dynasty, Shi Kefa also can't tolerate this kind of thing.

It is a common principle of civil officials and emperors.

Yang Qing is authoritarian.

But only with limited dictatorship.

If he wants to go further, then whether it is for personal gain or loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, these Wenchen will not continue to tolerate it.

"Am I really in a hurry?"

Yang Qing said sadly.

"But I didn't think of anything else?"

He said with a misunderstood look of depression.

"Master Hou, King Fu is waiting for sins outside the palace."

At this time, a brocade guard reported to him.

"Ah, I almost forgot about him!"

Yang Qing said.

Ten minutes later.

"King, be careful not to slip!"

Yang Qing said very considerately to Zhu Yousong.

Zhu Yousong still slipped and fell, he didn't have to slip and was already about to fall, the two were walking together at this time to the noon gate in front of them, the noon gate that had not been cleaned up was completely blood-colored, and the coagulated blackened blood covered the entire empty square, fortunately, there were not so many flies in the spring, but after a day of exposure, it still continued to emit a rotten stench, and the soles of the shoes were sticky when walking on it.

That's the blood of more than 3,000 people!

Because it takes time to clean up, most of the blood of many people ended up bleeding out, and even if it was only half, it was nearly ten tons of blood spread out here, and in some places there was even rotten meat that had not been cleaned up.

Zhu Yousong's legs trembled.

Although he is no longer the pampered son of the past, and he has seen a lot of deaths in the past two years of fleeing, the scene in front of him like a sea of blood still makes his legs weak, and he trembles involuntarily, and he doesn't even dare to look at Yang Qing next to him, who feels like a beast that has just eaten people.

"Loyalty, loyalty and bravery, the rebel didn't alarm the Queen Mother, right?"

His lips trembled.

"Oh, my lord, you don't know how dangerous it was! The tens of thousands of troops of the rebel party broke through the triple city gate in a row, and they saw that they had entered the noon gate, and the last general took his brothers to fight bloodily, and they were almost exhausted, and finally relied on the blessing of Emperor Taizu to finally kill the rebel party and protect the palace. Fortunately, they didn't startle the Daxing Emperor Zigong, the Queen Mother and the Prison State, and now that I think about it, I am also afraid, speaking of which the Duke of Wei is really too sudden and unprepared, they are still shouting What do they want to support the king and call the emperor, uh, the king, what's wrong with you? ”

Yang Qing exclaimed.

What else can Zhu Yousong do?

I was so scared that I sat down in the blood at my feet!