Arrest the Emperor......

There are still some procedural issues that need to be addressed.

The main thing is that the army, Jinyiwei, and the judiciary are not qualified to arrest the emperor, because theoretically they are still ministers, they are still Zhu Cihong's subordinates, and the ministers have no right to depose the emperor, and the ministers also have no right to arrest the emperor.

Uh, the people have!

"People, the country needs you!"

On the pedestal in front of the Great Hall of the Four Peoples, Wang Fuzhi raised his arms and shouted with excitement.

It's really exciting.

It's not just him, at this moment, everyone in the square in front of the Great Hall of the Four Peoples is in a state of excitement, arresting the emperor, trying the emperor, and even executing the emperor in the name of law, and the emperor who was once regarded as the supreme ruler will bow down in front of them. Not as a usurper, not as a rebel, not as a foreign invader, but as the master of the state, as the defender of the law, in the name of the state, in the name of the law, in the name of the people......

"Let's go, go to Huoqiu!"

A man stood up and shouted.

Then more and more people came forward, and soon thousands of young and middle-aged people lined up in the square.

"We need weapons!"

Wang Fuzhi shouted.

"I still have a batch of cuirasses ordered by Zhang Xianzhong in my shop!"

A blacksmith shouted.

"I've got a knife there!"

"I still have 500 crossbows made for the Taiwanese militia!"

……

Well, that's how the weapons are fit.

Including arquebuses.

The people of the Ming Dynasty only forbade flintlock pistols, in fact, they could not really ban it, and some good steel workshops could also build it themselves, especially those whaling ships and merchant ships, which would buy some, even if the people secretly held a lot of them. And arquebuses are really unforgiving, almost a steel workshop can be made in large quantities, and even the Ming army used to purchase arquebuses from civilian steel workshops. After the Ming army began to eliminate this thing, many of the unsold arquebuses that were originally developed by military orders were sold to the people. As for the hand crossbow, not to mention, Taiwan, along the Yellow River, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Xiangxi have those imperial villages, and they are mainly used by women, and the Nanjing area is the main production area of this kind of thing.

But the power is no worse than a pistol.

Ordinary chain mail can't stop the close-range direct shot of the crossbow arrow, because there is no need to worry about rain, so it is extremely popular in a rainy pioneer area like Taiwan, and many natives died tragically in the hands of those women who reclaimed the wilderness.

Not to mention armor.

Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng are purchasing a large number of new plate armor from the south, and the latter does not say that they can't produce it, but the cost of their own production is too high......

Li Zicheng is not short of silver!

Rather than wasting valuable manpower to produce and then feed these workers with food, it would be better to buy directly from the South, which would save the population for agricultural production without having to consume additional food to feed a non-agricultural population. The slow development of the military industry in Dolgon was largely due to the fact that there was no surplus to feed the non-agricultural workers, since both the mining and iron-making workers were not able to provide food, but had to consume it. Don't think that industrialization is so simple, it is nonsense to play without surplus grain to support the industrial population, the key to Yang Qing's arrogance is that he has surplus grain to support the industrial and commercial population, and Li Zicheng also has to face this kind of problem, so now all the industrial products can be bought as much as possible......

Rich!

Wayward!

Therefore, although the army could not provide it, the citizens of Nanjing still gathered a militia of 2,000 people in a very short time......

Nor can it be said that it is a militia.

The militia in Daming refers to the reserves.

It is the adult males of Huangzhuang who are directly under the Dadu Governor's Mansion and under the command of the militia brigades in various places, and they constitute the army of the Ming Dynasty with the active service, but the army is the emperor's army and is still the emperor's vassals, so the militia on active duty or in reserve has no right to arrest the emperor.

And this is armed civilians.

The Volunteer Corps, composed purely of citizens, is convened by the Assembly of the Four Peoples, and the people are temporarily formed by the people in order to exercise their power, and armed civilians under the command of the Assembly of the Four Peoples.

They were not vassals of the emperor.

"Go to Huoqiu, arrest the emperor, and bring him here for interrogation!"

Wang Fuzhi pointed to the northwest and shouted.

Armed civilians, a total of 2,000 men, immediately marched out of the city, and on both sides of the streets, countless people saw them off, cheering from the aisles, and even men armed themselves to join the procession......

"Duke Chu, aren't you afraid that one day they will do the same to you? You have a lot of means to achieve your goals, and they are all simpler and easier than that, so why do you have to choose such a means that can be said to be infinitely harmful? It should be impossible for you in your wisdom not to understand the consequences of this, and when they learn to do so, to consider themselves masters of the country and to judge the monarch by law, they will do the same against the new monarch when they are not satisfied with it later! Maybe you are not afraid, you do have the ability to suppress them, but don't you think about your own descendants? If one day your descendants provoke them, they will also arrest him, judge him, and even cut off his head as they did the Emperor of the Zhu family.

It's a flood beast!

You have released the beast of the flood, you have given the people a taste of the sweetness of power, then they will no longer think of giving up, for an emperor, doesn't he want the people he rules more to be docile and obedient?

You don't like Confucianism.

But you must understand that Confucianism is the best doctrine for maintaining the rule, and it is inevitable that a hundred schools of thought will contend, and in the end it is an inevitable choice to respect Confucianism alone, and that all other schools will die out not because they are worse than Confucianism, but because the emperor does not need them, and only Confucianism is the most suitable for the emperor. Although the art of fooling the people is not good, but the art of fooling the people is the most beneficial to the emperor, this is the lesson of the blood of all dynasties, so I would like to know why you did the opposite, why did you dig your own grave?

You woke them up!

But you've also awakened a beast!

It does devour your opponent for you, but don't let it go to sleep again, so be careful that one day, it will devour you too! ”

Zhang Guowei looked at the carnival-like streets, looked at the heavily armed civilians, and said to Yang Qing, who was also watching this scene.

"Then feed it!"

Yang Qing said.

"It's not fed, it's too big, you let it awaken, it finds itself that it also has fangs and claws that qualify for more, and then it keeps asking you for power, more power. Today they can judge an emperor with a false name, tomorrow they can judge a real power, be careful that one day they will judge you too! If you don't give them the power they want, sooner or later they will do this to you, and if you give it, they will ask for it again, again and again. If you give it one, it will ask for two, if you give it two, it will ask for three, and if you don't give it, then they will judge you!

That's all you can do to walk to the judgment seat.

Even if it's not you, it's definitely your descendants, and one day, you will be left behind by unleashing this beast!

Is this what you want? ”

Zhang Guowei said.

"You are indeed a wise man, I admit that these things can happen, and you guess that these things are very reasonable, but if these things do happen, then ......"

Yang Qing paused for a moment and said, "Just let it happen!" ”

"Including them don't want the emperor?"

Zhang Guowei sneered.

"If they really don't want any emperor, then don't do it, the empire will always perish, without exception! As long as the Chinese nation does not perish! But the foolish people will really make the Chinese nation go to extinction, many nations in this world are awakening, and those who do not awaken will eventually become fish and meat. When the British cut off the king's head, and when the Dutch established a republic, we don't want to start the people's wisdom earlier and continue to be ahead of others, but continue to fool the people, and within two hundred years, the European fleet will sail outside Nanjing. They will force us to cede land and pay reparations, and then all the countries that have risen because of the enlightenment of the people, like wolves, will rush up and bite us. ”

Yang Qing said.

After 200 years, all the crows have been killed!

"British? Just those British people who even have to ask us to buy cane sugar? ”

Zhang Guowei said.

"Believe it or not, if we continue to fool the people, then the next two hundred years will belong to them, and they will use cannons to do what we should have done for us at some point in the future, but by then it will be too late!"

Yang Qing said.

"Just because they were the first to cut off the monarch's head?"

Zhang Guowei said.

"Yes, just because they were the first to cut off the monarch's head!"

Yang Qing said.

Zhang Guowei shook his head speechlessly.

Obviously, whoever cuts off the monarch's head first will be the future ruler, this concept still makes him feel incredible, and Yang Qing is not interested in explaining. The British were the first to cut off the head of the monarch, achieving the sun never setting on the British Empire, and the French cut off the head of the monarch more than a hundred years later, and the French had to be pressed by the British all the time. The Germans did not cut off the head of the monarch, they could never turn over, the Russians shot their monarch, and finally achieved the Red Empire to suppress the world for half a century, and the Chinese did not cut off the head of the little impotence, they could only toss in the chaos of the Republic of China for forty years.

It is said that whether to cut off the head of the monarch or not, who cuts off the head of the monarch first really determines a different fate.

This doesn't make sense.

Maybe that's fate!

History is sometimes a little bit of fantasy!

As for the United States......

It is true that they did not cut off the king's head, but only because they were too far away from the king, and they were ahead of the French in the rebellion of the king.

Even if Daming doesn't cut off the emperor's head, at least he has to send the emperor to the judgment seat, so as to complete his sacrifice towards the new era, Zhu Cihong is a sacrifice, he is a sacrifice in Yang Qing's heart from beginning to end, and Yang Qing's deliberate purpose is always only one......

Let him come to the judgment seat.