The dignified Jinyi Guard commanded Ma Shun and Ma Dudu to be beaten to death by the ministers in front of Zuo Shunmen, and afterwards the Son of Heaven's punishment of these murderous officials was so understated, and the impact of this incident was naturally quite large.

This incident undoubtedly fully revealed the intention of the Son of Heaven, that is, to liquidate the group of officials who once stood by Wang Zhen's side and acted for the tiger. And these people were already weak because Wang Zhen's life and death were unknown, and with the experience of Ma Shun's past close at hand, they naturally did not dare to resist again.

As a result, in a short period of time, hundreds of officials in the DPRK and China were either demoted or dismissed, but such a large-scale purge of the court hardly brought about any major reaction, which was obviously the result of these Wang Zhen's henchmen not daring to resist.

Not only in the court, but also in special institutions such as Jinyiwei and Dongchang, in the past ten days, there has been a big blood change since the suppression of thousands of households, and countless guys who have done a lot of evil and no one dares to provoke have been imprisoned, which is really happy.

And in the palace, those eunuch palace people change more frequently. This time, the Son of Heaven was determined to uproot Wang Zhen's power, so in this purge, as long as he had been close to Wang Zhen or his cronies, they were directly deprived of all their positions, and those who were more fortunate were either sent to Fengxiang to guard the tomb, or were transferred to a lowly place like the Huanyi Bureau to serve as hard labor, and those who were less fortunate were even punished to death by a living rod, and they were not even given an explanation.

This is where the risk of being a palace eunuch lies. Although they may have the opportunity to be in the limelight, they are not court officials after all, and they do not have the protection that officials should have, but they are just the emperor's domestic slaves. Therefore, if the emperor really wants to be angry with them, he doesn't need to say anything at all, and he doesn't need to ask for the consent of others, just a word, he can easily take their lives.

Cao Rui, a eunuch who has been in the palace for many years, and finally relied on Wang Zhencai to gradually get out of the way, but he didn't have time to be in the limelight a few times, so he was convicted by the Son of Heaven in the court, and then dragged to a secluded place and beaten to death with a court staff.

His body, along with the bodies of some other eunuchs who were also Wang Zhen's confidants, was thrown into a cart and transported directly to a mass grave somewhere outside the city for burial.

And the people who transported the corpses were also eunuchs in the palace, but the identities of these people were the lowest, and there were a few people in them who had just been flattened from their original positions. Seeing these objects who had been stammering in the past being beaten all over with blood and turned into corpses, these people who escaped death were even more frightened, and the sad feeling of a rabbit dying a fox.

Among these people, the gaze of a young eunuch who was not very old kept sweeping Cao Rui's face, and finally lowered his head and said secretly in his heart: "Godfather, the child will definitely live strongly." I swear, as long as I, Cao Jixiang, are still alive in this world, one day, I will avenge your old man! I hope you have a spirit in heaven and bless me to achieve this wish! As Cao Rui's godson, Cao Jixiang escaped this time.

Fortunately, Cao Rui's courage was not big enough, and he had the opportunity to promote Cao Jixiang before, but he failed to implement the matter several times. So in this purge, although he was regarded as Wang Zhen's party because he was in the celebrant supervisor, after all, he was young and humble, so he was not killed on the spot as a key person.

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was just pushed to the end and became the most lowly miscellaneous eunuch in the palace.

"What are you doing, why don't you send these corpses out to me quickly!" A scolding pulled Cao Jixiang out of his thoughts, his neck shrunk, and he hurriedly agreed, and then together with the others, he struggled to pull the cart full of corpses, and walked towards the outside of the palace step by step.

While the palace and the palace were fully liquidated Wang Zhen's henchmen, the imperial court's raid on Wang Zhen's family and mansion was also carried out in an orderly manner.

Any property in his name, or in the name of those close to him, was confiscated this time and sent into the treasury. And the gold, silver and other property copied from his family's mansion alone were more than two million, and when this number was reported to the Son of Heaven, Zhu Qiyu was even more stunned.

"This Wang Zhen is really dead! In just a few years, he has taken such a large amount of money, in terms of greed, is there anyone in the world who can compare with him? Although he was angry, he was actually satisfied with this result from the bottom of his heart.

Because of the defeat of Tumubao, it has greatly damaged the vitality of the Ming Dynasty. This vitality is not only the loss of troops, nor the death of courtiers and the shaking of people's hearts, but also the emptiness of the imperial treasury.

No matter whether it is hundreds of years later or hundreds of years ago, the final result of the war is the consumption of money and national strength. This time, the Ming Dynasty poured the strength of the whole country, and the Son of Heaven even drove the expedition himself, commanding hundreds of thousands of troops to carry out the Northern Expedition, just the food and drink of these horses is already a huge expense, not to mention some other logistics support.

And as soon as this battle is lost, the money spent will be like a waste, and there will be nothing left. So when Zhu Qiyu ascended the throne, all the ceremonies were carried out simply, because the treasury was already stretched.

But next, the Ming had to transfer soldiers and horses from elsewhere to prevent the Mongols from breaking through the northern defense line and going straight to the capital. And the food and clothing of these people transferred from other provinces are all responsible for the court, which naturally becomes a mountain-like pressure on the monarchs and ministers of the court.

Fortunately, such a huge sum of money was seized from Wang Zhen's house this time, otherwise Zhu Qiyu and the others really didn't know where to go to raise food and salary next.

With the advantage of copying out a lot of gold and silver in Wang Zhen's mansion, the monarchs and ministers of the court began to set their sights on the wealth of other relevant officials' mansions. As a result, a vigorous raid was launched in the capital.

In the past six months alone, the homes of no less than 30 Wang Zhen's henchmen have been ransacked, and nearly one million taels of silver have been sent to the state treasury. In this way, the urgent need for the current shortage of gold and silver has finally been solved.

It seems that even God feels that the Ming Dynasty is not yet the time to die in the country, so after half a month, another good news has spread into the capital - the soldiers and horses of Shandong, Hebei and Henan, which are closest to Beijing, have entered the border of Zhili and will arrive in the capital in a few days.

Subsequently, newspapers from Zhejiang, Huguang and other provinces were also sent one after another, and the people and horses they sent would also arrive one after another within half a month. As long as these soldiers and horses enter Beijing, with the height and depth of Beijing City, even if the Mongolian people are really overwhelmed by a large army, the soldiers are under the city, it is enough to resist for a while.

This made the subjects who were already worried not do it

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Jue Da breathed a sigh of relief, and said that it was the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty who had spirits in the sky and blessed the safety of Jiangshan Sheji.

Only Lu Zhen knows that this is actually mostly due to Yu Qian. If he hadn't suddenly heard of the defeat of the Northern Expedition and the surprise of everyone in the court, he quickly made the decision to transfer troops and horses from other provinces to Beijing, where would he have come up with such a smooth result? It can be said that it is precisely because of his imminent danger that Daming has such a chance to regain his strength.

Thinking of this, Lu Jin felt that he should cheer up even more, even if he was busy with official business now, he should not complain about being tired.

In the past half a month, the affairs of the military department and the yamen have been very busy. Although he Lu Zhen still only has the title of Langzhong, he actually does the errands of Yu Qian, who was the original servant. As for Yu Qian, at this time, he had been directly promoted by the Son of Heaven to the secretary of the military department.

If it were another time, even if he had learned that Kuang Shangshu had been killed, Yu Qian would not have accepted this promotion. After all, the court has its own rules, he is only in his forties, and he is far from being able to become a scholar in terms of qualifications. But now is an extraordinary period after all, and some concerns have been completely left behind by him, and he has taken the position of Shangshu to preside over the overall situation of his world's military affairs.

Driven by this righteous statement, Yu Qian's actions became more and more decisive, which made the people in the yamen more energetic than before, it seems that everything is developing on the good side, except for being tired, it is no different from usual.

After sighing a few times, Lu Zhen once again turned his attention to the paperwork at hand, calculating when the first Qinwang reinforcements would enter Beijing, and at the same time thinking about how to settle these soldiers and horses.

Just as he was thinking about it, a subordinate official walked in in a hurry, and his face looked quite nervous: "Lu Langzhong, there is an urgent military report of six hundred miles from the north!" ”

"Huh? What about people? Lu Jin's brows also frowned, and he hurriedly asked. Generally speaking, this kind of military report sent by 600 miles in an expedited manner will be sent directly to the military officials by the scout himself, so as to avoid any mistakes.

The subordinate official smiled bitterly: "As soon as the man arrived at the yamen, he fell directly from the horse and fainted. He has many scars on his body, and it seems that he has suffered a lot along the way......" As he spoke, he handed over a copy of the Fire Paint Army Report in his hand.

When Lu Zhen heard this, his heart tightened even more, this is not a good sign. But at this time, he couldn't think about it anymore, he quickly took the paperwork, and after scanning his eyes to confirm that the fire paint was complete, he picked it open with a knife, opened the envelope, and took out the military report inside.

This military newspaper actually looked a little crumpled, and there were even a few drops of residual ink left on it, which was obviously written in a hurry, otherwise the military newspaper sent to the capital should be refreshing and clean.

With a strange thought, Lu Zhen quickly swept the military report in his hand, and then the muscles on his face trembled, and when his hand shook, he actually failed to hold it, making this piece of paper fall down, and his whole person was completely fixed at this moment, and his expression was full of worry and anxiety.

"My lord, this is ......"

"The Bauhinia Pass has been broken by the Tartars, and within a few days, they will really be in the city!" Lu Zhen said this quietly......

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