Li Kezhuo, whose face is like ashes, stuffed a ball of cloth in his mouth, because some felons like Li Kezhuo will do crazy things when they are executed, such as scolding the emperor for being unconscious, etc., which has a bad impact, so those felons will have something in their mouths and forbidden... lā

Because Li Kezhuo stood on the gallows and happened to face the Li family members who were kneeling on the execution ground, he had a full view of the frightened and helpless appearance of his family, which made his face can't help but show a look of remorse, because his momentary confusion affected the whole family.

It's a pity that there is no regret medicine in the world, and Li Kezhuo must pay the corresponding price for his own actions, but this price is too heavy and needs to be made up for with the lives of the whole family.

Just when Li Kezhuo was remorseful, the drumming in his ears suddenly stopped, which made his body tremble for a while, and a frightened look appeared in his eyes.

Although he had already prepared his mind, when death really came, Li Kezhuo's heart showed a thirst for survival, and his heartbeat suddenly increased.

Snap, followed by a stout errand standing on the side, kicked the stool under Li Kezhuo's feet, causing Li Kezhuo's body to fall down suddenly, and then his neck tightened, and his breathing immediately became difficult.

At the same time, the cloth from his mouth was ripped off, but he could no longer breathe, and his face was flushed.

However, what made Li Kezhuo even more worried was the scene he saw in front of him, as the drums stopped, the ghost-headed broadswords raised by the executioners fell one after another.

Blood splattered on the execution ground, and the heads of many of the tortured fell to the ground as the ghost head knife slashed through their necks, and some of them screamed in a terrible way because the knife failed to cut off their heads.

The horrified screams of the crowd did not last long, and the executioners who failed to cut off the heads of the victims with a single knife repaired their knives, which soon silenced the execution ground, and the headless corpses spurted blood from the broken necks.

Including Zhao Xin, in the face of the bloody scene in front of them, the officials sitting in the pergola watching the execution turned their heads one after another, and some even ran to the side with their mouths covered and vomited.

Li Hongyu looked at the execution ground that was gradually stained red with blood with an expressionless face, and did not feel any discomfort at all, he had seen more bloody pictures than this when he was in Liaodong, so his psychological endurance was much stronger than others.

Although Li Hongyu was in the execution ground, his heart flew to the capital, in his opinion, today is the time for the Donglin Party to make trouble to Empress Li, and he doesn't know what is happening in the imperial city now.

Li Hongyu's speculation is not untargeted, Wang An's prayer ceremony to Emperor Taichang proposed to Empress Li is today, and it happens that Li Hongyu is out of the city to be imprisoned and cannot serve by Zhu Youxiao's side, which gives the Donglin Party a rare opportunity to do it.

In addition, there are only a few days left before Zhu Youxiao ascends the throne, so the Donglin Party has no time to drag it out any longer, and it must be done today.

Zhao Xin, like Li Hongyu, is also in the imperial city, and the changes in the imperial city will have a significant impact on the Ming officialdom.

As time passed, Li Kezhuo's originally struggling legs gradually stopped moving, his eyes slowly closed, and the whole person gradually lost his breath.

After another cup of tea, when Li Kezhuo was already dead, the executioner lowered him from the gallows, and the official in charge of verifying the punishment led the medical officer and the servant to check him to make sure that he was dead.

"Scholar Li, after examination by the medical officer and the servant, Li Kezhuo is dead, and the rest of the people are all punished." After the examination, the executioner came to Li Hongyu and bowed down and said in a deep voice.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the execution has been completed, and the official has prepared coarse tea and light meals in the capital for everyone to satisfy their hunger, and if there is any place where the hospitality is not good, I hope you Haihan." Li Hongyu frowned slightly when he heard this, and then got up and said to the officials who were watching the execution in the pergola.

The officials who watched the execution naturally did not bother with Li Hongyu about the matter of coarse tea and light rice, and got up and followed Li Hongyu back to the city, now is the mourning period of Emperor Taichang, who dares to eat those delicacies from the mountains and seas?

Just as the officials were hugging Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin to leave the execution ground, several fast horses galloped from the execution ground, raising a puff of dust on the road, causing the people watching the excitement to look over curiously.

Li Hongyu's brows suddenly frowned slightly, knowing that something must have happened in the capital, because he saw at a glance that the leader of the several knights who came was wearing the clothes of the inner servant, and the rest were wearing the military uniform of the pro-army.

"Scholar Li and Scholar Zhao, the emperor has issued an edict to let the two of you transfer 2,000 new troops into the palace to escort you, and the Yanguan and the Beijing officials above the fourth rank will enter the palace to meet you."

Under the somewhat surprised gaze of everyone, several knights rushed to the front and turned over and dismounted, and the leading chamberlain walked quickly towards Li Hongyu, took out something wrapped in yellow brocade cloth from his arms, held it in both hands and handed it to Li Hongyu, "Scholar Li, this is the emperor's imperial gift for transferring troops." ”

"Your Majesty?"

Hearing the word "emperor", the officials who were unknown at the scene were suddenly taken aback, you must know that Zhu Youxiao's enthronement ceremony is a few days later, where is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty now?

However, when they heard the words of the chamberlain, all the officials were stunned and realized that something big had happened in the capital, otherwise they would never have sent new troops into the city.

Li Hongyu naturally knew what was going on, it seemed that Zhu Youxiao had been proclaimed emperor by the people of the Donglin Party, so he quietly took the yellow brocade cloth group, and opened it to see that it was a jade pendant, if he didn't admit his mistake, it was the one that Zhu Youxiao had been hanging on his waist.

In order to show caution, Li Hongyu took the jade pendant to Zhao Xin to check, and the two pretended to identify it, and finally determined that this jade pendant was Zhu Youxiao's royal object.

"Ladies and gentlemen, you go back to the city first, and this official has something to do with Master Zhao." Therefore, Li Hongyu then bowed his hand to the officials on the scene and led his men to the new army camp outside the city, while Zhao Xin followed the inner servant who delivered the decree back to the capital.

The officials present first looked at each other, and then hurried back to the capital, all wondering what major events had taken place in the capital in a short period of time that were worthy of mobilizing the new army.

After Li Hongyu rushed to the new army camp outside the city, he quickly mobilized 2,000 elites and marched all the way to the capital.

Because Zhu Youxiao had already issued a holy edict, the Beijing army and the pro-army in the capital did not stop them, and watched the soldiers of the new army pass through the defense area and enter the palace through the Donghua Gate of the Forbidden City.

The appearance of the soldiers of the New Army made the people of the inner and outer cities suddenly feel a burst of excitement, and they gathered on both sides of the road to watch the excitement, pointing to the New Army with great interest and discussing.

Since the imperial city has been blocked, it is forbidden to enter and leave unless there is an imperial order, so the people do not know that there is a shocking farce in the Forbidden City, but they are curious that the new army stationed outside the city will enter the city.

For the new army outside the city, the people are full of awe, the new army in the support of the Taichang Emperor to ascend the throne of the great contribution, the Beijing army and the pro-army have no merit to parry, has officially jumped to the civilian royal forbidden army, Li Hongyu's prestige has reached a new height.

Now, the news that Li Hongyu wants to train 20,000 official forbidden troops for the royal family has been officially announced to the world after Emperor Taichang ascended the throne, and all related matters have been carried out in an orderly manner, making the children of military households and soldiers in the Gyeonggi region eager to try.

At that time, in addition to the children of pro-military households, the children of military households in the Gyeonggi area and soldiers in the Gyeonggi area can sign up to join the army, and once they pass the examination, they will officially become forbidden soldiers, and their family members will also become forbidden military households.

Unlike the pro-army military households and the military households of the guards, the forbidden military households did not need to pay food and salary to the forbidden army and serve the conscription, which was a favor from the emperor.

Moreover, the forbidden army is not hereditary, and once it does not meet the requirements of the forbidden army, it will be driven back to the Beijing army or local guard to which it originally belonged.

In addition, soldiers of the forbidden army have a number of years of service, usually in a round of ten years, after the expiration of which they will retire and return home to become a private household, and their family taxes can be halved and paid within ten years.

Li Hongyu's move was naturally to maintain the combat effectiveness of the forbidden army, and at the same time to recuperate for the forbidden army's military households, the cost of the forbidden army was provided by the Customs Department, and the imperial court was obviously unable to support a 20,000-strong combat-ready army.

This means that the fate of the new forbidden army is closely linked to the Customs Department, and both are prosperous and the other is lost, so that the emperor must support the Customs Department to obtain this new forbidden army.

Now that Zhu Youxiao is frightened by the Donglin Party who forcibly broke into the harem, he will definitely give full support to the Customs Department, hoping to establish a force that can ensure the safety of the palace and directly belong to him as soon as possible.

Because Li Hongyu formulated a ten-year rotation cycle of the forbidden army, this means that Li Hongyu will not recruit the forbidden army all at once, but recruit 2,000 people every year, and within ten years, the forbidden army will be fully staffed, and the ratio of veterans and recruits in the forbidden army will reach a perfect standard.

In addition, the reason why Li Hongyu did this was so that the military in the Gyeonggi region could have time to deal with the impact of soldiers joining the forbidden army.

In fact, Li Hongyu did this to weaken the garrison forces in the Gyeonggi region, and in his opinion, the garrison troops were already embarrassed by their tasks, so it was better to concentrate on the formation and training of the forbidden army.

This is also Li Hongyu for the future Chongzhen Emperor to leave a killer weapon to save his life, as long as there are 20,000 forbidden troops, then Emperor Chongzhen has the ability to protect himself, will not be so easily attacked by the Dashun army to break through the capital, but also can kill a bloody way at a critical moment, escort it to Nanjing City.

There is only so much Li Hongyu can do for Daming, and it can be regarded as fulfilling his last bit of heart as a minister of Daming.

As for whether the forbidden army would be transferred to fight the rebellious peasant army and the Later Jin army, and whether Emperor Chongzhen could escape from Beijing and go to Nanjing, it was up to fate.

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