Chapter 585: Soft and hard, the emperor's power

"Lin Gui, people! How did you run away? ”

In the dark night, an angry roar suddenly sounded, Deng Heizi held a knife, looked at the row of trembling servants and female dependents in front of him, and was really angry.

This is the task assigned by King Qi, and he can't even catch a person.

But no matter how he asked, these people in front of him were just begging for mercy with a frightened face, it seemed that no one knew Lin Gui's whereabouts, and it was also said that since he wanted to escape with his family, how could Lin Gui tell the news to ordinary servants.

"General, I searched all over the house, I didn't find Lin Gui's figure, nothing else moved, I touched the chair in the study, there was residual warmth on it, and it seems that I haven't gone far."

After listening to this Qianzong, Deng Heizi glanced at these servants and female dependents again, and said viciously:

"Li You, you took the people from this post to watch the Lin Mansion, they were all detained here, and one ran away, Lao Tzu asked you, do you understand?"

Hearing this, Li You, the sentry officer of the forbidden army, was shocked, and hurriedly clenched his fists and said:

"Don't worry, the general has run away, and he will come to see him!"

Deng Heizi understood the effect of killing this person in Beijing, and he was so anxious that Li You's voice fell, so he ran out with most of the soldiers Hulala, and after leaving the Lin Mansion, he sent a lot of pacesetters to rush to each door to give orders.

Li You is the miners who were originally subdued by Wang Zheng in Xuzhou, and these miners have been fighting since they entered the Shandong Army, and they quickly climbed higher and higher with a ruthless spirit, and the most outstanding of them is this Li You.

Not to mention anything else, in the battle of Anping to destroy Zheng, he was the first ordinary soldier to climb the city wall, and because of that first-class merit, Zheng was able to make Li You be promoted to the sentry officer of the forbidden army.

In fact, it is precisely because these miners fight like madmen that their casualties are also the most rapid, and there are less than fifty of the hundreds of people left.

However, those who have survived until now have all entered the forbidden army system, and the process that ordinary people can complete in a few years, but they only took more than a year, which is really rare.

Watching Deng Heizi leave, Li You secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but the servants behind him didn't think so, although the general looked angry, but at least he was a big general, and he knew how to restrain himself.

Now, this is just an ordinary sentinel, born with a flying appearance, if he uses his power to facilitate something indescribable, they will have no power to resist.

But it didn't take long for them to realize that they were wrong, and that the sentry of the Forbidden Army not only did not do anything out of the ordinary, but also ordered that if they told all the information they knew, they could escape to death.

The servants were like being amnestied, and even the military master was kind, but their sycophants slapped on the pillar, Li You just snorted coldly, and said without looking back:

"If you want to thank you, you have to thank King Qi, without the prince's decree, Lao Tzu was the first to cut you!"

Hearing this, the servants were all shocked, and they all called out to King Chitose, this time they were glad from the bottom of their hearts, if it was that Li Chuang came to give the order, I am afraid that today will not be such an ending.

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"King Qi's decree, those who go to the street, if they can be caught, they will be caught, and if they can't be caught, they will be killed!"

"King Qi's decree, check the whole city!"

"King Qi's decree, no one will be left behind who flees from the Lin Mansion!"

For a time, the originally clean street was full of soldiers and scribes of the Qi army, who knocked on the door from door to door to check the number of people who had been registered a few days ago.

"What, you said that you fled from Sichuan, but why do you speak Beijing official dialect?" In an inn, the Qi military sentry officer stared at the man with a frightened face, and always felt that something was very wrong.

After he asked this sentence, the man did not answer, and he didn't know what to do for a long time, and he asked a few words in a row.

However, the sentinel did not easily draw conclusions, and went to ask the innkeeper, the man, and the surrounding diners, and all of them said that this person had only come suddenly today, indicating that they had not seen it before.

At this time, even a fool understands what to do, and the sentry waved his hand and said loudly:

"Come on, take it!"

"Don't, I'm wronged, I'm wronged......"

The people in the inn pointed at this side one after another, and they were all afraid to see a group of wolf-like soldiers rushing in and escorting these unknown people out.

The inn was across the street from the house, and there was a group of Qi soldiers standing outside the door, led by the chief, who kept knocking on the door, but there was no sound from inside.

Shi Chang frowned, and said to himself:

"I'm afraid I'm not running away, kick me away!"

Hearing this, several soldiers immediately stepped forward and kicked hard.

"Bang!"

As the gate collapsed, six or seven soldiers of the Qi army rushed in, and when they entered, they saw that a scholar in a blue shirt had committed suicide by hanging from a beam, and there was still a letter on the table.

The officers of the Qi army all knew the most basic words, and this rule has continued from the time when Licheng was formed into an army to the present, so this chief picked up the letter and read it.

After looking at the ten lines at a glance, the sentry's face rose with a heavy touch, took out a list and looked at it a few times, turned around and ordered:

"Bring this letter to General Guangyi and show it, and the rest of the people will come with me!"

"Honorable Order!"

On the bright side, the current Beijing city seems to be not much different from the looting of the Dashun army.

The soldiers of the Qi army broke into the door everywhere with knives and guns, and dragged out some people who kept howling and claiming that they had been wronged, and often threw them directly into the prison of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses.

However, if someone resists too fiercely, the soldiers of the Qi army will not be soft, and they generally raise their swords and cut them on the spot, and it seems that the city of Beijing is a piece of chickens and dogs.

But if you look closely, you will find that all these chaotic places have one thing in common, the people who were arrested were either the scholars who walked around the world a few days ago, or some former Ming officials who opened the door and surrendered when Li Chuang attacked the city.

Of course, there are a very small number of lone rangers who can't even say their identities and purposes, but in order to avoid wrongful killings, the soldiers of the Qi army will wait for three days after arresting these people, and if they can find out their true identities and purposes, they will be released as long as they are not guilty.

As for the ordinary people, there will be someone in the family to check the number of people in the booklet, but unlike the soldiers who arrest people everywhere outside, the attitude of the two is one arrogant and the other is respectful, which can be said to be completely different, and the honest people will not be harmed at all.

It was the regular soldiers who arrested the people, but it was the scribes under the staff office who went to the people's homes to check, and Wang Zheng understood that if he wanted Beijing to be what he wanted, he had to completely shatter and rebuild it from beginning to end.

In this way, chaos cannot be avoided, but the advantage of the Qi army is that the military discipline is strict, as long as the order point above is stopped, and the soldiers take the list to arrest people, it is easy to control this chaos at a critical point.

After entering the city, the means of settling people's hearts are also soft and hard, Wang Zheng has long been proficient, although Beijing City is a rare and vast place in the world, but it is nothing more than the four classes of Shinong, industry and commerce.

The people were panicked, but they gradually found out that the soldiers of the Qi army who were arrested everywhere still did not commit any crimes against the people, and all those who were arrested had conclusive evidence of crimes, and some of those who were wrongly arrested would be released after being registered.

From this point of view, the actions of the Qi army were necessary to maintain law and order.

It didn't take long for the people to gossip at home from who was arrested again, to the thief being arrested, and the rumor-mongering scholar being thrown into prison, and his face changed again and again, from the beginning of the pale gradually to ruddy, and they were all smiling.

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Late at night, a group of carriages and horses walked on the women's road outside the Guangning Gate, all of them were in a hurry, and the people who drove the cars listened to the soldiers and howls that kept running behind them, and their faces became even more panicked.

"Stop, who?"

Suddenly, a cheer came from the city, and the butler who was driving the carriage was startled when he heard it, and almost didn't jump up from the carriage.

"Master Jun, let's go out to catch up with business, let's let it out when it's okay, you see, it's all goods."

A servant wearing a turban was signaled, stepped forward a few steps forward and stuffed a bag of silver ingots into the hands of the chief of the city, and said with a smile:

"Master Jun, this is to honor your money for buying wine, it's not easy for everyone."