After sending Feng Kezong away, Zhu Youhua immediately summoned Tian Cheng, the eunuch in charge of the imperial front, and ordered him to take out 2.4 million taels of silver and 500,000 stone grain from the inner treasury to the household department, all of which were obtained from raiding the house a few days ago. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After the money and grain were released to the household department, Zhu Youhua issued an order to order Ruan Dacheng, the secretary of the household department and deputy capital, and Ma Shiying, the secretary of the first auxiliary military department of the cabinet, to count the arrears of the towns, distribute them according to their needs, and distribute all the money and grain allocated by the inner treasury to the towns as military salaries. In particular, the four towns in Jiangbei will be given an additional 100,000 taels of silver for each town as a reward for the responsibility of defending the land.

At the same time, Zhu Youhua personally drafted several edicts, and sent messengers to secretly send them to the general soldiers of the towns, pointing out that some gentry and common people impeached them for conniving at the soldiers and harassing the troubled places, and the Son of Heaven was furious. The emperor does not want to receive similar impeachment, and the towns must strictly enforce military discipline and purge the battalions, otherwise they will not be lenient!

The reward was followed by a beating, both soft and hard, the effect was good, the military spirit of the towns gradually stabilized, and the general soldiers of each town got the food and salary allocated by the imperial court, and the behavior of harassing the place was also reined in, and the emperor's rewards and punishments were clear, and they felt that the news they got before must be a rumor, and they must have thought too much, so most of them put away their strange thoughts.

After pacifying the towns, Zhu Youhua immediately carried out some personnel transfers in a low-key manner, moving Hubei Governor He Tengjiao to be the governor of Yingtian, and Zhang Guowei, a member of the Donglin Party, was promoted to Taichang Siqing, and Yuan Jixian, the governor of Jiangxi, was promoted to the assistant secretary of the military department, Jingying Rongzheng, and Zhu Dadian, the squire of the military department, succeeded as the governor of Jiangxi. Cabinet Minister, Dongge University scholar Du Yinxi was transferred to Jiangbei Governor, stationed in Jieyangzhou, and took charge of the four towns in Jiangbei.

After a personnel transfer, most of the powerful officials of the Donglin Party were promoted and surrendered, lost their local military authority, and no longer threatened the imperial court.

After making these preparations, it was already the fifth day of November, and Zhu Youhua felt that it was time to have a showdown with those Donglin rebels!

As early as a few days ago, the emperor sent some supplements to comfort the seriously ill former official Shangshu, Donglin Party giant Zhang Shenyan.

On the seventh day of November, Shi Kefa, Yuan Jixian, He Tengjiao and other feudal officials entered Nanjing one after another. On the second day after they entered Beijing, that is, on the seventh day after the emperor sent the supplement, Zhang Shenyan became seriously ill and died of coughing up blood.

The emperor mourned, announced that he had dropped out of the dynasty for three days, posthumously presented Zhang Shenyan with the three divisions of the opening of the palace, added the prince Taibao, gave the title of Dongge University, and said "loyalty", and buried Zhang Shenyan with the specifications of the prime minister. and personally wrote a memorial to commemorate Zhang Shenyan's exploits.

On November 15, at ten o'clock in the morning, early in the morning, officials of all sizes in Nanjing and the descendants of the Donglin Restoration Society gathered outside the Taiping Gate, and everyone put on uniform plain clothes to bury Zhang Shenyan's coffin.

Just when everyone was impatient, Ma Shiyingcai, the envoy sent by the emperor, hurriedly cried and said, "Mr. Despise! ”

Ma Shiying cried all the way and ran all the way, and finally ran to Zhang Shenyan's coffin, and her tone suddenly changed: "Mr. Despise! I treat you well today, how can you be sorry for him and participate in the rebellion! ”

As soon as the words fell, the angry shouts and scolding of the people in the Donglin Restoration Society and the neat and orderly footsteps of a team of fully armored sword and axe hands sounded around the Taiping Gate at the same time.

Thousands of swordsmen and axes rushed in neatly, and at once the funeral procession was tightly surrounded, and everyone was shocked.

The gentry and courtiers who were funeral in the field saw this battle, and many of them were so frightened that their faces turned pale.

Gao Hongtu relied on his qualifications and asked inwardly, "Who are you?" Who sent it? What do you want to do? ”

"They are all the royal battalions of the Son of Heaven."

Before the words fell, Feng Kezong, the governor of the Jinyi Guard, was dressed in a flying fish suit, holding an embroidered spring knife in his hand, and came out of the crowd.

Feng Kezong shouted: "What crime should you be guilty of conspiring to rebel? ”

Gao Hongtu's face changed wildly when he heard this, and he reprimanded angrily: "There is no evidence, what do you want? ”

"Good question!" Feng Kezong waved his hand, and several brocade guards pushed out Qian Kang, who was dead and dejected, from the crowd.

Some of the Donglin Party members who committed the crime were shocked, and when they saw the bloodstained Qian Kang, they knew that the news had leaked, and they rolled up their sleeves one after another, trying to escape by the way, but at some point, there were already heavily armed axe men behind them, pressing them to the ground.

Feng Kezong pointed at them and scolded: "You Donglin Restoration Society thieves are all thieves who have brought disaster to the country!" Damn it! ”

A child of the Restoration Society with low psychological endurance immediately rushed out when he heard this, knelt on the ground, and said incoherently: "Learn, the student is innocent, also, please spare your life!" Spare your life! ”

Feng Kezong laughed angrily: "Whether it is innocent or not, you will know after the trial!" If I don't take you now, how can this governor explain to the Holy Lord, come and take it! ”

Outside the Taiping Gate, Jinyiwei spread the official document obliquely, and read it out loud with an expressionless face: "Check the high ambition of the former household department, colluded with Huang Shu and his staff Qian Kang, who was in charge of the Huguang Supervision Army, and wanted to incite Zuo Liangyu to mutiny, plotting against him, the evidence is conclusive, and the will is there, immediately bring the crime to justice, if you dare to resist, you will be killed!" ”

Zha Shaoxing's son Huang Zongxi, conspired to plot the "fake prince case", slandered the saint, and at the same time colluded with Qian Kang, instigated the rebellion in the feudal town, plotted wrong, the evidence is conclusive, the will is reached, immediately bring the crime to justice, if you dare to resist, don't forget to kill!

Zha Guide raised his son Hou Fangyu......

Hou Fangyu was paralyzed on the ground, his face like ashes.

Huang Zongxi scolded loudly.

"You shameless dog thieves, eagle dogs! There is a kind of cutting down the students immediately! You persecuted the people and acted perversely, and one day God will accept you! Students on Huangquan Road are waiting for you! ”

Feng Kezong sneered and was unmoved, waved his hand, and said, "Take them all away, hand them over to the ministry, confiscate the property, and confiscate the family property!" ”

When the brocade guard spotted a man, the axemen picked it up and ran out, cursing and howling.

Most of the rest collapsed on the ground, with a look of despair!

The city of Nanjing, which was already quite lively, was even more "lively" on this day, the soldiers and horses in the city were chaotic, and the soldiers and horses of all walks of life on the streets were armed with guns and swords, and under the leadership of Zhang Tanggong, the chief soldier of the imperial camp, and Ma Xiong, the deputy general, and others rushed to the deep house compound in all directions of the city like a tide. From a distance, almost every gate of the mansion was surrounded by officers and soldiers.

On the side of the high wall in the west of the city, the family members of the Hou Mansion waited with machetes and sticks in their hands, listening to the movements outside the wall with bated breath.

Outside the wall, with a wave of his hand, more than a dozen bird-fired soldiers fired at the big lock, and the lock was broken in a few clicks.

"The door is open, and Ben will rush with him!" After the door was kicked open, Ma Xiong drew his waist knife, raised his arms, and rushed in first, and the sergeants followed closely behind, rushing in, shouting: "By the order of the Holy Lord, raid the house, do not move!" ”

The steward of the Hou Mansion pushed several of the guards beside him, and several of them glanced at each other, with a hint of madness, and rushed up brandishing machetes.

Behind Ma Xiong, a row of bird-gunned soldiers stepped forward and opened fire on the family members together. Several of them were instantly beaten into a sieve, and they were so soft that they fell to the ground.

When the sergeants of the previous team were changing the gunpowder, Steward Wang wanted to take the opportunity to resist, and the other team of bird-fired soldiers who had already prepared immediately aimed their guns at Steward Wang, and shouted: "Don't move, kneel!" ”

Seeing that it was useless to resist, the steward finally relented, knelt on the ground, and shouted: "Don't kill me, I know where the master's family and money and food are hidden!" ”