Chapter 50: Three Fires for New Officials to Take Office
"Hurry, hurry! I'll stand up for me, the Fifth Highness will be here soon, if anyone is cheating and playing tricks, go and beat thirty military sticks first! ”
On both sides of the road in the market town outside the Anding Gate of Beijing, an army of tens of thousands of people and a mile long is lining up.
It's just that if you look closely, only the first, second, and third rows are young and middle-aged, and the fourth, fifth and sixth rows behind are basically some thin and even skinny rabble.
It is the young adults in the first three rows, and many of them don't even wear the right armor, and the helmets are crooked.
The weapons in their hands were even more varied, some carried knives, some carried swords, some carried sticks, and in their hands were axes for chopping wood.
It's unimaginable that the three guards of the Yulin Palace, who are the guards of the Imperial Palace, are actually composed of such an army.
Gradually, when the sound of footsteps and horses' hooves sounded in the Anding Gate, the three commanders of the Yulin Sanwei swallowed their saliva one after another.
After them, the commander and the commander also broke out in a cold sweat.
They had all heard of the names of the five highnesses' soldiers, and if these five highnesses commanded the army a little, then they would be exposed.
The three guards of Yulin have 16,800 people in name, but in fact, because the soldiers in Beijing only have 5 taels or 6 yuan a year, they can't recruit all the people at all.
Most of the time, it was the six thousand young men who took turns to defend the imperial city, and gave the salaries of the other guards to one person, so that they could barely recruit people.
Now that the Ministry of War has ordered the transfer of Yulin Sanwei to Changping, this kind of thing will naturally be exposed.
Although the generals of Yulin Sanwei scraped together the money and rented more than 10,000 people from the market town, this group of people was diverse, and even many of them were ruffians and hooligans.
If you go to Changping to perform, half of them are afraid that they will die of exhaustion, and the remaining half will flee at least a third.
But what else can be done? Let's live through the present......
With this thought, a group of generals quietly waited for the chariot to leave the city, but when the chariot had just walked out of Andingmen, it stopped.
At this stop, the breathing of all the generals almost stopped, and the door of the chariot was opened next, which made the three souls scare away the seven spirits.
They trotted forward, then knelt down on one knee in front of the chariot.
"Mark the commander of the left guard of Yulin, Xu Wenshou."
"Mark the commander of the right guard of the Feather Forest, Xue Che"
"Mark the feather forest avant-garde commander, Li Sen"
The three commanders and more than 20 generals behind them saluted, but the car door was pushed open, and Zhu Youzhen's eyes were not on them, but he just glanced at the Yulin Sanwei people on both sides of the road, and saw the clues.
He had known about the corruption and incompetence of the twenty-six guards in the capital, and he didn't feel angry, but just said to Xu Wenshou and the others:
"I won't pursue the previous matter, but now I will dismiss all the people you brought to fill the number, load the ordnance into the truck, and hand over all the lists of Yulin Sanwei in a quarter of an hour."
"If you can't hand it in, you don't have to leave!"
As he spoke, Zhu Youzhen turned around and returned to the chariot, allowing the chariot to be blocked in the Anding Gate.
"This ......" Xu Wenshou and the others panicked, they couldn't believe what Zhu Youzhen said.
You know, eating empty wages is a matter of killing heads, and they really have to confess?
"What should I do?" Xue Che said nervously at Xu Wenshou.
"I ...... I don't know......"
"You can't block the stable door like this, can you? The longer the blockage, the bigger the trouble. ”
Xu Wenshou and Li Sen spoke separately, and at this time, Zhu Youzhen opened the window of the chariot and said to Lu Wenzhao, who saw him off:
"The Jinyi guard who brought you told everyone here that those who pretend to be the three guards of the Yulin Forest will be fined three hundred taels of silver."
"Those who take off their armor and put down their weapons may leave on their own without being held accountable for their impersonation."
"Humble command!" Seeing Zhu Youzhen say this, Lu Wenzhao directly pulled out the Yanling knife and shouted to the Jinyi guard behind him:
"Jinyi Wei obeys orders!"
"Tell everyone here that those who pretend to be the three guards of Yulin will be fined three hundred taels of silver. Those who take off their armor and weapons may leave on their own without being held accountable for their impersonation. ”
"The soldiers who are left behind will be registered separately!"
"Yes!" The Jinyi guard of the Fusi of the Four Hundred South Town roared loudly, and the three of Xu Wenshou, who were kneeling on the ground at this moment, panicked, they wanted to step forward to intercede with Zhu Youzhen, saying that they would do it now, but before they could step forward, they were immediately stepped forward by Lu Wenzhao and put a Yanling knife on their necks.
At this moment, everyone knew that this Fifth Highness was playing for real, and he really dared to take them down on the charge of disturbing the Andingmen.
"Take down this bunch!"
Lu Wenzhao gave an order, and in an instant, fifty Jinyi guards controlled the generals and officials of this forest sanwei.
Seeing this, Xu Wenshou knelt on the ground with his hands tied and shouted:
"Your Highness, the mark is confused, please give the mark a stick of incense time, the mark will not hesitate!"
"It's late ......" In the chariot, Zhu Youzhen's voice came out.
For him, the dozen or so breaths that this group of generals hesitated for was enough for him to do it.
And, of course, more importantly......
"What are you doing?! Disturb the Andingmen and rebel?! ”
A full and familiar voice came, and you don't have to think much about it to know that it is one of the ministers who care for your life, and Yang Lian has arrived in the middle of the military department.
Sure enough, when the sound of hurried footsteps appeared, Zhu Youzhen's car window was knocked, and he also opened the car window, and Yang Lian, who was wearing regular clothes and an ordinary cloak, looked at each other.
"Fifth Highness, what are you doing here?!"
Yang Lian's questioning tone was very uncomfortable, but Zhu Youzhen wanted this kind of discomfort.
He lifted his chin and gestured:
"As you can see in Yang's matter, the three guards of Yulin are being investigated on the charge of eating empty salaries."
"Huh?" Hearing this, Yang Lian was surprised, but looked up at Zhu Youzhen's hand.
Dare to use the crime of disturbing the Andingmen to clean up the three guards of Yulin, this method is very simple, but it is not something that ordinary people dare to do.
Yang Lian calmed down a little, and instantly understood that Zhu Youzhen was using himself as a knife.
He Yang Lian is in the middle of the military department, and under his eyelids, the Yulin Sanwei who guarded the imperial city was found out, and he naturally wanted to come forward for this kind of thing.
Although the matter of the 26th guard eating empty salary has long been known, no one is willing to care.
After all, the 26th Guard of Shangzhi is not only involved in civilian officials, but also in the military department and honors.
Xu Wenshou, Xue Che, and Li Sen, these three people are all nobles, and they belong to the Dingguo Mansion, the Yangwu Marquis Mansion, and the Fengcheng Marquis Mansion.
If you want to do something to the three of them, you will lose the face of the three nobles.
Yang Lian is unwilling to be this villain, after all, the enemies of their Donglin Party are mainly the Qichu and Zhejiang Party, and if they provoke Xungui again, it can be said that they are all enemies of the Manchu Dynasty.
But Zhu Youzhen deliberately blocked the Anding Gate, which made him rush forward angrily, and finally said the cause of this incident, things were not simple.
To put it simply, as long as it is found to be true, the charge of disturbing Andingmen is not important at all, but how to punish Xu Wenshou and the others is the most important.
Yang Lian didn't want to block the knife for others, but he was treated as a knife by Zhu Youzhen.
At this moment, Yang Lian's back molars were about to be crushed, but there was nothing to be done......