Ming Dynasty: The Rampant Crown Prince

Late at night.

In the southern city of Nanjing, in a remote courtyard, a fire is lit, and dense people are moving boxes into the house.

The entire courtyard was full of people, and it seemed very crowded, and after the five hundred brocade guards had completed their tasks, they all gathered here to wait for the next instructions.

Gao Wencai stood in front of a table with dozens of communication bamboo tubes on it, all of which were the results of the actions of flying pigeons from all over the world tonight.

"Jia Hua, the chief chess officer of the minister's brocade and guard, saw His Royal Highness the Prince, and met the commander. At

the gate of the courtyard, Zhu Cihong and his party walked here, and a figure at the door stepped forward to take a look, and when he saw that it was His Royal Highness the Prince, he immediately knelt down on one knee.

"Get in.

Zhu Cihong didn't say much, and walked directly into the courtyard.

"Ministers, see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

"I've seen the commander. Seeing

His Highness's arrival, the brocade guards inside knelt down and saluted.

"Get up, everyone rest.

Zhu Cihong walked straight to the house.

"The ministers are not tired. Everyone

replied with high morale, to be honest, such a highness the prince, such a boss, acting with them, no one will be tired, but very passionate.

"See His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

Gao Wencai walked out quickly to greet him.

Zhu Cihong raised his hand, walked into the house, and came to the table, Gao Wencai followed, took the lamp next to him, held the lamp for His Highness, and said: "Your Highness, this is the news from Jinyi Guards from all over the south of the Yangtze River.

"Li Ruolian, you come to read.

Zhu Cihong said, and said that he prepared the banknotes, began to count the account books, the list, it is now close to three o'clock in the evening, and he must write all kinds of edicts before dawn, and then send them out.

"First count Nanjing, and send the flying pigeon to Yangzhou and ask them to sort out the account books. The

order was given, and the crowd began to get busy again.

"There is news from Hangzhou Jinyi Wei Baihu, and it has been done over there.

Li Ruolian began to pick up the bamboo tube and read: "Suzhou

is done, Jinhua is done, Huizhou is done, Fengyang is done, Luzhou is done, Songjiang is done, Changzhou is done, Jiaxing is ......" The entire Jiangnan region, five thousand catties thought that it was impossible for every state and county to be active in the past, and there were not enough people, but they were distributed in each prefecture, and the prefect was just gone, even if it was a prefecture, there were at least dozens of them.

"The order went out, Yangzhou left 4,000 cavalry, and the remaining 6,000 cavalry immediately went to Fengyang Mansion to make peace with the Jinyi Guard there, and as soon as they arrived in Fengyang, they immediately locked up the whole family of Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang, and any officials, gentry, and businessmen who colluded with Ma Shiying were all locked up and put in prison, and the commanders of the Central Capital of Fengyang Mansion were locked up and put in prison for more than 1,000 households, waiting for orders. As

soon as the day dawned, immediately blockade the inside and outside of Yangzhou City, as soon as the city gate opened, two thousand cavalry immediately entered the city, immediately locked up the Yangzhou prefect, Yangzhou salt transport envoy, locked the five major merchants of Yangzhou, and the other two thousand cavalry, surrounded and suppressed the bamboo gang outside Yangzhou City, and all the top and bottom were decided on the spot, find out the account book, and wait for the order. "

The 10,000 musket team in Xuzhou was ordered to be divided into two routes, one to stay in Xuzhou, all the way to Huai'an Mansion, to meet with the Jinyi Guards over there, and cooperate with the lock to lock up all the relevant personnel suspected of smuggling, no matter who they were, including nobles, officials, general soldiers, guard commanders, gentry, and merchant families. "

The 30,000 troops behind the herald were divided into two routes, all the way straight to the boundary of Luzhou Prefecture, after blocking Luzhou, and then going south along the road, meeting with the local Jinyi Wei to take people, and the second road went straight to Suzhou in the past, going south from the coastal side, and controlling Songjiang Mansion, Jiaxing Mansion, Hangzhou Mansion and Jinhua Mansion all the way.

After the handwritten edicts were written, they were all placed in front of Zhu Cihong, and then stamped with the golden seal of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the East Palace.

"Ordered Dong Qi, the commander of the tax army outside Nanjing, to blockade Nanjing City, and no one was allowed to go out.

"After each prefecture is controlled, a thousand people are left to guard it, and the rest of the people all go south and rush to Zhejiang. "

By the way, where is the 20,000 troops transferred out later?" Zhu

Cihong said as he looked at the map, feeling that 50,000 people was still not enough.

"According to the information, they have entered the border of Shandong, close to the border of Nanzhili.

Li Ruolian said.

"It's too slow. After

thinking about it, I planned to leave a way out of life, and said: "The next will will go down, let the Jinyi guards of each prefecture contact the nearby guards, and let them cooperate with the Jinyi guards to arrest people, and directly show the charges of the commanders of these guards, and those who cooperate can make meritorious contributions."

"If you don't cooperate, don't move yet, and when all the armies are in place, they will all be dealt with as rebellion."

"If there is a guard post that secretly gathers troops, report it immediately, and the palace will let Zhang Huaibin go and deal with the commander. "

Zhu Cihong's eyes showed a fierce light, this time either he didn't kill, if he wanted to kill, he would be killed by a river of blood, and if he wanted to kill, he would be killed and his corpses were all over the field, and the senior officials of the guards in various places had the behavior of encroaching on military fields and deducting military salaries, but they couldn't control it, and the local government was also a hanging sample, so naturally they were in the same stream and couldn't be closed.

According to what he meant, all the officials of these guards and above have to be executed, but the current strength is not enough, so they can only be given a way to live, and see if these people can go to the Tao.

Fengyang is an exception, the left-behind division of the central capital there is controlled by Ma Shiying, so the senior generals of this division should all be Ma Shiying's people, so they must all be locked up and disposed of after the investigation is clear.

If it was just Zhu Cihong who came with Jinyi Wei, of course there was no way to deal with these people, but there were 70,000 troops behind him going south, who didn't follow, and when the army arrived, the charge of rebellion would be placed, and the wine bags and rice bags in these guards were not opponents at all, let alone resist, I am afraid that those soldiers would probably directly help their bosses tie them up and send them out in person.

No one dares to carry the charge of rebellion, and besides, who dares to carry the charge of rebellion and contend with 70,000 elites

? Playing with him to engage in these tax evasion and smuggling is to

do it, do you really think that if you people are dead, there will be no one to take your place? I really think that when you are dead, there will be no one to replace your role?

No, it is better to replace the people who come up, and they are more obedient.

"All change into official uniforms.

Zhu Cihong sat on the chair and looked at the death lists sent one after another, all of which were the rosters of all the people who smuggled salt and iron in the entire city of Nanjing.

In Nanjing alone, there are at least thousands of people to be killed, all of whom are smuggling salt and iron, and these people are not only charged with these crimes, but just smuggling salt and iron, these two can kill them, and other crimes are not important.

Although there are a large number of people, he has no scruples, what law does not blame the public, it does not work for him, no matter how many people touch his bottom line, they will die, and the tax of the Ming Dynasty is Zhu Cihong's bottom line.

Soon, all the 400 people changed into the official uniforms of the brocade guards, each holding a few booklets in their hands, and when they came, they were all people who were going to rush to various places to give orders.

"Go and call Huaiyuan Hou Chang Yanling over. Zhu

Cihong leaned back on the chair, Chang Yanling is a more disciplined person among the many nobles in Nanjing, and in addition, he is also the commander of Nanjing Jinyi Guard, this person can be used, and he will be asked to control the city defense, and as soon as the city gate is opened, it is time to control Nanjing.

"Also, where is Jiang Ming?"

"Back to Your Highness, I just arrived outside Nanjing City tonight.

Li Ruolian said.

As soon as the gates were opened, they called him over. Zhu

Cihong closed his eyes, killed a group of merchants, to support a group of merchants, some small businessmen who obeyed the rules, can be helped up, take over the property of those killed merchants, and set a commercial tax with them, from 30 to 0.5 (during the Wanli period, the cabinet discussed, the commercial tax from 30 to 1, and then reduced by half. ), promoted to one out of ten, it is also very profitable, but it is not so profitable, as long as it is not too greedy, it should be supported.

But these people need to be contacted by the famous president of the Longmen Chamber of Commerce.