At this time, in the capital, as Anas pressed closer and closer outside the city, Qingzong was in a state of panic, and the search operations in the capital also intensified.
Qingzong directly issued an order as the emperor to collect gold and silver from the people. In the edict, Qingzong first described what would happen if the people could not collect enough gold and silver: If the real army did not get enough gold and silver, the people's houses would be burned down.
, all the men were killed, and all the women were captured and made into captives...
After scaring the people, the edict stated that for the sake of Yuguo's country and its people, the imperial court could only use special means to obtain gold and silver treasures and hand them over to the real army.
What special means? That is the joint sitting system, which stipulates that ten families form a group to supervise each other. If there is hidden gold, silver and women in these ten families, the remaining nine families must sit together.
If someone has hidden gold, silver and women, insiders can report it and receive a certain reward.
As a result, everyone in the country was in danger, so they reported on each other, or even made false accusations, causing the social order of the entire country to become even more chaotic, especially the capital, which had become a mess.
But even so, I still didn't get much money.
In order to make business with the real army, Qingzong even gave up the basic bottom line. After scraping the common people and the merchants, and the merchants and the powerful, there was no one left to scrape. He actually started to target the Goulan Jiaofang to squeeze the women at the lowest level.
Fat money.
After doing all the shameless things, Qingzong still paid tribute to himself. The imperial edict euphemistically stated that he was just "borrowing" the people's gold and silver so that the monarch and his ministers could share the national crisis.
And this was just one of the measures to collect gold and silver. In addition, Qingzong also introduced measures to sell officials. Official positions were publicly sold. As long as you can get enough silver, you can become a high official.
But even if Qingzong tried his best, the gold and silver were still there. The angry Qingzong dismissed the minister who negotiated the contract compensation.
Who stepped on the horse and made you unable to do your best in the first place? Don’t talk more about the money!
Those ministers who worried about the state affairs saw the country in such a state, and the emperor was so distressed, "The state affairs are at this point, your majesty must die for the country!"
Qingzong, "..."
Why die? I have only been emperor for a few days. I haven't lived enough yet, so why should I die?
Qingzong would rather live than die.
The loyal ministers shouted that Confucius said Cheng Ren and Meng said uprising, but their righteousness was exhausted, so they were benevolent, and then they actually stood collectively on the gate of the capital and threw themselves into the city to die.
This move frightened Qingzong greatly, and the real army outside the city was also frightened half to death. They were afraid that if it continued, the foolish and loyal scholars in Yuguo would commit suicide one after another, so they urged Qingzong again, three times.
If you don't prepare gold, silver and jewelry within a few days, you will attack the city directly.
Those officials who were willing to live with Qingzong continued to exploit the people everywhere like crazy.
While the civil servants in the city were responsible for helping the emperor search for money everywhere, the military attachés were quarreling over whether to fight or defend, but they kept quarreling and quarreling without any result.
Some military attachés suggested that they could win by simply defending.
If you want to fight, you need really brave soldiers to charge into the battle, but if you want to defend, it's very simple. Millions of people in the capital can go up. They can't fight, but they can defend.
But there were very few people who supported this idea, especially the emperor, who had always been pessimistic about seeking peace.
There were only more than 10,000 real troops guarding outside the city. They did not pose any threat to the capital. However, the emperor and dignitaries above were afraid of them. In the eyes of ordinary soldiers, the real army seemed to have become a terrifying existence like ghosts and gods. Therefore, the guards of the capital were afraid.
The soldiers in the city have long been in chaos, and it is difficult to even defend them, let alone fight.
It was evening when I visited the capital of Gu Mo.
Her original plan was to form a siege on the real army, and strangle the real army as soon as they arrived in the capital to break the siege of the capital.
As a result, when we arrived in the capital, we learned that the place where the Zhen army was encamping was actually Wanjia Temple.
There is nothing special about that place, but there are more than 500 cannons from Yuguo stored there.
The reason why these more than 500 cannons are stored here is because the imperial court is preparing to hold a military parade in the autumn.
As a result, the real army suddenly arrived in the capital, and the military parade could not be held as scheduled.
Various departments in the imperial court were quarreling over which department should be responsible for these cannons.
The Ministry of War said that the Privy Council was responsible, and the Privy Council said that the Ordnance Supervisory Office was responsible...
Anyway, they kept pushing and pushing, and finally the blame fell on the Ordnance Supervisory Office. However, the official in charge of the Ordnance Supervisory Yamen had just been dismissed from office. The Ordnance Supervisory Yamen was leaderless, and no one cared about the five hundred cannons at all.
So in the end, the mess was thrown into the hands of the Ministry of War, and various departments within the Ministry of War began to push it back and forth, and finally it was pushed to the Treasury Department.
Before the Treasury could push them out, the Zhen army had already arrived at the bottom of the city. In order to force the Zhen army to retreat, Huizong, who was in power at the time, dug the moat and flooded the Zhen army's garrison.
The Zhen army had no choice but to find another place to stay. It happened that Wanjia Temple had cannons, so Anas ordered Wanjia Temple to be used as the command center of the Zhen army, and turned the muzzles of the cannons to aim at the city.
If Gu Mo followed the original plan and strangled the Zhen army, the Zhen army's cannons would be aimed at the capital and no one in the capital would be spared.
Therefore, she could only go into the city through the North City Gate and met the guard at the North City Gate.
The guard at the North City Gate burst into tears, he finally had reliable reinforcements!
This is the fierce general who took off Zhen Fengshu's head! Now the real army is terrified of this existence.
It doesn’t matter if she is a woman, as long as she can beat her!
Of course, the guard didn't know that Gu Mo had already attacked the Zhen King's court, because Qingzong blocked the news in order not to anger the Zhen army.
Very few people knew the news, until they saw the real princes and nobles Gu Mo escorted into the city, the guard was completely dumbfounded.
The rhythm of riding a horse is to reach heaven!
He just wanted to kneel down to Gu Mo, okay?
In order to show his admiration for Gu Mo, he immediately expressed his attitude: Gu Mo gave orders to the North City Gate, and they would fight how Gu Mo asked them to fight!
But at this moment, the North City Gate suddenly became noisy. The guard immediately asked the reason, and someone came over with several heads.
"General, there was a spy in the city. Fortunately, we found it early and killed him. These are the spies' heads."
The guard also breathed a sigh of relief. Since he was a spy, he should be killed.
But Gu Mo's brows furrowed. When the defenders in the city began to kill indiscriminately, it was often not a sign of true spies, but a sign of panic.
No one is not afraid of war, especially soldiers at the bottom. When faced with an unfavorable battle situation, the fear in their hearts will be infinitely amplified, and they will become suspicious and start to guard against everyone around them. In the end, they will think that everyone around them is a spy.
Thus, the killing expanded.
If this behavior is not stopped in time, the situation will get out of control. Everyone will suspect that the city is full of spies, and they will kill and run away when they see people. Naturally, the city can no longer be defended.
