Fortunately, in this era, the noble family did not have food and wine bags, so their children rushed forward with their servants and helped the officers and soldiers stabilize their positions.
"Prime Minister, please retreat to the Meridian Gate. This outer imperial city is too big and we can't defend it at all!" Seeing this, Xue Xiang quickly asked for instructions.
"No!" Li Shanchang said flatly: "Even if we die, we can't let those untouchables defile the Forbidden City!"
As he spoke, he pulled out his sword, cut off a section of his beard and said, "Anyone who dares to retreat will have such a beard!"
"Here!" A group of officers, soldiers, distinguished disciples and servants responded loudly, and their pupils were immediately filled with blood!
The military orders of the Ming Dynasty were overthrown, and those who retreated would surely die, and their families would suffer an indelible shame.
Better to fight and die!
Then fight to the death!
The two sides fought furiously at the top of the city, with shouts of killing, screams, metal collisions, the sound of sharp blades piercing flesh, blood and flesh foam flying everywhere, and broken corpses falling continuously inside and outside the Chengtian Gate...
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At this time, the sky was getting brighter, and the two sides were still fighting.
Suddenly, the rumble of horse hooves was heard in the distance, and a large group of cavalry swept up along Tianjie.
Those thousands of horsemen were very fast and were approaching in a blink of an eye. Both warring parties quickly saw their flags clearly.
"It's Fengyang Zuowei who's back!"
"There's also a right-back!" The morale of the defensive side was immediately boosted, and all the fatigue was gone!
But the offensive from the attacking side also became more fierce. Seeing that there was no way to survive, the civilians gave up completely.
My own life is cheap, and I will be defeated if I die. But the lives and gold of the people on the opposite side are very important, and if we die together, we will not lose anything. If we kill one of them, we will make a lot of money.
They have no regard for their own life and death, and even take the initiative to use their own sharp blades in exchange for the opportunity to hug the enemy and jump off the city. Even if they can't die together, they will kill them with a knife! Without weapons, they still have to bite off pieces with their mouths.
Here comes the meat!
As a result, the battle on the city became more intense...
Outside the imperial city, there was another scene. The cavalry on the left and right sides of Fengyang were elite divisions that could drive the Mongols back to Mobei. They rode tall horses and charged into the sheep herd. They waved their swords fiercely.
, skillfully harvesting the heads of the 'rioters', a complete one-sided massacre.
In the blink of an eye, the streets were filled with corpses of Red Scarf soldiers and civilians. Blood flowed everywhere, gathered into a river, and flowed into the deep moat...
Under this brutal unilateral massacre, the rebellious people finally couldn't hold on any longer, collapsed and fled...
The official cavalry did not stop them, but only charged back and forth along the moat to relieve the pressure on the defenders on the city top.
Without a steady stream of follow-up support, the rebels on the top of the city gradually became unable to hold on. They were quickly divided and surrounded, and then disappeared from the top of the city like boiling water and snow...
The battle to defend the Forbidden City finally came to an end as the last Red Scarf soldier was carried off the city wall by Jiang Xiahou's son Zhou Ji with a spear.
Cheers erupted all over the imperial city.
Li Shanchang was shocked to see the blood stains all over the imperial city under the rising red sun.
"Oh, I'm so lucky. I thought I could just sit back and relax with the Forbidden City." He sighed, feeling exhausted.
At the most dangerous time, the Ming Cultist was only three feet away from him, and blood was splattered on his face.
"The prime minister had a clever plan. He first lured the snake out of its hole with a move, and then killed it with a carbine, thus annihilating the Mingjiao rebellion." Xue Xiang quickly supported him.
"Remember, it's not a rebellion, it's a riot!" Li Shanchang said sternly: "We must also explain to them that this is just a small riot, and everything is under control!"
"Yes, yes." Xue Xiang nodded hurriedly, but looking at the scene of rivers of blood and dead and injured people lying on the square in front of the Meridian Gate, he felt that his conscience was being condemned.
"Prime Minister." At this time, Zhu Xiang, the prefect of Fengyang, came up out of breath and reported: "The riot in the city has basically been controlled, but it is really impossible to capture all the rebels with only three guards and horses."
"They are not rebels, they are rebels!" Xue Xiang quickly corrected him.
"What's the difference?" Zhu Xiang asked confused.
"Don't worry so much." Li Shanchang interrupted him: "Instruct Ding Bin and the others to control the city gate first, protect the important construction sites and the minister's mansion, and then arrest people when the Huaiyuan Guards and Changhuai Guards arrive...
They should be arriving soon."
"Yes!" Zhu Xiang responded and asked, "Are you going to arrest them all when the time comes?"
"Yes, are they all arrested?" Xue Xiang also asked.
This was a migrant workers' riot. I don't know how many craftsmen and civilian workers participated in it, and I couldn't tell who participated and who didn't.
If everyone is arrested, the Zhongdu Project will definitely stop work. Besides, he doesn't have that many manpower to review them one by one.
"What do you think?" Li Shanchang threw the question back to Xue Xiang.
"To say that everyone participated, there must be some injustice." Xue Xiang then considered: "But there must be two or three... no, one or two percent of the people participated."
In order to kill as few people as possible, he added: "The key is, killing too many people will delay the progress of the project!"
"Hmm." Li Shan twirled his beard and nodded, then ordered: "Then kill 10% first to shock them."
"Yes. This..." Zhu Xiang said with a bitter face: "Who should I kill or not?"
"I don't care, whether it's drawing lots or counting, you can decide for yourself." Li Shanchang said coldly: "Then tell the remaining people that the progress of the project cannot be delayed, otherwise they will also die."
"This will inevitably allow the real traitor to escape." Xue Xiang is a scholar after all and cannot accept this barbaric random killing method.
"That's right, we can't let the real traitors escape." Li Shanchang said with a cruel smile: "Then just wait until the construction of the Central Capital is completed and kill them all..."
"This..." Xue Xiang's hair stood up when he heard this, but he didn't expect that his good intentions would actually harm those people.
"Hurry up and send someone to clean this place. Wipe away all the blood stains. There are still places that need to be repaired. They must be intact!" Li Shanchang stopped talking nonsense to him and gave orders directly.
Then he said to Zhu Xiang: "Prefect Zhu, Shangshu Xue has suffered a lot of losses this time. You must replenish his manpower as soon as possible."
"Yes, but Fengyang Mansion has recruited all the civilians it can recruit." Zhu Xiang was in trouble.
"Stupid!" Li Shanchang glanced at him depressedly. If he hadn't pointed at this guy to push the cylinder in the future, he would have kicked him as far as he could.
"The Mingjiao caused such a big mess in Zhongdu City. Is your Fengyang Mansion indifferent? Shouldn't you order the counties to arrest their believers? If that's not enough, wouldn't there be tens of thousands of people watching the theater in Yuanqiu that day?
It doesn’t hurt to count them all!”
Seeing that Li Shanchang was still using the simple and crude methods of the war years, Xue Xiang secretly shook his head and really wanted to say, Sir, times have changed.
It's a pity that he didn't dare to say it.
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In Jinqiaokan, the fields have begun to turn yellow and the rice has entered the grain-filling stage.
"It doesn't matter if there is less water in the field at ordinary times, but the water level must be kept within an inch during grouting!" Chief Tang Jia stood in the field, holding a hoe in his hand, and passed on his experience to the Hong brothers who were working nearby:
"If the grain is filled well, the rice grains will be full and the yield will naturally be high. You can tell whether the rice ears are big, whether the knots are strong, and whether the grain deflation rate is high."
Zhu Zhu and Zhu Zheng worked together to carry a bucket and fetch water from the river nearby. They worked even harder after hearing this.
Their field is good, but the terrain is a bit high, making it inconvenient to divert water for irrigation.
Just as they were working hard, they saw Zhu Zhen and Zhu Di driving an ox cart to the edge of the field.
"Fourth, please stop messing around with Sixth. If you have the time, you might as well help me carry a few buckets of water." The third child couldn't help himself when he saw the fourth child.
"Hey, let's see what happens this time." Zhu Di smiled proudly, and he and Lao Liu lifted the big guy off the bullock cart.
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