With the soldiers and horses at hand, Bailang didn't have a big problem in controlling the Forty-Nine City. The key was that after he entered the city, even the Zhejiang soldiers who were transferred back did not move and obeyed the emperor's orders honestly. Bailang could fight on his own, so he stayed
There are very few soldiers and horses around to protect him. The Forbidden City was actually quite empty before. Bailang released a large number of palace maids in the past few years, and many palaces were directly sealed by him.
At least one-third of the palaces in the Forbidden City are now closed and locked. On weekdays, some eunuchs occasionally come over to clean and count furniture and so on - as for other things, they are basically sent to the warehouse.
Not many people took to the streets to rob, because they were all afraid of being caught by the soldiers and beheaded on the spot. There was no movement on the second day after Bailang took down BJ City. On the third day, Jinyiwei and Dongchang people gathered together, and then Bailang sent an order to the civil and military officials.
Go to court. "I want to see how many people go to court today." Bai Lang was quite interested.
When he entered the city the day before yesterday, he did not kill anyone. Less than fifty people died before and after him. Most of them were eunuchs, grandfathers, eunuchs, fathers, eunuchs and sons in the palace. Wanli leaned on the dragon chair and said, "Sit up."
It’s not comfortable at all. I’ll ask someone to change it next time - the main problem is the backrest. It’s only if this thing is really an Arhat couch.”
Just as he was thinking about this and that, hundreds of officials arrived one after another, including many military attachés, headed by Qi Jiguang - the marquis did not join this coup, he just sat back and watched. Bailang was not interested in pursuing these sit-downs.
Yes, his focus was on those who had done this. As expected, the commander of the Jinyiwei turned pale and reported to him the situation that Bailang had already estimated.
"There is a high probability of committing suicide? These cowards shamefully took the first step when I wanted to settle the score with them. It's not that cheap if they just want to die. Prepare to ransack the houses one by one and plot treason according to the law.
This is to punish the three tribes. I don’t like killing people, so I will avoid this kind of thing. I can just kill the male members of my immediate family. I don’t care about those who are under ten years old.”
But the confiscation of their homes is certain. Not only the mansions in the capital, but also the old residence in their hometown cannot be escaped. Confiscating them all is their only end. At least one-third of the officials were involved in this coup.
, the leading ones among them all quickly hung themselves on the southeast branch yesterday not long after Bailang entered the city. Some of the quick ones even asked their wives and children to hang themselves on the southeast branch too.
Looking at the civil and military officials who came to court, Bai Lang just laughed, "Such a rebellion is really ridiculous. I thought it would be like the restoration of the Yingmiao Gate, or the Xuanwu Gate Incident, but the result is this? Yes.
What is King Lilu's decree? You are really incompetent." Bai Lang looked at the things sent by Dongchang, and occasionally looked up at the officials below.
"Arrest people according to the list, examine them carefully, and do not use torture. Check each other's confessions to find out." Bai Lang casually returned the list to the factory supervisor next to him and ordered, "Nothing to do today, all officials will withdraw from the court."
Several pavilion elders who were involved in this matter have already ended their lives on their own, and their homes are now being dug up and ransacked by Jin Yiwei. The nobles who intervened in this matter have not committed suicide and have unrealistic expectations. Of course, there is something wrong.
It doesn't matter that Duke Yingying and Duke Cheng are in charge, but Bailang is not prepared to let them have an easy time.
"When the British Duke becomes a duke, you two should also pay a sum of silver for atonement. Two million taels for the family, and all the land will be given. Now this matter is over, otherwise the two dukes can be expelled from the title." Bai Lang
The words are understatement, but the two princes really felt as if they had been struck by lightning. The prince above had already shown the ferocity and cruelty of his old Zhu family, which was probably even worse than Taizu and Chengzu.
This prince is very murderous, but he is more lenient than those two people - so far, the nine clans have not been implicated in the killing, and even direct men under the age of ten are not prepared to kill, but this one is confiscating the property for money.
His temperament is much stronger than those two, and he has to share the land, pay taxes, and work as an errand. He is really not as dignified as those two to honor nobles and scholars. They are extremely mean people.
Of course, this is the view of civil servants and nobles. This emperor is shameless, cruel, mean and shameless. He is much more difficult to deal with than his grandfather. Everyone present wanted to say, "Your Majesty, you can't
Shameless." However, Bailang wanted money today and was shameless. He took out something from behind the dragon chair and threw it down.
"Everyone can tell the crime, otherwise you will be caught with a stick, and the brains will be pulled out when the time comes. Don't say I didn't predict what I said." At the same time, Bailang Zhubi took the opportunity to cross-examine the soldiers who had violated military discipline and law in the past two days, and they were in the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
They were beheaded at the fourth archway outside the west. There were more than 200 soldiers and gangsters killed at once. He strictly enforced military discipline and his soldiers did not dare to disturb the people again.
As long as the people are not affected, the officials in the capital will not cause much trouble. They are copied one by one in order, and the officials have also received orders one after another. About half of them have to hand over the crime money, and the other half do not. Anyway, from now on
After this day, people were killed every day in Xisi Archway. They were killed in batches for a whole month. The blood seeped under the stone slabs and could not be washed away.
This scene was recorded by foreign envoys, especially the envoys from North Korea. The words "the emperor of today is extremely cruel" were secretly recorded in the envoys' personal notes, but they did not dare to write it down clearly.
Wanli has become rich. In this month, the national treasury has gained more than 50 million taels of silver. Some officials have been promoted to sit in the positions of six ministers. As for joining the cabinet? Bailang directly assigned the governors of the three sides and the chief envoys to the cabinet.
The list of ministers was thrown out and asked to be recommended by the imperial court - of course, these six ministers were also urgently promoted from among the officials in the capital. After that, these ministers had to be promoted step by step from officials close to the people in various places.
The rule that non-Hanlin officials were not allowed to join the cabinet was not a rule of the Ming Dynasty in the first place. What Bailang did was just return it to its original state. But he was prepared to give the cabinet sufficient powers and confirmed it with an edict. The emperor was in charge of everything.
Then he can't manage anything well, not to mention Bailang is not a workaholic.
One month was enough time for him to clean up the officials in the court, and the state affairs did not come to a standstill - first of all, there were too many officials, and secondly, under the traffic conditions, there were not that many government affairs that needed to be dealt with urgently. What happened in
The ones in Shandong and Hebei can still be managed, but the ones from other places will be cold by the time they reach the capital.
Moreover, Bailang also knew that the ability of the great men in the future could only be to say "the government orders will not leave the capital", and Bailang himself can do this. In the final analysis, the speed of information transmission in this era makes the central government's control
It's a step-by-step decline. At least Bai Lang thinks that officials from Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and so on are probably less afraid of him fooling the court.