Dong Jiuqi had an expression of disbelief on his face when he saw Tan Yunsong's death.
You should know that Tan Yunsong is the person with the highest official position in the imperial court today. After Wang Duo, the first assistant, was demoted to a commoner by the emperor for supporting the Jiangbei Army, Tan Yunsong actually managed the cabinet. Although there was no prime minister in the Ming Dynasty, who controlled the cabinet and
By voting for power, whoever can have power is no less powerful than the prime minister.
In other words, the soldiers of the Huben Army stabbed Tan Yunsong to death with several knives, which can be said to have killed the "prime minister" of the Ming Dynasty in public.
Dong Jiuqi began to regret that he had firmly believed that Li Zhi wanted to unite civil servants, and that he had self-righteously called on all civil servants to attend Li Zhi's sacrifice to heaven.
If he had not summoned more than a thousand civil servants in and outside the court in the name of the Minister of Rites, how could Li Zhi have gathered all the civil servants at once? How could this massacre be so efficient?
It's true that the agency was too clever and cost Qing Qing her life.
Dong Jiuqi looked at Tan Yunsong's body and the corpses of civil servants scattered around him. He couldn't help it anymore and burst into tears.
Behind Dong Jiuqi, the soldiers of the Huben Army had surrounded the more than 70 civilian officials who were still alive.
These seventy civil servants were all important officials of the imperial court, whether they were ministers, ministers, ministers, or censors. However, at this time, all the officials lost a trace of their former majesty, and trembled in front of the bayonets of the Huben army.
Some people were so frightened that they couldn't stand upright and fell on the vegetable ground. The black gauze hat fell to the ground, and no one picked it up.
Chen Wenyue took a step back helplessly.
Because of fear, his legs were somewhat out of control, and every step he took back felt extremely heavy.
Chen Wenyue looked at Dong Jiuqi who was kneeling on the ground, and suddenly pointed at Li Zhi and said: "Li Zhi, you have no superiority, bloody massacre of civil and military officials of the entire dynasty. Such atrocities are too numerous to describe. You will not end well, not only the gentry of Jiangnan, but also the Forbidden City."
No emperor in the world will let you go!"
"If you go your own way and make enemies of everyone in the world, your end will be to be cut into pieces by a thousand cuts!"
Li Zhi looked coldly at Chen Wenyue, who was yelling curses, without even moving his eyebrows.
Jiang Chong bowed his hands to the sky and said loudly: "You treacherous sycophants are called imperial officials and courtiers, but you are actually thieves and thieves. Nine out of 10 of the world's best efforts are swallowed up by you treacherous sycophants. You are sitting on a high rank and a generous salary, and you are stealing inside and outside to contact the rebels."
His Highness, King Qi, killed you for the sake of this country and the common people of the world."
"Kill all of you, except for the gentry and civil servants, everyone else in the world will be happy. How the people of the world view His Highness, King Qi, you don't need to worry about a dying traitor."
Chen Wenyue was trembling all over after being scolded by Jiang Chong. He pointed at Jiang Chong and wanted to scold him, but he was bullied in front of him by a soldier of the Tiger Army. The soldier raised his bayonet forward and inserted the knife into Chen Wenyue's throat.
Chen Wenyue could no longer make a sound. He desperately grabbed the bayonet on his throat with both hands, but he could not pull out the deadly steel blade.
The soldier put away his bayonet, and a large piece of blood mist sprayed from the throat of the Minister of War, spraying all over the soldier's body and face.
Chen Wenyue grabbed the wound on his throat with both hands, let out a silent scream, and knelt on the vegetable ground little by little. Soon he lost oxygen because his throat was cut, and fell to the ground, twitching and shaking from time to time.
Gradually he died.
The massacre by the soldiers of the Huben Army continued, and in the blink of an eye, there were only a dozen civil servants left on the vegetable field.
The vegetable ground was littered with corpses, corpses piled on top of each other, looking very bloody and cruel.
Dong Jiuqi suddenly realized that there were not many living people behind him, so he stopped crying and turned to look behind him.
He saw a soldier approaching with a gun in hand.
Dong Jiuqi opened his mouth wide and was stunned for a long time. Then he suddenly jumped up from the ground and wanted to escape.
However, there are tiger troops covered in blood on all sides, and there is no way to escape.
Dong Jiuqi was unable to advance or retreat in the vegetable field. After running for more than ten steps, he stopped, his whole body shaking violently.
The soldier holding the gun aimed at Dong Jiuqi and shot him.
Dong Jiuqi was shot in the stomach. He screamed and covered his stomach. He fell to the ground with a plop and kept rolling.
Another soldier from the Tiger Army stepped forward, stepped on the Minister of Rites, who lost his mind in severe pain, and shot Dong Jiuqi in the left chest.
Dong Jiuqi let out another feeble scream and died.
By the Grand Canal, all 1,159 collaborators in the capital had been killed, leaving only corpses on the ground.
Zheng Kaicheng looked at the corpses stacked on the vegetable ground and couldn't help but take a deep breath.
However, the smell of blood in the air made Zheng Kaicheng unbearable. He couldn't help the smell and coughed.
Looking at the corpse on the ground, Li Zhi said: "With so much blood irrigated, the vegetables in this vegetable field will definitely grow well next year."
He took three pillars of incense from the guards, lit them on the red candle in front of the altar, and respectfully inserted them into the incense burner.
"Heaven above, today Li Zhi killed 1,159 traitors and traitors, which reduced the number of parasites on our Han nation! The emperor has eyes and will bless our Chinese military fortunes and prosperous population.
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The Tianjin officials behind Li Zhi all knelt on the ground and shouted loudly: "The military fortunes are prosperous! The population is prosperous! The world is prosperous!"
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Emperor Zhu Youjian stood in the study room of Qianqing Palace, pacing back and forth in the room anxiously.
Zhu Youjian is waiting for news from the Grand Canal.
Until now, although all signs pointed to a massacre, and although Zhu Youjian knew that this must be a massacre, he could not believe that Li Zhi would really kill the entire court officials until the last moment.
Even in the entire history of China, since the Eastern and Western Wei Dynasties, such a massacre has never happened again. And Li Zhi is going to be the first in this thousand years?
All the ministers have been killed, what will be Li Zhi's next move? Will Li Zhi be so motivated to kill that he will do something further and try to control the court?
Zhu Youjian took a breath and looked out the window.
On the corridor outside the window, Wang Dehua, the eunuch of the Dongchang, was running toward the Qianqing Palace with his clothes in his hands. The eunuch of the Dongchang seemed to be greatly shocked, his feet were a little erratic, and he stumbled a little while walking on the white marble palace bricks.
He finally ran into the study, knelt down and saluted the emperor, and said: "Your Majesty, Li Zhi really killed him!"
Zhu Youjian's face turned pale and he asked: "Kill...all?"
Wang Dehua banged his head on the ground and said in a trembling voice: "Kill them all!"
Zhu Youjian sat helplessly on the chair for a long time before asking: "Yao Mingling who lectures me?"
Wang Dehua replied: "Kill!"
Zhu Youjian asked again: "Second Assistant to the Cabinet Tan Yunsong?"
"Kill! This slave can see clearly through the telescope, he was stabbed to death with a bayonet."
"Yu Xianhe, a veteran of the Prince's Palace?"
"Being shot to death in the ranks."
After hearing Wang Dehua's words, Zhu Youjian's face turned a little pale. Sitting on the chair, he was speechless for a long time.
The shock of the massacre was so shocking that Zhu Youjian subconsciously asked: "What will King Qi do next?"
Wang Dehua raised his head and whispered: "The King of Qi is collecting the corpses of civil servants. It seems... he seems to be entering the capital."
