For most officials, although the factory guards are their enemies and they wish they were gone, they also hate thieves very much. Because wherever the thieves pass, the local officials and gentry will definitely be unlucky. .
In order to bring down Ma Shiying, Nanjing Xungui almost released Zhang Xianzhong, a big bandit, back to Jiangbei. This matter also exceeded the bottom line of most officials.
In addition, the good news of the Liaodong War has begun to spread to the south of the Yangtze River one by one. The great victory shocked the remaining people and they did not dare to stand up for the Nanjing nobles again.
Wang Chengen and Wang Dehua also quickly settled the case of Nanjing Xungui, and wrote a memorial and sent it to the capital quickly, asking for instructions on what to do next.
Wang Chengen is absolutely clear about the scope of power allowed by the imperial power. It will be no problem to arrest the Nanjing nobles, even if they arrest so many, because the power of Xichang is to arrest first and then report, as authorized by the imperial power. But what should be done with it afterwards? The most distinguished of these Ming Dynasty officials needed imperial power to decide.
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At the same time, in Liaodong, on the second day after Du Yinxi returned to Shenyang, although the new weapons in the army, mainly those using white gunpowder, had been used up in previous battles, under the strong attack of the army, Shenyang It was still captured.
This is not because the Ming army has become so powerful that it can capture a fortified city in a short time without weapons. It is that the Jianlu in Shenyang City were originally moving their capital, but they were blocked by the Ming army halfway. In the city, the morale of the people has been extremely low, and there are not enough troops to defend it.
After being surrounded by a large army for several days, some prisoners continued to commit suicide in despair; even if some people still resisted, the number was too small, and it would be easy for the army to attack the city.
Daishan committed suicide again, but this time, his personal guards did not save him, but helped him commit suicide and set fire to the palace. Daishan died in the palace.
By the time the Ming army conquered Shenyang and put out the fire in the palace, at least it was no longer clear that the corpse belonged to Daishan.
After capturing Shenyang, the puppet capital of Jianlu, and the puppet emperor who had previously captured Jianlu, most of the Jianlu were either killed or captured. It can almost be declared that Liaodong was basically recovered.
However, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Army found that they were not very happy. Because they had already expected the recovery of Liaodong, especially when the battles were won one after another and they were easy, there was no surprise. .
Even for many soldiers of the Ming Army, they felt that they had no meritorious service in the future, and instead felt a little lost.
Du Yinxi quickly noticed this situation in the army. In other words, the Jinyi Guard Supervisors all over the army quickly noticed it.
So, he immediately announced to the entire army that there were still remnants of Jianlu in the Ninggu Pagoda, and the Korean Japanese army still needed to be annihilated, and the Japanese country still needed to be destroyed, so that the whole army could not relax, and some battles were fought. Only then did he let the army The sergeant's morale was high again.
However, according to the plan, in addition to the troops previously sent to Ninggu Pagoda, the army will rest and recuperate, waiting for the harsh winter to pass before taking the next step.
However, this does not prevent them from going to the capital to report their victory, and officially escorting the imperial prisoners named by Emperor Chongzhen to the capital, as this year's New Year's gift.
Seeing all the prisoners loaded into prison cars and heading south from Shenyang, Du Yinxi still had a doubt in his mind: where had the pseudo-regent who built the prisoners gone?
This is a capable Jianlu, and he will definitely not die that easily. Don't go and stir up trouble somewhere again, right?
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Dorgon, who was missed by Du Yinxi, is really not dead.
During the Battle of Liaoyang, when the Japanese troops in the city ran away, he also ran away.
However, he did not follow the flow of people towards Shengjing, but ran eastward.
His purpose was also very simple, which was to run east first, then north, directly to Ninggu Pagoda.
Dorgon was the regent of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. He had a comprehensive understanding of the situation in the Qing Dynasty. Naturally, he knew that even running back to Shengjing could not stop the Ming army, and that the Ming army would 100% attack Shengjing.
Could it be that Shengjing's city defense was better than that of Liaoyang?
The Ming army has such terrible weapons, and it is absolutely impossible for Shengjing to defend it!
Therefore, the first place Dorgon thought of was Ninggu Pagoda.
At the beginning, we spent a lot of effort to rebuild Ninggu Pagoda because we listened to Hong Chengchou's wishes and prepared it as a backup place when we could not defeat the Ming army.
Over at Ninggu Pagoda, the Qing Dynasty had opened up wasteland for two years and was able to be self-sufficient in food and grass. If the Ming army wanted to attack at such a far distance, the logistical pressure would definitely be heavy.
At this time, Dorgon strongly agreed with Hong Chengchou's statement that he could not engage in head-on combat with the Ming army, but should make full use of the Ming army's logistical pressure to carry out harassing warfare. Only in this way could the Qing Dynasty persist.
Likewise, Dorgon escaped from Liaoyang and went straight to Ninggu Pagoda.
However, to his surprise, when he first fled eastward and then turned north, he found broken Japanese troops everywhere along the way. These broken troops were burning, killing, and looting on the land of the Qing Dynasty. This made the Qing Dynasty, which originally had a small population, even worse.
When the two sides met, Dorgon initially killed the defeated Japanese soldiers who dared to kill the Qing people. However, as the battle progressed, there were fewer and fewer personal guards guarding him. In the end, Dorgon could only act as a spectator. He even avoided the crazy Japanese pirates and headed straight for Ninggu Pagoda.
What he didn't know was that the Ninggu Pagoda at this time was no longer what he imagined; what he didn't even know was that the Ming army also sent a cavalry army and was rushing towards Ninggu Pagoda.
Ning Guta is destined to never be peaceful!
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The capital of the Ming Dynasty, at least in the field of public opinion, caused a huge wave.
Originally, everyone in the capital was paying attention to the war in Liaodong. The great victories one after another made the capital full of joy.
However, who could have expected that Dongchang and Xichang would actually make trouble in the south, arresting not only the Marquis of Linhuai, but also later, almost all the nobles in Nanjing.
This is definitely the biggest event since the founding of the Ming Dynasty!
None of the newly established West Factory at that time was so arrogant; the Tianqi Dynasty factory guards were so arrogant that even a dead eunuch dared to claim to be nine thousand years old, but they didn't even think of touching the nobles.
But now, this is not just about catching one noble person, but almost all the noble people in Nanjing City!
Really, this incident was so big that it diverted the capital's attention away from the Liaodong War and turned it to this major event.
However, because of the difference in buttocks, the stance is also different.
For the vast majority of ordinary people, it is just a matter of watching a show.
For most civil servants, whether they are nobles or factory guards, they are their opposites. This is a dog-eat-dog thing. They are happy to make the nobles and factory guards tremble, and even think about whether to push them.
Let the fire burn a little more fiercely.
In the end, for the nobles of the capital, it was a bolt from the blue.
They never expected that the factory guards would be so arrogant that they killed most of the Nanjing nobles in one go! You know, the reason why Nanjing nobles are nobles is that most of them came after the founding heroes of the Ming Dynasty!
If under normal circumstances, whether justified or not, the factory guards would dare to go to war with nobles like this, then these nobles in the capital would definitely mobilize their connections and fight back against the factory guards. Otherwise, the factory guards would turn around and do it again in the capital.
What to do in such a place?
However, the nobles of the capital did not have the courage.
They had all seen it with their own eyes when Duke Cheng was exterminated; this was not just a Duke, but one of the most important among the existing Dukes of the Ming Dynasty. To say that the clan was exterminated was not to say that the clan was being exterminated.
In the capital, how many nobles are there who are more noble than Duke Cheng? Once the emperor is angered, there will definitely be no good results.
In addition, the current war in Liaodong is reporting good results every day, and the Jianlu are about to be wiped out and Liaodong is restored. The Liaodong rebellion that has been raging for several dynasties since the Wanli period is finally going to calm down. Everyone in the imperial court recognizes the current emperor.
It has reached unprecedented heights.
Under the prestige of Emperor Chongzhen, the nobles of the capital did not dare to do whatever they wanted.
Therefore, they all hurriedly inquired about the reason why the factory guards moved the nobles of Nanjing.
The first news I found was about the crime of Linhuai Marquis secretly selling steam engine blueprints to Xiyi.
At this time in ancient times, they didn't understand what was patented or not, but there was also talk of ancestral craftsmanship. Anyone who stole other people's ancestral craftsmanship would definitely be stabbed in the back.
At least among the people, for this one crime alone, the common people applauded the factory guards for arresting Nanjing nobles. Not to mention, they also sold it for a huge sum of one million taels, and they even applauded out of jealousy.
However, for the nobles of the capital, it was unacceptable for the factory guards to arrest the Marquis of Linhuai because of this, but it also extended to most of the nobles of Nanjing, and even forced a Duke of Wei to death. This was unacceptable to them.
As more and more impeachment memorials were sent from Nanjing, they began to respond.
At this time, some civil servants, who had been enjoying themselves until now, also felt that the factory guards were expanding their attack and wondered what they would do if it hit the civil servants in the future, so they also started to attack the factory guards.
As for Emperor Chongzhen, he was initially confused about Wang Chengen's sudden arrest of most of the Nanjing nobles. Therefore, he thought, how could the secret sale of steam engine blueprints involve so many Nanjing nobles?
But soon, he received the joint secret report from Wang Chengen and Wang Dehua earlier than everyone else in the capital, and finally learned the reason why the East Factory and the West Factory went to war in Nanjing.
Suddenly, Emperor Chongzhen was very angry, but he did not summon his ministers immediately. Instead, as usual, he contacted Liu Weichao first.