Chapter 44 Confucian Gambling Nature (Favorites, Recommendations)
The capital has been expanded since it became the accompanying capital of the Liao Kingdom. During the Northern Song Dynasty, the Khitan people of the Liao Kingdom had become accustomed to the living habits of the Han people, and the accompanying capital could actually be regarded as the capital of the country. In the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, it even became the capital of the country directly.
Afterwards, apart from Zhu Yuanzhang’s short-term capital in Nanjing during the Hongwu period, the capital once again became the capital of the Ming Dynasty in the period of Zhu Di. It has been reinforced repeatedly for more than a hundred years, and this capital is almost the most unlikely city in the world today. one.
At this time, on the city wall of the capital of the Ming Dynasty, officials were looking coldly at the Tatar cavalry rampaging outside.
Those Tatar cavalry have been raging outside the city for more than half a month, and the hundreds of kilometers around the capital may have been covered in red ground.
Of course, these Ming officials on the city wall don't care about the life and death of those ordinary people, what they care about is only the life and death of their own family.
For more than half a month, the food in the capital has been stretched.
Although the families of these officials can still afford good food and clothing, however, as the rulers of the huge empire of Ming Dynasty, these officials are by no means stupid as the officials of Ming Dynasty said on the Internet in later generations. Each of them knows that once the food in the capital is not enough What happens to the military's daily needs.
Camp roar, mutiny...
These are all possible. The military power of Ming Dynasty can be regarded as a hump. The period from the founding of the country to the civil fort was a hump. Then, Qi Jiguang was born to train the new army and it was another hump. Except for these two humps, the rest of the time, Ming's military power is really sad.
The reason why Zhu Houzhao mobilized the forbidden army and the frontier army to change defenses was because he saw that the current military strength of Ming Dynasty was unbearable.
Therefore, there is no doubt that if the capital cannot gather the rations for the defenders at this time, this huge city will have to be finished in minutes.
This is the reason why many officials ran to the city wall. They were all praying that the Tatar cavalry could retreat as soon as possible.
Yang Tinghe stood in the middle of the crowd, and this chief assistant, like other officials, was also staring at the Tatar cavalry outside the city.
However, this chief assistant was different from the others. He didn't care about the fact that the capital could not be defended at all. On the contrary, seeing the Tatar cavalry showing off their might, a faint smile flashed in the eyes of this chief assistant.
Your Majesty lost his virtue, so that the Tatars went south. Now, although there are rumors that your Majesty is dealing with rebels in the south and obtaining food for the capital, the rumors are not credible. In order to stabilize people's hearts and beat back the Tatars as soon as possible, I suggest another The new king will ascend the throne immediately...
A solemn voice spit out from Yang Tinghe's mouth.
The Chief Assistant turned his head and glanced coldly at the officials on the city wall.
Some of the officials here are Confucian disciples, and some are not, and even if they are Confucian disciples, not everyone is on his side.
However, no matter what other identities these officials have, one thing is the same, each of them can see the current crisis in the capital.
In fact, even Yang Tinghe himself was not without a sense of crisis in his heart. He did have a secret connection with the Tatars outside the city, but not to mention that the connection was not in his own name.
Even if the contact was in his own name, if the Tatars broke through the capital, they would never let him, the chief assistant, run free.
In the final analysis, the reason why he secretly contacted the Tatars was only to use them, to dispute with Zhu Houzhao, and to be able to control the change of the throne.
In the original history, his descendants, those Donglin Party members, probably had the same idea as him, which would eventually lead to the rise of Dongnu and the destruction of Ming Dynasty to rule the Central Plains.
Electing a new monarch is a very important matter. Even in the time of Yingzong, it was only to ensure that the monarch was captured by the enemy. Therefore, the old man disagrees with the proposal of the chief assistant...
On the side, an old man spoke decisively.
Most of the time, the chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty can make a final decision on state affairs. Sometimes, even if it is the imperial decree of the emperor, if the chief assistant feels that there is a problem, he can not issue it. However, this time involves the change of the throne. Obviously, the authority is not enough for everyone to agree.
Then what do you say? The capital has been trapped for more than half a month, and the food from the south of the Yangtze River has not been delivered. It is rumored that the emperor suppressed the rebellion, but so far no one knows the trace of the emperor. Is it possible that when the capital is destroyed and Ming Dynasty falls, I'll wait until I die, and then the six departments in Nanjing will find a suitable vassal king to inherit the throne...
Yang Tinghe looked at the old man with cold eyes.
In order to be able to change to an emperor who is easy to control, and to prevent Zhu Houzhao from restoring the current court of the Ming Dynasty to the state of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, these days, he basically tried his best. It went well, and Zhu Houzhao foolishly ran to the south with a team of Jinyiwei, seeing that the Confucianists could easily kill Zhu Houzhao, and blamed the reckless people in the rivers and lakes.
Unexpectedly, Cao Mang met Zhu Houzhao, and killed a large number of Confucian masters in one go.
This forced Yang Tinghe to use the Tatars to take risks. Now that the Tatars have swept across a large area around the capital, Yang Tinghe thinks that he can no longer control the situation for a long time. Once the food in the capital is exhausted, the Tatars are afraid. It's really shit luck to capture the capital.
When the time comes, it will be a trivial matter that the capital will never be restored. They officials and even Confucian children may suffer disaster. Others don't know, but Yang Tinghe knows that the little Tatar prince is accompanied by a shamanist master.
The boat is naturally straight when it reaches the bridge, there is always a way...
The old man who spoke before interrupted Yang Tinghe coldly.
He naturally knew that what Yang Tinghe said was likely to become true, and he also knew that at that time, the Nanjing Six Departments would not be effective at all, and the vassal king's struggle for the throne would be enough for Daming to finish.
However, although the old man didn't know that Yang Tinghe had any connection with the Tatars, he also knew that the biggest culprit for Zhu Houzhao's absence in the capital was Yang Tinghe, so he refused to compromise with Yang Tinghe at all.
Is there any way, can you retreat the army outside the city, or that the army on the nine sides can listen to you and me to come to rescue, without the emperor's order, no one of the generals on the nine sides would dare to move, without the emperor's order, Now the only ones who can give food to Nine Sides are those vassal kings who instigated the move...
Yang Tinghe looked at the old man with a sneer and said.
For more than half a month, he believed that the endurance of the capital and the endurance of these officials had reached the limit.
A while ago, he had been told by Fei Ge about the matter in the south, and there was an accident. It seems that the Taoists didn't kill Ling Tian, so now he needs to cut through the mess and clean up the capital.
In this way, even if Zhu Houzhao came back later, he didn't have to be afraid of anything. After all, the change of seizing the gate was as accidental as the Xuanwu Gate, and it couldn't be done casually.
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