I'm really not the carpenter emperor

Min Hong was flustered for a moment, and he only cared about threatening the crowd to disperse with force.

No one expected that the appearance of officers and soldiers not only did not have the effect of deterring people's hearts, but infuriated the crowd even more.

Seeing that the situation was not good, a member of the Yan family resorted to tricks to deceive people, and immediately stood up and said:

"Min Hong! As a garrison officer of the imperial court, you don't care about the arbitrary collection of taxes by the supervisory department. I waited for justice to speak out, but brought officers and soldiers to brutally suppress it. What's the reason?"

A man was very bewitched, convinced of this, sneered and said:

"What do you say to these dog officers and soldiers? I think the defense is also involved in taxation!"

A woman doesn't live very well on weekdays, but today she just seized the opportunity to vent her anger, and she kept saying:

"If we don't let the imperial court see our determination today, Master Zhou will definitely be threatened by the East Factory servants again in the future!"

"Am I right!"

A scholar climbed up and shouted: "What you two said is true! The scholars in my life are willing to stand in front of others, and charge with me!"

After saying that, the scholar jumped forward and threw an officer and soldier down.

Before the officer and soldier had time to react, he felt a sharp pain in his ear, but the scholar seemed to be crazy and bit off his ear alive.

The officer covered his ears and cried out in pain, dripping with blood.

The scholar didn't look as weak as before, he vomited his ears, and rode on the officer and soldier, hammering and beating.

Before Min Hong could answer, the crowd was mobilized by the scholars and the Yan family, and shouted loudly.

"It turns out that the guard is also from Dongchang!"

"It's unreasonable to not get rid of the right to eunuch!"

While shouting, everyone rushed towards the officers and soldiers. The voices of thousands of people, like a mountain avalanche, broke through the weak line of defense of the officers and soldiers in an instant.

As for the soldiers under Min Hong's command, their military quality is really not very good.

They were used to bullying others, but when they had never seen such a scene, they immediately threw up their helmets and armor in fright, and ran here and there, trying to escape the siege of the crowd.

Min Hongqiang lost all courage for a moment, turned around and left without further ado, trying to escape from this place of right and wrong.

Unexpectedly, he was chased by a scholar, grabbed his helmet off, and beat him up and down.

"Presumptuous—!" Min Hong was about to grab the saber that was thrown on the ground indiscriminately, but he saw more and more mobs.

Things have developed to this point, and the entire city of Suzhou has been thrown into chaos.

No matter whether it is the people who are aggrieved by the so-called taxation and riots, they are all rioting at this moment, venting their dissatisfaction with the mediocre life.

An officer and soldier was stabbed in the center by the mob with a pitchfork, fell to the ground and rolled over, screamed a few times, and soon died.

The rest of the soldiers were beaten to the point of bleeding because of their small number, lack of organization and tenacity, and ran away with their heads in their arms.

A thousand households and dozens of people were rushing to the location of the Royal Chamber of Commerce, wanting to support their defense, but they heard shouts shaking the mountains ahead.

More than a dozen famous men came rushing over, Qianhu immediately grabbed one of them, and asked angrily:

"What's going on, where is Shou Rong?"

The servant's face was full of fear, and he said in a trembling voice: "Shou, Shou Rong... died at the hands of those mobs!"

"Let's go, there are at least 1000 mobs surrounding the Royal Chamber of Commerce!"

"Shou Rong is dead?" Qianhu's eyes widened, and he couldn't believe it for a while, "Follow me back to the barracks!"

Now he couldn't help but hesitate any longer. The riot of thousands of people in several streets had escalated into a city-wide riot due to the suppression and ineffectiveness of the officers, soldiers and government.

Now there are criminals everywhere who smashed houses and robbed finances.

In the city of Suzhou, billowing black smoke rose into the sky, shouts and flames were everywhere, and people vented their resentment that had been pent up in their hearts to their heart's content.

All the big households suffered disaster, even the Yan family, who started the crime, was smashed by the mob frantically.

When even the officers and soldiers cannot suppress the commotion, the social order collapses in an instant.

Human nature is revealed. Scholars and mobs have changed their old style, and things that they dared to think or dare to do on weekdays all happened in front of them one after another.

But fortunately, Min Hong arrived with officers and soldiers, which played some role.

These officers and soldiers bought time for the Royal Chamber of Commerce to block the gate, and after the mob dispersed the officers and soldiers, they found that the gate of the Royal Chamber of Commerce could not be closed.

They didn't do anything at all, and started looking for firewood to pile up in front of the door, intending to use a big fire to burn the entire Royal Chamber of Commerce.

As time entered the middle of the night, the riots in Suzhou City became more and more uncontrollable, and a large number of people began to flee.

More than ten miles away, there were bursts of dust and smoke, and horseshoes were like thunder.

Chapter 715 No need to investigate, arrest people directly

In the middle of the night, the city of Suzhou was lit like a torch.

Many people held torches and gathered in front of the gate of the Royal Chamber of Commerce. Yan Peiwei looked at the firewood in front of him and was very excited. He said loudly:

"Everyone, let us use this fire to declare to today's foolish kings and eunuchs the lofty heart of our scholars and people in Suzhou!"

"Burn! Burn! Burn!"

Everyone's eyes were red for a long time, and they raised the torches one by one.

Yan Peiwei didn't show up until this time, precisely because the overall situation was settled, and he also had the idea of ​​igniting the fire himself.

When the shouts of the crowd gradually dissipated, Yan Peiwei was about to throw the torch in his hand into the pyre, but suddenly felt a shaking under his feet.

Immediately afterwards, there was a pain in the hand, and an arrow was shot from nowhere, piercing the flesh and blood.

The sound of horseshoes behind him was getting closer and closer, but it was Huang Degong who came day and night with more than [-] cavalry after he got the news from Fu Yingxing.

Huang Degong rode on the horse, put away his bow and arrow, rushed forward, drew out the knife and put it on Yan Peiwei's neck, and shouted:

"Take it!"

Yan Peiwei rolled his eyes, and was still unwilling to let go of this opportunity. Seeing that there were only a dozen cavalrymen following Huang Degong, he shouted again:

"Can the governor of Jiangnan Daying shoot people for no reason?"

"What crime have I committed—!"

"Since you want to know, let me tell you that you have committed the crime of inciting riots and demagoguery, and you deserve death!"

Huang Degong looked at him and sneered.

Seeing that Yan Peiwei wanted to say more, Huang Degong's face became ruthless, and he swung the wild goose-winged knife high, and then fell down suddenly.

A head that was "sizzling" and bleeding, just rolled to the ground.

Before Yan Peiwei died, he hadn't guessed that Huang Degong would be so decisive that he would kill him without any orders.

Of course, Huang Degong is not Min Hong.

This kind of thunderous method directly frightened all the mob present, and the venue was silent for a while, but soon someone repeated the old trick and preached in public:

"Everyone, the officers and soldiers are brutal, we-"

Before he finished speaking, a cavalry soldier from the Jiangnan camp urged his horse forward and stabbed a steel gun into his body from behind.

"Who else wants to say more?"

"If one comes out, I will kill one!"

The officer who just stabbed the man to death held a blood-dripping steel gun and urged his horse to walk back and forth among the crowd, his eyes were shining brightly, and his whole body was full of murderous aura.

A few more people did not believe in evil, looked at each other, came out together and shouted loudly, inciting the people to resist.

Without any hesitation, the cavalry rushed into the crowd to find these people, and either stabbed them in the head or pierced them with steel spears.

In an instant, there were a few more hot corpses on the ground.

Everyone has the same fate. The people from Jiangnan Daying didn't hesitate to make a move.

Basically, before a sentence is finished, it will be cut as soon as it comes up.

Huang Degong looked at the corpse and looked around at the crowd, and the dozen or so officers and soldiers around him who were looking at him with murderous aura all over them made people dare not underestimate them.

Just a dozen or so people made the nearly ten thousand mob gathered around the Royal Chamber of Commerce silent and terrified.

Seeing this, those Yan family disciples and scholars who were hiding in the crowd were a little scared, and secretly stepped back a few steps, trying to escape in the chaos.

Huang Degong watched these people flee in all directions, but did not summon them.

Soon, there were rumbling footsteps around, and the officers and soldiers from the surrounding state capitals rushed to help.

These officers and soldiers surrounded the fleeing instigators and quickly took control of the streets.

A guerrilla general who rushed over was shocked when he saw that Huang Degong rushed into Suzhou City with more than a dozen riders and quelled such a large-scale riot.

He hurried forward, clasped his fists and said:

"I've seen the governor in a lowly position!"

Huang Degong snorted, put away his weapon and said:

"Suzhou is under martial law, send people to clean the streets, check with the people from Dongchang door to door, take people with me to Yan's house!"

"First raid the Yan family, and then the governor will personally plead guilty to His Majesty!"

The guerrilla generals naturally understood that, unless the emperor gave a clear order for such a thing as ransacking a house, it would be considered arrogance for local officials to act without authorization.

However, Huang Degong's identity is not trivial. He was born in the pro-army of the Yongwei Battalion established by the emperor himself.

With him in charge of this kind of thing, the rest of the officers and soldiers can handle it with ease.

Tens of thousands of officers and soldiers from all over the country rushed to Suzhou City in batches in the middle of the night. Once the number of officers and troops increased, the city gradually settled down.

With a "bang", the gate of Yan's house was blasted open by officers and soldiers using Hudun cannons.

Huang Degong drew out the goose-wing knife and shouted loudly:

"Rush in, raid Yan's house, don't let any one go!"

"This riot in Suzhou was instigated by the Yan family behind the scenes, especially Yan Peilu, the patriarch of the Yan family. He wants to see people when he is alive, and he wants to see corpses when he is dead!"

"Yes!"

The officers and soldiers rushed into the Yan family's mansion and carried out this order thoroughly.

The entire Yan family, no matter men, women or children, suffered from the subsequent bloody suppression by officers and soldiers, leaving no bones left.

Standing in the lobby, Huang Degong kicked over a table angrily, and asked:

"Where is Yan Peilu, let him run away?"

"Look, dig three feet into the ground and find this thief. If the governor doesn't kill him himself, the hatred in my heart will be hard to get rid of!"

Not long after he finished speaking, a soldier from the Jiangnan Daying Battalion Supervision Battalion came and said loudly:

"Report to Governor, Yan Peilu has been found!"

It turned out that Yan Peilu was already packing up his things as soon as he heard the news that the officers and soldiers had entered the city, planning to go to Japan by sea.

While the officers and soldiers were killing Yan's family, he took off his silk robe and put on some inconspicuous tattered clothes. He didn't care about his face at all, and just hid in the corner of the stinking cesspit.

According to Yan Peilu's idea, he originally wanted to wait for the officers and soldiers to disperse before escaping secretly, but he didn't realize it. He was discovered by a fan from Dongchang and dragged him out.

Huang Degong was finally relieved, pinched his nose and looked at the Jiangnan chaebol in front of him who was once powerful and even wanted to fight against the court, but everything he wanted to say was swallowed back.

"Take it down, and choose another day."

"All assets of the Yan family will be confiscated, and Suzhou will be under martial law for five days!"

……

Tianqi's six-year spring rain was sparsely scattered in the capital, and Tianqi, which had just gotten warmer, suddenly cooled down again.

It's slippery and cold, which makes people feel really uncomfortable.

Fortunately, there were pits and Xuande stoves in the Xinuang Pavilion for heating, so that Emperor Tianqi would not suffer from the severe cold that suddenly dropped in temperature.

However, the charcoal-burning palace always makes people feel chest tightness, so Zhu Youxiao ignored the persuasion, went to the window eaves, and opened the exquisite flower window a small crack.

Fresh and cold air circulates through the gaps, which refreshes the mind.

At this moment, Wang Chaofu came over and said:

"Master, the riot in Suzhou has been put down."

Although the riots in Suzhou were huge, they were in the interior after all, and the surrounding area was stable as usual, and there was a big camp in the south of the Yangtze River that could be reached all day long.