I'm really not the carpenter emperor

In the four years of Apocalypse, 4305 million taels of military pay was allocated in full.

Until last year, that is, the sixth year of the apocalypse, the military salary allocated by the Ministry of War to Shaanxi has always been based on the capital as the organizational unit, and the military registers issued are in full.

However, when Chen Ce sent people to the various guards and offices under the jurisdiction of the Shaanxi capital, many officers and soldiers said that they had not paid full salaries all year round.

In addition, most of the officers and soldiers have not changed any armor and ordnance, and they still use the standard spears and firearms of the Wanli year.

What he was wearing was still the old mandarin duck battle jacket.

These shocking facts all speak of how corrupt the capital of Shaanxi has become.

When things were like this, Zhu Youxiao didn't have the time to investigate any further. He got up suddenly, took off the sword hanging behind him, and threw it to Chen Ce, the governor of the Yongwei Battalion.

"Lead troops to surround the yamen of the Shaanxi capital, and arrest the commander of the capital, Li Hong, a rebellious official!"

"The minister obeys the order!"

Chen Ce held Shang Fang's sword in both hands, walked out of the tent after speaking, and said loudly to the generals of the Yongwei Battalion gathered in front of him:

"Soldiers, follow me to catch the rebels and rectify the military law!"

8Chapter 16 Qing Emperor Side!

In the eighth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang changed the Shaanxi Capital Guard to the Shaanxi Capital Commander Division, governing Xi'an Prefecture, and governing 33 guards and institutes including Xi'an Right Guard, Xi'an Left Guard, Xi'an Qianwei, and Xi'an Guard.

There were 17 military households in the guards under the administration of Shaanxi Dusi.

Today, seven years after Qi, the military household system in the guards is chaotic, not only in Shaanxi, where the commanding divisions are in one place, but now the capitals in all parts of the country, only the capitals located in the nine borders are still clear.

Even the Ministry of War has only a rough idea that the national military strength has been around 120 million in recent years, and it is impossible to examine the specific situation of each capital division.

The military registers are generally false and concealed. Excluding the 30 frontier troops that Tianqi added to the Nine Frontiers in the third year, the total strength of the guards in the Central Plains and Jiangnan is between 90 and 100 million.

This is the number in the military register. Over the years, the number of military households and the number of officers and soldiers have often been concealed. In fact, the number of military households and guards fleeing every year will only be less than this.

These are only approximate figures. Only the generals in charge of the troops know the actual number of Ming troops in each guard.

However, judging from the fact that Baishui County was easily breached by hungry people, the regular garrison in a county would not exceed 3000 people, and the interior was so empty that Zhu Youxiao had to pay attention.

Of course, due to the dangerous location of the Shaanxi Metropolitan Command and Envoy Division, the number of guards and the size of the garrison are the largest among the five provinces in the Central Plains.

In the first year of Tianqi, Li Hong, the commander of the capital, wrote to the Ministry of War, saying that there were more than [-] garrisons in Xi'an at that time, [-] horse troops, [-] artillerymen, and the rest were all infantry.

This figure must not be true. It is still hard to say how many Ming troops are in Xi'an.

Xi'an, known as Chang'an and Haojing in ancient times, is the ancient capital of many dynasties, with a long history and long culture. Its size is comparable to that of the northern and southern capitals.

In the second year of the Apocalypse, the court proposed to select [-] elites from Shanxi and Shaanxi to set up the Northwest Camp. The location of the Northwest Camp was Fengxiang, which borders Xi'an Prefecture in the west.

The headquarters of the Shaanxi Metropolitan Command and Envoy Division is located in Xi'an.

The Northwest Camp is directly under the Ministry of War and is not under its jurisdiction. Since its establishment, it has only mobilized troops once in the fourth year of the Apocalypse when Lin Dan Khan entered the army.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were heavy guards in Xi'an Mansion.

Now only in the territory of Xi'an Prefecture, there are four guards, Xi'an Right Guard, Xi'an Left Guard, Xi'an Qianwei, and Xi'an Backguard, as well as numerous guards of thousands of households and hundreds of households.

If it is marked on the map, you will see densely packed guards, dotted around the city of Xi'an, defending this important town in the northwest.

As for the city defense of Xi'an, it is also the most solid in the Northwest and even the five provinces of the Central Plains.

As soon as they entered the city, they could see piles of stone sleepers everywhere. Behind each crenel, there was a Franc cannon, and there were no less than a hundred cannons around the city.

Although I don't know if it can be used yet, it is still a deterrent, proving the status of Xi'an, an important city in the northwest.

In the city of Xi'an, regulations are also different from those of ordinary towns.

Here, not only government servants patrol the streets, but also teams of guard officers and soldiers with knives.

Several camps stand in the city, noisy and chaotic movements can be heard throughout the day, guards can be seen everywhere on the streets, governors, prefects, prefects, Taoist censors, supervisory censors, Qianzong, Baizong...

In addition to these officials, the city of Xi'an is also a place where the royal relatives and powerful families gather, giving people an illusion that there seem to be more powerful and powerful people here than ordinary people.

Xi'an City is the center of imperial rule in Shaanxi Province.

The governor's office, the government's office, the General Administration of the Sub-district Inspection Department, the Shaanxi Governor's Office, the Shaanxi Metropolitan Commander's Department, the Announcement of the Government's Department, and the Procuratorate's Department...

The headquarters of many imperial government offices are located in Xi'an City, as well as the civil and military generals of Xi'an Prefecture and other prefectures in Shaanxi, who also stay here all year round.

In the evening, the city of Xi'an is still full of people, all kinds of people are walking on the street, the yelling of small merchants and peddlers, and the charming smiles of women in brothels can be heard endlessly.

However, the big households stayed behind closed doors as if they had received the news. The richer the street, the more deserted it was, making one's heart chill.

Some sharp-eyed people have already noticed that there are fewer guard officers and soldiers on the street tonight than before, and the movements of the big households make people feel a little weird.

As a result, some people and merchants in the city immediately put down their work at hand, or took their wives and children home, or closed their shops in advance.

Under this extraordinary "prosperity", it seems that some kind of storm is brewing.

On Dongtiao Street, the atmosphere in the headquarters of the Shaanxi Metropolitan Commander and Envoy Division could be described as intense. Never before had the civil servants and generals of the guard gathered so neatly.

"Dus, it's not good!"

At this time, a servant wearing a cloth mask rushed into the hall and half-kneeled on the ground.

"Du Si, gentlemen, the imperial army has suddenly mobilized a large number of soldiers and horses, led by Governor Chen, and they have already entered the city through the south gate!"

Li Zheng, the commander, was taken aback when he heard the words. What worried him most was that the current emperor not only lost his temper, but also refused to give an inch!

They haven't responded to the request in the joint memorandum of the chief secretary of the eight provinces and the capital department. As soon as they got the news, they directly asked Chen Ce to lead the soldiers to arrest people!

The capital of Shaanxi is the capital with the largest garrison in the five provinces of the Central Plains. Isn't the emperor afraid of stirring up a mutiny if he does this?

Just as he was thinking, Shao Shiyan, another conductor beside him, said:

"Good come!"

"How many soldiers and horses does he have in the Imperial Army's Yongwei Battalion? It has been expanded three times, and now it is only more than 1 people, and there are [-] troops in the city!"

"Counting the surrounding Xi'an Four Guards that can arrive today, we are enough to mobilize nearly [-] troops. No matter how powerful the imperial army can fight, it is impossible to fight against a hundred with one!"

At this moment, the arrow is on the string and has to be fired.

Li Hong was pacing back and forth in the hall, then stopped suddenly, and punched the table with his fist, his face flushed, "Yes! If persuasion fails, force the palace!"

"What's this called? Yes, Lord Qing!"

The civil servants in the guard gathered together, and soon there were buzzing discussions, and for a while, no one objected.

Obviously, what Li Hong just said about mobilizing 1 guards gave hope to these civil servants. After all, what the emperor brought this time was only more than [-] brave guards.

If you can really control the emperor, wouldn't you have what you want?

No one can resist such a temptation, what's more, from their point of view, they are the right side this time, "the side of the Qing emperor, to maintain the ancestral system", this is the most noble reason for forcing the palace by force.

In the eyes of civil officials, warriors are really vulgar people.

They have benefited a lot from the guard system. This time the emperor wanted to change it. Although they objected to it, they would not say anything outrageous, let alone such a treacherous act as forcing the palace.

But Wufu can do it, so that's fine, let them do it, and wait and see what happens.

If they succeed in forcing the palace, they will also be blessed. Even if they fail, it can be said that they are forced by the generals of the guards and they have no choice but to follow the thief.

The civil servants jingled their calculations, determined that they would not suffer a loss, and all became dumb, and no one said a word for the emperor.

Seeing that no one objected, Li Hong immediately said:

"Pass down my military orders, the eunuchs will deceive your majesty, disrupt the government, and confuse your majesty to lightly move the system of the ancestral guards! Our generation of soldiers should be counted for the great cause, and the Qing emperor is on your side!"

"Mobilize the whole city's guards to meet the Yongwei battalion, and tell them that this time they are remonstrating with force, not rebellion!"

The generals of the guard looked at each other a few times, and most of them turned around and went out to gather their subordinates. Only a group of people headed by Li Zheng stayed where they were.

Li Hong walked over, frowned and said, "Do you have any objections to my military order?"

8Chapter 17 Vulnerable

Li Zheng took a few steps back, "No, dare not..."

Li Hong sneered and said:

"Since you dare not, why don't you hurry up and prepare?"

Li Zheng hurriedly turned his head and left, not even daring to look at Li Hong more, and the rest of the generals of the guard also followed until they walked into a side room.

"Why didn't you just say it directly?" After a long silence, one of the conductors said unfairly.

Li Zheng looked at this man incredulously, "Why don't you tell me what you can do? He is a commander, and there are more than 400 servants. I don't know how many confidantes there are in each guard and office. Are you and I comparable?"

The commander's chest kept rising and falling, obviously very dissatisfied.

He said: "Then let's forget it? Li Hong is going to plot a rebellion this time. If we don't do anything, we will all be regarded as fellow party members when the court quells the rebellion!"

"At that time, none of them will be able to escape!"

Yeah, that's what they worry about.

Although it was said that the emperor wanted to mobilize the guards, which was something they benefited from, everyone present knew that the emperor would definitely win this farce.

Among other things, can the Guards Army beat the Nine Frontiers Army?

Those wolf-like frontier soldiers on the nine sides shouted the emperor's name one by one.

Over the years, it can be said that the imperial court has not paid much attention to the officers and soldiers of Shaanxi, Huguang, Henan and other provinces. Compared with the Nine Frontiers who are fully paid every year, they are raised by their stepmothers.

At this time, the guards are suddenly going to be moved. Could it be that the emperor suddenly rose up?

Speaking of this, the city is already in chaos.

Li Zheng came to the window of the hiding hut, and found that many people and business travelers had fled, and the shops on the street were closed one after another.

Even the yamen servants of the local government seemed to have seen a ghost, huddling among the common people, not caring about anything, and went straight to the government yamen.

Seeing the sudden chaos in the street, many green skins, hooligans and hooligans also ran out to loot and loot at this time, doing things they couldn't do in the past.

"The soldiers are in chaos!"

"There is a military disaster!"

"The command made Li Hong rebel, run away!"

There were such shouts everywhere on the street, and when I looked around, I saw several Qingpis fighting in the street, beating an old man to death, and then dragging a girl about seventeen or eighteen years old into an alley.

The girl screamed heart-piercingly, and the faces of the green skins were full of sinister and lewd smiles. Obviously, in the blink of an eye, the street that was still orderly just now was completely chaotic.

But now Li Zheng was in such a state of disarray that he had no time to care about maintaining law and order, how to keep his family and his life, these were his top priorities.

At the corner of the street, a group of guards appeared, about a hundred people.

Li Zheng was very familiar with this person, he was the same as him, but he firmly supported Li Hong's rebellion commander, Shao Shiyan.

Shao Shiyan and Li Zheng were originally Li Hong's confidantes, but under this mutiny, they had completely different thoughts.

Li Zheng's heart was greatly shaken due to successive encounters in Shanxi and Jifu. Especially when he saw the order in Shanxi, he felt that this mutiny was impossible to succeed.

"Why is he here?"

Li Zheng frowned and muttered, and the generals and guards behind him also found Shao Shiyan.

They were colleagues before, but now, one of them is a traitor who rebelled and forced the palace, and the other is an officer and soldier who temporarily retreated and planned to support the imperial court.

The number of opponents was much larger than his own, and the streets were full of rioters. Li Zheng slowly held his hand on the handle of the knife at his waist, and waited quietly for the opponent to come.

Shao Shiyan had long been at odds with Li Zheng in private. Apart from Li Zheng, he, the commander, was the real second-in-command in Shaanxi's army.

When he got the news that Li Zheng was hiding here, he immediately brought his servants and came here as soon as possible, just to take advantage of the chaos and get rid of this opponent.

He came to the door, heard the silence in the room, stared at the window for a long time, and said, "Don't hide, Li Zheng, come out now, I won't kill you."

As soon as the words fell, the door of the room was suddenly kicked open. Li Zheng jumped out holding a snow-white steel knife. He kicked up and cursed:

"My surname Shao, you lived thirty to six in vain! Don't think of yourself to be good, so as to keep the festival. Who would have thought that Daming raised you for a thousand days, and didn't think about repaying your kindness, but actually helped the tyrant to abuse the emperor and murder the emperor!"

"How much kindness has the country treated you? Now you and Nadu command Li Hongsimou to mobilize large soldiers in Xi'an City to rebel and rebel. You are extremely ungrateful!"

"You have never thought about how you will face the parents who gave birth to you and raised you in the future!"

Shao Shiyan was unmoved, and sneered, "What do you think you are? You are just afraid, afraid of the court, afraid of that stupid king."

He nimbly dodged aside, hid behind a group of servants, pulled out his saber fiercely, and said viciously to Li Zheng and the generals of the guard behind him:

"That stupid king moved the guards indiscriminately, which means that his era has passed, and the power of the Great Ming is exhausted!"

"As for his kindness, how did the emperor show any kindness to me?"