The rise of the prince

Chapter 689 Bloody

The turmoil will not stop in a short time, and the bloodshed has not stopped either.

After the rebellion broke out, high-level officers of the Forbidden Army in Beijing were recruited into the palace, and three of them were ordered to die because they were late in entering the palace. Afterwards, Tong Guan and his family members were all detained.

Moreover, the Tong family was obviously prepared. When the Wu Desi people arrived, the head of the Tong family, Tong Guan's father and other relatives had already fled, leaving only the old and young women in the family.

All the boys of the Tong family who were detained were killed, and girls under the age of 14 were sent to the official education workshop to see if anyone bought them. If no one bought them, they would be used as official prostitutes.

Then the next day, the emperor ordered the death of the crown princess and the detention of all the people in the East Palace. The maids and eunuchs in the East Palace were all given to death that day. Compared with the purge outside, they at least left the whole body, and only a few people knew about it.

The emperor probably felt that this was a scandal for the royal family and could not be publicized. In his external remarks, he was also vague. He did not explicitly say that the prince rebelled, but only said that he died in the chaos. Everyone in the East Palace may be the prince's accomplice or It is easy to leak information.

But are they accomplices?For the emperor, that is not important, for the emperor to save trouble, for the emperor's peace of mind, all die.

The prince's eldest son, Li Huan, and his second son, Li Yu, were also implicated. The family members were arrested by Shangzhi's personal guards and sent to Zongzheng Temple for house arrest.

After Li Xingzhou interceded with the emperor, Li Yu's family was released from Zongzheng Temple. After they came out, they came to complain to him. A big man cried so hard that his legs went limp from fright.

It's not surprising that Li Xingzhou was so frightened, because after entering Zongzheng Temple, he might be only one step away from death.

Sure enough, within a few days, Li Huan was secretly bestowed to death in the Zongzheng Temple by the emperor. Only some people in the royal family knew about this matter.

Afterwards, the four gates were under martial law, and the rebellion was investigated. Many rebels were successively captured by Kaiyuan government officials. Ten days after the rebellion, the emperor ordered that more than 1000 rebel prisoners captured were beheaded outside the Meridian Gate, and they were killed for a whole afternoon. .

The emperor was also worried about the Forbidden Army, and after putting all the senior generals of the Forbidden Army under house arrest, he handed over the rest of the Forbidden Army to him.

The Shenwu Army experienced defeat in the north, and returned to Beijing with less than 8000 people. In addition to the rebellion, there were only more than 8000 people left. The Wulie Army had suffered heavy losses in the north.

In other words, at this time, there were only about [-] troops in the center of the entire dynasty.

3 people is naturally a lot. In fact, due to population reasons in ancient times, wartime troops were far less than what later generations thought.

Temujin had a little more than 20 troops in the western expedition, and the Jin Kingdom besieged Kaifeng in the Northern Song Dynasty with [-] troops. When the whole country sent the most troops in the Northern Song Dynasty, they could only send about [-] troops, and they had to be divided into several routes.In the later period of the Battle of Xiangyang, only a few thousand Song troops faced an army of [-] Mongolians.

The reason why some people think there are many is mostly influenced by the novels. For example, the battle of Guandu in the three major battles of the Three Kingdoms. According to the records of the Three Kingdoms, Yuan Shao had about [-] soldiers. Cao Cao had "less than [-] soldiers" at first. It may be more than [-] to [-], but it becomes hundreds of thousands in romance novels.

Therefore, limited to the population, the ability to send troops is far from what people in later generations imagined. The population and the number of soldiers that can be sent are also completely different. Even in the life-and-death anti-Japanese battlefield, the actual mobilization rate is not only about 5%. This is not a joke. That is to say, even when the country is dying, only five out of 100 people are fighting bloody battles.

This is not to say that the Chinese battlefield is just like that, but it is generally the case in the world. The country with the highest mobilization rate in World War II was the Soviet Union, and it was only about 14%, but this is already an unprecedented mobilization rate. The main reason is that the Soviet Union is the main battlefield. , facing the most violent offensive.

Therefore, although people often say that man can conquer nature, that fate is determined by oneself, and that the rise and fall of the world is everyone's responsibility, but looking at history objectively, it is found that the fate of the majority is always determined by a few people.

Just like when the Mongolian iron cavalry swept across Central Asia and the Central Asian armies were defeated, such a scene appeared in the local area. Mongolian soldiers, one man and one horse, could rush into the downtown area and kill people at will, and no one dared to stop them.Some Mongolian soldiers even wanted to kill people, but they forgot to bring their knives. The people who were killed just waited in place and did not leave until the Mongolian soldiers came back with their knives to kill them.

Are there not many people in the countries of Central Asia?They are dozens or even a hundred times larger than the Mongolian army (there were not many Mongolians in the three western expeditions, except for the first time, the main battlefield has always been in East Asia), but as long as the army is defeated, ordinary people dare not resist at all.

Therefore, if Jingguo came to life and death, Li Xingzhou didn't expect much.

And these 3 people are obviously not enough to stabilize the country. If the Jin people know that there are only [-] forbidden troops in Jingguo, they will definitely go south.

The northern frontier army Yang Jiajun was beaten and maimed, and the two armies of the Central Forbidden Army Shenwu and Wulie are almost in a state of disbandment. The Wulie army was maimed by the Liao people in the north. More than 1000 people died in battle, beheaded more than 1000 people, and some got wind of it and escaped.

There were internal and external troubles. Fortunately, Wei Chaoren's Guan Bei Army and Ling Jie Army occupied Qigou Pass and Yanshan Mansion. With them guarding there, Li Xingzhou was relieved, but he also had lingering fears.

So after the emperor sent the news that he was going to be added as the grandson of the emperor, he ignored the suspicion and made a statement to the emperor, requesting the expansion of the new army.

He just mentioned this to Duke De at the time, and Duke De scolded him, saying that his tail was up to the sky, and the emperor really wanted to make him the grandson of Huang, but the emperor was still there, and the forbidden army turned against him and almost killed the emperor, so he jumped immediately Come out and say that the Forbidden Army will be expanded (the new army is also a Forbidden Army), what if the emperor thinks too much.

"This is not the time to think about those things." Li Xingzhou could only answer in this way. When foreign enemies are stalking tigers, internal troubles and external difficulties, it is not the time to think about what to do if the emperor thinks too much, but he can't think about it.

But a few days later, the emperor sent Guilin's little father-in-law to summon him to the palace, and he saw the emperor in the imperial study, not long after, he was even older, with Fu'an and Wei Li by his side.

The emperor waved: "Come here."

Li Xingzhou sat down, and Fuan quickly asked someone to bring a chair and put it next to the emperor's desk, instead of sitting under it, he stepped forward and sat down.

Only then did the emperor put down the book in his hand, and said slowly: "I have seen the book you wrote."

As he spoke, he sighed: "I know more or less in my heart, others dare not tell, so you told me about it."

The emperor said with a sigh: "When the relationship with the Liao Kingdom was at its worst, the two sides fought each other all year round. It was said that there were 80 forbidden soldiers in the capital, and the same was said to the Liao Kingdom. crime, and after more than ten years, the money and silk military salary could not support it.

And now there are [-] imperial guards in the capital."

(End of this chapter)