People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 461 The more the civil servants investigated, the more shocked they became!
It should be noted that these civil servants have actually undergone rigorous training.

Generally, people don't laugh out loud in serious situations.

But when they heard the imperial envoys say that they were greeted like this by the common people on their way into the city, several officials finally couldn't hold back and burst out laughing.

Because they never thought of it.

These high-ranking officials who came from the capital city did not receive such a "warm" welcome from the common people at the city gate.

At the same time, I never expected that those lovely people would support the prince of Beiping so much.

In fact, this is also a disguised form of support for those officials in Beiping Prefecture.

If the officials in Beiping Prefecture were all the same as those from the capital, the common people would not have the leisure to protect you.

Seeing the imperial envoys like this, they even felt that they had done a very good thing.

Because they finally gained the recognition of the common people.

When the imperial envoy saw that the civil servants of Beiping Prefecture also laughed at them, he became even more furious.

An official jumped up and yelled, "What? Do you think this is normal?

Do you feel that we have been humiliated and yet you are still very happy?

As officials in the same dynasty, is this how you view this matter?

If you all have this attitude, fine, very good. Just for this matter, I don’t care whether you have cheated on your record or not, I will tell you about it.

Just based on this, I can impeach you for the crime of disrespecting your superiors."

Seeing that these officials were almost going crazy, Zhu Di quickly stepped forward to smooth things over.

"My dear lords, our Beiping Prefecture is far away from the capital, so it is inevitable that we have been influenced by some rude customs.

Here, on behalf of all the people and officials, I would like to apologize to you.

If you still feel that this is not enough, then I will gather the people and apologize to you in front of them. What do you think?"

As soon as these words were spoken, all the civil servants stopped moving.

Even though they are now imperial envoys with the power of heaven, they do not need to give face to the local princes in name.

But that's only on the surface. Do you dare not give others face behind their backs?

He is speaking so nicely now and apologizing in front of the people.

Do you dare to accept it?
If you do this, what awaits you will definitely be even greater hatred from the people.

All the way from the capital, everyone had actually heard some accusations against them along the way.

Beiping Prefecture has won such a great victory now, but you want to investigate others and distrust them in the court. This is really inappropriate.

But they also felt aggrieved.

Many officials in the court do not trust us, not just us.

And we are just a small minority among them.

We are simply executing the unanimous decision of all civil servants.

If you want to hate someone, you should hate those who came up with the ideas, and not hate those of us who are the ones who carry them out.

But now that they are being controlled by Zhu Di like this, to be honest, they still feel a little uncomfortable.

You have to know that they are imperial envoys after all, even though Zhu Di spoke so tactfully now.

He said that he would gather all the people together to discuss the matter and apologize in front of them.

If they were to do something like this, it would be difficult for them to leave Beiping Prefecture alive.

So a civil servant immediately said, "Your Highness, it's not necessary. We were wrong. From the moment we entered the city, we saw that Beiping Prefecture was peaceful and harmonious. We were convinced.

After all, we hardly see this situation elsewhere.

It is difficult for ordinary people to have such a good interaction with an official like us.”

When he said this, his face was full of sarcasm.

Mocking the officials in Beiping Prefecture, they said they were able to mobilize the emotions of the common people and make them work for their own purposes.

So I was very angry.

But I can't show it.

Because the prince has already said it.

If you don't want to believe it, you can gather all the people together and we will apologize to you in front of them. Is that okay?

It can be seen that the people are indeed on Zhu Di's side.

Zhu Di was also fearless.

Of course Zhu Di was angry, but why couldn't he vent his anger?
We cannot say it directly in front of you, we just feel unconvinced in our hearts. You can investigate if you want.

But why can't I show it off somewhere else?
For example, now, I am deliberately disgusting you.

Let me tell you, since the people give me so much face, why should I still complain to you?

We just want you to know that we are of the same mind as the common people.

You can go and see where the people are just like us and can mingle with us officials. That would be great.

At the beginning, Zhu Di also wanted to entertain these officials well.

Seeing that the people were so enthusiastic, Zhu Di could not give these people a good face.

So these civil servants can only feel aggrieved, and no one pays attention to their grievances. Who asked you to investigate this and that?

Of course, we still let them take a hot shower in the afternoon and change their smelly clothes.

Then he took them for a stroll around the area around Beiping Prefecture very enthusiastically and generously.

First, I learned about what is different about Beiping Prefecture now.

They even received them warmly.

Even if everyone has a smile on their face, they are actually cursing in their hearts, but it doesn’t matter.

In the officialdom, what is tested is one’s acting skills.

Before, when entering the city gate, the officials were all covered in dust and dirt, as if they disappeared in an instant.

Everyone became harmonious all of a sudden.

No one cared, since they had been in such a mess before.

After all, it is said that acting skills are best honed in the officialdom.

Those who want to perform opera can actually go into officialdom.

Just by running errands for a few days, you can see what top-notch acting is.

After the reception, the civil servants dispersed from the next day.

First, three civil servants left the city and headed north.

They need to collect information about the battlefield along the way.

Another group of people conducted surveys on the common people in the city.

The last group was taken to a prisoner camp.

They wanted to experience for themselves what the captives coming from the north looked like.

After a few days of investigation, they found that the situation might really be as the soldiers in Beiping Prefecture said, and there was no fraud at all. In fact, the number was reported too much.

In fact, it was later discovered that dozens of the soldiers who had died in the battle had returned.

It turned out that they rushed too far ahead during the charge, lost contact with the main force, and got lost.

After wandering around for dozens of days, I finally came back.

There were even several soldiers who captured hundreds of prisoners and drove hundreds or even thousands of horses and cattle and sheep back to Peking Prefecture, for which they were rewarded.

So after a few days of investigation, the twelve civil servants met for the first time.

But after the first meeting, the expressions on each of their faces were very distorted.

They were very reluctant to acknowledge the results of their investigation.

Because from the results of their investigation.

This time, the Beiping Prefecture not only did not falsify its battle results, it even overreported the losses.

It turned out that the war was going very smoothly.

In fact, most of the time Zhu Di and his men did not encounter strong resistance, or the Tatar army had no way to resist at all.

It is precisely because of this that we can achieve such a good combat-damage ratio.

Especially the excellent weapons in the hands of the soldiers, which were like magical weapons, beat the enemy and made them flee in panic without any ability to fight back.

Many prisoners in the prisoner-of-war camps came forward to share their experiences.

They said that at that time they saw from afar that the Ming army soldiers were staying in place and forming a battle array.

From a distance, it seemed as if they were waiting for him to charge forward. With just a few charges, he could disperse the Ming army.

Then cut it into pieces and eat it slowly.

But unexpectedly, their horses had not yet rushed forward.

First, we heard the rumbling sound of cannons, like thunder.

At first they didn't know it was a cannon.

I just remember that after I heard the noise and had just reacted a little, I felt a lot of balls flying over my head.

When those balls fall to the ground and hit your body, you will be shattered into pieces. When they hit your horse, there will be a bloody mist.

It only takes one iron ball like this to fall, and at least twenty horses around it will fall down.

After the cannons were fired, people were still not satisfied, so they even fired muskets like machine guns.

No matter how fast their horses were, they could not avoid the rain of iron beads, and they were killed and thrown to the ground.

In the end it wasn't a war at all, it was just a one-sided massacre.

If the Ming army simply stood still, they would certainly have a chance to escape.

However, no one expected that the Ming army could ride on horses and fire guns on horseback.

This left the Mongolian Tartars at a loss.

There is no way to fight. Not only can they not get close, but they can't even escape. That's why they have no power to fight back and can only surrender in the end.

After hearing the survey results, these civil servants were actually very dissatisfied.

What they originally wanted to hear was that the Ming army also suffered heavy casualties.

But the prisoners clearly said that they also wanted such a result, but the result was not as expected.

How can we kill those people when we haven’t even gotten close?

We have arrows and bows, but we have to get close to the target before we can hit it.

Their muskets and artillery have a much longer range than ours, at least half as much.

When they get close, how many people can shoot arrows?
more importantly.

Today's muskets and cannons of the Ming Dynasty are nothing like the previous ones, which were just used to scare the cavalry.

At the beginning, they also thought that the muskets in the hands of the Ming army might be like the muskets of the Yuan Dynasty, where it would take a long time to reload and fire again after firing a shot.

Originally, they were thinking that they needed to avenge their companions who had fallen in front of them.

However, they did not expect that the Ming army on the opposite side would fire the second shot very quickly after the first shot. Such speed made it impossible for them to get close, and they could only passively take the beating, and finally had to flee in embarrassment.

Hearing that the Mongolian Tartars highly praised the muskets and cannons in the hands of the Ming army, the civil servants felt even more dissatisfied.

In their eyes, those things are just strange and tricky skills and are not worthy of promotion.

But on the battlefield, such unexpected results could be achieved.

Even the Mongolian cavalry, who came and went like the wind, showed deep fear when the mention of muskets and artillery was mentioned.

This is the look of someone who is truly convinced.

If the Ming army had taken any advantage on the battlefield, these captured Mongolian Tartars would not have behaved so obediently.

Now the civil servants saw that the Mongols in the prisoner camps were obediently obeying orders, doing what they were told to do and building railways.

Let them transport bricks and stones without any complaints.

This made the civil servants feel proud but also difficult to accept.

Because they knew that once they accepted such a result, it would prove that the current military generals were better capable of defending the Ming Dynasty and that civil officials did not need to intervene in the war in the north.

As a result, these civil servants lost a great deal of their control.

In the future, wars will always be fought by military generals.

“My fellow officers, what are the results of your investigation?
This time, my investigation really surprised me. It turned out that not only was there no falsification, but the loss ratio was even over-reported.

According to the results of our investigation, there were only seventy-nine soldiers killed in the northern grassland.

Seventy-nine men died in exchange for killing or wounding 80,000 to 90,000 enemy troops and capturing more than 100,000 enemy troops. Who can believe this?"

The civil servants were unwilling to believe it.

Then another civil servant said, "According to our investigation, when the Ming army attacked, the people of Beiping Prefecture were actually very proactive in donating food and fodder.

Even when His Royal Highness the Prince of Yan led the army to the north, the common people spontaneously formed teams to transport food and fodder.

On the vast grassland, together with the quartermasters, they transported food and fodder to the front line.

In this process, the people acted completely spontaneously, with no one organizing or urging them to do so.

They competed day and night to transport food and fodder for the Northern Expedition Army, ensuring that the Northern Expedition did not have to worry about food and fodder problems. "

At this point, the civil official was very moved and said, "We should be happy that the Ming Dynasty has such strong military and civilian support, but because of the opposition between the civil and military, we are blinded and unwilling to listen to these things.

But this is what really happened in Beiping Prefecture.

We should give justice to His Highness. With a god of war like him in Beiping to resist and stop the invaders from the south, we can sleep peacefully."

One of the civil servants was very unhappy when he heard this. "You mean to say that not only have we wronged His Royal Highness the Prince of Yan, but now we have to erect a monument and write a biography for him, right?"

The civil servant who spoke earlier nodded and said, "Anyway, I think we should act cautiously and not fabricate false news just because of the conflict between the civil and military officials.

Once the morale of the army and people in Beiping Prefecture is weakened, it is hard to imagine who will resist the Mongolian Tartars the next time they invade the south. "

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(End of this chapter)