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Chapter 84 Every noble should have his own crooked neck tree

"So, distinguished nobles, should you do it yourself, or should I do it for you?"

Yang Feng said sincerely.

"Run!"

Sun Weifan, the Marquis of Huaining who was with him, ran away.

But at the next moment, Yang Feng's Folangji flew out and landed accurately on his legs. His legs instantly folded forward strangely. Marquis Huaining screamed and fell down, squirming like a bug. The four remaining Dukes of Dingguo, Xu Yunzhen, Pengcheng Bo Zhang Guangzu, Qingping Bo Wu Zunzhou and Wang Dehua, looked on tremblingly. Zhang Guangzu was so frightened that he collapsed on the ground...

For them, this picture is still too scary.

Of course, not gore.

Deaths were not the most common in the capital at this time.

The gore isn't worth mentioning either.

When the Jianlu invaders first invaded, what kind of dead people were there outside?

Rather, it impacts their worldview.

In the hearts of these nobles who have been hereditary for more than two hundred years, they are really superior, as if they are immortal and superior to all living beings. They are hereditary, sitting on iron bonds, and living with the country. The emperor can say that I am the country. , they can also say that the country is them.

They are the Ming Dynasty.

As for the rest...

They are all living beings under their feet.

Because the word "nobility" means that they are different from others.

Crack the soil and separate the grass.

Of course, reality is another story.

But they never imagined that with their status, one day they would be slaughtered by common people like pigs and sheep. What was horrifying was not this picture, but the reality that they were being slaughtered like pigs and sheep. …

"Dingguo Gong, please stop holding that broken blunderbuss. You didn't even clip the match rope. What can you do with it? After all, you are also the queen of Zhongshan Wuning. I still treat the princes of Taizu's time. I respect you very much, so I will give you a chance to pick a crooked-neck tree by yourself. The one behind you is just right. Hurry up, I am also in a hurry. If you continue to delay, then don't blame me for being rude, Wang Governor, hurry up and serve Duke Ding on his way."

Yang Feng carried another Folangji and waved to Wang Dehua.

Duke Wang...

"You, you, everything you said is true!"

Duke Wang suddenly pointed at the crooked neck tree behind Duke Ding and exclaimed.

Of course the eunuchs knew what Yang Feng said at Yuntai Gate.

"You said you are not as loyal as Wang Chengen, and you still feel aggrieved. Wang Chengen came to look for the crooked tree right after, and you didn't see it until now? Also, I will make it clear to you that next year you will be The enemy opened the door, and he was highly appreciated. You see, I am actually killing the traitor in advance for Your Majesty."

Yang Feng said with a smile.

Wang Dehua stood there without tears.

The next moment, Xu Yunzhen howled sadly and turned around to look at the Crooked Neck Tree...

Then he howled again.

However, he also understood that he would not be able to escape today, so he took off his belt shiveringly and put it on the crooked neck tree. Wu Zunzhou, who was also full of grief and indignation, picked up a stone and put it under his feet. Xu Yunzhen looked at him a little blankly...

"Hurry up, I still have to use it!"

Wu Zunzhou said.

Xu Yunzhen......

He howled again.

Wang Dehua suddenly knelt down.

"Member Yang Sheng, Officer Yang Sheng, I'm still useful. I know how they faked the imperial edict. All the conspirators will be confessed to you. I just ask you to spare my life."

He said while kowtowing.

Xu Yunzhen and the others turned to look at Yang Feng expectantly.

"None of my business!"

Yang Feng said.

Wang Dehua was speechless.

Indeed, it was none of his business. It was Chongzhen who betrayed the imperial edict by falsely conveying it, not Yang Feng. As for who participated, it had nothing to do with Yang Feng. It was the nobles he wanted to kill. Those nobles who participated must be killed. No. Everyone involved will also be killed. Does he need to care about these details? They all became dead, and all they had to do was hand over their food and money. As for what they did during their struggle, it was as unworthy of mention as the struggle of ants before they were trampled to death.

"You still don't understand the current Ming Dynasty. You guys are meaningless. In front of the butcher's knife, who cares about your trivial things? I just want you to die. What have you done and what have you not done? You are good people and bad people. It doesn't matter whether you are loyal or traitorous, I need you all to die, and Ming Dynasty needs you to die, so you have to die."

Yang Feng said sincerely.

Indeed, does it make sense for these people to remain stubborn in front of the butcher's knife?

It makes no sense!

When Duduo arrived in Yangzhou, the salt merchants in Yangzhou City collected 300,000 yuan to reward the army!

How humorous.

I guess Dodo was amused.

Xu Yunzhen trembled and finally finished the belt. He stepped on the stone that Wu Zunzhou moved and put his head in with the help of Wu Zunzhou. Then he looked around. Wang Dehua was kneeling there crying, and Sun Weifan was still screaming. Squirming, Zhang Guangzu was still paralyzed on the ground, his eyes were lifeless and he was making meaningless noises, as if he had been spoiled...

"Ancestors, please open your eyes and take a look!"

He shouted sadly.

Then he kicked off the stone and immediately hung on the crooked neck tree.

"Return to my ancestors, for a waste like you, even if Xu Da comes alive, you have to chop him into pieces, so as not to suffer this shame."

Yang Feng said contemptuously.

Wu Zunzhou looked at him sadly and indignantly, then silently made a noose with his belt...

"Get up, it's just a matter of death!"

He looked at Zhang Guangzu angrily.

He was not tortured to death. When Li Zicheng came to Beijing, he was the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Army Governor's Office, so Li Zicheng cut down the sacrificial flag. Zhang Guangzu came to his senses, struggled to get up, walked to him, helped him step on the stone, and then put his head into the noose. Wu Zunzhou looked at Yang Feng with hatred and kicked off the stone simply. However, the crooked neck tree was very thick, and there was no bend in it for two people to hang on it. Yang Feng kicked Wang Dehua, and Wang Dugong had no choice but to walk over in tears, and together with Zhang Guangzu, they lifted up the unlucky Sun Weifan, and then hung up the Marquis of Huaining as well. . Then came Zhang Guangzu, who also needed help. As for Wang Dehua, after finishing Zhang Guangzu's death, he suddenly looked behind Yang Feng in surprise...

"Long live Lord, long live Lord, save this slave!"

He threw himself to the ground.

Yang Feng turned around and saw Chongzhen and Lao Wang at Xuanwu Gate.

He kicked Wang Dehua.

"Even Emperor Taizu Gao is here today, and you have to hang up too."

He said.

Chongzhen watched without saying a word.

Wang Dehua struggled to run towards him, but Yang Feng grabbed him, but making a noose was too cumbersome. He picked up a knife and cut off a branch, and suddenly pressed Wang Dehua against the stubble. The stubble instantly pierced his heart. Wang Dehua hung on it and struggled for a few times, then his head dropped and he died.

Yang Feng admired the four princes hanging on the crooked neck tree and the governor...

"It's a bit crowded. Every noble here should have his own crooked neck tree."

he said rather regretfully.

Then he walked to Chongzhen carrying two francjis.

"Your Majesty, these traitors hijacked Your Majesty and falsely conveyed the imperial edict. The students have punished them on Your Majesty's behalf," he said.

Chongzhen...

Chongzhen took a deep breath.

"Yang Sheng, I am aware of these treacherous and treacherous plots. I have issued an order to Tang Tong to lead his army to withdraw from the capital. In addition, according to Tang Tong's report, Zhang Ruxing, the commander-in-chief of Tongzhou, was bribed by Wang Dehua and others with 400,000 taels to massacre the people in the city. I have issued an order. arrest."

He said expressionlessly.

He is enduring very hard now, and he is not angry with these nobles and eunuchs. Although these people are indeed bold and dare to falsely pass on the imperial edict, in the final analysis, they are not forced by Yang Feng and the unscrupulous people in the capital. It can be said that this bastard in front of him has made the capital a state of disobedience, and the people have become disobedient. Everything is in chaos. This place, which was once the most benign place in the capital, has now turned into a chaotic mess of demons. He didn't dare to have an attack yet, after all, his life was at stake, and he even had to offer his daughter to woo her...

Well, although his daughter's use of the word charming is a bit exaggerated.

"Your Majesty, if that's the case, then your Majesty's previous promises have not changed?"

Yang Feng said in surprise.

"Long live the Lord's eloquent words, there is no reason to change. For this reason, you have rashly violated the palace and broken down the palace gate. Why don't you leave quickly!"

Lao Wang said angrily.

"I knew Wang Dehua was a liar, long live my emperor!"

Yang Feng said happily.

Chongzhen tried hard to control it, and the muscles on his face kept twitching.

Since His Majesty the Emperor spoke so eloquently, it was indeed wrong to continue the quarrel. Yang Feng quickly resigned and headed north out of Bei'anmen. However, Zhang Ruxing had already been defeated by this time. He actually set fire to it, but then hundreds of thousands of Qing people gathered in Dongcheng. Zhuang rushed over, but his thousands of cavalry were of no use, and he was immediately overwhelmed by the angry military households. When Yang Feng left the city, Tang Tong also took his servants to arrest Zhang Ruxing. Zhang Ruxing angrily cursed at Tang Tong. After all, this bastard was still acting at the time. Tang Tong, who was quite guilty, did not need Yang Feng to take action and took his servant Hanyong. In the end, with the cooperation of the military households, Zhang Ruxing's troops were wiped out in one fell swoop.

Real annihilation.

In fact, most of Zhang Ruxing's men surrendered, but they were directly thrown into the fire by the angry military households.

As for Zhang Ruxing himself, he was shot to death by Tang Tong's men.

He is from Guangping, and he surrendered Liu Fangliang in Guangping next year.

At this point, the chaos in the capital ended for the time being.

As for those nobles...

"Damn it, is this no food?"

Yang Feng looked angrily at the bullock carts carrying food into the city.

This was just confiscated from Dingguo Gongxunzhuang.

Moreover, such grain transport convoys are coming from one village to another around the capital. In fact, Yang Feng’s statistics are not too inaccurate. These guys really have more than a hundred hidden treasures in various villages. Eight hundred thousand stones of rice, wheat, millet, etc., but most of them are rice. This can only be shipped from the south. Although there were some rice fields in the north at this time, they were just small rice fields similar to the achievements of local officials. After all, these rice fields needed water, and not just water for irrigating the fields, they were paddy fields that needed a stable water supply. The most suitable area in the north is actually the Tianjin area, so Xu Guangqi experimented with growing rice there. However, the Northern Zhili gentry opposed it because they were worried that if he succeeded, the court would cut back on grain supplies. If there was a drought and Tianjin's rice production was reduced, it would be too late to transport it from the south. Additional levies can only be imposed nearby in Beizhili.

In fact, taxes in Beizhili are very low.

The whole of Beizhili pays 600,000 shi a year...

Of course, low taxes have nothing to do with the people.

Therefore, the gentry and officials in Beizhili opposed it, and Xu Guangqi failed in the end.

Of course, it is also possible that the gentry officials in Northern Zhili felt that if it was so good, why should they take advantage of the court? It’s not urgent to get it, but you have to mess with him first.

And these grain trucks are transporting the grain to the palace, or Qianbu Corridor to be precise.

Stack it there for now.

Then continue to distribute food at Chengtianmen.

It's just that the scope of food distribution has been expanded. Not only the military households in the capital, but also the guards in various places around the capital, even in places like Jizhou and Yongping, are all divided according to the previous standards, with two stones for the main soldiers, one stone for the rest, and half a stone for women and children. .

At the same time, money is divided according to nationality.

One or two per person.

Including refugees.

But refugees need to register their households.

So this is a big project, after all, there are actually a lot of refugees.

In addition, each of the soldiers who participated in the battle against Jianlu had five taels each. This was a reward, in addition to military salary. As for the source of Chongzhen's money, this was of course paid by the nobles. At this time, all the nobles and eunuchs who participated in dragging him down at Dong'anmen are all staying in prison. How to punish him depends on the performance of their families. However, His Majesty the Emperor should not be prepared to confiscate their homes, and it is impossible for him to confiscate their homes. At this time, he needs people who are loyal to him even more. Anyway, Yang Feng is the bad guy here.

It wasn't him who asked the nobles to hand over food and money, it was Yang Feng who forced him to do so.

Look at the row of dead bodies on the crooked neck tree.

What can he do?

He is also very helpless!

The most important thing for us monarchs and ministers now is to coax him away first.

"Ugh!"

Lao Wang sighed.

He is the person in charge of this project of sharing money and food.

"When you started the fire, didn't you think about what would happen next?"

He said.

"That's none of my business!"

Yang Feng said simply.

Then he looked at the time...

"Hurry up. I don't want any more accidents to happen during this period. I have to return to Shandong as soon as possible."

He said.

"Are you going back to Shandong?"

Lao Wang said in astonishment.

"Of course I have to go back. I still keep my filial piety. Besides, as a loyal minister, shouldn't you stand on His Majesty's side? Your Majesty is eagerly waiting for me to leave. In addition, he went back and told him that when I go back, he will appoint me as Qingyi Military Preparation Officer. road."

Yang Feng said.

At this time, there was Qingzhou Bingbei Road and Yizhou Bingbei Road, but the Yizhou Bingbei Road was mainly based on canals. In this way, when the two Bingbei Roads were combined, he could play at will. It is meaningless in the capital. Although these military households listen to him now, it is because of money and food, but they have no loyalty to him at all. After all the food and money are distributed, not only will they no longer follow him, but they may even follow Chongzhen and become his enemy. How can anyone abandon the emperor for three hundred years and become a thief?

He is a real pro-military guard, a military householder in the capital, so of course he listens to him if he has nothing to eat, but who cares about him if he has something to eat?

Can he collect taxes from Jiangnan to support the capital?

As for Xungui’s money...

Keep that one as bait.

What will happen to those generals after this civil uprising?

You have to give them a bait.

"Then why not appoint him in the capital?"

Lao Wang said in astonishment.

"I am keeping my filial piety. I am a filial son, just like I am a loyal minister. What does it mean to accept an appointment here? Could it be that I forced His Majesty to appoint him, but after I go back, you can use his favor to appoint me!"

Yang Feng said with a smile.

It seems that after he returned, he didn't force the emperor to seal him.

(End of this chapter)