night.

The sound of gunfire in Nanjing City continues.

In fact, Gao Panlong, Gu Xiancheng and others, who were trapped, led a team of 10,000 volunteers to fight to the death on Jilong Mountain.

They could only fight to the death.

After all, His Majesty the Emperor has already said that those soldiers can surrender, but they cannot do so. Even if they surrender, they will be executed on the spot.

And they threatened the soldiers and killed their whole family if they dared to surrender.

These soldiers were recruited from their hometowns and knew that they had the ability.

Their family is the actual controller of the local area. It is not easy to kill the whole family of these poor ghosts. Moreover, many of these volunteer teams are ruined in their clans and must rely on the clan to live. Therefore, there is no large-scale surrender of the volunteer team. On the contrary, they are all sticking to the defense line.

Jilong Mountain itself is a fortress, backed by the city wall and Xuanwu Lake. In addition, Fuzhou Mountain defends its defensive flank, and to the north is the lake water of Xijia Datang.

It is enough to support in a short period of time.

In fact, they also tried to counterattack the Taiping Gate. After all, the most important thing for them now is to escape. As long as they open the Taiping Gate, they can escape even if they dig into the mountains.

However, the counterattack failed.

These volunteer teams are still very combat-effective in defense. After all, their firearms are good. As long as they have sufficient ammunition, they can persist in shooting, but it will be difficult for them to attack. In fact, this kind of gentry-training armed forces is a common problem. If they persist in shooting, the charge will immediately appear. Fortunately, their opponents, the new army, are half a dozen of pounds with them. At present, even if both sides shoot at each other, the new army dare not attack. Such a short time is not enough to allow Qi Jin to train the real Qi family army.

It is impossible for Wu Weizhong to train in half a year for a genuine Qi Family Army who can continue to attack even if he is shot in the chest.

But the city wall between Zhoushan and Jilong Mountain was under the control of the Volunteer Team.

So some people with good water quality are already sneaking over the city walls. Although they cannot break through the blockade on the Taiping Dike, they can swim through Xuanwu Lake. In short, they are not all desperate. It is just that they swim in the lake for a long time in early spring, which requires good physical fitness. Moreover, there are already defenders in the islands in the lake, so there is not much hope of escaping. It is only applicable to a few people with excellent physical fitness. At least it is impossible for them to climb the dragon.

As for the attack on them, this is Qi Jin's job.

Yang Feng protected Wanli and went straight into his palace. When they arrived at the palace, it was actually dark.

As for the payment of money to military households and the executions of those officials, they have to wait for tomorrow.

Of course, the main reason is that Wanli had no money at this time. He could only send it to the military households if he had to offer the money to the Duke of Wei. However, he would definitely not owe any debts. After all, there were twenty taels of taels of new troops, and more than one hundred thousand people were waiting in the city. It would be difficult for him to say what he would do if he dared to owe the debt.

Actually, it's not just them.

Wu Weizhong, Zhu Wenda and others also had to give twenty taels.

Therefore, after getting the first wave of gains from His Majesty, he would immediately take over half of it. His Majesty was under a lot of pressure, and the Emperor Sancai was not that easy to be an emperor.

Qianqing Palace.

"Wine and singing, how much life is. It's like morning dew, and the past is full of suffering!"

Yang Feng stood on the top floor of the hall, watching the flashing fires in the distance.

Then he turned to look at the emperor...

"Well, your Majesty, I just felt it."

He said.

"You don't need to be too careful, I have never doubted you."

Wanli said sincerely.

Then the king and his ministers smiled at each other, and the style was quite awkward.

"I don't expect this Nandu Palace to be destroyed so much, and these left-behind eunuchs don't know what they are doing."

The Imperial Concubine quickly changed to this more dangerous topic...

He has suffered a lot from going to Japan. What does this mean? He is like a morning dew. Are you ready to rush to enjoy your appetite?

I can't discuss these poems anymore.

However, the palace was indeed very broken. There were a pile of tattered pieces next to them, and there was even a small piece of starry sky flashing above their heads.

The three front halls of the Nanjing Imperial Palace have actually turned into ruins. They have been burned many times over two hundred years, and it is difficult to rebuild after being destroyed. After all, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty has always been short of money. Even the imperial palace in the capital can be repaired for decades, let alone the Nanjing one. The Wuying Palace is truly intact, so Hongguang can only ascend the throne in the Wuying Palace, and the harem is even more ruined. The same is true for the Ganqing Palace, but even so, he must live here.

To be precise, hiding here.

Because His Majesty the Emperor sneaked here from Wuying Hall in the middle of the night, just like in the capital.

"You really think someone will take action tonight?"

Wanli said.

"Your Majesty, I think there is no reason not to happen tonight. Your Majesty uses thunder to severely punish these rebel parties, and it is inevitable that someone will lose his mind and want to kill him. Tonight is the only chance. When Qi Jin solves the rebel parties on Jilong Mountain, they will never have another chance."

Yang Feng said with a smile.

"Then you are still so fierce and even with a guillotine, I'm afraid even if I see it. Who dares to surrender? Originally, His Majesty entered Nanjing to show his magnanimity and then issued an imperial edict. Those who are still following the rebels in Jiangnan will know the rebellion. Just like in Shandong before, Jiangnan was pacified in a blink of an eye, but now it's hard to say that this killing is hard. Even if they want to save their lives, they have to fight to the death."

The imperial concubine said dissatisfiedly.

"The kindness of a woman!"

Wanli scolded.

"I just want to pacify Jiangnan as soon as possible."

The imperial concubine said.

"Empress, why are we going south?"

"I am a woman, how do you know what you men want?"

"Empress, our purpose of going south is actually very simple. It is for the land in Jiangnan. This is the richest land in our Ming Dynasty. As long as you truly master it, Your Majesty will no longer have to worry about money and food."

"Isn't it your Majesty's?"

"Empress, Your Majesty is indeed the lord of Jiangnan. But it is not Your Majesty who controls the land in Jiangnan, but the gentry and aristocratic families all over the country, all of whom have tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land, exploiting tenants and even serfs, and using the imperial examination to control the officialdom to exterminate the emperor. In two hundred years, they have become the real masters of this land. In the lower part, the tenants and serfs are becoming more and more miserable, and all the harvests have become theirs.

But the emperor did not receive taxes.

The lower part is hungry and cold, and the higher part is the national treasury.

All the money was piled up in the middle, all in the hands of these aristocratic families.

If the people want to have enough food, the treasury can collect enough taxes. The most perfect thing is Taizu, who will take all these aristocratic families and kill those who should be killed, and those who are not easy to kill will have to commit large prisons. They will conceal their land and distribute them to the farmers who originally cultivated these lands. They will pay taxes directly to the emperor.

This is what Taizu did back then.

What Your Majesty needs now is to restore the Ming Dynasty ancestor system.

This is also something they absolutely cannot bear. They must resist. Since this is inevitable, why should Your Majesty be polite to them? What they want is that they rebel. If they don’t rebel, there is no good reason to raid their house. There is no need to show kindness to them. We are here to go to war with them. Why do we still show kindness to them? Can we show kindness to them and they will be able to offer their land in the future?

They still have to resist.

It would be better to be more ruthless and let the people know that His Majesty came to help them.”

Yang Feng instilled in them the theory of domination without middlemen.

"But if the world is reversed, how should it end?"

The imperial concubine said.

"Taizu unified the world with a commoner. Your Majesty is much better now than Taizu back then. If the world rebelled, then learn from Taizu to fight again. Taizu brought military households to sweep the world. If you have ministers to assist Your Majesty, why can't Your Majesty sweep those rebellions like Taizu?"

Yang Feng said.

Of course, this is the danger that is relatively high and it is easy to die due to various reasons.

But there is no need to say this. As a loyal minister, you cannot worry His Majesty the Emperor. Even if he dies suddenly, he is better than him to be afraid of him so much that he can't sleep well.

His Majesty the Emperor looked at them silently. The palace outside was pitch black. He could not tell how he was feeling at the moment. However, he had no other choice now. Even if he wanted to reconcile with the gentry of Jiangnan, Yang Feng could not agree. In this sense, His Majesty the Emperor had to rebel even if he didn't want to rebel. However, he could also guess that Yang Feng's purpose was nothing more than to make him truly a public enemy of officials and gentry in the world.

But……

This seems to be good.

What His Majesty the Emperor needs most now is to strengthen his own strength.

Only by having enough control of Yang Feng’s strength can he ensure that he continues to be the emperor.

But how can we strengthen our strength?

Don’t you have to rely on money and fields to win people’s hearts?

From the performance of those military households today, he already knew very well that if he wanted to gain support, he would give money and land. He was the emperor. If he gave money and land, the military households would fight for him. As long as the military households recognized him as the emperor and was willing to fight for him, Yang Feng would not dare to kill him and usurp the throne. But where did the money and land come from? He could only use the scout of the aristocratic families such as Jiangnan. This is the only way. It can be said that scouting the aristocratic families such as Jiangnan was to preserve his throne.

Things are actually very simple.

"You are indeed a well-planned minister!"

His Majesty the Emperor said with a smile.

At this moment, in the darkness in the distance, a little fire suddenly lit up, and then quickly became larger, and in a blink of an eye it turned into a obviously rising flame.

The fire also illuminated the place, and the Wuying Hall where he really lived was quickly swallowed by the flames.

"Let you guess it right!"

Wanli sneered.

The flames of Wuying Palace continued to rise, and there were more than one arson point, and many arsons were set at the same time, which made the palace turn into a sea of ​​fire in a very short period of time...

"Your Majesty, Empress, rest, let's watch the show tomorrow."

Yang Feng said with a smile.

:.:
Chapter completed!