Chapter 372: The Capital

The border soldiers guarding the Great Wall suddenly realized in the spring of the 18th year of Jiajing that their work had become much easier.

No Mongols came to attack at all. The so-called 60,000 troops of the Wassai tribe seemed to disappear, and suddenly disappeared into the air. The common rumors now are that the Wassai troops suffered inexplicable disasters in very northern places, and the entire force disappeared.

If the Ming Dynasty had arranged hundreds of thousands of troops on the border and had been guarding for more than a hundred years, the Mongols who had disappeared like this, no one would believe it.

But now no one in the border pass can care about Mongolian affairs, and everyone in the world of Daming has set their sights on the capital.

I don’t know when it started. Perhaps it was after the Spring Festival in the tenth year of Jiajing. There were always many major events in every twelfth lunar month. Several chaos in Shandong, the Japanese pirates on the coast, and the pacification of these things all happened around the end of the year.

In the past, every autumn, the Mongols always took advantage of the high and fat autumn to go south to plunder and attack the border, and then the Ming army in the pass mobilized, resisted, and attacked. Most of the arrangements for the financial and policy of the Ming Dynasty nationwide were based on this, but gradually, the Mongols gradually stopped moving south. Instead, in winter, all kinds of illegal people were in rebellion in various inland provinces.

Chen Shizi, Liu Shisan and Wendao's uprising gave these people too much encouragement. They thought the Ming Dynasty's system and structure were not too stable now, and there were many loopholes to exploit. Adventurers could go on risk and gain wealth, but they didn't know who was behind the huge rebellion.

Back in the twelfth month of the 17th year of Jiajing, the Qin army used to supplement the defense of the capital suddenly entered the capital without any warning.

The Qin army on the three sides of Shaanxi can be regarded as one of the most powerful troops of the Ming Dynasty. Shaanxi is located in a remote place and has no wealth and prosperity. The folk customs are simple. Moreover, it is close to the Western Regions. The invasion and plunder of foreign races has never stopped since a thousand years ago. Years of battle have made the Qin army extremely powerful.

Since the Jingtai period, there has been no incident of border troops entering the city, so when a large number of Qin troops flocked into the city at the Ximen of the capital, many people did not react, or they did not know what was happening at all.

The capital can be regarded as the power of the army, including the Five City Military Office, the Jing Guard, the Imperial Horse Inspector and the Jinyiwei. The Five City Military Office is only to maintain public order, and it also relies very heavily on the Shuntian Prefecture yamen runners and the Jinyiwei, which shows that it is useless.

There were 5,000 people in the Jingwei, but under the emperor's deliberate indulgence, the Jingwei was usually extremely short of money. After all, the emperor was unwilling to have a conventional military force controlled by the outside dynasty around him. Moreover, the Jingwei's first-class and prosperous guards in the capital were extremely decayed.

The soldiers' discipline was worse than the soldiers of the 12th Regiment Battalion that the Qin generals despised, and they were basically rogues in the capital who served as patients, let alone any combat effectiveness.

The real elite force is the four camps of the Imperial Horse Prison. This army has maintained a number of 3,000 to 4,000 people in the Forbidden City all year round. Most of the candidates are orphans from the border army and young people who fled back in Mongolia. They are well-equipped. They are usually under the control of the eunuch in charge of the Imperial Horse Prison.

You may still remember that when Jiang Feng started his business, he received the greatest blessing from Zhang Yong, the eunuch in charge of the seal from the Imperial Horse Prison. In fact, the power of this position is no less than that of the prominent and majestic internal officials like the Admiral of the East Factory and the Eunuch of the Sili Prison, and even more trusted by the emperor.

As for the Jinyiwei, the Jinyiwei's function was not to fight. His Han general system was the emperor's Yulin Army, serving as a guard of etiquette. The yamen of the North and South Fushi Office was mainly supplemented and strengthened by the Ministry of Justice.

When the Qin army's cavalry and infantry swarmed into the capital, the five cities' military commanders basically did not respond, while the Beijing guards scattered in a hurry, and even some brave rogues began to rob the houses in troubled waters.

After almost everyone knew that the border troops entered the capital, the entire capital suddenly became in chaos. However, throughout the process, the Qin army's military discipline was maintained very strictly, and their goal was to be the Forbidden City.

Huang Jin, the eunuch in charge of the seal of the Imperial Horse Prison, took charge of the seal for a while, and then gave Lu Jin, who was also an old person in the Xingxian Palace and was also a good friend of Huang Jin. Of course, Lu Jin also had his own industry outside the pass, and the scale was quite large. The Imperial Army of the Imperial Horse Prison also had various early warning measures in the capital city.

Before the Beijing Guards collapsed, Lu Jin had already begun to issue orders to mobilize troops, but what he did not expect was that the order he issued was blocked by a little eunuch of no level with a token. The officer of the Imperial Horse Prison was really dumbfounded at this time, thinking that he had never seen such a situation for so many years as a soldier to eat food.

The orders of the eunuchs in the Imperial Horse Prison were blocked, and the person blocked was actually the eunuchs around the emperor, and they also held effective tokens. Since both sides had the power to represent the emperor, and they were not fake, then the soldiers in the Imperial Horse Prison could not help anyone. They just watched the two eunuchs quarreling there, but in this way, nothing was too late.

Zhou Lin, deputy general of Yansui, led a team of 1,000 horses to the front. The general Guan Hai led two thousand soldiers to the place where the Imperial Horse Imperial Army was stationed, while the remaining two thousand soldiers followed the team.

The soldiers of the Imperial Horse Supervisor did not receive the order to act, that is, they were still waiting in the barracks. Guan Hai's two thousand soldiers were not as good as Dingduo, but after entering Beijing, there were eunuchs who disguised themselves as civilians to pick them up. After meeting with the Qin army, they led the way in front and led the soldiers to the barracks of the Imperial Horse Supervisor.

The guard at the gate looked at the eunuch's seal and was extremely puzzled. He thought that there was someone quarreling inside, so why did another one come over? But the seal was not fake, so he had to open the door.

As soon as the door was opened, the matter became simple. The Qin army, which was like a wolf and a tiger, immediately rushed in. The unprepared horse imprisonment army had to be disarmed obediently.

The quarrel between the eunuch Lu Jin, the eunuch in charge of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and the eunuch, finally distinguished who was right. The Qin army outside was full of murderous aura, so naturally they could distinguish who was right.

It was not until this time that the eunuch who led the Qin army and opened the door to take out the edict of Emperor Jiajing. Lu Jin's eunuch, the chief eunuch of the imperial horse supervisor, was deprived of the eunuch of the imperial horse supervisor, and Tian Xin, the eunuch who led the way, became the new eunuch of the imperial horse supervisor. Soon, the imperial guard of the imperial horse supervisor was mobilized again.

This was the time when the civil and military officials met. The sound insulation of the court meeting was quite good. The Qin army acted quickly, and the chaotic noise of the people and horses did not hear the chaotic officials of the court meeting at all. However, it was a mess here. When Emperor Jiajing ascended the throne, it was not like Jiang Feng's history. Now he is obsessed with practicing Taoism and seeking immortality, and is still diligent in political affairs. Because of the several major chaos and the emergence of incredible things, Jiajing could not retreat behind the scenes.

It was not until the 16th year of Jiajing that he began to invite Taoist priests around the Xingxian Palace to the palace, and began a major problem. Gradually, there were records of not attending court.

Civil servants hate this situation the most. These ministers who study Confucian laws and documents cannot tolerate their emperors not governing the country, but are immersed in these gods and ghosts every day.

This is also a contradiction. On the one hand, the noble groups that have made huge commercial gains outside the pass and in Nanyang do not want the emperor to interfere in their business, but on the other hand, they feel that the emperor must do his best to govern the country. They feel that they are loyal to the Ming Dynasty and the emperor. Of course, this feeling is only what they think.

Every time the emperor did not pay tribute, the civil servants tried their best to persuade him. Emperor Jiajing then accepted the advice and went to court to deal with it for a few days, and then stayed in the palace to practice Taoism. Such tug-of-war between each other has lasted for a long time, but this time the court officials finally couldn't stand it anymore, because Emperor Jiajing had not appeared in the court for half a month, and all the memorials of the civil servants were sank to the sea.

After the eunuch on duty shouted "retreat the court" with a sharp voice, Yan Song, the Minister of Rites, took a few steps and grabbed Huang Jin who had not left. Although the eunuchs in the Silijian were of weight, the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet taught the eunuchs in the inner study room to study. Therefore, it was not a special dynasty, and the relationship between the internal and external dynasties was still quite close. Huang Jin was not angry, but instead spoke actively:

"Mr. Yan, our family can't persuade the emperor, and we can't stand it..."

While talking, the other people spoke in a slight manner and said:

"Eunuch Huang, if the emperor continues like this, where will the people of the world be placed, and where will the Taimiao be placed in the country be placed, we will be advised to death!" Before he could finish his passionate words, several small eunuchs ran into the outside in panic, and there was a loud noise.

shouted:

"No, no, the army outside has entered the city!!"

Those who heard this were shocked. More people had not yet reacted. It was impossible for a large army to enter the capital.

Before they could continue to react, the eunuch who had just shouted out to retreat to the court was sweating profusely and returned to the hall, shouting in a trembling voice:
Chapter completed!