Chapter 127 Qi Family Army is not easy to practice
Chapter 127 Qi Jiajun is not easy to train
The chaos in the city was soon quelled, and no one dared to leave corpses and debris on the streets anymore.
Almost all of them closed their doors and hid in their houses, while Li Dakai and his people continued to search for fish that had slipped through the city. Anyone who appeared in places where they shouldn't be was arrested.
The mansion of Wei Guogong and other nobles was also completely controlled by the army. Everyone had their hands tied and knelt on the ground.
"Report to the Queen Mother and Concubine, Commander Li has quelled the civil strife in the city, and Commander Xu has completely taken control of the mansions of Wei Guogong and other nobles."
A general rushed into the hall to report.
When the civil servants heard this, they all breathed a heavy sigh of relief.
Zhang Yan's clenched hand couldn't help but loosen.
"What are the casualties in the city?" Qian Qianyi looked at the general and asked anxiously, obviously knowing that many people would suffer from the disaster of Chiyu in this situation.
Everyone also looked at the general who was kneeling on one knee, but unfortunately the latter didn't even look at them, so he didn't reply. He just looked at the red lady and waited for orders.
"Okay! Order Li Dakai to block all city gates and piers in Nanjing from now on. A two-day curfew will be implemented in the city. During this period, no one is allowed to go out and move around. Violators will be arrested for disorderly conduct, and those who resist arrest will be shot without mercy!
Send an order to Xu Lan to first take all the prisoners in each mansion to the palace and imprison them together, and then send all the property to the palace. Food and livestock can be temporarily sealed in the palace!"
"yes!"
The general rushed out again.
The red lady then looked at the civil servants and said, "Please, please stay in the palace for these two days. I will take care of the food and drinks."
After saying that, he ignored them and helped Zhang Yan up: "Auntie, you are tired too. Let your nephew-in-law help you back to the palace to rest!"
"Um."
Zhang Yan also ignored the officials who were already in trouble, nodded, and left with the red lady.
All the civil servants were so angry that their beards were standing up. Obviously, they did not expect that the Red Lady would be so ruthless. Not only did she completely blockade the city of Nanjing for two days, but she also locked them up in the palace.
"Everyone, haven't you seen clearly the temper of this noble concubine? Before she finishes ransacking her house, I'm afraid no one will have a good life!"
Ma Shiying had a sinister smile on his face, then he found a pillar and sat cross-legged, and began to close his eyes and meditate.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for Lu Jiude and a group of eunuchs to come in with a bed cover and pile it aside.
"Everyone, we have three meals a day, enough tea and water, and a bed and blanket for each person. You can find your own place. You are not allowed to leave the main hall. You must inform us in advance if you want to use the toilet."
Lu Jiude raised his neck and said with a wicked smile.
"It's too much. How can you put all the ministers under house arrest in Fengtian Palace?"
"Is it possible that your Majesty is still worried that something will happen to me when I return?"
Everyone was aggrieved. Although he would not lose a piece of meat if he was imprisoned for two days, it was too humiliating.
Little did they know that Red Lady also learned this move from Zhu Cixiang, but she did it more cruelly.
But there is nothing that can be done about it. Firstly, the manpower is limited, and the network of relationships among the nobles is too complicated and huge. Secondly, Nanjing is not as good as Beijing, and the people here do not have as much respect for the imperial power as in Beijing.
In Beijing, things that can be solved with a howl from a royal guard may require surgery in Nanjing.
Following the Red Lady's order, all the city gates in Nanjing were closed, and soldiers patrolled the streets while beating gongs to announce the curfew.
And the prisoners in the noble residences, no matter men, women, old or young, were all driven towards the palace.
There are only a dozen or so noble families, and the number of servants and maids in their families alone is as many as ten thousand, and there are also tens of thousands of relatives in their families. This is only within the five clothes, not counting the stewards and shopkeepers in various places.
This shows how powerful these nobles are in Nanjing.
In addition to the thousands of gang members and hooligans who were killed, tens of thousands were also arrested. Also arrested were some ordinary people who had no time to escape back to their houses.
It really took two days and two nights to transport all the goods back to the palace. They were piled high and dazzling.
Fortunately, there are many houses and palaces in the palace.
Zhang Yan and Lady Hong made a tour and were dumbfounded.
"Auntie, I have to trouble you to take care of these things. I also need to sort out the land deeds, IOUs, etc. one by one and send someone to collect them."
"All right!"
Zhang Yan nodded with a wry smile. He knew that with the maids and eunuchs he brought, he would probably have to clean up the place for more than half a month.
The red lady was most afraid of statistics and registration. Seeing that Zhang Yan was willing to take on this task, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief and went to the place where those who caused the rebellion were imprisoned.
"My Majesty, the preliminary interrogation of these people has been completed, and the innocent people have been released. There are still more than 7,000 people left. They are either gang members or people who took advantage of the situation to rob the land. Please tell me how to deal with it."
"Select those who are leading the way and have them sentenced to canon outside the city in three days. The others will be detained first and then sent to Qiongzhou together." After finishing speaking, the red lady asked, "How is the takeover of the capital camp outside the city?"
"Going back to your Majesty, the middle and high-level officers have been replaced by our own people, and the noble slaves have also been eliminated. There are still nearly 40,000 people left." Li Dakai hurriedly replied.
"Well, if these 40,000 people are well trained, can they fight?" The red lady nodded and then asked.
"These people are bloodless. Even if they are training, I'm afraid they will become soft-footed shrimps on the battlefield. Even if they are auxiliary soldiers, the general will think they are a bit reluctant!"
Li Dakai shook his head with a wry smile. It was a waste of his time to ask him to train those 40,000 people.
"It seems that we have to recruit again, but this land in the south of the Yangtze River has been at peace for a long time. Where can we recruit 80,000 bloody heroes?"
The red lady said with a slight headache.
His Majesty asked her to train at least 100,000 soldiers and horses, but now the 40,000 Beijing troops cannot be used, which means that she has to recruit 80,000 new soldiers.
"Mother, the people in the mountainous areas of western Zhejiang are brave and fierce, so they may not lose to the north. Qi Shaobao recruited soldiers here. After rigorous training, they will conquer the enemy and win every battle without ever being defeated."
Li Dakai said with a proud face at the end, he was obviously from Zhejiang.
"Yes, why did I forget this!" The red lady slapped her forehead and remembered that her husband had told her the story of Qi Jiajun before.
"Your Majesty, there is definitely no shortage of money and food now. Why don't we just train a Qi family army?"
Li Dakai thought about it and said, looking eager to try.
"Can you practice?"
The red lady rolled her eyes.
She had heard that the Qi Army often killed thousands of enemies with dozens or hundreds of casualties in field battles, and there were even zero casualties.
The key is that the opponents are not just a bunch of people.
As a general who has commanded hundreds of thousands of troops, she knows very well how difficult it is to achieve this, and it is almost impossible.
"Empress, isn't there a military manual? Can't we just practice according to the military manual?" Li Dakai said.
"To put it lightly, ten thousand people are like one person. Do you think twenty thousand brothers can do it?"
The red lady said angrily.
She knows her brother better than anyone else. Although he dares to fight and kill, his military discipline is not very good. Fighting on the battlefield relies on personal bravery rather than cooperation.
She has also read Qi Shaobao's military manual. If he wants to implement the orders and prohibitions as stated in the military manual, he must not allow 20,000 old brothers to serve as generals and lead the troops.
Li Dakai also understood that the imperial concubine could not help but insert old soldiers to control the new ones, so he did not mention the training of the Qi family army again.
"However, although the Qi family army cannot be trained, the soldiers will still be recruited from western Zhejiang. By then they will be trained strictly and military discipline will be strictly enforced. It will still be a strong army. Li Dakai, you will be responsible for the recruitment and training of the soldiers. The new soldiers will be except for one or two per month."
Military pay, and a one-time payment of five taels of silver as housing allowance."
The red lady thought about it and said, the South is not better than the North. In the North, as long as they are given meals, there are many people who are willing to serve as soldiers, but if the South does not provide settlement fees, he estimates that no one will be willing to do it.