Chapter 800: Captive
Yuka month! Later, it was the first fourteenth day of May, and the fire finally stopped. Then, in this city with countless broken walls and rocks filled with smoke, teams of numb Moscow people walked out. They did their best and no one could laugh at them. In order to resist foreign enemies, they endured death, hunger, and disease. They were attacked by powerful and unknown artillery for a whole month. The building had turned into ruins, and the flames were everywhere. The god of death harvested a pound day and night. Another life, there were enough people who died. Those who survived were not cowardice. At least for them and the Ming soldiers who escorted them, they were definitely not weak, nor did they have no courage.
In fact, for these tenacious people, the soldiers gave them a lot of kindness. They just gathered them to watch over and gave them some porridge and immediately sent troops to occupy the city. However, there seemed to be nothing worth occupying in this city. In fact, after more than a month of artillery bombing, this place had already turned into ruins and had completely lost any value to occupy. In order to bomb the city, the Ming army would have to pour out hundreds of tons of explosives almost every day. If it weren't for the arsenal in the rear that kept producing new shells day and night, and then transported them by trains and carriages, it consumed all the inventory of the eastern garrison of the Ural Mountains and the Western Navy in the early stage.
It was originally logical that such a huge city in Moscow would not be completely destroyed by these explosives. After all, explosives are not atomic bombs. Even if it is a month of bombing, it is extremely difficult to achieve such an effect. However, this is the first time that humans use real bombs to bomb a city. Before this, although artillery was used on a large scale, in addition to the backward stone throwing cart, even artillery was mostly artillery loaded with iron balls. The power of this artillery can be imagined. Before the Ming Dynasty fired a new type of artillery with powerful power, the defending party was still very unfamiliar with this new thing.
There is no way to deal with this kind of attack. There is no firefighting team or underground protective fortifications. Under the bombing of artillery, fires caught everywhere in the city, but the Moscows were stunned. If it were in later generations, if it were in such a situation, the whole city would be mobilized immediately. The firefighters were already on standby, but this was an inexperienced era. Until the Russians woke up and wanted to put out the fire, there were no known how many streets the fires everywhere burned, and the facilities for putting out the fire were also in short supply. Therefore, it was not so much that the city was blown up, but it was better to say that it was burned by the fire.
Everything was carried out in a tight order, and the Moscow people were obviously already by this catty. The moon's bombing had completely lost its heart to resist. Whether it was soldiers or ordinary Moscow people, some bloated women were disarmed under surveillance. At the moment of siege, they frantically blocked all enemies who invaded their enemies. But now, they were really tired. They were not idiots. They understood more deeply than anyone else the terribleness of this group of Eastern people. When they were tired, everyone was very tired.
We are tired, not our bodies, but our hearts, completely exhausted. What they want is just hope that everything can end as soon as possible. No matter what fate they will face, no matter what these Oriental people plan to deal with it, they are no longer willing to be in a city full of fire, they are unwilling to hear the screams of the cannons, nor do they want to see their relatives and friends being broken by bombs, they have had enough, that's it, it's all over.
What surprised the surviving Moscow people was that after the Ming army checked their number, they only gathered them all together. According to the intention of a fenze official, they did not seem to have suffered any massacre. They would be moved to the West, where the Ming Dynasty would set everything for them.
They will be neighbors with the Poles, which is a good idea for the Ming Dynasty, and it does not seem too bad for the Russians, but no one cares about Poland's mood. The proud Russians stay with the arrogant Poles, and the Ottomans and the Ming Dynasty are surrounded by them. I'm afraid this should be a good arrangement.
After Li Dingguo dispatched everything, he began to send various legions to attack nearby castles. The next task was probably to sweep away the remaining enemies and gather all the surrendered Russians to prepare for the implementation of a new immigration plan.
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The good news from Russia did not cause much trouble in the court. After all, the result of this battle was actually expected, and the military was very sure of it. The six officials in the court were not very enthusiastic about this war. After all, it was too far. For them, these Russians were farther away than the Mongols, so they were naturally barbarians among the barbarians. The emperor wanted to make trouble, let him go. Anyway, it was not a bad idea to add some territory to the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, the application of railways made the Ming Dynasty highly likely to rule the farther region. If it were in the past, because the journey was too far and the people were deserted,
For some remote areas during the founding period, they would often gradually lose control and give up in later generations. After all, for the Yao Dynasty, those deserted remote areas were not very useful except for outlining more on the map. They were trying to divide their troops to garrison. This would only increase the burden on the court. "2. The court has always turned a blind eye, but after the railway tracks were put into use, the journey that originally took several months or even a year was shortened to a few days and days. This shortening of the journey has also gradually increased the population of the border areas, and the control of the court has also been strengthened ten times and a hundred times.
The application of railways also marks that the era of the local emperors has gone and never returned. In the past, a few months have passed when the imperial court issued an order. In these few months, let alone handling emergency affairs, even the daylily that is waiting for is a normal inquiry and the executive work of the inspection will be cold. The court appears to have completely concentrated the power of the central government, but due to geographical restrictions, the result of upward and downward effectiveness is still not achieved. After all, the transmission of this order was too slow. Early in the morning in Gansu, local officials from the three departments immediately
Send people to report to the capital that it will take more than ten days on the way. When the imperial court arrives, the emperor has issued an order to rescue disasters. It may be half a month after the decree is passed to Shaanxi. It will take a whole month to make a single decision. In addition, the food for disaster relief needs to be transported, and the imperial envoy who supervises disaster relief needs to set off. Manpower from all aspects needs to be mobilized. When everything is dealt with, I am afraid that the hungry victims are almost hungry. Often, the disaster relief is not timely, and it is very likely that the turmoil will begin. Six or seven of the ten dynasties in history have been destroyed.
Zhu Jun understood what these court officials meant. In fact, he had a lot of thoughts on the issue of candidates, and finally had an idea. At this Hai, he looked at the nervous appearance of His Highness and ministers with a smile, and felt a little funny. Then, several officials reported on the work of the six ministries. The Dali Temple Minister presented a list of criminals who had recently requested execution. Zhu Jun originally wanted to summarize the work patiently and then announce the candidates for the auxiliary Grand Secretary. However, when he saw this list of bright red names, he couldn't help but feel very annoyed and asked in a deep voice: "Have these people been checked?"
Dali Temple is equivalent to the Supreme Court of later generations, but now it is used to investigate corrupt officials. In fact, it is not their turn to inspect the inspection. They are all scattered across the country to search for evidence and then handed over to Dali Temple. After all, the current custody department has no right to judge. The Dali Temple Minister hurriedly replied: "Report to the emperor, it has been verified. The number of officials investigated and punished in this catty is 132, of which seven of the fourth rank and above are all killed according to the law."
There are more than 130 people who should be executed according to the law? Zhu Jun was a little confused. In fact, since the Ming Dynasty came out of trouble, many of the officials who had shared the joys and sorrows with Zhu Jun have been corrupted, which made Zhu Jun pay great attention to the anti-corruption issue. Now, due to the prevalence of mercantilism, corruption and bribery seem to be intensifying. If it cannot be curbed, it may not be possible.
Logically, Zhu Jun used many methods to prevent officials from embezzling and accepting bribes. For example, the Jinyiwei investigation can reveal these corrupt officials to the greatest extent. It can be said that as long as someone blatantly embezzled, it can be exposed immediately. The court punished corruption and bribery very severely. Although Zhu Yuanzhang also implemented such harsh policies, even better than the Xinshi Dynasty. Lingchi's methods were extremely cruel. However, Zhu Jun was confident that he was different from Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang gave officials the lowest salary, and officials had no way to survive. If they were not greedy, they would probably not even be able to eat, so they were willing to take risks. Zhu Jun asked himself that the salary was definitely enough for those officials to have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of their lives. He could not be rich or noble, but he was also much better than most, but he was much better than most, but he was just "
Zhu Jun's mood suddenly became worse and he patted the imperial case: "There is no need to report to the Federation for such matters. If you need to kill, you don't need to wait for the Federation to be criticized!"
"Abide by the order." The Dali Temple Minister did not dare to say much, and quickly agreed. The officials on the plane rarely saw the emperor angry, and they were all quite terrified.
Zhu Jun was really not in the mood to argue with them, and said with a gloomy face: "I wrote an order, Yang Side is loyal and honest, and has always been very close to his work, and is highly respected. Let's take over the position of Mu Aiqing. Zhou Mubai and Zhou Aiqing are not bad, well, but he is a royal relative. If the Liandao is shining, it may attract criticism. But Liandao is thinking about his hard work, so he ordered him to be the guardian of Dongxiang. Today I will discuss here, Yang Side and Zhou Mubai, you two will come with the Liandao."
Not to mention the surprise of the ministers, Mo Ming, never expected that Yang Side's unpopularity would win the lottery. Just talking about Zhou Mubai, he would inevitably be a little discouraged. If anyone said that he was noble and not fame and fortune would be nonsense, no one would have the intention to go further. After all, he was the assistant of the current dynasty. Zhou Mubai had been drooling at this position for more than a day. He originally thought that the emperor's choice was himself, and he had already prepared to take the lead. However, when he heard the emperor's name, his heart sank. Even if he had good cultivation skills now, his face had changed color and was not reflected in his emotions. It was not so easy.
Later, the emperor said that he would be ordered to be the Hou of Dongxiang, Zhou Mubai couldn't help but smile bitterly. This should be a consolation prize. In fact, if the Hou of Dongxiang, although one party was promoted and the other party was awarded a title, it would be more attractive to be awarded a title. After all, being an official was only a temporary official. After ten or twenty years, it would not be necessary to retire and return to the hometown to be a commoner, but the title was hereditary. At least he earned a golden rice bowl for himself and his descendants. With the Marquis, he was not afraid that anyone would dare to bully him. However, for Zhou Mubai, this marquis was not very attractive to him. Every catty, people have ambitions in their hearts. Even if they say that they only seek wealth every day, they would probably hope to do some achievements. Zhou Mubai worked diligently over the years, was it just to make money?
He sighed in his heart, as if he had captured something. At this time, the court officials began to retreat one after another. The emperor asked him to go to the inner court to speak, but he did not dare to delay. He looked at Yang Side with a jealous look. The two of them were not comfortable talking at this moment, so they led them into the inner court side by side by side by eunuch.
Chapter completed!