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On the tenth day, all three of them were able to complete the basic routine. From then on, it was just a matter of daily practice.

By this time, Zhu Youxiao's health had basically recovered.

At the same time, whether it was the Jinyiwei, the Dongchang, or the Neicao Army, they had all completed their preparations.

Chen Yu and Zhu Youxiao both knew it.

The battle with the civil officials began.

The next morning, after listening to the government affairs.

Emperor Tianqi personally revealed the inside story of his assassination.

He ordered 20,000 internal troops to block the capital. The Jinyiwei and the East Factory were all dispatched to search and confiscate all the relevant personnel. At the same time, he also said frankly that this time someone wanted to imitate Wuzong's past deeds.

Yang Tinghe was designated as a traitor who murdered the emperor. His coffin was dug up and his corpse was whipped! His descendants confiscated his property and exiled him to Hainan!

There were a few stubborn people who wanted to plead for the Yang family.

He was stripped of his hat and thrown into the imperial prison in court!

After all, it involved regicide and treason.

Even if the cabinet and civil servants wanted to intervene, they had no reason to do so because the incident happened suddenly and they were not prepared at all.

In fact, they were caught off guard by Emperor Tianqi. If they waited two more days, when they were ready, it would be difficult for Emperor Tianqi to arrange it so smoothly.

"Fifty million taels!"

This is what Emperor Tianqi asked of the East Factory!

Since the duties of the factory guards have been divided, the East Factory will be the main force this time. However, the East Factory does not have enough manpower for the time being.

Temporarily second the Jinyiwei to cooperate.

The capital was sealed off for ten days in total. People were only allowed to enter but not leave.

During this period, more than 120 officials, both large and small, were found to be involved in Tianqi's drowning case. More than one-third of them were from Donglin, and more than 300 merchants and landlords were implicated.

In the end, the result obtained by Emperor Tianqi was that more than 60 million taels of money and grain were confiscated in the capital alone. Among them, more than 26 million taels of gold and silver. The other 37 million taels were fixed assets.

The property outside the capital would only be more than this number, not less, plus the 4 million taels Cao Huachun had seized from the imperial estate.

Emperor Tianqi suddenly had an extra 30 million taels in his hands.

On the same day, Emperor Tianqi summoned Zhang Weixian, the British palace. The next day, under the supervision of 10,000 internal troops.

The Beijing Camp was disbanded and reorganized. The nominal 200,000 soldiers in the Beijing Camp were less than 50,000 after counting, and 80% of them were old, weak, sick and disabled.

Finally, after the disbandment, only 10,000 soldiers were left in the Beijing Camp, and only three generals were left. The rest were recruited separately. The soldiers of the Beijing Camp who were disbanded were all issued severance pay. At the same time, according to their wishes, they were either incorporated into the engineering corps or changed to civilian status. A total of 1.2 million taels of silver were consumed.

As for the officers, except for the junior officers, a few who committed serious crimes were beheaded, had their property confiscated and were stripped of their titles. Among them was Duke Cheng. The others were only required to return the embezzled military pay and then dismissed.

Tianqi recovered more than 2 million taels of silver alone. Adding the more than 8 million taels of silver confiscated from the property, Tianqi still made a lot of money.

After all, the Duke of Cheng's family alone, including fixed assets, seized more than five million taels, although 70% of them were fixed assets. After all, they were dukes of successive generations, so it was normal for them to have such properties.

The problems of the Beijing Army were not only caused by this generation of generals.

Without the last military power of the Beijing Camp, the nobles became toothless tigers and could be manipulated at will. However, Tianqi did not kill them all with one blow.

After all, they are all nobles who have lived and died together with the country. If you hit them with a stick, you should give them a sweet date.

The first military academy of the Ming Dynasty. Tianqi reserved many places for the nobles, but he set the lowest requirements for the quality of the students. The nobles who have been passed down for so many years, even if the direct line is not talented, there should be one or two useful people in the side line.

Afraid they don’t understand.

Emperor Tianqi had made it clear almost everything. If Zhang Weixian still didn't understand, he would be underestimating this old fox.

The new Beijing Camp is now led by Zhao Lujiao, Cao Wenzhao and Man Gui, who were specially recruited by Tianqi. The total number of soldiers is 200,000. Now that Tianqi has money, of course he has to recruit as many as possible. And there are also good generals to train.

Not only that, troops are also being recruited in four other places at the same time.

They were Sun Chuanting, who was preparing to recruit and train soldiers in Shaanxi. He was given the name Qin Army, with 100,000 soldiers. Lu Xiangsheng, who was also preparing to recruit and train soldiers in Changzhou, Nanzhili, was given the name Tianxiong Army, with 100,000 soldiers.

The special order to appease the newly recruited Qi Family Army, led by Generals Qi Jin, Lu Wenzhao, and Ding Baiying, had 50,000 soldiers. Qin Liangyu, who was preparing to recruit soldiers in Shizhu, Sichuan, had 30,000 white-pole soldiers.

Although these people received the imperial edict, especially Lu Xiangsheng who had just become the prefect of Daming and Sun Chuanting who had just taken leave and returned home, after seeing the imperial edict and gold and silver brought by the Jinyiwei.

In the end, they all chose to obey the emperor's order!

A total of 480,000 new soldiers were recruited, plus the newly added 20,000, a total of 40,000 internal troops. A total of 520,000 troops. However, only 20,000 internal troops are currently capable of fighting.

But it can be as long as two years or as short as one year.

Tianqi will have more than 500,000 troops under his command. By then, he will have enough confidence to carry out the tax collection by officials, gods, monks and laymen as Mr. He said.

For now, it is better to be patient temporarily and continue to weaken the power of civil servants.

When the news of the Beijing camp's re-recruitment spread.

Plus, the capital city has been unsealed.

This means that the case of regicide is basically over. What remains is the trial and execution.

The relaxed cabinet and the Ministry of War would certainly not allow the emperor to take charge of the military power. So they joined forces that night and prepared to launch an attack the next day.

However, they were still a step too late.

The next morning, at the court session, they didn't wait for them to start.

There was a complaint filed by the Five Military Governors' Office to the emperor, accusing the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Revenue of embezzling military pay.

This is a big case.

The civil servants had not expected that these toothless nobles would dare to overturn the table.

"How dare they?"

"You have eaten the heart of a bear and become a leopard of courage!"

Before they could figure it out.

Emperor Tianqi was furious in court.

The Jinyiwei was ordered to arrest and try him.

Supervised by the Ministry of Justice, Dali Temple, and Censorate!

He then announced his withdrawal from court.

The cabinet and civil servants were completely caught off guard.

On that day, one-tenth of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Revenue were empty.

The next day it was one third empty again.

After half a month, when the case was completely clear, only one-tenth of the officials in the Ministry of War remained. The highest was a sixth-rank official, and the rest were ninth-rank officials and ambassadors and deputy envoys who were not in the mainstream.

The Ministry of Revenue was even worse, with only three deputy envoys of the lowest rank who were not in the official ranks.

In a word, one case brought down two departments.

During this period, the cabinet requested to see the emperor three times in a row, and advised the emperor to pardon the officials of the two ministries for the sake of the overall interests of the court.

But Emperor Tianqi said: "For the sake of the overall situation. If the overall situation is to let these corrupt officials lie on the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty and suck their blood, then I will really ignore the overall situation."

Under the control of the East Factory.

That day Emperor Tianqi's words spread throughout the capital.