It was raining heavily in Nanjing, and the city of Beijing, thousands of miles away, was also lightning and thunder.

The candlelight in the Ganqing Palace was swaying.

Chongzhen got up from the bed, put on a coat, and walked to the gate of the Ganqing Palace.

He looked up at the sky. The dark sky was streaked by lightning, illuminating the world, making the world pale.

Soon, thunder sounded and strong winds surged.

He thought in his mind that Cao Wenzhao must have arrived in Nanjing.

When Cao Wenzhao arrives in Nanjing, Nanjing City will most likely become a sea of ​​blood.

This time it is estimated that many people will die.

His heart was still a little nervous. After all, he was a real murderer now, and he was an attack on scholars.

Of course, a normal person should have a tight heart, and he can still clearly understand this.

However, after killing so many people along the way, I gradually began to get used to it.

The weather has changed.

If you want to become more thorough, start from Nanzhili.

Why do you say so?

On the surface, it was the nobles and officials of Nanzhili who were involved in fighting the new policy, and the Gongtian case and the Huangcai case were to cause trouble.

Of course, this is indeed the case.

However, real experts never look at the surface or what is happening in front of you.

Instead, we look at the underlying logic behind what happened, so as to deduce what is in what is happening.

To put it simply, the outbreak of the contradictions in Nanzhili is the conflict between production relations and national interests that were solidified in the late Ming Dynasty.

The country needs to survive, change the tax system, land policies, redistribute means of production, and change production relations.

The solidified production relations in the late Ming Dynasty were the result of the continuous merger and expansion of interest groups over the past two hundred years.

The entire interest group was dominated by nobles and landlords and gentry from the Ming Dynasty.

They mastered the means of production.

Some officials and scholars are big landlords, and some are not.

However, officials and scholars have the right to public opinion and can influence the people at the bottom.

And the people at the bottom are the foundation of the country.

Therefore, this matter will further lead to the ownership of the control of public opinion due to the re-change of production relations.

The highly centralized small government of the imperial court at the end of the Ming Dynasty actually had very limited impact on local public opinion.

Although the Qing Dynasty was hateful, it did much better in local public opinion than in the Ming Dynasty.

So, in Zhang Chen's opinion.

Those who have the power of public opinion and are unwilling to obey the court should also be eliminated.

Concise and concise: This is a war, a war with clear targets.

As Chongzhen expected, Cao Wenzhao has indeed arrived in Nanjing now.

At 10 pm (calculated according to the new policy time), Cao Wenzhao arrived at the city gate.

At this time, the officers of the Lanyue Army stayed at the city gate.

The sky was still pouring rain, and the Shenwu Army came in the rain.

The soldiers of Lanyue walked forward. Li Zhong was the brigade commander of Lanyue's army. He walked over and saw Cao Wenzhao riding on the horse, and saw his military uniform.

They are all new troops and all the Beijing Guards. Li Zhong recognized that the man in front of him was a senior general at the level of the army commander.

He saluted and said, "I am not good at Li Zhong, the commander of the 3rd Brigade of the Second Army of the Langyue Army!"

Cao Wenzhao replied with a greeting, and Cao Bianjiao on the side said, "This is Cao Wenzhao, the commander of the Second Army of Shenwu Guard, Cao Jun commander!"

Only then did Li Zhong remember that there was indeed rumors in the army some time ago that Cao Wenzhao from Liaodong was transferred to Shenwu Guard.

Cao Wenzhao's name is still very famous.

Li Zhong hurriedly said, "I wonder what happened to Cao Shuai arrive in Nanjing late at night?"

Li Zhong was indeed surprised in his heart. Isn’t Cao Wenzhao in Beijing? Why did he come to Nanjing in the middle of the night?

Cao Wenzhao lowered his voice and said, "I am hereby ordered by the Emperor to enter Nanjing to quell the rebellion. This is Your Majesty's Holy Order."

Cao Wenzhao took out the emperor's imperial edict, and Li Zhong hurriedly knelt down and bowed: "Long live my emperor."

"So, please ask Brigade Commander Li to make a way out."

"Is Cao Junshuo going to enter Nanjing City now?"

“Are there any problems?”

"I will not hide it from the commander of Cao Jun. There is some chaos in Nanjing at present."

"I am here to quell the rebellion."

"this……"

"Your Majesty's Holy Order is here, do you have any questions?"

"I don't dare to be a humble position, please do it here."

The west gate of Nanjing City was slowly opened.

Cao Wenzhao led the Shenwu Guard into the city.

He said to Cao Bianjiao beside him: "Send the order to go on, the Lanyue Army is in the city. Today, you can see clearly and kill people. Don't kill the Lanyue Army."

"yes!"

After killing Hong Chengchou's people, they will definitely cause trouble for themselves.

Not only that, the Privy Council will never spare him.

What I did tonight was to cause hatred. If there were a few more enemies, Cao Wenzhao would probably be far from death.

After passing through the gate of the outer city, Cao Wenzhao saw that there was chaos ahead.

There are also lights in residential buildings and restaurants next to the street. In the faint lights, people gather on the street.

It is hard to imagine that there are so many people in such heavy rain.

Soon, Cao Wenzhao heard the sound.

"Down with treacherous ministers! Abolish tyranny!"

This place is not far from the Confucius Temple in Qinhuai River, and it is brightly lit in front.

Cao Wenzhao did not expect that the scholars in Nanjing would start to make a fuss like this.

Is this really Nanjing of the Ming Dynasty?

Cao Wenzhao and his men walked straight over.

The group of people in front saw that the army was coming, and they were wearing the uniforms of the new army. They were easy to identify and seemed to be not afraid at all. They even shouted and scolded Cao Wenzhao: "You must not die well in the minions of the treacherous ministers! The Ming Dynasty was the one that was harmed by you!"

Cao Wenzhao said, "We are your Majesty's personal army, don't speak rudely."

"Your Majesty's personal army?" The group laughed, with a sarcastic tone, "Isn't that the minions of the treacherous ministers? Get out of here!"

One of the scholars braved the heavy rain and roared at this side: "We are disciples of saints and will never compromise with the evil party, even if the heads fall to the ground!"

Someone continued to shout: "The new policy of the court is tyranny, and it was pushed out by you to harm the world!"

Cao Wenzhao immediately understood that this group of people was resisting the new policy!

He remembered the words the emperor entrusted him that day.

Anyone who dares to resist the new policy will be killed without mercy.

Cao Wenzhao had no feelings for these scholars from the south.

He is not like Hong Chengchou, who is from Fujian and is a Jinshi. In this situation, he will definitely not take action and will not be willing to fight against scholars.

But Cao Wenzhao was different.

He is a big fan and a military general. He just crawled out of the dead last year.

Faced with this situation, guess what he would do.

He mortgaged his voice and said, "Everyone follows the order. Anyone who dares to resist the new policy will be killed without mercy!"

With his order, the Shenwu Guard soldier closest to him shouted loudly: "Abide by the order!"

The one behind also received the order and shouted: "Long live my emperor!"

Cao Bianjiao pulled out a knife and walked towards a scholar five meters away in front.

When everyone saw Cao Bianjiao coming, they did not restrain themselves at all and continued to curse: "Why, you dare to kill me? Come on, chop me up on my neck, see if you dare, stinky Qiuba..."

He deliberately stuck his neck out.

But before he finished speaking, Cao Bianjiao suddenly threw it over with a knife.

The rain curtain was cut open by him in an instant.
Chapter completed!