Chapter 128 City Patrol Four

However, even if Zhu Qizhen gave the order now, it would not be an easy task to blast a gap in the city wall that was several feet thick.

Zhu Qizhen simply did not go down to the city and walked along the city wall with a large group of guards.

At this time, there was no outer city in Beijing.

In the middle of the city is the palace city.

The drainage channels in the palace city are the most complete, and there are also three seas. Therefore, Zhu Qi Town does not need to worry too much. The real place to worry about is in the corners of the surrounding city walls.

And in the heavy rain, there were still soldiers on duty on top of the city of Beijing.

Although Zhu Qizhen also knew that if he hadn't gone to the city with such great fanfare, the situation in the city might not have been so solemn.

But even so, Zhu Qizhen could see that the Ming army was full of energy.

The responsibility of guarding Beijing was assigned to Jingwei.

They are the twenty-seven most trusted military guards of the royal family.

Among them, except for the Jinyi Guards and the Tongzhou Guards who guard Tongzhou, the rest are the garrison troops of Beijing City.

These troops were all the old troops who had followed Taizong. During Taizong's time, these troops were organized into the Twenty-Two Guards. Emperor Xuanzong organized his own troops into the Four Guards, plus the Jinyi Guards, to form the Twenty-seven Guards.

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It can also be regarded as one of the core forces controlled by the royal family.

At this moment, Zhu Qizhen looked at the soldiers guarding the city, dressed in mandarin duck war jackets and hats and raincoats. They looked like statues in the heavy rain.

The formation is also extremely strict. At first glance, it looks like a line.

Many people think that ancient army arrays are not good, but they do not know that arrays have been the soul of infantry since ancient times. Especially after the Ming army used a large number of firearms, the requirements for arrays have become higher.

This can be seen just from the battle examples.

Whether it was Mu Ying's three-stage attack or Zhu Di's use of firearms to fight Wa Ci's 30,000 heavy cavalry in the battle of Hulanhu Hypothermia. It would have been impossible to imagine without a strict array.

Even in the late Ming Dynasty, there were descriptions of the Manchu formations against the Ming army. In the Battle of Sarhu, the Manchus could not attack Liu Ting's formation. They could only use deception.

Now on the whole, the Ming army's military force has begun to weaken.

Zhu Qizhen has already realized this.

But this weakness has not yet been reflected in the Beijing army.

Under the eyes of the emperor, many people did not dare to mess around.

What Zhu Qizhen saw at this moment were the first-class elites of the Ming Dynasty. Perhaps they were far inferior to the elites of the founding of the People's Republic of China and those who fought for the rest of their lives in hundreds of battles. However, looking at the next two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, they would probably not be as good as this one.

The Beijing army is here.

Zhu Qizhen glanced over.

However, I saw that although these soldiers held many cold weapons, they also had many firecrackers. However, in Zhu Qizhen's view, such firecrackers were more like an iron pipe with a wooden guard behind it.

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The design of this wooden guard is also very unreasonable and cannot bear the recoil of the firegun.

It's as simple as you want it to be.

Zhu Qizhen kept this matter in his heart, but he also knew that it was not the time to talk about it.

Then he looked along the city wall and looked into the city.

It seemed that the heavy rain that followed the earthquake was like a leak in the sky, and it continued to fall endlessly.

All streets turned into rivers in an instant.

Most people did not take shelter from the rain in their rooms.

Some are urgently repairing their houses. After all, after an earthquake, nothing major happens in the Forbidden City, but that is not the case for ordinary people's homes.

Strengthen the house and lay tiles in the rain to prevent it from collapsing or leaking.

Many of them have been drained from the yard or house to the outside from the water ladle. The streets have become rivers, flowing to each city gate.

Many city gates can no longer be closed because the water flow is too large.

Seeing such a scene, Zhu Qizhen couldn't help but feel sad.

But Yu Qian has not always been by Zhu Qizhen's side.

Because Zhu Qizhen saw these situations, Yu Qian also saw them.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen is worried, but he doesn't know where to start.

But Yu Qian is different. Yu Qian also has many government servants from Shuntian Prefecture around him.

Yu Qian was almost non-stop, passing orders. He asked the people below to deal with various situations. Some houses were no longer working, so they simply let the people live in temples temporarily. In order to ensure smooth drainage, all drains were inspected and people were sent to clean them in the rain.

If so, wait.

It's just that although Yu Qian has the power to control floods, there are some things he can't do.

Yu Qian came to Zhu Qizhen and said, "Your Majesty, I only have hundreds of government officials to help me. Even if the Fifth Army's Soldiers and Horses Division, Jinyi Guards, etc. help, this situation is not enough."

Zhu Qizhen said: "Are we going to use the Beijing camp?"

Yu Qian said: "Yes."

Zhu Qizhen said: "I sent an order to Duke Cheng to take charge and send various ministries out to help clean up the waterways of the capital."

Yu Qian immediately said: "On behalf of the people of the capital, I would like to thank Your Majesty. I will go to the camp immediately."

Zhu Qizhen immediately understood that there were many arrogant and powerful generals in the Beijing camp. Yu Qian's own status might not be able to suppress them. If he just passed the order, even if there was an imperial edict, he might not be able to make these soldiers obey.

Yu Qian could only go there by himself.

"I just have something to say. Your Majesty has the weight of the world, so you should take care of yourself first. Your Majesty has also seen the situation in the city. It's time to go back." Yu Qian said.

After hearing this, Zhu Qizhen understood that even if he was patrolling outside, what would he be able to do to help? There were even a large number of people to protect him.

Maybe it was even a disservice.

Zhu Qizhen said: "I know, but Mr. Yu, I have been growing up in a deep palace. I don't know the sufferings of the people, but I don't know the floods reported in various places. Is that it?"

According to Zhu Qizhen, the situation in Beijing is already quite ugly.

Many cities and towns cannot be inhabited, and even many temples in the capital are overcrowded.

Yu Qian was silent for a while and said: "Your Majesty, the floods in Beijing are actually not comparable to the floods in the Yellow River. The capital is just suffering from waterlogging due to poor drainage."

"Even if we ignore it, it only takes three to five sunny days for the water level to recede. But Kaifeng City has been besieged by countless floods."

"The people were swallowed up by the torrential waves. The sky and the earth were so vast that there seemed to be no dry land. Compared with this, Beijing was nothing but a dwarf."

"The floods reported every year are more severe than here."

Zhu Qizhen was stunned for a moment and said, "Mr. Yu, go ahead."

Yu Qian quickly resigned.

Zhu Qizhen stood on top of the city, watching the streets in Beijing turning into rivers. He was speechless for a moment.

The Empress Dowager has always said that the people are in dire straits, but now it seems that it is not dire straits. A flood, in Zhu Qizhen's opinion, will drown at least a thousand people.

But from Yu Qian's point of view, it was still an ordinary thing.

Disasters are reported from various places every year, either in the north or the south.

There will always be.

Zhu Qizhen has long been used to it.

The Ming Dynasty has a vast territory, and it is normal for floods and droughts to occur in some places.

But he had never thought deeply about what the ordinary words in the title book represented.

I don’t know how many lives were lost.

For a time, Zhu Qizhen also began to doubt his plans for external expansion.

Every year, countless people in the Ming Dynasty are struggling on the verge of death. Under such circumstances, they still want to fight against Wa Ci. Regardless of the life and death of the people, there is not much benefit in defeating Wa Ci?

Is this really appropriate?

However, Zhu Qizhen soon wanted to come back.

The war between the two countries was not something that Zhu Qizhen would not fight if he wanted to. If Tuo Huan had not died, it might have happened in two or three years.

Military disasters are more terrifying than natural disasters.

Zhu Qizhen only felt that there was a heavy burden on his shoulders for a moment. Previously, this burden was carried by the Empress Dowager, so he didn't feel anything wrong.

At this moment, the burden fell on him, but he felt it was extremely strenuous.

Suddenly Zhu Qizhen heard footsteps, and a government servant ran up anxiously. From a distance, he saw that Zhu Qizhen did not find Yu Qian beside him, so he immediately turned around and prepared to leave.

Zhu Qizhen said to Wang Zhen: "Go and ask, what happened?"

Wang Zhen immediately went over and clarified the matter in a few words. He immediately came back and said to Zhu Qizhen: "Someone built a house privately and blocked the water channel. The government official came to ask for the water channel to be given up. Not only did he refuse to let it go, but he beat the government official."
Chapter completed!