The storm will not stop in a short time, nor will the bloody stop.

After the rebellion, senior officers of the imperial guards in Beijing were recruited into the palace, and three of them were sentenced to death because they were not allowed to enter the palace late. Later, Tong Guan and his family members were all detained.

Moreover, the Tong family was obviously prepared. When the Wude Department arrived, the head of the Tong family, Tong Guan's father and other relatives had already escaped, leaving only the young and young women in the family.

All the male members of the detained Tong family were killed. Women who were younger than fourteen years old were assigned to the official training workshop to see if anyone bought it. If no one bought it, they would be regarded as official prostitutes.

The next day, the emperor ordered the death of the Crown Princess and detained everyone in the East Palace. On that day, all the maids and eunuchs in the East Palace were sentenced to death. Compared with the outside world, they left at least all the bodies, and only a few people knew about it.

The emperor should think that this is a scandal for the royal family and cannot be spread. In his speeches to the outside world, he was also vague. He did not explicitly say that the prince rebelled and only said that he died in the chaos. Everyone in the Eastern Palace may be accomplices of the prince and may easily leak information.

But are they accomplices? For the emperor, that is not important. It is better to save trouble for the emperor and be at ease for the emperor.

The eldest son of the prince, Li Huan and the second son of Li Yu, were also implicated. The old and young family were arrested by Shangzhi's personal guards and sent to Wan Zongzheng Temple for house arrest.

After Li Xingzhou asked the emperor for mercy, Li Yu's family was released from Zongzheng Temple. After coming out, they came to complain to him. A big man cried and his legs were so scared that he was weak.

It was not surprising that Li Xingzhou was so scared, because after entering Zongzheng Temple, he might be only one step away from death.

Sure enough, a few days later, Li Huan was secretly sentenced to death by the emperor in Zongzheng Temple. Only some people in the royal core knew about this. Li Xingzhou was also secretly told by the queen. To the outside world, he claimed that the emperor's grandson Li Huan ran away and died of illness in Zongzheng Temple.

Then the four gates were martial law and investigated the rebellion. Many rebels were captured by the Kaiyuan Government yamen runners. Ten days after the rebellion, the emperor ordered that more than a thousand captured rebel prisoners beheaded outside the Meridian Gate and beheaded for the whole afternoon, killing people and blood flowed into a river.

The emperor was not at ease with the imperial guards. After placing all senior generals of the imperial guards under house arrest, he handed over the remaining imperial guards to him.

The Shenwu Army suffered defeat in the north and returned to Beijing with less than 10,000 people. In addition, the rebellion was eliminated, and only more than 8,000 people were left. The Wu Lie Army had suffered heavy losses in the north and no one participated in the rebellion, but only more than 8,000 people were there.

In other words, at this time, there were only about 30,000 troops in the center of the entire dynasty.

There were naturally a lot of 30,000 people. In fact, in ancient times, due to population reasons, there were far fewer troops in wartime than later generations thought.

Temujin's army in the western expedition was more than 100,000. The Jin Dynasty besieged Kaifeng of the Northern Song Dynasty with an army of 60,000. During the Northern Song Dynasty, when the country sent the most troops, it could only send about 200,000, and it had to be divided into several routes. In the late stage of the Battle of Xiangyang, there were only a few thousand Song troops facing the 100,000 Mongolian army.

The reason why some people think that most of them are influenced by novel legends, such as the Battle of Guandu in the Three Kingdoms and the Three Kingdoms records that Yuan Shao had about 100,000 soldiers. Cao Cao initially had "less than 10,000 soldiers" but later he might have gradually increased his troops, but it could not have exceeded 20,000 or 30,000, but in Romance novels, it turned into hundreds of thousands.

Therefore, limited to population, the ability to send troops is far from what people imagined in later generations. Population is completely different from the ones that can be sent. Even in the battlefield of life and death, the actual mobilization rate is not only about 5%. This is not a joke, that is, even when the country is in life and death, only five out of a hundred people are fighting bloody battles.

This is not to say that the Chinese battlefield is just like this, but it is generally the case in the world. The country with the highest mobilization rate in World War II was the Soviet Union, which was only about 14%. However, this is an unprecedented mobilization rate. The big reason is that the Soviet Union was the main battlefield and faced the most fierce offensive.

Therefore, although people often say that people conquer nature, they often say that fate is determined in their own hands, and that every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world, but when it comes to history objectively, it is always a few people who determine the fate of the majority.

Just like after the Mongolian cavalry swept across Central Asia and the army of Central Asian countries was defeated, this situation occurred in the local area. Mongolian soldiers could rush into the downtown city and kill people at will, no one dared to stop them. Some Mongolian soldiers even wanted to kill people, but they forgot to bring their swords. The killed people were waiting in place and waited for the Mongolian soldiers to get the swords back and kill them.

Are there not many people from Central Asia? They are dozens or even hundreds of times that of the Mongolian Western Expedition (there are not many people from Mongolian Western Expeditions in three times, except for the first time, the main battlefield has always been in East Asia). However, as long as the army is defeated, ordinary people will not dare to resist at all.

So if Jingguo is at the time of life and death, Li Xingzhou doesn't have much expectations.

And these 30,000 people are obviously not enough to consolidate the country. If the Jin people knew that there was such a big chaos in Jingguo now, there were only 30,000 imperial guards, they would definitely go south even if they fought desperately.

The Yang family army of the northern border army was crippled, the Central Imperial Army Shenwu and Wulie were almost in a semi-disbanded state. The Wulie army was crippled by the Liao people in the north, while the Shenwu army was damaged by the war. In addition, this rebellion, more than 1,000 people were killed and more than 1,000 people were killed, and some of them ran away due to the rumor.

It was simply internal and external troubles. Fortunately, Wei Chaoren's Guanbei Army and Lingjie Army occupied Qigou Pass and Yanshan Prefecture. With them guarding there, Li Xingzhou felt much more relieved, but he was still scared.

So after the emperor reported that he wanted to add him as the crown prince, he did not care about arousing suspicion and submitted a letter to the emperor, requesting to expand the new army.

He just talked about this matter with Duke De, and Duke De cursed, saying that he had his tail up to the sky, and the emperor did want to make him the Grandson of Huang, but the emperor was still there, and the imperial guards rebelled and almost killed the emperor. He immediately jumped out and said that he wanted to expand the imperial guards (the new army is also a branch of the imperial guards). What if the emperor thought too much?

"This is not the time to think about those things." Li Xingzhou could only answer this way, and then entered the palace, staring at the outside world, and was worried and worried outside. He was not the time to think about what to do if the emperor thought too much, but he couldn't help but think about it.

But a few days later, the emperor handed over Guilin's young father-in-law to summon him to the palace. He met the emperor in the imperial study. Not long after, he got older and followed Fu'an and Wei Li.

The emperor waved: "Come here."

Li Xingzhou sat down, and Fu'an quickly asked someone to bring a chair and put it next to the emperor's desk, instead of sitting down, he stepped forward and sat down.

The emperor put down the book in his hand and said slowly: "I have seen the memorial you wrote."

As he said that, he sighed: "I know a little bit in my heart. Others dare not say it, you told me about it."

The emperor sighed, "When the relationship with Liao Kingdom was the worst, the two sides fought for wars all year round. The outside said that the capital's imperial guards were 800,000. The outside world said that the Liao Kingdom was the same. In fact, the number of soldiers was only 200,000, but it was also a crime in our Jing Kingdom. After only more than ten years, the money, silk and military pay could not be supported.

And now the capital's imperial guards are 30,000..."
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