"Your Majesty, I have been wronged." Ding Kuichu burst into tears.
"Your Majesty, I have been wronged." The leaders of the Forty-eight Division also shouted that they were wronged.
"Haha, do you really think that I am so good at lakes?" Chongzhen sneered and said, "You think that if you hide this batch of gold in a secret place, I won't be able to find it, right?"
After a pause, Chongzhen said to Ding Kuichu again: "Ding Kuichu, you probably didn't hide it."
"Your Majesty, I am really unjust." Ding Kuichu was horrified, but his face was calm.
Chongzhen said again: "Ding Kuichu, I might as well tell you that I have sent two thousand new troops to Guangxi to be responsible for returning all the chieftains in Guangxi to their native land. One of them went to Nanning."
"If you send your close servants to transport this stolen wealth back to Guangdong, haha."
"I'm afraid it will definitely be intercepted by the New Army. Maybe it will be intercepted by now."
After hearing this, Ding Kuichu sat slumped on the ground, and his expression became dull. How did the Dog Emperor know about such a secret matter? Could someone have tipped him off?
Of course, no one reported it to Chongzhen, but Chongzhen knew what kind of person Ding Kuichu was, and even more clearly knew that Sha Dingzhou had received a huge fortune from the Duke of Guizhou, so he expected that Ding Kuichu would never remain indifferent. If this Duke was corrupt, then
It is inevitable to send his confidant Xingye back to Guangdong.
That's why Chongzhen sent new troops to intercept it.
"What about you?" Chongzhen's eyes turned to the forty-eight leaders, "Should you tell the hiding place of the stolen property yourself, or should I find someone to interrogate myself? If you tell the hiding place quickly, I can give you a chance to survive.
Opportunities, if you still take chances, you will have no choice but to lose your head."
After listening to the translation, the leader of the Forty-eight Division immediately stopped pretending and threatened Chongzhen: "You dare not kill us. If you dare to kill us, the Forty-Eight Wolf Soldiers outside the city will never agree! The entire Guangxi will also be there.
Revolts broke out overnight, and the sky of the Ming Dynasty collapsed, so I advise you, Your Majesty, to be more cautious."
"Threaten me?" Chongzhen smiled, and then said with a straight face, "You think too highly of yourself, if I kill you, rebellions will not break out in Guangxi, and the sky of the Ming Dynasty will not fall. As for the forty-eight wolf soldiers outside the city,
Haha, you have forgotten that the movement just now was that the soldiers from western Hunan and Hubei were encircling and suppressing the wolf soldiers!"
"Ah!" The leader of the Forty-Eight Division suddenly changed his expression.
"Hu Guozhu, take them all with me!" Chongzhen shouted sharply.
"Yes." Hu Guozhu bowed his hands, waved his hand and shouted, "Take it!"
When more than two hundred barbarians rushed into the square, five of them were responsible for each, and the forty-eight leaders were quickly knocked down and tied up. Ding Kuichu was no exception.
"Your Majesty, you killed the hero in vain!"
"Emperor Dog, you are ungrateful and not human!"
"You are burning bridges, you are ungrateful."
"I just helped you put down the Shadingzhou Rebellion, and now you are cruel to our Guangxi Wolf Soldiers. Chongzhen, you are not a human being. You will be punished one day. Even if we turn into ghosts, we will not spare you."
"You won't forgive me even if I turn into a ghost?" Chongzhen sneered.
"You should first think about how to avoid the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent souls from Guangnan Prefecture and Lin'an Prefecture!"
"Since you entered Yunnan, how many people have you killed? How many cattle, sheep, livestock, property, women, and children have you robbed? Yunnan is one of the thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty. It is not a foreign barbarian state. You can be allowed to burn, kill, and plunder."
"You are killing the people of Yunnan, and you are killing my people!"
"What do you think of the people of Yunnan, and what do you think of me?"
"Gong is merit, fault is fault. You have made great achievements in quelling the Shadingzhou Rebellion. I will reward you, but the crimes you committed against the people of Yunnan also need to be severely punished!"
"Killing for life has always been the case since ancient times, no one is an exception."
"You are the chief evildoers by allowing the wolf soldiers in your tribe to burn, kill, and plunder, and you should be punished for your crimes!"
Speaking of this, he stared at Ding Kuichu and said: "Ding Kuichu, as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and as an important official of the imperial court, you allow your wolf soldiers to burn, kill and plunder the people of Yunnan. This is an even greater crime!"
"But as a civil servant, the cabinet still has the final say on how to convict someone."
"Your Majesty, I have been wronged." Ding Kuichu cried, "I have restrained you, but I cannot restrain you."
One of the wolf soldiers leader roared: "We Guangxi wolf soldiers are not the only ones who do this. Which army in the entire Ming Dynasty doesn't do this? Liaodong Town, Ji Town, Datong Town and Xuanfu Town, which town?
The border troops don’t do this? Chongzhen, if you can, kill all the Ming Dynasty’s border troops, otherwise we won’t accept it!”
"We are not convinced! We are not convinced!" The other leaders shouted in agreement.
"I don't need you to be convinced." Chongzhen said coldly, "I just want your heads!"
After a pause, Chongzhen said again: "Hu Guozhu, execute these forty-eight leaders on the spot!"
"Yes." Hu Guozhu agreed loudly, and then shouted sharply at Yi Ding, "Be executed on the spot."
Hu Guozhu gave an order, and the forty-eight barbarians immediately drew their sabers and slashed at the necks of the forty-eight wolf soldiers who were controlled by their hands, and the forty-eight heads rolled to the ground.
Seeing this, Mu Tianbo, Tang Zhaoyuan and other Yunnan civil and military officials all looked horrified.
Ran Sanniang, Peng Tingyu and other chieftains in western Hunan and Hubei were all awe-inspiring. The leader of the 48 wolf soldiers in Guangxi actually killed the leader of the 48 wolf soldiers in Guangxi when the emperor said to kill him. How could he really not be afraid of the wolf soldiers rebelling?
Ding Kuichu was so frightened that he almost urinated on the spot. How dare your Majesty kill him?
Chongzhen said to Xu Yingwei again: "Youzhen, go and interrogate those wolf soldiers. The stolen property that the wolf soldiers robbed from the old village of Jigelong cannot be taken away by just a few leaders. They also need someone to help them bury it when they find a place to hide it.
Therefore, if you conduct more trials, you will definitely be able to find out. You must not lose any of this stolen property, and all of it must be recovered by me."
"Accept the decree." Xu Yingwei accepted the decree and left.
"Your Majesty." Mu Tianbo suddenly cried out and knelt down in front of Chongzhen.
"Duke Qian, what are you doing?" Chongzhen couldn't help but be a little confused when he saw this, thinking to himself, what's going on with Mu Tianbo?
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Mu Tianbo said: "The Holy Lord upholds justice for me and recovers the robbed property for the Duke of Guizhou. The gratitude in my heart is really indescribable.
, we can only serve the Ming Dynasty and do our best to defend the border."
Hearing this, Zhu Cijiong, Wang Chengen and Gao Qiqian looked at Mu Tianbo.
The three of them said to themselves, is Mu Tianbo a fool? Since the property of the Duke of Guizhou has fallen into the hands of the rebel Sha Dingzhou, it has become stolen property and has nothing to do with you, the Duke of Guizhou, even if it is recovered.
, it must have been put into the imperial treasury, how could it be returned to you, Duke Qian? Are you afraid that you have been drunk?
Yan Yingyuan put his hand on his forehead and said to himself that the Holy Master doesn't know how to settle the accounts with you. If you say this, aren't you going to the door yourself? You really think you have a long life.
"Mu Tianbo, do you know your guilt?" Chongzhen's eyes turned cold.
"Ah?" Mu Tianbo was stunned when he heard this, and said, "Your Majesty, I am not guilty, what crime do I have?"
"You still dare to say that you are not guilty?" Chongzhen said coldly, "When Emperor Taizu Gao made your ancestor the Duke of Guizhou, he hoped that your Mu family would be able to control Yunnan for the rest of the world and guard the southwest border for the Ming Dynasty. But you
How did the Mu family do? What did you, Mu Tianbo, do? Are you worthy of the Ming Dynasty and worthy of Emperor Taizu Gao’s expectations and trust in your Mu family?"
Mu Tianbo still looked confused and asked blankly: "Your Majesty, what did our Mu family do?"
"What did you do? You actually have the nerve to ask me?" Chongzhen was furious, "Mu Tianbo, weren't you just thanking me for recovering the billions of robbed wealth for your Mu family?"
"Then let me ask you, where did your Mu family's billions of wealth come from?"
"The Duke of Guizhou's annual salary is only three thousand dan. Even if your Mu family has not eaten or drank for three hundred years, it is only 900,000 dan. The silver can only be exchanged for one million taels at best. Where do you come from?
Family wealth?"
"This..." Mu Tianbo was speechless. He couldn't say this.
Where did the billions of family wealth come from? Of course it was picked out from the mouths of the common people, but our Mu family is not the only one who does this. Isn't your Zhu family even more outrageous? Why do you only talk about our Mu family?
"You have nothing to say?" Chongzhen said, "Then I will speak for you."
"Of course your Mu family's billions of wealth was obtained by exploiting the people of Yunnan."
"There are thirty prefectures and divisions in Yunnan, but the farmland of twenty-six prefectures and divisions belongs to your Mu family."
"If you farm your Mu family's land as a tenant, you will have to pay 60% of the tenant rent, whether you are a Han citizen or another native citizen."
"It's pitiful that the native people, in addition to paying rent to your Mu family, also have to pay rent to the chieftain. After all the layers of exploitation, less than 10% is left. That is to say, even if one stone per acre is harvested, only half a bucket is left for the native people!
"
"The exploitation is so cruel and heavy, like a steel knife scraping bones, how can the local people not resist?"
"The Wubikui Rebellion and the Shadingzhou Rebellion have their roots in your Mu family. If your Mu family hadn't been so greedy and exploitative, forcing the local people in each department to have no way to survive, how could there have been the rebellion between the two thieves?"
"The words of the Holy Spirit are really penetrating!" Wang Xiyan, the left minister of the former civil service department, who was sitting at the head of the civil service class, could no longer bear it. He stood up and said, "The Mu family, relying on its status as the world's largest town in Yunnan, wantonly annexed various prefectures and counties.
The cultivated land of the Han people and the native people, but now nine out of ten arable lands in Yunnan have been transferred to the name of Mu Mansion. Such actions will inevitably lead to the rebellion of the native Han people."
"Nonsense!" Mu Tianbo did not dare to challenge Chongzhen, but he would not be polite to Wang Xiyan, "Wang Xiyan, how can your Wang family be such a good thing? The cultivated land in Lufeng Prefecture is not only 10%, but 60%."
In the name of your Wang family."
Wang Xigun said: "But my Wang family will not buy or sell by force, nor will I go out of my way to pay less for the royal ration."
"Mu Tianbo, I'm talking about you now, don't talk about others." Chongzhen interrupted decisively. At this stage, the focus is on clans and noble estates like the Mu family. As for the estates of noble gentry like Wang Xigun, it can't be done yet.
Otherwise, the resistance encountered will increase sharply, which is not conducive to the stability of the overall situation.
If we only deal with nobles like the clan and the Mu family, the resistance will be much smaller.
Because civil servants like Wang Xiyan deeply hated the clan and nobles' wanton occupation of cultivated land, they would only support but not oppose Chongzhen's actions.
After a moment, he continued: "You, the Mu family, are responsible for controlling Yunnan. First there was the Wubikui Rebellion, and then there was the Shadingzhou Rebellion, which caused repeated military disasters in Yunnan and the displacement of the people. Wubikui and Shading
It is true that the thieves in the continent cannot be punished for their crimes, but you, the Mu family, cannot escape the same responsibility."
"From now on, the Mu family will be demoted to one rank."
"The Duke of Guizhou was demoted to the rank of Marquis of Central Yunnan, the vassal state was abolished, and the entire family moved to the capital within ten days."
Speaking of this meal, he added: "All the farmland under the name of the Duke of Guizhou will be transferred to the national treasury, and the Duke's mansion will be turned into official property and used as a barracks for Yunnan to suppress Taiwan!"
"Ah?" Mu Tianbo's face suddenly turned pale.
How do you say this? I thought that after suppressing the Sha Dingzhou Rebellion, the good days of the Mu family would return, but I never expected that the situation of the Mu family would become even worse. Not only did they be demoted one level, they were also demoted from Duke
He was reduced to a marquis, and he was not allowed to stay in Kunming, forcing the entire Mu family to move to Nanjing.
In the end, Mu Tianbo left the square in despair.
Chongzhen also ordered Yiding to remove the heads and corpses of the forty-eight tribe leaders.
Now that the accounts that need to be cleared have been almost cleared, the next step is to truly reward the work.
Chongzhen walked up to Yang Weizhi and said with a smile: "Yang Weizhi, Chu Xiong defended well. I have heard about the process. He is brave and resourceful, and has the style of a famous ancient general."
"I am terrified." Yang Weizhi hurriedly avoided the table and stood up.
Yang Weizhi's expression was no longer as disappointed as before.
At this time, Yang Weizhi only had reverence or awe for Chongzhen.
I have to say that the Holy Spirit acted with great courage and great wisdom.
He killed forty-eight leaders of the Guangxi Wolf Soldiers and captured Ding Kuichu, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, on the spot. This was a very heroic act.
Severely punish the Guangxi wolf soldiers, avenge the hundreds of thousands of native and Han people who died in the military rebellion in Guangnan Prefecture and Lin'an Prefecture, and then they will definitely allocate land to the native and Han people. Once these two actions are taken, the grievances of all the native people in Yunnan Province will be
The ice will melt and disintegrate overnight. From then on, all the native people in Yunnan will only be grateful for the kindness of the Holy One. This is great wisdom.
I dare not say it in a hundred years, but within the next fifty years, Yunnan will be settled!
This kind of behavior is the reincarnation of Emperor Taizu Gao, but that's all?
Chongzhen pondered and said: "Yang Weizhi, I have a problem. I wonder if you would like to help me?"
"Your Majesty's words are serious." Yang Weizhi hurriedly bowed to the ground, "As the saying goes, the Lord is worried about the humiliation of the minister, and the Lord is worried about the humiliation of the minister's death. It is the duty of our ministers to solve the problem for the Lord, so I ask the Lord not to say such words.
If not, even if the imperial censor speaks to the official and does not scold the minister, the minister himself will no longer have the face to serve as an official in the court."
"Okay." Chongzhen said happily, "Although the forty-eight leaders of Guangxi have been killed, we can't kill all the nearly 100,000 wolf soldiers detained outside the city, right? What should we do with these 100,000 wolf soldiers? I don't know what Yang Qing should do.
What’s your advice?”
Yang Weizhi said flatly: "Your Majesty, we absolutely cannot allow these 100,000 wolf soldiers to return to Guangxi."
