Time soon came to mid-September of the 22nd year of Chongzhen (1649).
This month, Chongzhen hurriedly handled several urgent tasks.
The first urgent task was to list the General Headquarters. The General Headquarters was located at the Asahi Altar Camp. The Asahi Altar and the surrounding palaces and palaces became the official residence of the General Headquarters.
And this was also a change in the Chongzhen Dynasty.
Chongzhen was very disgusted with the form of offering sacrifices to heaven, earth, sun, moon, mountains and rivers.
The only thing that remains now is the ancestor worship ceremony on the first day of the first lunar month, and Chongzhen was often absent due to various reasons, and then the prince Zhu Cihong performed the sacrifice on his behalf.
The second urgent task is to confer titles.
A total of 6 scholars were awarded the title of lieutenant general.
Another 15 scholars were awarded the rank of major general.
In addition, 616 people were awarded school officers, 1,829 people were awarded lieutenants, and 5,719 people were awarded non-commissioned officers.
General officers, colonel officers and lieutenants are basically all Qinwang scholars who have been transferred to the headquarters.
The three thousand soldiers who remained in the Ministry of Internal Affairs were not awarded military ranks, and they will never be awarded military ranks.
The third urgent task is to build five shelf divisions, but Chongzhen does not need to do this himself. Five division commanders, Xu Yingwei, Yan Yingyuan, Lu Xiangtong, Wang Fuzhi and Hua Xia, are fully responsible.
After the new army implemented standardization, the three-three system was adopted below the brigade level, with the exception of the infantry company.
In addition to the three infantry platoons, the infantry company also has an infantry artillery platoon, and the infantry artillery platoon has four squads.
Therefore, each infantry regiment has 2 chief and deputy regimental commanders, 6 chief and deputy battalion commanders, 18 chief and deputy company commanders, 72 chief and deputy platoon leaders, and 234 chief and deputy squad leaders, for a total of 332 officers in each regiment.
The configuration of the baggage regiment is basically the same as that of the infantry regiment, except that there is no infantry artillery platoon at the company level, with a total of 242 officers.
Each artillery regiment has 2 commanders and deputy commanders, 6 battalion commanders and deputy commanders, 18 company commanders and deputy commanders, and 54 platoon commanders and deputy commanders. Each regiment has a total of 80 officers. However, artillery units at the brigade level are equipped with baggage regiments to implement independence.
During combat missions, the baggage regiment can be split into baggage battalions and assigned to three artillery regiments respectively.
Therefore, the full artillery regiment has 106 officers.
So a mixed brigade has nearly 1,400 officers.
The total number of officers in a shelf division is nearly 4,500.
The total number of officers in the five shelf divisions reached more than 20,000.
This number far exceeds the total number of more than 2,000 soldiers and more than 5,000 national students, so it is impossible to fully replenish the officer ranks of the five shelf divisions in a short period of time.
But fortunately, the second batch of National Undergraduate students from Nanjian are about to graduate.
By then, there will be more than 6,000 Chinese students to add to our ranks.
In addition to promoting some of the new army officers and soldiers, that's about it.
The fourth urgent task was to move. Moving back to the Forbidden City was out of the question.
As mentioned earlier, buildings like the Forbidden City are simply not suitable for habitation.
So in the end, Chongzhen chose Wanshou Palace in Xiyuan as his residence.
Yes, that's right, it was the Longevity Palace that Emperor Jiajing asked Yan Shifan, Minister of Industry, to spend more than one million taels of silver to build it. Now more than a hundred years have passed, and it is a bit old, but it is still very good to turn it over.
Needless to say, this renovation project must have been outsourced to Daming Construction Workshop.
Chongzhen couldn't trust the imperial court or the Ministry of Industry. If he could send you half a million yuan for a project, it would be great if you could get a result worth 100,000 yuan, so he had to find the Daming Construction Workshop.
In early September, before Li Xiangjun, Ran Sanniang and others arrived in Beijing, the Wanshou Palace was finally renovated.
After renovation, the main body of the Wanshou Palace is still a civil structure, but many brick-concrete structures have also been added. For example, the annex building where Chongzhen lived is a three-story brick-concrete structure.
It is said that the Great Ming Fire was too strong, so the palace was prone to fire.
Chongzhen feels that brick-concrete structures are less likely to catch fire.
By the way, after the successful development of steam engines, Gewuke quickly built ball mills and blowers, and the technical problems of the cement plant were solved. So now the Daming Cement Plant has been officially built and put into operation. Chongzhen’s building in Wanshou Palace
The cement used in the annex building was transported thousands of miles from Nanjing.
Unfortunately, a few days after moving into the Longevity Palace, Chongzhen had to return to Nanjing.
Li Xiangjun was reluctant to leave. Taking advantage of the opportunity to dress Chongzhen, he said coquettishly, "Do I have to go?"
"What?" Chongzhen pinched Li Xiangjun's buttocks and said with a smile, "I have plowed your and Sanniang's land for more than half a month. I plowed it almost every day. Isn't it enough?"
Li Xiangjun's pretty face turned red and she said, "I also want a little princess."
"I'm greedy for writing this." Chongzhen said with a smile, "Isn't your ambition to make great achievements and become the most outstanding female general in martial arts in the history of the Ming Dynasty and even China? Why did you suddenly change your temper?"
"The two are not contradictory." Li Xiangjun said with a bright red mouth.
"I want to be a female general, and I also want a chubby little princess."
Thinking of the pink dumpling-like Zhu Jinxiu, the brilliance of motherhood appeared in Li Xiangjun's beautiful eyes.
"I really can't refuse a request like yours, but I can't control whether it's the little princess or the little prince. This thing can only depend on God's will." Chongzhen said and hugged Li Xiangjun to the couch.
"Long live my Lord, you have to go to the Criminal Department in the morning." Li Xiangjun said hurriedly.
"I won't go. It's just a formality anyway. It doesn't matter whether I go or not."
Chongzhen said, his whole body pressed forward. It is more important to create a little princess or a little prince. The Ming Empire needs more successors, especially overseas, it needs more kings or queens.
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While Chongzhen was busy creating people, the Ministry of Punishment began a public trial.
When they heard that the Ministry of Punishment was going to open a trial today, people from all over the capital flocked to the courtyard of the Ministry of Punishment to watch the excitement. Human beings are like this and can never get rid of the animal nature that likes to watch the excitement.
But this is also a good thing for the Ministry of Justice.
Because bloody heads help spread the law.
The Ministry of Punishment has been handling the case for nearly three months.
However, because there are so many criminals involved, not to mention other things, there are tens of thousands of surrendered generals of the Eight Banners Han Army alone, and there are also thousands of ministers. How can they be sorted out in a short time?
So the investigation and evidence collection alone took three months.
After nearly three months of investigation and evidence collection, the Criminal Department finally obtained a large amount of incriminating evidence.
The first batch of surrendered generals will be heard publicly today: Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi, and Zu Dashou.
"Bring the prisoners!" Liu Shizhen, the Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment, slapped the prison tree fiercely. The officials on both sides immediately poked the ground with wooden sticks and began to roar.
Amidst the sounds of "no evil" and "no evil", Kong Youde was brought into the lobby.
I saw that Kong Youde had a big shackle around his neck, and iron shackles around his ankles. There were thick iron chains wrapped around the iron shackles. It was extremely difficult to take a step, and it seemed that he might fall down at any time.
In fact, Kong Youde was tortured until he was almost transformed into a human being.
During these three months, Kong Youde was not imprisoned in prison, but at a railway construction site.
The new army supervisors on the railway construction site were really cruel to the demoted generals. Not only did they often beat and scold them, they only gave them very little food every day, and the little food they had was rotten and spoiled.
Even an iron-clad body wouldn't be able to handle this kind of treatment for long.
Kong Youde's body has always been in good health, and now he only has one breath left.
However, after meeting Liu Shizhen, Kong Youde still refused to kneel down.
But how could the government officials let him get his wish? Two fire and water sticks immediately hit Kong Youde hard on the crook of his legs. Kong Youde immediately let out a muffled groan and fell to his knees in the hall.
"Okay! Beat this traitor to death!"
"The traitor really deserves to die!"
"Beat him to death, beat him to death with a stick!"
The people watching in the hall shouted loudly.
"Quiet!" Liu Shizhen slapped the crowd to silence the noise of the people.
He then opened the case file and asked Kong Youde who was kneeling on the ground: "On the twenty-seventh day of the leap winter month in the fourth year of Chongzhen, you were instigated by Li Jiucheng and led your troops to launch a mutiny in Wuqiao. You named yourself Marshal of the Capital and returned to Dengzhou. Under the internal response of Geng Zhongming
Is this possible when they invaded Dengzhou and massacred thousands of soldiers, civilians, officials and gentry in Dengzhou city?"
Kong Youde rolled his eyelids and said angrily: "What do you think?"
"Confucius has violated Kong Youde. I advise you to answer politely to avoid asking for trouble."
"There is such a thing." Kong Youde said helplessly, "But it was the twelfth lunar month of winter, and the supplies were delayed. The soldiers could not starve to death, so they could only beg for food from the big households along the way. However, the big households along the way not only refused to give it, but instead
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"That's enough, you don't need to tell the main department about this." Liu Shizhen interrupted, "The main department asks you, you only need to answer yes or no, don't ramble on, you have to remember it."
"If you say so, there is no need to go to such trouble."
Kong Youde said: "There is no need to ask any more questions about the great Sikou, I will admit it."
Kong Youde knew that he was bound to die this time. Chongzhen would never spare the three of them even if he spared anyone. He, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi were bound to die. Since they were destined to die, it was better to be tougher.
However, when Liu Shizhen finished reading out his charges and was about to pronounce the sentence in court, Kong Youde's heart could not help but tighten, and even his breathing suddenly froze.
Liu Shizhen was still reading: "...the facts are all there, the evidence is conclusive, and the imperial prisoner also confessed. According to Article XX of Volume 1 of the Ming Dynasty Code of Military Affairs, the sentence is as follows: The imperial prisoner Kong Youde will be punished for his crime!"
"Okay, okay, a traitor should be executed in a hurry or cut into pieces by a thousand cuts."
"A traitor will not die until he is cut with a thousand cuts, and he must be cut with a thousand cuts!"
"One thousand knives is not enough. It takes 10,000 knives. Only ten thousand knives can cut him to death!"
The people watching in the hall cheered loudly, and their eyes shone with excitement one by one.
Kong Youde seemed to have been suddenly drained of all his strength, and fell to the ground.
Kong Youde was used to seeing life and death, and he thought he would be calm and calm when facing life and death.
But when death really came, I found that I still couldn't face it calmly.
Especially when he had to face Lingchi's torture, it made him even more unable to calm down, hateful and regretful!
At this moment, Kong Youde felt regretful. If he had known this, he should not have launched the Wuqiao Mutiny. After launching the Wuqiao Mutiny, he should have accepted the imperial court's appeasement. What is hateful is that there is no medicine for regret in this world. It was a big mistake.
, Now even if I want to look back, I can’t, hate hate hate hate!
