It was a time of beautiful scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, but in the spring of the second year of Shaotian in the Ming Dynasty, the south of the Yangtze River was still turbulent. Although the Ming Dynasty regained Nanjing, annihilated the 18,000 Manchu and Mongolian banners stationed in the south of the Yangtze River, surrendered and incorporated tens of thousands of green battalions, etc., the entire
The area south of the Yangtze River is no longer occupied by the Tatars.
Even several important towns such as Yangzhou and Anqing in the north of the Yangtze River are still in the hands of the Ming army's imperial camp, and there are still many Ming army forces in the Bashu Guanlong area.
It was exactly two years since Chongzhen hanged himself in Meishan, Beijing.
Two years ago, on March 19, the seventeenth year of Chongzhen's reign, Chongzhen, accompanied by Wang Cheng'en, the eunuch who was responsible for the rituals, climbed Meishan Mountain and staged the tragic scene of the king's death on the locust tree.
"Two years, two whole years."
Zhu Yihai, accompanied by Liu Chao, Li Guofu, and Pang Tianshou, the chief eunuchs of the Li Jian and Yu Ma Jian, came to Zhongshan Xiaoling Mausoleum.
Zhu Yihai walked toward Beijing to pay homage to Emperor Chongzhen, the tragic emperor who was posthumously named Emperor Suzonglie.
A glass of Shaoxing rice wine was poured down.
The three eunuchs in the inner palace were Liu Chao, Li Guofu and Pang Tianshou. Among them, Li Guofu and Pang Tianshou had served Emperors Tianqi and Chongzhen in Beijing. Li Guofu was the adopted son of Han Zanzhou, the eunuch who was responsible for the ceremony. He had been awarded the imperial title in the ninth year of Chongzhen.
He was a eunuch and eunuch, and later followed Han Zanzhou to guard Nanjing. He supported Hongguang with meritorious service, and was changed to the supervisor of rites and the admiral of Yongwei.
Pang Tianshou was also the eunuch of the Chongzhen Dynasty.
The imperial eunuchs had a very high status in the Ming Dynasty, especially in the later period. They usually served as the admiral of the capital camp or the admiral of the imperial guards, and they held the largest number of soldiers among the emperor's servants.
Although the position of the first eunuch in the harem now belongs to Liu Chao, who was once only a close servant of King Lu, the two of them are more adaptable to the new emperor and perform well.
Watching Emperor Shaotian offering sacrifices to his old lord Lie Huang in the Xiaoling Mausoleum, everyone couldn't help but feel mixed emotions. They were all close confidants around Chongzhen, and they all got along well with Chongzhen. They relied heavily on him and trusted him. They also worked for Chongzhen and supervised him.
Military taxation.
They even watched helplessly as Chongzhen struggled in every possible way, but in the end he still could not escape the tragic ending of the country's collapse and death. They once thought that the Ming Dynasty was about to end.
Especially after Nanjing Hongguang escaped and was captured, he became increasingly pessimistic and desperate.
But who would have thought that Zhu Yihai could carry the banner of Ming Dynasty again.
After hearing the emperor's words, they even fell into a trance.
Only two years?
The destruction of Beijing and the hanging of Chongzhen seemed to be very distant events. Unexpectedly, it was only two years ago.
In March of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Chongzhen hanged himself and died for his country. In May of the same year, King Fu Zhu Yousong was proclaimed emperor in Nanjing. However, he only reigned for eight months when the Qing army crossed the river. Hongguang abandoned Nanjing and fled to Wuhu, and was eventually captured.
Immediately afterwards, Ma Shiying and others supported King Lu to supervise the country in Hangzhou, but they took the initiative to surrender to the Qing Dynasty only five days later.
Immediately afterwards, King Lu raised the flag in Taizhou, eastern Zhejiang, to supervise the country.
It has only been two years since Chongzhen hanged himself, and it has actually been less than a year since Zhu Yihai raised the flag.
In June last year, we raised the flag to resist the Qing Dynasty, which was a leap month. Now, on March 19th, it has been nearly twelve months.
But this King of Lu, who was still a lonely king when he raised the flag, achieved such great achievements in less than a year. He not only withstood the Qing army's march southward, but also defeated the already surrendered eastern Zhejiang.
The surrender factions in various prefectures were expelled and killed, and the people were called upon to rebel against the Qing Dynasty. They even launched two Northern Expeditions, all the way to Shandong.
Not to mention, now that Nandu has been restored, the entire area south of the Yangtze River has been restored.
A year ago, neither Pang Tianshou nor Li Guofu would have believed these things.
"How are Zhu Yousong and Zhu Changzi arranged in Yuhuan now?"
Zhu Yihai asked.
"Fushu people and Lushu people have now been settled on Yuhuan Island in Wenzhou. Each of them has been assigned thirty acres of land. The Wenzhou prefect also sent people to build houses for them..."
The so-called Fushu people and Lushu people refer to Hongguang Zhu Yousong and Lujianguo Zhu Changzi. They were sent to the south of the Yangtze River by the Qing army. They originally wanted to cause trouble for Zhu Yihai. In the end, Zhu Yihai deposed them as common people and sent them to Wenzhou Yuhuan for surveillance. They were given a piece of land to live in and allowed them to earn their own living.
Although they were expelled from the royal family by Zhu Yihai, they still belonged to the Sin Sect.
There were many common people in the Ming Dynasty who committed such crimes, such as the common people of Jian and Wu. After Zhu Di seized the throne, he imprisoned Emperor Jianwen's younger brother Zhu Yunxi and his son Zhu Wengui to Fengyang High Wall. Zhu Yunxi was originally the king of Wu, so he himself and His descendants are collectively called Wu Shu people.
Zhu Wengui, the son of Emperor Jianwen, was called a commoner.
These people were imprisoned for fifty-five years. It was not until the Tianshun period that Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty issued an edict to release the two families, subject them to military and civilian care, and choose their own couples. However, their actions were still closely monitored by the government.
In addition, there were also those who were deposed due to evil intentions, such as the common people of Qi and the common people of Gu. Zhu Shu was the seventh son of Zhu Yuanzhang and was named the king of Qi; the king of Gu, Zhu Su, was the nineteenth son of Zhu Yuanzhang. It was he who opened the Jinchuan gate to welcome Zhu Di. The two people who entered Nanjing were deposed as commoners during the Yongle period because they were accused of having evil intentions.
In the third year of Xuande, Zhu Zhu and Zhu Su died suddenly in Nanjing. Although Zhu Su died, there were many descendants of Zhu Su. By the late Ming Dynasty, the number reached thousands. The number of "Qi Shuren" (who had no names) was large, and they He did evil things in Nanjing, bullied men and dominated women, and his reputation was very bad. "The people of Qi Zong are so fierce and cunning" that even the government did not dare to provoke him.
There is also a group of common people who were deposed because of crimes. There are more of them. The Ming Dynasty clan often does illegal things because they are descendants of the emperor. For example, King Zhu Dianmei of Yi openly occupied government land and robbed civilian women. Thousands of people, causing panic in the whole city of Luoyang, Jiajing issued orders to reprimand him again and again, but Zhu Diankai ignored him. In the end, Jiajing stripped him of his title, deposed him as a commoner, and imprisoned him in Kaifeng.
Another example is Zhu Yujian, who was originally the king of Tang Dynasty, but was later deprived of his title by Chongzhen and imprisoned within the high walls of Fengyang.
However, he had better luck. After Chongzhen died, Hongguang proclaimed himself emperor, released him, and named him King of Nanyang. Zhu Yihai even granted him the title of Grand Imperial Order and the title of King Deng, making him an elder of the royal family. After all, Zhu Yujian was indeed He is Zhu Yihai's uncle.
Zhu Yihai was very grateful when he refused Zheng Hongkui's support and took the initiative to respect Zhu Yihai as the supervisor. Therefore, Zhu Yujian has always been the leader of the vassal.
In general, Zhu Yihai was good to the Ming Dynasty royal family and vassals. Even if those who claimed to be supervisors and emperors could abdicate in time and return to the vassal, and obey the imperial edict, he would let the past go. Such as Yiyang King Zhu Chaoyang, etc., but such as Jingjiang He wouldn't be polite to a guy like Wang who didn't care about life and death and dared to blatantly refuse to respect Zhu Yihai and start a civil war.
King Jingjiang was deposed as common people, and all his people were deposed as common people and imprisoned.
However, both Hongguang and King Lu were deposed as emperors and supervisors of the country by Zhu Yihai because of the crime of abandoning the country and surrendering, and then demoted to common people.
Over the past year, Zhu Yihai gradually stabilized the south, and the surviving vassals from various parts of the Ming Dynasty basically fled to the south and reported to the court, which was responsible for their resettlement.
For example, the Fushu people and the Lushu people are not only now settled on Yuhuan Island, but also the clans of Fufan and Kuexu are implicated, and they all become commoners.
Although the common people of Jian, Wu, and Qi are no longer imprisoned by high walls, they are still under strict supervision.
In the clan system of the Ming Dynasty, the name after birth must be chosen by the court. Generally, the clan office and the Ministry of Rites are responsible for the name, and then give it to the emperor for approval.
As for the common people of the sinful vassal, they lost the qualification of the emperor to give them names, so they generally had no names and could only be called by their nicknames. Even Zhu was not worthy of the surname, so they usually used Jian, Gu, Qi.
Something and so on.
For example, Jiansu people are all called Jian so-and-so, and they cannot use the generation names designated by Taizu.
Previously, Zhu Yihai modified some systems of the Ming Dynasty clan, such as salaries, fiefs, etc.
Nowadays, it is no longer a ****, but a lower level. The clan title has increased, but the salary has been reduced, and the land grant has also been reduced.
Many of the previous prohibitions and restrictions on the clan were even lifted, such as allowing them to engage in the four industries, allowing them to take imperial examinations, join the army, serve as officials, etc.
But due to some historical reasons and so on, there are still many common people in various sin vassals today.
"A decree was drawn up to relieve Zhu Hengjia, a commoner, from confinement under the high wall, move to Taiwan, and allow his immediate family members and other people to travel with him. Those who are over sixteen and under sixty, regardless of gender, will be given ten acres of land each to make them self-reliant.
The common people of Qi, common people of Gu, etc., are all released from handling and surveillance, and each adult male and female is granted ten acres of land..."
The Confucian Temple was built with the title Huizong in his honor, the posthumous title was Emperor Rang, and his throne was restored.
The common people of Jian and Wu also regained their clan status. Zhu Wengui, a common person of Jian, was posthumously named King Runhuai, and Zhu Wengui's direct descendants were given the title of King Run.
The descendants of the common people of the past generations could not even use the surname Zhu. They could only be called Jian so-and-so, and they did not dare to use the generation name designated by Zhu Yuanzhang. Now Zhu Yihai has restored the Jianwen throne and has given the Jianwen family the title of King Run, which is promised to be hereditary and irreplaceable.
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Zhu Biao also restored the posthumous title of Emperor Xingzong Xiaokang, which Jianwen respected.
Zhu Biao's other son, Wu Yunxi, a commoner of Wu, was also restored to the title of King of Wu by Zhu Yihai and given the posthumous title of King Ai. Zhu Yihai also selected one of his direct descendants from the common people of Wu and named him King of Wu.
As for the other Wu common people and Jian common people, they were all restored to clan status, but they were only granted the lowest title. Each person was granted twenty acres of land, and was given five taels of silver per month.
The common people of Qi, Gu and other sinners will regain their status as common people and will no longer be monitored, but they will no longer be awarded titles, and will become common people. Adult men and women will be granted ten acres of land each, and they will be self-reliant. They will not receive salary, and their titles will not be restored.
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For those sects who went south, the imperial court greatly reduced their salaries, and no longer gave them additional fiefdoms, manors, money, slaves, etc. in the south. Instead, they were given a limited amount of land as dictated by instructions, allowing them to find ways to be self-reliant.
Regardless of whether it is a vassal or a commoner, all the land granted is taxed per mu, and there is no privilege of exemption or reduction.
On the one hand, Zhu Yihai restored the inheritance of some titles such as the Jian common people and the Wu common people, but on the other hand, he directly abolished some criminal vassals such as the Qi common people and the Gu common people. On the other hand, the kings of Jingjiang, Hongguang, and Lu also became ordinary common people.
After the clan was no longer generously supported, the imperial court no longer needed to allocate land from the south of the Yangtze River to settle vassal vassals for them, nor did it need to allocate a large amount of official land to them as royal estates. It no longer even needed to give them a large amount of salary and support, and only gave them basic living expenses.
Some fields and houses allow them to live frugally.
At the same time, Zhu Yihai also held special examinations to select talents from these clans, either as officials or military generals, or to arrange them to do business or farming, so that they could not only serve the country, but also support themselves, and no longer just be parasitic.
Daming sucks blood.
On the other hand, in fact, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, many clan members with low-level titles at the bottom of the clan had a very difficult life. They were even bachelors in their forties and fifties without even a name, and they did not receive timely salary payments.
, and cannot go out to make a living on our own, so we are in a dilemma.
Now Zhu Yihai has relaxed the restrictions for them.
For these clans, most of their fiefdoms have been lost, and even the family property accumulated over generations has been lost. Now they have to start over in the south, but this is not necessarily a bad thing.
"Emperor Lie had six sons, three of whom died young. When the army invaded Beijing, the three princes were captured by Li Zicheng. Later, after he defeated Shanhaiguan, he let all three princes go. Later, the crown prince was captured by his grandfather and
My uncle informed the Qing army. The Qing army caught him but claimed he was a fake and killed him.
After the third prince, King Ding, escaped, it is said that he became a monk and lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests. No one knows his whereabouts.
The fourth prince, King Yong, is also missing and is said to be hiding in Henan."
Zhu Yihai gave the three eunuchs an important task, "Find King Yong and King Ding, bring them back and place them properly. These are the orphans of Emperor Lie, and we must find them properly."
King Ding Zhu Cijiong was only fifteen years old at this time, and King Yong
Zhu Cizheng was only about thirteen years old.
During the Shunzhi and Kangxi years, the third prince Zhu who appeared frequently was actually named Prince Ding Zhu Cijiong. It was not until the 47th year of Kangxi that Kangxi executed a 70-year-old teacher and claimed that he was the real third prince Zhu.
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After Hongguang proclaimed himself emperor, he announced that the three princes known as Chongzhen were all dead, and they were also given posthumous titles. Later, there was even a case of a fake prince, which became one of the three major cases in the Southern Ming Dynasty. In the end, the fake prince joined the Qing army.
After Nanjing, he was declared by the Qing army as the real third prince of Ming Dynasty, and then he was sent to Beijing together with Hongguang, and finally they were killed together.
Nowadays, there are many rumors among the people that the crown prince of Chongzhen was indeed killed by the Qing army in the name of pretending to be a prince, but King Yong and King Ding are still living in the world. Zhu Yihai is now asking people to look for him. It is not like Hong Guang, insisting that others are
Pretend, because he didn't think that Chongzhen's prince could threaten his current throne.
His throne was not won by any status or bloodline, it was all won by him.
Now even if Chongzhen is resurrected and comes south, he can't even think about competing with Zhu Yihai for the throne. He has an army of imperial troops and his own team. Who will support Chongzhen again?
Even if you support Chongzhen, what's the use if you don't have strength.
The main reason why Zhu Yihai went to find the two princes was that the people still sympathized with Chongzhen, and the two princes were also relatively pitiful. Finding them and giving them generous gifts was actually not a bad thing for Zhu Yihai. On the contrary, it could give him a position among the gentry, the army and the people.
Extra points in my heart.
If the two kings are found and can respect Zhu Yihai, then Zhu Yihai's position as the Son of Heaven will undoubtedly be more stable.
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