In the Prime Minister's Office, a top-secret report was jointly reported by Jinyi Weidong Factory, indicating that Zhu Youyi was plotting a rebellion.
Zhu Youtong was the third concubine of King Hengxian Zhu Changshu. He was first granted the title of General of Zhenguo. In the fifth year of Chongzhen, he attacked and was granted the title of King Heng. He reigned for 12 years. In the 16th year of Chongzhen, after Li Zicheng occupied Beijing, he sent Yao Yingfeng to lead his troops to garrison.
Qingzhou. Li Shiyuan, a general loyal to the Ming Dynasty, killed Yao Yingfeng, found Zhu Youchi, and persuaded him to proclaim himself emperor and ascend the throne and raise a flag to resist the Qing Dynasty.
But Zhu Youyi was timid and cowardly, so he took the initiative to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. As soon as the Qing army entered Beijing, they pretended to be conciliatory and still retained his title. After Zhu Yihai raised troops in Taizhou, the Qing government dismissed Zhu Youyi on the grounds that the descendants of the Heng clan had rebelled.
He was escorted to Beijing and placed under house arrest in Beijing together with the captured Hong Guang and the surrendered King Lu.
The following year, the Tatars killed sixteen kings in the name of rebellion.
Prince Heng was originally among the second batch to be killed. Later, the Tatars pretended to negotiate for peace and sent Hongguang, King Lu, and Prince Heng to the south. After the peace negotiation failed, the Tatars became angry and ordered the execution of Prince Heng's palace, and the Heng clan dispersed.
They fled for their lives, but those who were unable to escape were sold into slavery, their property and treasures were confiscated, and the palace of Prince Heng of Qingzhou was razed to the ground.
When King Heng Zhu Youdi arrived in the south of the Yangtze River, Zhu Yihai treated his distant nephew quite well. Both Hongguang and King Lu were demoted to common people and settled on Yuhuan Island in Zhejiang, but he still retained his title as King Heng and stayed in Beijing.
After the promulgation of the clan law, Prince Heng was one of the twenty-three princes who were demoted and was granted the title of Prince of Linzi County. Although it was only passed on to one lineage and was demoted to the first level, he was still a county prince after all.
It should not be considered a rebellion.
Besides, Zhu Youyi is timid and cowardly. How could he have the courage to rebel?
However, Dongchang and Jinyiwei have no evidence and dare not make nonsense. Although Zhu Youyi served as King Heng for twelve years in the Chongzhen Dynasty and another year in the Shaotian Dynasty, he really had no ability.
Even if there is rebellion, it is not confidential.
Jin Yiwei couldn't believe it at first, but after careful investigation, he found that this matter had gone too far, and there were actually quite a few people involved.
King Zhu Chaoyang of Yiyang, King Zhu Hengxin of Jingjiang, and King Zhu Youlang of Gui also secretly participated in the rebellion. They planned to poison Zhu Yihai and then support King Zhu Youlang of Gui to succeed him.
In exchange, Zhu Youlang promised that after proclaiming himself emperor, he would restore the title of Prince Heng, and promote Prince Yiyang and Prince Jingjiang as princes. They would not replace them hereditary, and each would choose Yongzhen, a large county.
As for how these four princes got together, a follow-up investigation revealed the truth.
In the final analysis, it was caused by the newly enacted clan law.
Since Zhu Yihai started the army, he has adjusted the treatment of the clan several times. Now he has even enacted the clan law, which stipulates that no one outside the five civil servants will be a clan, and they will not be granted titles or salaries.
Because there was no one in the fifth service, thirty-one county princes were specially reserved.
King Heng and King Gui were both reduced to county princes, while King Yiyang, the king of Jingjiang, was directly expelled from his nobility.
In addition to demoting and seizing titles, there are also new regulations in the clan law regarding the properties of these clans, which are to eliminate the economic and legal privileges of royal relatives outside of these five services.
The specific method is to take back their farmland, retaining thirty acres per ding, but in the future it will be integrated with the civilian land. The excess land will be taken back by the court, and some compensation will be given as appropriate.
Not only these royal relatives outside the Five Servers, but also previous relatives such as the descendants of Xu Da, etc., had their fields confiscated due to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.
Basically, it is similar to how the Tatars treated their relatives and relatives in the Ming Dynasty.
Not only the land was recovered, but also houses, shops and other real estate properties were only retained for housing, and the rest were confiscated.
The reason for doing this is naturally to redistribute resources, especially fields. Zhu Yihai is not willing to let them continue to occupy a large amount of fields.
For example, Duke Guo of Wei and other relatives who had enjoyed benefits for more than two hundred years, when the Ming Dynasty was about to fall, no one stood up to save the country and King Qin, and they surrendered faster than anyone else.
What to keep.
Unless they raised an army to resist the Qing Dynasty or rebelled against the Qin King, Zhu Yihai would retain their land and property based on merit, otherwise they would all have to be redistributed.
For example, although Chengyi Bo Liu Kongzhao was scolded as a treacherous official, he was a Conglong hero to Zhu Yihai. Not only did he not seize the title, he was also promoted to the title of Duke of Chengyi County.
As soon as this clan law came out, it caused quite a lot of controversy.
Especially for clans, the lower-level clans don’t care, and they even think they are quite good. Although starting from the Wanli period, clan restrictions have been gradually relaxed, allowing imperial examinations, official positions, etc., but the restrictions are relatively small, and most of the lower-level clans are
The situation is miserable.
Therefore, they support the current new clan law, because even if they are reduced to royal relatives, they can still get a sum of money to settle down, and even those with old people and children can get a ration subsidy, and they can also line up to be equally divided into fields.
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Although it is not as good as the thirty acres of land per soldier in the imperial camp, but two acres of land for each soldier, but at least he can get some land.
Those who are really opposed are the great vassals, princes, princes, kings, generals, etc. Their conditions are somewhat better. Most of the fields of the vassals in various places are in their hands, and even some princesses have a lot of fields in their homes.
For example, Princess Rongchang, the eldest daughter of Emperor Wanli and Queen Wang, was sixty-two years old when the Tatars entered the capital. All three of her sons died during the raid by the invading army. After the Tatars entered the capital, she still had one son and thirteen
She has a grandson who belongs to more than a hundred people. She has more than 3,700 hectares of farmland in her name in Shuntian, Baoding and Hejian. This is 370,000 acres of land.
When she was in Beijing, she asked the Tatars to reserve half of the land for her or give her one-third. She also had more than ten large houses in Beijing, which were also occupied by the Qing army.
Her request was not approved and she was moved to a deserted village on the outskirts. Dorgon initially promised to let some villagers continue to pay her rent, but in fact it was impossible.
Later, Dorgon even sent her, Chongzhen's sister Princess Ningde, her family, and other princesses in Beijing back to the south, and all their farm properties in the north were naturally confiscated.
King Heng has been in Qingzhou for seven generations. At the beginning of the Hongzhi period, he granted 1,240 hectares of farmland in Shouguang and other places. After that, he continued to fight against the encroachment, which increased the farmland to more than 7,000 hectares. During the Zhengde period, another
Four hundred and eighty hectares were reported.
During the Jiajing period, due to the serious annexation and occupation of land by the vassals such as King De, King Heng, King Yi, and King Lu of Shandong, the censor cleaned up and found that the legally owned land granted by Prince Heng's Mansion was 1,170 hectares.
The land they mixed up by changing the county registration was converted into official acres of 250 steps per mu, which was actually more than 20,000 hectares, and the east, west, south, and north were equivalent to two to three hundred miles in width and length.
Although the government planned to clear out the fields occupied by King Heng, in fact this was not done in the end.
Until the end of Chongzhen, the fields in Prince Heng's Mansion only increased rather than decreased.
During the Chongzhen period, Prince Heng's Mansion was given more than 16,500 taels of Lumi salt and silver every year, thirty-one civil and military officers, and more than 1,500 taels of salary and silver for servants every year... Military Academy One
One thousand, six hundred and ninety-nine people, with an annual food supply of more than 5,500 taels of silver. There are also chefs, musicians, Doujie, disciples, etc., with a total of more than 26,000 taels of silver.
Prince Heng's Mansion has more than 2,000 hectares of rouge land and more than 1,000 hectares of grassland hidden in Weixian County.
At that time, the fields in Shandong were basically in the hands of the four princes.
Of course, there are actually problems here. In fact, these lands do not really belong to the royal palace. Most of them are donated, named, etc. The people directly send the land to the royal family, and the land tax that should be handed over to the court becomes
Pay rent to the prince.
The palace protected these people and collected less than the court's land tax plus levies. Both the people and the palace benefited. In any case, they were just poaching the court.
This kind of thing, from the vassals to the nobles, to the bureaucrats and gentlemen, all are poaching like this.
This is also an important reason why the national finance collapsed in the late Ming Dynasty. There were no industrial and commercial taxes, and the basic land tax was Dingyin. In the end, this loophole was exploited.
Zhu Yihai's clan law is to clean up everything in a unified manner, whether it is granting land or naming names, etc.
Their fields themselves were obtained from the state and are now owned by the state.
Heng Fan retained the title of Zhu Youchun, demoted him to the title of Prince of Linzi County, and granted him 1,200 acres of Yongye land. The rest of the land was taken back to the official, a house was given to him, and the rest was taken back.
Shops, workshops, money, supplies, etc. are all preserved.
In fact, before Zhu Yihai fought back to Shandong, the fields and houses of Prince Heng's Mansion had been looted twice by the Chu and Qing armies, and in the end the Tatars took over all their land.
Zhu Yihai just accepted it from the Tatars once.
When the Chuang army and the Tatars came, Zhu Youdi did not dare to let go of a fart, but after he was sent back, especially after the Ming army regained Qingzhou, he repeatedly requested that Qingzhou be returned to town and his farmland properties be taken back.
Zhu Yihai never agreed and asked him to stay in Dengzhou.
When the new clan law came out, the land could not be regained at all, and the title was downgraded. Zhu Youji complained very much, and then he complained with Zhu Youlang and other sects in Beijing. It happened that the former governor of Guangxi, Chen Bangfu, was only a military officer. Because before the pacification,
King Jingjiang rebelled and was promoted to a noble general.
It was just that this man was too arrogant after receiving the reward, and he acted like a local emperor in Guangxi. He colluded with Ding Kuichu and became a private figure. Later, Zhu Yihai transferred back to Ding Kuichu and sent Chen Bangfu and another Guangxi general Jiao Lian to Yunnan in the name of quelling the rebellion of the chieftains in Yunnan.
After Chen Bangfu entered Yunnan, he had his own victories and defeats, but he still had the same old style. The troops were undisciplined and looted everywhere, which made the Yunnanese people complain.
Later, he underestimated the enemy and was defeated in an ambush. He lost his army and lost his generals. Zhu Yihai took advantage of the situation and recalled him to the court. After some interrogation, he killed the earl, took the general's seal, and was exempted from the supervisory post. He stayed in Dengzhou with the title of deputy admiral and sat on the bench.
This guy had a lot of resentment against the emperor. Seeing that Zhu Hengxin, the king of Jingjiang who was recalled from Guangxi, was also dissatisfied with the New Deal, he secretly instigated it and soon attracted some people to form a small rebel group.
It's just that these people were not careful when they conspired to rebel, and many people knew about what happened.
Jin Yiwei easily controlled their rebel group.
Zhu Yihai looked a little disdainful after reading the report.
For this group of people, rebellion is just like playing house, isn't it nonsense?
They have no soldiers and no power, so what can they do to rebel?
"How do you think this matter should be handled?" the emperor asked.
After the ministers in the Prime Minister's Office circulated this detailed report, they all felt that these guys were so bold and reckless.
Even the Tatars are no match for the emperor now. These people are doing this kind of thing.
"Since you have rebelled, you should be punished."
"Rebellion is a heinous crime and should be punished!"
Everyone agrees and must be severely suppressed.
When Zhu Yihai first raised his army, many clans claimed to be clan clans, and even claimed to be the emperor. For example, the former King of Jingjiang openly refused to support Zhu Yihai, claimed to be the superintendent of the country, and even raised troops to cause chaos. After he was put down, Zhu Yihai appointed Zhu Hengxin as his new emperor.
King Jingjiang asked him to move to Zhennanguan.
As for the former King of Jingjiang, he was simply demoted to a commoner and sent to live under surveillance on a remote island, allowing him to fend for himself.
Even Hongguang and King Lu were first sent to Yuhuan Island for surveillance, and later they were made ordinary people to support themselves.
Still very generous.
But the situation was different at that time, and Zhu Yihai was not the emperor at that time.
But now that he, the emperor, has long been established, it would be an unforgivable crime for him to rebel under such circumstances.
"Transfer these people to Dali Temple for review by the three departments and deal with them according to law."
The ministers understood that the so-called three-division review and the result of handling according to the law would be to punish the guilty, seize the title, and confiscate the house.
There were thirty-one county princes in the Ming Dynasty, but two more were missing, leaving only twenty-nine princes.
However, they are very supportive of this. The emperor's new clan law is no better than the Tatars' treatment of them. With the blessing of Taizu, they have also enjoyed nearly three hundred years of preferential treatment and support. Now in the time of national crisis, there is no merit.
But he still wants to plot chaos and rebellion. Such people should never be pitied.
"Don't let this matter get involved at will. Just deal with these guys who don't know whether to live or die." Zhu Yihai did not forget to explain one last sentence.
If you really want to expand, you can take advantage of the situation to clean up, but he doesn't think it's necessary. You still need to pay attention to the influence and strengthen unity. This is not the time to engage in internal fighting.
If they hadn't blatantly rebelled, Zhu Yihai could even have temporarily spared them.
It’s only their own fault that they are deprived of their lives!
