Emperor Shaotian Zhu Yihai specially summoned Yang Jie, Yao Qisheng and others.
At the foot of the mountain.
Guards officer Zhang Dabiao took the two of them to a side room with the Thousand Ox Sword, "I have prepared hot soup for you. Please take a shower and change clothes."
Da Biao asked the two of them to strip naked and take a shower and wash their hair in front of him.
Yang Jie was a little hesitant, but Yao Qisheng immediately took off his clothes and got into the hot water bucket naked, "The water temperature is just right, not cold or hot, thank you very much."
When Yang Jie saw this, he laughed and took off his clothes to wash.
After the two of them finished washing, a guard brought two sets of clothes.
Scarlet robe, silver fish.
Yao Qisheng was surprised when he saw it.
"Your Majesty has specially granted you two people with scarlet robes and silver fish to come to see you."
"Thank you for your grace."
In the Huayang Palace on the mountain, Zhu Yihai listened to Chen Qianfu and others reporting the situation to him.
"It has been confirmed that the heads presented by Yang Jie are indeed those of Bo Hetuo, Tong Yangjia, and Zhang Ruxiu,"
Yang Jie led the 3,000 Green Battalion to revolt anyway. They opened the north gate and invaded the inner city. Most of the Eight Mongolian Banners guarding the inner city fled.
All the Manchu family members in the inner city were massacred by Xuan soldiers.
"Except for those who took advantage of the chaos and escaped from the city, no one in the inner city escaped. They were all slaughtered. After counting, thousands of people died."
The Tatars originally had Qingzhou in Shandong, and the Eight Banners were stationed in Dezhou, and later they were stationed in Yanzhou. Later, Boluo went south, and took the Eight Banners south to garrison Jinan.
Shandong became the frontline, and Beijing also stationed the Eight Banners who went south to Shandong, and moved their families there one after another. They also let them run horses and enclose the land, forcing the people on the land to become their slaves.
Even some Mongolian Eight Banners and the Han Army's Eight Banners garrisoned in Shandong moved their families here in order to allow them to garrison with peace of mind.
Boluo went to Zhangqiu and took away almost all the young and strong men in Jinan City, including their servants and strong men. The rest were old and weak men over sixty and under fifteen or sixteen years old, as well as women.
The families of the Eight Banners garrisoned in Dezhou, the slaves are still in Texas, and the Eight Banners in Yanzhou are still trapped in Yanzhou.
But Boluo had previously withdrawn all the bannermen and Baoyi slaves from the Manchu villages around Jinan. Apart from the bannermen, Yuding, Baoyi, and slaves who died in the battle, there were still more than 3,000 bannermen.
The Baoyi family was young, and there were also many slaves from Zhuang Ding's family. Some of them were brought into the inner city, and the rest were brought into the outer city.
Thousands of slaves in the inner city were basically slaughtered. Although they were actually Han people, after Yang Jie and the others invaded the city in the middle of the night, they killed everyone they encountered and robbed everything they saw. But it didn’t matter whether you were a legitimate flag officer or not.
Still an inner flag wrapper, a village servant, a domestic slave.
The city was completely slaughtered and turned into a dead city.
The outer city was completely wiped out.
"According to household registration statistics, Jinan Prefecture had nearly 70,000 Ding at the end of Wanli, and there were still about 50,000 Ding at the end of Chongzhen."
In the Ming Dynasty, when calculating household registration, only Ding was often counted, because Ding was the basis for conscription. Especially after the One Whip Law, official statistics rarely included household and population statistics, and most of them only counted Ding.
Men over the age of sixteen and under sixty are classified as Ding, while women, as well as officials, supervisors and tribute students, people in the army, servants, and slaves are not included in the statistics.
Therefore, the statistics of Ding in the Ming Dynasty only count the number of people who pay taxes and serve in the service, not the real registered population. Officials, students, soldiers, servants and slaves are not counted, and women are not counted at all.
Those under six and over sixty are not considered Dingkou.
After getting rid of these, there are still 70,000 Ding in Jinan Prefecture, which is still an astonishing number.
By the end of the Ming Dynasty, after wars and chaos, there were still nearly 50,000 Ding.
After the arrival of the Tatars, the population flight intensified.
"We got the household registration files from the Jinan government office. The city of Jinan is divided into eight districts, with a total of fifty-seven and six hundred units. There are a total of 6,117 households and 25,946 people.
In addition, there are Dongguan, Nanbaoquan and other fourteen miles near the city, with sixty-eight armors, six hundred and twelve cards, six thousand three hundred and ninety-four households, and twenty-three thousand one hundred and seventy-eight people."
"We don't count the people in Mancheng. Mancheng usually doesn't have a large permanent population. This time, Bolo mainly evacuated all the Manchus, villagers, slaves, etc. from the bannermen's fields outside the city into the city."
Zhu Yihai expressed confidence in this household registration data. Although Jinan is a big city, the city's population is usually only more than 25,000, which is not too small. There is also a similar population near Chengguan, which is close to Fucheng, and can also be regarded as an urban population.
This alone has a population of nearly 50,000, of which there are probably about 10,000 ding.
Jinan Prefecture has many counties, with a total of 70,000 Ding at its peak. Including those not included, it is estimated to be about the same.
There was chaos last night. Three thousand Xuan soldiers massacred the entire city and killed thousands of people. Among them, there were less than three thousand real bannermen. There were also many Baoyi bannermen and Han army bannermen's family members, and there were thousands more.
Han Chinese Zhuang Ding slave.
In addition to slaughtering thousands of people, Xuan Dabing also took the opportunity to loot the inner city.
"About two thousand Mongolian flag soldiers ran north, and several thousand green battalion soldiers. After regiment training ran out of the city last night, some of them asked for surrender at dawn, and some of them dispersed."
Shen Chenquan believes that Yang Jie and others should be held accountable for the crime of killing innocent people indiscriminately.
Zhu Yihai also knew that this kind of thing was inevitable. After all, the Ming army intended to let them fight among themselves to avoid the casualties caused by the storming of Jinan.
The road is chosen by oneself. You can't ask Yang Jie and others to do the same as the imperial camp and only kill Tatars to offer the city.
Overall, Zhu Yihai was very satisfied with the result.
The 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers and civilians who escaped from the city last night will soon be able to pacify the city, especially the ordinary people. Where can they escape? As long as the war is over, they will be happy to return to their hometowns.
"Summon Yang Jie and Yao Qisheng."
Zhu Yihai specially summoned Yao Qisheng, the master, because he represented the surrender and performed very well. Yang Jie's letter of surrender did not forget Yao's contribution, saying that he was the one who made the plan. Last night he personally led people to open the North
Later, he led people into the governor's office and personally chopped off the head of the governor Zhang Ruxiu, which was a great achievement.
Moreover, when Yao Qisheng asked for surrender, he also said that he had been doing business for several years and had accumulated two hundred thousand taels of silver, which he was willing to donate to the court.
Just for this reason, it was worthy of being summoned by the emperor himself.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The two people, who put on scarlet robes and tied silver fish charms around their waists, called for an audience outside the palace, and were introduced by the chamberlain.
The two of them didn't dare to look around when they entered the palace, so they knelt down and worshiped at the door of the palace.
"Stay flat, come close and sit down."
Zhu Yihai looked at the two of them. Yang Jie was only in his thirties, but he was tall and strong. Even wearing a crimson official robe, it was difficult to hide his majesty and muscles.
I thought Yao Qisheng was a delicate scholar, but it turned out that this guy was also a muscular man, tall and strong, worthy of being a scholar who could break into Fu Yamen and behead the governor.
Even after listening to Chen Qianfu's report and knowing that Yao had a chivalrous wife, he even became a little curious about what his wife looked like.
Come forward and sit down.
Academician Shen Chenquan appropriately stood up and told the emperor that the two men led troops to massacre the inner city of Jinan last night, killing innocent people indiscriminately, killing more than a thousand Han women and children, and looting property in the city, etc.
"Your Majesty, please punish me!"
Yang Jie was startled, thinking that Zhu Yihai was going to cross the river, demolish the bridge, unload the mill and kill the donkeys. He really didn't care about this last night. He didn't think about massacring the city at that time, but he gave the order that there would be rewards for killing Tatars.
Those green soldiers who came from Xuanda were originally Ming border troops. They were used to killing good people and taking credit. Who cares whether you are a real prisoner or a fake prisoner, a Manchu, a Mongolian or a Han, let alone you? Whether they were bannermen of the Han army, bannermen of the Han army, or coats and slaves of the Manbanner, or servants of the Han banner, as long as they were in the city, they would kill them all and then chop them down. The brain asks for credit afterwards.
As for robbing property, let alone that.
After they looted the inner city, they also began to loot the outer city.
If it hadn't been for the Ming army starting to enter the city after dawn, and Yao Qisheng quickly asking Yang Jie to restrain the sergeants, they would have robbed the outer city as well.
Now in front of the emperor, there are ministers questioning him. How can he not panic?
"Last night's uprising was a hasty and urgent situation. It was dark, rainy and chaotic. The guilty generals failed to restrain them, resulting in innocent casualties. The guilty will be punished with death."
"capital offense!"
Yao Qisheng didn't say anything. He was sure that since the emperor summoned him like this and gave him the silver fish in scarlet clothes, he wouldn't kill them again.
Otherwise, why go to such trouble? They can be surrounded and killed with just one decree.
"You abandoned the dark and turned to the light, and revolted before the battle. This is a great righteousness and a great festival. But it was true that there was a lack of military discipline last night. There were many Han people in the city. Whether they were Han military flags, coats of arms, or slaves, they were all captured by the Tartars. The people who are forced to do this are all our Han people."
"A crime punishable by death, a crime punishable by death." Yang Jie quickly kowtowed.
"alright."
"You have indeed experienced these things, but deeds of justice also have merit,"
"But there is no resurrection after death,"
Zhu Yihai looked at the two men and said, "You rose up last night. You killed the captives and captured the city for your merits, so you should be rewarded. But if you hurt innocent people and committed robberies, you have done something wrong and you should be punished."
"Your Majesty, please punish me."
"All the property you looted last night will be turned over to the government. The imperial court will return it to the people and compensate the people."
"For your merits, I will reward each soldier with twenty silver dollars, and the officers will receive additional rewards. In addition, the captured weapons, armor, horses, etc. will be handed over and the court will give you another reward."
"Three thousand Xuan soldiers who died in the battle last night and were injured will also receive compensation."
"Those who want to leave the army will be given two silver dollars per soldier as severance pay. Those who want to stay must follow the court's reorganization arrangements."
"If the officer is willing to stay, his rank will be retained and he will be appointed in the future."
Zhu Yihai also specially rewarded several of the main generals of Xuanda, and Yang Jie was awarded the title of Second-grade Commander-in-Chief, Commander-in-Chief General Hou Que.
Li Lian and other generals were basically promoted, and then their official positions were increased by one level, but they were only registered by name for the time being and were waiting for vacancies.
As for Yao Qisheng, Zhu Yihai asked him what he wanted.
Yao Qisheng once again expressed to the emperor that he was willing to donate 200,000 taels of silver to help the army.
"Would you rather take a military or civilian position?"
"I would like to serve as a civil servant."
"I'll give you two choices. One is to be in charge of the Sixth Department of the Central Government, or to be directly appointed as the magistrate of a large county. Which one would you choose?"
"Don't be dissatisfied with the fact that the official position is inferior and the position is light. I have opened a program to recruit scholars. The first-class Jinshi will be directly awarded to editors and editors of the Hanlin Academy. The remaining outstanding candidates will be selected as Shujishi and will study in the Hanlin Academy for three years and then be awarded officials.
As for the new-level Jinshi who have not passed the imperial examination, the second-class Jinshi will stay in Beijing to study in various ministries for three years, and then be appointed according to their performance, which is generally the chief officer. The third-class Jinshi must go to the chief minister's office of each province and study for three years in the inspector's office.
Years, and those who perform well after three years will be granted the title of county magistrate.
Moreover, after three years of traveling and studying, those who can be appointed as chiefs and county magistrates will only get about 30%. The remaining 70% will have to be the chief clerk, county magistrate, or even the edict, Zhongshu, Siwu, dianbu, etc.
The Shao Tian Dynasty opened a large number of scholars and admitted a large number of scholars. Although there is currently a shortage of officials, Zhu Yihai will not just award new scholars to the county magistrates. Those who are in charge of these positions must first work in the ministry or the province.
Study for three years and then be promoted based on performance.
About 30% of the best will be awarded seventh-rank positions such as ministry directors and local magistrates, but more will be awarded eighth-rank or even ninth-rank official positions, and some may even be eliminated directly and cannot be awarded.
"I am willing to go out to a county and do some practical things down-to-earth."
This answer made Zhu Yihai very satisfied, and he also saw that this person was indeed capable, so he said, "In that case, I will grant you the title of magistrate of Licheng County, Jinan Prefecture, seventh grade."
Licheng County is the county magistrate attached to Jinan Prefecture. Jinan is both a provincial capital, a prefecture, and a county. A city has governors, envoys, inspectors, magistrates, and county magistrates who govern the same city. Such a magistrate is actually the most test of ability.
of.
The so-called misfortune in three lives, the county magistrate is attached to Guo; the misfortune in three lives is attached to the provincial capital of Guo.
To put it bluntly, it is not easy to be a county magistrate, it is not easy to work at the grassroots level, it is even more difficult to be a grassroots official in this province or city.
However, if you have the ability, it is easy to achieve political achievements. After all, high-ranking officials and mayors can see your good work under the eyes.
Granting Yao Qisheng the title of Magistrate of Licheng County is not only an appreciation for him, but also a test for him, especially now that Jinan City has just experienced war and is still an empty city. He has to appease the people, restore order, etc.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "I thank your Majesty for the reward."
"Are you willing?"
"I am deeply honored and grateful."
"Are you confident that you can be the magistrate of Licheng in the provincial capital of Fuguo?"
"I am willing to give it a try."
"Since you are so confident, I will give you this opportunity. I will accept the two hundred thousand taels of silver you donated."
"He specially allocated it to Shandong to provide relief to the people and restore production. He also gave 100,000 yuan to the governor, the chief envoy, the inspection envoy, and the three sub-inspectors each. 10,000 yuan was given to Jinan Prefecture, and 10,000 yuan was given to Zhangqiu and Licheng counties.
Ten thousand."
Yao Qisheng donated 200,000 taels of silver, and Zhu Yihai directly gave 180,000 taels to the yamen at all levels in Shandong for relief, and the remaining 20,000 taels were given to the imperial camp.
After Zhu Yihai made the arrangements, he deliberately chatted with the two of them for a while, and even asked Yao Qisheng how he earned two hundred thousand taels of silver in three years.
In the end, he did not hide it. In fact, he was engaged in smuggling. After all, his hometown was Shaoxing. Nowadays, industry and commerce there are prosperous and maritime trade is open. So in the past three years, he has been smuggling cattle and horses from the north to the south. Sometimes he also sells ginseng and then sells it from the south.
Tea sellers, wine sellers and cigarette sellers went north.
Sometimes they also sell salt.
It's all a clandestine smuggling business. As long as it's managed properly, the profits from this boatload of private goods can be astonishing.
Especially ginseng and cut tobacco, huge profits.
Selling horses is also quite profitable.
He made hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in three years. He is indeed a talented businessman, but this is not unusual. After all, it is essentially a network of people. Salt merchants and the like all rely on this model to make money.
, in times of turmoil, the brave will be starved to death and the timid will be starved to death.
"Your business can be left to your family in the future. You should focus on how to be a good magistrate of Licheng County. I will give you three years to work hard and achieve great results. I can even do it here.
I will give you a promise, if you can use three years to make great achievements in Licheng County Magistrate, I will specially promote you to Jinan Magistrate!"
To be promoted from a county magistrate to a magistrate is something that is impossible under normal circumstances. At most, he can be promoted to a prefecture.
Promoted to county magistrate, promoted to head of six ministries, governor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, experience of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, judge of Dali Temple, doctor of Taichang Temple, Zhongshu Ke Zhongshu, experience of the General Affairs Department, governor of the General Affairs Department, general magistrate of the Beijing Prefecture, Beijing
County magistrate, prefecture magistrate, Zhili prefecture magistrate, scattered prefecture magistrate, salt transportation department deputy, and foreign prefecture general magistrate.
But in fact, it is difficult for county magistrates to be promoted to Beijing officials. They mainly have to be transferred within the local system.
The Yanyun Cao Canal Road and other yamen have always been called yamen with a lot of fat and water, so they generally cannot be transferred there, so basically the county magistrate can only be promoted to the prefectural magistrate.
The Shao Tian Dynasty directly abolished the prefecture level. Zhili prefectures were usually merged with counties to set up prefectures, scattered prefectures were directly changed to counties or several counties were split, and subordinate prefectures were directly changed to counties.
So now there is no official Zhizhou in the Shaotian Dynasty.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, the county magistrate has a three-year plan, and those who rank first in the assessment will be promoted as usual, usually from a small county to a middle county, and from a middle county to a large county.
Those ranked second can only be transferred to other posts and continue to serve as county magistrates.
If the magistrate of a large county has done well, he must serve at least two terms, and if there are vacancies, he can be transferred to the capital department as director and other posts.
Therefore, it was very difficult to become a county magistrate in the Shaotian Dynasty. Although he was the chief official, the assessment requirements were high and there were few promotion positions.
The prefect of Jinan is the prefect of the provincial capital, which is a fourth-rank position. Even if he has outstanding political achievements and is superior in assessment, he can be promoted directly to the third rank and be assigned to patrol.
The emperor made this promise to Yao Qisheng, which was really extraordinary.
Even Yao Qisheng was very shocked when he heard this, and then he was so happy that he couldn't help but thank the emperor for his kindness.
"Do your best, I Jinkou Yuyan, and I will keep my word."
After saying that, Zhu Yihai specially took out paper and pen and wrote a decree directly to Yao Qisheng. As long as he passed the three-year plan assessment, he would be promoted to the prefect of Jinan.
Yang Jie looked on with envy.
This is really Jane in the Emperor's heart.
He felt that the 200,000 taels of silver were really worth it. After hearing about this, he thought that Yao Qisheng was crazy. He was an official for thousands of miles just for money. How could he donate his money when he was an official?
But now I feel that the two hundred thousand taels of silver are really worth it.
There is no profit in changing to Licheng County Magistrate, but if you can be promoted to Jinan Magistrate in three years, you will definitely make a lot of money.
The two of them left with great gratitude.
Shen Chenquan reminded the emperor that it was inappropriate to make such a promise to Yao Qisheng.
"I originally planned to appoint Yao Qisheng as the magistrate of Jinan, but then I thought about it and decided to let him be the magistrate of Licheng County first, so this promise is actually nothing. Of course, I thought he had the ability."
"Your Majesty should still follow the system."
"Special matters should be handled specially. After all, this is still a special period. The important thing is to get things done, not to rank based on seniority. I know that."
"Xuan Dabing's treatment was a bit light."
"After all, killing prisoners and presenting the city is a meritorious service, so we can't go too deep into it, otherwise who will rise up and surrender in the future?"
"How should Xuan Dabing deal with it?"
"Send all officers to Tokyo Martial Arts Hall, Military Academy, etc. to study for three months or half a year. As for the soldiers, if they are willing to stay, let each town select some elites, especially the cavalry to supplement them. Now the two towns are combined into one town, and the outstanding There is a shortage of cavalry.
For those who want to leave, give them reward money and severance pay, and let them go back.
If there are those who do not want to stay in the army and have nowhere to go, we can also resettle them on the spot, arrange for them to work as postmen, etc., or sell them land to settle down and reclaim wasteland."
For this 3,000-strong Xuan army, Zhu Yihai had no intention of letting them retain their organizational structure. He didn't even plan to organize them into regiments for training. He would directly split them up, demobilize them, and relocate them.
The silver reward that should be given will be given, but the green battalion soldiers who have surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and slaughtered the city will not be kept.
