The emperor's intentions are so serious that none of the Zifei ministers in the Wuying Palace would understand.
After all, to be able to serve as a member of the imperial court, one must at least hold a fifth-grade position in the ministry, which is still an important position.
This was obviously a liquidation of the old forces, and it was very severe. The whole family was moved from their hometown to Gyeonggi, but it is not an exaggeration to say that they were sent into exile.
Especially those who once surrendered to the invaders will have to move their families to areas outside the Great Wall Pass this time. The lands they originally left behind in the Pass will all be replaced outside the Pass this time, regardless of whether this is a one-to-one replacement or a one-to-one replacement.
For a few times, can the fertile farmland in the Central Plains be compared with the land outside the customs?
What's more, during the relocation, the whole family was required to move together, but when it came to resettlement outside the Great Wall, the family was required to be split up and resettled on a household basis, and settled as small families. Who could not understand the emperor's intentions?
Others who escaped were killed, and those who died in battle and committed suicide were treated differently, but basically they were all being liquidated. The only difference was who was liquidated more thoroughly.
Even if these old heroes were so skinny that their camels were bigger than horses, they still have a lot of money in their hands now. Moving outside the customs is not only a weakening of their financial resources, but also a huge blow to their influence. They have left their hometown of origin and want to start over.
easy.
There are many old people who have always lived in Beijing. They used to have a lot of land in the north, and some even spread across several provinces. Now even if they can stay in the pass, they basically have to settle outside Beijing, or even in Hebei and Liaoxi.
From Shanxi.
Those sitting in the hall discussing matters with the emperor were basically the new rich. They didn't have much sympathy for the old heroes of the previous dynasty. Everyone understood that the old heroes fell, the emperor ate meat, and they drank soup and gnawed the bones.
Few of the old honors had status in the new dynasty. Liu Kongzhao, the Duke of Chengguo, was a rare exception. This descendant of Liu Bowen was relatively prosperous in Chongzhen and Hongguang dynasties, especially in the Hongguang dynasty.
At the peak of his martial arts, he could scold Minister Donglin in the Golden Palace, and he had real power over Jiang.
When the Qing army went south, he did not follow Hong Guang to escape, nor did he follow Xu Yunjue and others to surrender. Instead, he led a navy south to continue to resist the Qing Dynasty. Later, Zhu Yihai recruited him, but he worked hard and became a confidant of the emperor.
From now on, although there has been no big news in the past few years, I have been able to achieve the goal of being a true duke of the country step by step.
When the old heroes were basically liquidated, he still stood out.
There are also some honorary ministers who died for the country and made some achievements in the Shaotian Dynasty after being entrusted by Zhu Yihai Enyin. This time they are not among the old honorary figures who were liquidated, but they still need to move like other new nobles.
Entering Beijing is just a matter of not involving the clan members.
"I second the proposal."
Cheng Guogong Liu Kongzhao, who had just been appointed by the emperor as the right commander of the former military governor's mansion of the Fifth Army a few days ago, was the first to stand up and agree with the emperor, wearing a unicorn purple robe.
As a representative of old honors and a descendant of the founding hero Liu Bowen, Liu Kongzhao is also a strange person. After all, he was able to be reused in Chongzhen, Hongguang and even Shaotian Dynasty. He could also send his daughter to the palace to become a concubine, and he could also be a former soldier.
The position of right governor is already very difficult.
This means that Liu Kongzhao has truly entered the top core of the new military power group in the Shaotian Dynasty. In recent years, Liu Kongzhao has well explained how to be an emperor's confidant, which is to unconditionally obey orders and fully support the emperor.
Both smart and capable, with few ruthless words and many meritorious deeds, he successfully secured a core position for himself in the new dynasty.
At this moment, as soon as the emperor finished speaking, he was the first to stand up and support without any scruples.
Hong Chengchou immediately stood up to support, and then Qian Qianyi also quickly stood up. Both of them had stains, and they always felt uneasy in the court, and because they had been presiding over the two houses in the past few years, they had done all kinds of things.
In supervising the impeachment, I have offended many people, and I can only be a lonely minister.
Knowing that this might be a point of no return, they had no choice.
They know that their only value to the emperor is to bite and whip those officials mercilessly. If he dares to be selfish or even ineffective, he will definitely be abandoned by the emperor without mercy, and he may even be liquidated in the end.
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He can only go as far as he can on this path. Even every time the emperor makes a suggestion, they must actively respond and support him, make suggestions for the emperor, and fill in the gaps.
In the past, Qian Qianyi, the leader of Donglin, would never have been able to support the emperor on this matter, but now he had to stand up and support him immediately.
Zhu Yihai glanced at Wu Sangui under him.
"What do Duke Liang Guo think?"
After Wu Sangui entered the court, this was the first time he participated in the court meeting. He was now the governor-general of the former military left governor's office, the Duke of Liang State, with the title of Shaobao, and the rank of general of the auxiliary state. He seemed quite majestic.
But Wu Sangui is now an old dog whose claws have been chopped off and whose teeth have been pulled out.
Although he had the same position as the governor, the emperor specially ordered him to attend the senior military attache training class in the martial arts hall instead of going to the former military governor's office.
That is to say, they only have titles but no real power. There are many military attaches in the senior military attache training class, and they are basically generals who are not directly related to the emperor. Many of them were originally from other towns or even bandits and bandits. Now they come here to study.
In fact, they were deprived of actual military power.
The courses in the advanced training class were not easy to attend. Not only did they have to take loyalty and patriotism classes every day, they even had to learn Shaotian Zhengyin Mandarin and practice calligraphy.
There are not many real professional courses. They basically explain the various battles fought by the imperial camp commanded by the emperor and review and deduce them one by one.
In Wu Sangui's view, although the emperor regained the world in five years, none of the battles he fought could be called amazing, they were all very mediocre. The only things he admired in his heart were the three months when the emperor first raised his army.
In such a short period of time, he gathered troops, persuaded several generals, and finally led an unexpected force across the sea to Sanwu, instead of going to Shaoxing and defending by the river.
After Wu Sangui entered Beijing, he had not yet met the emperor.
He also asked to see the Holy Spirit to express his gratitude, but the emperor ignored him at all.
Being suddenly told to attend the court meeting today was also unexpected.
At this time, Wu Sangui was suddenly called directly by the emperor. Wu Sangui was even a little distracted. After regaining his consciousness, he quickly got up and apologized to the emperor.
Zhu Yihai looked at Wu Sangui, who was only a few years older than himself. From a national perspective, he betrayed the country and was a traitor. From a personal moral perspective, this man was unfaithful and unfilial and massacred the city indiscriminately.
He is the son of a businessman and a son of a general. His father, Wu Xiang, was originally a horse merchant. He later joined the army and married into the ancestral family of generals in western Liaoning, and was able to quickly make a fortune in western Liaoning. In this turbulent era, Wu Sangui relied on his family connections and
My own bravery is indeed remarkable.
He became a guerrilla at the age of twenty, a general at the age of twenty-three, the deputy commander-in-chief at the age of twenty-six, and the commander-in-chief at the age of twenty-seven.
But Zhu Yihai knew very well that Wu Sangui was by no means the kind of playboy who rose to power solely based on family connections. This man was indeed very capable, not to mention his filial piety and Jiubian's act of going out of the city to save his father.
Just talking about his choices at several key nodes shows that this person is not a simple person. The first time he made several important node choices was to bravely lead a team of servants out of the city to rescue his father who was surrounded by Qing troops outside the city.
, both brave and filial, he became famous in one fell swoop.
Later, during the battle between Song and Jin, he saw that the situation was not going well and ran away decisively, showing his true qualities as a hero.
Later in Shanhaiguan, he first surrendered to Shun and then to Qing, which revealed his vision and decisiveness. He could clearly judge that Chongzhen could not be saved, Li Zicheng could not succeed, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty would eventually enter the Pass.
Just like when he conferred the title of Ping Xibo in Chongzhen and asked him to lead the Guanning army to retreat into Guanzhong to escort King Qin, but he deliberately delayed on the road. Later, when the Tatars were defeated by Zhu Yihai, Wu Sangui also turned against him ruthlessly again.
, and finally abandoned the captives and surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.
Moreover, Wu Sangui has another point. His father is controlled by Li Zicheng, and he can surrender and return without any scruples. As for his concubine Chen Yuanyuan, it is not worth mentioning.
This was a ruthless man who once worshiped the eunuch Gao Qiqian as his adoptive father and Hong Chengchou as his teacher. In that chaotic era, he, a young man, was able to quickly rise to a high position, but it was not all based on connections.
No matter who he was under, whether it was Hong Chengchou, Chongzhen, Li Zicheng, Dorgon, etc., no one could really control him. Before surrendering to Zhu Yihai, he always held enough power in his hands to let others control him.
Throwing a weapon against a rat may even require vigorous efforts to win over someone.
He is always clear-headed and will never be loyal to anyone. He betrays when he should and abandons when he should, without any moral burden.
And he's really good at fighting.
Even Chen Yuanyuan, the most famous courtesan on the Qinhuai River, was captured by him.
It can be said that Wu Sangui was definitely the protagonist's template. In the late Ming Dynasty, he was the envy of countless people.
History has taken a turn. Wu Sangui failed to go to the southwest and become the king of Yunnan. Now he was forced to hand over his military power and became an idle official in Beijing.
Facing the emperor's faint smile, Wu Sangui felt a little nervous.
"Your Majesty is wise, I second your proposal!"
Wu Sangui thought a lot, but in the end he just said these words.
Zhu Yihai chuckled for a while, but ignored him again.
The emperor continued to talk about the relocation. In addition to the old honors, the emperor also planned to move some high-ranking local families here, including many old Donglin and so on.
Due to various reasons, Zhu Yihai also plans to take this opportunity to rectify the old Donglin and even the famous gentry families of the old eunuchs who have not been able to achieve the fifth rank in the Shaotian Dynasty.
One emperor and one courtier.
Now that the new dynasty has risen, how can it still tolerate the interest groups of the old dynasty?
Only by stepping on the old nobles can the new rich occupy a high position and sit more firmly.
The new dynasty and the new emperor's throne depend on the support and protection of these upstarts to be stable.
In the past, local nobles who had ministers in the cabinet, governors, governors, and ministers, but now had no fifth-rank actual officials, all had to move to Beijing and Tianjin.
In the past, there were officials of fifth rank and above, but now the nobles whose families do not have fifth-rank officials have moved to Hebei for resettlement.
If the population is not enough, then continue to relax the standards. For example, there were Jinshis in the past, but now there are no fifth-grade actual officials in office, and those with more than 1,000 acres of land or more than 10,000 taels of property will move to Shanxi and Liaoxi.
Start moving from those with more land and property until you have enough.
The Ming Dynasty has produced more than 20,000 Jinshi. In the past three hundred years, more than 20,000 Jinshi have come from thousands of families. Some families have produced more than 30 Jinshi in the past three hundred years, and some families have produced seven.
There are eight Jinshis, and there are even four generations of eight Jinshis and five ministers.
There are many three ministers and five golden scholars.
In the Ming Dynasty, as long as one can be a Jinshi, the family will definitely be able to prosper for several generations. Excluding those Jinshi families who served as officials in the new dynasty, there will definitely be many Jinshi families left who have not yet fallen into decline, and basically all of them will be
A prominent local landowner.
If some of these Jinshi families from various places were moved to Gyeonggi, it would definitely be a major reshuffle of the place.
When the emperor took action against Jiuxun, the ministers basically had no objections.
When the emperor actually planned to attack the nobles again, many people were shocked. Even Wu Sangui was a little surprised. He secretly looked at the young emperor in surprise, not expecting that he would dare to take such a drastic action.
As expected, Emperor Shaotian can always do things unexpectedly.
Wu Sangui was surprised, and even felt a little hot in his heart. It was not that the emperor's move was wise, but that the emperor had made a stupid move, a big stupid move.
In the nearly three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, more than 20,000 Jinshi and several Jinshi families were produced, and there are still many who are still prosperous but not in the government. These people all have the right to speak at the local level.
Now that the emperor wants to attack them, I'm afraid it will cause big problems.
I remember when the Emperor of Heaven wanted to launch maritime trade, levy mineral taxes, and levy industrial and commercial taxes, but just because these touched the interests of the gentry and landlord groups, who succeeded and who got away with it?
The emperor dares to poke into this hornet's nest, which is quite exciting to watch.
Wu Sangui didn't think that those gentry could fight better than Zhu Yihai, but this might cause turmoil. For Wu Sangui, who had lost his military power and was living in an apartment in Beijing, life was really boring now.
If there could be some excitement and excitement, he would still be happy to see it.
Zhu Yihai was also watching the expressions of the ministers in the palace. Some of them had calm expressions. They were Wen Anzhi and others. They had discussed with the emperor for a long time and basically reached an agreement. Some were surprised. They were officials who did not know beforehand.
Wu Sangui was sitting there with an expressionless face, but if he looked carefully, he could see that this guy didn't seem surprised or shocked, which meant that he might be very happy.
"We will discuss how to operate it specifically."
"Dong Guo Liang, please mention two things first."
Zhu Yihai named Wu Sangui again.
When Wu Sangui stood up, he was still flattering the sage Ying Ming, but Zhu Yihai didn't accept this at all. He just wanted him to put forward some specific suggestions for relocation in the palace, and he couldn't do it without mentioning it.
Wu Sangui thought for a while, and finally made a suggestion, which could be to relocate in pairs. For example, those from Guangdong Province would be moved to Yongping Prefecture, those from Guangxi Province would be moved to Daming Prefecture, and those who moved out of one province would be moved into one prefecture for resettlement. Those who were relocated from the same prefecture would be resettled.
Those who come out will be moved together to a county for resettlement, etc.
Zhu Yihai sat there and looked at Wu Sangui, waiting for him to speak, and deliberately watched him silently for a while while drinking tea, which made Wu Sangui feel uncomfortable there.
