Chapter 496: Demonstration (2-in-1 Grand Chapter)

To say that this Chongzhen is also urgent, last night I was thinking about what Liu Hongjian said all night, and the next day I went to the court before waiting for the ministers to do something, so he issued four orders in a row.

The first decree is that the main criminals of the rebel army led by Zhu Changrun will be beheaded several times, and the accomplices will be exiled to Northeast Province as domestic slaves, personal guards, and servants.

The nobles who were imprisoned in the Jinyi Wei Prison, Dongchang, and the prison of the Criminal Department were all removed from the knighthood and demoted to commoners, and all their family property was confiscated, and the rest of the lords and relatives were all withdrawn and demoted to the first rank, and the annual salary was halved.

The second decree was to remove the six departments of Nanjing and the yamen of each department, except for the five hundred palace female eunuchs and one thousand imperial guards left in the Nanjing Palace, the rest of the officials were all counted in Beijing after receiving the order.

Remove the administrative division of Nanzhili, the 14 prefecture-level divisions that originally belonged to Nanzhili, except for the Yingtianfu (Nanjing) set up the government directly under the imperial court, several prefectures south of the Yangtze River belong to Zhejiang, and the rest such as Fengyang, Anqing and other prefectures were merged, and the new Hui'an Province was established, with Fengyang Mansion as the political envoy.

The Nanjing garrison was promoted to the general army, and 30,000 soldiers were allowed to be conscripted, and the post of the general soldier was temporarily replaced by the former Nanjing military department Shangshu Shi Kefa.

Since then, the thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty have increased to 16 provinces in the northeast, Menggu and Hui'an, plus the north and south jing.

The third decree is to measure the acres of land, whether it is inside or outside the customs, no matter who owns the existing land, including the imperial village, all of them will be under the control of the imperial court, re-measured, and redistributed.

The fourth decree is to remove the governor's office of the five armies, reduce all the guards, and those who can fight will enter the Beijing camp, and the rest will be allocated acres of land.

Wang Erxi read out the male duck's throat for a quarter of an hour before he finished reading the four wills.

After the decree was read out, no one in the Imperial Palace spoke, including several bigwigs in the cabinet, all the courtiers were stunned by Chongzhen's big stick mallet, and they all gasped and recalled the meaning of the holy decree.

The first assistant Li Banghua and the second assistant Fan Jingwen looked at each other and saw surprise and loss in each other's eyes, what does it mean that Chongzhen issued such an important decree without notifying the cabinet?

The emperor wants to monopolize power, wants to be dictatorial!

"The minister is against!" Wang Jiayan, the right attendant of the military department, came out of work.

"The minister is against!" Nine times out of ten, all ministries and departments have stood up.

The court instantly turned into a vegetable market, and the courtiers didn't even say which of the four central decrees they opposed, in short, except for a few people such as Li Banghua, the first assistant, and Han Yu, the new secretary of the Ministry of Rites, the courtiers were rarely so united, and they all opposed it.

There are a few people who can stand in the Imperial Palace, and all the courtiers realize that it is no longer a battle between courtiers and courtiers, and His Majesty is so reckless and reckless, and he wants their subordinates to do anything.

The first will is the right to count the Zhu family's family affairs, it stands to reason that they should not beak their beaks, and they are even a little sad to see that the relatives are unlucky.

The fourth way is that it doesn't matter, the relatives have gone through this difficulty, honestly like a group of pugs, and they will withdraw after withdrawing, anyway, the courtiers don't look at the group of lords very well.

The second way is difficult for the courtiers to accept, Nanjing has been the capital since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, although the six divisions don't care about anything, but there is a group of unambitious colleagues living there, maybe they can go to Nanjing to retire if they do something in the future.

How can this be said to be withdrawn? So if you make a mistake in the future, you can only go home to farm? No way! This is the ancestral system, and it must not be withdrawn!

The third course, what? Measure the land and nationalize it? Then it is even more, absolutely, certainly, definitely I can't agree, without these good fields, what do the courtiers live on, pointing to the poor money issued by the court?

The ministers who can stand above the court have all gone through Chongzhen's several times and three times to copy the house, most of the courtiers are still clean, but no matter how clean they are, who doesn't have hundreds of acres of fertile land?

The most important thing is that for so many important matters of the country, His Majesty issued a central decree, and he didn't even discuss it with the cabinet, how could the courtiers endure it?

Although the first and second decrees were both to suppress the nobles and benefit their ministers, the courtiers still chose to oppose them all!

This is no longer a dispute between civil servants and military generals, it is a struggle between prime minister and imperial power, even if it unites all the forces that can be united, it must be opposed, and we must not set a precedent for our dynasty!

"Your Majesty is acting like this, it is against the ancestral system, and the ministers are also against it!" Fang Yuegong, a scholar from Wenyuan Pavilion University, is nearly seventy years old, and he is honest when he stays in the cabinet, but now he is also standing on the opposite side of Chongzhen.

Shoufu Li Banghua and Han Yu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, still didn't say a word, Li Banghua was very single, he was not very popular with the courtiers, he could no matter how Chongzhen tossed, as the secretary of the Ministry of War, as long as he didn't toss the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, he didn't care.

Han Yu's new scholar was soft-spoken, he didn't want to wade into this troubled water, and he didn't believe that these ideas were thought of by Chongzhen himself, if there was no shadow of Liu Hongji, the king of Anguo County, he wouldn't believe it.

Since it was proposed by his own master, how could his protégé object?

What's more, these colleagues are really impatient, and they don't look at the situation, today's Ming is no longer the Ming of two years ago, don't you see those pug-like relatives?

Regarding the farce in the court, Chongzhen watched coldly, and he even went to the court and only said the word proclamation.

"Don't be in a hurry to express your position, you can go back and think about it carefully, and make a decision in three days. Retreat! "If it had been before, so many courtiers opposed him, Chongzhen would have been angry a long time ago.

But now Chongzhen's heart was as calm as water, as if he was looking at a group of poor insects, he got up calmly and walked out of the main hall slowly, leaving only a group of indignant courtiers.

That night, Li Banghua, the secretary of the Ministry of War, visited Liu Hongji, at this time he was at home with his wife and children, Jiangnan and his party spent more than a month, Yang Xue was about to give birth in the near future, and the people in the palace of Anguo County were smiling.

Li Banghua was worried, although he didn't care about Chongzhen's will, but he was still worried that if this matter became a big problem, the court might cause a series of turmoil.

There are so many officials in the world, they have been like this for three hundred years, and now Chongzhen is going to take over the land of the officials, what is the difference between it and cutting off the root of people's lives?

Liu Honggradually didn't expect Uncle Chongzhen to be so bullish, so vigorous and resolute that it was outrageous, and he just said a lot of opinions casually, and the uncle not only took it seriously, but even immediately put forward the agenda.

Listening to Li Banghua's worries, Liu Hongjian was not much surprised, although he was a little anxious, but when he thought of the current situation and Chongzhen's own body, Liu Hongjian could also understand.

Many things are obsessed by the authorities and bystanders, and Liu Hongjian only said one sentence to Li Banghua: Your Majesty is showing the bodhisattva's heart by thunderbolt means, and this is paving the way for the welfare of all the people and His Royal Highness the Prince.

I didn't say anything, how could Li Banghua not understand, and when he went back in shock, he was even more worried than before.

It's just that he never expected that as soon as he left the gate of the Anguo County Palace, Li Banghua met an acquaintance, and Han Yu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, lowered his head and almost collided with him.

As the head of the cabinet, it is easy to attract gossip when he goes to the palace of Anguo County, and the book of the Ministry of Rites is similar, the two of them look at each other with an embarrassed smile and go their separate ways.

Han Yu is here to probe his master's mind, if this is really Liu Hongji's meaning, he will definitely speak out in solidarity with Chongzhen, although the answer is yes, but for Chongzhen's ruthlessness, Han Yu also muttered in his heart.

"Aren't adults afraid of the cold hearts of all officials in the world? The subordinates thought that it was still a little too hasty to recover the acres at this time. Although Han Yu took Liu Hong's head of the horse, he still thought about the court in his heart, and he didn't want His Majesty and Baiguan to be so stiff.

Moreover, it is indeed a bit excessive, accepting the filial piety fields under the names of officials, at least 80% of the officials in the Ming Dynasty have to eat pickles.

Clear-eyed people will understand with only a little thought that with their understanding of Chongzhen, this idea must be the same as suppressing Xun Qi, and it is not His Majesty's intention alone, so who else can influence His Majesty like this?

I'm afraid that most of my colleagues in the capital are secretly scolding the lord now!

Alas, the lord is still too young and too vigorous, so what can he gain by being the enemy of the world's lords and ministers?

If Liu Hong gradually learned that his protégé was thinking about him like this, he would definitely laugh, and the young man was not angry, so was he still called a young man?

"Retreat, as the saying goes, slap a sweet date, do you know why you slap the first instead of giving the dates first?" Liu Hongjian held Xiao Aotian, who had already begun to babble, and said softly.

"Because ......" Han Yu still Liu Hong gradually tested him, the reason is so simple.

Slapping someone and then giving the date will make people forget the pain and even appreciate your reward, and if you give the date first and then slap the person, what will the person think?

It's a psychological problem!

"Got it! Thank you, the Lord. Han Yu's heart instantly brightened up a lot, as long as His Majesty and the seat master took into account the resistance of the hundred officials, it would not be a big deal.

It's just that after the slap, what kind of dates do Your Majesty and the lord want to send?

Liu Hongjian didn't say, and he didn't ask.

The next day, Chongzhen did not have an early dynasty, but the six ministries and the three divisions and each yamen received a notice, and all the officials put down their political affairs at three o'clock and rushed to the streets of the west city of the capital to watch the execution.

And the dictator is very clear, you are not allowed not to go, and you are not allowed to leave halfway.

Watching the sentence? What kind of punishment can you observe?

After the relatives imprisoned in Jinyi Wei Prison, Dongchang, and the prison of the Criminal Department were all removed from the knighthood and demoted to commoners, the vacant prison was not idle for a moment, and Zhu Changrun and a group of rebellious relatives lived in it that night.

And it was not enough to live, there were no less than 2,000 people in the direct line of the rebel army's wives and children, so tens of thousands of prisoners of the guards were thrown into the Xishan camp for detention, otherwise even if all the cells were stuffed like sardines, they would not be able to fit.

Although they were very reluctant, the courtiers did not dare to resist the order, but on the contrary, they sat in the yamen of various ministries on weekdays, and there was no opportunity to gather like this.

Because Meng Zhaoxiang, the secretary of the Criminal Department, did not quite agree with Chongzhen's style, the prison officer was Cao Huachun, the superintendent of Dongchang Factory, and Meng Zhaoxiang only sat in the deputy position.

As soon as noon arrived, Cao Huachun read out the rebellious behavior of Zhu Changrun and others in the voice of the male duck, and then prisoner cars drove from the three directions of the prison of the Criminal Department, Jinyiwei Prison, and Dongchang Black Prison.

The onlookers in the capital didn't care about 3721, picked up rotten eggs, rotten vegetable leaves, and dirt and greeted, and smashed Zhu Changrun and others into a daze.

Because there were too many people, in order not to delay time, a hundred people were killed at a time, and even the executioners were filled by fierce men from the Beijing camp.

At the sound of the order, a hundred heads rolled to the ground, blood sprayed everywhere, the people smacked their tongues, and the faces of the timid ministers turned white.

Where does Cao Huachun care about these, his hometown Tianjin has been idle for six years, and now he is valued by the emperor, he wants to share his worries for Chongzhen, as for these rebellions, phew!

My old Cao Ren has hundreds of sticks, and cutting off a person's head is a ball!

Half an hour later, the corpses piled up on one side of the execution ground, and the blood was about to flow to the feet of the courtiers.

Lao Cao knew Chongzhen's intentions, and he specially put the headless body aside, and the heads were piled up on the side of the courtiers.

Most of the people just came to see the freshness and join in the fun, and under such a bloody scene, they had already run away.

The most pitiful thing is the hundred officials of the Manchu Dynasty, they read the books of sages all day long, and they have not even killed a chicken.

"I'm scared again, little six, quick, go and help that old man up and find a wooden stool to sit down." While Cao Huachun ordered the execution to continue, he ordered the fans of Dongchang to help the fainting courtiers up.

Cao Huachun kindly arranged the stool, but if it was really kind, why didn't he let people go back?

"Fourth Chief, what does Your Majesty mean by this? Isn't this an insult to me? Zuodu Yushi Shi Bangzhao was a little dizzy by the blood, and bowed his head and said to Fang Yuegong, the secretary of the Ministry who also had an ugly face.

"Alas, can't Lord Shi see it? This is His Majesty's demonstration to us!

If I don't obey, I can't say that the next person to be beheaded will be waited! Fang Yuegong shook his head and replied, and after speaking, he wanted to get up and leave.

"My lord, the punishment is not over yet, Your Majesty has a decree ......" Shi Bangzhao reminded although his heart was desolate.

"The old man is old, please beg the bones early tomorrow morning!" Fang Yuegong didn't look back and whispered, and then scolded the Dongchang Fanzi who was blocking the periphery and left resolutely.

Another half an hour passed, and a total of more than 2,800 rebellious people were ambushed, and all the courtiers fainted and vomited under the sea of corpses and blood.

There is no doubt that this group of guys will not be able to eat within a day of returning, and it is even estimated that many people will be able to quit meat.

Liu Hongjian was standing by the window of the private room, he also knew that he was not treated by the courtiers now, but he still wanted to take a look at the ugliness of the courtiers.

"Sir! Master! Born, the second lady gave birth, twin daughters! The bull mallet suddenly pushed the door in and shouted.

PS: It's been on the shelves for nearly five months, and today I got another alliance leader, thanks to the love, thank you, Han Han is happy, and there will be more later.