The city of Beijing was completely controlled by the Ming army in less than a morning, and the casualties in the city were less than 10,000, and they were concentrated in the northern city, and the casualties of the Ming army were negligible, less than 100 people.

It is a miracle to recover such a big city, but if you think about it carefully, you will understand that the general trend is irreversible at this time, and it can only be this kind of ending.

The order in the city was quickly restored, mainly because almost all the Qing troops in the south city surrendered, and the Manchu people in the north did not dare to resist at all, they watched the Ming army enter the city, even if they were humiliated, they did not dare to speak out, for fear that the slightest resistance would invite death, and the main force of the Ming army has always had good discipline, Wang Yan said that surrender, the soldiers will obey orders, they do not resist, and the Ming army did not kill women and children indiscriminately.

Soon, more than 100,000 Manchurians were required to withdraw from Beicheng, all assets were confiscated, and they were confined to a camp outside the city.

Although the Ming army did not massacre, the more than 100,000 people who were detained in the camp were still trembling and very pessimistic about their fate.

After all, what they have done, they also know in their hearts, although the king of Chu promised to let them live, but the punishment must be indispensable, they are still very worried about their own fate.

Before the Manchurians entered the customs, how fierce they were, but after they were completely defeated in momentum and confidence, they were like lambs to be slaughtered, and more than 100,000 people were locked up together, but there was not a single commotion, only cowardice and helplessness that spread throughout the camp.

Although there was no commotion among more than 100,000 people, it was always a big trouble to raise it, but when he decided to surrender again, Wang Yan thought about how to deal with it, so he quickly issued a decree.

All the descendants of Nurhachi were imprisoned, and the Manchu men who were over 15 years old were organized into a redemption camp and sent to Liaodong to rebuild the cities of Daning, Guangning, and Fushun, and reclaimed fertile land, and were released after serving for 20 years.

With the serious annexation of domestic land and the large-scale planting of manors and other large landowners, the contradiction between man and land in China will become prominent, and the restoration of Liao will inevitably be an important national policy in the future of the Ming Dynasty.

Guanwai is now uninhabited for thousands of miles, if the Ming Dynasty does not migrate the population to the past, after a few decades, Guanwai will definitely be occupied by the Mongols, or the Jurchens of the West Sea, the savage Jurchens, and even taken by North Korea, so the Ming Dynasty must prepare for the resumption of Liao.

Pioneering and building cities are heavy manual work, which needs to be done, and the bannermen over the age of fifteen are rare laborers, and the fifteen-year-old basically has a knife, so they are allowed to atone for their sins in this way.

After the elimination of the young and strong, the remaining old and weak women and children will change their surnames, grow hair, change clothes, and divide them into several parts, or send them to Liaodong Tunken, or send them to the southwest and Nanyang, in short, all of them will be broken up, ensuring that after one or two generations, they will slowly disappear like Xianbei in history.

In the early years, Wang Yan had an almost extermination attitude towards the Manchus, but from the beginning of the recovery of Nanjing, the policy towards surrendering the Manchus began to change, because the situation also changed.

Now that the Ming army has completely defeated the Manchus, it is time to look farther away, and the enemies of the Ming Dynasty have changed, so Wang Yan, as the victor, has changed his attitude towards the Manchus.

After a cursory treatment of these, Wang Yan rode into Nancheng in the welcome of the people of Nancheng, and after he learned that Nikan had self-immolated, he also felt a little embarrassed in his heart, so that he collected the charred corpse, carried him out of the city and dug a pit and buried it, without humiliation.

Wang Yan's entry into the city of Beijing marked the end of the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty and the major victory of the Ming army.

This Northern Expedition lasted several months, and if the preparation time is added, it took more than half a year, and more than 300,000 horse infantry troops and more than 500,000 people were mobilized before and after, and countless money and grain were consumed, and finally Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Beizhi, Liaodong and other places were finally recovered, and the territory occupied by the Qing Dynasty was basically recovered.

In the whole campaign, the annihilation of the captured Qing army totaled nearly 300,000, and the escape of a few people such as Fulin was basically equivalent to the destruction of the country, and the Ming army achieved a valuable victory, which was a shame for more than 30 years.

This moment will be remembered by history, it is an incomparably glorious moment, Wang Yan in the people's cheers, led Dai Zhifan, Liu Shun, Li Dingguo, Jiang Xiang and other generals, led the Ming army with bright armor and neat foot, entered the city from the victory gate, and accepted the cheers of the people to show the military might.

The people in the city were decorated with lanterns, singing and dancing, and the army that entered the city also felt that their morale was boiling, and the cheers in the city reached into the sky.

The people of Nancheng, who were oppressed and persecuted by the Qing army and Han thieves, held pasta and tea, and enthusiastically stuffed them into the city.

After Wang Yan entered the northern city, he set the Rui Wangfu, which was confiscated by Fulin, as a line, and then asked people to post an article to appease the people, and began to let people clean up the assets of the people, block the city, and arrest the most heinous Han people in the city.

The gentry and leading figures in the city flocked to Xingyuan to meet Wang Yan, denounce the crimes of the Manchus after the occupation of Beijing, and demand that Wang Yan administer justice for them.

Every time he occupies a city, appeasing the gentry is one of Wang Yan's important tasks, and this time it is not good, but when Wang Yan saw this group of people, his face immediately turned cold.

These people who came cannot be called gentry, they should be said to be ministers and nobles during the Chongzhen Dynasty.

Now they are all dressed in tatters, with yellow faces and thin muscles, obviously suffering, but Wang Yan has no good impression of these people, and even feels that they deserve it.

When he was in Beijing, he knew very well the faces of these people.

In particular, Wang Yan saw one of them among them, it was Zhou Kui, a relative of the Ming Dynasty, and his murderous intent was aroused.

After Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, he set up the Zhou family as the queen, Zhou Kui was named Jiadingbo, and received the great favor of the country, but this person was extremely stingy, Chongzhen was extremely stingy, Chongzhen was 17 years, and he was ordered to help the salary, and after the mobilization of many parties, he still refused to donate.

This donation is not compulsory, it is all voluntary, he doesn't donate, at most the reputation is not good, but later Queen Zhou sent 5,000 taels and asked him to take the lead in making an appearance, but he actually swallowed the queen's 3,000 taels of silver and only donated 2,000.

This is equivalent to Chongzhen asking him to donate, and he also earned three thousand taels, which can really make people angry.

As the national abbot, he brought such a bad head, and others naturally did not donate more, but after the fall of Beijing, Zhou Kui and his whole family were arrested by Dashun and tortured, but he handed over a huge sum of 700,000 taels at once.

This incident can only show that this person is extremely stupid and stupid.

If it's just this, Wang Yan doesn't like this person at most and dislikes him, and making him murderous is another matter.

When the city of Beijing was broken, Chongzhen sent the prince and the three princes to Zhou Kui's house to hide, but Zhou Kui was afraid that the prince would affect him, so he ruthlessly betrayed him to Li Zicheng.

It is said that after Li Zicheng's defeat, the crown prince returned to Beijing and knocked on Zhou Kui's door again, but Zhou Kui never accepted it, and sold the prince to the Qing court.

When Wang Yan saw him, he immediately pointed to his nose and scolded: "Old thief, I didn't go to get you, you still have the face to see Gu?" ”

Zhou Kui is now very depressed, his clothes are still patched, he thinks that the Ming army has entered the city, how can he say that he is also the ruler of the Chongzhen Dynasty, and he wants to be able to get back the assets that were taken away by Li Zicheng and the Manchu Qing through the Ming army, and live a good life from the beginning, but he was reprimanded by Wang Yan without thinking about coming in.

Most of the other gentry were not good things, and Wang Yan knew the situation in Beijing at the beginning.

These people used to be the top magnates of the Ming Dynasty and were supported by the world, but most of them came to Shun and Qing, and they did not fulfill their responsibilities.

Wang Yan didn't have a good temper with this group of people, and directly asked people to drive them back.

That Zhou Kui returned to the small hut in Nancheng, he was so frightened by Wang Yan that he remembered the previous things, and not long after returning to the house, he hanged himself.

After entering the city, Wang Yan had a lot of things to deal with, the people in the line went in and out, some reported the seizure of the treasury, and some said that they had caught Fan Wencheng and his son, but Wang Yan didn't have time to deal with it.

He had to prepare to worship Emperor Yizong first, as well as worship the Ming Tombs.

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