eldest son of Ming dynasty

Chapter 591: Five Years of Zhengde
In any case, the four years of Zhengde passed like this.

Generally speaking, this year has been a bit noisy. At the beginning of the year, the Shaofu made a joke in Huai'an because of the construction of roads between the two capitals, which made Gu Zuo feel bad.

Then Zhang Cong left Ningxia by order. The Qingtun event involved the interests and lives of too many people. After more than half a year, there was a mutiny. Up to now, there is no hope of success, forcing the imperial court to send a large army and command Use the sword to kill people.

Zhu Houzhao is considered an emperor with great power in the court, financial resources, and army, but he ended up with this appearance. No wonder most of these reforms in history have failed, and some people even started it. .

It is indeed too difficult.

Now that several other military towns are under heavy pressure, although no disturbances have occurred, they have not heard of any major progress in Qingtun. Zhu Houzhao reckons that there is still too much resistance, and I am afraid that many people are doing their best to obey others. A middle-level management system When a problem arises, ask them to punish themselves, but they should not violate it.

Now that it's the Chinese New Year and the weather is not good, other major things except counterinsurgency can be slowed down for the time being.

However, according to Zhu Houzhao's decree, the Beijing camp and Shangzhi personal guards were mobilized according to the original plan. The troops led by Qi Chengtun, Minister of the Ministry of War, were stationed in Yongping. The reason was easy to find. There had been military chaos here, and it was necessary to maintain basic order for the people during the New Year. .

But in fact, it was time to liquidate.

At the beginning, the two guards took the initiative to contact the rebels and attack the officers and soldiers. This was too bad. Although some people saw that the situation was wrong halfway and rebelled again, there is nothing so cheap in this world.

This is rebellion.

After something happened, he immediately turned back if he failed. Is there still such a way to go back?

Zhu Houzhao asked the cabinet to come up with a solution.

Anyway, it is inappropriate to kill them all, otherwise in the future, if this kind of thing happens again, then no one will turn against the water, and it must be turned back to the end.

So these people still don’t want to be beheaded, and their family members are not involved, but they can’t stay in their hometown anymore. They can either go to Lingnan, Gansu, or Hetao to reclaim wasteland. Anyway, they can choose one.

For the Chinese who have relocated to their new home, exile is lighter than beheading.

It turned out that the cabinet wanted to bring some silver taels seized in Qianxi to the capital. The gang of corrupt officials did not know how much money they took. After a riot, 4000 taels of gold and 16 taels of silver were produced. joke.

Looking at the white money, I really don't know whether to worry about the corruption of the past officials, or to be satisfied with the great success of the counter-insurgency.

First, the Tengxiang Zuowei Baihu seized two large boxes, and then found two large boxes in the city. The fact that the boxes are full of gold is too eye-catching, and now it is estimated that it has spread throughout Jizhou Town.

Zhu Houzhao was laughed angrily during the court meeting, so he said to his ministers: There is so much gold in such an inconspicuous small county, should the military settlement be cleaned up?I don't even know that these people are so rich until they clean up!
However, Zhu Houzhao disagreed that all the money was moved to the capital.

His internal funds are 300 million taels of silver, although the amount of money he can save every year has dropped, unlike the original three or four million taels a year, mainly because the Xunchen Group and some civil servants have to pay dividends, and in the past two years he has saved cavalry It still took a lot.

But that's enough.

Besides, Ping Haibo has just entered Beijing.

An emperor can't be a miser, so why gather so much money privately?He would rather distribute it to the soldiers and tell them to continue fighting happily.

According to the imperial decree, the four guards of Tengxiang and the left and right guards of Yanshan have meritorious service in combat, and Jizhou is determined to be a great merit in the First World War. In addition, it is still Chinese New Year, and every soldier cannot go home, so Zhu Houzhao gave them a new concept: festival expenses .

The captured silver taels can be converted into about 20 taels of silver. There is no need to hand over one tael, and the officers and soldiers will divide it among them according to a certain proportion.

Just to open the eyes of the frontier army, what is the first-level guard in the direct personal guard?

The complete and utter darling of the emperor.

According to the basic principle that the chief gets more and the soldiers get less, each soldier in Jizhou can get six taels of silver as a reward, and there are more hundreds and thousands of households above. After all, 3 people get 20. For two taels of silver, a hundred households can get two and thirty taels, and a thousand households can get hundreds of taels.

In this way, the six guard posts, from the commanding envoy Qian Hu to the small banner soldiers, no longer mentioned that they would not be in Beijing to celebrate the New Year.

Better yet, do it again next year.

Tengxiang Zuowei's Baihu Guanzuo Dong has been promoted to [-] households, but there are no vacancies in this guard. The meaning of Shangfeng is to raise the position first, get the money first, and make specific adjustments after the class teacher returns to the court.

This place of Yongping Mansion was called [-] troops and it was occupied.

Yang Shangyi appointed Geng Qi as the special officer of Qingtun. With the help of Liulu Zhiqinwei, he went to various places to repaint the army's farmland, and at the same time registered and made a book to confirm the rights and issue certificates.

With such intensity, no one caught Ma Bin.

Oh, but they are all very honest.

Therefore, it was not Jin Yiwei who arrested people, but another group of people - Yang Shangyi's people.

Mainly the soldiers and their families who participated in the rebellion. No one would dare to cover up such a serious crime of treason. Many families were arrested and their entire families were arrested. Most of the people in the mansion stayed behind closed doors, and all relations with each other stopped. .

As a result, many soldiers of the Imperial Guard had money in their hands but had no place to spend it.

On New Year's Eve, when the military camp was on holiday, Zuo Dong and his brothers had to run out of the city to the countryside to buy some chickens, ducks and a sheep.

One of them named Chen Big Head was wounded by an arrow and was being treated. After the barracks popularized alcohol disinfection, these injuries were not as scary as before. If you want to eat meat and drink alcohol, this will not work.

In winter, a pot of fire is raised, and four legs of lamb are raised to roast. The brothers gather in four circles. There is wine and meat, talking and laughing. It’s actually not bad to eat green vegetables on the table alone. He brought a few eggs with him.

"Wow! Zuotou, we old Chen can't help it! You can just eat it behind your back, you must eat it in front of my eyes! Why don't you give me a piece?"

His companion laughed at him, "Who told you to walk blind and get pecked by an arrow? Who is to blame for your poor skills? If you dare not listen to Dr. Jun, come and eat!"

"Why don't you dare? I'm not afraid of him!"

Zuo Dong ignored him, he cut off a piece of lamb leg, stuffed his mouth, and glared at him at the same time, "Itchy?"

The discipline of the Class A guards is extremely strict, and this is also a result of being involved. Otherwise, how would they have combat effectiveness?

He just said two words, and Chen didn't dare to move his big head.

"Hahaha."

It's nice to have someone who can make a joke.

"But this time, I really didn't expect the emperor to be so happy. The adults above said that the gold was going to be transported to Beijing, but it didn't even get transported. If I knew it was like this, we should have dug another three feet in Qianxi. Maybe two more boxes can be found. I knew that these bird officials lived a good life when I was in the capital earlier."

"Your Majesty is such a heroic man. That gold, tsk tsk tsk, if it were me, Lao Song, I would definitely take this thing home and hide it under the quilt. There must be no points for a piece of it."

Zuo Dong was chewing, smiling wantonly, watching them bragging, the barracks was supposed to prohibit alcohol, so just for one night, they were ignored.

He also finished a bowl himself and said: "There should be a chance. Cleaning up the military camp is like killing these people. I followed him out for a few days. It's really something that can only be done with a knife rest on the neck. Things, so it is impossible to be so stable. Even if Jizhou is suppressed, what about Liaodong? If there are changes in Liaodong, it will probably be us. Further north from Yongping is Shanhaiguan."

When his subordinates heard this, their eyes lit up, "That's a good relationship. If you fight him a few times in this kind of battle, we will all become local rich! But Liaodong is poor, and I don't know if there is so much gold in that place."

"These people are really stupid. They are guarding so much gold, so what if they are in Qingtun? They obviously won't be able to spend it all in a few lifetimes, but now it's better. Their lives are gone, and their money is gone."

Zuo Dong said with a smile: "They want to turn around in this way, what kind of official will our brother be promoted, and what reward will we get?"

"That's it, that's it! It was a good fight!"

There are also people who graduated from the military academy in the first-level guards. The saying that knowledge is power is still true, especially in the era of many illiterates. This person is called Jiang Zhun. He said: "Mr. There is nowhere to pay for the army, coupled with the corruption of officials, layers of exploitation, it is difficult for soldiers to even have enough food, let alone combat power, and they are not as good as C-level guards here.

This reason is simple and easy to understand, but I don't understand why these people want to lead their soldiers like this. This time it really is the case, and the [-] rebellious troops will disperse as soon as they are beaten.So what Zuo Qianhu said is not impossible, if there is any chaos, we will settle it after we go, and the reward will still be huge. "

"It's easy to fight, but you can't underestimate the enemy."

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The place where Da Sima camped.

Qi Chengtun was also discussing with the generals, "After the year passes, when the weather is better, we will disperse the six guards and horses, and inspect all the places in Jizhou. This is the imperial decree and also guarantees that Jizhou There are no more means of chaos."

Yang Shangyi nodded, "Oh, the Qingtun incident in Jizhou turned out to be such a big deal."

"General Yang, does he know that the two guards at Zijingguan are one A and one B, and the four guards at Juyong Pass are one A and three B. There are 25 personal guards, and there are only ten A-class guards. Except for the two left to guard the imperial city, the rest can be sent They have all been dispatched. It can be seen that the emperor knows that this matter is not easy, so there is no need to worry too much."

"Ah, why did you send so many?"

Qi Chengtun explained: "The inspection of the army is a light thing to say. If the restraint is not strict, it will be plundered by the army, and the military discipline of the first-level guards is the best, so your majesty can rest assured. Just this, there are Liaodong, Yulin, As for the towns in Shanxi, I don’t know if there will be any problems in these places.”

Anyway, let’s wait until this year passes before we talk about it.

The four years of Zhengde had been so vigorous, and he hoped that in the fifth year of Zhengde, these people would be more understanding.

On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, after several days of rest, people from all walks of life began to leave their nests.

Ma Bin, deputy envoy of Jin Yiwei, still seized the excuse and killed two people, as if he would not be able to work otherwise, he led his men to follow Geng Qixian to a place called Gaojiapo below Yongping, which is a low hillside. On the flat land below, mountain spring water flows down from above, irrigating thousands of acres of land.

Years ago, I knew that this place was the most fertile, and this kind of land could not be grown by ordinary military households.

The person who occupied this place was a Qianhu family named Qiu. He didn't participate in the trouble, but it would be heartbreaking to take them all out.

When something like a rebellion happened, everyone seemed to be able to work. Geng Qi's people were in charge of re-measurement and registration, and Ma Bin checked the materials brought by the thousand households.
"Qiu Qianhu, you have 640 acres of land above, and it's all here, so there's nothing hidden, right?"

"Yes, it's all here!"

"Understood." Ma Bin had no expression on his face, handed the things to the side, and went down for a walk, and asked the person who measured them, knowing that the numbers were accurate.

Turning around, he said to Qiu Qianhu: "Qiu Qianhu is a rare and honest person, don't worry, the numbers are all right. But these land deeds cannot be given to you."

This person looked at the things in Ma Bin's hand, but his eyes were still hot, but there were soldiers everywhere, so he could only bow his head.

Ma Bin patted him on the shoulder, and said earnestly: "Give your soldiers some way to survive, and give yourself a way to survive. It's not too difficult."

"On the job, the one who teaches is."

Ma Bin was a little hesitant about this life, "You have committed crimes in the past, so you won't think about taking it back in the future, right?"

These words were so eerie that Qianhu's face paled instantly in fright, "Don't worry, the superior, it will never happen! The final general will definitely follow the imperial court's order!"

In fact, Ma Bin wanted to kill them, but the court must have more comprehensive considerations. If these people were also killed, no one would support Qingtun.

So keep it.

"It's okay, the imperial court has a second round of inspections, and I will let people focus on you."

This……

"Please forgive me, please forgive me!"

Ma Bin is a little bit jealous. If this kind of official is placed under his command in Ningxia, he will definitely kill him.He can't be killed now, and scaring him is also very much in his mind.

"Wait to measure and divide the fields. As long as you don't have any other thoughts, you won't lose your head."

According to this order, the officers and soldiers will begin to take over these properties in an all-round way.

It is also good to talk about major events, that is, the meaning of the imperial court is spread everywhere, from Yongping to Jizhou, the common people, merchants, and military households all know what the imperial court is up to and why these troubles occur.

In this way, the soldiers at the bottom are actually not very willing to make trouble.

However, the Qing army's farmland in Yongping made the big households in the city very anxious. Many people began to beg to see Ma Bin, but what they couldn't see was shouting and crying along the street.

I found out after asking carefully.

This group of people took advantage of the imperial court and put the land in Qiu Qianhu's name to avoid taxes and servitude!

The issue of donation was indeed a common phenomenon in the Ming Dynasty, but it was not a prominent problem when Ningxia cleared up the farmland, because it involved the rebellion of the royal family at that time, and the court pursued it wildly. It would be a disaster if you were charged with sponsoring against the king.

But here in Yongping, Qiu Qianhu has always been very honest, so there is no such problem.

At first Ma Bin didn't take it seriously, he didn't meet much in Ningxia, but later on the sedan chair he was riding was forced to stop by a group of wealthy households, many of them were elderly, crying with tears and snot.

Ma Bin felt a little strange later, but it was hard to tell on the street, so he was led to the place where he was staying.

He sat on the main seat, and eight people sat on both sides, all white and fat.

"Shangchai, we are all merchants in Yongping, more or less involved in that piece of land in Gaojiapo... That piece of land, that piece of land is not all owned by Qiu Qianhu! Many of them belong to us ! The imperial court wants Qingtun, so check the land occupied by officials, we bought it all!"

Ma Bin tilted his head and said four words to his subordinates, "Recorded."

"Yes."

After finishing writing, he took it over and glanced at it, and then passed it on to everyone, "Let's all press your fingerprints. It's the exact words you just said."

"Huh? On the job, is this...?"

"You must ensure that the situation you reported is true and report it to me. Otherwise, it will be empty talk. You said this today. What should I do if you change your story when I report it to you?"

That's right. To do things, you have to follow the process.

But these people are timid and some dare not.

Ma Bin couldn't help it, "I'm also the deputy envoy of Jin Yiwei after all. What are you guys? As soon as your lips touch your lips, let me run errands for you?! If you don't press it, you will leave .”

"Press! We all press!"

Ma Bin could only sneer, everyone in the world is like this.

When all eight people had finished pressing the button, his expression changed again, and he pointed with two fingers, "These eight people donated land to avoid the court's taxes and duties. They themselves admitted the crime and arrested them all. They will choose a day to arrest them. Ask Zhan."

His tone has always been relaxed.

Of course, this group of people was in a hurry, "I'm on a business trip! You can't just keep your promises!"

"It's too noisy, take them all away!" Ma Bin waved his hands, with an impatient expression on his face, "It's a joke that people who are avoiding court taxes dare to say the word 'believe'."

"That's the case, how dare you convict us of beheading?"

Ma Bin felt that no one was going to kill him and his hands were itchy. A vulgar guy like him didn't come from a normal routine at all. Hearing this, he thought of his past misery and his resentment towards such unscrupulous people.

He got up straight away, hooked his fingers, and said, "Bring the knife."

The sharp sound of metal friction made these people sweat. They probably recalled the terror of Jin Yiwei. The person who originally stretched his head and shouted began to feel that something was wrong, "Wait...wait, you, what are you going to do?"

"Don't do anything, I think you are very reasonable, so I am reasonable with you."

With a pop, he actually chopped the man down with a knife, and blood spattered his hand.

When the news reached Geng Qi's ears, he felt terrified.

It is true that people donate land, and now Jin Yiwei is actually investigating these people on the issue of tax evasion.

The crux of the problem is that everyone knows about this matter from top to bottom, but they don't talk about it. Why?Because of the people standing in the hall, many of them accepted land donations from their families.

But it's one thing to know it all, but it's another thing to say it seriously.There is no such thing as four or two weights if you are not worthy of a scale. This is the reason why you can't beat a thousand catties if you are a top scale.

Geng Qi couldn't speak directly, but when he met Ma Bin again, he still said insinuatingly: "The superiors killed people just for the crime of donating land. Trouble with us. If you cut off the wrong head... This, this is not easy to explain."

"Who is up there?" Ma Bin was puzzled.

Jin Yiwei has clearly acted as the emperor's order, so what else is there?
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I drank too much tonight, so let’s write down five thousand. I have to go to bed early, and I can’t risk my life.

(End of this chapter)