The midsummer of the first year of Taichu was exceptionally cool. In July, the hottest month of the year, women could still wear horse-faced skirts. The climate of the Little Glacier seemed unwilling to leave travelers easily.
On the sixth day of July, the Supreme Emperor moved into Yongfu Palace. On the same day, Queen Mother Jin Yuji, Yang Qing'er and Princess Chen Yuanyuan moved into Linzhi Palace next to Yongfu Palace.
The weather in Shenyang in July was pleasant, and the Emperor's appetite greatly increased and he acted as he pleased.
Immediately after the Zen ceremony, he carried out drastic reforms to prepare for the upcoming great purge.
The old and new institutional systems are changing alternately, and the new totalitarian iron-blooded system will replace the classical utopia that is affectionate and advocating tolerance.
The leader of the Da Qi Empire will transform from a saintly gentleman praised by everyone to a murderous tyrant.
In this drastic change from feudalism to totalitarianism, those who cannot adapt to the new system and new situation will be ruthlessly purged.
All those who may threaten the imperial power will be eliminated as soon as possible.
A new power structure was designed, and major changes occurred at the top of Daqi's power hierarchy. Kang Yingqian was deprived of his position as prime minister and replaced by Sun Chuanting. Lao Kang was demoted to the position of Minister of the Ministry of Personnel. The other chief officials of the six departments were: Lu Xiangsheng, Qiao Yiqi, Wang Huazhen, Ge Yewen, and Song Yingxing, who were responsible for the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Punishment, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Industry respectively.
The chief officer of the Raincoat Guards was changed from Shen Lian to Zhang Dong. The Raincoat Guards were given greater power and were directly responsible to the emperor. In addition to external sentinels, they were also responsible for monitoring hundreds of officials. In emergencies, they could bypass the Ministry of Justice and arrest people directly. The Raincoat Guards were expanded to 2,000 Jiang Liu'er, Alsa, Li Zicheng and others became the new blood of this team. There were four bureaus in the southeast, northwest and northwest, with 300 people in each bureau. They were responsible for the four sides of the empire, with a total of 1,200 people. Zhang Dong personally led Eight hundred people are responsible for domestic intelligence and internal support.
The imperial guards were responsible for guarding the palace and guarding the troops outside. Their strength was expanded to 2,400. The chief officer was Pei Dahu. Four adjutants (also known as the Four King Kongs) each commanded 400 guards. The four King Kongs were: Lin Yu, Wu Xiao, Zhao Yuanzhi, Wei Zhao.
The original fourteen Guards armies were reorganized into ten corps (each corps has a full strength of 50,000 men). The current strength, commanders and flags of each corps are as follows:
The First Corps has 15,000 men. The chief officer is Liu Zhaosun, who holds the Black Dragon Flag.
The Second Corps consisted of 8,000 men, led by Deng Changxiong, who held the Black Tiger Flag;
The third corps consisted of 8,000 men, led by Qi Jin, who held the black lion flag;
The Fourth Corps consists of 8,000 men, with the chief officer Qin Jianxun holding the black bear flag;
The fifth corps consists of 8,000 men, with the chief officer Pu Gang holding the black antelope flag;
The Sixth Corps (Navy) has 4,000 men, with the chief officer Wu Aheng holding the black skull and crossbones flag;
The Seventh Corps (cavalry) has 3,000 men, with the chief officer Wang Zengbin holding the black eagle flag;
The Eighth Corps consists of 8,000 men, led by the commander Zhao, holding the Black Wolf Flag;
The Ninth Corps (External Corps) has 8,000 men. The chief officer, Jin Yinghe, holds the Black Panther flag.
The Tenth Corps consisted of 8,000 men, with the chief officer Zheng Yishi holding the black dragon flag.
The army has 78,000 men, plus the artillery regiment's 2,000 artillery pieces, for a total of 80,000 troops.
With a new round of troop explosions in the autumn, the total strength of the Qi army will exceed 100,000.
When all the corps is full and expanded to 500,000 troops, we will have to wait until next year to drink the Yangtze River and destroy Nanming.
Considering that all the training officers in the army had suffered casualties before, only the chief training officer Sen Ti, the former training officer of the Second Army Huang Youlun, the former training officer of the Third Army Chu Jinsheng, and the former training officer of the Fourteenth Army Xing Zhongyi survived. In order to strengthen the control of the army, at the instruction of Emperor Wuding, new training officers and soldiers representatives were quickly dispatched to each corps and battalion.
On the surface, there was no change in the power structure of Da Qi. Power transitioned smoothly from the hands of Kang Yingqian and other ministers who cared about life to the Supreme Emperor.
The whole process was uneventful. Minister Gu Ming was originally a confidant of the Supreme Emperor, but he did not dare to reveal any hint of love in front of Emperor Wu Ding, who had a drastic change in temperament.
Although Kang Yingqian and others were walking on thin ice, the time traveler decided to carry out a major purge of his old subordinates.
The direct cause of the "Great Purge" was the attack led by Zhang Mazi.
At the end of July, when Zhang Dong led the coir raincoat guards to execute the "expropriation" order in Tieling City, they were obstructed by Tieling civil affairs officials. The civil affairs officials dispatched guards to fight with the coir raincoat guards, and Zhang Dong's head was broken...
Afterwards, the Supreme Emperor ordered the Ministry of Punishment and the Imperial Guard to investigate the matter thoroughly, and reported that it was Zhang Dong who committed the murder, which aroused people's anger.
As Liu Zhaosun's right-hand man and deceased brother, Zhang Mazi's inexplicable attack and the bizarre direction of the subsequent investigation completely angered Liu Zhaosun, and directly became the beginning of the great purge launched by the Supreme Emperor.
Just as the gunfire in Sarajevo triggered the First World War, we know that before the Sarajevo incident, dark clouds had already gathered over the entire Europe, and Sarajevo was only the trigger of the war.
Similarly, Zhang Dong's injury was only the trigger for the purge in the first year of Taichu.
As one of the best emperors in the history of Daqi, Liu Zhaosun might kill a few people to vent his anger because his confidants were injured and the new economic policy was blocked, but he could not launch a massacre that swept through Liaodong and slaughtered 20,000 of his own people for Zhang Dong. Internal cleaning campaign.
Regarding the fundamental reasons for the occurrence of this "Great Purge" movement, we can only understand the thinking logic of Emperor Wu Ding more than 400 years ago only by standing in the historical context of that time.
In 1628, there were only five years left before the Eighth Crusade (1633-1642 AD), and the situation inside and outside Daqi became increasingly worse.
In response to Qi's destruction of East Asian trade, the war between European countries (the Thirty Years' War) was ended early.
From London to Paris, from Zurich to Moscow, European monarchs have set their sights eastward.
The colonial powers hated the totalitarian Qi Dynasty because the Qi army successively disrupted the normal trade order in the Far East.
The stock markets in London and Amsterdam plummeted, and many civilized and respectable middle-class families went bankrupt overnight. The upright gentlemen of Britain and the Republic of the Netherlands wished they could have Nicholas's grandson eat his flesh and sleep with him.
Therefore, under the instigation of the East India Company merchants, the second anti-Qi alliance of European countries will soon be re-formed.
In addition, the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, which had been sitting on the mountain watching the tiger fight, was already secretly planning with Zheng Zhilong to launch a new round of Northern Expedition.
The Japanese Tokugawa shogunate was also expanding its army and obtained new weapons from the Dutch.
In short, Qi's international environment was extremely bad at this time.
Qi State did not have many allies, and Mongolian Horqin in the north was tortured to death by the plague.
To the west is the European Anti-Qi Alliance, which is determined to destroy itself, and to the east are the Japanese and Korean states bent on revenge.
All of these strengthened the time traveler's determination to fight.
Liu Zhaosun judged that Daqi would soon become the target of public criticism and be besieged by all parties. This process could take as little as three years or as many as ten years.
The real decisive battle is about to begin.
In order to deal with all kinds of monsters and monsters, he must use the fastest speed to complete the integration of the country's forces and tie everyone to this furious chariot.
What? If you don't want to get on the chariot, then you have no choice but to die.
Historians have discovered that around 1627, some official terms often seen in memorials and reviews reflected the primacy of the empire. Words such as "imperial affairs," "imperial warriors," and "imperial interests" became extremely sacred.
In short, in the eyes of Emperor Wu Ding, the interests of the empire were above all else.
When Liu Zhaosun frequently uses these words, his subjects will think that what he is talking about is of vital importance, while terms such as class struggle, avenue, and revolutionary cause are old concepts that have been abandoned.
The Emperor is a loner, but this is by choice, not by nature - he is essentially gregarious.
His work habits may seem strange to historians, but they are actually typical of the kings of the Eastern Capital Palace (Jinan) in the first half of the seventeenth century (his son Liu Kan was similar)
Liu Zhaosun gets up very early during the day, works until late at night, and sometimes goes to bed at dawn.
His biggest hobby is dinners that take 3 to 5 hours, and happy midnight time with two empress dowagers, a dowager and a nun (Daphne), every day.
Like Louis XIV, Liu Zhaosun liked to discuss important matters with his closest advisers over dinner;
Similar to the "Sun King", Liu Zhaosun is an irrefutable and unquestionable master whether at the dinner table or in his own country.
The attack on Zhang Dong at this time became the last straw that broke the emperor's patience and rationality.
Liu Zhaosun realized that the opposition forces in Da Qi were still strong and they opposed his own governing philosophy.
Moreover, they have already taken the initiative.
For this reason, he had to launch the last resort he could think of - the Great Purge.
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