It’s not just Xu Xi, the Duke of Dingguo.
The nobles who were paid empty wages and served as officers and soldiers in the Beijing camp all fell into disgrace.
Depending on the severity of the crime, he was either ordered to commit suicide or exiled to Nagasaki.
As for why he was exiled to Nagasaki, it was not to be exiled to other places.
the reason is simple.
In this era, due to the influence of the Little Glacier climate, most fields in the north, except for growing cold-resistant potatoes, had low yields and were not suitable for survival.
However, it will take time to promote potatoes, and it is currently only promoted in Liaodong.
Moreover, many refugees have been moved to Liaodong.
In addition, after the restoration of the Central Law forced salt merchants to move to border towns and villages, a large number of merchants and people have taken the initiative to move to border towns.
Therefore, the imperial court does not need to immigrate to the desolate land in the north for the time being.
And Nagasaki had just become the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
Urgent need to consolidate.
In particular, after Chen Xin and others had just plowed Nagasaki, when the number of local Japanese was not very large, it was a good time for the Ming Dynasty to immigrate in large numbers and change the ethnic composition of Nagasaki's population.
Otherwise, after a period of time, the Japanese from other places will move over, or the local Japanese will continue to multiply, and the Ming Dynasty's plan to assimilate Nagasaki will mean half of the failure.
In addition, Nagasaki has an advantageous geographical location, the climate is much better than that of Saibei, and agriculture and commerce are very developed.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao and his ministers are now focusing on immigration to Nagasaki, hoping to make Nagasaki a Han settlement as soon as possible.
Here, exiling criminals to Nagasaki is an immigration strategy decided by Zhu Youxiao.
Although these nobles were considered nobles in the Ming Dynasty, they had long since been abolished.
Moreover, they were exiled as sinners and had no foundation in Nagasaki. The Nagasaki garrison was Zhu Youxiao's Habayashi Guards, who strictly controlled them. Naturally, these people could not make waves, and even did The act of betraying the country.
What's more, in this era, no one dares to betray Ming's country, and no one in Asia dares to challenge Ming.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao was not worried about what would happen to these nobles after they were exiled to Nagasaki.
During the process of rectifying the capital camp, civil servants and eunuchs who were found guilty of bad deeds were also exiled to Nagasaki in large numbers.
It is different from the Manchus who were exiled to remote places and enslaved by armored men.
Due to the different state structure and social nature of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor and ministers did not agree with the enslavement of the country's citizens. Therefore, rather than being exiled to Nagasaki, these people were arranged to settle in Nagasaki and participate in labor reform.
"Anyone who reports to retire due to old age will have all the loan sharks owed by him to be destroyed and exempted, because the corrupt officials who extorted money from you and issued illegal loan sharks have been brought to justice by the court. Starting from the first day of next month, you can gather in the newly established department of the Ministry of War. The Department of Veterans handles retirement matters. When the time comes, you will have two ways to retire. One is to receive a ten-yuan silver coin retirement subsidy and start your own business. Now that the imperial court has abolished the place of origin restriction and reformed the road guide system, you can do whatever you want. You can go anywhere, but you must have a good household check. When staying in an inn, taking a boat or taking a bus, you still need a household check to verify your identity. Otherwise, it will be bad to be suspected of being a foreign spy or a fugitive; there is another way. , just go to the medical department to report. The medical department has now set up the Environmental Sanitation Department. Veterans in the Beijing Camp can directly go to the Environmental Sanitation Department to work as sanitation workers, receive one yuan of monthly silver, and be responsible for cleaning the streets of the capital. It is suitable for those who don’t want to travel far and don’t want to be idle. People, you all understand."
At the Jingying school grounds, the political scholars from the Ministry of War's Propaganda and Education Department were explaining the imperial court's arrangements to a group of veteran military households in the Jingying who needed to be eliminated.
The Propaganda Department was newly established by Zhu Youxiao in various ministries. Its main responsibility is to preach and explain government decrees, and to guide the people. It is similar to Chongwen Temple.
After all, the illiteracy rate in the Ming Dynasty is still very high, and many people have no awareness of understanding the imperial decrees, let alone participating in the political affairs of the imperial court.
This time, the military households in the Beijing camp went to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to cause trouble and complained to the civilian officials of the Ministry of War. It was still secretly instigated by the nobles, rather than their own initiative to participate.
Therefore, this requires Zhu Youxiao's Ming Dynasty court to arrange special people to preach the decree in order to strengthen the rule over these people.
At this moment, after listening to the decree preached by Guanzheng Jinshi from the Ministry of War, these old military households in the Beijing camp couldn't help but grin, and they couldn't help but start talking.
"It's such a good thing!"
"It turns out that nothing will happen if we make a fuss! I thought we would be settled by the Queen just like the noble lords."
"Well, thank God that we can retire smoothly. Killing those corrupt officials will be enough to relieve our anger. I didn't expect that the imperial court would also give us money and work?"
"I didn't expect that the imperial court would still care about our life and death."
"My family has been in the military for generations. I have never heard of someone who can still get money after they retire. It's a good time if I don't have to work for the masters in vain, woo woo!"
As the old military households talked, some of them couldn't help but start crying.
For them who are at the bottom of the Ming Dynasty, although their ancestors either drove away the Tartars and restored China during the Taizu era of the Ming Dynasty, and used spears to drive away the Mongolian cavalry military households; or they followed Chengzu Zhu Di to conquer the Tartars many times during the Chengzu era. They captured the military households of various tribes, but now they are actually the most miserable people in the empire. Even they look down on themselves, because except for the military households belonging to hereditary officers, ordinary military households have long lost their own fields. They were even enslaved by military officers and blackmailed by civilian officials. Therefore, they either escaped and became refugees, or they could only continue to be poor. Now, the military households who did not escape are so poor that no one is willing to marry a wife from these military households. , so that only military households can marry military households.
But now, the imperial court suddenly began to notice them and treat them kindly, and they naturally felt flattered and extremely moved.
"Thank you, sir! Thank you, sir! I kowtow to you, little one!"
Zhang Zhen, who is over 60 years old, is holding the retirement documents that he has been thinking about with tears in his eyes, and wants to kneel down and kowtow to the civilian officials of the Ministry of War.
The civil servants of the Ministry of War hurriedly supported him: "No way! This is the Emperor's grace! If you want to thank His Majesty, thank His Majesty. You are the Emperor's personal soldiers. If we accept your kneeling, according to the current rules, we will lose our heads. of."
The Emperor's grace?
Zhang Zhen knew that he was the emperor's military household, but he did not expect that the first time he felt the emperor's kindness would be at this time, which surprised him.
And when Zhang Zhen left the Ministry of War Yamen, he walked to the Environmental Sanitation Department.
He has no plans to go home to retire, because he wants to earn more money and marry his son a housewife so that his old Zhang family will not have any heirs.
He was different from other military households. In his heart, he was very proud of the fact that his Zhang family ancestors were the emperor's personal soldiers and accompanied the emperor's army to Mobei to kill the Tatars. Therefore, he felt that his old Zhang family was so brave. After that, the emperor's personal army cannot cut off the roots.
However, Zhang Zhen still couldn't believe whether the job as a sanitation worker in the medical department was real. After all, it was indeed a good job for him to earn one dollar a month.
But when he thought that he had previously suspected that going to the Ministry of War to apply for retirement documents might not be as true as the Guanzheng gentlemen from the Mission Department said, but after the Ministry of War successfully received the retirement documents, he decided to give it a try.
Zhang Zhen came to the Environmental Sanitation Department and after signing up, he received sanitation clothes and a broom, as well as a one-time housing subsidy of five yuan silver coins and the first month's monthly payment in advance.
This made Zhang Zhen even more overjoyed.
"Is this also the emperor's grace?"
Zhang Zhen couldn't help but said, and then looked in the direction of the Forbidden City, staring at the majestic palace city, and then knelt down devoutly: "Your Majesty, Zhang Zhen, the front guard of the imperial army, kowtows to you."
"The Emperor's grace does not stop there."
At this time, Sun Yunhe, the leader of Dongchang, came over, touched his chin and beard, and said to Zhang Zhen who was lying on the ground.
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