After hearing this, Kuai Bai smiled bitterly and asked, "The majesty of the emperor?"
Then, Kuai Bai said to Kuai Chengen and others: "Now it seems that it is too late to take the Han people as hostages, so you can break out on your own! I am sorry for you. I should not have led you to betray the imperial court. I overestimated the Han people." The old party in the CCP, although they are harsh to their subordinates and insist on what they say, they only verbally scold them. Not many dare to rebel, and they even want others to rebel so that they can step on them."
"Of the officers and generals you mentioned just now, several of them complained to me in private about being exempted from corvee service, and some even said they wished they could follow Jing Nan, but when they put down the rebellion, they were worse than Damn, everyone is so active and serious, I wish the emperor could see that no one is more loyal than him!"
"It can be seen that what these people said in the past were all lies! In other words, they just hope that others will rebel so that they can get rewards for their merits in countering rebellions and establishing military forces, while enjoying the preferential treatment given by the court after others rebelled. If you can survive in the future Come down, remember not to be blinded by greed and sacrifice your life to make wedding clothes for others."
"yes!"
Kuai Chengen and others agreed with tears in their eyes.
Next.
The rebels such as Kuai Chengen really began to gather and prepare to break out of the city. They had no time to arrest Han people as a shield.
Because, at the moment, the government troops have begun to bombard the city with artillery, and they will break into the city at any time.
Kuaibai killed all his wives and concubines, then took a bloody knife and lit all the curtains in the house with a candle, and smiled as he watched the fire spread.
The rebels such as Kuai Cheng'en and Kuai Hongda saw the thick smoke and dust from their homes when they broke out outside the city, but they did not dare to stay.
However, when he left the south gate, he was overthrown by Yang Wendeng, an army officer who had ambushed the south gate. He was knocked off his horse with rows of hooks and spears, and was captured alive.
But before Yi Hongda had time to escape to the north gate, he was riddled with bullets by Xie Guibu, the official army who had already boarded the city.
It turned out that the Ming army had stopped shelling at this time.
Because the entire city of Ningxia has been riddled with shells, and the officers and soldiers have started the general offensive after Zhu Yijun personally issued the order to start the general offensive.
Zhu Yijun indeed rushed to the front line at this time, symbolically indicating that he, the emperor, was personally commanding this war, indicating that he was the supreme commander of the world's military.
The officers and soldiers also wanted to perform better in front of the emperor, and they all worked very hard. Some rushed to the collapsed city wall before the smoke cleared.
Therefore, soon, a large number of officers and soldiers poured into Ningxia City.
Li Rusong's younger brother, Li Rumei, ignored the fact that there were still many rebels in the city and personally led the cavalry to Kuaibai's mansion. However, seeing that Kuaibai's mansion was already burning, he had to change his attack to put out the fire, and in the end only looted the house. A lot of property that Kuaibai had collected over the years and his own body that had not been completely burned came out.
Zhu Yijun also entered Ningxia City that night and stationed himself at Prince Qing's Mansion. He ordered all the princes, auxiliary generals and gentry who were forced to follow Prince Qing to rebel in the city. Went to Beijing to be sentenced to death.
So far.
The chaos in Ningxia was finally put down.
But the purpose of Zhu Yijun's personal expedition was not just to put down the rebellion.
Therefore, he directly ordered Li Rusong, Ma Gui and Tong Yiyuan to continue their efforts and continue to go north to search for Loops in three directions, build cities and farm fields, in order to achieve the purpose of regaining the Loop.
at the same time.
Zhu Yijun also issued an order to promote Wan Shide, who had meritorious service in guarding Huamachi, as the governor of Ningxia, and Xiao Ruxun as the commander-in-chief of Ningxia and the leader of the battalion. They were responsible for the aftermath of the Ningxia rebellion and the logistics supply for the recovery of the Hetao.
Because Ma Gui had almost completely wiped out the Mongolian camp in Hetao in advance, there are no large-scale captives in Hetao now, just some small Mongolian tribes.
Therefore, the war to regain the Hetao went smoothly.
Not long after, the Hetao area south of Yinshan Mountain was recovered by the Ming Dynasty army. Among them, Tong Yiyuan's tribe also entered Shajing, built a city here, and captured alive the rabbits who fled here.
Zhu Yijun ordered the establishment of Shajing Prefecture, and asked Ma Gui and Zhu Xinli to return the Tumote tribe who had been naturalized and promoted to the city, liquidate the Zalike tribe who had assisted the rebels, and abolished the title of loyal and shun king and replaced it with Zhu Xinli. Succession, and Zha Li Ke himself will be taken to Beijing for execution.
In addition, Zhu Yijun also decreed the establishment of the Anxi Protectorate.
The Anxi Protector-General's Office was located in Suzhou, and Li Rusong was temporarily appointed as the Chief Protector-General of the Anxi Protector-General's Office, in order to prepare for the future recovery of the Hami Guards, the conquest of Yarkand, Wala, and Yilibaoli, and the opening up of the Western Region again.
besides.
Zhu Yijun also ordered the new governor of Ningxia, Wan Shide, to eliminate the Hu barbarians who had rebelled with them after Kuaibai and Cao Zedeng rebelled.
"How do you plan to determine that the barbarians in the city are involved in the rebellion?"
Zhu Yijun specifically asked Wan Shide about this.
Wan Shide replied: "Anyone who still lives with the Han people is considered not to have participated. Anyone who lives in a house with barbarians naturally robs the houses owned by the Han people and should be killed."
Zhu Yijun nodded: "Very good, let's do this."
Therefore, Wan Shide asked Xiao Ruxun to seal the city, and led his troops to kill all the Tatars in Ningxia City who did not live in the same house with the Han people. For a while, the entire Ningxia City was filled with blood mist, which lasted for three days.
Zhu Yijun could only sigh at this. He could only adopt Wan Shide's suggestion because there was no other better way.
After all, ordinary Tatars who followed a rebel army to rob the Han people in the city must be punished, otherwise it would not be enough to deter the ordinary Tatars gathered in other border towns.
And Wan Shide was extra merciful to the Tatars who could get along with the Han people.
Of course, this can also be regarded as another signal, that is, as long as you are willing to become Han Chinese or be a slave of the Han people, you can be spared even if you encounter a rebellion by the Hu people.
That's right, the Tatars who can live with the Han people have naturally either been Chineseized and the Han people have formed families, or they have surrendered to the Han people's families and become slaves.
Either of these two situations can rule out the existence of the barbaric habit of robbing Han people. After all, if they still have this habit, they will only kill the Han people in the same room as early as Kuaibai and other barbarians make trouble. killed.
The Ningxia Rebellion occurred because Zhu Yijun agreed to Shen Shixing's request and no longer restricted human trafficking to non-citizens. This was equivalent to officially recognizing that only the people of the country had human dignity and respecting the people of the country alone. This caused controversy such as Kuaibai and others. dissatisfaction, and the policy of avoiding corvee had already caused dissatisfaction among Kuaibai and others, which led to the emergence of this rebellion.
But now, the rebellion in Ningxia has been completely put down, which means that only the people of this country have personal dignity, and no one can stop the national policy of other people being trafficked. It also once again lets the world know that the freedom from corvee cannot be stopped.
However, the Ningxia Rebellion and the associated Shaanxi Rebellion also cost Zhu Yijun a lot of money. The expenditure on internal funds alone was more than 10 million taels.
If this were placed in the Ming Dynasty before Wanli and after orthodoxy, this cost would have been enough to collapse the empire's finances.
After all, before Wanli, the Ming Empire's annual silver income in Taicang was only about 4 million taels. Although it actually had tens of millions of shi of grain, due to the huge expenditure of the empire, it was basically in a state of eating and eating grain before Wanli. Spending tens of millions of taels of silver at a time on a war, the entire country simply cannot bear this kind of financial pressure.
The Ming Dynasty of Wanli Dynasty naturally had this strength.
But even if the Ming Dynasty of the Wanli Dynasty had this strength, the expenditure of tens of millions of taels of internal funds was still a bit taxing.
At least for Zhu Yijun, his personal property as an emperor has been reduced a lot.
As mentioned earlier, in today's era, the important guarantee of imperial power is not so much the number of troops it controls, but the amount of property it controls.
Because in the era when the recruitment system and firearms were prevalent, there were no soldiers who could be recruited quickly, and no cannons that could be built quickly. But without money, you could not recruit soldiers or build cannons.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun will continue to find ways to increase his internal and treasury income.
There is actually not much difference between the two.
Because Zhu Yijun ruled alone, he could put money from the internal treasury into the national treasury, or he could put money from the national treasury into the internal treasury.
Now, the economic benefit brought to Zhu Yijun by quelling these two rebellions is that he can abolish Qin Fan and Qing Fan openly, recover a large amount of royal palaces and farmlands, and save a lot of salary expenses.
Of course, this benefit is not that big for Zhu Yijun. His main direction of increasing wealth is external expansion.
It is worth mentioning that after the former Qin King Zhu Yizhen was captured, Zhu Yijun made a special announcement to meet him.
When Zhu Yijun saw Zhu Yijun, he knelt down and knelt on the ground: "Your Majesty, I am aware of my guilt! But please understand clearly that I was forced to rebel. It was not that I really wanted to rebel, but that they were forcing me to do so at the cost of the lives of my clan members. So, I have no choice but to agree."
"It turned out that you were doing it for the clan, but in your eyes, do you think that only the immediate branch of your Qin Fan is the clan, and the distant branch is no longer a clan, or even a human being?"
Zhu Yijun asked at this time.
Zhu Yizhen was stunned after hearing this.
"Show him the list of clan children he sold."
Zhu Yijun gave an order at this time.
"yes!"
So Tian Yi handed a roster to Zhu Yizhu.
Zhu Yijun said: "See for yourself, how many clan children have you asked your officials to sell? If you commit such evil, even if you are forced to rebel, I cannot spare you just because of what you have done!"
"this……"
Zhu Yifeng didn't know what to say for a moment. He thought he did it very secretly, but he didn't expect that the emperor would find out about it.
"Come here, drag him out and chop him, and chop the clan gentry who conspired with him together!"
Zhu Yijun then ordered like this.
"His Majesty!"
"His Majesty!"
Zhu Yifou was quickly dragged down, and all the clan gentry who rebelled with him were thrown into the market.
After dealing with Zhu Yijun and others, Zhu Yijun drove to Yan'an, preparing to lead an army to worship the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum.
This was something he had planned for a long time.
As an advocate of governing the country with new etiquette, Zhu Yijun wanted to emphasize the sense of national identity.
Therefore, since he was touring the west, it was necessary to pay homage to the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum in person, so that people in the world would be more aware of the fact that we are all descendants of Yan and Huang.
(End of chapter)
