Among the generals who conquered Luchuan and quelled the Miao rebellion, Liang Yuan and Fang Ying were considered the best.
But when he thought of these two people, Zhu Qiyu started to sigh hard while lying on the bed.
What an emperor fears the most is this kind of person, who doesn't have a clear stance, but has abilities and military exploits, but has to be reused.
Zhu Qiyu decided to let these generals serve as vanguards and lead the Nanjing camp to try to regain Jiaozhi.
It would be best if the Nanjing Jingying camp can defeat Cochin. If they really can't defeat it, then they can send the Beijing Jingying camp there.
Seeing Zhu Qiyu sighing uncontrollably, Qianxue not only did not comfort him, but asked as if to add fuel to the fire: "Husband, before, Marquis Ningyang donated more than a hundred castrated prisoners of war, and later Uncle Jingyuan also sent them. Nearly two hundred castrated Hmong people.
These more than 300 people have been left unattended.
Wang Cheng has sent people to urge him several times. Should he be killed, released or kept? You need to give me an explanation quickly. "
"Oh my God!"
After Zhu Qiyu heard this, he covered his face with his hands, which made him even more angry. Why are there so many problems everywhere? Killing these people is a bit cruel. It would be inappropriate to let these people go.
Keep these people? If you don't raise them well enough, you'll be wasting money and food.
After screaming for a long time, Zhu Qiyu removed his hand and looked up at the concubines. All the beloved concubines were staring blankly, but no one came to comfort him.
Zhu Qiyu could only sigh and told Qianxue: "Forget it, let Wang Qin bring all three hundred people over tomorrow, and I will choose them myself.
Now come over, one, two or three of you, and help me remove the fire. "
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On the second day, Zhu Qiyu, who had rested, came out to attend the Umrah meeting.
Half a month has passed since the last Umrah meeting.
Zhu Qiyu looked around and found that the ministers' complexions were getting better and better, with their faces glowing red and their spirits high.
No wonder, except for Zhu Qiyu who has been worried from time to time recently, the ministers are having a really good life: the wars in the four directions of the Ming Empire have gradually subsided.
The emperor formulated a three-year tax-free plan, of which the first year was considered to have survived.
The replacement of Da Ming Bao banknotes with Jingtai Tongbao went smoothly.
The pro-emperor troops in Beijing have been completely wiped out, the number of Beijing troops has been greatly reduced, and the pressure on water transportation has been greatly reduced. Xu Youzhen also succeeded in river management, and water transportation in the Shandong section has been completely restored.
Moreover, the imperial court's efforts to increase revenue and reduce expenditure have achieved initial results, and all civil and military officials have received full salaries.
The most important thing is that eight of the emperor's favorite concubines are pregnant, more than half of them.
This was a big reassurance for everyone. Eight beloved concubines must give birth to one or two princes.
With the prince, everyone will have more confidence to act.
Although Zhu Qiyu himself is not in a hurry, the important ministers in the cabinet are already planning to change the crown prince.
Especially Wang Wen, Jiang Yuan, and He Wenyuan were the most active.
This is also a common characteristic of civil servants. They all want to occupy a position with the next emperor so that their family can continue to be wealthy.
Zhu Qiyu didn't know that his close friends and ministers had so many long-term thoughts.
Zhu Qiyu only cared about whether he and his beloved concubines could have enough to eat, so he went straight to the point and said to everyone: "According to the report from Dongchang, as the emperor's return to Beijing approaches, Wang Zhenyu's party is ready to spread rumors in the city. Build momentum for the restoration of the Supreme Emperor.
Although it is appropriate for him to still be the supreme emperor, Wang Zhen almost overthrew the country and was a sinner of the country. It is not Wang Zhenyu's party's turn to talk about restoration.
My dear friends, please tell me, how should we deal with these rebels? "
Everyone present looked at each other. Although some rumors have indeed spread in Beijing recently, no one believes that Wang Zhenyu's party really has such courage.
I'm afraid it's just someone using the name of Wang Zhenyu's party to act.
The problem is that the emperor made it clear as soon as he opened his mouth. The emperor said that it was Wang Zhenyu's party who was causing trouble, so who would dare to raise the issue?
As for what the emperor intended by doing this?
I don’t know, even Wang Wen and He Yi were confused and didn’t know what the emperor wanted to do.
This is also Zhu Qiyu's fault. He originally planned to kill pigs until the end of next year. Now that the situation has changed and life is almost unbearable, he suddenly decided to make another windfall.
You can not understand the emperor's thoughts, but you have to answer the emperor's questions.
A group of ministers recommended Wang Wen to answer the question.
Wang Wen bit the bullet and replied: "The throne has been decided, how can it be changed again? Your Majesty should kill those who are building momentum for the restoration of the Supreme Emperor to set the record straight."
Zhu Qiyu shook his head: "There is no need to kill people. Just be exiled to the army. Let's choose Mengyang. In order to avoid rebellion like Luchuan again, we should move more Han people to Yunnan.
People like this who were exiled to the army were sent to Yunnan first.
I asked Dongchang and Jinyiwei to handle the matter, confiscate these people's property, and send them away from Beijing within three days.
This is the list of houses to be confiscated. If you pass it around and look at it, if there are no problems, the Ministry of Punishment will issue a notice. "
Wang Wen took the driving post and looked at it carefully with Chen Xun.
You won’t know if you don’t look at it, but you will be shocked when you look at it.
Good guy, there are dozens of people on the list given by the emperor, including the Wang family's nephews, Jinyiwei Qianhu Wang Lin, Wang Shan and others.
There are Wang Zhen’s cronies, Jinyiwei Zhenfu Zhou Quan, Xiaoqi Zhang Botong, Senglu Si Youjueyi Gong Ran, Daolu Si Youxuanyi Wang Daohong, craftsman Shen Cheng...
Although these people did not have high official positions, they relied on Wang Zhen's power and favor to enter and leave Wang Zhen's mansion and leak confidential matters. Not only did no one dare to provoke them, but they also competed for bribes.
So each of these people is extremely wealthy.
Many of them helped Wang Zhen manage his property and handle smuggling matters with Wala.
After Chen Xun and Wang Wen read it, they handed the list to others to pass around.
After everyone read this, they felt cold in their hearts. The emperor's move was a plan to kill three birds with one stone.
The first is to comprehensively eliminate Wang Zhenyu's party, which will categorize Wang Zhen's collaboration with the enemy and traitor to the country. At the same time, it will completely conclude the crime of negligence of the Supreme Emperor's appointment of traitors, harming the country and harming the people.
The second is to intimidate the Emperor's faction, so that these dissatisfied people will not jump up and down and cause trouble because of the Emperor's return to the capital.
The third is to confiscate family property and make a fortune. All the important ministers present could see that according to the previous agreement reached between the emperor and his ministers, the property of these people on the list should all belong to the emperor.
Eunuchs, royal guards, monks, Taoists, and craftsmen all gain from confiscating their homes as internal funds. Other civil and military officials, wealthy businessmen, and the proceeds from confiscating their homes should be returned to the court. This has been discussed long ago between the monarch and his ministers.
Now that things are being done according to the agreement, the ministers have nothing to say.
It's just a pity that for these 40 or 50 people, even if each person's property was only 50,000 taels, the total amount was more than 2 million taels. A huge sum of money went into the emperor's pocket.
Wang Wen looked around at everyone and saw that they all had no objections, so he replied to Zhu Qiyu: "Your Majesty, I have no objections. After I return, I will order the Ministry of Punishment to issue a driving notice."
(End of chapter)
