Chapter 251: Aftermath

Meng Ying gave Zhu Qizhen two copies, the first of which was the beheading of 100,000 people who were coaxed outside. On top of the big thing, Meng Ying didn't dare to deceive Zhu Qizhen. In the secret recital, it was clear in detail, saying that the Tartar captives were plotting against each other.

Zhu Qizhen thought on his toes, there was a problem, and the ghost was plotting against him.

Although Zhu Qizhen thinks from a political point of view, the matter of killing prisoners may not be without benefits.

It can be said that if this knife goes down, the summing power within the tile spur will immediately decline.

Zhu Qizhen has never been afraid of the tile spur and the court fighting, but he is afraid that the tile spur will negotiate peace with the court.

Although Zhu Qizhen cleaned up the imperial court, the power of the lord and the government in the civil system is still very large.

Of course, if you talk about it in detail, they may not be the Lord's peace.

It's just that they have always felt that the tile spurs surrendered and kept the nine sides calm, just fine. As for the Watts, as long as it doesn't hurt their roots, it has never been a problem to bow their heads and admit that they are wrongly called ministers.

If the two parties hit it off.

Zhu Qizhen will be very passive.

But Meng Ying killed so many Tartars in one go, in fact, the lower layers of the Tartars, how many they killed, the tile spurs and the upper echelons of the Mongolian tribes would not care, because the lower layers of the Tartars were almost slaves.

The nobles of the Tartars will not care whether the people below are alive or dead.

But Meng Ying is not particularly different.

Among the people killed, there are all the major families in the grassland, whether it is a child or a wolf. Once these nobles surrendered, they were generally not killed, and the tribe would be ransomed.

Even if they surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty generally based on their provinces on the steppe. Given official positions.

At the beginning of orthodoxy, Yang Shiqi did one thing, that is, to clean up the Tartar officials in the capital, that is, because there were too many Tartar officials who surrendered, so that Beijing could not settle them, Yang Shiqi specially placed them in Shandong, Henan Tuntian. Even write a letter specifically to refute the absurd statement that Tartars cannot be cultivated.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has done such a thing, the entire grassland is probably filled with righteous indignation, and unless they fight another big defeat, they will not easily sue for peace.

This is exactly what Zhu Qizhen planned.

But Zhu Qizhen is not an ancient person after all, he is not soft-hearted, and he has enough to surpass many people. When it was time to kill, Zhu Qizhen didn't blink his eyes, such as Wang Zhen.

But after all, this is not a few, or dozens, but tens of thousands.

Killing tens of thousands of people in one go, Zhu Qizhen couldn't help but tremble in his heart.

No matter how Zhu Qizhen did psychological construction, he said that they were all executioners who were wantonly killing in Xuanda, and that their hands were stained with the blood of the people of the Ming Dynasty. said that the imperial court really couldn't afford to raise tens of thousands of Tartars.

But in Zhu Qizhen's heart, there is still a stubborn voice

Qiang's reverberation: "You didn't come to this world to kill people, killing people is the most unskilled thing, only construction, so that more people can live, is what he wants to do, it is true, they committed heinous sins in the Xuanda region, that should also be punished." Non-criminal killings are no longer worth advocating, let alone killing tens of thousands of people in one go. ”

"This plan is not the glory of the Ming Dynasty, but a shame."

It's just that the concept is too modern, and it is always not suitable for this era. Zhu Qizhen must think about the problem with the concept of this era.

With his understanding, there must be many people who impeach Meng Ying. But it's more about impeaching Meng Ying for killing and killing, these Qingliu don't actually care about the lives of those Tartars, in fact, they just care about the pleasure of standing on the moral high ground to reprimand others.

Some people may be worried about the credit of the imperial court, if they want to kill, they will kill it directly, and then kill it, where is the credit of the imperial court.

Zhu Qizhen also admits this.

But at this time, no matter what Meng Ying does, Zhu Qizhen has to carry it for him.

It's not that Zhu Qizhen loves Meng Ying more, but from the perspective of weighing the pros and cons, Meng Ying's new big victory is at the height of the limelight, and if he is suppressed at this moment, the people of the world will not say that Meng Ying made mistakes, but that His Majesty treats the heroes badly.

In this way, when the imperial court uses generals in the future, how should it be used?

Zhu Qizhen is actually willing to start and finish well with every general. In his opinion, killing heroes has never been an abnormal method. It is best to solve the problem by using normal methods that conform to the regulations of the imperial court. If it's really so troublesome that you have to kill someone, it's the emperor's failure.

Although many times people say that merit is merit, and merit is fault, and merit cannot be offset, in many cases, there is such a thing as turning merit into sin.

Zhu Qizhen gave a gag order to the military department whether he was willing or not, and all military newspapers must admit that the battle of Montenegro, the capture of the general, the commander-in-chief Xuanda general officer, and the Baoding Hou Mengying, beheaded 100,000, and there was no killing of prisoners.

It is true that paper cannot contain fire. However, if the emperor refuses to admit it from the official level, it can only become an open secret.

Immediately, Zhu Qizhen discussed the list of rewards with the cabinet.

The lower-level generals and leading officials did not need Zhu Qizhen to ask, Zhou Chen gave Zhu Qizhen a reward and pension plan, that is, the land of Chengguo Gong and Zhenyuanhou was more than 100,000 mu, plus Huangzhuang near Beijing, and nearly 200,000 mu of land was collected in one bite, which was converted into gold and silver, and rewarded to the soldiers, or as a pension to the families of the fallen soldiers.

This also reflects the situation of land annexation in the vicinity of Beijing.

The Chengguo family and the Zhenyuan Marquis family, plus a part of the Huangzhuang, have nearly 200,000 mu of land, and these 200,000 mu of land are not in the account books of the household department.

With this plan, Zhou Chen also made a move to build the financial system he built himself

It's a mess to close the gap.

However, Zhou Chen also solemnly explained to the emperor that the financial and material resources of the imperial court have been used to the limit, that is, for the operation of the imperial court, please calm down.

That is, in the next two to three years, nothing will be done, nothing will be done.

Your Majesty only needs to cultivate yourself in the palace.

Zhu Qizhen faced the cruel reality and had to admit this incident. However, he is not prepared to do nothing, he can do something that does not cost money.

The reward did not expire, and it was finally done.

The rest of the focus is on the rewards of these generals.

After all, if the reward for the low-level soldiers is not timely, it is likely that there will be an accident, mutiny, mutiny, it is not a joke. And the rewards of the upper-level generals directly affected the political structure of the Ming military.

This is also a sloppy matter.

Zhu Qizhen has asked many people.

In the end, it was decided that the big prize would be made and a big knighthood would be made.

The reason is very simple, that is, because of the battle of Maoerzhuang, the senior generals of the Ming Dynasty suffered heavy losses and urgently needed to replenish. Zhu Qizhen also wanted to replace the control of military power by the Jing Nanxun Gui group with new recruits.

So this time, it's going to broadcast the favor. Put the orthodox nobles on the stage of history. Since this battle, Jing Nan Xun Gui has not completely withdrawn from the military, and carefully speaking, Meng Ying can also be regarded as one of Jing Nan Xun Gui.

It's just that the dominant power is already quietly shifting.

So when Meng Ying led the army back to Beijing, the first assistant of the cabinet greeted the British suburbs, and hundreds of people cheered in the middle of the road, so there is no need to elaborate.

Above the Great Pilgrimage.

Hundreds of civil and military officials have arrived, and one of them is a nobleman who even does not go to court all year round. After all, I know that this time is a big deal.

Zhu Qizhen's gaze swept over the ministers, and he certainly saw an empty seat. I sighed softly.

This vacant seat is Dingxibo Jiang Gui.

The old general did not make any contributions in this battle, and when he led the last elite army of Beijing City to the Bauhinia Pass, the Tile Spur army had already retreated.

But he exhausted the last drop of blood for Da Ming.

Ding Xibo was old, and he retired from the northwest a few years earlier. It's because the body is not good. At the time of the crisis in Beijing, the people who could fight in the imperial court either died in Maoerzhuang or led the troops outside, and Ding Xibo, as the only veteran general who had fought in the Beijing Division, was in office in many things.

Therefore, he gritted his teeth and held on, but his body could not hold it anymore, and after the tile spur retreated, he fell ill. Then lingered on the sickbed and held on to his last breath.

He was worried that it was not the right time for him to die, it didn't matter if he died, once he died, there would be no famous generals in the city who could lead the army, which would make the tile thorn despise the Jingshi.

That's why I've been holding on to immortality.