The morning glow sprinkled into the sky, and the long-dormant city of Beijing began to usher in a new day.

In the Imperial Palace, Zhu Cihong listened to the reports of all parties on the search for the remnants of the thieves.

The Ming army has successfully occupied Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong, and Beizhili, and Zhu Cihong ordered all walks of life to be stationed in various provinces to continue to eliminate the remnants of the thieves, fight the inferior gentry and divide the fields, open warehouses and release grain, and appease the people.

Since Li Zicheng's defeat, the Shun army collapsed, the remaining remnants of the thieves fled in all directions, he ordered all parts of the country to search and arrest, the whole people can participate, the people caught a thief, reward three catties of millet.

In this case, at least tens of thousands of thieves were captured by the villagers, and some were beaten to death on the spot, and even if they were not killed, they were beaten with blue noses and swollen eyes.

In the past few months, the thieves have done too much, whether it is the landlord or the common people, they all hate it to the core, even if they don't have three catties of millet, they will beat the water dogs and take revenge.

After all, many thieves looted the landlords and people, and they hid a lot of silver on their bodies, and they could make a small fortune if they caught one.

Beating people is not illegal, there is millet to take, there is a lot of silver, such a good thing can not be encountered in eight lifetimes, the people of ten miles and eight towns are enthusiastic, forming a group to brush, and the thieves flee everywhere, there is nothing to hide.

Zhu Cihong ordered that all the captured bandit leaders be screened out, and all of them were beheaded in public, and the rest of the people were all pulled to shave their heads and transform them for a few years, and become new people.

For the war-torn victims, Zhu Cihong still vigorously repaired roads in the form of labor relief to feed them.

After years of war and plague, there is too much barren land in the provinces, and in some places there are only a few hundred families left in a county, and so much arable land can only grow grass.

During the Wanli period, after Zhang Juzheng reformed the land of the Qing Dynasty, the total area of cultivated land in the Ming Dynasty, Beijing and 13 provinces was recorded as 758 million mu, of which the five provinces of Beizhili, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi and Shanxi added up to nearly 400 million mu, and the national per capita land was 5 mu.

After years of land annexation, ninety percent of these cultivated land is in the hands of the government, the imperial family, the nobles, officials, landlords, gentry, and merchants......

When verifying the seized materials, Wang Zhen took the initiative to report the whereabouts of the silver obtained by Li Zicheng's roasting, and Jinyiwei was busy again.

Zhu Cihong was secretly excited in his heart, he took tens of millions of taels of silver for nothing, the expenses of the Northern Expedition were recovered, and the money and food for disaster relief were also lost, and he was grateful to Li Zicheng.

Zhu Cihong immediately issued an order to give a small grave and bury Li Zicheng and Gao Guiying together.

Although he doesn't look down on Li Zicheng, he still has some admiration in some aspects, and he can only say that Li Zicheng's pattern is too small to achieve great things.

Wu Zhong held the tea and said softly: "Emperor, Wang Dehua, Chen Mingxia and others really asked for an audience outside the noon gate. ”

Zhu Cihong took a sip of tea and asked, "I almost forgot about them, what are they doing?" ”

Wu Zhong said: "I heard from the Imperial Forest Army at the noon gate that Chen Mingxia and several officials were discussing the matter of the official position together. ”

"Chen Mingxia? Is that the Tanhualang who ranked third in the first class in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen's palace examination? ”

Wu Zhong replied: "It is this person, this Chen Ming Xia Hao Shiwen, who was already famous in the world when he was alive, ten days before the Jingshi was broken, he suggested that Shandong volunteers be summoned to rescue the Jingshi, and on the day of the siege of the city, he hanged himself unsuccessfully. ”

Zhu Cihong smiled and said: "It seems that he is still a loyal and righteous person, why did he vote for the thief?" ”

Wu Zhongdao: "Chen Mingxia, under the strong recommendation of a Shanxi Xiucai surnamed Wang, joined the Hongwen Pavilion of the puppet Shun regime, and was reused by Li Zicheng and was responsible for drafting the puppet edict. ”

Zhu Cihong said coldly: "No wonder I hanged myself unsuccessfully, it turned out that I didn't want to die and sold my reputation and reputation!" ”

A tanhua, deeply affected by Long, surrendered to the thief is such a trivial thing in his heart? Still licking your face to ask for an official position? Shameless, brazen!

Wu Zhong asked, "Emperor, what should we do with them?" ”

Zhu Cihong stretched: "What else can be done, it's all in accordance with national law!" Not only them, as long as they surrender and are pseudo-obedient, whether it is an official or a royal family and noble, they will all be executed by raiding their homes, and their families will be exiled to Yongchang and Ganzhou! (Gansu)"

Wu Zhong asked tentatively: "Emperor, these add up to nearly a thousand people." ”

Zhu Cihong continued to work on the notebook, and said lightly: "Leave no one." ”

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Outside the imperial city, a group of nobles, ministers, and eunuchs, all chained, drove to the West Market under the drive of the Imperial Forest Army.

Along the way, they all howled and cried, as if the end was coming, they really didn't expect that they finally looked forward to the Ming Emperor, they thought there was a way to live, but in the end they were put to death.

Shen Weibing, the servant of the ministry, was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground, his body trembled like chaff, knowing that he only remembered now, this Tianwu Emperor, when he was the crown prince, was ruthless and merciless, how could he allow the officials who surrendered to the enemy to live comfortably?

"Ah, I regret it......"

Before Shen Weibing's sigh was finished, he was trampled to death on the spot by the Royal Forest Army horse team behind him.

After the news of the new emperor's recovery of Jingshi, there were more and more people on the streets of Jingshi, and order in the city was gradually restored.

Zhang Jinyan was carried to be tortured, and was besieged by a large number of people along the way, with all kinds of fists and kicks, and the aunt with good teeth greeted his ancestors for eighteen generations.

On the same day, Zhang Jinyan opened the door to dedicate the city, so that the thieves entered Beijing, and he died 10,000 times without understanding the hatred of everyone.

In a beating, Zhang Jinyan died of hatred.

Walking to the Xishi Execution Ground, the prisoners were tied up and knelt down, waiting for execution, a cry moved the sky, and the people outside the execution ground were constantly shouting and scolding, and there was a great posture of impacting the law field for the heavens.

When it was almost three o'clock in the afternoon, Zhu Chenggong rode his horse and galloped, holding the yellow silk in his hand and shouting: "Leave people under the knife, the holy decree has arrived!" ”

"The Divine Decree has come? Could it be that His Majesty can't bear it and wants to let me go? ”

The noble ministers who often watch the play wept excitedly one by one, and the eunuch Wang Dehua even lay on the ground and kept buttoning his head, shouting: "The old slave knocks thank God!" ”

Most of the people watching the execution were stunned, and a holy decree suddenly came on the execution ground, no one thought that this kind of situation in the book would happen here, what did Your Majesty do? Planning to release someone?

When everyone was puzzled, Zhu Chenggong did not dare to delay, he read out the holy decree loudly: "Your Majesty has a decree, and everyone who is guilty of treason will be punished, and I ask all the people to enforce the law on behalf of heaven!" ”

After reading it, Zhu Chenggong gave an order, only to hear the sound of swords, and the surrounding royal forest soldiers untied the Yanling knife one after another and threw it at the surrounding execution ground.

The whole execution ground exploded, the people cheered, and the sinners wept bitterly.

Wang Dehua, who was bleeding from his forehead, was stunned for a moment, knowing that his life was difficult to protect, and he was extremely frightened in his heart.

In the midst of cheers, several bold people picked up their swords and rushed to the execution ground to slash and stab at the crowd, shouting with red eyes while chopping: "Why do you want to surrender to the enemy, why don't you defend the city!" ”

"Don't come here, misunderstood, our family is a eunuch and not an official......"

Wang Dehua crawled on the ground, begging an old man with a knife to cut in, and the feces and urine were all out.

The old man stabbed him like crazy, Wang Dehua howled violently, and slowly remained motionless on the ground, and a large amount of blood gushed out from the ground.

Wang Dehua, the most gentleman in history, died.

Looking at the pile of corpses around him, Tanhualang Chen Mingxia screamed with all his might, obviously mentally frightened, but the sword had no eyes, and immediately five or six Yanling knives slashed at his body of the rich five cars.

A group of people who broke out with swords seemed to have entered a slaughterhouse, constantly slashing and slashing, venting their grief and anger that their family members were killed by thieves.

Jin Yiwei was appointed as the commander of Luo Yangxing, who was firmly locked by iron chains, and when he saw several people rushing with knives, he was so frightened that he screamed: "Don't come here, I used to be a Jinyi guard, and I have long since quit, and it is none of my business to break into thieves and break the city!" ”

No one paid attention to what he said, and he came up directly and slashed, Luo Yang screamed violently, extremely miserable, and his whole body was soaked in blood.

He stared at his eyes, his expression was very terrifying, before he died, Luo's intestines were repentant, he had already been dismissed, wouldn't it be good to stay in Tianjin and enjoy his family's happiness, he had to run to the new dynasty of Dashun......

The blood on the ground was scarlet and dazzling, and the scene was indescribably terrifying, among which Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the military department, was the worst, he was beaten to death before, but he was actually carried over again and accepted everyone's mending knife.

In the midst of the wailing, rivers of blood flowed from the execution ground, and people vomited in the bloody breath.

Zhu Chenggong, who came to deliver the decree, looked at it with a pale face, Rao was born rich and noble, and he had been on the battlefield, but at this time, he also felt that the things in front of him were extremely tragic, and he retched several times.

He sighed in his heart, if it weren't for the people's hatred of these people, how could they be so crazy? Your Majesty's actions are really incomprehensible!