After deciding the status of Nanjing City as the orthodox capital of the Ming Dynasty in the future, there is another thing to be resolved, that is, the mausoleum of Emperor Chongzhen.

At that time, Emperor Chongzhen was iron-clad, unwilling to surrender, and hanged himself in the coal mountain. After Li Zicheng found the body of Emperor Chongzhen, although he buried Emperor Chongzhen, he only hastily buried Emperor Chongzhen in the tomb of Concubine Tian at the foot of Tianshou Mountain.

It was a concubine's tomb but was buried in the emperor, and there was no accompanying burial, which obviously did not meet the emperor's specifications, and furthermore, the Empress Dowager Zhou was the original queen of Emperor Chongzhen, and she would be buried with Emperor Chongzhen after her death in the future.

"My father died for the Ming Dynasty, and as his son, I should be filial." Zhu Ci nodded and agreed to rebury Emperor Chongzhen.

"By the way, do you have the Empress Dowager for this matter?" Zhu Ci suddenly thought of this matter, so he asked, after all, the matter of reburying Emperor Chongzhen, the current Queen Mother has the most right to speak.

"Back to the emperor, the old ministers and others have already made it clear to the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother means that she intends to come to Beijing City in person to participate in this matter, and at this time, maybe Luan Jia has already traveled north!" Qian Qianyi replied.

"The Queen Mother's Luan has gone north?" Hearing such a thing, Zhu Ci staggered and glanced at Qian Qianyi and Liu Zongzhou with dissatisfaction, two old things, such an important thing, why didn't he say it earlier just now, didn't he ask, the two old things didn't plan to say anything, they wanted to die.

Receiving the signal of dissatisfaction in Zhu Ci's expression, Qian Qianyi and Liu Zongzhou's scalps were a little numb, their old faces were red, and they were pitiful, they didn't intend to say it, but they were about to speak, and the emperor had already asked first.

Since it has been decided to rebury Emperor Chongzhen, and the Empress Dowager will personally go north, for a period of time, Zhu Cizhen will continue to stay in Beijing, which may not be less than two months.

Soon after Qian Qianyi and Liu Zongzhou left, Li Yan came and reported to Zhu Ci about the placement of prisoners.

"Your Majesty, the Manchus and the Horqin captives have all been imprisoned in the south of Beijing, dare to ask the emperor what he intends to do with these captives in the end? Is it in accordance with the usual practice? Li Yan asked respectfully at Zhu Ci.

The total number of foreign captives of nearly 500,000 is not very long, and most of them are old and weak, women and children, and there are few young and strong, so it is not an easy task to deal with them.

If it is according to the old practice, the children are sold, and the raised ones are enslaved, and the young women are rewarded to the meritorious soldiers, and the young and strong are sent to various places to do their efforts, and as for the old and frail people, they are either killed directly, and the children are pulled to the market and sold, or they are also sent to be used as coolies until the body can no longer bear it and die.

Zhu Ciji did not think about how to deal with the prisoners.

Nearly 200,000 Manchu captives, he planned to exchange silver with the Manchus who moved west, 200,000 Manchu old and weak women and children for 100 million taels of silver, an average of 500 taels per person, until he got a reply from Dolgon, Zhu Cicheng would not separate the Manchu captives for the time being.

The rest is nearly 300,000 old and weak women and children in Horqin Mongolia, and he does not consider rewarding young women directly to meritorious soldiers, the Ming Dynasty has been in internal and external wars for decades, young men have died countless in battle, there are many widows, and there are more unmarried young women, nearly 300,000 old and weak women and children in Horqin, at least more than one-third are women between the ages of 14 and 40, that is, more than 100,000, and the energy of hundreds of thousands of soldiers is still left to the Han people themselves, and it is the interests of the Han women themselves that are wasted on foreign women.

Furthermore, when the young women were given away, the remaining children and old people had to be sold and disposed of according to the old practice.

Zhu Cihe, who is very resistant to slavery or something, is the most resistant to the sale of human beings, whether it is a foreign population or the Han themselves, he already has a law to abolish the current legal trafficking in human beings, how can he open an example of buying and selling slaves at such a juncture.

Although it is a foreign captive, Zhu Cicheng also does not want to open such an example, because the Ming Dynasty will definitely continue to expand its territory in all directions in the future. The southern part of the Ming Dynasty has not suffered from war, the population has not decreased, the six years have grown from 70 million to 80 million when he just ascended the throne, plus the population of the unified north, the population of the Ming Dynasty exceeds hundreds of millions, and it will grow rapidly in the future.

Moreover, Zhu Ciji really can't guarantee that the Mongol captives will be bought and sold today, and whether the captives of other ethnic groups will be bought and sold the day after tomorrow, and what's more, will there be merchants in the future who will directly capture countless black skins and sell them as captives for profit.

Therefore, he can only interrupt all this at the root and prohibit any human trafficking.

Of course, although it will not be directly sold on the market, the Horqin Mongol captives will also have to be dealt with, and the captives captured by the Quartet of the army in the future will also have to be dealt with.

In later generations, the Yellow River flooded year after year, endangering hundreds of people on both sides of the river, and there was almost no way to control it.

Shaanxi Guannei, in ancient times, was the most important foundation for hegemony in the world.

In addition to the fact that there is a moat of the Yellow River and Hangu Pass, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, more importantly, Shaanxi is also a natural granary, which can support hundreds of people. It's a pity that this granary has been souring since the Song Dynasty.

At the peak of the Song Dynasty, the population exceeded 120 million people, only Shaanxi had a population of more than 10 million, the Shaanxi Plain, how to afford such a large population, so a large number of people migrated to the north or east of the Yellow River edge, relying on the water and soil on both sides of the Yellow River to survive, a large number of people continued to cut down trees on both sides of the Yellow River, so the trees on the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi were cut down less and less, to the Ming Dynasty, it was more serious, in the early Ming Dynasty, the Yellow River began to flood year after year, and to the end of the Ming Dynasty, Especially during the Xiaoice period of more than ten consecutive years during the Chongzhen period, Shaanxi was dry for ten years, more trees were killed by drought, the Loess Plateau became a really rare tree Loess Plateau, soil erosion can no longer be stopped, so that in later generations, more than a billion cubic meters of loess flow into the Yellow River every year, the riverbed continues to rise, and the sea becomes the Yellow Sea because of the Yellow River.

At this moment, there are still more than 300 years before the most serious time of the future generations, and if the environment of the Loess Plateau is transformed from now on, the Yellow River is not without help! Nearly 500,000 Manchu and Horqin Mongol captives were the first wave of coolies to transform the Loess Plateau and the Yellow River.

"Send all the captives to the banks of the Yellow River in batches to plant trees!" When Zhu Ci said this, his tone was very firm.

"Planting trees in exchange for surviving food, one tree for each living tree can be exchanged for a pound of food! In the future, we will reduce it according to the specific situation! In addition, send someone to teach them Chinese characters, Chinese customs, and Chinese etiquette, and tell them that after 20 years, there will be an assessment, and those who learn Chinese characters well, and those who have Chinese etiquette can regain their freedom! "Give people hope, will make people motivated, all the captives in the future Zhu Ci hesitate to deal with it first, in what, the trees on both sides of the Yellow River must be planted in large quantities first, can not be in the future generations to reach a desperate situation before starting to govern, leaving endless troubles for future generations, Zhu Ci hesitated to stay, just leave a real prosperous Ming to future generations.

"Planting trees?" Li Yan's eyes widened slightly, he never thought that the emperor would deal with it like this.

Hundreds of thousands of captives, if exchanged for silver, at least millions of taels of silver, and there is no need for the imperial court to take care of it, but if the captives are reduced to the banks of the Yellow River in batches to plant trees, the imperial court will have to spend a lot of food every year to raise, and the combined costs over the years are unimaginable.

"Yes, it is to plant trees, instead of allocating millions of taels of silver every year to control the Yellow River, it is better to start from my generation and solve the problem of the Yellow River from the root. Zhu Ci said firmly.

Daming from three years ago to promote the high yield of sweet potato, corn, potatoes and other seeds, a few years, the production of a large amount of grain, the price of grain is not high, with a pound of grain for a tree on both sides of the Yellow River, Zhu Ci hesitated to feel worthy.

Li Yan's heart shook, it turned out that the emperor thought like this, the emperor was thinking about the people of the Ming Dynasty all the time, and it was indeed the Holy Lord of the Ming Dynasty.

"The Emperor Shengming!" Li Yan knelt down and bowed.

Zhu Ci nodded, held back a glance at Li Yan who was kneeling on the ground, and suddenly felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, Zhu Ci had always been a little disgusted with kneeling, thinking about whether to find a time to abolish kneeling in the future, this idea took root in Zhu Ci's heart.

Now that he had decided how to deal with the Manchu and Mongol captives, Zhu Ci issued an order to carry it out.

Not only the Horqin Mongols, but also nearly 200,000 Manchurians, old and weak, women and children, could only plant trees on both sides of the Yellow River before Dolgon sent a ransom of 100 million taels.

Zhu Cijiao's holy decree did not cause any turmoil among the captives, because such a result was already very good for them, at least the family was not scattered into slavery, and they were not hopeless, at least the holy decree said, let them learn Chinese characters and Chinese rites well, and after twenty years, the Ming Dynasty will have an assessment, and those who pass will be able to get a free body, they may not be able to wait, but their children are in the prime of life at that time, and there is hope to be free.

Hundreds of thousands of captives will be divided into hundreds of batches and methodically go to the banks of the Yellow River, of course, before the remnants of the traitors there must be cleared.