Chapter 312: Bloody Shock
With the collapse and disintegration of the two largest anti-army forces of King Lu and King Fu, the remaining anti-army forces fought separately and were defeated by the Ying Long army.
In addition to leaving 5,000 Ying Long troops and 30,000 Imperial Forest Army to guard Nanjing City, Zhu Ci sent another 15,000 Ying Long Army and 10,000 Royal Forest Army out to clean up all the rebels in the world.
Ying Long's army was famous, and quickly defeated King Fu and Queen Lu, and it was even more powerful, sweeping across the provinces with the momentum of pushing the world.
First of all, the coastal provinces with the fewest anti-troops, followed by Jiangxi, Liangguang, in just over a month, almost all the anti-armies were annihilated, only a few hid in the mountains, but they were also in a state of being hunted down and suppressed, and by the time of May 13 of the second year of Zhongxing, the general trend had basically been decided.
"Newspaper"
"Your Majesty, the Fourth Army of Fuzhou, Fujian Province is urgent for eight hundred miles!"
"Newspaper"
"Your Majesty, the Third Army of Guilin is in an urgent hurry for eight hundred miles!"
"Newspaper"
"Your Majesty, the Sixth Army of Changsha, Hunan Province is urgent for eight hundred miles!"
"Newspaper"
"Emperor Qi, Yunnan"
Good news came from all armies, and even Zheng Sen, who was far away in Yunnan, also received good news, and the situation in the world was settled.
"Okay, hahahaha, all the armies live up to my hopes, spread my will, and all the soldiers who participated in the suppression of the rebels will be given a one-time increase of three months' military salaries as a reward!" Zhu Ci was happy, and with a wave of his hand, he was rewarded with more than two million taels of silver.
This is definitely a huge amount of money, plus the cost of pensions and ammunition for various armies, all of them add up, in order to clear out the rebels from all walks of life, the imperial court spent tens of millions of taels of silver.
Of course, Zhu Ciji didn't care about this bit of silver.
It is not only because of the support of more than 140 million taels of silver obtained from the last purge of the salt administration, but also because of the gains from the current crackdown on all the rebels in the world.
Tens of thousands of the world's sergeant clans are powerful, and there are hundreds of thousands of clans, more than half of them are openly and secretly involved in this rebellion, and all the Jinyi Wei secret agents scattered in various counties are recorded.
I don't know if this is not purged, not only the clan of the scholar clan rebelled for their own interests, but many wealthy businessmen also wanted to take advantage of the fire, and more or less participated in it, and none of these people could escape.
Changsha, Hunan, Zhuangwang's mansion.
Although King Zhuang did not directly participate in the rebellion, he secretly gave King Fu hundreds of thousands of taels of silver military funds, and when the Sixth Army defeated King Fu in Jiujiang, Jiangxi and then returned to Changsha, Hunan, King Zhuang naturally did not let go of King Zhuang.
"Grind, go!" A soldier of the Ying Long Army whipped the back of King Zhuang and shouted.
For these rebels or those who participated in the rebellion, Ying Longjun hated them very much and was not polite at all.
In addition to the slaves and maids in Zhuangwangfu, hundreds of people were not spared, and even the seventy-year-old princess Zhuang was captured, but in order to take care of the old man, Niu Yongsheng, the commander of the Sixth Army, personally ordered that there was no need to tie up, but the old man was more than seventy years old, and he should have been full of children and grandchildren Chenghuan kneeling, enjoying Qingfu until he passed away, but unfortunately he was affected by the unfilial son Zhuang Wang, and he was destined to be miserable next, and it would be good to save his life.
King Zhuang had tears in his eyes, full of remorse, he was not afraid of death, but even the elderly mother made him very worried, but unfortunately regret is useless, since the thing has been done, he must bear the consequences.
After the people of Zhuangwangfu were escorted away, boxes of belongings and rare treasures were copied out.
In addition to nearly one million taels of copper coins, gold and silver and other cash, a large number of calligraphy and paintings, antiques, field properties, mansions, etc., with a total value of more than one million taels of silver, that is to say, Ying Longjun copied a total of more than two million taels of money from Zhuangwang's mansion.
"Hey, King Zhuang is so rich, I remember that when Emperor Chongzhen raised donations, he only donated less than a hundred taels of silver!" A soldier of the Ying Long Army muttered secretly, sneering, and no longer had any sympathy for King Zhuang.
Before joining the Ying Long Army, this soldier of the Ying Long Army was born in Changsha, and he had more or less heard about what happened in Changsha back then.
When Li Zicheng was about to enter Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen could not even get hundreds of thousands of taels of military salaries, resulting in low morale of the soldiers, no will to fight, Emperor Chongzhen in order to keep the Ming Dynasty, had to the world hundreds of thousands of clans to donate, hoping that they could donate a certain amount of silver taels to resist Li Zicheng, but unfortunately the entire clan together, but only donated tens of thousands of taels of silver.
Hehe, think about how ironic this is, hundreds of thousands of clans only donated less than 100,000 taels of silver, an average of a little more than half a tael per person, and this time King Fu and others rebelled, King Guangzhuang alone funded hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, it is conceivable how selfish these so-called clans are, which is also one of the reasons why Zhu Ciji has always had no good feelings for the so-called clan, they are a group of moths, a group of moths growing on the big tree of the Ming Dynasty, do not make any contributions, but corrode the entire Ming Dynasty all the time, There is no doubt that when the Ming Dynasty lost the city of Beijing and the entire north, it was due to this group of so-called clans.
Not only Zhuangwangfu, not only Changsha, all provinces and places are liquidating.
In the morning of this day, Sun Ze, the secretary of the Criminal Department, stood up with a copy of the fold.
"Emperor Qiqi, King Zhuang, King Lu and other thirty-two vassal kings and their families are being escorted to the capital, and the rich and powerful merchants from all over the country who participated in the rebellion are also escorted to the capital, and they can all arrive within ten days."
Zhu Ci staggered and nodded.
"Your Majesty, more than 10,000 wealthy merchants of the scholar clans who directly rebelled or participated in the rebellion were confiscated from all over the country, and a total of gold, silver, field property, rare treasures, etc., totaled 486,353,712 taels of silver."
Peng Cheng, the commander of Jinyiwei, also stood up to report.
This time, it was Ying Longjun and Jinyiwei from all over the country to raid together, and Peng Cheng, the commander of Jinyiwei, was the first to know the specific situation.
"Hiss" All the Chinese military officials of the dynasty were shocked, in any case, they could not have imagined that the emperor's raid and anti-thieves actually copied nearly 500 million taels worth of property, which is the current fifty years of tax in the Ming Dynasty.
The corners of Qian Qianyi and the others twitched, the corners of their eyes jumped violently, and they were so shocked that they couldn't speak.
Zhu Ci smiled faintly, he copied so many households, and it was only less than 500 million taels, you must know that in later history, Emperor Jiaqing of the Qing Dynasty copied out a property worth 800 million taels just by confiscating He Shen, and he was still far behind.
It's not that the nearly 10,000 clans and wealthy merchants of the Ming Dynasty are not as good as He Shen alone, after all, because of this rebellion, those people have already scattered some of their money, and according to the theory of the three caves of the cunning rabbit, many people still have more money hidden elsewhere and have not been found, if they are really all added together, they can still compare to He Shen alone.
Of course, to be a man, you have to learn to be content, and Zhu Ciji doesn't plan to use torture to interrogate those people one by one, after all, the implication is too wide this time, more than 200,000 people come down, if you really use torture to persecute slowly, not only will it take a long time, but it will also lead to resentment and hurt.
Although he decided to stay on the line, but having so much money was enough to make Zhu Ci excited, counting the income from the last cleaning of the salt administration, the current treasury of the Ming Dynasty already has more than 600 million taels of property.
"With so much money to support, why worry about big things!" Thinking of this more than 600 million taels of money, Zhu Ci couldn't help but feel proud in his heart, with such a strong difference, if he couldn't take Daming back to glory, he was simply unworthy of being a man.
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