In the third year of Chongzhen, Cao Huachun of Dongchang and Zhou Yuji, the governor of Shanxi, eradicated the traitor Shanxi Jin merchants who were sucking blood on the empire in one fell swoop, and the silver money obtained can be described as a vehicle bucket, and Cao Huachun, the governor of Dongchang factory, personally sat in charge of the convoy, and a large number of Dongchang flags and Jinyi guards cooperated with an army of 5,000 people, escorting hundreds of vehicles to Shanxi all the way to the capital. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

No one knows how terrifying the wealth that has been accumulated for hundreds of years after the fall of the Jin merchants, and how much benefit Chongzhen, who wiped out the Jin merchants, only knows the deep ruts on the official road where the convoy has traveled, and the performance of the old horse pulling the cart.

The front line of the eastern border pass in Liaodong, between Songshan and Jinzhou, after a snowy night, an ice wall mixed with sand and soil was erected overnight, after which Chongzhen ordered to build a porridge shed on the official road between Shaanxi and Liaodong, and guided millions of victims to go north, Qin Liangyu, the governor of Jiliao, ordered his brother Qin Bangping to guard the Shanhaiguan, in addition to the 50,000 elites left by the Shanhaiguan and the 30,000 horses of Ningyuan He Kegang, personally led 100,000 troops to garrison the ice and snow to build the Songjin defense line.

After the influx of millions of victims in Liaodong, on the one hand, the imperial merchants came forward to build a large number of factories to accept the victims to provide food and shelter, of course, the houses were also built by the refugees themselves under the guidance of craftsmen, and then at the black wages of two taels of silver per person per year, in the land of Liaodong, mining rocks, firing green bricks, making pottery, polishing arrows, armor, cannonballs, etc., which require a lot of labor and do not require too many skills.

On the other hand, the shipyard of Tianjin Wei began to slow down the construction of warships, began to build a large number of small fishing boats, some sailors and soldiers organized the victims to go to sea to fish, and at the same time, there were border guards who came forward to lead the victims into the mountains to hunt, in addition to the use of fertile land in Huangzhuang, those high-yield crops planted collectively have entered several rounds of harvest, and the corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, cassava, and peanuts of Huangzhuang were continuously transported to the gathering places of the victims by the convoy of the post station, and finally reluctantly let these victims reach the point where everyone has food. Of course, it is unrealistic for everyone to be full, only to make people hungry and not to die, if you want to be full, you have to go to work in the factory or participate in the government's organization to go to sea to fish, go into the mountains to hunt, in short, those who do not work can only drink some gruel, save enough food and waste food, and have the energy to find trouble for the government.

In the winter of the same year, Chongzhen ordered Yang Sichang to transfer the 200,000 militia formed by the disaster victims, and divide 100,000 troops to go south to Nanjing to accept the command of the crown prince Cao Bianjiao, and the Ministry of Industry replenished the armor and weapons of 100,000 militiamen.

The Jurchens heard that a city wall had emerged overnight in Songshan and Jinzhou, and the emperor Taiji in the winter could not care about the opposition of the major Baylors, and could not wait to gather the people of a tribe, so he personally brought 20,000 personal soldiers to Jinzhou to demolish this illegal building, but under the threat of the cannon muzzle of a door on the ice and snow city wall several feet high, looking at the 20,000 cavalry behind him, Huang Taiji had no choice but to withdraw his troops.

After Huang Taiji withdrew his troops, under the command of Qin Liangyu, millions of soldiers and civilians, after a winter of struggle, finally built a city wall made of civil and blue bricks behind the ice and snow city wall before thawing. Looking at the cannons on the city wall, the bed crossbow and the enemy platform. Qin Liangyu is sure that with the current strength and city wall, even if the Jurchens have an army of 200,000, he can also let the Jurchens obediently stay in the deep mountains and old forests to dig ginseng.

In the early spring of the second year, the snow is still melting, but the heaven and earth have begun to appear some green one after another, today's Beijing city gate is wide open, dozens of eunuchs and Confucian scholars led by the Qin Mission, horseback out of the city, with Chongzhen's order to go to the Ming Dynasty, after a winter of preparation, the group of scholars in the Ministry of officials under the training of the officials has barely mastered a local official needs to master the means.

Dongchang Mansion, several eunuchs and scholars led a soldier and horse, rushed to this place of the government, after dismounting, the eunuch on horseback took out a copy of Huang Cancan's holy decree, and shouted "The holy decree has arrived, and the Dongchang prefect came out to receive the decree" Seeing this battle, one of the several gatekeepers who guarded the door immediately ran in to inform the prefect, and he obediently knelt on the side, waiting for the prefect to come out to receive the order.

After the chubby middle-aged prefect who received the news went out, he immediately said with a hypocritical face, "Father-in-law, please come inside."

"Lord Prefect, our family is on official business, let's prepare to receive the order first" It's just that the little eunuch didn't give this prefect a good face.

Seeing the prefect kneeling on the ground to receive the order, the little eunuch opened the holy decree and read, "Fengtian carries the emperor, and the edict says: Yang Lianting, the prefect of Dongchang Prefecture, has failed the emperor's grace during his tenure, bent the law for bribes, colluded with businessmen, and bullied the market, causing an extremely bad impact.

"Come on, press Yang Lianting into the government prison" The first thing Li Qiyu, the new prefect, did when he took office, was to let people put the original prefect in prison, don't say it, stepping on someone else's corpse to take the throne, that feeling is not ordinarily good.

"Master Li, now that you have taken office, the next thing, you don't need to say more about it, this is the information provided by Jinyiwei, there are a total of 1,285 damned people in the entire Dongchang Mansion, and it should be disposed of now" The little eunuch took a roster, which not only recorded the road bandits and strongmen in various parts of Dongchang Mansion, but also recorded the specific situation of the county orders who broke the law in various places, the master, the lieutenant and others, these are the information provided by Jinyiwei ambush here, killing so many people at once, maybe there will be a few unjust and wrongful cases, But if you want to clear up the already decaying officialdom, you can't take care of it so much.

"Father-in-law rest assured, the official immediately solved the scum in the army, and then gathered soldiers and horses, and went to various places to deal with them one by one" If you want your position to be stable, you can't do it without military power, as the new prefect, and you have all kinds of evidence of corruption and perversion of the law by local soldiers and horses, how can you give up the opportunity to install your own henchmen. You must know that in order to make the plan foolproof, Chongzhen not only has 5,000 soldiers and horses sent by each province, but also has a new sergeant of 100 people at the prefect level to follow the guard, that is, the lowest county order has 50 soldiers to follow, so as to facilitate the suppression of some lawbreakers.

"It's just, Lord Li, there is still a vacancy in this Dongchang Mansion, and your lord can have a recommended candidate" This time, Chongzhen not only wants to kill those prefects and county orders who are corrupt and pervert the law, but also the masters of those county orders, as well as the lower chiefs, Chongzhen does not intend to let go, in order to stabilize the situation as soon as possible, all official appointments are selected from the hometown of the scholar for appointment, but in some places, there are only a few people from Jinshi, and there are not enough manpower in many places, in this case, Chongzhen has adopted a guarantee system, Let the new officials guarantee the local people, Xiucai, these scholars, serve as low-level officials such as county magistrates or lieutenant chiefs, as guarantors, but they are jointly and severally liable, if something goes wrong with the people they sponsor, then they will not have good fruits to eat.

"Father-in-law, there is a person in Dongchang College who teaches and educates people here, and his character and knowledge are all first-class, and this official guarantees that this person will serve as a vacant county magistrate" Li Qiyu gritted his teeth and filled in the name of the teacher who had taught him on the county magistrate's appointment certificate, and filled in his name on the guarantor below.

"Okay, I'll leave the matter here to Lord Li, we still have something to do, so let's go and get busy first" Leave the appointment letter of the county order, the one who just read out the holy decree for the father-in-law got on the horse and left the local government, here is busy, but there are still a lot of things waiting to be dealt with by themselves.

Wang Gang, a road bandit in a small village, was gambling with a group of brothers, and suddenly a group of soldiers broke into his room, and before he could say anything, the other party directly stabbed himself in a cross, and when he fell, Wang Gang found that none of his brothers ran away, and all of them were killed by the group of officers and soldiers.

"The road bandit Wang Gang is extremely gang, scourge the township, often rob other people's property, molesting women from good families, now on the order of the prefect, arrest this person, encounter resistance from the other party, and kill in the hiding place" After the killing, a soldier posted a notice in front of the door, and left suddenly, as for collecting the body, it is better to leave it to the new lieutenant here, he and others are busy, and there are still many villages to run, but some people find that the notice seems to have been written in advance, and this group of officers and soldiers are pasted while killing people, but in the face of the long knife dripping blood, No one who is uninteresting dares to say it.

Chongzhen sent the Qincha, everywhere he went, it was a bloody storm, not only the provincial governors and prefects were liquidated and put on death row, even those county commanders, as well as their respective staff masters, did not escape such a fate, as for those road bandits and strongmen hiding in their respective dens, it was even more miserable, and the prison did not need to go, and was directly dragged out by a large number of stubborn soldiers, leaving a notice, and cutting down the street.