Yang Qing didn't want to repeat Li Zicheng's mistake.

Li Zicheng put it bluntly, he didn't clean it.

The composition of the Northern Shun Army is very complicated, Li Zicheng's old battalion actually only has 50,000 or 60,000 people, and there are the remaining Northwest official troops, some of his subordinates who were annexed after killing Luo Rucai and others, there are peasant armies that are attached to their own troops in various places, and even bandits who simply want to make a profit from him, and there are even more Ming troops who surrendered during his march into Beijing, and the local armed forces that were incorporated after taking over the north.

Eventually, these chaotic forces made up his total army of 600,000.

His old camp was faithful.

None of his old battalions surrendered.

Whether Hao Shaoqi and Li Laiheng held on to the lonely city behind enemy lines or Zhang Tianlin's troops fought until the whole army was annihilated, it proved that the old camp was loyal to him.

But not so with others.

Such a situation requires a cleansing.

Whether or not it will cause discontent, or even leave infamy, iron-blooded purges are necessary, and a wise monarch will do this, taking advantage of his deterrent power, quickly taking down those miscellaneous or untrustworthy generals on various charges, replacing them with loyal old battalion officers, and then breaking up the old establishment and reorganizing it, and if necessary, suppressing small rebellions.

Anyway, with his suppression, it can't be overturned.

But he didn't.

He's still the same old as before.

The generals themselves controlled their subordinates, and even the subordinates who surrendered to the Ming generals were still their old subordinates, and at most they stationed their cronies in important areas, but because the south was the main battlefield, in fact, Li Zicheng's main generals were in the south. Li Zicheng himself can be suppressed in the north, but Liu Zongmin can't do it after he goes south, and as a result, Tang Yu's surrender is the surrender of the entire Jizhen 10,000 defenders, and Jiang Huang's rebellion is the rebellion of the entire Datong 20,000 defenders. If the old generals are purged and then broken up and reorganized, and then replaced by his old battalion generals, then even if there are still people who want to rebel, it is impossible for the entire military town to rebel at once, and there will always be people loyal to him who will fight for him.

This is one of Li Zicheng's tragedies.

There is also the fact that they have not really learned to mobilize the lower classes.

He did strike at the gentry, but not at the root, and the gentry still controlled the local discourse.

He also thought about Juntian, but he didn't understand propaganda, and he didn't know how to let the common people know what he wanted to do, and as a result, in this war that was actually the gentry and him, the common people were still spectators. If he had organized hundreds of propaganda teams to go to the countryside to propagate Juntian in the past year, and at the same time carry out large-scale compulsory rent and interest reductions, I am afraid that by the time the gentry welcomed the king, those poor people would have already smashed their hoes and used them as spears.

What a lesson from the past!

Yang Qing can't afford to make such a mistake.

Cleaning.

Cleaning is mandatory.

From top to bottom, from the army to the people, all of them were purged, and King Gui's good behavior was the best excuse to use the hat of rebellion to a big prison.

Raozhou Mansion governs Poyang Yongshou Palace.

"Yang Qing, you rebel minister, Emperor Taizu, open your eyes and take a look! Even your children and grandchildren can't be saved! ”

Zhu Changqing, the king of Huai, looked up to the sky and howled sadly.

At this time, the Dongwu Emperor, who had been supported by Zheng Chenggong for a short time in history, was being dragged by several wolf-like Jinyi guards and thrown into an emergency prisoner car in front of him, and the phoenix sons and dragon grandchildren of the Huai Domain, who had been bred for hundreds of years behind him, were also escorted by Jinyi Guard, dragging shackles and crying out one by one, but the women and children still remained in the Yongshou Palace, crying and watching their men being escorted away.

"Grandpa Lu!"

A brocade guard handed several letters to Lu Jiude, the chief eunuch who had announced the decree.

The original Fengyang garrison eunuch was dismissed because of the loss of Fengyang, but fortunately, the queen mother remembered that he led the troops on the front line when he was the emperor of Daxing, and there was hard work without merit, so he was exempted from the death penalty and stayed in the palace to serve the queen mother.

As for his partner Ma Shiying, he was dismissed.

However, Lao Ma was not imprisoned, Yang Qing was still ready to use him in the future, although Lao Ma had a stain, but at least this guy could be used to deal with the Donglin Party!

"Hey, there's such a thing!"

Lu Jiude said with a smile.

Then he held up these letters and said to the people around him: "Zhu Changqing, the king of Huai, as a clan, when the strong invaded the territory, he did not think of being a national vassal and defending against foreign enemies. The king of Huai and the men of the Huai Domain were all taken and imprisoned, and after being identified, they were disposed of separately, and the fields of the Huai Domain were confiscated except for retaining 10,000 acres for the support of the female dependents of each family. The tenants of the land that originally belonged to the Huai Domain were allowed to continue to rent the seeds, but they must be incorporated into the militia, and the militia system did not pay any taxes, and the rent was reduced to a maximum of 40% according to the level of the land. ”

As soon as he finished saying this, there was a tsunami of cheers all around.

"The king, the minister has avenged the king!"

Suddenly, there was a roar of rage, and a righteous man drew his sword and rushed towards the gelding.

A brocade guard next to him pulled the trigger, and the wooden feather arrow of the steel crossbow in his hand instantly passed through the righteous man's chest.

"Add one more, conspire with the dead, and murder Qincha!"

Lu Jiude pointed to King Huai and said to Jinyiwei, who recorded the charges.

King Huai in the prisoner car screamed sadly and angrily.

Then the two-hundred-year-old Huaiwang family was uprooted in this way.

Next to it were countless cheers, those excited people stepped on the corpses of the righteous soldiers, and used rotten vegetable leaves to send off the Huaiwang family, who was said to have exercised the right of Chu Ye in the fiefdom, to embark on a journey to the imperial prison, Poyang, which can be said to be one of the most important agricultural areas in the Ming Dynasty, finally really returned to the hands of the imperial court, and no longer just the ATM of the Huaiwang family.

This is important.

You must know that even in the time of Hu Yuan, the population of Raozhou Road even exceeded that of a large province in the north.

The wealth of this place in the agricultural era can be imagined.

But because of the existence of King Huai, it is not only difficult to provide much tax for the imperial court, but also needs to use almost all the local taxes to feed the thousands of men and women of the clan, and the uprooting of the Huaiwang Mansion represents an increase in the annual tax of hundreds of thousands of the imperial court. The land of the Huaiwang family also added at least one brigade of militia to Yang Qing, and in the east of Poyang Lake, where his hand was not reachable, if there were any gentry who wanted to do something in the future, he only needed an order from the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion to call up reserves, and the commander sent here could bring five thousand loyal militiamen over and beat them to death with a stick.

Poyang Lake Rice Field District Sicheng Tian rent.

And there is no tax to pay.

Those original tenants of the Huaiwang Mansion would immediately become Yang Qing's fanatical followers.

At the same time that more than 2,000 men with titles in King Huai's family were stuffed into the prison car and directly escorted to Nanjing Jinyiwei Prison, King Yizhou of Fuzhou, who was frightened, sent the pile of letters given to him by King Gui to Jinyiwei as soon as possible, and at the same time he pleaded guilty and asked for punishment from the prison, and in the name of thinking of the old land of his ancestors, he asked to move to the territory of Fengyang and offer 300,000 taels of silver to help the country.

That's it.

For the sensible Yang Qing, he still doesn't mind letting him go.

The Yiwang family originally raised troops in Fuzhou to resist the Qing Dynasty in history.

Then Yifan obtained 300,000 acres of tax-free wasteland between the Huai River and Shaobi, and Yiwang and his family of thousands of people dedicated their millions of acres of fertile land in Jiangxi to the prison state, and together with all the tenants on the land, they became Yang Qing's militia, and their family went to the fiefdom to open up the wasteland and farm. Fortunately, most of their family wealth has been saved, and if there is no war in the north of Shaobi, it is still a good place, they still have their own domestic slaves, everyone can still be self-sufficient after all, compared to the unpredictable life and death in the edict, the Huaiwang family of thousands of women and children in Yongshou Palace hugged their heads and cried, such a result is still good.

And King Hui, that is, Chongzhen's remaining Buddha-worshipping uncle, was imprisoned by Yang Qing on the same charge of colluding with Gui Rebellion.

Later, Zhang Yan released him.

However, Hui Fan's fief in Jingzhou only kept 10,000 acres, and there was no other Yu Lu or anything in the future, just give him this 10,000 mu to eat and pray for Buddha, anyway, Hui Fan is currently in the third generation, there are not many men at all, 10,000 mu is enough to feed his family, as for his family's original million mu fief, this reward is given to Ma Jinzhong's subordinates.

Ma Jinzhong never rebelled, which made Yang Qing very satisfied.

He is actually an old rebel.

One of the thirteen families of the Xingyang Conference at the beginning, but such qualifications faced the pressure of Li Zicheng's army, not only did not surrender, but took the initiative to attack and contain the Shun army, which is also rare, even if he did not surrender to the death in his original history, and followed Li Dingguo to always follow Yongli, this merit alone is enough to be favored.

But his subordinates certainly can't keep it.

Yang Qing is not interested in this kind of miscellaneous cards, and his subordinates are also mixed, originally in history, after he died of illness, these subordinates forced his son to surrender, so his nearly 100,000 miscellaneous cards must be dismantled and reorganized to at most one army. And the reorganized soldiers divided these fiefs as militia, and Yang Qing will reorganize the other armies in the future, and all the eliminated ones will be converted into the militia in this way, and they will be given the best farmland, and the land of King Hui is not enough for King Jing of Qizhou, and there is not enough for King Changdeji, the former was destroyed by Zhang Xianzhong, and the latter fled to Wuzhou, which can also be regarded as an anti-party now.

In this way, the southern vassals of the Ming Dynasty were left with the king of Hengyang Gui, the king of Wugang Min, and the king of Jingjiang of Guilin.

But their end is already doomed.

After Li Zicheng withdrew his troops, Wang Zhiren led the second army of Jingying to Nanchang again, and at the same time, Zhang Mingzhen's sailors and Ma Jinzhong's troops marched south to Dongting, and the three-way army swept away Gui's rebel henchmen to encircle Changsha and complete their unfinished appointment with Zuo Mengeng. In addition, Liu Zhaoji's division of the Third Army of the Beijing Camp went south from the Jiangxi to Meiling to kill Guangzhou, and officials from all over Guangdong surrendered without a fight to welcome the army of King Jingjiang and Wang Yuncheng into Guangzhou, so that Yang Qing could take the opportunity to carry out a thorough purge of the officialdom of Liangguang, and I have to say that King Gui also did him a great favor.