On the sixth day of June in the first year of Longwu, at Tianjin Wei Wharf, a mysterious team was slowly boarding the ship.

The people who boarded the ship were all dressed in ordinary cloth clothes and shoes, and they looked like ordinary people, but the troops guarding their boarding were all elite Janissaries, and there was even a group of men and horses armed with rifled flintlock guns not far away, who seemed to attach great importance to this group of people who boarded the ship.

Of course, it looks strange, but if you list the list of these people in cloth clothes, you can understand why the most elite Praetorian Guards in Great Qin are here to defend the emperor.

Zhu Yiluo, the king of Qin in the former Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Minchun, the former king of the Ming and Jin dynasties.

Zhu Rensheng, the former king of Jingjiang in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Gongfang, the king of the former Ming and Zhou dynasties.

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Although they don't sound very good, they have indeed become the representative names of one of the biggest malpractices of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang's reward for his descendants was so generous that even to the point that the annual income of the whole country in the middle and late Ming Dynasty could not be enough to meet the expenses of the clan, and in the end, the Ming court and the emperor were made very passive, and they had to use various means to reduce the expenses of the clan.

However, the Ming clan was not allowed to engage in the business of the four people, and Shinong and industry were not allowed to do it, so that some lieutenants of the remote clan Fengguo had to rely on crimes to obtain the qualification to enter prison and eat prison food, so as to maintain their lives.

But this is the treatment of remote clans, like the king of Chu, the king of Zhou, the king of Qin, and other close clan relatives, it is definitely a full amount of money to let them spend all day and drink to have children, and they absolutely do not have to suffer the treatment of going to prison to eat prison food.

That is, this group of people, with the help of their own status and status, sucked blood together with the local gentry in the entire Ming Dynasty, dragging down the finances of the Ming Dynasty, of course, the fate of this group of people was very bad, either killed by the peasant rebel army, or killed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and basically did not get a good death.

The fate of Zhu Ming's royal family was indeed miserable.

After Xiao Ruxun ascended the throne, out of a promise to the former Ming imperial family, he decided not to kill them, but they needed to obey the arrangement of the Great Qin Emperor, and there must be no objection to the arrangement of the Great Qin Emperor, otherwise the previous promise would not be fulfilled.

The Empress Dowager of the former Ming Dynasty personally wrote letters to the important clan princes and vassal kings in various places, stating the interests and disadvantages to them, telling them to be captured, not to resist, and to let the Qin army do it, otherwise their lives will be lost.

The people sent to do these things are all elite officers and elite troops from Burma, and they are the best candidates for Xiao Ruxun and the Great Qin Dynasty.

Most of the clan relatives chose to tie their hands because the situation was already like this.

There is no longer any threat to Daqin Dingding, and their clansmen still seem to have hope of recovering the Ming Dynasty on the surface, but the Ming Dynasty's defense against them is no weaker than Xiao Ruxun's defense against them, and many of the people around the vassal king are spies placed by the imperial court.

Now that the imperial court has surrendered, the remnants of the Jinyi Guard have been digested into the Central Investigation Division, all of which are in the hands of Xiao Ruxun, and the lives of the vassal kings have also fallen into the hands of Xiao Ruxun, and it is not difficult to deal with these vassal kings at all.

Although there were also those who tried to resist, such as the King of Chu, he and his brothers tried to escape from the cage and gather the Ming Zhongliang to continue the struggle, but he was quickly controlled by the original Jinyi Wei secret agents around him.

Then the other spies surrendered in Kaicheng, and the family of the king of Chu was directly captured, and the fact of trying to resist was reported.

The other vassal kings were able to keep some of their property, but the king of Chu was deprived of all his property because of his act of resistance, and he could not keep a penny, and was directly sent to the capital for strict care.

And none of the brothers of the King of Chu escaped, and were directly beheaded by Xiao Ruxun's order, and let him watch in front of the King of Chu.

Xiao Ruxun implemented a zero-tolerance policy for the behavior of these ignorant people, one person resisted and the whole family was arrested, the man killed the woman and confiscated the sect, and also asked the Empress Dowager Li to join these contents in the following persuasion letter, warning the feudal kings and clans in various places.

When Empress Dowager Li learned that the brothers of the King of Chu had all died, she was extremely angry about this, and angrily asked Xiao Ruxun why she did not keep her promise.

"As the son of a country, you don't keep your promise! What kind of face do you have to reign in the world?! ”

Xiao Ruxun didn't care about this at all.

"I said that I asked them not to do any resistance, to come to Beijing honestly, and I guaranteed their lives and part of their property, but I didn't say that they resisted and I would forgive them, those who resisted would definitely die, the mastermind King Chu should have died, and I saved him from death for the sake of the face of the Empress Dowager Ming, what else do you want?"

Empress Dowager Li was so angry that her face turned blue, and she threw away the pen and refused to continue to write persuasive letters.

Xiao Ruxun's face turned cold.

"I hope that the Empress Dowager Ming will understand one thing, for the sake of your son's face, I will treat you well, not hurt your life, and give you corresponding treatment, this is all the result of my own strength, most of the courtiers want you to die, because you live to make them feel like they are on pins and needles.

Let you live is my greatest and last mercy, write these things down immediately, send them out, and tell those vassal princes not to resist, this is an order, not a consultation, if you don't do it, I will slaughter the clan relatives with blood! ”

Xiao Ruxun didn't want to continue talking nonsense with her.

Empress Dowager Li looked at Xiao Ruxun in disbelief.

"Are you going to do it or not?"

Xiao Ruxun...... What about your conscience? ”

Empress Dowager Li stretched out her hand and pointed at Xiao Ruxun: "Aren't you afraid of thunder and thunder?" ”

"Someone."

Xiao Ruxun's face calmed down.

Li Sheng stepped forward: "Your Majesty." ”

"The order is to behead the former king of Ming Chu, all the men in the family will be beheaded, and all the women will not be included in the teaching department."

"Yes."

Li Sheng turned and left.

Empress Dowager Li was stunned.

"You...... How dare you ......"

"This is the first one, if you don't write it, the next one is King Lu."

"You ......"

Empress Dowager Li trembled.

"Then there are the kings of Qin, the kings of Zhou, and the kings of Jingjiang, one after another, if you don't write, I will kill them all, if they resist again, I will not leave my hand, the previous agreement will be null and void, none of you will survive, anyway, the courtiers who surrendered to Cheng want you to die more than me."

Xiao Ruxun looked at Empress Dowager Li like this.

"You can't hurt them, I write."

Empress Dowager Li gritted her teeth and made such a decision.

"You write, except for the King of Chu, everyone else can live."

"King Chu, you can't do it either!"

Empress Dowager Li stared at Xiao Ruxun deadly.

"It's late, this is the condition just now, the king of Chu must die, if you don't write it now, I will immediately order to kill the king of Lu's family."

"You! You ......"

"Do you write or not? I count three times, and the life of King Lu's family is in your hands. ”

Xiao Ruxun raised three fingers.

"One, two, three......"

"Enough! That's enough! I write! I write!! ”

Empress Dowager Li collapsed, and her trembling hand immediately grabbed the pen and quickly wrote a letter of persuasion.

After a while, Li Sheng returned to Xiao Ruxun's side.

"Your Majesty, the former King of Ming Chu has been beheaded, all the men in the family have also been beheaded, and all the women have not entered the sect division, everything is in accordance with Your Majesty's will."

Xiao Ruxun nodded.

"Hmm."

Empress Dowager Li's pen stopped, leaned less, and continued to move.