"The culprit of the rebellion, Zhao Ting, hanging! confiscated family wealth, and his wife and children were exiled to Taiwan. ”

"The culprit of the rebellion, the old general of the Zheng family, Chen Dazhuang of thousands of households, hang! Thousands of households Zhou Linshan, hanging! Thousands of households Li Da, hanging! The three confiscated their family property, and their wives and children were exiled to Taiwan. ”

"Conspiring against rebellion, the commander of the Xuanjia Army's original infantry battalion, Zhang Yilu, 100 rods, exiled to Taiwan, wife and children do not sit together......"

Wang Chengen read out in public the punishment of those who participated in the rebellion by the Regent's Palace. In order to stabilize the morale of the army as soon as possible, Fang Yuan once again led the thinking of the whole army to the Northern Expedition, adopting the principle of prudent killing and lenient punishment.

The culprit who really participated in the rebellion should have been executed by Ling Chi, but he was only sentenced to be hanged; was supposed to connect the three clans, but they just confiscated their family wealth and exiled them, and none of them were killed.

As for the officers at all levels who colluded with the Xuanjia Army Infantry Battalion and Ma Lin, they were only exiled, and their wives and children did not sit together, and even their family wealth was not confiscated.

Zhang Ying also returned to Suzhou City in triumph and reported the results of this battle to Fang Yuan.

The Xuanjia Army suffered more than 1,300 casualties, including 350 in the Special Operations Army; The rebels suffered 23,000 casualties, 5,000 prisoners, and more than 10,000 scattered and missing.

In this battle, Guanhaiwei also captured 1.2 million taels of silver and 30,000 stone of military rations.

Fang Yuan was overjoyed when he heard this, and directly took out a fraction of 200,000 taels for the army, and the remaining 1 million taels of silver was allocated to Fengyang's construction site to continue to repair the palace of the harem.

After suppressing the Malin rebellion, Fang Yuan ordered the four prefectures of Huzhou, Hangzhou, Shaoxing, and Ningbo in Zhejiang to settle the people, and on the other hand, he began to focus on solving the problem of Shaoxing Prefecture's emergency reserve of military fields.

Fang Yuan and Hu Qi took Jinyiwei to the emergency reserve military field to inspect on the spot, and took down all the officers in charge of the military field and handed them over to Jinyiwei.

These two million acres of emergency reserve military land, because they are planted with hybrid rice, can yield more than 1,000 catties per mu, and the annual grain output is quite amazing, which is a fertilizer shortage that everyone envies. Ma Lin is a military general, with a high and powerful position, and he has a bright future, but he can't resist this temptation and takes risks. If you change the management of the Xuanjia Army officer, nine times out of ten, you will make the same mistake.

Fang Yuan knew that it was a big mistake to implement military management measures for the emergency reserve military field before. Government officials can be corrupt, and so can soldiers. To combat corruption, it is necessary to deal with both officials and soldiers.

He thought about it for a while, and if he wanted to prevent major corruption cases from happening in the emergency reserve military fields, it was necessary to bring the military fields into the sunshine and institutionalized management.

Fang Yuan's idea was to integrate the management of the emergency reserve military field into the Regent's palace and cabinet for unified management. Any military rations in and out of the emergency reserve military field must be approved by the Cabinet University Minister's Ticket, and then approved by the Regent Palace's red before it can take effect.

For the annual inspection, the independent accounting team and the household department will go to the site for inspection. All officials in charge of the emergency reserve military field shall be subject to a three-year rotation system and a current responsibility system.

The three-year rotation system is to eliminate the breeding ground for corruption;

The current responsibility system means that the military field managers who take over must verify the specific amount of military rations left by their predecessors before taking office. It is the responsibility of the previous manager to identify problems at the time of handover; If there is a problem after the handover, it is the responsibility of the current one. In order to avoid the accumulation of bad habits in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, after the outbreak of a major corruption case, everyone is a push, two, five or six, they are all pure little white rabbits, and the responsibility is all put on the predecessors, and even the previous officials.

After Fang Yuan re-announced the management measures for the emergency reserve military field in Shaoxing Mansion, Zhejiang, he received news from Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, that Zhu Cunji, the king of Qin, sent Shi Zhangwen, the governor of the Qin Prince's Mansion, to come to Fengyang to discuss the alliance with Fang Yuan and the matter of clearing the monarch's side together.

Fang Yuan had been waiting for news from the King of Qin for half a year, but now that the King of Qin had finally figured it out and sent an envoy to negotiate the alliance, he was overjoyed and immediately returned to Fengyang, preparing to meet the alliance with the envoy of the King of Qin this time.

Now that the civil strife of the Jiangnan regime has been pacified, as long as the King of Qin and the King of Lu are willing to surrender and jointly send troops to the Qing monarch's side with Fang Yuan, the time for the Northern Expedition has really come.

Half a month later, Fang Yuan met with Zhang Wen, the envoy of King Qin, at the Fengtian Gate of the Fengyang Imperial City.

Before meeting Zhang Wen, Fang Yuan ordered Jingjie to take Zhu Yihai and Zhang Wen to participate in the collective morning exercise of the 150,000 Xuanjia Army, showing the military might of the Xuanjia Army to the two Ming vassal kings, and also to reassure King Qin.

Zhang Wen's trip was entrusted by the King of Qin, one was to have preliminary contact with Fang Yuan, and more importantly, to visit the real strength of the Xuanjia Army.

Qingjun is not inviting guests to dinner, it is to gamble with the lives of the whole family. King Qin would never rely on Zhu Yihai's words to overestimate the strength of the Xuanjia Army. If the Xuanjia Army once the Northern Expedition is unfavorable, the Beijing Imperial Court will inevitably turn its guns to attack Shaanxi, and it will be the turn of the King of Qin.

Zhang Wen visited the mighty battle between the six battalions of the Xuanjia Army, and was secretly surprised in his heart. Although the King of Qin had 50,000 Qin troops in Shaanxi, compared to the military appearance of the Xuanjia Army, it could only be regarded as child's play. Judging from Zhang Wen's eyes, this Xuanjia army should be the most powerful military force within the Great Wall. Whether it is the Ming army or the breaking army, it is by no means an opponent. Following Fang Yuanming, the chance of achieving the final victory is greater than that of following the imperial court in the capital.

After Fang Yuan fed Zhang Wen a reassuring pill, the negotiations between the two sides officially began.

Fang Yuan first explained to Zhang Wen once again that the policy towards the Ming vassal kings after unifying the world was to retain the two vassal kings of Qin and Lu, and depose the rest of the vassal kings.

After all, his promise was a verbal promise that could be overturned at any time, Zhang Wen was still a little unsure, and asked again, "Regent, I heard that you and King Lu have formed a family of sons and daughters, and the daughter of King Lu will marry King Anguojun, the son of Prince Regent, as a princess." What promise can the regent give to the King of Qin?! ”

Zhang Wen deliberately mentioned the marriage between Zhu Shuzhen, the daughter of King Lu, and Fang He, of course, there was something in his words, and he also wanted to find Fang Yuan to ask for a family affair as a guarantee.

Fang Yuan smiled and said, "Zhang Changshi, the best promise is, of course, for both parties to get married and become a family. Go ahead! Which of my sons and daughters did King Qin take a fancy to? ”

Before Zhang Wen came to Fengyang, he had already known the situation in the other party's original backyard well, and took the opportunity to say, "Regent, King Qin's idea is to marry Fang Mu, the eldest daughter of the Prince Regent, with Zhu Fushu, the son of the King of Qin, and hope that the Prince Regent will be perfected. ”

Fang Yuan secretly pondered, these vassal kings, you came to ask for Fang Yu, I came to ask for Fang Mu, and their daughters were all married away, so how can you do it?!

Fang Yuan thought for a while and said lightly, "Okay, it's okay to get married, but the princess loves the county lord of Anping very much, and she doesn't want the county lord to marry far away." Can the king of Qin send the prince to Jiangnan, and then the prince will stay in Jiangnan and live well! ”

Zhang Wen was stunned on the spot, and sent the prince of Qin to Jiangnan as a hostage, which he couldn't do, but Fang Yuan finally agreed to this family business, and half of the purpose of this envoy was achieved. He resigned himself to the promise, and went back to Shaanxi with the conditions offered by Fang Yuan to resume his life.

In the next three months, Zhang Wen went back and forth between Shaanxi and Fengyang many times, and the two sides discussed the details of the alliance, including the sphere of influence of the Qin king after the unification of the world, how many fiefs to retain, and the size of power within the fiefdom power, and conducted detailed consultations.

Fang Yuan's condition was that the title of King of Qin could be hereditary, and he would be in Xi'an. In the fiefdom, there was only the right to collect taxes, but not the executive, military, or judicial powers.

The fief of the King of Qin was limited to 200,000 mu; The royal army was limited to 1,000 people; The number of Qin royal relatives supported by the imperial court was limited to 30,000. The list will be reported by the Qin Palace, and the court and the Qin Palace's support will each bear half of the cost.

The surrender conditions of the Lu dynasty were implemented in accordance with the standard of the Qin system.

This condition is actually to breed the two feudal kings as pigs, and they can be prosperous and rich for generations, but they cannot be involved in the military and politics, nor can they be traitors.

The conditions for surrendering Fang Yuan were indeed more harsh than when he was a vassal king in the Ming Dynasty before, but in this troubled era when the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty were slaughtered in batches and made Fulu soup, even the imperial court of the capital could not protect itself, and the king of Qin and the king of Lu could not keep their previous interests, so they could only give up the unrealistic illusion of separating one side.

With the advantage of surrendering early, getting the promise of Fang Yuan's protection, and preserving the net worth and life of a clan family, and even the glory and wealth of the generations of this clan, is the best ending.

Four months after the peace talks between the two sides, the king of Qin, in desperation, finally agreed to Fang Yuan's harsh surrender conditions, and also agreed to the proposal of the Qing monarch. Zhang Wen also agreed with Fang Yuan that before Fang Yuan launched the Northern Expedition, the King of Qin would hang the banner of the Qing monarch's side and raise 40,000 troops out of Tongguan to respond to the Northern Expedition.

At this point, Fang Yuan, King Qin, and King Lu reached a tripartite alliance.

The time is ripe for the Northern Expedition, just wait for the autumn when the grain and grass are sufficient, and then you can officially start the army and dominate the world!