There were originally more than 60 noble families in the capital, but in just a few days, nearly 20 of them were removed from prison and convicted and exiled. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

But in the memory of the current Chongzhen Emperor, the noble family of the Ming Dynasty who later surrendered to Li Zicheng and the Manchu Qing Dynasty were all arrested and imprisoned this time.

For example, Zhu Guobi, the famous Baoguo Duke in later generations, was also imprisoned this time.

Of course, at this time, Zhu Guobi was still the Marquis of Funing, and his title of Duke of Baoguo would not be obtained until the Southern Ming Dynasty.

In the spring of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, when Li Zicheng's Dashun army captured the city of Beijing, Zhu Guobi, Marquis of Funing, surrendered with others, but he was not killed in the end like other noble and military ministers who surrendered, but like Emperor Chongzhen's father-in-law, Jiading Bo Zhoukui, he took the initiative to sacrifice all his family wealth, thus saving his life.

More than a month later, the Manchu pigtailed soldiers entered the customs, and Li Zicheng's Dashun army evacuated Beijing in a hurry.

After arriving in Nanjing, no one knew that he had served in the army and sacrificed his wealth to protect his life, and at the same time, as the only remaining nobleman who escaped from the circle of nobles in Beijing, he was given a heavy responsibility by King Fu, who had just ascended the throne and was in urgent need of support, and was promoted to the title of Baoguo Gong.

However, half a year later, Zhu Guobi finally showed his original form.

Duoduo led the Manchu army south, and before he reached Jinling, Zhu Guobi, who had been awarded the title of Baoguo Duke from Funing Hou Jin, took the initiative to shave his hair and braid, sacrifice the city and surrender together with the noble military ministers in Nanjing.

Of course, the reason why this Zhu Guobi is more well-known to later generations is because after he arrived in Nanjing, he married Kou Meikou Baimen, one of the eight Yanans of Qin Huai and Yanguan Nandu, as a concubine.

In this life, of course, he doesn't have this opportunity and Yanfu, because now Emperor Chongzhen, who has experience in later generations, wants his life this time.

Nanjing's noble class is also very bad, but it can't be taken care of for the time being, because the black sheep on Beijing's side must be taken down and disposed of as soon as possible.

As a result, these people occupy high positions and hold almost all the important positions in the Beijing camp and the five military governors' offices, and if they are not taken, the stubborn diseases of the Beijing camp and the five military governor's offices will not be able to be rectified and managed, and they will not be able to play their due role.

Second, these people were too unreliable in history to be reused, and it was a waste to keep them in an important position, and to give them a large amount of money and food, and to give them a limited amount of money and food.

Thirdly, although the number of these people was small, they occupied most of the fertile land in Gyeonggi, and the emperor had no choice but to donate all his Huangzhuang land in Beizhili for tuntian, but these people were indifferent, and they should continue to occupy the tuntian of the guard, and they should drive the military households of the Gyeonggi guard to become slaves and slaves, and continue to occupy and use them, which not only made the heavens angry and resentful, but also seriously affected the armament training of the Gyeonggi guard.

Moreover, most of these noble families have accumulated more than 100 years, and their family property is not a small amount, and the confiscation of these people's land and family property can be used as military salaries, and the land can be sold directly to tenants, or continue to recruit people for reclamation.

In particular, the last one was especially important in the troubled times of the late Ming Dynasty. Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang and Chengzu Zhu Di killed people very ruthlessly, but the rewards for heroes were also very generous.

Even the emperor of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, who is very open-minded, often gives the grange to the princes and nobles, and each time the reward is more than 100 hectares, and the prince has more than 1,000 hectares, in addition to the grange, he also gives the princes and military ministers completely tax-free public land, which is also a hundred hectares and thousands of hectares at every turn.

The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang set the salary of civil and military officials so low is also for this reason, since he has given you hundreds of hectares of tax-free public land, and the output of the public land is your income, so the salary given is similar to the post allowance, and there is no need to be so high.

This is why the officials of the Ming Dynasty are not high, but there are still so many people who want to study and be admitted to the Shishi to become officials.

But what Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know was that human selfishness and greed have no bottom line, and after a long time, these noble and military ministers forgot their duties, leaving only endless greed.

What the emperor is doing now is just to truly consolidate the surroundings of the capital division and build it into a base for the future prosperity of the Ming Dynasty.

Because in history, at this time in the winter of the second year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji would lead the Jianyu army to break through the border from the direction of Jizhen, although now the Chongzhen Emperor has done a lot of preparatory work before, such as setting up the Rehe Town Guard, and placing his favorite general Cao Wenzhao in the position of the Rehe Town Guard, for example, eight fortress forts were rebuilt in Yizhou City in western Liaoning, which held the main road for Jianyu to enter and exit Mongolia from Liaoxi, and for example, replenished and strengthened Dongjiang Town, leaving a solid nail in the rear of Houjin.

But now the Chongzhen Emperor is still worried about the safety of Gyeonggi, once Jianyu breaks through the defense line of the Great Wall as in history, then the consequences are unimaginable, and the history he wants to change may not be changed.

Even if Jianyu had not invaded Gyeonggi as in the past and besieged Gyeonggi, there would have been no problems with the current Gyeonggi land. Because after all, this is where the capital of the Ming Dynasty is located.

Unless the capital is moved, the land of Gyeonggi around Gyeongshi must become an impregnable district of the first good.

Now the Emperor Chongzhen set up the Rehe Town Guard, let the Xuanfu and Jizhen troops go out of the fortress, and opened a killing ring in Juyong Pass, all in order to run the land of Gyeonggi and even Beizhili like a tietong.

As long as there is no problem in Gyeonggi, no matter how chaotic the world is, it will not be chaotic.

At the same time that the Jinyi Wei Ti rode out to arrest more than a dozen nobles who were high before the emperor according to the list given by the emperor, Dongchang also stationed the three major battalions of the Beijing Division, and began the purge step by step under the command of the governor of the Beijing camp, the British Duke Zhang Weixian, the commander of the Beijing camp, the imperial Shi Wen Zhenmeng, and the new commander of the five military battalions, Wei Shitai, and the commander of the three thousand battalions, Zhang Qingzhen, and others.

The purge of the Beijing camp was only aimed at the five military battalions and the 3,000 battalions, and under the watchful eye of 15,000 people in the first town of the new army, any resistance was futile except for honestly accepting the screening.

All the sons and daughters of the nobles and nobles above the rank of 1,000 in the 5th Army Battalion and the 3,000th Battalion must be selected and examined by the Ministry of War and the Jinyi Guard, and all the former Chengguo Mansion and Xiangcheng Bofu, as well as the former Yang Wuhou Xue Lian and Funing Marquis Zhu Guobi, who were arranged and recommended by the princely family in the Jinyi Guard's prison, were all convicted according to the law.

In this way, it only took three days to complete the selection and adaptation work that Wen Zhen Meng had been trying to complete for more than half a year, but had never been completed.

In the three major battalions of the Beijing Division, in addition to the newly arranged after the graduation of the Wutang, as well as the emperor's imperial pen circle to retain, the total number of soldiers below 349, killed 284 members, the original Chengguo Mansion, Xiangcheng Uncle, Yangwu Marquis Mansion and other noble families, the forces in the Beijing camp were uprooted, and there was no hair left.

The Fifth Army Battalion and the 3,000 Battalion also followed the practice of the Shenji Battalion, and arranged for the chief officer and deputy chief soldier in addition to the commanders and ministers and the civilian officers who sat in the camp.

Zhu Guoyan, the chief soldier of the Shenji Battalion, was the person who most cooperated with the superintendent of the three battalions, Yu Shi Wen Zhenmeng, so he continued to be retained, and at the same time a deputy general soldier was added, and Zhou Yuji, who was temporarily absent from the Beijing Division, was directly promoted.

Promoting Zhou Yuji, of course, is the emperor's idea.

Now this Emperor Chongzhen didn't know that he was serving in Jingying before, but now that he already knows, of course, he must be promoted and reused as soon as possible.

As for the chief officer of the Fifth Military Battalion, Jiang Yingzhao, a veteran of the former Liaodong General Military Officer, who is now serving as the chief instructor in the Lecture Hall, was appointed as the chief military officer, and the deputy general of the Fifth Military Battalion was promoted to the post of Hei Yunlong, the former deputy general of Datong Town, who had made meritorious contributions in training in Zhuozhou.

The five military battalions moved to defend Juyong Pass, and the strength was sufficient, and in the future, the main thing was to defend steadily, and the veteran Jiang Yingzhao was known for being as stable as Mount Tai, and with a black cloud dragon that attacked like a tiger, Juyong Pass should have no worries.

In the end, the chief officer of the 3,000 battalion was promoted by Wang Tingchen, the former deputy chief soldier of Shanxi Town, who had made meritorious contributions in training in Zhuozhou.

Wang Tingchen is also a fierce general, he died in the end of the Ming Dynasty on the battlefield fighting against the Liukou, and he was also quite heroic when he died.

The 3,000 battalions were mainly cavalry, and they needed a general officer like Wang Tingchen, who was good at cavalry combat.

As for the deputy commander-in-chief of the 3,000 battalion, the emperor appointed Liu Xingzhi, the younger brother of Pyongyang's Bo Liu Xingzuo, to serve as the deputy commander-in-chief of Dongjiang Town.

The reason for this is mainly two points, one is to transfer Liu Xingzhi away, which can decompose Liu Xingzuo's forces and prevent him from having disputes with Mao Wenlong.

Second, this Liu Xingzhi is very domineering, and it is easy to clean up under his nose.

Historically, after Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong, Dongjiang Town soon fell into strife, Chen Jisheng, who was appointed to lead Dongjiang Town, disagreed with the Liu brothers, and after Liu Xingzuo died in battle, Liu Xingzhi made a rebellion and killed Chen Jisheng in a surprise attack, and Dongjiang Town immediately fell into chaos, and finally either defected to Houjin or was eliminated by Houjin, and disappeared from then on.

Among them, Liu Xingzhi, an arrogant and domineering general, played a very bad role. Now that he has personally cut off Azig's head, I am afraid that he has cut off the intention of returning to Jianyu's arms, but I am afraid that such a person will stay in Dongjiang Town and cause trouble, so it is better to get him away in advance.

Although Wang Tingchen, Hei Yunlong, and others were generally promoted to one or two levels in their original positions after they arrived at the Zhuozhou New Army Training Battalion, after all, they were serving in the Zhuozhou New Army Training Battalion, and they were certainly not as attractive as taking up positions at the same level in the Beijing Battalion.

Therefore, after the military orders were issued, Jiang Yingzhao quickly handed over the post of Jiangwutang and went to Beijing to take office, and Wang Tingchen and Hei Yunlong also quickly set off from Zhuozhou and rushed to Beijing.

At the same time, the emperor also arranged Huang Degong, Liu Tingjie, and Qi Yuanbi, who had not been by his side for a long time, into each of the five military camps to lead a battalion and serve as guerrillas; Hu Dawei, Fierce as a Tiger, and Wu Sangui were arranged into a 3,000 battalion dominated by cavalry, and were assigned guerrilla, capital division, and garrison officers.

This series of actions of Emperor Chongzhen not only shocked the noble class in the north and south of Beijing, but also shocked many Beijing officials and courtiers in the Beijing court.

All kinds of doubts, criticisms, and exhortations in the court and in the localities began to fly like snowflakes, but these exhortations or criticisms could not affect the decision-making of the Qianqing Palace and the Military Aircraft Department, and the rectification of the three major battalions of the Beijing Division was still in full swing according to the emperor's plan.