Chapter 240: The chaos is coming
Emperor Chongzhen's decision to change the Weishou into a prefecture and county in the land of Gyeonggi in Beizhili, to turn hereditary military households into yellow registers, and to divide the land of honorable and noble princes into tenant farmers' private ownership was announced at the great court meeting on 15 November. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
There are those who support it on the spot, there are those who generously oppose it, and there are those who criticize the emperor for violating the ancestral system, and so on.
However, Emperor Chongzhen had fully communicated with the three ministers of military aircraft in the Wuying Hall in advance and obtained their firm support.
Therefore, the emperor turned a deaf ear to the voices of the government and the opposition and did not make any response.
Most of these voices of discussion are made by the so-called Qingliu gentlemen who were born in the family of Jiangnan gentry, and these people are not diligent but do not distinguish between grains and grains.
The restructuring of the Wei Institute had little to do with the interests of people like them, but these people were like professional trolls in later generations, no matter what kind of decisions the emperor made, they would always be the first to write a book to discuss it, and they would be angry about it.
However, these discussions had nothing to do with the interests of their own class, so the emperor ignored them and soon dissipated on their own.
And those really interested in the noble family of Jingshi Xun have been beaten by the emperor's previous messy punches at this time, and they dare not have any objections at all, or have other rash actions, except for secretly slandering themselves.
Because of high-status princely families like Chengguo Duke Zhu Chunchen, Yangwu Marquis Xue Lian, and Funing Marquis Zhu Guobi, they were killed and exiled in three strokes, not to mention others.
Most of the inheritances of these noble families are more than 100 years old, although the desire for profit has been consumed for 200 years, and it is useless in military affairs, but it does not mean that they do not know the current affairs, or do not know the way to survive and protect themselves.
Therefore, when Emperor Chongzhen's holy decree decided to abolish the Gyeonggi Guard Office and change the military household to civilian registration, some noble families who were still sober not only did not object, but immediately began to take the initiative to cater to them, such as Xu Yunzhen, the Duke of Dingguo.
Before Chongzhen, the Dingguo Mansion also led the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies for many years, and there were countless civil and military generals under him.
Therefore, for many years, the Jeongguk Gongfu was no worse than the Chengguo Gongfu in seizing good land and annexing and occupying the service in the Gyeonggi Prefecture system.
It's just that at this time, the Dingguo Mansion is not the position of the Governor of the Five Armies, but the Zongren Mansion that is in charge of the affairs of the clan, and the most important thing is that in the matter of giving the death of King De and King Fu and seizing his feudal state, Xu Yunzhen, who served as the Zongren Order, did not cause trouble to the emperor, so Emperor Chongzhen was able to tolerate the existence of the Dingguo Mansion for the time being.
This time, the Dingguo Mansion is also very aware of current affairs, seeing that the emperor is ruthless to rectify the affairs of the Gyeonggi Guard, Xu Yunzhen after the situation is clear, and does not need the emperor to speak, and soon takes the initiative to cooperate with the reform, and his family has annexed more than 20,000 hectares of Beizhili Guard's tuntian, with half sold and half given away, quickly sold to his own tenants at an ultra-low price, leaving only 1,500 hectares of grange land with a legitimate provenance for his own family.
These grange farmlands, which have been checked by holy decrees and have official records or legal sources, are the grange lands that successive emperors have rewarded with given state governments since the Yongle Emperor moved the capital.
The approach of the Dingguo Mansion was quickly praised by the emperor, and the emperor's praise made Xu Yunzhen breathe a sigh of relief, and also triggered the imitation of other noble families in Beijing.
Grange land with a legitimate source can be retained, while undocumented grange land is sold at a low price to the original tenant or to someone else who is willing to buy it.
Originally, the public land of the guard was not allowed to be bought and sold, but after the emperor changed the guard to a state and county, and let the military households be registered, the noble family who was not questioned was of course eager to sell the land of the guard house at a low price, which has now become a hot potato.
In this way, the noble family, which has a vital stake, not only no longer resists and opposes it, but accelerates the process of restructuring the health office.
And because of the incident itself, it was beneficial to the military households in the original guard system, so no one gathered to oppose or cause any chaos.
For more than 100 years, the military households who had become tenants or servants of the noble family because of the loss of their original public land have now been given back their own land, and in the future, they will no longer have to be driven and enslaved by the noble and military families because of their military status. Of course, these people have no objection to the reform of the health center.
In this way, the restructuring of the Gyeonggi Guard, which was originally thought to be a tough battle, was on the right track under the auspices of the Naoli Governor's Office within half a month, and began to be implemented in full swing in Gyeonggi.
Of course, the final decision on the restructuring of the Wei Institute is still very different from what the emperor himself had planned at the beginning.
First, the guards participating in this restructuring were limited to the area of Gyeonggi, and the border guards belonging to Jizhen were not included in the restructuring, but they needed to verify the ownership of the land and property of the guards, and then recruit displaced people to reclaim for military households.
Second, the reform of the guard center in Gyeonggi can be decided by the top and bottom of the guard office, and those who are willing to command more than 100 household officials, and who are willing to change their posts to liuguan, will be changed on an equal footing, and those who do not want to still use the official position of the former guard post to go out of the Saitun reclamation and be granted land from the preferential.
Military households below the general banner who are willing to change the army to civilian people will settle down in the local land and change their nationality, and be included in the yellow book of fish scales in the state and county where they are located. Those who do not want to be reassigned to the Saiwai Guard Station, and the land will be preferentially distributed to the border of the Saifu.
The restructuring of the guard office is huge, and these problems are not something that Emperor Chongzhen can fully consider in advance, but it is necessary to think about it, and I think this is also the reason why the reform of the Gyeonggi Land Guard can be started smoothly.
Just when Emperor Chongzhen had fulfilled a long-cherished wish in his heart and was secretly happy about it, the military reports from the south and the north made him fall into a state of anxiety again.
As soon as the Shuori court meeting on the first day of December ended, Emperor Chongzhen, who had been tortured by the bombardment of Qing gossip officials in the court, returned to the Qianqing Palace and did not wait to sit down and rest for a while, when he heard Wang Chengen report outside, saying that Zhang Weixian, the minister of military aircraft on duty in the Military Aircraft Department, brought Shen Tingyang, Li Xin, and Niu Juming, who were from the Zhongshu House, to urgently ask for a meeting.
As soon as Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he had an ominous premonition, could it be that something terrible happened somewhere?
Sure enough, as soon as Zhang Weixian and the others entered the emperor's living place in the Xinuan Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace, they immediately knelt on the ground and bowed to pay respects, and then said: "Your Majesty, the governor of Yansui, Sun Chuanting, sent an urgent military report for 600 miles, saying that at the end of October this autumn, there are Ansai horse thieves in northern Shaanxi who are high and auspicious, who call themselves the king, raise the flag in Ansai and rebel, and join the thieves such as the second thief king of Baishui and Jiayin of Fugu to capture the county seat of Ansai and kill Chen Bing, the commander of Ansai County. Now the thieves are heading south and are going to besiege Yan'an Fucheng. ”
After Zhang Weixian said this, he quickly handed the military report in his hand to Wang Chengen, who was standing next to him, and after Wang Chengen took it, he immediately held it in both hands and sent it to the emperor's hands.
After listening to what Zhang Weixian said, Emperor Chongzhen thought to himself, it's time to come after all.
Although some precautionary measures had been taken before, the chaos in northern Shaanxi still came as scheduled.
However, the current Chongzhen Emperor is not the anxious Chongzhen Emperor in history, nor is he the Chongzhen Emperor who arrived in early October of the seventh year of the Apocalypse and was unprepared.
Therefore, a very serious matter in the eyes of Zhang Weixian and others is now not so serious in the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, who has just laid out the rectification and relocation of the Beijing camp and the restructuring of the Jinggi Guard.