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Seeing this situation, Emperor Chongzhen immediately woke up and knew that it was he who had just lost his words, so he shook his head and said with a smile: "Don't be frightened, what I said is someone else!" ”

After Emperor Chongzhen said this, everyone secretly breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts.

Of course, there are a few people who know the meaning of the emperor's words, such as Li Banghua.

At this time, I only heard Li Banghua say: "Your Majesty, after Li Guozhen was imprisoned, before he could use the punishment, he climbed the British Mansion, the Chengguo Mansion, the Dingguo Mansion and other princely families, saying that the northern and southern capitals and noble military ministers occupy the land and occupy the service more than others, and if Your Majesty punishes his crimes, he will be punished as one, otherwise he will be unconvinced."

"The minister thinks that how to deal with Li Guozhen can be said to affect the whole body, and he must be extremely cautious, so please think carefully about it."

Li Banghua's meaning, Emperor Chongzhen's heart is of course like a mirror.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang divided the princes and uncles and other noble families, and before Zhu Yuanzhang died, they were basically wiped out by him with his own hands.

Of the more than a dozen kilometers of the original separation, only Xu Da and Mu Ying had a good death.

Among them, Xu Da left two branches, one inherited the Duke of Wei given to Xu Da by Zhu Yuanzhang, and the other was named the Duke of Dingguo by Chengzu because he took the initiative to join Zhu Di of Ming Chengzu.

And Zhu Yuanzhang, who inherited after Mu Ying, gave Mu Ying the title of Duke of Qianguo.

Among the dozens of marquis divided by Zhu Yuanzhang, except for Guo Ying, the Marquis of Wuding, the rest were slaughtered.

Among the dozens of counts divided in the early years of Hongwu, except for the sincerity of Bo Liu Ji, none of the other counts have been handed down.

Now living in Nanjing, Beijing, the Ming Dynasty noble family, except for a few that were left by luck during the Taizu period, most of them were inherited after Ming Chengzu Zhu Di ascended the throne, according to the military exploits during the Jingnan, Northern Expedition, and Ping'an South, such as the British Mansion and the Chengguo Mansion, which were knighted for military merits during the Yongle period, and then passed down to the end of the Ming Dynasty.

During the Yongle period and later, there were more than 60 princes and uncles who were knighted for their military merits, and in the Chongzhen period.

Of course, in addition to the knighthood of military merits, there is also a kind of knighthood of relatives. The Ming Dynasty also had only these two types of knighthood systems. However, the knighthood of relatives is not hereditary, but reduced after three generations of hereditary succession.

And because the Ming Dynasty knighthood system was very strict, relatives were only named the queen's father, and if their father died, they would be named their brother or brother.

Moreover, the vast majority of relatives are knighted in the lowest rank, so after three generations, they will lose their titles.

Because of this, in the Chongzhen period, there were not many relatives left behind by Emperor Zhu Ming's relatives, only the uncles of the four emperors of Wanli, Taichang, Tianqi and Chongzhen or their queens still had titles, such as the Marquis of Wuqing, the Marquis of Xincheng, the Marquis of Taikangbo, the Marquis of Xinle, and the families of Jiadingbo, which are like this.

Marquis Wuqing is the uncle of Emperor Wanli, who was originally Wu Qingbo when he was first sealed, and was later promoted to marquis by Emperor Wanli.

The same is true for the Marquis of Xincheng and the Marquis of Xinle, when they were first sealed, they were all earls, respectively the uncle of the Emperor of the Apocalypse and the Emperor Chongzhen, and were successively promoted to marquis by the Apocalypse and Chongzhen.

Needless to say, Tai Kangbo and Jiading Bo, the former is Zhang Guoji, the father of Empress Yi'an, and the latter is Zhou Kui, the father of Emperor Chongzhen's empress Zhou.

For the virtues of these noble families in the Ming Dynasty, of course, this Chongzhen Emperor is clear in his heart.

Except for a few who were martyred for the Ming Dynasty in the end, the vast majority of them came to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and they had no loyalty to the Zhu Ming royal family, especially to the Chongzhen Emperor in history.

Most of the ancestors of these noble families crawled out of the pile of dead people and became knighted by virtue of their great military exploits, but their descendants completely lost the bloody nature of their ancestors who dared to fight and fought well.

Not only did they lose the blood of their ancestors, but they also became flies and dogs, and there was no discipline at all.

And the most typical of these people is Li Guozhen, the uncle of Xiangcheng in Beijing's noble circle, and Zhao Zhilong, the uncle of Xincheng in Nanjing's noble circle.

As soon as the Dashun army arrived in the outer city, Li Guozhen, who was in charge of guarding the gate, opened the city gate and led the army out of the city for several miles to send the surrender table and kneel to greet him, and he was also the first Ming Dynasty nobleman to persuade Li Zicheng to surrender to Li Zicheng.

Needless to say, when Duoduo led the Manchu army outside Nanjing, as a garrison minister of Nanjing, he and the Marquis of Funing when he was in Chongzhen, Zhu Guobi, the prince of Baoguo in Hongguang, were the first and other Southern Ming nobles, and Qian Qianyi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, opened the door to welcome the surrender, but took the initiative to shave his hair and surrender, which can be described as the shameless among the nobles.

Such a princely family, such a noble and military minister, how can you make this Chongzhen Emperor, who has long known their shameless virtue, not resentful?!

Therefore, even if Emperor Chongzhen understood the meaning of Li Banghua's words, but for these moths who only know how to have fun, these mercenary pig teammates, they still have to be ruthless, it is best to kill as many as they can, and the sooner they are cleaned up, the better.

The old ones don't go and the new ones don't come, kill them, so as to vacate the position of the princely family, and in the future, they will be awarded to the civil and military generals who have made real military achievements, and create a new group of military nobles. This is the right way to fundamentally reshape the Ming Dynasty.

The ministers watched Emperor Chongzhen fall into deep thought, and everyone was calm and held their breath, lest they disturb the young and old emperor in front of them.

After a long time, Emperor Chongzhen suddenly said: "Wang Chengen, you personally go to the British Mansion and invite the British Duke here to see me." ”

Wang Chengen, who was standing on the side, came out with the order and went to the British Mansion with a group of henchmen.

Nowadays, the noble world of Jingshi is mainly headed by the three princes of the United Kingdom, the Duke of Chengguo, and the Duke of Dingguo, among which the status of the British Mansion is particularly important because of Emperor Chongzhen's attention to the current British Duke Zhang Weixian.

Emperor Chongzhen attaches great importance to Zhang Weixian, not because of how virtuous, outstanding, or talented this Zhang Weixian is, but because this Zhang Weixian is kind to Empress Yi'an, and he is also the only noble military minister who dared to express his firm attitude and support Zhu Youzhen to enter the palace and ascend the throne immediately after the death of Emperor Tianqi.

At this point, no matter what this person is, Emperor Chongzhen has to show him a gesture of great importance.

Seeing Wang Chengen hurrying away, Emperor Chongzhen retracted his thoughts, and then said to Li Guozhen, Li Banghua and others: "Since Li Guozhen likes to bite other lords, let him go." I'm not afraid of big things, on the contrary, I'm worried about things that won't make a big deal.

"If I hear about the outside, I must first settle inside. Now that Liaodong is temporarily stable and Gyeonggi is peaceful, it is a good time for Zhen'an. ”

After saying this, Emperor Chongzhen continued: "As for Chengguogong's private criticism of me, I didn't want to investigate it deeply, but now that Li Guozhen is one of the people who bite him, then I will transfer Li Guozhen's report against him to him."

"By the way, there is also a record of Dongchang's private criticism of him, and I also forwarded it to him. Let's just say, I may indeed be the master, but I am still his father after all. Ask him for me to know the duty of a courtier. ”

Speaking of this, Emperor Chongzhen stopped and thought about it again, looked at Li Guowei and said: "This matter, Gong Yonggu and Fang Zhenghua will accompany Li Aiqing to go to the Chengguo Mansion in person." ”

After arranging these things, the imperial study on the east side of the Qianqing Palace soon left only Li Banghua, the minister of military aircraft, and a group of Zhongshu people and military attachés in front of the imperial chamber.

Emperor Chongzhen took this opportunity to tell Li Banghua what happened later in Juyong Pass, such as the execution of Liu Ce.

Li Banghua was shocked after hearing this, but the matter has come to this point, and the next thing to do is how not to leave trouble.

Fortunately, Sun Chengzong's prestige is well-known, and You Shiwei, the chief soldier of the Jianchang Battalion, Wang Shiqin, the chief soldier of the Santun Battalion, and other generals of Jizhen are all people who were made or promoted by Sun Chengzong, so there will be no major problems.

However, in order to prevent any accidents, Li Banghua still asked the emperor for his consent, and sent Song Yingxing, a scholar from the middle school, to the Baiyecheng Mine Camp overnight to inform Li Bei, a general who is now helping Li Banghua to lead the garrison of the Baiyecheng Mine Camp, and Song Yingsheng, a civil official in the camp, to reorganize the troops and stand by at any time.