Chapter 1224: A Fat Man Eats in One Bite
readx; Zhu Dadian's move of "killing one and making an example of a hundred" is really powerful. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info∮ ∮ ∮ Xiao∮ said that these officials have always deceived the people and deceived them, anyway, everything has to be implemented by their hands, and the "old lady" also has to rely on them, so there is no fear. But today it is different, Zhu Dadian has the support of the officials and soldiers from Beijing, and he really cuts off his head when he stares, who dares to play the trick of yang and yin?
Not long after, other low-level officials of the prefect's yamen, as well as scribes and others, also rushed to hear the news. These people are more treacherous and sinister than the officials, and they are also better at seeing the wind and steering. In order to prevent Zhu Dadian from grasping the handle, they had no choice but to follow suit and let them do whatever they wanted.
Zhu Dadian couldn't help but be convinced in his heart when he saw it, if it weren't for the twenty officers and soldiers that Zhu Youzhen allocated to him, this kind of immediate change would not have happened.
Of course, he didn't know that this trick was actually "military control", that is, military control. Since ascending to the throne, Zhu Youzhen has been pondering how to push forward with comprehensive reforms across the country. And as long as it is reform, it cannot bypass local forces. In a place like Luoyang, which has been accumulating evils for a long time, local officials and officials are complicit, and even if the imperial court sends an official, it is still difficult for the government decree to be smooth. Especially when it comes to the interests of these people themselves, it is even more difficult to move an inch. After Enke, Zhu Youzhen selected 6,000 jinshi, most of whom were sent to local posts, and this situation occurred.
With this counterinsurgency, Zhu Youzhen finally began to implement his first step after careful consideration, that is, to implement "military management" at the local level. The advantage of military management is that the soldiers who hold power are all foreigners, have no interests entangled with anyone in the locality, and can carry out orders without scruples and resolutely. Under the strict supervision of the soldiers, those low-level officials who were corrupt in the past will no longer dare to act in a blatant manner, and the appearance of local officialdom will be completely changed in a very short time.
However, military management also has shortcomings, that is, military personnel generally do not understand local government affairs, and are prone to blind command. And now is not a change of dynasty, it is absolutely impossible to let soldiers directly become magistrates, so Zhu Youzhen is also more cautious, in Luoyang he did not replace the chief officer Zhu Dadian, but also let him take the lead in doing things, and twenty soldiers only play an auxiliary role.
Zhu Dadian is a person who Zhu Youzhen came into contact with in Luoyang a few years ago. Although this person is a corrupt official and has a very poor reputation among the people, when Zhang Xianzhong attacked the city on a large scale, he could at least resolutely defend the city, and persuaded Zhu Changxun to take out the silver to motivate the soldiers. From this point of view, this person is still quite a big section, and in the current lack of talent, a little beating on him can still be used. If he still dares to commit crimes against the wind, the soldiers sent to the "military management" will repay him, and it will not be too late to kill him at that time.
In order to perform in front of the emperor, Zhu Dadian really worked hard this time. He personally led the team, abandoned the sedan chair on foot, and went door to door to collect grain, first from the homes of officials and officials. Even the way he took those officials was very simple and rude, leaving only one sentence: the rebels are about to counterattack, and there is a shortage of food in the city, so they must be uniformly deployed. Before the rebellion was completely quelled, the people of Luoyang had three meals a day and were provided by the government to set up a porridge factory. Then the grain is directly collected, the quantity is registered, and it is sent back to the grain depot. The whole process is supervised by the officers and soldiers, so no one dares to cheat.
For the people of Luoyang, of course they were unwilling to have their grain confiscated, but they were more afraid of being punished by the imperial court. Moreover, the government promised to set up a porridge factory to provide three meals a day to ensure that everyone had something to eat, which was a good thing for the poor people who were often hungry and full.
Only those rich and wealthy families suffered heavy losses, and the large amount of grain in their homes was all gone at once, and they had to go to the porridge factory with the poor men who didn't even look at them in the past to squeeze into food, losing face and resentment. But now that the whole city of Luoyang is under martial law, Zhu Dadian turned his face and denied people, saying that whoever dared not to be imprisoned immediately, these people thought that it was important to save their lives, so they had to obediently hand over food.
In just two days, the grain of the people of the whole city has been stored in the grain depot, totaling 300,000 stones. Luoyang City even the people with the guards and the army, the population is less than 80,000, according to the average person per day of one pound of grain, one stone can be eaten for four months, only 100,000 stone grain can last until the summer harvest. The remaining 200,000 grains can be used to support other places that are more in need.
And this is still a small head, the real big head is in the Fuwang Mansion. Because the Fuwang Mansion belonged to the property of the vassal king and was not under the local administration, Zhu Dadian did not interfere, and Zhu appointed Li Dingguo to be directly responsible for it.
Li Dingguo first classified the personnel of the Fuwang Mansion. The first category is that all of Zhu Changxun's relatives who did not have time to escape, including the princess, concubine Teng, children, etc., will be detained and sent to Beijing for trial in the future. Zhu Changxun and Zhu Yousong were abolished as concubines, and all the titles and treatments of these people were naturally abolished, and the Fuwang line ceased to exist.
The second category was royal officials and eunuchs. Some of these people were directly involved in the rebellion, and although some were not directly involved, the imperial court had explicitly abolished the eunuch system, and these people were still working in the Fuwang Mansion as eunuchs, and even many of them came from other places as "admirers", which obviously violated the laws of the imperial court, so they were all detained.
The third group was more numerous, mainly court ladies and servants. Zhu Changxun has been in the domain for many years, and he is extremely poor and luxurious, and there are more than 2,000 people who serve him, which is seriously beyond the order of the imperial court. According to the rules of "raiding homes and destroying doors" in the past, these people also have to follow Zhu Changxun to lose their heads. However, Zhu Youzhen believed that these people were just ordinary subordinates, and they were not qualified to participate in the rebellion at all, and there was no need to punish them. Therefore, Li Dingguo was instructed: Anyone who has a home in Luoyang will be sent home; Those whose homes are in other places or do not have a home are temporarily retained in the government to serve the officers and soldiers.
Once you've dealt with people, it's time to dispose of things. As the beloved son of Emperor Wanli, Zhu Changxun was rewarded very generously when he became a vassal. Zhu You checked the archives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and remembered that Wanli spent nearly one million taels of silver on the construction of the Fuwang Mansion and the preparation of his big wedding gift for him, and also rewarded 20,000 hectares of Zhuangtian at one time, and thousands of salt citations.
Now from the interrogation of the palace officials, it is known that Zhu Changxun is not only eating his old book, but now he even "surrenders" the land he really annexed, and the farmland under the name of the Fu Wangfu has reached more than 50,000 hectares, that is, more than 5 million mu! You must know that the entire area of Luoyang is more than 200,000 hectares, and after deducting the mountainous areas, almost all the cultivated land has become Zhu Changxun's personal property.
As for the cash, Li Dingguo picked out more than 3 million taels of silver and 50,000 taels of gold from King Fu's mansion alone. There are also countless treasures in the house, and it is difficult to count the value for a while. As for the shop properties funded by the royal government, as well as the silver taels released from outside, many of them are in other places, and it is even more difficult to find out. Let's just say it, Zhu Changxun deserves to be a rich country. Of course, now that all these assets have been confiscated, Zhu Youzhen has eaten a fat man in one bite, and the sneak attack on Luoyang has been a great success!