Yuan Jixian read the content of what crimes Sun Zhiqi had committed and what evil things he had done, and Sun Zhiqi didn't bother to listen to it.

Thick-skinned enough, he doesn't care about fame or anything.

Sun Zhiqi just wants to listen carefully to the last sentence now.

He wanted to hear from Yuan Jixian's mouth how many knives he was going to be sentenced to.

Is it two thousand five hundred dollars?

Or was he only sentenced to 2,000 knives because his official position was not as high as Chen Mingxia?

Maybe because he was honest, he was only sentenced to a thousand dollars?

"The crime of shaving hair alone is already a heinous crime, if it is built to dominate the world, this crime will undoubtedly cause the interruption of my Chinese civilization, and not betraying three thousand knives is not enough to prove its evil! Therefore, several crimes will be punished together, and Ling Chi will be punished with 5,000 knives! ”

Five thousand dollars!

Sun Zhiqi was stunned.

Sun Zhiqi couldn't believe his ears.

Chen Mingxia, who was kneeling next to him, also heard clearly at this time.

However, Chen Mingxia naturally remembered that Sun Zhiqi had laughed at himself just now.

Therefore, Chen Mingxia did not let go of this opportunity to ridicule Sun Zhiqi, so he still pretended not to hear him clearly:

"Brother Long Fu, how many knives have you been sentenced to?"

Sun Zhiqi cried with a sad face: "Five thousand, woo! How is it taller than Azig! Isn't it just because it's easy to wear with a shaved hair, isn't it? ”

"Truth be told, it does! Five thousand knives are not wronged! ”

Chen Mingxia said and said with a smile:

"Don't you think it's ugly to drag a rat's tail behind your head, even if you hurt me Chen Mingxia to do this, it makes my favorite concubine dislike me for being ugly."

"What qualifications do you have for jokes! At the beginning, if you hadn't suppressed me, would I have chosen to do that, if it weren't for that, I wouldn't have been able to do the position of the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites! ”

Sun Zhiqi roared directly at Chen Mingxia.

"No matter what I say, I don't recommend Jianyu to shave his hair and be strong, you are a heinous thief, you will be cut with five thousand knives, you will not be sorry to die!"

Chen Mingxia was not to be outdone, and roared at Sun Zhiqi.

Yuan Jixian looked at where these two people were arguing, he didn't understand, he didn't understand where these two people got their sense of superiority, they were both thieves who betrayed their family and country, and who was more noble than whom.

"The hour has come, execution!"

Yuan Jixian looked at the sundial and finally gave the order for execution.

Chen Mingxia was dragged to the execution rack first and began to accept Ling Chi's punishment.

But before the executioner could punish Chen Mingxia, Chen Mingxia climaxed directly and screamed.

When the executioner really began to cut Chen Mingxia's first piece of meat, Chen Mingxia screamed even more miserably, and kept shouting:

"Stop, stop, please, please, stop! I was wrong, I was really wrong, I shouldn't have taken refuge in the Manchus, I should have gone south with Hu, if I went south with Hu, I would be able to become an old man, woo! ”

Sun Zhiqi didn't expect Chen Mingxia to cry so miserably at this beginning, he couldn't help but think of the fact that he would be cut with five thousand knives, so he couldn't help but tremble:

"Your Majesty, Emperor Daming, I don't want to shave my hair and be easy to wear, I really regret it, please, please spare me!"

The howls of Chen Mingxia and Sun Zhiqi continued like this for four or five days.

Yuan Jixian has been presiding over such things in the past few months, from the Manchu nobles to the Qing Hanchen to the ordinary bannermen, he was responsible for the execution one by one.

And by the time of October of the twenty-third year of Chongzhen, all the people in the entire Beijing city who were related to Jianyu had been executed.

It was only at this time that the city of Beijing was officially lifted and the people were allowed to leave the city freely.

However, the punishment of Jianyu and his Han thieves was not over, and the officers and soldiers of the Guards were still sweeping away the remnants of Jianyu in other state capitals in Guannai.

After occupying the Daimyofu, Zhendingfu, and Baoding Mansion, the Second Corps of the Third Army of the Guards Army executed all the bannermen in the city of these prefectures.

The Seventh Army of the Guards did not spare a single banner man after occupying Tongguan and Xi'an.

By November of the twenty-third year of Chongzhen, the remnants of Jianyu in the pass were basically wiped out.

Officials from the Generalissimo's Office, the Cabinet, the Criminal Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Dali Temple, and other institutions also moved back to Beijing from Nanjing.

Not only that, but all or part of institutions such as the Daming Central Bank, the Daming Army Military Academy, and the Daming Ordnance Institute were also relocated to Beijing.

It was a huge project, and its scale was equivalent to a move of the capital, almost equivalent to moving the political and economic center of the empire back to Beijing.

Moreover, this project began shortly after the reconquest of Beijing, but the relocation has not yet been fully completed.

On the day of November 20, the 23rd year of Chongzhen, Zhu Youzhen called for a big start.

This is the first great dynasty since the recovery of the northern capital, and it is also the first gathering of monarchs and ministers after the Ming Dynasty reunified the mountains and rivers, and its significance is particularly significant.

Today's Da Ming suddenly looks like he has just opened the country.

Politically, the old system was almost overthrown, and many new systems appeared, the most typical change was the emergence of a generalissimo's office, which took back the military power controlled by civilian officials from the military department.

At this time, the Ministry of War played almost only a role in maintaining domestic stability and managing logistics for the Generalissimo's office.

In addition, the cabinet, especially the first assistant of the cabinet, is not only the de facto prime minister, but even the prime minister recognized by the system.

Zhu Youzhen, in the name of Taizu's dream, said that Zhu Yuanzhang had realized the indispensable significance of the power of the prime minister, and used the system to recognize the power of the cabinet chief and auxiliary to manage the administration.

In many cases, many reforms in the Ming Dynasty could not be carried out, which was not unrelated to the shortcomings of the system.

In an agrarian country with reduced military pressure, it is inevitable that the civilian clique will grow larger, but this does not mean that the civilians are not enterprising from the beginning, but that the enterprising civilians do not have the power to implement reforms recognized by the empire.

Even Zhang Juzheng had to collude with the eunuchs and the joint harem to seek the support of the emperor before he was able to implement the policies of Qingzhang Tianmu.

And now Zhu Youzhen has given the cabinet chief assistant absolute administrative power.

That is, the chief assistant of the cabinet can recommend officials, households, ceremonies, soldiers, workers, and other administrative institutions to form cabinet members to represent Zhu Youzhen in the daily affairs of the empire.

But the final verdict was still in the hands of Emperor Zhu Youzhen.

However, if it is impossible for the emperor to decide so many government affairs by himself, he will naturally have a celebrant as an agent.

In modern times, the celebrant is equivalent to Zhu Youzhen's secretariat, and makes decisions for Zhu Youzhen in the name of Zhu Youzhen.

And the cabinet is responsible to the emperor Zhu Youzhen, and the emperor is still higher than the cabinet.

In any case, the chief assistant of the cabinet is no longer essentially the emperor's secretary in the same way as the celebrant and eunuch as before.

Now he is regarded as the professional manager of the empire, and he is the prime minister of the empire, so he rightly controls the administrative power of the empire to implement the political and economic reform goals he wants to achieve.

Moreover, the first assistant of the cabinet no longer has to go to great lengths to use various means and unspoken rules to collude with the officials of the six ministries to complete their political ideals, and now except for the criminal department, the others are all recommended by him himself, and naturally they are all subordinate to him, so he does not have to spend energy to engage in party struggle, as long as the emperor appoints him as the first assistant of the cabinet, he can have the opportunity to show his political blueprint.

(End of chapter)