Chapter 1181 - Notice (Fourth Watch)
Chongzhen passed down the decree and ordered Wang Chengen to brush out the notice.
He told the soldiers and civilians in the city to make public the heinous crimes of Wu Sangui, Sha Dingzhou, Lu Wanzhong and others, and the emperor wanted to settle accounts with them this time.
The beheading of those who should be beheaded, the one who should be raided and destroyed, for these Tusi officials, they will no longer be appointed and dismissed on the spot, and the emperor will uniformly select and appoint officials from the court in the future.
In fact, this is tantamount to announcing that the policy of changing the land and returning it to the river will be implemented in Yunnan, abolishing the previous Tusi system, and strengthening the centralized rule. Native officials will no longer be appointed, and will be appointed by the central authorities. Never let go of the judgments of Wu Bikui, Sha Dingzhou and Lu Wan Zhong.
Many copies of such notices were copied and posted in the busy areas of the streets, and more and more onlookers watched. There are illiterate people, there are literate people, and the imperial court also sends docents.
Soon these ordinary people understood, and they all applauded.
The common people don't care who is the official, no matter who is the official, as long as they serve as an official, they will benefit one party.
Don't make rebellions at every turn, today you revolt, tomorrow I rebel, today you fight me, tomorrow I fight you, so that wars are frequent, the people are not happy, and the common people hate this kind of day the most.
Yunnan Governor Wu Zhaoyuan, Yunnan Deputy Envoy Yang Weizhi and other civil and military officials were also shocked when they learned the content of the notice, because changing the land and returning it to the river was by no means a trivial matter.
This is a major event that affects the whole body, especially in the late Ming Dynasty, which was so turbulent, involving several provinces in the southwest, and if it is not done to arouse public anger, it will lead to the demise of the Ming Dynasty.
Since Emperor Wanli, he wanted to change the land and return to the stream, but he didn't dare, and later generations of emperors did not dare to involve this deep-seated problem.
You must know that Yunnan's Tusi system has a long history, not only Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Hunan and Hubei and other remote areas, the implementation of the Tusi system, at that time in order to stabilize the border, alleviate ethnic contradictions, after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty on the implementation of this Tusi system, it has been more than 200 years now.
In the beginning, this system did play a positive role in stabilizing and uniting these ethnic minorities and developing the local economy, and was supported by the ethnic minorities in remote areas, but later the drawbacks were also exposed.
The Tusi system has gradually become a hereditary system that is dominant, and the Tusi officials have too much power, that is, these Xuanfu envoys and Xuanfu envoys have greater power than the prefect and the governor, with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and they hold military and political power within the Tusi, and even these local Tusi officials can not bird the central officials such as the governor and governor appointed by the central government, and some simply directly confront the imperial court.
The Tusi Rebellion was not only in the late Ming Dynasty during the Chongzhen period, but the famous Battle of Banzhou, one of the three major expeditions of Wanli, was a large-scale Tusi rebellion.
At that time, Yang Yinglong, the Banzhou Propaganda Division, had too much power, directly confronted the central court, and provoked the banner of rebellion. Although Wanli sent troops to suppress the rebellion, it lasted 140 days, affecting Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan provinces.
During the Apocalypse, the Tusi rebellion broke out again, this time the scale was larger, that is, the famous Lu'an Rebellion in history, which lasted for 17 years, starting from the first year of the Apocalypse, until the 10th year of Chongzhen, the rebellion was completely quelled, affecting Sichuan Province and Guizhou Province, and the imperial court consumed a lot of national strength.
The weakening of the national strength was also an influencing factor in the social turmoil in the last years of Chongzhen.
For the Tusi system, starting from Wanli to that Chongzhen, no one dared to touch the Ming Dynasty's courts, and wanted to change the land and return to the stream, none of these generations of emperors dared to eat crabs.
In history, it was a feat in the Yongzheng period.
In this way, Chongzhen is a hundred years earlier than him.
Wu Zhaoyuan and Yang Weizhi, of course, including Mu Tianbo, didn't expect Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty to have such courage.
The emperor is still on an expedition in Yunnan, and he has not yet returned to the court, has such a major event been discussed by the cabinet?
The emperor directly made a decision.
Those Donglin bigwigs, what if you don't agree?
Mu Tianbo, Wu Zhaoyuan, and Yang Weizhi also thought of this layer.
It is no wonder that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Donglin Party and the eunuchs formed two powerful groups, both of which were able to influence the imperial court, fight openly and secretly, so that the emperor survived in the cracks, and the silver went to the hands of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, no
There is a military salary, and the emperor can't take the lead in fundraising.
In the past two years, the two of them have been officials on the border of Yunnan, and of course they do not know about the affairs of the imperial court.
Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty solved these stubborn problems in the imperial court as early as two years ago, and all those Donglin bigwigs were dismissed, and the old ministers were cut off, and the eunuch group did not dare to bare their teeth.
What kind of cabinet, the court discussion, all have to look at the emperor's face to act, the emperor is not happy, let them all have to go home.
Therefore, the current Ming Dynasty, that is, Chongzhen alone has the final say. Even if he is not in the court, now the crown prince is in charge of the court, no matter whether it is a civil official or a military general, whether it is a big official or a small official, no one dares to make a mistake.
Now Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty has basically leveled the martial arts world of the rivers and lakes.
At the end of the notice, it was announced that three days later, an execution ground would be set up on the shore of Kunming Lake outside the city, and 3,000 Wu Sangui's rebel prisoners would be executed en masse.
When such information came out, the common people even rushed to tell each other, executing 3,000 people at a time, which is unique.
3,000 people were escorted to the execution ground to be beheaded, and the common people couldn't imagine such a scene, and they were so frightened that they shrank their necks.
But those who are bold still have some expectations. These rebellious ministers and thieves should be killed, and they have a good life, but they want to rebel and run from the northeast to the southwest, how many people have been harmed?
If a man does not die, he will die?
Kill these rebels and thieves, see who dares in the future!
Many people applauded and approved of Chongzhen's actions.
Three days later, on the shore of Kunming Lake.
Chongzhen mobilized 10,000 troops to set up an execution ground here.
Mu Tianbo, the Duke of Qianguo, was the supervisor and beheaded the official, Wu Zhaoyuan, the governor of Yunnan, and Yang Weizhi, the deputy envoy of Yunnan, were all present.
At this time, there were really a lot of bold people, in addition to the army, there were ordinary people, and there were a lot of people. Some of them came very early, and came to occupy the place before dawn, in order to see and cut people, and to see well.
Near noon, 3,000 Wu army captives were pressed to the execution ground.
These captives are still lucky, because they have been captured for a few days, and they have not been interrogated, and they are still provided with food and drink, and they all think that Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty is tolerant and merciful, and this time he will recruit them and reorganize them into other armies, they can still eat food and become soldiers, and those who are officials can continue to be officials.
Some of these captives used to be the Ming army, and then they followed Wu Sangui to make a rebellion, and then surrendered to the Manchu Dynasty, and then they followed Wu Sangui to go it alone, and now they have surrendered to the Ming army.
The sun and the moon reincarnated, turned around, isn't this coming back again?
If it doesn't go well in the future, it's still interesting to still make a faint king's rebellion.
Many captured generals had this mentality.
However, when they saw this formation next, their faces suddenly changed.
3,000 people must have their heads cut off, it's unlikely, right?