"Nanjing is the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and the six departments of Nanjing are the ancestral system set by the ancestors, even if Liu Ge Lao is in charge of the imperial court, he must not do this perverse act!"

"We are court officials, and without the deliberation of the three law divisions, even Liu Ge Lao has no right to dismiss us!"

"If Liu Ge insists on going his own way, then I will go to the capital to sue the emperor!"

Liu Yan sneered and looked at the officials of the six ministries and other yamen in the hall yelling and screaming, and even some imperial historians of the Nanjing court were looking for death and life, lying on the ground and rolling around, as if they were juggling in the market.

Liu Yan looked at it without saying a word for a while, and felt that it was not interesting, so he waved his hand, and the chief soldier Han Qin, the deputy chief soldier Qin Chenghu, and the deputy chief soldier Bao Qiang each led the soldiers forward and directly fought against the excited ministers, and after a while, the hall was quiet.

It's just that there are already more than 20 people lying on the ground, all of whom are officials from various ministries and yamen of the Nanjing Imperial Court.

"Don't you want to invite your name here? All right! Today's beating, my father will give it to you. However, you will still be removed from office. ”

Then Liu Yan said loudly to everyone: "At the beginning, Chengzu set the two-capital system, in order to leave a way out for the Ming Dynasty, when the city of Beijing fell and the north of the Ming Dynasty could not hold on, the Nanjing court could still operate normally, and the Ming Dynasty could rely on the south to carry out the Northern Expedition." ”

"But now that my Ming Dynasty has prepared for the establishment of hundreds of thousands of national defense forces, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has been disabled, and the new policies and military reforms in various places are being fully implemented.

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Because of the existence of the Nanjing Imperial Court, it has no practical significance except for the empty consumption of money and food! ”

In fact, the role of the Nanjing court in history is also very limited, when the Chongzhen Emperor hanged himself in history, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the city of Beijing, although the Nanjing court quickly operated, but the officials here are all sitting on the cold bench on weekdays, or there is no real talent and learning, only fighting for power and profit.

In the face of the sudden crisis, the Nanjing court was in chaos from beginning to end, seizing power, dumping each other, fighting each other, and fighting and internal friction, and did not play its due role in accompanying the capital at all. Otherwise, with the overall strength of the south of the Ming River, at least it can be ruled by dividing the river with the Manchu Qing Dynasty and reproducing the story of the Southern Song Dynasty!

So in Liu Yan's opinion, don't even want such a useless accompaniment.

"All the officials of all ministries were blasted out, and all units of the 11th Army of the Wehrmacht immediately raided the mansions of the people, and all the money and grain that could not be explained were confiscated and used as funds for the implementation of the new policy and military reform."

"Anyone who is found to be corrupt and perverts the law or violates the laws of the Ming Dynasty will be detained, escorted back to Beijing, handed over to the Supervision Department to find out the facts, and handed over to the Public Prosecution Department for trial and conviction!"

"Yes!"

Qin Chenghu, the deputy commander-in-chief, immediately excitedly led people to take away dozens of officials of the Nanjing Imperial Court, and then the entire Nanjing city began to be lively, and the streets were full of soldiers of the National Defense Army.

However, these officers and men of the Wehrmacht are strictly disciplined, and even if they raid their homes, there are no murders, robberies, or extortion, and they all follow the step-by-step "civilized law enforcement."

It's just that those officials of the Nanjing court are all unlucky, together with Ruan Dacheng and Wang Duo, who were deposed and driven away before,

At this time, they were also blocked by the Wehrmacht soldiers in their respective homes, and then they watched a large group of soldiers and horses rush into their homes and began to search their homes.

The words are divided into two ends.

At this time, in the lobby of the Ministry of Officials, Liu Yan looked at the nobles in Nanjing.

Seeing that Liu Yan disposed of dozens of ministers with drastic means, and even the Nanjing Imperial Court was directly canceled, this made everyone tremble.

At this time, there were Xincheng Bo Zhao Zhilong, Wei Duke Xu Yunjue, Baoguo Duke Zhang Guobi, Longping Marquis Zhang Gongri, Linhuai Marquis Li Zushu, Huaining Marquis Sun Weicheng, Lingbi Marquis Tang Guozuo, Anyuan Marquis Liu Zuochang, Yongchang Marquis Xu Hongjue, Dingyuan Marquis Deng Wenyu, Xiangcheng Bo Chang Yingjun, Daxing Bo Zou Cunyi, Ning Jin Bo Liu Yunji, Nanhe Bo Fang Yiyuan, Dongning Bo Jiao Mengxiong, Ancheng Bo Zhang Guocai, Luo Zhongbo Huang Jiuding, Cheng Anbo Guo Zuoyong, Qi Zanyuan, Shilang Zhu Zhichen, Liang Yungou, Li Xuan, etc.

Especially Xincheng Bo Zhao Zhilong, this person is the tenth generation of Xincheng Bo of the Ming Dynasty, his family has been favored by the Ming Dynasty for generations, but he does not want to serve the country, he is famous in history for fighting for power and profit, and he is also very good at gathering nobles to interfere in politics.

In the first year of Hongguang in history, Duoduo led his army to Nanjing City, and Zhao Zhilong directly gathered a number of nobles in Nanjing City and took the initiative to surrender to the Manchu Dynasty.

Zhao Zhilong was also appointed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty as a scholar and a bachelor of the Hongwen Academy, and later served as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and was an out-and-out traitor.

In history, Liu Yan has almost heard of the Nanjing nobles who took the initiative to surrender to the Manchu Qing Dynasty with Zhao Zhilong, and they are basically these people who are here.

So Liu Yan said coldly: "You are all my nobles of the Ming Dynasty,

All of your ancestors have shed blood for the Ming Dynasty, and even died on the battlefield for the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty treats your family very preferentially, and the court does not hesitate to reward you with glory and wealth, meritorious official positions, so that you can have no worries about food and clothing, and live a life of fine clothes and food. ”

"It can be said that you are all lying on the merit book of your ancestors and enjoying these brocade clothes and food!"

Liu Yan asked loudly: "But ask yourself, are what you have done worthy of the imperial court and the merits of your ancestors?" Now you don't have the ability and ability of your ancestors for a long time, and all of you have degenerated into the moths of the Ming Dynasty, lying on the already broken body of the Ming Dynasty, knocking on the bones and sucking the marrow, and you still don't know it! ”

Although everyone was reprimanded sharply by Liu Yan, they didn't have much guilt and remorse on their faces, but they were all worried about their titles and whether they would be affected.

Liu Yan looked at the appearance of everyone, and sighed in his heart, the ancestors of these people are all capable and fierce generals, which one of them is the best among the people, but after two hundred years of reproduction, the descendants of those capable and powerful generals have all become moths, and have become only authority and wealth in their eyes, and they do not know the scourge of etiquette, righteousness, honesty and shame and the world of the family and country!

Every time he thought of this, Liu Yan felt a sigh.

Then Liu Yan said to Bao Qiang, the deputy chief soldier beside him: "Immediately take someone to these people's mansions, search the house and check it, no problem, the lord will keep it, and my father will give you a share of glory and wealth to continue to enjoy." ”

"If there is a problem, deprive the lord, go to prison, hand it over to the Inspectorate for review, and transfer it to the Public Prosecution Department for conviction!"

As soon as Liu Yan's words fell, Zhao Zhilong and the others immediately exploded

I didn't do anything illegal, and now I suddenly go to everyone's homes to search, and any one of them can find a lot of problems.

Not to mention anything else, just the huge amount of money in everyone's family can't tell the source at all, and with this alone, Liu Yan can serve everyone in one pot!

Xu Yunjue, the Duke of Wei, hurriedly bowed and shouted: "Liu Ge's old subordinates are merciful, my ancestor is General Xu Da, and I still hope to look at his old man's face, and open the net!" ”

The rest of the people also begged for mercy, and many people moved their ancestors out, hoping that Liu Yan would be able to raise his noble hand.

But in exchange for Liu Yan's even more contempt: "Now you still have the face to mention your ancestors? The face of our ancestors has been ruined by you unscrupulous descendants! ”

Then Liu Yan waved his hand impatiently, and Bao Qiang, the deputy commander-in-chief, directly led his troops to escort everyone out and began to inspect their homes one by one.

After Liu Yan disposed of many Nanjing officials and nobles, he led tens of thousands of national defense troops to be stationed in Nanjing City to carry out a "great purge" of officials and nobles in the city.

The turmoil lasted for more than ten days, and the search of homes was also in full swing, and basically every house was pulling out radishes and bringing out the mud.

In the end, the officers and men of the right battalion of the 11th and 12th armies of the Wehrmacht raided the homes of 217 officials and nobles, and almost all of them were greedy for money, as well as many other incriminating evidence.

Liu Yan looked at the mountains of incriminating evidence in front of him, and could only be described with the words "shocking".

The Nanjing Imperial Court was originally a place used by the Ming Dynasty to settle idle officials and officials who failed in political battles, but these people were not willing to be lonely in the city of Nanjing, and they were able to loot the people!

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Two hundred and seventeen families, the officers and men of the National Defense Force seized a total of 61,520,000 taels of silver, 9,180,000 stones of grain, and copied a large number of land deeds, basically around Nanjing City, as well as good land in various parts of Nanzhili, all of which were robbed and occupied by these people, and the number reached an astonishing 3.34 million mu!

Liu Yan immediately wrote all the evidence, as well as his own disposition of the Nanjing court, into a notebook, and sent someone to report it to Emperor Chongzhen.

As for the seized money and grain, Liu Yan left Jiang Dejing 10 million taels of silver and 5 million stone of grain as expenses for the implementation of the new policy and military reform policies in Nanzhili and Jiangnan provinces.

"With this money and food, the imperial court will not allocate funds to the Southern Inspection Group for the time being, you have to save some money!"

Liu Yan said to Jiang Dejing, Han Qin, and Qin Chenghu, and the three of them received orders one after another.

Now that the biggest obstacle in front of the three of them has been taken by Liu Yan, and the three of them have a large amount of money and food available in their hands, and the three of them can be said to be full of confidence in the implementation of the new policy and military reform in Nanzhili and Jiangnan provinces.

"That's it!"

Then Liu Yan said: "Those prisoners and evidence will be sent to the capital first, and this duke and Bao Qiang will also lead their troops back to Beijing." There has been such a big commotion in Nanjing, and it is estimated that the city of Beijing has exploded. ”

Jiang Dejing was a little worried, and said: "Pavilion Elder, now there are basically no officials in the court who oppose the new policy and military reform, but Your Majesty's side is afraid that you will be angry, after all, Pavilion Elder did not inform Your Majesty in advance, and directly abolished the Nanjing Imperial Court, so Your Majesty may think too much." ”

Liu Yan nodded and said, "Your Majesty thinks a lot."

Yes, but with these incriminating evidences and so many seizures, Your Majesty should be able to understand that what this duke has done is an act of loyalty to the country. ”

Two days later, Liu Yan led the deputy commander-in-chief Bao Qiang to set out from Nanjing, crossed the Yangtze River by boat at Yanziji, and returned to Beijing.

At this time, Huang Degong was still dismissing soldiers and horses in Yangzhou, and was actively implementing the military reform policy, and after the military reform policy in Yangzhou was fully implemented, and the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the headquarters were all settled, Huang Degong would leave for Qingzhou Fucheng.

The news of the dismissal of the Nanjing Imperial Court also reached Yangzhou at this time, and Huang Degong was also shocked when he heard it, but in addition to the shock, Huang Degong's heart was full of admiration for Liu Yan, after all, this courage is by no means something that an idler can have.

So when Huang Degong learned that Liu Yan had led his troops across the Yangtze River and was returning to Beijing in the north, he hurriedly rode his horse to Liuhe County, where he caught up with the right battalion army of the 12th Army of the National Defense Army led by Liu Yan.

"Xiaguan Huang Degong greets the elder of the pavilion!"

Liu Yan smiled and asked Huang Degong: "General Huang is here, is it to see off his father, or to report on military affairs?" ”

Huang Degong said: "Xia Guan heard that the elder pavilion is going to return to Beijing, so he came to see him off!" ”

"Well, General Huang has a heart."

Liu Yan did not order the army to stop, but beckoned to Huang Degong, and the two rode side by side for a while.

Liu Yan encouraged Huang Degong, and then said: "In the Huangming Military Academy in Qingzhou Mansion, there are several special academies, Li Dingguo, Ai Nengqi, Li Yan, you should have heard of the names of the three of them, in the future, you will be classmates with each other, and you will support each other." ”

Huang Degong clenched his fists and said, "Ge Lao."

Broad-minded, even the thief generals have energy to use, and the lower officials admire it! ”

"Please rest assured, after the subordinate arrives at the Huangming Military Academy, he will study hard and live up to the elder's hard work!"

Then Huang Degong asked: "The lower official has something to ask, and he also asks the elder for advice." ”

"Tell me, what?"

"I don't know Liu Liangzuo and Gao Jie, how did the elder deal with it?"