Chapter 434

"Nanjing has been taken, it does not mean that this battlefield has come to an end, in fact, this war has just begun!"

Cheng Shijie delivered an important speech at the meeting of the General Staff Headquarters: "As you all know, the marshal has never been able to rub sand in his eyes, and the marshal is extremely strict in governing the army, and our first priority now is to immediately restore order in Nanjing City, and all the soldiers who dare to disturb the people will be beheaded regardless of whether they are high or low!" ”

Wu Sheng, Cheng Shi, and Jiang Wuxian all replied immediately: "Guarantee to complete the task!" ”

"This commander is not worried about you completing the task, after all, even if you have all gone through at least half a year of military discipline training and ideological education, what I am most worried about is the unruly Zhejiang army, Anqing, Chizhou, Tongling, Zhenjiang and other armies!"

Song Xiance bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, please rest assured, I can guarantee that they are more honest than their grandsons!" ”

In fact, after the failure of the first attack on Nanjing, Song Xiance and Chen Guodong began to carry out ideological education work on the surrendered army.

This ideological work is very simple and rude, first of all, the Ning Navy, no, now the Ming Royal Army's military salary, military salary, and beheading military merit rewards, as originally told to the surrendering soldiers, which made these surrendered soldiers feel that Cheng Shijie was a soldier, which was simply cooler than the local lord's old wealth.

But the problem is that as long as military discipline is violated, then all the benefits obtained will be cancelled immediately, including the preferential policies for military dependents.

Therefore, even if the soldiers surrendered to the army after entering the city of Nanjing, they would not dare to burn, kill and loot, it was unthinkable, not only did they not dare to move their minds, but they also had to treat the people who were injured in the war, help the people repair their houses, and were very busy.

Cheng Shijie officially entered Nanjing on the fourth day of the city of Nanjing, that is, on July 19 of the first year of Dingxin, and tens of thousands of people in Nanjing watched Cheng Shijie enter Nanjing with anxiety.

Cheng Shijie walked towards the Nanming Palace, and said to Song Xiance beside him: "Kang Nian! ”

"The minister is here!"

"This rebellion, I have to make a list!"

Song Xiance instantly understood what Cheng Shijie meant: "What does the king mean, settle accounts after the autumn?" ”

"This word is inappropriate, with Ben Shuai's idea, this is called accountability, killing to pay for life, debts to pay back, can't because their people are dead, the debts they owe will be bought and sold!"

Cheng Shijie said indignantly: "There is nothing so cheap in this world, as long as it is a gentleman related to this rebellion, don't even think about escaping." ”

"Your Majesty understands!"

With the fastest efficiency, Song Xiance made a list of as many as 997 people in the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, including Shangshu of the Nanjing Military Department, Shi Kefa, the governor of Yangzhou, Zhou Yanru, Ma Shiying, Ruan Dayue, Huang Daozhou, Lu Zhenfei, Fan Jingwen, Lu Weiqi, and so on.

Cheng Shijie took a red pen and crossed out several names on the list, such as Lu Weiqi, Bi Maokang, Zhang Jimeng, and Nan Ming's unyielding and unyielding officials, and other officials were all raided regardless of life or death.

Song Xiance took the list and said: "The minister thinks that a virtuous minister should be selected to copy the house!" ”

"Who?"

"Cheng Shi!"

"He's not right!"

Cheng Shijie shook his head and said, "Let your nephew Jiang Wuxian be in charge of this matter, and you will help from the side!" ”

"Yes!"

Jiang Wuxi's face was full of joy.

Song Xiance understands that this is Cheng Shijie's test of Jiang Wuxi, if Jiang Wuxian does this well, the future future is unlimited, if he misses it, let alone be promoted, it is a question whether he can get mixed up in the Dingxin Dynasty.

Song Xiance thought for a while and said, "Is it going to be a public trial?" ”

"There must be a public trial!"

Under the guidance of Song Xiance's list, Jiang Wuzhi led the elite troops of the 16th Brigade and began to raid homes everywhere, and every time he raided his home, he truthfully announced the copied property, not only on the bulletin board in Nanjing, but also in the "Ming Imperial Times".

At the beginning, the people of Nanjing didn't feel anything, they all thought that this was the success of the king and the defeat of the king, but soon they were shocked by the series of numbers announced, and finally the shock turned into anger, and everyone scolded: "Wow, you guys are sanctimonious, you keep saying that it is for justice and heavenly principles, and the Taoism of the Han family, but in fact, it is all for money!" In order to make more money, in order to keep the money we have earned, we Jiangnan people are fools!! ”

They can't help but be angry, looking at the figures announced, a nine-grade sesame official has tens of thousands of fortunes, and as for those wealthy merchants who have been dealing in salt, iron and silk for generations, it is even more amazing, and the numbers can scare people out of heart disease!

Look at this number that frightens people to death, and then think of the extremely stingy performance of these guys when there was a food shortage in Jiangnan, the people of Nanjing and even the entire Jiangnan have a feeling that they have been played, which makes them extremely angry!

As long as it was a gentry and wealthy businessman related to the rebellion, none of them wanted to run away, the whole family was thrown into prison, and the family property was confiscated.

It is worth mentioning that it is not up to them to decide whether it has anything to do with the rebellion, it is the imperial court that has the final say, which directly leads to a geometric increase in the number of people implicated, and they will not be able to fill it if all the prisons are vacated.

But it doesn't matter, the imperial court has already prepared a prison large enough for them, even if their number is doubled a few times, it will be able to be stuffed.

After the public trial, the gentry who were officially sentenced, in fact, most of the main figures of the gentry died in this war, and those who did not die were either greedy for life and afraid of death, or they were really not corrupt. In this world, it's not that there are really no clean officials, but there are not many of them.

On the ninth day of August in the first year of Dingxin, the first batch of ocean-going ships arrived at Nanjing Wharf, which was a temporary wharf, because if it was not built, there was really no way to dock such a huge ocean transport ship.

Nowadays, the largest transport ship produced in Liaodong is a super-large sailing ship built according to the Guangfu ship, which has a carrying capacity of more than 2,000 tons, and if it transports grain, it can carry 35,000 stones at a time.

This kind of transport ship named transoceanic ship will be responsible for transporting the gentry to Australia, no, the name Australia is actually Greek, meaning unknown land in the south, Cheng Shijie directly named Australia Zhanzhou, and directly Sydney Bay, named Nanjing Bay.

In the future, a Jiangnan will be roughly replicated in Zhanzhou, and Zhanzhou will be a state-level unit of the Ming Dynasty to temporarily exercise management and governance authority.

As long as the population is large enough and the economy is prosperous enough, it will continue to upgrade the administrative unit, although Zhanzhou is used as a huge prison, but the problem is that this is not a terra nullius, historically, the British used the smallpox virus to basically wipe out the indigenous people of Australia.

But the problem is that Cheng Shijie does not intend to adopt a rough mine-style management method to establish the Zhanzhou Prefecture and also establish the Zhanzhou Military Division.

At the meeting, no one was willing to choose the director of the Zhanzhou Management Committee (prefect), and in the eyes of all of them, going to Zhanzhou was simply exile.

However, there has never been a shortage of smart people in this world, but Shen Huandong stood up and volunteered, Shen Huandong is in the Shen family in Chongming, he is only a son of a side branch, and his knowledge is not high, and he is not the smartest person, and the resources he can enjoy are very limited. This is the official position of Zheng Jiupin.

Cheng Shijie naturally agreed to Shen Huandong's request, but did not let him directly serve as the director of the Zhanzhou Management Committee, Cheng Shijie's eyes fell on Cheng Shi, he thought for a while and said: "Cheng Shi was transferred to the commander of the Guards Brigade, Hou Shi has been with Ben Shuai for a few years, and it is time to be released!" ”

"Thank you, the king!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Zhanzhou is rich in steel, you are the director of the management committee in Zhanzhou, and at the same time the commander of the Zhanzhou Army!" ”

The scale of Zhanzhou District is not large, in fact, it is directly transferred from the Guards Brigade an infantry regiment, a medical battalion, and a baggage battalion to form a reinforced regiment, and the whole army is only more than 3,000 people.

In Cheng Shijie's view, the current equipment of the imperial army of the Ming Dynasty is much more elite than that of Britain more than a hundred years later, and these exiled officials and gentry will definitely be forced by the situation there to twist into a rope and gain a firm foothold.

At this point, the Jiangnan rebellion was largely over, and small-scale rebellions still occurred from time to time, but they were irrelevant. In this counterinsurgency battle, which lasted for several months, the Ming army only invested 60,000 or 70,000 people in three brigades, and it was easily completed.

The war scene is a bit underwhelming, but the significance of this counterinsurgency war cannot be overestimated. Through this war, Cheng Shijie completely destroyed the unruly Jiangnan gentry group, and uprooted this political force that had been working against the imperial court almost openly and secretly since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and indirectly controlled the entire court situation at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

After this battle, the once glorious Donglin Party no longer existed, and the most powerful resistance to the new policy of the Dingxin Dynasty was destroyed by the imperial court in an extremely rude way.

The wounds of the war in Nanjing are slowly healing, and a large number of houses that have been blown up or destroyed are being rebuilt directly, and the corpses should be reinstated, cremated when they should be cremated, and the land that should be divided into land should be divided, and the life that should be lived is good to continue to live.

Song Xiance held the statistical account book, and the wind was blowing under his feet, and he seemed to be flying.

"Your Majesty, this is the result of the raid, guess how much money these bastards have?"

Cheng Shijie vaguely remembered that after the Qing army captured Jiangnan, he plundered 900 million taels of silver, but he had no waves in his heart: "How many?" ”

"After more than a month of raiding homes and tax inspections, countless gold and silver treasures were dug up from Jiangnan, equivalent to more than 650 million taels of silver......

"How?"

Cheng Shijie's reaction was beyond Song Xiance's expectations: "What does the king mean, this is still less? ”

"Of course it's less!"

Cheng Shijie said lightly: "Jiang Wuxian is not very good at this job!" ”

"That's 650 million taels ......"

"The Jiangnan gentry group has accumulated more than 200 years of wealth through tax evasion and collusion between officials and businessmen, and it must be more than that!"

Cheng Shijie's first reaction was that Jiang Wuxian was not clean this time, and he was in charge of raiding his house, and he only needed a little means to make astronomical wealth.

Song Xiance was uneasy, he was also worried that his nephew had moved money that should not be moved, which was the fundamental guarantee for Cheng Shijie to develop industry and implement the new policy, if Jiang Wuzhi moved this money, no one would be able to protect him.

But thinking that Jiang Wuxi patted his chest and assured, he fell into confusion again.

After Chen Guodong and Jin Yiwei's investigation, someone did it, but it was really not Jiang Wuxi, but the three battalion-level officers of the 16th Brigade, who were greedy for more than 390,000 taels of silver.

However, Cheng Shijie is still wondering, this gap is too big, right?

In the end, this doubt was revealed by Yang Yunniang to Cheng Shijie, and now the Ming Imperial Bank, the former Liaodong Bank, has a total of Jiangnan businessmen and gentry deposited a total of 659 banks, with a deposit of about 87 million taels of silver, and the private sector in Liaodong, with a total investment of more than 25 million taels of silver by Jiangnan gentry.

There is also a considerable amount of silver in the grain war, which was harvested as leeks by the Ning Navy Group in the grain war in Beizhili and the grain war in Jiangnan.

Now all this silver is cheaper than Cheng Shijie, although it is still a big difference compared with the Qing army, but this is exaggerated enough, this money has laid a solid foundation for the implementation of the new deal, and the Jiangnan gentry group has also made a great contribution to the revival of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, this contribution is not something they would like!

The capture of Nanjing City meant the curtain call of the Jiangnan gentry group that once dominated the fate of the Ming Dynasty, and this powerful force withdrew from the stage of history in a tragic way, an old era ended, and a new era immediately began.

With the silver, with the land annexed by the gentry group, there are too many things that can be done, the first is to re-measure the acres of land in Jiangnan and start distributing them to the people of Jiangnan, although it is said that it is now about to enter autumn.

However, the climate and land conditions in the Jiangnan area are relatively suitable for agricultural production, and crops can be grown in multiple seasons in a year. In general, the seasonal crops that can be grown in the Gangnam region include spring crops, summer crops, autumn crops, and winter crops.

What makes the people of Jiangnan feel happiest is that the Dingxin Dynasty began to repair roads and dredge ditches on a large scale, which are all state-level projects, and take the way of work-for-relief to let the people of Jiangnan quickly recover.

Sea salt, textiles, canned meat, seafood, and daily necessities from Liaodong quickly entered the Jiangnan market, which is simply timely rain for the Liaodong factory, which has faintly overcapacity.

In addition to the gold and silver treasures seized from the house, a large amount of grain was also seized, which means that the new dynasty has almost no input, but only uses the grain and wealth of Jiangnan to feed the people of Jiangnan.

Just when Jiang Wuxian continued to spread the great cause of raiding homes from Nanjing to all parts of the south of the Yangtze River, on the river of Nanjing, a fleet of ships of considerable scale raised its sails, and a large number of people and materials were on board, ready to go to sea.

The commander-in-chief of this fleet, Hou Xi, and the deputy commander were Shen Huandong, who was promoted from a nine-rank inspector to a fourth-grade deputy director, and this benevolent brother had a reputation within the Shen family.

Hou Shi's official position was named the Governor of Zhanzhou by the imperial court, just when everyone thought that he was satisfied and would happily take up the post of Governor of Zhanzhou, saving a fortune for himself and future generations. Hou Shi is ready to do a big job.

Unlike others, he followed Cheng Shijie and knew what kind of place Zhanzhou was, this place was bigger than the Ming Dynasty, the two capitals and thirteen provinces, and now the population was sparse and very backward, and it would not take many years for him to run Zhanzhou as rich as Liaodong like Cheng Shijie developed Liaodong.

The prison in Nanjing City really couldn't hold too many people, so it had to vacate the big camp in Lion Rock and put people inside, this big camp that can accommodate 50,000 or 60,000 horses can naturally hold more than 100,000 prisoners.

Prisoners naturally have no human rights, they can only guarantee not to starve to death, Lu Weiqi and his sons Lu Zhaohuang, Lu Zhaolin, and their protégés and former officials are locked up in Lion Rock.

Cheng Shijie did not forget Lu Weiqi, but he did not release him as soon as possible, until everything settled, Lu Weiqi and his sons were taken to an open-air wooden barrel, added a large amount of insecticide, and directly forced them to take a bath.

washed three buckets of black water, so that they could put on brand new clothes, because Cheng Shijie was going to hold a banquet to entertain them, if Nanjing had just fallen, Lu Weiqi would scold Cheng Shijie and beg for death.

But when he was tortured by wanting to die and not being able to survive in prison during this time, Lu Weiqi was shaken, he didn't want to die, he wanted to live, even if he lived as humbly as an ant.

He could have died, but what about his son? The eldest son Lu Zhaohuang is only 28 years old, and the second son Lu Zhaolin is only 22 years old.

Cheng Shijie's idea is that scholars can't do without, but empty talk misleads the country. A scholar does not just refer to a person or a group of people, but an ideal, or at worst, an ism.

Many people have no faith. Taking history as a mirror, what the people believe most is in themselves.

Our ancestors have walked for 5,000 years without a road, and the mountains and seas cannot be leveled and must be moved.

Jingwei Weimu will fill the sea. Xingtian Dance is dry, and fierce ambition is always there.

This is the faith of our nation.

The Han Dynasty advocates the three zhang Qingfeng looking for the marquis.

The Tang Dynasty has the heroism of not returning the broken Loulan. Let professional people do professional things, this is also the way things should be.

(End of chapter)