Among the generals who conquered Luchuan and pacified the Miao Rebellion, Liang Xuan and Fang Ying were among the best.

But as soon as he thought of these two people, Zhu Qiyu began to sigh vigorously while lying on the bed.

When the emperor is most afraid of this kind of person, he can't see a clear position, but he has the ability and military achievements, and he has to be reused.

Zhu Qiyu still decided to let these generals, as pioneers, lead the Nanjing Jingying to recover Jiaozhi to try.

Nanjing Jingying can beat Jiaozhi down the best, but if it can't be defeated, he will send Beijing Jingying over again.

Seeing that Zhu Qiyu couldn't stop sighing, Qian Xue was not only not comforted, but also asked as if she was on fire: "Husband, before Ningyang Hou Jin sacrificed more than 100 castrated prisoners of war, and later Jingyuan Bo also sent nearly 200 castrated Miao people.

These more than 300 people have been hanging there and no one cares about them.

Wang Cheng sent people to urge him several times, should he kill, release or stay? You'll have to give me an explanation. ”

"Oh my God!"

After Zhu Qiyu listened, he really covered his face with his hands, and the fire was even bigger. Why are there problems everywhere, and it's a bit cruel to kill these people. It's not quite appropriate to let these people go.

Keep these people? If you can't raise it well, you will waste money and food.

After screaming for a long time, Zhu Qiyu removed his hand and looked up at the concubines. I saw that all the favorite concubines looked at them in a daze, but no one planned to come over to comfort them.

Zhu Qiyu had no choice but to sigh and instructed Qianxue: "Forget it, let Wang Qin bring all these three hundred people over tomorrow, and I'll pick one myself."

Now you can come over one, two, or three people, and help me go to the fire. ”

……

On the second day, Zhu Qiyu, who had rested, came out to participate in the small court.

Half a month has passed since the last small pilgrimage meeting.

Zhu Qiyu looked around and found that the ministers' complexion was getting better and better, and they were all red and radiant.

It is no wonder that in addition to Zhu Qiyu's worries from time to time recently, the ministers are really having a good time: the wars in the four directions of the Ming Empire have gradually subsided.

The emperor drew up a three-year tax exemption plan, the first of which was already considered to have survived.

Replacing Daming Bao with Jingtai Tongbao is also going well.

The pro-emperor army in Beijing has been completely cleansed, the number of troops in Beijing has been greatly reduced, and the pressure on Cao Yun has been greatly reduced. Xu Youzhen has also succeeded in governing the river, and the transportation of the Shandong section has been completely restored.

Moreover, the imperial court's efforts to open sources and reduce expenditures have also achieved initial results, and all civil and military officials have received sufficient salaries.

The most important thing is that the number of the emperor's favorite concubines has reached as many as eight, more than half.

This is a big reassurance for everyone. Eight favorite concubines, how can they give birth to one or two princes.

With the prince, everyone has more confidence to act.

Although Zhu Qiyu himself is not in a hurry, the important ministers of the cabinet are already planning to change the crown prince.

In particular, Wang Wen, Jiang Yuan, and He Wenyuan were the most active.

This is also the commonality of civil officials, who want to occupy a position in the next emperor and let their family continue to be rich.

Zhu Qiyu didn't know that his cronies and important ministers were thinking so much and so long-term.

Zhu Qiyu only cared about whether he and his favorite concubines could have enough to eat, so he said to everyone straight to the point: "According to the Dongchang report, as the time for the emperor to return to Beijing is approaching, Wang Zhenyu's party is ready to move, spreading rumors in the city to build momentum for the restoration of the emperor.

Although it should still be located in the Emperor Taishang, Wang Zhen almost overthrew Sheji and was a sinner of the country. It is not Wang Zhenyu's turn to talk about the restoration.

Let's talk about how to deal with these rebels? ”

Everyone present looked at each other. Although there have been some rumors in Beijing recently, everyone does not believe that Wang Zhenyu's party really has such courage.

I'm afraid that someone is just acting in the name of Wang Zhenyu's party.

The problem is that as soon as the emperor speaks, he will give it. The emperor said that Wang Zhenyu's party was making trouble, who would dare to raise the bar to the death.

As for the emperor's move, what is his intention?

I don't know, even Wang Wen and He Yi are confused, and they don't know what the emperor wants to do.

This is also to blame Zhu Qiyu, originally planned to kill the pig again at the end of next year, but now that the situation has changed, the days are almost unbearable, so he temporarily decided to make another windfall.

You can't understand the emperor's thoughts, but the emperor's questions can't be ignored.

A group of ministers publicly recommended Wang Wen to come out to answer questions.

Wang Wen replied stubbornly: "The position of heaven has been decided, how can it be easier." For those who are building momentum for the restoration of the Emperor Taishang, His Majesty should make an example of him in order to set the record straight. ”

Zhu Qiyu shook his head: "There is no need to kill people, just exile the army, just choose Mengyang." In order to avoid another rebellion like Luchuan, we should move more Han Chinese to Yunnan.

People like this who are exiled to the army will be sent to Yunnan first.

I asked Dongchang and Jinyiwei to do it, confiscate these people's property, and send them out of Beijing within three days.

This is the list of copyists, you can pass it on, there is no problem, the criminal department will issue a driving post. ”

Wang Wen took the driver's post and looked at it carefully with Chen Xun.

I don't know if I don't see it, and I'm shocked when I see it.

Good guys, the list given by the emperor is densely packed with dozens of people, including the sons and nephews of the Wang family, Jinyiwei, Qianhu, Wang Lin, Wang Shan and others.

There are Wang Zhen's cronies, Jinyi Wei Zhen Fu Zhou Quan, Xiaoqi Zhang Botong, Seng Lu Si Right Jueyi Gong Ran, Daolu Si Right Xuanyi Wang Daohong, and craftsman Shen Cheng......

Although these people did not have a high official position, they relied on Wang Zhen's prestige and favor back then, entering and leaving Wang Zhen's mansion and leaking confidential matters, not only did no one dare to provoke them, but they also competed to bribe and ask for help.

So these people are very rich in their own ways.

Among them, many people helped Wang Zhen take care of his property and handle smuggling matters with Warat.

After Chen Xun and Wang Wen finished reading, they handed over the list to others to see.

After reading it, everyone felt cold in their hearts, the emperor's move was a plan to kill three birds with one stone.

The first is to comprehensively purge Wang Zhenyu's party, characterize Wang Zhen's collaboration with the enemy and betray the country, and at the same time completely conclude the coffin for the crime of negligence in appointing traitors and misleading the country and harming the people.

The second is to deter the emperor's faction, so that these disgruntled people will not jump up and down and make waves because of the emperor's return to Beijing.

The third is to confiscate family property and make a windfall. The important ministers present all saw that according to the agreement reached between the monarch and the ministers before, the family property of these people on the list should all belong to the emperor.

Eunuchs, brocade guards, monks, Taoists, craftsmen, these stolen income belongs to the internal money. Other civil and military officials, wealthy businessmen and magnates, the income from the seizure of their homes was returned to the imperial court, which was discussed between the monarch and the ministers for a long time.

Now that the agreement is being done, the ministers have nothing to say.

It's just a pity that these forty or fifty people, even if each person only copied 50,000 taels of property from his family, the total is more than 2 million taels. A huge sum of money, just like that, it all went into the emperor's pocket.

Wang Wen looked around at everyone left and right, and when he saw that he had no opinions, he replied to Zhu Qiyu: "Your Majesty, the ministers have no objections, and after going back for a while, the ministers will order the Ministry of Punishment to issue a driving post." ”

(End of chapter)