Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 399
Fireworks March.

It was the time when the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River was beautiful, but the spring in the second year of Shaotian in the Ming Dynasty was still turbulent.Although the Ming Dynasty regained Nanjing, annihilated the [-] Banners Manchurians stationed in the south of the Yangtze River, recruited tens of thousands of green camps, etc., the entire area south of the Yangtze River is no longer occupied by the Tartars.

Even Yangzhou, Anqing and other important towns in Jiangbei are still in the hands of the Ming army's imperial camp, and there are still many Ming army forces in the Guanlong area of ​​Bashu.

It was exactly two years since Chongzhen hanged himself in Meishan, Beijing.

Two years ago, on March 17th, [-], Chongzhen, accompanied by the eunuch Wang Chengen, the supervisor of ceremonies, climbed Meishan Mountain, and staged a tragic scene of the death of the king on the old locust tree with crooked neck.

"Two years, two full years."

Accompanied by the chief eunuchs Liu Chao, Li Guofu, and Pang Tianshou, Zhu Yihai came to Xiaoling Mausoleum in Zhongshan.

Zhu Yihai went to Beijing to pay homage to Emperor Chongzhen, the sad emperor who was posthumously named Emperor Suzonglie by him.

Sprinkle a glass of Shaoxing rice wine.

Liu Chao, Li Guofu and Pang Tianshou are the three eunuchs in the inner palace. Among them, Li Guofu and Pang Tianshou both served Tianqi and Emperor Chongzhen in Beijing. The eunuch of the horse supervisor, followed Han Zanzhou to guard Nanjing, supported Hongguang's meritorious service, and was changed to the supervisor of rites and the admiral Yongwei.

Pang Tianshou was also the eunuch of the Chongzhen Dynasty.

The imperial horse eunuchs had a very high status in the Ming Dynasty, especially in the later period, they usually served as the admirals of the Beijing camp or the brave guards of the imperial camp, and they held the most soldiers among the emperor's servants and maidservants.

Although the position of the first eunuch in the harem is now Liu Chao, who was only a close servant of King Lu, the two are more able to adapt to the new emperor, and they have performed well.

Seeing Emperor Shaotian pay homage to the old emperor at the Xiaoling Mausoleum, I couldn't help but feel complicated. They were all confidantes around Chongzhen, and they all got along very well with Chongzhen, and they were deeply trusted. They also worked for Chongzhen. Army taxation.

They even watched Chongzhen struggle hard in every possible way, but in the end he still did not escape the tragic ending of the country's collapse and death. They used to think that Ming Dynasty was about to end.

Especially after Nanjing Hongguang fled and was captured, he became more pessimistic and desperate.

But who would have thought that Zhu Yihai would be able to carry the banner of Ming Dynasty again.

Hearing the emperor's words, they couldn't help being in a daze.

Is it only two years?

The city of Beijing was destroyed and Chongzhen hanged himself. It seems to be a very distant thing. I didn't expect it to be only two years.

In the 17th year of Chongzhen, in March, Chongzhen hanged himself and died for the country. In May of the same year, Zhu Yousong, the king of Fu, was proclaimed emperor in Nanjing. However, after only eight months in office, the Qing army crossed the river.Immediately afterwards, Ma Shiying and others supported the establishment of Lu Wang Jianguo in Hangzhou, but they took the initiative to surrender to the Qing Dynasty in only five days.

Immediately afterwards, King Lu raised the flag in Jianguo, Taizhou, eastern Zhejiang.

It has only been two years since Chongzhen hanged himself, and it has not been a year since Zhu Yihai raised the flag.

In June last year, the flag was raised to resist the Qing Dynasty, and it took a month to leap, and it has been nearly twelve months since March [-]th.

However, the King of Lu, who was still a lonely king and Shufan when he raised the flag, made such a great achievement in less than a year. The capitulation factions in various prefectures expelled and beheaded, called on the scholars and people to rebel against the Qing Dynasty, and even made two Northern Expeditions, all the way to Shandong.

Not to mention, now the southern capital is restored, and the entire area south of the Yangtze River is restored.

A year ago, neither Pang Tianshou nor Li Guofu would have believed these things.

"How are Zhu Yousong and Zhu Changhao settled in Yuhuan now?"

Zhu Yihai asked.

"The people of Fushu and Lushu have now been resettled in Yuhuan Island, Wenzhou. Each of them has been allocated [-] acres of land. The prefect of Wenzhou has even sent someone to build a house for them..."

The so-called Fu Shu people and Lu Shu people refer to Hongguang Zhu Yousong and Lu Jianguo Zhu Changhao. The two were sent to the south of the Yangtze River by the Qing army. They originally wanted to add chaos to Zhu Yihai. In the end, Zhu Yihai deposed them as common people and sent them to Wenzhou Yuhuan put them under surveillance and gave them a piece of land to support themselves.

Although they were expelled from the royal family by Zhu Yihai, they still belonged to the crime family.

There are many common people of this kind in Ming Dynasty, such as Jian Shuren and Wu Shuren. After Zhu Di seized the throne, he imprisoned Emperor Jianwen's younger brother Zhu Yunxi and his son Zhu Wengui to the high wall of Fengyang. Zhu Yunxi was originally the king of Wu, so he and himself His descendants are collectively referred to as Wu Shuren.

Zhu Wengui, the son of Emperor Jianwen, was called Jianshuren.

These people were imprisoned for a full 55 years. It was not until the Tianshun period that Ming Yingzong issued an edict to release the two families. They listened to the military and civilian families and chose their own marriages. However, their actions were still closely monitored by the government.

In addition, there are also those who were abolished due to conspiracy, such as the common people of Qi and the common people of Gu. Zhu Yu was the seventh son of Zhu Yuanzhang and was named the king of Qi; into Nanjing.During the Yongle period, the two were deposed as common people because they were accused of conspiracy.

In the third year of Xuande, Zhu Yu and Zhu Yu died violently in Nanjing.Although Zhu Wei was extinct, there were many descendants of Zhu Wei, reaching as many as a thousand in the late Ming Dynasty. There are many "common people of Qi" (no names) and they are doing evil in Nanjing, bullying men and women, and have a bad reputation.

There is another class of common people who were abolished due to crimes. There are a large number of them. The Ming clan relied on being the descendants of the emperor, and often did illegal things. Thousands of people caused panic in the whole city of Luoyang. Jiajing ordered to reprimand him again and again, but Zhu Dianmao ignored him. In the end, Jiajing stripped him of his title, deposed him as a commoner, and imprisoned him in Kaifeng.

Another example is Zhu Yujian, who was originally the king of Tang, but was later abolished by Chongzhen and imprisoned within the high wall of Fengyang.

But he was lucky. After the death of Chongzhen, Hongguang proclaimed himself emperor, released him, and named him King of Nanyang, and Zhu Yihai even granted him the Grand Order and named him King Deng, and he became an elder of the royal family. After all, Zhu Yujian was indeed He is Zhu Yihai's uncle.

At the beginning, he refused Zheng Hongkui's support and took the initiative to respect Zhu Yihai as the supervisor of the country, which made Zhu Yihai very grateful, so now Zhu Yujian has always been the head of the suzerain.

Generally speaking, Zhu Yihai is still good to the vassals of the Daming royal family. Even those who call themselves the emperor, as long as they can abdicate and return to the vassals in time, he will not blame the past, such as the king of Yiyang, Zhu Chaoyu, etc. He wouldn't be polite to a guy like Wang who didn't care about life and death, dared to blatantly refuse to respect Zhu Yihai, and wanted to start a civil war.

King Jingjiang was deposed as a commoner, and all his members were deposed as commoners, and they were all imprisoned.

However, both Hongguang and King Lu were deposed by Zhu Yihai as emperors and state supervisors because of the crime of abandoning the country and surrendering, and then they were demoted to common people.

Over the past year, Zhu Yihai gradually stabilized the south, and the surviving suzerains and vassals in various parts of the Ming Dynasty basically fled to the south, reported to the imperial court, and the imperial court was responsible for resettlement.

For example, the Fushu people and the Lushu people, not only are they resettling in Yuhuan Island now, but the clans of the Fufan and Kuifan feudal clans have also been implicated and have become common people.

For example, Jian Shuren, Wu Shuren, Qi Shuren, etc., although they are no longer imprisoned by high walls, they are still under strict supervision.

In the imperial clan system of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court would choose the names after birth. Generally, the responsible clan mansion and the Ministry of Rites would name the names, and then give the emperor approval.

As for those sinners, they lose the qualifications for the emperor to give them names, so they usually don't have a name, they can only be called by nicknames, and even Zhu doesn't deserve a surname, and they usually use Jian XX Gu XX Qi XX some etc.

For example, all Jianshu people are called Jian XX, and they cannot use the generation characters appointed by the Taizu.

Before that, Zhu Yihai modified some systems of the Ming clan, such as salary, fiefdom, etc.

Nowadays, it is no longer the emperor, but the first class in the world, the title of the clan has increased, but the salary has decreased, and the grant of land has also decreased.

It even lifted many previous bans and restrictions on the clan, such as allowing them to engage in four industries, allowing them to take imperial examinations, join the army, and be officials, etc.

However, due to some historical reasons and so on, there are still many criminals and ordinary people today.

"A decree is drawn up that Zhu Hengjia, a common man in Jing, should be released from the confinement of the high wall and moved to Taiwan for resettlement. His immediate family members and others will be allowed to travel with him. Those who have reached the age of [-] or less than [-], regardless of gender, will be given [-] mu of land by oral instruction, so that they can be self-reliant.

The common people of Qi, the common people of Gu, etc., will be released from punishment and supervision, and adult men and women will each be given ten mu of land..."

Chasing the Jianwen Temple name Huizong, posthumously titled Emperor Ren, and restored his throne.

Both Jian Shuren and Wu Shuren also restored their clan identities. Jian Shuren Zhu Wengui pursued the posthumous posthumous title of King Runhuai, and granted Zhu Wengui's descendants the title of King Runhuai.

The descendants of the common people in the past can't even have the surname Zhu, they can only be called Jian XX, and they dare not use the generation characters appointed by Zhu Yuanzhang. Now Zhu Yihai restores the Jianwen emperor and gives the Jianwen family a title of Runwang, which may be hereditary. of****.

And Zhu Biao also restored the posthumous posthumous title of Emperor Xingzong Xiaokang respected by Jianwen.

Zhu Biao's other son, Wu Shuren Wu Yunxi, was also restored to the title of King Wu by Zhu Yihai, and he was given the posthumous title of King Ai. He also chose one of the descendants of his eldest family from among his descendants Wu Shuren, and bestowed the title of King Wu, who was also the emperor.

As for the other Wushu people and Jianshu people, they all resumed their clan status, but they were only awarded the lowest title, each with [-] acres of land, and five taels of silver per month.

The vassal common people such as the Qi Shuren and the Gu Shuren resumed their common people status and were no longer subject to surveillance, but they were no longer awarded titles and became common people. Adult men and women were given ten acres of land by dictation, self-reliant, without salary, and their titles were no longer restored. .

For those vassals who went south, the imperial court greatly reduced their salaries, and no longer gave them extra land, manors, money and servants in the south, but gave them a small amount of land according to dictation, so that they could find a way to be self-reliant.

Regardless of whether it is a vassal or a commoner, all the land granted is the same as the tax per mu, and there is no privilege of reduction or exemption.

On the one hand, Zhu Yihai restored the inheritance of some titles such as Jian Shuren Wu Shuren, etc., but on the other hand, he directly abolished some criminal vassals such as Qi Shuren and Gu Shuren, and King Jingjiang, Hongguang, and Lu Wang became ordinary common people.

After no longer supporting the clan, the imperial court no longer needed to allocate places in the south of the Yangtze River to place feudal vassals for them, nor did it need to allocate a large amount of official land to them as Wangzhuang property, and even no longer needed to give them a large amount of salary and excellent support, only basic Some fields and houses let them live a thrifty life.

At the same time, Zhu Yihai also held special examinations to select talents from these clans, either as officials, or as generals, or arrange them to do business, business or agriculture, so that they can serve the country and support themselves, and they are no longer just parasitic. Daming sucks blood.

On the other hand, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, many clan members with low-ranking titles at the bottom of the clan had a very difficult life, and even at the age of 50 or [-], they were still bachelors and did not even have a big name, nor were they paid in time. He couldn't go out to fend for himself, so he was in a dilemma.

Now Zhu Yihai let them loose the restrictions.

For these clans, most of their fiefdoms have been lost, and even the family business accumulated for generations has been lost. Now they have to start again in the south, but this is not necessarily a bad thing.

"Emperor Lie had six sons, and three of them died young. When he broke into Beijing, the three princes were captured by Li Zicheng. After he defeated Shanhaiguan, he released all three princes. Later, the prince was captured by his grandfather and My uncle informed the Qing army, and the Qing army caught him but claimed that he was a fake and killed him.

After the third prince, King Ding, escaped, it is said that he became a monk and lived in seclusion in the mountains. No one knew his whereabouts.

The fourth prince, King Yong, is also missing, and it is said that he is currently hiding in Henan. "

Zhu Yihai gave the three eunuchs an important task, "Find Yongwang and Dingwang, take them back and resettle them properly. These are the orphans of Emperor Lie, and we must find them carefully."

King Ding Zhu Cijiong was only 15 years old at this time, and King Yong
Zhu Cizhao was only about 13 years old.

During the reign of Shunzhi and Kangxi, the third prince Zhu who appeared frequently was actually named Ding Wang Zhu Cijiong. Until the 47th year of Kangxi, Kangxi executed a teacher in his 70s and declared that he was the real third prince Zhu.

After Hongguang proclaimed himself emperor, the three princes who called Chongzhen died and were given posthumous posthumous titles. There was even a false prince case, which became one of the three major cases in Nanming. After Nanjing, he was declared by the Qing army to be the real third prince of the Ming Dynasty, and then sent to Beijing with Hongguang, and finally killed together.

Nowadays, there are many rumors among the people that the crown prince of Chongzhen was indeed killed by the Qing army in the name of a fake prince, but Yongwang and Dingwang are still living in the world. Zhu Yihai is now asking people to find him, not like Hongguang. Fake, because he didn't think Chongzhen's prince could threaten his current throne.

His throne was not obtained by any status or blood, it was all obtained by him alone.

Now even if Chongzhen is reborn and comes south, don't even think about competing with Zhu Yihai for the throne. He holds the imperial army in his hands and has his own team. Who will support Chongzhen again?
Even if you support Chongzhen, what's the use if you don't have the strength.

Zhu Yihai went to find the two princes, mainly because the people are still more sympathetic to Chongzhen, and the two princes are also more pitiful. Finding them and giving them generous gifts is actually not a bad thing for Zhu Yihai. Extra points in mind.

If two of them are found, and the two kings can respect Zhu Yihai, then Zhu Yihai's position as the Son of Heaven will undoubtedly be more stable.

(End of this chapter)