Chongzhen revived the Ming Dynasty

"Good! Good! Good!"

"Well done, Lord England!"

"You are worthy of being a pillar of the court!"

Zhu Youjian, who was staying in the palace, praised Zhang Weixian repeatedly.

He thought that with the Duke of England in charge, the hereditary officials in the capital would not be able to cause any trouble.

However, no one expected that the Duke of England would be so decisive. He arrested all the officials who were causing trouble and intimidated those who might cause trouble.

After this incident, the overall situation of the Beijing Guard Reform can be said to have been determined.

Those who don't dare to cause trouble now will not be able to cause trouble later.

However, even so, Zhu Youjian did not dare to take it lightly and ordered:
"Order the Royal Guards to take to the streets and enter a quasi-martial law state."

"Illegal possession of weapons is prohibited, and gatherings of people are prohibited."

"The Imperial Camp's hot air balloon has also taken off to monitor the movements of the entire city."

"Anyone who gathers together to commit any crime will be severely punished."

Continue to use high-pressure policies to deter people who want to cause trouble.

With an unyielding attitude, we will make those who are hoping for luck to get away with it give up their luck.

With the issuance of this order, all the police officers of the Weiwei Temple were sent to patrol the streets. People from other Jinyiwei agencies also temporarily went to the streets wearing red vests.

Even the sons of Jinwuwei who were not in Jinyiwei were mobilized to join them in wandering around wearing red vests. The ministers expressed their support for the reform of the guards with practical actions.

The people in Beijing had seen these things once before during the martial law two years ago, and they were not surprised.

What opened their eyes were the hot air balloons rising in the city. At every city gate and street intersection, there were balloons taking off with warning signs hung.

There was someone on lookout in the basket under the balloon, scanning the surroundings with a telescope.

Regardless of the actual effect of this series of actions, the posture is very intimidating.

Not only did the resentful officials dare not make trouble, but even the common people in the capital city reduced their activities.

The number of pedestrians on the street has visibly decreased.

Some civil servants were dissatisfied with this and felt that the emperor was disturbing the people for no reason.

What worries them even more is that the emperor may declare martial law and issue an edict directly.

Having experienced it once, they did not want to go through the days when the emperor held all the power again, so they urged all government offices to cooperate with the Privy Council to exchange land for the resettlement of hereditary officials in the garrisons.

The hereditary officials of the various guards in the city quickly changed their barracks and official residences according to the transfer order. The land around the capital controlled by the court was first allocated to the hereditary officials.

As for the exchange of military households and the distribution of land, it will take a little longer.

Since it has been decided to build the Third Ring Road and even the outer city wall, it is not so easy to exchange the land around the capital.

Some garrisons needed to dig lakes and reclaim land in order to have enough land for distribution.

Such a process may take a year.

However, most military households were not worried because the court promised to recalculate their merits and allocate land to them.

If one could become a hereditary sergeant, fifty acres of land would be allocated to each level.

If there are not enough shares around the capital, they can be transferred to Tianjin and other places, where there is enough land for them to settle and cultivate.

They didn't care about moving out of the city because they didn't have much property in the capital. Many people took the initiative to request to move out after learning about the difference in land area between the capital and other places.

Those who had property and did not want to move away applied to be converted into military-civilian households. After that, except for the requirement of serving in the military for three years after reaching adulthood, they were no different from civilian households in other aspects. It can be said that compared with the strictness towards hereditary officials, the Privy Council was very generous to the military households this time. They were allowed to leave the garrison without any other conditions.

Many military households who were used to making a living in the city took the initiative to leave the garrison. Some who had served for more than three years even withdrew from the Beijing camp.

This would naturally result in a short-term loss of combat power and lead to a shortage of troops in the Beijing Camp.

But after having the single-shot musket, Zhu Youjian no longer cared about this.

This musket that was ahead of its time gave him confidence far beyond what he had ever had before.

Even if the entire Beijing Camp was disbanded, he was confident that he could rely on the Imperial Camp and the Yingyang Army to suppress the opposition forces.
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Only after the grand reform of the Beijing Guards began did Zhu Youjian start to deal with the hereditary officials who were causing trouble.

After being imprisoned in the imperial prison, these people quickly became obedient. They confessed everything without the Jinyiwei having to torture them.

Zhu Youjian quickly obtained the confessions of these people and their backgrounds.

It can be seen that most of these people are hereditary officials assigned to the Five Guards of Daning, and most of them give the reason that they do not want to go beyond the Great Wall.

Zhu Youjian was both pleased that they were not firmly opposed to the reform, but disappointed that these people had been completely spoiled and had lost the courage of their ancestors.

Zhu Youjian had no confidence in relying on them to guard the border, so he ordered:
"These people disobeyed the transfer order and wanted to cause trouble. They will all be demoted one level and transferred out of the capital guards. At the same time, they will be sentenced to three months of hard labor."

"There are no other implications. Just sentence them as a whole and let them behave themselves in the future."

"Those implicated in other crimes will be handed over to the military court for careful trial."

There were too many people to arrest, and Zhu Youjian couldn't punish them too harshly, for fear that the hereditary officials in the capital's garrisons would do something out of grief.

Moreover, the military court had only been established for a short time, and there were not so many judges to try each case one by one.

They could only select some people to target and target them in order to intimidate the hereditary officials of the garrisons who were causing trouble.

Zhang Weixian also guessed this result, so when he threw these hereditary officials into the imperial prison, he did not hesitate at all.

Because he knew that the current emperor was generally benevolent and would rarely push people to the brink of despair. Even some of Wei Zhongxian's family members were said to have become hereditary officials.

At this time, what he was concerned about was not the treatment of these hereditary officials, but the nobles who were implicated with these hereditary officials and instigated them to cause trouble:

"How should we deal with Anyuan Hou Liu Zuochang and Xincheng Bo Zhao Zhilong for leaking secrets?"

"They revealed some information to the officials they were close to."

Zhu Youjian did not hesitate and decided:

"Since the letter of commitment and the minutes of the meeting have been signed, then the leaker should be dismissed from his post and removed from his title according to what is written in the letter of commitment."

"Search the farms of the two families and distribute them as land for the garrisons. Only one thousand mu of sacrificial land will be kept to commemorate the ancestors' meritorious officials."

"Until the descendants of the two families have established their own fiefdom, they cannot inherit the title."

This treatment is much more severe than that given to those hereditary officials.

Because the emperor did not force those hereditary officials who caused trouble to establish fiefdoms overseas.

Not to mention that the two families’ farms and fields were taken away, leaving only a thousand acres of sacrificial land.

If you don't try to establish a fiefdom, you will end up squandering all your family wealth.

However, Zhang Weixian did not speak for them at this time, because he knew that the emperor was angry and it was useless to persuade him.

So he just beat around the bush:
"Governor Zhou is also implicated in this matter. How should we deal with him?"

Governor Zhou is Zhou Kui, the father of the current queen and the grandfather of the prince.

Perhaps thinking that he would be granted a title after the emperor appointed the crown prince, he felt that the Zhou family had also become a noble family. When some hereditary officials came to him for help, Zhou Kui patted his chest and promised to speak for them, which was also the reason why some hereditary officials dared to make trouble. (End of this chapter)