Ancestors, please don't crawl out again.

Chapter 60 Dorgon's Death Struggle
An hour later.

"Go ahead and hand it over to King Qi."

Yang Feng looked at a big box in front of him.

These are the prisoners' confessions, or rather their pre-written confessions...

Of course, confessions in cases like this must be prepared in advance.

Who needs to be implicated and who does not, and what level of crime they are implicated with, these are not determined by the case itself, but by the needs of Emperor Taizu Gao. As for whether it is an injustice or not, it is also determined by the needs. Besides, there is no injustice.

They have been nobles for generations, who can't find some crime that deserves death?
"Grandpa, the King of Qi has been busy training his troops recently. Should we have someone else take charge of this case?"

Han Zanzhou said cautiously.

"Why, you want to be a good person?"

Yang Feng said.

Han Zanzhou was so scared that he knelt down instantly.

"Master Taizu, I just feel that the King of Qi has been too brutal in his killings and sometimes too hasty."

He kowtowed and said.

Now they finally woke up and realized that the King of Qi was the most terrifying one. If the Emperor Taizu Gao didn't count the enemies he killed on the battlefield, in fact, the number of criminals he had killed so far, including those executed by imperial decree, might not even be a fraction of the number of the King of Qi!

At least for people like Han Zanzhou who are familiar with him, Emperor Taizu Gao is actually not like the legendary Emperor Taizu Gao.

He is very reasonable.

You see, if you want to implicate someone, you have to get a confession.

But the King of Qi really looks like him!

If it were the King of Qi, he wouldn't have bothered with such a hassle. Confessions or not? It doesn't matter whether these prisoners have confessions or not. If he needs to exterminate entire families, he can just give him a list of names, or even a general area. He even needs a reason to confiscate property and exterminate entire families. Trash! Isn't that something you can do with a knife? Aren't these aristocratic families controlling the area? Why go to all this trouble, asking them to donate land, sign an alliance, and implicate others with confessions? It's all hypocritical. You could just send troops, accuse them of treason, close the door, and execute all the men, while giving the women as rewards to the soldiers.

The remaining land and property could be arranged at will, the silver would go to the court, and the land would be given as rewards to the soldiers.

From now on, if you want to destroy a family, the soldiers will come and do it for you.

I just want to kill part of the family as a warning, and the rest will be easy to deal with.

Grab those famous ones.

After cooking, a pot was given to the remaining family. The eunuchs who announced the decree and the Jinyiwei would watch as their whole family shared the food, and then the pot would be placed in the ancestral hall to ensure that they would cry and shout to donate all their land to Emperor Taizu Gao.

"That's why I gave you a list. Don't be a good person in vain. Do you think they will be grateful to you?"

Yang Feng said earnestly.

He had already crossed off those who needed care from that list.

After all, he also knew Han Xin's style. He truly regarded human life as worthless, and he had no historical baggage. For example, Yang Feng would take care of Liu Ru and give her a good ending. If it were Han Xin, he would have known who this woman was and would have thrown her to the soldiers in the barracks to play with. Han Xin was truly playing with retro, unlike Yang Feng, who was educated in modern thinking and was playing with pseudo-retro. He would really cook you a piece of the pie, but he still has no interest in skinning and stuffing, perhaps because that requires a higher level of technical skills. But he has always been interested in cooking.

Cooking corrupt officials has become his routine operation, and after cooking them he likes to give them to other officials.

Someone has to be assigned to supervise meals.

But the effect...

This is really effective.

The control over officials and gentry in the late Ming Dynasty had actually collapsed.

Yang Feng's deterrent effect was limited. After all, he didn't care about anything. Although he could make a big difference with just one move, he couldn't be expected to truly manage the country. The officials were corrupt and perverted the law, and the gentry and profiteers colluded with each other to suck the blood out of the country. These were not enough to trigger Emperor Taizu Gao.

However, the King of Qi’s big pot was really waiting.

In essence, he and Yang Feng were actually playing their own games. Yang Feng was acting as the superior of Emperor Taizu Gao, while he was trying to fulfill his unfulfilled wish in the Han Dynasty and really acted as the Prime Minister of Qi of the Ming Dynasty.

In order to suit his own aesthetic taste, he even cast several large cauldrons specifically for cooking people.

Originally, he wanted to restore punishments such as cutting off feet and legs, but was stopped by Yang Feng.

After all, losing the ability to work while still having to eat food was not worth the loss. Taizu was kindhearted and couldn't bear to see them just eat and not work, so he allowed castration to be performed to restore them. After all, it didn't affect their ability to work, and it was also necessary to use Japanese slaves in the future. Even so, at least in the areas where the court effectively controlled the area, that is, where new officials had been appointed, social order had been significantly restored.

This area roughly includes Yingtian Prefecture, Zhenjiang Prefecture, Chizhou Prefecture, Taiping Prefecture, and Jiangbei, the latter of which belongs to the recovered area.

So there is no gentry problem.

All the surrendered gentry were shot directly at the target.

There are also Raozhou and Nanchang in Jiangxi.

Now add eastern Zhejiang.

It's actually not that big.

The main reason was that too many people were occupied in recovering Jiangbei and suppressing the rebellion in eastern Zhejiang.

After all, the new officials are not Confucian scholars, but they have obtained the corresponding level of nobility through the military merit system and then were appointed as officials. As for their governance ability, this is not important. They will execute the orders of Emperor Taizu Gao and King Qi. My Qing Dynasty also uses surrendered military generals like Tu Guobao as governor of Jiangnan.

A large number of middle and lower-level military officers from Liaodong who followed the Qing Dynasty into the Pass were also appointed as local magistrates by the Qing Dynasty.

Not being able to manage is not important.

They just need to faithfully carry out the tasks assigned to them by Emperor Taizu Gao and the King of Qi.

Just don't hesitate when the gentry line up for shooting.

Han Zanzhou ultimately went to find Han Xin, carrying the box containing the fate of tens of thousands of people. Immediately afterwards, teams of imperial soldiers, bearing the imperial decree to confiscate property, marched in neat formations, carrying fixed bayonets and flintlock rifles, some even dragging cannons, and headed off to various locations to complete the task of confiscating property and exterminating families. This massive inquest, involving more than a thousand families and nearly 100,000 individuals, left Jiangnan in mourning for the next few months. Families, once prosperous for centuries, were brutally destroyed. Their land was confiscated, becoming military merit farms for those who achieved military merit. Their wealth supplemented the treasury, rapidly depleted by the lavish rewards. Their mansions became schools, hospitals, even nursing homes, orphanages, and even ancestral halls dedicated to the Emperor...

Of course, the people offered the sacrifices voluntarily.

In fact, it is similar to what happened to Old Zhu back then, except that it happened again nearly three hundred years later.

By the following spring...

To be precise, it was the 33rd year of Hongwu.

As for what Zhu Di did, Emperor Taizu Gao certainly did not recognize it. That was the Jianwen Dynasty.

So starting from last year, the reign title was changed to the 32nd year of Hongwu. As for Hongguang, of course it was kicked aside. Poor Hongguang didn't even have a reign title anymore, because he followed the convention and continued the 17th year of Chongzhen the year before. Although Emperor Taizu Gao still recognized him as the emperor, the reign title was cancelled.

From the 17th year of Chongzhen, we will jump directly to the 32nd year of Hongwu and wait for the new emperor to be elected.

However, considering that it is difficult to remember the reign titles after being changed so many times, the Yellow Emperor's calendar is used in parallel.

Moreover, the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches are parallel to numbers.

This makes it easier to remember.

Therefore, all official documents of the Ming Dynasty used three different calendars simultaneously. The first line was, of course, the emperor's reign title, the second line the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, and the third line the Yellow Emperor's calendar, corresponding to the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches. Ordinary people could use all three if they wanted, or just use any of them. In practice, people eventually became accustomed to the Yellow Emperor's calendar, which was then listed next to the previous one. Ultimately, the emperor's reign title changed too frequently, making it difficult for ordinary people to remember, so the simple numbers were the most convenient.

By spring, the prison was largely over.

As for resistance... there really isn't one.

Although many people fled, there was really no resistance.

Originally, Yang Feng had expected some resistance, but the result disappointed him. The prominent families whose properties were confiscated from all over the country had basically no other reaction except crying when faced with the ferocious imperial soldiers.

However, some fierce women scratched many soldiers, and several soldiers were stabbed by them with scissors.

In fact, they couldn't resist.

After all, they couldn't take up swords themselves to resist the flintlock rifles of the imperial camp. Ultimately, they had to rely on the young and strong from the lower classes to follow them. But the problem was that no one followed them. After the land became military merit land, the tenants only had to pay 30% rent. This was a kind of iron rule. So why did the tenants who originally had to pay more than 50% rent to these gentry rebel? The local military households would not listen to their nonsense. They were all waiting to join the army, fight in the battlefield, and earn a share of military merit land for their descendants!
Revolt?

To protect the luxurious life of you gentlemen?
Will I risk my life to protect your gardens and concubines for you gentlemen?

We think your gardens and concubines are quite nice.

There are no more bandits to attract. The bandits are in constant fear in the capital. No one will pay attention to them if they incite the people. They might even be arrested and rewarded. Collaborating with bandits is even more ridiculous. What bandit has the courage to go against hundreds of thousands of imperial soldiers who are waiting in line to be shot.

What’s more, there are dragons flying in the sky from time to time!
In reality, the Imperial Army was suppressing bandits, and because Emperor Taizu Gao had decreed that surrendered bandits could be rewarded with wasteland in Jiangbei for reclamation, those living in shelters who were not originally registered with the government could be resettled on wasteland as good citizens as long as they came forward to register. So, these unruly mountain dwellers were also coming forward to be registered as ordinary citizens. Ultimately, they didn't want to suffer in the mountains; they just had no land on the plains. Now that Emperor Taizu Gao had awarded them land, why didn't they come out?

The wasteland north of the Yangtze River is also good land.

It’s just not as good as the paddy fields in the south of the Yangtze River, and there is also the preferential treatment of no tax for ten years.

It's enough to support a family.

In this situation, no one joined the gentry in resisting.

After all, they are the only ones who are really unlucky in this major reshuffle of all classes in Jiangnan.

Everything else is profitable.

They fell and everyone was fed.

While Yang Feng was looking at the brand new Jiangnan in front of him with satisfaction, Dorgon in the north was also making his dying struggle.

Beijing.

Ditan Park.

Thousands of horses galloping.

“That’s a demon, he is a demon.

His two dragons were demon dragons, summoned by the blood pool formation. Hundreds of thousands of people were watching them. They ate people on a daily basis, hundreds of people a day. He killed people in Jiangnan just to feed the two demon dragons.

He killed tens of thousands of people!"

Chen Zhilin, the runner-up who fled from Jiangnan, made tearful accusations to the countless people in front of him.

His family was also raided, but since it was convenient for him to escape to the sea, he took some gold and silver and hurriedly fled north by boat, seeking refuge in the bright future. In the eyes of the gentry in Jiangnan, the capital was now a place of light. Of course, he did not flee to the Qing Dynasty. I, the second place in the imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty and a former editor of the Hanlin Academy, went north to meet the Hongxing Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. This has nothing to do with the Qing Dynasty.

However, his tearful accusation did not move the person in front of him.

The latter was just watching the monkey show.

After all, the people in front of him were all barbarians.

There are Mongols, Solonians, and even Japanese. What’s even more exaggerated is that there are dozens of red-haired people.

Dutch.

This is the result of Dorgon's efforts during this period.

He knew that relying on the Eight Banners warriors and the Ming Dynasty's mess was futile. The Eight Banners warriors didn't even have the courage to fight the demon, and desertions had been appearing constantly recently. Therefore, he needed to bring in external reinforcements, or rather, coax those who had no idea of ​​the demon's true nature into becoming the main force in the fight, including those who, due to religious reasons, would definitely not acknowledge the demon.

And it's not just a matter of faith. Yang Feng was also very unfriendly to them in Jiangnan.

Han Xin was even more unfriendly to them.

The King of Qi has already cooked a lot.

So the Mongolian cavalry entered the pass, the Solon people also moved south, and even the Japanese pirates were recruited.

The Dutch have been trading with Japan.

It was very easy to recruit them together in this way, even though it was just a Dutch merchant ship that happened to come across.

It can be said that Dorgon is trying his best to recruit such cannon fodder from outside.

He even contacted Western Mongolia.

There will be more of these cannon fodders coming in the future.

As for the conditions...

"Chen Hanlin, you are here to announce the imperial decree, not to speak alarmist words."

Dorgon shouted with a gloomy face.

Chen Zhilin shuddered and finally realized that he had been a little impulsive.

These were coaxed in to deal with the demon. His desperate efforts to exaggerate the demon's terror could easily sober these cannon fodders.

"Your Majesty, I cannot help myself but feel the momentary emotion."

He said with a wry smile.

"You little dog slave, you should kneel down to talk to the Regent."

A Qing general standing nearby kicked him.

"Forget it, hurry up."

Dorgon shouted.

Chen Zhilin quickly picked up the imperial edict and looked at the master who was bowing his head beside him.

A master from some distant place compassionately recited a sentence in a language he could not understand.

"Hanlin Gong, please announce the decree."

The master then said.

"The emperor's edict is to carry out the destiny..."

Chen Zhilin immediately began to announce the decree.

This was Hongxing's imperial edict rewarding these righteous men, or rather, fulfilling Dorgon's promise to them. The master was the translator, of course, not just the master, but several translators. The contents of this edict were a revival of the Yuan Dynasty's prosperity. It permitted the Mongol tribes to enter the country and choose their own grazing areas, permitted the Dutch to dock and trade at coastal ports and establish foreign settlements, and permitted the Japanese to follow the Dutch example, reinstating the commercial tax farming system and granting certain individuals the right to do so...

In fact, it is just a copy of the messy preferential treatment during the Yuan Dynasty.

After being destroyed by Zhu Yuanzhang and his gang of unruly people for nearly three hundred years, the great Yuan Dynasty has finally been revived.

(End of this chapter)