The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 722 Why do I need to explain to the court?
Jiang Guan and Wang Quan were full of confidence when they came, but now they regret it.

But soon, they knew what it meant to be human.

General Zhang Zhanguo of "Plop" also knelt down suddenly: "You deserve death for your lowly position. If you don't report what you know, please forgive the commander. It's Jiang Guan, Wang Quan, and the others who are colluding with each other. Woohoo, you deserve to die for your lowly position."

Jiang Guan and Wang Quan stared at this good brother in astonishment.

"Plop" followed by generals, guerrillas, and Mr. Qian knelt down, reporting and reporting enthusiastically.

"Jiang Wang's family has guarded Datong for many years, and their power is deeply entrenched. I was forced by Yinwei, and it was my fault that I failed to report to Zongbing Ding in time."

"I was forced. I'm just a boss. Vice General Jiang asked me to discuss it. I can only obey orders, but I refuse in my heart."

What this President Qian said almost made Ding Yi laugh, and he actually admitted that he also participated.

Jiang Guan and Wang Quan almost doubted life.

who is thisWhat's the matter?Is this what people do?Is this what people say?

The hall quickly filled the ground with kneels, and everyone chattered and talked vividly, making various reports and accusations.

Some people even reported everything that Jiang Guan and the assassin said that night and at what time.

Yao Qi and Wu Zhiyu were also dumbfounded. They didn't expect their words to cause such an accident.

"You -- you bastards --" Wang Quan went mad and jumped out.

But he was immediately pressed to the ground by several soldiers.

He was still about to speak, but bang, a soldier slammed him on the face with a knife handle. He opened his mouth and spurted out blood. Several teeth were smashed.

Ding Yi walked up to the Dai Wang at this time, bang, and took a heavy picture of the table in front of the next Dai Wang: "Jiang Yu, Wang Quan, how dare you say that this town has wronged you?"

"The generals are well aware of the righteousness. The evil things you two have done are beyond the law of heaven. Come and bring them down."

The armored soldiers dragged the two of them out like wolves and tigers.

The expressions of the two were terrified and devastated, completely opposite to the arrogance they had when they first entered the palace.

When the armored soldiers took the two of them down, Ding Yi turned his head to look at the terrified Dai Wang and Chang Shi Xu Guizhi.

"My lord, what do you think?"

Zhu Chuan was trembling, but he came back to his senses immediately, and said in a trembling voice: "I didn't expect that Jiang Yu and Wang Quan would actually collude with each other to attract assassins. On behalf of the palace, we must stand by Ding Zongbing's side. Read his book."

Xu Guizhi also nodded desperately.

Therefore, with the testimony of such a general, Ding Yi immediately ordered the case to be written, each of them would sign and mark it, and those who could not write would press their fingerprints, and directly convicted Jiang Guan and Wang Quan.

At the same time, Ding Yi went to the imperial court to ask Yan Xiong to be the deputy general of Datong, Fang Xinghan to be the general of Datong, and Yao Qi and Wu Zhiyu to be promoted to guerrilla generals one after another.

The rest of the generals were first placed under house arrest in the Dai Wang Mansion. After Ding Yi gradually collected and cleaned up all the soldiers and horses in the city, he ordered the generals to hand over their land and family property. After that, they and their families were kept in the Dai Wang Mansion until Ding Yi established the empire. Let it out again.

On the same day, Ding Yi sent people to search the property of the Wang family and the Jiang family in Datong. Not to mention the land, they got 34 taels of silver, [-] shi of grain and stone, gold and jewelry and other properties.

The money alone was more than the salary he paid, and he got it back directly.

Subsequently adding the property of other generals, nearly 40 silver and tens of thousands of acres of grain fields were confiscated.

Because what Ding Yi did during the day would be leaked, and soldiers would not return to camp outside the street, so there were still people making trouble, but not too many people were connected, and Ding Yi had soldiers and horses waiting outside, and soon was appeased.

It took Ding Yi three days to complete the grouping and placement of more than 2 soldiers and horses in the city.

For the past three days, the gates of Datong City were tightly sealed. Except for Ding Yi's soldiers and horses, outsiders could not come in. No one knew what happened to Datong.

Three days later, the gate of Datong city opened, and the whole city was completely controlled by Ding Yi.

More than 7000 of the original [-] soldiers and horses in Datong Town were used as stockpiles, and about [-] strong and strong soldiers were obtained.

Some people couldn't hide, and after opening the city gate, they ran to Taiyuan and Yanghe, and asked Jiang Xuan to complain.

Ding Yi gathered [-] recruits in the north of Datong City for retraining.

Although the training is strict, most people can still get used to the fact that they are paid on time every month and often have meat to eat.

A small number of those who did not adapt, either tried to escape and were caught and beheaded, or were directly eliminated.

Although Ding Yi received hundreds of thousands of silver this time, he did not receive tens of thousands of acres of grain fields.

It seems that most of the generals don't like hoarding fields, probably because the production here is not high, and they have to pay taxes, so it is better to collect money.

The real landowners in Datong are Dai Wang and the gentry in Datong.

Ding Yi lived in Daiwangfu for three days, and lived in Changchun Palace every day.

Changchun Palace is the inner court of the palace, which belongs to the residence of the private family members of the palace, which is equivalent to the emperor's harem.

It is quite rude for Ding Yi to live in Changchun Palace.

But the acting king Zhu Chuan had no choice but to send people to send Xiaoniang over many times, but they were all rejected.

three days later.

Ding Yi finally called Zhu Chuan again.

"General Ding, below, is there nothing wrong with Xiao Wang?" Zhu Chuan asked with a smile on his face.

Ding Yi looked at him indifferently: "Living in Changchun Palace these days, I deeply feel the huge luxury of the palace."

Zhu Chuan didn't know why, his face was ashen, he just felt that Ding Yi was more terrifying than a thief.

"How many people are there in your palace now?" Ding Yi asked suddenly.

Zhu Chuan was dumbfounded, and turned to look at the long history Xu Guizhi.

Xu Guizhi immediately said: "Back to the general, there are four hundred and six disciples of the royal family's clan, two hundred guards, about one thousand slaves, maidservants and miscellaneous servants, a total of one thousand eight hundred."

In fact, there are more than 2000 disciples of the royal family of Daiwangfu, but most of them are entrusted, and they are basically on the side of Daiwangfu, or in a good location in Datong City.

After Ding Yi listened, he said in a deep voice: "Guardian, disband, all servants and servants will be withdrawn."

Zhu Chuan and Xu Guizhi were dumbfounded.

This Ding Yi almost regarded himself as the emperor, even Chongzhen dared not do such a thing.

But it's not over yet.

"On behalf of the palace, I will add [-] rooms to your Changchun Palace, and confiscate all the others and requisition them for military use."

"Ah." Zhu Chuan sat down on the ground again, so why are there so many people in Ben Wang's family?
The Daiwang Mansion originally had more than 800 rooms and 28 palaces of various sizes.

Now Ding Yi only gives him an Changchun Palace, plus [-] rooms, how can he live like this.

"You can ask them to spend money to buy it back." Ding Yi said calmly.

This is the Ming grab, Xu Guizhi and Zhu Chuan looked at each other in blank dismay.

But that's not the end.

"I will give you the best [-] mu of the Wangfu grain field. The rest will be confiscated and requisitioned for military use."

With a splash, Dai Wang Zhu Chuan's eyes darkened and he fainted on the spot.

Xu Guizhi said in a trembling voice: "General Ding, you are --- not following the rules --" He didn't dare to say that you are tantamount to rebellion.

Ding Yi looked at him with a smile, as if to say, I just rebelled, you bite me?
"From now on, the imperial court will confiscate more than 90 stones of Zonglu every year and confiscate them for military use." Ding Yi said again: "Let the king and the people in the mansion diligently check and save, and cultivate the farmland well. Support yourself." Ding Yi said earnestly.

"How do you explain to the court?" Xu Guizhi couldn't help but gritted his teeth.

"Why should I explain to the court?" Ding Yi asked back.

"..." Xu Guizhi.

Xu Gui's whole body trembled with anger, he was ashamed, angry and afraid.

Suddenly, Ding Yi asked again: "Xu Changshi wants to live longer, or is he going to be loyal to the prince and the court?"

This is the threat of Chiguoguo.

Xu Guizhi was silent for a moment.

After Zhu Chuan woke up that night, he heard another news and fainted again.

When Zhu Chuan fainted, Ding Yi sent someone to search the palace, and found that there were more than 100 million taels of silver, 30 stones of grain and rice, and countless other gold and jewelry.

The wealth of this generation of kings was not ranked among the top three among the kings in the late Ming Dynasty, but it was better than nothing. It must be the important city of Datong. Before the fall of the Ming Dynasty, it had never been breached.

Ding Yi was not polite at all, and first sent someone to occupy the grain storage warehouse directly.

Confiscated 120 million silver, and left 10 taels and five thousand shi for grain and rice to Zhu Chuan.

Other gold and jewelry were confiscated, and Dai Wang's 48 shops in the city, seven hotels, six rice shops, etc., a total of more than 100 shops were all confiscated.

Then there is the house of Daiwangfu, which needs to be bought by the children of Daiwangfu, who wants to sit down and buy it again.

The size of palaces ranges from 1 taels to 5 taels, and the size of houses ranges from 50 taels to 100 taels.

There are more than 2000 descendants of the royal family of the Dai Dynasty, and only [-] houses are enough to live in. Many people have to buy it with money.

Ding Yi only copied the ones from Daiwangfu, but did not copy these branches, he just waited for them to spend money to buy them.

Ding Yi sold all the palaces and more than 800 houses in the original royal residence for 24 taels of silver.

Ding Yi left 42 mu of land for each household, and confiscated all others. A total of [-] mu of grain land was obtained from the royal family of the Daiwangfu.

In this way, by the end of June, Ding Yi only got 200 million silver, more than 30 shi of grain and rice, and more than 40 grain fields from Datong generals and Dai Wangfu.

All the generals admired it, it was faster than fighting for money.

But there are also people who are worried, how will the imperial court react if the adults rob so openly?
Ding Yi didn't care about Chongzhen, counting the time, the Manchus would enter the customs again soon, and Chongzhen would die in two years, so Chongzhen took care of this.

Moreover, in the original history, Datong first surrendered to Li Zicheng and then to the Qing Dynasty. The benefits were all favored by others, so why not favor yourself now.

Of course, he also prepared a backhand.

Within a few days, the acting king Zhu Chuan announced that he would support Ding Yi, the chief soldier of Datong, to hoard fields and train troops, and to provide food, fields and silver to train elite soldiers for the imperial court.

The chief historian Xu Guizhi is the contact person of the palace and the imperial court. He reported to the imperial court. With the support of the imperial palace, Ding Zongbing had to train his troops well without the imperial court paying. Ten thousand taels of silver plus one hundred thousand stone grain.

In response to Ding Yi, the acting king Zhu Chuan asked for the halving of Zong Lu next year.

When the news spread to the capital, there was an uproar in the capital, and all the officials praised him, all of them said that the king of Dai understood righteousness and that Ding Yi hoarded the land well.

The court's commendation orders were sent to Datong one after another.

Chongzhen even ordered the clans all over the world to study.

Brothers, take a look, everyone should learn from Daiwang and support the local generals to hoard land for military training, how much Zonglu can be saved by the court.

However, some people also objected that the local vassals cannot participate in political affairs. Does the acting king count as colluding with local soldiers?
Those who raised objections were immediately scolded by the officials. When the Qing army attacked Jinan, King De's family went to battle and led the army. Does that count as participating in political affairs?
Now that the country is in crisis, the local imperial clan saves food and medical expenses, and saves military pay for us. This is a good thing, and it should be commended and encouraged.
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Jiang Xuan is the deputy general of Yanghe, and the younger brother of Jiang Tuan. He led [-] troops to garrison Yanghewei, Huyukou, and Yanghekou.

This is an important gateway to the outside world of Datong, and outside it is the territory of the former Monan Mongolia, which has now surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

The original desert Mongolia includes Horqin, Zhalaite, Durbert, Bahrain, Zalut, Naiman, Khalkha, Maomingan, Urad, Karaqin, Ujimqin, Chahar, Tumo Special, Ordos and other departments.

Now the nomadic herds outside Yanghekou are mainly Chahar Zhenghuang Banner, which is composed of a Chahar tribe, Jiakarka, and Erut, three Mongolian tribes who defected to the Qing Dynasty.

But these years, Jiang Xuan has often done business with them. The Mongols need salt, iron, sugar, tea, and fine wine, and he needs money, so Jiang Xuan often lets the Mongols in privately to do business. A gate that can be entered and exited as long as there is money.

Some Shanxi merchants who went out of customs in Shanxi also went here. Anyway, they only need to pay Jiang Xuan the money.

On the defense line of Datong Town, there were only four people who could get out of the customs. When Wang Pu was there, only one was in the hands of the Jiang family. Originally, Wang Pu was dead, but Jiang Xuan thought they would take over all of them in the future.

Unexpectedly, Ding Yi was airborne suddenly.

When he heard the news, he wanted to laugh. Those who have been parachuted into important frontier towns have never had a good end. Let's see how our Jiang family plays with Ding Yi.

Jin Guofeng, the commander-in-chief of Ningyuan, is a lesson from the past.

Jiang Xuan planned to let Ding Yi have a taste of this too.

So after going to see Ding Yi in Datong to save the governor's face, the brothers quickly went back to their respective homes and ignored Ding Yi.

A few days after Jiang Xuan returned to Yanghewei, a sentry cavalry came in and reported, "There are a large number of people pushing carts from a few miles away."

Jiang Xuan was inexplicable, and soon another sentry cavalry came to report, followed by a large group of Ming troops, about 5000 people, and everyone had horses.

"Hiss..." Jiang Xuan gasped, his face changed slightly, of course he knew that this was Ding Yi's soldier.

Ding Yi brought more than 1 soldiers to Datong, and everyone had horses, even the infantry battalion rode horses.

He is simply a local tyrant in the Ming army.

Back then, the whole country supported the Battle of Songjin, and Chongzhen pieced together more than 4 horse mules, of which at most half of the horses could be used.

"What does he want to do?" Jiang Xuan jumped up, "Assemble brothers."

He didn't have many family members, so he raised two hundred, but these two hundred family members cost several thousand taels a year.

Soon, his soldiers and horses also gathered, more than 2000 people climbed the city wall, and set off fireworks to notify Huyukou and Yanghekou to close the fort gates.

Here are the two most important places to the east of Datong Town, further east is Tianchengwei (Zhenluwei), which also belongs to Datong, and further east is the territory of Beizhili.

Starting from the east, Yan Xiong took the soldiers and family members from Dengzhou to replace the local military households and garrisons one by one, and moved the original military households and garrisons to Datong, and asked Chen Minglin of Datong to rearrange them.

After several days of replacement, his 1 soldiers and horses soon arrived at Yanghewei, followed by more than [-] soldiers.

Yang and Wei were surrounded by a dark crowd, and Jiang Xuan's face was a bit unsightly.

"Who is here? I am Jiang Xuan, Yang He's deputy commander." Jiang Xuan shouted while standing on the castle.

(End of this chapter)