The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 778 Calling on the soldiers from all over the world to come and serve the king

Among the founding feats of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Shize, the last British prince, was killed after Li Zicheng entered Beijing.

The last uncle of Yingcheng, Yanxun, is the same as above.

Zhang Gongwei, the last Marquis of Longping, died in the 11th year of Chongzhen. His younger brother Zhang Xunwei succeeded as Qian Shu of the Nanjing Chinese Army Governor's Mansion, but for some reason, Chongzhen did not let him become the noble.

The Zhang family still owns a large number of grain fields and shops in Nanjing.

Xin Chengbo Zhao Zhilong is also in Nanjing now. As mentioned earlier, when Dorgon entered Nanjing, he was the one who took the lead in surrendering.

Guo Zuoyong, Marquis of Cheng'an, led the former military governor's office in Nanjing, and is currently also in Nanjing.

The last Xinningbo, Tan Hongye, died in battle when Li Zicheng attacked Beijing, and Chongzhen also died. Xinningbo's family has not yet arrived in time to get the imperial court's hereditary documents.

The Tan family also owned a large number of grain fields and shops in Nanjing.

Xing'anbo Xu Zhi'an is the same as above, and died in Beijing. His family's main fields and businesses are in the capital.

Ding Guogong Xu Yunzhen is the same as above, also in the capital.

Gu Zhaoji, Marquis of Zhenyuan, Li Guozhen, Bo of Xiangcheng, and Zheng Zhijun, Marquis of Wu'an, are also in the capital.

After the death of Hou Baoding of the fourth generation, his son became the commander and lost his title.

Chen Guangyu, Marquis of Ningyuan, and Chen Zhi'an, Marquis of Pingjiang, either fought or lost their titles.

So in the current situation, most of the nobles in Beijing either died in battle or were killed by Li Zicheng.

The rest of the nobles are all doing well in Nanjing.

The highest status in Nanjing is Xu Wenjue, the Duke of Wei.

At the beginning of August, a large number of honorable men gathered in the Nanjing Chinese Army Commander's Mansion.

Xu Wenjue, the Duke of Wei, Zhang Xunwei, the governor of the Nanjing Central Army, Zhao Zhilong, Xin Chengbo, Guo Zuoyong, the Marquis of Cheng'an, Tan Junwen, the son of Tan Hongye, the Xinning Bo, etc., a large number of Nanjing nobles and descendants, plus Qian Qianyi, Ruan Dacheng and other civil and military are all here .

These people are the richest people in Nanjing with the most grain fields.

For example, the family of Xu Wenjue, the Duke of Wei, was enfeoffed in Xinzhou, Zhenjiang (now Yangzhong City), and most of Yangzhong belonged to their Xu family. There are only 18 mu of high-quality grain fields.

It can be said that among the honorable families with titles, each family has no less than [-] fields.

But at the end of July, several documents from the imperial court had already arrived in Nanjing.

Under the order of the prince, the King of Zhenbei supervised the country, Zhu Pi, dismantled the six ministries and all the government offices in Nanjing, changed Nanzhili to Jiangnan Province, and re-examined all grain fields in Jiangnan Province.

In addition, the prince said that "officials and gentry should pay food as a whole."

The news shocked the entire Nanjing and Jiangnan, and the voice of resistance continued.

Ying Tianfu sent a large number of letters to the court, saying, "The people complained like a tide, the people were angry, the officials and gentry cursed, and they attacked—"

It's almost like saying that the whole Jiangnan is about to rebel.

But this is not over yet, the second decree of the imperial court spread to Jiangnan within a few days.

Check the population and release slaves. No slaves may be hidden in the homes of gentry officials. All slaves will be free from now on, and the master's family will divide the land into [-] mu for each "Ding" and [-] mu for each "mouth". ,

This news is even more terrible, it can be said to be earth-shattering.

The country gentlemen are going crazy.

For example, Xu Wenjue's family has more than 300 deeds of sale, involving more than 300 households and more than 800 people.

Because 'Ding' refers to adult men and 'kou' refers to adult women, assuming that there are more than 800 people, there are [-] adult men and [-] adult women.

Xu Wenjue wanted to not only return the entire deed of selling himself to them, but also give them [-] mu of land for each adult man, and [-] mu of land for each adult woman, as severance pay.

It is to let him allocate more than 1 mu of land first.

As soon as the news came, the nobles could no longer sit still.

Now they are still trying to hide this matter. Once the slaves know, the slaves may come to rob their fields.

The situation is already very dangerous.

"Wei Guogong, you can't let the prince continue to toss about like this. If this continues, Daming will perish." Xin Chengbo and Zhao Zhilong took the lead in angrily saying.

"Is the prince crazy? Is this trying to force against the gentry in the world? Without the support of the gentry, how can his Ming Dynasty be so stable?" Guo Zuoyong said without shame, saying that the Daming country is stable.

"The crown prince is in a hurry to go to the doctor because the court has no money, so he made such a bad plan. This is really trying to force the gentry of the world."

Ruan Dacheng said suddenly at this time: "Could it be that King Zhenbei wants to do this? I heard that King Zhenbei did this in Shandong?"

"It must be the crown prince." Tan Junwen said angrily: "When Li Zicheng came to Beijing, the crown prince told Li Zicheng not to kill my people, and those who are demoted are unfaithful and unrighteous, so they should be killed."

"After Ding Yi entered Beijing, he told Ding Yi again in front of all the officials, and asked Ding Yi to punish all the officials."

"The crown prince is insane. Because he hates all the officials, he hates the officials and nobles all over the world. He doesn't want us to live."

Most people at the scene said yes, and some people felt that Ding Yi must have done it.

But it's pointless to argue about it now, how can everyone resist?

Ruan Dacheng stood up suddenly, looked around, and said loudly: "Everyone, listen to me."

The surroundings slowly quieted down, and everyone looked at him.

"The crown prince has no morals, so he first ruled against Nanzhili, and then asked the officials and gentry to pay for it."

"We can't sit and wait to die, something has to be done."

"Ruan Dacheng, what's your opinion?" Wei Guogong asked back, hearing Ruan Dacheng's tone, he seemed to have some clever plan.

"I have a plan, and I need everyone's support." Ruan Dacheng really had a clever plan.

"Oh, tell me quickly, what a clever plan." All the nobles asked one after another.

Ruan Dacheng's face was gloomy, and he said slowly: "Everyone in the world knows that Li Zicheng broke the capital, and the crown prince is in Li Zicheng's hands. Except for the crown prince, the whereabouts of the other two princes are still unknown."

"Li Zicheng is such a vicious thief, how could he leave the prince alive, so kind?"

Hiss, there was a sound of sucking air all around, and everyone had weird faces.

"In my opinion." Ruan Dacheng sneered, "The crown prince has already been killed by Li Zicheng."

"Ding Yi is an evil thief, he regards a deer as a horse, and wants to imitate Cao thief by coercing the prince to command the princes, so he can find someone to pretend to be the prince."

"All the officials in the capital are afraid of their soldiers and horses, so they have no choice but to follow."

"We should support the new emperor, call on the world, raise troops to serve the king, and put an end to chaos."

Qian Qianyi also stood up immediately, and said loudly: "Support the new emperor, and put an end to chaos."

Everyone was terrified.

The hall was silent.

After a while, someone asked tremblingly, "Who can support?"

Ruan Dacheng said: "Fu Wang Zhu Yousong is in Nanjing."

Unbelievable: "Didn't the imperial court issue an edict to let him enter Beijing?"

"Fu Wang has not yet arrived in Beijing."

"Support Fu Wang as the emperor, and call on the soldiers and horses from all over the world to serve the king."

"Then there are still soldiers?" Someone said angrily: "All the chief soldiers of Ming Dynasty have gone to the capital."

Everyone looked at each other.

Ruan Dacheng was still not convinced: "As long as we establish a new emperor, those general soldiers will definitely be able to see the situation clearly."

"Crazy." An official walked away in a huff.

There was an uproar in the hall.

Some want to support the new emperor, some want to gather family members to fight against the field officials, and some suggest going to the capital to meet King Zhenbei.

Just when they were noisy and chaotic.

Nanjing city.

Hush, huh, huh, a large wave of armored and powerful soldiers and horses came out of the teaching ground continuously.

Ding Yi went to Beijing in April, and then began to make arrangements calmly, mobilizing troops, mobilizing general soldiers, training recruits, training officials, and in the name of supervising the country, he arranged them in an orderly manner across the country. Nanjing was the first to start the arrangement. Fei's troops retained [-] troops, and Liu Zeqing's troops were divided into [-], who have been training and reorganizing in the teaching grounds.

If there is no name of Jian Guo, only the local food and grass supply will be a big problem, let alone the local government will resist.

When these soldiers and horses leave the teaching field, they will find a group of strong men in uniform black uniforms behind them.

Some of these men are older, about 40 years old, some are younger, and some have bad legs and feet, but all of them are full of vigor.

This is a new official in Nanjing.

It is composed of Ding Yi's retired veterans and wounded veterans.

Many veterans have worked with Ding Yi for more than ten years, from their twenties, thirties, to their 40s, or even 50s.

When Ding Yi increased his troops in recent years, he gradually retired some of them and turned into officials.

The leading official here is called Song Zhen.

Song Zhen has been a blunderbuss soldier for 12 years and is the earliest blunderbuss soldier in Xu Dabao. He is now 45 years old.

He was in his 30s back then, and because he couldn't learn a few words, he hadn't been promoted for so many years.

But Ding Yi increases the veteran's salary every few years. Before retiring, Song Zhen could already get two taels of silver a month.

This time he was transferred to an official, and his salary was higher, with an annual salary of 100 shi.According to the current grain price, it is more than [-] taels.

Of course, now that Ding Yi is giving food, and there are sweet potatoes and potatoes in it, he will not actually reach such a huge sum of money.

Moreover, the imperial court has issued an official document, which will be implemented after the world is pacified. At present, he is receiving the original army's salary.

Nanjing is a prefectural city with five hundred officials.

About 100 of them work with officials at various levels and handle political affairs in various departments.

Among the other 400 people, 200 belonged to the newly established Futianfu Tax Bureau, and 200 belonged to the newly established Yingtianfu Urban Affairs Bureau.

Song Zhen is the head of the Taxation Bureau. The task of their bureau is to measure the fields in the early stage and collect taxes in the later stage.

Chen Guoxiao, who retired with him, was from another unit and had an eye injury. He was the director of the Urban Affairs Bureau.

The tasks of the Urban Affairs Bureau include arresting the police in the past, and urban management in the later generations, that is, household registration management, urban management, arresting criminals, and now posting various court notices.

"Old Song, you have a lot of cards, so many soldiers and horses are following you?" Chen Guoxiao and Song Zhen walked together, laughing.

Song Zhen hurriedly said, "I'm really sorry to bother Mr. Zheng Qian."

"No, no, you two are very polite." Mr. Qian Zheng Wenbin carefully looked at the two veterans. Although he was Mr. Qian, the two veterans in front of him were old brothers who had been with Mr. Ding for many years.

In the army, retired veterans are called why, and Zheng Wenbin respects them very much.

Moreover, Xiao Yongqiu, the commander of Yingtian, and Song Zhen came out together with Xu Dabao. They are both old brothers, and they repeatedly asked him to respect Song Zhen.

"Haha, let's go, let's show these nobles together." Song Zhen waved his hand, and everyone quickened their pace.

(End of this chapter)