Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 396
"Your Majesty, I have been wronged." Ding Kuichu wept bitterly.

"Your Majesty, I have been wronged." The head of the Forty-Eight Department also shouted for injustice.

"Hehe, do you really think that I am so easy to fool?" Chongzhen sneered, and then said, "You think that if you hide this batch of gold in a secret place, I won't be able to find it?"

After a pause, Chongzhen said to Ding Kuichu again: "Ding Kuichu, you probably didn't hide."

"Your Majesty, I have been wronged." Ding Kuichu was terrified, but his face was calm.

Chongzhen said again: "Ding Kuichu, I might as well tell you again that I have sent two thousand new troops to Guangxi to take charge of converting all chieftains in Guangxi, and one of them has gone to Nanning."

"If you send your confidants to transport this batch of stolen goods back to Guangdong, ha ha."

"I'm afraid it will definitely be intercepted by the new army. Maybe it will be intercepted and I don't know."

Hearing this, Ding Kuichu sat on the ground slumped, his expression also turned blank. How did the Dog Emperor know about such a secret?Had someone tipped him off?

Of course, no one told Chongzhen, but Chongzhen knew what kind of guy Ding Kuichu was, and he knew even more that Sha Dingzhou had obtained a huge fortune from the Duke of Qian, so he expected that Ding Kuichu would never be indifferent. It is inevitable to send his confidant Ding Xingye back to Guangdong.

That's why Chongzhen sent a new army to intercept it.

"What about you?" Chongzhen turned his gaze to the head of the Forty-Eight Departments, "Will you tell where the stolen money is hidden, or let me find someone to interrogate? If you tell the hiding place quickly, I can give you a living Opportunity, if you are still lucky, you will only be killed."

After listening to the translation, the head of the Forty-Eight Division immediately stopped pretending, and instead threatened Chongzhen: "You dare not kill us. If you dare to kill us, the Forty-Eight Division wolf soldiers outside the city will never agree! The whole of Guangxi will also be here." Rebellions broke out overnight, and the sky of the Ming Dynasty collapsed, so I advise you to be more cautious, my lord."

"Threatening me?" Chongzhen smiled, and then said with a straight face, "You think too highly of yourself. If you kill you, there will be no rebellion in Guangxi, and the sky of the Ming Dynasty will not collapse. As for the forty-eight wolf soldiers outside the city, Hehe, you guys forgot, what happened just now is that the local soldiers in western Hunan and Hubei are encircling and suppressing wolf soldiers!"

"Ah!" The head of Forty-Eight Bubbles suddenly changed his expression.

"Hu Guozhu, take them all with me!" Chongzhen shouted sharply.

"Yes." Hu Guozhu cupped his hands, then waved his hands and shouted, "Take it!"

Even if more than two hundred Yi Ding rushed into the square, five of them were in charge of one, and quickly knocked down the heads of the forty-eight departments and tied them up. Ding Kuichu was no exception.

"My lord, you are killing a hero in vain!"

"Emperor Dog, you are ungrateful and not human!"

"You are crossing rivers and tearing down bridges, you are ungrateful."

"As soon as you helped you put down the Shadingzhou Rebellion, you were cruel to our Guangxi wolf soldiers. Chongzhen, you are not a human being. One day you will suffer retribution, and we will not spare you even if we turn into ghosts."

"Will I be spared even if I turn into a ghost?" Chongzhen sneered.

"You should first think about how to avoid the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent souls in Guangnan Mansion and Lin'an Mansion!"

"Since entering Yunnan, how many people have you killed? How many cattle, sheep, livestock, wealth, women and children have been robbed? Yunnan is one of the thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty. It is not a barbaric state, and you can let it be burned, killed and looted."

"You killed the people of Yunnan, you killed the people of Zhen!"

"What do you think of the people of Yunnan, and what do you think of me?"

"A merit is a merit, and a demerit is a demerit. You made great achievements in pacifying the chaos in Shadingzhou, and I will reward you, but you also need to be severely punished for the crimes you committed against the people of Yunnan!"

"Murder pays for life, since ancient times, no one can be an exception."

"You allow the wolf soldiers in the clan to burn, kill and loot, it is the first evil, and the crime should be punished!"

Speaking of this meal, he stared at Ding Kuichu and said: "Ding Kuichu, as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and as an important minister of the imperial court, but you allow the wolf soldiers under your command to burn, kill and loot the people of Yunnan, it is an even worse crime!"

"But you are a civil servant, how to convict you is still up to the cabinet to decide."

"Your Majesty, I have been wronged." Ding Kuichu cried, "I restrained you before, but you can't."

One of the leader of the wolf soldiers hissed and roared: "It's not just our Guangxi wolf soldiers who do this, which army in the entire Ming Dynasty doesn't do this? Liaodong Town, Ji Town, Datong Town, and Xuanfu Town, which town? Don’t the frontier soldiers do this? Chongzhen, if you have the ability, kill all the frontier soldiers of Ming Dynasty, otherwise we will not accept it!”

"Don't accept it! We don't accept it!" The other leaders shouted and echoed.

"I don't need your convincing." Chongzhen said coldly, "I only want your heads!"

After a pause, Chongzhen said again: "Hu Guozhu, execute the heads of these forty-eight films on the spot!"

"Yes." Hu Guozhu agreed abruptly, and immediately yelled at Yi Ding, "Execute on the spot."

As soon as Hu Guozhu gave an order, the forty-eight barbarians immediately drew out their sabers, and slashed at the necks of the forty-eight wolf soldiers who were controlled by their hands bound behind their backs, and the forty-eight heads rolled to the ground.

Seeing this, Mu Tianbo, Tang Zhaoyuan and other Yunnan civil and military officials all looked shocked.

Ran Sanniang, Peng Tingyu and other chieftains in the west of Hunan and Hubei are all awe-inspiring. The leader of the [-] wolf soldiers in Guangxi, the emperor said to kill them, so he killed them. How could they really not be afraid of wolf soldiers rebelling?

Ding Kuichu was almost scared to pee on the spot, the Holy One really dared to kill him.

Chongzhen said to Xu Yingwei again: "Youzhen, go and interrogate those wolf soldiers. The stolen property that the wolf soldiers robbed from the old village of Ergelong can't be taken away by just a few heads. Someone needs to help them bury it if they find a place to hide it. So if you try more, you will definitely be able to find out, and you can't lose any of the stolen money, and I will recover all of it."

"Accept the order." Xu Yingwei received the order and left.

"Your Majesty." Mu Tianbo suddenly knelt down in front of Chongzhen with a groan.

"Duke Qian, what are you doing?" Seeing this, Chongzhen couldn't help being a little confused, thinking what's the matter with you, Mu Tianbo?

Mu Tianbo said: "Your Majesty upholds justice for my ministers and recovers the robbed property for the Duke of Qian. The gratitude in my heart is beyond words. I can only do my best to defend the border for the Ming Dynasty."

Hearing these words, Zhu Cijiong, Wang Chengen and Gao Qiqian all looked at Mu Tianbo.

The three of them thought, Mu Tianbo is probably not a fool?Since the property of the Duke of Qian's Mansion fell into the hands of the rebel Sha Dingzhou, it has become stolen money and has nothing to do with your Duke of Qian's Mansion. Even if it is recovered, it must be filled into the imperial treasury. How could it be possible to return it to you Qian Guogong?Are you afraid that you are drunk?

Yan Yingyuan put his hand on his forehead even more, thinking that the Holy Majesty just didn't know how to settle accounts with you. If you said that, didn't you send it to your door?I really think I have a long life.

"Mu Tianbo, are you convicted?" Chongzhen's gaze turned cold.

"Ah?" Mu Tianbo was taken aback when he heard the words, and said, "Your Majesty, I'm not guilty, what's my crime?"

"Do you dare to say that you are innocent?" Chongzhen said coldly, "Back then, Emperor Taizu Gao conferred the title of Duke of Qianguo on your ancestors, hoping that your Mu family would be able to live in Yunnan and guard the southwest frontier for Ming Dynasty, but you How did the Mu family do it? How did you Mu Tianbo do it? Are you worthy of Daming and Emperor Gao's expectations and trust in your Mu family?"

Mu Tianbo still looked confused, and asked blankly: "My lord, what exactly did our Mu family do?"

"What did you do? You still have the face to ask me?" Chongzhen was furious, "Mu Tianbo, didn't you just thank me for recovering the robbed billions of wealth for your Mu family?"

"Then I ask you, where did your Mu family's billions of dollars of wealth come from?"

"Gong Qian's annual food and salary is only three thousand shi, and your Mu family has not eaten or drank for three hundred years, but it is only [-] shi, and the silver conversion is at most one million taels. Where did the billions come from?" Wealth?"

"This..." Mu Tianbo was speechless immediately, he couldn't say this.

Where did the billions come from?Of course it was picked out of the mouths of the common people, but our Mu family is not the only one who does this. Isn't your Zhu family going too far?Why only say our Mu family?
"Nothing to say?" Chongzhen said, "Then I will speak for you."

"Your Mu family's billions of dollars of wealth, of course, was obtained by exploiting the people in Yunnan."

"Out of the [-] prefectures and divisions in Yunnan, there are twenty-six prefectures whose cultivated land belongs to your Mu family."

"Tenants of your Mu family's arable land, no matter if they are Han people or other native people, they will all pay [-]% of the rent."

"Poor those natives, in addition to paying the rent to your Mu family, they also have to pay the rent to the chieftain. After all the layers of exploitation, there is less than [-]% of what is left. That is to say, even if you take a stone per mu, what you leave to the natives is only half a bucket! "

"The exploitation is so ruthless and heavy, it's like a bone-scraping steel knife, how can the natives of the various divisions not rebel?"

"The rebellion of Wubikui and the rebellion of Shadingzhou are rooted in your Mu family. If it weren't for your Mu family's greed and exploitation, forcing the local people to have no way out, how could there be a rebellion between the two thieves?"

"The words of the Holy Majesty, the whip is really penetrating!" Wang Xiyan, the former left servant of the official department sitting at the head of the civil servants, couldn't bear it anymore, stood up and said, "Relying on the status of the world town of Yunnan, the Mu family wantonly annexed every government and every place. The arable land of the Sihan people and the native people, and now nine out of [-] of the arable land in Yunnan has been taken under the name of the Mu Mansion, and these actions will inevitably lead to the rebellion of the native people."

"Nonsense!" Mu Tianbo didn't dare to challenge Chongzhen, but he would not be polite to Wang Xiyan, "Wang Xiyan, why is your Wang family such a good thing? The cultivated land in Lufeng Prefecture is not very good, but it's [-]%. In your royal family's name."

Wang Xigun said: "But my Wang family will not buy and sell by force, let alone pay less for the royal rations."

"Mu Tianbo, I'm talking about you now, don't talk about others." Chongzhen interrupted decisively. At this stage, the focus of liquidation is on the clan and noble farms like the Mu family. Otherwise, the resistance encountered will increase sharply, which is not conducive to the stability of the overall situation.

If you just deal with nobles like the clan and the Mu family, there will be much less resistance.

Because a group of civil servants like Wang Xiyan also hated the clans and nobles' wanton occupation of cultivated land, they would only support Chongzhen's move and would not oppose it.

After a while, he said again: "You Mujiashi township in Yunnan must be responsible for Yunnan. First there was the Wubikui Rebellion, and then there was the Shadingzhou Rebellion, which caused repeated military disasters in Yunnan and the displacement of the people. Wubikui and Shading Of course the thieves in Zhou cannot be punished for their crimes, but your Mu family cannot escape the same."

"From now on, the Mu family will be lowered to a lower rank."

"Demoted from the Duke of Qianguo to the Marquis of Central Yunnan, the vassal state was abolished, and the family moved to Liudu within ten days."

Speaking of this meal, he said again: "All the farmland under the name of the Duke of Guizhou will be charged to the treasury, and the Duke's mansion will be used as official property, and it will be used as a barracks for the town of Yunnan!"

"Ah?" Mu Tianbo's face turned pale.

How do you say that?I thought that after suppressing the Shadingzhou Rebellion, the Mu family's good life would come back again, but I never expected that the Mu family's situation would become even worse. Not only was it downgraded from Duke to Marquis, Moreover, Kunming did not allow them to stay, insisting that their entire family, the Mu family, move to Nanjing.

In the end, Mu Tianbo left the square in a daze.

Chongzhen also ordered Yiding to remove the heads and corpses of the forty-eight chiefs.

Now, the accounts that should be cleaned up have been almost cleared, and the next step is the real reward.

Chongzhen walked up to Yang Weizhi and said with a smile: "Yang Weizhi, Chuxiong defended very well. I have heard about the process. He is courageous and resourceful, quite like an ancient famous general."

"I'm terrified." Yang Weizhi avoided the seat in a panic and got up.

In Yang Weizhi's expression, the previous disappointment was no longer there.

At this time, Yang Weizhi only had reverence or awe for Chongzhen.

I have to say that the Holy Majesty is really bold and wise in his actions.

Killing the head of the forty-eight divisions of the Guangxi wolf soldiers and taking Ding Kuichu, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi on the spot, is a bold move.

Severely punish the wolf soldiers in Guangxi, avenge the hundreds of thousands of native and Han people who died in the military chaos in Guangnan Prefecture and Lin'an Prefecture, and then they will definitely divide the land for the native and Han people. Once these two actions are taken, all the natives in Yunnan Province will be resentful It will melt away and disintegrate overnight, and from then on, all the native people in Yunnan will only be grateful for the kindness of the Holy One. This is great wisdom.

I dare not say it in a hundred years, but within the next fifty years, Yunnan will be settled!
Such means of acting, even if Emperor Taizu Gao is reborn, is it nothing more than that?
Chongzhen pondered and said: "Yang Weizhi, I have a difficult problem, I wonder if you would like to help me?"

"Your Majesty's words are serious." Yang Weizhi hastily bowed to the ground, "As the saying goes, the master worries about the humiliation of his ministers, and the master humiliates his ministers to death. It is the duty of my ministers to solve the worries and problems of the master, so please don't say such words. If it is not the case, even if the court official does not scold the minister, the minister himself will no longer have the face to be an official in the court."

"Okay." Chongzhen said happily, "Although the heads of the Forty-Eight Departments of Guangxi have been executed, the nearly [-] wolf soldiers detained outside the city can't be killed, right? How should these [-] wolf soldiers be dealt with? I don't know Yang Qing What's your opinion?"

Yang Weizhi said decisively: "Your Majesty, we absolutely cannot let these one hundred thousand wolf soldiers go back to Guangxi."

(End of this chapter)