Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 697
Soon another month passed.

The time soon came to mid-September in the 22nd year of Chongzhen (1649).

In this month, Chongzhen rushed to do several urgent tasks.

The first urgent task is to list the general headquarters, which is located in the camp of the Chaori Temple, and the Chaori Temple and the surrounding palaces and palaces have become the headquarters of the general headquarters.

And this is also a change in the Chongzhen Dynasty.

Chongzhen was very disgusted with the form of offering sacrifices to heaven, earth, sun, moon, mountains and rivers.

The only thing left now is the ancestor worship ceremony on the first day of the first lunar month, and Chongzhen is often absent for various reasons, and then the prince Zhu Cihong will perform the sacrifice on his behalf.

The second urgent task is to confer titles.

A total of 6 scholars were awarded the title of lieutenant general.

Another 15 scholars were awarded the rank of major general.

In addition, 616 were awarded school officers, 1829 were awarded lieutenant officers, and 5719 were awarded non-commissioned officers.

Generals, school officers, and lieutenants are basically the sons of Qin Wang who have been transferred to the general headquarters.

The [-] scholars who stayed in the Ministry of Internal Affairs were not awarded military ranks, and it is impossible to have them in the future.

The third urgent task is to build five shelf divisions, but Chongzhen does not need to do this himself. Five division commanders Xu Yingwei, Yan Yingyuan, Lu Xiangtong, Wang Fuzhi, and Huaxia are fully responsible.

After the implementation of standardization in the new army, the three-three system is used below the brigade, with the exception of the infantry company.

In addition to 3 infantry platoons, the infantry company also has an infantry artillery platoon, which has 4 squads.

所以每个步兵团有正副团长2人、正副营长6人、正副连长18人、正副排长72人、正副班长234人，每团共计332名军官。

The configuration of the supply regiment is basically the same as that of the infantry regiment, except that there is no infantry platoon at the first level of the company, with a total of 242 officers.

Each artillery regiment has 2 regimental commanders and deputy commanders, 6 battalion commanders and deputy battalion commanders, 18 company commanders and deputy platoon commanders, and 54 platoon commanders and deputy commanders. Each regiment has a total of 80 officers. During combat missions, the supply regiment can be split into supply battalions and allocated to three artillery regiments.

So a full artillery regiment has 106 officers.

So a mixed brigade has almost 1400 officers.

The total number of officers in a shelf division is nearly 4500.

The total number of officers in the five shelf divisions reached more than 2.

This number far exceeds the total number of more than 2 uniformed soldiers and more than 5 national students, so it is impossible to replenish the officers of the five shelf divisions in a short period of time.

But fortunately, the second batch of Guozi students in Nanjian University is about to graduate.

At that time, there will be more than 6 national students who can add in.

In addition, it is almost the same to promote some of the soldiers from the new army.

The fourth urgent task is to move. It is impossible to move back to the Forbidden City.

As mentioned above, buildings like the Forbidden City are not suitable for people to live in.

So in the end, Chongzhen chose his residence in the Longevity Palace in Xiyuan.

Yes, that’s right, it was the Longevity Palace that Emperor Jiajing ordered Yan Shifan, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, to spend more than 100 million taels of silver to build the Longevity Palace. Now more than 100 years have passed, and the old one is a bit old, but it is still very good to turn around.

Needless to say, this renovation work must have been outsourced to Daming Construction Workshop.

For the imperial court and the Ministry of Industry, Chongzhen couldn't trust it. If you paid 50 yuan for the project, it would be very popular if you could make it [-] yuan. Therefore, you must find the Daming Construction Workshop.

In early September, before Li Xiangjun and Ran Sanniang arrived in Beijing, the Longevity Palace was finally renovated.

The main body of the renovated Wanshou Palace is still a civil structure, but many brick-concrete structures have also been added. For example, the auxiliary building where Chongzhen himself lives is a three-story brick-concrete structure.

It is said that the great fire is too prosperous, so the palace is easy to catch fire.

Chongzhen felt that the brick-concrete structure was less likely to catch fire.

Here, by the way, after the successful development of the steam engine, Gewuke quickly produced the ball mill and the blower, and the technical problems of the cement plant were solved. So now the Daming Cement Plant has been officially completed and put into operation. The cement used in the ancillary building was transported thousands of miles from Nanjing.

Regrettably, within a few days of moving into the Longevity Palace, Chongzhen had to return to Nanjing.

Li Xiangjun was so reluctant to give up, and while dressing Chongzhen, he said coquettishly, "Do I have to go?"

"Why?" Chongzhen pinched Li Xiangjun's buttocks, and said with a smile, "I haven't plowed you and Sanniang's land for more than half a month, almost every day, isn't it enough?"

Li Xiangjun blushed slightly and said, "The concubine also wants a little princess."

"I'm greedy for co-authoring." Chongzhen laughed, "Isn't your ambition to make contributions and become the most outstanding female general in the history of Ming Dynasty and even China? Why did you suddenly change your temper?"

"The two are not contradictory." Li Xiangjun said with a bright red mouth.

"The concubine wants to be a female general, and she also wants a pink and chubby little princess."

Thinking of Zhu Jinxiu, who is like a doughnut, a maternal radiance appeared in Li Xiangjun's beautiful eyes.

"I really can't refuse a request like yours, but I can't control whether it's a little princess or a little prince. It depends on God's will." Chongzhen said and hugged Li Xiangjun on the couch.

"Long Live Lord, you have to go to the Ministry of Criminal Justice in the morning." Li Xiangjun said hurriedly.

"No, it's just a formality anyway, it doesn't matter if I go or not."

Chongzhen said, pressing his whole body up. It is more important to create a little princess or a little prince. The Ming Empire needs more successors, especially more kings or queens overseas.

……

Just when Chongzhen was busy making people, the Ministry of Criminal Justice began a public trial.

Hearing that the Ministry of Criminal Justice is going to open the trial today, the people in Beijing have poured into the compound of the Ministry of Criminal Justice to watch the excitement. Human beings are like this, and they can never get rid of their animal nature that likes to watch the excitement.

But this is also a good thing for the Ministry of punishment.

Because the bloody head helps to popularize the law.

The Ministry of Criminal Justice has been handling the case for nearly three months.

But because there are too many criminals involved, let alone other things, there are tens of thousands of surrendered generals of the Eight Banners Han army, and thousands of second ministers. How can it be sorted out in a short time?

So it took three months just to investigate and collect evidence.

After nearly three months of investigation and evidence collection, the Ministry of Criminal Justice finally obtained a large amount of criminal evidence.

The first batch of surrendered generals will be heard publicly today: Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi, Zu Dashou.

"Take the prisoner!" Liu Shizhen, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, slammed the gavel, and the officials on both sides immediately poked the ground with water wooden sticks, and began to growl.

Amid the sound of "no evil" and "no evil", Kong Youde was brought into the lobby.

I saw that Kong Youde was wearing a big shackle around his neck, iron shackles on his ankles, and thick iron chains on the iron shackles. It was extremely strenuous to take a step, and he seemed to be about to fall down at any time.

In fact, Kong Youde was tortured to the point where he was almost out of shape.

During these three months, Kong Youde was not imprisoned in a prison, but on the construction site of the railway.

The supervisors of the new army on the railway construction site were really cruel to these surrendered generals. They not only beat and scolded them frequently, but also gave them very little food every day, and the only food they had was mildewed and spoiled.

This kind of treatment, even the iron body can't bear it for too long.

Kong Youde's body has always been pretty good, and now he only has one breath left.

However, after seeing Liu Shizhen, Kong Youde still refused to kneel down.

But how could the yamen servant let him get what he wanted?Immediately two water and fire sticks hit Kong Youde's legs heavily, Kong Youde let out a muffled groan immediately, and fell to his knees in the hall.

"Okay! Kill this dog traitor!"

"The dog traitor is true and deserves to die!"

"Kill him, beat him to death with a stick!"

The people watching under the hall shouted one after another.

"Silence!" Liu Shizhen slapped the gavel to silence the clamor of the people.

He opened the case file and asked Kong Youde, who was kneeling on the ground, and said: "On the [-]th day of the winter month in the fourth year of Chongzhen, you were instigated by Li Jiucheng and led your troops to launch a mutiny in Wuqiao. You called yourself Marshal Du and returned to Dengzhou. Invaded Dengzhou, massacred thousands of soldiers, civilians, officials and gentry in Dengzhou city, is there such a thing?"

Kong Youde rolled his eyelids and said angrily, "What do you think?"

"I have violated Kong Youde, I advise you to answer politely, so as not to ask for trouble."

"That's the case." Kong Youde said helplessly, "But it was the twelfth lunar month at that time, and the supplies were delayed. The soldiers could not starve to death. They could only beg for food from the big families along the way. ..."

"That's enough, you don't have to tell me about this." Liu Shizhen interrupted, "When I ask you, you only need to answer yes or no, don't talk about it, you have to remember."

"If you say that, there is no need to be so troublesome."

Kong Youde said: "You don't need to ask any more questions, I just admit it."

Kong Youde knew that he himself was bound to die this time, and Chongzhen would never spare the three of them if he could spare anyone. He, Geng Zhongming and Shang Kexi were bound to die, since they were doomed, it was better to be more stubborn.

However, when Liu Shizhen finished reading out his crimes and was about to pronounce the punishment in court, Kong Youde's heart still couldn't help tightening, and even his breathing froze all of a sudden.

Liu Shizhen was still reading out: "...the facts are all there, the evidence is conclusive, and the criminal has also confessed. According to Article XX of the first volume of the Military Law of the Ming Dynasty, the sentencing is as follows: the criminal Kong Youde should be punished!"

"Okay, okay, the traitor should be executed Lingchi, and he should be hacked into pieces."

"Dog and traitor, if you don't cut a thousand knives, you will not be allowed to die, you must cut a thousand knives!"

"One thousand knives is not enough, ten thousand knives are needed, and ten thousand knives are enough to kill him!"

The people watching in the hall burst into applause, their eyes shining with excitement one by one.

However, Kong Youde seemed to be drained of all his strength suddenly, and fell to the ground at once.

Kong Youde is also used to watching life and death, he thought that facing life and death would be calm and calm.

But when death really came, I found that I still couldn't face it calmly.

Especially when he had to face Ling Chi's torture, which made him even more unable to calm down. He hated and regretted it!

At this moment, Kong Youde really regretted his guts. If he knew this, he should not have launched the Wuqiao Mutiny in the first place. , Now even if I want to turn back, I can't, hate it!
(End of this chapter)