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Chapter 401 clear rewards and punishments
Hearing the emperor's decision, although the cabinet hadn't finished the process, after the banquet, Zhu Shuren would inevitably receive a lot of compliments from his colleagues and subordinates.

No matter where you go, there are always praises of "Congratulations to the prince", but no one shouts "Thousands"——

Speaking of it, this is also a falsehood of popular opera culture in later generations.In fact, in ancient times, not to mention the Qing Dynasty, even in the Qing Dynasty, there was absolutely no one who casually called the prince Qiansui in person, until the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

It is nothing more than the people who wrote the libretto in later generations, and extended it from the folk stories about the eunuchs flattering "Nine Thousand Years" Wei Zhongxian.

In fact, the real ancient princes would only think those words are vulgar and nondescript. At most, they would be willing to be "congratulated for a thousand years" when celebrating their birthdays (you can only say "longevity without bounds" when celebrating the emperor's birthday), and they would not use it at all at ordinary times.

Faced with the raging praises from everyone, Zhu Shuren naturally still had to show due humility. After all, Cao Cao had to resign when he became king. How could he be more arrogant than Cao Cao? (Not only Cao Pi forced Zen to resign, but Cao Cao also resigned as Wei Gong and King Wei)
On the same day, he had no choice but to rush back to the mansion in a hurry and thank the guests behind closed doors for the time being.

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In the next few days, Zhu Shuren was not idle waiting for the canonization process, because although Duoduo died, the Ming and Qing wars in the Jianghuai area had not yet ended. Will deploy -

As mentioned above, after Dorgon received the urgent report from the Qing army in Huainan, on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, he ordered the Qing army in Shandong to go south for reinforcements, and then ordered the Qing army in Hebei to defend Shandong.The Qing army in Azig, Henan, can also make preliminary preparations for reinforcements and move eastward one by one around the 26th of the twelfth lunar month at the latest.

According to the marching speed of the Qing army, the Qing army in Shandong would definitely be able to reach Yangzhou before the Lantern Festival in the first year of Longwu. Azig's reinforcements could come faster, and they would definitely arrive before the tenth day of the first month.

It's just that Azig is also involved in Nanyang, and the number of troops coming is definitely not as large as that of the Qing army in Shandong. At most, 5 people will be allocated for reinforcements.
No matter how many words there are, Azig may have loopholes in the process of shrinking and turning to defense all the way. He can only retreat and transfer in batches slowly in order to be safe.

Therefore, Zhu Shuren also rested for two or three days, including the ceremonies of changing the yuan and presenting prisoners, and on the third day of the first lunar month, he was busy again.

At about the same time, Huang Degong of Jiangbei reported the possibility that the Qing army might try to meet Duduo's reinforcements and approach Yangzhou again.

The civil and military officials of Nanjing City, who were still immersed in great joy, couldn't help being a little surprised again when they heard the news, but the degree of reaction was definitely much smaller than the last time the Qing army went south.

The imperial court had just won a big victory, everyone was excited, and the myth that the Qing army was invincible was completely shattered, and the short-term surprise quickly turned into a new unity of purpose.

Minister of the Ministry of War, Shi Kefa, took this opportunity to suggest that the court should quickly simplify the cabinet process for discussing rewards, and at the same time let the emperor's ceremonial supervisors also handle special matters during special times,
In order to ensure that the promotion and rewards of all civil servants and generals who have done meritorious service are completely finalized as soon as possible, so as to encourage the soldiers to continue to fight against the enemy without any worries.

Originally, the matter of Zhu Shuren becoming the king, no matter how you say it, would take a month to process.Those who made marquises and uncles did not come to conclusions so quickly.

However, the Qing army’s rescue force once again advanced, which gave such an opportunity, so the military situation was like a fire, and a special case was made. On the fifth day of the first lunar month, Zhu Shuren’s official canonization came down:

The governor of the three original provinces, the title of minister of the leading military department, and Zhu Shuren, the Duke of E,
He was the king of Hubei, Quanshe Dadu's governor's office, general of Chinese and foreign military forces, and also supervised the money, food and military equipment of the seven provinces in the south.

Among them, titles, openings, official positions, and dispatches are relatively mixed, and some of them were created temporarily without precedent. Generally speaking, Zhu Shuren was authorized to command the Nanming army's external combat operations, and he was given internal armaments and army building. authority.

In other words, military power is unquestionable, but civil and financial power is not absolute.

Specifically, Zhu Shuren can raise military rations in the southern provinces on the grounds of beating thieves and restoring the Central Plains, but they cannot directly interfere with civil and household affairs.

He does not collect agricultural taxes, nor does he have direct control over household registration. As long as the local government provides enough military rations and does not prevent him from recruiting troops, he still cannot intervene in the rest.

As a matter of fact, Nanming is not short of soldiers now, what is lacking is the rectification and transformation of the old army, thorough investigation of vacancies and other shortcomings, training and upgrading of equipment, so Zhu Shuren has no demand for conscription in the short term in the future.

As for the judiciary, supervision, personnel appointment and dismissal, and merit examination, he has no power, so there is still a big gap between the direct national government.

Of course, a lot of money is definitely needed to build up armaments, and military rations alone are not enough.In order to prevent the government from going out and wrangling troubles, the cabinet finally approved that he, who "also supervises the seven provinces in the south, money, food and military equipment", only takes care of military rations and industrial and commercial taxes.

As for the money part, it is naturally made up by the industrial and commercial tax. Don't bother with the idea of ​​poll tax and agricultural tax. After all, those two items still have the effect of maintaining local expenditures.

The lijin system was originally implemented by Zhu Shuren five years ago. He has also adopted it in Huguang and Sichuan for several years, and his experience is very mature.This time, he took advantage of the opportunity to hand over the lijin of all seven southern provinces to him, and directly upgraded it to the official commercial tax of the Ming court, which was completely merged with the original scattered commercial taxes for unified management.

Later, this also formed a new system in Ming Dynasty: all the materials needed for army construction, except military rations, were all supported by industrial and commercial taxes.

And the situation that industry and commerce have been neglected for more than 200 years since Zhu Yuanzhang's small peasant thought has completely become a thing of the past.
Future emperors will know that to strengthen the army and defend the country, it depends on the development of industry and commerce, technology and manufacturing.Strong industry and commerce have sources of military expenditure, and armaments have advanced weapons, armor, and high-quality livestock.

Finally, because armaments also involve construction, the functions of the Ministry of Industry will also be included in the overall planning scope of the Metropolitan Governor's Office to a certain extent, which is convenient for Zhu Shuren to intervene.

In this way, it is convenient for Zhu Shuren to explore ore, open mines, build metallurgical steelworks, arsenals, machinery factories, armor and clothes... It is equivalent to classifying the Ministry of Industry's functions except for the construction of water conservancy and the construction of palaces. Zhu Shuren's planning is within the range.

As the commander-in-chief of all Chinese and foreign military forces, and also supervised the money, food and armaments of the seven provinces in the south, he had the absolute leadership of the entire military department, half of the household department, and most of the industry department, basically the absolute leadership of half of the imperial court.

Moreover, although the original six ministries had the Ministry of War, civilian officials did not directly enjoy the command of the army. Zhu Shuren actually had the command of the military.

So in general, he roughly has the command power of all the military generals of the imperial court except the palace guard system, plus [-]% of the command power of the civilian system.

Of course, Zhu Shuren was very satisfied with such a scope of power.

He also didn't want to make it too difficult to see a powerful minister who was regarded as a traitor who completely emptied the emperor. With the emperor's current situation of no son and his relative relationship with the emperor, this rhythm is already the best.

Moreover, Zhu Shuren is not good at judiciary and supervisory work for criminals, as well as cumbersome personnel management. Things that are not professional and not interesting, just leave it to the former professional people to do it.

In addition, in order to cooperate with Zhu Shuren's power structure, the court has recently been discussing to gradually transfer Shi Kefa to Zhu Shuren's work, and then gradually transfer Shi Kefa to the position of Minister of the Ministry of Officials within this year.

This is not an overhead history, but let him do what is more suitable for him.

To be honest, Shi Kefa's talent in directly supervising and coordinating generals and military command is really not very strong.In history, his loyalty is the most worthy of recognition, and the defense of Yangzhou was really a bit messy.

It is a better choice to let him, a selfless and loyal person, lead the civil service administration.

However, Wang Duo has already been imprisoned, and is still trying his specific crimes and preparing to convict him. The vacated position of Minister of the Ministry of Officials naturally needs a powerful figure with sufficient weight to take it.

In previous years of peace, among the cabinet and six ministries of the Ming Dynasty, the Ministry of Officials should be the head, and the chief assistant of the cabinet was mostly the Minister of the Ministry of Officials.

When the Nanming team was set up, it was nothing more than because of the fall of the Central Plains and Beijing, and everything was based on self-protection of armaments. This is led by the Ministry of War, which can be regarded as a temporary wartime system.

Now that Li Zicheng was killed and Duoduo was repelled, all the cabinet ministers gathered and felt that the complete wartime system could not always be maintained. Counterattacks are still very difficult and will take a long time. They should gradually return to the normal rhythm of both civil and military affairs.

At this time, it is not a bad idea to return to the old style.

Emperor Longwu Zhu Changhao also communicated with Shi Kefa in private in the past few days, so that he was a little psychologically prepared, saying that after being transferred to the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, the position of the chief assistant of the cabinet will still belong to him, and he will continue to be the head of civil servants .

Shi Kefa is an upright person and has no objection to this.

After the Minister of the Ministry of War was vacated, there was no longer a dedicated one. Zhu Shuren was previously the governor of the three provinces, and he also held the title of Minister of the Ministry of War. Just let him do things concurrently. Part of his powers already overlapped with the Ministry of War.

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After the transfer of Zhu Shuren and Shi Kefa's rewards is confirmed, it will be much easier for the middle and high-level generals and civil officials below to deal with.

In the decisive battle against Duoduo, Cao Bianjiao and other generals' contributions on the battlefield are naturally the most direct. Cao Bianjiao was also awarded a Marquis for leading his team to kill Duoduo, which is very rare——

Previously, the Nanming court only awarded the generals who had made outstanding contributions, and made them earls as appropriate. The marquis has always been sparing, and the gold content is still very high.

Cao Bianjiao conferred the title of Marquis of Zhenjiang, but it had nothing to do with the fiefdom of Zhenjiang Mansion. He just said that he cleared Jiangfang, ensured that Jiangnan was not lost, and allowed the title to be hereditary.

Li Fuming conferred the title of Marquis of Jiangning, which also has nothing to do with the fiefdom, and he only received a salary, but the title of the prince should be reduced by his descendants.

Huang Degong is still an earl now, because he did not participate in the Jiangnan campaign, but he has recovered Liuhe, Yangzhou and other places.

This time Dorgon Azig's rescue Qing army will arrive soon.When the news of Duoduo's death spreads and the reinforcements of the Jiangbei Qing army retreat in the face of difficulties, then they can give Huang Degong a gold medal, exaggerate the credit for "repelling the Jiangbei rescue of the Qing army", and give him a seal for that reason. Hou.

Huang Degong was naturally very excited when he got the letter. He patrolled harder and harder. He had already seen a "futures" Marquis in front of him. He could immediately "exchange mission rewards" after repelling the reinforcements from the Qing army. ?
In the end, Zheng Chenggong, who made great efforts several times in the Jiangshui battle, also dominated the battle of Jinshan Temple, which lasted half a month and greatly restrained and weakened Duoduo, which can be regarded as laying the foundation for the most important decisive battle.

Just considering that he is too young, and he has always been a civil servant before, and he can be compensated for his promotion, so he doesn't have to rely solely on titles to raise honors like a general.Therefore, Zheng Chenggong was named Dinghaibo, and promoted to be a doctor in the Ministry of War.

None of the other generals were eligible to be marquises anymore, but the Earl still gave a few.

Among the civil servants, it is worth mentioning that Yan Yingyuan, the magistrate of Changzhou, was particularly successful in the blockade, and his credit for exhausting the enemy before the final decisive battle was more conspicuous than that of Zheng Chenggong. Only slightly lower than Zheng Chenggong.

Yan Yingyuan was exceptionally promoted to Su Song Bing Bei Dao, in charge of the military preparations of the four prefectures of Su Song Changzhen, which is equivalent to being in charge of the river defense preparations for the four prefecture-level cities in southern Jiangsu along the Yangtze River.

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The affairs of the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of War are so complicated that it is difficult to describe them all.

At the same time, the Ministry of Criminal Justice is also intensively dealing with the aftermath of the war, and of course the discussion on punishing evil and eliminating rape will not be neglected.

Wang Duo was sentenced to be beheaded because he took the lead as a traitor and surrendered faction. He failed to escape the trial of history, and a bunch of other colluders were formally sentenced to be executed on the eleventh day of the first month——

Zhu Changhao didn't want to delay too late, because he knew that reinforcements from the Qing army would arrive in Jiangbei soon.Before the Qing army's second wave of rescue attempts came, killing the main traitors could also boost morale and unify people's hearts.

But it is not auspicious to kill people as soon as the first month comes up, or to kill people during the Lantern Festival. In the end, they chose a day just after the tenth day of the Lunar New Year and before the Lantern Festival.

Qian Qianyi was sentenced to exile as an official, but before the official was recovered, he was first exiled to Fujian for temporary detention, and handed over to a general of Zheng Chenggong's clan to guard him.

In addition to our own traitors to be dealt with, of course the captured enemy officials and generals must be severely interrogated.

The captured Manchus, Mongolian beizi, and Meile Erzhen were all eaten by the hackles, and those of lower rank were tortured or cut in half.

There is a difference between the punishment and Ling Chi. In the Ming Dynasty, the punishment was roughly simplified as cutting off the limbs and then beheading. It can be roughly understood that Lu Zhi cut the stick for Mrs. Qi. The number of knives is much less than that of Ling Chi. Heavy, not a permanent sentence.

As for the Han officials captured, the most senior is of course Zhang Cunren, who is at the banner level. This man is the mastermind of Duoduo. One of the culprits.

In addition, Zhang Cunren was a general of Zu Dashou back then, and was a military officer in the Ming Dynasty. He finally surrendered to the enemy, so he should be punished with the most severe treason.

In the end, Zhang Cunren was sentenced to three thousand knives. From the early morning of the eleventh day of the first lunar month to the middle of the night on the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, the emperor personally ordered him not to drag it, so as not to drag it until the Lantern Festival and still have blood.

Except for Zhang Cunren, the other long-standing traitors don't have much to say, except for one Sun Zhixie, who needs special treatment.

Originally, the Ministry of Punishment only sentenced Sun Zhixie to Ling Chi, who had a relatively small number of knives, and was cut 64 knives. The main reason was to punish him for "instigating Duoduo to issue an order to shave his hair, which led to the purging of tens of thousands of righteous people who refused to shave their hair in the Second Mansion of Changzhen. The army suppressed and massacred".

But Zhu Shuren is familiar with history books, and he also knows how Sun Zhixie died after being captured by the Tiandihui Rebel Army in history. He really didn't want Sun Zhixie's exclusive way of death for a dog traitor to be obliterated, so he specially said hello , I hope that extrajudicial punishment will be imposed.

Prince E has already spoken, how could the Ministry of Punishments not agree?Besides, just a little inspiration will do.

In the end, Sun Zhixie reproduced his death method of being punished by the Shandong rebels in history, and did a "reverse Lingchi" - the positive Lingchi in history is to cut off the flesh of a person.But Sun Zhixie was not cut into pieces, but the executioner added a lot of things to him.

The specific operation is to let the people watching the punishment voluntarily donate a small stroke of hair, and then thread it into the needle hole originally used for sewing thread at the end of the sewing needle, and stick it into Sun Zhixie's flesh, just like stitching a wound in an operation. Pass it out and cut off the hair, so that the hair will be implanted on Sun Zhixie's flesh.

Doesn't his grandson Zhixie hope that the Han people in the world will shave their heads and braid their hair like him?Then reverse the operation and let the Han people in the world give him "full-body skin and hair transplantation".

In the end, Sun Zhixie was stitched with thousands of stitches and hair transplanted all over his body, resembling a long-haired chimpanzee, and he was tortured to death.After his death, the executioner tied ropes to the inexhaustible hair transplants, and asked a group of cavalry to pull them separately and fly Sun Zhixie's body into a kite to show the public, which can fly higher and make people farther than hanging it on a bamboo pole. can see.

On the day when the long-haired orangutan kite was released, countless people in Nanjing came to watch.Those volunteers who escaped from the Zhenjiang and Changzhou prefectures and whose family members were killed because they refused to shave their heads are even more bitter and bitter, and they must watch.

Countless people begged the executioner to accept the hair they donated, and insisted on transplanting their own hair to Sun Zhixie.

(End of this chapter)