Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 412 Let the prisoners undergo labor reform first

The He Luohui Department of the Qing Army, who had been closely following the main force of the Qing Army of Hong Chengchou's department heading south to Huguang, would never have imagined that he would be surrounded by the Fourth Guards Army.

He was the weakest of the several armies that marched south to Daming, and because of this, He Luo would be very cautious in marching troops.

But it was also because of his caution that he marched very slowly, fearing that he would be too far away from Hong Chengchou, the main force of the Qing army, and that he would be dragged into a funeral by Hong Chengchou, the main force of the Qing army.

And this happened to give enough time for the Fourth Guards Army to encircle him.

After He Luohui failed to attack Xiangyang, he went to Suizhou along the official road, but happened to meet directly with the Second Corps of the Fourth Guards Army in Suizhou.

The First Corps also followed and surrounded He Luohui with the Second Corps in Suizhou.

As the first-class prince of the Qing court, He Luohui was naturally not a simple figure in the Qing court. Not to mention his outstanding achievements, he was deeply trusted by Dorgon.

However, now he can only wait for the fate of being captured by the Guards.

The Fourth Army of the Guards is no longer what it used to be. A large number of grassroots officers are veterans of the First, Second, and Third Armies of the Guards, and their combat strength has long been extraordinary.

It is naturally difficult for He Luohui's 10 horses to break out from the Fourth Guards Army.

Less than five days after the Fourth Army of the Guards launched the general offensive on December 25, the 10 troops of He Luohui were all wiped out.

And he himself was captured alive by soldiers of the Fourth Guards Army in a cave.

In short, when the spring of the 21st year of Chongzhen came, the second war against Ming initiated by the Manchu Qing declared a complete failure.

Except for some of the 80 Qing troops who were captured, the rest were all wiped out, and there were also a small number of missing persons, but they can be ignored.

Among them, King Abatai of Duoluo County, first-class public Tan Tai, first-class public He Luohui, Hong Chengchou, a scholar of the Inner Academy and Shangshu of the Ministry of War, Gushan Ezhen Tong Tulai, Meile Ezhen Aobai were captured, and King Pingxi Wu Sangui and others were killed.

The entire new force of the Qing court was wiped out, and even from Liaodong to Beizhili were disrupted by the guards.

The Manchus suffered a crushing defeat.

Daming won once again.

When Zhu Youjian learned of the news on his way back to the south of the Yangtze River, he immediately decreed that the First Army immediately expand a corps and form a corps with the expanded corps of the Third Army of the Guards to form the Seventh Army of the Guards.

At the same time, Zhu Youjian appointed Liu Zhaoji as the commander-in-chief of the Seventh Army, Chen Zizhuang as the governor-general, Weng Zhengchun as the deputy commander-in-chief of the First Corps of the Seventh Army, and Yan Yingyuan was exceptionally promoted to the Second Corps because of his outstanding performance in this war Deputy Commander.

According to the military order of the Grand Marshal's Mansion, the Seventh Army of the Guards Army will immediately go to the southwest once the reorganization is completed.

The Third Army and the First Army of the Guards stayed in Shandong and rested in Henan for training and recuperation, replenishing recruits and undertaking the transformation and distribution of prisoners.

These affairs are naturally in the charge of the two governors, Li Banghua and Li Mingrui.

Daming now has many mines, sulfuric acid plants, nitric acid plants, and caustic soda plants. These are high-risk types of work, but they are also indispensable raw material production bases for the military industry of the Ming Dynasty. It is natural for these captives to do these dangerous jobs.

After all, these people owed their crimes in the war, and it is only appropriate to let them serve.

No matter how high his status is in the Qing Dynasty, he will be arranged to work in various places and serve as labor labor until he is re-convicted by the Tribunal.

Of course, except for those who have committed the most heinous crimes, they will be tortured or beheaded instead of hard labor.

Most of the low-level or insignificant ordinary Qing army captives who had only bullied the common people continued to serve labor and undergo reform. Generally, there will be a time for labor reform. Except for the coerced civilians, the rest have criminal records All Qing troops will be executed.

This kind of labor work was invented by Zhu Youjian to make full use of human resources.

Of course, since these people are serving hard labor, they will not be paid much, which is naturally different from the treatment of ordinary people who are engaged in related work.

After all, each prisoner is a citizen of Ming Dynasty.

The arrangement of the captives should be arranged by the governor below and then reported to Jin Xuan, the director of the General Political Department.

Qin Liangyu was in charge of the Southwest's military against Zhang Xianzhong.

Now Zhu Youjian is only concentrating on rushing back to the south of the Yangtze River with the Second Corps of the Guards non-stop, to clean up the group of vassal kings who don't know how to praise.

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Before Zhu Youjian left Jiangnan, the civil officials and scholars in the entire Jiangnan did not have much confidence in Zhu Youjian's ability to defeat the Qing army.

Perhaps someone deliberately fanned the ghostly wind and lit the will-o'-the-wisp, spreading the news that the Qing army's million-strong army was heading south like a bamboo.

It may also be because some people hope that the Qing army will succeed in going south so that they can use this to ban high business taxes.

In short, although Dongchang is cracking down on those who spread rumors, there are not many people who want to fish in troubled waters while the Qing army goes south and the guards go north.

According to seniority, Lu Wang Zhu Changxiao was the cousin of Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian, and his original fief was in Weihui Mansion, Henan.

Later, because thieves broke into Weihui, Henan, Lu Wang Zhu Changhao's family had to flee to the south of the Yangtze River, and finally lived in Hangzhou.

The vassal king has always been very rich, with a generous salary and a lot of land. Although Zhu Changhao's land in Henan is gone, he is doing well in Hangzhou.

However, Zhu Changhao is still dissatisfied that Zhu Youjian did not re-arrange the fief after he moved south.

Zhu Changhao even took the initiative to ask for it, and Zhu Youjian was naturally unwilling to let these people continue to occupy most of the land as parasites.

So Zhu Youjian rejected Zhu Changhao.

Zhu Changhao was dissatisfied and did not dare to do anything to Zhu Youjian.

However, Zhang Bingzhen, the governor of Zhejiang, was quite dissatisfied with Zhu Youjian's measures to increase business taxes and kill scholars without authorization, so he secretly contacted Zhu Changhao. Also boarded the pirate ship.

The governor and general officer of Zhejiang is Sun Yuanlun, but Sun Yuanlun is just a civil servant arranged by Zhu Youjian to govern Gao Jie in Zhejiang.

After Gao Jie left, apart from Mou Wenshou's guards, Zhejiang had no troops, and Sun Yuanlun had no obligation to control Gao Jie, so he naturally relaxed and simply lived in the West Lake for leisure.

The people from Dongchang investigated and found out about Lu Wang Zhu Changhao and others' misconduct. The first thing they found was Sun Yuanlun. As a result, Sun Yuanlun didn't believe it and went to question Lu Wang Zhu Changhao, but he was directly killed by Zhejiang Governor Zhang Bingzhen.

Then immediately Lu Wang announced the uprising.

After all, Sun Yuanlun is Zhu Youjian's man no matter what, and he is the highest official in command of Zhejiang's military and political power.

Now Zhejiang governor Zhang Bingzhen killed Sun Yunlun in his house, he had to do it if he didn't want to.

However, what Lu Wang Zhu Changhao didn't expect was that his rebellion went so smoothly, and he easily hit Liyang from Hangzhou.

There were even many Jiangnan gentry responding along the way.

Lu Wang Zhu Changhao was also ignited for a while, and even immediately announced the exemption of commercial taxes in the occupied areas, the restoration of the sea ban, and the suspension of the Ningbo City Ship Lifting Department.

Since then, more and more gentry in the south of the Yangtze River have responded to King Lu and Zhu Changxiao.

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