Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 565

"Is this sure?"

"The evidence is overwhelming."

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At the Prime Minister's Office, a top-secret report was jointly produced by the Jinyi Weidong Factory, and Zhu Youfen conspired against him.

Zhu Youfen was the third son of Zhu Changshu, king of Hengxian, who was appointed general of Zhenguo for the first time. He became king of Heng for five years in Chongzhen. He reigned for 12 years and Chongzhen for 16 years.Li Shiyuan, a general loyal to the Ming Dynasty, killed Yao Yingfeng, found Zhu Youfen, and persuaded him to proclaim himself emperor and raise the flag to fight against the Qing Dynasty.

But Zhu Youfei was timid and cowardly, so he took the initiative to surrender to Qing Dynasty.As soon as the Qing army entered Beijing, they appeased on the surface and still retained their princes. After Zhu Yihai raised troops in Taizhou, the Qing court took Zhu Youfen to Beijing on the grounds that the children of Heng Fan rebelled, and he was with the captured Hongguang, the surrendered King Lu, etc. Together they are under house arrest in Beijing.

The following year, the Tartars killed sixteen kings in a row in the name of treason.

King Heng was originally among the second batch to be killed, but later the Tartars pretended to negotiate peace and sent Hongguang, King Lu, King Heng and other kings southward.After the peace talks failed, the angry Tatars ordered to raid Prince Heng's mansion, and the Heng clan fled for their lives. Those who failed to escape were sold into slavery, their family property and treasures were confiscated, and Prince Heng's mansion in Qingzhou was razed to the ground.

King Heng Zhu Youfu went to the south of the Yangtze River, but Zhu Yihai treated this distant nephew pretty well. Both Hongguang and King Lu were demoted to common people and settled in Yuhuan Island, Zhejiang, but he retained his title of King Heng to stay in Beijing.

After the patriarchal law was promulgated before, King Heng was also one of the 23 princes who were deposed as princes, and was changed to the king of Linzi County.Although it is said that it is only passed down to one line, and it is descended from the world, but it is still the king of the county after all.

In no way should it be treasonous.

Besides, Zhu Youfei is timid and cowardly, how could he have the courage to rebel?
However, Dongchang and Jin Yiwei have no evidence, and they dare not talk nonsense. If you want to say that although Zhu Youfei served as King Heng for 12 years in the Chongzhen Dynasty and another year in the Shaotian Dynasty, this man really has no skills. Rebellion is also not confidential.

Jin Yiwei couldn't believe it at first, but after careful investigation, he found that this matter had gone too far, and there were actually quite a few people involved.

Yiyang King Zhu Chaoqiang, Jingjiang King Zhu Hengju, and Gui Wang Zhu Youlang also secretly participated in the rebellion. They planned to poison Zhu Yihai and then embrace Gui Wang Zhu Youlang to succeed him.

In exchange, Zhu Youlang promised that after he became emperor, he would restore the title of Prince Heng, and King Yiyang and King Jingjiang would be princes, hereditary succession, each choosing Yongzhen.

As for how these four lords got together, after a follow-up investigation, the truth came to light.

In the final analysis, it was caused by the newly promulgated clan law.

Since Zhu Yihai raised his army, he has also adjusted the treatment of the clan several times, and now he has promulgated the clan law. Except for the five uniforms, he is not a clan, and he is not granted titles or salaries.

Because there was no one in the fifth service, 31 county kings were specially retained.

King Heng and King Gui were both reduced to county kings, and King Yiyang, the king of Jingjiang, was directly expelled from the rank.

In addition to demotion and seizure of titles, there are new regulations on the properties of these clans, and the clan law also has new regulations, which is to cut off the economic and legal privileges of the royal family other than these five clothes.

The specific method is to take back their farmland and keep [-] mu per square, but it will also be integrated with the private land in the future.The imperial court took back the excess fields, and then gave some appropriate compensation.

Not only the royal relatives outside of the fifth service, but also the descendants of Xu Da and other relatives who had surrendered to the Qing Dynasty had their land confiscated.

Basically, it is similar to how the Tartars treated the royal family members of the Ming Dynasty.

Not only the fields were taken back, but also real estate such as houses and shops were reserved, and the rest was confiscated.

The reason for doing this is naturally the redistribution of resources, especially the fields. Zhu Yihai is not willing to let them continue to occupy a large number of fields.

For example, Wei Guogong and other relatives who have enjoyed benefits for more than 200 years, when the Ming Dynasty was about to perish, no one stood up to save the country and King Qin, and they surrendered faster than anyone else.

What to keep.

Unless they fought against the Qing Dynasty or rebelled against the king, Zhu Yihai would keep their land and property according to their merits, otherwise they would all be redistributed.

For example, Liu Kongzhao, Bo Chengyi, was scolded as a traitor, but he was a hero to Zhu Yihai. Not only did he not win the title, but he was also promoted to the county magistrate of Chengyi.

As soon as this patriarchal law came out, it caused quite a lot of controversy.

Especially the clan, the clan at the bottom doesn't matter, and even thinks it's pretty good.Although it is said that since the Wanli period, the ban on the clan has been gradually relaxed, allowing the imperial examination to be an official, etc., but the ban is relatively small, and most of the bottom clans are in a miserable situation.

So they are very supportive of the new clan law now, because even if they are reduced to the royal family, they can still get a settling silver, and even those with old people and children can get a ration subsidy, and they can queue up and divide the fields equally .

Although it is not as good as the [-] mu of land for each soldier in the imperial battalion, but each quarter is divided into two mu of land, but at least it can be divided.

Those who are really opposed are those big vassals, princes, princes, and generals. Their conditions are still relatively good. Most of the fields of the suzerains and vassals in various places are in their hands, and even some princesses have a lot of land in their homes.

For example, Princess Rongchang, the eldest daughter of Emperor Wanli and Queen Wang, she was 62 years old when the Tatars entered Beijing, and all three of her sons died in the raids. After the Tartars entered Beijing, she had one son and thirteen grandchildren. , more than a hundred family members, she owns more than 700 hectares of farmland in Shuntian, Baoding, and Hejian, which is 37 mu of land.

When she was in Beijing, she asked the Tartars to keep half of the land for her, or to return one third of the land.She still has more than ten large houses in Beijing, which were also occupied by the Qing army.

Her request was not granted, and she was moved to a deserted village in the outskirts. Dorgon began to promise on the surface that some Zhuangzi would continue to pay her rent, but in fact it was impossible.

Later, Dorgon sent her, Chongzhen's younger sister, Princess Ningde's family, and some other princesses in Beijing back to the south, and their property in the north was naturally confiscated.

King Heng passed down Qingzhou for seven generations. At the beginning of Hongzhi's reign, he granted 240 hectares of land in Shouguang and other places. After that, he continued to fight for encroachment, increasing the farmland to more than 7000 hectares. .

During the Jiajing period, due to the serious annexation and occupation of land by the vassals of King De, King Heng, King Yi, and King Lu in Shandong, the censor cleaned up and found that the land legally owned by Prince Heng's mansion was 170 hectares.

The land they mixed by changing the county registration was converted into 250 official acres, which is actually more than [-] hectares, which is equivalent to [-] to [-] miles in width from east to west and north to south.

Although the government planned to clear the fields occupied by King Heng, in fact this was not done in the end.

Until the end of Chongzhen, the fields in Prince Heng's Mansion only increased but not decreased.

During the reign of Chongzhen, Prince Heng's Mansion distributed more than 500 taels of Lumi, salt and silver each year, 31 civil and military officials, and more than 500 taels of silver for employees... 690 and nine military academy members There are more than 500 taels of silver for annual food and grain banknotes, and there are also folk kitchens, musicians, buckets, menzi, etc., with a total of more than 6000 taels of silver.

Prince Heng's Mansion concealed more than [-] hectares of rouge land and more than [-] hectares of grassland in Weixian County.

The fields in Shandong at that time were basically in the hands of the four princes.

Of course, there are still problems here, that is, these lands are not really belonged to the palace. Pay rent to the palace.

The palace sheltered these people, and received less than the imperial court's land tax plus levy, both the people and the palace benefited, anyway, it was digging the walls of the imperial court.

This kind of thing, from the vassals to the relatives, to the bureaucrats and gentlemen, are all so crazy.

This is also an important reason why the country's finances collapsed at the end of the Ming Dynasty. There was no industrial and commercial tax, and the basic land was paid to Dingyin, but it turned out to be exploited by this loophole.

Zhu Yihai's patriarchal law is to clean up in a unified way, whether it is granting land or sending names.

Their fields themselves were taken from the state, and now they are nationalized.

Hengfan retained Zhu Youfu's title of title, and was reduced to the king of Linzi County. He was given [-] mu of Yongye land, and the rest of the land was taken back to the government. One house was given, and the rest was taken back.

Shops and workshops, as well as money and supplies, are all preserved.

The fields and houses of King Heng's Mansion were actually looted twice by the Chuang army and the Qing army before Zhu Yihai fought back to Shandong, and the Tartars confiscated all their land in the end.

Zhu Yihai just took over from the Tartars once.

When the Chuangjun and Tartars came, Zhu You didn't dare to let go, but he was sent back, especially after the Ming army recovered Qingzhou, he repeatedly asked to be able to return to Qingzhou and take back his estate.

Zhu Yihai never agreed and let him stay in Dengzhou.

The new clan law came out, the land could not be taken back at all, and the title was downgraded again. Zhu Youfen complained a lot, and then complained with Zhu Youlang and other clan vassals in Beijing. King Jingjiang rebelled and was promoted to the rank of General Jiapingman.

It's just that this person was too inflated after being rewarded, and he acted like a local emperor in Guangxi, colluded with Ding Kuichu, and set up a private hilltop.Later, Zhu Yihai was transferred back to Ding Kuichu, and under the pretext of suppressing the rebellion of the chieftain in Yunnan, he sent Chen Bangfu and Jiao Lian, another Guangxi general, to Yunnan.

After Chen Bangfu entered Yunnan, he won and lost, but he still had the old style. The troops were undisciplined and looted everywhere, which caused complaints from the Yunnan people.

Later, he underestimated the enemy, was defeated by an ambush, lost troops and lost generals, and was called back to the court by Zhu Yihai. After some interrogation, he cut off the earl, took away the seal of the general, and was relieved of the position of superintendent.

Because of this, this guy had a lot of resentment towards the emperor. Seeing that the King Zhu Heng of Jingjiang, who was recalled from Guangxi, was also dissatisfied with the new policy, he secretly instigated some people and soon formed a small rebellious group.

It's just that these people are not cautious about rebellion, and many people know about the matter.

Jin Yiwei easily controlled their conspiracy group.

After reading the report, Zhu Yihai felt a little disdainful.

With this group of people, rebellion is the same as playing house, isn't it nonsense?

They have no soldiers and no power, so what do they use to plot rebellion?
"What do you think, how to deal with this matter?" the emperor asked.

After circulating the detailed report, the ministers in the Prime Minister's Office felt that these guys were really daring and reckless.

Even the Tartars are no match for the emperor now, these people do this kind of thing.

"Since rebellion, then it will be punished."

"Conspiracy is a heinous crime, and it should be punished!"

Everyone agrees that it must be severely suppressed.

When Zhu Yihai first joined the army, there were many clans who claimed to be clans, and even regarded themselves as emperors. For example, the former king of Jingjiang once blatantly refused to support Zhu Yihai, called himself the supervisor of the country, and even raised troops to cause chaos.After he was pacified, Zhu Yihai made Zhu Hengyu King of Jingjiang and moved him to Nanguan.

As for the disposal of the former Jingjiang King, it was nothing more than disposing of him as a commoner, sending him to live under surveillance on a remote island, and letting him support himself.

Even Hong Guang and Lu Wang were first sent to Yuhuan Island for surveillance, and later they were made to become ordinary people to support themselves.

Still very generous.

But the situation was different at that time, and Zhu Yihai was not the emperor at that time.

But now, his status as the emperor has long been established, and it is indeed an unforgivable crime to rebel under such circumstances.

"Transfer these people to Dali Temple, and the three divisions will interrogate them and deal with them according to the law."

The ministers understood that the result of the so-called joint trial of the three divisions and the disposition according to the law was that the crime should be punished, and the noble was seized and the family was confiscated.

There are 31 county kings in Daming, and there are two less, leaving only 29 county kings.

However, they are very supportive of this. The new law of the emperor's clan is better than that of the Tartars. With the blessing of the Taizu, they have also enjoyed the preferential treatment and support for nearly 300 years. Still wanting to plot chaos and rebellion, this kind of person should never be pitied.

"Don't get involved in this matter and expand it at will, just deal with these guys who don't know how to live or die." Zhu Yihai didn't forget to confess at the end.

If you really want to expand, it’s okay to take advantage of the situation to clean up, but he doesn’t think it’s necessary. He still needs to pay attention to the influence and strengthen unity. It’s not the time to engage in internal fighting.

If they hadn't blatantly rebelled, Zhu Yihai could even temporarily forgive him.

Only blame them for their own crimes, they can't live!

(End of this chapter)