Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 596
Just like how he treated those families in Zichuan and Zhangqiu before, what should be cleaned up and rectified still needs to be cleaned up, mainly the fields, the occupied fields should be taken back, and the privately mined mines should be registered. Shops and workshops must be truthfully declared and registered. Obtain the Ministry's sticker license and pay taxes according to the regulations.

Sun Xiaoen complained to Zhu Yihai that since Chongzhen, Shandong has not had a single day of peace.

"In the 12th year of Chongzhen, the Qing soldiers bypassed Beijing and went south, invaded Shandong, broke Jinan City, and looted wantonly. At that time, 850 strong men were killed and captured in Jinan. A cow is worth 20 taels of silver, and the big one is worth 30 taels of silver. The poor ones help each other to plow, leading six or seven people to pull a plow, three or four mu a day, and they are exhausted."

The Tartars slaughtered and plundered Shandong, and also caused a plague outbreak, causing countless deaths.

"In 16 years, the Qing army attacked Shandong again. Although it did not break Jinan, it did break through Tai'an. Even many famous families were destroyed. There were beggars in the city for thousands of gold families. The whole Shandong was trampled into a hell on earth. The population is cut off..."

Sun Xiaoen told the emperor that it was not that the scholars in Shandong were spineless and righteous. The Tartars invaded Shandong twice before they entered the customs.

When Jinan was broken in 12 years, the soldiers in Jinan were transferred away by Yang Sichang, and the city was empty. There were only [-] township soldiers and [-] Laizhou reinforcements. The city was broken for ten days, but no one escaped.

From the inspectors, to the chief ministers, to the deputy inspectors, prefects, county magistrates, military officials, salt transport envoys, and even professors, all of them died generously and sacrificed their lives for the country.

The Du family in Binzhou and the Wang family in Xintian are also very heroic.

In 15 years, the Qing army invaded Binzhou. Du Lv, the former general judge of Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, who returned to his hometown, immediately organized the children of the Du family in the city to defend the city.

Juren Du Fu, after the city was broken, was unwilling to follow the bandits, and cursed the Qing soldiers to death. All six of his sons were killed.

After the Qing army captured Binzhou, they passed through Xincheng, and the Wang family of Xincheng also guarded the city to resist.

The Wang family was even as early as Kong Youde's rebellion. Wang Xiangfu, then a Tongzhi in Baoding, was recuperating at home. Hearing the news, he jumped out of bed and made an impassioned statement. My family has received the grace of the country. Why not go? At the top of the city, after the fall of the city, both father and son were captured, and Unyielding was killed.

When the Qing army invaded, the Wang family still fought against the enemy from top to bottom, showing unprecedented heroism. Those children who usually chanted poems and painted paintings took up bows, arrows and long guns, and stood firm in the city. The ancestral house was looted and then burned by the Qing soldiers. More than 30 family members died, and the elite of the younger generation of the family was almost extinct.

It is precisely because of this military disaster that Wang Xiangfu originally produced several Jinshi and several Wang families who became high-ranking officials, and finally there was a dynasties. Now only Wang Shizhen and his brothers have grown up and gradually gained some fame, but not Return to the grand occasion of the old days.

Later, when Beijing fell, Wang Yuyin, the second son of Wang Xiangjin, committed suicide at home with his wife and children.

He was the last young elite of the royal family at that time.

It can be said that before the Qing army entered the customs, the famous noble families in Shandong actually performed well, and the loyal families like the Wang family in Xincheng were not an exception.

But why did it later become the Tartar Manchu dynasty in half of Shandong?
In other words, Li Zicheng has to bear a lot of responsibility.

Li Zicheng invaded Beijing, Chongzhen hanged himself on Meishan Mountain, and Ming Dynasty perished.

The Dashun Dynasty sent troops to Shandong. Those Dashun officials who came to Shandong recruited local thieves and villains as servants. The oppression of the prominent families made many servants of the big families take the opportunity to ask for bondage, seize property, and launch slave revolts everywhere. The slave rebellion swept across Shandong and intensified.

The damage suffered by the aristocratic families was greater than when the Tartars went to Shandong twice.

Ever since, the aristocratic families organized to punish the puppet. The leaders Lu Shihejue, Zhao Jiding, Cheng Xianzhen, Xie Sheng and others were all from the Lu, Zhao, Cheng, and Xie families in Texas, and Liu Konghe from Jinan was also in Changbai Mountain. Raise troops.

They raised troops to punish the puppet, not only to show their loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, but also to safeguard their own interests.

Soon after, the Qing army entered the customs, the Shun army in Shandong was completely withdrawn, and the Qing army went south.

Unlike the Shun army who tortured and oppressed everywhere, when the Qing army first entered the customs, in order to stabilize the situation, the local government, especially the gentry and prominent families, had a big policy of recruiting security. As soon as they entered Beijing, Wang Yongao, the right servant of the household department from Shandong, was recruited. Shandong, Henan and other places.

He also immediately recommended more than [-] high-ranking officials including Xie Sheng, a former scholar from Texas, and the Tartars immediately let them serve as Qing officials.

Xie Sheng and others originally raised troops to punish the puppet and support the Ming Dynasty, but under Wang Yongao's intervention, and after receiving the promise of appeasement from the Tartars, they finally chose to join the new dynasty, so Dongchang, Linqing and other places were leveled in order.

Therefore, after Shandong entered the customs in the Qing Dynasty, it suppressed the Shun army and local bandits faster than any other province. Central and local important positions, to appease the localities for the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

The famous families in Shandong naturally joined the new dynasty one after another, and took advantage of the power of the Qing army to quickly wipe out the rest of the Shun army in Shandong, as well as bandits and slaves who turned into slaves.

This choice is undoubtedly due to self-interest first. After the Shun army captured Beijing, it would not cost a single soldier to take Shandong, but they later tortured Shandong in the same way as in Beijing, and even indulged and even provoked slavery , Completely broke the old order, and even forced these gentry and tyrants to the opposite, forcing them to fight against the counterfeiters.

They rebelled against the Shun army, and they also had the intention of being loyal to the Ming Dynasty.

But after experiencing the looting by the Shun army, these prominent Shandong families expressed their support for the Qing army who entered the customs. The most important thing was the Qing army's appeasement strategy to protect their status and property.

If Dashun had not tortured and oppressed them after entering Shandong, most of them would have been happy to support the new dynasty and become officials in the new dynasty.

Facing the plundering of the Shun army and the attack of the slaves, the Shandong gentry, who were in a state of desperation, chose to join hands with the Qing Dynasty to suppress the Shun army and the slaves, and restore local order, even an inevitable choice.

After the Qing army went south, there were still rebels in Shandong one after another. In fact, many of them were slaves.

For example, Xie Qian, who was originally a servant of the Han family.

After Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty hanged himself, Beijing fell, the Shun army went south to torture and plunder, the slave movement was turbulent, and the Qing army went south to appease, etc., the famous clan of Shandong was actually torn apart.

Most of them turned to the new dynasty, only a few went south to follow Zhengshuo, and some saw through the world and went back to the mountain gate.

For example, Lu Shi, a censor from Dezhou who organized a rebel army to punish the puppet together with Xie Sheng and the others, actively participated in the suppression of the puppet. However, after Xie Sheng and others returned to the Qing army, he resigned from the original official treatment given by the Qing Dynasty on the grounds of serious illness. But in fact, he has been doing well at home.

The Wang family in Xincheng and the Du family in Binzhou had all loyally resisted the Qing army, so after the Qing army went south, they all refused to serve as officials on the grounds of serving their elders.Although the two clans also encouraged young people to participate in the imperial examination last year, the fundamental reason is that these families all started their families with the imperial examination. It is because many gentry privileges cannot be kept.

They may not want to become official right away, but they don't want their family to lose their gentry status, and their hearts are also very contradictory.

It is even conceivable that when the older generation passes away, how many of the younger generation will still cling to those things.

Just like Binzhou Du Wei, his father Du Ruomei died under the sword of the Qing army in the 15th year of Chongzhen in the battle against the Qing army. He was 21 years old at the time and also participated in that battle. After the expiry of the term, he took part in the provincial examination in Shandong, and won the Juren. The next year, he went to Beijing to participate in the general examination and won the Jinshi.

In fact, it is said that Du Wei was actually unwilling to become an official in the Qing Dynasty when his father's bones were not cold, but his family persuaded him to take the imperial examination.

The interests of the family and the pressure of survival make it impossible for the Binzhou Du family to give up the imperial examination. Their status must rely on the imperial examination to obtain fame and then enter the officialdom to maintain their living. Otherwise, if they lose these, they will become rural rich people. At the mercy of others.

For the sake of the family, Du Wei hesitated, and finally compromised and went to Beijing, and finally ranked among the top three, and was granted a Jinshi background.

The turbulence of the troubled times made Du Wei understand his responsibility. In those few years, slaves rebelled, thieves sprang up, and criminals took advantage of the fire to rob. Du Wei was forced to leave his hometown with his whole family and seek refuge at sea. , Du Wei assumed the responsibility of taking care of his mother and brothers. He was deeply impressed by the shortage of supplies on board, the cold and damp, the ups and downs, and the lack of security.

The countryside was barren, the land was seized by slaves and tenants, the land rent was not available, the cattle and sheep were lost, and even the ancestral house was taken away.After the Qing army went south, the hometown regained some stability, and Du Mi was able to return to his hometown, and even took back the fields and ancestral houses.

Later, the Qing army recruited more and more people, and Du Wei was forced to embark on the road of imperial examinations and became an official in the Qing Dynasty.

The Du family in Binzhou and the Wang family in Xincheng can be said to be well-known representatives of the Shandong gentry at that time. They once resisted fiercely, rebelled generously, and were full of loyalty.

But also in the subsequent turmoil, the family was weak,

In the end, Du Wei could only be forced to participate in the imperial examination to gain fame for the sake of his family.

The Wang Shizhen brothers of the Wang family lived and took refuge in Zouping's grandfather Sun's house. Life was not particularly difficult. Later, his father Wang Yuchi was recommended to be an official. He resigned on the grounds that his father Xiangjin was old, and let his sons Read at home with peace of mind.

This is not only because the Wang family had resisted the Tartars and killed more than 30 loyal families, but also because the brothers and Yin's family committed suicide and died for the country, so the Wang family was even more resentful.

Of course, the Wang family has many in-laws, all of whom are well-known families. Many of them served in the Qing Dynasty, including the Sun family they lived in, and the Gao family in Zichuan, so the family will be able to maintain it for a while.

Sun Xiaoen complained to the emperor, and what he said was indeed the truth.

Not all of Shandong fell, but they did experience a lot.When Zhu Yihai raised his army, righteous gentry rose everywhere in eastern Zhejiang. In fact, it was the same in Shandong back then.

But Shandong did not produce a holy king like Zhu Yihai, only King Heng who couldn't support him, King De who was taken captive early and then surrendered, and King Lu who had the backbone and went south early.

Who can Shandong people rely on? When they revolted and were wiped out, most of them chose to belong to the new dynasty in the end.

Zhu Yihai agrees with these words to some extent, because history is like this, just like in real history, although the Eastern Zhejiang Uprising was passionate and impassioned, it did not last long and was quickly extinguished, although some still retreated to the sea , such as Zhang Huangyan, Zhang Mingzhen and others followed Zhu Yihai, the maritime supervisor, and persisted for another 18 years.

But the vast majority were still defeated, and finally compromised.

So you can't blame them all.

There is also a lesson from the failure of the Shun Army, so Zhu Yihai didn't plan to settle anything with them, it was almost enough.

"Your Majesty, there is a nun holding a white flag outside the city."

"Oh?"

"There are words on that flag,"

"The virtues of the sixteenth emperors are in the people, and it is possible to predict the rejuvenation and reconstruction."

"The 300-year minister's day sweeps the ground, and I wish to express the lonely loyalty of the corporal!"

When these four sentences were read in the hall, almost all the local gentry read a name, "Liu Konghe."

Some people immediately thought that this nun must have recruited [-] soldiers with Liu Konghe to revolt against the puppet, and later took over Jinan, and finally went to Xuzhou, and after Liu Zeqing killed her husband, she returned to the village in despair. The Wang family who shaved her hair as a nun in Changbai Mountain also came from the Wang family in Xincheng.

Sun Xiaoen reported the details to the emperor.

The surviving son of the Shoufu University scholar of the Chongzhen Dynasty, he is also a heroine who can draw a bow and shoot arrows and lift stones. He once led troops to fight against the puppet king, but in the end Liu Zeqing killed his husband, and he disbanded the rebel army and became a nun in frustration. .

Those four sentences were written by Liu Konghe himself when he set up a banner under Changbai Mountain to recruit soldiers.

Zhu Yihai was also greatly moved when he heard this.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, although many gentry in Shandong finally chose to join the Tartars, there were also many heroic and heroic men in Shandong.

It is also because the vast majority of people eventually compromise and surrender for the benefit of the family, those who have never compromised are even more rare.

Just like the Sun Wang family in front of me.

"Decree, invite Mrs. Sun Wang to meet you in the city."

Such a hero of the female school must be seen and commended.

Even after seeing the countless representatives of famous Shandong families who surrendered today, he felt more and more that the Xincheng Wang family, which was not very eye-catching before, was really amazing. An outstanding young handsome man also committed suicide and died for his country. Facing the recruiting from the Tatars and the recommendation to be an official, they still refused decisively, allowing their children to study at ease. This alone deserves Zhu Yihai's special appreciation and reuse of the Xinchengwang family. .

And the Sun Wang family who sent the flag, we must publicize it well.

There are still many loyal and righteous men in Shandong.

(End of this chapter)