Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 621 Huashan Summons
China does not pay attention to mountains.

Emperor Shaotian Zhu Yihai specially summoned Yang Jie, Yao Qisheng and others.

Down the mountain.

Zhang Dabiao, an officer of the guards, took the two of them to a side room with a thousand ox knife, "I have prepared hot soup for you, please take a bath and change clothes."

Da Biao asked the two of them to take a shower and wash their hair in front of him.

Yang Jie was a little hesitant, but Yao Qisheng immediately took off his clothes and went into the hot water bucket naked, "The water temperature is just right, neither cold nor hot, thank you."

Seeing this, Yang Jie laughed and stripped off to wash.

After the two finished washing, a guard brought two sets of clothes.

Scarlet robe, whitebait.

Yao Qisheng couldn't help but be surprised when he saw it.

"His Majesty specially rewards the two of you with scarlet robes and silver fishes to visit,"

"Thank you, Shengen."

In the Huayang Palace on the mountain, Zhu Yihai listened to Chen Qianfu and others report the situation to him.

"It has been confirmed that the heads presented by Yang Jie are indeed those of Bo Hetuo, Tong Yangjia, and Zhang Ruxiu,"

The [-] Green Battalion led by Yang Jie revolted anyway. They opened the north gate and attacked the inner city. Most of the Mongolian Eight Banners guarding the inner city escaped.

The Manchu family members in the inner city were slaughtered by Xuan Dabing.

"Except for those who fled out of the city while taking advantage of the chaos, none of the people in the inner city escaped. They were all slaughtered and counted. Thousands died."

The Tartars originally stationed the Eight Banners in Qingzhou and Dezhou in Shandong, and later stationed in Yanzhou, and then went south to Boluo, and brought the Eight Banners to the south to garrison Jinan.

Shandong became the front line, and Beijing also stationed these Eight Banners going south permanently in Shandong, and moved their family members here one after another, and let them race to enclose the land, forcing the people on the land to be their slaves.

Even some of the Eight Banners of Mongolia and the Eight Banners of the Han Army stationed in Shandong moved their family members here with the intention of allowing them to garrison with peace of mind.

Boluo fought in Zhangqiu and took away almost all the young and strong people in Jinan City, including their coat servants. The rest were old and weak men over sixty and under fifteen or sixteen years old, as well as women.

The family members and servants of the Eight Banners stationed in Dezhou are still in Dezhou, and the Yanzhou Eight Banners are still trapped in Yanzhou.

However, before Boluo evacuated all the bannermen and packaged slaves from the Manchu villages around Jinan, except for the bannermen, Yu Ding, coated and servants who died in the battle, there were still about 3000 bannermen and packaged slaves. Yi's family is small, and there are many Zhuang Ding's slaves, a small number of them are brought into the inner city, and the rest are in the outer city.

Thousands of slaves in the inner city were basically slaughtered. Although they were all Han Chinese, after Yang Jie and the others invaded the city in the middle of the night, they killed everyone and robbed everything they saw. It's still coated with the inner flag, or it's still a Zhuang Ding or a house slave.

It was completely slaughtered into a dead city.

The outer city ran away.

"According to household registration statistics, there were nearly [-] Ding in Jinan Prefecture at the end of Wanli, and about [-] Ding at the end of Chongzhen."

The household registration statistics of the Ming Dynasty often only counted Ding, because Ding was the basis of conscription, especially after the whipping method, official statistics rarely counted households and mouths, and most of them only counted Ding.

Men over the age of 16 and under 60 are Ding, while women, as well as serving officials, supervisors and tribute students, people in the army, servants, and slaves are not included in the statistics.

Therefore, the statistics of the Ming Dynasty only counted the number of people who paid taxes and served in the service, not the real household registration population. Officials, students, soldiers, servants and slaves were not counted, and women were not counted at all. People under six and over 60 years old are not counted as Dingkou.

After removing these, there are still [-] Ding in Jinan Prefecture, which is still an astonishing number.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were still nearly [-] Ding after wars and chaos.

After the arrival of the Tartars, the population flight was intensified.

"We got the household registration files of the Jinan government office. The city of Jinan is divided into eight appointments, with a total of 57 and 110 licenses, a total of 940 households and [-] households.

In addition, there are Dongguan, Nanbaoquan and other fourteen miles near the city. There are 68 Jia 610 two cards, 390 four households, and 170 eight mouths. "

"It doesn't count the people who live in the city. Usually, there are not many permanent residents in the city. This time, Boluo evacuated all the Manchus, Zhuang Ding, and servants from the Bannerman Zhuangtian outside the city into the city."

Zhu Yihai expressed his belief in this household registration data. Although Jinan is a big city, its population is only about 5000, which is not small, and there are similar populations near Chengguan near Fucheng, which can also be counted as urban population.

This alone has a population of nearly 5, of which there are probably about [-].

Jinan prefecture has many counties, with [-] Ding in its heyday, including those not counted, the calculation is about the same.

Last night was chaotic, three thousand Xuan soldiers slaughtered the entire city, killing thousands of people.Among them, there are less than [-] real bannermen, many wrapped bannermen and family members of Han army bannermen, and thousands of Han Zhuangding slaves.

In addition to slaughtering thousands of people, Xuan Dabing also took the opportunity to loot the inner city.

"About [-] Mongolian flag soldiers ran northward, and after thousands of green battalion soldiers and regiments ran out of the city last night, some of them begged to surrender at dawn, and some of them broke up."

Shen Chenquan believes that Yang Jie and the others should be held accountable for the crime of killing innocent people indiscriminately.

Zhu Yihai also knew that this kind of thing was inevitable, after all, the Ming army deliberately let them fight among themselves to avoid the casualties caused by the storming of Jinan.

The road is chosen by oneself, so you can't ask Yang Jie and the others to only kill Tartars and dedicate the city like the imperial camp.

The overall result, Zhu Yihai is still very satisfied.

The 3 to [-] soldiers and civilians who escaped from the city last night will soon be able to appease An Ding, especially ordinary people. Where can they escape? As long as the war is over, they will be happy to return to their hometowns.

"Call Yang Jie and Yao Qisheng."

Zhu Yihai specially summoned Yao Qisheng, the master, because this person represented the surrender and performed very well, and Yang Jie's surrender letter did not forget Yao's credit, saying that he was a determined person, and last night he led someone to open the North Later, he led people into the governor's yamen, and personally beheaded the governor Zhang Ruxiu, making a great contribution.

Moreover, when this Yao Qisheng asked to surrender, he also said that he had been in business for several years and had accumulated 20 taels of silver, which he was willing to donate to the court.

Based on this alone, it is worth summoning the emperor himself.

The two people who put on scarlet robes with silver fish charms around their waists called to see each other outside the hall, and the servants brought them in.

The two of them didn't dare to look around when they entered the hall, and knelt down at the entrance of the hall.

"Pingshen, come closer and give me a seat."

Zhu Yihai looked at the two of them. Yang Jie looked like he was in his 30s, but he was tall and strong. Wearing a scarlet official robe, it was hard to hide his magnificence and his body was full of muscles.

I thought Yao Qisheng was a handsome scholar, but it turns out that this guy is also a muscular guy, tall and strong.

Even after hearing Chen Qianfu's report and knowing that Yao had a chivalrous wife, he even became a little curious about what his wife looked like.

Come forward and give me a seat.

University scholar Shen Chenquan stood up appropriately and told the emperor that the two led troops to massacre the inner city of Jinan last night, killing innocent people indiscriminately, killing more than 1000 Han women and children, and looting property in the city and so on.

"Please convict Your Majesty!"

Yang Jie was taken aback, thinking that Zhu Yihai was going to cross the river, demolish bridges, unload mills, and kill donkeys. He really didn't care about this last night, and he didn't think about massacring the city at the time, but he ordered him to reward the Tartars.

Those Green Battalion soldiers who came from Xuanda used to be the Ming Frontier Army. They are used to killing good men and pretending to be meritorious. Who cares whether you are a real captive or a fake captive, Manchu, Mongol or Han, let alone you Whether it was the bannerman of the Han army, or the coated bannermen of the Han army, or the coated and slaves of the Manchu banner, or the coated and servant of the Han banner, as long as they were in the Manchu city, they would kill them together, and then cut them down. Credit for the brain afterwards.

As for looting property, let alone.

After they ransacked the inner city, they also began to loot the outer city.

If it wasn't for the fact that the Ming army began to enter the city after dawn, and Yao Qisheng quickly asked Yang Jie to restrain the sergeants, they would have robbed the outer city as well.

Now in front of the emperor, there are ministers asking for guilt, how can he not panic.

"The uprising last night was rushed, the situation was urgent, it was dark and rainy and chaotic, the criminals were not well restrained, innocent casualties were caused, and the crimes were punishable by death,"

"capital offense!"

Yao Qisheng didn't say anything, he was sure that since the emperor summoned him in this way and gave him the whitebait in scarlet clothes, he wouldn't cut them down again.

Otherwise, why bother, they can be besieged and killed with a direct will.

"You abandon the dark and turn to the bright, and revolt before the battle. This is a great festival to know the righteousness, but last night, the military discipline was indeed broken. There are also many Han people in the city. Whether it is the Han army flag or the coat under the flag, or slaves, they are all captured by the Tartars. Forced, it was originally my Han family's people, "

"The crime will be a capital crime, a capital crime." Yang Jie hurriedly kowtowed.

"All right."

"You have indeed done these things, but you have also contributed to your righteousness,"

"But even the dead cannot be brought back to life,"

Zhu Yihai looked at the two people, "You guys made an uprising last night and killed the captives and seized the city for meritorious service. You should be rewarded. But if you hurt innocent people and robbed them, you should be punished."

"Your Majesty, please punish me."

"All the property you looted last night will be handed over to the public, and the court will return it and compensate the people."

"For your contributions, I reward each soldier with 20 silver dollars, and the officers each have their own rewards. In addition, the captured weapons, armor, war horses, etc. will be handed over, and the court will reward them separately."

"Three thousand Xuan soldiers, those who died or were injured in the battle last night, will also be given compensation."

"Those who want to leave the army will be given another two silver dollars for severance pay, and those who want to stay will follow the imperial court's reorganization arrangement."

"If the officer is willing to stay, the grade will be kept, and Hou Que will use it."

Zhu Yihai also specially rewarded several major Xuanda generals, and Yang Jie was awarded the title of the second-rank general governor, and he was named as the commander-in-chief Hou Que.

Li Lian and other generals are basically promoted, and then the official position is increased by one level, but they are only registered for the time being, waiting for vacancies.

As for Yao Qisheng, Zhu Yihai asked him what request he had.

Yao Qisheng once again expressed to the emperor that he was willing to donate 20 taels of silver to help the army.

"Would you like to be a military or a civilian?"

"The minister is willing to be a civil servant."

"I'll give you two choices, one is to be the head of the Sixth Department of the Central Committee, or you can directly release a magistrate of a big county, which one do you want to choose?"

"Don't despise lowly officials and low positions. I open courses to select scholars, and one first-class Jinshi is directly awarded to the Imperial Academy to edit, etc., and the rest who are outstanding in the imperial examinations are selected. They study in the Imperial Academy for three years, and then they are awarded officials.

As for the new subjects who have not passed the imperial examination, the second-class Jinshi stays in Beijing to study in various ministries for three years, and then they are awarded according to their performance, which is generally the principal.The top three jinshi have to go to the chief ministers and inspectors of each province to learn to walk for three years, and those who perform well after three years will be awarded the county magistrate.

And after three years of walking and studying, only about [-]% of those who can teach the masters and county magistrates, and the remaining [-]% have to be from the master book, the county magistrate, or even the teaching instructions, Zhongshu, Siwu, Dianbu, etc.

The number of Jinshi recruited by the Shaotian Dynasty was relatively large. Although there are many official vacancies now, Zhu Yihai will not just confer such positions as magistrates and principals to the new Jinshi. Go study for three years, and then give a job according to performance.

About [-]% of the best will be awarded seventh-rank positions such as ministers and magistrates, but more will be awarded eighth-rank or even ninth-rank official positions, and some may even be directly eliminated and cannot be awarded.

"The minister is willing to release a county, and do some practical things down-to-earth."

Zhu Yihai was very satisfied with this answer, and he also saw that this person was indeed capable, so he said, "In that case, then I will grant you the title of magistrate of Licheng County, Jinan Prefecture, the seventh rank."

Licheng County is the county magistrate attached to Jinan Prefecture. Jinan is both the provincial capital and the prefectural capital, as well as the county seat. There are governors, chief envoys, inspectors, magistrates, and county magistrates in one city. Such magistrates are actually the most test of ability of.

The so-called three lives of misfortune, the county magistrate attached to Guo; three lives of evil, attached to Guo's provincial capital.

To put it bluntly, it is not easy to be a county magistrate, and it is not easy to be a grassroots official, and it is even more difficult to be a grassroots official in this province or city.

However, if one has the ability, it is easy to make political achievements. After all, under the noses of senior officials and mayors, good work can be seen.

Granting Yao Qisheng the magistrate of Licheng is not only his appreciation, but also his test, especially now that Jinan City has just experienced war and is still an empty city. He has to appease the people, restore order and so on.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness."

"Would you like to?"

"I am honored and grateful."

"Do you have the confidence to be the magistrate of Licheng, which is attached to the provincial capital of Guo?"

"I am willing to give it a try."

"Since you are so confident, I will give you this opportunity. I will accept the 20 taels of silver you contributed."

"Benteba gave relief to the Fumin in Shandong, resumed production, [-] yuan to the governor, [-] yuan each to the chief envoy, the inspector, and [-] yuan each to Jinan Prefecture, and [-] yuan each to Zhangqiu and Licheng counties. Ten thousand."

Yao Qisheng donated 20 taels of silver, and Zhu Yihai directly donated 18 taels to the government offices at all levels in Shandong for relief of the people, and the remaining [-] taels were given to the imperial camp.

After Zhu Yihai made arrangements, he chatted with the two of them deliberately, and even asked how Yao Qisheng earned 20 taels of silver in three years.

In the end, he didn't hide it. In fact, he was engaged in smuggling. After all, his hometown is Shaoxing, and now the industry and commerce there are prosperous and the sea trade is opened, so in the past three years, he has smuggled cattle and horses from the north to the south, and sometimes sold ginseng there, and then sold them from the south. Tea sellers, alcohol sellers and tobacco sellers went north.

Sometimes salt is also sold.

They are all private smuggling transactions. As long as the management is in place, the profits of this shipload of private goods are astonishing.

Especially ginseng, shredded tobacco, huge profits.

Selling horses is also very profitable.

In three years, he earned a few 10 taels of silver. He is indeed a businessman. In times of turmoil, the bold and the timid are starved to death.

"Your business can be handed over to your family in the future. You should put all your thoughts on how to be a good magistrate in Licheng. I will give you three years to do a good job. I can even do it here I make a promise to you, if you can use three years to make a good achievement in Licheng county magistrate, I will specially promote you to be the prefect of Jinan at that time!"

It is impossible for a magistrate to be promoted to a magistrate under normal circumstances. At most, he can be promoted to a magistrate.

County magistrates are promoted, for example, they are promoted to the head of six departments, the capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the experience of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the left and right judges of Dali Temple, the doctor of Taichang Temple, the secretary of Zhongshu Ke, the experience of the General Secretary, the governor of the General Administration, the Beijing General Judge, the Beijing County magistrate, prefectural magistrate, prefectural magistrate of Zhili Prefecture, prefectural magistrate of Sanzhou, deputy of salt transportation department, and general judge of foreign government.

But in fact, it is very difficult for magistrates to be promoted to Beijing officials, and they are mainly transferred within the local system.

Yamen such as Yanyun, Caoyun and Hedao have always been known as the yamen with a lot of fat and water, so they generally cannot be transferred in, so basically the county magistrate can only be promoted to Sanzhou magistrate.

The Shaotian Dynasty directly abolished the level of prefectures. Zhili prefectures generally merged counties and set up prefectures, scattered prefectures were directly changed to counties or split up several counties, and subordinate prefectures were directly changed to counties.

So now there is no official Zhizhou in the Shaotian Dynasty.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, the county magistrate has a three-year plan, and those who rank first in the assessment are promoted according to the rules, and often only small counties can be promoted to middle counties, and middle counties can be promoted to large counties.

Those who rank second can only be transferred at the same level and continue to be county magistrates.

If the magistrate of a large county does well, he will have to serve at least two terms, and if there is a vacancy, he may be transferred to the head of the Beijing Normal University.

Therefore, it is very difficult to be a county magistrate in the Shaotian Dynasty. Although he is a chief official, he has high assessment requirements and few promotion positions.

The prefect of Jinan is the prefect of the provincial capital, and this is a fourth-rank position. Even if he has outstanding political achievements and excellent assessment, he can directly be promoted to the third-rank sub-inspector.

The emperor gave Yao Qisheng this promise, which is really extraordinary.

Even Yao Qisheng was very shocked when he heard this, and then he was overjoyed, and couldn't help but kowtow to the emperor for his kindness.

"Do it well, I will keep my word and keep my word."

After finishing speaking, Zhu Yihai also specially took a pen and paper, and directly wrote a decree to Yao Qisheng, as long as he passed the three-year plan assessment, he would be promoted to the prefect of Jinan.

Yang Jie watched with envy.

This is really Jane in the heart of the emperor.

He felt that the 20 taels of silver was really worth it. After he heard about it earlier, he thought that Yao Qisheng's head was broken.

But now I feel that the 20 taels of silver are really worth it.

Changing Licheng magistrate would not make any money, but if he could be promoted to Jinan magistrate three years later, he would definitely make a lot of money.

The two thanked each other and withdrew.

Shen Chenquan reminded the emperor that it was inappropriate to promise Yao Qisheng like this.

"I originally planned to grant Yao Qisheng the magistrate of Jinan, but after thinking about it, I planned to let him be the magistrate of Licheng County first, so this promise is actually nothing. Of course, I thought he had the ability."

"Your Majesty should still follow the system."

"It's a special matter. After all, it's still a special period. The important thing is to do things well, not to rank seniority. I know it well."

"Xuan Dabing dealt with it a little lightly."

"After all, killing the captives and dedicating the city is meritorious, so we can't go too deep into it, otherwise, who will revolt in the future?"

"How will Xuan Dabing deal with it?"

"Send all the officers to the Tokyo lecture hall, military academy, etc. to study for three months or half a year. As for the soldiers, if they are willing to stay, let the towns choose some elite ones, especially the cavalry supplement. Now the two towns are combined into one town, excellent Cavalry was in short supply.

For those who want to leave, after paying the reward money and severance pay, let them go back.

If there are people who don't want to stay in the army and have nowhere to go, they can also be resettled locally, arranged to be postmen, etc., or sold land for them to settle down and reclaim wasteland. "

For the 3000-strong Xuan army, Zhu Yihai didn't intend to let them retain the organizational system, and he didn't even plan to form a regiment for training, and directly split, demobilized, and resettled.

The rewards that should be given will be given, but this green battalion soldier who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and slaughtered the city will not stay.

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