Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 701
Luyang Pass, guarding the most important pass in Lushan Mountain, serves as the communication hub between Luoyang and Nanyang Basin, and has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times.

"I heard that the crow led Liu Xiu three times here, so the folks call it the Three Crows Road?"

"There is indeed such a legend."

Standing on the Luyang Pass, Zhu Yihai felt the historical charm of this world-famous pass. It used to be an important pass of the Great Wall of Chu. The [-]-mile-long Great Wall of Chu started from Zhushan in Yunyang in the west, and reached Lushan, Nanzhao and other counties in the east. .

Li Bai once wrote poems, Hu Fengyi Daima, Snow embraces Luyang Pass.

Luyang Pass is dangerous. There are two mountains with walls and flowing water in the middle.

Now this dangerous place is occupied by the Ming army, and the emperor has just arrived here from Luoyang.

"Your Majesty, Xu Qiyuan has arrived."

Zhu Yihai couldn't help sighing when he heard the name, "Mr. Wen and the Ministry of Advanced Engineering, please come,"

They also called Zhu Dadian, a senior scholar, and Du Yinxi, a co-organizer. They are all from Huguang, and they worked together with Xu Qiyuan.

Xu Qiyuan is a native of Hefei. He was born in Juren. During the reign of Chongzhen, he was an official in Yunyang. At that time, Yunyang, Huguang was in chaos. Together with Gao Douxun, he recruited Wang Guangen and gathered many defeated soldiers.

At the most critical time, all the thirteen prefectures in Hunan and Hubei fell, and only Yunyang stood firm.

Yunyang can survive because Xu Qiyuan can defend, and Wang Guangen is good at fighting.

But now, Wang Guangen asked the general to chop off his head and surrender, and Xu Qiyuan even brought his head to plead guilty.

Wen Anzhi, Zhu Dadian, Du Yinxi, Gao Douxun, He Tengjiao, and Wang Yongzuo all came.

"How does His Majesty plan to deal with Yunyang and the others?"

Wang Yongzuo first asked a question. He had served as the governor of Yunyang, and Xu Qiyuan was considered his old subordinate. At the beginning, Wang Yongzuo moved to Xiangyang, but Zuo Liangyu abandoned the city and fled. Xiangyang fell, and the vassal king was killed. Go to jail and almost get killed.Later, he was dismissed and returned to his hometown in Kunshan. Together with Gu Yanwu and others, he raised the flag and raised the army to respond to Lu Jianguo, but he also had to follow the merits of the dragon. Now he has a good official career.

He had a good impression of Xu Qiyuan, he was quite capable.

Both Gao Doushu and Gao Doushu have made great contributions to guarding Yunyang, but now they are in such a situation, which is embarrassing.

"Your Majesty, I think that Xu Qiyuan was also coerced by Wang Guangen, and he should consider the truth when he is prosecuted for the crime."

Among the people present, Gao Doushu was an old comrade in arms who had been side by side with Xu Qiyuan for several years. In fact, Gao Douxun also made great achievements in guarding Yun back then. Now he can't bear to see the old man end up like this.

"Mr. Wen?" Zhu Yihai asked the chief assistant.

Wen Anzhi sighed, "I was ordered to go to Yunyang earlier. Although I didn't get along with Xu Qiyuan for a long time, he is indeed a rare official. He stayed in Yunyang with Duke Gao for several years, and his performance was remarkable. Later, he lost his integrity. It is true that he was coerced by Wang Guangen, but I think that not all of them were coerced.

After he surrendered to captivity, he was first granted the right deputy capital censor, and remained as the governor of Yunyang. Later, he added the right capital censor, the prince Taibao, and the Minister of the Ministry of War. He was also named Nanyang Marquis. It is impossible for the Tartars to give him a promotion.

Moreover, after he surrendered, he never contacted the imperial court, not even a single word.

He has a big problem. When Wang Guangen and others rebelled, he could not shirk his responsibility, and he was even one of the masterminds.Now that he is poor and surrendering, he must not be easily forgiven. He is different from ordinary civil servants and generals who have surrendered captives. "

Xu Qiyuan was the governor of Yunyang appointed by Zhu Yihai. He didn't surrender when he was besieged and ran out of food, let alone captured, but took the initiative to rebel.

"It must be severely punished, and it is best to be executed. It is a model, otherwise, where is the law of the country and where is the majesty of the court?"

"Even if Wang Guangen committed suicide, those military officers in Yunyang who participated in the conspiracy, such as Li Maochun, Hu Tingcheng, Yang Mingqi, Yu Qifan and other battalion officers and above, should be beheaded to make it clear to the world.

An old soldier from the family of an officer can avoid death, but he has to be dispatched to Taiwan, Yunnan or Hainan to open up wasteland.It is also best not to resettle the rest of the soldiers locally, but to move all of them to Taiwan, Guangxi and other places to settle down and resettle, to reclaim wasteland and guard the border. "

Wen'an's attitude is very clear, and they have to be treated differently.

The rebellion of Wang Guangen and Xu Guangqi in Yunyang is a rebellion within the Shaotian Dynasty, and it is different from Li Chengdong, Tu Guobao, and even Wu Sangui. Those who rebelled during or after the Chongzhen Dynasty did not rebel in the Shaotian Dynasty.And Yunyang's group defected after they had already honored Emperor Shaotian and even became a town.

It is even different from the rebellion in the Zhongwu towns in Huguang. Those who fled after the defeat, some took the opportunity to plunder the place, and some defected to the Qing army.

To them, the imperial court was not merciful at all.

And these people in Yunyang are even worse than Zhongwu and others.

must be severely punished.

Otherwise, where is the majesty of the court?

In the future, wouldn't these military leaders in the local area be more able to do whatever they want, and even more able to attack Qin Muchu at will?
The six ministers present here are all from Yunyang, Huguang, and they have old relationships with Xu Qiyuan, but Wen An said that they can no longer intercede for him.

Zhu Yihai glanced at several ministers, "What the chief minister said is very reasonable. A country is going from troubled times to governing the world, and systems and laws are indispensable."

"Call Xu Qiyuan in."

Xu Qiyuan was very frightened when he came to see him in a white robe.

Zhu Yihai was not polite to him at all. In fact, it was the first time the two met. At the beginning of Zhu Yihai's rise in eastern Zhejiang, he conferred the titles on a group of officials in Huguang, and also granted the titles of Xu Qiyuan, Gao Doushu of Yunyang, etc.After that, Xu Qiyuan has been in Yunyang until now.

The two monarchs and ministers met for the first time.

Xu Qiyuan was amazed at the emperor's youthful might, which was more majestic than the portrait on the Shaotian gold and silver coins.

"Sinful minister..." Xu Qiyuan was about to kneel down, but Zhu Yihai snorted unceremoniously, "I gave you the governor of Yunyang, but you will not only be a minister of the Ming Dynasty, but you must be the governor of the Tartars. Wang Guangen surrendered to the captive, and there is still a prince, if you surrender to the captive, it is just a change of job, is it worth it?"

"The guilty minister was confused for a moment!"

"Confused? You are so confused. To put it lightly, can you forgive your conscience?"

"Needless to say, I can't spare you. I didn't treat Yunyang's troops badly at the beginning. Those thousands of remnant soldiers and a remnant city, I will add officials and ranks to you. You formed a town of your own, and you were granted the title of governor and promoted. But you only thought of treating Yunyang as your own private territory, and even surrendered captives in order to fight against reorganization. This has completely crossed my bottom line!"

"Come here, put Xu Qiyuan and others in front of the army, and execute them."

"The whole family ransacked their homes and entered the government, and they were exiled to Yunnan and Guizhou!"

Xu Qiyuan had a little bit of luck at first, thinking that the emperor is always kind, even Hong Chengchou and Qian Qianyi are willing to accept, Wu Sangui is willing to surrender, even Shunying and Xiying are recruiting, and even the sons of Zhang Xianzhong and Zheng Zhilong are accepted as righteous. He is also an important minister of the court, at most he will be dismissed.

Unexpectedly, it would end in such a severe manner, and she fell to the ground in shock.

"Drag it!"

Xu Qiyuan was a civil servant who knew soldiers and could defend them. He was quite capable among these courtiers in the late Ming Dynasty, but at this time, he still went to surrender captives. Zhu Yihai could only say that this person was really confused.

It is necessary to set a model, and it can only be dealt with strictly.

If it is not a model, he can be sent to Yunnan to expand the border, but now he must be killed.

Killing Xu Qiyuan and completely eradicating Yunyang Town also took this opportunity to frighten several foreign towns, especially Jin Shenghuan Wang Deren and Zhang An in Jiangxi. The next step is to take their military power.

From the inside out, step by step.

If the imperial court can't get rid of these warlords, even if the Tartars are driven away, there can be no talk of ZTE.It was precisely for this reason that Zhu Yihai was not in a hurry to directly attack Beijing.

He attaches great importance to the improvement of the imperial camp, and pays more attention to the real control of the recovered land.

The rear is unstable, but the front line can also be safe.

Li Zicheng lost and lost in a hurry at the beginning. The key point is that he did not establish a real and stable rule. Although many places were victorious and occupied militarily, they were only superficial. Few of the powerful gentry who belonged to him were sincere.

So it will appear that once he loses, he will never get up again.

"Tell Zhu Pengfei to step back, don't be so impatient, don't cross Gucheng, don't scare Nikan, Basha and the others," Zhu Yihai looked at the good news in the newspaper, "Zhu Pengfei's Shaanxi-Gansu camp and Xing'an Mansion The Xing'an towns of He Zhen, Sun Shoufa, Yao Ke, etc. were merged and reorganized into the imperial camp No. 19. The people and horses of Zhu Dingguo's that town, together with Gao Bizheng, He Yaoqi, and Liu Tichun's soldiers and horses, were reorganized into the imperial camp. No.20 town."

"Each town has [-] auxiliary soldiers. Nineteen towns later will be stationed in Shaanxi, and twenty towns will be stationed in Hubei. After the reorganization is completed, the rest of the soldiers will be part of the camp, the rest will be post soldiers, and the rest will be retired to the people and resettled locally. .”

"Zhu Shengli and Li Chixin's main elite will be reorganized into the ninth town of the imperial camp, which will be stationed in Hunan in the future. Zhang Shipeng's Sichuan Guixing camp and other central Sichuan troops will be reorganized into the tenth town and stationed in Sichuan.

Yuan Zongdi's department and some soldiers and horses of the imperial camp were reorganized into No.11 Town and stationed in Guizhou. "

"Liu Mu's eighth town, soldiers stationed in Jiangxi, Zheng Zunqian's seventh town, soldiers stationed in Jiangbei."

"Zhu Zhongyi's No. 18 town is stationed in Henan."

Zhu Yihai made arrangements to complete the reorganization of Jiangxi, Jiangbei, Henan, Shandong, Hubei, Hunan, and Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu. Basically, a province will set up a new imperial camp town, a poor border province will set up another town, and several regiments will be set up.

Basically, it is necessary to use the imperial camp as the main force to reorganize and merge the outer towns and towns that still exist in various places, and to further clean up those local armed forces, especially the local villages and copycat armed forces.

Zhu Yihai is more concerned about this than going straight to Beijing.

If these various local armed forces are not wiped out first, it will be difficult to truly grasp the local control power, and it will be difficult to rectify the administration of officials, clean up the fields, register household registration, reduce rent and interest, and so on.

If these places are not fully controlled, then these places will become black holes, both financially and governingly, and there will be endless troubles.

(End of this chapter)