Haisheng Mingdi

After the rain, the sky is as clear as washing.

The emperor turned another page of the desk calendar placed by the royal eucalyptus, and tomorrow is the beginning of autumn.

The beginning of autumn in July is officially entering autumn. Although the weather is still hot, the ancients also said that July will be hot, and the weather will gradually turn cooler.

The gorgeous end of summer, the beginning of harvest in autumn.

In front of the emperor's window, in the flower bed in the courtyard, the corn planted by the fifth princess also began to maleate and pollinate. These green corns grew in the flower bed, standing upright like rows of strong guards.

The fifth princess took good care of the corn, came to water and fertilize it regularly, and often brought her younger siblings to catch insects.

This former war orphan has now grown into a virtuous royal princess. What is rare is that she can not only arrange flowers and paint, but also grow corn and vegetables, and cook well.

These corns are very good, and the old farmers have to say good things after seeing them.

The prince has an audience.

Zhu Yihai waved to the prince standing at the door, "Come in."

The crown prince came in and saluted again, "Your Majesty, Wu Sangui and Zhang Guozhu plotted to create chaos in Halong Harbor in Xin'an Prefecture, Annan."

But Zhu Yihai didn't care, "Army leader in troubled times, this arrogant and domineering nature is difficult to change, but I can understand Zhang Guozhu's rebellion, and Wu Sangui shouldn't have rebelled too, doesn't he understand that their rebellion is just a dead end, there is no chance of winning at all? "

The emperor is full of self-confidence. Although these guys have repeated all kinds of arrogance and domineering in the past, such as raising thieves for self-respect, supporting soldiers for self-respect, and refusing to obey edicts, they are different now.

In the Chongzhen Dynasty or even earlier, institutional problems and official corruption gave them this kind of soil environment, but they don't have it now.

Especially since they were all taken to Halong Port, they rebelled?

"result?"

The prince admired his father's calmness very much, and replied: "Wu Sangui and Zhang Guozhu fled in the middle of the night when they were taking advantage of the supply ship in Halong Port. They tried to flee to the mining area to summon their own mine slaves to rebel. However, when they climbed over the wall, they were discovered by guards and chased them in the city. At that time, Zhang Guozhu was shot to death with muskets by the pursuing guards, and Wu Sangui was intercepted by Baoding who was watching the night. He refused to be captured and was shot to death by random arrows."

Wu Sangui and Zhang Guozhu were also considered two heroes in troubled times, but they both died without even escaping the collapsed street.

Zhu Yihai couldn't believe it when he heard it.

"Are they killed while escaping?" Zhu Yihai asked the prince.

"Indeed."

"Are you sure it wasn't the guards of the escort or the generals of Halong Port who claimed without authorization, killed them, and then said that they absconded and plotted rebellion?"

The prince was a little nervous stared at by his father: "I have never issued such an order. Annan reported it, and there are several reports, all saying that Wu Sangui and the others fled, resisted arrest and were killed. The magistrate and county magistrate of Halong Port As well as captains, county captains, naval generals in Halong Port, provincial garrison officers, even battalion officers in the imperial garrison, customs officials at the port wharf, and Jinyiwei’s spies are all on the same caliber.”

Such an answer means that Wu Sangui and the others really escaped and were killed, not directly executed, because in Halong Port, no one has such a great ability to make all parties in different systems unify such a caliber.

Unless it's the prince, but the prince was not involved in this matter, and he handled it himself.

The emperor took a long breath, lay back and leaned on the chair.

"How could Wu Sangui be so stupid? Why did he insist on taking the risk? Doesn't he know that he can't succeed at all?"

The prince bowed his head and stood on one side, he could feel the emperor's anger.

Zhu Yihai was really annoyed.

Before he abdicates, he wants to judge those criminal officials and clean up those capricious ones, so that the prince can take over a cleaner and safer Ming court.

But these guys refused to cooperate.

Geng Zhongming committed suicide, Qian Qianyi pretended to be crazy and tried to seduce him with his wife, now Wu Sangui and Zhang Guozhu actually wanted to escape and rebel.

An angry Zhu Yihai slapped the table directly.

"Send the corpses of Wu Sangui and Zhang Guozhu to the capital and hand them over to Hutuktu, the Eighth National Congress in Beijing. Use their corpses to make ritual instruments, human skins to make drums, shin bones to make flutes, browbones to grind rosary beads, skulls to make bowls, and flesh to feed them. Dogs, the bones were ground to ashes, and the ashes were burned into bone china kneeling statues, which were placed in the governor's offices of various provinces for collection and warning."

"Put Wu Sangui's brothers, children, grandchildren, nephews, all males to death, and female curly hair as slaves to Yongning Temple and the frontier army."

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A whole family of men copied and beheaded, and even the nine clans were implicated.

The same is true for Zhang Guozhu.

If they cooperate to go to Beijing for trial, then Zhu Yihai will try them publicly, and finally list them in the criminal record, and then execute them, but their clansmen will let them go, that is, move to the frontier, confiscate their property, and they will not be admitted for three or five generations. Those who serve as soldiers are not allowed to be officials and cannot be moved back to the mainland, and the rest are still free citizens.

But now, if they rebel in this state, they are completely challenging the emperor's bottom line.

Before he abdicated, he only wanted to do a good job in this matter, and they still refused to cooperate. Under such conditions, they still wanted to rebel. It is conceivable that if he does not clean up these people now, these guys will be in the crown prince in the future. Under the rule of the Communist Party of China, there is a possibility of rebellion at any time.

"Send the rest of the men of the nine tribes of these two rebels to Australia to raise sheep and hunt kangaroos, and the women are all slaves to the royal miners at the Hung Gai Mine in Ha Long Kong."

An angry Zhu Yihai reminded the prince, "Send more people to pick up Hong Chengchou, Ma Guozhu, Tu Guobao and others. There must be no more suicides, absconding, or rebellion. I want them all to attend the trial and accept their final judgment." .”

"Tell them, whoever dares to disobey my will will end up worse than Wu Sangui and Zhang Guozhu. I will send all their nine clans to Australia and Yin as eternal slaves, and their children and grandchildren will be executed."

The emperor went berserk, roaring filial piety like a foolish emperor.

This is a side the prince has never seen before. Recently, he has faintly noticed that the emperor has become a little moody. He is no longer the kind and friendly emperor. Such an emperor makes him very afraid and even uneasy.

"Time is running out,"

Zhu Yihai leaned on the dragon-headed stick, "There is no time to drag it on like this. According to the list I gave you, do it directly. Those who should be arrested, those who should be tried, those who should be demoted, those who should be exiled, and those who should be relocated." Qian, cut the mess with a sharp knife, "

"Your Majesty, is it too involved and too hasty, I'm afraid it will cause turmoil."

"Don't worry about it, I will do it myself. This is the last thing I will do. I will hand over this country to you and give you a clean and hidden country. As long as they are willing to cooperate with me, I will not kill them." Many people, only a few who committed the most heinous crimes and had great influence were killed, and the rest were dismissed, demoted, exiled, relocated, etc. Compared with the mistakes they have committed, I have treated them very politely. They can’t accept this, so there’s nothing to say.”

The Emperor was very powerful and autocratic.

The prince withdrew.

Zhu Yihai looked at the prince's back and shook his head helplessly.

His current almost crazy behavior, in the final analysis, is that his time is running out. It has only been nine years since he started the army, and he is about to abdicate. The prince is only less than twenty, which is too young.

Wu Sangui was only in his early forties, and many of the troubled warlords and repeated civil servants in the last years of Chongzhen were still there, and they were even young and strong. However, although the prince performed well, he was young after all, and he could only be regarded as a mediocre person in all aspects.

If the crown prince is placed in Chongzhen's position, it is estimated that he may not be better than Chongzhen.

How could Zhu Yihai rest assured to hand over the world to the prince and let the prince continue to walk with those tigers and wolves, how difficult the current situation is.

As long as he can be sure that he can work for another ten or twenty years, he will not be so urgent. How can he not know that doing this is easy to go too far, and may even cause turmoil, which will not only damage his own reputation, but also damage the credibility of the court. After weighing it, he decided to do it himself first.

For example, if Zhu Yuanzhang could really consider for his grandson Jianwen, change the suzerainty system and cut or abolish the vassal king before his death, then Jianwen would not need to cut the vassal, nor would his uncle take the throne.

Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't think there was anything wrong with his suzerainty system, and Emperor Jianwen was not capable enough to gradually cut down the vassal, but acted too hastily, but in the final analysis, Lao Zhu didn't make good arrangements for him.

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"Wu Sangui and Zhang Guozhu absconded and rebelled in Halong Port. When they were hunted down, they resisted arrest and died. Wu Sangui even died in the hands of Baoding Baoding in Halong Port City.

When Lu Liuliang came home from his duty, he saw his elder brother Yuan Liang who was drinking tea and writing scores, and told him with a sigh.

"Wu Sangui was beaten to death by Halong Port Baoding?"

Lu Yuanliang opened his mouth wide in surprise. This news was as shocking as he was when he heard that Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself in Meishan, or that Li Zicheng was beaten to death by local regiments in Jiugongshan, Hubei.

Baoding refers to under the Baojia system, the people selected by each Baojia system, who are on duty to watch the night and patrol the streets and alleys of the village.

Who is Wu Sangui, a generation of heroes.

It turned out to be like this.

"The emperor was furious, and decreed that Wu Sangui's whole family would be copied and beheaded, and his nine clans would be imprisoned, and all betrothed as slaves..."

"Jin Yi Wei Ti rode out everywhere."

"The storm is coming."

The two brothers sat there in silence for a long time.

Lu Yuanliang threw down the chess pieces, and suddenly said to his younger brother, "I suddenly feel like quitting. I want to submit my post and return to my hometown."

"The third brother is only in his fifties, and at this juncture, it is not the right time for the third brother to resign, so let's wait." Lu Liuliang told his elder brother, "It is almost certain that the emperor will take the throne on New Year's Eve at the end of this year. Prince, on the first day of the first lunar month of next year, the prince will hold a grand enthronement ceremony."

"The current turmoil may be the pains before the new birth."

Lu Yuanliang sighed.

"I don't know how many statues of criminals will kneel in front of the Taimiao."

"This is the judgment of history. Although it is a bit late, what should come has finally come. This is a good thing." Lu Liuliang still has the same attitude. The principles of ethics are the foundation of everything and must be upheld.