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Chapter 337 The Love-Hate Relationship between the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty and the Regent
Investigate the evil slaves who bully their masters...

As a slave, she actually treated her master's land as her own.

As a slave, he actually accused his master of deceiving him.

As a slave...

In short, it was full of evil deeds. Not to mention that his master was the empress. Even if a slave from an ordinary family dared to do this, she would be considered an evil slave bullying her master. It's just that ordinary people cannot kill slaves, but the empress has this power. Therefore, Lu Jiude, the general manager of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, beat the evil slave to death in the street and then searched his house.

Of course, strictly speaking, it cannot be considered a search.

After all, he is a slave.

Everything he had, including his wife and children, were slaves of the Queen.

Take it back!

Her Majesty, take back what belongs to you.

Then all of Cha's family property was turned over to the Imperial Household Department, and his wife and children were also turned over to the Imperial Household Department. His women were reassigned to other slaves by the Imperial Household Department, and his children were also raised by the Imperial Household Department, and when they grew up they were arranged to be paired with other slaves.

But Lu Jiude found some letters between him and many slaves who had surrendered in his home, which contained some extremely treasonous words, such as enduring humiliation and waiting for the right time, and even disrespecting the empress, saying that she and King Yang had an affair. These letters caused the empress to be furious. She and King Yang were innocent and had always treated him as a brother. King Yang was also loyal. He was a married man, how dare he slander her and King Yang?
vicious.

It's simply vicious.

Then all these evil slaves were beaten to death by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

All their property, even their wives and children, were taken back by Her Majesty the Queen.

At the same time, Lu Jiude found more letters in the homes of these slaves, involving more slaves, and even more shocking and treasonous words.

Beat to death!

All of them will be beaten to death!

There was blood and gore in the south of the Yangtze River.

This prison, comparable to the empty seal case of Emperor Taizu, lasted for several months and eventually affected tens of thousands of people. Among them, more than 2,000 gentry who had just surrendered as slaves were beaten to death by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but it did not cause any waves. After all, they no longer had the ability to resist. Although they wanted to resist, because of their previous surrender and the permanent tenancy system of Her Majesty the Queen, on the one hand, they lost the support of other gentry classes, and on the other hand, they lost the fear of tenants. In particular, the act of surrendering as slaves made their previous personalities collapse, and the assassinated elders and elders during the initial collapse also made them enemies with their former friends.

Qian Shisheng's nephew Qian Zhan even arrested two people who ran to him for shelter on the charge of being fugitive slaves, and then sent them directly to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

"Evil slaves bully their masters, and everyone hates them!"

He explained to Lu Jiude.

In fact, this was the common understanding of this prison among the common people and the gentry.

They have already surrendered themselves as slaves, and the Queen's slaves are also slaves. Their nature is no different from that of eunuchs, so the Queen can kill them if she wants. Similarly, their property already belongs to the Queen, and the Queen can arrange it however she wants. They have nothing to complain about, and can only blame themselves for being too stupid.

Of course, the insidious and vicious combination of Yang Feng and the Queen still makes everyone shudder.

What a huge prison that affects tens of thousands of people!
Just do it.

This already has some of Taizu's style.

The frightened Jiangxi Elders Association quietly disbanded...

The world is at peace now, which is only temporary, so of course it should be disbanded.

As for the Jiangxi militia in eastern Zhejiang, they should be handed over to Her Majesty. If the Northern Expedition still needs people, let them go too. Then the Huguang Elders Association will be next. Previously, all the Elders Associations in Southern Zhili have been disbanded. At this point, the provinces that were originally the core of the militia all handed over their militias, and these militias were also transferred to the north to participate in the Northern Expedition. After all, the combat effectiveness of these militias is sufficient. Not to mention the top-level combat effectiveness of the Zhejiang militia, even the Huguang militia has suppressed the southwest, and the chieftains in Xiangxi have been beaten by them many times.

They even entered Guangxi and Guizhou to help suppress the chieftains who took advantage of the opportunity to cause rebellion.

The only problem is military spending.

It's expensive to keep them.

Fortunately, the more than 2,000 slaves who were beaten to death brought Her Majesty nearly 30 million taels of silver. Now she was not afraid to spend money. In addition, the slaves who surrendered also brought her almost half of the land in the Yangtze River Delta, and she had forced all of these lands to grow crops...

It's her land, so of course she has the right to decide what to plant.

In fact, the management of the Imperial Household Department is largely for this purpose. Those perpetually leased fields must be approved by the Imperial Household Department for anything they want to plant. The Empress does only ask them to pay 10% rent, but they also have some obligations. What they plant must be approved by the Imperial Household Department, and surplus grain must be sold to the Imperial Household Department. If they violate this, the land will be taken back, so the Empress will not lack food in the future.

If Suzhou and Huzhou are well-trained, the world will be well-trained!
It’s just that in the past, this land was used to grow cash crops rather than grain, so the land had to import grain from other places. Now, it must be used to grow grain only.

With money and food, Her Majesty the Queen's Imperial Camp quickly became the strongest military force in the Ming Dynasty.

Two hundred thousand new field armies.

As for Gao Yigong and his subordinates, they followed them back to Shaanxi.

These former subordinates of Li Zicheng still returned to their respective defense areas with their previous official positions. They remained the same as before, and the imperial court even stopped sending local officials. All the areas from Longyou to Gansu were militarized. Then six generals were set up to govern Ningxia, Gansu, Longxi, Longnan, Qinghai, and Guyuan. Under them, there were generals. Under the generals, the military camps were militarized, and all the people were soldiers. As for how they were managed, the imperial court did not care, but they did not have to pay local taxes to the imperial court. In fact, they were military governors.

This management model is most suitable for these places.

After all, it is the lowest cost for the court.

In the past, Gansu was also militarized, and its official name was the Shaanxi Xingdu Commandery.

Now it has expanded to the entire Longyou.

Qinghai was an additional establishment. After all, there were many former generals under Li Zicheng, and they all had to be accommodated somewhere.

Guanzhong was the fiefdom of the King of Qin, so it could not be given to them. There were already people from Shanxi to Xuanda, so they could only be moved westward. However, it did not mean that they were ignored, as these generals still received their salaries.

At this point, the civil strife in the Ming Dynasty was finally quelled.

At the same time, 200,000 elite imperial troops had already begun to move north.

Beijing.

"Your servant pays respects to His Majesty!"

"Your servant kowtows to His Majesty!"

……

Amid the kneeling farmers on the roadside, the regent of the Qing Dynasty, Prince Pingxi, rode on a horse and walked majestically towards the left gate of Chang'an with his servants.

After he passed by, the iron-clad farmers got up tremblingly, and then continued to search for their food for the day in the ruined city. The food might be a stray dog, which was a surprise, but mice, small fish and frogs in the ditch, and even tender leaves on the trees were the most important. It was not that they did not know how to go out to look for it, but the regent forbad the iron-clad farmers to go out in the name of avoiding deserters, so they could only look for it in the city. Fortunately, the capital was now full of ruins, and there were still a total of 100,000 people in such a large city, so it was not difficult to find food, but the quality of life was a little worse, and they had to eat anything from grass roots to tree bark.

However, this is not the main means for the hardcore farmers to survive. It is just a supplement. Their real livelihood still depends on selling their children, or even themselves. There are still many people among Wu Sangui's subordinates who like this.

In short, today's hardcore farmers are rapidly crossing more than two hundred years.

They began to enter the entertainment industry like the hardcore farmers during the Republic of China.

"Humph!"

Wu Sangui looked at the ruins not far away, where several people were fighting over a wild dog's crops.

A servant behind him smiled, pulled out his pistol and fired a shot at that place.

Amid the gunshot, one of the iron-barred crops fell down. The others were frightened and scattered. The skinny wild dog looked at this side blankly, while the iron-barred crop that was shot screamed beside it. Perhaps the smell of blood attracted it, and the wild dog lowered its head to lick it. Then several more wild dogs came out. The first one licked it and finally realized that it could still eat meat. It bit the wounded stomach of the iron-barred crop as it screamed, and then dragged something inside and tore it out...

King Pingxi admired it calmly, but finally turned around and continued forward.

At this time, all the gates of the imperial city were actually under the control of his soldiers, including the Meridian Gate and even the three main halls.

Hauge was just a puppet in the Qianqing Palace.

All the gates of the palace city are guarded by Wu Sangui's men, so whoever enters or leaves the palace every day must be checked by his men. As for the iron-clad farmers, they live in the area west of the imperial city, that is, between Xi'an Gate and Sanhai. There are currently 50,000 to 60,000 of them, most of whom are women and children, so every day Xi'an Gate is like an auction market.

Every day, there are hard-working people who grow crops there and bring their wives and daughters out to sell them.

Of course not for money.

Just want food.

Canned is better.

Even Hauge has to be sold. If he doesn't sell it, he will have no food!
Wu Sangui didn't even provide him with food. At first, he was fishing in the three seas and eating the animals originally raised in the palace. After eating all these, he had to rely on selling palace maids to support himself. Otherwise, it was impossible for him, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, to go out and dig wild vegetables to eat, right?
I have to say that the current capital city has a lot of the style of Luoyang during the Jin Dynasty.

Wu Sangui's life was not easy either.

Although he controlled the capital, he was unable to control those powerful people because of his limited strength. The latter were just allies with him, and that was because Yang Feng did not accept their surrender. In this case, of course, those powerful people would not support him. He only had 20,000 or 30,000 troops and was unable to attack these powerful people. In the end, he focused on the capital, and he could actually control several counties around it, which was almost like the lord of the capital. He also relied on the wealth after looting the iron-clad farmers, and became a slave trader, reselling the wives and daughters of the iron-clad farmers, and smuggling canned grain from the Ming army-controlled areas to survive.

Yang Feng was well aware of this smuggling, but he never cared about it.

Even he himself had a part in it.

So it was equivalent to Wu Sangui looting Tie Gang's crops and then transferring the gold and silver into his hands.

Why should we care about something that everyone is happy about?

He rode his servants through the three main halls...

This place is also deserted.

When Li Zicheng burned the palace, the three main halls were also affected. Although they were not completely burned down, they were already unrecognizable. Of course, the Qing Dynasty had no money to repair them, so they have been abandoned there. However, the Yuntai at the back miraculously escaped the disaster. Wu Sangui's destination was there. In fact, the Qing Dynasty had not used the palace much before because the emperor was playing with sand in Shanhaiguan and Dorgon had his own palace. It was only after Haoge succeeded to the throne that the palace was really used.

But it is also in the Qianqing Palace.

However, Wu Sangui would not enter the Qianqing Palace, which was not under his control, so Yuntai became the main place for the emperor and his ministers to meet.

PTZ.

"The Regent Prince Pingxi has arrived!"

The soldier guarding the steps shouted.

Wu Sangui walked up to the platform with a precious sword hanging from his waist, and his servant opened the door for him.

Inside, Hauge sat on the throne as melancholy as Chongzhen did when he met Yang Feng.

"Your Majesty, why are you summoning me?"

Wu Sangui said.

Hauge raised his head and forced a smile.

"Regent, I heard that Yang Feng has already conquered Jiangnan, and hundreds of thousands of troops are heading north. I wonder how Regent will resist the enemy?"

He said.

"Your Majesty, these are all my ministers, you don't need to think about it."

Wu Sangui said without any trouble.

Of course, the main reason was that he couldn't answer.

In fact, the vanguard of the imperial camp had already reached Linqing, but he really had no plan to resist the enemy. Fighting was impossible. After all, the vanguard was originally from Zhejiang militia. He knew that even if he put all his strength into it, he could not defeat the 30,000-strong Zhejiang army. The only choice was to defend the capital, but that would mean death, or abandon the city and flee. But the problem was that there was still a Qing dynasty in the north, and he would be dead if he fell into their hands.

surrender……

Yang Feng doesn't accept it!

"What are you talking about, Prince Regent? I am still the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty after all. Now that we have come to this, can't you and I work together?"

Hauge said.

As he said this, he stood up and walked towards Wu Sangui.

"Besides the Regent, do I have anyone else to rely on? I will be dead if I fall into anyone's hands. I know we had some conflicts before, but now it has come to this. These are no longer important. How to save my life is the most important thing."

He walked up to Wu Sangui and spoke sincerely.

Wu Sangui frowned, somewhat unsure of what to do.

"Regent, we are facing a powerful enemy. You and I should not think of anything else. The Qing Dynasty still depends on you, Regent."

Hauge said.

As he said this, he bowed towards Wu Sangui very seriously.

"Your Majesty, why do you say that? Aren't we, the ruler and the subject, of the same mind?"

Wu Sangui quickly woke up and hurried to support Haoge.

Indeed, the two are now tied to the same rope and have no choice but to work together.

but……

"Regent!"

Hauge lowered his head and spoke in a voice full of emotion.

At the same time, an armor-piercing cone shook out from his sleeve and pierced Wu Sangui's heart without hesitation. Wu Sangui reacted very quickly. After all, he was a veteran of many battles. He screamed and twisted his body when he saw the cold light of the armor-piercing cone, but the distance was too close. He still couldn't avoid it completely, and the armor-piercing cone directly pierced his lungs.

He screamed and pushed Hauge, who took advantage of the situation to pull out his weapon and stabbed him in the back.

The servant screamed and rushed forward with his sword drawn.

Wu Sangui had no time to draw his sword and raised his arm to block.

The armor-piercing spike instantly pierced his arm.

At this time, all the palace maids around drew their knives and rushed towards the servants.

"I will kill you, you traitor. I will kill you, you traitor..."

Hauge roared and stabbed Wu Sangui madly with the armor-piercing spike.

(End of this chapter)