Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 486 Execution of the Shunqing Gentry (Part 5)
The Infantry of the Fifth Association of the Infantry Battalion of the Guard Chen Zhenhui continued to use the simplest method to identify whether they were Han Chinese.

For a while, a dozen or so Jianlu who had hid in civilian houses were pulled out and killed by the infantry of the Fifth Association.

Because Wuqiao is just a county town, there are not many prisoners in the whole Wuqiao, at most there are a few Ertars who can speak a little Manchu or the low-level Eight Banners sergeants who went to places like Wuqiao to be masters.

Therefore, there were not many Wuqiao County Chengjian captives executed by the Fifth Association.

But the number of Qing troops executed was too many.

Zhu Youjian had issued an imperial decree before the Northern Expedition. During the Northern Expedition, all the Qing soldiers were not allowed to tolerate, except for defection. All the gentry who shaved their hair and changed their clothes confiscated their property, all members of the clan were executed, and their tenant farmers and servants abolished their leases to the people, and the government and Huangzhuang unified the distribution of land.

Therefore, after the infantrymen of the Fifth Association executed the Manchu-speaking Jian captives, they began to execute the Qing troops captured by the guards of the various associations.

They were escorted to the county government office in a unified way, and the infantry of the Fifth Association uniformly killed them, and they came in batches.

It lasted until the end of Haishi, and all the remaining Qing troops were executed by the Fifth Association infantry of the Guards.

The Sixth Guards Infantry Association had already occupied the gate of the main city at this time, and Lou Sheng, the magistrate of Wuqiao County in the Qing Dynasty, had also been escorted down.

As an official of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, he could not simply be beheaded. He would be executed by the new Wuqiao county magistrate, so he was temporarily imprisoned.

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"My compatriots who were bullied by the Jian captives may rest in peace!"

Chen Zhenhui spilled a glass of strong wine into the pool of blood, and couldn't help shouting: "Northern Expedition!"

"Northern Expedition!"

"Northern Expedition!"

The other Guards officers and soldiers also shouted together.

Completing the situation of the prisoners of the Qing army was the execution of the urban and rural gentry in Wuqiao County.

The Fifth Guards Association began to mop up the gentry in the city.

This is a strictly hierarchical world, whether it is a commoner's mansion can be seen by looking at the lintel steps, so it is easy to sweep.

At this time, it had entered the night, and the infantry of the Fifth Guards Association lit up the lanterns, holding steel knives as a team, and began to visit the gentry's homes in Shunqing.

"In the 15th year of Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Luo Maoqing, a student of Wuqiao County School, welcomes Master Wang!"

At this time, a squire saw the Guards appearing and knelt down on his own initiative.

"If you are a scholar, then you are a scholar with a reputation and a shameless fellow. As a scholar, you wear barbarian braids and barbarian uniforms. Since you refused to go south and die for your country, today you are ordered to send him off. You go!"

puff!
The infantryman of the Guards decisively chopped off the head of the squire, and the servants in the mansion rushed to the back room seeing this.

"Those who are not masters of this family need not be afraid. We are the Son of Heaven's pro-army, and we are here to save the people from the fire and water. The people who were oppressed by the squires will come to the front. Some people from the court will distribute part of the property of these squires to You, the fields are also contracted and allocated to you, and they will be planted for 50 years without compensation!"

The officers and soldiers of the Guards yelled a few times, and then continued to rush in. At this time, a son came out: "You kill my father, you bandits!"

"To vote for the son of a squire, but also to insult the master Wang, kill him!"

puff!
A soldier of the Guards stabbed the son in the chest.

Soon the family members and stewards of the squire were all executed, and the slaves and maids who were exploited at the bottom were all put in custody, and the new Daming Wuqiao county magistrate uniformly arranged and distributed property.

After the new Daming Wuqiao County Magistrate arrives, he will distribute the properties of these gentry families equally to these people. The village is responsible for arranging contracting to these tenant farmers.

In this way, although the gentry class who did not expect the guards to go north to retaliate against them, although they wanted to make trouble, they were also unwilling to cooperate because the tenant farmers and the common people at the bottom expected the king's arrival to give them the land. The gentry class is like a tiger without its claws. It can only wait to be slaughtered, or it can only embark on the road of defection.

This is a policy that Zhu Youjian had long thought of. He must take advantage of the justice of the Northern Expedition to reduce the power of these gentry classes by half, so as to lay the foundation for the subsequent reform of the integration of officials and gentry in paying food. These northern gentry classes have done a lot. Qing obedient people are tantamount to surrendering to the enemy and betraying the country. Zhu Youjian is a little bit harsher on them, and no one can say anything.

Moreover, in order to prevent these northern gentry classes from uniting with the northern common people to support the Manchu Qing even more desperately and even resort to force against Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youjian directly distributed the benefits taken from these northern gentry classes to these common people, so that the ultimate beneficiaries were the northerners. The people at the bottom also made the gentry class somewhat rebellious but powerless.

"Live in such a good house, and there are servants and maids, who seem to be scholars. Sure enough, there are also the Four Books and Five Classics. There is also a tablet of the heaven, earth, master, and master on the door hall. You are ashamed to recite the heaven, earth, master, and master. Pull it out and chop it!"

"You have to be loyal to the Qing Dynasty, well, we will fulfill you, first drag his family members to him one by one to execute, and then chop him up!"

"You are not a scholar, well, can you read this poem, if you read it incorrectly, it will kill you!"

"Master Wang set the Central Plains Day in the north, and he never forgot to tell Naiweng about family sacrifices. Did the students read it wrong?"

"You read very well, you are already a student, and you still say you are not a scholar, and you want to deceive us, so you will be pulled out and beheaded!"

At that time, all the gentry and Qing army in Wuqiao County were wiped out, and all the fields and properties of these gentry and Qing army were sealed up.

"What is a real scholar, like us, when the country is ruined and the family is ruined like us, the real scholar is the one who chooses to join the army, chooses to abandon the family business and go to the national crisis, and would rather throw his head and blood than be a slave to the barbarians !So the ones we executed in front of us are all the scum of scholars, gentlemen on the surface, but in fact have no integrity and no loyalty, you say, should they be killed!"

The execution of so many people by the Guards will more or less make some officers and soldiers feel that their actions are no different from those of the Hulu and begin to doubt their own justice. For this reason, Chen Zhenhui will make such a speech before dinner to clear up the guards. The thoughts of soldiers.

"Should kill!"

"Should kill!"

"Should kill!"

Seeing that all the officers and soldiers under his command were righteous and awe-inspiring, Chen Zhenhui nodded:
"Very well, we are the emperor's pro-army, we are the king's teachers, we love the people like relatives, we will not demolish houses to death from freezing, and will not plunder to death from starvation. Now I order that tomorrow morning, except for the Fifth Guards Infantry Battalion staying behind in the county, the rest of the battalions will go to various towns outside Wuqiao County to execute the national traitors and evil gentry, and rescue the Li Shu in the north!"

(End of this chapter)