The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 859 No Edo Castle
Li Guozhu had fought with Huang Sheng many times before, and in his memory, Emperor Zhongxing was not easy to kill.

The Emperor Zhongxing was willing to be lenient when fighting against the pirates, and chose not to fight as much as possible to defeat others. Why was he so vicious when he dealt with the Japanese?

At this time, Shi Huanjin, Yan Yingyuan, Sun Jiuge, and Cheng Shiju were also watching the raging fire that burned half the sky from a high watchtower.

No one spoke, and the atmosphere was a bit weird. The four of them used binoculars to look at Edo, a city that was about to disappear.

Long Jiushi exchanged gold and said: "Jujiang, I want to announce some discipline."

The sound of trumpets was like thunder, and there was a battalion of drums and horns. Soon the Chinese army tent was full of people, and the expressions on the faces of the generals were full of expressions. They were all guessing how many Japanese people in Edo City would survive after tonight.

Shichangjin didn't exchange any pleasantries, and cut straight to the point: "Generals, my lord has made a fire attack plan, and you are all the executors, and my merits and faults are borne by me alone.

You have all seen the tragedy of Edo Castle. This fire is even more tragic than the massacre of the city.The army of the Eastern Expedition faced the censor, and the impeachment in the incident was obviously inevitable.The lord wants you to remember that the fire attack plan is decided by the lord alone. "

It is obvious that the chief general is trying his best to bear the reputation of killing murderers. All the generals looked at each other in blank dismay. After a while of discussion, Li Guozhu laughed and said: "This lord is a pirate who started from licking blood at sea. The notoriety of being easy to kill, this plan should come from the Lord."

Zheng Sen came out with more people: "Everyone, listen to what I said, my Zheng family's reputation in Daming is already notorious, such indiscriminate killings should naturally be the work of the Zheng family, everyone, don't take credit from the Zheng family."

None of the generals was shy of trouble, they all expressed their willingness to take the blame, and no one mentioned that the plan was made by Emperor Zhongxing himself.

Because everyone has the courage to take responsibility, everyone is fighting with red faces, and it is impossible to achieve a high degree of unity for a while.

Shi Huanjin saw that his subordinates were rushing to express their loyalty and it was not easy to participate in it, so they could only start to coordinate, and finally all the generals reached a consensus, and Zheng Sen would bear the big blame.

His family's reputation is already bad, and the Zheng family has no plan to return to their hometown and settle in Fujian. They are very satisfied with the island they live in now.

Zheng Sen believed that since the fire had been lit, it should be given enough time to make it burn more violently. The besieging army would not move like a mountain, and the shogunate troops who rushed out of the sea of ​​fire should be shot down one by one without taking prisoners.

In this way, the raging fire became more and more intense, and it continued to burn for seven days and seven nights. In the end, there were very few survivors. Edo Castle completely disappeared from the map, leaving only a pile of scorched earth.

A month later, tens of thousands of Tatars, Jiannu and Goryeo sticks were approved, and they came to the ruins of Edo Castle to search for treasures, because more than half of the precious metals stored in the entire Japanese kingdom were stored in Edo Castle, and now they are all burned and scattered in ashes .

Today's Tatars, Jiannu, and Koryo sticks all trembled when they saw Zheng Sen. It is conservatively estimated that there are more than 50 soldiers and civilians in Edo City. Zheng Sen actually burned these Japanese people to nothing, which is too cruel.

Too many Tartars and Jian slaves have been educated, they have no illusions anymore, and they are determined to Sinicize and strive to become Han people and integrate into Ming Dynasty, because they found that only becoming Han people can usher in a happy life.

Tens of thousands of people searched for treasures under Zheng Sen's supervision, and no one dared to hide gold and silver privately. In the end, the precious metals obtained by the Eastern Expeditionary Army exceeded 5000 million taels of silver.

At the same time, the military operations of the Ming army on the main island of the Wa Kingdom were as devastating as they were, and the resistance they encountered was not worth mentioning. Of course, this was caused by gathering and annihilating the daimyo warriors loyal to the shogunate in Edo Castle. .

In the vast Siberia, many Japanese brought their families to serve in the army. They worked hard to get the praise of the Ming army, and they strived to become Sinicization activists and were given the status of free citizens.

The American colonies also accepted many Japanese people who came to work while being Sinicized. With these people joining the construction army, several key projects were changing with each passing day.

Chongzhen, who became the Xinwang of the Great Ming Dynasty, lived a fulfilling life. He felt respect from the attitude of Emperor Zhongxing towards him. Knowing propriety, righteousness and shame, he was not arrogant.

Qin Liangyu led the Sichuan Army to support him and re-emerge as the Great Treasure, which did not make Zhu Youjian lied to his wits.

Soon after, Zhu Youjian was entrusted with the important task of interrogating the fake "Dashun" group of criminals, and the power of life and death was completely entrusted to him.

Zhu Youjian opened a public court to allow the common people to come in and listen in, and publicly tried the false "Dashun" emperor and all the big bosses who had been fighting for several months.

Zhu Youjian likes to be happy and enmity the most. In the establishment of a legal society in Ming Dynasty, no one can judge the life and death of others with one sentence, and the treatment of rogues is no exception.

Wang Xin, who strives to make a difference, must of course uphold the dignity of the law. He wants to turn the cases he has handled into iron cases, and strive to become a model case and a sentencing standard for similar cases in the future.

After Zhu Youjian's personal review, the pseudo "Dashun" emperor and a gang of thieves who were finally sent to Huang Sheng for a final trial committed crimes against humanity, crimes of secession, war crimes, robbery, rape, etc. As many as several hundred.

The intruders have done a lot of evil, and they may have committed all the crimes in the world. It can be said that the crimes are heinous, and killing the nine clans and destroying the whole family is not enough to comfort those military and civilian officials who died in vain.

Huang Sheng agreed in principle to Xin Wang's judgment, but in fact he let Zhu Youjian bear all the scapegoats that were easy to kill.

From the eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Caishikou in the capital city carried out executions every day.

Because the bones of the thieves sentenced to death by thousands of knives are as high as more than [-], and the king of Xin is a serious master, he will personally supervise the execution, and he will cut more than a dozen Class A war criminals such as Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin, and Song Xiance for [-] yuan. Six hundred knives, not a single knives less.

Since this is a technical job, it really won't be completed until the Chinese New Year.

During this period, King Xin received an imperial decree from the Emperor Zhongxing, the content was that because the imperial concubine Zhu Yu's concubine was secretly conceived, the emperor Long Yan was very happy, and he pardoned the fake "Da Shun" Bohou Li Guo who was sentenced to [-] knives.

The emperor spared Li Guo's life and sentenced him to exile in "Tangcheng", the new territory of the Ming Dynasty in North America. This location should be the Los Angeles of the United States in later generations.

It was the general trend for the Ming Dynasty to colonize the Americas, and now it has won a large area of ​​territory on the west coast. More than a dozen cities are about to rise from the ground, and "Tang City" is just one of them.

The imperial concubine was pregnant, and the emperor pardoned one person for a death crime, which was harmless. The king believed that he did not resist the decree, let alone insist on acting in accordance with the law.

Because God has the virtue of good life, he will always be lenient. The law of Ming Dynasty clearly stipulates that the supreme imperial power can have the quota of pardoning three death row prisoners every year, and it is reasonable for Emperor Zhongxing to pardon only one person.

Seeing helplessly that the ruthless people who used to rob houses together turned into soft bones under the endless criticism, Li Guo could only pretend to be his grandson, who knows that even so, he would not die well.

He saw Liu Zongmin being hacked to pieces with his own eyes, and he couldn't help feeling sad, but the Ming army guarded him too strictly, and there was no possibility of committing suicide. Waiting in despair for himself to be hacked into pieces was really uncomfortable, if it wasn't for Li Guo's inner strength Super big, he has already become a lunatic like Niu Jinxing.

The moment before it was Ling Chi and Li Guo's turn, Xin Wang, whom he was already quite familiar with, looked at him with a playful look with a smile on his face.

He was often interrogated by Zhu Youjian. Li Guo knew the former Emperor Chongzhen and knew that it would be miserable if he fell into his hands, but he didn't expect that the situation would be even worse.

Zhu Youjian took out the imperial decree and read it, waiting for Li Guo, who had received [-] knives, to be completely petrified, and then he threw all his self-esteem and backbone to Java.

He knelt down and kowtowed like garlic, weeping loudly while shouting: "Long live my emperor, Li Guo, a sinner, is grateful and must be a new man. Wuwuwu..."

The rest of the thieves who were scheduled to execute and accompany the execution today seemed to have found a life-saving straw, and all kowtowed, without exception.

Among them is Li Duyan, a wretched man. They all begged the wise and kind-hearted emperor to give him a way out.

It's a pity that it's not the same, whoever should be cut three thousand and six will never be cut one thousand and two. Chongzhen has always been principled, and even if he becomes the king of Huixin again, he can't lose the tradition.

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Spring goes and spring returns again, time flies by like a white horse, and the first year of Ming Dynasty Zhongxing came in a blink of an eye.

After the joyous Spring Festival and the Lantern Festival, on the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, Zhu Youjian, the king of Xin, rushed down to the south of the Yangtze River with the emperor's order. He took on the task of going to Nanzhili to check the household registration, measure the acres of land, re-issue the land deed, and sort out the household registration.

Jiangnan scholar-bureaucrats may cause trouble, because Xin Wang will start to investigate the old accounts in the first year of Chongzhen. One to ten times the fine shall be imposed according to the seriousness of the circumstances.

The Yellow River Basin, ravaged by bandits, is waiting to be rebuilt, and a huge amount of money needs to be invested. It is the only way to increase income and reduce expenditure. To start with the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River is a small way of robbing the rich and helping the poor.

Flies do not bite seamless eggs. If the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River did not lose the imperial grain and national tax, everyone would be happy, otherwise I would have to spit out even the gall after eating it.

The person who is in charge of this job must be a thorny head, and he must be a nervous person who does his own thing and doesn't look at anyone's face, because Hai Rui has never been able to complete this job in history, so it can be seen that there is a lot of trouble here. how deep.

Who will take on such an important task?Zhu Youjian, the letter king who hates the scholar-bureaucrats who are "all Zhengying Dynasty" to the core, is the most suitable.He didn't need Huang Sheng to isolate himself on purpose, as soon as he appeared in the new Ming Dynasty Hall, he would be a lonely minister.

What is a lonely minister?Under normal circumstances, it refers to ministers who have no party or affiliation, are only loyal to the emperor, and are only responsible to the emperor.

Due to Xin Wang's previous status as Emperor Chongzhen, the ministers of the new Ming Dynasty did not want to make friends with him in order to avoid suspicion. Of course, Zhu Youjian, who has experienced many vicissitudes, knows this situation well.

He simply put aside his worldly ways and worked hard, handling government affairs strictly in accordance with the court system, and being wrong to others meant that no one would lose face.Of course, Zhu Youjian, who is proud and upright, can't afford to show anyone face.

Emperor Zhongxing gave enough power to let King Xin go to Nanzhili to toss about. In order to cooperate with his work, he sent five thousand Jinyiwei to call him. There is only one bottom line. Head, the exile of the three tribes to colonize the Americas is the highest penalty.

Huang Sheng knew Zhu Youjian well, and knew his character. If he didn't put a curse on him, it was possible that when Zhu Youjian found out that the Jiangnan landlord and old financial man had leaked national taxes enough to cover Liao's salary for 20 years, he might be furious. The blood of the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River flowed into rivers.

Times have changed, and the funniest thing is that the original Emperor Chongzhen was the most capable minister and the most ruthless official in the court of Emperor Zhongxing. Zhu Youjian handled many seemingly difficult events with impeccable integrity.

Now, Zhu Youjian is a lone minister who is only loyal to Huang Sheng, and he dares to kill any official who dares to violate the interests of Ming Dynasty.

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