Wanli 1592

Chapter 1004 Empress Dowager Li's Persuasion Letter

On the sixth day of June in the first year of Longwu, at Tianjin Wei Wharf, a mysterious team was slowly boarding the ship.

The people who boarded the ship were all wearing ordinary cloth clothes and cloth shoes, looking like ordinary people, but the army guarding them boarded the ship was all elite guards, and even one of them was holding a rifled flintlock. The men and horses were watching with guns not far away, and they seemed to attach great importance to the group of people who boarded the ship.

Of course, it looks strange, but if you enumerate the list of this group of people in common clothes, you can understand why the most elite imperial guards in the Qin Dynasty who are responsible for protecting the emperor can appear here.

Zhu Yifu, king of the Qin Dynasty in the former Ming Dynasty.

Former Ming and Jin king Zhu Minchun.

Zhu Rensheng, the former King of Jingjiang in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Gongyun, king of the Zhou Dynasty in the former Ming Dynasty.

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Although each of them has not been heard very much, it has indeed become a representative name of one of the biggest maladministration in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang's rewards for his descendants were so thick that even in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the national annual revenue could not be enough for the clan's expenses. In the end, the Ming court and the emperor were made very passive and had to use various means to reduce their income. Clan expenses.

However, the clan of the Ming Dynasty was not allowed to engage in the work of the four peoples, and the scholars, farmers, businessmen, and businessmen were not allowed to do it. As a result, some lieutenants of Fengguo, a remote clan, had to rely on crimes to obtain the qualifications to enter the prison and eat in prison, so as to maintain their lives.

But this is the treatment of remote clans. For close clans like King Chu, King Zhou, and King Qin, they will definitely be given a full salary to let them spend time and drink to have children. They will definitely not have to suffer the treatment of going to prison to eat and eat .

That is, this group of people used their status to suck blood with the local gentry throughout the Ming Dynasty, dragging down the finances of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, this group of people ended badly, either being killed by the peasant uprising army, or He was killed by the Qing Dynasty, and basically did not get a good death.

The fate of Zhu Ming's royal family was indeed miserable.

After Xiao Ruxun ascended the throne, out of a promise to the imperial family of the Ming Dynasty, he decided not to kill them, but they had to obey the arrangement of the Great Qin Emperor, and they must not have any objection to the arrangement of the Great Qin Emperor, otherwise the previous promise would not be fulfilled.

The Empress Dowager of the former Ming Dynasty personally wrote letters to important clans and vassals in various places, stating their interests to them, telling them to catch them without fighting, not to resist, and let the Qin army do what they want, otherwise their lives will be lost.

Those sent to do these things are elite military officers and elite troops from Burma. They are the best candidates for their loyalty to Xiao Ruxun and the Great Qin Dynasty.

Most of the clansmen chose to let it go, because the situation was already like this.

There is no threat to the Great Qin Dingding, and their clans seem to have hope of recovering the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty's defense against them is no weaker than Xiao Ruxun's defense against them. Many people around the vassal are A spy placed by the imperial court.

Now that the imperial court has surrendered, all the remnants of Jin Yiwei have been absorbed into the Central Investigation Department, and they are all in the hands of Xiao Ruxun. The fate of the vassal kings has also fallen into the hands of Xiao Ruxun.

Although there were some who tried to resist, such as the king of Chu, he joined his brothers and tried to escape from the cage and go to the local area to call Daming Zhongliang to continue the struggle, but he was quickly controlled by the original Jinyiwei spies around him.

Then other spies surrendered in Kaesong, and the King Chu's family was directly captured, and the fact of trying to resist was reported.

Other vassal kings could keep some of their properties, but the king of Chu was deprived of all his properties because of his resistance, and he couldn't keep a penny, so he was sent directly to the capital for strict supervision.

None of the brothers of the King of Chu escaped, and Xiao Ruxun ordered them to be beheaded directly, and they had to let him watch in front of the King of Chu.

Xiao Ruxun implemented a zero-tolerance policy for the behavior of these ignorant people. One person resisted and the whole family was arrested. The man killed the woman and was not admitted to the Jiaofang Division. imperial clan.

Queen Mother Li was extremely angry when she learned that King Chu's brothers had all died, and asked Xiao Ruxun angrily why she didn't keep her promise.

"As the emperor of a country, you didn't keep your promise! What face do you have to rule the world?!"

Xiao Ruxun didn't care about it at all.

"I said before that they are not allowed to make any resistance and come to the capital honestly. I guarantee their lives and some of their property, but I didn't say that I would forgive them if they resisted. Those who resist will undoubtedly die. The mastermind is King Chu." He deserved to die, but I spared him for the Empress Dowager Ming's sake, what else do you want?"

Empress Dowager Li turned blue with anger, threw away the pen, and refused to continue writing persuasive letters.

Xiao Ruxun's face turned cold.

"I hope the Empress Dowager Ming understands one thing. For the sake of your son, I treat you as an honor and don't hurt your lives. I will treat you accordingly. All the courtiers want you to die, because your life makes them feel like they are sitting on pins and needles.

Keeping you alive is my greatest and last kindness. Write down these things immediately and send them out, telling those princes and clansmen not to resist. This is an order, not a discussion. If you don’t do it, I will slaughter my clansmen with blood! "

Xiao Ruxun didn't want to continue talking nonsense with her.

Empress Dowager Li looked at Xiao Ruxun in disbelief.

"Are you going to do it or not?"

"Xiao Ruxun... Where's your conscience?"

Empress Dowager Li pointed at Xiao Ruxun: "Aren't you afraid of thunder?"

"Come on."

Xiao Ruxun's expression calmed down.

Li Sheng stepped forward: "Your Majesty."

"Decree that the head of the former Ming Chu king, all the men in the family be beheaded, and all the women be confiscated into the Jiaofang Division."

"According to the order."

Li Sheng turned and left.

Empress Dowager Li was stunned.

"You...you dare..."

"This is the first one. If you don't write it, the next one will be King Lu."

"you……"

Empress Dowager Li trembled all over.

"Then King Qin, King Zhou, and King Jingjiang, one after another. If you don't write, I will kill them all. If they resist, I will not let go. The previous agreement will be void, and none of you will survive." Come down, anyway, the loyal courtiers want you to die more than I do."

Xiao Ruxun just looked at Queen Mother Li like this.

"I write, you can't hurt them."

Queen Mother Li gritted her teeth and made such a decision.

"You write, except for the king of Chu, everyone else can survive."

"King Chu, you can't do anything either!"

Empress Dowager Li stared at Xiao Ruxun firmly.

"It's late, this is the condition just now, King Chu must die, if you don't write it now, I will immediately order the killing of King Lu's family."

"You! You..."

"Are you writing or not? I'll count to three, the life of King Lu's family is in your hands."

Xiao Ruxun raised three fingers.

"one two Three……"

"Enough! Enough! I write! I write!!"

Empress Dowager Li collapsed, immediately grabbed the pen with trembling hands, and quickly wrote a letter to persuade her to surrender.

After a while, Li Sheng returned to Xiao Ruxun's side.

"Your Majesty, the King of Chu has already been beheaded, all the men in the family have been beheaded, and all the women have been imprisoned in the Jiaofang Division. Everything is in accordance with His Majesty's will."

Xiao Ruxun nodded.

"Ah."

Empress Dowager Li's pen stopped, tilted slightly, and continued to move.

(End of this chapter)