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Chapter 42, Volume 3, The Resurrection of the Ming Dynasty, Killing and Pardoning

.However, in addition to the various schools, there is another behemoth in Shandong, that is, Qu. The Kong family is a descendant of Confucius. Although this sage master was in a down-and-out life, only hundreds of years later, because Emperor Wu of Han respected Confucianism, his descendants enjoyed thousands of years of glory and wealth, and will continue to enjoy it./

As for the Kong family, no matter what they did, at least the emperor would not touch him now. Du Xiaoshan also knew that there was no Kong family on the list.

After the families, the Li family was also not simple. Although there were fewer officials than the families, their family property was not necessarily less. Now, Li Ruolin, the younger brother of the head of the Li family, was a Jinshi during the Tianqi period and was now the Minister of Rites of the Qing court. After the Li family was the Wang family, the head of the family Wang Aojiu...

Wang Fu frowned one by one, and his brows were furious. Shandong was adjacent to the capital, so he naturally had many advantages. Among the gentry reported to Du Xiaoshan, many of the gentry had children in the Qing court. The families were vaguely gentry from Shandong, so it was naturally difficult to maintain their innocence. Chu Dezeng was the Minister of Personnel, and Chu De was the Director of Guanglu Temple.

"Huh." After turning a few pages, the emperor suddenly screamed in surprise. It turned out that the page Wang Fu turned to was information from the Sun family. The head of the Sun family was Sun Zhixie.

Whether in his previous life or in this life, Wang Fu remembered the character of Sun Zhixie. Sun Zhixie was from Sichuan. In history, it was he who first advocated the Manchus' shave and change clothes. Now Dorgon has not adopted his proposal to shave and change clothes, but this person immediately came to a literary inquisition, which was also appreciated by Doer, and became the Minister of Personnel in the Qing Dynasty.

The scale of literary inquisition is much smaller than shaves and shaves. After all, it was only targeted at scholars before, but it was targeted at all Han people. The most serious deaths in literary inquisition were only tens of thousands, and at least millions of people died because of swearing, or even tens of millions. However, the nature of this person's hard-core traitor has not changed. In order to climb up, millions of people were willing to go to the ground.

If you can't get Sun Zhixie for the time being, you can use his family to extricate your anger. The so-called one person does things and one person should be basically shit in this era. One person is enlightened, and one person will ascend to heaven. The same family comes from all the prospers and all the loss will be lost. If you enjoy the benefits brought by the family, you will naturally be affected by the family. Sun Zhixie relies on tens of thousands of heads to become the Minister of Personnel of Manchu. His wife and children naturally enjoy the benefits of nowhere. With Sun Zhixie's crimes, it will be too much to kill nine clans, and three clans will never be wronged.

Wang Fu picked up his pen, drew a big fork on Sun Zhixie's name, and then flipped it back intermittently, and finally drawn up a list of twenty-three people. These twenty-three families either heads were high-ranking officials and nobles of the Qing court. If they had families stayed in Shandong, they would naturally be implicated by the head of the family, or they had persecuted scholars in literary inquisitions. As for those whose children were officials in the Qing court, Wang Fuze made a fuss, either the head of the family wrote a letter to persuade these people to serve the Ming Dynasty, or expel them from the family.

After all, Shandong has ruled by the Qing people for several years, and it is not surprising that there are children in the family to be officials. If we have to pursue the local dialect, I am afraid that at least 600% of Shandong's gentry will not be able to escape.

The emperor ordered the emperor to do so. Jinan immediately sent out a four-person cavalry to capture the candidates on the list. Most of the twenty-three families were in Jinan and a half were outside Jinan. However, even those in Jinan may have other children living outside Jinan. These people also took them together.

There were more than 100 children and slaves in each family. Several families even reached four or five hundred. After they were arrested, there were more than 5,000 people. After these people were arrested, the entire Jinan Prefecture was bleak. The gentry who had not captured the land was also frightened. They were afraid that when the army would come home to capture them. Many people even thought of running away immediately. Unfortunately, there was nearly 100,000 troops stationed in Shandong at this time. It was impossible to escape.

The courtyards of various families were filled with gentry who came to find out the news. Chu Guangxuan wanted to see the emperor several times. Unfortunately, he could not even get close to the emperor's palace. He could only do nothing. On this day, he beat many gentry who came to find out the news. Chu Guangxuan sat in the garden and couldn't help but sigh while drinking.

"Father. Why do you sigh so much?" A crisp voice sounded behind you.

Chu Guang didn't need to look back and knew that it was his youngest daughter Zhu Qin's voice. He smiled bitterly: "Qin'er. The emperor is sending people to capture gentry from all over the country. No one knows how the emperor will take these gentry. I am really worried about being a father."

Zhu Qin is only sixteen years old this year. Zhu Guangxuan was born in his forties. He was favored by Zhu Guangxuan since he was a child. When he grew up, he was even more famous and well-educated. He was said to be the number one beauty in Shandong. From the age of thirteen, he went to various families to propose marriages. However, Zhu Guangxuan never agreed to anyone on the grounds that his daughter was still young. This made the children of other officials and gentry even more eager. Later, even after Mandahai heard that Zhu Qin was famous, he had an idea.

When everyone else heard that Mandahai took a fancy to Zhu Qin, he felt very sorry for Zhu Qin, thinking that Zhu Qin would eventually fall into the Tartars.

At that time, Zhu Qin vowed to fight to the death, rather than marrying Mandahai. In order to see that the families were wealthy families in Shandong and several people were officials in the court, they did not force each other too much, so Zhu Qin escaped.

At this time, Zhu Qin moved lightly to Zhu Guangxuan's side, stretched out a white wrist, filled his father's wine glass, and smiled gently. Two dimples appeared on his white jade-like face, giving people a sweet feeling. This woman is indeed very beautiful, no wonder she was called the number one beauty in Shandong.

"Why do you have to worry, my father? No matter whether the emperor kills or cuts these gentry, our families will be safe." Zhu Qin said in a relaxed tone.

"Oh, Qin'er, why are you sure?" Zhu Guangxuan was excited. The reason why he loved this daughter was not only because of her beautiful appearance, but also because of her knowledge. When Mandahai was asking for marriage, her daughter was only thirteen years old. Although Zhu Guangxian was reluctant, she was forced to refuse because of Mandahai's power. Zhu Guang did not have the courage to refuse. If it weren't for her resolute struggle, Zhu Guang would have to agree. Now it seems that her daughter is still foresighted. If this is true, not only would her daughter ruin her life, but her families would be affected now.

"My father, you are concerned about it and it will be in chaos. The emperor ordered the arrest of all these people. All of them were high-ranking officials and nobles whose heads served in the Tartar court. Although several families were not high-ranking officials and nobles, they had persecuted many scholars in the literary inquisition. No one of the families had served as high-ranking officials and nobles in the Tartar court, nor had they persecuted scholars in the last literary inquisition. Moreover, the families were quite famous when they were the late emperor. How could the emperor deal with them?"

Zhu Guangxuan hesitated for a moment and said, "But you have two uncles serving as officials in the Tartar court."

"The two uncles are not important positions, not to mention that my father has written a letter to ask them to resign. If the two uncles are convenient for resigning, my father will use the power of the patriarch to remove the two uncles from the clan. After the two uncles know, they will understand my father's difficulties. The families are in Jinan. If the emperor wants to move the families, he may have moved long ago. How can he wait until now?"

Zhu Guang thought about it and finally showed a smile on his face: "Yes, Qin'er, you are really Zhuge, your father's daughter. Hey, why are Qin'er so happy these days?" Zhu Guangxuan finally noticed the sweet smile on his daughter's face. This smile was completely pure from the bottom of his heart. Even his father was moved by it.

Zhu Qin was of course happy. Although she refused Mandahai's proposal for marriage with death, Mandahai refused to give up after seeing Zhu Qin's appearance. She had to take the decision to procrastinate. If there was no change, she would delay for two years at most. Unless she was really dead, she would have to marry Mandahai. No matter how smart and beautiful she was, she was just a sixteen-year-old girl. Mandahai was like a big rock, which made her breathless. Now Jinan has returned to the Ming Dynasty, and Mandahai is dead, which made her feel a big rock in her heart. Of course she is happy.

Zhu Guangxuan thought about it and knew why his daughter was happy. He patted his head: "I know for my father. Qin'er is already sixteen years old. Do you fall in love with any young man?"

Zhu Qin was very reluctant to support her and became coquettish: "Dad, you are so bad."

Seeing his daughter acting cute, Zhu Guangxuan burst into laughter. The laughter filled the entire garden, making the servants of all families who heard the laughter very surprised. The master has been frowning in the past few days. What's wrong with today?

Another day later, Wang Fu finally summoned the gentry in Jinan. The emperor only comforted him a few words and brought a group of gentry to the suburbs. This time he brought everyone to watch the murder. The ones killed Sun Zhixie's family were more than 100. Among Sun Zhixie's family, regardless of men, women, young, master and servant, the whole family was killed.

Hundreds of heads rolled down, scaring everyone to the point of being possessed. Only Zhu Guang knew it and just watched coldly. Sure enough, after killing people, the emperor asked them to take out some money and food to redeem the sins of Shandong gentry. As for the other twenty-two families, death sentences can be avoided, and living sentences cannot be escaped. Like the captured Manchu-Mongolian coalition forces, they were all demoted to hard labor. Wang Fu was not a tyrant, but the killing of Sun Zhixie's family was because Sun Zhixie was really angry and resentful. If the remaining five thousand people were killed, it would be too much.

The green camp soldiers were treated better. The tens of thousands of green camps were reorganized into road construction troops. They also worked like hard labor. However, they could go home after three years, and they would have wages to get after they stayed.

The Ming Dynasty had been preparing for this war for three years, and there was enough money and grain available. Although the money and grain taken out by these gentry made them heartbroken, Wang Fu didn't care about the money and grain provided by these gentry. It was just that this was an attitude. After all, they had been ruling and had no choice but to be punished.

When he returned home, Zhu Guangxuan admired his daughter even more. When he thought of her daughter's marriage, he felt moved and thoughtful.

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