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Chapter 802 Who Guards Yangzhou

Chongzhen had a lot of things to do next. The first thing he had to do was to worship Xiaoling. Chongzhen cried in front of Xiaoling, apologized to Emperor Taizu of Ming, and once again issued a self-destruction. After worshiping Xiaoling, he officially entered the palace with a great ceremonial guard and ascended the throne in Fengtian Hall. However, there was no need for the throne ceremony. He was originally the emperor. As long as he officially announced that the capital would be moved from Beijing to Nanjing, and then officially sat down on the dragon throne in Nanjing.

The more troublesome thing afterwards was the personnel arrangements. Chongzhen went south and brought back only a few civil servants, including Shi Kefa, Sun Chuanting, Lu Zhenfei, etc., and Qian Qianyi, and Lu Xiangsheng and others who came to join the family, there were few civil servants. The cabinet and the six ministries were not organized, let alone the departments below.

The officials who used when King Fu ascended the throne were still wearing the charge of rebellion on their heads, and they need to be tried and tried and determined that they have no rebellion.

Lu Jiude was an eunuch, so naturally he could not hand it over to the third department for trial, but directly handed it over to the eunuch of Sili Bingbi, Wang Chengen, the governor of the East Factory, and Cao Huachun, the eunuch of the Sili, who had accompanied Chongzhen for many years.

After Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen agreed to the unification, they directly sent Lu Jiude to death with sticks.

Another eunuch who committed a crime, Han Zanzhou finally survived his life, but his family property was confiscated and he was rushed to Fengyang to clean the imperial tomb.

The trial of officials and nobles in the court was handed over to the three departments for trial. The head of the nobles, Xu Jiujue, was forced to rebel because he was not a traitor, but was coerced by Ma Shiying, Zhao Zhilong and others. Therefore, he was only stripped of the Duke of Wei. The Duke of Wei and his clan were deposed as commoners and confiscated all his property, including the Duke's Mansion, all gold, silver and treasures in the mansion, as well as the land, shops, workshops, casinos, etc. under the name of Duke of Wei. All his family members were confiscated and confiscated. From then on, there was no longer a Duke of Wei.

The fake Xincheng Hou Zhao Zhilong and the fake sincerity Liu Kongzhao were all removed from their titles. Given that the two had escaped, all their families were imprisoned and all their property was confiscated. After the three departments' trial, all males in Zhao Zhilong and Liu Kongzhao's nine tribes were sentenced to beheaded. The males under the age of sixteen were converted to slaves and exiled to Qiongzhou, and the female family members were converted to Jiafangsi.

The pseudo-Duke of Zheng Chang Yanling and removed the Lord of Zheng. Because Chang Yanling was forced to rebel and had no crimes, he was demoted from the Marquis of Huaiyuan to the Bo of Huaiyuan and confiscated half of the property.

Ma Shiying was dead and his property was confiscated. The males over 16 years old in the family of three clans were killed. The males under 16 years old were exiled to Qiongzhou, and the females were admitted to the Jiaofangsi.

At this time, a censor came forward to impeach Li Guodong, saying that he indulged his subordinates and privately took away the daughter of the inmate Ma Shiying, so that the two daughters could escape punishment.

Li Guodong retorted: "Li has already reported to His Majesty that these two women will reward the generals who have made meritorious under Li as concubines, and the two generals are both thieves. If Censor Zhang feels that it is not a punishment to give his daughter a concubine to a martial artist who has made a concubine, then Censor you can also give your daughter the generals who have made meritorious as concubines."

"Vulgar martial artist! Shameless!" The censor was so angry that his face turned red, and asked his daughter to be a concubine of a thief general, which really ruined the reputation of the scholar.

Wang Duo, a college student in the pseudo-Hongguang Dynasty, was originally an old minister of the Chongzhen Dynasty. Because he was forced to rebel, he only removed his official position and confiscated half of his property.

The fake Hongguang dynasty Minister Jiang Riguang, the Minister of Rites, removed his official position and confiscated all his property.

The rest of the people who followed the rebels were punished accordingly. The officials who did not rebel were released, but had not yet been restored to their posts. Instead, they waited for the court to arrange them and then granted corresponding official positions. Some people may be promoted and some demoted. At present, Nanjing is insufficient in staff, so they need to first build the framework of the six ministries and then arrange them one by one. After the framework of the six ministries is built, the officials below are recommended by the Ministers and Ministers of the Ministry of Education.

After the trial of the Three Divisions ended, the case of killing who should be killed, the exiled who should be exiled, the removal of those who should be dismissed, and thousands of heads fell to the ground. The case of Fu Wang Ma Shiying's rebellion was finally declared over.

During Zhang Shuheng's investigation into Zhu Youshu and Ma Shiying's rebellion case, many gentry around Nanjing and Nanjing were also confiscated by the Jinyiwei, and the excuses were all rebellious. Most of them were innocent and released after being tried by the Three Divisions, but they had been scrapped away a lot of money by the Jinyiwei.

Next was the appointment of the cabinet. Shi Kefa was appointed as the Minister of War, the Grand Secretary of the Dongge, and the Chief Auxiliary of the Cabinet; Qian Qianyi was appointed as the Grand Secretary of the Wuying Palace, the Minister of Personnel, and the Second Auxiliary of the Cabinet; Lu Xiangsheng was appointed as the Censor of the Left Chief Auxiliary, the Grand Secretary of the Wenyuan Palace, and the Second Auxiliary of the Cabinet. In this way, the cabinet was formed. Next were the six ministries, Zhang Shenyan was appointed as the Minister of Rites, and He Yingrui, who was released from prison, was restored to his post and served as the Minister of Works. Li Guodong recommended Sun Yuanhua's eldest son, Sun Heding as the Left Minister of Works, Song Yingxing as the Right Auxiliary of the Ministry of Works, Sun Heding and Song Yingxing were both practical scientists, and appointing them as the Left Minister of the Ministry of Works was conducive to the improvement of the Ming Dynasty's science and technology.

Although Li Guodong recommended two people with only fame and reputation as ministers, and was opposed by many officials, Chongzhen was given the pressure and approved it, Qian Qianyi and Lu Zhenfei from the cabinet also passed.

Lu Zhenfei served as the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and Fang Yizhi and Zhang Huangyan, who made great contributions, both served as the Minister of the Ministry of War as juren.

After Gao Hongtu was released from prison, he was revoked his former position as Minister of Personnel and demoted to Guanglu Temple Minister.

Considering Sun Chuanting's selflessness, Li Guodong recommended him as the Minister of Justice.

The position of Minister of Revenue is Lu Daqi.

After Liu Zongzhou was released from prison, he was appointed as the Minister of Taichang Temple, Yang Tinglin as the Minister of Dali Temple, and other innocent officials released from prison were also given corresponding positions.

Finally, Li Guodong stood up: "Your Majesty, since Master Shi has been promoted to the prime minister of the cabinet, I would like to remove His Majesty from the position of Supervisor of the Two Huai Division of the Two Huai Division. I am willing to be the Supervisor of the Two Huai Division, stationed in Yangzhou and Huai'an, and block the Jiannu army for the court!"

"It's outrageous!" The chief minister of the cabinet, Shi Kefa, was so angry that his face changed drastically. "You are a military general, how can you serve as the supervisor? The supervisor can only be a civil servant!"

"Master Shi Ge, Li is a dignified Duke of the Kingdom, so is he not qualified to serve as the supervisor?" Li Guodong retorted.

"Duke of Chu, you have heavy troops in your hands, how can you serve as the supervisor? This is not in line with the ancestral system!" Shi Kefa firmly disagreed.

At this time, Qian Qianyi stood up: "Your Majesty, please grant the Duke of Chu the Great General. Those who serve as the Great General can be the Supervisor."

Although the general is also a military position, his status is higher than that of civil servants. The previous title of Lords, Dukes and Bosses, are just symbols of honor and have no real power. Although the status of nobles is not inferior to that of civil servants, civil servants look down on nobles. However, the general has real power, and can even be executed first and then reported to civil servants below the fourth rank!

"Shameless!"

"I didn't expect Muzhai to be so shameless!"

"That's right, seeing Duke Chu be favored, he actually flattered like a dog! Unexpectedly, Duke Muzhai was the leader of Donglin, but he was such a person!"

The civil servants were talking.

The ministers opposed it, and the censor immediately came forward, first impeaching Qian Qianyi, and then asked His Majesty not to appoint Li Guodong as the general.

Qian Qianyi said: "You can not grant Duke Chu the title of general, but let me ask you all the dukes, who can station in the two Huaihe Rivers and block the Jiannu and the bandits from going south?"

"Shi is willing to go to Yangzhou to block the enemy!" Shi Kefa said.

"Master Shi Ge, you are the chief minister of the cabinet, how can you leave the capital?" Qian Qianyi sneered.

"If Jiannu invaded, Shi, the chief minister of the cabinet, would rather be wrong!" Shi Kefa said righteously.

Li Guodong smiled and said, "Master Shi Ge, you should not go to Yangzhou. If you go to Yangzhou, not only will you lose your life in vain, but you will kill 800,000 people in Yangzhou! Li is better than you when dealing with Jiannu."

Shi Kefa's face turned red and his neck swollen: "Duke of Chu, why are you sure that Shi can't defend Yangzhou like this?"

Of course you can't defend it anymore. Master Shi Ge, you are a mediocre person in war. Yangzhou has your responsibility for ten days. Li Guodong said in his heart, but he couldn't say that, but asked back: "Master Shi Ge, if Jiannu had an army of 800,000 and hundreds of red barbarian cannons attacked Yangzhou, how would you defend the city?"

"A lot of nonsense! Where did Jiannu get the 800,000 army?" Shi Kefa snorted coldly.

"Why aren't there? The Northern official army and the bandit army have joined Jiannu. Jiannu now has more than one Eight Banners, and has also built a new green camp and recruited various surrendered generals. At present, there are more than 300,000 troops in the Jiannu green camp. If more surrendered generals and surrendered troops are recruited, it would be easy to reach 800,000?"

The number of 800,000 did scare many people, and even Shi Kefa was shocked. But he still replied firmly and confidently: "As long as Shi can't stand it, don't say 800,000, Jiannu can't conquer Yangzhou even if he gets one million!"
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