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Volume 3 Blue Tile and Red Wall (Part 2) Volume 4 Stormy Jiangnan Chapter 85 The End

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    Volume 4 Stormy Jiangnan Chapter 85 The End

    While parts of the southeast and south of the Yangtze River were busy, people in the distant capital were equally busy.

    Floods in the south of the Yangtze River and rebellions in the southeast are tense and busy finishing work for these two major events.  After this turmoil, the merits and demerits of various officials and generals need to be re-evaluated.  The kings who participated in the rebellion were also intensely discussing what crime they should be convicted of in the end.

    The meeting lasted for three consecutive days and covered many aspects.  But the first priority at the moment is not to convict kings, ask for merit from civil servants and generals, and reward merit and punish demerits.  The top priority is to resettle the homeless people who are still migrating throughout the south of the Yangtze River as soon as possible before the cold winter comes. At the same time, most of the rivers in the south of the Yangtze River, especially the Caohe and inland rivers, are  The renovation will be completed within ten months and dredging and widening will be carried out.  The river sections and areas that were previously the most flooded in the southeast, such as Laolongkou, Tang River, Baihe and other river sections with frequent floods, as well as river sections with many river network crossings and diversions and convergences, should focus on investment and rectification to ensure that once the floods occur,  When the autumn floods come, similar floods will never happen again in the entire Jiangnan region.

    "The two tasks may seem simple, but in fact, the manpower and material resources required to complete these two contents are actually very heavy considering the current situation of the court.  Floods lasted for several days, and the people who could not receive timely relief had a sharp decline in population. After a war that ravaged half of the south, some villages and towns in the southern states and counties that were originally densely populated turned out to be deserted.  The lack of a large number of old, weak, sick and disabled, women, children and even able-bodied young people has caused certain difficulties in the work of restoring homes. What is even more stretched is the tens of thousands of migrant workers needed to dredge and straighten the rivers.

    If corvee labor is drawn from the local people, the repair of the homeland will inevitably be delayed. Autumn will end in two months. Even if the winter in the south comes a little late, there will be no time.  The result of the transfer will also affect the ongoing rush to plant before autumn and winter. Not having a house is not the most terrible thing. The terrible thing is that once the food is cut off, it will be affected not only this year, but also until the first spring wheat harvest of the next year.  , local people may face the crisis of starving to death.  And if repairing homes and fields is the top priority, then if there are not enough corvees, it will inevitably delay the improvement of river channels. It would be okay if this year¡¯s autumn floods don¡¯t come, but once they come, everything may be in vain after a flood.  .

    The two contradictory results that are related to each other and conflict with each other have left many people scratching their heads.  At the great court meeting, the handling of the rebellions of the kings was repeatedly postponed.  Several people in the court, court, and small groups exchanged opinions privately. Soon, Emperor Qiyuan made the final decision. Without delaying the rush for planting and rebuilding homes in most of the southeast and parts of Jiangnan, he would try his best to recruit local corvees and leave insufficient supplies.  Part of the army will be recruited from among the people in Bashu and Jiangbei areas.  In addition, if you do not want to do corvee, you can pay a certain amount of money and grain to be exempted from the corvee.

    In addition to river workers and corvee labor, the substantial lack of soldiers was another problem that began to cause headaches for the court.

    Floods and rebellions mainly exposed the political and economic problems of the court.  But the war that broke out and the confrontation between the two armies on the battlefield revealed problems with the imperial army.  In the past, it was difficult to conduct a thorough investigation into the overt and covert issues.  However, the mess that emerged after this war gave Emperor Qiyuan an excuse to re-examine the army and reorganize it.  Without further ado, as the people in most areas of the south participated in the vigorous movement to build their homes, the imperial court quietly began a thorough investigation and purge of the army.  More than a dozen supervisory envoys and watchers were dispatched in succession. On the surface, they were conducting ordinary inspections and visits on local government affairs and the military situation, but in fact, they focused on investigating the military.  Not only the garrison troops in the south were thoroughly investigated, but most of the garrison posts in the north and the Central Plains were also included in the scope of the thorough investigation.  With the exception of a dozen guard posts in Saibei, almost all the troops were inspected.

    Lack of training, lack of response, insufficient troops, overspending on money and food, greed for free pay As the inspectors sent by the imperial court arrived one by one, problems were brought to the table one after another.  Although he was mentally prepared to a certain extent, the accumulated problems still made Emperor Qiyuan very angry.  But at the moment, although these things have been found out, no big action can be taken immediately, otherwise most of the south is in turmoil, and the aftermath is not settled. If the army is shaken again, the morale of the military and the people will be unstable, which may affect the foundation of the country.  .  Therefore, although Emperor Qi Yuan was angry, he could only force himself to suppress his thoughts. He only secretly and slowly carried out small-scale and light changes step by step by promoting, transferring, demoting, etc. individual generals.  .

    Since the rebellion in the southeast has completely established a victory for the imperial court, BeijingAll the yamen in the division were busy with work.  For ten consecutive days, almost every day was a court meeting, which lasted from early morning to noon.  After all the initial discussions were arranged, how to deal with floods and rebellions among the kings, the Ministry of War, the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion, and the Ministry of Personnel, the rewards and punishments of many officials finally began to enter the agenda.

    The King of Yue, the King of Huai, and the King of Dian were successively escorted to Beijing, and together with their families and relatives, they were all imprisoned in the Zongren Mansion, waiting for the emperor's fate.  Raising an army to rebel caused unrest in the whole country and turmoil in the southeast. It was an unpardonable crime in terms of laws and regulations.  However, due to the status of the kings, how to deal with this matter seems a bit embarrassing and delicate.  On a larger scale, this is certainly a dispute between the country and the rebels.  But on the other hand, this was a family dispute between the emperor and the kings with the same surname.  In the feudal dynasty, as a minister, you must not get involved easily in any case involving the imperial affairs.  If you are not careful, you may get yourself involved.  The stories of past dynasties are all familiar to the people in the court, and no one is a fool who wants to be the first to intervene at this time.  Beating a dog depends on the owner. Even the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty knew that if the laws were followed, King Wu and King Huai would definitely be punished with death. However, in actual handling of the matter, it still depended on the wishes of Emperor Qi Yuan.

    The emperor¡¯s meaning was not only the meaning of Emperor Qi Yuan himself, but also the meaning of all the people surnamed Zhang standing behind him.  The emperor naturally has a say in royal affairs, but the opinions of the entire clan must also be considered. After all, the emperor did not just pop out of a rock. He also has relatives who need to rely on him.  The Queen Mother is the leader of this group of people and their beacon.  In clan affairs, the emperor had to weigh repeatedly between his own opinions and the clan group's opinions before he could form his final will.

    It is precisely because of this that most of the people involved in royal events in history, unless something went extremely wrong or encountered a very tough-minded emperor, would be preserved, imprisoned, or raised in captivity, and very few would.  An untimely death.  Their descendants will still receive the imperial salary, but their treatment may be adjusted.  Compared with those ministers who were convicted and killed, the results were often very different.

    But the court officials also knew that the rebellion of King Wu, King Huai and others was indeed a bit out of line, but even if Emperor Qi Yuan really wanted to kill King Huai, he even wanted to kill the King of Yue and the King of Dian there is no chance now.  They are both of royal blood and close relatives of the Zhang clan. Even if Emperor Qi Yuan's blood attacks his heart and wants to kill them, he can only find other reasons to let them die on the battlefield.  Death must be done in an orderly manner.  And you can't kill your relatives in public, in front of all your relatives with the same surname.  Even if this person really deserves to die, killing him will cause the emperor to lose the warmth and the foundation to rely on among his relatives.

    In the final analysis, Emperor Qiyuan is not a hard-hearted and cold-hearted person. Facing many large clans and high-level families around him, he needs this foundation behind him and someone to spare no effort to support him. So, in similar matters, it is  He needs to make a certain degree of concession, even if he is the emperor, he still has to retreat.

    The biggest rebel leader at the moment, King Zhang Xiu of Wu, set fire to himself to thank the world. However, the kings from King Huai took the initiative to surrender and were escorted alive to the capital. It appeared that they were going to be tried and convicted, but in fact, it was the royal family surnamed Zhang who used them in disguise.  The ground was protected.  Apart from Zongzheng clan officials, who else can enter the clan's mansion?

    The kings cannot convict, and it is inevitable that they will not be able to block the mouths of the people in the world, so someone must come out to top the vat.  Since King Wu Zhang Xiu is dead, he must be the biggest person responsible for the vat. With such a rebellion, how can one person accomplish anything? Among the followers, it is necessary to find some people to bury him.  The civil and military officials of the entire dynasty, including Emperor Qi Yuan, were filled with anger that suddenly found an outlet. Everyone's actions were surprisingly consistent, and their eyes were fixed on the rebels who fell during the war, as well as those who met King Wu and King Huai before and after the war.  The officials and generals who glanced at each other secretly.

    ¡°Many people suddenly stood on the cusp of the storm.

    Zheng Ci, the chief envoy to Hannan, was one of the first to be found out.  Memorials to impeach Zheng Ci seemed to appear suddenly from the ground and piled up on the desk of the General Affairs Department.  At the beginning of taking office, he secretly colluded with Hannan officials and ignored civil affairs; he neglected management and was laissez-faire to his subordinates; he did not have a correct understanding of the situation in Hannan, which led to King Wu's power to take advantage of the situation, causing the political situation in Hannan to become corrupt and paralyzed; the river channel rectification  Failure to respond to floods in a timely manner resulted in the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people and the destruction of their fields; during the war, they took the opportunity to plunder people's capital, money and food, and tortured the people

    For a time, specious evidence and all kinds of big hats were pinned on Zheng Ci's head.

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