Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 268

Chapter 268

After saying these words, Kong Yanzhi looked at Zhu Cihong expectantly, hoping that in the next second, Zhu Cihong would announce the order to send Zhou Yuantong to prison.

Unfortunately, the reality was completely opposite to what he had imagined.

Zhu Cixiang not only did not punish Zhou Yuantong and put him in prison, but instead arrested him Kong Yanzhi.

"Zhou Yuantong defended Shandong, he made meritorious service in organizing and training the new army, and he was conferred the title of Second Rank Zhongzheng Doctor."

Zhu Cihong could still see right from wrong, right from wrong, so he immediately granted Zhou Yuantong the high position of second rank.

Hearing this order, Kong Yanzhi couldn't believe his ears. What?Instead of arresting Zhou Yuantong, he was given the title of a second-grade official. My ears heard it right.

"His Majesty."

Just as Kong Yanzhi wanted to ask a question, Zhu Cihong answered him as if he had detected his heart.

"You heard that right, I just sealed Zhou Yuantong."

Then, just as Kong Yanzhi wanted to ask why, Zhu Cihong said it first.

"The left and right guards arrested Kong Yanzhi and put him under house arrest for the time being. Without my order, he is not allowed to see anyone."

Hearing Zhu Cihong's order, Kong Yanzhi thought to himself, he was too wronged, but he sued Zhou Yuan for the same, so why was he put under house arrest?

Moreover, Zhu Cihong didn't even give himself a chance to speak, Kong Yanzhi felt that it was so sad.

"Your Majesty, why?" Kong Yanzhi, who was raised by the guards, asked in horror.

"Why? Take a look at the statue of Confucius with the tail of money rat in your mansion, and the memorials and articles to Dorgon." Zhu Cihong said coldly.

As soon as Mite Qing entered the customs, Dorgon issued an order to shave his head, and a head-shaving movement was launched in the north of the Yellow River in his main control area. People who were unwilling to shave their heads and wanted to preserve their national traditions launched a vigorous resistance.

There were even large-scale uprisings in the Gyeonggi area, and the people who revolted due to the enclosure and escape laws jointly dealt a heavy blow to the rule of the Qing Dynasty.

But they are ordinary people after all, without training, and without weapons, how can they defeat the army of Mi Qing with only their blood.

The Confucian family far away in Qufu didn’t call on the people to rise up and resist Miqing’s head-shaving order. They even flattered and took the initiative to publish two letters of "First Entry Form" and "Shanghai Shaving Manuscript".

The Kong family received the grace of the country and the support of the people of the world, but they did such a behavior, which is a betrayal of the country and the nation. Zhu Cihong has long been angry with them.

But thinking that they didn't have much effect, they were purely disgusting, so Zhu Cihong kept holding back and didn't argue with them, after all, he had more important things to solve right now.

But Zhu Cihong never imagined that Kong Yanzhi dared to sue for crookedness in front of his own face, and even contacted a group of local officials and squires. die.

Sure enough, after hearing Zhu Cihong's words, Kong Yanzhi's face turned ashen for an instant. He forgot that he still had this problem. He didn't expect Zhu Cihong to care so much about these two points.

"Kong Yanzhi was taken to the mansion of Yansheng Gong in Qufu immediately, and he was not allowed to leave the mansion for life, and he was fined for three years." Zhu Cihong said again.

After much deliberation, he decided to punish Kong Yanzhi as soon as possible, lest he forget it later.

Being imprisoned in one place for life should serve as a great warning to Kong Yanzhi and his successors.

But if Zhu Cihong knew that this guy would die in a few years, he would definitely feel that he was too kind.

Just after Zhu Cihong finished speaking, Liu Bao said from the side, "Thunder, rain and dew are all the grace of the king. Kong Yanzhi still hasn't thanked you. You have committed a heinous crime. I don't know how many people in the world want to live and eat your flesh. Your majesty is benevolent, so you will be released from here." Let it go."

Hearing Liu Bao's words, Kong Yanzhi kowtowed to thank him on the ground like a zombie.

"My minister, Kong Yanzhi, thank you Your Majesty."

After he stood up, he was stuffed into the carriage by several strong bodyguards, and went directly to Qufu, even Jinan Mansion didn't allow him to stay any longer.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Yuantong came to Zhu Cihong's side very happily and said, "Your Majesty is truly wise. Putting this old boy under house arrest in the mansion should give him a long memory."

"Zhou Yuantong, the matter with Duke Yan Sheng is over, and I will leave again after staying in Jinan Mansion for two days." Zhu Cihong and Zhou Yuantong said as they walked.

"I don't want to care about the situation in Shandong, but I don't want to see bandits everywhere. I don't care where the bandits come from, but you have to clean them up."

"I don't care where they came from or who they were instructed by. In short, whether you use money or knives, the first task is to calm the ground in Shandong."

Zhu Cihong didn't want to see a fire in his backyard while fighting a battle ahead, so he asked Zhou Yuantong to make sure that Shandong was in a calm state.

As for how this calm came about, Zhu Cihong didn't want to ask for now.

"I know, Your Majesty, don't worry, those gangsters only have a few knives and guns, relying on their numbers to attack the government's transportation team."

"As long as I pull out the new army and keep it for a month, I will kill all the bandits everywhere."

Zhou Yuantong patted his chest and assured Zhu Cihuang that he really had this ability, and the new troops he trained, no matter how good they were, no matter how ineffective they were.

Anyway, it is also a regular army with armor, knives, guns, and firearms. It is not easy to wipe out those bandits who don't even have paper armor.

Unless those gangsters are all Liangshan heroes, one person can fight dozens of them.

But now it's the seventeenth century, no matter how you can fire a musket and kill it with a single shot, if you can't use the Francois machine gun, there will be no residue left after one shot.

Hearing Zhou Yuantong talking about the new army, Zhu Cihuang suddenly remembered something.

"By the way, give me [-]% of the supplies you have hoarded in Jinan Mansion. The army going north will consume a lot of money. Without supplies, I'm afraid we won't even be able to reach the edge of the capital."

It turned out that Zhu Cihong had taken a fancy to the materials that Zhou Yuantong had looted in Shandong before. In order to build a new army, Zhou Yuantong raised food, grass and silver and almost offended all the bureaucratic landlords in Shandong.

From Duke Yan Sheng to the landlords in the countryside, almost everyone complained about Zhou Yuantong, but they were afraid of Zhou Yuantong's army, so they didn't dare to act presumptuously.

If Zhou Yuantong didn't have an army, they would have armed his servants to rob and kill Zhou Yuantong.

"No, Your Majesty, it is very difficult for me to support those soldiers." Hearing that Zhu Cihong wanted to hand over supplies by himself, Zhou Yuan complained.

Those were the supplies that I had managed to raise. Hundreds of thousands of shi of grain piled up like a mountain, enough to feed his tens of thousands of people for a whole year.

If Zhu Cihong wants to leave, then he needs to find a way to raise food and grass again.

(End of this chapter)