northwest.

A few years ago, in order to raise money for the northwest rewards, Lu Wenzong, the Dashun supervisor, ordered several northwest provinces to raise money for their own money.

After the decree was issued, the governor of Shaanxi, Zhang Guozhu, the governor of Gansu, Wang Zhaoling, the governor of Ningxia, and Xin Sizhong, the governor of Qinghai, tried his best to raise the reward silver. However, the northwest was barren and the people had no savings. The camp strictly prohibited the levy of the people. The four borders were forced to unify their attention and put their eyes on the gentry in the country.

After the twelfth lunar month, Shaanxi Governor Zhang Guozhu was the first to take action, "buzhou and county officials poisoned and plundered the gentry." In order to obtain more gentry's treasures, Zhang Guozhu ordered people to make a public announcement, encouraging the people to secretly report to the rich and wealthy households to collect the silver, and one-tenth of the income was rewarded for the person who reported it.

He also ordered the Qingxiang team to be formed, with 100 to 200 people in each county, and set a donation ratio for those who have land of more than 1,000 acres or three industrial stores, or draw one for five or one for four. If there is no one who has not been handed over, the Qingxiang team will confiscate its home. Those who dare to resist will be dispatched to arrest and kill them.

Knowing that the country was supervising the poor, Zhang Guozhu ordered the Qingxiang team members to be mostly poor and landless tenants. This move allowed poor peasants to join the army to have a "system" path for Dashun. This not only greatly consolidated and strengthened Dashun's rule, but also greatly damaged the local tyrants and gentry in Shaanxi.

Under the powerful momentum of the Shun Army to pacify the northwest, the local tyrants did not dare to resist, and their family power was greatly weakened, making it difficult to control the local areas like the Ming Dynasty before, forming a local dominance.

Although Gansu Governor Wang Zhaoling, who was a member of the gentry class before joining the Daxi Army, he hated this class to harm the people and repress the people. Therefore, when he was in Sichuan, he advised Zhang Xianzhong to kill all the landlords and gentry and surrender to Dashun, but this idea still did not change.

Wang Yuguyuan convened an official meeting. At the meeting, he openly stated that "all gentry are unjust and should not be sympathetic." He then ordered the gentry of the Qing Dynasty to determine the amount of money for the official position based on the size of the official position, 60% or 70% or 20% or 30% or 20% or 30%. Some gentry of the Qing Dynasty who had caused casualties in the Shun Army (Western Army) even sent troops to directly scammers their families, and their property was all in the treasury.

In order to complete the tasks assigned by the state in a faster and more convenient manner, and to completely eliminate the gentry and local tyrants in the countryside, Wang Zhaoling even set up a private Gansu Collection Department, using more than 4,000 surrendered soldiers from the former Western Army as an urging army to dispatch various places.

As soon as the army arrived, they immediately took the list from the local government and used to torture the people on the list, forcing them to pay the salary.

Wang's tortures were determined by the tombs of the gentry subjects after the forty years of Wanli. That is, those who had fame and fortune after the forty years of Wanli were divided into more than 270 families in the province.

The urging army also had several torture instruments, in addition to the basic skeleton, there were also iron pear blossoms, Lu Gongtao, red embroidered shoes and other items.

Various means took turns to fight, causing the tombs to complain and donate and pay.

The original large households refused to pay wages, and they colluded with rebellion, and recruited two or three thousand soldiers from the town to form a county town. The magistrate Zhou led people to stand firm and ordered them to seek help from the provincial capital.

Wang Zhaoling urgently asked the 11th Army stationed in Gansu to send troops to fight, killing more than a thousand soldiers from the riots, and killing hundreds of leaders.

Wang Zhaoling deeply hated that the big families did not contribute to the country, but instead gathered crowds to make trouble, and secretly ordered the army to urge the thousands of prisoners of the 11th Army to slaughter them, which was tragic.

After Wu Jishan, the former Minister of Rites of Xiying and the current Northwest Inspection Commissioner of Dashun, learned about this matter. Because he was originally incompatible with Wang Zhaoling, he opposed his policy of killing the landlord class in a large-scale killing and killing manner, so he wrote to the camp to expose Wang Zhaoling's murder of innocent people.

The bullet stamp was sent to the supervisor Lu Wenzong, and after reading it, he picked up the pen and criticized: "I understand."

He also ordered an oral edict to Wang Zhaoling, saying: "There have always been many local turmoils. If such people can strictly guard the defense of China and the barbarians and be loyal to the nation, they should be recruited and valued, and entrust them with official positions to participate in our great national affairs. On the contrary, they should be severely cracked down on them. Those who can be beheaded will not be imprisoned, and those who can be imprisoned will not be imprisoned at home."

"Since ancient times, governing the country, governing the powerful, and supervising the country, the wise and wise."

After receiving the notice from the State Administration, Wang Zhaoling immediately became more aggressive in Gansu to implement radical actions in the eyes of some officials. Although many died, the local area was in a clear and clear order and people's livelihood recovered very quickly.

Ningxia Governor Zhao Zhongyi and Qinghai Governor Xin Si were both men who led troops. They not only had the power to govern locally, but also had the power to command troops and promote troops. After receiving the order to collect silver, Zhao Zhongyi immediately ordered soldiers to force the gentry to seek the local gentry, called "pay money". He also ordered the gentry who refused to pay the money to be discharged into a prison, destroyed the plaques of his cemeteries, burned the land, and divided the property of his house. "After all those who have no land are exempted from taxes for three years."

Qinghai Governor Xin Sizhong ordered many generals to patrol the provinces with talismans, and forced local officials to donate their salaries, and forced monk officials to accumulate savings. However, the income was the most in the four provinces.

Although Gao Yigong, a general of the Shun Army who led his army to recover the Hetao area, did not receive the task of raising money, Zhang Guan established officials during the establishment of the city in Wuyuan and took office in four places. In the past ten days, he spent two groups.

He also sent a few elite cavalry to pursue chiefs from Mongolian tribes, with the few being thousands of gold and the more ten thousand gold. If someone cannot offer gold and silver, he will chase more than half of his cattle and sheep. Those who dare to resist will have swords and weapons.

After Lu Yiliang, the governor of Wuyuan and his nephew of Shunjian, took office, "Yang said that he would pay rent and force the township officials to gradually reach wealthy families, which was called chasing the money."

The one who chases the most is undoubtedly Xi'an City.

Xi'an is the center of the northwest, gathering a large number of former Ming gentry officials. Ninety percent of this gang surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and was guilty of traitors.

Meng Qiaofang, the governor of Gansu and Shaanxi, was ordered by the state to supervise the state and summoned these gentry, first denounced these people for their past crimes, and then asked them to commit crimes and make meritorious service.

It is said: "The northwest is in chaos, and if you want to have great governance, you must have money and food. The country is first established and is poor and unlucky. It is the time for you to atone for your sins. The so-called money and strength to contribute, and neither of them will clearly regard our great support as a bandit. Since it is an enemy but not a friend, it will be dealt with completely."

Under Meng Qiaofang's coercion, the wealthy families in Xi'an were forced to give up their pockets under pressure.

For a moment, the four northwestern provinces donated money to recover stolen goods everywhere. The officials appointed by Dashun all competed for the silver. It was originally planned to reward more than 3 million taels of silver in the northwest to collect them in less than half a month. The trend of recovering stolen goods continued, and some areas saw the death of the family in order to recover stolen goods.

Hu Mo, former Minister of Personnel of Xiying and Northwest Pacifier of Dashun, wrote a letter to stop the pursuit of stolen goods, so as not to repeat the old events of Yongchang in the first year.

The Secretary of the Official Government, Song Qijiao, the Secretary of the Military Government, and Lu Zhiqi, and others also believed that this trend should not continue to grow and should not spread again, because the withdrawal of Emperor Yongchang from Beijing was closely related to the recovery of the stolen goods.

"The failure of the first year of Yongchang was the root cause of underestimating the enemy of Manchuria, not a gentry. The previous Emperor Yongchang recovered the stolen goods in Beijing. In the past years, the income of the gentry officials of the Ming Dynasty was either stolen or stripped down, and there was no legal income. If the recovery of the stolen goods was not possible, it was a pleading to be acknowledged that such people and other wealth was legal. If he was legal, I would not be legal by the way!"

Lu Si, who had already returned to Beijing and Tongguan, had no intention of stopping the recovery of stolen funds and funds in the four northwest provinces. In his opinion, when the great enemy in Manchuria was destroyed and the north was unified, recovering stolen funds and funds was actually the top priority to consolidate Dashun's fundamentals and the best time.

However, it also issued an edict ordering all localities to pay attention to the "standard" and not to kill people randomly. Whether it is recovering stolen goods or helping pay, you must "masters be famous", have reasonable and evidence, and do not fabricate randomly and harm people's lives arbitrarily.

In Tongguan, Lu Si met more than 100 scholars from all over the northwest who went to the capital to take the exam. These people include juren and scholars, but there are also many people without fame.

Last year, Zuo Fu Gu Junen suggested that Dashun resume the imperial examination, but Lu Si adopted it, but ordered that everyone in the world take the exam.

This is not the scholars in the world, but the people in the world.

"Those who know literacy, those who have insights and those who are capable can come to take the exam. Dashun uses people without any restrictions."

Under the Tongguan City Tower, Lu Si saw that one of the scholars who went to Beijing to take the exam was thin and blushed in the cold wind. He couldn't help but take off his mink jacket and put it on the person, and asked the other person's name casually.

"Student Yu Chenglong."
Chapter completed!