Chapter 610: Getting Rich by Plagiarizing Households
At the same time that Duke Yansheng was fried, the Kong family's headquarters in Qufu was also liquidated.
After several days of non-stop traveling day and night, nearly a thousand fully armed guards arrived in Qufu under the leadership of commander Xu Xianchun.
According to the emperor's imperial edict, ten thousand soldiers and horses were mobilized in Denglai Army Town to cooperate with the arrest of Kong's people and their accomplices, and all their homes were confiscated and their clans were exterminated.
When Denglai Governor Yuan Keli and the chief military officer of Denglai Military Town received the order to mobilize troops, they secretly sighed at the emperor's courage.
Senior officials like them are always paying attention to what is happening in the capital, not to mention that the affairs of the Confucius family have long been spread.
Now that the order to mobilize troops has arrived, according to His Majesty's past behavior style, Kong Yinzhi may have been killed at this moment.
Yuan Keli was both happy and afraid of the emperor's iron-blooded tactics.
Fortunately, His Majesty really kept his word and was not afraid of being slandered, nor did he care about his so-called reputation as a holy king. Although he was too bloody and cruel, the Ming Dynasty was already seriously ill.
What I'm afraid of is that His Majesty's treatment of a thousand-year-old family like the Kong family may cause a huge backlash.
After all, in the Ming Dynasty, the emperor and the scholar-bureaucrats shared the world. Whether it was to do things or to govern the place, they were needed.
But now that the two sides are already on the same level, it is impossible to predict whether the road of the Ming Dynasty will lead to a cliff or a higher mountain top.
But as a staunch royalist, he also understood the principle of both prosperity and loss.
When the emperor holds great power, he can realize his ambitions in high positions.
If the emperor falls, he will not end well by then.
After thinking about this, Yuan Keli finally gave up and immediately expressed his intention to personally supervise the army and go to Qufu.
With these 10,000 well-trained soldiers, Xu Xianchun's arrest and house raids in Shandong went extremely smoothly.
After nearly a month of extensive house raids, the entire Kong family in Qufu was wiped out.
The officials, gentry, and landowners who had colluded with the Kong family had no idea that the disaster would come so quickly.
Without any warning or equipment, the guards or soldiers in iron armor surrounded them.
Among them, there were as many as forty officials, large and small, not to mention the gentry and landlords, who were countless.
Afterwards, Xu Xianchun made statistics based on the roster and found that the number of landlords and gentry in Shandong was reduced by one-third.
After all the people were arrested, Xu Xianchun was also ruthless and began to execute people in batches locally. All of them, including those officials, were executed without going through the trial of the three agencies.
After this incident, the famous Qufu Kong family was completely destroyed in name only, and the entire Beikong family entered the underworld.
Zhu Youxiao's many years of planning finally came to fruition. Once this big cancer was eliminated, Zhu Youxiao felt a heavy burden lifted off his mind and felt extremely relaxed.
Now he can even wipe out the Kong family. As long as he firmly controls the army, no force in the Ming Dynasty can stop him.
Of course, having raided so many homes, the harvest was naturally unprecedented.
After an inventory and statistics, during this house raid in Shandong, there were 1,720,000 taels of gold and 54 million taels of silver. The rest of the banknotes, Tongbao, copper coins, etc. were so much that we would not even count them in a while.
Not finished.
The grain, rice, salt and other items he needed were also very expensive to receive. A full five million shi of rice and wheat accounted for a quarter of the Ming Dynasty's annual tax and grain revenue.
This shows how rich the Kong family and these gentry and landlords really were.
No wonder Huang Taiji was so keen on entering and plundering in history, and he would go to Shandong every time, even if his troops suffered heavy losses. He would have done the same thing if it were Zhu Youxiaolai.
There are so many fixed assets such as land and acres that it would take a year and a half to count them all.
Zhu Youxiao was not in a hurry. He first re-selected officials from all over the country to serve in Shandong. He first stabilized the normal operation of the local government and then calculated statistics carefully.
At the same time, we also took advantage of this great opportunity to formally establish Jinyiwei Town Fusi in various prefectures in Shandong. Each prefecture had one town envoy and one hundred Fusi Tiqi in the North Town, responsible for supervising local yamen and keeping statistics on house confiscations.
Jinyiwei Yamen can be regarded as stepping out of the two capitals and establishing formal institutions in the province, which is crucial for Zhu Youxiao to control local centralization.
In addition, Zhu Youxiao also began to improve matters regarding the Northern Expedition.
He first ordered Xiong Tingbi to contact Amin and inform him that the Ming army would soon march north to Liaodong, so that he could prepare to respond.
The soldiers and horses of Datong in Xuanfu have already been assembled, including the logistics troops deployed from other military towns, and they are all in place.
Zhu Youxiao first transferred the required grain and grass supplies from his own funds, and within this month, they had already been transported in batches to Xuanfu and Datong.
As for Liaodong, it was already ready. Zhu Youxiao ordered Gu Bingqian and Sun Yunhe to build a military storage base in Liaoyang as early as last year.
Although the autumn grain collected from the three provinces last year did not fill the military storage base, it was enough to supply the military grain needed by the army.
After the Kong incident was over, Zhu Youxiao once again set his sights back on the capital.
His move this time was a bit big, and Zhu Youxiao had to leave the capital for a long time, so he had to ensure that the main officials and institutions in the court were all his own.
First of all, Wang Xiangqian, who had served as the chief minister of the Tianqi Dynasty for nearly three years, became an official. Although he often stood on his opposite side, Zhu Youxiao still gave him enough dignity for this veteran of four dynasties.
Xu Guangqi, the second assistant in the cabinet, naturally took over his position. Wang Zaijin succeeded Xu Guangqi, and Cheng Guoxiang officially entered the cabinet.
Zhu Youxiao did not move the six ministers and ministers, because most of these positions were promoted by him, and some neutral officials Zhu Youxiao did not have suitable candidates to replace them.
The military and police departments have also formally determined their responsibilities.
As his own personal army, the Habayashi Guards were under the personal control of the emperor. The generals of the four battalions, who were the general officers of the Tongjun Town, were directly responsible to the emperor and were responsible for campaign matters.
The city defense army is managed by the military department, with Xungui as its admiral. The first admiral is naturally the leader of the younger generation among Xungui, Zhang Shize.
After all, the British family is also loyal. When he succeeded to the throne and when he first established the Yulin Army, it would not have been so smooth without Zhang Weixian's strong support.
The city defense army is responsible for the defense of the outer city areas of the capital.
The inner city is under the responsibility of the Royal Forest Army, and the commander Ma Xianglin will naturally go out with the war. Therefore, Zhu Youxiao has been uncertain about the candidate who will stay in the capital for this period of time.
Your Majesty already has the say and military power of the Police Department and the Military Department, so naturally the Royal Forest Army cannot be contaminated by them anymore.
Not to mention the civil servants. He had worked so hard to get back the military power of these three armies in the capital, and he would never let them take advantage of him again.