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Chapter 343: The Emperor's Grace Doesn't Stop There


It's not just Dingguo Gong Xu Xi.Eating empty salaries and serving made the nobles of the officers and soldiers of the Beijing camp all fall well.Depending on the severity of the case, he was either given suicide or exiled to Nagasaki.As for why exile to Nagasaki, not exile elsewhere.The reason is simple.In this era, due to the influence of the climate of the Xiaoice River, most of the fields in the north did not produce high yields except for the cultivation of hardy potatoes, which was not suitable for survival.However, it will take time for potatoes to be promoted, and they are currently only promoted in eastern Liaoning.And many displaced people have moved to Liaodong.In addition, after the resumption of the opening of China and France, which forced salt merchants to go to the border town of Shangtun, a large number of merchants have taken the initiative to move to the border town.Therefore, for the time being, the imperial court did not need to emigrate to the barren lands to the north.And Nagasaki has just become the territory of the Ming Dynasty.Consolidation is urgently needed.In particular, when Chen Xin and others had just ploughed Nagasaki and the number of local Japanese people was not very large, it was a good time for the Ming Dynasty to immigrate in large numbers and change the ethnic composition of Nagasaki's population.Otherwise, after a period of time, the Japanese people from other places will move over, or the local Japanese people will continue to multiply, and the plan of the Ming Dynasty to assimilate Nagasaki will be half the failure.In addition, Nagasaki has a strategic location, a much better climate than Saibei, and agriculture and commerce are well developed.Therefore, Zhu Youxiao and his ministers are now focusing on immigration to Nagasaki, in order to make Nagasaki a Han Chinese settlement as soon as possible.In this regard, the exile of criminals to Nagasaki was an immigration strategy decided by Zhu Youxiao.Although these nobles were considered nobles in the Ming Dynasty, they had long been abolished.Moreover, they were exiled in the way of sinners, and they had no foundation in Nagasaki, and the Nagasaki garrison was Zhu Youxiao's Yulin Guard, strictly controlling them, and these people naturally could not afford to make waves, and even did traitorous deeds.What's more, in this era, no one dares to sell the country of the Ming Dynasty, and no one in the whole of Asia dares to challenge the Ming Dynasty.Therefore, Zhu Youxiao was not worried about what would happen to these nobles after they were exiled to Nagasaki.In the process of rectifying the camp, the civil officials and eunuchs who were found to have bad deeds were also exiled to Nagasaki in large numbers.It was different from the Manchu exile to remote places to be enslaved by the armoured people.Because of the different national systems and different social natures of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor and his ministers did not approve of the slavery of their own people, so these people were not so much exiled to Nagasaki as they were arranged to settle in Nagasaki and participate in labor reform."

All those who report to retirement due to old age, all the usury owed will be destroyed and exempted, because the officials who extorted money from you and issued illegal usury have been brought to justice by the imperial court, and you can start from the beginning of next month, you can concentrate on the new veterans department of the Ministry of War to handle retirement matters, when the time comes, you have two ways to retire, one is to take ten yuan of silver coins retirement subsidy, and seek other jobs, now the imperial court has abolished the nationality restrictions, and reformed the road guidance system, you can do what you want, you can go anywhere, but you have to get a good account ticket, The guest house still needs a household ticket to verify the identity by boat and bus, otherwise, it is not good to be suspected of being a foreign prisoner or a fugitive; There is another kind, that is, to report to the medical department, the medical department has now set up a sanitation department, and the retired veterans of the Beijing camp can go directly to the sanitation department as sanitation workers, receive one yuan of silver, and be responsible for sprinkling and sweeping the streets of the Beijing division, suitable for those who don't want to go out and don't want to be idle, all understand. ”On the campus of the Beijing camp, the scholars of the Propaganda and Education Department of the Ministry of War were preaching to the group of veteran military families in Beijing who needed to be laid off.The Department of Missions was newly established by Zhu Youxiao's decree to various ministries, and its main responsibility is to be responsible for proclaiming and interpreting government decrees, and also responsible for guiding the people, which is similar to Chongwen Temple.After all, the illiteracy rate of the Ming Dynasty is still very high, and many people do not have the awareness to understand the imperial decrees, let alone participate in the political affairs of the imperial court.This time, the military households in the Beijing camp went to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to make trouble and sue the civilian officials of the military department, which was secretly instigated by the nobles, rather than their own initiative to participate.Therefore, it was necessary for Zhu Youxiao's Ming court to arrange special people to preach the decree in order to strengthen the rule over these people.At this moment, after listening to the decree preached by the military department's Guanzheng Jinshi, these veteran military households in Beijing couldn't help grinning, and they couldn't help but talk about it."

There is such a good thing!""

It turns out that it's okay to make a fuss!

I thought we would be like the lords and lords, and we would be settled by the queen of autumn. ”"This, it's already thankful that we can retire smoothly, and killing those corrupt officials is enough to relieve our anger, but I didn't expect that the court would send us money and give us a job?""

I didn't expect the court to care about our life and death.""

My family has been a military family for generations, and I have never heard of it, and I can still get silver after retiring, so it's good time to be on an errand for the old man, woo!"

As the old soldiers spoke, some of them began to cry.For them at the bottom of the Ming Dynasty, although their ancestors either drove out the Tartars and restored China in the era of the Ming Taizu, they forcibly drove away the Mongolian iron cavalry with spears; Either they followed Chengzu Zhu Di in the Chengzu era to conquer the military households of the Tatar tribes, but they are actually the most miserable people living in the empire now, and even they look down on themselves, because in addition to the military households that belong to hereditary officers, ordinary military households have long been without their own fields, and they have even been enslaved by officers and blackmailed by civilian officials, so they either run away and become exiles, or they can only continue to be poor, and now, the military households that have not escaped have been so poor that no one wants to marry these military households if they marry their daughters-in-law, So much so that only military households can marry military households.And now, the imperial court suddenly began to notice them and treat them a little kindly, and they naturally felt flattered and moved."

Thank you, sir!

Thank you, sir!

Kowtow to you little ones!

”Zhang Zhen, who is over the age of six, is now holding the retirement documents he has in mind with tears in his eyes, and wants to kneel and kowtow to the civilian officials of the Ministry of War.The civilian officer of the military department hurriedly supported him: "I can't help it!

This is the Emperor's grace!

If you want to thank Your Majesty, you are the emperor's pro-army, if we are kneeling by you, according to the current rules, we will lose our heads. ”The Emperor's Grace?

Zhang Zhen knew that he was the emperor's military household, but he didn't expect that the first time he felt the emperor's kindness would be at this time, which surprised him.And when Zhang Zhen left the yamen of the Ministry of War, he walked to the Environmental Sanitation Department.He didn't plan to go home to retire, because he wanted to earn more money and marry his son's daughter-in-law, so as not to let his old Zhang family break off.He is different from other military households, he is very proud in his heart that his Zhang family ancestor is the emperor's personal soldier, and he also went to Mobei with the emperor's personal army to cut down the Tartars, so he feels that after his old Zhang family's bravery, the Son of Heaven can not cut off his roots.However, Zhang Zhen still couldn't believe that the sanitation worker's errand in the medical department was real, after all, the monthly silver one-yuan silver coin was indeed a good errand for him.But when he thought about it, he also suspected that going to the Ministry of War to handle the retirement documents might not be as true as the old men of the Propaganda Department said, but after the Ministry of War successfully received the retirement documents, he still decided to give it a try.And Zhang Zhen came to the Department of Environmental Sanitation, and after registering, he really received sanitation clothes and brooms, as well as a one-time housing subsidy of five yuan in silver and the first month of money in advance.This made Zhang Zhen even more overjoyed."

This is also the emperor's grace?"

Zhang Zhen couldn't help but say, then looked at the direction of the Forbidden City, stared at the majestic palace city, and then knelt down reverently: "Your Majesty, Zhang Zhen, the avant-garde soldier of the government army, kowtows to you." ”"The emperor's grace is more than that."

At this time, Sun Yunhe, the head of Dongchang, came over, touched his chin beard, and said to Zhang Zhen, who was prostrate on the ground.