Chapter 133: Insulting? That means he got less stabbed
"How disgraceful, how disgraceful!"

"Your Majesty, my Kong family has been loyal for generations... Gulu Gulu... loyal for generations..."

At first, the men of the Kong family in the Sishui River could still hold on, crying loudly that they were loyal subjects and had already submitted congratulatory messages to the new dynasty.

But Emperor Xianqing Li Hao on the shore didn't care about the cries of the Kong family at all.

"Disgraceful? That means they will be stabbed less." Li Hao pointed to the river, "Anyone who shouts 'civilized' will not have to swim anymore. They will be directly pulled out and beheaded."

The heads chopped off in a serious war could not be compared with those earned in solving major cases. In order to pass the level, he had to chop off the heads of these gentry and landlords.

The river water was still quite cold in March. Within a quarter of an hour, most of the Kong family men had sunk into the water. Their water-soaked cotton clothes played a big role.

"Duke Yansheng Kong Yinzhi has sunk into the water."

A Tang army soldier came to report.

"Good!" Li Hao clapped his hands and laughed. "The Kong family bullied men and women and did all kinds of evil. They are not worthy of offering sacrifices to the saint. I order the officials to transfer the sacrifices in the Confucius Temple to the talented people who passed the imperial examinations in the new dynasty."

Although the imperial examination had not yet been held, the new emperor was already preparing to let the best of the new Jinshi be responsible for offering sacrifices to the Confucius Temple in Qufu, so as to prevent the huge cancer of the Confucius family from growing again.

Doing so will certainly make quite a number of scholars dissatisfied, but it doesn't matter. The new dynasty is just established and there are many vacancies in the official system. There are always people who want to work hard to get into the ministry. There is no shortage of scholars to take the imperial examinations in any dynasty.

Although he was mentally prepared to a certain extent, the amount of land in the Confucius Mansion still surprised the new emperor.

In Yanzhou Prefecture alone, the various branches of the Kong family owned a total of 140,000 acres of land. No wonder the Kong family was able to own 12,000 acres of land in Shuntian Prefecture around Beijing, across several prefectures in Shandong and northern Zhili.

The "Inner Kong" refers to a member of the Kong family, according to their generation name. The "Outer Kong" refers to a servant of the Kong family, and is a surname that was used to get away with something.

The new emperor Li Hao realized his wish to kill the eleven clans of the Kong family. Using Kong Yinzhi as the main link, he sent all the male members of his four paternal clans, three maternal clans, two clans of wives and concubines, and two clans of students to the underworld.

Of course, considering that all the inner Kongs near Qufu flowed into the Sishui River, the treatment Kong Yinzhi received was far more than just the eleven clans.

"There is an imperial decree: All other Kongs who stole the surname Kong were ordered to change it to Wang. Those who assisted the evil and oppressed the people were to be beheaded immediately if they committed serious crimes, and exiled to Liaodong if they committed less serious crimes."

On the banks of the Sishui River, Tang Dynasty officials read out the new emperor's will to the people near Qufu.

The entire Yanzhou Prefecture was a little shaken. After the Kong family fell, the new dynasty distributed a large amount of land to the poor people and recruited able-bodied men to form militias. When they were busy, they worked on the farm, and when they were free, they helped guard various cities and suppress the rebellion of the remnants of the gentry.

After the poor people in Shandong were distributed land, their loyalty to the Tang Dynasty increased significantly. Li Hao had no worries, so he went south to manage the Jianghuai area with peace of mind.

When they approached the border of Nanzhili, the 30,000 troops brought from Beijing had snowballed to more than 60,000.

Li Hao recruited all the canal transport troops and boat trackers along the canal into the army.

The situation in Southern Zhili was much more complicated than that in Shandong. After learning that his nephew in Beijing had abdicated to the commander-in-chief of Liaozhen, Zhu Changxun, the Prince of Fu in Henan, actually ran all the way to Nanjing in February.

Wang Zai Jin, who was in charge of Nanjing's defense, was not a member of the Donglin Party, but he had a good relationship with the Donglin Party. Zhu Changxun had a deep hatred for the Donglin Party, and the two sides had a conflict over the issue of succession. So Zhu Changxun kicked away the relatively capable Wang Zai Jin and replaced all the people in Nanjing with his own people.

Yuan Chonghuan, who fled south from Tianjin, took several thousand soldiers with him and prepared to go to Nanjing to get a real job. Unexpectedly, he was instigated by someone who said that Yuan Chonghuan was promoted by Sun Chengzong, who was a major supporter of the Donglin Party in the Tianqi Dynasty.

So Zhu Changxun, who established the Hongguang reign, actually ordered Yuan Chonghuan to be cut into pieces like fish scales, which is a form of torture by being cut into pieces with a thousand cuts.

The reason was that Sun Chengzong delayed in Tongzhou and did not lead troops to recover Beijing. When Sun Chengzong was stationed in Tongzhou, Yuan Chonghuan proposed and led the reinforcements to retreat to Tianjin and other places.

"Governor Yuan was a capable man, but the traitor Zhu had him executed without any investigation. It is said that the people in Nanjing are all feeling sorry for Governor Yuan and mocking the traitor Zhu as a complete tyrant."

In the palace of Emperor Xianqing in Huai'an Prefecture, Nanzhili, Shang Jinghui told the new emperor the news he had heard.

She has been pregnant for more than three months, her belly is slightly bulging and she is beginning to show her pregnancy.

The new emperor gave her the title of Jieyu, which was a title dug out from ancient books. In the Han Dynasty, the status was relatively high, second only to the empress, but it was gradually lowered in later generations. Li Hao made her the first rank below the concubines, and she would be promoted to a concubine only after she gave birth to a dragon descendant.

"Unfortunately, I have always wanted to kill Governor Yuan, but I have failed several times."

Emperor Xianqing felt very upset. If he had known that Governor Yuan would be cut into pieces in this time and space, he would have thought of a reason to kill him before the eastern expedition to Korea last year.

One blow is better than hundreds.

The only good thing was that Governor Yuan in this time and space did not allow the area around Nanjing to be looted by the enemy, so when he died, the people of Nanjing gave him a lot of praise.

Of course, this praise was not directed specifically at Yuan Chonghuan. Zhu Changxun and the Donglin Party did not get along, and the people of Nanjing tended to favor Donglin officials.

In public opinion, the Donglin Party has always had a positive image, because Yang Lian and his gang were much more honest than the eunuch party officials, which raised their impression score a lot.

While operating in the Huaihe River area, Li Hao took the opportunity to send troops to capture Fengyang Prefecture.

Zhu's policies in his hometown could be said to be a failure. During the Hongwu period, more than 300,000 people were forced to immigrate from Fengyang Prefecture, while there were only about 160,000 local people.

Putting aside the host-guest conflicts, the only arable land available to the new immigrants were low-lying areas and poor quality land. In order to protect the royal ancestral tombs, officials in Fengyang Prefecture often breached dikes and flooded fields during the flood season, causing Fengyang Prefecture to be barren nine out of ten years.

Taking Fengyang County under the jurisdiction of Fengyang Prefecture as an example, there were 140,000 people during the Hongwu period, while there were only 13,894 people recorded in the yellow book during the Wanli period.

Therefore, after conquering Fengyang Prefecture, the Tang Dynasty's new policies in this area were actually implemented quite smoothly, and the rebellions by the gentry were much less frequent than in Shandong and other places.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that there are not many gentry in Fengyang Prefecture. Among the eight titles passed down from the Hongwu Dynasty, many people own large amounts of land in Fengyang Prefecture.

Emperor Xianqing ordered that part of the land of the former nobles be distributed to local tenants, and the rest would be distributed to the garrison troops that would be stationed there in the future.

The grain transport had to be changed to sea transport. Taking advantage of the founding of the new dynasty, Li Hao recruited all the grain transport troops and boatmen along the way and prepared to settle them near Songjiang Prefecture to continue to be responsible for transporting taxes from the south to Beijing.

There are quite a few large Xu families in the area around the mouth of the Yangtze River, such as the Xu Jie family in Huating County of Songjiang Prefecture, the Xu Guangqi family in Shanghai County, and the Xu Xiake family in Jiangyin. The largest one is naturally the family of Xu Hongji, Duke of Wei.

There are not many good people in the Xu family, almost none.

Needless to say, Xu Jie of the Jiajing Dynasty was rumored to own 240,000 acres of land after he became the prime minister of Jiajing and Longqing. Although much of the land was registered in his name, the actual amount of land owned by the Xu family is still astonishing.

Others, such as Xu Xiake, were even more heavyweights. Xu Xiake did not travel at his own expense, but took advantage of the discount at the Ming Dynasty Post Station. He also had a foot disease, so wherever he went, he would summon the local water horse postmen to carry his sedan chair.

Li Hao remembered that in his previous life, when he read Xu Xiake's Travel Notes, there were many jaw-dropping scenes, such as summoning women to carry loads, using boys to carry carts, and old people whipping their children and grandchildren for fear that I would do so.

Once, Xu Xiake and his servants arrived at a post station and saw that there was only an old man on duty, so he ordered the old man to carry his sedan chair. The old man ran away, so Xu Xiake captured the old man's wife and asked the old woman to carry the sedan chair. At that time, he claimed that he had lost two chickens, so this top beast asked the old couple in the post station to compensate him with two chickens.

Her unreasonable behavior is 80% similar to that of the little fairies within the system.

Therefore, Dangnian Mingyue, who was also in the system, wrote about Things in the Ming Dynasty. The reason he wrote about Xu Xiake was to live your life the way you like.

The price they paid was that thousands of Li Zichengs were exploited and oppressed by Xu Xiake and others for no reason, and lived worse than pigs and dogs.

The execution of all nine generations of the Xu family was considered a bargain for them, and their land should be divided among the boat trackers of the grain transport army.

After stabilizing the Huaihe and Sihe areas, Emperor Xianqing led a large number of troops, grain transport troops, and boats southward. It did not take much effort to conquer Yangzhou, Taizhou and other places. There had not been many civil uprisings before, and the Ming army had not trained the Four Towns in northern China. The garrison soldiers in various cities in northern China could not stop the elite troops of the Nine Frontiers at all.

Under this situation, Zhu Changxun in Nanjing City finally remembered that he still had to deal with the Tang army in the north, so he hurriedly sent people to Yangzhou Prefecture to express his willingness to divide the country across the river, with the Ming and Tang sides each becoming their own country.

"Go back and tell the traitor Zhu Changxun that if he opens the city gates and surrenders, I can spare his body. If he dares to resist again, I will cook him and let the people of Henan eat him."

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