Daming pirates

On the eighth day of May in the twelfth year of Chongzhen, a very important news came out of the capital. The current emperor, Emperor Chongzhen, issued an edict approving Yu Xiaotian's move to Qingjun.

On May 9th, after a joint trial at Dali Temple, the Ministry of Punishment, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, a total of 26 people, including Yang Sichang, Gao Qiqian, Liu Yuliang, Xue Guoguan, and Zhang Qiping, were convicted of corruption and other crimes. As important officials of the imperial court, they could not serve

The country was worried and secretly framed Lu Xiangsheng, leading to Lu Xiangsheng's death.

Everyone listed a long list of crimes, and collected a large number of crimes during their reign. On the ninth day of May, their crimes were posted in the form of a notice to the world, and Chongzhen announced the crime at the same time on the same day.

It was decreed that these twenty-six people should be abandoned from the market.

Abandoning the market was, of course, a matter of execution. After these twenty-six people were pronounced guilty that day, they were immediately dragged into prison cars and taken outside Xuanwu Gate. They were beheaded at noon in public display.

Yang Sichang and others were all tied up in a prison car with their hair disheveled. They were slowly pulled out of the prison of the Ministry of Punishment. Along the way, many Ming people heard the news and ran to the street to pass them by, leaving a mess of corpses and rubbish.

Rotten vegetables were also thrown towards them like rain.

Yang Sichang's head and face were covered with filth, and his head was bruised and bloody by the people's stones, but he still pretended to be calm, loudly said that he was unjust, and cursed Yu Xiaotian as a traitor and traitor.

But now this group of people has been stinked by Yu Xiaotian, and they have been stinked to death. Just because of Lu Xiangsheng's incident, the people hate these guys to death. How can anyone think that they are wronged?

They all think that even if they die ten thousand times it is not enough.

At this time, Gao Qiqian was so frightened that he was reduced to a pile of mud. He was hanging in the prison car and was crying. And Zhang Qiping, whose face was even more pale and his eyes were dull, kept mumbling as he walked:

"Didn't you say you won't kill me? Didn't you say you won't kill me? Why do you want to kill me? Why do you want to kill me? I have surrendered, I have surrendered..."

The behaviors of these more than 20 people are different, but they all have one thing in common, that is, they are not willing to die, and they think they are wronged.

Yu Xiaotian did not come out to watch the beheading in person. He had no interest in this kind of thing. Although the battle ended with his victory, these people were just some victims. If he still rushed to watch the beheading at this time,

, it's a bit too low for his status. These people are all losers, and showing off in front of losers means nothing to him.

On the tenth day of the fifth lunar month, Chongzhen then issued an order. Yu Xiaotian's lone army fought hard to defeat the Jiannu army entering the Pass, and achieved an unprecedented victory in Jinghai. He killed Dorgon, the leader of the Jiannu slaves, on the spot. His contribution was indispensable, so he issued an order to promote him.

He holds the position of the left governor of the Central Military Governor's Office, with the Central Military Governor's Office as the leader and also in charge of the other four governor's offices, and overall command of the world's troops.

At the same time, Yu Xiaotian was awarded the title of General of the Shangzhu Kingdom, making him the highest rank among the current generals of the Ming Dynasty and a serious first-class military attache.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian was promoted to the position of Taibao, with the responsibility of supervising the country, and could supervise national affairs together with the cabinet ministers.

In addition, news came from the capital that the current emperor, due to years of overwork, illness, and poor health, was temporarily unable to attend to affairs. In the future, he would no longer go to court to listen to government affairs. All state affairs would be decided by the Taibao Yu Xiaotian and the cabinet's bachelors.

, if you encounter something that cannot be decided, you can report it to the Holy Spirit for a decision.

This is tantamount to publicly acknowledging Yu Xiaotian's control over the government. From now on, Yu Xiaotian will basically have the final say on all matters, big and small, and the original cabinet has become the actual working organization. Although it has decision-making power, But it must be approved by Yu Xiaotian, the supervisor.

This series of actions by the imperial court soon began to spread, and officials and people everywhere were shocked when they heard the news. Many officials immediately cursed Yu Xiaotian as a rebellious traitor who usurped power. How could he, a warrior, be imprisoned? The duties of the country? If such a warrior is allowed to supervise the country, what will they, the civil servants, do?

Besides, the Ming Dynasty had never set up any post of supervising the country, and Yu Xiaotian was just a military general who had nothing to do with the emperor. Why should he be allowed to supervise the country?

So officials from all over the country immediately started to complain, saying that this move was inappropriate, and said that Yu Xiaotian was a rebellious official and a traitor, and he must be punished.

However, some local officials sniffed out a glimmer of opportunity and believed that this was the best time for them to surrender to Xiaotian. Yu Xiaotian entered the capital this time and successfully invaded the capital and took control of the capital. It has become a Fait accompli.

If Yu Xiaotian only kills some ministers, it will not be of any benefit to him. Anyone else will definitely seize power at this time. It is obvious that Yu Xiaotian succeeded in seizing power this time, and he has emptied the current emperor. He became the de facto ruler of the Ming Dynasty.

Regarding this matter, it depends on how officials from various places view it now. Of course, they can deny Yu Xiaotian's actual control, but they are faced with a problem. Yu Xiaotian has now publicly represented the Ming Dynasty and will not listen to him. , which is equivalent to no longer accepting the control of the imperial court, which is equivalent to no longer recognizing the leadership of the imperial court over them.

In this way, they will lose their legal basis for who they serve as officials and for whom they work in the future. They can't say that the current court is illegal. They will no longer listen to the imperial edict and establish themselves as kings!

Therefore, some officials saw from this that whether they liked it or not, it had become a fait accompli that Yu Xiaotian actually controlled the court situation. No matter whether they listened or not, no one could change this fact.

Unless one of them can stand up now, gather an army and march north to drive Yu Xiaotian out of the capital, otherwise no one can change this fact.

However, the news that the Yu family army defeated the 100,000-strong Jiannu army had already spread throughout the Ming Dynasty. It had been decades since the wild boar Pinurhachi rebelled, but no one in the Ming Dynasty had ever achieved such a record. It is obvious that The ferocity of Yu Jiajun.

What's even more terrifying is that after defeating the Jiannu army, they still had the strength to defeat several more official armies, and marched all the way straight into the capital. This was even more terrifying.

All the officials and generals in the world, ask yourself, even if you give them tens of thousands of troops, can they do this? So even if you give them the courage, they don't dare to raise troops at this time and go north to attack the Qing Dynasty again and use force The method was to expel Xiaotian from the capital and the imperial court.

Therefore, after these imperial edicts were issued, although the Ming Dynasty and the people immediately cursed Xiaotian, there were really not many people who dared to jump out and summon the soldiers and horses from all over the world to march north to attack Qingjun again. They just cursed verbally, but they did not Not many places have responded substantively.

After Yu Xiaotian took the post of supervising the country, he immediately began to make intensive adjustments to the officials of the Ming Dynasty. A major earthquake occurred in the entire officialdom of the Ming Dynasty. Many people were dismissed and kicked out of the court. In addition, Yu Xiaotian

A large number of officials were promoted and assigned to the imperial court to take charge of the affairs of various ministries.

These officials who were promoted naturally made it clear that they would listen to Xiaotian's orders and work for Xiaotian in the future. A considerable number of them were previously unknown in the officialdom, or they were

Although he is relatively young, he was promoted to an important position by Yu Xiaotian this time.

Yu Xiaotian's move to shake up the officialdom of the imperial court in such a large way was undoubtedly to build his own power in the imperial court. He did not hide this kind of thing and put it directly on the table. Although it aroused the resentment of many old officials.

He is dissatisfied, but now Yu Xiaotian wants power and soldiers. He has the biggest fist in the world, so he can't refuse.

In just a month or so, the staff of all the major yamen in the entire capital were basically adjusted by Yu Xiaotian. Some officials were driven away, and some officials were brought in. At the same time, Yu Xiaotian transferred all his staff over the years to

Later, some civil servants trained in Fujian were also filled into these major government offices.

These civil servants who belong to the Xiaotian Hailang system are not from the imperial examination background, so if they are entrusted with important responsibilities at this time, it will obviously be unfair, so they can only be given to them for the time being.

They arranged some inconspicuous positions with relatively low grades, and they were positions that were not taken seriously in the past.

But in fact, the officials in the major government agencies in the imperial court knew very well that these people who had been recently added to their yamen by Yu Xiaotian were actually the real people in charge of them. On the surface, they seemed to be inconspicuous.

, but no one dared to turn a deaf ear to what they said.

These people are all members of Yu Xiaotian's lineage, and they are the most trusted by Yu Xiaotian. In fact, placing them in major government agencies is to let them act as Yu Xiaotian's ears, eyes, and mouthpieces.

What these people say is actually what Yu Xiaotian wants to say, and what they want to do is actually what Yu Xiaotian wants to do. Although their official positions are humble, their words carry great weight. Even if they are officials in charge of many things,

They don't dare to make decisions without authorization. They must first ask these people for their opinions before making a decision.

It was only then that Yu Xiaotian realized that the man in power was indeed having a hard time. A huge number of problems came to him every day and piled up in front of him, making him so tired that he could hardly even fart.

Now he completely understands why there have been so many foolish kings in history. If you want to be a wise king, you really have to put in a lot of energy. There are so many things in this world that even if you give birth to a child, you have to put in a lot of energy.

With three heads and six arms, it may not be able to handle it completely.

So Yu Xiaotian quickly recruited Lin Yiyang, Lu Tong and others, and ordered them to set up a secretariat to help him select and handle various matters. Small matters only need to be handled according to the principles he ordered, and major matters will be left to them.

He came to see it for himself. In this way, his life became easier.

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