Daming pirates

Chapter 102 Ruling the country with an iron fist

Yu Xiaotian knew this very well. When he first took over the power, he immediately issued an order in the name of Chongzhen to strictly investigate anyone inside the pass transporting food outside the pass, and sent a brigade of elite soldiers and horses out of Juyong Pass, directly into Xuanda and other places.

All the passages to the outside of the customs were blocked, and people and vehicles passing by were strictly inspected. If anyone was found trying to smuggle grain or iron items out of the customs, he would be questioned on the pretext of collaborating with the enemy.

After he took power, he directly issued an order in the name of Chongzhen, dispatched the supervisory censor and a group of Yu family troops who had just changed to the Jinyiwei waistband, and drove directly into Shanxi. He ordered the governor of Shanxi Wu Di to cooperate and attack the Jin in Shanxi.

The dealer conducted a cleaning.

According to local investigations and reports from the public, a total of more than 30 Shanxi merchants have been found to have engaged in or are currently conducting such trade, and more than a dozen of them are extremely wealthy, and can be said to be as rich as the enemy. As a result,

Yu Xiaotian ordered that more than 30 Shanxi merchants, adults and above, be executed, and all their property, land, houses, and villages confiscated.

At the same time, based on the confessions of these profiteers, some officials and generals in the Xuanfu, Datong government and the military who were involved in colluding with the profiteers to secretly trade with Jiannu and the Mongols were also captured. This time, all of them were uprooted and arrested.

He was beheaded and all his property was confiscated.

This purge was very fruitful for Xiaotian. The cash confiscated alone amounted to millions of taels. Adding in the confiscated properties and land, the value doubled again. In addition, from

A large amount of grain was confiscated from the homes of these wealthy businessmen, many of which were even rotten. The total amount was as high as 300,000 dan. This grain alone greatly alleviated the food shortage problem in Shanxi and a large area around it.

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After these people who brought disaster to the country and the people were caught, they were immediately tried and sentenced without delaying their execution until the end of the autumn. They were all dragged out and chopped into pieces. They were killed with heads rolling in. It was very satisfying. Many people who heard the news heard the news.

People came all the way to the execution ground to watch the execution, and they all clapped and applauded, making Yu Xiaotian once again very popular.

Although many of the people who handle these things are still former officials, after changing the head, the old procrastination has been eliminated one by one, and things are done smoothly, and few people dare to deceive others anymore.

The reason is very simple. They all saw the difference between Yu Xiaotian and Chongzhen. Although Chongzhen actually killed many ministers after he came to the throne, he had some scruples. He would often be swayed by the ministers' advice and could not do anything.

He acted completely according to his ideas, so even though he also killed some ministers, he could not really effectively deter these officials.

Moreover, the relationship between officials is complicated, and officials protect each other. Many times they do things that Chongzhen does not know clearly, so they dare to say one thing and do another, just because they are too familiar with the routines of the previous officialdom.

Only when you have the confidence to do things, but you really have no other choice, you resort to the tactic of dragging things out, dragging things down and dragging them down, which makes the entire officialdom of the Ming Dynasty very inefficient.

But after Yu Xiaotian came to Beijing and took control of the court, the officials initially wanted to use the old method, delaying as long as they could, and finding ways to deal with Yu Xiaotian if they couldn't. But they soon discovered that the trick they were using now

It didn't work out, because they found that Yu Xiaotian's personality was very different from that of the previous emperor.

Yu Xiaotian never gives face to anyone when doing things. Many things he has ordered to be done immediately must be done immediately. If anyone wants to resist or delay doing it, he will be taken down very quickly.

In other cases, they will be thrown directly into prison, or in worst cases, they will be evaporated immediately, and even the body cannot be found.

Either they were sent to a construction site somewhere, and they were served with whips to do whatever they were tired of, and to eat whatever they had to deal with. After cleaning them up, they brought them back to another place and let them continue working. After being tortured like this, most people will suffer a lot.

With wisdom, I no longer dare to procrastinate in doing things.

In addition, the methods they used to deceive their superiors and hide from others no longer work. They thought they did some things perfectly, but they were soon found out by the superiors, so someone discovered that Yu Xiaotian seemed to have something else.

There is a method to monitor them. It seems that they can't hide anything they do from the eyes of the superiors, so they can only do things honestly.

Furthermore, they discovered that Yu Xiaotian's methods were ten times and a hundred times more vicious than Chongzhen's. Chongzhen also needed a high-sounding reason and process to kill people, but Yu Xiaotian never showed mercy as long as he caught some people's tricks.

After that, without saying a word, he killed those who needed to be killed and ransacked those who needed to, leaving no chance for anyone.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian is very familiar with some of the corruption and clique-based methods commonly used by local officials. He often blocks their escape route when issuing decrees, leaving them unable to find a better way to say no.

It can be done or it can’t be done.

Just one year after Yu Xiaotian came to power, tens of thousands of officials were killed by Yu Xiaotian throughout the Ming Dynasty. Officials in almost all places were sorted out, and those who needed to be replaced were replaced.

The place has made all the officials in the officialdom feel in danger. Knowing that if they want to continue to hang around in the future, they will definitely have no choice but to work honestly, or wait to clean their necks and let Yu Xiaotian send them.

People are coming to cut it.

The officials in the officialdom complained endlessly about this, but Yu Xiaotian turned a blind eye to their complaints.

So some people were self-righteous, thinking that they were very capable and couldn't accomplish many things without them, so they acted like they were no one else, and simply resigned from office, hoping to use resignation to force Yu Xiaotian to pay attention to them.

Opinion, Yu Xiaotian never tried to hold back these self-righteous guys.

Are you resigning? No! If you want to resign and return home, there is no way to go back home. Just label yourself as someone who is arrogant based on his talent, resists orders and has no respect. Then he will be demoted to a commoner and sent to the frontier to work as a coolie! If you want to go back,

Don't expect to be able to live in your hometown for retirement, or you will die in a border town.

In fact, some people suffered a lot because of this incident. They originally wanted to blackmail them by resigning, but the blackmail failed. Instead, they ended up working as pig farmers and sheep herders in border towns, and some people were dismissed from office.

Later, they will also be

If you dig deeper, you will find that not many officials have clean butts. A simple dig will reveal a lot of evidence of their corruption. As a result, they didn't even have the chance to go to the border town to herd sheep, and they were chased back halfway.

, there were many people dragging them out and chopping them up.

According to what Yu Xiaotian said in the court, there are many people who want to be officials in the world, and there are also many people who are capable. As long as there is a vacancy, there will be people willing to do it, and you can be sure that the newly selected

People are definitely doing better than those in the past. After the Ming Dynasty, anyone can follow suit. Anyone who wants to use this method again, just give it a try!

Yu Xiaotian's words soon seemed to have wings and flew to all parts of the Ming Dynasty. After hearing this, the officials all felt chills in their hearts. They knew that when they encountered unreasonable guys like Yu Xiaotian, they would use the methods they used before.

Those routines have failed. Now Yu Xiaotian has made it clear to them that if they want to continue to be an official, there is absolutely no problem. As long as you are obedient and do your job well and follow his instructions, then even if they are the same as before,

If you have some bad deeds on your body, you can let it go and pretend it never happened. But don't say one thing and do another, otherwise you can continue to be an official.

But if you guys want to be officials but don't want to work hard, and you still want to be a monk for a day like before, relying on being an official to make money for yourself, then I'm sorry, I have a knife in my hand. If you can't kill anyone, just

Kill two until you find someone suitable for the job.

Under Yu Xiaotian's thunderous tactics, the working atmosphere of the officialdom has changed drastically in less than a year. Under normal circumstances, as long as the Yu family's army can reach out, the local officials have become diligent and self-disciplined.

Many, once the requirements from above were issued, everyone ran very fast, and they no longer dared to bully superiors and conceal others, saying one thing and doing another as before.

Of course, this is temporarily limited to some areas that Yu Xiaotian's force can reach. After all, Yu Xiaotian has only been in power for a short time, and Yu Jiajun's force cannot quickly penetrate into all parts of the Ming Dynasty, like some deep inland or remote places.

They haven't yet felt how powerful Yu Xiaotian is, so they continue to maintain their old style of dealing with Yu Xiaotian.

But Yu Xiaotian was not in a hurry. He first focused on the coastal provinces as well as the central plains and northern provinces. The southeastern coastal provinces were the richest places in the Ming Dynasty and had the most developed economy. The amount of money and grain taxes collected every year occupied the most.

The bulk of the Ming Dynasty’s annual income.

So after he came to power, he dismissed the governors of Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong provinces one after another, and replaced them with people he thought were obedient. Then he began to clean up the prefects at the prefectural level, and hunted and killed them one after another.

A group of people were recruited, a group of people were removed from their posts, and a group of people who were previously marginalized or frustrated in the officialdom were replaced and took office.

Yu Xiaotian is also very familiar with this method of holding a big stick in one hand and a carrot in the other. He first kills those guys who didn't listen to the instructions in the past, and then recruits a group of people who want to rise to the top, but in the past, because of his relationship with the Donglin Party,

Officials who have different political opinions are marginalized or are not given opportunities.

These people may not be very capable, but they understand very well why they were promoted and reused by Yu Xiaotian. Yu Xiaotian told them very clearly, you go and take office, nothing else is required, only that you obey and follow the rules.

Just do the work. It's not your fault that you're not capable, but it's your fault if you don't do it well. If I can kill your ex, I can kill you at any time. It's up to you to figure out what to do.

As for when you go to the local area and take office, and the implementation of the New Deal encounters obstacles from the local powerful or powerful people, then it doesn't matter. I have my backing for you. I know it's not convenient to kill them, so I do it secretly. In short, in order to implement his New Deal, no matter what happens.

If you don't listen to any resistance or good advice, then use a butcher's knife to clear the way.

Therefore, several southeastern provinces were first controlled by Yu Xiaotian after he came to power. He originally started his business in Fujian, and Fujian was already in his pocket, and it was easiest to implement the New Deal. As for Guangdong, Guangxi and Zhejiang, after so many years,

His tentacles have already penetrated very deep into these places. Now that he has finally taken the risk and seized power in one fell swoop, naturally there will not be much of a problem in taking over these places.

(Thank you again, Brother Xiaochunfeng of the Desert for the great reward!)

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