.\Mingxue  Chapter 131 Abandoned from office

At its peak, there were 5,000 people in the inner court guard camp. However, the Nanjing Imperial Palace could not be compared with Zicheng. The organization of more than 1,700 people seemed to be quite large in the past. When Zhu Yuanzhang first built the inner court guard camp, there were only 1,000 people. However, since something happened, the guard camp had to be expanded. It expanded from more than 1,700 people to 3,000 people. It was not too outrageous compared to the 5,000 people at the highest.

Although Ma Bingjie was demoted from the commander to the deputy commander, his subordinates expanded it. It was also a blessing in disguise. It was more difficult to enter the guard camp than to enter the Yulin Guard. First, you must have a clean family background. Those with all their parents and brothers are the second to be physically qualified. Whether you have the skill or not.

The expansion of the guard camp is not a matter of a day or a night. In order to prevent someone from deliberately mingling into the guard camp, all this is done quietly.

"Heng Jiu is dead. How are you?" The article with this diary was quickly passed on by Daming. Of course, this diary is not just this one. There are also some news about the imperial court's major victory in all aspects over the past year. Whether it is scholars or ordinary people, they are like treasures of this diary. Not only is the articles and news on the diary that are exciting to read. This diary is also the first time that the imperial court sent a diary to the outside on a large scale. In the past, the diary could only be circulated within the government. Now ordinary scholars can also go to the imperial court through the diary.

Five thousand diary newspapers were far from enough for the huge group of scholars in the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, hundreds of diary newspapers were to be brought to the north through the Jinyiwei. Many people could only copy them with pens. Some keen vendors saw business opportunities. The original free diary newspapers were actually sold in the capital for more than ten pieces of copper coins.

In April of the second year of Hongguang, this residence newspaper began to spread in Shandong one after another. Then there was the capital of Shanxi, Shaanxi... Many people were half-believing and half-doubted about Hong Chengchou's death. I finally confirmed it when I saw this residence newspaper. The Ming Dynasty residence newspaper used to falsely report military achievements. The two biggest bandits, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, died seven or eight times. They are still alive. But they have also developed the ignorant eyes. Which news is false, which news is true, and which news is half-true and half-false. You can tell it by just a glance.

Although there is no detailed description of Hong Chengchou's death in the di newspaper, it is also mentioned that Hong Chengchou was killed by the Ming special forces with gunpowder when commanding the army to siege the city. After reading this di newspaper, many people felt a chill on their necks. Hong Chengchou was actually killed by the Ming special forces among thousands of troops. The Ming special forces are so powerful. If they are used to deal with them, there is no safety at all.

Manchus were vulgar, did not read poetry and did not know etiquette. Officials who fell in the north were originally scrambling to compete with Manchus. But they thought they had seen the general trend of the world clearly. Manchus would seize the country. But now it seems that Manchus is more like a flower. It is no different from the alien regimes in history that "their prosperity and their demise are suddenly". Since this is the case, there is naturally no need to tie it to Manchus.

Ye Tingxiu, the governor of Puzhou Prefecture, was only a juren. He was originally a township official. He just surrendered in time and even took the position of prefect. All of the co-magistrates and prosecutors under him were older than him. Moreover, several of them were from Jinshi. He naturally looked down on Ye Tingxiu. Ye Tingxiu knew that he could not convince the public. He was always diligent in doing things and knew how to flatter him. He became a relationship with the governor Fang Da. Then he settled into the position of prefect of Puzhou.

Today, the Puzhou government yamen runners were secretly surprised. The sun was already up the third day. The prefect has not come to work. Today is not a day off. I have never heard of the master going out for something. The prefect is missing. This is a difficult thing.

It was almost noon. The shadow of the prefect was still not seen. Ding Mingwu's bandits were making trouble on Mengyin Mountain. Puzhou had to supply some military supplies. There were endless things to do every day. The prefect did not go to work. A lot of things could not be handled. The prefect only sent a yamen runner to urge him. The yamen runner who was going to urge him soon came back with a strange expression on his face. He reported to the prefect that the gate of the prefect's house was closed. It seemed that there was no one inside.

How could this be possible? Although Lord Ye has been the prefect for more than a year, he is an expert in scraping the ground. There are at least dozens of maids, servants, etc. in Ye’s house. How could there be no one? What happened? I remembered the diary I saw not long ago. Several officials who heard the reward felt cold in their necks. Dozens of Ye’s family would not be destroyed by the special forces of the Ming Dynasty?

Officials at all levels in the yamen could no longer sit still. Two magistrates, three magistrates, one magistrate, and a large group of yamen runners. Dozens of people walked towards Ye's house in a mighty way and arrived at the door of Ye's house. Everyone looked at the closed door. A magistrate signaled the yamen runners to knock on the door.

The knock on the door sounded. The whole courtyard was still quiet. There was no sound. Although it was noon now, the sun was hanging in the sky. Everyone still felt cold.

"Open the door." Tongzhi said in a trembling voice.

A famous yamen runner brought a log and hit the door with a "bang". The sound of the door breaking came. The door opened to both sides without much effort. A yamen runner

He walked into the gate with courage. He entered the heavy house with a few steps and saw the corpse.

"My dear masters, there is no one inside."

Hearing the shouts of the yamen runners, several magistrates, magistrates, and officials walked into Ye's house and walked around the house for a while. Everyone found that there was not much mess in the house. Everything that was valuable was gone, leaving only some bulky houses. On the table in the main hall of Ye's house, two sets of official uniforms and the seal of the governor were neatly placed.

Everyone still didn't understand here. It seemed that Lord Ye had abandoned his official position and fled. There were dozens of people in Ye's house. There were so many things. I really don't know how Lord Ye put people and things in the city without knowing it. I'm afraid it was not a one-day function. Some officials suddenly realized that it was not a good idea. The prefect was very busy every day when they got off work. I'm afraid they had already arranged it.

The official seal and the uniforms were placed on the table. If it were in the past, the two magistrates would probably be overjoyed. They could become prefects further. At this time, they looked at these two things. Both of them felt that the hot mountain Puzhou was not in good shape. First, they made trouble for the Yuyuan thieves. The Yuyuan thieves were just wiped out. Ding Mingwu started to make trouble again. Although tens of thousands of troops surrounded Ding Mingwu on Mengyin Mountain, the military supplies of tens of thousands of troops needed to be undertaken by the nearby places. The pressure was so strong that they could not breathe. Officials at all levels felt more and more that they were sitting on the crater. There would be no idea when it would break out. In addition, there was a threat from the Ming Dynasty. If it were replaced by himself, they would have to escape.

"No." A Tongzhi suddenly remembered. Lord Ye escaped. He was about to transport the money and food to the army. He would not have any problems. As soon as he said this, the other officials were also speechless. Everyone stopped at Ye's house without hesitation. Ordered the yamen runners to collect the seal of the official uniform left by Ye Tingxiu and hurried to the yamen to check the accounts.

After investigation, the problem was discovered. Ye Tingxiu did use the money and grain before leaving. Although due to time, the grain basically did not move, all the money disappeared. It was a hole of tens of thousands of taels. In the current situation in Puzhou, no matter how much it is, it cannot be scraped out. The two magistrates, three magistrates and one magistrate were all ashamed.

Soon, the news that Ye Tingxiu had abandoned his official position and escaped reached the ears of the governor Fang Da. Fang Da was furious and sent a document to arrest Ye Tingxiu.

Ye Tingxiu was the first person to leave his official position and flee after seeing the Ming Dynasty Dibao. Perhaps it is hard to say that Ye Tingxiu had only seen the Dibao before fleeing. However, Dibao was a big inducement. Fang Da's wanted to Ye Tingxiu was originally intended to shock someone to learn from Ye Tingxiu. Unexpectedly, it had a counter-effect. With Ye Tingxiu's abandonment of his official position and fleeing, a storm of abandoning his official position and fleeing in various parts of Shandong. Many subordinate officials found that their superiors suddenly disappeared overnight, or some subordinate officials found that their subordinates disappeared overnight.

In addition to resigning from his official position and fleeing, there are some more people. Some officials directly revolt and opposed Manchu rule. Among them, the most influential were Li Jiantai and Hui Shiyang. Both of them were once the Grand Secretary of the Ming Dynasty. Li Jiantai was even more famous and was the last supervisor sent by Emperor Chongzhen. He was praised as having a strong character and generous temperament. There were fifty wives and concubines in his family. He was also considered a celebrity and romantic scholar.

But Li Jiantai was not the leader. The emperor had high hopes for Li Jiantai and sent him away for him for several miles away from the capital. The carriage where Li Jiantai was riding was broken was considered an unknown sign. He deliberately marched slowly. He only traveled thirty miles a day, allowing the soldiers to harm the place.

When he arrived at Guangzong County, Shunde Prefecture, the local gentry closed the city and refused to accept it. Li Jiantai was furious and sent troops to attack the city and killed the magistrate. When it was time for Baoding, he refused to advance again. When Li Zicheng's army arrived in Baoding, Li Jiantai pretended to be sick and allowed the central army Guo Zhongjie to lead the army to surrender. In this way, after Li Jiantai, who was highly anticipated by Chongzhen, left Beijing and captured one of his own county towns. He shot and shot and shot at him without any attack, and surrendered to Li Zicheng. Manchus entered the pass. In view of his past reputation, Doer summoned Li Jiantai as a Grand Secretary of the Inner Court.

Li Jiantai was not good at fighting. He was a good official. His family had thousands of hectares of land and millions of wealth. He could let him be generous in making friends with officials, forming cliques, and surrendered several times. His fame was not affected at all. Doer soon discovered that Li Jiantai was actually incapable of being able to dismiss Li Jiantai in anger.

After Li Jiantai was dismissed from office, he was full of resentment towards the Qing court. After seeing the Ming Dynasty's residence report, he didn't know where Li Jiantai suddenly got the courage. He sent someone to ask Hui Shiyang to join the uprising. It was just that the situation was not secret. He was reported. The Qing army immediately dispatched to arrest and behead the two.
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