Chapter 86 Significance

Many court officials hiding in Kaifeng Mansion are not necessarily backbone people. Many of them chose to surrender to Xiao Tianjian. For these people, Xiao Tianjian chose some corrupt officials who were extremely guilty and pushed them out to kill them, which was regarded as killing chickens and monkeys, and most of the officials who did not have much bad deeds were retained. After all, this After some people became officials, they had rich experience in managing localities. After being reused, they were supervised by the internal personnel of the Xingtian Army. They did not dare to do what they had done before. At present, the territory is getting bigger and bigger. It is obvious that it is a little overstretched to manage these sites with the former civil servants under Xiao Tianjian's command. Therefore, for the old officials of the imperial court, as long as they are willing to surrender and have the ability, it is still necessary to take advantage of them.

After all, these officials are all from scholars. If they don't take advantage of them, Xiao Tianjian asked himself that it is impossible to be the enemy of scholars in the world. It is easy to fight the world and govern the world. Without the cooperation of these literati, it is impossible. Otherwise, there may be a big regression in society.

However, in terms of employing people, it is impossible for Xiao Tianjian to follow the old-fashioned method of recruiting officials to recruit officials. He will only choose those who can read eight-part articles, talk about the wind and moon, and write a few poems to be officials. In the future, he will gradually reform the old-style recruitment of officials.

And now it is about to start to gradually change, gradually start to open various schools in various places, so that capable people from all walks of life have the opportunity to become officials, but this is not something that can be done in one sentence. If many things radically reverse the world, sometimes they may not be able to achieve good results, even It may cause unrest.

For good information, now he has the opportunity to lead the army to completely smash the old world and start all over again. Some things are advancing step by step, which is still very promising.

And the news that Kaifeng City was conquered, Xiao Tianjian specially released several officials who refused to surrender in Kaifeng Mansion, sent them to the north of the Yellow River, arranged people to be sent to the jurisdiction of the government, and asked them to report to the current emperor Zhu Youjian. At the same time, he also ordered the king of Zhou to write a letter to Zhu Youjian himself. First, he told Zhu You Jian, he, the king of Zhou, has surrendered to Xing Tianjun. It's better to persuade Chongzhen to abdicate. In this way, he is ashamed of his ancestors. He simply let Xiao Tianjian take over him. The general idea is that the wording is naturally up to the king of Zhou. Although the king of Zhou is reluctant, he now has Xing Tianjun's knife around his neck. He also I have to do it.

In fact, Xiao Tianjian did not expect Zhu Youjian to admonish him, so he abdicated. He just wanted to deliberately be angry with Chongzhen and let Chongzhen know what would happen to the betrayal of Xing Tianjun.

After the Battle of Kaifeng, a large number of rich gentry and rich businessmen from Henan who fled into the city were taken away. After these people were arrested, Xiao Tianjian arranged someone to interrogate them and asked who had paid money to resist the Xing Tianjun, and then confiscated all his property, and the property of Zhou Wangfu was also confiscated, only left to them. The king of Zhou has a thousand taels of silver, so that they can live under the editor and management of Lushi County in the future. If this thousand taels of silver are put in an ordinary family, it is already very rich, but if it is placed in the house of the king of Zhou, even if it is poor and white, the king of Zhou cried in a mess. After writing the letter and handed it to Xiao Tianjian, he was immediately sent out by the whole family. Kaifeng Mansion went to Lushi County to find a place to settle down.

After the statistics of the logistics department, a total of more than 4,000 people were killed in the enemy. Thousands of officers and soldiers were captured, and more than 7,000 officers and soldiers were captured. Basically, the defenders in the city were given a round and did not run a few. As for the people who helped the war, Xiao Tianjian was also generous. Hong treated them on the spot and dismissed them to go home separately. At the same time, they opened warehouses and released food in the city. Each family gave 30 catties of grain to let them spend this period of time first, and then let them go out of the city to settle down again. They should farm their own fields and work.

In this way, the order in Kaifeng City has recovered quickly. The people can get 30 catties of grain, and then take advantage of the fact that there are wild vegetables outside the city in spring to dig some wild vegetables and make do with it. The phenomenon of starving to death in Kaifeng City has been alleviated immediately.

As for the seized materials, the amount of grain seized is very limited. After all, Kaifeng has been out of grain for a long time, but the amount of various materials seized is still quite considerable. After being confiscated, nearly 10,000 taels of gold and more than 7 million taels of silver were seized in Kaifeng City. In addition, there are a large number of antique calligraphy and paintings and beads. There are countless treasures and so on. After all, this is the capital of Henan Province. In order to keep their wealth, a large number of gentry took the soft things in their families to take refuge in Kaifeng Mansion, so that a large amount of wealth in the province has been concentrated in Kaifeng Mansion, and now it is basically in the hands of Xiao Tianjian.

The private wealth of the Ming Dynasty has been quite rich. Most of them are concentrated in the hands of the rich gentry in various places. The court collects only a small part every year, while the wealth accumulated by the folk gentry and powerful is astronomical. Even so, it is still not enough to copy all the rich people in Kaifeng City. If you don't get it, if you scrape the land like other rebels, it is not impossible to search for 10 million taels of silver in Kaifeng City.

No wonder that after Kaifeng Mansion was submerged by Li Zicheng in history, someone in the imperial court also gave advice to Chongzhen to salvage the sinking silver in Kaifeng City, and there was indeed a considerable amount of silver in Kaifeng Mansion that later sank into the water of the Yellow River.

In addition, the thousand ships of Zhang Xianzhong's defeat in Daxi, which was rumored in later history, may not be a rumor. The matter of rebellion is indeed profitable. After all, they refocused the wealth of the people back into their own hands, and the amount of wealth of the people is not what ordinary people can imagine.

In addition to gold and silver treasures, a large number of ordnances were also seized in this battle. There are hundreds of guns alone. There are many kinds of weapons, and now they have become Xiao Tianjian's bag.

These things are not important. Kaifeng Prefecture, as the provincial capital of a province, was conquered by the Xingtian Army. Its political significance is much greater than its military significance. This is the first provincial government captured by the Xingtian Army. At the same time, it also represents that the Xingtian Army has officially embarked on the road to compete for the world, indicating that the Xingtian Army has grown into a It can win the power of the world, and the surrender of the king of Zhou and other royal families is of great significance. In the future, in terms of striving for the surrender of more court officials, this is of representative significance. In short, on the fourth day of the fourth day of April, it is a memorable significance for Xing Tianjun. Historians of later generations opened the seal in this attack of Xing Tianjun at an affordable price. In terms of the affairs of the house, it has been highly evaluated.

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