Chapter 450(1/2)
(The third update is given!)
Liu Jun entered the cabinet director early in the morning as usual.
When he entered the duty room, the servant had already prepared the hot tea. Liu Jun took off his cloak outside and only wore a red python robe in the room.
Zhu Chenggong came in to report.
"Luo Qianhu is here."
Liu Jun nodded, "Take him in."
After saying that, he began to take charge of the director. On the copy of the slightest head, a box with a seal was placed. After the memorial received by the Tongzhengsi Department was registered, it was sent to the Sili Supervisor for backup, and then transferred to the two ministers for the purpose of watching it first, and then transferred to the cabinet through the Sili Supervisor and handed it over to the cabinet ministers to discuss the draft bill.
Liu Jun opened it and the first one above was a memorial written by Chen Yan, the Minister of Rites.
The cover letter reads: Chen Yan, the left minister of the Ministry of Rites, asked to grant Wu Sangui the title of title. Open the reading, Chen Yan said that the stability of Liaoxi was crucial to the Ming Dynasty. The two generals of Wu Zu have been guarding the country for several generations, and they worked hard and made great contributions. They asked to grant Wu Sangui the title of Earl.
After reading this memorial, Liu Jun sneered several times, and he looked carefully before throwing him aside.
At this time, Zhu Chenggong had already led Luo Ping'an in.
Luo Ping'an performed outstandingly since joining the Jinyiwei and was deeply praised by Liu Jun.
"Ping An, I'm going to add some burden to you and let you serve as the commander of the Five Cities Military Command."
Luo Ping'an met Liu Jun at the Jinyiwei Yamen three days ago. Liu Qiao accompanied Liu Jun. Later, an officer from Liu Jun's servant room came to talk to him. This is usually a process for the promotion of middle and senior officials of the Chu army. Before each officer was promoted, he would be nominated by the above. There are generally at least three candidates for the same position. After the nomination, a dedicated person will conduct a detailed assessment, and finally summarize the assessment results. After an internal announcement, the promotion list will be finalized.
"Five Cities of Military Affairs?"
Luo Ping'an himself also speculated about the position he might be promoted this time, but he thought of promotions within the intelligence agency, and he probably would be promoted to the Pacification Office. However, he did not expect to transfer to the Five City Military Office.
The Five Cities Military and Ma Si is a relatively special yamen. Only the capital of the Ming Dynasty had this yamen, but compared with the Jinyiwei, it was a very different place.
The Five City Military and Horse Office is under the Ministry of War. The capital is divided into five cities, middle, east, west, south, and north, and is only a sixth-rank yamen. Each department has one commander, four deputy commanders and one official. They are responsible for the capital's public security, fire bans, and diversion of ditches and streets.
Liu Jun also saw that Luo Ping'an was a little disappointed.
"Don't be upset, either. This time, the Five City Military and Ma Si will be adjusted. After the adjustment, the Five City Military and Ma Si will become a third-rank yamen. The Five City Commander will be promoted to a fifth-rank military officer. A third-rank commander will be appointed above the Five City Military and Ma Si commander.
In the capital of the Ming Dynasty, there are palace cities, imperial cities, inner cities and outer cities in Beijing. Among them, residential areas are still called fangs, which are called fangs. Most residential buildings are typical courtyards.
The inner and outer cities are divided into five urban areas, among which Zhongcheng District is located in Zhengyangmen, and on both sides of the imperial city, there are Jiufang and 68 shops. Dongcheng District is located in Chongwenmen and is located northeast to the city wall and outside the Dongguan. There are Wufang, Chaoyang, outside the Dongzhiguan, Zhengcunba, 37 cards, and 199 shops.
Outside the three gates of Zhengyang, Chongwen and Xuanwu, inside and outside the new city belong to the Nancheng District, with eight fangs, forty-nine plaques, and two hundred and forty-seven shops;
In Xuanwumen, the street goes northwest to the city wall and outside the Xiguan. It is Xicheng District.
From Bei'anmen to Anding, Deshengmen and outside Beiguan belong to the Beicheng District.
With North Anmen and Qipan Street as the boundary, it is under the jurisdiction of Wanping County in the west and Daxing County in the east.
The entire western city belongs to Wanping, and the entire eastern city belongs to Daxing. The three cities and counties in the middle, north and south are divided into two counties. Among them, there are 13 Fang and 312 Hutongs in Wanping County. There are many Fang and 112 Hutongs in the west of the capital. There are many Hutongs in the east, and there are only many Fang and few Hutongs in the east.
However, because Beijing is the capital, there are many special features. Among them, although the capital is divided into two counties, Wanping and Daxing, these two counties do not care about public security.
The public security of the capital was under the responsibility of the Wucheng Bingmaster Office, and with the assistance of the Jinyiwei and the East Factory, the Censorate also established the Wucheng Censorate and appointed the Wucheng Censor to guide and supervise the work of the Wucheng Bingmaster.
Although Liu Jun was the governor of Zhili and the governor of Shuntian, the five cities, like the Jinyiwei, did not directly under his jurisdiction. Now the city defenses of the inner and outer cities of the capital are led by Liu Yunsheng, the nine-gate admiral of the Imperial Guard, but the Imperial Guards generally cannot interfere in the public security of the capital.
Since the last adjustment, the Jinyiwei has now been mainly based on intelligence, and the power of the capital's security is still in the hands of the Five City Military and Ma Si. Liu Jun needs to strengthen his control over the capital, so the Five City Military and Ma Si must be in his hands.
"In the future, the grade of the Five City Military and Ma Si will be greatly improved, and the jurisdiction will be increased a lot. In addition to the traditional criminal thieves, firefighting and fire clearing and communication channels will be continued to be managed. In addition, epidemic prevention, sanitation, capital markets, and street management will also be included in the Five City Military and Ma Si."
The five cities have five bureaus in the middle, east, west, south, north, and north. Each city district has a left and right branch bureau. Then, there are five bureaus and ten bureaus in the inner and outer cities, and they are in charge of 360 police stations. The five cities have a lot of personnel and their responsibilities will also increase a lot. In Liu Jun's plan, the five cities have to do their jobs like the Public Security Bureau in the future, but they must also be equivalent to the fire department, urban management bureau, sanitation bureau, transportation bureau, quarantine bureau, judicial bureau, etc., and they must arrest all of these.
Especially the Five Cities Bingmas have many prisons, and they have great security jurisdiction. If they use it well, they will be a big helper in the future.
"After you take office, there are a few things you need to do first. First, you must quickly complete the reconstruction of the entire Five Cities Military Affairs Office, clean up and rectify old personnel, and recruit new personnel. I have won you an quota of 8,000 people, and you can grasp it yourself."
"The second thing is to do a good job in epidemic prevention, continue to strengthen epidemic prevention and control, and do a good job in urban and ward. Continue to transform shanty towns in outer cities and assist the engineering camp in the transformation of shanty towns."
"Third, crack down on criminal activities such as counterfeiting silver coupons and silver dollars, and crack down on illegal businessmen who hoard goods and disrupt normal prices."
"There is another point. If you are at the bottom of the market, you must master the public opinion of all the people in the market and collect information. You used to do intelligence. Can you complete this extra task, right?"
Luo Ping'an was stunned for a while, but he didn't expect that the transfer to the Five City Military Command was not demoted, but instead used it.
"Prince, which urban area should I go to? Are you the director?"
Liu Jun smiled, "You're wrong. I didn't ask you to be the director of a branch, nor did I plan to let you be the commander of the city, but let him be the commander of the Five City Military Command. By the way, I told you that Liu Jian has served as the right deputy censor of the Five City Censorate. From now on, he will be responsible for the city inspector of the Five City Censorate. You will be partners in the future, remember to cooperate well."
The Five City Censorate was originally the direct leadership organization of the Five City Military and Horse Office, but like the Five City Military and Horse Office, it was divided into the Five City Censors. Now the Five City Military and Horse Office was integrated and a commander was established, which was set up as a third-rank military position, and the commanders in each urban area were also promoted to the fourth-rank official.
The Wucheng Censorate has also been promoted. Now, a third-rank right deputy censor is in charge of the city censors. The current relationship between the Wucheng Censorate and the Wucheng Military and Ma Si is just like the governors of each province and the generals of each province.
Liu Jun asked Luo Ping'an to serve as the commander of the Five City Military Command, and then let his brother Liu Jian serve as the deputy chief censor. At this time, he didn't care whether others would attack him or not.
After explaining several things that Luo Ping'an needs to focus on after taking office, Liu Jun asked about the rebel intelligence.
"How is Wu Sangui now? How is Feng Yuanbiao's plan to recruit and surrender?"
"The student was about to report to the teacher, and the Jinyiwei had just received the information, and Wu Sangui and Zu Dashou had already turned to the Qing Lu."
"Fallen towards the Qing army?" Liu Jun frowned. Now that Wu Sangui and the Qing army have joined forces, they have already turned to the Qing army.
"They have officially surrendered to the Qing Dynasty."
"Is this news confirmed?"
"It has not been fully confirmed, but several sources of information have confirmed this news." Luo Ping'an said, "After Wu Sangui rebelled, he joined forces with the Qing army and borrowed food and grass from them. However, he marched all the way, with shortage of food and equipment, low morale, and continued to flee. When he arrived near the Luan River, he had no food and grass to continue to move forward, and more than 40,000 people were missing."
"Although Feng Yuanbiao went to recruit surrenders, he gave excellent treatment conditions, which was equivalent to allowing them to seize western Liaoning. However, the county prince proposed that the court did not give the Liao army one food and one salary, which made Wu Sangui unable to accept Feng's conditions at all."
Liu Jun sneered, this was something that was expected.
The battle is logistics, and the battle is comprehensive strength. Wu Sangui now has only 100,000 troops, but the places he controlled were already occupied by the Qing army a year ago, especially these places where the Ming and Qing dynasties have been fighting fiercely for many years, and now there are no few ordinary people left.
It is sandwiched between the Ming and Qing dynasties, what is the use of just having this little force?
When Liu Jun abandoned the western Liaoning and retreated to the defense lines of Guanning and Yanbei, Wu Sangui was stunned.
Even if the court granted the title of King Wu Sangui, as long as Liu Jun firmly disagrees with the court giving the salary to Wu Sangui, the people of the Ming Dynasty are not allowed to cross the Daughter River, and Wu Sangui has to wait for death.
"What conditions does the Qing emperor give to Wu Sangui?"
"It is said that Dorgon had already made the young emperor of the Qing court named Wu Sangui King of Pingxi and Zu Dashou King of Jingnan. He also specially organized Wu Sangui's Guangning Army into the Zhenglu Banner, and Zu Dashou's Jinzhou Army into the Inlaid Green Banner. These two banners were treated very high, comparable to the Manchu Eight Banners, and had a higher status than the Mongolian and Han Eight Banners. Guangning and Jinzhou were all assigned to the two banners, and the two banners had their own territory, and their identities were flag directors."
Liu Jun laughed again. It turned out that Kong Youde and others had black flags. Now two green flags have come, so the Qing emperors will play with them. The so-called higher status than the Eight Banners of Han, he would never be the Eight Banners. As for territory, it was originally the territory of the Ming army occupied by Wu Sangui and others.
Is Dorgon willing to provide food and salary to Wu Sangui and Zu Dashou's two green flags?"
"Yes, Wu Sangui and Zu Dashou's two green flags each compiled a hundred cattle record. Now their food and grass are all supplied by the Qing Lu."
"The Qing barbarians were so generous. This was equivalent to giving the two traitors a military quota of 30,000 each. I just don't know how long they can supply the food and grass for these 60,000 people."
Liu Jun showed Luo Ping'an the memorial of Chen Yan whom he had just seen.
"Look, there are still many people in the imperial court who want to be named Wu Sangui."
"What do these people think?" Luo Ping'an shook his head.
"It's hard to guess what they think. They just want to do something to drive away tigers and swallow wolves. It's really stupid. Forward to confirm the news about Wu Sangui's surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and temporarily block this news and keep it strictly confidential."
"Will not report to the court immediately?"
"What's the hurry? These people are jumping up and down now, and the good show is just beginning. The more they dance, the louder they will hit the other side. Chen Yan is just a minister of the Ministry of Rites. Wu Qi is planning behind him. This person can't keep him. Just so I took this opportunity to drive this guy out of the court in one fell swoop."
The four ministers of Guru committed suicide first and then Liu Zongzhou was worried. Now the only one who was in the way of Liu Jun was left. As long as Wu Jun fell down again, Liu Jun would become the only minister of Guru’s regent.
By then, no one can stop Liu Jun from getting in the way of his hands and feet.
Later, Liu Jun took Chen Yan's memorial to the Zongli Yamen in the palace and asked his subordinates to notify Wu Yan, requesting an emergency meeting of the Prime Minister, and convened all the cabinet ministers, six ministries and nine ministers, and a number of censors in the science and technology to discuss the matter.
All the officials arrived, and Liu Jun accompanied Liu Cixuan in.
Wu Yan was called up temporarily and was very dissatisfied. When everyone had greeted the emperor, he took the lead in trying to challenge Liu Jun.
"Shisan, you hurriedly called everyone here. What's the matter?"
"Yuan Fu, today I saw a memorial presented by the Lijian Secretary of the Ministry of Rites. It was a memorial by Chen Yan, the Minister of Rites. In the memorial, it actually asked Wu Sangui to be awarded a title." Liu Jun sat up straight and spoke.
"Mr. Chen, I want to ask you, what is the reason for you to submit this memorial? Please answer me!"
Chen Yan stood up, "Second Assistant, a title was exchanged for 100,000 troops to stop the troops, and the lower officials thought it was completely worth it."
"As you say so, wouldn't the court have to grant Li Zicheng a title?" Liu Jun asked.
"The officials did not have this intention, and they were not the same thing."
"What's the difference? Li Zicheng killed officials and rebelled everywhere. Wu Sangui was favored by the country in his original life and was specially promoted by the late emperor. Now he is ungrateful and colluded with foreign captives to rebel. In terms of this, Wu Sangui is even more evil than Li Zicheng. It's better now. In the eyes of Mr. Chen, rebellion is reasonable? Can rebellion be awarded a title?"
"How come I remember it. The Ming Dynasty ancestor system cannot be granted titles without military merits? Why haven't I heard of it? Instead of rebellion, I can still be granted titles?"
Speaking of this, Liu Jun turned to Zhu Cixuan, "Your Majesty, I think this is a treacherous arrogance. It is precisely because of Chen Yan, a traitor, that Wu Sangui dares to rebel so unscrupulously."
"Your Majesty, I firmly oppose the title of title and the ambushing Wu Sangui. Such traitors as Wu Sangui will only regard the ambushing of the court as weak and bullied."
Wu Xuan was the one who strongly advocated surrendering Wu Sangui. At this time, he couldn't help but come out and said, "Is the prince afraid that the world will not be in chaos? The court recruited peace to quell the troubles as soon as possible. How can there be weakness?"
"I'm afraid Wu Sangui won't think so."
"The prince is not Wu Sangui, so how can he know what Wu Sangui will think?" Wu Yan confronted him tit-for-tat.
"If the servant insisted on conferring titles and recruiting Wu Sangui, but Wu Sangui was not only unhappy, but also rebeled in the imperial court?" Liu Jun also pressed step by step.
To be continued...