The Old Zhu family is still the first nominal family in the world. Only the women of the Old Zhu family can be called princesses. I don’t know how many people in the world are willing to marry the Old Zhu family’s women. In the eyes of emperors and ministers, marrying the Old Zhu family’s women to the leader of the thief is indeed a gift to the thief and can be used to delay time.

However, Zhu Yijun waved his hand directly in the court to tell the ministers not to talk about this matter anymore. It is indeed possible to use women to delay time, but this matter feels even more embarrassing. It is just a name for the title of king. It doesn’t hurt or itchy.

But when I sent a princess over, the princess basically threw it away. Maybe she would have to be tortured there. She was just a woman, but Zhu Yijun couldn't accept it for a while. She was his relative after all.

At the end of a court meeting, the Ming court made two important decisions. One was to set up a guard team for the gentry and merchants to quickly increase the strength of the Ming Dynasty; the other was to give the thief leader the king, so that the thief agreed to negotiate peace, and perhaps it could cause chaos within the thief.

Just two days passed, and two orders were issued from the capital one after another, which would bring greater changes to the Ming Dynasty.

Half a month has passed since the battles on the battlefields of Guangxi, Huguang, Jiangxi and Fujian ended. Under the rule of the People's Army, the people in the newly occupied areas have quickly returned to normal life.

The People's Army distributed land to the people. The lower-class people who had no land were the first to accept the People's Army. The gentry and merchants who saved their lives were still hiding at home and almost never going out.

In fact, before the war between the People's Army and the Ming court began, some gentry and merchants temporarily left Guangxi, Huguang, Jiangxi and Fujian. When the People's Army defeated Li Chengliang's army in the early stages of the war, more gentry and merchants fled in a hurry and occupied the four places. The people's Army did not escape were less than one-tenth of the number before the war.

Most of the gentry and merchants who did not escape had no time to escape, but a small number of them were left by themselves. For example, Zhang Qing, a glass business partner of Liang Xin, stayed in Wuchang City and did not flee to the north.

After the People's Army occupied Wuchang City, the first troops surrounded Zhang Qing's mansion. As the head of the family, Zhang Qing personally told the People's Army officer that he was a collaborator of Liang Xin, a great merchant from Guangdong. The Zhang family had bullied the people, but had already obtained the forgiveness of those people.

Zhang Qing did not dare to say support and supported the words of the People's Army, for fear that it would be spread to the Ming ruling area. Before the war began, Zhang Qing asked his two sons to take part in the property to the capital and Jinling City respectively. Even if an accident occurs, the Zhang family will not be destroyed. This is the way for the survival of the big family.

Later, the People's Army sent someone to investigate the Zhang family. After confirming that the Zhang family had indeed dealt with the problems, they began to deal with the Zhang family. The Zhang family was not just forgiven by the people. Liang Xin saved his life because he made great contributions when the People's Army captured Guangzhou City. Zhang Qing did not make great contributions to the People's Army.

In the end, the People's Army took away the excess farmland of the Zhang family and confiscated half of the Zhang family's wealth. Only then did they obtain the ID card issued by the People's Military Government and were protected by the People's Army in the People's Army ruling area.

After obtaining his ID card, Zhang Qing was relieved. As long as he could save his life and pay most of his wealth, he could accept it. If the wealth is gone, he would be gone. If the person is gone, everything will be gone. As long as the person is still there, he can make more wealth.

However, now Zhang Qing is a little worried about the two sons of Jinling City in the capital, and millions of Ming troops were defeated by the People's Army. Zhang Qing felt that the Ming Dynasty was really going to be destroyed by the People's Army. Fortunately, after hearing Zhang Liang's advice, the whole family did not flee to the north. When the People's Army general Daming was destroyed, the Zhang family would have no place to escape.

Zhang Qing planned to spend this period first, and when everything settled down, he would go to Guangdong to visit Liang Xin in person and thank Liang Xin.

Zhang Qing was just one of the gentry and merchants who stayed and saved their lives. Some people like Zhang Qing stayed and saved their lives. Before the war, no one expected that the millions of Ming troops would be defeated by the People's Army so soon. It was incredible.

In addition to Zhang Qing, a gentry merchant who had cleaned up his problems in advance, less than one-fifth of the gentry merchants who had not had time to escape were able to save their lives. The gentry merchants who saved their lives also included those who were demoted to coolies, and at least they were still alive.

Originally, there were many gentry and merchants in Guangxi, Jiangxi, Fujian and Huguang provinces who did not do evil, but because of the arrival of the People's Army, they were afraid of the People's Army and those who could run away ran away. Even if they heard a little news that the People's Army would not attack the kind gentry and merchants, they could not completely relieve themselves.

It doesn't matter if the vast majority of gentry and merchants run away, but more importantly, their wealth. The People's Army cannot issue credit coins. The development of the People's Army still needs gold and silver to support it. Those gentry and merchants escape and cannot take away all their wealth. A large amount of gold and silver was buried underground by gentry and merchants in advance.

There are many money houses in China, and there are people's money houses under the rule of the People's Army, but they do not provide deposit business. Even if there is deposit business, others are not at ease to store money in money houses. Trust is one aspect, but more importantly, it is more at ease to put money at home.

The rich and gentry and merchants fled their hometown in a hurry, and they could not take away all the gold and silver in their homes, nor would they choose to take away all the gold and silver. During the war, there were too many dangers on the road. Maybe the servants rebelled together and robbed the master's money and killed them. They might encounter defeated soldiers, thieves, etc. on the road, and they would bring a lot of money to the road, but instead they were seeking death.

If you buy some money in a house in another place in advance, it would be fine. If you run away in a hurry, you can only bring some valuable things. If you can bring gold, you will never bring silver.

The People's Army had long learned that gentry and merchants buried a large amount of gold and silver and antiques in the land. In order to find these wealth buried in the land, the People's Military Governments in various places issued announcements to the people under their rule and sought clues from the people.

Once the clues provided by the people are useful, a monetary reward will be given according to the people's contributions, at least ten taels of silver and up to one thousand taels of silver.

The gentry and merchants fled in a hurry, and it was impossible for all the servants in the family to take away. Although burying wealth only requires a confidant to do it, other servants may also know where the wealth is buried.

The People's Army does not mind giving large rewards to collect clues. The wealth buried by the gentry and merchants belong to the People's Army according to the law. They dare to use it casually. Once discovered, they will be severely punished. Moreover, ordinary people suddenly have large sums of gold and silver, and anyone can feel that there is something wrong.
Chapter completed!