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Chapter 437

Zhu Shuren was naturally very excited when he heard that the battle in the Pizhou battlefield had finally ended, and that the Qing army had forced the Qing army to capture Kong Youde and captured him alive because of the lack of food supplies.

When I got the news, it was already the end of the twelfth lunar month in the third year of Longwu, and Zhu Shuren himself had already returned to Nanjing.

After all, the large-scale attack on the front line is basically over, and the follow-up stalemate and small-scale encroachment advances do not need his personal supervision, and the generals should be fully trusted.

After all, Zhu Shuren was in power, and he couldn't leave the center of the court for too long, and he had to take care of both sides.

As the end of the new year approaches and the weather is cold, it is also a good thing to return to Nanjing, where it is relatively warm, to accompany my wife and children, and to celebrate the weather of ZTE during the New Year.

Therefore, the good news of Kong Youde's arrest is still of great use value to Zhu Shuren.In this year's series of decisive battles, a Manchu prince and a county king were killed, but no one was captured alive and sentenced to death. I always feel that something is missing.

Among the traitor generals, King Sanshun has the greatest weight.After all, Wu Sangui in this life has never formally surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, but only let the Qing soldiers enter the customs, but in the end he turned around anyway, and the crime is not too big.Without Wu Sangui, who else is worthy to compare with King Sanshun?

At the last moment, Geng Zhongming took the initiative to lead his troops to jump over the wall, fight with Boluo Yuele, and died. Although his own crimes were quite serious, but in this way, Zhu Shuren had no choice but to reward his son Geng Jimao heavily, and also had to give Geng Jimao some powerless pure nobility.

Shang Kexi is still in the north, so he has not been entrusted with important tasks this time, and to be honest, Shang Kexi’s reason for becoming a thief in the first place is also a little more forgivable than Geng Zhongming, Kong Youde, and it can be regarded as forcing him to the top, and his benchmarking is not as good as those two. powerful.

Therefore, Daming really lacked a prince from the enemy army to cheer up the people in the capital.

Zhu Shuren ordered his subordinates to bring Kong Youde here as soon as possible, and try to hang him with herbs on the way so that he would not die easily.In the end, I hurried and hurried, and it was transported to Nanjing City on the 27th of the twelfth lunar month.

It would be bad if it dragged on for a few more days and killed people after the Chinese New Year.It is better to use the sacrificial knife to remove bad luck before New Year's Eve.

Naturally, the Ministry of Punishment is also expedited in various ways. As long as there is no time for a slow trial, all kinds of materials are prepared in advance. It only took half a day for the public trial to open everyone's eyes. Listen in the lobby.

Therefore, the vast majority of officials of the fifth rank and above in Nanjing, as well as meritorious officials with titles, who are not on duty, naturally come to join in this "patriotic attention education".

After the questioning, they dragged Kong Youde away that afternoon, took him to the archway of the Confucius Temple by the Qinhuai River, and ate him. This place of execution was specially selected, and the execution of Lingchi sinners in Nanjing is not usually carried out here.

Isn't this how Kong Youde often advertised that he was a descendant of Confucius, and that he was able to produce a family tree in a serious way?It can also be regarded as a warning to other spineless traitors by the way.

In the end, before New Year's Eve, Kong Youde was cut into a skeleton in a hurry, and then his bones were smashed into ashes.

Everyone in Nanjing is excited, and the atmosphere of the New Year has also been heightened to a certain point.Both civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty firmly believed that the Ming Dynasty would achieve greater victories in the coming year, and that the complete recovery of the Central Plains was just around the corner.

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The wheel of history quickly turned to the fourth year of Longwu.

In the city of Nanjing, there was joy everywhere, even Emperor Longwu Zhu Changhao, who was cowardly and lazy and often let Zhu Shuren, Shi Kefa, and Shen Tingyang handle the government affairs, participated in various government affairs more frequently recently.

Of course, Zhu Changhao didn't want to take care of those complicated things, it's just because all the generals have made too many meritorious deeds recently,

Not only the central capital was recovered, but also the entire territory of Nanzhili (Southern Zhili bordered Shandong in the Ming Dynasty, and later generations from northern Jiangsu to Xuzhou were counted as Nanzhili) and a few Henan prefectures.

For such a great contribution, there are too many military generals who need to be rewarded and promoted. Zhu Changhao has to meet with him often, talk in depth to persuade him, and discuss with the civil officials. Come out to collect honors.

As we all know, in theory, the Ming Dynasty has always maintained those titles with the title of Dudufu in the early Ming Dynasty, but the actual power became smaller in the later period, and they were all controlled by the noble descendants of the year.

But since the late Emperor Chongzhen was martyred for the country, the bunch of nobles in Beijing are naturally all finished.Later, Nanjing City was beaten to the ground by Duoduo, and the few nobles who stayed in Nanjing did not perform well. After Zhu Shuren later relieved the siege of Nanjing, of course he had to sort out and rectify with excuses, and remove the incompetent nobles.

If Xungui is willing to contribute to the imperial court, do it well, and be worthy of that Shilu, it's okay to keep it.But since they are almost like the vassal kings, why waste this money?
A dynasty has been going on for a long time, and the drag is getting heavier and heavier, because the system cannot be reinstalled, and the debris piles up more and more!The vassal king should be cleaned up, and the abolished nobles should also be cleaned up.

It's just that Zhu Shuren's confidants who were personally promoted before didn't have enough credit, so Zhu Shuren just retired and didn't intervene.

Now, Zhu Shuren is also planning to give the vain titles left by the "Jing Nan" nobles to the generals he himself promoted.

Zhu Di was able to promote his cronies back then, but only because of his achievements in the civil war. Can he, Zhu Shuren, not be promoted now?The whole world has been reshuffled, this time it is a meritorious service for salvation and reconstruction, shouldn't it be more respectable than Zhu Dichao's civil war generals?

Zhu Shuren would not let go of this opportunity if he had the opportunity to re-bless him after formatting.

Of course, it is still too high to directly give the position of commander-in-chief of the left and right armies, but it is still possible to get a low-level position of authority, or just take some admiral positions in the Nanjing Jingying camp as honors.

Leave a little space, and it won't be too late to recover Hebei, Shandong, and Shanxi in the future. In the end, you have to leave a little space to recover Liaodong and go straight to Shenyang.

The first batch of those who deserve the most rewards are naturally Cao Bianjiao, Huang Degong and others with the most outstanding military exploits, who have obtained the corresponding virtual titles in the left and right military governor systems. .

The morale of the Ming army rose again, and the generals no longer worried that they would not be able to be promoted after being granted the title of Marquis and General, nor worried that there would be no rewards. Naturally, they were more grateful to Prince E.

From New Year's Day to the Shangyuan Festival, the Nanjing Palace gave banquets day after day to praise the generals.When everyone was promoted, they couldn't help expressing their determination to fight again with Zhu Shuren, hoping to speed up the Northern Expedition as soon as possible this year.

However, Zhu Shuren pressed the rhythm a little bit for everyone's enthusiasm, saying that there is no need to worry about it, and privately told Cao Bianjiao and others:
"Wars are not won only by fighting on the battlefield, but by responding to each other quickly. Back then, Cao Cao cut him off, Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi fled to Liaodong to vote for Gongsun Kang, and Guo Jia knew that the two thieves would form a group if there was an urgent need, and if the plan was slow, they would be suspicious of each other. Wouldn't it be great if Gongsun Kang finally sent the second head of the Yuan Dynasty because of self-inflicted harm?
For today's plan, Dorgon advocated the Southern Expedition twice within the Tartars, but they all failed miserably. The so-called everything can never be done again. The death of Duoduo three years ago has already made Dorgon the leader of the Central Plains. Eliminated more than half.No matter how disastrous this time, Azig also died, can Dorgon's position last long?
Right now we should not fight the Tartars to death, but fight and use both, while continuing to show our muscles, proving that our Ming Dynasty has the ability to fully occupy the Yellow River defense line.On the one hand, we must send out various channels of diplomatic deception to mislead the peaceful and vacillating factions among the Tartars.

Let them believe that I am not yet ready for a full-scale counterattack, and I was only forced by Dorgon's invasion before!We only want to have a solid line of defense before the stalemate continues, and we have a long-term plan.

As long as the situation eases, there will inevitably be changes within the Tatars. At that time, we will deal the final blow to the Tartars, and we will definitely not hinder you from advancing forward!Go straight to Huanglong! "

Zhu Shuren has established the absolute prestige of divine prophecy in the myth of being undefeated for many years.Of course, no one will doubt his grand strategic vision.

Of course, Cao Bianjiao and other generals immediately expressed their absolute convincing, and they must follow the timetable set by Prince E and strictly prohibit them.

After dealing with the rewards for many powerful generals, seeing that the Lantern Festival had passed, Zhu Shuren took stock and found that there were still two people who needed to be dealt with separately.

The first special object of meritorious deeds was Geng Jimao who defected during the Battle of Feishui, swung a knife at Abate's personal guards in order to survive, and finally killed Abate by falsely claiming to be in battle.

Although he knew that Geng Jimao was definitely a despicable villain, but since he was rebellious, he later helped Daming disrupt the Qing army in Fengyang and help Daming recover the central capital.His father Geng Zhongming, the old traitor, was also killed by the chaos, and Zhu Shuren could only hold his nose and give the Geng family superficial treatment.

In the end, he officially named Geng Jimao an earl, gave a large reward, and retained the title of general soldier, and even allowed him to continue to lead the surviving Han army banner soldiers who he brought along with him on the Feishui battlefield.

But in fact, Zhu Shuren would definitely not give him the opportunity to make a contribution. At most, he would put it on the secondary battlefield, and it would not be his turn to upgrade the weapons and equipment.This is also to appease people's hearts and set up a signboard to recruit surrender and rebellion.

Except for real power, Zhu Shuren is not stingy in other aspects. No, he even asked Geng Jimao to visit the palace several times during the Chinese New Year.When the palace hosted a banquet for the generals, Geng Jimao was allowed to drink with those famous generals.

Anyway, this kind of benefit that has no real harm and only needs to be paid for face can be given.

In this way, Geng Jimao wins over, Kong Youde Lingchi, and the two models of pros and cons have been established. Naturally, there will be a steelyard in mind about how to choose the northern traitors in the future.

After placating Geng Jimao, Zhu Shuren only had one last special case of reward for meritorious deeds—in the Battle of Xinyang, Li Yu led a rifle sniper team to kill Azig.

In the Battle of Xinyang, Zhang Huangyan made the first contribution. It goes without saying that Zhu Wenzhen made the second contribution. In the subsequent large-scale counter-offensive, Jiang Shoude, Li Dingguo, and Sun Kewang all made contributions, and naturally they all received rewards. That's it.

The killing of Azig was no small matter. Not only did Zhang Huangyan secure the position of governor, but Zhu Shuren even promised that he would be the governor of more than one province if he continued to attack north in the future!For example, both Henan and Shanxi, or Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia are also negotiable.In addition, Zhang Huangyan was also granted the title of Marquis.

Zhu Wenzhen, who directly commanded the army, was also conferred the title of title and received the title of general.

Li Yu's level is even lower than Zhu Wenzhen's, he is just a specific sniper mission.But the most troublesome thing is that he is a Korean,

And even though he helped Zhu Shuren fight for five or six years, he has always asked to keep a low profile and keep his name anonymous to prevent the leakage of his life experience from bringing disaster to his family in North Korea.

When he first came in the 15th year of Chongzhen, he just "brought capital into the team" and brought a battalion of North Korean gunmen with him. Zhu Shuren appointed him as a garrison according to the size of the troops he brought.In the past five years, he has accumulated merits successively. He has participated in the war since he fought Zhang Xianzhong in Hunan, and gradually promoted to the capital, guerrilla, and general...

This time to kill Azig again, it is absolutely necessary to give a general soldier, and it is not enough.

After all, if Daming was a well-connected military general with a strong background, he would be able to be promoted to the general army by killing a Jia Laerzhen of the Qing army. Definitely get promoted.

Azige is the prince of the banner owner, Dorgon's only sibling brother, how can he be promoted to the general army?
Therefore, Zhu Shuren felt that it was necessary to bring him in for a talk this time.

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Three days after the Shangyuan Festival, Li Yu, who seldom went to Nanjing to report on his work, was summoned and asked to have a banquet at the Mansion of Prince E.

To be honest, since Li Yu was rescued to the south, she only passed by Nanjing for a short time, and spent most of her time traveling around the Huguang theater.Now it is rare to have the opportunity to stay in Nanjing for a longer period of time. I am still very curious and feel a sense of pilgrimage.

After all, he is a Korean. It is an honor to be able to go to the capital of Ming Dynasty.The city of Nanjing is much wider than their petty Seoul mansion. After Li Yu came, the daily travel schedule was very full.

Being called to Prince E's Mansion this time, it was naturally like a countryman entering the city.As far as the ears and eyes could see, it was even more luxurious than what he saw when he was a teenager and had the rare opportunity to accompany his father to the Gyeongbokgung Palace for a banquet.

"I heard that this is not the official palace of Prince E, but a courtyard he built next to the Princess Palace. I don't know how extravagant the formal Prince E's Mansion will be, and how luxurious the Forbidden City will be."

Li Yu felt dizzy and was led to the place. It was a water pavilion in a pool, with cold plums planted all over the pool, and the atmosphere was quiet.Zhu Shuren was sitting on it, with staff and guards on the left and right, but no other guests, so it can be seen that it was a private banquet.

Seeing this posture, Li Yu was overwhelmed with flattery. She didn't expect to invite him specially today, so she hurriedly knelt down and saluted him.

Zhu Shuren was turning his back to him at that time, admiring the plums and standing leisurely. When he heard the guests came, he was not in a hurry to turn around. He just held a glass of warm wine and murmured thoughtfully:
"Sit down, Li Yu, how many years have you been with Gu?"

Li Yu quickly thanked him, then carefully sat sideways on the table set up for him, and quickly answered in detail: "It's been six years, and this year is the seventh year."

Zhu Shuren took a sip of the hot wine, but still didn't look back: "I remember that before you came to vote, you used the alias Li Yue in the Qing camp?"

Li Yu: "Back then, my father was reluctant to part with the junior general's third brother, and let the latter pretend to be his name...just to deceive the Tartars."

Then Zhu Shuren nodded, turned around and sat down: "My father, Mr. Diaoyan, was the judge of the Korean soldier Cao, is he still?"

Li Yu: "Due to some accidents in the middle, he was pursued by the Tartars. The king (Li Yu) once demoted my father to the general army envoy to paralyze the Tartars.

But that was all before Huang Taiji died.Later, the limelight passed, and Dorgon had no time to look around after he came to power, so the king quietly promoted my father back to Bingcao Judgment Book. "

After Zhu Shuren heard this, he was also a little moved. It has been several years, and the personnel and affairs of all parties have gone through ups and downs.He took a sip of tea, seemed to think of something, waved his hand and ordered: "Eat and talk, don't be cautious, everyone can do as they please."

Only then did Li Yu dare to start eating, but he was still very cautious, and basically picked Zhu Shuren when he was eating and drinking and had no time to ask questions, so he took a quick bite.

Once Zhu Shuren put down his cup and chopsticks to think about it and may ask questions at any time, he had to make sure that there was no food in his mouth so that the leader could answer the question in response.

After thinking about it, Zhu Shuren said frankly: "In these years, I haven't dared to publicize you, and the rewards have been kept as low-key as possible. That's not because the rewards and punishments are unknown, but also to protect your family. After all, North Korea was forced to become a vassal state of the Tartars. Well, your father lied to the Tartars about your affairs.

No, I gave Geng Jimao a reward a few days ago, but I didn't dare to publicize it before, because I was afraid that Geng Zhongming was in the enemy camp, and if he really wanted to join Daming, he would be implicated?It wasn't until Geng Zhongming and the Tartars died in the same fire that Gu only gave Geng Jimao Ming a title. "

Li Yu also thought that Zhu Shuren wanted to use this to say, "In order not to hurt your father, when calculating the military exploits of killing Azig this time, we should try our best to reward money secretly, but don't make it public."

So he quickly expressed his understanding, and said that everything was sharpened by the prince's equipment. They just obeyed the command, trained strictly, and performed normally, and they dared not take credit for it.

Zhu Shuren waved his hand this time, indicating that he had guessed wrong: "No, this time I don't intend to hide it anymore. There is another way, which can be rewarded for every meritorious service without hurting your family. I dare not accept this task.”

Li Yu's spirit shivered, and he quickly said that it was luck to be reused by the prince, and there was nothing he could not do.

Zhu Shuren went straight to the point: "Gu has asked Your Majesty to reopen Dongjiang Town in name, but it is not necessary to set up a town on Phi Island where Mao Wenlong was stationed, it can be set up in Yalu Jiangnan and North Korea.

As long as you have the courage to take on this heavy responsibility, you will be the commander-in-chief of Daming Dongjiang Town.With the merit of killing Azig, it's not enough to be a general soldier, and I also invited you to be a general.

Gu can allocate one battalion of elite soldiers to your headquarters, and give you the establishment and weapons of two battalions, and will also bear the corresponding military salary. General Zhang Mingzhen of Zhenhai can escort you back to Kaizhen in North Korea.However, you will have to raise military rations in North Korea by yourself in the future, and it is impossible to transport rations across the sea.

I don't even ask North Korea to attack the Tartars immediately, but as long as you defend the Yalu River, openly re-recognize my Ming Dynasty as Zhengshuo, and expel the Tartars as envoys, you will be considered a great achievement.

What Gu wants now is to fully pressure and encircle the Tartars, and completely destroy Dorgon's prestige!Let the Tartars feel betrayed!If the Tartars dare to attack North Korea, you will use your three battalions of soldiers and horses to join forces with North Korea's original army to fight.If the Tartars are powerful, Guzi will send another reinforcement to bleed the Tartars on the Yalu River line of defense! "

Zhu Shuren's conditions were not without tricks. He was also worried that advanced weapons would leak out, so Li Yu would never let Li Yu take back the sniper rifle.

The elite soldiers of that battalion only made 8000 muskets for Wuchang, and there were [-] bird guns, Lumi guns, and turtledove guns that were only made for previous years.As for the equipment for the remaining two battalions of [-] people, it is only given to the earlier old Ming army standard equipment, but the quantity is ensured to be sufficient.

To put it bluntly, many of them were eliminated and replaced after the upgrade of the Ming army, and they were enough for North Korean Dongyi.They also confiscated money from the North Koreans, so what bicycles do they need?

As for the military salary, it is to bring a batch of conscription money directly as settlement expenses and payment, and other things will be settled on the spot by North Korea to reduce logistical pressure.

When Li Yu heard it, his blood boiled immediately.

He has been working as a part-timer for six years, and the benefits are many, but he can't see the light and feel bad.Hearing what the lord said, he can finally see the light for nothing!Although opportunities and risks certainly coexist.

After Zhu Shuren gave his orders, he also showed him a copy of the edict that had not yet been printed and was only drafted and had not gone through the process. As long as he accepted it, he would be "General Anton".

Of course, the Ming Dynasty did not have a formal system of generals, and the number of generals added was randomly selected from the generals with miscellaneous names in ancient times.

Therefore, it is not like the Han and Tang Dynasties that there is a sequence of "four expeditions, four towns, four peace and four safety". "General Anton" is not necessarily nobler than Liu Guoneng's "General Smash Bandits" or Huang Degong's "General Suppressing Thieves", they are all in the same class.

Strictly speaking, the title of "Krupp" that Zhu Shuren held for a short period of two years was almost as valuable as those who suppressed thieves and bandits, but it has been abandoned now.

The prince finally made up his mind to turn over the table, so he let go and promoted him to general.

Li Yu knew very well in her heart that this matter would definitely cause trouble, and the Tartars would definitely put pressure on them when they knew about it.However, the situation of strength and weakness between the Ming and Qing Dynasties has been reversed. If North Korea jumped ship in time and went back to normal, it will be good to say that it was indeed forced by the Tartars in the future.

And no matter what happened to the King of Korea, Li Yu's family would definitely benefit a lot from it.His father is already a military judge. If their family has the support of Daming, wouldn't it be easy to be promoted to the leader of the government (equivalent to the chief minister of the cabinet on Daming's side)?At that time, they will have the final say on everything in North Korea!

In fact, there is no need for the butterfly effect of Li Yu to occur, because in the original history, one year later (1649), after the current Joseon king Li Ji passed away, he entrusted himself to Li Shibai to assist the government when he was dying, and Li Shibai automatically became the king of Korea. He was promoted to Zuo Yizheng and official Cao Juanshu.In a few years, he will slowly rise to the position of leader.

If Li Yu returns to China, it will only speed up the process for five or six years.

After figuring out the pros and cons, Li Yu immediately patted her chest to make a promise, kowtowed to thank her, and expressed that she would fulfill the prince's entrustment.

Zhu Shuren nodded: "Then you can rest for half a month, restrain the troops and get ready, after the first month, when the wind direction is smooth, let Zhang Mingzhen send a fleet to transport you back to Seoul."

"The last general obeys his orders!" Li Yu trembled when she clasped her fists, and there was still a thought in her heart.

He was just Li Shibai's concubine son, so his father didn't pay attention to him back then, and asked him to act as a substitute for his third brother, who was his son, and go to the Qing Dynasty as a hostage to bear the danger.

Now he is the Dongjiang General Soldier and General Anton conferred by the Emperor Ming Dynasty!There are three camps and guards!Bring 8000 elite soldiers, and [-] weapons and equipment, and pay, and return to the country to recruit troops to guard.This is definitely a shotgun change!

Those three direct brothers, dare to look down on him as a concubine brother!
(End of this chapter)