Daming Military Empire

Chapter 65
Seeing Zhu Cijiong's embarrassment, Cao Huachun on the side offered a plan: "Huang Degong, who stayed behind in Fengyang, the central capital, used to be a famous general in the Beijing camp. He was loyal and capable of fighting well. He also had [-] troops under his command. Zhao Zhilong is definitely not his opponent. Why don't you follow this order?" Let Huang Degong go to conquer Zhao Wenlong."

Zhu Cijiong heard the words, thought about it carefully, and felt that it was not appropriate to go directly to the conquest. Daming was already in turmoil, and if there was a civil war, it would be better if it could be taken down quickly. Later Jin and the peasant uprising army attacked again, and Ming Dynasty was likely to perish because of this!
To deal with those villains, it's better to be cunning, so he shook his head, and said to Luo Yangxing angrily: "Aren't you going to play cunning with them? Check out their details first, find a month On a dark night, when they suddenly strike and grab all their brains, how can their soldiers turn upside down without their commanders?"

Hearing this, Luo Yangxing bit the bullet and said: "Your Majesty, there are more than 1000 officials, large and small, in Nanjing. If they are all in the same group, I can't guarantee that everything will be safe if I send all the Jinyiwei there. If someone escapes Now, there will be big trouble."

Zhu Cijiong thought for a while after hearing the words, nodded and said: "Well, you send someone to investigate first, and when the investigation is almost done, I will personally lead the Shenji Camp and the elite left behind in Fengyang, the central capital, to fight for you. It doesn't matter much if one or two people get away."

Only then did Luo Yangxing feel relieved, as long as the [-] army dared not move, he would be more than enough to deal with powerless literati and a group of guards.

As for the fact that Emperor Chongzheng Zhu Cijiong wanted to personally lead the army to suppress the formation, no one present felt strange. The emperors of the Ming Dynasty had a tradition, that is, they liked to march in person.Both Taizu and Chengzu were emperors who came out on horseback, and it was commonplace to lead an army to fight against Meng Yuan, so that the subsequent emperors took them as role models, and they would drive themselves to conquer at every turn.

Is there any danger in the imperial conquest?Of course there are, like Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen was captured by the Mongolian Wacha tribe in Tumubao, and almost died in another country.But the emperor of the Ming Dynasty had such a bloodliness. Facing alien races and enemy countries, no matter what, he would not surrender even if it was death.For example, after Ming Yingzong was captured, the Ming court categorically rejected Mongolia's request for property in exchange for Yingzong. Emperor Yingzong would rather die than surrender.

This is the Ming Dynasty's policy towards the enemy country, "no kinship, no compensation, no land cession, and no tribute."

Although the Ming Dynasty did not have the arrogance of the Han Dynasty, the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, or the prosperity of the Song Dynasty, it had a sense of righteousness and righteousness.As the saying goes:
The emperor guards the gate of the country,
The king died in the country,
Great Ming Zhengqi Book,
Han children are not slaves.

Even in the midst of internal and external troubles at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty still divided its troops into two groups to deal tenaciously with the Qing army and Li Zicheng, and never gave up the desire to "recover the whole Liao Dynasty" for the land outside the pass.

In fact, the death of the Ming Dynasty was not at the hands of the emperor. Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian was a bloody emperor who never gave up his defense against the Qing army; Wu Sangui let it in. The capital of Nanming was handed over to the Qing army by Qian Qianyi and Zhao Wenlong. Zhu Youlang, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was also hanged by Wu Sangui himself.

Before his death, Emperor Chongzhen summoned his cabinet ministers for the last time and said a very reasonable sentence: "I am not a king of a subjugated country, but you are all ministers of a subjugated country." The Ming Dynasty was destroyed by a group of treacherous villains.With the lessons of Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian, our Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong will naturally not repeat the same mistakes. He has always come out to deal with villains one by one, and will never tolerate them.

Now that the villain Zhao Zhilong has appeared, it is natural to take care of him, even if he has an army of [-], he still needs to be dealt with. If there is no threat from Hou Jin and the peasant uprising army, Zhu Cijiong will definitely send troops to conquer immediately.But in the situation of internal and external troubles at the end of the Ming Dynasty, he could only suppress his anger and slowly figure it out.

In fact, as long as they are equipped with new types of flintlock guns and grenades, the [-] Beijing Imperial Guards can defeat Zhao Wenlong's [-] Ming troops head-on. It can be over.

The problem now is that we can't blatantly organize a large army to go to Nanjing, but when Jin Yiwei starts the arrest operation, there must be a large army to suppress the [-] troops left behind in Nanjing.

This problem is very troublesome. Zhu Cijiong thought about it for a long time, and finally came up with a clever plan, which is to go to Fengyang, the central capital, to worship the ancestors in person.

Fengyang Mansion, the central capital of the Ming Dynasty, is located in the northern part of Southern Zhili. It borders on the Xuanchen Governor of Henan Province in the north and Yingtian Mansion in Nanjing in the south. The Huai River flows through the whole area. The place where Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was born and grew up.

All the emperors of the Ming Dynasty had the custom of worshiping their ancestors in Fengyang, and Zhu Cijiong was no exception.When he first came to the throne, the eunuchs were raging, and he had no time to come to Zhongdu to worship the ancestors. After the eunuchs were cleaned up, the peasant uprising in Shaanxi broke out again. Coupled with the invasion of Hou Jin, he had no time to come to worship the ancestors. .

In October of the third year of Chongzheng, Zhu Cijiong solved the troubles caused by the drought in the northwest through the great relocation, and the rapid development of the peasant uprising army was also curbed. In addition, because of the fall of Guangning in Liaodong, Hou Jin was temporarily unable to attack Ming Dynasty. Emperor Chongzheng finally found time to come to Fengyang, the central capital, to worship his ancestors.

The ostentation of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty to worship the ancestors is naturally a big deal, and there are no less than [-] Jinyiwei used alone. From the capital to Henan, and then from Henan to Fengyang, and even Yingtian Mansion to the south of Fengyang, there are Jinyiwei everywhere. The [-] troops left behind in the central capital were even more prepared to defend, for fear that something might happen to the emperor.

Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong left the capital under the heavy protection of Ten Thousand Jinyi Guards and Ten Thousand Jingying Elites, crossed Henan, and came to Fengyang. He first held a grand ancestor worship ceremony in the ancestral house, and then followed the Taizu's footsteps. Wandering around Fengyang Mansion, he seemed to be addicted to playing for a while, and he never returned to the capital.

After all, Emperor Chongzheng was only a child of eight or nine years old, and he finally left the Forbidden City to come to the vast world of Fengyang.

But, is he really playful?Of course not. When Zhu Cijiong came to Fengyang, worshiping the ancestors was just an excuse on the surface. In fact, he wanted to mobilize Fengyang's army to ambush at the junction of Yingtian Mansion and Fengyang Mansion. Once Luo Yangxing arrested people, the army would quickly go south and surround Nanjing City, deterring the army left behind in Nanjing.

So our little emperor "suddenly" found a fun place in the south of Fengyang Mansion, and then he stayed there and did not leave. All the Jinyiwei, Imperial Guards, and Fengyang's remaining army naturally guarded all around, keeping The junction of Fengyang Mansion and Yingtian Mansion was completely surrounded.

(End of this chapter)