Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 57
After all, Zhu Cihong was the prince before, and they wanted to cultivate some relationship with Zhu Cihong, but no one dared to act.

It's because Ma Shiying and other Jinling officials, that is, the Liudu officials, have always been near Jinling, and almost all their relatives and children are here.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has collapsed, the capital has fallen, and a new emperor is about to ascend the throne, that means a new imperial court is about to appear. In other words, many official positions will be vacated for local snakes who have left their capitals.

And when the officials from Nandu came, they all had a higher status than these local snakes, and they still had titles in the capital's official office. If they were recognized, then these local snakes would be of no benefit when the new emperor ascended the throne and the new dynasty was established. It can be fished.

Therefore, Ma Shiying, a group of civil and military ministers whose power is rooted in Jinling, is unusually united when facing Nandu officials. recognize their positions.

As a result, these Nandu officials had no choice but to rely on Zhu Cihong. They could only be officials when they were united under his command. If Zhu Cihong ascended the throne in the future, they would become heroes of the dragon and heroes of decision-making.

The next day, Zhu Cihong put on his court clothes and came to the Hall of Supreme Harmony. His seat was opposite to that of Prince Fu, and the height was exactly the same.

It's just that King Fu is still the prince, a bit inferior to Zhu Cihong's prince, so the clothes he wears are not as luxurious as Zhu Cihong's.

"His Royal Highness called all civil and military officials from Jinling to the court meeting today. I wonder if there is something important?" Ma Shiying asked Zhu Cihong as he stood in front of the civil officials holding a wat board.

"I called you here today. Actually, there is no major matter to discuss, but there are some important matters that I need to inform you personally."

After finishing speaking, Zhu Cihong went on to say, "Shandong's soldiers and civilians have gathered troops to revolt before, and have arrested and expelled the treacherous and puppet officials. Now the dragons in Shandong have no leader, and there is only Yiji King. Although there are hundreds of thousands of rebels around him, but I don’t know how to dispatch and command.”

"So I sent the soldiers in my mansion to help him, and I also dispatched more than [-] horse and infantry soldiers from the Shandong Rebel Army to attack Guide, and now the whole territory of Guide has been recovered."

Hearing Zhu Cihong's words, the civil and military officials below talked a lot. In fact, they also knew about Shandong's affairs, but because the source of the news was too single, they didn't know whether it was true or not. Now from Zhu Cihong's mouth, everyone Believe it.

Ruan Dacheng poked Ma Shiying, and said privately, "He got hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Shandong, and sent troops to recover the lost land. What should we do?"

Ma Shiying replied, "Don't worry, the crown prince just killed a small Guide, so there's nothing to worry about."

"Besides, the Shandong rebel army is nothing more than local chickens and dogs. How can it compare with the elite soldiers and strong generals of the four towns? Although the quota of the four towns is only 12, they are not afraid of the 120 million so-called rebels."

After all, Ma Shiying is a man of insight. He has seen the elite soldiers of the four towns and Lu Jiude's soldiers these days, so he knows what a regular army is, which is completely different from the militia he saw in the countryside before.

Wearing heavy armor, advancing and retreating in an orderly manner, arrows raining like rain, and cannons thundering like thunder, not to mention all the soldiers in the four towns can achieve this level, but the elite can still do it.

But since even Ma Shiying wanted to know that the rebels were local chickens and dogs, Zhu Cihong couldn't have imagined that his main event was yet to come.

"However, although the former Ming officials in Guide surrendered to the enemy before, they surrendered before the battle, which is enough to make up for their merits and demerits."

"I want them to obey their original positions and still be local officials, but other than that, in order to prevent them from being arrogant, they should not be given any rewards."

Zhu Cihong put forward his own idea, and then it depends on whether the officials agree or not, but Zhu Cihong is sure that this order will be stamped with the seal of the state supervisor, and then promulgated to the world.

Because Qian Qianyi had already been angry with him before, the Donglin Party members would abandon their views on Qingliu and fully support him.

"I agree, now that the world is in crisis and the Central Plains has fallen into the hands of our enemies, we should abandon our old opinions and accept them. What's more, the Northern Kingdom has fallen. I don't know how many of them are our relatives and friends. How can we, because of their temporary mistakes, And abandon them, or even kill them?"

"On behalf of the world's Qingliu literati, I agree with the high opinion of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Just when Qian Qianyi finished speaking and was about to retreat, Ma Shiying suddenly stood up and refuted him.

"Qian Shilang's words are wrong. If they hadn't surrendered without a fight in the face of adversity, why would the late emperor be in the capital of Bintian?"

"If there were one or two loyal ministers among them who recruited soldiers to guard the city and refused to let intruders outside, how could Li Chuang drive straight in, enter Guanzhong from Henan in a few months, and then cross the Yellow River to take the capital directly."

"If the imperial court pardons their crimes, wouldn't it tell the people of the world that they will not be guilty of any crime if they rebel and surrender to the enemy, or even kill their father? Wouldn't that bring chaos to the world?"

Hearing what Ma Shiying said, Fu Wang, who was originally tense, suddenly relieved a lot. It seemed that a person who had been constipated for a long time had finally drained the toxins from his body.

Just when Qian Qianyi heard Ma Shiying's rebuttal and was about to stand up and argue with him again, Zhu Cihong suddenly stood up.

"That's enough, don't say any more." Zhu Cihong's voice was full of anger, like a vajra glaring at him.

Hearing Zhu Cihong's roar, all the civil and military officials in the Hall of Supreme Harmony couldn't understand the situation, but out of the habit of serving Chongzhen, they knelt down without saying a word, and said, "Your Highness calmed down, it's my fault."

In fact, they didn't know why Zhu Cihong was angry at all, let alone why they knelt down to the prince and King Fu. It was just that some people got used to it during the Chongzhen Dynasty, while others followed the trend when they saw someone kneeling. knelt down.

Seeing such a scene, Zhu Cihong was a little shocked, thinking, am I so powerful, you all kneel when I get angry, or are your knees too soft?
Compared with the explanation that Zhu Cihong was too scary, he still felt that the knees of these ministers in Jinling were too soft, which was more real.

Otherwise, how can we explain the fact that in the first year of Hongguang in history, Prince Yu Duoduo led his troops to the south, and the officials of Jinling knelt down on both sides of the street to greet him, and Jiangnan almost surrendered without a fight.

"My father, the emperor, has worked hard for more than ten years, but the country's affairs have gone from bad to worse. Every year is not as good as the next year. They are defeated by the Tartars externally and defeated by the rogues internally. They are all these people. .”

(End of this chapter)