Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 90

Gao Jie decided not to do one thing, but to avoid Zhu Cihong's suspicion and fear, he simply handed over all the power in his hands. Only in this way, Zhu Cihong could let him go.

Anyway, I was in Yangzhou, and I betrayed the peasant army, and accepted the surrender of the government in the past few years. I really killed a lot of wealthy households and robbed countless gold and silver treasures. Even ten lifetimes are enough for myself.

"What did you say?" Zhu Cihong was stunned, to be precise, he couldn't believe Gao Jie's words.

Obviously he just slapped Gao Jie with words just now and wanted him to be soft in front of him, Zhu Cihong couldn't figure out why Gao Jie resigned from his official position and title, and gave up his power.

Zhu Cihong thought about it for a long time, but he could only find one most suitable reason, that is, the domineering aura in him was too strong for Gao Jie to bear, so he told himself that he would resign from his official position and title.

In fact, there has never been a domineering aura, and it is difficult for a person's temperament to affect others. Even if you kill 1 people, and your body is full of illusory murderous aura, it is difficult for an ordinary person to stand in front of you. You scare the shit out of you.

If such a situation really occurs, don't doubt it, it must be that you are too ugly.

The reason why Gao Jie really said this was because of Zhu Cihong's well-informed knowledge and his fear of the mysterious imperial power.

The Zhu family’s dynasty has only fallen for a few months, and there are many people in the world who are afraid of Zhu Ming’s imperial power. Even Li Zicheng, the emperor of Dashun Yongchang, tried to make peace with Chongzhen when he was besieging the capital, gave up his power, and became a great Ming. Aristocratic thoughts.

"Could it be that Your Majesty can't even grant this small wish?" Gao Jie was so worried that he almost cried.

Gao Jie felt that if Zhu Cihong clearly said that he was not allowed to resign from the official title, Zhu Cihong would have to kill himself.

"It's pretty accurate."

As soon as Zhu Cihong said, Gao Jie felt that he had seen the dawn of hope, but unfortunately, the next second, the dawn disappeared from his eyes.

"However, why did you resign from the official title?" Zhu Cihong really couldn't understand that Gao Jie had so many good cards in his hand.

Zhu Cihong felt that if it was him, he would definitely not be as cowardly as Gao Jie, but would just stand here with his hips on his hips, talking to the emperor with his nostrils upturned. Anyway, there are tens of thousands of troops behind him, who would dare to do anything to him.

"Does this need to be explained by the minister?" Gao Jie also couldn't figure it out. In his opinion, isn't this what you mean?Otherwise, why are you threatening me and talking so much.

"Your mouth doesn't look like a general who leads troops to fight, but rather like a crosstalk talker, or I'll send you to Jinmen." Hearing what Gao Jie said, Zhu Cihong was also happy.

He felt that the two people singing in harmony was a bit like cross talk.

"Now I have bandits inside and Tartars outside, so don't think too much about it. Just listen to my orders and make contributions to the court. I will protect you as a wife and son, and protect your high family and the country."

Although a warlord like Gao Jie is a bad thing, Zhu Cihong really doesn't want him to leave. Gao Jie is just another dish, and he is also a veteran who climbed out of the mountain of corpses and blood in the peasant war in the late Ming Dynasty.

Such people are what Zhu Cihong lacks the most. After all, money, manpower, and land are all easy to solve. Only experience is almost impossible to get in a short time.

"Your Majesty's words are serious?" Gao Jie didn't expect that Zhu Cihong didn't intend to kill himself. After being overjoyed, he asked Zhu Cihong as if he wanted him to make a promise to himself.

"Really, when employing people nowadays, I should not be stingy to reward you and other generals." Zhu Cihong said tirelessly.

That is to say, a Dajun town like Gao Jie can have such treatment. If someone else came, even if he was a cabinet scholar, Zhu Cihong would have had him kicked out long ago.

Just when Gao Jie wanted Zhu Cihong to continue to promise and promise, Liu Bao broke in suddenly, and Gao Jie had to force the words back out of his mouth.

"Gao Jie, get up and find a seat first." Seeing Liu Bao coming, Zhu Cihong asked Gao Jie to find a place to sit because it was inconvenient to talk to Gao Jie.

Many chairs were placed in the meeting hall, all of which were prepared for the court ministers who came to meet with Zhu Cihong to discuss matters.

After all, Daming is different from Mi Qing, the courtiers and the monarch are more of a kind of cooperation, even the relationship between father and son, unlike Mi Qing, the monarch is a slave owner, and the courtiers have to be slaves in shackles.

"Long live, people from Shi Ge Department, Qian Ge Department and others are here, and they are waiting in the small courtyard now. Do you want to announce them in immediately?" Liu Bao asked.

The Governor’s Yamen of Water Transport is a large courtyard building, and the interior is generally composed of several medium-sized courtyards and small courtyards, just like the Ningrong Second Mansion in the Dream of Red Mansions.

There is another courtyard outside the courtyard where the meeting hall is located. It is actually a small garden. It is usually a place where the women in the governor's office often hang out. Now it has become a place where ministers wait for orders.

"Let them come in. The rogue bandits and Tatars are fighting more and more fiercely. The war cannot be delayed for a day." Zhu Cihong said.

Everyone entered the meeting hall, followed by Shi Kefa, Qian Qianyi, Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo, Huang Degong, Zhu Shuai, Zhang Yong, Xu Hongji, Yue Qijie, and Chen Qianfu.

"My dear friends, today I called you to Yangzhou for no other reason than the Northern Expedition."

"I feel that the country's affairs are difficult now. There are bandits everywhere, and powerful enemies are stalking outside. My country, which has been in the Ming Dynasty for more than two hundred years, has now reached the most critical moment."

Zhu Cihong's words, in fact, everyone has already seen that the dynasty will not end when it encounters foreign enemies and internal peasant uprisings, but everyone has no choice but to wait for death to come.

"In the past, I only had the three capitals of the north, the south, and the middle. I don't think it is enough. In order to strengthen the imperial court's control over the localities, we need to add Chang'an, the western capital, and Bianliang, the eastern capital. .”

As soon as Zhu Cixiang said these words, the whole audience was in an uproar. Everyone looked at me and I looked at you. In the end, only Yue Qijie, the governor of Henan, stood up.

I saw him say, "Your Majesty, the system of the three capitals is the system established by Emperor Taizong, and it is the ancestral system of the imperial court. It is not good to make any changes."

"Yes." Even Shi Kefa agreed.

Seeing this group of neatly dressed ministers, Zhu Cihong thought to himself, you really don’t feel pain in your back when you stand and talk. Could it be possible to do without the five-capital system of the Song Dynasty in the current scene of the Ming Dynasty?

Zhang Xianzhong in Sichuan, Li Zicheng in Shaanxi, Henan, Hubei, and Gansu, and Miqing in Shanxi, Hebei, and Guanwai, and in the southwest, Miao people continued to rebel and set off rebellions.

(End of this chapter)