Sun Yingyuan and Zhou Yuji knelt outside the palace for a whole day and night. It drizzled in the middle of the cold night. Their robes were soaked through and their faces were blue from the cold, but they still had no complaints.

The generals of the Tianwu Army who wrote to the palace did not dare to persuade or intercede on their behalf. They were not stupid people and knew that the generals' grouping together would only make the crown prince more unhappy.

In the afternoon, Zhu Cihong walked out of the palace and saw the two of them still kneeling there steadily. There were two more people beside him, Chen Yuanyuan and Zhou Yuji's wife Liu Yingzhao.

Although Liu Yingzhao was a female general, good at riding and shooting, and could draw a bow of hundreds of stones, she was not a violent woman with a stout body of five or three. On the contrary, she had a pretty face, a slender figure, and a heroic image of a chivalrous woman.

When the four of them saw Zhu Cixiang appear, they quickly prostrated themselves. Due to kneeling for a long time, their bodies were already a little stiff from the cold, and they almost fell to the ground.

Sun Yingyuan bowed down and said: "I am good at making opinions and I am guilty. Please punish me by Your Highness!"

Zhu Cixiang stood with his hands folded and said: "How to punish?"

Sun Yingyuan said: "If you want to dismiss your official position and remove your title, your highness can ask me to die to apologize!"

Zhou Yuji also said: "The same goes for me. If you make a mistake, you are wrong. I just ask Your Highness not to involve my family."

Zhu Cixiang looked at him and said: "Involving my family? Zhou Yuji, in your mind, am I the kind of person who must retaliate for his anger?"

Liu Yingzhao looked shocked and said quickly: "Your Highness, please calm down. My husband is so outspoken that he cannot speak. Please forgive me."

Zhu Cixiang frowned and said, "Shut up and let him talk!"

Liu Yingzhao quickly shut up and poked Zhou Yuji with his left arm to signal him to stop talking nonsense. Zhu Cixiang secretly smiled at this small gesture.

Zhou Yuji said: "Your Highness is not that kind of person. It's my fault that I'm overly concerned."

Zhu Cixiang sighed secretly, it seemed that he not only frightened the enemy, but also frightened his own people. This was not a good thing.

After these years of fighting and killing, Zhu Cixiang obviously felt that his mentality had changed, and his murderous intention became more and more serious. In the past, he killed Tatars and traitors in history. The more he killed, the more he felt relieved. Now he even kills some civil servants who oppose him.

There was no disturbance at all, and I was even a little excited inside.

It is important to be iron-blooded and have a tough hand, and it is also very suitable for governing troubled times, but if the world is unified and starts to govern the country and continues to kill like this, I am afraid that I will become Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty.

Zhu Cixiang secretly made up his mind to practice piano, chess, calligraphy and painting more to cultivate his sentiments. Of course, iron-blooded people must be iron-blooded, and people still have to be killed. The Ming Dynasty has not yet been unified, corrupt officials and officials are rampant, and there is also a group of moths active in the south of the Yangtze River.

Only by using all possible means can the bodhisattva's heart be revealed!

Zhu Cixiang looked at Sun Yingyuan and Zhou Yuji and said, "If you had it to do over again, what would you do?"

Sun Yingyuan said: "If I were to do it again, I would first suggest to His Highness to go to Nanjing to supervise the country, and then follow His Highness's decision."

Zhu Cixiang nodded, stepped forward and said: "Get up, go back and take a bath to rest for the night. We will set off tomorrow and the army will go south!"

Sun Yingyuan and Zhou Yuji were both loyal men in history. No matter how many times the enemy surrendered, they resolutely chose to die in battle. Their character is beyond words.

Sun Yingyuan was the first person to follow him, and his loyalty was unquestionable. Zhou Yuji was an upright person, and his loyalty was praiseworthy. Both of them had their own thoughts, and they were considering the country, and they did not violate military orders.

Zhu Cihong would not replace the two people for his own selfish interests. If so, he would have no one to use in the future, and some would be a group of Yang Shicong and his ilk.

We are not afraid of military commanders having ideas, but they are afraid of supporting their troops for their own selfish interests. As long as they can obey military orders, serve the country bravely, and be upright, everything else is trivial. At present, the entire Ming Dynasty is trying to find military commanders who meet these points, but I am afraid there are not many military commanders.

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Zhu Cihong could use Yang Shicong and Wu Weiye, who were of poor character, but how could he not tolerate Sun Yingyuan and Zhou Yuji? Besides, these two were already quite young, so it would only take more than ten years at most to use them to expand the territory.

By then, the younger generation of the Tianwu Army who followed him in the north and south would grow up, and the more than 5,000 orphans who had been brainwashed since childhood would also grow up and become the new generation of dignitaries surrounding Zhu Cixiang's rule.

At that time, Zhu Cixi was in his prime, leading a group of dignitaries of the same age to continue to expand foreign territories. The older generation of the Tianwu Army would be able to ennoble the marquis and the duke who should be granted the title of duke. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to support them at home?

On the eighth day of February, tens of thousands of Tianwu troops broke out of camp and marched south, accompanied by a large number of East Palace officials.

The faces of Wu Weiye and others were filled with excitement. They could finally go to the south of the Yangtze River. They thought about gathering together with a group of literati and poets on the banks of the Qinhuai River, dancing and writing, reciting poems, and taking singing girls to swim along the river. I was a little excited just thinking about it.

After Zhu Cixiang went south, Chongzhen issued the third edict since he ascended the throne, in which he lamented his faults, which led to continuous disasters, rogue bandits in Shaanxi, and even the death of the King of Qin.

At the end of the edict, Chongzhen expressed his introspection and stated that the court would strengthen administrative rectification and disaster relief, and allocated 10 million taels of silver from the treasury to Shaanxi and Henan for disaster relief in two areas hit hard by rogue bandits. He also allocated another 10 million taels to rebuild Beizhili and Shandong.

, Liaodong.

In early March, news came from the battlefield in the Central Plains. Sun Chuanting led the Qin troops to attack Lantian. Li Zicheng personally led ten thousand cavalry to fight. After a day of bloody battles, the Qin troops recaptured Lantian. Sun Chuanting's generals He Renlong and Gao Jie captured Li Zicheng's general Guo Yi and killed him.

He lost Li Zicheng's Chinese army and almost captured Li Zicheng alive.

At the same time, Huang De led the Tianwu Army to cooperate with Sun Chuanting to capture Shangluo, attacked Li Zicheng's old camp in Shangluo, captured his luggage, and killed thousands of his family members.

Suddenly, the entire battlefield in the Central Plains was red, and good news continued to reach the capital. The officials in the capital were also rejoicing, and Chongzhen was even more delighted. He repeatedly commended the officers and soldiers on the three sides of Shaanxi, and ordered Sun Chuanting to pursue the victory and eliminate Li Zicheng in one fell swoop.

After the imperial court became rich, the civil uprising in Shaanxi improved greatly. Especially under the powerful campaigns of Sun Chuanting and Huang Degong, Li Zicheng's army of refugees immediately collapsed, and everyone rushed to throw down their weapons and run to lead the imperial court.

Food relief.

Li Zicheng had no choice but to lead thousands of old troops into Shangluo Mountain again, waiting for the opportunity to make a comeback. In terms of escape techniques, no one in the world could surpass the King of Chu...

Zhu Cihong was very excited after receiving the battle report on his way south. After being tempered by the Liaodong War and the Eight Banners Army, the Qin soldiers' combat effectiveness had been greatly improved, and it was no longer a problem to deal with Li Zicheng.

After careful consideration, Zhu Cihong sent an order to Huang Degong to lead the Tianwu Army back to Nanjing to share the land.

Shangluo Mountain is surrounded by mountains and stretches for thousands of miles. It is extremely difficult for officers and soldiers to hunt down. Rather than letting Huang De spend his power in Shaanxi, it is better to transfer him back. After all, the Tianwu Army is a guest army in Shaanxi, and the supply of food and grass depends on the expressions of local civil servants.
Chapter completed!