After the turmoil in the Qing court reached the Jingshi, the Manchu Dynasty rejoiced, and the ability of the slave chief Emperor Taiji did not say that his death, coupled with the internal strife and consumption of the Qing court, was even less powerful than before.

However, within a few days, the news of Hong Chengchou's defeat in Salhu came, like a basin of cold water poured on everyone, Chongzhen was even more angry, and ordered Hong Chengchou to be reprimanded.

On the day of the Shangyuan Festival, the military department received an urgent 600-mile rush from Shaanxi, Li Zicheng broke through the thousand-year-old capital of Xi'an, and Zhu Cunji, the king of Qin, was shot dead by Li Zicheng in public, and the arrogance of the rogue became more and more rampant.

Conquering the thousand-year-old capital of Xi'an, and killing the vassal king, this is something that has never been heard of in the nearly 300 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and the whole country was shaken.

No one expected that Li Zicheng would develop so rapidly after he came out of the mountain, and Chongzhen even cried in public at the court meeting.

Zhu Cihong sighed secretly when he saw it, he was really difficult to be an emperor, since he became an emperor at the age of seventeen, he got up early every day and worked at night, in order to save some silver for the treasury, an emperor ate all year round and the people were no different, and where there was a disaster, he would be exempted from paying taxes, which could be described as for the country and the people.

However, the imperial court was constantly fighting, the officials were corrupt, the civil disasters continued, the peasant uprisings in various places continued to break out, and the rise of the Manchu Qing Dynasty outside the Guan, which was a real internal and external trouble.

In fact, Chongzhen's ability is also good, and there is no more chaos that some people in later generations said that the harder they work, if there is no Chongzhen's hard work, the Ming Dynasty will not be able to last Chongzhen for 17 years, and he will finish his calf early.

Chongzhen's biggest shortcoming is that he is too unhappy to do things, like most feudal emperors, he is worried about his bad reputation, he looks forward to doing things, and he turns a blind eye to some things that he knows.

Although Zhu Cihong sympathized with the emperor who was martyred in history, and also knew that Chongzhen loved himself, in order to save this ruined dynasty, he had to do some power games with it, and even had the idea of letting the bitter emperor be laid off and rest......

On the same day, Chongzhen issued an order to remove a large number of Shaanxi officials from their posts, arrest them in Beijing, and let Sun Chuanting set off on the same day to go to the governor of Shaanxi to suppress the Kou.

Zhu Cihong also made a statement, ordering Huang Degong's troops to speed up the march, recapture Xi'an as soon as possible, and exterminate Li Zicheng.

After Sun Chuanting left Beijing for Shaanxi, Hu Dawei was also ready to lead his troops to Xuanfu to take office, and Wu Sangui was also anxiously preparing to return to Liaodong.

To everyone's surprise, Tian Hongyu, the governor of the Chinese military governor's mansion, held a banquet in the mansion to invite everyone, including Zhu Cihong, the crown prince.

Tian Hongyu is the father of Tian Guifei, and he is also regarded as the national ruler, but he is not knighted, he only serves in the Governor's Mansion of the Chinese Army, and he has no military power in his hands, which can be regarded as a vacant position.

Since the death of the two princes, Tian Guifei washed her face with tears every day, becoming more and more haggard, and a few days ago she actually contradicted Queen Zhou, and was reprimanded by Emperor Chongzhen to move to Qixiang Palace, and has not been summoned.

Originally, Tian Guifei lived in the Chengqian Palace in the south of Zhu Cihong Zhongcui Palace, which belonged to one of the six palaces in the east, according to the standard of Dongzun and Xibei, Chengqian Palace was the most noble in addition to the Kunning Palace where the queen lived, and Qixiang Palace ranked third from the bottom in the east and west palaces.

Chongzhen's harem is less than twelve concubines at all, Tian Guifei moved to Qixiang Palace, basically no different from entering the cold palace, the Tian family is losing power day by day, and the abbot Tian Hongyu in order to consolidate his position and find support in the court, intends to make friends with the generals with great prestige and heavy troops, and it is best to make friends with the crown prince.

Tian Hongyu, as the governor of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, it is not considered to be out of line to invite a few general soldiers from other places, and a few general soldiers are unwilling to offend the people of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies casually, so they happily go, Zhu Cihong felt that this Tian Hongyu seemed to have some purpose, and he was also invited.

In front of the Tian Mansion of Mingyufang in the inner city, Tian Hongyu accompanied Zhu Cihong and his party with a smiling face to introduce them one by one, and this time there were Sun Yingyuan, Zhou Yuji, Gao Bang, Li Shaoyou, Hu Dawei, Wu Sangui and other meritorious generals in the battle of Liaodong.

Entering the Tian Mansion, a team of handmaidens with great grace and charm immediately greeted them and led everyone into the main hall.

Tian Hongyu introduced Zhu Cihong into the upper seat, and then said: "Thank you His Royal Highness the Prince, Jing Wubo, Ping Xibo and all the generals for coming to the cold house, I am very grateful!" ”

Zhu Cihong waved his hand and said, "The national lord is polite, let's prepare for a banquet!" ”

"Yes, yes!" Tian Hongyu knew that the crown prince didn't like to grind and grind, so he hurriedly said: "Pass the meal!" ”

Another team of beautiful maids came with jade plates, put wine and food on everyone's table, and then retreated.

Gao Bang's eyes were hot, and he smiled and said: "Master Guo, all the maids in your house are really smart!" ”

Tian Hongyu said with a smile: "These maids are all obtained by Tian in Jiangnan, if General Gao likes it, he can choose at will!" ”

Gao Bang was stunned for a moment, and then said: "My lady is a tigress, don't dare, Uncle Jing Wubo is still a bachelor, you can send a few people with him!" ”

Everyone laughed, but they didn't expect that Gao Bang, who had always been brave on the battlefield, was actually a strict wife, it was really a thing to a thing.

Zhu Cihong was a little surprised, Sun Yingyuan is still a single dog in his thirties? He thought about it carefully, the soldiers of the Tianwu Army fought all year round, and it seemed that they had no chance to marry a wife.

Zhu Cihong secretly sighed with emotion, and decided to solve the matter of the Tianwu Army's soldiers becoming a family, dividing the land and wives, and after they got married, they would only be more loyal to themselves and truly form a firm interest group.

Tian Hongyu stood up with a smile, raised his glass and said: "Tian Mou is holding a banquet here today, firstly, to respect your contributions to the country, and secondly, to practice for Ping Xibo and General Hu, please drink as you like, don't be polite!" ”

After speaking, he drank it all and glanced at the butler beside him.

The sound of the orchestra silk and bamboo sounded, and a team of female musicians walked in from the side door with various musical instruments, sitting in a corner and playing carefully, with a pretty face making various moving expressions, the fairy music fluttering, the melodious rhyme, and the atmosphere began to be lively.

After three rounds of drinking, Hu Dawei asked Wu Sangui: "Ping Xibo, when do you plan to leave for Liaodong?" ”

Wu Sangui said: "Although the Jingshi is good, but the border slaves and thieves have returned, and Wu is ready to leave for Liaodong tomorrow." ”

Hu Dawei said: "I also plan to go to Xuanfu Town tomorrow to take office, but unfortunately I can't go the same way with Ping Xibo, come, Hu will toast you, I wish Ping Xibo a success!" ”

After the two talked for a few words, they no longer talked about official affairs, and talked about the affairs of the wind and snow, and Hu Dawei sometimes drank with Gao Bang and others, showing the heroism of Mongolian men.

At this time, there was another group of singing and dancing girls, dancing to the sound of the orchestra silk and bamboo, one of them wearing a red dance dress and long sleeves of light makeup, as soon as she appeared, she attracted the attention of everyone present.

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