Ten miles away from Fengyang City, flags are fluttering, crowds of people, hundreds of officials and a large number of gentry and ordinary people are here to greet them.

The people who are the head are the right attendant of the household department and the right capital of the imperial history, the governor Cao Yun, the governor of Fengyang and the governor of Haiphong Zhu Dadian, the Fengyang garrison eunuch Wang Yumin, the chief military officer of Fengyang Yang Yufan, the right of the capital of the imperial history Zhang Guowei, the imperial history of the capital Shi Kefa, behind them are the officials of the provinces and states near Nanzhili.

Zhang Guowei, 42 years old this year, Chongzhen seven years old, the rogue rampant in the Central Plains, in order to stabilize the rear with Nanjing as the center, to ensure the smooth flow of transportation and the supply of military supplies, Chongzhen appointed Zhang Guowei as the right capital of the imperial history and the governor of the ten prefectures.

These ten prefectures are the richest areas of the Ming Dynasty, and it is also the land of Longxing of the Ming Dynasty, and it is the main supply place of military supplies and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

Shi Kefa, at the beginning of this year, Zhang Xianzhong's soldiers committed Anqing, and Chongzhen appointed him as the imperial history of the capital and patrolled Anqing, Luzhou, Chizhou and other places.

Like Zhang Guowei, Shi Kefa is also a very conscientious official, and both of them are members of the Donglin Party, and the two are very concerned about quelling the chaos, and often personally persuade the rich and wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan to let them support money, food and materials.

Under the strict interception of the two, Zhang Xianzhong and other rogues did not get any benefits in Anqing, so they could only be stationed in Tongcheng in a gray manner, and the general Pan Keda chased them to Tongcheng and defeated the rogues, and the rogues fled from Tongcheng to the periphery.

On the way to escape, he was blocked by the army of Luzhou and Fengyang, and the Liukou was forced to flee back to Tongcheng, looting around Tongcheng, Shi Kefa and Pan Keda led the army to encircle and suppress, and the Liukou was defeated by Lujiang, Shi Kefa and Zuo Liangyu defeated it in Fengxiangyi.

Hearing that Luzhou was besieged, Shi Kefa hurriedly sat in Luzhou, commanded the defense, and then heard that Tuo Xianling went north to attack Suzhou, Zhang Xianzhong withdrew his troops again, Shi Kefa knew that he was in the plan, and hurriedly led some people to Suzhou.

Zhang Guowei, who was inspecting Chuzhou, was also very panicked when he heard this, and the two met in Fengyang, and Zhu Dadian, the governor of Caoyun stationed in Fengyang, told them that the crown prince was about to arrive in Fengyang, and he hurried to prepare to meet him.

Although they didn't know what happened to the rogues who went to Suzhou to sneak attack, but when they heard that the crown prince was fine, Zhang Guowei and Shi Kefa were very happy and immediately prepared to go out of the city to greet them.

When they saw the crown prince in the dragon chariot with their own eyes, the two of them finally felt completely at ease and hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

"Minister, the right prince is the imperial history Zhang Guowei, meet His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Chitose!"

"Minister, the imperial history of the capital Shi Kefa, meet His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Chitose!"

After the two men stepped forward to salute, the other officials, and those who greeted them also bowed.

Zhu Cihong walked out of the dragon chariot and said calmly: "Xing! ”

After the salute, Zhang Guowei and Shi Kefa both turned their heads and glanced at Huang Degong coldly, Huang Degong's soldiers surrounded the Imperial Courtyard and buried the Imperial History of Zuodu alive, which was a great shame for them as the Imperial History.

Although they were extremely dissatisfied with the Yongwei Battalion and Huang Degong, they also had to admit that the men and horses of the Yongwei Battalion were definitely a strong force, and the sergeants were neatly dressed, lined up, standing with their heads held high, and none of them were bent over.

What is even more shocking is that tens of thousands of people did not have a trace of noise, and it was obvious that they were strict military discipline.

"Sure enough, they are all elite soldiers, it seems that there is hope for this counterinsurgency!" Zhang Guowei and Shi Kefa couldn't help but be a little moved, and their faces eased a lot.

Although Zhu Dadian is also the imperial history, and it is the imperial history of the right capital, but he doesn't care, the governors of all parts of the Ming Dynasty will hang a position of imperial history, why should he regard himself as an official, so take it seriously?

Zhu Dadian bowed and said: "Your Highness, the minister heard that the thief Tuo Xianling led 30,000 troops to raid Suzhou, how did you .......?"

Before he could finish speaking, he saw a horse coming from a distance, and after entering the warning range of the Yongwei Battalion, he immediately raised his waist card and shouted the password.

This Long Xiang turned over and dismounted twenty steps away from Long Yuan at night, and quickly ran over, and reported loudly: "Your Highness Qiqi, the thief Tuo Xianling Department has been exterminated by our army, our army's five thousand iron horsemen have beheaded ten thousand levels, and the thief Tuo Xianling was killed on the spot, and the head is here!" ”

As he spoke, the night man removed the package from his waist and poured out the head of the box.

Looking at the head rolling on the ground, the surrounding officials were shocked and took a few steps back.

"The head of the thief's first age?" Shi Kefa took two steps forward, looked at it carefully, and ordered someone to take the portraits of the leaders of the various thieves.

After careful comparison with Tuo Xianling's portrait, Shi Kefa finally exclaimed: "It is indeed the thief's first word Wang Tuo Xianling!" ”

Zhang Guowei also exclaimed: "How did the Yongwei Battalion defeat Tuo Xianling's 30,000 army with only 5,000 men and horses? This ......"

Shi Kefa shook his head and said: "It's not a defeat, it's a killing, even Tuo Xianling's head has been sent, this battle is more than the number of killings we have painstakingly pursued and intercepted the thieves in the past few months." ”

Seeing that the two of them were a little indignant and jealous, Zhu Cihong said lightly: "Although the thieves say that there are 200,000 people, they are all local chickens and dogs, as long as the food and salary of my Yongwei camp are sufficient, I can calm the thieves in the south of the Yangtze River with one blow!" ”

Although Zhang Guowei and Shi Kefa were both upright, honest, and loyal ministers who died for the country in history, they now represent the interests of the Jiangnan bureaucrats and landlords, and Zhu Cihong did not need to revere them at this time, on the contrary, he had to beat them from time to time.

Respect is respect, governing the country is governing the country, the two are one yard to one yard, and the public cannot be abolished for private reasons, if the two dare to make a stumbling block for themselves in Jiangnan, Zhu Cihong doesn't mind getting rid of them first.

For the crown prince's unashamed words, everyone's faces were not very good-looking, but the Yongwei Battalion did make such a big record, and they were powerless to refute it, and after a bit of noise, everyone drove into Fengyang City.

Fengyang is the hometown of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, in the second year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang mobilized tens of thousands of craftsmen, soldiers, soldiers, and people in the country, and built the capital in Fengyang based on Nanjing City, and built the city and palace in accordance with the regulations of the Beijing Division.

Zhongdu has built palaces, Zhongshu Province, Dadu Governor's Mansion, Yushitai, Soldiers and Horses Command Division and other yamen, as well as Wansui Mountain, Sheji, Taimiao, Qintianjian, etc., even Chengtianmen, Wumen, Xuanwu Gate, Donghua Gate and so on, almost according to the Beijing Division.

Later, half of the construction was stopped, and after the construction of the capital was stopped, the middle capital was not regarded as a Beijing division, and it was designated as the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang demanded that the royal family should go to Fengyang every year to experience training and train troops, and at least one-third of the more than 300 miles from Nanjing to Fengyang should be on foot, and they were not allowed to ride.

After Ming Chengzu Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing, Beijing was far away from Fengyang, and he no longer sent the prince to live in Zhongdu as often as he did in the Hongwu period, and the palace here was gradually abandoned.

A disaster in the eighth year of Chongzhen destroyed the central capital Fengyang, and various buildings were devastatingly burned down by the rogues, and only a few palaces survived.