On February 27 of the first year of Tianwu, outside Beijing.

The iron cavalry rushed, the hooves sounded like thunder, and after tens of thousands of cavalry, there were dense hats and helmets swaying, and the rhythmic sound of footsteps sounded under the layers of armor.

Zhu Cihong personally led the Tianwu army to arrive outside the Yongding Gate, he looked at the majestic Beijing City, not very embarrassed, left for four years, and finally came back!

There are many remaining artillery holes on the city wall in front of you, telling the cruelty of the city defense war in the past.

Zhu Cihong turned to face the army, and couldn't help but raise his arms and shout: "Recover the Beijing Division, the Ming Dynasty will win!" ”

"Recover the Jingshi, Daming Wansheng!"

"Recover the Jingshi, Daming Wansheng!"

The dense soldiers of the Tianwu Army shouted excitedly, as if to let the people in the city know the arrival of the Ming army.

The city gate was opened, and in the overwhelming cheers, Cao Bianjiao led a group of people out of the city to greet him, followed by a large group of people wearing Ming official uniforms.

He turned over and dismounted and shouted: "Minister, Cao Bianjiao, welcome the holy driver, long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

Behind him, all the civil officials knelt at the city gate and bowed to Zhu Cihong.

"The old slave and the eunuch Wang Dehua, welcome the emperor's holy drive, long live my emperor, long live long live!"

"Minister, Shen Weibing, the servant of the ministry, welcome the holy driver, long live my emperor, long live long live!"

"Minister, Liu Yuhu (hù), the squire of the Ministry of Works, greetings to the holy driver, long live my emperor, long live long live!"

"Minister, Chen Mingxia in the Hanlin Academy's revision and military department, welcome the holy driver, long live my emperor, long live long live!"

"Minister, the former Jinyi Guard commanded Luo Yang, welcome the holy driver, long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

"Minister, Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, ......."

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At this time, these officials who surrendered to Shun all claimed to be the official positions of the Chongzhen Dynasty, and threw away the official positions given by the Dashun Dynasty, eager to clear up the relationship and clean up the matter of surrendering.

Zhang Jinyan, the secretary of the military department, was roasted and tortured by Wang Zhen in an inhuman form, his lower limbs were crippled, he was carried over by the family, it stands to reason that his face was burned by boiling water, and it was inconvenient to see the face of the sky, but he insisted on coming to meet him, and he was familiar.

Zhu Cihong stepped forward to help Cao Bianjiao and praised him a few words.

Looking at the group of ministers kneeling on both sides, Zhu Cihong couldn't help but ask Wang Zhen beside him: "You say, when Li Zicheng entered Beijing City, did these people take the initiative to kneel down here and shout long live like today?" ”

Wang Zhen stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, exactly!" ”

Everyone listened to this sound quite deafly, secretly looked up, immediately jumped, and retreated.

When Zhang Jinyan, the former secretary of the Ministry of War, saw this devil, he was so frightened that he crawled back with a rolling belt, and his crotch was wet.

The great eunuch Wang Dehua threw himself down in front of Zhu Cihong and kindly reminded: "Emperor, this person is a thief, you must be careful, the old slave will protect you!" ”

Zhu Cihong smiled coldly and kicked Wang Dehua away, he wished that what he was holding in his hand was not a horsewhip, but an AK47!

He ignored these two or five boys, and entered the Yongding Gate with a light snort.

The dragon flag of hunting and flying entered the capital, and the five thousand royal forest troops shook rhythmically, and they kept running and entering the city in a steady stream to ensure the safety of the road ahead.

In the past, Qianmen Street in the outer city was the most prosperous area in Beijing, where all kinds of merchants gathered and the flow of people was endless.

And now, because of the plague and war, the once extraordinary and lively Jingshi has become silent.

The quiet and bleak streets, the empty attic archways, and some of the walls still have some bright graffiti, always remind everyone of the glory and vigor of this city not long ago.

Zhu Cihong rode his horse, walked very slowly, and carefully looked at this city that had carried the national fortune of the Ming Empire for more than 200 years.

Entering Zhengyangmen, the most prosperous chessboard street in the inner city was also depressed, no people dared to come out, only some bold ones quietly opened the windows and peeked at the sergeants everywhere in the street, they couldn't tell whether these people were Shun or Ming.

There were too many Ming troops who surrendered at the beginning, and they wore the military uniforms of the Beijing camp system, and they looted from house to house with the Shun army, which was already disappointing.

In front of the main gate of the imperial city, Zhu Cihong looked up at the card, the three words on it were still Daming Gate, Li Zicheng changed Daming Gate to Dashun Gate, and it was finished before he had time to change the door plaque.

Zhu Cihong looked left and right and said, "Fang Yizhi, I order you to temporarily take over the post of Shuntianfu Yin, post a notice, and restore the order of the Jingshi." ”

"Chu Yuanfang, Li Dingguo, you two led the headquarters to take over the security of Shuntian Mansion, search and arrest the remnants of the thieves, I once again strictly enforce military discipline, no one is allowed to trespass into the people's homes, if there is disobedience, according to the military order, there will be no forgiveness!"

"Yes!"

After speaking, Fang Yizhi, Chu Yuanfang, and Li Dingguo began to get their own orders.

Although it is said that Beijing has been recovered, the Northern Expedition has not yet ended, the war in Liaodong is still continuing, and those resurrected Tartars, Zhu Cihong will do them again.

He handed over the task of staying behind to the newcomers who were not used often, and the main generals still had to continue to lead the troops out of the customs with them.

Entering the imperial city, Zhu Cihong rode all the way to the front of the Imperial Palace of the Forbidden City, stepped on the imperial steps, walked on the Dan Qiao with the dragon case drawn, and entered the Imperial Palace.

Zhu Cihong lay on the dragon chair, looked at the top of the gilded hall of the dragon, and breathed a long sigh, four years later, when he re-entered the Imperial Palace, everything in the Forbidden City was different from before.

At that time, in this Imperial Palace, he wanted to force the palace to get this throne, but fortunately he didn't do it at the beginning.

Once he ascends the throne ahead of schedule, if he wants to clean up this mess, I'm afraid it will take another few or four years.

Now Li Zicheng has helped himself reorganize half of the world in disguise, greatly solving the serious land annexation problem in the Ming Dynasty, and it is much more comfortable to govern later.

In the final analysis, the fundamental cause of the decline of the feudal dynasty lies in land annexation, and how to curb land annexation without changing the feudal imperial system.

For this problem, Wang Mang in history has done it, but failed.

It can be said that in the feudal dynasty, it was almost impossible to completely curb the problem of land annexation, and even if Zhu Cihong implemented the policy of apportioning land to mu and nationalizing land, it was impossible to completely curb the problem of land annexation.

The undesirable consequences of land annexation could not be mitigated, and in the end it could only be a reincarnation of dynasties.

The current situation of the Ming Dynasty is equivalent to borrowing the hands of Li Zicheng to reshuffle the old forces, as long as the people's hearts are stabilized, even if they do not expand their territory, they can toss for a hundred and ten years.

Faced with this land annexation problem that has plagued China for thousands of years, Zhu Cihong has already thought of ways to change: expand the territory and increase the supply of land; Develop industry and commerce, so that people who have lost their land have other ways to survive.

This road will be long and brilliant.

From today on, the Ming Dynasty will be reborn under his leadership and radiate new strength!

(End of chapter)