In the Fengtian Palace, civil and military officials gathered together, including Zhu Cihong's team in Jiangnan and the East Palace team brought from Beijing.

At the court meeting, Zhu Cihong announced two major events, first, to worship the soldiers who died in the Tianwu Army; Second, the date for going to Nanjing and the scheduled distribution of posts in the six departments in Nanjing.

For the distribution of official positions in the six ministries, everyone's faces were full of joy, and the six ministries in Nanjing had no real power except for the household department and the military department, but the crown prince was in charge of the country in Nanjing, and these departments were all operating normally.

It's just that Zhu Cihong has not yet announced the official candidates of the six ministries, which makes Wu Weiye and other officials of the East Palace worried, but thinking about the fact that there are not many civil official candidates for the crown prince, everyone is a little relieved.

As for the distribution of the generals of the Tianwu Army, Zhu Cihong did not say anything for the time being, but only told them that they would go to Nanjing to divide the fields, and both the generals and soldiers had the fields.

The military system of the Tianwu Army is already very complete, it is nothing more than taking over the Nanjing Military Department, and the generals also know that with the Military Aircraft Department, the Nanjing Military Department has existed in name only.

Three days later, Zhu Cihong led the civil and military officials to hold a grand sacrificial ceremony at the Loyal Soul Temple next to the imperial mausoleum outside the city.

Fengyang's Loyal Soul Shrine is Zhu Cihong personally ordered to build, covering an extremely wide area, convenient for the families of the fallen soldiers of the Tianwu Army, the Loyal Soul Shrine and Fengyang Emperor's Mausoleum are adjacent to each other in order to improve the level of sacrifice, showing the imperial court's attention to the loyal soldiers for the country.

Since October of the 11th year of Chongzhen, 80,000 Tianwu troops went north, pacified the Qing army that entered the pass, and then to the battle of Liaodong, and nearly 10,000 Tianwu troops died in more than a year.

Due to the distance of thousands of miles, it is impossible to transport the remains of the fallen soldiers back to Fengyang, so they can only bring back the ashes and clothes of the martyrs, and invite the spirit card into the Loyal Soul Temple for the world to worship, and the armor and weapons of the fallen soldiers and other relics belong to their families and are passed down from family to family.

At the time of the sacrifice, many people from Fengyang Mansion continued to flock to the Loyal Soul Temple, forming a huge flow of people, most of whom were the families of the Tianwu Army.

In the sound of mourning music, the soldiers buried the urns of their fallen comrades in the cemetery behind the Loyal Soul Temple, and Zhu Cihong and a group of generals personally shoveled the soil and erected the monument.

At the beginning of the sacrificial ceremony, a group of soldiers of the Tianwu Army held spirit cards and invited them into the Loyal Soul Temple in an orderly manner.

In the solemn and solemn sacrificial music and dance, Zhu Cihong personally lit incense and bowed several times to the dense spiritual plaques in the ancestral hall.

The vast square outside the Loyal Soul Shrine was already full of black-pressed soldiers and civilians, with hundreds of thousands of people, far larger than the scale when they were sacrificed in Liangxiang City a few years ago.

Zhu Cihong stood in front of the square and shouted: "The blood of the emperor's loyal soul is here, and the soul of the other country is back!" Heroic sword, a hundred battles, the soul of the Great Ming, eternal existence! ”

In the center of the square, tens of thousands of Tianwu soldiers marched and saluted, singing the military song "Loyal to the Country" in unison: wolf smoke rises, the rivers and mountains look north, the dragon flag rolls, the horse neighses, and the sword qi is like frost...... How many siblings are loyal to their souls in other places, how to repay their families and countries with a hundred deaths, endure sighs, and are even more speechless, full of blood and tears......

Tens of thousands of people sang in unison, infecting everyone present, and the families of the dead soldiers wept together, and in the midst of their grief, they were proud that their men did not die in vain.

Even some civil officials were a little moved, Wu Weiye couldn't help but say: "There are infinite Danqing hands in the world, and a sad heart can't ......be painted."

Subsequently, Zhu Cihong issued an order that the Loyal Soul Temple should be sacrificed according to the specifications of the national ritual, and the priest should be set up, and then the sacrifice ceremony should be held at a fixed time every year.

As he was leaving, he passed by a little woman who was leading a child of a few years old, who looked to be in her early twenties, whose man had died in battle, and who had a child, and who wanted to have a hard time in the future.

Zhu Cihong looked at the little woman who was crying, stopped and said softly: "If there is any difficulty in the future, just go to the local government of Fengyang, if they don't care, you can go to the palace to sue them." ”

The little woman hurriedly bowed down and said with a crying voice: "Thank you for your care, the reward for killing the Tartars has been issued, there are one hundred and thirty taels of silver, and fifty acres of land, Your Highness has exempted the agricultural tax on our field, and the woman has no difficulty." ”

Zhu Cihong nodded, looked at the child beside the little woman again, and sighed: "Haosheng raised him, and there is no need to let him join the army in the future." ”

Before the little woman could speak, the child suddenly said, "I want to join the army!" I'm going to kill the Tartar to avenge Daddy! ”

Although the child looks like he is only five or six years old, he is not afraid of life at all, and on his stubborn little face, a pair of big eyes are staring at Zhu Cihong with great energy.

The little woman hurriedly pulled the child into her arms and scolded, "Don't be rude to His Royal Highness the Prince. ”

Then she looked at Zhu Cihong and said, "The child is still young and ignorant, please forgive your highness." ”

Zhu Cihong waved his hand, reached out and patted the child's shoulder, and praised: "Good job!" ”

Gao Bang, who was following behind Zhu Cihong, touched the child's head and said with a smile: "It is worthy of the seed of my Tianwu army, when you grow up, you will report to Gao Ye, and Gao Ye will take you to kill the Tartars!" ”

Seeing the figure of the crown prince in the distance surrounded by a group of civil and military officials, the little woman bowed a few times, and then took the child into the Loyal Soul Temple to look for her man's spirit card.

In the hall of the ancestral hall, the incense is full of incense, and the dense spirit cards give people great impact and shock, and everyone who comes in will involuntarily produce solemnity and awe.

The little woman looked at her husband's spirit card in it, sad and proud in her heart, and she bowed to it several times, just like the other women's widows.

After the sacrificial ceremony, Zhu Cihong inspected various parts of Fengyang Prefecture, especially the military industry such as the Huangming Military Academy and some ordnance factories.

Most of the soldiers of the Tianwu Army were recruited in Fengyang Mansion, which was an important base for Zhu Cihong to expand his strength, except for the 20,000 soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion who originally went south from the Beijing Division and were not assigned to the fields, the rest of the soldiers of the Tianwu Army had their own land in Fengyang Mansion, at least 50 acres per household.

For example, the husband of the little woman was the original recruited Tuntian soldiers, and he only had fifty acres of land, and the reward for his military exploits was only given silver money for the time being, and the land for his military exploits had not yet been issued.

In the past, when the Tianwu army was fighting outside, there was no need to worry about no one cultivating the fields at home, and there were special farming teams in Fengyang Mansion, Luzhou Mansion and other places to farm and work for them.

Zhu Cihong planned to distribute the land of the guards in several wealthy places such as Tianfu and Suzhou Mansion in Nanzhili as the land for military exploits to the soldiers of the Tianwu Army, especially the first 20,000 soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion, and they should be specially sealed.

Zhu Cihong was not worried that the guards of the wealthy prefectures in Nanzhili would resist, he wished that the guards would jump over the wall and resist, and send a large army to serve them in one pot to save trouble.

This time to the south, Zhu Cihong decided to leave more than 10,000 troops to stay in Fengyang Mansion, and the rest of the Tianwu soldiers and horses all crossed the river to the south and settled in Yingtianfu and the surrounding rich places.