After saluting Emperor Chongzhen, it was the turn of the hundred officials to salute Zhu Cihong, and under the command of the officials of the Ministry of Rites, the hundred officials bowed down and said: "Congratulations to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to return to Beijing victoriously!" ”

Zhu Cihong raised his hand and said, "Xing!" ”

At this time, the etiquette was simply completed, everyone began to speak, and many officials congratulated the crown prince, and the sound of pretentiousness was endless.

Tang Shiji, the imperial historian of Zuodu, was a little displeased and said: "Your Majesty personally went out of the city to greet you, why did Your Highness let the soldiers in the army wear mourning belts on their heads and hold spiritual cards in their hands, can you know that this is disrespectful to Your Majesty?" ”

As soon as these words came out, many ministers secretly said that Tang Shiji was worthy of being the boss of the imperial historian, and there was a reason to scare people wherever he went.

Cao Huachun, Wang Chengen and others all had a chill in their eyes, this old thing said such things on this occasion, I really don't know what to do.

Zhu Cihong's eyes were slightly cold, and he said: "The elite of the Eight Banners Army of the Yongwei Battalion fought twice as much as our army, and at the cost of losing 1,125 people, it killed more than 7,000 enemies, and guarded the Ming Jing Division. Or is it not worth it? ”

He only claimed to be lonely when he was very serious, and at this moment he was already extremely dissatisfied with Tang Shiji, if it wasn't for the presence of Emperor Chongzhen, he could go up and smoke this stinky mouth cannon to death.

The generals of the Yongwei Battalion were all staring at Tang Shiji with a cold light in their eyes, if their eyes could kill God, Tang Shiji was afraid that he had died ten million times.

Even in the hot summer, Tang Shiji could feel the chill around him, and his body couldn't help but shrink back, not daring to look at the generals of the Yongwei Battalion.

Emperor Chongzhen glared at Tang Shiji and said, "What the prince did is not at fault!" ”

"The minister is guilty." Tang Shiji made a second face and took the opportunity to step aside, and at the same time breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

In order to avoid embarrassment, Emperor Chongzhen laughed and said: "The prince lived up to expectations, did not disappoint millions of Li people in the Ming Dynasty, and led my elite army of the Ming Dynasty to kill thousands of slaves and thieves, I am very relieved!" Therefore, I have come to greet the triumphant generals with the gift of demotion and rank! ”

The ceremony of demotion is prepared for the heads of state and patriarchs, or if a minister returns on behalf of the heavenly patrol or the general triumphs, as long as he makes great contributions, the emperor will personally go out of the city and walk down the tower to greet him as a gift.

"His Majesty the Father and Emperor personally greeted him, and the sons and other soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion were extremely grateful, and they did not dare to let His Majesty perform the demotion ceremony again." Zhu Cihong saluted again.

Huang Degong, Sun Yingyuan and other generals behind Zhu Cihong also asked Emperor Chongzhen to return to the city tower.

Emperor Chongzhen waved his hand and said: "I use the demotion ceremony today to tell the world that this victory is incomparably brilliant, it is not easy to come by, it is exchanged for the blood of thousands of soldiers of my Ming Dynasty, all the soldiers who go out and die must be respected and admired by the people of the world!" ”

Emperor Chongzhen's extraordinary performance this time said that he immediately infected the soldiers of the Yongwei battalion, and the generals thanked them one after another, and shouted long live again.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at the excited soldiers in front of him, felt that his speech was good, and suddenly became energetic, and continued: "I have an excellent prince in the Ming Dynasty, a general who can fight well, and millions of brave soldiers, which is the luck of the people and the luck of me!" ”

After speaking, Emperor Chongzhen took Zhu Cihong's hand and walked towards the inner city.

The generals and all the soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion followed the courtiers who greeted them, and they also followed Emperor Chongzhen and Zhu Cihong into the Zhengyang Gate.

Emperor Chongzhen first took hundreds of officials and soldiers to sue the temple and sheji, and then directly gave a banquet to celebrate.

Originally, the prisoner sacrifice ceremony was prepared at the noon gate, but seeing that the rain was getting heavier and heavier, Emperor Chongzhen had no choice but to postpone the prisoner sacrifice ceremony for three days.

After tossing for most of the day, Zhu Cihong was summoned by Chongzhen alone for half an hour, and then returned to his Zhongcui Palace.

When summoned alone, Zhu Cihong immediately asked Emperor Chongzhen to establish a cemetery in Beijing and establish a shrine of loyal souls for burial and commemoration of the soldiers who died in the Beijing camp.

said that it was the Beijing camp, at present, Zhu Cihong was mainly for the sake of the Yongwei battalion, and the Yongwei battalion would definitely not only fight this battle, the Qing soldiers were still raging in Gyeonggi, Zhu Cihong did not believe that the Nine Route reinforcements could fight desperately with the Qing army.

Emperor Chongzhen happily accepted his proposal, but Emperor Chongzhen vetoed Zhu Cihong's proposal to repair a few days and go south again.

Emperor Chongzhen said, Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the Ministry of War, has been united in Tongzhou, and he has more than 100,000 horses in the Beijing camp under his command at any time, plus the reinforcements of the Nine Routes, a total of more than 100,000 horses, and you don't have to worry about it at all.

For Emperor Laozi's words, Zhu Cihong didn't have much hope, more than 100,000 horses, the number seems quite large, especially in Jingying.

He checked the files, how can there be more than 100,000 horses, it is estimated that if he checks it, there will be half of the vacancy, all of which are for the leaders of the Beijing camp to eat empty salaries.

There will not be many useful left, many of the soldiers are veterans, who take the lead in rushing when receiving salaries, and take the lead in running when fighting.

The soldiers of the Ninth Route reinforcements are estimated to be no better, and a group of rotten people can only be worse than anyone, especially Liu Zeqing's Shandong soldiers, it is said that the speed of escape is not able to catch up with the enemy's cavalry.......

Let's take a look, if Zhang Fengyi messes up, there will always be a chance for the Yongwei battalion to make a move, but Zhu Cihong still hopes that Zhang Fengyi can turn the tide and fight a beautiful battle like Yu Qian back then.

The damage to the Gyeonggi region of the Ming Dynasty was too great, and it may be difficult to recover to the previous level for several years.

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After Zhu Cihong came out of the Qianqing Palace, he suddenly felt a sense of relief, the original palace gave him the feeling of being a cage, with strict hierarchies and not freedom.

It wasn't until he went out to see the tragic scene outside that Zhu Cihong felt how happy he was to live in this Forbidden City, not to worry about food and clothing, to play the piano and read books in his spare time, and to wander around the Imperial Garden.

In the eyes of others, the most tiring and bitter reading, Zhu Cihong is ten minutes of love, the royal collection is too rich and too precious, a hundred times richer than the museums of later generations, these are the cultural essence of the Chinese nation, he likes it very much.

As soon as Zhu Cihong returned to Zhongcui Palace, a group of eunuchs and palace maids were overjoyed and greeted them one after another.

One of the little eunuchs immediately greeted him and said happily: "Master, you can come back, the slave and maid really want to kill you these days!" ”

Wu Zhong immediately knocked on the little eunuch and said, "Hey! What nonsense are you talking about, boy? Do you want to be boarded? The word "death" is not allowed in the palace, can't you remember? ”

"The slave knows ...... wrong"

Zhu Cihong said with a smile: "Okay, Wu Daban, don't be embarrassed by Qiu Zhizhong, just pay attention next time." ”

Qiu Zhizhong is also Zhu Cihong's companion, but his qualifications are a little worse than Wu Zhong's, and the private relationship between the two is quite good.

Behind Qiu Zhizhong, there are four palace maids, their names are Moqin, Moqi, Moshu, and Mohua, which were given by Queen Zhou after the division of the palace two years ago.

With the growth of Zhu Cihong's body, some officials suggested that the four beautiful little palace maids around the crown prince should be replaced by four old mothers over sixty years old, so as to prevent the prince from being young and unrestrained.

Emperor Chongzhen was afraid that it would cause some kind of shadow to Zhu Cihong's young psychology, so of course he vetoed the proposal of this official, and said: The law in the palace is strict, and the prince does not dare to come nonsense.

This official had no choice but to be bored with himself, and he also offended a vote of people.

Fortunately, the emperor's father vetoed it, otherwise Zhu Cihong really didn't know that he was surrounded by four old mothers in their sixties, what a picture of what a.

Maybe it should be the kind of picture in "Journey to the West" where the empty boy sprinkled flowers when he appeared......