After the ceremony of sacrificing prisoners, a ceremony was held in the Imperial Palace, and the objects of the award were mainly Sun Chuanting and other officials who suppressed the Central Plains.

Because before this, the reward of the Yongwei Battalion had been completed, and Huang Degong and Sun Yingyuan were promoted to one level, from staff general to deputy chief officer.

There are more than 60 general military officers currently in office in the Ming Dynasty, some of whom are stamped and those who are not stamped, and the status of those who are not stamped is relatively low, and as for the deputy chief military officer, it is a reward.

Xu Sheng has been promoted by two levels from the Jinyi Wei Qianhu of the fifth grade because of his meritorious service in guarding the crown prince in recent years, and he is the commander of the fourth grade, and he still guards the East Palace.

Most of the generals of the Yongwei Battalion have been promoted to one level, and even ordinary soldiers have been promoted to one level, at least it is a small flag, but it is not a real award.

In addition, each person was rewarded with fifty taels of silver, and as for the reward, the court was short of money, so Zhu Cihong naturally took the initiative to save it for Chongzhen, and he paid it himself.

There were too many materials seized in Liangxiang, 1.3 million taels of silver alone, Zhu Cihong only handed over a part of the cold weapons that were not needed to the household department, and the rest of the armor, war horses, and silver materials were all pulled to the new city by himself.

As for Li Tingbiao, because he was secretly investigating the military situation, Zhu Cihong could not ask for credit for him, so he could only wronged him.

Worried that Li Tingbiao had emotions in his heart, Zhu Cihong specially summoned him and told him in person: "Li Tingbiao, among all the henchmen in this palace, you have the greatest effect, just like a sharp sword, opening the way for this palace, and there is no disadvantage!" ”

There was no promise, no promise, only a comment, but Li Tingbiao followed Zhu Cihong even more desperately.

After the bloody night in the capital, many people saw the methods of the crown prince, and many ministers sent greetings to Zhu Cihong through Li Tingbiao, expressing their willingness to follow the crown prince.

Now everyone knows that Li Tingbiao is the crown prince's person, and the crown prince cannot make friends with foreign ministers at will, because many ministers can only use Li Tingbiao as a link to be loyal to Zhu Cihong.

Although Zhu Cihong burned the pamphlet in public, who knows if he has a backup? Instead of worrying about offending the crown prince in the future, it is better to move closer to him, anyway, the crown prince is the rightful heir to the throne, and he will not lose money!

With such a mentality, many ministers began to do everything possible to get in touch with Zhu Cihong, Zhu Cihong was not pretentious, and secretly accepted most of the people, no matter what virtue this group of people had, as long as they could be used in the court, it was a big deal to let them be cannon fodder!

In this way, a new force was faintly formed around Zhu Cihong, and the officials secretly called it the princelings.

The special edition of the "Huangming Times" devoted an entire section to the ceremony of sacrificing prisoners, promoting the imperial prestige of the dynasty, and showing the people that the imperial court was capable of quelling the rebellion of the Central Plains, and also had the ability to defeat Jiannu and regain lost territory!

Of course, no matter whether it can or not, what the current situation is, the slogans are shouted louder one by one, and the people cannot be shaken and lose confidence in the imperial court.

Just as the Huangming Times was hotly issued, some imperial historians began to play Chongzhen, asking him to issue an order to close the Huangming Times, saying that there were people in this newspaper who privately discussed the government and politics, and even some statements that the earth was round, which was contrary to the theory of the Son of Heaven and shook the country.

Chongzhen has also paid great attention to this Huangming Times in recent days, and has to subscribe to every issue, although the usual imperial court newspaper also has many functions of the Huangming Times, the content is much less than it, and it cannot be compared at all.

Chongzhen would spend his free time every day flipping through the Huangming Times to see some of the things happening around Gyeonggi and some of the views of the scholars on the imperial court. At this time, when he heard the imperial historians pleading to shut down the Emperor's Ming Times, how could he agree.

Chongzhen also wants to use the newspaper to solicit the way of governing the country from students all over the world, and is responsible for guiding domestic public opinion, so as to have public opinion support for his own implementation of some new policies in the future.

To put it bluntly, it is to compete with the officials and historians for the right of public opinion, and no matter how many of you have a sharp tongue, you will not be able to defeat the hundreds of millions of people.

The officials also discovered that the Huangming Times had this kind of function, so they tried their best to write a letter to ask for the closure of the Huangming Times, and continued to send concerts in groups.

Everyone is a smart person, just like the "Great Rites Discussion" of the Jiajing Dynasty and the "Fight for the Country" of the Wanli Dynasty, they used all kinds of bells and whistles to argue with the emperor.

To put it bluntly, it is a political struggle, a contest of political forces, a group of officials challenging the imperial power, competing for the right to speak in the court, this kind of thing is not uncommon in the Ming Dynasty, basically any emperor will encounter it several times.

Chongzhen has been the emperor for ten years, and has experienced the messy party struggles between the eunuch party and the Donglin party, and he can be regarded as a person who has come over, which is a small scene for him.

Zhu Cihong is not idle, the Huangming Times was founded by himself, and if someone wants to turn it off, it will be impossible to get along with himself, Zhu Cihong didn't say a word, and commanded those newly attached to him to confront the officials in the court.

Come on, hurt each other, who's afraid of whom! Under Zhu Cihong's stirring, the two sides used all their strength, attacked each other, dumped each other, and the flesh and blood flew sideways, which was unbearable......

The Ming Dynasty's speech officials are indeed a bit awesome and coaxing, who is not pleasing to the eye during the day, and at night they write excerpts with their heads bored, and they will be played out the next day and impeached! According to statistics, every minister of the DPRK and China has been impeached at least 20 times.......

In the end, no matter what the officials said, even if it was crying in the palace, or hitting the pillar in court, Chongzhen refused to close the Huangming Times office, and sometimes when he was provoked, he pulled a few out of the court staff and killed a few jumpers.

Recently, Zhu Cihong looked at the recital of mutual impeachment played by the ministers, and felt funny in his heart, it was really dog eat dog! Anyway, no matter what, as long as the firepower is not concentrated on him and Emperor Lao Tzu.

Zhu Cihong suddenly saw a piece of music about Li Tingbiao, which was played by Luo Yangxing, the commander of Jinyiwei, and he asked for Li Tingbiao to be promoted to the commander of Jinyiwei.

Zhu Cihong sneered, this is ostensibly a promotion to Li Tingbiao's position, but in fact, it is a bright promotion and a secret descent, in the Jinyi Guard, although the position of commander is one level higher than that of the pacification envoy, but he has no power in his hands, it is a fart!

The position of the pacification envoy is not high, but he holds real power, and he must be respectful when he commands the affairs on weekdays, the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty is so realistic, and he is the master with real power!

It seems that this Luo Yang is starting to have prejudices against himself, but so what? A house slave is a house slave, it's useless to jump again, wait for a while and find something to do for Li Tingbiao, make a meritorious contribution and promote it.......

After the captive ceremony, as if out of provocation and revenge against the Ming court, the Qing army successively broke through Dingxing, Ansu, Gu'an, Wen'an, Kebaodi, and killed Zhao Guoding of Zhixian County within ten days.

The Qing army in the north attacked Huairou under the leadership of Abatai, occupied the west of the river, stationed troops in Miyun and Pinggu, surrounded the Ming capital, and within half a month, "ravaged all over the country", countless people's homes were destroyed, and their children's wealth and wealth were plundered.

Before Dingxing, Lu Shanjiyi, the Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple, and Xue Yi'e, Zhizhou, actively resisted the Qing Dynasty and repeatedly repelled the Qing soldiers, but in the end, because the enemy was outnumbered and the soldiers were not well fed, Dingxing fell, and Lu Shanji and Xue Yi'e committed suicide and martyrdom.

After the court learned the news, it gave Lu Shan to follow the Dali Temple, called the Loyalty Festival, and built a shrine to worship.

The latest issue of the Huangming Times, focusing on propaganda and patriotic education, reported on the deeds of martyred officials in various places, and Zhu Cihong personally issued an article praising it: Generous sacrifice, risking the blade without regret, awe-inspiring integrity, to follow his own will, his heroic style and righteousness, must not be lost in the universe.