"Hahaha!"

It's time for Tianning Temple to be at noon again, and hearty laughter comes out of the main hall. This is Prince Zhu laughing wildly!

In the main hall, except for Chongzhen, who is "learning" how to be the emperor, everyone's facial expressions are the same as Zhu Cihong!

Chongzhen looked depressed! Why is it that when I was the emperor, there was always an upright gentleman who sang the opposite tune, and now it is the turn of the unfilial son to take power, not only is no one singing the opposite, but even the expression is unified.

The prince was angry, and the traitors were also indignant. The prince was happy, and everyone was elated......

What's even more hateful is that Prince Zhu even threw away the three tools of Jinyi Guard's Imperial Prison, the Imperial Staff and the Dongchang to rectify his courtiers. Jin Yiwei now doesn't care about the disobedience and corruption of officials, and only arrests rebellious thieves and spies on military intelligence. The court staff was simply canceled, no more spanking, and the East Investigation Factory also ordered it to be removed!

In Chongzhen's opinion, the current Zhu Cihong is almost like a toothless tiger!

But the question is, why are the officials so afraid of him? What are they afraid of? What means does the prince have to rectify them?

Do they all believe that Zhu Cihong is the reincarnation of Emperor Taizu Gao? That's ridiculous, isn't it?

Zhu Cihong didn't know that his cheap father was studying how he was under control, this thing is actually difficult to learn, more talent!

Zhu Cihong just has such a talent, otherwise how could Emperor Taizu Gao take a fancy to him?

In Zhu Cihong's view, using Dongchang, Imperial Prison and Court Staff to deal with civil officials is a completely powerless performance! Only when there is no way to take civilian officials, and there is no group of officials to rely on, do they need to use this kind of means of scaring people.

And Zhu Cihong now has his own bureaucracy - he has his own group of heroes who have overcome difficulties, most of them are exiled proletarian bureaucrats, and if they don't follow him, they will have to suffer and be poor, and it will be a problem to eat. So there is no need to worry about the confrontation from the bureaucracy, everyone is unanimous on the issue of cleaning up the gang of bureaucrats and gentry in the southeast.

Only by cleaning up the bureaucratic nobles and gentry in the southeast can they have a good life!

Zhu Cihong also has the army he established single-handedly - the New Army of Overcoming Difficulties! Although the backbone of this army came from the Wu family, the Liukou army, and the remnants of the Beijing camp, they had been completely controlled by him. Now there is no possibility that anyone can incite the new army against the crown prince!

Zhu Cihong even had more than 300 "eunuchs who overcome difficulties" to rely on. Although he has been curtailing the power of the inner court, these "eunuchs" can still be trusted. Because they are not only eunuchs, but also heroes. You can get a knighthood and serve as an official in a foreign court.

In addition, Zhu Cihong also fostered a "Imperial Business Group" that could be used for his own use, including Huang Jiang, Su Sheng, Shen Tingyang, Zheng Sen, Huaiyang Four Salt Total, and Iron Abacus Yunsan and others.

It is precisely because there are forces that can be relied on in all aspects that he can implement his policies quite effectively.

And the good news is coming!

And not just one good news, but four joys are coming!

Among them, the first joy is, of course, Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Suzhou, Songjiang, Ningbo, Jiaxing, Huzhou, Shaoxing, and Hangzhou Jiufu have fallen into the hands of Prince Zhu!

In addition to Fang Gongyue, Qiu Yu, and Fan Jingwen, three bigwigs who had served as cabinet elders and scholars, and had the title of Count of Kenan, served as governors, prefects, and townsmen, Zhu Cihong also sent two "Kenan Wenchen" from Beijing to serve as the prefects of Changzhou, Songjiang, Ningbo, Jiaxing, Huzhou, Shaoxing and other prefectures. Subsequently, a new army of associations was stationed in each of these nine prefectures -- now there are six divisions and 24 associations on the books of the new army, of which two divisions and eight associations are stationed in Dengzhou and Huai'an, and nine of the remaining 16 associations are stationed in various places, and only seven associations are still in Yangzhou.

The second joy is the news from Jinan Prefecture. Entrenched in Beijing, Dongguo sent a delegation to discuss relatives, saying that they wanted to marry Dorgon's six-year-old daughter Donggu to Zhu Cihong as his wife—although Zhu Cihong did not think of making the fake come true, this Dongyu mission could still greatly enhance the prestige of Zhu Cihong and Xingchao.

Because Dorgon's attempt to marry a daughter can also be seen as he does not intend to destroy Nanming and then dominate the world! In other words, Dol Roll already knew that the Qing Dynasty did not have the ability to defeat the Southern Ming Dynasty and unify China.

Therefore, this Zhu Cihong has a great possibility of owning half of the country, although he is only half of the country, but he is also the king of a country!

The third joy is from Wuchang. Zuo Liangyu, who had always ignored the DPRK, finally sent an envoy to Yangzhou, and this envoy was not Zuo Liangyu's person, but Han Lin, Li Zicheng's courtier from Taiyuan.

This Han Lin is amazing, he is the author of "The Complete Book of Shouyuan", a famous person in Jiangzhou, Shanxi. In his early years, he traveled to Jiangnan, traveled to Shilin, learned Western knowledge from Xu Guangqi, and also entered Catholicism, and met a Western missionary Gao Yizhi who was proficient in city building and artillery skills. With the help of the latter, he wrote the "Complete Book of Shouyuan", which can be called a textbook for the construction of cities in Western France. However, although this Han Lin has studied both Chinese and Western, his eight-strand articles are not good enough, and he is a person in one fell swoop when he takes the exam, so he has no official to do, so he has to live in seclusion in Taiyuan and study Western studies. And when Li Zicheng broke through Taiyuan, he happened to be in the courtiers, so he voted for the Ming lord......

However, after voting for the Ming Lord, Han Lin found that the Ming Lord was unknown, so he always wanted to find a chance to leave. This time, he finally caught Gu Junen's path and took the lead for him. After Han Lin sent the letters of Gu Junen and Wang Chengen, Zuo Liangyu also had to change his stance on Yangzhou Xingchao.

Although he has some strength, he still can't beat Li Zicheng. Now that Li Zicheng has taken the initiative to make peace, he still dares to detain the envoys and not send them to Yangzhou? Aren't you afraid that Li Zicheng will send troops to beat him? And at this moment, Feng San, Red Lady, Chen Yingyuan and others sent by Zhu Cihong occupied the southern part of Runing Mansion again, directly threatening Zuo Liangyu's territory! Zuo Liangyu can't scold Li Zicheng while fighting with the approaching Zhu Cihong, right?

Therefore, he didn't care about watching the struggle between Yangzhou and Nanjing, so he had to send Han Lin as an envoy and rushed to Yangzhou day and night with tribute and concerts.

Now Gao Jie, Liu Zeqing, and Liu Liangzuo are all obedient to Yangzhou on the bright side, and only Huang Degong ignores Yangzhou. Zuo Liangyu sent an envoy to play Nagong, which can be regarded as a statement of obedience.

In this way, Zhu Cihong has four supporters among the five major warlords in the southeast! Coupled with his own descendant army, he already has the strength to crush Nanjing in terms of military strength.

The fourth joy comes from Nanjing, which has been confronting Yangzhou Xingchao. Nanjing's nobles and ministers also seemed to have softened after Zhu Cihong "took a step back". Liu Kongzhao was edicted, and also invited out the former Nanjing official secretary Zhang Shenyan and Nanjing town guard eunuch Han Zanzhou to come to Yangzhou to greet him, according to the eunuch who played the front station (sent by Han Zanzhou) reported that Nanjing Xungui was willing to donate 20 million mu of land for the imperial court to distribute!

Now Liu Kongzhao and Zhang Shenyan have arrived in Zhenjiang, and they will soon be able to come to Yangzhou City!

An infighting seems to have disappeared invisibly.

"Good news, it's all good news!"

Zhu Cihong waved Zuo Liangyu's recital, sat beside Emperor Chongzhen, laughed and said to the jubilant courtiers below: "General Ping Thief is really a pillar of the imperial court!" The palace is ready to make him the Marquis of Wuchang Domain, Yongzhen Wuchang Mansion, and the Governor of Hubei Military Affairs, in charge of Wuchang, Huangzhou, Chengtian, Yuezhou, De'an, Jingzhou and other six government military affairs! ”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince," the Hou Shangshu of the Ministry of Household Affairs said in his class, "Zuo Liangyu, who is in charge of the military affairs and government affairs of the six northern provinces of Huguang, will encroach on the authority of the governor of Huguang, do you want to seek the opinion of He Tengjiao, the governor of Huguang?" ”

"No need." Zhu Cihong waved his hand, "Huguang can be divided into two, the six prefectures of Hubei are under the jurisdiction of Zuo Liangyu, and Changsha, Changde, Chenzhou, Shizhou, Baoqing, Hengzhou, Yongzhou, Chenzhou, Jingzhou and Yongshun and Baojing are all under the jurisdiction of the Hunan governor. He Tengjiao was reappointed as the governor of Hunan and built Changsha.

In addition, Admiral Cao Jiangshui Master Cheng Liu Kongzhao did not have to return to Nanjing after escorting the Tang King to Anqing Mansion. Ordered him to lead the sailor to Jiujiang and take over the post of Jiujiang garrison! The military affairs and government affairs of the Jiujiang government are all under the management of Liu Kongzhao. And allow the river sailor to set up a card to collect taxes in the Yangtze River waterway near Jiujiang!

As for Chang Yanling, the Marquis of Fuyuan, he did not have to return to Nanjing, and ordered him to serve as the commander-in-chief of the Hunan town guard, go to Changsha, and defend Hunan with He Tengjiao. ”

Zhu Cihong is still reasonable, this Chang Yanling did not rebel after all, so he can't force people to death - just let him hand over the land and family business in the southeast, and then go to Hunan to fish for oil and water.

And as long as Liu Kongzhao is willing to take refuge, he can also enjoy the same treatment, because Zhu Cihong doesn't want to start a war with the Caojiang Water Division, and his Yangtze River Water Division has not undergone any actual combat tests, what if he doesn't fight?

Listening to Zhu Cihong's words, Emperor Chongzhen, who was sitting on the throne, immediately gasped. The method of the rebel is really a bit unpredictable! I thought he would make peace with Nanjing Xungui, but I didn't expect him to divide and disintegrate them! Use the dispatch of the Hunan General Army and the Jiujiang garrison to win over Chang Yanling and Liu Kongzhao to isolate Xu Hongji and Zhao Zhilong......

Xu Hongji and Zhao Zhilong, you two must be careful, don't let the prince die!