The news of Li Zicheng's defeat at Shanhaiguan reached Jiangnan, and countless Donglin Party and other courtiers cheered.

"Lord Shoufu, if the emperor learns the news of the defeat of Li Zicheng's thief army at Shanhaiguan, he will be very happy, and we should go to the emperor immediately to report the good news."

"Yes, yes, the defeat of the rebellion, Daming Zhongxing is in sight." A group of Donglin Party members were extremely excited on their faces, and they were invited to the imperial study of the palace to report the good news to Zhu Cihong.

"Hey, Old Ma Ge, you also came to the palace to find the emperor?" Gao Hongtu and the others came to the door of the imperial study, and when they saw that Ma Shiying and the others had already come here first, they spoke.

"Lord Shoufu, you can come, why can't I, Ma Shiying, come." Ma Shiying said with an unkind face.

Since Gao Hongtu became the first assistant, Ma Shiying, Zhang Zongyi and others have a very bad time, don't look at the six cabinet ministers, everyone is on one side of the three, but there are too many officials from the Donglin Party, there are hundreds of officials in the entire court, at least 70 people are Donglin Party, and nearly ten are nobles who have been living in Nanjing since the founding of the country, such as Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei and others, these people are generally focused on maintaining the rule of the Ming Dynasty, as long as there is no rebellion, they have always been unhelpful, Therefore, there are only about 20 people on Ma Shiying's side, and they can't even control the three major departments of the Ministry of War, Industry, and Criminal Department under their control, and they have to be guarded against being hollowed out by the Donglin Party at all times.

At the same time, Ma Shiying also got the news that Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, and other nobles seemed to be getting closer to Gao Hongtu, and they didn't know what they were plotting, which was too terrifying.

"In that case, let's go in together and give the emperor good news." Gao Hongtu said and walked in first.

"Hmph." Ma Shiying snorted coldly, flicked his cuffs and walked in.

Zhu Cihong is reviewing the chapters, every day is some trivial matters, if he is not familiar with a little history in his heart, he thought that the Ming Dynasty is now smooth and the world is peaceful.

Hey! There was actually a participant in Ma Shiying, saying that he had built a luxurious manor on the outskirts of Nanjing a month ago, and had raised a few singers, spending more than 100,000 taels of silver, and the silver must have been all the proceeds of corruption.

"It's not a good thing, and I'm embarrassed to say these things." Don't think about it, Zhu Cihong understands that the official who participated in Ma Shiying must be the Donglin Party, and these people want to overthrow Ma Shiying to dominate the court.

To say that Zhu Cihong absolutely believes in such a thing, but he also knows that there is no one like Ma Shiying in the Manchu Dynasty, who really wants to investigate and deal with it, and no one can escape. Perhaps it is precisely because of this that the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty feel that no one dares to put the corruption of officials on the surface, so they are unscrupulously corrupt, after all, the law does not blame the public, even if he knows that the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty are all corrupt, it is impossible for him, the emperor, to really do everyone, if he does that, how can the court still operate.

Thinking of this, Zhu Cihong's head is a little big, he wants to govern the court well, but he can't think of where to start for the time being.

"Your Majesty, Lord Shoufu and others ask to see you." Zhao Dequan suddenly came in to report.

"Announce it."

After a while, Gao Hongtu Ma Shiying and more than 20 other people entered the imperial study together.

"Ministers see the emperor, long live my emperor, long live long live!" All officials visited the shrine together.

"Zhong Aiqing is flat."

More than 20 officials came to the imperial study together, and Gao Hongtu Ma Shiying and other six Shangshu Pavilion elders were among them, looking at the smiles on their faces, Zhu Cihong guessed that it was probably the news of the Shanhaiguan War, these people knew that Li Zicheng was defeated, and came to report the good news to him.

"Your Majesty, a few days ago, Li Zicheng led a rebel army of 200,000 thieves to be defeated by Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, and the Qing soldiers outside Shanhaiguan. Sure enough, Gao Hongtu's smiling report made his old face almost smile, as if it was more festive than his daughter-in-law marrying his daughter-in-law.

"I know that." Zhu Cihong sneered, his face was flat, there was no expression of surprise, but there was a trace of deep worry in the depths of his eyes.

But that's not the case, Li Zicheng has already lost the support of the people now, so there is nothing to worry about, even if he is given a hundred years, he will not get the world. Zhu Cihong has always regarded Dolgon and the Manchu Qing Dynasty as the number one enemy of the Ming Dynasty, at this moment the Qing soldiers finally began to enter the customs, which shows that there is really not much time left for him, you know, in history, the Qing soldiers began to enter the customs, in just one year, they swept the north and south of the river with a momentum like a bamboo, and the Great Shun destroyed Li Zicheng, and the city of Nanjing broke the Ming Dynasty and also declared its demise.

Dolgon is different from Li Zicheng, he is much more clever than Li Zicheng. Li Zicheng relaxed his vigilance when he had not yet won the world, forgot the original intention of the uprising, and began to ravage the people, which led to the loss of popular support, and was picked up by the Manchurians.

And Dolgon is very smart, he is very good at buying people's hearts in the early stage, and he surrendered I don't know how many Han people as his pawns, until Li Zicheng died, the Southern Ming Dynasty was destroyed, and the general trend of the world was in his hands, and there was no real opponent in the whole world, he began to show his murderous fangs, shaved his hair and changed clothes, ran off the land, occupied the house and escaped, and captured the Han people as slaves. was killed almost all of them lost their blood, there are both the merits of the Manchurians, but the credit of the traitor is the greatest, and the one that Zhu Cihong hates the most in his life is the traitor.

"Your Majesty, this is a great event, you should immediately send out a list to inform the people, so that the people can also celebrate together, why aren't you happy?" Gao Hongtu was a little puzzled.

It stands to reason that more than a month ago, the rogue broke through the city of Beijing, so that the emperor suffered, and the emperor himself came to Jiangnan after a lot of hardships, which was all thanks to Li Zicheng and other rogues, and now when he heard that Li Zicheng was defeated, he should be happy, why

Gao Hongtu thought about it, and subconsciously thought that it must be that as soon as he talked about Li Zicheng just now, it made the emperor think of the death of the emperor and the suffering he suffered, so he felt sad for a while, and then he was not happy.

"Lord Shoufu is right, Wechen Qiqi Emperor, Wechen thinks that we should not only make a list for the people to have fun, but also do something, it is best to destroy Li Zicheng and other traitors in one fell swoop." A six-part squire said.

Zhu Cihong's heart moved, smiled slightly, looked at Gao Hongtu and the others and said, "What do you think I should do at this time, say any opinions, I will refer to them." ”

Everyone looked at each other, and it was the squire who spoke.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that we should immediately issue an order to Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, and let Wu Sangui continue to cooperate with the Manchus and hunt down Li Zicheng, so that my Ming general can exterminate Li Zicheng without spending a single soldier."

After listening to this waiter's opinion, Gao Hongtu and the others' eyes lit up, and Gao Hongtu immediately agreed: "Okay! That's great! The emperor, Weichen agreed with Lu Shilang's suggestion, the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs several times and returned from plundering, which shows that they did not intend to be a Ming dynasty, but they liked property, as long as we could meet the Manchu people's property demands, it would be easy to defeat Li Zicheng. ”

"What Lord Shoufu said is good, what the Manchus want is property, we can ask Wu Sangui to try to ask the Manchus how much money they have to help us destroy Li Zicheng in the Ming Dynasty, Yichen guesses, at most millions of taels can impress the Manchus, but it can't exceed the imperial court's military spending for a year, as long as Li Zicheng is exterminated, it is completely worth it." Jiang Yueguang said.

"Yes, your majesty, Li Zicheng is a great crime, and he must take this opportunity to eliminate it in one fell swoop." A group of Donglin Party members talked a lot, nothing more than thinking about hiring Manchurians to help exterminate Li Zicheng.

It is said that before Li Zicheng broke through the city of Beijing, the hundred officials were afraid of the Manchus like tigers and wolves, but since Li Zicheng's actions after occupying the city of Beijing reached their ears, their fear of Li Zicheng instantly surpassed that of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so that in order to be able to destroy Li Zicheng with the hand of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, they were willing to send millions of taels of military expenses, how ridiculous is this.

In fact, the officials were not afraid that Li Zicheng would conquer Jiangnan, what they were most afraid of was that Li Zicheng would force them to hand over all their family property after they conquered Jiangnan, just like those ministers and nobles who surrendered in the capital, I heard that more than one-third of them died tragically because they could not bear Li Zicheng's torture, and the rest of them did not die, and all their family property has been confiscated.

Confiscating all their possessions is worse than digging up their ancestral graves.

"Huh." Zhu Cihong was completely angry by their remarks, Zhu Cihong looked at Ma Shiying with a smile and asked, "Ma Shiying, do you think so too?" Think that the imperial court should send millions of taels of silver to the Manchu Qing and borrow the hands of the Manchus to destroy Li Zicheng? ”

Ma Shiying didn't notice the emotions hidden in the depths of Zhu Cihong's eyes, so he nodded without much thought and said: "Your Majesty, Weichen also agrees with this strategy of using the hands of the Manchu Qing to destroy Li Zicheng, but the minister thinks that the amount of silver envisaged by Lord Jiang is more, and it should not exceed one million taels. ”

Ma Shiying and others are also extremely afraid of what Li Zicheng did after occupying Beijing City, if he wants to say that he can accept it as a minister who has lost the country, but if he is confiscated of all his family property and begging on the street, he would rather die directly by hitting his head, so in order to avoid such a thing, Li Zicheng must die!

Although Ma Shiying and the others and Gao Hongtu and the others usually want to bring each other down, this time they are surprisingly consistent in the matter of using the hands of the Manchus to exterminate Li Zicheng at all costs.

"So Ma Shiying, you also agree with what they said?" Zhu Cihong looked at the civil and military ministers below, and couldn't help laughing, laughing a little sadly, and couldn't help crying, even Ma Shiying thought so, it turned out that this was the courtiers who helped him govern the world, all of them were cowardly and incompetent, and they didn't even have a little blood, millions of taels of silver, and they were going to be given to the Manchus in one or two sentences.

At this moment, Zhu Cihong finally understood the meaning of the sentence that Emperor Chongzhen said before hanging himself: I am not the king of the dead country, and the ministers are all the ministers of the dead country.

Emperor Chongzhen may be at fault, and he doesn't know anyone, but the Manchu Dynasty is indeed a useless person, all of them are weak and incompetent, even if the emperor of Shengming, if he has no capable ministers to help, how can he govern the world.

"Get out, you all get out of here." Zhu Cihong angrily swept the case, and dozens of pieces that had been piled up were swept down.

"The Emperor"

"Get out!"

"A group of weak people with rat eyes, Li Zicheng is the enemy of my Ming Dynasty, isn't it Manchu Qing, think I am a million army of the Ming Dynasty, is it a group of incompetent pigs! The ruined rogues even had to spend millions of taels of silver to beg the Manchus to make a move. Hehe, it's a good plan for you to wait, but how dare you be sure that after the Manchu Qing Dynasty destroyed Li Zicheng, he would not turn around and continue to attack my Daming? ”

"If it is not of my race, its heart will be different!"

"Li Zicheng deserves to die again, it's my Han people, now he has already lost the hearts of the people, there is nothing to be afraid of, the Manchu Qing Dynasty is the real enemy of my Ming Dynasty, I want to use the hard-earned money of my Ming people to fund the enemy, are you worthy of me, are you worthy of my tens of millions of people!"

Zhu Cihong blushed his face, and his murderous intentions were revealed, he really wanted to strangle all the moths of this group of Ming Dynasty, no wonder after the Manchu Qing Dynasty destroyed Li Zicheng in history, it didn't take a month to fight all the way from Shandong to Jiangnan and break through Nanjing City, it seems that there must also be the credit of this group of moths.

Everyone was taken aback by Zhu Cihong's sudden anger, although they didn't understand why, but under Zhu Cihong's angry glare, they still retreated first.

Zhu Cihong sat paralyzed on the dragon chair, a little dazed, and didn't even want to approve the rest of the chapters, they were all inconsequential trivialities, and there was no opinion on governing the world and reorganizing the armed forces, so what was the use.

For a moment, Zhu Cihong grabbed his fist fiercely, his eyes flashed fiercely, it seems that he can't wait any longer, he must clean up the moths in the court as soon as possible, only if everyone is united and the order is forbidden, Daming can have hope for Zhongxing.

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