After the complete recovery of Sichuan, the defense of Sichuan was handed over to Qin Liangyu, and then the Second and Fifth Armies returned to Nanjing for rectification.

Everyone realized that with the demise of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, only the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which occupied the north, and the Ming Dynasty, who occupied the south, were left in the world.

At that time, Emperor Taizu was the Ming Dynasty established in the Central Plains of the Northern Expedition of Nanjing, and now the Ming Dynasty has returned to Nanjing City, and with the governance of the current emperor, the prestige of the Ming Dynasty is growing, no worse than when Taizu Northern Expedition to the Central Plains.

Everyone knows that since the battle of Xuzhou, the strength of the Ming Dynasty has surpassed that of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and in the near future between the two sides, there will be another decisive battle, the probability of winning the Ming Dynasty is undoubtedly the highest, and the probability of winning the Manchu Dynasty is only two percent at most, and the Ming Dynasty is strong and weak!

March 19 of the first year of the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time that the situation in Sichuan was completely stabilized and the Second Army and the Fifth Army returned to Nanjing, Li Dingguo was also pressed to the city of Nanjing.

"Your Majesty, Li Dingguo is the righteous son of the traitor Zhang Xianzhong, and for many years he has assisted the traitor Zhang Xianzhong to divide Sichuan, causing a large number of innocent people to suffer, which is really a great crime, and he also asked the emperor to order him to be beheaded to set an example!" A minister stood up and said.

"Please ask the emperor to immediately issue an order to behead Li Dingguo to set an example!"

The ministers all have one attitude, that is, to kill Li Dingguo.

Zhu Ci frowned, he didn't want to kill Li Dingguo, not to say that Li Dingguo is indeed a rare general, just to say that in history, Li Dingguo once led the army under his command to resist the Qing Dynasty for nearly 20 years.

Zhu Ci is not an indecisive person, since he doesn't want to kill Li Dingguo in his heart, then he won't kill him.

After thinking about it, Zhu Ci hesitated to excuse Li Dingguo and said: "As far as I know, although Li Dingguo is Zhang Xianzhong's righteous son and the number one general under Zhang Xianzhong, he is not Zhang Xianzhong's indiscriminate killing of innocent and mutilating people, on the contrary, Li Dingguo has a lot of patronage for ordinary people, Zhang Xianzhong is evil at the same time, he also tried his best to stop it, this time Qin Liangyu also specially sent a fold to me, when Li Dingguo was escorted out of Chengdu, the people of Chengdu were interceding for Li Dingguo, which is enough to prove that Li Dingguo is not a villain!" ”

"But Your Majesty, no matter what, we can't deny that Li Dingguo is a rebellious thief, if these thieves are not severely punished, won't it help the arrogance of other thieves in the world, which is not good for my Ming Dynasty!" Some courtiers persuaded him.

Qian Qianyi, Liu Zongzhou and other pavilion elders nodded in agreement.

Indeed, rebels have always been captured, all of them are Zhulian Nine Clans, since Li Dingguo belongs to this category, then in the hearts of the courtiers, there is no reason for forgiveness, it would be good not to Zhulian Nine Clans.

Zhu Ci shook his head with a smile, and continued to excuse Li Dingguo: "You have to worry too much, not dealing with Li Dingguo will not boost the arrogance of other anti-thieves in the world, but will disintegrate their military morale." When there are all kinds of rebels today, the biggest Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong have been destroyed, and the others are not afraid, and they can use Li Dingguo's incident to persuade them to disperse and return home! ”

"The emperor said before that the rebellious people were just innocent people with pure hearts, and there was nothing wrong with it, but the imperial court was not properly governed, so that they had no food and clothing, and they were forced to rebel because of their livelihood, and they did not die for their crimes. The reason why the Ming Dynasty insists on rebellion is nothing more than that of the imperial court, if the imperial court can even put Li Dingguo, then those small shrimps will naturally not be pursued again, so they can rest assured that they will return home, and the world can be determined! ”

Zhu Ci is not talking nonsense, the rise of the Dragon Army, the Ming Dynasty to benefit the people of the policy from time to time, the people's life is getting better day by day, if the people are not cornered, no one will rebel, but the rebellion has become everyone shouting and beating, in addition, in less than two months, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong have been extinguished, and now the situation is no longer rebelling, and continuing to walk this road is a dead end, those who are still hiding from all walks of life are not unable to see this, and they must be very afraid that one day they will also be exterminated by the imperial court, Zhu Ci believed that as long as he was willing to make promises and make actual moves, the thieves who were still hiding should know what their wisest choice was.

"The former emperor did say such a thing back then, and he also recruited rebels many times because of this, but did the emperor ever think that the former emperor had a success? That time the anti-thief was not descending and rebelling, and the Ming soldiers were exhausted in vain, did the emperor want to repeat the mistakes of the previous emperor? Qian Qianyi pondered for a while, then took the lead and said.

Zhu Ci nodded and said: "I have indeed thought about it, but it is only different from the past, the Ming soldiers are strong and strong, I can extinguish them at any time as long as I want, and besides, I believe that the Ming Dynasty under my rule, the people will never want to rebel again!" Since I am confident from this, I want to give those anti-thieves a chance, and the secretary thinks so! ”

The ministers talked a lot.

In a moment, all the ministers knelt down together: "The emperor is sage, he has a broad mind, and the ministers are respectful!" ”

This is what Zhu Cihe, who agrees, said.

In fact, what can you do if you don't agree, the ministers know Zhu Cicheng's temper too well, seeing Zhu Cicheng insisting like this, according to past experience, they know that it is afraid that it will be difficult to persuade Zhu Cicheng to change his attention, since this is the case, why not agree, anyway, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are all destroyed, and the remaining anti-thieves in the world are also small anti-thieves, and they can't become a big climate, so what's the harm in giving them a chance.

Not only Zhu Cicheng has confidence in the current Ming Dynasty, but the ministers also have confidence in the current Ming Dynasty, not to mention the Ying Long Army of the Megatron world, just say that the current treasury of the Ming Dynasty, hundreds of millions of taels of silver are lying there, but it is not the period of the first emperor, and even hundreds of thousands of taels of military salaries can not be taken out.

With a decision, Zhu Ci issued an order to release Li Dingguo on the same day, and at the same time issued an edict, urging the rebels who were still rebelling to take the initiative to surrender within a certain period of time, promising that as long as they did not kill innocents indiscriminately and committed the most heinous crimes, they could be pardoned!

When Li Dingguo stepped out of the prison in Nanjing, he couldn't believe that this was true, the Ming Emperor pardoned him without even trial, Li Dingguo was in a trance, and sighed for a long time.

The current Ming Emperor has such a mind, no wonder Li Zicheng and his father-in-law lost so quickly, if it weren't for the lack of opportunity, he would definitely be willing to do his best under the command of the current Ming Emperor!

Li Dingguo was released, Zhu Ci made practical moves, coupled with the promulgation of the edict, most of the thieves from all walks of life who were still hidden in various parts of the world chose to come out to surrender, and those who did not come out to surrender were quickly surrounded and suppressed by the armies in various places, and the Ming Dynasty was really stable and stable.

At this point, Zhu Cicheng began to concentrate on preparing for the Northern Expedition in the near future, the Central Plains fell for several years, and it was time to recover, and the Manchus should be expelled.

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