Zhu Cihong ordered the army to camp directly outside the city, and now she will not let Liu Liangzuo go no matter what, this person in the previous life when the Manchu Qing Dynasty went south, he directly surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty and became a traitor without fighting, and he was a complete moth in the Ming Dynasty, plus now Liu Liangzuo is so tricky of him, just gave him an excuse, he will get rid of this person!

The army was encamped, and Zhu Cihong arranged the unconscious Dieyi in his big tent.

"Yiyi, you must hold on, no matter what, I will cure you, and I will not allow you to leave me" Zhu Cihong grabbed Dieyi's hand, his expression was sad and firm.

"Zhao Dequan, immediately go and prepare pen, ink, paper and inkstone, this prince wants to use it." After a while, Zhu Cihong let go of Dieyi's hand, turned his head to Zhao Dequan and commanded.

"The slave obeys." In a moment, Zhao Dequan prepared the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone.

Zhu Cihong walked to the desk, picked up the brush, secretly brewed, and wrote with a pen, fortunately, with the memory in his mind, the feeling of this body was still there, but he smoothly wrote down everything he was going to write neatly.

Zhu Cihong wrote several sheets in a row, and after the ink on them dried, he took out the jade seal of the country that Emperor Chongzhen gave himself on the eve of the breakdown of Beijing, and after printing it with red red, he covered it one by one.

"Let Zhang Kuishan send people to send these wills to Nanjing, Yangzhou, Xuzhou, Luzhou and other places."

Emperor Chongzhen was in trouble, with the mark of the jade seal of the country, what Zhu Cihong wrote was the holy decree of the Ming Dynasty at this moment, the supreme order, he wanted to gather the army under the general army from all over the country to come here to exterminate Liu Liangzuo, not only to Liu Liangzuo's head, but also to kill the chicken and set an example for the monkey, he wanted to see how many people were loyal to the Ming Dynasty at this time.

Liu Liangzuo in the General Army's Mansion.

Hearing that the prince ordered the army to camp outside the city, Liu Liangzuo was very weak-hearted and anxious, afraid that Zhu Cihong would really charge him with rebellion and wave his troops to attack the city.

"Liang Bing, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince led the army to camp in Huai'an City, and if he didn't leave, he probably wanted to cure my crimes, how can you say this?" Liu Liangzuo looked at his cousin Liu Liangbing's bitter face, and was extremely afraid, after all, it was the crown prince, who was about to go to Nanjing to ascend the throne and become the crown prince of the Ming Emperor.

"Big brother, don't be anxious, His Royal Highness the Prince's main purpose is to go down to Nanjing to ascend the throne, it is impossible to stay in Jianghuai for a long time, besides, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince only has 30,000 troops in his hands, Huai'an City Wall is tall, and there are 40,000 Jianghuai troops of the eldest brother stationed in the city, and the prince has to carefully weigh whether he has the ability to attack the city." Liu Liangbing smiled.

"I'm not afraid that the prince can break through Huai'an, but the prince doesn't seem to believe in the lie that Huai'an has a plague at all, and he has to enter the city, he led a large army to camp outside the city, probably trying to force me to open the city gate, once the city gate is opened, the plague will be self-defeating, I will be punished by the prince, and if I don't open it, His Royal Highness the prince also said just now, it is regarded as a rebellion. With such a big hat on my head, I will be the object of the whole world's condemnation, and I will surely die. ”

Liu Liangzuo is now so remorseful that his intestines are green, why did he have to make up a lie about the plague to fool the prince, honestly let the prince into the city, the prince will give him small shoes to wear, he is not the chief soldier at most, he will not necessarily die, now it is okay, it can be said that it is difficult to ride a tiger.

"Big brother is too worried, as long as we insist that there is a plague in the city, it is impossible for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to really spend a long time with us outside the city, after all, ascending the throne and becoming the emperor is His Royal Highness the Prince's first priority, as for really putting the hat of rebellion on our heads, eldest brother, you are the general soldier of a town, with tens of thousands of troops in your hands, and such a huge crime of rebellion requires evidence, what evidence does His Royal Highness the Crown Prince have? There is no real evidence, not to mention that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has not yet ascended the throne, even if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ascends the throne and becomes the emperor, the ministers of the court and the central government will not let the prince come to him. Liu Liangbing continued indifferently, not worried at all, and continued.

"Even if the prince will hate the eldest brother afterwards and want to deal with the eldest brother, but the prince has a lot of things to deal with in a little time after he ascends the throne, and he will not be able to pull out so quickly, besides, the eldest brother should not forget, Li Zicheng will not be without action after occupying Beijing City, and it is inevitable to attack Shandong in the south, and when the war resumes, the eldest brother has a large army, and he is in the south of Shandong, and then it is not that we are afraid that the prince will put the hat of rebellion on our heads, We can even use the rebellion and surrender of Li Zicheng to threaten the court and ask for benefits, hehe! Liu Liangbing smiled coldly, showing disdain, and did not take Zhu Cihong in his eyes at all.

"But wouldn't this be a tear of the face, in case the prince exterminates Li Zicheng one day, we will also be unable to escape." Liu Liangzuo thought about it and said worriedly.

Liu Liangbing shook his head and said, "Big brother, you are wrong, what is Da Ming like, you and I still can't understand it all these years?" It's just terminally ill, there is no cure, Beijing City is occupied, Emperor Chongzhen's disaster is the best omen, Daming is not saved, and the prince is still able to turn the tide with a fifteen-year-old little hairy child? Anyway, I don't believe it, I suggest that once the eldest brother leaves Huai'an, we will begin to secretly expand the army, with the silver money we have accumulated and the population of Huai'an, it is not difficult to expand into an army of 100,000, and when Li Zicheng and his army go south, we will cooperate with Li Zicheng to take Shandong Jianghuai and other places in one fell swoop, with such credit, Li Zicheng is not too much to make the eldest brother a king with a different surname, why care about the Ming Dynasty. ”

"This is a rebellion!" After listening to Liu Liangbing's words, Liu Liangzuo fell into deep thought, and his face kept changing.

For a moment, Liu Liangzuo's eyes narrowed slightly, and the color of determination flashed, and he made a decision, and very much agreed with his cousin Liu Liangbing's proposal, indeed, Da Ming has rotted to the bones, and now he has offended the prince to death, and it will be difficult for Da Ming to have his foothold in the future, so why should he hang himself in such a tree, what if he really surrendered Li Zicheng!

Liu Liangzuo was conceited that Zhu Cihong must have no way to deal with him at the moment, and he had the intention of rebelling against the Ming Dynasty in his heart, so he immediately settled down, and he was at ease with Zhu Cihong, and he didn't believe that Zhu Cihong could not be consumed.

Liu Liangzuo and Liu Liangbing thought well, but they all miscalculated, they thought that Zhu Cihong could not put the hat of rebellion on his head without evidence, but they knew that Zhu Cihong had suffered an assassination in Huai'an before coming to Huai'an City, this is the evidence of the rebellion that Zhu Cihong had prepared for them.

Nanjing City, Provisional Cabinet Office.

Under the "Holy Decree", several cabinet ministers were discussing the crown prince's accession to the throne after returning to Beijing, when a guard wearing the armor of the Imperial Forest Army of the East Palace suddenly ran in quickly.

This is the prince's personal guard? The six books, all the cabinet universities, at a glance, can see from the clothes worn by this guard, that the person who ran in is the clothes worn by the guards of the East Palace Imperial Forest Army who are guarding the prince, this is the guard sent by His Royal Highness the Prince.

The guard held a roll of rice paper in his hand, slowly opened it, and read it aloud.

"Fengtian carrier, the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty said: Huai'an general soldier Liu Liangzuo assassinated the prince, intended to rebel, the evidence is conclusive, and has now been besieged in Huai'an City by the prince himself, and ordered the military department Shangshu Shi Kefa to immediately lead 40,000 Beijing battalion troops to Huai'an, the cabinet scholar Gao Hongtu, Ma Shiying accompanied him, to discuss the elimination of Liu Liangzuo."

The holy decree was actually issued by the crown prince, which seemed a bit nondescript and unruly, but Emperor Chongzhen was in trouble, and the crown prince must be the next emperor.

Shi Kefa, the secretary of the Ministry of War, took the holy decree, glanced at it confirmatively, and saw a big seal on it, and the youngest cabinet elder in the Nanjing cabinet immediately became excited.

"The jade seal of the country, it turned out to be the jade seal of the country, it is in the hands of His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness the Prince brought it out, hahahaha, God bless Daming!" Shi Kefa shouted excitedly, laughed for a moment, tears flowed from the corners of his eyes, with the heirloom jade seal, Daming is the real Daming, how can Shi Kefa not be excited, with the mark of the heirloom jade seal, this is a real holy decree, no one can question it.

"The minister Shi Kefa obeys the order, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is a thousand years old, a thousand years old, a thousand years old!"

Heirloom jade seal?

All the cabinet scholars couldn't help but be excited, one by one anxiously came forward to see this holy decree printed with the seal of the jade seal of the Ming Dynasty, after reading it, all of them burst into tears, His Royal Highness the Prince of the Heart is the real son of the Ming Dynasty, not only can he successfully escape from the siege of Li Zicheng's hundreds of thousands of troops, but also brought out the jade seal of the Ming Dynasty by the way, which is a symbol of the inheritance of the Ming Dynasty The jade seal, with it, the luck of the Ming Dynasty is not over.

In an instant, all the cabinet ministers rekindled their hopes for the Ming Dynasty, and there was only one thought in their hearts, to take the crown prince to Nanjing as soon as possible to ascend the throne and succeed to the throne.

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