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These few days have definitely been the busiest in my life for the officials in charge of verifying the first rank of the Nanjing Military Department.

At the request of Lu Zhenfei, the secretary of the Ministry of War, almost all the relevant officials were transferred to verify the head of Dongyu.

In the great victory of Shandong, Qin Gongming, the general soldier of Dezhou, killed 673 soldiers of the Blue Banner of Manchuria and 831 soldiers of the Han Army, totaling 1,504 people.

According to the report of the Qin general soldiers, these banner soldiers were all killed in the siege battle, and the Ming army did not go out of the city to pursue.

Even so, this is the biggest victory of the Ming Dynasty against Dongyu in the past decade. Including the Holy Son of Heaven, the government and the opposition all rejoiced.

Qin sent people to load all the heads treated with lime and transport them to Nanjing. Although the Son of Heaven trusted Qin Zongbing, he still ordered these heads to be handed over to the military department for verification.

There is no other purpose in this move, it is to declare to the subjects of the world that this is a real victory, and not a fiction with a pen.

Just like the Battle of the Carriage Gorge back then, although the imperial court repeatedly publicized how powerful the officials and troops of the Carriage Gorge were in the victory, the people did not buy it.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, there are many doubts, Chen Qiyu has obviously besieged Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and other more than a dozen anti-kings, why do you still accept their surrender and finally let the tiger return to the mountain?

If this incident is true, it can only show that Chen Qiyu is an extremely stupid idiot.

But Chen Qiyu is clearly not an idiot.

At that time, Chen Qiyu was the governor of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Huguang, and Sichuan. How many of those who can sit in this position are idiots?

The only explanation is that the Battle of Carriage Gorge was fake and did not exist at all.

Chen Qiyu may have really fought with Zhang Xianzhong and other thieves, but he must have been defeated, so that the rogues successfully escaped.

However, Chen Qiyu could not write this in the recital that he reported to the Son of Heaven, so it was particularly necessary to concoct a great victory in the carriage gorge.

The brave officers and soldiers first defeated the thieves, and the cunning leader of the thieves said that he would surrender and accept the court's recruitment.

The benevolent governor accepted the surrender of the thieves with good intentions. Unexpectedly, the thieves immediately repented after leaving the carriage gorge and re-erected the anti-flag......

In this way, Chen Qiyu's face has been saved, the face of the officials and soldiers has been saved, the face of the court has been saved, and the face of the Son of Heaven has also been saved, isn't everyone happy?

The only problem is that people in the world don't believe it!

If the victory in the Carriage Gorge is true, why is it that the words in the Tang newspaper of the military department and the note written by Chen Qiyu to Chongzhen are not clear, and even the specific location cannot be described?

This so-called good news will not only not play an encouraging role, but will make the prestige of the imperial court repeatedly decline.

Of course, Zhu Cihong didn't want the same thing to happen again.

At the time of the "Great Victory in the Carriage Gorge", the prestige of the imperial court was still very high, and it could withstand such a squander. But now that the state affairs are difficult, and the slightest carelessness will face the danger of destroying the country and extinction, Zhu Cihong will never allow any rumors to shake people's hearts and damage the prestige of the imperial court.

If you want the people to believe in the great success of the imperial court's propaganda, you must clearly show the facts in front of them, the more you cover it, the more suspicious it will be, if you open it up and expose everything to the sun, there will not be so many conspiracy theories.

Of course, Zhu Cihong trusts Qin Gongming, but he must not deal with this matter hastily, and must make good use of every point to win the support of the people and public opinion for the imperial court.

The completion of the verification of more than 1,500 heads is by no means something that can be done in a moment.

Rao is soldiers have been checking day and night, and it took three full days to complete this task.

The reputation of the Ming Dynasty officials and soldiers has always been not very good, and things that kill good people and take meritorious deeds happen from time to time.

Some general soldiers and lieutenant generals did not dare to lead their troops to meet the battle when they plundered the people at the entrance of the Donglu, and waited for the Donglu to pat their buttocks and leave, and then slaughtered the surviving people, and cut off their heads, shaved their hair and braided their hair, and sent them to the Beijing division for reward.

This kind of clumsy trick is usually revealed, but some generals who have reported merit will bribe the officials in charge of verification in the military department and make them turn a blind eye.

And those generals who have no benefits, even if the heads sent are true, sometimes they will be framed for killing good and imposting, and the black and white have long been reversed.

But this time, the Son of Heaven issued a strict order, and the soldiers personally supervised it, so the officials of the military department naturally did not dare to reverse black and white, and the general soldiers of Rao Qin did not pay them a penny, nor did they dare to frame good people from it.

The first thing to be checked by the military officials is the gender identity of the person who is killed, because those who kill good people often kill some helpless women and children. It stands to reason that it is very difficult to distinguish gender based on the head alone, but the military officers have their own set of methods. Floating corpses in the water, men and women are on their backs, even if they are overturned, they will still return to their original state. In the same way, the head is thrown into the water tank, and the woman who is on his back is the man.

As a result, the officials of the Nanjing Military Department threw more than 1,500 heads into the water tank in turn, and all the heads without exception were bowed downward, proving that all the beheaded people were men.

After three days of inspection, the military department finally came to the conclusion that more than 600 of the first-level teeth and cheekbones were completely consistent with the Dongyu, and the braids were all braided for decades, and the remaining 800-odd heads were no different from the Han people in terms of teeth and cheekbones, but the braids were also braided for more than ten years.

Such a comparison can correspond to the figure of the Ming army killing 673 soldiers of the Blue Banner of Manchuria and 831 soldiers of the Han Army with the Red Banner. These heads are all Tartars and Second Tartars, and there is no possibility of killing good and risking merit!

It's a real victory!

Even those soldiers who were waiting for death felt a little relieved at the moment, it turned out that the officers and troops of the Ming Dynasty could also win battles, and the myth of the invincibility of the Eight Banners of the East Capture could also be broken.

It turns out that there is still hope for Daming!

At the same time that Zhu Cihong ordered the meritorious soldiers of the great victory in Texas to be rewarded, he ordered the battalion soldiers of the Shence Army to assist the officials of the military department to hang the more than 1,500 heads on the city wall of Nanjing for public display.

In this way, the people who entered and exited Nanjing City could see the Tartars and the second Tartar heads killed by the Ming army, and they would be convinced of the authenticity of the victory in Texas.

As for the heads of the rebel nobles and civil officials who were originally hung at the head of the city to show the public, they have long since rotted, and only skulls remain. Zhu Cihong ordered people to take it down, crush the bones and scatter ashes to warn the world.

In troubled times, Zhu Cihong will never have the slightest sympathy for these vested interests who pick up a bowl to eat meat and put down chopsticks to scold their mother.

Through this round of deterrence, the remaining people in Nanjing who plotted against the grain will be frightened and will no longer dare to do that great rebellious thing.

For Zhu Cihong, as long as he has military power in his hands, he does not have to worry about having small rebel ministers commit rebellion. If someone really wants to die, Zhu Cihong doesn't mind raising the steel knife again and killing him on the head!

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