Chapter 46: When the counteroffensive is underway
After waiting in place for a while, Zhu Youzhen finally heard the familiar sound of the car engine.
After all, he had been in the car with Cao Fu and Li Yi for several days, and he could still clearly distinguish the sound of the car.
"Hmph, you guys, you guys, you dare to question me, I tell you the truth, I met a fairy-like figure at a critical moment, he can travel through time and space at will, Qin Shi Huang is the one he took me to the Qin Dynasty to find it personally."
In normal times, Zhu Youzhen would not be angry with this group of guys, but now it is different, now that he has just recaptured the capital, of course, he is eager to establish his authority.
And Li Yi drove across the gate of heaven at this time, Duanmen, along the way looking at the strong historical charm, the strong style of ancient buildings, can't help but indulge in it, no matter how strange the various aesthetics of later generations are, but for most Chinese people, the beauty of ancient Chinese architecture is still irresistible to many people.
Therefore, Li Yi walked at the same speed as a snail, walking slowly in the imperial city, but this made Zhu Youzhen anxious, obviously he heard the sound, but why couldn't he come?
However, Zhu Youzhen didn't run over to find Li Yi even if he was anxious to stomp his feet on the spot, because in that case, it would be too cheap in front of this group of people, so he could only wait in the same place with a calm and breezy look.
Stepping through the end door, Li Yi saw the person kneeling on the ground and Zhu Youzhen, who was looking at him with his eyes, and then remembered that he still had something to do.
"Eh, Your Majesty, Lao Zhu, I've kept you waiting."
Jumping out of the car, Li Yi said hello to Zhu Youzhen and Ying Zheng, and then looked at the kneeling person curiously.
"Li Yi, have all that old Zhao's people come over?"
Without waiting for Li Yi to speak, Zhu Youzhen took the lead in asking.
"Well, not yet, 100,000 people are so fast!"
"That's right, you open the void door here, and pass the rest of the people over, and when Brother Ying takes people to fight, I will have no one available here!"
"No problem."
Li Yi didn't guess Zhu Youzhen's fancy thoughts, thinking that he was just in a hurry, so he directly opened the void door on the spot, and then the people who had already prepared on the Great Song side began to come over one after another.
Seeing this scene that had never appeared before, the careful thoughts of the ministers kneeling immediately disappeared again, they were completely just a group of wall grass, where the wind blew and where they fell, and now seeing that Zhu Youzhen had someone to help, one by one began to shout that the emperor was blessed with all the heavens.
Seeing their behavior, Zhu Youzhen was completely disgusted, he walked into this crowd, kicked out a few well-dressed scum, and asked someone to drag them to Xishi to behead.
"Your Majesty, you can't do this, the court is already chaotic enough, how can you continue to kill loyal ministers and literati by mistake? You are disobeying the teachings of the ancestors! If this continues, the Ming Dynasty will die, and you will become a tyrant for the ages! ”
Most of the people who were just arrested were from the Donglin Party, and this crying old guy was also one of the leaders of the Donglin Party.
"Hmph, if you go against the ancestral teachings, the Ming Dynasty will die, I just listened to the words of your group of dogs, which will cause the Ming Dynasty to become what it is now, and half of the Ming Dynasty is dead, and when did the ancestor say that you can't kill literati without permission, I remember that the living people are not allowed to discuss politics, why have you never seen it obey, now I not only want to kill this group of moths, but I also want to restore the ancestral example, and all the corrupt officials and waste will be peeled and filled."
Zhu Youzhen is now looking at this group of Donglin Party people and coming to the fire, if it weren't for the fact that this old minister was not a big mistake, Zhu Youzhen would be the first to kill him, and use him to establish his authority.
Now they still have the face to say that they are tyrants, look at the tyrant Yingzheng who has been shouting in their mouths for thousands of years, where are people smiling now, and they usually don't know how moisturized they are.
After being refuted by Zhu Youzhen, this old minister was suddenly frightened by Zhu Youzhen's ferocity, the previous emperor was not like this!
But after thinking about Zhu Youzhen's words carefully, this old minister is sure that he has nothing to say, yes, half of the Ming Dynasty has been wiped out, and the original rhetoric of himself and others is completely useless, it seems that this time is going to be cowardly for the time being, and in the future, I will find a large army to educate Zhu Youzhen well, and talk to him about the way of the sage.
Seeing that the big drama here was over, Ying Zheng didn't stay long, and left here with Li Yi to hang out in the city.
In the next few days, Yingzheng began to reorganize the army and assign tasks, the 100,000 people sent by the Great Song Dynasty left 30,000 to Zhu Youzhen to send, his task was to maintain the capital, and at the same time contact the Nanming side to counterattack Dashun, it is now the end of March, and Zhu Yousong succeeded to the throne in May, so now there should be no new emperor on the Nanming side, Shi Kefa and others are still continuing to fight with the general army of the three towns in Jiangbei.
After Liu Zongmin escaped, he went to Datong to gather all the displaced people under their command, holding the banner of avenging Li Zicheng, and prepared to fight to the death with Ying Zheng, while Zhang Han took the remaining 70,000 Song troops to find Wu Sangui to see what he thought now.
In history, it was Li Zicheng who defeated Wu Sangui, and Wu Sangui surrendered to Dolgon as a last resort, of course, it is also possible that he wanted to vote for a long time, this is just an excuse he made, but now this incident has not happened, so I don't know if he will listen to Zhu Youzhen's orders.
If he listens, then Zhang Han will join forces with him to kill the Qing army, and if he doesn't listen, then Zhang Han will be killed with him.
After the task was assigned, everyone did not delay the time, because Zhao Heng saw that Zhu Youzhen was doing a good job here, and he was already there urging him to finish it quickly, and he would also help over there.
Daming's side is basically the overall situation has been decided, and Zhao Heng's side is short of manpower, and he doesn't want to continue to be a grandson of Liaoguo, after thinking about it, Li Yi feels that it looks like he has to find a foreign aid to help again.
The smoothest move on Daming's side was Ying Zheng, because Li Yi drove over more than a dozen large trucks and asked Ying Zheng to use them to transport soldiers and supplies.
In this way, Ying Zheng and Liu Zongmin started a decisive battle, and needless to say, Liu Zongmin was overturned in a wave, and then began to escape as in history, but it was Li Zicheng who ran in history, and now it has become him.
And Ying Zheng also bit him to the death, wherever he ran, Ying Zheng chased him, and wiped out all the local homeless troops along the way.
At the same time, Zhu Youzhen's work to maintain the capital is also in full swing, there is no official to take care of things, simple, just grab a person to do it, how big a thing you can do, how big an official you are, in this kind of encouragement, everyone has worked hard, after all, a hard month, a lifetime of happiness, this kind of opportunity Nanjing people want to do it yet?
As for contacting Nanming, when the news that Zhu Youzhen killed Li Zicheng and recovered the capital spread, a big drama was staged over there.
"Lord Shi, Master Shi, good news, great news!"
"What's the good news?"
Shi Kefa, who was the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department at the time, had his hair gray recently.
The capital of the Ming Dynasty was lost, and he led people to rush to support, but what he didn't expect to get was the news that Zhu Youzhen was hanged, but at this critical moment of the Ming Dynasty is not the time for him to be sad, the country cannot be without a king for a day, and the most important thing now is to elect the next emperor to take on the burden of the Ming Dynasty.
According to the generation, they should support the blessed king Zhu Yousong to the throne, but Shi Kefa is very dissatisfied with this prince, because Zhu Yousong has seven major shortcomings: greed, lewdness, alcoholism, unfilial piety, abuse of subordinates, not studying, interfering with officials, not looking like a good emperor at all.
Therefore, Shi Kefa and others wanted to choose Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, to be the emperor, because he was virtuous and smart, and this is the mold of a good emperor.
But the general soldiers of the three towns in Jiangbei did not agree again, and they insisted on making Zhu Yousong the emperor, so now the two sides are arguing.
"Master Shi, there is news from the north, Your Majesty is not dead, not dead, and Your Majesty has recaptured the capital and killed Li Zicheng, and now start a counterattack to recapture the Daming Foundation!"
"Really, you didn't lie to me?"
Thanks to Shi Kefa, a lot of people are old, but now they have brought up the middle-aged little official who grabbed his collar.
"No, the person who reported the information is outside at this time, and they came by water."
Leaving this little official, Shi Kefa hurriedly ran out to find someone.
At this time, there were already a bunch of people outside, everyone was very curious about the situation in the north, and they were very happy to hear that the Ming Dynasty was expected to restore the country, after all, they were all people on the Ming warship, and of course the bigger the ship, the better.
Seeing that Shi Kefa was coming, everyone hurriedly made a way, and several people who sent the message saw it, and knew that the person in charge was coming, so they asked:
"I wonder if it's Lord Shangshu Shi of the Nanjing Military Department in person?"
"It's the old man, you're from the north? Is Your Majesty still alive? ”
Ignoring Shi Kefa's inquiry, the messenger took out a holy decree and shouted:
"Nanjing Military Department Shangshu Shi Kefa received the order!"
Seeing the holy decree, no one saw whether it was true or false, and they all knelt down in an uproar, which was already the instinct of the body's memory.
"Fengtian carried the emperor, and the edict said: Nanjing Military Department is still the history of the law, loyal to the country......................... Hereby, Jin Taishi, supervising Nanjing, led the Ming soldiers to counterattack the displaced people, and admired this. ”
"Emperor Xie!"
After receiving the holy decree, Shi Kefa hurriedly looked at it, it was indeed Zhu Youzhen's seal and handwriting, and couldn't help but look up to the sky and laugh.
"Hahaha, Your Majesty is really a promising king, a holy monarch, he actually recaptured the capital behind the enemy, and killed the thief head, I have hope for the revival of the Ming Dynasty!"
Ignoring the congratulations of the people around him, Shi Kefa flicked his sleeves and shouted,
"Come on, help the old man tell the news to the chief soldiers of the three towns in Jiangbei, I don't need to choose a new emperor now, they should send troops immediately now, and it would be better to join your majesty."
Hearing this, many people have different faces, some are happy, and naturally some are unwilling, after all, if the emperor is not changed, then there will be no officialdom reshuffle, and the interests of many people will be damaged.
However, no one dared to oppose it in person, so he could only respond in front of Shi Kefa.
As the news spread far and wide, Nanjing gradually set off a storm.
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