Zhu Hongsan was also very happy to hear Chen Zizhuang finish speaking, and then said: "Mr. Chen, I don't blame you when I know what happened back then, but you also know that I have no choice but to do it!" ”

It was not easy to hear the emperor admit his mistakes, Chen Zizhuang quickly stood up and bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, the sinners know!" ”

"Good! Mr. Chen, since I have forgiven your sins and restored your fame, your status will be treated as a national prince, and your three sons will also be restored to their fame and handed over to the officials to be elected! ”

This sentence said in Chen Zizhuang's heart, he didn't worry about himself, anyway, he was already so old, it was nothing to live one more day or one less day, but what about the future of his three sons? Now listening to the emperor putting back his sons and restoring their fame, Chen Zizhuang hurriedly knelt on the ground and kowtowed to thank him.

"Old minister. . . Thank you for your grace! ”

Zhu Hongsan got up and helped Chen Zizhuang up and asked him to sit down again on the chair.

"Mr. Chen, I have just said that this time I will solve Zhu Youlang once and for all, and then turn around and deal with the Manchu Qing. Mr. Chen's home is in Guangdong, what do you think I should do? ”

"Your Majesty, Guangxi Yungui has always been a foreign land, if you want to conquer this kind of local army, the most important thing is whether the local local officials can support it!"

"Your Majesty, Yunnan and Guizhou are different from Guangdong, Guangdong has been a place of exile for thousands of years since Zhao Tuo established the Nanyue Kingdom at the end of Qin, where is the famous sentence of Han Yu in the Tang Dynasty? The snow hugs the blue pass, and the horse does not move forward. Knowing that you are far away, you should have an intention, so as to collect my bones and miasma riverside. It was written that he was demoted to Chaozhou as an official, and in the Song Dynasty, Guangdong was also a place where officials were exiled by the imperial court. It is precisely because of the thousands of years of scholars who have spared no effort to educate the place that Guangdong has become what it is now. However, Guangxi and Yungui are different, Guangxi and Yungui belonged to the Southern Zhao in the Tang Dynasty, and they were unified by the Yuan Dynasty at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty. In other words, these two places have only been the places of our Han people for more than 300 years. ”

After the founding of the country, some ethnic minorities in Yunnan and Guizhou also followed the methods of the Song Dynasty, and set up Tusi in the areas inhabited by ethnic minorities, which were held by the upper echelons of the ethnic group. Therefore, if you want to gain a firm foothold in Guangxi and Yunnan-Guizhou, you must get the support of these local officials. ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded after hearing Chen Zizhuang, no matter now or in the future, ethnic minorities are a headache.

"Then may I ask Mr. Chen, what should these local officials do?"

Chen Zizhuang was very happy when he heard the emperor add an invitation.

"Your Majesty, this is the need to win over the Mu family in Yunnan. From the first generation of Mu Ying, the Duke of Qianguo, to the contemporary Mu Tianbo, the Duke of Qianguo, the 12th Emperor of Yunnan, has experienced more than 270 years. The Mu family has deep roots in Yunnan, and has a deep relationship with the Tusi of Yungui, and if you get the loyalty of the Mu family in Yunnan, you can get Yungui. ”

Mu Tianbo knows, isn't it Wei Xiaobao's little wife Mu Jianping's father? Zhu Hongsan also knew that this Mu Tianbo was very loyal to Zhu Youlang, and in the end it seemed that he died for Zhu Youlang, could such a person be bought by himself?

"Mr. Chen, I heard that this Qianguo Duke Mu Tianbo is very loyal to Zhu Youlang, can he abandon Zhu Youlang to support me?"

"Your Majesty, this requires Lu Daqi, Lu Daqi is the teacher of Mu Tianbo's youngest son Mu Zhongliang, and he has a good relationship with Mu Tianbo, let him persuade Mu Tianbo!"

Zhu Hongsan heard Chen Zizhuang say this, and squinted at Chen Zizhuang, Zhu Hongsan knew that Chen Zizhuang and Lu Daqi were intersecting, was he afraid that Lu Daqi would be killed and came to intercede?

"Mr. Chen, you know that Lu Daqi wrote a letter to insult me, it's nothing, I'm used to being scolded, but he actually insulted the Queen Mother, it's really inappropriate for me not to kill him!"

Chen Zizhuang heard the emperor say this, and knew that this emperor had a very small heart, and it seemed that he was really angry with Lu Daqi. However, he Chen Zizhuang dared to intercede for Lu Daqi today, which was to grasp the emperor's pulse.

Although Zhu Hongsan, the emperor, has all kinds of badness, he has only one advantage, that is, he can give up everything for the sake of the overall situation. Li Chengdong killed the queen Ma Xiaofang that year, but in order to win over Li Chengdong, the emperor did not blame him in the past, and also named Li Chengdong the king of the county. This is one of the reasons why Chen Zizhuang is optimistic about Zhu Hongsan, and he can tolerate the burden for the sake of the great cause.

"Your Majesty, the minister knows that Lu Daqi is disobedient to the Queen Mother, but this Lu Daqi is too important to whether he can quickly pacify Yungui. Now there are many parties in the Yongli court, and the first assistant Ding Kuichu controls the central government, but the governors of the local provinces are all promoted by Lu Daqi and Qu Shiqi, so as long as Lu Daqi agrees, half of Yungui will fall into the hands of His Majesty! ”

Zhu Hongsan has the intelligence of Jinyiwei, and knows that the Yongli court is similar to himself, and it is also divided into multiple parties to attack each other, this Lu Daqi and Qu Shiyun one is the secretary of the military department and the other is the secretary of the ministry, and there is naturally a wave of younger brothers under him, if Lu Daqi and Qu Shiyun can take refuge in themselves, it can really save a lot of trouble. But this Lu Daqi insulted his mother, which is really unforgivable.

Chen Zizhuang saw that Zhu Hongsan didn't speak, knowing that the emperor would fight in his heart again, in order to save his friend Lu Daqi, Chen Zizhuang continued: "Your Majesty, if there is no help from Lu Daqi, it will take at least five years to pacify Yungui!" ”

Chen Zizhuang's words became the last straw that crushed Zhu Hongsan, yes, it takes five years for a Yungui, which is still less, Zhu Hongsan remembers that it took more than 20 years for the Manchu Qing Dynasty to pacify Yungui, and he also took the lives of two princes, it seems that he has to endure it again and spare the old guy Lu Daqi.

"Okay, I'll listen to Mr. Chen, but Lu Daqi has been begging for death in prison, and he needs Mr. Chen to talk about it!"

"I'll say this, but the official position...

Zhu Hongsan thought for a while and said: "In this way, let him serve as the governor of Yunnan first, and if he does a good job, I can guarantee that he will enter the cabinet!" ”

Chen Zizhuang nodded hurriedly, got up and followed Jinyiwei to the prison to persuade his old friend Lu Daqi.

Zhu Hongsan watched Chen Zizhuang leave, Chen Zizhuang was right, Yunnan-Guizhou and Guangxi are not only a matter of marching and fighting, but also ethnic affairs. However, Zhu Hongsan is not ready to listen to Chen Zizhuang, of course Lu Daqi still has to use it, but Zhu Hongsan, the prince of Qianguo, Mu Tianbo, is not ready to win over. Your Mu family has been operating in Yunnan for almost three hundred years, and you were kicked out of Yunnan by a group of turtles from Shaanxi, what a bunch of waste, such a person is not worthy of Zhu Hong's triple use.

And Zhu Hongsan listened to Chen Zizhuang say that the Mu family only used Huairou to win over the Tusi in Yunnan, and it really didn't match Zhu Hongsan's temperament, according to Zhu Hongsan's meaning, those who disobeyed were killed directly, and a village would kill all the villages if they didn't accept it, and a county would kill all the counties if they didn't accept it, and then kill until there was no Yao chaos in the end, and then move the Han people from the Central Plains to live.

At this point, Zhu Hongsan admired Wu Sangui of later generations, Wu Sangui is a big traitor, but he has been in charge of Yunnan for more than 20 years, and he has killed more than 200,000 soldiers and civilians of the Yi nationality in Guizhou in more than two months, resulting in the complete destruction of Shuixi, the Yi toast kingdom that has existed in this place for 1,500 years, and completely ended the Shuixi Rebellion that began with Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty.

All ethnic issues are not a problem here in Zhu Hongsan, and if they are all killed, there will be no national issues. Therefore, Zhu Hongsan was not ready to use the Huairou methods used by the Mu family in Yungui, but was ready to send a ruthless person, who was even more ruthless than Wu Sangui. This candidate Zhu Hongsan has long been available, that is, the four-surnamed slave Li Chengdong in history.

Wu Sangui is an old lady who eats fast and recites Buddha compared to Li Chengdong, Jiading Santu, Yangzhou Ten Days, and the Guangzhou Massacre in history are all done by this Li Chengdong, and Wu Sangui really can't compare with him when it comes to killing people. Now this butcher's knife is in Zhu Hongsan's hands, and Zhu Hongsan is not going to hide it in the snow, just put it in Yungui to deal with those ethnic minorities.

Zhu Hongsan thought of Zhang Huangyan beside him and said: "Xuanzhu, you remember, order Li Chengdong, the former military governor and the king of Jianning County, to lead 50,000 horses to enter Guangxi through Wuzhou Mansion first, and then enter Yunnan from Sien Mansion!" I led the Praetorian Guard, the 6th Division, and the 11th Division, and set out five days later to attack Guilin, the capital of Zhu Youlang! ”

Zhu Hongsan is here to assign tasks, and Chen Zizhuang has already met with Lu Daqi.

Lu Daqi has suffered a lot in the past few days, a captive, and insulting the emperor, Jinyiwei naturally can't be soft on him. Chen Zizhuang saw the scars on Lu Daqi's body, sighed and said, "Brother Ruo, the younger brother has come to see you!" ”

When Lu Daqi heard that someone was coming to see him, he struggled to see that it was his friend Chen Zizhuang. Lu Daqi thought that just two months ago, he was still in high spirits to persuade Chen Zizhuang, but he didn't know that now he had fallen and he had become a prisoner.

"Jisheng, you're here, my brother is making you laugh like this now!"

"Brother Ruo, you and I have been friends for more than 20 years, how can my little brother bear to watch you suffer? I'm here to save you this time! ”

Lu Daqi smiled bitterly and said, "Save me? I insulted Chu Shun, how could he spare me? ”

"Brother Yanruo, you are wrong, although Emperor Shenwu is not good, but he is thirsty for talents, Your Majesty has won the little brother, as long as Brother Yanruo agrees, he can immediately let you out, and let you serve as the governor of Yunnan!"

Lu Daqi was stunned when he heard this, that faint gentleman was so kind?

"Brother Jisheng, thank you for your kindness! At that time, the loyal minister you told me was not the second master, and now the old man also has to be a loyal minister! Please go back! ”

Chen Zizhuang knows Lu Daqi too well, this old guy is old and strong, but Chen Zizhuang prepared his rhetoric before he came.

"Brother Ruo, the younger brother knows that you are loyal to King Gui, but what about your protégé disciple? What about your family in Sichuan? Your Majesty said, if you don't assist him, the occupation of Guangxi will be the time when your protégé disciple dies, and after occupying Sichuan, your whole family will be exiled, and your female dependents will be sold as slaves! ”