"Daming Zhongxing, just around the corner, the ministers congratulate Your Majesty!" In the Qianqing Palace, several pavilion elders took turns to congratulate Emperor Hongguang. After some congratulations, several pavilion elders and Hongguang Tianzi were going to discuss the issue of how to pay for their merits.

"The prince of Anping has now made such an immortal achievement, and this reward is also indispensable. It's just how to reward, you Aiqing still have to hurry up and come up with a charter. Emperor Hongguang said.

"Your Majesty, this is nature. However, according to the rules, this reward must always be after the head has been checked. Qian Qianyi bowed.

"Of course I know." Emperor Hongguang said, "This inspection will bother you Aiqing." However, how to reward this, you Aiqing will discuss it, and you also need to come up with a ticket as soon as possible, so that people in the world can not say that I have mistreated the heroes. ”

Several ministers responded.

It was also the first time that Emperor Hongguang paid such serious attention to government affairs, but after talking for a while, he felt a little tired, so he entrusted everything to the cabinet, and then asked several cabinet elders to go back.

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At the same time, the news of Li Zicheng's death spread quickly in other places. In the south of the Yangtze River, the scholars rushed to tell each other, held literary meetings one after another, and recited poems to praise this great victory. However, in Sichuan, the scholars there did not dare to do such a thing, because they were still under the rule of the Great Western Emperor Zhang Xianzhong.

In the historical records of my Great Qing Dynasty, the Emperor of the Great West, Zhang Xianzhong, was a super pervert, and he had no other hobbies other than killing. Even if he didn't kill anyone for a second, he would feel uncomfortable all over. In Sichuan, he carried out massacres everywhere, killing this land of abundance, which was originally a land of abundance without water and drought and did not know famine. After I pacified the world in the Qing Dynasty, I had to come up with a measure to fill in Sichuan.

Zhang Xianzhong not only liked to massacre peaceful residents, but even liked to kill his own soldiers and officers, and took pleasure in it. According to reliable records in the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong would sometimes walk his dog in his military camp, and he would cut off the head of whoever his dog sniffed. It is said that Zhang Xianzhong gave this way of making fun a name called "Heavenly Killing". Even when murder rises, even his own son can become the object of his killing for fun. In the end, I came over and shot this demon king on the battlefield, and finally saved the people from fire and water.

However, after Zhang Xianzhong killed all the people in Sichuan, and even after he died in battle, the rest of his troops still relied on Sichuan, which is said to have been killed as a no-man's land, and insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty for more than ten years. I don't know how Sichuan, which has become a no-man's land, supports the fighting of the rest of the Western Army. And Zhang Xianzhong makes fun of killing his own soldiers and even generals, but the loyalty of his subordinates is not bad, are they all shaking M? Of course, this is not unthinkable. After all, our world is originally an unscientific, magical world, Zhang Xianzhong must be an undead lich king, he is not just a killer for fun, in fact, he has even killed all his subordinates, and then used evil and terrible magic to turn them all into necromancy. His army is actually made up of skeletons, ghouls, death knights, winter ghosts, and empty shadows...... constituted. That's why they will continue to maintain their loyalty to him, and such an army does not need supplies, so they can fight against our Qing Heavenly Soldiers for more than ten years. Well, it must be like that.

However, the time and space where Zheng Sen is located doesn't know if it's because of the ebb tide of spiritual power or some other factor, there is no supernatural magical power. So Zhang Xianzhong naturally won't be like that in reality. However, Lao Zhang has always been a little jealous and prejudiced against readers, and scholars generally look down on him, so he is also called the emperor, Li Zicheng still has some scholars here, and Zhang Xianzhong is much less here. Originally, after occupying Chengdu, Zhang Xianzhong also wanted to try to see if he could get a few scholars to come over as civil officials, but after Li Zicheng was defeated and died in Xiangyang, Zheng Sen sent a good news to the imperial court, and clearly asked for credit for Hui Shiyang and Niu Jinxing, who betrayed Li Zicheng. This good news is not a secret, so Zhang Xianzhong naturally knew about Hui Shiyang Niu Jinxing buying Li Zicheng, and Lao Zhang's first reaction was that people who read books are not good things, they are not reliable, and they are bad and bad. The second idea is to hurry up and clean up the possible traitors inside before Zheng Sen comes to the door. And the so-called possible traitors are, of course, those scholars in Sichuan.

Zhang Xianzhong has always been an unreasonable guy who likes to do something simple and rude. Since he has made such a determination, the life of the scholars in Sichuan is naturally very sad. Zhang Xianzhong issued an order to the area under his control, saying that he wanted to "open Enke" and asked scholars from all over the country to come to Chengdu to participate in the scientific expedition. Whoever does not come, he will naturally oppose him, and he will naturally be killed. As for those who came, Zhang Xianzhong didn't trust them at all, and even used "Kaienke" to get them, that is, to kill them. In Zhang Xianzhong's view, these people are all unstable factors in the Ming Dynasty, and they are all the most appealing and organized people in the countryside of Sichuan.

According to legend, Zhang Xianzhong slaughtered 5,000 scholars who had come to participate in Enke in one breath at the Dabei Temple, and soon the number became 20,000.

"Zhang Xianzhong is looking for death by himself!" After hearing the news, Zheng Sen couldn't help but sigh.

"Shizi, even if Zhang Xianzhong doesn't do this, can he still survive?" Kong Zhang shook his head and said, "It's nothing more than dying, so I just went against the grain." ”

"I was going to put Sichuan out for a while...... As you know, our army now has a new stronghold in southern Liaoning. I originally planned to let the army repair for a month after eliminating Li Zicheng, and then around this year's wheat harvest, relying on this, to move forward step by step, forcing Jianshen to fight a decisive battle with our army, and eliminate Jiancheng in one fell swoop. Now Zhang Xianzhong is making such a big fuss in Sichuan......" Zheng Sen said with emotion.

"Shizi," Kong Zhang said, "Zhang Xianzhong has gone against the grain, but it is time to destroy him, otherwise, let him wander again, but it will be difficult to do." If we can't eliminate Zhang Xianzhong first, once our army turns to the north, I'm afraid that this traitor will make trouble again. Now you might as well take advantage of the momentum of exterminating Li Zicheng and march into Sichuan. Eliminate Zhang Xianzhong in one fell swoop, once this thief is destroyed, there is no internal trouble, how big a wave can Jianzhi afford? ”

Listening to Kong Zhang's familiar sentence "If you go outside, you must first settle inside", Zheng Sen couldn't help but feel a ridiculous feeling in his heart. In fact, Zheng Sen did not plan to solve Zhang Xianzhong immediately. Even, allowing Zhang Xianzhong to kill Sichuan scholars is not a bad thing for him in a sense. Sichuan lost these people, and the entire basis of the Ming Dynasty's rule in Sichuan did not exist. Then take it in one fell swoop, and you can use the people of the model military school to control the political power at all levels in Sichuan without any obstacles. even turned Sichuan into a fief of the Zheng family. So he shook his head and said: "Bangui, your 'outside must first be inside' is Yang Sichang's old wisdom." Yang Sichang also wanted to do this back then, but Jianxuan couldn't allow you to do so. Bangui, what do you think of Zhang Xianzhong's talent and Huang Taijibi? ”

"Zhang Xianzhong is naturally no match for Huang Taiji." Hearing Zheng Sen's question, Kong Zhang replied almost without thinking. In Zheng Sen's staff and staff team, there was a careful study of the previous actions of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. So on this issue, Kong Zhang really doesn't need to think about it.

"However, Shizi, not long ago, Jianyan's entry into the prison caused by the invasion of the emperor is limited. Obviously, Jianxuan's strength has dropped a lot, and even if our army enters Shu, the strength they can invest is actually limited. In addition, now that the main force of our army is already in Huguang, it is necessary to repair a section on the spot, which also saves running. I think it's better to take this opportunity to get rid of Zhang Xianzhong first. Obviously, Kong Zhang still plans to move Zhang Xianzhong first.

Zheng Sen said: "If we don't go to the north, even if Jianxuan's strength has dropped a little now, who can watch them?" On the contrary, Zhang Xianzhong's combat effectiveness is much more limited, and it is even far inferior to Li Zicheng. I left some people in Huguang, and then let my second uncle come over, but it is not difficult to see Huguang. As for Ganshan's side, let Wu Sangui leave some people, and it shouldn't be a big problem. I'm still more worried about Liaodong......"

When Kong Zhang heard Zheng Sen say this, he no longer insisted on his opinion, but just sighed and said: "It's just that the Sichuan people have to suffer more losses this year." ”

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Although Huang Taiji is far away in Liaodong, he has always paid close attention to the war in Guannei. He also had a lot of spies in the pass, so the news of Li Zicheng's defeat naturally spread to him quickly. After getting the news, he immediately asked people to invite Hong Chengchou over to discuss related matters.

After Hong Chengchou arrived, Huang Taiji first gave him a seat, and then asked him to serve tea to Hong Chengchou, and then said slowly: "Sir, do you know that Li Zicheng is dead?" ”

"Li Zicheng is dead?" Hong Chengchou was taken aback and said, "Li Zicheng is extremely good at wandering, it may not be difficult to defeat him, but it is not easy to kill him." Don't know how he died? ”

Huang Taiji asked people to hand over the newly obtained information to Hong Chengchou to see. Hong Chengchou looked at it and sighed, but did not speak.

"Mr. Hong." Huang Taiji said, "Now that Li Zicheng is dead, I'm afraid that this Zheng Sen will use troops against me in the Qing Dynasty." Although I have won a hundred battles in the Qing Dynasty, I am not afraid of him. But I still wondered, is there a way to defeat the court? ”

Hong Chengchou listened, thought about it, and said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, I am afraid it will be difficult to defeat Yu Chaotang. Because Zheng Sen is different from the previous Ming generals, whether it was a civilian official or a military general, they had to obey the imperial court after all. But the Zheng family is not, they are real warlords, they have soldiers and money in their hands. They don't need to obey the court at all, and even now, I'm afraid that they are controlling the court. They are now more like Cao Cao, who is blackmailing the Son of Heaven to order the princes. ”

Huang Taiji thought for a while and said: "When Cao Cao coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, he was also restrained a lot, and the court even made a matter of the edict. Is it possible to start with this as well? ”