As expected by everyone in Luoyang, Hong Chengchou and Chen Bingtongguan were indeed Zhu Youzhen's orders.

The two good news made this young man a little fluttering, and he swelled.

In fact, whether it is Shaanxi or Liaodong, it is really not a big victory. It's just that the offensive is held. Especially the three sides of Shaanxi and Gansu, which were originally a mess, were made worse by the Guyuan mutiny and thieves.

Hong Chengchou, who received the order, frowned tightly and was full of sorrow. It's not that he doesn't want to make meritorious contributions, but with the tired soldiers and horses in his hands, it's okay to fight the unarmed peasant rogues, and fight the Luoyang soldiers? Those black cannon muzzles and bright armor can be seen clearly on Tongguan.

There are many wise people in the court, and they have made suggestions, hoping that Zhu Youzhen can endure for a while. Including Hong Chengchou, he personally wrote a sprinkling piece and played the emperor. first expressed his fierce loyalty, saying that as long as the emperor ordered, no matter how difficult it was, he would be stubborn. Then the conversation changed, analyzed the current situation in detail, and explained word by word why it was not appropriate to attack Luoyang now.

Putting aside the fleshy sycophants in the front, the level of the second half of this piece is indeed high. Even Zhu Youzhen, who didn't know soldiers, understood the truth.

Xiaofu Wang challenged his authority several times, but he couldn't do it now, and he itched the roots of Zhu Youqi's teeth.

At this moment, Zhu Yousong's recital came. King Xiaofu felt that the country was full of disasters and difficulties, and he had too many fiefs of these vassal kings, which was a burden to the country. Xiaofu Wang is willing to set an example, please reduce the fiefdom, and it is good land in Changshu, Shandong and other places.

Zhu Yousong knew that these fiefdoms of his were outside Luoyang, and I am afraid that they would not belong to him for a long time. But his statement suddenly became an example admired by the world. Of course, there is a group of exceptions, which is the huge Daming clan.

Zhu Yousong, who was originally resented by the emperor, Wenchen, and the remnants of the eunuchs, instantly had another group of enemies. Especially the king of Kaifeng Zhou, who was the most excited, he entangled several princes of Kaifeng Mansion and jointly accused Zhu Yousong.

Zhu Youzhen was also startled when he saw this movement, and he didn't know which hand Zhu Yousong was playing. But since he is so upright, Zhu Youzhen is also happy to sit back and enjoy his success. Even if the other grandmasters are not reduced, there are 10,000 hectares of fertile land outside the Guangfu Palace. These taxes are real food.

In the Wenchang Building, Zhou Shuye slapped his ass and exclaimed: "The prince used this trick well, since the court wants to take the opportunity to reduce the clan, it can't move the prince for the time being." And those good fields, even if we don't give them away, it will be difficult to preserve. It's all outside Henan Mansion, and our forces can't reach it, it's just some chicken ribs.

It's just that now the prince has become a public enemy. ”

Zhu Yousong didn't care, and said: "Our clan, except for me, the others, are just rice worms. The court used us as pigs, and they enjoyed it. What combat power can a group of rice worms have, when the time comes, they will be just some fat sheep to be slaughtered. Now tear your face with them, and when you start, don't be embarrassed. ”

The reason why Zhu Yousong is so sure is because in history, the performance of these clans is really poor. They are sitting on a lot of wealth, but they don't have a dime. Neither know how to run away, nor do you know how to resist. guarded his own one-third of an acre of land, stupidly waiting for Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng, as well as the Manchu Qing to come to slaughter.

In history, in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng waved his army into Shanxi, and every place he went, he first hunted and killed the royal family. After the rebel army captured Pingyang, Shanxi, "more than 300 people including the King of Xihe were killed"; After capturing Fenyang, he also first searched and killed the "gentry", so that "the Bifen side almost became a Rakshasa ghost country".

After Chongzhen conquered Taiyuan at the beginning of the seventeenth year, Li Zicheng's army "captured more than 400 people from the Jin clan, sent them to Xi'an, and killed them". These more than 400 people are all high-ranking royal families of the Jin Dynasty. Then, because of "the fear of (middle and low-level) sect changes, the closed-door search and arrest, more than 1,000 people, killed Haiziyan, like annihilating sheep and pigs". After these two killings, the main figures in the Jin royal family of Shanxi were killed. In March of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng's army captured Datong again. Within 6 days, more than 4,000 royal clans under Acting King Zhu Chuanqi were killed. The other county kings were hardly spared. Jiang Ji said in the book: "The surname of Yun (now Datong, Shanxi) is about more than 1,000, and the thieves have been entrenched for six days, and the slaughter will be ......exhausted." After counting the above several times, Li Zicheng's army killed more than 10,000 descendants of the surname Zhu in Shanxi alone.

Shanxi alone is only a microcosm. In fact, although Li Zicheng is famous for "not thirsty for killing", he has fought everywhere, and almost none of those princes surnamed Zhu survived.

And Zhang Xianzhong's army originally took the burning of jade as its specialty, and everywhere he went, the kings were swept away, which was the meaning of the topic. What is different is that he often has new ideas in killing. In February of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, he captured Xiangyang and ruled Zhu Yiming, the king of Xiang, in the south city tower. Zhu Yiming knelt on the ground and begged for a living, Zhang Xianzhong gave him a glass of wine, and said: "I want to borrow the king's head to make Yang Sichang trap the feudal law." Then "on the city of slaying, burn the towers, and throw the corpses into the fire."

In May of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong conquered Wuchang and captured Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu. This time, he came up with another new trick - to sink the West Lake alive, and nearly 1,000 palace pavilions were also burned......

Matching the highest fertility rate of the imperial family in peacetime, the mortality rate of the imperial family also hit the highest among all social strata during the war at the end of the Ming Dynasty. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the rebel army killed members of the Ming royal family, and one of the biggest characteristics was resolute and thorough. As long as it is a descendant of Zhu Yuanzhang, whether he voluntarily surrenders or passively captures, whether he does not kneel on the ground or struggles to survive, whether he refuses to explain the location of the treasure or happily sacrifices all his wealth, the result is the same: all are destroyed. In the history books, the words used are "all", "all", and "he": Zhang Xianzhong captured Changde, and "the royal family of Rong was exhausted". conquered Chongqing, Shu King Zhu Changhao and his family "killed". Zhu Zhipeng, the king of Shu, "Hezong was killed...... The historian concluded: "All the branches of the royal palace, regardless of obedience and disobedience, regardless of the military and the people, and those surnamed Zhu, will be killed." ”

With such powerful financial resources, hundreds of thousands of clan disciples were slaughtered like pigs, and there were few who resisted. I have to say that since Emperor Yongle, the imperial court has raised the clan as a pig, seeking benevolence and benevolence, and has really raised a group of pigs.

Zhu Yousong's letter to cut the first chapter is to cut himself from the clan. But he didn't care at all, also because he knew the character of this group of cowards, and he had no fear.

Zhu Youzhen was like a treasure, and he hurriedly summoned his confidant ministers, ready to take advantage of this opportunity to solve the problem of the clan.