It is extremely coincidental that just as Emperor Chongzhen's edict of the Ming Dynasty spread all over the world inside and outside the Beijing Division, and was carried by the people of Jinyiwei, he quickly left Beijing and went to the Quartet to convey it, the northern region of the Ming Dynasty once again ushered in a heavy snowfall.

The heavy snow caused some inconvenience to the people in the city, but it was a good thing for the courtiers of the capital and the people in the northern region who had been tormented by drought for a year.

Because of the arrival of this heavy snowfall, Emperor Chongzhen's previous decree of sealing the Zhenwu Xuantian God as the Emperor of Tianwu to protect the country and protect the Holy Arctic Town immediately took on a different meaning.

In the folk beliefs of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Zhenwu was already in charge of the wind and rain soldiers, and now it should snow, isn't it the manifestation of Zhenwu? !

Under the encouragement of Jia Jichun, Niu Juming, and Xu Yuqing, some officials above the Beijing Imperial Court who saw the wind and the rudder soon wrote to congratulate Emperor Chongzhen on his wisdom and holiness.

This time, several cabinet ministers, including Sun Chengzong, also received congratulatory tables.

A character like Sun Chengzong, of course, knows the truth that everything is constant, and knows that God doesn't rain or snow, and it has nothing to do with Emperor Zhenwu.

It's just that these civil officials who were born as scholars often used to use the rhetoric of heaven and man to persuade the emperor that he should do this and not that.

So when others come up with the rhetoric of celestial and human induction to support the emperor's current approach, how can you say that there is no such thing as celestial and human induction?

Including Xu Guangqi, a scientist with deep knowledge of astronomical phenomena, also pretended to be confused and presented his congratulatory watch to Emperor Chongzhen.

No matter what Emperor Chongzhen's intentions were, at least the establishment of the Martyrs' Shrine and the fact that the Taoist priests of the Taoist sect, who had a wide range of followers among the people, were in charge of sacrificing the officers and soldiers who had died in battle, but Xu Guangqi was happy to see it.

In his opinion, there are so many benefits that it can definitely be regarded as a decision that has more advantages than disadvantages.

As for Li Guoyi and Sun Chengzong, it was almost for this reason that they were willing to congratulate the emperor with the respect of the scholars of the Huangji Palace and the scholars of the Wuying Palace.

No matter how doubtful they were in their hearts, in short, after going to the Protector of the Country and the Loyal Temple, Emperor Chongzhen began to reap the good news one after another.

On the morning of February 14 in the fourth year of Chongzhen, Ning Concubine Su Rina gave birth to the third prince of Emperor Chongzhen very smoothly, and the mother and son were safe.

On February 15 of the fourth year of Chongzhen, the great court meeting of the Jianji Palace, which should have been held according to the custom, was canceled by the emperor.

Emperor Chongzhen took Empress Zhou, Tian Guifei, and Concubine Yuan to the west side hall in the backyard of Chuxiu Palace to visit Concubine Ning Su Rina and the newborn third prince.

In accordance with the previous practice, Emperor Chongzhen named Concubine Ning as Concubine Ning on the spot, and after soliciting the opinions of Empress Zhou and Concubine Ning herself, he gave the name "Zhu Cijiong" to the three princes, and then gave the Xianfu Palace adjacent to Chuxiu Palace in the West Sixth Palace to Concubine Ning and the third prince Zhu Cijiong to live.

The birth of the third prince, Zhu Cijiong, did not attract much attention in the circle of the civil ministers of Beijing and the noble family.

After all, Emperor Chongzhen currently has two princes, and the eldest son Zhu Cihong is still the eldest son born to the empress.

If nothing else, the future heir of the Ming Dynasty has already been attributed, at least until now, the title of the eldest and youngest has been decided.

What's more, Concubine Ning Su Rina is also a Mongolian born in the Horqin steppe.

Therefore, the birth of the third son of the emperor Zhu Cijiong this time, compared with the birth of the eldest son of the emperor, is a bit insignificant in the circle of the powerful people in Beijing.

However, no matter what the powerful circles of Jingshi thought of this matter, at least Emperor Chongzhen himself was still very happy.

Because Zhu Cijiong, the third son born to Concubine Ning Su Rina, is related to his future strategy of how to deal with the tribes of Outer Mongolia.

For the future governance of the tribes in Outer Mongolia, it is not possible to use Han people and Han officials purely by using Han people, nor can it still adopt the method of restraint and reward as in history.

Facts have proved that in the early Ming Dynasty, the strategy of setting up guards for those Mongol tribes who were attached to the outside world did not work in the end.

The independence of the guard is still too strong, and it will lose control at the slightest disturbance.

In stark contrast, the tactics adopted by the Manchus later paid off.

While continuing to promote Lamaism in the steppe, the Jurchens adopted the path of marriage with the upper echelons of the Saiwai Mongolian tribes.

For Emperor Chongzhen, the Jurchens would never do the way of marrying a daughter and kissing.

Because doing so is not in line with his character, nor is it in line with the principle of discord that the Ming Dynasty has adhered to for more than 200 years after its establishment.

However, he was completely encouraging of civil marriages.

Nowadays, so many Han immigrants have gone north to open up wasteland and reclaim land, and the frequent intermarriage between the Han people and the Mongolian tribes outside the Saiwai is also a matter of course.

After years of war, the young and strong men suffered serious losses, especially after Lin Dan Khan evacuated the city of Guihua, a large number of the people left behind were old and weak women and children, among which the young and middle-aged women accounted for more than 50% of the total surviving population of the southern part of the country.

Under such a situation, the matter of intermarriage between Mongolia and Han is already a general trend that no one can stop.

When Wang Guoliang, the chief military officer of Shanxi, led the Shanxi soldiers to garrison the naturalized city, the generals and soldiers who had no wives or lost their wives under his command intermarried with Mongolian tribesmen inside and outside the naturalized city.

After Zu Dashou led the army of Datong Town to take over and stay in Guihua City, he also adopted a policy of encouragement for his generals to marry Namo Southern Mongolian women.

Including Zu Dashou himself, who was already forty-five or sixteen years old, also happily married the fifteen-year-old youngest daughter of Erke Chuhuer, one of the former Chahar Wanhu's households, as a concubine, which can be regarded as setting an example for the soldiers under his command.

The former Chahar Wanhu Erke Chuhuer, since he surrendered to the army led by Li Banghua in Pingyu City, first led the remaining more than 2,000 Mongolian cavalry under his command to follow Li Banghua's army, participated in the battle of attacking the army of the Eight Banners of the Later Jin State outside the naturalized city, and then participated in the battle of pursuing the Western Route Army of the Eight Banners of the Later Jin State, that is, the division of Abatai.

It's just that in every battle with the Ming army after the surrender, Erke Chuhuer and his cavalry were in a subordinate position of the servant army, and they did not make much achievements.

In addition, after the successive battles of Shuozhou, Pingyu and the battle of intercepting Jianyu outside the naturalized city, the strength of the Mongolian cavalry under the command of Erke Chuhuer was greatly reduced, and the number of troops was seriously reduced, leaving only more than 2,000 people.

Therefore, when the reward came to the post-war award, Erke Chuhuer did not get much reward, and was finally incorporated under the command of Zu Dashou, the chief soldier of Wuchuan Bo Naturalization Town, and obtained the title of deputy chief soldier of Naturalization Town, and still led the old department to be stationed in Naturalization City.

In contrast to the other Mongol tribal leaders who had joined the Ming army, he had neither large tracts of pasture nor the Chahar tribes left behind in Guihua when Lin Dan Khan had evacuated.

Although he lives in the Naturalization City, the cavalry of the Naturalization Town has also been incorporated into the military sequence of the Naturalization Town, and now he can receive a lot of money if he does nothing, but Erke Chuhuer always has a feeling of precariousness in his heart.

Especially after Li Banghua, the minister of military aircraft who accepted him to surrender and surrender, and Wang Guoliang, the chief military officer of Shanxi Town, led the troops to leave one after another, the Erke Chuhuer Department was transferred to Wuchuan Bozu Dashou, who was resident and naturalized from now on, which made him even more uneasy.

Erke Chuhuer didn't care about the ownership of Naturalization City.

Originally, this place was also snatched from the Tumuts by them with Lin Dan Khan, but now that Lin Dan Khan is gone, what dare he, Lin Dan Khan's pawn, say?

Since he could surrender to the Jurchens at the beginning, what obstacles are there to prevent him from surrendering to the Ming Dynasty?

What's more, after surrendering to the Ming Dynasty, his family, cavalry and subordinates can eat enough from now on and no longer go hungry!

What Erke Chuhuer really worries about is the long-term survival of his family and his cavalry and subordinates.

Today's Erke Chuhuer doesn't have anything else enough to impress Zu Dashou, he can't give him power, he doesn't have as much gold and silver wealth as Zu Dashou, and the little cavalry in his hand is where all his net worth and life are, and he is reluctant to hand it over.

However, Erke Chu Huer, who is five big and three thick, has a few little daughters who are reasonably good-looking.