After seeing the crown prince, Zhao Zhilong's escort errand is half completed.

However, there is a more important half in the next step: he has to send this master to Ouchi like a good person, and there is nothing to do with him.

Anyway, now the defense in the palace is the one named Qiu Yuanyi General with Tianjin Fubiao less than 2,000 infantry cavalry to be in charge, in the past, the imperial city and the palace city were the above three guards to protect the holy car, such as the brocade guard to manage the honor guard and the court, the eunuchs are close to serve and protect, the flag bearer guard is responsible for the guard of honor when on patrol, and the avant-garde of the government army In addition to the imperial front with a sword officer, the rest of the errand is to manage the imperial city and the palace gate.

This escape, there are few people in Nanjing's palace ban, only some unlucky eunuchs beat Yanjing to degrade, but most of them are also in the filial piety tomb or vegetable garden to pick and grow vegetables, there are really few people who live in the palace city of Nanjing.

Now, of course, there are thousands more people, but in such a large Forbidden City, there is no difference between a few thousand more people and a handful of pepper noodles in a big soup pot, that is, there are more eunuchs and envoys on the way from Daming Gate to Huangji Gate, and there are more forbidden troops standing on duty, but in addition, it is still the same dilapidated and depressed.

It's just that he, the lord who is in charge of the internal garrison, or Liu Kongzhao, the Earl of Yejiang, the palace guards, can't interfere at all, and when he thinks about it, of course he is full of displeasure.

Originally, I was very pimple in my heart, after receiving the crown prince, I saw that Zhu Cihong's guard was very powerful, in contrast, although the Nanjing Forbidden Army led by Zhao Zhilong also had a good armor, it was also the same high-headed horse, and there were horses like dragons on horses, and people were like tigers.

But the goods have to be thrown away, and people are better than people...... The gap between the forbidden army and the elite of the town mark brought by Zhu Cihong is really not a little bigger, the same iron cavalry is rushing, the same armor stomach is like silver, and the same blood is red and red, but when people wear it, there is a little more bloody taste that has been killed for a long time.

These are all veterans who have fought for more than ten years, and none of them has more than one life on hand, even if they are subdued by Zhu Cihong this time, the smell of self-pride is still strong, along the way, how can the thousands of Beijing cavalry brought out by Zhao Zhilong be enough?

Even if he is not so loyal to Zhu Cihong, he can't help but put out a mighty and majestic style, and in this way, in comparison, Jingying will suffer a lot.

Looking at Uncle Zhao's sullen appearance, a very beautiful leader of the pro-soldiers with long eyebrows and clear eyes stepped forward and said with a smile: "After entering the city gate for a while, we will be handed over, anyway, the prince I don't look at it authentically, just now I just talked to the group of civil officials of the East Palace, who has seen our uncle?" In the realm of Nanjing, although the Fushe Donglin is fierce, but we have to look at our uncle's, right? There are 230,000 forbidden troops on the register, but most of them are in the hands of the uncle. ”

Saying this, Zhao Zhilong was very happy in his heart, he glanced at this pro-soldier, and was very satisfied, worthy of being a caring person next to his pillow!

"I'll see," there was another pro-soldier leader who looked a lot better and was also very favored, and he was very jealous, and couldn't help but say: "The generals who followed the master were not so convinced, although there were a lot of soldiers who worked hard, and they looked disgusting with their chests and stomachs, but those generals who followed the master closely, many of them had very strange looks on their faces, and they didn't look right." ”

"yes, I saw it too."

"It's a bit of a discord between the face and the heart, one by one grinning, not in a proper manner."

Saying this, Zhao Zhilong is a little sober.

The crown prince entered the city with a large number of soldiers and horses, not to mention anything else, just the generals who followed him, and the small ones had to be guerrillas, but from the looks of it, many of them were familiar faces...... At the beginning, Liu Zeqing also entered Nanjing and brought many generals under his command, but now looking at the past, the top ten have met before!

"It seems that the young master's army has not grasped it steadily......

On horseback, Zhao Zhilong smiled coldly: "I didn't hold all the soldiers in my hands...... Master, I grabbed the Beijing camp soldiers, the water can't be splashed in, the needle can't be inserted, look at you arrogant! ”

………… Although the official pavilion is not close to the city gate, it is a straight official road after all, the cushion is very stable, the fast horse gallops, and it seems that it does not take long for the towering city tower to be in sight.

Just a few hundred steps away from the city gate, Zhu Cihong also rode a horse, looking up at the towering city tower, and his heart was full of emotion.

When I was in Yanjing City, I dreamed of the day when I fled south, and it seemed that everything would be solved when I arrived in Nanjing.

Now man is under this city, but the person who holds it is not himself.

Of course, it is by no means Emperor Chongzhen!

When Yanjing lacks food and clothing, and the country has no pay, the worst county in the south of the Yangtze River will never worry about freezing and starving. Even in the area of Fengyang, Xuzhou, Huai'an, the poor places of later generations are more than a hundred times stronger than the north at this time!

The south's maritime trade income, grain production, salt, cloth, and medicinal herbs, which is not a huge amount of income? But the rich place is flowing oil, and when the court is poor when the pants, just a Nanzhili, how much is a year's income?

It is said that it is a three-salary apportionment, which is miserable, but the rich people are getting richer and richer, and the poor have not seen how poor they are. And the same tax amount, in the early Qing Dynasty, the Jiangnan area was still the same price as when the three salaries were paid, and there was no shortage at all.

The so-called reduction of money and grain is empty talk, and the Jiangnan area has honestly endured it.

For what?

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the rulers used many big cases in the south of the Yangtze River to hunt down and kill a large number of Donglin party members and folk gentry, just in the Jiangnan area, I am afraid that there will be more than 10,000 gentry and small landlords who have suffered, so many people have died, of course, the money and grain are collected happily, and in the early Qing Dynasty, the most difficult household deposit is less than 10,000 taels, such as washing the ground, but it is relying on the taxes in the south of the Yangtze River, inextricably linked, or survived!

At the same time, it is forbidden to raise the tariff of the banknote customs in the sea trade, and the tax customs in Huai'an will only be tens of thousands of taels at the end of the next season, and it will be 600,000 taels in the Qing season!

At that time, the people remembered the taxes and prices in the Wanli period, and then thought that it was not bad in the Chongzhen period, but at that time, it was too late to say anything!

On the one hand, there is a crazy influx of silver, and the income has skyrocketed, on the other hand, it is to resist the tax supervision, never pay commercial taxes, on the other hand, it is the poor who shrink their clothes and reduce food, on the other hand, they are singing every night, the people's wealth is extreme, the imperial court is also extremely poor, the country is dragged across by the finance, and the financial system of the Ming season has a big problem, in the final analysis, the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River are too powerful, controlling the local confrontation center, only caring about their own immediate interests, ignoring the overall situation, this is the root problem!

To put it bluntly, when Chongzhen hanged himself in Yanjing, he scolded the civil and military, but he didn't think about it, the country made this bird, the wealth system, and the merchants and gentry in the Jiangnan area, what kind of responsibility should they bear!

Thinking of this, Zhu Cihong also sneered, people are bitter worms, and they can't fight if they don't fight. To put it bluntly, there are quite a few sluts among the big businessmen and scholars in Jiangnan!

Even ordinary people, there are a lot of goods who don't know what to do.

The country's financial endowment is a major event, it can be delayed, and it can be owed, and since the Ming Taizu, I don't know how many times in history the Jiangnan money and grain have been exempted, and the descendants have rumored that the Jiangnan area is extremely taxed, but what does the Qing generation say? I didn't see everyone in Jiangnan was reversed, but under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, I don't know how many ways to avoid the evasion, all kinds of tricks, I can't count them, in the Qing season, under the butcher's knife, everyone is honest, until then, I know that I am really a dirty seed, I really don't know the blessing in the blessing, but at that time, it is really too late to regret it!

And with Zhu Cihong's determination at the moment, it is natural to take out the bezoar dog treasure of the vast number of businessmen and gentry in Jiangnan Lake, and there must be no more strange phenomenon of the country having no money and the local wealth flowing oil, hiding the wealth from the people, it can only be feasible when the world is peaceful and the country has nothing to do with normal and healthy development, and when the country is ruined and people are destroyed, there are super strong manpower, material resources, and financial resources, but it is exhausted by a small tribe of less than 200,000 people, isn't this an aggressive thing!

"Your Royal Highness, go straight east from this entrance, go to Qipan Street, enter Daming Gate, and then enter the Noon Gate and Huangji Gate from the left gate, and the emperor is waiting to meet in the inner hall of the Qianqing Palace."

When they arrived at the city gate, they were greeted by a large group of eunuchs, and most of the suitable guides and guards of honor were also served by eunuchs. There are less than 1,000 people left in the north and south of Beijing, and compared with the sound and light of 60,000 or 70,000 people in Yanjing at such a scale, of course, it is not the same, but whether it is Chongzhen or Zhu Cihong, there is no plan to expand this generation for the time being.

At this time, it was Wang Chengen who came forward to lead the leader, among the many great eunuchs in Beijing, only this person was the most loyal, and he was the only one who stayed by Chongzhen's side at the last moment, and he was naturally the only one who fled with him.

Coupled with the affection with Chongzhen for more than ten years, as well as this loyalty, looking at the world, when it comes to Chongzhen's level of confidence, I am afraid that Zhu Cihong, his own son, will have to let it go!

"Otomo, why are you here in person?"

In front of countless people inside and outside the city gate, Zhu Cihong had just sat out and was about to dismount, Wang Chengen had already stepped forward, hugged Zhu Cihong's waist hard, and said with a smile: "Master, An Sheng is sitting firm." If you want to dismount, the slave and maid will have to go into the cracks in the ground. ”

"Otomo!" Although Zhu Cihong did not get off the horse, his expression was very affectionate: "You are the closest and most confidant person who follows your father, respecting you, that is, respecting your father as a son, and beside him, whether it is a person or an artifact, the son has to look up to him, right?" Besides, you deserve it! ”

"Master, that's not what you said! A slave is a slave and a slave, and you can't mess up the gang, isn't it? "Wang Chengen's surname is indeed very modest and courteous, when he was in Yanjing, he actually had the power above Wang Dehua, but he still left three points of affection for the other party, one Wang Dehua was above him, and the other was a natural humble and tranquil surname.

At this time, it was even more red and purple, in front of Zhu Cihong, but he was still very modest and careful, in comparison, he had been holding his chest and belly up, riding a high-headed horse behind Zhu Cihong, and his expression was also very proud.

(To be continued)