readx; The New Year is approaching, and good news from the battlefield keeps coming. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info trilateral governor Sun Chuanting urgently, the rebels in Hanzhong have been completely wiped out, Sun Chuanting left the people of the dragon department in Hanzhong, Shangzhou, Zuoguang Xian stationed in Xi'an, Tongguan, he personally led the 10,000 troops of the Xie Yong Department to send a letter to Guguan into Henan, ready to go south to Xiangyang. Zhu Youzhen was overjoyed, and ordered Zuo Liangyu, the general of the Ping Thief, to temporarily return to Sun Chuanting's control, and lead his troops as the vanguard to march to Xiangyang first.

Prime Minister Lu Xiangsheng, military affairs of five provinces and four governments, also made a successful move. Two days earlier, he had smashed the "sweeping king" Zhang Yichuan, one of the "thirteen families" in Dangshan County, Fengyang Prefecture, Nanzhili, and annihilated 20,000 enemies, of whom 5,000 were killed and 15,000 were captured. Dangshan County was only 150 miles away from Pengcheng, and the battle was a great shock to the rebels.

There is also news from Hunan. Zhu Yousong, who had been entrenched in Xiangyang before, cobbled together more than 100,000 new rebels to enter Hunan in a big way, and had just captured Yueyang, wanting to continue to take advantage of the situation to attack Changsha in the south, but he did not want to be stubbornly resisted by a local armed force. This armed force is not the official army of the guard, but the township warrior temporarily recruited from the local people, the regiment is surnamed Zeng, the name is Mengxue, and he is from Hengzhou.

To everyone's surprise, the people who funded the recruitment turned out to be two princes of the clan: Zhu Yujian, the king of Tang, and Zhu Youlang, the prince of Gui and the king of Anren. Among them, King Gui's domain was in Hengzhou, south of Changsha, and Tang Wang's domain was originally in Nanyang, when Xiangyang rebelled, Nanyang was too close to Xiangyang, and was soon captured by Hong Chengchou, Zhu Yujian took advantage of the chaos to escape and came to Hunan. After the two princes met and discussed, they decided to recruit troops and sent an urgent performance to the Jingshi.

This news caused an uproar in the court. Many courtiers, led by the Donglin family, believed that according to the ancestral system, the vassal king was absolutely not allowed to be armed, otherwise he could rebel. Li Biao and other ministers jointly signed a concert, asking Zhu Youzhen to immediately issue an order to send Jinyi Wei Suo to take King Gui and King Tang into Beijing, and submit them to the Three Law Divisions for approval.

Zhu Youzhen rejected the proposal of Li Biao and others after repeated consideration, which surprised the ministers. They originally thought that according to Zhu Youzhen's style since he ascended the throne, he had always been ruthless to the vassal kings, like Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, who just wanted to marry Ma Qianxue, so he was stripped of the prince and locked into Beijing. And King Gui and King Tang raised troops, this is a big matter of principle, and the emperor doesn't care, it's really unbelievable.

In fact, where did they know Zhu Youzhen's thoughts. Zhu Youzhen still vaguely remembers that after Chongzhen hanged the coal mountain in history, the Qing army swung south and was invincible, and Zhu Yousong's Hongguang regime collapsed in less than a year. However, the Jiangnan region did not fall, and two vassal kings successively rose up to resist the Qing Dynasty, and both were called emperors, which were the "Longwu Emperor" Tang King Zhu Yujian, and the "Yongli Emperor" Gui King Zhu Youlang. Although they made great mistakes in strategy, coupled with the huge disparity in numbers, they could not save the fate of the fall of the Southern Ming, but both of them fought against the Manchus to the end, swore not to surrender, and were finally killed one after another, maintaining their national integrity.

Although the current time and space are very different from history, the nature of the two can still be seen from the matter of the two kings recruiting troops and the king of Qin. Since the crossing, the vast majority of the vassal kings that Zhu Youzhen has come into contact with are faint kings like Zhu Changxun, the king of Fu, and Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, who only care about their own drunken dreams and death, and completely don't care about the life and death of the people.

However, Zhu Yujian and Zhu Youlang are different, it is impossible for them not to know the consequences of violating the ancestral system, but they still resolutely raise troops to serve the king knowing that they may be imprisoned, which shows that they can recognize the situation. It is rare to have such two figures in the clan who understand the general situation and take the overall situation into account, how can Zhu Youzhen bear to punish the crime. In his opinion, hundreds of thousands of clans are also subjects of the Ming Dynasty, and if the state is difficult, even if only some of them can stand up and support the imperial court like Zhu Yujian and Zhu Youlang, instead of sitting back and enjoying the benefits like pigs, it will be of great benefit to his future reforms.

As for the issue of the vassal king's rebellion that the ministers were worried about, Zhu Youzhen did not care. Take Zhu Changxun, Zhu Yousong and his son as examples, colluding with the White Lotus Sect and Hong Chengchou, the planning is not incomplete, and the momentum is not huge. However, in two months, the official army has been defeated and retreated, and destruction is imminent. With the experience of the previous experience, even if the other vassal kings have the heart of disobedience, they will never dare to seek death at this juncture. Therefore, Zhu Youzhen temporarily adopted an attitude of waiting and seeing what happened, and saw how King Tang and King Gui acted next. If they really don't do what they can't do, it's not too late to clean up when the time comes.

In addition to the battlefield success, the entire Jingshi is also preparing intensively for the Yuan Reform Ceremony and the Suburban Ceremony. When Zhu Youzhen convened the Ministry of Rites and other relevant yamen to put forward the idea of holding a fireworks show, it was unanimously approved by everyone.

In fact, no matter which new monarch changes the yuan, there must always be a big celebration. But Zhu Youzhen, unlike other emperors, only likes to do practical things, and is not interested in whitewashing the peace, and the ministers have always had a headache about how to please him. Now the emperor finally proposed to hold a fireworks show, this kind of happy thing, of course, the Ministry of Rites wants to do it as lively as possible.

As a result of the discussions, it was decided to suspend the curfew from the 29th of the lunar month, and the gates of the inner and outer cities of Jingshi would be open overnight, and the people could enter and exit at any time after receiving routine inspections. Every night in an open area near the city gate, fireworks are set off under the auspices of the Ministry of Rites for five days. As for the spontaneous entertainment activities of the people, they don't need to worry about it, as long as the government can't help it, the common people will naturally change the way to have fun, what kind of tricks, tricks, stepping on the high, playing dragon lanterns, lion dances, rowing boats... All in all, it's going to be lively.

Time flies, and two days go by in a flash. On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, Zhu Youzhen went to the court as usual in the morning, and rested for a while in Kunning Palace at noon, so he changed into a set of regular clothes in accordance with his promise to Anna, and went out of the palace with Queen Rui'er, Concubine Bao Yulian, Concubine Qi Meifeng, Concubine Li Zhu Cunqi, Concubine Chen Yuanyuan, and Yiyi and the three sisters, and took a sedan chair to the Portuguese Embassy to make an appointment. Rui'er was careful, and specially invited the red lady and Herzhe, saying that since leaving Qinwangzhuang, everyone has rarely reunited, and today is a rare opportunity, so we must have fun together.

At this time, the atmosphere of the New Year outside the palace was already very strong, and the pedestrians on the street were endless, mostly to buy New Year's goods, and there were both local residents and nearby states and counties who came to listen to the accent. Men and women, young and old, all have happy smiles on their faces. The sound of hawking, firecrackers and the noise of the flow of people are intertwined, although it is noisy, but it also outlines a peaceful and prosperous market style, Zhu Youzhen has no feeling in his heart.

It didn't take long to arrive at Dongjiang Mixiang, because there was no fanfare, and there was no gong to open the way, only dozens of sergeants of the Imperial City Guard Regiment who had changed into civilian clothes to escort them, and Zhu Youzhen and his entourage took a lot of effort to come to the door of the Portuguese Embassy. Before I got off the sedan chair, I heard the surrounding people exclaiming: "The foreign woman is out!" It's beautiful! ”