Yang Chao's troops are too limited, and sending 60,000 troops to pursue is already the limit, so there are not many troops stationed in Nanjing City, and to occupy one place is to defend one place, the farther you advance, the more scarce the troops.

And the main purpose of letting many men pursue is to recapture the emperor, but Wuhu has not been found, first let the Qing army attach great importance to Zhu Cihong, I am afraid that when retreating, Zhu Cihong is the first object to retreat, I am afraid that as early as the heavy protection of the retreat to a farther place, then the meaning of the pursuit will be lost.

Moreover, Yang Chao's army is too tired, it is already at a limit, and accidents such as collapse may occur at any time.

The first Yangzhou Campaign, the Huai'an Campaign, and the Second Yangzhou Campaign, in just a few months, the army fought continuously, basically had no time to rest, and was already exhausted.

The second time he fought Yangzhou, when he surrounded and annihilated Duoduo, it had been deeply reflected, if the army was not too tired, how could it be possible to lose tens of thousands of people to exterminate the demoralized Qing army that was trapped in the lonely mountain and had been tortured by fireworks.

If the army is too tired, the morale will be low, and if the morale is low, the combat strength will be insufficient.

And after one major battle after another, Yang Chao's army suffered too much damage, when he set out from Yangzhou to attack Huai'an, it was a 150,000 army, and when he eliminated Duoduo and returned to Nanjing from Yangzhou, there were only 100,000 left, with nearly 50,000 casualties.

It is necessary to recuperate immediately, at least a month, to allow the wounded to recover, and recruit new soldiers and soldiers, and form 200,000 troops, and then Yang Chao has the spare strength to continue to launch large-scale campaigns.

In addition, there are a lot of government affairs, Zhu Cihong was captured, the Qing army is afraid that it has already operated, and I don't know how serious the consequences will be.

This is a difficult problem, a very big problem, how should Yang Chao deal with it.

Zhu Cihong was personally pushed to the throne by him, and now that Zhu Cihong has been arrested, should he set up a new monarch again.

This is not difficult for Yang Chao, Yang Chao brought back four princes from Beijing back then, all of whom were born to Emperor Chongzhen. Although the inheritance is not as hard as Zhu Cihong, Zhu Cihong ran away and was arrested, giving these younger brothers a chance for so long.

But after Zhu Cihong escaped. Many civil and military officials in Nanjing fled, and several princes also fled, but fortunately one stayed, Zhu Cijiong, the third son of Emperor Chongzhen, and he not only stayed. And it's at Yang Chao's house.

At that time, the emperor fled on the eve of the night, and the next day Nanjing City learned the news, some of the civil officials fled, some wanted to surrender, some committed suicide, the two princes also ran away, Zhu Cihuan and Zhu Cizhi both ran away, and now the two princes still don't know what happened, Yang Chao doesn't know if they were captured with the emperor.

But this does not affect Yang Chao to set up a new monarch, the reason is very simple. Zhu Cijiong, who fled to his own home, has more inheritance rights, because Zhu Cijiong, like Zhu Cijiong, was born to the empress of Emperor Chongzhen, and is the brother of a mother's compatriot.

The principle of inheritance in the Ming Dynasty is not to establish a successor. If you have a son-in-law, you should consider establishing a first-born son, and when you have no son-in-law, you should consider establishing a firstborn son, and when you have no children. There is also the principle of brother to brother, so whether it is from Emperor Chongzhen or from Emperor Hongguang Zhu Cihong, Zhu Cijiong is a well-deserved first heir.

Therefore, if Yang Chao sets up him, it should be said that it will not cause others to make irresponsible remarks.

But some people don't want to, Zhu Cijiong himself doesn't want to be the emperor.

This Zhu Cijiong's list is smaller than Zhu Cihong's. When others run, fall, and die, he didn't dare to run, he didn't dare to fall, and he didn't dare to die, so he got into the Yang family and took refuge in his sister's arms.

Zhu Yujiao protected her younger brother while grieving the capture of her other brother.

At this time, Yang Chao found Wang Zhu Cijiong to discuss the matter of supervising the country, hoping that Zhu Cijiong would come out to stabilize the situation in the name of the prison country during Zhu Cihong's capture, but at this time Zhu Cijiong himself was too frightened to agree, and also asked his sister to intercede, Zhu Yujiao cried to Yang Chao, saying that their sister and brother were pitiful and lonely, and the country was ruined and did not dare to seek great wealth and wealth, but begged to live in the world, hoping that Yang Chao would not push his younger brother to the fire and roast.

Yang Chao couldn't help but be surprised, in this era, there are more grandmasters who want to be emperors, such as the Fu King, there are Tang Wang, Gui Wang, and even King Lu in history have all ascended the throne or want to ascend the throne, and they are addicted to being an emperor, but they didn't expect that the most qualified person to be an emperor would not dare to be an emperor.

This Zhu Cijiong is a mystery in history, since the city of Beijing was broken, he disappeared, no matter who can find him, at the same time another prince Zhu Cihuan, although he is also hiding in Tibet, but always exposes his whereabouts, obviously if a person has the intention to hide, it is impossible to be discovered, that Zhu Cihuan is obviously a love toss, and Zhu Cijiong does not know where to hide to live in seclusion.

Clearly, this is a man who values his life more than his power.

"Princess, let the king supervise the country for the sake of the overall situation. Your Majesty is held by the Qing army, and the hearts of the people in the world are unstable. ”

Yang Chao explained to Zhu Yujiao.

The princess sat on the side and cried vigorously: "King Ding is young, how can he take on this great responsibility." And if the king is appointed to supervise the country, where will your majesty be placed? If His Majesty is not the emperor, wouldn't it be useless to the Tartars, and can the Tartars keep him? ”

After speaking, Zhu Yujiao whimpered and cried again.

Standing in Zhu Yujiao's position, she was right.

Although Zhu Yujiao was not born to Queen Chongzhen, her mother died early, and she was raised by the queen since she was a baby, and she has been close to Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cijiong since she was a child.

Now that a younger brother has been captured by the Qing army, and a younger brother is sheltered by her, she can't let this younger brother follow in the footsteps of that younger brother, and let this younger brother be a prisoner, in fact, he is preparing to be the emperor, what should Zhu Cihong do who was captured by the Qing army, after it has no effect on the Qing court, if it is not good, it will only be one death.

Zhu Yujiao absolutely did not want to see her two younger brothers being used by the military generals one after another, and finally ended up with a tragic end, and she was even more unwilling to see the arrested Zhu Cihong die because of this.

"You said you would never fail me, I beg you, don't force him."

Zhu Yujiao cried and begged.

Yang Chao did promise not to fail her, at that time he asked him to tell the emperor about his concubine, and now Zhu Yujiao has moved out.

In fact, the most important thing is that the party Zhu Cijiong disagrees, he himself does not agree with the prison country, and asks his sister to help him speak, crying in front of Yang Chao, and saying that Yang Chao promised that she will not fail her, and even Yang Chao's promise has moved out, which makes Yang Chao quite helpless.

Yang Chao doesn't have to worry too much about his wife Zhu Yujiao's attitude, at most he wrongs her, Zhu Cijiong himself is unwilling, but Yang Chao is not easy to force him.

In fact, the purpose of Yang Chao's discussion with his wife was to hope that Zhu Yujiao could persuade his younger brother, but he didn't expect Zhu Cijiong to do his sister's work before Yang Chao, and let his sister help him not to force him to prison the country.

Yang Chao himself is actually very hesitant, the last time he asked Zhu Cihong to be the emperor, at first Yang Chao was responsive, and he would basically agree to all Yang Chao's recitals, but later it developed into Yang Chao's opinion, and the court must oppose it.

Yang Chao knew that his political ability was still very insufficient, or that his political understanding was too different from the people of this era, and he either accommodated the Ming Dynasty bureaucrats and behaved like them, or forced these people to follow their own ideas, that is, to act arbitrarily.

But both Yang Chao is not very willing to accept, and it is psychologically difficult to accept Yang Chao with the bureaucracy, and if he wants to act arbitrarily, Yang Chao knows that this kind of sequelae is too big, and the opposition encountered is too great, and the civil official group will definitely not cooperate, and Yang Chao is not without concerns, he is alive now, and it is good to say that he has a heavy army, in case he has an accident, what kind of revenge will his family receive, look at Zhang Juzheng's death, the Zhang family will be wiped out, the men are distributed, and the women are sold, Yang Chao absolutely cannot accept it.

In addition to these two, there is another option, that is, to learn from Yang Jian and Zhao Kuangyin, and directly usurp the throne by himself.

However, if Yang Chao usurped the throne, the name would not be right, and the opposition would definitely be greater, and it was estimated that other places south of the Yangtze River would oppose it except for the places that his army could control, and if it was not good, Yang Chao would have to fight a civil war first without waiting for the Manchu Qing to fight.

And Yang Chao as a military general, aside from the Ming royal family to be the emperor, this bad head may cause a situation out of control, but all the generals with soldiers in their hands do not make it good one by one to claim the king and hegemony, look at the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, each province declared independence to know this kind of consequence.

Yang Chao didn't want to see the outcome of the civil war and the words of warlords in various places, and the chaos, even Cao Cao did not directly usurp the throne, and he had to support an Emperor Han Xian as a banner, because he was afraid of an uncontrolled situation.

That's why Yang Chao thought of letting Zhu Cijiong come forward to supervise the country and hold the actual power himself, but Zhu Cihong himself disagreed.

Yang Chao is also worried about a situation like Zhu Cihong, that is, after Zhu Cijiong came to power, not only did he not cooperate with him, but stood on the opposite side of himself, so he was unwilling to force him, but first did ideological work, so that the civil officials kept persuading, and he started to work as a wife, but it still couldn't be done.

But when Yang Chao was hesitating, there were accidents in Jiangxi and Fujian.

Zhu Cihuan was in charge of the country in Fujian, and announced to the world that on the grounds that Emperor Hongguang was captured and the country could not be without a king for a day, he was willing to shoulder the responsibility of Zhongxing Daming in danger.

"Zheng's!"

Yang Chao couldn't help but think that the Zheng group still took the step of promoting the emperor and coercing the princes of the Son of Heaven.

It seems that the Zheng family is not only willing to be a marine strength, but also strives to move towards the scholar class, Zheng Zhilong has never given up.

But this made Yang Chao embarrassed, Zhu Cihuan's edict to supervise the state had been delivered, and he had to take the decree himself.

The Zheng family did a good job of concealment, and it wasn't until it was announced to the world that Zhu Cihuan was pushed out. (To be continued.) )