Chapter 495: Claiming the Emperor

With the surrender of Wu Xiang and Zu Dashou and others, the last power of the Ming Dynasty collapsed. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info There are still some activities left, and only Zhang Xianzhong's team in Sichuan remains.

The terrain of Sichuan is precipitous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, so Zhang Chu adopted a very cautious strategy for attacking Sichuan, and the troops transferred from all over the country made sufficient preparations, step by step, encroaching on Zhang Xianzhong's territory little by little, Zhang Xianzhong was of course unwilling to be trapped. He concentrated his elite forces to launch an assault on the security forces, preparing to break the blockade of the security forces. But in the face of the powerful force of the security army, he hit his head and broke the bloodstream.

Zhang Xianzhong wanted to use the old method to lead the elite to fight, but the security army was always in no hurry to occupy one place and consolidate another. The arrival of the security army has brought practical benefits to the people, and the people have heard the propaganda of the security army, and there are fewer and fewer people who support Zhang Xianzhong's team. The scope of Zhang Xianzhong's activities has become very narrow. Seeing the security army squeezing over, Zhang Xianzhong felt that it was only a matter of time before the team was destroyed. So Zhang Xianzhong took out his usual trick again, he wanted to surrender to Zhang Chu.

Zhang Chu's answer to Zhang Xianzhong was very clear, it was okay to surrender, and there were no conditions to talk about all the arrangements of the audience's security forces. Zhang Xianzhong had to agree to Zhang Chu's conditions due to the situation, he thought to himself that as long as the security army did not kill people, there were old brothers, and he was not comfortable, as long as he said hello and rebelled again, it would not be a problem.

Zhang Chu did not make it difficult for Zhang Xianzhong and others, Zhang Xianzhong's men and horses were assigned to work on farms and factories in Tiannan and Haibei, which indeed ensured that they would no longer starve to death, and a small number of elites in the army were absorbed into the security army to continue their military career. Zhang Xianzhong and some generals who were unwilling to leave the army were required to study in military academies and wait until they graduated to arrange official positions in the army.

Zhang Xianzhong thought that Zhang Chu was really ruthless, when he was studying, everyone had no army in their hands, so they only stayed there honestly. He secretly swore that when his study was over, he would rebel immediately and never be angry again, and the former king would be called by those instructors.

Those former subordinates of Zhang Xianzhong were even more miserable, Zhang Xianzhong had more or less read books, and he was also a cultural person, and most of those generals didn't know a basket of big characters, so it was really difficult for them to learn. However, the rules of the Security Army Military Academy are very clear, those who don't want to learn can go, and those who can't learn must go. Those people have been living a life of licking blood for so many years, and they really have nowhere to go after leaving the army. One by one, they had to fight to the death there. In this way, there are still some people who really can't learn and are forced to leave the military academy to fend for themselves. As time passed, Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates also adapted to life here, and they had more contact with the officers of the security army who came to study in other places, and they were even more reluctant to leave here after hearing a lot about the security army.

Zhang Xianzhong sensed the change in his former subordinates, and found that most of these people were no longer willing to raise the flag and rebel with him. Moreover, the security forces have pacified all the hostile forces, and there are no enemies outside, so it is becoming more and more difficult to shake the security forces. Zhang Xianzhong accepted his fate at this time and completely gave up his dream of dominating the world.

He specifically asked to see Zhang Chu, who asked to quit the army on the grounds that he was not suitable for the study and life of the military academy. He originally thought that Zhang Chu would definitely designate a place for him not to leave, and then send someone to monitor him. Unexpectedly, Zhang Chu just asked him what he wanted to do, if he needed to arrange some things for him to do, and let Zhang Xianzhong choose by himself.

Zhang Xianzhong admitted that he had some savings and wanted to do business. Zhang Chu ordered someone to prepare some silver taels for Zhang Chu Xianzhong as the capital for his business, and he no longer asked where he was going. After Zhang Xianzhong left, he changed a few places, and found that no one was following him, so he was relieved. However, he saw that the world had decided to revolt again, and no one would respond, so he sneaked back to the place where he had fought and dug up some of his buried treasures and really started a business. He really wants to live a stable life this time.

Zhang Chu received a report from the Bureau of Statistics on Zhang Xianzhong's activities, and ordered people to continue to pay attention to it and made no other arrangements. By this time he had become very busy, and the security forces had unified the country with a storm of wind, which was a good thing, but it also brought many problems, the most important of which was the local management problem.

The security army's armor protection system is very effective in controlling local areas, but the government framework at a higher level has not yet been established, which has created many drawbacks, and the establishment of a new government cannot be delayed.

Many people below have already begun to persuade Zhang Chu to seize the time to ascend the throne and become emperor. Of course, there are many people here who are selfish. As soon as Zhang Chu became the emperor, these people became the heroes of the founding of the country, and they were naturally high-ranking and respected by tens of thousands of people, and this was also an urgent need of reality.

Zhang Chu is not exclusive to being called the emperor, Zhang Chu has already figured out that the existence of a system must adapt to the social environment at that time. At present, the imperial system is still the most suitable for the level of social development, and at the same time, it is also the most acceptable to the people.

But what bothers Zhang Chu is that the Ming Dynasty is over, and he must have a name if he wants to establish a new dynasty. He mobilized a group of sub-literati to think about what to call it a dynasty. The literati were very active, but there were many people in turmoil, and everyone was very reasonable, but they couldn't come up with a single statement that could convince the majority of people for a while.

Zhang Chu originally wanted to save trouble, so he called it "Qing". This must convince most people, because there has long been a saying among the literati that the Ming Dynasty was the king of fire and virtue and would be replaced by the king of water and virtue. Zhang Chu thought about it but didn't bring it up, he himself felt that this was not very lucky. If you die, your children and grandchildren will walk the old road of the Qing Dynasty again, and you will cross it all in vain.

Zhang Chu finally decided not to listen to the nonsense of those literati, he finally crossed over, why did he have to follow the original stinky rules. So he gave his dynasty an unprecedented domineering name, which was called the Chinese Empire. He Zhang Chu was the emperor of the Chinese Empire. Those literati almost got their noses crooked when they heard Zhang Chu's decision, where is there such an unlearned emperor. But they didn't dare to say anything else, the emperor is happy, anyway, what is called will not affect their future.

At this time, the eldest princess Wuliangha sent Zhang Chu another big gift, and Lin Dan Khan, who had run out of oil, finally left the west. Lin Dan Khan's Sutai Dafujin took his son Erkong Guoluo Ezhe and the remnants of the Mongols to take refuge with the eldest princess. In order to express their loyalty to Zhang Chu, they presented Zhang Chu with a jade seal of the country. In this way, the proof of power that the Ming Dynasty could not get finally fell into the hands of Zhang Chu.

Zhang Chu ordered people to hype up the matter of recovering the jade seal of the country, thus establishing the legitimacy of Zhang Chu's victory in the world.

Everything is ready, Zhang Chu ordered people to choose a good day and an auspicious day to ascend the throne and become the emperor, and the capital city was selected in Beijing. The ceremony of being the emperor was cumbersome and complicated, and Zhang Chu had no intention of paying attention to it, so he had to make a marionette to obey the arrangements of those ministers, and make an actor lively, which made Zhang Chu so tired that he was about to break up, and the ceremony was over when he was so annoyed. Zhang Chu officially became the first emperor of the Chinese Empire.

After Zhang Chu ascended the throne, there were many things to be done. He began to work day and night again. Only then did he realize that being an emperor was not an easy task. But he didn't complain and worked hard every day. He wants to make the Chinese Empire strong as soon as possible, because he still has not done what he wanted to do in these two lifetimes. (To be continued.) )