But soon, Sun Chuanting received a letter from Beijing, the letter was actually Hong Chengchou's handwritten letter, and learned that Hong Chengchou had a handwritten letter to him, Sun Chuanting was surprised, only to know that Hong Chengchou was actually captured alive by Yu's army after the defeat.

It stands to reason that if Yu Jiajun captures Hong Chengchou, there is a high chance that he will kill him, but why did Hong Chengchou send someone to send him a letter from Beijing?

So Sun Chuanting hurriedly took Hong Chengchou's handwritten letter, opened it and watched it, Hong Chengchou didn't say anything in the letter, just told him that Yu Xiaotian was not as bad as they thought, so it was best for Sun Chuanting to go to Beijing in person to meet Yu Xiaotian and him.

Hong Chengchou also personally guaranteed in the letter, stating that he would ensure Sun Chuanting's safety, and Yu Xiaotian would never harm him.

Sun Chuanting was shocked after reading this letter, and at first guessed that Hong Chengchou may have been held by Xiaotian, and was forced to write to him in desperation, deceiving him into Beijing and harming him.

So he carefully read the letter a few more times, but did not find anything wrong in the letter, Hong Chengchou's notes are very clear, there is nothing wrong with the pen, it is not like a letter written to him in a hurry or in a state of very fluctuating feelings, but it should be in a very stable state, and the letter is written quietly, and there is nothing hidden between the lines.

So he thought of the person who sent the letter, and hurriedly sent someone to inquire, but when the messenger was brought to him, he found that the person who sent the letter was none other than one of Hong Chengchou's family members, so he quickly called the family member into his residence and inquired about Hong Chengchou's situation in detail.

This family member did not hide it, and answered Sun Chuanting's question truthfully, telling Sun Chuanting that although their master was captured, Yu Jiajun was quite polite to him during the whole process, and took good care of him and did not leave it difficult for him.

After entering Beijing, Yu Xiaotian personally met with Hong Chengchou, the two talked for a long time, Yu Xiaotian also left Hong Chengchou to live in his line, and later chose a quiet courtyard for Hong Chengchou to rest in Beijing, and sent troops to protect.

In addition, Hong Chengchou's actions were not excessively restricted, and he often talked to Hong Chengchou about some things in the past few days, and the two sides seemed to get along quite well.

Sun Chuanting couldn't understand this, when they raised troops and rushed to Beijing, Hong Chengchou hated Xiaotian deeply, and wanted to take it down immediately and kill him quickly, but he didn't expect that after Hong Chengchou was captured, he was so valued by Yu Xiaotian, and Hong Chengchou didn't seem to repay Jun's kindness with death, but had a good conversation with Yu Xiaotian, which is strange.

After confirming that Hong Chengchou was not forcibly coerced by Yu Xiaotian and deliberately deceived him into going to Jingshi to murder him, Sun Chuanting finally resolutely chose to follow this Hong Chengchou's family, and only took a dozen of his intimate family members and rushed to Jingshi.

After Sun Chuanting entered Beijing, Yu Xiaotian received Sun Chuanting with a high standard, and personally set up a banquet in the garden of Xingyuan to entertain Sun Chuanting, and invited Hong Chengchou, who had already submitted to him, to accompany him.

The three of them talked about Xiaotian temporarily for a whole afternoon and the first half of the night, and it was only over after two meals of wine and a drink, Sun Chuanting finally accepted the persuasion of Yu Xiaotian and Hong Chengchou, and chose to support Yu Xiaotian with reservations.

In this way, Yu Xiaotian can be regarded as getting two major boosts, Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting are both people who have dealt with the Wandering Army for many years, and they are both shrewd and capable people, which makes Yu Xiaotian a little more sure of how to deal with the Wandering Army next.

In the following period of time, Yu Xiaotian vigorously reformed the various malpractices accumulated by the Ming court for more than 200 years, held the holy decree covered with the seal of the imperial court in one hand, and forcefully implemented various new policies in the name of Chongzhen, and on the other hand, he held high the butcher's knife and dealt a ruthless blow to those vested interest groups who tried to resist the emergence of various new policies.

Chongzhen was not unaware of some malpractices before, and he had tried to reform these maladministrations many times, but although he was the emperor, he was often influenced by officials, and often implemented new policies, which would inevitably affect the interests of some vested interests or groups, and many officials themselves were in vested interest groups, or the spokesmen of some vested interest groups.

Therefore, often when Chongzhen wants to implement some new policies and reform some malpractices, he will be strongly resisted by many ministers, and Chongzhen sometimes can't pull down, or is too jealous, so he can only stop it.

In fact, this time before Yu Xiaotian led the army into Beijing, Chongzhen tried to plan, first send one or two princes to Nanjing, make a perfect preparation, once if the Beijing division is lost, he is determined not to abandon the Beijing division and flee, in case of Yu Xiaotian's rebels, then his prince in Nanjing, can also immediately take advantage of the situation to succeed to the throne, and then order the world to continue to be the enemy of Yu Xiaotian, and one day regain the Ming Dynasty.

But he was just such a request, and he was resisted by some ministers who had nothing to do when they were well fed, saying that sending the prince away at this time was a sign of weakness, which would affect the morale of the army, so that Chongzhen could only give up, and also led Yu Xiaotian to break the city, and when Chongzhen was not prepared at all, the whole family was blocked in the palace.

This is also one of the reasons why Chongzhen did not choose to commit suicide and martyrdom, because if he committed suicide and martyrdom, the Ming dynasty will not be inherited by his heirs, and when the time comes, the subjects of the Ming Dynasty in the world, I am afraid that because they can't find an orthodox successor, they will not be able to get a dispute because of this.

In fact, this kind of thing has indeed happened in history, after Li Zicheng invaded the Beijing Division, Chongzhen hanged himself on the coal mountain, and as a result, there have been many cases in the south where the descendants of the Zhu family fought for the orthodox throne.

So much so that in the later Southern Ming Dynasty, the southern Ming Dynasty basically did not form too effective rule, and naturally did not form a planned and organized resistance to the southward movement of Jiannu, but the rapid defeat of the Ming Dynasty, and finally the world was seized by Jiannu.

Therefore, Chongzhen said that he was the son of heaven who ruled the world, but in fact, during his reign of more than ten years, he was constantly wrestling with his ministers, competing for the control of the world.

During Chongzhen's reign of more than ten years, he was more wrestling with these ministers, and he was unable to thoroughly implement or implement some of the reforms he wanted to do.

Therefore, before Chongzhen died, he shouted that the ministers inside and outside the country misunderstood me, in fact, it was not a deliberate attempt to shirk responsibility, and these ministers also had an unshirkable responsibility for the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

But now that Yu Xiaotian has invaded the Jingshi, completely controlled the court of the Jingshi, and put Chongzhen under house arrest, forcing Chongzhen to give up power to him, so that he can use Chongzhen's jade seal to issue an edict and coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes, he has no worries about this.

Yu Xiaotian's character determines that he cannot be subject to the influence of these ministers, and he has the military power at hand that can control the situation, and he will clean up whoever is not satisfied, and he does not care about killing people and establishing authority, and dares to risk the world's condemnation, sacrifice a butcher's knife, and use strong means to implement his policy.

After he promulgated and implemented the policy of apportioning the land into the mu, it did indeed attract strong resistance from the gentry and magnates in many places, and even some local officials simply proposed that this holy decree was not from the current saint, but from the hands of the traitor Yu Xiaotian, and wrote to the court to forgive them for not being able to follow the decree.

Among them, in the north, the prefects of Hejian Prefecture and Shunde Prefecture have made their attitude clear, refusing to implement the policy of apportioning the land to the mu promoted by Yu Xiaotian, and canceling the preferential policies of the powerful and nobles, as well as some powerful people who could obtain tax exemptions in the past, and expressing their refusal to act according to the order.

Yu Xiaotian immediately ordered the newly re-established Zhongshu Province to draft a decree to take down the prefects of these two places and those who refused to agree to implement the new policy and send them to Beijing for interrogation, and select someone to replace them.

The former prefect of these two places will definitely refuse to comply, and the prefect of Zhending actually raised soldiers and horses on the spot, trying to conduct a military confrontation with the current pseudo-court, the three words of this pseudo-court are too appropriate, the current Ming court is no longer the court when Chongzhen was in power, but it is wearing a Ming vest, but it is the court of Yu Xiaotian, the outer coat is the surname Zhu, but the inner has been replaced with the surname Yu.

But it was precisely because Yu Xiaotian wore a Ming vest that he dared to act unscrupulously, and when he learned that the prefect of Zhending actually tried to use force against him, he ordered Meng Fei to run over without saying a word.

Meng Fei ordered only two battalions of troops, and the starry night killed Zhending Mansion, and two infantry battalions rushed from Baoding Mansion to Zhending Mansion at the speed of rapid marching, and after dawn, they came to the city of Zhending Mansion.

In a panic, the prefect of Zhending ordered the temporarily recruited villagers and the officers and soldiers who defended the city to resist, but how could these rabble be the opponents of the Yu family army, as soon as the cannon of the Yu family army sounded, the soldiers and people who were defending the city over there immediately dispersed, and some fine works agitated some people in the city, and took the opportunity to seize the gate and open the city gate, and Meng Fei led the troops into the city.

When the prefect of Zhending learned of the collapse of the defenders, he hurriedly tried to escape with his family, but before he could pack up the fine soft and load the car, Meng Fei had already led his troops to kill in front of the government and blocked it in the office.

The prefect of Zhending knew that he would not be spared this time, so in order to suffer less crimes, he immediately committed suicide by hanging a beam, and before he died, he forced his wife and concubine to commit suicide by throwing herself into a well.

In the following months, Yu Xiaotian vigorously reduced the ineffective miscellaneous soldiers in the original north, and at the same time vigorously expanded his Yu family's army.

At the beginning of the year, when he landed in Tianjinwei, he only brought more than 30,000 troops, but by October, Yu Xiaotian had expanded the strength of the Yu family army in the north to 100,000.

Although the combat effectiveness of these new armies is not strong at present, whether they can ensure that they are not afraid of danger like the veterans, there are some doubts in this regard, but compared with those old-style Ming armies, they are still much stronger.