In the early morning of this day, Zhu Youzhen woke up in Kaifeng City, pushed open the window and took a look at the ancient capital.

The sky and the earth were white, the bullet marks on the city walls had been covered with snow, and the sound of the battle had disappeared in an instant.

The main force of 500,000 Qing troops led by Hong Chengchou finally came to an end with the fall of this heavy snowfall.

These are almost the last batch of adult males from the seventeenth year of Chongzhen to the twentieth year of Chongzhen, in the north and even outside the Guan.

The Manchus were not a simple tribe of fishermen and hunters since Wanli.

Although he was dominated by the Manchurian military aristocracy, in the past thirty or forty years, a Manchu, Han and Mongolian regime had been formed in the Baishan and Heishui areas, and after years of development, the population was no longer the size of tens of thousands of wild boar skins in the past.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to almost eat away from the gate during the Apocalypse Chongzhen year.

These adult males outside the border are added to the adult males from the northern provinces.

The Manchu Qing gathered 800,000 to go south in an attempt to destroy the Ming Dynasty in one fell swoop, and their ambitions were shattered.

It is conceivable that at this time, the northern provinces are afraid that they are already ten rooms and nine empty, and thousands of villages are withered.

Zhu Youzhen didn't know how Dolgon would face such a situation.

But he didn't have time to care what Dolgon would do now, and he had to go back to Nanjing to clean up the gang of petty thugs.

Naturally, the Manchus were no longer a major problem.

Zhang Xianzhong in the southwest can only divide one side at most.

Only Nanjing.

In Gangnam.

Some ill-intentioned people around me are the ones who need to be vigilant at all times.

Although with the current power and power of the emperor, these people are no longer enough to shake themselves.

But sometimes it's easy to dodge with an open gun, and it's hard to defend against a dark arrow.

Zhu Youzhen would not have thought that they would suddenly stab him in the back at some point.

This time, for example.

Zhu Youzhen really didn't expect it, he thought that these vassal kings had no great ambitions.

He has never deprived the vassal king of his high fortune and the privilege of the land, and has always raised them like pigs.

However, the reality tells Zhu Youzhen that these people are also ambitious.

As long as they are given the opportunity, they will also covet that dragon chair.

It is now the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, and the Spring Festival is coming.

Due to the end of the war, Kaifeng City once again regained its former peacefulness.

The festive atmosphere began to permeate the market.

Since the abolition of the road introduction system, the people have lived more and more freely.

Now there is no war in Kaifeng, coupled with the resolution of the contradiction between man and land, there are many people engaged in trade activities inside and outside the city at this time.

Although it has not fully presented the bustle of Qingming and Tuli in the Northern Song Dynasty in the past, it is also pregnant with a trace of spring vitality in this cold and harsh winter.

However, the entire Generalissimo's Office and the Guards system are still busy.

The number of casualties of the Guards needs to be counted, and the matters of bereavement and transfer are complicated tasks.

In addition, there was the escort of prisoners and the arrangement of labor in various factories.

and the transfer of troops to the south, all of which need to be dealt with.

The Third Guards Army had rested in the city to replenish its recruits.

Liu Fangliang himself was the director of the General Training Office of the Generalissimo's Office, responsible for the training of recruits throughout the country, so naturally he himself sent recruits to supplement the Third Army.

However, according to Zhu Youzhen's intentions, the Third Army of the Guards Army should expand by one corps in preparation for the formation of the Seventh Guards Army in the future.

Naturally, the war could not end, and the Guards would certainly continue to expand.

Zhu Youzhen didn't want him to have enough main army in the rear to stabilize the situation when he was on the Northern Expedition.

As for the increase in national defense spending after the expansion of the armed forces, these are naturally things that Zhu Youzhen will consider in the future.

The four cavalry battalions of the Second Army, with a total of 20,000 iron cavalry, were first led by the chief officer He Xin himself and returned to the south of the division.

The infantry and artillery battalions were prepared to rest and recuperate before heading south.

Zhu Youzhen and Qin Liangyu naturally followed the infantry.

The war had just ended, and many affairs had to be handled by him and Qin Liangyu personally before he could leave with confidence.

Hong Chengchou has been clamoring to see him, but Zhu Youzhen is not in the mood to deal with such a person.

Wu Sangui was a military minister, and it was only after Chongzhen learned of the fall of Beijing in March of the seventeenth year that he decided to surrender to the enemy, and Zhu Youzhen did not expect him to have much loyalty.

Originally, the Ming court did not treat the military ministers very well, or the civilian official group did not treat the military ministers very well.

Zhu Youzhen naturally couldn't force too much to ask how many loyal martyrs there were among the military ministers.

And a military aristocrat like Wu Sangui in Liaodong naturally can't count on it, but at least people are still willing to enter King Qin, at least with silver.

This is also the reason why Zhu Youzhen only killed Wu Sangui and did not escort him to Nanjing Lingchi.

Zhu Youzhen showed the guards the difference between himself and the military ministers.

Today's Ming Dynasty is not the late Tang Dynasty, and there is no need to deter military ministers for the time being.

And the threat to the imperial power is still the civilian bureaucracy.

And Hong Chengchou is a civil servant, Zhu Youzhen treats him well, and compared to Lu Xiangsheng, he can be said to be extremely long.

But Hong Chengchou was cleared in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, and it was not a last resort, he should have died on the battlefield with his full name or like Lu Xiangsheng.

But Hong Chengchou didn't choose to do this, and Zhu Youzhen mistakenly thought that he would die in battle, he would commit suicide and martyrdom, and bury him.

That's not all, Hong Chengchou actually took the initiative to help Dolgon destroy the Ming Dynasty and took the initiative to give advice.

It can be said that Wu Sangui is at most a knife that anyone can hold, a knife that anyone can use.

And Hong Chengchou is a poisonous snake that will bite himself back after ten years.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen wanted to severely punish Hong Chengchou, and to deter the civil officials in Jiangnan and the gentry who surrendered to the Manchus!

On Chinese New Year's Eve, Zhu Youjian left Kaifeng City with the infantry artillery of the Second Army of the Guards without spending the Spring Festival in Kaifeng City.

At this time, Zhou Ze also crossed the river from Taojiadian with Luck Dehun on his back and left Kaifeng Mansion.

Zhou rescued the Qing court, and Zhu Youzhen knew about it.

Luckedhun was Zhou Ze's backer in the Manchu Dynasty, and if he wanted Zhou to play a greater role in the Qing court, he had to have Luckedhun's help.

Therefore, Zhou Ze now staged a perfect scene of loyal servant and savior, with two hundred horsemen in an army of hundreds of thousands, he rescued Luck Dehun, and also carried the beaten Luck Dehun all the way to Taojiadian.

The guards also cooperated with the pursuit for a while, and even let Zhou Ze's arm be shot.

In short, the current Luck Dehun is very grateful to Zhou Ze, and begins to completely believe in Zhou Ze, believing that Zhou is his most loyal minion.

"Master, we have finally returned to the north shore, as long as we hold on for a few more days, we can enter Weihui Mansion to rest and rest, master, you say, we have lost the battle this time, the court will not punish us, especially the slave, the governor of Henan, the slave is worried that if he is punished and sent to Ningguta, there will be no one to serve the master."

Zhou Ze said worriedly.

"Don't worry, Ben Belle is desperate for his life, but also to save you, the main responsibility for this defeat is Hong Chengchou, I can't blame you, Ben Belle will intercede with the prince, and your performance is not bad, first use wits to recapture the Xinghua camp, and then find that the enemy situation has changed decisively to rescue the king, this courage and wisdom is not simple, to say, the prince will not use people, why let Hong Chengchou and an old Confucian take command, it is better to use his own minions."

When Luck Dehun said this, Zhou couldn't help but sneer in his heart, but it was indeed as Luck Dehun said, and he was soon promoted.

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