Make the best use of your talents. Zhu Yongxing thought so, but when he first showed his strength, in the face of the civilian and military generals who were constantly gathering, as well as the civilians, businessmen, and toasts who came to serve, he had to carefully observe and diligently explore to discover talents and eliminate incompetence.

Yi Cheng was promoted to a long history, but at that time, it was just because of a lack of talents, and he wanted to envelop the Zheng family. But after this period of investigation, Zhu Yongxing found that this person could be pushed out by Zheng Yanbei as the representative of the Zheng family, and he did have something extraordinary. Although he is not good at military affairs, he has excellent ability in terms of correspondence, calculation and distribution, and trivial affairs. Maybe it's because Zhu Yongxing now has too few capable talents, and he is trying his best to perform.

But the next thing made Zhu Yongxing's perception of Yi Cheng immediately go up to a new level, and he had a unique vision for some special talents.

Since Zhu Yongxing arrived in Tengchong very late yesterday and had no important matters to deal with, Yi Cheng was very considerate and let him have a good rest. It wasn't until the next day that he brought some documents to Zhu Yongxing for approval, and when they were all processed, Yi Cheng took out something like a book and respectfully put it on Zhu Yongxing's case.

"Your Highness, there is still one thing for you to decide." Yi Cheng pointed to the book on the table and said, "The day before yesterday, an old minister who claimed to be Hongguang, named Zha Rulong, asked to see His Royal Highness, saying that there was an anti-Qing plan to offer ......."

Cha Rulong? Zhu Yongxing felt a little familiar, but he couldn't remember what this person had done in history for a while, so he nodded, motioned for Yi Cheng to continue, and reached out to take the book and looked at it casually.

"This was found from Cha Rulong, and after reading it, the lower officials were surprised, so they wanted to get the details from his mouth." Yi Cheng continued: "But this person only said that he wanted to see His Highness before he spoke in detail, and he was very stubborn. The lower officials did not dare to be arbitrary, so they put him under house arrest and waited for His Highness to come back and deal with it. If this person is really loyal and wise, and has this special ability, he may be of great use in the future. ”

Zhu Yongxing was still a little careless when he first looked through the book, but his demeanor quickly became solemn, he thought for a long time, and patted the table lightly, he finally remembered what Zha Rulong had done in history.

Cha Rulong was indeed an official of a certain ministry of the Hongguang regime in the Southern Ming Dynasty, and later lived in the rivers and lakes, taking the opposition to the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty as his own ambition, and carried out activities everywhere. In the early years of Kangxi, he forged the letters of governors, governors, and admirals of all provinces across the country, and their official seals, seals, flowers, and seals were very realistic and difficult to read. Most of the forged letters contain the content of "contacting the voice, jointly trying to restore the Central Plains". He collected these false letters into a volume and carried it with him, which was similar to the book-like thing that Zhu Yongxing had flipped through. Of course, that's not all yet.

And the reason why Cha Rulong has been recorded in history is not because of his great fraud, but because he single-handedly created the incident of "writing blood" to Wu Sangui. Zhu Yongxing can't remember the specific time, it seems that it should be around the year after tomorrow.

This Zha Rulong ran to Kunming with a book of false letters, bit his index finger, and wrote a blood letter to Sangui, to the effect of: "...... The governor of the world, Futi Town, and the ministers of the court, all have the same heart, and treat the king as the meeting of the alliance (King Wu will fight and meet 800 princes at the Mengjin ferry in Henan). King, you are a Han Chinese, and the events of the year (referring to Wu Jianqing) were out of necessity. Today's opportunity is in the hands of the king, if the king sends troops to the Central Plains, the world responds, this eternal merit ......"

Zha Rulong wrote a blood letter and entrusted a boy to send it to the Sangui Palace. He tried to let everyone know about this letter, putting pressure on the three ghosts, causing him to have to obey it. When the boy arrived in Kunming, he had no way to enter the palace, so he returned to the temple and returned the letter to Zha Rulong.

The submission failed, and Zha Rulong later went to Qujing Mansion, but accidentally committed an accident and was seized by the prefect Li Shuzu, and all the forged letters and blood letters written to Sangui were found. Li Shuzu and Sangui were at odds, and they were very happy to get this physical evidence. However, seeing that the provincial officials were implicated in the manuscript of his book, none of them were omitted, and they were all burned, leaving only a bloody letter, which was declared to the governor and sent to the imperial court.

In order to avoid the suspicion of the Qing court, the three ghosts ordered someone to escort Zha Rulong into Beijing. Before leaving, Cha Rulong shouted: "I die, and the day when you destroy the Nine Clans is not far away!" "To Beijing, he was executed by the Qing court for the heinous crime of treason.

Naïve, pedantic, and there is no way to go to the doctor in a hurry, and he will not let go of any life-saving straw that seems to be promising. Wu Sangui is also a hardcore traitor, and trying to win him over anyway is simply a pipe dream.

Although Zhu Yongxing has such an opinion on Zha Rulong, he also admires in his heart that these righteous and loyal ministers who are dedicated to reviving the Ming Dynasty are much cleaner than those who are greedy for life and afraid of death and the so-called remnants who escaped into the empty gate and hidden in the mountains, and should be admired by future generations.

"I'll see this Cha Rulong at night." Zhu Yongxing gently closed the book of false letters and said: "What Changshi said is not bad, this is a talent, and it may be of great use in the future." "Such a special talent, Zhu Yongxing naturally wants to stay, and it is very useful to use intrigue and trickery in the future.

"Your Highness is wise." Yi Cheng complimented him, and carefully reminded: "It's just that we still need to find out the details of this investigation before it can be useful." ”

Zhu Yongxing nodded, indicating that he understood Yi Cheng's caution. His thinking has changed a lot, and he can't rely on the records and evaluations in the history books to screen the loyal and traitorous and use talents. Now that his subordinates have descended to the clouds, the only thing that can maintain loyalty is hope and victory, not old impressions and empty words.

"Your Highness—" Yi Cheng hesitated for a moment, and waited until Zhu Yongxing looked up at him suspiciously, then hesitated and said: "I heard that His Highness promised that after winning this battle, he would reward all the generals, and the prince of Shu would even be the king." Isn't that a bit of a heavy reward? If you want to make great achievements in the future, how can you ......?"

I understand, Yi Cheng is still the inherent kind of feudal thinking, and there should be room for reward, so as not to reward the most unrewarded. But there is no need to worry about this problem now, and Zhu Yongxing does not seem to have any reward that can satisfy and excite the generals except for the empty title.

Zhu Yongxing pondered slightly, and said: "When the rebellious Sun Kewang first voted for my Ming Dynasty, he had about 100,000 troops and the territory of a province in Yunnan, but it was difficult to ask for a prince; Later, Sun Kewang was defeated and lost his position, and only brought more than 100 officers and soldiers to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, but the Qing Emperor immediately sent people to Hunan to crown him as the righteous king. When this edifice is about to fall, how can the loyal ministers and good generals be stingy with the reward of the prince? If it is said that in the future, gold and silver, land, houses, and beautiful women...... Aren't these rewards? ”

Yi Cheng opened his mouth and said in a low voice: "Your Highness is wise, what the lower official said is ...... fallacious."