Princess Zhu Yujiao of Changping is the princess who cut off an arm before Chongzhen hanged herself, that is, the Nine Tribulations Master in the Lu Ding Ji.

But she is still the eldest princess, Chongzhen's eldest daughter, and Chongzhen's favorite daughter.

Zhou Yanru and Cao Huachun's idea flew up, wanting to marry the eldest princess to Li Chaosheng so as to slow down Li Chaosheng's heart, so that Li Chaosheng could not do anything to Daming, and even they might plan to let Zhu Yujiao blow the wind in his ears, so that Li Chaosheng could help Daming and Chongzhen regardless of his own personal gains and losses.

I have to say that the wishful thinking of these two old foxes is a jingle sound, but none of them wants to make this plan to Chongzhen, for the same reason, they don't dare.

Although Chongzhen's ability is not good, he still has a temper, and now he wants him to sacrifice his daughter for his own country, which is against the ancestral teachings of the old Zhu family.

No land, no compensation, no harmony, the king dies, and the Son of Heaven guards the country!

This is not an empty word, this is not something that is casually said irresponsible, this is something engraved in the bones of the old Zhu family, and since the Ming Dynasty, no emperor has violated this ancestral teaching.

In fact, this is not the main contradiction, after all, Li Chaosheng is not a foreigner no matter what he says, and even in a sense, he is still Chongzhen's courtier, so Chongzhen's marriage of his daughter to Li Chaosheng is not considered a relative.

But there is a question, what is Zhu Yujiao in the past, Li Chaosheng already has two wives, do you want the dignified Princess Daming to make Li Chaosheng a small one?

Aren't you slapping the mouth of the Ming Empire hard? How could Chongzhen agree?

Therefore, although both of them saw this move, neither Zhou Yanru nor Cao Huachun chose to say it in front of Chongzhen, but instead passed the buck to each other, hoping that the other party would be the first bird.

But the two of them tested each other, and they all knew that everyone was a thousand-year-old fox, and what else were they talking about.

So both of them were silent, and at this time, looking at the moon outside the palace, Cao Huachun said: "Duke Zhou, you and I have reached a preliminary consensus, as for how to operate this matter, let's talk about it later, it is best to catch up when our emperor is happy." ”

Zhou Yanru heard this: "Or it is the time of life and death." ”

Hearing this, the two looked at each other, followed by three silences, made a gesture of please, and left.

What will happen to the future of this Ming Dynasty has become confusing, and they don't know what the future of the Ming Dynasty will be, but they can only be the chess pieces of this big chess game in the world, and there are only a few real chess players.

Lantian, the county office, Li Chaosheng was reading a military newspaper from Gansu.

The content of the military newspaper is that Li Dingguo drove the big thief Yang Liu, all the way like a bamboo, and is now approaching Gansu and Ningxia, and the governors of all parts of the country who went to Gansu have also sent intelligence, saying that the situation in Gansu this year is very good, and the summer grain has been planted, as long as the summer grain is harvested, the grain in Gansu will not need to be transported thousands of miles from Lantian.

With grain, they can mobilize additional labor force to build reservoirs and other irrigation systems, and do a good job in the infrastructure construction of the entire region, and as long as the infrastructure construction is completed, Gansu will be able to turn from the former barren land into another rich place in Lantian.

Li Chaosheng was very happy to see the content of the military newspaper, and what he liked to see most was that the people under his rule could live a good life, and the better the people's life, the better his governance would be, and this was the highest praise for him.

"The county respects the Henan urgent report, and there is also a report from the capital."

Li Chaosheng heard this, put down the military report in his hand, looked at Gu Zi and said, "Li Zicheng did it?" ”

"Well, this time Li Zicheng is considered to have made a move, flooded Kaifeng City, changed shotguns overnight, and rapidly swelled from thousands of people to hundreds of thousands, and now Henan is full of righteous troops."

Li Chaosheng took the report and read it when he heard this.

Li Chaosheng knows that the earth will not revolve around one person forever, and he also knows that a person will not always memorize words, Li Zicheng is a capable person, although his abilities are stinky shit in Li Chaosheng's opinion, and he will not govern the place, but will only intensify the contradictions.

But as soon as Li Chaosheng thought that Li Zicheng used the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in Kaifeng Mansion as a springboard to complete all this, Li Chaosheng did not appreciate Li Zicheng, on the contrary, he recognized this person as a piece of stinky shit in his heart.

His success will not bring happiness to the people of the Ming Dynasty, but endless suffering, a team that does not produce and only knows robbery, has no future, because when they find that there is no one to rob, they will only starve to death.

Li Chaosheng looked at the contents of the intelligence report: Li Zicheng began to plan this matter at the beginning of the year, they secretly raised the embankment, blocked the Yellow River water, until this time in May, they dug the Yellow River embankment, the embankment destroyed Kaifeng, and also destroyed the farmland and houses of the people in countless prefectures and counties around Kaifeng, and destroyed the hope of the people's lives.

Without a goal, without hope of survival, the people were forced to take up arms and join Li Zicheng's peasant army, Li Zicheng took advantage of this gorgeous turn of the people, from a stinky begging for food to a big boss with hundreds of thousands of people, from a bed bug hiding in the ravine, to the Ming henchman Li Chuangwang, and then became the most dazzling boy in the whole Ming Dynasty.

In this regard, Li Chaosheng had to admire Li Zicheng, and in less than two years, he had changed from a loser hiding in a ravine and not daring to show his head, to a hero with hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

I have to admit that Li Zicheng really understood the hand of the people's change, and Li Chaosheng had to admire that Li Zicheng had his own personality charm.

And this time Li Zicheng's uprising is completely indifferent from the past, this time Li Zicheng actually came up with his own uprising program - Juntian is exempt from taxation.

At this time, the nature changed, and those who had an uprising program were the rebels, while those who did not have an uprising program were simply gangsters, that is, large-scale bandits.

In the past, Li Zicheng, including Gao Yingxiang and others, were all like this, they did not have their own uprising program, and what they did seemed very purposeless, and the uprising was also very immature, so it was a matter of course to be exterminated.

But now a plausible Juntian exempt slogan has directly revitalized Li Zicheng's rogue, giving their team a soul, and making their team more cohesive and purposeful.

Although this slogan is a joke in the eyes of discerning people, Juntian is exempt? Rulers don't collect taxes? Is this possible? The ruler maintains his rule without collecting taxes, eats and drinks, and takes what to maintain his rule, so Juntian is exempt from taxes, isn't this just a fool?

But there are too many fools in the world, and there are so many that it is unbelievable, in Henan alone, there are hundreds of thousands, millions of ordinary people believe in this set of ghost rhetoric, shouting: eat his mother, drink his mother, the king of Chuang came to the slogan of not paying food, brandished a hoe, and joined the rebel army with a sickle.

Lifted Li Zicheng to the sky overnight, maybe these people were pressed too hard by the imperial court, or they hoped too much in their hearts that there would be an existence that made them not pay for food, so when Li Zicheng shouted the slogan, you don't care if it's a fool or a lie, anyway, the servants are like clouds.

Li Zicheng was sought after by millions of people in such an instant and became the real king.

"Li Zicheng has really grown up this time, by the way, who gave Li Zicheng the slogan of Juntian exemption?"

Li Chaosheng looked at Gu Zi on the side, and Gu Zi said: "The initial idea was Li Zicheng's, and later Li Zicheng's military advisor Li Xin helped to improve it. ”

"Li Xin? The concubine of the red lady? ”

Li Chaosheng frowned slightly, Gu Zi nodded and said, "It's this person." ”

Li Chaosheng bowed his head slightly and said: "It seems that this poor Xiucai still has a bad stomach, and this slogan can be regarded as setting up the banner of Li Zicheng." ”

Li Chaosheng said and opened the second piece of information from the capital: "How did His Majesty the Emperor deal with this sudden situation?" ”

Li Chaosheng opened the information as he spoke, and Gu Zi said: "Our Majesty was in a hurry, and it is said that he fainted directly, and then summoned the Ministry of War, the Cabinet, and Cao Huachun and other henchmen to discuss in Shang Shufang, and finally decided to transfer Yang Sichang, who was far away in Hubei, to Henan to quell the rebellion. ”

"Move Yang Sichang?"

Li Chaosheng frowned slightly, and then said: "Although I don't like Yang Sichang, but he has some ability, he can ensure that Zhang Xianzhong is not big in Hubei, if he is transferred to Henan?" So Hubei Zhang Xianzhong doesn't care? ”

Gu Zi said: "The current Ming Dynasty is full of holes, and our emperor is no one to use, Hong Chengchou passes through Liaodong, Sun Chuanting guards the Xuanfu, and Zuo Liangyu also guards the county outside Tongguan, so it is very correct to take the lesser of the two evils, let Zhang Xianzhong go, and transfer Yang Sichang to quell the rebellion." ”

Li Chaosheng heard this: "It seems that Zhang Xianzhong's footsteps into Sichuan can't be stopped, so it's okay, the old lady of Sichuan Qin is not easy to deal with, and she is very hostile to our Lantian, a few days ago, the caravan we went to Sichuan to do business was detained by the old lady Qin, a hundred carts of salt were confiscated, and the merchant let us back, I found someone to negotiate with her, she closed the door, it was really angry." ”

Gu Zi heard this: "The county is also, knowing that there is a shortage of salt in Shu, and he does not disguise it to sell salt, what is even more odious is that the salt of the county is cheaper than the local salt in Shuzhong, you must know that the salt in Shu is an important military asset of the old lady Qin's white pole army, you robbed the salt business, and you let the white pole army drink the northwest wind." ”

Gu Zi looked at Li Chaosheng and said, Li Chaosheng heard the words and said, "Can you blame me for this?" It's not that the salt of the White Pole Army is too expensive, resulting in the people of Shuzhong, and there are still many people who are eating Wangwang salt, I can't bear it, so I let the caravan go to Shuzhong to sell some cheap salt to the people. ”

"By the way, Guzi, do you know what Wangwang salt is?"

Li Chaosheng looks like I am for the country and the people, you shouldn't spend the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain like this.

"Eh, it seems that I read this information to the county at the beginning, looking at salt, isn't it that the people can't afford to eat salt, so they can only buy a piece of salt and hang it with a rope, take a look at it when eating, and eat a mouthful of food?"

"That's right, you see how miserable the people in Shu are, they don't rely on the sea, there is no sea salt, and the rock salt mined in the mountains is not enough for the people in Shu to eat, resulting in the people having no salt to eat, the white-haired girl knows it, how harmful it is not to eat salt, so your county is holding a heart to help the world and save people, so let the caravan go to Sichuan to sell salt."

Li Chaosheng said aggrievedly, and after hearing this, Gu Zi said: "Didn't the county go to Shuzhong to monopolize the salt industry?" At that time, when the plan to control Shu with salt was being discussed, I seemed to be listening to it by the side of the county honor. ”

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng's face darkened suddenly, and he looked at Gu Zi and said, "Are you kid owed, don't you know how to save face for your county?" ”

Gu Zi snorted and laughed: "County Zun, when did you lose face, and I still need me to save face for you, but the Qin lady in Shuzhong is not willing to give county dignity face." ”

Li Chaosheng slapped the table angrily when he thought of this: "Lao Tzu kindly wants to let the people in Shu eat cheap salt, rest assured of salt, but the old lady ...... Ahem...... The old woman not only confiscated my salt, but also asked the caravan to bring me a note: Shu people don't eat Qin salt! ”

Li Chaosheng was very angry when he thought about it, looked at Gu Zi and said: "You don't want to be angry, Lao Tzu wants to let everyone in Shu eat salt, this is still wrong." ”

"The county is right, Qin Liangyu is right to control the salt in order to ensure the military salary of the white pole army, the wrong thing is this world, but this time it's okay, Yang Sichang is transferred out of Hubei, Zhang Xianzhong will definitely gather an army to attack Shuzhong, Zhang Xianzhong is really eager to see through Shuzhong, when the time comes, Zhang Xianzhong and Qin Liangyu will fight, and the county will be able to reap the benefits of the fisherman."

Li Chaosheng waved his hand when he heard this: "Superficial, I don't care if I sit and collect the profits of the fisherman, what I care about is to sell the salt to Shu for the benefit of the people of Shu, as for the profit of the fisherman or something, it is not important, it is not important, as long as I sell salt." ”

"What if you don't let it?"

Gu Zi asked tentatively, Li Chaosheng listened to the words and said with a smile: "Whoever doesn't let me, I can only do it first, and then return the land to Lantian, and then we can sell salt." ”

"Then do we need to send an army to protect us when we sell salt?"

Li Chaosheng smiled when he heard this: "Of course, I was robbed last time, and when Zhang Xianzhong and Qin Liangyu are almost beaten, our salt guard army should enter Shuzhong, and when the time comes, if you are willing to buy salt, you can buy it well, if you don't want me, can I still use a musket against their heads to let them buy it?" ”

Li Chaosheng squinted his eyes and said, Hearing this, Gu Zi gave a thumbs up and said, "County Zun, you can, you can really use a gun to put a gun on their heads and let them buy it!" ”

Li Chaosheng smiled when he heard this: "That's all for later, now the more important thing is whether Yang Sichang can withstand Li Zicheng's siege of the city in Henan, if not, this matter will be interesting." ”