What happened on the Great Wall of Shanxi has not yet reached Jingshi.

But what happened in Nanjing has already been transmitted to Beijing.

On the tenth day of the fifth month, the holy decree of Emperor Hongguang of Nanjing to reward Li Yutian, Wu Sangui and Gao Di was delivered to the Beijing Division.

When the eunuch heard that Chongzhen had no funeral, he was so frightened that his soul did not possess his body, and he knelt outside the noon gate to plead guilty.

As soon as the news came out, the Jingshi was shocked and demanded a crusade against the Tang King and the generals of the four towns in the south of the Yangtze River, and flew to the Chongzhen Dragon case like snowflakes.

Li Banghua scolded even more angrily, and wrote a long crusade against it, which was widely distributed all over the world.

More than 2,000 newly promoted officials, all of them were filled with righteous indignation and issued crusade documents one after another.

Li Yutian and Wu Sangui didn't know that they were in Liaodong, but Gao Di, who was also the commander of the Yulin Left Guard and the commander of the Jinyi Guard, was frightened.

As soon as the palace opened, he checked the palace card, and knelt in front of the door of the Palace of Nourishing Heart, not daring to come out.

Wang Chengen hurriedly reported the matter to Chongzhen.

Zhu Youjian smiled and said to Wang Chengen: "Look, I'm right again. Nanjing will indeed have a vassal king ascending the throne as the emperor, and will reward the three generals of Shanhaiguan! Hahaha......"

Wang Chengen was convinced, and said sagely, "That minister let the senior commander meet him?" ”

Zhu Youjian glared at Wang Chengen, "On my own, did I say that Gao Di was not guilty?" ”

Wang Chengen was stunned for a moment, knelt down and pleaded guilty, not daring to say more.

"Divine will! You go and take 5 battles for yourself, and face the wall for three days. Zhu Youjian said sharply.

Wang Chengen broke out in a cold sweat, and even confessed his guilt, and thanked him for retreating to receive the punishment.

King Ding heard clearly on the sidelines, his face full of doubts, but he didn't dare to ask.

"Do you have any questions?" Zhu Youjian saw Zhu Cijiong's expression and asked softly.

"Erchen didn't dare to say it."

"There are no outsiders here, you and I are not kings and ministers, but fathers and sons, if you have doubts, it doesn't hurt to say."

"Erchen knows. Father, since you had long expected that a vassal king would be crowned emperor in Nanjing, why didn't you stop it in advance? ”

Zhu Cijiong was extremely angry at the Tang Dynasty's claim to be the emperor, and he couldn't wait to send troops to quell the rebellion today.

"Wu'er, have you carefully read the agrarian revolution work manual?" Zhu Youjian asked.

"Read."

"Then you say, this policy is a good policy to stabilize the world, collect the hearts of the people, and recuperate with the people?"

When King Ding saw Chongzhen talking about him left and right, he didn't know what he meant, but he still replied cautiously:

Erchen didn't dare to comment. Recently, however, I heard from the foreign ministers that the people were all happy and enthusiastically joined the army, so that the barracks were blocked. ”

"That's right. So what do you think is the first step in this policy? ”

"Nature is to reap the land." King Ding replied quickly.

"Good. The hundreds of civil and military officials in Jiangnan, the vast number of clans, who is not a good land? If I don't support the new emperor, what crime will I take to confiscate their private land? Zhu Youjian said in a deep voice.

Zhu Cijiong's eyes widened, full of shock, and the meaning was very clear:

"Dad, you're fishing law enforcement!"

Zhu Youjian saw King Ding's eyes, smiled knowingly, and said slowly:

"In recent years, my Ming annual income is less than 4 million taels of silver, and Liaodong alone needs 6 million taels, and I have to supply millions of clan nobles, which is 2 million taels, and the national civil and military forces are another million taels.

Years of drought and locust plagues have caused countless hungry people. If you are starving for thousands of miles, you will also use silver and food......"

King Ding was stunned when he heard this, millions and millions, this money is like flowing water, even if Beijing is a silver mine, mining all day long, it can't make ends meet.

"Over the years, I have not been able to use any soldiers, until the Beijing division was taken out by the thieves, and I couldn't send millions of male soldiers in the south of the Yangtze River. Why? Don't pay the soldiers, let them go hungry to fight? ”

King Ding never thought about the problem from this angle, he just thought that the thieves were powerful and the officials and soldiers couldn't stop them.

But seeing Guan Ningjun kill Li Zicheng and run away from Dolgon, he felt that it was not, and he was really distressed these days.

Now I have just woken up.

Zhu Youjian saw that King Ding had an epiphany, and then said: "Li Zicheng squeezed 50 million taels of silver in Beijing, where did this silver come from?"

In just 40 years of Jiajing, 1 million of the 2 million pieces of silk in Jiangnan that were taxed were secretly swallowed by officials.

In recent years, most of the salt, iron, and tea taxes in various places have been swallowed up by officials layer by layer.

Zheng Zhilong, Fujian, is even richer than the country, a small general, saying that he has 10 million taels of silver.

With such officials, I don't want to punish them, can I continue to suck the blood of the Ming Dynasty?

In addition, King Fu's family has tens of millions of taels of silver, and other princes are not far behind. Such a noble, such a clan, rich and rival the country, but watching the millions of hungry people outside the palace starve to death, watching the hungry people flee to thieves, they are also a dime. ”

Zhu Youjian looked at King Ding and listened carefully, and continued:

"Such a scholar, such a royal family, I don't let them bear the crime of rebellion, how can I take out these huge silver, how can I divide the cultivated land and rest with the people, how can I destroy Jianyu, Ping Mongolia, Fu Northwest, Zhangjiangnan, and An Yungui?

In the future, my Ming Dynasty will travel to the East and the South Seas, and I will follow the example of the Tang and Han Dynasties, manage the Western Regions, control Tibet, and let the Ming Dragon Flag be displayed in the Five Regions! ”

After listening to this, King Ding was silent, desperately digesting Chongzhen's words.

"These are things that are not in any book, and the gentleman never talks about them. This should be the emperor's mental technique, my father told me so bluntly, what does this mean? ”

King Ding's imagination is flying.

After a long time, Zhu Cijiong came back to his senses and asked carefully:

"Then why did the father let Gao Di kneel outside? He didn't participate in the establishment of the Jiangnan Emperor, he is a loyal general, and he is quite talented, didn't he hurt the hearts of his courtiers by doing so? Just now you punished Wang Chengen? The sons don't know why. ”

Zhu Youjian smiled and said: "Gao Di is a general at the border, and the rules of the court are not as important as military affairs in his heart, and the righteousness of the monarch and ministers may not be so deeply rooted in the bone marrow.

Now, he holds two important positions, and even controls the nine gates, and his power is monstrous, if he is not deterred, he will inevitably become Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao and others in the future.

Kneeling for a long time was both a warning to him and a protection for him. ”

Zhu Cijiong seemed to understand whether he understood or not, and nodded subconsciously.

"As for Wang Chengen, he is a loyal minister in danger, and he has been quite domineering in the palace recently, and his godson and grandson have recognized a lot. There are signs of Wei Zhongxian's resurgence.

Just now, I was even more indiscriminately figuring out my thoughts, and I had to knock and knock. ”

Zhu Cijiong listened to it and was stunned again.

Zhu Youjian knew that he had talked too much, and King Ding couldn't digest it for a while, so he didn't bother, and opened the door by himself and walked out.

After walking a few steps, he sent someone to summon Tian Shouxin and said: "You go to draw up an order, let King Ding go out of Beijing, and inspect the process of the agrarian revolution below, so that he can understand it well, observe it carefully, and not slack off." ”

Tian Shouxin took the order and left, his heart pounding.

"The saint has just punished Wang Chengen, and he will immediately arrange the matter of the proposed decree to me, and the day of my Tian Shouxin's emergence is not far away!"

On the same day, Chongzhen appointed Tian Shouxin, Hu Kaifei, Huang Dehua, and Liu Guifang as the eunuchs of the celebrant and the commander, the eunuch of the palm print, the eunuch of Bingbi, and the eunuch of Suitang.

Wang Chengen specializes in the East Factory.

Wang Chengen is lonely, but he is in charge of Dongchang, a frustrating spy agency, and he is still a close minister of the Son of Heaven, which still makes people dare not underestimate him.

Tian Shouxin was a little sad, he thought that he would be a palm print eunuch, but he didn't expect Chongzhen to promote three little-known people. I was also worried in my heart.

At the same time, Zhu Youjian abolished the military attache system of the Beijing Division, and newly set up the Jiumen Guard, the Inner City Forbidden Army, the Yulin Left Guard, and the Yulin Right Guard Gongwei Beijing Division.

Set up the Flying Dragon Army as the main force in the battle, and the Fire Dragon Army to replace the Shenji Battalion, so that the Yuelong Army, Ying Long Army, and Canglong Army are preset, and they will be used only after the supply of troops is sufficient.