Zuo Maodi hurriedly said: "Your Majesty Mingjian! ”

"The loyalty of the Ming Dynasty is evident every day, and the sun and the moon can be seen!"

"Li Zicheng has been defeated and retreated to Wuchang, and in the current situation in the Central Plains, if we don't do something, it will no longer be of any use!"

"Sichuan, Shandong, Henan and other places all have anti-Qing people's training, righteous armies, bandits, if Your Majesty has an edict, these forces can all be used by this dynasty."

"The minister has found out that Chen Hongfan, the governor of Caojiang, is a spy sent by the Qing Dynasty, and please ask Your Majesty to investigate!"

Zhu Cihong listened to his "heartfelt words", and fully understood and agreed with it in his heart, but the identity of Prince Chongzhen could not be done directly.

So he sat down slowly, waved his hand, and said, "Today, I should have not heard all these words that offended the first emperor, forgive your sins, and go down." ”

"You have to think twice!" Zuo Maodi shouted loudly, knelt down in court, several rings were clearly audible, and kept shouting:

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

"After a few days of court discussions, I am a little tired, so let's disperse!" Zhu Cihong looked at Zuo Maodi, who was so loyal, and felt a little unbearable.

In order to prevent him from kowtowing on the temple and bleeding, he brushed his sleeves and left.

Seeing this, many Wenchen began to whisper and laugh.

"This Zuo Maodi actually made such an rude request in court, doesn't he know that today's son is the crown prince of the first emperor?"

"The first emperor was martyred for a thief and a thief, and now he dares to ask His Majesty to join the thieves, it's really ridiculous!"

"Hehe, whether Your Majesty's body of this prince is true or false is not yet known."

"How's that?"

"This is not the place to speak, be careful that the wall has ears."

After the ministers dispersed, Han Zanzhou, the eunuch who was the master of ceremonies, saw Zuo Maodi, who was still kneeling in the hall and unwilling to leave, and sighed.

Han Zanzhou stepped forward and patted him lightly on the shoulder, and said in a low voice: "Lord Zuodu Yushi, Your Majesty ordered the old slave to come and have something to say." ”

Zuo Mao was stunned for the first time, as if he thought of something, and said in disbelief: "Could it be Your Majesty...?" ”

"Exactly, Your Majesty is not an unreasonable person, but there are some words that can never be said in the court."

Han Zan Zhou said in his heart, don't look at Geng Zhi, this guy is not slow to react, and said with a smile:

"Your Majesty has a secret decree and Zuo Yushi, and there is a mediation of the old Wang Pavilion in the cabinet, and there is no problem with the vote, so it is good to do it quietly."

"It doesn't matter whether the courtiers know the will or not, Your Majesty's intention is to let Shandong, Henan, Sichuan and other places know that the new dynasty has a coalition to expel the prisoners and pardon the will of the second minister."

"As for recruiting talents and appeasing people's hearts, this is what Zuo Yushi has to do."

Zuo Maodi was in a trance for a long time, until Han Zanzhou reminded him, and then sighed: "The future is terrible, the future is terrible!" ”

"I have come out with such a virtuous monarch, which is the blessing of the country!"

Han Zanzhou smiled slightly, put his hand into the sleeves of his wide robe, and squinted: "Zuo Yushi, go back and wait quietly, there will be a secret decree tonight." ”

Night.

The moonlight penetrated through the gaps between the leaves of the old locust tree and fell into the courtyard, and a middle-aged man in a red official uniform was waiting with his eyes closed.

After a while, a servant who looked like a butler came running and was overjoyed: "Master, here they are, here they are." ”

Zuo Maodi couldn't hide the excitement in his heart, exhaled, and waited quietly.

A little eunuch appeared in the courtyard, such an important policy change, but not many important ministers were present.

There is only one person who announces the decree, one person who receives the decree, and one observer, and these three people.

None of them knew how this decree, once enacted, would have a drastic impact on the current situation.

"The Imperial History of the Left Capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate received the order."

"The Minister's Imperial Palace, the Imperial Palace, the Imperial History, the Hou Zhi!"

Zuo Maodi prostrate on the ground, quietly waiting.

The little eunuch took out a golden scroll from between his sleeves, slowly spread it out in mid-air, and preached: "Fengtian carries the emperor, and the edict says:

I bow down with contempt, I am in danger, I inherit my ancestors, I am in the courtiers, and I am in Jinling. However, half of the country and mountains are built, and the captives enter the customs, and all parties are guilty, and the sin is bowing.

Change the Yuan Shaowu, when the world is amnesty, the people of the Liukou are also me, I am willing to risk the disapproval of the ancestral system, love it, and pardon it.

The ambition of the wolf son of Jianyu is to steal the capital division and want to kill my Chinese seed.

I want to summon talented and capable people from all over the world to recover the northern country, no matter what is the matter of the prisoner or the captive, they will all be spared death before, and if they come to the southern capital, they should be given officials with their talents.

He named Li Zi as the king of the northwest of the Ming Dynasty, his wife Gao Guiying as the wife of Zhenyi Yipin, and his nephew Li Guo as the general of the northwest.

The puppet Shun Wenwu should be rewarded according to the old system, and recruited as officials of the imperial court, hoping to abandon the previous suspicions and follow me to build a prisoner outside the pass.

I should not hesitate to reward, and neither must the King of the Ripping Earth. Chin this. ”

After listening to this secret decree, Zuo Maodi was stunned for a while before he reacted, old tears were rampant, he couldn't imagine that he could have this holy decree.

The fact that this Prince Chongzhen was able to say such things to solicit those people of Dashun shows his broad-mindedness and foresight.

In fact, he was really overthinking and overthinking.

The current Zhu Cihong is not the prince of Chongzhen in history at all, and he has no blood relationship with Emperor Chongzhen, and of course there is no father-son relationship.

Issuing an order to recruit Dashun, this is the way to clean up people's hearts, no matter what you say, there is no psychological pressure.

......

Wuchang, April of the first year of Hongguang and the first year of Shaowu (1645).

After Li Zicheng's defeat in the Battle of Tongguan, his troops scattered, and soon lost all his foundations in Shaanxi, and retreated all the way to Wuchang.

Later, Zuo Liangyu died of illness on the river, and Zuo Mengeng led the 600,000 troops of the left to surrender to the Qing Dynasty and killed a horse pistol.

Although the current Dashun army was chased all the way by the Qing army, in fact, there was still ability, and Li Zicheng personally went into battle and once again defeated the hundreds of thousands of rabble on the left.

But for the current Dashun, the situation is not optimistic, and whether the left is defeated or not will not be affected at all.

The Qing army was led by Azig and Duoduo, and attacked from two sides, north and east, without giving Li Zicheng a chance to breathe for a moment.

After resting in Wuchang for four or five days, news came that Duoduo had been transferred back to the Qing army that was originally scheduled to go to Nanjing, and gathered three heavy troops to come to Wuchang.

After discussion, Li Zicheng decided to lead the rest of the Dashun army to withdraw into Henan.

This is the opinion of the dog-headed military advisor Song Xiance, he repeated his old tricks and engaged in a set of divination techniques, but he was right.

Now the heavy troops of the Qing army are besieging Dashun in Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Huguang, and Henan and Shandong are only passing on the throne, but in fact, the troops are quite empty, and there are still a considerable number of forces that respect the Ming Dynasty.

This day was also the last day that the Dashun army stayed in Wuchang.

Most of the soldiers of the Dashun army were dressed in white cloth with the word "Shun" on their chests, and they had little defense against swords, guns, bows and arrows, but at least they were no longer as lazy as they were when they were rogues.

A small number of people who have been guarding Li Zicheng's side are wearing simple cloth armor, most of which are from the armor modification of the captured Ming Army.

Their chests were embroidered with the word "Chuang", which was hand-embroidered by the women of the army led by Li Zicheng's wife, Gao Guiying.

This group of people is the elite of the Dashun army, and it is the foundation for Li Zicheng to be able to "repeatedly suppress and not be destroyed" in the former Chongzhen Dynasty, called the old battalion, all of them have experienced a hundred battles.

In terms of combat ability, the old battalion of Dashun can even be compared with the elite Jurchen infantry in the Qing army.

Li Zicheng stood at the head of the city, pressed one hand on the brick wall full of vicissitudes, and sighed: "When is this kind of day a head?" ”

Gao Guiying stood aside and said silently: "Your Majesty, if you had known that the Qing Dynasty was holding back the Ming Dynasty's border soldiers in the north, would you still order the Northern Expedition?" ”

Hearing this, Li Zicheng glanced at her, but slowly shook his head.

"I will still do this, but I will not capture Jingshi again, I will force Chongzhen, make me a king of the northwest, and then turn around and return to Xi'an, glorifying my ancestors."

"But I guess Chongzhen's donkey temper, he won't agree." Li Zicheng smiled lightly in a joking tone, then looked around and stopped talking.

Gao Guiying nodded, in her mind, maybe this seemingly honest rice fat man really thought so much at the beginning.

It would be nice if it could be done all over again.

Behind the two of them, the rest of the Dashun Army was in full swing to pack up their baggage, wrapping up the few young men left in Wuchang City, and enriching them into recruits for the Dashun Army.

Whether these young people want to or not, they will be forcibly recruited.

The rest of the old, weak, sick and disabled will naturally be thrown down to die, and they have all come over like this along the way.

At the moment before Li Zicheng was about to give the order to be pulled, a fast horse came from the distance, and the person who came was the old camp sentry, shouting loudly under the city:

"Open the door quickly, I have an important situation to inform His Majesty Emperor Yongchang!"