did not let people drive the people away, on the contrary, Zhu Changwu was happy to see people surrounding him, because what he did next was to need the people's testimony and their spread.

"Come on, bring the prisoners up."

Zhu Changwu's voice was very loud, and after the words fell, the four men who were tied up by the five flowers were dragged to the square by the tall Ming soldiers with murderous faces.

"What are you going to do? The official wants to see the emperor and see the emperor. ”

"The minister is wronged, the minister is forced, and the minister wants to see the emperor."

"This official has a hard time, please understand the emperor..."

"Our family is a close attendant of the emperor's side, our family wants to see the long live lord, and our family has grievances to be avenged."

Qiu Maohua, the Taishou of Zhending, Xie Sufu, the guerrilla general, Li Jiantai, a scholar, and Du Zhizhi, the eunuch of the supervising army, kept shouting loudly at this time, as if they did so, they might survive.

In the battle of Baoding, the Ming army at that time still occupied some advantages, but because these four people were greedy for life and afraid of death, they took the initiative to open the city gate at night and let the thieves enter the camp, which led to the death of all 30,000 Ming troops.

Four grains of rat droppings spoiled a pot of soup. And after these four people surrendered to Li Zicheng, they continued to make suggestions, but they came up with a lot of bad ideas. Even through their hands, they also persuaded some local officials and guards of the Ming Dynasty who were not determined in the first place.

They thought that they were working hard, and they would definitely be reused by Li Zicheng. But in fact, when the real danger comes, they are the ones who can be abandoned at any time. Just like in this battle, Li Zicheng was defeated, and he didn't take them with him when he fled.

The four were found by the Ming army, who had chased them up to clean up the battlefield and look for loot.

Originally, Li Zicheng gave up on them and didn't take them with him, and the four of them still complained. But when they saw that it was the Ming army who rushed to their side, they even said arrogantly that they had broken into the thieves for the sake of the Ming Dynasty.

They belong to the kind of loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty whose hearts are in Cao Ying's heart and those who are in Han.

How big a face is to be able to say such a thing, which really makes Zhu Changwu laugh angrily. After waking up and learning that Ji Jinkai had reported the situation of these four people, he unceremoniously popped out a killing word in his mouth.

The difference is that he did not choose to kill them directly outside the city, but wanted to bring these four people into the Jingshi and kill them in front of everyone.

He just wanted to take advantage of this move to tell those Ming courtiers who had already surrendered to the thieves, or who were about to surrender and were planning to surrender to the thieves, as long as you dared to do something sorry for the Ming Dynasty, then he Zhu Changwu would be unkind to you.

If you think your neck is hard enough, give it a try and see if your knife is sharper or your mouth is harder.

"Shut their mouths, and then have them get a spatula, and tell the people that if they don't like them, anyone can come up and give them a knife. But remember, don't kill them too soon, let them die in untold pain and fear. Because for such people, it is too cheap to cut them with a knife. ”

In front of all the people, Zhu Changwu said this, and then took the knife used by Ling Chi and gave the four of them a look.

"General, can we also go and scrape?" The onlookers understood what Zhu Changwu meant, and a bold one asked.

He was originally a person from Baoding, and it was because of the betrayal of these four people that he had to give up his ancestral land and come to Beijing to join his relatives.

originally thought that the revenge of losing his hometown would not be avenged in his life, but he didn't expect that Zhu Changwu gave them a chance to take revenge, so it was no wonder that he was so excited.

"Of course you can, what General Ben says will always count." Zhu Changwu slapped his chest loudly.

"Thank you, General." The person who spoke immediately knelt down for Zhu Changwu, which was to thank someone for avenging him and venting his anger. After that, he slowly got up, stretched out his hand and took the spatula, and unceremoniously stabbed the four traitors, and the slices of meat that had been cut off, he also put them directly in his mouth and chewed them raw, as if he didn't do this, he couldn't get out of the evil breath in his heart.

With the example, the other people are also eager to try.

Born and raised in Daming since childhood, it would be to say that they have no feelings for Daming. It's just because the imperial court has done it again and again, which has broken their hearts.

The emperor came out and said before, he didn't know what kind of life the people lived, he always thought that the people were living well. It was the ministers who deceived the emperor. And there must be these four among these ministers, even if this is the case, if you can't clean up others, then take these four people out of anger first.

Let you deceive the emperor, let you squeeze us, today is the time for revenge.

More and more people spontaneously flocked to the four people, and it is conceivable that it will not take a while for the four people to be killed by Ling Chi hundreds of knives. But who is to blame?

The road is all chosen by yourself, since you want to be a traitor, you must be mentally prepared to be liquidated sooner or later.

Zhu Changwu didn't go here to see the excitement, at this time everyone else left here, came to the conscription place not far away, and put his arm around Zhang Ao's shoulder, "Old Zhang, you did a good job this time, I am very satisfied." ”

"Hey, hey." Zhang Ao smiled with white teeth, he knew that what the general said was that the army entered the city and the people welcomed it. Naturally, Zhang Ao released the news, and also asked the previous grain merchants for help, so many people gathered in front of Zhanghua's door in a short period of time.

"You have a good job ability, I am very satisfied, how is it, do you want to be promoted?" Zhu Changwu looked at Zhang Ao with a smile, looking like a big bad wolf trying to tempt the little white rabbit.

As soon as he heard that he could be promoted, Zhang Ao's eyes suddenly lit up. "Huh? Can I still be promoted? ”

For Zhang Ao, from a white body, he has become the head of the Criminal Department, and he has obtained an official position of positive six grades, and he is already quite satisfied.

In order to repay Zhu Changwu's acquaintance and recommendation, Zhang Ao worked extremely hard at this time, and continued to work after only sleeping for two or three hours a day. And all this, he thought it should be, but it also fell in Zhu Changwu's eyes, which made him very satisfied.

Since people are willing to work hard, promotion is naturally a must.

And after having his previous promises to Liang Jun and Hu Yunfeng, he also decided to promote Zhang Ao to a big official, a big official who can really take charge of himself, and hold real power, and can help himself.

"Of course you can be promoted, how about it, let's help Daming manage the money, how about the household book?" Zhu Changwu opened his mouth, and directly startled Zhang Ao.

In Zhang Ao's opinion, even if he is promoted, it would be good to be promoted from the sixth rank to the fifth grade. And even if Gongzi is optimistic about him and gives him a positive fifth grade, that is, he will be promoted by two levels in a row, which is already quite considerable.

He never thought of directly becoming a Shangshu and becoming a member of the second grade.

It's just impossible.

Even if it is an official, it is impossible to be promoted so quickly, do you think everyone is Zhu Changwu, and he will directly become the prince and young master, and he will be in the first rank?

Besides, don't you look at what Zhu Changwu has done for Daming. Besides, no matter how people say it, they are also from the Zhu clan, and they are their own people of the royal family, but their surname is Zhang, and they haven't even been admitted before.

Zhang Ao had already opened his mouth wide, and it was more than enough to stuff an egg like that.

"What's the matter, the official position is given to you, can you do it, can you do it well, give me a word, I still have to go to see Your Majesty and ask him for an official." Zhu Changwu saw that Zhang Ao didn't speak for a long time, but just looked at him with a shocked look, and he was a little puzzled.

Seeing that Zhu Changwu was not joking with himself, but telling the truth, Zhang Ao's complexion instantly began to change dramatically, wanting to laugh, but not daring to laugh, wanting to cry with joy, but not daring to cry, not to mention how exciting.

"Alright, if you agree, you nod." Knowing that Zhang Ao was speechless because he was excited, Zhu Changwu simply asked in a different way.

Like a chicken pecking rice, followed by Zhang Ao, he nodded quickly, without hesitation.

"Okay, you just wait for the decree to come to you, and go." After Zhu Changwu knew Zhang Ao's attitude, he laughed and turned around, which is called chic and free.

It's just that Zhang Ao was left alone in the wind, and he couldn't even believe everything in front of him until now, he still didn't know if this was Gongzi telling the truth or joking with himself.

Palace.

When Zhu Changwu came here on horseback, whether it was the brocade guards in charge of guarding or the eunuchs, when they saw him coming from afar, they hurriedly lowered their heads one by one.

These people know very well in their hearts that Daming can be safe for the time being, and all the credit is due to the young man in front of him.

It was the appearance of Zhu Changwu that allowed Daming to be preserved. His merits are far from being worse than Yu Qianyu Shaobao's merits after the change of Tumubao, and even if they must be compared, I am afraid they are even stronger.

Such a bull is a hero in the eyes of all of them. Treat heroes, naturally, no matter how respectful they are, they can't be too much.

Riding into the palace, Zhu Changwu ignored the rules of the palace in order to hurry. However, for this point, no one stood up to accuse anything, saying that none of them were not. In their opinion, this seems to be what Zhu Changwu deserves.

It wasn't until he crossed the Yuhe Bridge and came to the front of the Qianqing Palace that Zhu Changwu got off his horse and handed over the horse rope to a little eunuch who came over, and he strode straight into the palace.

At this time, Chongzhen was waiting for Zhu Changwu to arrive in the Qianqing Palace.

Although he knew that the Ming army had won the battle this time, it was not clear what the process was.

And what to do next, he needs to discuss it with Zhu Changwu.