"What? You want to slap Guo Ben! This seems like a serious crime?"
Zhu Cixiang was stunned by the Zuo Mengmei who was begging for mercy in front of him. He never expected that this girl would protect a man like this and inflict such a fatal crime on him like slapping Guoben!
What a good woman!
After Zuo Mengmei finished her apology, she burst into tears. She cried so hard that she said, "I have realized my mistake. Today, I only ask Master Qiantui to severely punish me. Even if I am executed by Ling Chi, I will not complain at all. I only ask for a farewell." The prince is implicated. The prince is young and ignorant..."
She was executed in Ling Chi without a word of complaint... Zhu Cixiang looked at her looking plaintive and crying, and thought to himself: Now she is crying like this without even being spanked. If she is really going to be Ling Chi, why should she cry to death?
"There's no need for heavy punishment," Zhu Cixiang said with a pleasant expression, "Just give me a light punishment... How to punish him well? Bi Hanlin!"
"I'm here!" Bi Jiucheng responded. He was taking notes in a notebook!
Zhu Cixiang ordered: "Delete the paragraph where Princess Chu asked for forgiveness just now, delete it all!" He glanced at Zuo Mengmei again and smiled, "Now you are not guilty of slapping Guoben... ..But punishment is still necessary!”
The "national foundation" is Zhu Cixing himself! If the princess slaps the country's flag, that's a sure way to die! It's hard for Zhu Cixi to excuse her... Fortunately, he can still write history!
So quickly ask Bijiucheng to delete the crimes Zuo Mengmei confessed. From now on, Zuo Mengmei will be a loyal concubine and a virtuous concubine!
But we can’t just let go of this bastard Zhu Cizhao!
Zhu Cizhong was so perceptive, of course he knew that Zuo Mengmei was clearing mines for Zhu Cizhao - Zhu Cizhao was also surrounded by Jinyiwei soldiers, and his nonsense was archived in the Jinyiwei South Town Fusi!
Just because Zhu Cihong doesn’t pursue it now doesn’t mean he won’t pursue it in the future!
So Zuo Mengmei wants to clear the mines for her husband now. Even though she is crying like this, she is actually not afraid at all!
Because there are more than 10,000 troops under Zhu Cizhao's name, he is considered a big warlord after all. Moreover, Zhang Yong and Zuo Mengmei have become sworn brothers and sisters, so they can be considered as members of the Chu Palace.
If Zhu Cizhong kills Zhu Cizhao and Zuo Mengmei, what will happen to the couple and Zhang Yong's army?
In addition, there are other warlords here in Jingzhou Prefecture, and their total strength is no less than 50,000!
Without their help, how could Zhu Cixiang defeat Li Zicheng with his own direct lineage of thousands of people? Even if you win, you will suffer heavy losses!
Although Zhu Cixiang had no less than 200,000 direct descendants on his books, in fact, there were only 24 infantry regiments that had truly completed the "model" reorganization, organized into six divisions, with a total strength of less than 100,000.
These six divisions are Zhu Cixiang’s true base!
Moreover, Zhu Cihong’s regime is not a regime supported by the majority of the landlord class intellectuals in Southeast and Huguang - if they want to support it, they have to kneel down and beg for food! But Zhu Cixiang is now standing and grabbing money. The income from the three provinces of Nanzhili, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang alone is 16 million shibai meters and more than 10 million taels of silver.
How could the gentry in Southeast Huguang support it? To put it bluntly, these guys are the real enemies of the Ming Dynasty and Zhu Cixiang!
For example, they occupied 200 million acres of land in Huguang, but they could not even pay the land tax of two million shibai rice a year. How could they not be enemies of the Ming Dynasty?
Even a fool emperor like Chongzhen knew that "all civil servants can be killed"! Would Zhu Cixiang be so smart and know this?
As for using nationalism, patriotism, a heroic article, or an impassioned speech to mobilize all the scholars in the Southeast...that's just a dream!
Zhu Cixiang worked so hard to discredit the Qing Dynasty, but all he got in exchange was that the southeastern scholar-bureaucrats did not take the initiative to surrender to the Tatars.
Moreover, the Tatars are really coming, so why don’t they know it yet?
Therefore, Zhu Cixi's regime was actually a minority regime of exiled northerners!
And he did not have the financial resources to bring all the northerners into the system. Of course, the northerners who did not join the system would not support Zhu Cihong.
Therefore, the total number of northerners who are truly controlled by him and can be trusted is between 20 and 300,000... This is his real power. In terms of heads, it is really not much more than that of the Qing Dynasty and the Dashun Dynasty.
So he couldn't let go and fight with the Tatars and Li Zicheng. After spending all his 200,000, he might be able to defeat the Tatars and Li Zicheng, but what would be the consequences?
In fact, it’s not necessary to kill everyone. Half of them will lose their spirit. This is not a revolutionary army!
They don’t even have to die half way. As long as Dorgon and Li Zicheng can use the word "drag" to make the war drag on for a long time, Zhu Cixiang will be defeated. The Northern Expedition is too long to win, and the morale of the troops is low, as is the old nest. It may change!
In Huguang, it may not be easy for Li Zicheng to delay. After all, Huguang is a water network terrain. Zhu Cixiang's army can supply and maneuver through waterways, but when it comes to the north...Zhu Cixiang doesn't have many cavalry, and he doesn't have enough draft horses to pull cannons and grain carts. He really relies on 100,000 to maneuver the Morris side. The infantrymen of the formation went to fight the Eight Banners soldiers with thirty days' rations on their backs?
Do you really think that Dorgon and Dodo will not learn lessons from Hauge? If they can't win a tough battle, won't they try to lure the enemy deeper and cut off their food and grass?
Zhu Cixiang led his Northern Army to the southeast and Huguang to search with clenched fists. He was really killing people and money like killing his parents! How many filial sons are there in Southeast Huguang? If the army collapses, can they let him go? Why don't you eat him and his family members alive?
So now Zhu Cixiang wants to expand his base (and grab money, otherwise he will expand it), and at the same time preserve his strength - it sounds very reactionary, but if you want to stand still and grab money, and if you want to spend money alive, you have to Save your strength!
And if he wants to preserve his strength, he has to drive all kinds of miscellaneous troops, and to drive the miscellaneous troops, Zhu Cixiang has to show his tolerance - he can't tolerate brothers, how can he tolerate miscellaneous troops?
Zhu Cixi showed a tolerant smile and said to Zuo Mengmei: "Princess Chu, the King of Chu must bear your mistakes, so the punishment must fall on him... His prince can no longer be, Become a county king instead!
You can't be the king in Jingzhou Mansion...otherwise, you should be the king of Pingxi instead! "
"King Pingxi?" Zuo Mengmei was stunned, why did he have the same title as Wu Sangui?
She asked tentatively: "Isn't it true that Mr. Qiantose wants the prince to go to Shaanxi?"
"No," Zhu Cihong waved his hand, "How can he defeat Shaanxi?" He smiled, "I recently received a joint letter from Yunnan Governor Wu Zhaoyuan and former Dongge University Scholar Wang Xigun, saying that Mu Tianbo rebelled and Sha Ding To seek peace in the continent, it is better to use it to control Yunnan!"
"What?" Zuo Mengmei was stunned again and again, "Mu Tianbo is the Duke of Guizhou, right? Who is Sha Dingzhou?"
Zhu Cixiang smiled: "Sha Dingzhou is the chieftain of Wang Nong and Ami."
Zuo Mengmei was still confused.
Zhu Cixiang said with a smile: "This Yunnan is very important and cannot be guarded by a chieftain from Shadingzhou. Since the Duke of Guizhou cannot continue to work, let a vassal prince guard it! When the war in Jingzhou Prefecture is over, Cizhao will Change the title to King Pingxi and go to Yunnan to take charge."
He looked at Zhang Yong again: "Zhang Feixiong, how about you become the general soldier of Yunnan?"
Zhu Cixiang is really cunning. Could he not know that Mu Tianbo was overthrown in a coup? Haven't you read "History of the Ming Dynasty" and "The Deer and the Cauldron"? But he just didn't point it out and conveniently threw Yunnan to Zhang Yong, Zhu Cizhao, and Zuo Mengmei. Anyway, Sha Dingzhou would definitely not be able to beat Zhang Yong!
And Zhu Cixiang couldn't send too many troops to Yunnan, so he might as well let them pacify them - Zhu Cixiang was still very generous to the bastards. He didn't let people go to pacify Zuo Liangyu before, so he couldn't defeat Huguang. Reward it. Huguang has 200 million acres, and Yunnan has less than 1.8 million acres on its books. Therefore, the former must be firmly grasped, and the latter can be left to the feudal town... If we only look at the amount of land and the oil and water that can be squeezed out, Zhu Cizhao, who was transferred from Jingzhou to Yunnan, did indeed lose a lot.
However, Yunnan was beyond the reach of the imperial court. After Zhu Cizhao, Zuo Mengmei and Zhang Yong went there, they could live in peace and contentment!
