Chapter 123: The blue sky is still there
Unlike the usual impression, in fact, during the Chongzhen period, he never politely became civil officials. He was really rude to kill civil officials. No matter if you are a Grand Secretary, Supervisor, Secretary, or Governor, you can all be pulled out and cut them off, which can be considered as killing people.
But facing military generals is different. From the time he ascended the throne to now, there are only one and a half of the generals he ordered to kill.
One is Zu Kuan, the identity of deputy general. Because Jinan City was broken and a prince was killed, he was ordered to be executed by Chongzhen according to the crime of "losing the vassal seal".
Half of them were "He Crazy Man". General He Renlong, because his legs were too long and he ran too fast when he encountered a thief, killed two supervisors one after another. When the third supervisor, Sun Chuanting, came, he refused to repeat the same mistakes and asked Chongzhen's will to chop He Renlong.
With Chongzhen's temper, it was really strange that only one and a half of them were killed in the past seventeen years. There was no other reason. One was that he did not dare to kill, and the other was that he could not kill.
He dared not kill because the situation was corrupt year by year, and he was afraid that he would kill this general, so he would lose this army. Therefore, even if the general committed a death sentence, he often vaguely ordered him to commit crimes and make meritorious contributions. Over time, he would be seen through and become more domineering.
The reason why the generals were not as obedient as civil officials, and the orders for suicide were ineffective, and they could not even cheat them back to the capital. When Yuan Chonghuan was arrested in front of the formation, Zu Dashou immediately fled away after leaving the capital. Not only did he refuse to enter the capital for his whole life, but he also refused to leave the military camp, for fear that he would be accidentally captured by the fanzi of the Dongchang or the Tiqi of the Jinyiwei.
So later, when I met a general like Liu Zeqing who took the imperial edict and even ignored it, and even did not take it seriously, and openly acted nonsense, the emperor not only had no choice but to do anything to him, but also often had to make a gesture of winning over him. Speaking of which, it was actually quite humiliating.
It's different now! When the emperor was angry, a fierce army of relatives rushed to hundreds of miles, capturing Liu Zeqing, who had tens of thousands of troops and regarded himself as a vassal state, and regained the emperor with majesty. Only Chongzhen could truly understand the taste of this, so he was so happy that he couldn't control himself, which was reasonable.
Under Chongzhen's order, the whole palace was moved. Not only all the eunuchs and palace maids were immediately called up, but even Queen Zhou woke up immediately. He heard that the emperor ordered the whole palace to be replaced with red candles. He was surprised and happy. While putting on his clothes, he ordered the beads to ask her what was going on.
Changing the red candle represents joy. As usual, there will be such a time during the Chinese New Year. Now that my husband ordered this, he naturally had a very happy event, so the queen was itchy and looked forward to it.
As soon as Zhuzi left, Princess Kunxing ran in first, with a look of surprise and joy.
"My mother, what's the matter? My father is so happy?"
"Who knows," Queen Zhou complained pretendingly, "Before dawn, I had a whim and made this happen..."
Before he could finish his words, he saw his eunuch Wen Si'an jogging over with beads following behind.
"I congratulate you!" Wen Si'an knelt down and kowtowed, "I congratulate you to Your Highness the Princess!"
The sitting mother and mother looked at each other and suddenly became nervous.
"The prince-consort defeated Liu Zeqing's 300,000 troops in Huai'an, killed countless enemies, and even grabbed thousands of thousands of silver!" Wen Si'an said in a swift manner, "The prince-consort captured Liu Zeqing with his own hands, and will come back in a few days to present it to Master Long Live, and ask for the death of the Meridian Gate."
Because the incident was rushed, the eunuchs had word-to-mouth news about the red flag, and several versions had appeared, but the general trend was that it became more and more mysterious. Liu Zeqing's troops changed from 30,000 to 50,000 to 100,000, and from 100,000 to 200,000. By the time they reached Wen Si'an's ears, they had been upgraded to 300,000.
"Ah!" Empress Zhou was overjoyed and stood up unconsciously.
Zhou Shixian was going to fight, and the queen knew of course that Liu Zeqing had about how many people he had. Chongzhen had also discussed with her, but when he was overjoyed, even if Wen Si'an was not accurate enough, it was not a mistake.
"I reward you with ten taels of silver!" said the queen with a smile, "I also reward you with ten taels of pearls! I told everyone to move quickly, and I have all rewards."
When Wen Si'an and Zhuzi thanked the reward, Queen Zhou turned to look at her daughter, but saw Kunxing trembling with his mouth and trembling all over his body.
"Silly girl!" The queen was startled, "What's wrong with you? Are you so happy?"
Princess Kunxing pounced into the queen's arms, cried out loudly, and then turned into a loud cry.
Empress Zhou hugged her daughter in her arms with pity, knowing that she had not been easy these days, and she could hardly sleep all night long, and her mind was already tense. Now she suddenly heard that the prince consort was victorious and the person suddenly relaxed. It was not surprising that she had such a reaction.
When I think about it, although I came to Nanjing through life and death, the prince-in-law was still by my side at that time. Every time I looked at my daughter's expression, I knew that her heart was actually happy.
As a result, not long after entering Nanjing, the prince-consort suddenly had to send troops to expedition, and I heard that he was fighting more with less. Where did my daughter experience such a thing? At that time, she was forced to refuse to reveal it, and she was rushing to make red velvet flowers for her future husband and sent him to the expedition.
There is no way to do this. Queen Zhou thought to herself, it would be better to stay together safely, but who made you, the prince consort so capable?
"We don't understand the war. Let's call Hongye over and ask her to tell her, okay?"
"Um!"
This sounds very interesting. Princess Kunxing nodded and her crying gradually became less and less.
"When the prince-consort comes back, I will go and tell your father," the queen looked at her daughter and said with a smile, "Let your father give him another banquet and ask him to tell us a few more jokes, okay?"
This is especially good. Princess Kunxing stopped crying, but she was embarrassed to nod.
So, from the previous dynasty to the harem, the entire palace became busy and full of joy.
The happy events were always unhidden. The news that the government soldiers defeated Liu Zeqing was like wings, and it soon spread throughout Nanjing. When the ministers of the six ministers and nine ministers rushed to the palace from home, there was a lot of controversy in Nanjing, and the sound of firecrackers came one after another.
The people really hate the evil of the vassal states. People like Liu Zeqing are obviously officers and soldiers, but they are even more vicious and cruel than bandits and bandits. They are lawless to the point of being outrageous. The most atrocities are that no matter how cruel he is, they can only swallow their anger and dare not even complain, because the court has always pretended to be invisible and no one can punish him.
Now with a thunderous sound, Liu Zeqing actually surrendered his head and surrendered. Naturally, the people were thrilled, and Fang Xin was still there.
Chapter completed!