Yidu City, Prince Heng's Mansion.

It is said to be a royal palace, but it is actually a royal city! The city has high walls and is protected by moats on all sides. If there were no Hongyi cannons, this royal city alone would be enough to give Zhu Cixiang's new army a drink.

Although the new army that has overcome difficulties is now well-disciplined, with orderly formations and high morale, it is still far from being a truly invincible elite force!

They do not have the red barbarian cannons that can break the city, nor do they have a sufficient number of firecrackers. Basically, they can only rely on spears, bows and arrows, and knives to support the market.

Such an army may be able to exert good combat effectiveness in field battles, but it is impossible to break through Yidujian City and Hengwang City.

However, on the night of the second day of July in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Cixiang was already sitting in the Yin'an Hall of Prince Heng's Mansion, smiling and looking at Prince Heng Zhu Youyi and his sons, who were stripped of their python robes and ordinary clothes.

Wearing white clothes, he knelt down in the middle of his hall.

Yidu City and Prince Heng's Mansion are now firmly under the control of the New Army of Kenan!

Li Shiyuan, the former Qingzhou branch garrison general who assisted Zhu Cixi in controlling the Heng Palace, has now become the imperial envoy to guard the Qingzhou local military officer and is knowledgeable about the Qingzhou government affairs. In other words, all the military and political power of the Qingzhou government has been given to him.

Caught it!

Li Shiyuan, the newly appointed official, is now standing beside Zhu Cixiang, interceding for Prince Heng Zhu Youyi.

"Master Qiansui, although His Highness Prince Heng surrendered to Chuang Ni, he finally repented and sent his ministers to sneak attack Chuang Ni Yao Yingfeng's troops and kill them. Finally, he could atone for his sins. I hope Fu Fu

Your Royal Highness, the Prince of the Army, may show mercy and spare him from the death penalty."

It is impossible to forgive the crime of avoiding death and living, and Heng Fan is definitely gone. King Heng was deposed as a commoner and imprisoned for life by a high wall. The princes and generals below Hengfan, and Lieutenant Fengguo were also deposed as common people.

People. From now on, the whole family will just fend for itself!

When thinking of the hard days ahead, King Heng and his sons couldn't help but burst into tears, which was very sad to watch.

However, Zhu Cixi still had a smiling expression and was not moved at all.

"Heng Fan, stop crying! There's no point in crying!" Zhu Cihong said, "Although Commander-in-Chief Li is willing to give you some of his credit, I don't believe it. You are such a coward, how dare you give Commander-in-Chief Li some credit?"

Order to fight against the bandits? Your crime is unpardonable!"

Unpardonable?

Just dying?

Prince Heng Zhu Youyi was so frightened that he could not even cry. His whole body was shaking, and his lower body was still warm for a while, and then there were traces of water on the floor tiles.

"It's not forgivable," Zhu Cixiang looked at his cowardly look and smiled, "but you can make atonement by performing meritorious deeds! Heng Fan, do you want to atone for your sins?"

Can you still atone for your sins?

"I think, I think." Heng Wang Zhu Youji heard that he could live, and kowtowed quickly, "I am willing to dedicate all my property to His Highness, the Crown Prince. I only ask His Highness to spare my life and allow me to live my whole life within the high walls of Fengyang."

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"Haha," Zhu Cixiang smiled and shook his head, "It's not enough! Your sin is too great and your family property is too small. It's not enough to atone for it! What should we do?"

"This, this" said Heng Wang Zhu Youyi. He was already willing to give up all his family property. If it was not enough, there was nothing he could do.

"I don't need your family property." Zhu Cixiang smiled at this time and pointed out the way for Prince Heng Zhu Youyi, "I can also keep your throne for you. Of course, you can't stay in Qingzhou, follow

I’ll go to Nanjing and I’ll give you a palace for your retirement. What do you think?”

Is there such a good thing?

King Heng Zhu Youyi was a little stupid. He was unpardonable just now, but now he can even retain the throne?

Zhu Cixiang looked at the stunned vassal king and whispered: "Prince Heng, if you want to go to Nanjing alive and enjoy happiness, you have to work for me. Are you willing to work for me?"

"Yes, yes." Prince Heng nodded repeatedly, and then said with a sad face, "It's just that the guilty minister is stupid and can't do anything!"

"It doesn't matter if you don't," Zhu Cixi said with a smile, "I will ask someone to teach you how to do things. The person who will teach you how to do things is Zhu Chunchen, the commander-in-chief of the Xuanyu Camp!"

The person who was sent to teach King Heng how to do things was Chengguo Gong Zhu Chunchen. He is now the commander-in-chief of the imperial camp, a very big official!

However, there are no soldiers in the imperial camp. There are only two generals, four admirals, and a bunch of generals, deputy generals, and staff generals. In short, the nobles and hereditary senior military attachés who followed Zhu Cixiang from Beijing, if nothing else,

If the place can be arranged, then just put your name in the imperial camp and get a share of money and food for free.

By the way, the civil and military officials who followed Zhu Cihong can now receive their full salary without compromise. Their legal income is actually higher than when they were in Beijing.

Of course, Zhu Cixiang did not treat these nobles and hereditary military attachés in the imperial camp as trash. As long as they are used in the right place, all of them can be pillars of talent!

Even Prince Heng Zhu Youyi is still quite useful as long as he is used properly.

In Yanzhou, Shi Si, the chief of Prince Lu's palace, and Shi Kefa, the commander-in-chief of the palace.

In a reception hall, there were several cups of tea, and the strong fragrance of tea was wafting. Shi Butang changed into a loose jade-white Confucian dress, without wearing a hat, and sat leisurely at the top.

The three visitors were all dressed as scribes, one of whom was Kong Yinzhi, the Duke of Yansheng. The other, with a gray and thick beard, was Gao Hongtu, the Minister of Household Affairs of Nanjing who had just arrived in Yanzhou.

There is another person who is a thin scribe with a goatee and blistered eyes. He is about the same age as Gao Hongtu, about sixty years old. This man is amazing. He is the leader of Donglin. He complained about "the water is too cold" and "the scalp is itchy".

"Qian Qianyi's allusion will go down in history.

Gao Hongtu led most of the ministers and ministers who stayed in Nanjing to go north to welcome him. The six Nanjing officials were headed by Shi Kefa, followed by Gao Hongtu and Zhang Shenyan. Now only Zhang Shenyan, the official secretary of Nanjing who is ill and difficult to travel, is still staying behind, and the other five

All the ministers gathered in Yanzhou.

Qian Qianyi was not an official in office. As the leader of Donglin, his official luck was not good. In the tenth year of Chongzhen, he had a political dispute with Wen Tiren and both sides suffered losses. He was punished by declassification and returned home, and has been unemployed ever since.

Xu saw some opportunity this time, so he took several disciples and went north to Yanzhou with Gao Hongtu.

"I accept that although you are in the opposition, you are recognized as the leader of Donglin, and your reputation is even higher than ours. This time, I have to rely on you to advise the Holy Emperor and Prince Fujun! If you can mobilize more

It would be great if some talented people from Southern Zhili can jointly submit a letter to express their opinions and create a trend."

Shi Kefa's face was solemn, his tone was calm, and he spoke his thoughts slowly.

On the issue of confrontation with Zhu Cixiang, Shi Kefa was always firm but not cruel!

Zhu Cixiang, an unfilial son who dared to attack the foundation of the Great Tomorrow, would definitely oppose it! However, he did not dare to summon troops and sent troops to Dengzhou to fight Zhu Cixiang. Instead, he wanted to defeat the 60,000-strong new army that could overcome difficulties through troops and public opinion offensives.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

Moreover, he did not dare to openly raise the banner of deposing the prince because Chongzhen had no spare tire around him. Who would be the leader of the country if he deposed the prince?

If you can't abolish it, then you can only ask the prince to return to Chongzhen and think about it behind closed doors.

Of course, it is estimated that Zhu Cixiang will not retreat just from the public opinion and public opinion. Therefore, military preparations must also be made! The soldiers of the four towns, coupled with the Qinwang army pulled by Shi Kefa from Nanjing, plus the Nanjing nobles control

Liudu has land and water troops.

There are more than 150,000 book soldiers in total!

One hundred and fifty thousand troops on paper, plus officials from Nanjing, plus public opinion in Southern Zhili, plus Duke Yan Sheng, who has the power of a vassal king here in Shandong.

Zhu Cixiang should be afraid after all, right?

Even if all the power is not returned to Chongzhen, will he still make concessions to the literati and bureaucrats who are the foundation of the Great Tomorrow on the land issue?

Qian Qianyi gently turned the tea bowl in his hand, as if he was thinking about something, when footsteps suddenly sounded outside the door, and then he saw Shi Dewei walking in quickly, holding a newspaper and a decree in his hand.

"Father, Your Majesty has left Dengzhou and arrived at Yidu, the capital county of Qingzhou. He is stationed at Prince Heng's Mansion. He has also ordered His Highness Prince Heng and Duke Rong Cheng, the commander-in-chief of the royal camp, to be the superiors. He is leading people to Yanzhou Mansion. He is expected to be there tomorrow.

Arrive in Qufu.
Chapter completed!