"Your Majesty, are you wrong? Why are you a treacherous minister and traitor..." Pang Tianshou couldn't help but frown after hearing this from Chongzhen. Why is this prince talking so nonsense?

Emperor Chongzhen sneered: "What are they if they are not rebellious ministers and traitors? How can there be loyal ministers and filial sons in the Ming Dynasty now? Even if there are a few, they will not miss me, a dissolute and immoral emperor!"

"Your Majesty, you are not a foolish king..." Pang Tianshou said, asking God and the old man to forgive him in his heart - he was a devout Catholic and knew that lying was wrong.

No matter how you look at it, the current Emperor Chongzhen is a fool. He lost half of his country and his ancestral mausoleum. After running to the south of the Yangtze River, he didn’t know how to work hard to govern. He just knew how to be debauched. When he was in Shandong, he chose a beautiful girl and ran away.

I went to Jiangnan and chose one more time, and the next time I chose a hundred of them...it was so debauched!

The more women you have, the more money you spend! The filial son Zhu Cixiang gave Chongzhen an allowance of 500,000 taels a year, but he spent it all in just over half a year. This time it was increased to 1 million taels a year!

And this one million taels does not include the money spent in this draft and the various filial piety given by the dutiful son during the holidays... This prince, who has been frugal for more than ten years, now has no money to spend.

It’s time to catch up with Master Shimiao!

Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty still had a filial and capable Prince Fujun to maintain the situation, otherwise he would have probably perished...

"Your Majesty, the Governor-General Shi of the seven provinces, the Governor Gao Jue of Shandong, and the Minister of Youth League Training Zuo Maodi are all loyal ministers!"

Emperor Chongzhen turned back to look at Pang Tianshou, and burst out laughing: "Thankfully you are still the great master of the Royal Horse Supervisor, and you can't even tell the difference between loyal and treacherous ministers! These three people you mentioned are all treacherous ministers!"

"Rebellious ministers, how is this possible?" Pang Tianshou was stunned again and again, "Your Majesty, the three of them are regarded as the three loyal ministers of Shandong by the Jiangnan scholars..."

"Jiangnan Shilin?" Chongzhen snorted coldly, "These scholars are just like those Nanjing nobles who have made a lot of money! None of them are good... I am here for my ancestors and for the hundreds of millions of common people.

How miserable are they all? After being the emperor for more than ten years, I have never had a peaceful sleep, nor have I spent any money comfortably. But what about them? How much have they made? They still don’t pay royal rations and commercial taxes!

It’s just that I don’t pay taxes or food, but I also help others evade taxes by using deceitful methods to send donations! Moreover, I also invade the country’s military fields and official villages. Our country, the Ming Dynasty, has been eaten away by these moths!

Shi Kefa, Gao Hongtu, and Zuo Maodi are regarded as loyal ministers by morons like them, how can they still be good people?"

This... seems to make sense!

Chongzhen couldn't scold enough, and then scolded: "As for my loyal ministers in the Ming Dynasty, no matter how loyal they are or how capable they are, they will be treated like rebellious ministers and traitors by those censors who don't do serious things...

....But now, is there anyone writing a memorial to speak ill of Shi Kefa, Gao Hongtu, and Zuo Maodi?"

Isn’t it? Pang Tianshouxin said: I don’t know if there is... Now there is no memorial for the Secretary of Ceremonies to read, let alone our big brother who is named in the Royal Horse Supervisor?

Chongzhen said again: "Do you know why no one says that the three of them are rebellious officials and traitors? Because they are rebellious officials and traitors now... They now support their own troops and rule the roost, and they are all overlords of one party. In name, they are the overlords of one party.

The governors, governors, and ministers of Tuanlian in the Ming Dynasty were all Jiedu envoys, they were Jiedushi envoys!"

Pang Tianshouxin said: The emperor is completely confused. How could he have such a ridiculous idea? The loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty were all blackened, but no one exposed the true traitors...

Chongzhen snorted twice: "In addition to these three traitors, there are also Huaibei Huang Degong, Xu Hai Gaojie, Hubei Zuo Liangyu, Hunan He Tengjiao, Yunnan Mu Tianbo... These people are all traitors! So!

None of them want the prince to ascend the throne... Because if the prince does not ascend the throne, he will not think about reducing the vassal state. Not only will he not be able to reduce the vassal state, but he will also have to coax these rebellious officials and traitors! Now I want to retreat

Well, let’s see how these rebellious officials and traitors pretend to be loyal and filial!”

...

"I congratulate you on your thousand years of age!"

"I congratulate His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

"I would like to congratulate all the people in the world!"

"I would like to congratulate the Ming Dynasty..."

Not long after Zhu Cihong returned to the Wenhua Hall, loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty came to congratulate him one after another after receiving the good news.

However, Zhu Cixiang did not look cheerful, but had a solemn face. When he saw that all the important ministers in Beijing had almost arrived, he sighed and said: "I am young and virtuous, and my father is in the prime of life.

I shouldn't be the one to take charge of the situation. However, my father was disheartened because of the fall of the capital, the devastation of the north, and the disintegration of the world. He only wanted to cultivate virtue wholeheartedly and no longer be burdened by worldly affairs, so I had to

It is really difficult to stand up and clean up this chaotic world. Fortunately, with your sincere help these days, we have been able to stabilize the southeastern half of the wall. Now that my father has the heart of inner Zen, do you think I should take advantage of the trend and take a further step?

?”

"Thousand-year-old Master," Wei Zaode was the first to stand up, "If God cannot take it, you will be blamed for it. If you fail at the right time, you will suffer the consequences! God's time has come, and you must take another step! But this step is not easy to take.

ah!"

Zhu Cixiang nodded, his "Zhang Juzheng" was quite knowledgeable, and he finally knew that the emperor was not easy to do.

Wu Xiang also said: "His Royal Highness, you are not only worthy of your name as emperor, but also worthy of your true title... If you don't do it right, the two hundred thousand soldiers of the new army who have overcome difficulties will not agree!"

The new army to overcome difficulties has completed another round of expansion, recruiting many strong northern refugees to join the army! The number of guards, divisions, and naval forces is close to 200,000.

Among them, the number of model regiments was also increased by eight, reaching as many as twenty, and the artillery was also expanded.

In addition, the Nanjing Martial Arts School has become more and more formal. The students in the school are called "officer students", the schooling period has been extended to one year, and it is also divided into five majors: artillery, engineering, infantry, riding, and supplies. The first to enter

Those students are now either serving in the army to lead soldiers, or they have become teachers in martial arts schools. They have begun to "mislead others' disciples" - they are half jealous themselves, and they still teach others...but there are few people who can use them.

We can only let them learn and teach at the same time.

The current number of students in the school has also increased to 500. Most of them are officers of all levels who have come out of the army. They go to make up for their lessons in order to better master the commanding skills of the new army. There are also some who are eldest sons and honorary officers.

Distinguished children - according to the new regulations set by Zhu Cixiang, they must first join the Xiaoling Guard New Army as soldiers, and then they can enter the martial arts school based on their performance and examination results.

With these 200,000 new troops, Prince Zhu is quite confident in becoming emperor!

Zhu Cixiang looked at Qian Qianyi again, "Mr. Qian, what do you think?"

"Your Highness the Crown Prince," Qian Qianyi said, "Although Your Majesty sincerely wants to meditate, the world is in chaos now, and there are many rebellious officials and traitors from all over the world. They will definitely use this opportunity to attack the imperial court. Since Your Highness has reached this stage,

, and can’t retreat..."

What Qian Qianyi said is right...Zhu Cihong couldn't retreat when he reached this point! Emperor Chongzhen publicly stated that he wanted to practice inner Zen, which actually pushed Zhu Cihong, the prince of Fujun, to the forefront.

If he did not dare to take the throne handed over by Chongzhen, then the Kanna group who followed him would be shaken - the Kanna heroes had long been looking forward to this day!

However, outside the Kenan Group, neither the scholar-bureaucrats in the southeast nor the important ministers and warlords who controlled Shandong, Xuhai, Huaibei, Huguang, and Yunnan territories did not want Prince Zhu to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor.

Because as soon as he ascended the throne, the situation of two masters in one dynasty ended. Zhu Cihong became the master of rebellious officials and traitors like them!

Zhu Cixiang, who became Emperor Zhu, still had to cut down their vassals one by one?

"Who are the rebellious officials and traitors?" Zhu Cixiang looked at Qian Qianyi and asked again.

"This..." Qian Qianyi frowned tightly, "When the time comes, they will naturally jump out! Your Highness, you must be prepared!"

"What are you preparing for?" Zhu Cixiang asked again.

"Get ready," Qian Qianyi paused and lowered his voice, "Get ready to kill as a warning to others!"
Chapter completed!