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Chapter 78 Downgrade

In addition, Zhu Cilang also received another news that in Huguang area, the imperial court also had a vassal treasury, which contained many interesting things.

Now that the country is in war, it is estimated that the things inside have been stolen by Zuo Liangyu. He took out 500,000 taels of silver due to reason, which is really unreasonable.

Of course, Zuo Liangyu sent someone to deliver the account book of the library, and Zhu Cilang snorted again.

If you really surrender, you should send everything in the warehouse instead of just sending a book of accounts.

The meaning of doing this is also very obvious, which is to tell Zhu Cilang clearly that the approximately three million taels of silver in the warehouse were all in Zuo Liangyu's hands.

If the court wants to punish Zuo Liangyu, these things will not come back. It would be too simple to think about using this to threaten the court.

If Zhu Cilang had no system and had not made a fortune on Li Zicheng, then the three million taels of silver would not be a decimal.

Many actions require the help of these three million taels of silver, but Zhu Cilang has a system that is against the will of heaven. He even plundered so much money when he left, but you really don’t like these three million taels of silver.

If you want to use this to threaten the court, then let’s see if you have the ability.

The reason why Zuo Liangyu made this move was because he was embarrassed to see the court.

He also bribed a lot of people in the court. Although Zhu Cilang was rich, he did not take them all out. No one knew the principle of not revealing money, so many institutions in the court were still embarrassed.

This created an illusion for Zuo Liangyu, who believed that the three million taels of silver in his hand was very valuable.

In Zhu Cilang's mind, Zuo Liangyu's cunning appearance appeared.

This guy was indeed calm. When Zhu Cilang went south to the four towns in Jiangbei to surrender, he pretended that nothing had happened.

When I entered Nanjing, this guy didn't care.

Mu Tianbo sent 500,000 taels of silver, but he didn't say anything. It was not until Zhu Cixuan started training troops in Nanjing that this guy made some statements, and it was a very stingy expression.

"Transferred to Ningnanhou's special envoy."

While thinking about these things, Zhu Cilang issued an order. Cao Renli began to repeat Zhu Cilang's words. After several people repeated it, the envoy of Zuo Liangyu, the Marquis of Ningnan, went to the hall from outside.

Many ministers looked at each other, and they wanted to communicate with each other with their eyes to see if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had ever talked to them about the matter about Ningnan Marquis.

These people communicated around and found that no one had ever talked about this with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, so they were a little confused, what did His Royal Highness the Crown Prince want?

When the envoy of Ningnan Hou knelt down, Cao Renli began to announce Zhu Cilang's imperial edict.

Listening to this imperial edict, the special envoy's face became worse and worse. Didn't he say that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was very kind?

We have always wanted to unite all those who can be united, but what is going on now? Why do we keep denounced the Marquis of Ningnan?

Zhu Cixuan has his own reason for doing this, not just slap himself in the face.

The court is now very formal. If everyone wants to be petty, then what are the rules of the court? So when it is time to be ruthless, you have to be ruthless.

Of course, Zhu Cixuan had to find someone to set a target, and the title of Ning Nanhou was not in a hurry. In addition to the hereditary duke, this guy was ranked first.

Besides, this guy has a strong position in Huguang, with nearly 200,000 mercenaries under his command, and at least more than 100,000 elite troops. He is also considered a warlord in the entire Southern Ming court.

The imperial court is not afraid of such people. If other people want to have other ideas, they have to go back and think carefully. Do you have the strength of Ningnanhou?

The Marquis of Ningnan did something wrong, and the court came forward to everyone to denounce him, let alone you guys.

The scattered imperial edict was finally finished, and Ning Nanhou had no benefit anyway.

In the end, the imperial court issued an imperial edict. Because of the ineffective rescue, the Marquis of Ningnan was finally elected as the Marquis, and now he has become Ningnanbo.

The verbal rebukes mentioned above can be said to be painless. Many ministers have encountered them. They did not think anything was wrong, but the latter one was a damaging one's muscles.

These people regard their titles even more important than their official positions. The court actually dared to move the titles of officials from the border, especially without fully grasping them, which is really surprising.

The envoy of Ningnanhou looked deadly, and brought 500,000 taels of silver and other things to Nanjing to congratulate him. Even if he was not promoted, he would never have thought that such a result would be.

It is completely opposite to Mu Tianbo's side. The court's court kept praising Mu Tianbo. Why did it become a big rebuke when it was our turn?

In addition to this special envoy, the important officials of the court also changed their colors.

Shouldn’t we win over Zuo Liangyu now? How can we offend him like this? If we turn against each other, the Qing people in the north have not yet solved the problem, and we will be in trouble here first.

"Your Highness, can you discuss this matter from a long-term plan? The Marquis of Ningnan has been at fault, but he has made contributions to defending the territory..."

Shi Kefa took the lead and knew that Zuo Liangyu had an army of 200,000. If these 200,000 troops were used to fight against the Qing Dynasty, they could do a lot of things.

Zhu Cixuan didn't think so. In Zhu Cixuan's eyes, the 200,000 troops were also old troops and did not have much combat power.

If they were brought over, they would have to find a way to support them. If they surrender on the surface, would they really be able to mobilize them?

"Shi Kefa, what you said is wrong. Your Highness the Crown Prince has issued an imperial edict. How can you change it every day? Besides, the imperial edict has been issued by the court for more than a month. Zuo Liangyu has been slow to send people to the capital. Your Highness the Crown Prince is magnanimous and needs to go to his marquis. This is to spare him. What else do you want?"

Zhu Cilang was thinking about how to convince Shi Kefa, but who knew that Zhang Shenyan had come forward and every sentence he said was reasonable.

Zhang Shenyan is an old antique and of course he is dedicated to maintaining the authority of the royal family.

He looked down on Zuo Liangyu and those who led the troops. Now he still thinks that the Crown Prince's punishment is lighter, so he should have captured this guy in the capital.

"From my opinion, it is too light to strip him of the marquis. He should be demoted directly to a commoner and let him know that the majesty of the court cannot be violated."

After Zhang Shenyan finished speaking, the officials were shocked. They had never heard of anything wrong with Zhang Shenyan and Zuo Liangyu. Why are they so cruel at this moment?
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