128 A series of happy news

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"You are Zhu Yong?"

At this time, Zhang Xianzhong also looked at Zhu Yong and asked in a bad tone.

"It's my official."

"When will the dog emperor Chongzhen be ready to kill me?" Zhang Xianzhong was honest and asked directly.

"Why do you think the Lord will definitely kill you?"

"Haha, I raised my troops to rebel, and even dug the ancestral tomb of his Zhu family. Do you think your dog emperor can not kill me?"

Zhang Xianzhong sneered and said.

Indeed, this is also a very headache for Zhu Yong.

If Zhu Yong wants to conquer Li Dingguo, Sun Kewang and others will use it for his own purposes, then Zhang Xianzhong will not be able to kill him.

Zhu Yong had even thought about it and used Zhang Xianzhong's life as a bargaining chip.

At that time, Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang also have a way out and most likely choose to surrender to the court.

After all, these people rebel just for power.

Looking at the history of Zhang Xianzhong's death, Li Dingguo and others accepted the imperial edicts from the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

But now, the orthodox Ming Dynasty is still very attractive to them.

By then, Zhu Yong would definitely not let Zhang Xianzhong lead any more troops, and would not even give him civil service. He would only put him under house arrest in the capital as a hostage.

What kind of storm can a man in his fifties cause?

However, now there is a very troublesome problem, that is, Zhang Xianzhong once conquered Fengyang and dug up the ancestral tomb of the old Zhu family.

As a result, it is conceivable that Zhang Xianzhong, who was captured by Zhu Yong, is probably after the guidance of the court, all the civil and military ministers of the court received a letter requesting Zhang Xianzhong to be executed.

If Zhu Yong did not kill Zhang Xianzhong, he would be afraid that Chongzhen would wear the hat of "unfilial". This hat was very terrifying in ancient times.

After all, dynasties in ancient China basically regarded filial piety as the most important thing.

"Forget it, I don't want to, let's talk about it then."

Zhu Yong, who was upset by this problem, was too lazy to talk nonsense with Zhang Xianzhong and took him back to Jiangling.

However, by this time the war is not over yet.

Because, although Zhu Yong captured Zhang Xianzhong and Li Dingguo, the troops under Li Dingguo and Zhang Xianzhong were not completely lost.

After all, there were only a few hundred bandits who carried them across the river.

As for Zhang Xianzhong and Li Dingguo's other tens of thousands of bandits, Zhu Yong began to interrogate the two on the way back to Jiangling.

But unfortunately, the two of them were not going to say anything, and Zhu Yong did not intend to torture them, so he could only let Hong Chengchou find them with trouble.

Zhu Yong believed that until he spread the news of Zhang Xianzhong and Li Dingguo's arrest, the bandits would be in a state of nowhere.

Without Zhang Xianzhong, the leader of the bandits, as well as Li Dingguo, Sun Kewang, and Liu Wenxiu, the bandits of Zhang Xianzhong are already over.

Originally, according to Li Dingguo's plan, he planned to send Zhang Xianzhong to Sun Kewang's side first, and then transfer his army to find an opportunity to cross the river, and join the army with Sun Kewang to fight against Hong Chengchou.

As a result, Zhu Yong saw through and was stewed in a pot.

Two days later, Hong Chengchou received the news that Zhu Yong sent someone to send him, and was also very surprised to learn that all the bandit leaders such as Zhang Xianzhong and Li Dingguo were arrested.

Immediately, Hong Chengchou immediately sent someone to spread the news, and at the same time sent additional personnel to search for the traces of the bandit army under Li Dingguo.

Five days later, Hong Chengchou finally found the trace of Li Dingguo's army, and he immediately led the army to kill him.

Hong Chengchou was also feeling angry at this time. After all, Zhu Yong destroyed Sun Kewang and captured Zhang Xianzhong and Li Dingguo alive. This was a great contribution.

And his side has become a foil instead.

The biggest contribution in the battle to encircle Zhang Xianzhong must have been taken away by Zhu Yong.

In the end, there was only some soup left. If Hong Chengchou stopped destroying these bandits as soon as possible, when he reported to the court, the contributions he and his soldiers would be pitifully less.

So, this time, from Hong Chengchou to his ordinary soldiers, they all worked hard.

A week later, Hong Chengchou led his troops to defeat 60,000 bandits under Li Dingguo in a place called Tongzhuang and surrounded him.

Two days later, these bandits surrendered to Hong Chengchou.

At the same time, news that Zhu Yonghuo arrested Zhang Xianzhong, Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang and other bandit leaders had also spread to the capital.

Suddenly, the government and the people in the capital were shocked, and countless officials rushed to the Ministry of War to confirm whether the news was true.

When officials in the capital received very precise news from Yang Sichang, the Minister of War.

A few days later, the capital received another news, knowing that Hong Chengchou had annihilated the main force of the rebels under Zhang Xianzhong's command, which was also a great news.

By mid-July, Zhu Yong and Hong Chengchou took Zhang Xianzhong, Li Dingguo and other bandit leaders to the capital north.

However, the troops under Hong Chengchou and Zhu Yong launched a massive bandit suppression operation in Huguang, aiming to wipe out all the bandits in the Huguang area.

As the news spread that Zhang Xianzhong's big bandits were wiped out by the court, the bandits in Huguang, Sichuan, Henan and other places were shocked and then afraid.

They did not expect that even big bandits like Zhang Xianzhong could not escape the fate of being wiped out by the court, so how could they be spared?

As a result, many bandits from all over the country had the idea of ​​giving justice to the court.

At the end of July, Zhu Yong and Zhang Xianzhong and others arrived in the capital, and Yang Sichang led his people out of the city to greet him.

On the way to Beijing, Zhu Yong had already talked with Li Dingguo, Sun Kewang and others.

Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang knew that once they arrived in the capital, Zhang Xianzhong might not be able to escape the fate of being executed by Lingchi.

But halfway through, Zhu Yong found them and told them that if they were willing to surrender to the court, Zhu Yong could protect Zhang Xianzhong from death.

This made Li Dingguo and others unbelievable, and they couldn't help but feel moved.

After all, as adopted sons, they still respect Zhang Xianzhong very much. They really don’t want to see Zhang Xianzhong executed by Lingchi.

Moreover, for Li Dingguo, Sun Kewang and others, they actually have ambitions in their hearts, hoping to find a place to display their skills.

Undoubtedly, the Ming Dynasty court was definitely the best place to let them display their talents at this time.

So, Zhu Yong, Li Dingguo and others made a reservation on the way. If Zhu Yong could hold Zhang Xianzhong and die, they would agree to surrender to the court collectively.

However, Li Dingguo and others were not very hopeful about this.

They knew very well that Chongzhen hated Zhang Xianzhong. After all, an emperor was dug into the ancestral tomb, which was a very shame.

It turned out to be them, Chongzhen, and they must kill Zhang Xianzhong.

But Zhu Yong was confident. After all, his will now represent Chongzhen. As long as he wanted to not kill Zhang Xianzhong, Zhang Xianzhong would be immune to death.

As for the opposition from all ministers in the court, Zhu Yong believes that he will always come up with a way to deal with it.

As expected, after arriving in the capital, all the civil and military ministers in the court wrote letters to Chongzhen, demanding that Chongzhen execute Zhang Xianzhong in a silence.

But in the end, Zhu Yong did not order the killing of Zhang Xianzhong with Chongzhen's order, but instead placed him under house arrest in the imperial tomb and used his remaining life to atone for his sins.

Faced with Zhu Yong's actions, although the ministers and nobles in the court were dissatisfied, Zhang Xianzhong dug up the ancestral tomb of the old Zhu family after all, and Chongzhen had already decided in this way, what else could they oppose?

Finally, Zhu Yong saved Zhang Xianzhong's life, but he will spend the rest of his life guarding the tomb in the imperial tomb in the capital.

Zhu Yong fulfilled his promise, and soon Li Dingguo, Sun Kewang, Liu Wenxiu, and Ainengqi, who had been captured earlier, finally chose to surrender to the court.

Zhu Yong also showed great trust in them and immediately appointed Li Dingguo, Sun Kewang, Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi as generals.

At the same time, 20,000 people were selected from the captured bandits, and they were re-registered under their command, and then transferred them to the north.

Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu were transferred to Xuanda area by Zhu Yong and placed under Lu Xiangsheng's command, while Sun Kewang and Ai Nengqi were transferred under Zu Dashou by Zhu Yong.

Zhu Yong must have broken them apart, and it is impossible for them to continue to be together.

Zhu Yong believed that when they brought only tens of thousands of bandits to Lu Xiangsheng and Zu Dashou, they would definitely not be able to make a big wave. If they wanted to rebel, they would definitely be dead.

Zhu Yong spent two months to wipe out Zhang Xianzhong, a large bandit, and made great contributions.

At this time, Zhu Yong should naturally reward himself with confidence and promote himself.

Immediately, Zhu Yong appointed himself as the General of the Cavalry and the second rank with Chongzhen's fate.

Hong Chengchou and others also received rewards.

At the same time, Zhu Yong also ordered Hong Chengchou to immediately lead his 50,000 elite "Hong Army" to Shaanxi to assist Sun Chuanting and to eliminate the bandits under Li Zicheng's troops as soon as possible.

Zhu Yong recruited new recruits nationwide and expanded his new army again.

Moreover, this time, Zhu Yong expanded the new army in a large number, and he was preparing to expand the new army from more than 30,000 to 80,000 at this time.

For this expansion of the new army, Zhu Yong was preparing to expand as soon as possible based on the Yongwei camp under Sun Yingyuan, Huang Degong and Zhou Yuji.

In this way, the expanded new military camp can form combat effectiveness as soon as possible with the help of veterans and new recruits.

While Zhu Yong was expanding his new army extensively, Bi Maokang's Firearms Bureau was also developing more advanced muskets and artillery.

On the court, the tax reform chaired by Sun Chengzong was also gradually advancing and has begun to be implemented in Nanzhili.

Originally, when Sun Chengzong faced the southward implementation of tax reform, the various governing departments suffered much more obstacles than in the north.
To be continued...