The ruthless emperor in the late Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 12
Returning to the palace from the school grounds, Zhu Cihong did not dare to be idle for a moment, summoned Li Ruolian and Wang Dehua over again, and began to assign new tasks.

"Li Aiqing, how many Jinyiwei can you actually mobilize in Beijing?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, there are about 5000 people, but because there are too many new recruits, some good and bad are mixed. This is the roster, Your Majesty, please have a look."

As Li Ruolian said, he took out a roster from his cuff and handed it over.

Zhu Cihong just flipped through it casually and put it on the dragon case.

Said: "It doesn't matter if the good and the bad are mixed, as long as you can handle things and be obedient, you can rectify it slowly in the future."

"Wang Dehua, where's Dongchang?"

"Going back to the emperor, it's not considered a pure army. There are nearly a thousand servants under the command of the slaves to mobilize." Wang Dehua quickly replied.

"Well, although it's a little less, it's rare to have this scale in just a few days."

Zhu Cihong nodded, then his face straightened.

"The next thing Dongchang and Jinyiwei will continue to recruit is the main task, which is to go to the nearby counties and counties to buy food from the local gentry!
According to the price of two taels of silver for a stone for grain and ten taels of silver for a load of salt, I will allocate 100 million silver to each of you first.

Remember to buy food, not rob it. I don't want this matter to make the gentry in the states and counties near the capital fly away and alienate the court.

Afterwards, I will summon the gentry from all states and counties and ask them personally. If I find out that the price of grain for them is less than one tael, and the price of salt is less than five taels, and there is a problem in that county, I will kill all the errands responsible for the county’s purchases. People, no mercy! "

At the end, Zhu Cihong's tone was never harsher than before.

The reason is to go to nearby counties to collect grain.

Firstly, 20 shi of grain might not be enough, so I wanted to hoard more.

The second is to fortify the walls and clear the fields, so that the intruders will have to eat when there is no food.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty (emperor), minister, (slaves) must be strictly supervised!"

The hearts of both of them tensed up, and they hurriedly answered, and at the same time, they also understood that this is definitely a fat job.

After the two went back, they first gave warnings to a group of subordinates, and then began to arrange.

In the next few days, almost all the troops from Jinyiwei and Dongchang were mobilized and went to various states and counties to collect grain.

The nobles were also busy recruiting people and raising supplies for weapons and supplies, but Zhu Cihong ignored them, instead, he was urging the military bureau to work overtime to build weapons and gunpowder.

At the same time, he sent people to recruit refugees outside the city, set up several resettlement sites for refugees in the city, and selected young and strong people from them to add to the generals of the Han Dynasty.

For a time, the inside and outside of the capital was extremely lively.

Only the civil servants were left alone, with nothing to do.

Because let alone going to court, it was the title book sent by the cabinet, and Zhu Cihong didn't even bother to look at it, let alone enter the palace for an audience.

But when the generals came to visit, Zhu Cihong immediately summoned them.

"Chen Tangtong, kowtow to my emperor, long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

Tang Tong, the chief soldier of Ji Town, was brought into the warm pavilion, and immediately bowed three times.

Obviously I have also heard about what happened in the capital in the past few days, and I dare not despise this young new king in my heart.

"Be flat!"

Zhu Cihong's tone seemed neither cold nor indifferent.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Ding Xibo has worked hard all the way, come and give me a seat!"

In fact, Zhu Cihong didn't have a good impression of Tang Tong, but his impression was very bad.

Because this person is completely a villain at both ends of the first mouse. He has no integrity at all when the intruders come and vote for the intruders, and the tartars come and subdue the tartars.

In history, Chongzhen sent him to garrison Juyongguan, but this guy and the eunuch Du Zhizhi surrendered directly, leaving the capital without any barriers.

However, now is the time to employ someone, and this person is the first commander-in-chief who was ordered to lead troops into the Weijing Division, so it is still necessary to win over.

On the second day after Zhu Cilang ascended the throne, several imperial decrees were issued.

Wu Sangui, the commander-in-chief of Ningyuan, was named Ping Xibo and Prince Shaobao respectively.

Zhou Yuji, the commander-in-chief of Shanxi, is the loyal uncle, and the prince Shaobao.

Liu Zeqing, the commander-in-chief of Shandong, is the uncle of Dongping.

Tang Tong, the commander-in-chief of Jizhen, was Ding Xibo.

Gao Jie, the chief military officer, is Uncle Xingping.

Liu Liangzuo, the commander-in-chief, is Guangchang Bo.

Huang Degong, the commander in chief, is Uncle Jingnan.

And let the above generals lead the army into the Wei capital.

Even Jiang Yu, the commander-in-chief of Datong, Wang Chengyin, the commander-in-chief of the Xuanfu, and Zhu Cihong gave them a chance, and named the prince Shaobao, and asked them to lead troops to support Ningwuguan.

As for Zuo Liangyu, Zhu Cihong had no hope at all.

For one thing, that guy didn't have much time to live, and his son was an idiot, so he wasn't worth wooing.

Secondly, that guy has millions of soldiers in Huguang. Even if he is made the Duke of the state, he probably won't come, so he simply didn't bother to seal him.

Of course, he knew that even if he sealed all these generals, there might not be many who could actually lead an army to enter the Wei capital, but he still chose to seal them.

After all, he was forced to the throne.

And these people are now the commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty, who can only choose to win over for the time being.

Tang Tong was still very excited at the moment, and after thanking him again, he carefully sat down on the low stool beside him.

"Ding Xibo, how many soldiers and horses did you bring this time?"

Zhu Cihong didn't hesitate and asked directly.

Although he believes that those nobles can gather 8 people, but the fighting power is probably only a ghost knows.

So I still have great expectations for this guy and his soldiers.

After all, no matter how you say this guy is a seasoned veteran, no matter how bad his troops are, he should still have some combat effectiveness.

"Return to Your Majesty, I have brought eight thousand soldiers this time."

Tang Tong replied honestly.

Although he was a little worried that His Majesty would think too little, he did not dare to make a false report.

Sure enough, when Zhu Cihong heard that there were only eight thousand, a look of disappointment appeared on his face, and he immediately covered it up, saying, "Okay! Tang Aiqing, you will bring the soldiers and horses into the city, and first station them in the Imperial City's Beijing camp. I will personally inspect them tomorrow!"

"The minister obeys the order!"

Tang Tong got up immediately and replied, obviously, an earl made him feel more grateful for the little emperor, which was also the reason why he arrived in just a few days.

Zhu Cihong encouraged him a few more words, rewarded him with a jade belt and some gold cakes, and then let him resign.

.........

The next day, early in the morning, Zhu Cihong arrived at the school grounds in the northwest of the imperial city.

There are several schools like this in the inner city, each of which can accommodate tens of thousands of troops.

Tang Tong and a group of generals under his command had already gathered eight thousand soldiers and horses, and they were ready for battle.

Perhaps it was time to prepare, but these 8000 people looked decent, and at least they stood there with the ferocity that a soldier should have.

It can be seen from this that these people have all fought battles and seen blood, and they are more than a star and a half stronger than those soldiers in the Beijing camp.

"Okay! You really deserve to be my mighty teacher of Ming Dynasty!"

"Tang Aiqing, pass on the order that I will personally reward these soldiers who fought for my Ming Dynasty!"

Zhu Cihong praised without conscience.

The reason why he didn't say sound, but said reward, was because he was afraid that his mind would be too distracted.

After all, these soldiers are no better than the Beijing camp. It is more appropriate to say that they are the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, rather than Tang Tong's private soldiers.

"Yes!"

Tang Tong had no choice but to answer.

This time Zhu Cihong paid more attention, ordered someone to bring a chair, and really took the trouble to personally reward each soldier with five taels of silver.

Needless to say, the effect produced.

A soldier took the silver from Zhu Cihong's hand, trembling with excitement, his forehead was broken when he thanked him.

Especially those who received a few words of encouragement from Zhu Cihong wished to die for His Majesty immediately.

Tang Tong and the other generals stood aside silently, feeling extremely helpless.

Everyone knew that if the emperor ordered these soldiers to kill them at this moment, he would probably execute them without hesitation.

For 8000 people, Zhu Cihong rewarded them from morning to dusk before finally ending.

During the period, a lot of food, wine and meat were rewarded.

Of course, all those generals, Zhu Cihong, were rewarded one by one, and finally left an eunuch to supervise the army before returning to the palace.

(End of this chapter)