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Chapter 296 The Ming Dynasty Emperor Yongchang
early morning.

"Let's bury him first!"

Yang Feng looked at Li Zicheng's dead body.

The face of the Yongchang Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, which had turned a little pale from being soaked in water, was facing the morning light calmly.

This was just found. He was actually in the cabin, but he was underwater and it was night time, so divers could only grope around little by little. It was not until morning that they finally fished him out.

Song Xiance, who came with him, was blown to pieces.

As for Dorgon, of course he died too.

At this time, the cross was thrown on the mud and sand nearby. He fished it out last night. After all, there was a cross behind to ensure buoyancy. It was just that the cross was upside down when it fell into the water, so it basically died when it fell into the water. In this way, Dorgon and Li Zicheng died together, and the hatred between the two was over. They were on the road together. As for whether they would meet and laugh off their grudges in the underworld, it had nothing to do with Yang Feng. He would just chop off his head and send it directly to the Xiaoling Mausoleum for sacrifice. Of course, the bones would be burned, and they would have to be crushed first, and finally burned into ashes, and then the ashes would be scattered. Lingchi plus crushing bones and scattering ashes are all standard. When they return to Liaodong, they will dig out the bones of Yezhupi and others and deal with them in the same way...

These are all rules.

As for the issue of Li Zicheng, this is a little bit complicated.

After all, he has already proclaimed himself emperor.

But it was not difficult. After all, there was a time difference between his enthronement as emperor and the empress's succession to the throne. The empress's succession to the throne itself was an abnormal situation. He did not expect that the princess could succeed to the throne. Moreover, after Chongzhen arrived in Nanjing, he was trapped at Xijiangkou.

He didn't know that His Majesty the Emperor was still alive. Ignorance is not a crime!

“I will report to Her Majesty the Queen later and ask for him to be buried in Xi’an with the ceremony of an emperor. Although it was wrong for him to claim the throne, there was no better choice at the time. After all, he was also seeking revenge for the late emperor, and the Queen had not yet ascended the throne.

What's more, he is still the emperor of the Ming Dynasty after all.

He was buried with the ceremony of an emperor, which meant that he had been acting as the emperor for a period of time before the empress ascended the throne in order to avenge the late emperor. The empress could pretend to be the crown prince, so he could also pretend to be the emperor. But now that the empress has ascended the throne, he can no longer pretend to be the crown prince, so his crown prince still succeeded to the throne of the King of Qin, and his previous official title remained the same, and the previous system remained the same, and Guanzhong was still the fiefdom of the Qin vassal. "

King Yang continued.

reasonable.

Very reasonable.

Since the Empress was able to pretend to be the Crown Prince, the King of Qin could certainly also pretend to be the Emperor under special circumstances.

Chongzhen was killed by a traitor, but the country cannot be without a ruler for a day, and he has no heir. Except for his daughter, the rest are babies. Under such special circumstances, His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin resolutely took on the burden of the country, pretended to be the Son of Heaven and commanded the world to avenge His Majesty.

Now the empress has ascended the throne. He didn't know before and attacked Nanjing, but after King Yang explained it to him, he understood. However, he was killed right after that, and it was just the right time to end it. But he was an emperor after all, and he was still the emperor even when he was dead, so he should be buried with the rites of the emperor...

Isn’t this just a right of interpretation?
Since he's dead anyway, give him a grand funeral to appease his subordinates.

This is an attitude.

An attitude that can put his subordinates at ease.

"I bow to thank the king!"

Li Laiheng hurriedly thanked him.

Then nearly 20,000 soldiers on the river bank knelt down together to express their gratitude to His Royal Highness the King of Qi.

This is enough. What Li Zicheng's generals want is their official titles, and what the soldiers want is to maintain Li Zicheng's system. If these are met, they can rest assured.

Especially the latter, which was the basis of Li Zicheng's control in Guanzhong, that is, the camp soldier system, or the revised version of the prefectural soldier system or the revised version of the garrison system. In fact, this kind of system combining farming and warfare has been similar since ancient times, and of course it was also similar when it collapsed. The good or bad of any such system is not in itself, but in the operation of later generations.

The Tang Dynasty's military system was very good, but it was soon manipulated to the point where the soldiers fled. Zhu Yuanzhang's guard system was initially very powerful, but as long as peace was restored, it would eventually collapse under internal manipulation. Li Zicheng's camp system was not better than the military household system, but for his soldiers at present, it could still guarantee their interests, so what they wanted was to maintain this system. This really didn't matter to Yang Feng. Li Zicheng's system was not much worse than his farm households, and what Guanzhong needed next was to concentrate on water conservancy construction and rebuild channels. Apart from repairing the eight benefits of Guanzhong, it was enough for the current population there to live and work in peace.

This kind of large-scale water conservancy construction requires militarized management.

A system that integrates farming and warfare.

"Everyone get up!"

Yang Feng looked at these newly recruited subordinates with satisfaction.

They are all good fighters!

Moreover, these people have a venomous hatred towards the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River.

The survivors on the ship were being tortured, but they were still tough. However, in this kind of situation, whoever is needed will be the one to deal with it, and now no matter who they are, they must be instigated by the Jiangnan gentry. After all, at present, they are the only enemies of Li Zicheng.

Also, at the moment, this is the fattest piece of meat they have.

However, Yang Feng's former subordinates were watching indignantly from a distance.

Yang Feng accepted Li Zicheng's subordinates, which was tantamount to giving them legitimacy, so what they had done before was exposed. During this period of time, they extorted money from the gentry everywhere in Jiangnan, looted the gentry's homes, and distributed their land to tenants. These have all been exposed and are fait accompli. They will not be dealt with again, and the court will no longer uphold justice for those gentry whose brains were crushed out by the tongs.

They died in vain.

What kind of world is this?
It’s snowing in June!
Of course, they could only grieve and be angry in silence.

After all, Li Zicheng's subordinates here are only tens of thousands, but there are still 200,000 downstream. If they don't sacrifice those whose brains have been squeezed out by the clamps, they will continue to move forward and squeeze out the brains of more gentry. Especially after Li Zicheng's death, these people are in a frenzy, and it is not impossible that they will directly massacre the city, so there is no choice but to accept reality. As I said, what kind of world is this? There are only thieves and bandits, and there are unruly people everywhere. The court is full of treacherous officials. The kind gentry who used to farm and study to pass on their family traditions have become memories in the bites of these beasts, and have become disappearing gardens on this land...

Really gone.

Regardless of the places occupied by Li Zicheng, the Jingnan Army, or Gao Jie, the gardens owned by the purged gentry were quickly destroyed by the unruly people...

There is a garden like this not far away, and the unruly people are already digging up the flowers and plants in preparation for planting vegetables.

孽 孽!
Tricky people!

King Yang, who was unaware that his generals were in deep grief, personally lifted the body of Emperor Yongchang of the Ming Dynasty, and walked towards Nanjing in the distance, surrounded by generals such as Li Laiheng who had changed into mourning clothes, and tens of thousands of soldiers and hundreds of thousands of civilians. As soon as they arrived at the outer city gate, they saw the Duke of E who came to greet them at the order of Her Majesty the Queen. In fact, it was Chang Yanling. Of course, the Queen had to confer titles on her meritorious officials when she succeeded to the throne. Even Gao Jie had been conferred the title of Prince. Although Chang Yanling was a tool for daily etiquette, he could not be missed. It was still possible to restore his ancestor's title of Duke of E.

Anyway, the title of Duke is not worth much now.

In our Ming Dynasty, at present, not to mention that there are as many princes as dogs, there are almost as many dukes as there are people.

There are quite a few vassal kings with different surnames.

For example, Zhang Xianzhong, his title of King of Shu was also given by the Empress, and Yang Feng, the King of Qi. Even though Li Zicheng was on the side of the Empress's court, he was still the King of Qin.

There will be more to come. After all, the princes and dukes conferred by Li Zicheng must also be recognized, so Jin Wang Li Guo, Dai Wang Gao Yigong, and a bunch of dukes will still be retained, but fortunately, now the princes and dukes have no salary, and all the titles have been changed to direct grants of land...

Each person has a piece of land.

There is no shortage of wasteland in the Ming Dynasty now.

In the future, it can even be extended to the border areas. In fact, according to Yang Feng’s plan, once the situation in the world stabilizes, these titles will be moved outward.

Now we can agree to grant the King of Qin the territory of Guanzhong, which will become the Western Regions in the future.

Just coax him first.

When they have no ability to resist, one day His Royal Highness the Prince of Qi will take the lead. For example, he can apply to exchange his fiefdom in southern Shandong and northern Jiangsu for North America. The Prince of Qi voluntarily gives up his rich fiefdom to open up the wilderness for the Queen. The Prince of Qi is so selfless, what else can others say? The Prince of Qi has opened up the wilderness, so it is not too much for the Prince of Qin to go to the Western Regions, and it is not too much for the Prince of Shu to go to Myanmar. No matter how bad these places are, can they be worse than the wilderness of the Prince of Qi?

Greeted by the Duke of E, His Royal Highness the Prince of Qi arrived at Zhengyang Gate amid the cheers of the people.

Then, Princess Zhaoren, accompanied by Lord Jin, represented her sister in welcoming him at Zhengyang Gate.

She is the eldest princess now.

Princess Zhaoren.

Although he was only fourteen years old.

The eldest princess, who was probably still asleep when she was called up, yawned and impatiently led His Royal Highness the Prince of Qi to carry the body of the Yongchang Emperor of the Ming Dynasty into Hongwu Gate amid the cheers of the people, and then waited at Chengtian Gate. Then Her Majesty went to Chengtian Gate and recognized that the Yongchang Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was the emperor first and she succeeded to the throne later, so she recognized him as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty during the period in between...

A country cannot live without a ruler for a day.

There can be no vacancy period on the throne.

After the late emperor was assassinated, it took nearly a month for the empress to succeed to the throne in order to maintain the safety of the country because of the civil unrest in Nanjing.

Moreover, she didn't really want to succeed to the throne. After all, there had never been such a thing as a princess succeeding to the throne since ancient times. So it was normal that Li Zicheng had never thought of doing so. Including those local officials who had already pledged their loyalty to him, they also didn't think that the princess could succeed to the throne. So their behavior, whether they proclaimed themselves emperors or paid homage to him, was understandable...

The Queen herself hadn't thought about it.

So it’s normal that they don’t understand.

In short, for this reason, they supported Li Zicheng as emperor in the past month because they were eager to avenge the late emperor. During this period, there was no other emperor in the Ming Dynasty, so His Majesty Emperor Yongchang was the emperor of the Ming Dynasty during this period.

Not a fake emperor.

The emperor is the emperor. How can there be a fake emperor?

He is the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Even if he was the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty for only one month, he is still the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Wasn’t Her Majesty’s grandfather only the Emperor for one month? So he was not the Emperor, right?

Therefore, Li Zicheng was still buried with the rites of an emperor.

However, the temple name can be used as a substitute.

Emperor Yongchang of the Ming Dynasty.

As for Jingtai, the title of Daizong was given to him by Hongguang, so he does not have a temple name now. The title of Daizong can be given to Li Zicheng.

This move moved Li Laiheng and others so much that they shouted "Long live the emperor" again.

After all, in their opinion, this arrangement was proposed by Yang Feng at Dasheng Pass. During this period, he did not meet the Queen, nor did he tell Chang Yanling and others he met. However, the Queen announced the imperial decree herself, which means that Her Majesty herself thought so...

Holy Lord, Mingjun!
A true holy lord!
Of course, they didn't know there was such a thing as a walkie-talkie.

In short, the Queen's move completely resolved the concerns of Li Zicheng's subordinates at the scene, and her generosity made them grateful. After all, Li Zicheng was her enemy no matter what, and had surrounded Nanjing for a long time, but had not really attacked. Moreover, her father was imprisoned by Li Zicheng for many years, and although her mother died at the hands of assassins sent by those people in the capital, it was ultimately because of Li Zicheng's attack on the capital that the Zhu family's current decline was also caused by the rebels led by Li Zicheng.

There was no need for her to do so now. After all, Yang Feng was here and no one dared to do anything to her.

She was not persuaded by Yang Feng.

But she still chose to give Li Zicheng the courtesy of an emperor.

The only explanation is that she sincerely wanted to win over the subordinates left behind by Li Zicheng.

They can rest assured.

Her Majesty will not treat them unfairly.

In order to take care of their feelings, I would even rather suffer a little injustice myself.

Amidst the cheers of the emperor, Her Majesty the Queen announced that the King of Qi would be the envoy of the mausoleum, and he would be in charge of the construction of the mausoleums of the late emperor and the Yongchang emperor, both of which were to be built in Xi'an. Originally, Chongzhen was buried in the tomb of Concubine Tian, ​​but of course this is impossible now. Before Li Zicheng left the capital, Empress Zhou had not been buried yet. Even if she was the empress, she would not be buried within a month. In fact, the empress would not be buried within a hundred days, while the emperor would be buried within several months. In theory, it would be seven months, but in reality, it would only be seven days for Zhu Yuanzhang. Therefore, the subsequent ones did not strictly follow the seven months, but all chose an auspicious day within a similar period of time.

When Li Zicheng fled the capital, he of course took Queen Zhou's body with him, so she was actually buried in Xi'an.

The princess didn't want to disturb her mother again.

Besides, her mother was originally buried in the imperial mausoleum built by Li Zicheng for Chongzhen.

For this purpose, he even asked the Nanjing court for a huge sum of money!

That was also confirmed by Chongzhen.

Therefore, Chongzhen could be buried there by expanding the imperial mausoleum.

As for the problem in Xi'an...

All under heaven belongs to the king. It's all his territory, so why not bury him anywhere?
Emperor Taizu Gao himself is in Nanjing, and there are also imperial mausoleums in Fengyang, Sizhou, and Chengtian. The Zhu family has five imperial mausoleums, and adding Xi'an is not a big deal. In short, this matter is given to the King of Qi to be fully responsible. Of course, it is actually equivalent to giving the King of Qi full responsibility for the handling of Li Zicheng's affairs. The mountain mausoleum envoy is not just a tomb repairer.

Li Laiheng and the troops surrounding Nanjing have indeed surrendered to the Empress, but the situation in other places is still uncertain.

Especially those on the downstream front.

There are still 200,000 elite troops there.

(End of this chapter)