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Chong Zhen's eyes lit up. Mo Fei Hong Cheng had made progress in pacifying civil strife. It seemed like today was a good day. He then asked the attendant to summon him into the hall.

"Xuan," a sharp sound rang out. It wasn't long, but it made Chongzhen wait anxiously.

"Reporting, Your Majesty, Victory, King Jing's troops have entered the Southern Zheng, Nannan Ruan, Cheng Cheng Cheng, Zhen Wai states, and have now captured the Zheng and Ruan families and sent them to Tianjin Port. King Jing has requested His Majesty to set up a province in the provinces of Annan and Zhencheng, and to send out officials to serve there, accompanied by this year's tax payment of a total of two hundred and seventy thousand silver taels. At the same time, the two provinces have sufficient grain production areas to send refugees to settle their homes in order to stabilize the imperial territory." The hand still had a cylinder.

Chongzhen and the other ministers were in a daze. It was as if they were dreaming. We are here to link up with the people who have lost their land, while you, King Jing, are here to destroy the country and build a province to expand the land.

When he heard this, he trembled a little. He had been regretting that he was unable to use the power of Taizu and Cheng Zu to push him out of the way, allowing the barbarians to escape like the wind.

But as a son of the Eldest Ming, Chong Zhenjun only hoped that he could at least make the barbarians not dare to trespass, and not allow the Manchu people to ravage him. He didn't even dare to daydream about expanding his territory.

After hearing the happy news, he refused to accept the actions taken by the Jing King, so he didn't have much thought left on whether or not to punish him. He took the map from Wang Chengen. Seeing his hands shaking, Wang Chengen helped him to take the map from the dragon.

Chongzhen did not notice that the court officials of the imperial court were like a busy city, so when he looked at the map of the Ming Dynasty, his blood started to boil. Originally, Zhu Yucao had been familiar with the people of Taizu and Cheng Zu since he was young. However, when he did, he would often recall that he was not the crown prince, and could not become the emperor. If he could become the emperor, then he would definitely go to great lengths. But the reality was so cruel that when he stood at the top, he wanted to do something big and prevent it from happening. However, he did not expect it to be so difficult to pacify the people and pacify the eastern border of Jinwu Province. How could he have the strength to do so?

But now, his son had done it. He had even set up a system of saving money and collecting taxes. It was just like when he had personally gone to work for someone else. He couldn't help but clap the table in delight. He had also made up his mind that if his son could open a new land for him, he would be able to calm the people down as soon as possible. Presumably, his disrespect towards the decree was not what he wanted.

Seeing that the man who had received Wang Chengen was still standing there, Chong Zhen's face revealed a rare look of joy and said, "What else do you want?"

He took out the memorial from his bosom and placed it in his hands before lowering his head and saying, "Reporting to Your Majesty, this is a list given by the True Emperor. He is willing to pay respects to our Emperor for the next ten thousand years and offer a tribute of more than 230,000 taels of silver."

When Chong Zhen heard this, his face broke into a smile. He then said to Wang Chengen, who had just received the memorial, "Read it, read it to me."

Wang Chengen opened it and saw that it was all in foreign languages. Fortunately, he found the Chinese translation form at the back and read aloud, "Long live the Emperor Daoming. "We must pay tribute to the kingdom of heaven every year."

When Chong Zhen heard this, he was relieved. He called for the court officials to arrange the arrangements for the officials of the provinces of Annan and Zhuan, and for some refugees to move to the new provinces. He completely forgot about the complaints of the royal family.

Chong Zhenju felt his body lightened by the rare joy he felt after checking the imperial court.

Zhu was about to walk towards the Xining palace when he saw a little girl dressed in a purple and yellow palace dress flash past the garden. She was pretty, had a gentle look, and her hair was tied up in a tall black bun, under the cloud was a charming little white face, eyebrows like the crescent moon, eyes like the autumn water, and a cherry blossom mouth. She was very cute, and was his beloved daughter, Princess Changping.

In fact, Zhu Yanzhao did not forget about the city lord. He was already thinking of ways to calm him down. Thinking back and forth, he could only let him be a prince. His fief was still in the city, but he could not lead the military affairs.

Although the boy was disobedient, he was certainly his own son, and it was better for him to be in charge of the army than the others. Of course, this city lord couldn't have the authority to appoint and remove political officials, so he could just be an obedient king. The city lord had just started forming, and there was only so much tax, so the court could just raise him.

After walking for a short while, he saw Zhu Yu playing with something beside the flower pavilion's empty ground. Next to him was a three to four year old boy in a yellow shirt. He was surrounded by a large group of people.

When Zhu Yucai looked closer, he saw Zhu Yu riding a metal cart or two in the shape of a horse. It was very strange, and the three or four-year-old boy next to him was the same Zhu Ci Tong that he had been born with. Zhu Ci Tong looked very charming. Tears were streaming down his big, black eyes. He looked very pitiful. Although he was crying, he did not let out a howl. Instead, he clamored to get his sister to step down.

When the crowd saw that someone was approaching, they quickly greeted him.

Zhu Yu also called out to his royal father, but he was not affected at all. He bowed and said: "Royal brother, let royal sister ride first, we will return it to you later."

Zhu Yuanzhao harrumphed and spoke with authority, "There are no rules, you don't even know how to salute when you see your father."

Seeing Zhu Yu feigning ignorance, Zhu Yuanzhao loved his daughter dearly. Although he reprimanded her just now, it was over after he said it. When he saw that his daughter was still playing with the item and ignoring him, he asked her, "What is this item?"

One of the servants at the side said, "Reporting to Your Highness, this was offered by Prince Jing. There is a name for it; it's called the mini-bicycle."

Zhu Yuanzhao saw that Zhu could ride two wheels at the same time, but he found it very interesting to have the support of the two wheels. Initially, Chong Zhen was not very interested in these things, but today he was not in a bad mood, so he stopped to watch for a while.

When Wang Chengen saw Zhu Yu riding on his horse, Zhu Ci ran after him slowly with his nose running and his nose running. He was accompanied by a large group of palace maids and eunuchs, all busy with eye contact, indicating that the storehouse was in charge.

The eunuch understood and said, "Your Highness, according to the book, as long as you ride this bicycle for a long time, you will be able to avoid the two small wheels at the back and not fall down. You can use a footstep to save yourself."

Zhu Yu-chuan nodded and thought, "These things, yes, he must be a toddler. I think he must be eleven years old!" Yo, I've stayed too long today.

Seeing that Chongzhen was about to leave, Zhu Yu quickly got off the bicycle and returned it to his brother: "I'll return it to you, it's not like you can ride it." He patted Zhu Ci Tong's head and snorted, "Little guy." He then skipped over to Chong Zhen's side, giggled, bowed to him and performed the formal court etiquette: "Greetings, Imperial Father. Long live my Emperor."

Zhu Yu helplessly looked at the group of palace maids behind him, holding onto his arm and said: "Royal father, don't be angry, I have already bowed to you. Go back to the palace! "I'm not accompanying you either."

Zhu Yuanzhao slowed down his pace and said, "When we have time again, I will take you and your royal brother to hunt in the mountains."

Wang Chengen whispered, "Your highness, the princess is young, this is not appropriate."

Zhu Yuanzhao nodded and said, "Then let's wait for it to grow a little bit bigger."

Zhu Liang stared at the chattering eunuch and said coquettishly, "Changping isn't young anymore, he's already six years old this year. Besides, it's not like I'm hunting, I just sit in the carriage and watch."

"How did you know it was a carriage?"

Zhu Luo chuckled: "Your Crown Prince said so. He didn't even touch a bow when he went to the mountain last time."

"Then do you want to meet him? Your royal brother is only one year older than you, so how can he touch a bow and arrow?"

Zhu Ge's eyebrows creased. "It's not like that, Changping heard from the guards that Brother Jing Huang is only six years old and is able to draw his eight stone bow!" And he led his men away with him. "

"Who are these guards?" Zhu Yajie asked with a straight face. I actually told you what nonsense this is, let's see if I don't chop off his head. " He turned to Wang Chengen and said, "Go check it out for me later."

Wang Chengen agreed. Zhu Yu didn't know that Zhu Yu was scaring himself, so he grabbed his dragon robe and said: "Father, it was not said by the guards. "It's … It's from watching the performance on stage."

Zhu Yudao harrumphed, "What stage? Our royal family has never acted on that stage before." Pull back the dragon-robe, gently, Chongzhen Nei Ku used silver year after year, and he could not make ends meet. Although the taxes paid by Zhu Ci can still be saved a little, but how much can be saved? The dragon robe had already been pierced through, and he couldn't let his daughter break it.

I sneaked out to watch it, thought Zhu. Well, I won't tell you. He said: "Imperial Father, I have acted in this drama before in the palace, but you didn't see it when you were old enough to not accompany your child."

Zhu Yuanzhao nodded his head, knowing that he had no time to spare. Every time he accompanied the empress, he would have national affairs to settle.

Zhu Ping said, "Imperial Father, when can we go to brother Jing Huang's territory? Changping would like to take a look."

Zhu Yuanzhao reprimanded, "Nonsense." Then he left.

Zhu Yu looked at the group of palace maids behind him and thought: Hmph, you're always busy with national affairs, you don't have the time to care about me. When the opportunity arises, I'll sneak out again. Although she was mischievous, she respected her elder brother, who she had never wanted to meet.

In the first month of 1636, the peasant army led by Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng surrounded Luzhou in the east, taking Hanshan and Hanzhou. On the sixth day of the new year, the farmers' army had attacked Chuzhou for tens of miles. On the 8th day of the new year, the Prime Minister Lu Xiangsheng and other Dao-soldiers rushed to the aid of Chuzhou and fought a great battle with the peasant army on the Wuli Bridge in the east of the city. The peasants' military battle was not favorable, and their camps were all destroyed. They retreated fifty li to the north, and were cut down to more than 1,200 levels. From the Zhu Long Pass to the Guan Shan. After the defeat of the peasants' army, the north ferry forced Sizhou and Xuzhou to return to Henan province. At the end of the month, part of the rebel army from the South Mountain also traded and Luo.