Chapter 96 Pseudo-Imperial Court

But soon, Sun Chuanting received a letter from Beijing. The letter turned out to be a handwritten letter from Hong Chengchou. Knowing that Hong Chengchou had a handwritten letter to him, Sun Chuanting was shocked to know that Hong Chengchou was captured alive by the Yu family army after his defeat.

It is reasonable that Yu Jiajun captured Hong Chengchou and was very likely to kill him, but why did Hong Chengchou send someone to send him a letter from Beijing?

So Sun Chuanting quickly received Hong Chengchou's handwritten letter, opened it and watched it. Hong Chengchou did not say much in the letter, but told him that Yu Xiaotian was not as bad as they thought, so that Sun Chuanting had better go to the Beijing Normal University in person for a while with Yu Xiaotian and him.

Hong Chengchou also personally guaranteed in the letter, indicating that he would ensure the safety of Sun Chuanting, and Yu Xiaotian would never harm him.

Sun Chuanting was surprised after reading this letter. At first, he guessed that Hong Chengchou might be held by Xiaotian and was forced to write to him helplessly to deceive him into entering Beijing to harm him.

So he carefully read the letter several times, but did not find anything wrong in the letter. Hong Chengchou's notes were very clear, and there was nothing wrong with the pen. It was not like a letter written to him in a hurry or in a state of very fluctuating mood, but should be in a very stable and quiet state. There is nothing hidden between the lines of this letter.

So he thought of the messenger and quickly sent someone to inquire. As a result, when the messenger was brought to him, he found that the messenger he knew was a family member of Hong Chengchou, so he quickly called the family member into his residence and asked Hong Chengchou about the situation in detail.

To be honest, this family man answered Sun Chuanting's question and told Sun Chuanting that although their master was captured, the whole process was quite polite to him and took good care of him.

After entering Beijing, Yu Xiaotian received Hong Chengchou in person. The two talked for a long time. Yu Xiaotian still left Hong Chengchou to live in his swell. Later, he chose a quiet courtyard for Hong Chengchou to rest in the capital and sent troops to protect him.

In addition, there is no excessive restriction on Hong Chengchou's actions. In recent days, he often talks with Hong Chengchou about some things, and the two sides seem to get along well with each other.

Sun Chuanting couldn't understand it. When they rushed to the capital, Hong Chengchou hated Xiaotian and wanted to take it down immediately and kill him quickly. However, he did not expect that after Hong Chengchou was captured, he was so valued by Yu Xiaotian, and Hong Chengchou did not seem to repay his kindness with death. Yu Xiaotian talked happily, which was strange.

After confirming that Hong Chengchou was not forcibly held hostage by Yu Xiaotian and deliberately tricked him into going to Beijing to murder him, Sun Chuanding finally resolutely chose to follow Hong Chengchou's family, only taking more than a dozen of his intimate family members to Beijing.

After Sun Chuanting entered Beijing, Yu Xiaotian received Sun Chuanting at a high standard and personally held a banquet to entertain Sun Chuanting in the garden of Xingyuan. He also invited Hong Chengchou, who had served him, to accompany him.

The three people talked for the first half of the afternoon and two meals at a time. Sun Chuanting finally accepted the persuasion of Yu Xiaotian and Hong Chengchou and chose to support Yu Xiaotian with reservations.

In this way, Yu Xiaotian has received two major help. Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting have been dealing with the civilian army for many years, and they are both shrewd and strong people, which gives Yu Xiaotian a little more confidence in dealing with the civilian army next.

In the following period, on the one hand, Yu Xiaotian vigorously reformed all kinds of corruptions accumulated by the Ming court for more than 200 years, holding the imperial edict covering the seal of the imperial court in one hand, and vigorously promoting various new policies in the name of Chongzhen. On the other hand, he held high the butcher knife for those who tried to resist the gains of various new policies. Yi Group killed his hand.

Chongzhen did not know about some bad policies before. He has tried to reform these bad policies many times. However, although he is an emperor, he is often influenced by officials and often implements new policies, which will certainly affect the interests of some vested interests or groups. Many officials themselves are vested. Among interest groups, or the spokespersons of some vested interest groups.

Therefore, when Chongzhen wants to implement some new policies and reform some corrupt policies, he will be strongly resisted by many ministers, and Chongzhen sometimes can't pull down, or is too afraid of it, so he can't stand it.

In fact, before Yu Xiaotian led his army into Beijing this time, Chongzhen tried to send one or two princes to Nanjing to make perfect preparations. Once the capital failed, he was determined not to abandon the capital and escape. In case he suffered the murder of Yu Xiaotian's rebels, then his prince could also be in Nanjing. Immediately take the opportunity to ascend the throne, and then order the world to continue to be the enemy of Yu Xiaotian, and one day restore the Ming Dynasty.

But with just such a request, he was resisted by some ministers who were full and had nothing to do. Saying that sending the prince away at this time was a sign of weakness and would seriously affect the morale of the army, so that Chongzhen could only give up, which also led to Chongzhen's fundamental Without guard, the whole family was blocked in the palace.

This is also one of the reasons why Chongzhen did not choose to commit suicide and die, because if he commits suicide, the Ming Dynasty will not be inherited by his children. At that time, the subjects of the Ming Dynasty may have a dispute because they can't find an orthodox heir. You can find an imperial relative to pull it out. When I became an emperor, I also got a relative of the emperor to inherit the throne. At that time, a guy made a bunch of emperors to inherit the foundation of Daming, and then it would be completely messed up.

In fact, this kind of thing has indeed happened in history. After Li Zicheng attacked the capital, he died on Chongzhen Coal Mountain. As a result, there have been many times in the south that the descendants of the Zhu family compete for the orthodox throne.

So much so that in the later Ming Dynasty, the southern part of the Ming Dynasty basically did not form a very effective rule, and naturally did not form a planned and organized resistance to the Jiannu going south. Instead, the Ming Dynasty was quickly defeated and finally the world was seized by the Jiannu.

So Chongzhen is the emperor who rules the world, but in fact, in more than ten years, he has been constantly wrestling with his ministers to control the world. It is said that Chongzhen ruled the Ming Dynasty, but it is better to say that those Donglin Party or some civil servants are actually controlling the Ming Dynasty.

In the more than ten years of Chongzhen's reign, he has been wrestling with these ministers and can't completely implement or implement some of the reforms he wants to do.

So before Chongzhen died, he shouted that the internal and external ministers misunderstood me. In fact, it was not deliberately hurling responsibility. These ministers also had an inescapable responsibility for the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

But now Yu Xiaotian invaded the capital, completely controlled the court of the capital, and put Chongzhen under house arrest, forcing Chongzhen to give up power to him, so that he could use Chongzhen's jade seal to issue an edict and threaten the emperor to order the princes. He did not have any concerns in this regard.

Yu Xiaotian's character determines that he can't be controlled by these ministers, and he has military power that can control the situation. He will deal with anyone if he doesn't accept it. Moreover, he doesn't care about killing people and standing up. He dares to risk the world to sacrifice a butcher knife and implement his policy by powerful means.

After he promulgated and implemented the policy of stalling Ding into mu, it did attract the strong resistance of the gentry and dignitaries in many places. Even some local officials simply proposed that this imperial edict did not come from today's saints, but from the hands of traitors to filial piety, and wrote to the court that they could not obey the order.

Among them, the governors of Hejian Prefecture and Shunde Prefecture in the north have made clear their attitude and refuse to implement the preferential policies promoted by Yu Xiaotian, and cancel the preferential policies of powerful people and relatives, as well as some powerful people who have been able to obtain tax-free policies in the past.

Yu Xiaotian immediately ordered the newly re-established Zhongshu Province to draft a decree that the governors of the two places and the guys who refused to agree to implement the new policy were sent to Beijing for interrogation and elect someone to replace them.

The original magistrate of these two places certainly refused to comply. Zhending magistrate actually recruited soldiers and horses on the spot to try to engage in military confrontation with the current pseudo-court. This pseudo-court is really very appropriate. The current Ming court is no longer the court when Chongzhen was in power, but just dressed in the Ming Dynasty. A, it is the court that does the matter of Yu Xiaotian. The coat is the surname Zhu, but the inner one has been changed to the surname Yu.

However, it was precisely because Yu Xiaotian wore a Daming vest that he dared to do things unscrupulously. When he learned that the Zhending magistrate actually tried to fight against him by force, he ordered Meng Fei to run there without saying a word.

Meng Fei ordered that he only brought two battalions of troops and rushed to Zhending Mansion at night. The two infantry battalions rushed from Baoding Mansion to Zhending Mansion at the speed of marching. After dawn, they came to Zhending Mansion.

In a panic, the magistrate ordered the temporarily recruited villagers and the officers and soldiers defending the city to resist, but how could these rabble be the opponents of the Yu army? As soon as the cannon of the Yu family army sounded, the soldiers and people defending the city over there immediately dispersed. Some detailed works encouraged some people in the city and took the opportunity to seize the door to open the city. Meng Fei led the army and poured into the city.

When the governor of Zhending learned that the defenders had collapsed, he quickly tried to escape with his family, but before he could pack up the car, Meng Fei had led his troops to the front of the government office and blocked them in the government office.

The magistrate knew that he would not be spared from being arrested this time. In order to suffer less crimes, he immediately committed suicide. Before he died, he forced his wife and concubine to commit suicide. As a result, after the family army invaded the government office, there were only a few maids and some family members, and the rest of their relatives committed suicide.

In the next few months, Yu Xiaotian vigorously abolished the original non-combatable miscellaneous soldiers in the north while vigorously expanding his Yu family army.

When he landed in Tianjin at the beginning of the year, he only brought more than 30,000 troops, but by October, Yu Xiaotian had expanded the strength of the Yu family's army in the north to 100,000 people.

Although the combat effectiveness of these new armies is not strong at present, it is doubtful whether they can ensure that they will not be afraid of danger like veterans, but they are still much stronger than those old Ming armies.