The battle in Huai'an City went on very quickly, and the city wall was blown away less than an hour in the morning. The Qing army in the city had no morale at all, and the battle in the city was not fierce. The battle had ended in the afternoon. The center of the Grand Canal in Huai'an was occupied by the Ming army.

Zhu Hongsan has been sitting on the imperial chariot three miles outside the East City to watch. This is the first battle of the Northern Expedition, and it is necessary to ensure a good start. Zhu Hongsan watches here, but the civil servants who come with him are suffering. This time, Zhu Hongsan also brought a large number of civil servants in the Northern Expedition. Hou Xun, the governor of Northern Zhili, appointed in Yangzhou, was one of them. Others include governors from various northern provinces, prefects from several important prefectures, etc.

Zhu Hongsan sat in the imperial chariot with a curtain to block the wind. The ministers outside were in trouble and were blew by the wind on the canal.

It was just noon, and Zhu Hongsan sent someone to ask what the troops had to eat. After a while, the Jinyiwei came and replied. The battle did not stop today, and the troops could only eat meat-carried buns. After hearing this, Zhu Hongsan's eyes turned and ordered: "Go, send the order to continue. I will share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers. At noon today, I will bring all the civil and military officials to eat meat-carried buns!"

Zhu Hongsan's order made all the civil officials stunned. Most of these civil officials were Jinshi, and some were Juren. You should know that Juren could be exempted from taxes, and they were not poor people. It was not that these civil officials could not endure hardship, but those who squat on the ground and chewed meat buns on the canal were really insulting.

After a while, the cooks raised two baskets of steamed buns and two buckets of hot soup. Zhu Hongsan called the Jinyiwei and the generals beside him to come forward to have a meal, but the civil servants did not move.

The new Huai'an prefect Wang Ying couldn't stand it, the emperor was so arrogant and humiliated by scholars, and stood up and said, "Your Majesty, we are all officials. We must maintain the face of the court. Isn't it good to eat like this?"

This Wang Ying has a great background. He is from Songjiang Prefecture, Nanzhili. His teacher is Chen Zilong, the Minister of Finance. In history, Chen Zilong was defeated and killed. No one dared to collect the body for him at that time. It was the body that Wang Ying and another disciple Xu Huanjian who collected Chen Zilong. In this time and space, Wang Ying sold his property and his teacher Chen Zilong to join the Taihu Guerrillas. Zhu Hongsan was able to occupy Nanzhili so quickly, and these anti-Qing scholars and officials put in a lot of effort.

After Zhu Hongsan occupied Nanjing, Wang Ying, who had made contributions and backgrounds, had to be praised by such a great anti-Qing faction. Zhu Hongsan gave him a Jinshi and went to Zhejiang to become a county magistrate. Some people in the court were good at being an official. After Ma Mingyuan took office, in order to win over Chen Zilong, he promoted several outstanding disciples of Chen Zilong to important positions. Wang Ying was appointed as the prefect of Huai'an and was also in charge of canal affairs. You must know that the grain transportation was a single governor in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and that was a first-rank official. Now, Wang Ying, a fourth-rank official, was in charge of the situation. This is absolutely reusable.

Although what Wang Ying said sounds tactful, the meaning is to scold the emperor. We scholars are different from your emperor, so we still have shame!

Zhu Hongsan's face darkened when he heard this, and he was about to get angry. However, Hou Xun, one of these civil officials, stood up and took a steamed bun and bit it down.

Hou Xun said while eating: "The taste is good, but there is a lot of fat and it will be even better if it is fat and thin! By the way, I'm dry, who can give me a bowl of soup?"

Hou Xun is the highest among these officials. Hou Xun was a Jinshi in the 44th year of Wanli. When he was an official, many of these officials were still sucking children, so Hou Xun's actions were very impressive. Seeing that Hou Xun was like this, other officials had no choice but to come forward to get a steamed bun, and don't care whether they eat or not, at least let the emperor get out of office.

Seeing Hou Xun protecting his face, Zhu Hongsan was very happy and quickly ordered someone to send a bowl of soup for Hou Xun. At the same time, he glared at Wang Ying fiercely. He cursed in his heart: If it weren't for the face of your teachers Chen Zilong and Hou Xun, I would have wanted you to look good today.

At this moment, the Jinyiwei reported that some officials from all sizes and big and small were arrested in the city and asked His Majesty the Emperor to see what to do.

Zhu Hongsanyi heard that it was fine now, and he beat the child on a rainy day. He was idle, so he might as well be happy with these Qing officials.

"Go and take them up!"

In a short while, more than a dozen Qing officials were taken up. These people were wearing all kinds of clothes, some were wearing ordinary clothes, some were wearing Qing soldiers' clothes, and several of them were shaved. They even shaved their braids and turned into big bald heads. They seemed to be preparing to dress up as monks and mingle outside the city.

These officials were headed by Zhou Boda, the governor of Jiangning in the Qing Dynasty. He knew that the death or life today depends on the emperor in front of him. So as soon as he saw Zhu Hongsan, he knelt down on the ground and cried: "My memory, Zhou Boda, finally saw His Majesty!" Zhou Boda was a Jinshi in Chongzhen for ten years, served as a county magistrate, head of the Ministry of Works, and an assistant to Pingliang Road, Shaanxi, so he called himself a minister.

Zhou Boda cried, "Your Majesty, Chongzhen is incompetent, Hongguang's government affairs are controlled by the eunuch party, and King Lu and Tang fight for power. At that time, I had no choice but to surrender to the Qing Dynasty! But I was in the Qing Dynasty and was in the Ming Dynasty. When I learned that the wise Emperor Shenwu raised an army in Guangdong, I have always looked forward to the king's army, but I didn't expect that I would finally wait for Your Majesty today! Woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo w

When Zhu Hongsan heard Zhou Boda say this, he realized that this guy was really shameless. He heard that he said this. It seemed that he had been lying on firewood and tasting gall in the past few years. He was the number one spy who was invaded by the Qing Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty. However, Zhou Boda was the opponent of the Ming Emperor Zhu Hongsan.

Zhu Hongsan said slowly: "I heard you say that, thank you for your hard work in the past few years, but since you know that I am in Guangdong, why don't you come to join me?"

Zhou Boda was stunned when he heard the emperor say this, and quickly replied: "Your Majesty, Guangdong is too far from Nanzhili, I really don't have the ability to go to Guangdong!"

"Farting, you have to go to create difficulties without difficulties! Look at Qian Qianyi, knowing that I am in Guangdong, immediately leave my family and business to Guangdong to join me! Why don't you learn from him?"

Zhu Hongsan's words made Zhou Boda speechless, yes! When Qian Qianyi left Nanzhili, he did not go to the King of Lu in eastern Zhejiang, nor to the King of Tang in Fujian, but went directly to Guangdong to vote for Zhu Hongsan. But what happened to Qian Qianyi? Qian Qianyi was not valued in Beijing, and was discouraged and resigned and went home. After returning home, he saw that all the young and old families were abducted by Zhu Hongsan to Guangdong, so he had no choice but to go to Guangdong with him.

But Zhou Boda was different. After surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, he was immediately appointed as the governor of Gansu, and the next year he was appointed as the prefect of Jiangning. It was the time of spring and prosperity. Where could he go to Guangdong to surrender to a small warlord like Zhu Hongsan?
Chapter completed!