Duke Hua, who had been in the capital for many days, finally led the army to fight south. Emperor Xuantong Zhu Cilang moved to the Duke of Huaguo's mansion outside Xizhimen to see him off. The monarch and minister staged a farewell show in front of the ministers in the court. Duke Hua, who should have gone south, should follow the emperor Zhu Cilang into the city and go to the north to fight. Emperor Zhu Cilang awarded Duke Hua's edict to command the world, and specially gave a glass of Victory wine. The deeply moved Duke Hua knelt on the ground and burst into tears. He was so excited that his hands trembled. He took the wine glass and said he was sure.

To complete the great cause of the southern expedition, we will be able to regain the foundation of the Ming Dynasty for ten thousand years. Due to being too excited, the emperor gave most of the Desheng wine given by the emperor was sprinkled in Zhang Ping'an's hands. Finally, the Duke of China sprinkled the wine in the glass on the ground and knelt down in the direction of the Northern Emperor's tomb, saying that it was to pay tribute to Emperor Chongzhen who died in his country. The Ming Dynasty was still extremely particular when going to the expedition. The army had to go north to Deshengmen. This rule was followed for hundreds of years. Although the Posou Army was a large army of foreign vassals, it was considered a Ming army, and this motion must be gone. Emperor Zhu Cilang came to see him off and also had the intention of testing Duke of China.

The Duke of China Zhang Ping'an was very suspicious. He was afraid that Zhu Cilang would poison the wine and tried his best to spill it out. Although the king and his ministers tried to show harmony, hundreds of shrewd court officials at the scene also saw the strangeness. In particular, the Duke of China had no intention of entering the city. He appointed Chief of Staff Gu Xin to lead the six thousand cavalrymen of the personal guard camp to Deshengmen for a walk, and he led the five thousand cavalrymen of the guard camp to the south. Zhu Cilang, who watched the Duke of China go away, smiled, and a hint of viciousness flashed in his eyes. Today, the Duke of China Zhang Ping'an's rebellious performance made Zhu Cilang feel humiliated.

The generals of the slave-defeating army led by Duke Hua were another huge threat to the Ming Dynasty. The pseudo-Ming court in the south was intimidated by the proclamation of rebellion, and many officials who depended on the pseudo-dynasty went north. However, Duke Hua seemed to have a clear distinction between love and hate, and all the officials of the pseudo-dynasty were handed over to the Ministry of Justice for interrogation. Not only that, Duke Hua also made a strategy of reducing the vassals, requiring the clan mansion to demote the princes who fled the vassals to common people. In the chaotic times of the late Chongzhen period, the princes who did not flee from the vassals had long died at the hands of bandits. The vassals in the south were designated as traitors by the court, and the surviving princes and clans of the Ming Dynasty were almost wiped out.

The current Ming court officials are mainly composed of the Donglin Party members on the surface, but most of them belong to the Duke of China, and the major policies of the court are basically controlled by them. In the first imperial examination of the New Dynasty, the Xuanwei envoy of the Ponucheng City absorbed all 360 high school students. The people who agreed that they should return to the territory of the Xuanwei envoy of the Ponucheng City, but as a result, the Duke of China hoped that they would learn the official affairs of the Celestial Dynasty, and nearly half of the new Jinshi stayed in the court to enhance the strength of the Duke of China. Zhu Cixuan opened

At first, he never understood why Duke Hua wanted to mint coins. When the New Dynasty's finances used gold and silver coins issued by Po Nucheng, Emperor Xuantong Zhu Cilang faintly felt that there were dynasties changing. Zhu Cilang was anxious about Duke Hua Zhang Ping'an's approach to controlling the government gradually, but fell into an irresistible situation. Although Duke Hua did not participate in the court discussions, he did not boycott the imperial edict issued by the New Dynasty. However, Duke Hua controlled the financial resources of the New Dynasty. If Duke Hua did not nod, the New Dynasty would have no money and food.

Without money and food, Zhu Cilang could not implement government orders, which made him an incredible puppet. If Zhu Cilang wants to become a truly talented emperor, he must get rid of the disaster of Duke Hua. However, the reality is extremely cruel. Hundreds of thousands of troops under Duke Hua were sweeping the world, and Zhu Cilang had no strength to compete with him. Since he could not confront him head-on, Zhu Cilang could only choose to find another way and use the simplest way to achieve impossible goals. As a fox wolf on the grassland, Zhang Ping'an was certain to face such temptations as Zhu Cilang.

I know that even if there is no poison in the wine given to him by Zhu Cilang, he would not drink it randomly. In the early years, Emperor Chongzhen was able to send assassins to the hinterland of the Ponu Army to assassinate him, and he was also very wary of Emperor Xuantong Zhu Cilang. It is very easy to say that Zhang Ping'an wants to eradicate Zhu Cilang now. He just needs to launch a mutiny to easily kill Zhu Cilang. However, the Ponu Army, which has established the foundation of the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, has lost the banner of orthodoxism, will face one after another rebellion. If he wants to obtain the regime smoothly, Zhang Ping'an can only do it gradually.

The orthodox banner of the new dynasty was very useful. The Danu army went out of Zhili, which had once attached to the pseudo-dynasty in the south, surrendered, and the Ponu army that attacked Shandong had almost occupied dozens of cities without any blood. Zhang Ping'an, the surrendered pseudo-South Ming official, ordered the life and money of his family to be preserved, confiscated the land and houses of these officials, and left a charge of dependent on rebellion to be investigated. Zhang Ping'an, a veteran of the officialdom, knew very well that beating these officials with one stick, would cause fierce resistance. If they were to leave a way out for life and keep their hope of resurgence, the officials who were thinking of the rebels would definitely choose to surrender sincerely. On the third day of September that year, the Duke of the Ming Dynasty led the Duke of Huaguo.

When the army arrived in Dezhou, the central group of the Po Slave Army swept the entire Shandong territory. Hundreds of local officials visited Duke Hua outside Dezhou, hoping to get the protection of Duke Hua to clear the crime of ruling. The former Ming officials in Shandong were mostly surrendered and rebellious bandits in the north, while the south was mostly dependent on the puppet dynasty of the Southern Ming Dynasty. In Zichuan, Shandong, the Huang Zhijun of the Po Slave Army encountered a problem. The Dashun Army ran rampant in Shandong for more than a year, but failed to capture the small city of Zichuan. The defenders of Zichuan were local militias, and Sun Zhixie, a Hanlin Shuji soldier who was idle at home, led his army to fight against the bandits. For this reason, Zichuan was besieged for more than half a year, making Sun Zhixie an alternative official who had neither relied on the robbers nor the puppet Southern Ming Dynasty.

Commander Huang Zhi had never encountered such a situation. He sent a cavalry to send Sun Zhixie to the main manager's tent and handed it over to Zhang Dashui to solve this problem. After receiving Huang Zhi's official documents, Zhang Ping'an, the commander of the Pou Slave Army, asked someone to invite Qu Guozheng, the headmaster of the Intelligence Department, to bring him Sun Zhixi's resume. Zhang Ping'an heard the name Sun Zhixie was very familiar. He thought for a long time and couldn't help but smile bitterly. Isn't this a disaster for later generations to create a "head-shaving order". Now, the Jurchens have been completely wiped out by him, and Sun Zhixi has escaped the bad reputation of a traitor.

Judging from Sun Zhixie's performance this year, he can be regarded as a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty. However, Sun Zhixie's foundation is too turbulent. He relied on the eunuch party in the year of Tianqi, and was later kicked back to his hometown by Emperor Chongzhen. Zhang Ping'an believed that Sun Zhixie was able to defend the small city of Zichuan in a crisis and had good personal abilities. After Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, he wiped out the eunuch party and was called the great contribution of the Ming Dynasty to the danger. He wrote a lot of books in history books to praise Emperor Chongzhen's great achievements. When Sun Zhixie met with Duke of China, Zhang Ping'an ran out of the gate to greet him personally to show his respect.

This is not the end. Zhang Ping'an wrote the memorial in front of Sun Zhixie, commending the court for several months to resist the treason army, and recommended Sun Zhixie to serve as the Shandong Inspection Office. The Ming Dynasty officials all knew that Zhang Ping'an, the current Duke of China, was powerful, and having his sponsor of Sun Zhixie, was just a formality in the court. The deeply moved Sun Zhixie knelt in front of Duke Hua, bit his finger and wrote a blood letter, which would definitely ensure that Shandong became the rear of the Destroyed Slave Army. Sun Zhixie wanted Duke Hua to pay the letter of fame in this extreme way, and tied his future career to Duke Hua.

Zhang Ping'an recommended Sun Zhixie in this way, and he had no good intentions at all. He wanted to disgust Emperor Xuantong and truly subdue Sun Zhixie, the fence-leader. Zhang Ping'an recommended Sun Zhixie as the Shandong Inspection Office. According to the personality of Emperor Xuantong Zhu Cixuan, he could not accept it at all. Sun Zhixie was a remnant of the eunuch party appointed by Emperor Chongzhen. No matter what reason Zhu Cixuan used to promote Sun Zhixie, it was a denial of the deceased father Emperor Chongzhen's achievements in cracking down on the eunuch party. If Zhu Cixuan denies his father's most wise political achievements, he would be regarded as a great unfilial piety by the court officials, which would seriously damage Zhu Cixuan's personal prestige.

However, it is not easy to reject the recommendation memorial of Duke of China Zhang Ping'an. Sun Zhixie, the only one in Shandong who has not surrendered to the thieves on both sides, is a model of loyal ministers. If such a loyal person is not commended by the emperor, it will also undermine the confidence of officials who have recently surrendered to him. Duke of China Zhang Ping'an never reaches out to ask for official positions for his own people. He usually likes to use the method of exchange of interests to communicate secretly, and finally passed the recommendation smoothly in the court discussion. Since Sun Zhixie is a remnant of the eunuch party, he should not have entered the eyes of Duke of China, known as a fighter of the eunuch party.

On the surface, the Duke of China, Zhang Ping'an, was selfless and recommended the wise ministers not to fear his background. Looking deeper, Zhang Ping'an was deliberately causing trouble for Emperor Xuantong and then testing the recent trend of the court. While Zhang Ping'an was digging a pit for Emperor Xuantong, Zhang Li's troops of the Western Route Army in the southern expedition only took ten days to reach thirty miles outside Fengyang Prefecture, Zhongdu, the Ming Dynasty. This time, the Western Route Army broke through, and the main general Zhang Li was not very at ease. Although the main force of the Central Cluster of the Possess Army occupied the important land of Xuzhou, the Eastern Route Army did not continue to attack in Tancheng, Shandong.

The Hanshou Wenxing Camp attacked Henan, and its vanguard controlled the line from Guide Prefecture to Chenzhou, basically ensuring that the army on the east road was worry-free. Zhang Li was a veteran who had experienced all the major battles of the Po Slave Army. He always felt that Zhang Dashen regarded him as bait and seemed to be fishing for some big fish. Zhongdu Fengyang was the place where the Ming Dynasty was dragon-rise. Although the Feng Shui here was good, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty was not rich. It was because the grain was not sold, a large amount of mulberry trees were planted here to produce silk in exchange for a large amount of food that could survive. These inferior silks were the main military supplies of the Po Slave Army. As the Po Slave Army cut off the transaction with the pseudo-Ming of the Southern Dynasty, Zhongdu Fengyang

The mansion was also in a famine. After the commander of the Slave Army, Zhang Li, Xiongying Camp and the Shuilong Camp, Huang Feihong's troops arrived in Fengyang, Zhongdu, temporarily stopped attacking and waiting for the arrival of Tianpeng Mountain troops in the rear. What the commander Zhang Li never expected was that the commander Zhang Ping'an issued command orders several times to him, stating that the eastern army would reach the periphery of Luzhou Prefecture within seven days. Forced to helplessness, the commander Zhang Li had to give up the attack on Fengyang Prefecture. He led the cavalry of the Xiongying Camp and the Shuilong Camp to march towards Luzhou Prefecture with 50,000 cavalrymen from the Eagle Camp and the Shuilong Camp. Just as Zhang Li East Route Army arrived fifty miles north of Luzhou Prefecture, the vanguard scout came to the news that the vanguard general Zuo Liangyu's troops, vanguard, surrounded Luzhou. (To be continued)
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