On the third day of Zhu Cihong's return to Fengyang, the imperial court's decree of reward had already arrived.

This time, the eunuch was the celebrant and the eunuch Fang Zhenghua, and the former eunuch Han San, the little brother who accepted a bribe of ten taels of silver from Zhu Cihong back then.

Han San has developed well in the past two years, and has gone from the former eunuch of the Qianqing Palace to the former eunuch of the imperial palace, this former eunuch, except for a few old guys in the ceremonial eunuch, there are only two places in total.

This time the rewards were mainly Huang Degong and Sun Yingyuan, Huang Degong was named a general of the barbarians and stationed in Huguang, which Zhu Cihong had already expected.

The general is different from the hussar general, this is a real general, at present, there are more than 60 people in the Ming Dynasty, and there are only a dozen people who hang the seal, these are the general soldiers who guard the border or lead the troops to go out to the army, and the status is higher than the general army.

The general army officer of the Ming Dynasty in the Huguang area was called the general, known as the Pingman general, the general army stationed in Yunnan was called the general of Zhengnan, the general of Liangguang was called the general of Zhengman, Liaodong was called the general of Zhengqing, the Xuanfu was called the general of Zhenshuo, Gansu was called the general of Pingqiang, Ningxia was called the general of Zhengxi, and Yansui was called the general of Zhenxi.

Among all the general soldiers of the seal, the word "town" begins with the most noble, followed by the word "Zheng", and then begins with the word "Ping", at present, there are only two general soldiers of the Ming Dynasty "town" at the beginning of the letter, one is one of the nine sides of the Xuanfu general army, and one is the general army of Yansui.

To Zhu Cihong's surprise, Sun Yingyuan was made a captive general, and the holy decree required him to lead his troops to Liaodong to garrison Songshan within six months.

Transfer Sun Yingyuan to Liaodong? Emperor Lao Tzu began to cut his power? Zhu Cihong frowned.

Zhu Cihong first asked people to entertain the two eunuchs, and then summoned Fang Zhenghua separately to talk and chat with him, and the content of the conversation was limited to greeting his father and queen mother, asking if the palace was okay, and did not mention anything about the affairs of the court.

Fang Zhenghua can enter the master of ceremonies, and he can be regarded as Chongzhen's old team, and his loyalty to Chongzhen is very deep, and it is not easy to get something out of his mouth and have a deep friendship with him.

Fang Zhenghua's trip is to announce the decree, the second is to inspect the disaster situation in various places along the way, and the third is to secretly observe the prince's situation in Fengyang, such as whether he has exceeded the system and the grasp of Jiangnan, as a reference for His Majesty to recall the prince to Beijing.......

After the two talked for a while, they began to lie to you, you coaxed me, and played with each other, Zhu Cihong sent him away directly, and then summoned Han San alone.

Han San is still young, has no background, and is not the original Xinwang Mansion, he has been secretly pulled into his circle by Zhu Cihong in the past two days, after Li Tingbiao left the palace in the south, the intelligence system in the palace was partially controlled by Han San.

As for the other part, it is naturally Li Tingbiao who secretly stayed in the palace that Jinyi Wei is responsible for, and Zhu Cihong will never put the intelligence system in charge of one person, it is too dangerous.

After Han San left, Zhu Cihong's brows furrowed even tighter, the emperor's heart was very big, not only wanted to pick his peaches, but also planned to do something to Xungui, it is said that he had secretly sent someone to investigate the family property of the nobles of Jingshi.

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After the reward was decreed, Sun Kewang kept following Zhu Cihong, with a sad face.

When Zhu Cihong said that he would give him the deputy general of Yongzhou, but it has not been implemented, when he left Hengzhou, Sun Kewang once asked, Zhu Cihong told him that the imperial court is still going through the formalities, and when the imperial court's reward comes, you can go to Yongzhou to take office.

Without an official rank, Sun Kewang has been following Zhu Cihong, like a debt collector, all the way to Fengyang.

Now that the court's reward has come down, everyone else has a reward, but he doesn't, Zhu Cihong also ignores him, which makes Sun Kewang very anxious.

Zhu Cihong summoned the paparazzi-like Sun Kewang over and asked, "Sun Kewang, do you want to go to Yongzhou to be a deputy general?" ”

"Yes! The last general has been waiting for your news! Sun Kewang said.

Zhu Cihong was very satisfied with his attitude, and said: "Although this palace has strongly recommended you to be the deputy general of Yongzhou, the imperial court has always been skeptical of your surrender attitude, and this palace is also helpless!" ”

Sun Kewang said in a hurry: "Your Highness, I am sincere, and I want to serve the court in my dreams!" ”

Zhu Cihong said regretfully: "I understand, your performance these days is also seen in the palace, but the ministers in the court don't believe it, many people are clamoring to kill you, so as to prevent future troubles......."

Sun Kewang was so frightened that his little face turned pale, and he said anxiously: "Your Highness save me, the last will be a loser, and the money will not be exchanged!" ”

Zhu Cihong pondered for a while, and said: "The court doesn't believe you, then you do something to make the court believe in you, this palace knows that there is a rule in your way, called staining some blood.......

Speaking of this, Zhu Cihong stopped and looked at him without speaking.

Sun Kewang said abruptly: "Now that the thieves in various places have either dispersed or are hiding, what will the last general do to make the court believe......

"Isn't there a big thief in Fengyang City?" Zhu Cihong looked at him meaningfully.

Sun Kewang was stunned and said, "Father-in-law........"

Zhu Cihong smiled slightly: "Of course, I also mentioned it, you can also go to Shangluo Mountain, Shaanxi to search for Li Zicheng, if you can carry his head to the imperial court, the palace will promote you to be the chief soldier, and it will be absolutely implemented within a month!" ”

Sun Kewang beat a drum in his heart and went to Shangluo Mountain to search for Li Zicheng? Not to mention that Li Zicheng hated the thieves who surrendered to the imperial court, let's just say that Shangluo Mountain is so big, tens of thousands of officers and soldiers have not searched for him for so long, and they went into the mountains to search for it themselves? That's the Year of the Monkey!

Zhu Cihong ignored the tangled Sun Kewang and left.

On the second day, Sun Kewang came to the death row where Zhang Xianzhong was held, but the death row, which was originally heavily guarded and no one was allowed to enter, became extremely lax today, and Sun Kewang swaggered in without much effort.

Half an hour later, news came from the death row that the thief Zhang Xianzhong was killed by Sun Kewang, and Li Dingguo, who lived in the next cell, saw that the situation was flawed, and in a fit of rage, he violently broke the wooden fence in the prison and killed Sun Kewang on the spot.

After Zhu Cihong heard this, he didn't say anything, took out a document from his bosom appointing Sun Kewang as the deputy general of Yongzhou, and threw it into the brazier.......

Li Dingguo, who was in the cell, sat beside Zhang Xianzhong's corpse for a long time, silent, did not eat or drink, and his face was full of pain.

Li Dingguo recalled many scenes of the four brothers following their father-in-law to fight the world over the years, as vivid as he remembered, now the father-in-law and the three brothers-in-law are all dead, the father-in-law was killed by the brother-in-law, and the brother-in-law was killed by his own hands, and the painful things in life are nothing more than this.......

Zhu Cihong knows very well that Li Dingguo's loyalty in history can be seen from day to day, not only to Zhang Xianzhong, even if he later cooperated with Nanming, he was also extremely loyal to Emperor Yongli, if Zhu Cihong killed Zhang Xianzhong, it would inevitably cause Li Dingguo's lifelong hatred, and it was impossible to subdue him.

In order to have a chance to subdue this famous general like a god of war, Zhu Cihong decided to sacrifice Sun Kewang, the deputy general of Yongzhou who was both loyal and righteous, and let him carry a thousand catties of black pot on his back, the kind that he couldn't shake off......