In July of the first year of Dazhong Tianyuan, that is, in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, the Ming Dynasty was captured by the Dazhong Army with the city of Beijing, announcing the fall of the Ming Dynasty, but this is only a substantive thing, in name the Ming Dynasty still objectively exists, after all, the southern provinces still belong to the Ming Dynasty, and have not yet been controlled by the Dazhong Dynasty.

But on August 20, in the city of Beijing, there was a more shocking news, the Ming prince Zhu Cihong, in the city of Beijing as the Ming prince announced, henceforth to give up the succession of the Ming Emperor, and in the name of the prince edict to the local government and officials and troops that have not yet surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, thinking that the world will no longer be poisoned by the scourge of war, immediately give up being the enemy of the Great Middle Dynasty, accept the jurisdiction of the Great Middle Dynasty, which is also equivalent to the orthodox heir of the Ming Dynasty, officially announced the end of the Ming Dynasty in writing.

At the same time, Dazhong Emperor Xiao Tianjian also announced to the world that he would protect the safety of the three princes and two princesses of Chongzhen, and canonized the crown prince Zhu Cihong as the king of Dazhong Chaoning.

After the news came out, it immediately caused a big uproar in the world.

Although everyone knows that this must be the decision that the crown prince Zhu Cihong was coerced by the Dazhong Emperor Xiao Tianjian, and had to make it, this edict issued by the prince of the Ming Dynasty is uncertain whether it was written by Zhu Cihong himself.

But there is a problem here, that is, Zhu Cihong is not dead, his identity as the prince of the Ming Dynasty, no one can change, from the orthodox point of view, as the most orthodox successor of the Ming Dynasty, he has announced that he will give up the succession and belong to the Dazhong Dynasty, so it also shows that the Ming era when he issued an edict as the crown prince, legally speaking, has finally been ended.

Although the southern provinces have not yet surrendered to the Great Middle Dynasty, they can also find an heir of the Zhu family to inherit the mantle of the Ming Dynasty, raise a so-called emperor, set up a small court of the Ming Dynasty, and continue the rule of the Ming Dynasty in the south, but after all, they have no right to abolish the crown prince, and no one can deny the identity of Zhu Cihong, the prince, so the so-called emperor they have raised cannot be called orthodox.

On the contrary, Xiao Tianjian, the emperor of the Great Middle Dynasty, accepted the Zen position of Zhu Cihong, the prince of the Ming Dynasty, but had a legitimate status, except for Xiao Tianjian, no one could prove that he was orthodox!

Don't look at this drama on the surface, it is a bit of a cover-up and stealing the bell, but for China's thinking that has lasted for thousands of years, this is a clever move, which is equivalent to completely recognizing the identity of Xiao Tianjian, the pseudo-emperor who started the rebellion and proclaimed himself emperor, and as the orthodox heir of the Ming Dynasty, he ceded the position of the Ming Emperor to Xiao Tianjian.

Doing so also blocked the mouths of the world, especially for a considerable number of scholars who admit death, it is undoubtedly a magic weapon to eliminate the last bit of mustard in their hearts.

And it is rumored that on August 20, the Dazhong Emperor Xiao Tianjian was still in front of the Imperial Palace in the Forbidden City, and conducted a formal Zen throne ceremony, and the Ming prince Zhu Cihong finally gave the Ming Emperor Zen to Xiao Tianjian as his Ming prince, and in the Imperial Palace, Xiao Tianjian once again ascended the throne as the emperor of Dazhong.

There were also hundreds of former ministers of the Ming Dynasty and civil and military officials of the Dazhong Dynasty who participated in the ceremony that day, and after the Zen throne ceremony, these former ministers of the Ming Dynasty, all in front of the Huangji Palace, swore allegiance to Xiao Tianjian, the emperor of the Dazhong Dynasty from now on, and turned all of them into officials of the Dazhong Dynasty.

In fact, the reason why such a farce was made was not the method that Xiao Tianjian or his military generals came up with, but the idea came from a group of civil officials among the old ministers of the Ming Dynasty.

The news that the crown prince Zhu Cihong and the other two princes were captured by Liu Zeqing and dedicated to Xiao Tianjian soon spread among the Beijing divisions, which also completely cut off the thoughts of some old ministers of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen is dead anyway, and there are still some people who hope that the prince Zhu Cihong and the three princes of King Ding and King Yong can escape to the southern provinces, so that the prince Zhu Cihong can still be the orthodox prince, anywhere in the south, announce the succession, and order the remnants of the Ming Dynasty in the world to continue to fight against Dazhong and North Korea in the south.

But with the arrest of the three princes, this expectation was immediately shattered, and everyone thought that the three princes were completely finished, and in their opinion, Xiao Tianjian would definitely kill Zhu Cihong and the three princes to ensure that they would never suffer in the future, but what everyone didn't expect was that Xiao Tianjian actually let go of the three princes, and entrusted them to Lu Xiangsheng to take care of them, and ordered to find someone to be responsible for educating them. At the same time, he also ordered that Princess Changping and Princess Zhaoren, who were caught in Beijing in the early stage, also be sent to Lu Xiangsheng's mansion to live with the three princes.

Such a move surprised everyone, even Fan Jingwen, an old minister who had resigned, couldn't help but write to Xiao Tianjian to thank Xiao Tianjian for his kindness to the three princes, and Lu Xiangsheng cried excitedly because of this.

For these former ministers of the former dynasty who stayed behind, Xiao Tianjian's approach also reassured them again, secretly thinking that since Xiao Tianjian could stay and not kill three princes who were a great threat to him, then for these old ministers, as long as they work hard in the future, they will still have a very promising future.

A few old ministers of the Ming Dynasty who had a little idea also broke off their thoughts, so they began to do things honestly, and had to admire the talents of these Confucian scholars, and soon someone came up with this idea, and contacted some old ministers, and wrote to Xiao Tianjian together, and put forward the idea of letting Zhu Cihong take the Zen position as the prince of the Ming Dynasty.

When this idea was first proposed, Xiao Tianjian didn't think so, thinking that it was just a flattering idea that a group of old ministers of the Ming Dynasty came up with in order to pat his ass.

But when Lu Xiangsheng learned the news, he repeatedly praised this method as indeed a good method, and said that Xiao Tianjian adopted this method.

Xiao Tianjian began to pay attention to the opinions put forward by these former ministers, and after carefully discussing it with his ministers, everyone felt that this method was good, although it was a bit of a cover-up, but it had to be said that this was indeed a good strategy to destroy the remnants of the Ming Dynasty.

So Xiao Tianjian finally gladly adopted the opinions of these former ministers of the previous dynasty, opened the Huangji Palace, and made such a farce in the Huangji Palace.

In addition, some people simply proposed to let Xiao Tianjian accept Zhu Cihong as his righteous son, in that case, his Xiao family and the Zhu family would become a family, and Zhu Cihong would no longer be able to fight with Xiao Tianjian in the future.

So Xiao Tianjian immediately became kind, not only accepted Zhu Cihong as a righteous son, but also simply accepted King Ding, King Yong, Princess Changping, and Princess Zhaoren as a righteous son and daughter.

This kind of thing is really ridiculous to say, Xiao Tianjian forced Chongzhen to death with his own hands, but he accepted Chongzhen's children as righteous sons and daughters, so in this way, even the civil and military forces under Xiao Tianjian who mainly killed the three princes finally stopped mentioning killing them.

But when this news reaches the south for a period of time in the future, everyone can imagine what the expressions of the Ming courtiers in the southern provinces should be after learning the news, even if they want to toss again, there is no legitimate reason, after all, even the prince Zhu Cihong, who is extremely orthodox, has already given up the Ming Dynasty to Xiao Tianjian, so what else do they have to say as subordinates?

Therefore, as soon as the news came out, the world suddenly shook, and some of the local governments and officials and troops in the north who had not yet surrendered to the Great Middle Korea who first got the news were immediately completely deflated, and either abandoned their officials one after another, or sent people to submit a surrender table to the nearby troops of the Great Middle Korea, in short, within a few days, all the state capitals and counties in the entire North Zhili were all under the jurisdiction of the Great Middle Dynasty without wasting a single knife or a shot, and then within the next month, even the remaining prefectures and counties in Shandong have announced that they will accept the jurisdiction of the Great Middle Korea. From now on, he will no longer oppose the Great Middle Kingdom.

This method can be said to be very effective, at least to prevent Xiao Tianjian from continuing to divide his troops and fighting with the remnants of the Ming Dynasty in the north, which not only reduced the damage to the local economy caused by the war, but also accelerated the unification of the north, so that the entire Northern Expedition was declared to be over after September.

A large number of local officials who had been screened out in Nanjing, such as Li Jinde, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, were sprinkled out like a tidal wave, and they rushed to various parts of the north to begin to take over the local civil affairs of Beizhili and Shandong provinces.

At the end of August, Xiao Tianjian issued an edict in Beijing to the world, ordering bandits from all over the country to immediately lay down their arms and surrender to the nearby Dazhong army, and stipulated that before the end of the year, all those who surrendered could not be blamed for the past, and in the future, as long as they honestly became obedient citizens of the Great Middle and Korean Dynasties, they could obtain a new legal status, and whether they were engaged in agriculture or business, they could live in peace.

But if these bandits refuse to surrender before the end of the year, the Dazhong army will never tolerate them again, and will carry out a devastating extermination of them at that time, and will never accept surrender again!

So under the great victory of the Great Chinese Army, the bandits scattered throughout the north saw that the situation in the north had stabilized, and with the release of a large number of large Chinese troops, their good days were over, so the smarter Haoqiang and the bandit leaders immediately made their choice.

Either they immediately went to the nearby Dazhong army to surrender, and then after being registered, they were sent back to their hometowns for resettlement, or they were resettled on the spot, and some of them who were willing to join the army were admitted to the new barracks of the army for intensive training after strict examination and selection.

Although some of the other bandits did not choose to surrender, they divided their belongings privately, each took some money, dispersed on the spot, went back to his own house to find his own mother, and relied on the property they obtained to buy land and property, and also lived in peace.

Even along the canal, which was the most troubled by the bandits, after the Dazhong army conquered Beijing, many bandits also quickly disappeared, making the canal smooth and safer, so that the various fleets that transferred materials from the south to the north began to transport materials to the north faster, and quickly and greatly alleviated the food shortage in the north.