Zhang Jiayu followed the gaze of the Son of Heaven, and couldn't help but say angrily: "Your Majesty, the day before yesterday, when the thieves saw that the city was broken, they made people raise fires everywhere, and more than ten palaces in the northeast corner of the Forbidden City were burned, and there are still sporadic fires that have not been extinguished at this time.

"If it weren't for Liu Chang's decisiveness to collapse Zhongcui Palace and Jingren Palace, and cut off the source of fire, the consequences would be unimaginable!"

"What about the Forbidden City? According to the Jinyi Wei report, Jianyu wanted to burn down the entire city of Beijing! Zhu Linmiao frowned and said coldly, "Dolgon wants to use the burning city to reduce the victory of our dynasty to recover the old capital and weaken my morale." Fortunately, Beizhen dealt with it properly in the city, so he was not captured by the thieves. ”

Zhang Jiayu suddenly remembered something again, and said worriedly: "Your Majesty, the last general heard from Liu Chang this morning that all the valuables in the palace were swept away when the chieftain fled north. This repair of the temple can still be done slowly, but the lack of imperial utensils may delay the capital of Beijing......"

"Still in Beijing?" Zhu Linmiao glanced at him, "Who said I was going to move the capital?" ”

Zhang Jiayu was stunned for a moment, and said carefully: "Your Majesty means that the capital is still Nanjing?" ”

Zhu Linmiao smiled, "Sailing the world in the future, and commerce is the foundation of the rich country of the Ming Dynasty." Yingtianfu is near Susong and Ningbo, and the waterway is smooth, which is the first choice of the national capital. In addition, it has been less than a year since he moved north from Tianxing Mansion, and he has moved again at this time, which is too laborious and costly. ”

"However, the northern Tartars are in great trouble......"

The imperial chariot drove past the Forbidden City, entered the Shuntian Mansion and stopped, Zhang Jiayu had to say something more, Shi Lin asked Xu Feihu to see outside the door, so Zhu Linmiao raised his hand and said: "Yuanzi will go to arrange the military affairs at Shanhaiguan first, and other things will be talked about when I return to Nanjing." ”

"Yes!"

Xu Feihu was summoned, and immediately knelt on the ground after entering the back hall, and said extremely nervously: "The subordinates did not do their jobs well, so that the palace ban was burned by the thieves, and I also asked the saint to surrender ......"

"Get up," Zhu Linmiao leaned into his hand and said, "There are only more than 100 people in Beizhen in the city, and it is rare to be able to keep Beijing from burning." In fact, I value those three granaries more than the palace ban. If the 80,000 stone of grain and rice are burned, the court will have to transfer grain to help the people in the city, so you have no merit. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, Long." Xu Feihu breathed a sigh of relief, took out another roster and handed it to Ma Wensheng, "Your Majesty, this is the captured official who assisted the army in attacking the city this time, and a total of thirty-two people have indeed made real contributions. ”

Zhu Linmiao took it and glanced at it, some of them led people to help capture the city gate, some protected the granary, and some plotted against the green camp, which really contributed a lot. He instructed Ma Wensheng: "These thirty-two people will be exempted from capital crimes and sent back to their hometowns." The rest of the captives in Beijing, both Manchu and Han, were handed over to the Criminal Department for disposal. ”

The officials in Beijing are either "captives" or "traitors," and if they are handed over to the criminal department, they will inevitably be killed.

Zhu Linmiao did not stay in Beijing for long, and the next day he led the main force of the Ming army back to Nanjing, leaving less than 8,000 people to maintain order in Beizhili.

It's not that he doesn't want to recover Liaodong in one go, but at the moment there is still Henan that has not been recovered for the time being, although there are only a few thousand weak Qing army brigades left, but the area of 1670,000 square kilometers, even if you drive a horse to run once, it will take more than a month.

In addition, there are more than 20,000 thieves in Shandong, and if they cannot be exterminated as soon as possible, they will inevitably cause disaster to the place. There is also the king of Huguang who entered the army and went into the mountains and forests, and it was extremely troublesome to clean up.

Zhu Linmiao estimated that it would take half a year to completely solve these problems at home.

Moreover, the soldiers in Liaodong were different from all previous battles, not only was the climate outside the pass cold, but also quite barren, and the distance was long, and the cost of each soldier was even ten times that of the pass!

The Ming Dynasty has been in war for a long time, and it is when the national strength is weakening, and now there is really no financial strength to support the army to fight in Liaodong. If troops are forcibly dispatched, it will inevitably lead to the misery of the people.

Therefore, according to Zhu Linmiao's plan, the first task of the Ming Dynasty now is to recuperate and develop overseas colonies in order to quickly recover, and then try to continue to advance north.

Fortunately, the maritime trade routes of Daming have been opened, and as long as the current momentum continues to develop, all kinds of materials and silver from all over the world will continue to flow into Daming.

When the national strength of the Ming Dynasty recovers, it is a matter of course to go out of the customs and cut down the captives!

Zhu Linmiao took the imperial camp all the way south, and the state capital did not stop on the way, and more than a month later, he had crossed Zhenjiang and arrived outside Nanjing.

Yang Tinglin led the Manchu Dynasty civil and military forces out of the city for fifty miles to welcome the triumph of the holy car. The people near Nanjing are gathered here, and there can be as many as 1670,000 people!

Just kidding, with only Jiangxi and Fujian, the army was raised, the south and the north were bold, hundreds of thousands of Tartars in the Central Plains were driven away, the orthodoxy of China was restored, and the society of the country was overthrown, what a great achievement this is!!

Throughout the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that only the founding Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang can compare with today's son, and the rest are beyond reach!

Originally, with the intention of the cabinet, it was to go out to welcome a hundred miles, but Yang Tinglin knew that Zhu Linmiao didn't like to be sent to him, so he tried his best to change the location of the welcome to fifty miles away.

Fifty miles was already the limit that the courtiers could accept.

Although the imperial court did not make too much pomp and circumstance in line with the frugal principle required by the Son of Heaven, the people spontaneously picked spring flowers, and paved them with bouquets for dozens of miles from the welcoming place to the city of Nanjing, and the crowds on both sides of the road were also spectacular at a glance.

When I saw the Son of Heaven driving from a distance, headed by nearly a thousand courtiers, I knelt down with the tens of thousands of people who came to greet him, and the mountain shouted "Long live", and the sound was so loud that it went straight to the sky.

Zhu Linmiao stood on top of the imperial chariot, raised his hand and said, "Zhongqing is flat." ”

"Long live thanks!"

The courtiers then stood up, but the people next to them still knelt respectfully. Zhu Linmiao didn't force this, after all, this was the Ming Dynasty in the seventeenth century, and if ordinary people wanted to stand together with the Son of Heaven, they must not be shocked into a cold sweat, not to mention that it is even more impossible for the people to respect the Ming Jun who is like a god in their hearts.

Then Yang Tinglin took twenty steps forward, unfolded the brocade in his hand, and began to recite aloud the eulogy praising the great cause of the Son of Heaven.

After Yang Tinglin finished reading, the courtiers knelt down again and shouted long live, and Zhu Linmiao was congratulated by the ministers in turn......

The various ceremonies were carried out for nearly two hours, and then the imperial chariot had to sail towards the city of Nanjing again.

The car drove to the front of Zhengyang Gate, and Zhu Linmiao saw a huge public notice board standing outside the door from a distance, with the original text of the Jianyu Surrender Table hanging on it, and it was also written on the wooden board with Dou Da characters next to it, which was convenient for pedestrians to watch.

Behind the public notice board, there were more than 20 heads, led by the Minister of Parliament and the University Scholar Ganglin. On the left side of "him" is Tan Bai, the defender of Beijing, and on the right is the Jianyu clan, Dulan, the king of Doluo County.

The heads were covered with stones, mud and other objects, and they had apparently been "observed" by the people of the city for several days.