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But soon, Sun Chuanting received a letter from the capital. The letter was actually an autographed letter from Hong Chengchou. Sun Chuanting was shocked to learn that Hong Chengchou had an autographed letter to him. Then he learned that Hong Chengchou was actually killed by Yu Jiajun after the defeat.

Captured alive.

It stands to reason that if the Yu Jiajun captured Hong Chengchou, they would most likely kill him, but why would Hong Chengchou send someone from the capital to deliver a message to him?

So Sun Chuanting quickly received Hong Chengchou's autographed letter, opened it and read it. Hong Chengchou didn't say much in the letter. He just told him that Yu Xiaotian was not as bad as they thought, and that it was best for Sun Chuanting to come to the capital in person.

Meet Yu Xiaotian and him for a while.

Hong Chengchou also personally guaranteed in the letter, stating that he would guarantee Sun Chuanting's safety and that Yu Xiaotian would never harm him.

Sun Chuanting was shocked and confused after reading this letter. He initially speculated that Hong Chengchou might be controlled by Xiaotian and had no choice but to write to him, tricking him into coming to Beijing to harm him.

So he read the letter carefully several times, but did not find anything wrong in the letter. Hong Chengchou's notes were very clear, and there were no problems with his writing. It was not like he was in a hurry or because of his emotions.

The letter written to him in a very fluctuating state should be in a very stable state. This letter written quietly, there is nothing hidden between the lines.

So he thought of the person who sent the message and quickly sent someone to check. When the person who sent the message was brought to him, he found that he knew the person who sent the message. He was a servant of Hong Chengchou, so he quickly called the servant into his room.

He asked about Hong Chengchou's situation in detail.

The servant did not hide anything, and answered Sun Chuanting's questions truthfully, telling Sun Chuanting that although their master was captured, Yu Jiajun was very polite to him throughout the process, took good care of him and did not leave any difficulties to him.

After entering the capital, Yu Xiaotian met with Hong Chengchou in person. The two talked for a long time. Yu Xiaotian also allowed Hong Chengchou to live in his residence. Later, he also singled out Hong Chengchou to choose a quiet courtyard in the capital to rest in.

Send troops for protection.

In addition, Hong Chengchou's actions were not overly restricted. In the past few days, he often talked to Hong Chengchou about some matters. It seemed that the two sides got along quite harmoniously.

Sun Chuanting couldn't understand. When they raised troops and rushed to the capital, Hong Chengchou hated Xiaotian deeply and wanted to capture him immediately and kill him. However, he didn't expect that after Hong Chengchou was captured, he got Yu Xiaotian.

It was strange that Hong Chengchou valued him so highly, and it seemed that Hong Chengchou did not repay his kindness with death, but he had a very happy chat with Yu Xiaotian.

After confirming that Hong Chengchou was not forcibly kidnapped by Yu Xiaotian and deliberately deceived him into coming to the capital to murder him, Sun Chuanting finally resolutely chose to follow Hong Chengchou's servants and rushed to the capital with only a dozen of his caring servants.

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After Sun Chuanting came to Beijing, Yu Xiaotian received Sun Chuanting with high standards, and personally hosted a banquet for Sun Chuanting in the garden of Xingyuan. He also invited Hong Chengchou, who had surrendered to him, to accompany him.

The three of them talked at Yu Xiaotian's temporary residence for an entire afternoon and half of the night. They ended up having a drink and two meals. Sun Chuanting finally accepted the persuasion of Yu Xiaotian and Hong Chengchou and chose to support Yu Xiaotian with reservations.

In this way, Yu Xiaotian has received two major helpers. Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting are both people who have dealt with the refugee army for many years, and they are both smart and capable people. This also gives Yu Xiaotian a little more confidence in dealing with the refugee army in the next step.

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In the following period, Yu Xiaotian vigorously reformed various bad policies accumulated by the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years on one hand, and with the imperial edict covered with the imperial seal on the other hand, he vigorously implemented various new policies in the name of Chongzhen.

, on the other hand, they hold a butcher's knife high and strike hard at those vested interest groups that try to resist the introduction of various new policies.

Chongzhen was not unaware of some bad governance in the past, and he had tried to reform it many times. However, although he was the emperor, he was often influenced by officials. He often implemented new policies, which would inevitably affect some vested interests or people.

The interests of groups, many officials themselves are in vested interest groups, or they are the spokespersons of some vested interest groups.

Therefore, often when Chongzhen wanted to implement some new policies and reform some bad policies, he would encounter strong resistance from many ministers. And sometimes Chongzhen could not lose face, or he was too afraid, so he could only let it go.

In fact, before Yu Xiaotian led his army to the capital this time, Chongzhen tried to plan to send one or two princes to Nanjing first to make complete preparations. If the capital suffered a loss, he was determined not to abandon the capital and flee.

If he was killed by Yu Xiaotian's rebels, his prince in Nanjing could immediately ascend the throne and then order the world to continue to be enemies of Yu Xiaotian, and one day regain the Ming Dynasty.

However, his mere request was met with resistance by some ministers who were too full and had nothing to do. Sending the prince away at this time was a sign of weakness and would seriously affect the morale of the army.

So that Chongzhen could only give up in anger, which also led to the fact that after Yu Xiaotian broke the city, Chongzhen had no defense at all, and the whole family, old and young, was blocked in the palace.

This is also one of the reasons why Chongzhen did not choose to commit suicide and die for his country, because if he committed suicide and died for his country, the Ming Dynasty would not be inherited by his heirs. By then, the Ming Dynasty subjects in the world would probably not be able to find an orthodox successor.

If it doesn't work, there will be disputes. You can find a relative of the emperor to be the emperor, and I will also recruit a relative of the emperor to inherit the Ming Dynasty. Then one guy will create a bunch of emperors to inherit the Ming Dynasty, and then everything will be completely chaotic.

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In fact, this kind of thing did happen in history. After Li Zicheng invaded the capital, he hanged himself on Meishan Mountain in Chongzhen. As a result, there have been many Zhu family descendants vying for the orthodox throne in the south.

As a result, during the Southern Ming Dynasty, the southern Ming Dynasty basically did not form a very effective rule, and naturally there was no planned and organized resistance to the Jian slaves moving south. Instead, the Ming Dynasty was defeated quickly, and the world was eventually taken over by the Jian slaves.

Therefore, Chongzhen is said to be the emperor who unified the world, but in fact, during his more than ten years in power, he was constantly wrestling with his ministers for control of the world. It is not as good as saying that Chongzhen ruled the Ming Dynasty.

It is said that the Donglin Party or some civil servants actually control the Ming Dynasty.

During the more than ten years that Chongzhen was in power, he was mostly wrestling with these ministers and was unable to fully implement or promote some of the reforms he wanted to make.

Therefore, before Chongzhen died, he shouted that the ministers at home and abroad had misunderstood me. In fact, it was not a deliberate attempt to shirk responsibility. These ministers also bear unshirkable responsibility for the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

But now Yu Xiaotian invaded the capital, completely controlled the capital's court, and placed Chongzhen under house arrest, forcing Chongzhen to give up power to him, so that he could use Chongzhen's jade seal to issue edicts and coerce the emperor to order the princes.

No worries about this.

Yu Xiaotian's character determines that he cannot be controlled by these ministers, and he has military power at hand that can influence the situation. He will punish anyone who disobeys. Moreover, he does not care about killing to establish his authority, and dares to risk the disapproval of the world and sacrifice.

Butcher's knife, using forceful means to implement his policies.

After he promulgated and implemented the policy of apportioning one person to another, he indeed aroused strong resistance from the gentry and powerful people in many places. Some local officials even simply suggested that this imperial edict did not come from the current emperor, but from the traitor Yu Xiao.

With the hand of heaven, they wrote to the court saying that they were sorry for not being able to obey the order.

Among them, the two magistrates in the north, Hejian Prefecture and Shunde Prefecture, have made it clear that they refuse to implement the kind of land-dividing into acres promoted by Yu Xiaotian, and the abolition of the powerful and powerful relatives, as well as some tax exemption policies that were previously available.

He wrote a letter expressing his refusal to comply with the preferential policies of powerful people.

Yu Xiaotian immediately ordered the newly re-established Zhongshu Province to draw up a decree, take the prefects of these two places and those who were unwilling to agree to implement the New Deal, send them to Beijing for interrogation, and select people to replace them.

The former magistrates of these two places must have refused to submit. The Zhending magistrate actually recruited troops and horses on the spot in an attempt to launch a military confrontation with the current pseudo-imperial court. The words "pseudo-imperial court" are really apt. The current Ming Dynasty imperial court

, is no longer the court when Chongzhen was in power. It just wears a Ming Dynasty vest, but it is the court that does Yu Xiaotian's affairs. The outer surname is Zhu, but the inner surname has been changed to Yu.

However, it was precisely because Yu Xiaotian wore a Ming Dynasty vest that he dared to do things unscrupulously. When he learned that the prefect Zhending actually tried to use force to fight against him, he ordered Meng Fei to run over without saying a word.

Meng Fei was ordered to lead only two battalions of troops to attack Zhending Mansion at starry night. The two infantry battalions rushed from Baoding Mansion to Zhending Mansion at a rapid marching speed. After dawn, they arrived at the gate of Zhending Mansion.

The prefect Zhending was in a panic and ordered the temporarily recruited rural warriors and the officers and soldiers guarding the city to resist. However, how could these rabble be the opponent of the Yu family army? When the Yu family army's cannon fired here, the soldiers and civilians guarding the city over there

Immediately there was an uproar, and some people in the city were mobilized. They took the opportunity to seize the door and opened the city gate. Meng Fei led his troops and poured into the city with a roar.

When the Zhending magistrate learned that the defenders had collapsed, he quickly tried to escape with his servants, but before he could pack up his clothes and load his car, Meng Fei led his troops to the front of the government office and blocked him in the government office.

The Zhending magistrate knew that he would not be spared from being arrested this time. In order to avoid suffering any punishment, he immediately hanged himself from a beam. Before he died, he forced his wives and concubines to commit suicide by throwing themselves into a well. As a result, after the Yu family's army invaded the government office, the whole family was

Only a few maids and some servants were left, and the rest of the family members all committed suicide.

In the next few months, Yu Xiaotian vigorously eliminated the incompetent soldiers in the north while vigorously expanding his Yu family army.

When he landed at Tianjin Guard at the beginning of the year, he only brought more than 30,000 troops with him, but by October, Yu Xiaotian had expanded the Yu family's army in the north to 100,000 troops.

Although the combat effectiveness of these new armies is not strong at present, there are some doubts about whether they can be as fearless in danger as the veterans when they go into battle, but they are still much stronger than those old Ming armies.

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