May 17, 16th year of Yongli. This day was an extremely special day for the Chinese people. That is, on the tenth day when the Qing army suddenly abandoned the city and left the capital south. Another mighty army appeared in the outskirts of the capital. Unlike the Qing army that left, the flag of this army said "Ming" and "Chu". This flag showed their identity. In fact, five days ago, when the Qing army team abandoned the city and fled, more than 10,000 Ming cavalry appeared outside the city, but they were not in a hurry to enter the city, but instead camped near the city gate.

This made the people in the city feel a little more at ease, at least, they didn’t have to worry about the rioters entering the city to rob. Although the rioters in the city took advantage of the situation at this time, it was better than the rioters entering the city. In addition, the wealthy family in the city ordered their servants to patrol nearby streets and alleys, which made the rioters dare not act recklessly.

However, even so, after experiencing chaos, the people in the city did not expect the army to enter the city, but they hoped that the government would come in earlier to maintain order and allow the people to live a peaceful life again.

On May 17th, on the sixth day after leaving Xiaowutai, Li Ziyuan finally approached the capital. When the walls of the capital appeared in his sight, his breathing seemed a little rapid, so that when he rode on a horse, he could not help but want to ride a horse so that he could not help but arrive at the capital as soon as possible.

However, he always tried his best to restrain this idea. He was afraid that the people around him would not be able to keep up. Although after seizing Shanxi, the Chu army exchanged more than 100,000 horses for mainland goods such as tea, silk and iron pots. Although those Mongolian princes had long been equipped with the Eight Banners, it did not prevent them from doing business with the Han people. Especially when the price offered by Li Ziyuan was far higher than that of ordinary Shanxi merchants, the horses exchanged were not only sold by Li Ziyuan to equip the Chu army, train cavalry, and drag carriages, two-thirds of them were sold to the south, and most of them were used to exchange weapons and ammunition with Jiangbei. Just one gunpowder alone, a total of 60,000 barrels were sold. The reason for so much gunpowder was not because the Chu army could not produce gunpowder, but because it could not produce gunpowder as good as gunpowder in Jiangbei.

Gunpowder has always been a ill person in Li Ziyuan. Because the gunpowder produced by the Chu army is not as powerful as that of Jiangbei, what he is most worried about is that after breaking with Zhu Mingzhong in the future, Jiangbei will cut off his gunpowder. It is precisely because of this that he will sell his horse to Jiangbei as much as possible. Even if the price is low, as long as he can exchange it for enough gunpowder.

Now, with 100,000 barrels of gunpowder produced in Jiangbei as a backing, he was confident when he entered the capital, and he was naturally full of confidence and had any concerns.

On May 17th, under the protection of six cavalry battalions, officials and entourages from all over the King of Chu were either carriages or horses following, and then there were thousands of carriages full of baggage. Because of the King of Chu, Li Ziyuan naturally brought a full set of ceremonial wars, in the middle of the team. He was riding on the Mongolians' "filial piety" to fight horses, wearing a Western-style bright silver armor with gold patterns embedded in the armor, which only seemed very disrespectful. This was the Western armor he bought for nearly 10,000 taels of silver. It is said that it was difficult to hurt the bullets. As for whether it was true or not, Li Ziyuan didn't care. What he needed was the gorgeousness of the armor. He even ordered a Western armor engraved with a Panlong Western armor from the man. The price was easy to say, as long as it was with his wishes.

Li Ziyuan, wearing this gorgeous armor, was immediately holding the apricot and yellow silk reins with his left hand and pointing the mountains and rivers to the people around him with his right hand, talking about how easy it is to take the capital, with a smile on his face.

"Without a single gun or a bullet, you can seize the capital. Throughout history, who can force hundreds of thousands of enemy troops to abandon the city and flee with their great reputation? Who can be the exception of our Chu army?"

He was talking about the Chu army, but Li Ziyuan was referring to himself. It was far beyond his expectations that he could seize the capital without any effort. How could he not be proud?

"If it is not a king, how can I have my Chu army? Today's Chu army's reputation depends entirely on the king!"

Xu Yuncheng compliments on the side, and when complimenting, he said tactfully.

"King, now the Qing army is afraid of the reputation of our Chu army, so they abandoned the city and fled, heading south and north. In order to prevent them from harming the people, they also asked the king to send troops to expel them."

Xu Yuncheng's suggestion was very tactful. What harms the people and expulsion are not the scope of his consideration. What he thought was to use this to pacify the world.

After all, anyone can see the weirdness. Therefore, Xu Yuncheng hopes that the king can send troops, even if it is just a show of his behavior.

But Li Ziyuan didn't care at all about this. He just smiled distractedly.

"The old saying is always said, don't chase the enemy. The ancients said this, so there is naturally their reason. You didn't see that Fulin led tens of thousands of soldiers and hundreds of thousands of women and children out of Zhang Heng to Mongolia, and asked his son to lead a 130,000 army all the way south. Depending on the situation, he wanted to enter Henan and Shaanxi, and then go to Mongolia in north Shaanxi. His abacus was good..."

While admiring, Li Ziyuan looked at Zhu Yingsheng with a profound meaning.

"I am only under the command of the Northern Expedition. It is more than 200,000 to attack him. It is more than enough to divide his troops into two groups, but it is a little insufficient. If I only attack one group, even if the other Qing throne does not return to the army to provide assistance, I will be destined to be troubled by me in the future. For this reason, it is better to let him escape into Mongolia..."

In fact, at the beginning, he also considered attacking the Qing emperors while they were retreating, but in the end he gave up this idea.

"King, if he escapes into Mongolia, it will definitely be a disaster for my Ming Dynasty!"

When Xu Yuncheng's words fell, Zhu Yingsheng was silent but pretending to be mysterious.

"Brother Xu, don't forget, there is Mongolian land! Now the Qing barbarians have been recaptured by Huai vassals. The Qing barbarians fled to Mongolian land. If only the chief commander led tens of thousands of soldiers, they would inevitably be annexed by the Meng people. But if the chief commander commander had 200,000 troops, it would be unknown whoever they annexed. Then the Meng people would be willing to occupy the Qing barbarians. From the following point of view, after the Qing barbarians entered Mongolian land, at least ten years or ten years, the wars in Inner Mongolia would be endless. They would definitely kill each other to fight for territory. In this way, it would naturally be beneficial to our Ming Dynasty without any harm!"

True and false, false, false, no one can tell the truth about what Zhu Yingsheng said, because everyone who has a little common sense knows that what he is telling the truth is. As long as the Qing enemy fled to Mongolia, the enemy will kill each other. After all, the Mongols cannot be willing to hand over the territory to the Qing Dynasty.

However, who knows that whether it is Hong Chengchou or Zhu Yingsheng, they have already made plans. The Qing Dynasty escaped into Mongolia was not the best choice for them. They need to let the Qing emperor stay in the pass for the next few years, and only in this way can they temporarily hide their "glory".

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Yingsheng lured Li Ziyuan to watch the Qing army escape. Of course, for Li Ziyuan, there are also many advantages, such as the important capital and the Northern Zhili. When the Qing army retreated, these places had already given up on him. Li Ziyuan's strength has naturally increased greatly now.

This is also what Hong Chengchou hopes to see, and it is also caused by Zhu Yingsheng's efforts. Even the reason why he stays with Li Ziyuan now is for all this.

As for Li Ziyuan, although he couldn't guess what Hong Chengchou, Zhu Yingsheng and the others were thinking, he knew what was more beneficial to him. It was human instinct to seek profit and avoid harm. For Li Ziyuan, he also needed Zhu Yingsheng, and even Hong Chengchou. However, now the two families are still missing the last piece of window paper.

However, now there is still a little bit of something to break through the window paper. This time, attacking the capital is to make efforts to break through the window paper.

Everyone has their own plans and their own plans. Li Ziyuan is the case, Xu Yuncheng is the same. As for Zhu Yingsheng, like others, what he does is just that sentence - "The world is bustling, all comes for profit; the world is bustling, all goes for profit."

"Yun Qi said very much. When the Qing barbarians and Mongolian Tatars kill each other and kill both sides, they will lead the troops to fight north again. In this way, they can decide the world in one battle and return the peace of our Han people for a hundred years!"

Perhaps Li Ziyuan himself did not notice that in many cases, he rarely mentioned the Ming Dynasty again, and even the army was wearing the banner of the word "Chu". As for the "Ming", it only started to fight occasionally, and people's mentality was constantly changing.

Others will not ignore things that Li Ziyuan cannot pay attention to, especially for Zhu Yingsheng, who is determined to show off his fortune by Li Ziyuan, he naturally noticed these details, but he only hid it in his heart and would not reveal any thoughts.

"King Gao Yi!"

Amid the sound of the flatterers, Li Ziyuan seemed a little floating. Looking at the capital getting closer and closer, he even thought of the scenes of the insurrection camp a few years ago. At that time, he never thought that one day he would be the King of Chu and be on an equal footing with the general.

"Why!"

Thinking of the deceased general, Li Ziyuan suddenly sighed.

"Today, the capital was restored, and the Northern Expedition was almost successful. Unfortunately, the King of Min could not see this scene. "I died before I could succeed, so that the heroes burst into tears." If it weren't for the King of Min, how could I have become prosperous today? Speaking of which, I was also grateful to the King of Min..."

Listening to the king's sigh, Xu Yuncheng advised him.

"King, today you will restore the capital and restore the country and mountains of the Han people. I believe that after seeing this, the King of Min will also rest in the nine springs."
Chapter completed!