It is too early to reduce the vassal states now. Li Guodong analyzed to Zhang Yan: "The Empress Dowager, Emperor Daxing, in order to avenge the fallen capital, waved his butcher knives against civil servants and gentry, which has caused them to rebound strongly! Therefore, they joined forces with the vassal states and planned to be ill-behaved. If we reduce the vassal states at this time, we may even push all the vassal states to the side of civil servants and gentry! The vassal states must be cut, but we must defeat the civil servants and gentry groups and vassal states one by one, first eliminate the gentry groups, and then deal with the vassal states. However, for the vassal states that have rebelled, we must use thunder means to fight quickly and quickly destroy them!"

"Emperor Daxing said it was right when he left the capital. All civil officials in the world can be killed!" Zhang Yan said hatefully.

Zhang Yan hated the civil servants and gentlemen, which was even more cruel than Chongzhen. She witnessed her husband, Emperor Tianqi, accidentally fell into the water, and her condition worsened after taking the medicine. This time, she saw Chongzhen being killed again. Zhang Yan, who had already died of two emperors in a row, was extremely sad. These two emperors were her relatives.

"Actually, the late emperor had seen this clearly for a long time, so he made Eunuch Wei nine thousand years old to deal with those dog-hearted dog-hearted things! As a result, the late emperor still underestimated the methods of those dog-hearted things! They let the late emperor fall into the water!" Li Guodong said.

"Duke Chu, you are right. The late emperor was also harmed by the traitor! This time the emperor of the big business also did the traitor!" Zhang Yan said gritting his teeth, "You must let those traitors get the punishment they deserve! You can let go of your hands! There is an old man in the court that supports you! As long as you have any requests, just speak! The silver in the inner treasury can be allocated to you!"

"Thank you, Empress Dowager!" Li Guodong saluted quickly. Zhang Yan's support for him was even more than Chongzhen's support for him. If he didn't let go of his hands and feet, he would be too sorry to Zhang Yan.

"Duke Chu, get up quickly!" Zhang Yan said, "I will give you the general and give you the Sword of Shangfang! For officials below the third rank in the court, whether you are civil or military, you can kill first and then report! Come! Take the Sword of Shangfang!"

Li Guodong took the sword and thanked him repeatedly. You should know that Zhang Yan did these things that offended the civil servant group to the greatest extent. Since the Tumu Fort Incident in the Ming Dynasty, the civil servant group took the opportunity to seize power, and since then it began to emphasize civil servants over military officials. Like Yuandudu, a second-rank civil servant, he could kill Mao Wenlong, a first-rank military official without authorization. A first-rank military official could not raise his head even in front of a seventh-rank civil servant. Now, the generals awarded by Zhang Yan, coupled with the Shangfang sword, have made military officials superior to civil servants.

Li Guodong knew very well that Shangfang's sword was real, but the decree of being named General would definitely be subject to a fierce backlash in the cabinet. Civil officials would definitely lament that the era when military generals kill civil officials is like killing dogs is coming again! The beautiful tradition of civil and nobles and lowly established since the beginning of the Great Swallows will be destroyed again!

But Li Guodong didn't care whether the cabinet passed Zhang Yan's enthronement. Now he has soldiers and generals. What he lacks is morality. With Zhang Yan's support, he can kill those civil servants and gentry without any mercy.

To be honest, Li Guodong felt that Emperor Chongzhen was actually killed by him indirectly. When he eradicated the gentry in Guangdong, he threw all the blame to Chongzhen, and this happened.

Leaving Kunning Palace, Li Guodong walked through the back garden and left the palace through the back door.

"Duke of Chu!" Princess Kunxing called out to Li Guodong who was about to leave the palace.

"I will see Your Highness the Princess!" Li Guodong turned around and saluted.

Princess Kunxing was blessed with a blessing, and said with tears in her eyes: "Thank you for avenging my father! Kunxing was so grateful."

"The Emperor Daxing is as kind as a mountain to his ministers. If Li cannot avenge His Majesty, then what is the difference between me and those dog-hearted things?"

Princess Kunxing's tears suddenly came out: "Duke Chu, why do you think those dogs are so brave? How dare they kill the monarch at the risk of destroying the nine clans?"

"Your Highness Princess, have you heard a word? It's like blocking people's way of wealth is like killing parents? There's another word, asking people to die for money and birds to die for food! In the face of interests, what's there to do? It's because the emperor of the Great Travel blocked their way of wealth! Your Highness Princess, only the ministers are loyal to the Ming Dynasty. Do you still remember that I promised Your Highness Princess that I will protect you and protect Your Majesty and the Queen? It's a pity that I didn't protect Your Majesty, but I will not let Your Majesty suffer any harm again!"

Li Guodong said, taking the opportunity to put his hand on Princess Kunxing's shoulder. Seeing that she did not resist, he took a bold step and gently held the princess in her arms.

Princess Kunxing also took the opportunity to put her little face on Li Guodong's chest and felt the breath of this man. She had already secretly liked this man in her heart for almost ten years. Li Guodong's actions made her feel happy and a little shy.

The nineteen-year-old princess is considered an older single woman in this era, but in later generations, she is still the girl who is the most sophomore.

Of course, it is impossible for the princess to be a concubine, so Li Guodong has never expressed his love for the princess. But it is definitely impossible to say that he doesn't like the princess, and Li Guodong just suppresses his love in his heart. Now Chongzhen is no longer there, and the entire royal family relies entirely on him to protect it. At this time, it is nothing to show his love for the princess.

Li Guodong's Huai Army had already entered Nanjing City under the pretext of capturing the rebels. Li Guodong sent additional personnel to the palace to protect the safety of the palace, a group of loyal veterans were all loyal soldiers. Wang Chengen and Zhang Shuheng cleaned the inside of the factory guards, and a group of unreliable people were kicked out of the factory guards, and suspicious people were sent to the Jinyiwei Prison.

Princess Kunxing felt the body temperature of the man and smelled the breath of his body. After a while, she felt that it was a little too much, so she pushed Li Guodong away and ran away with a red face.

When Li Guodong returned to his Duke's mansion, he heard a news: "King Lu took the excuse of the empress dowager's rule that the country was not in line with the ancestral system and led his army to set out from Hangzhou and announced the military admonition to Beijing!"

"Lord, wouldn't that be rebellious?" Zhang Shuheng asked.

"Whether you and I don't have to say whether it is a rebellion or not, I have to listen to the Empress Dowager." Li Guodong replied.

The news of King Lu's rebellion spread to the Forbidden City. When Zhang Yan heard the news, she announced without hesitation that King Lu was rebelling! Nonsense, King Lu raised his troops to Beijing to rebel, wasn't it for himself to be the emperor?

Zhang Yan knew very well that if King Lu became the emperor, what would happen? It would be even more terrifying than if King Tang, King Lu, and King Gui became emperors! King Lu was her elder. Once King Lu became the emperor, Princess Lu could easily kill her and Queen Zhou! You must never let King Lu be the emperor! Although this person is Tianqi's cousin, Zhang Yan will not forget that Zhu Yunwen said "Don't hurt Uncle Wu" back then, but he ended up playing the ball himself.

Of course, Zhang Yan could not make a mistake like Zhu Yunwen, not to mention that King Lu was just a cousin, and Tianqi's cousin. If he decided to kill King Lu, Zhang Yan would definitely not be ruthless.

Soon, Zhang Yan asked someone to draft an edict: order Li Guodong to lead his army to intercept King Lu and take down King Lu on the charge of treason.

However, this edict was not passed in the cabinet, because the chief minister of the cabinet, Shi Kefa, felt that the Empress Dowager's supervision of the country was indeed not in line with the ancestral system, not to mention that Zhang Yan was not Chongzhen's mother or Chongzhen's wife, but just sister-in-law. Why can she supervise the country? Everyone knows that although Zhou Hou was also the Empress Dowager's supervision of the country, Zhou Hou was just a puppet, and Zhang Yan had the final say in everything.
Chapter completed!