As a mother, you will never hope that your son can become any hero. The prince’s halo is enough to make you look down on all living beings. Heroes are obtained through life and death.

As a mother, Empress Zhou did not want to see her son encounter danger on the battlefield no matter what. Besides, he was still a prince.

Therefore, when Zhu Cixuan returned to the palace, Empress Zhou saw her son and burst into tears: "Son, Prince, you, are you injured? Come and let Wei Mother take a good look at you."

Like all mothers, when Zhu Cilang went to war, his mother always felt that there would be a hundred bows and arrows aimed at him behind his son.

Seeing her son returning from the battlefield, Queen Zhou could no longer stop missing her. She groped up and down, fearing that her son would be injured.

I have to say that Zhu Cilang has really grown up. The fifteen-year-old boy has become a handsome young man. He has long figure and strong muscles. Several experiences over the past two years have made Zhu Cilang completely transform from a child to an adult.

Zhu Cilang smiled: "Mother, the child is fine, he is strong."

"Long live the emperor!"

Zhu Cilang made such great contributions that Emperor Chongzhen gave up the government affairs of the Qianqing Palace and personally arrived at Kunning Palace.

This time, Emperor Chongzhen showed a gratified smile on his face: "Ci-Yang, come here and let me see."

After not seeing each other for more than half a year, Zhu Cilang has grown taller. Emperor Chongzhen touched Zhu Cilang's head and said happily: "It's not bad, it's strong, and strong. I heard that you killed two Jiannu outside Lanzhou City. Haha, you are more powerful than our Ming soldiers. Being able to kill Jiannu with your own hands is worthy of being the descendant of our Zhu family."

Chongzhen was very happy that Zhu Cilang made some contributions before, but in the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, he was more or less lucky.

Moreover, although he forced Huang Taiji to retreat before, the Qing Dynasty suffered a small loss.

This time, Huang Taiji not only failed to capture Lanzhou, but also saved most of the people in Shaanxi. Moreover, the Qing soldiers paid a huge price.

The 70,000-Eight Banner Army came out in full swing and killed more than 8,000 people in battle at once. For Huang Taiji, this can be said to be a trauma.

Since the Tianqi period, the Qing Dynasty has won almost many battles over the decades. Even with occasional defeats, they have not suffered much losses. Except for the worst time, Nurhaci, who was shot and seriously injured by Yuan Chonghuan outside Ningyuan City, was almost invincible.

However, this time Zhu Cixuan defeated the myth of the invincible Qing soldiers. The Eastern Palace Guards killed the enemy with great blood and almost won time for the Lanzhou defense war at the cost of the death of all the troops. The Hu Ben Army defeated the more with few defeats, and the Qing soldiers who fought along the way fled in a panic.

Not to mention, outside Lanzhou City, reinforcements from the Crown Prince of the Ming Dynasty arrived in person, and Zhu Cixuan personally took the glorious deeds of two Qing soldiers.

Chongzhen was proud and proud. For Emperor Chongzhen, his son was worthy of his ancestors.

Zhu Cilang was also happy to be recognized by his father: "Father, now Jiannu has retired, and we can guarantee two years of peace in Liaodong."

Emperor Chongzhen rarely affirmed a person's achievements. Even if he affirmed the other party, he would still be suspicious of the other party's ability. Zhu Cilang was different. This was the prince and Chongzhen's biological son.

Ministers can take advantage of merit and commit fraud, while their own sons are different. The child Ci Yang was not favored by Chongzhen at the beginning. Emperor Chongzhen always felt that he was young, and many suggestions were just an unrealistic fantasy.

With the success of Zhu Cixuan's actions, Emperor Chongzhen believed in his son's ability and thus supported Zhu Cixuan's actions to the greatest extent.

When Zhu Cilang returned to Beijing, it was already the spring of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen. The outstanding performance of Crown Prince Zhu Cilang defending Lanzhou City also became an official recognition of the achievements. The whole world celebrated together and the whole country was jubilant.

Zhu Cilang quickly calmed down after a brief excitement, because he knew that there was still a long way ahead waiting for him.

The fifteenth year of Chongzhen was also a year of storms. This year, the Ming Dynasty was already an unsolvable problem. The demise of the country was just a matter of close proximity.

Fortunately, Zhu Cixuan, who had traveled through time, changed all this. During this Chongzhen era in parallel time and space, his appearance caused the national destiny of the Ming Dynasty to begin to change.

First of all, internal troubles Li Zicheng was driven out of Henan and survived in the two lakes. Although Zhang Xianzhong was rampant in Sichuan, he did not have a great climate. External troubles, Huang Taiji failed outside Lanzhou City and fell into sand. In a short period of time, the Qing Dynasty was unable to fight again.

As we see, the Ming Dynasty is developing in a good direction.

In fact, Zhu Cilang knew that the root of the decay of the Ming Dynasty was thrown into. If this corrupt system was not changed, the country would be destroyed sooner or later. What he could change was just to temporarily suspend the end of the country's demise.

At this time, Zhu Cilang's status as a prince can be said to be as solid as a god. Zhu Cilang's personal reputation has also reached an unprecedented height.

No one dared to attack the prince's maverick again, and no one dared to attack again. The prince of the current dynasty was misbehaving and behaved impolitely.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhu Cixuan decided to implement his long-planned and drastic reform actions.

In the late Ming Dynasty, illegal merchants smuggled large quantities of food, clothing, cooking utensils, metals and gunpowder prohibited by the Ming Dynasty to the Qing regime, and even included the military and strategic intelligence needed by the Qing Dynasty to invade the Central Plains. In return, the Qing regime exchanged ginseng, deer antlers, animal skins and valuables robbed from the Central Plains.

Zhu Cilang killed Fan Yongdou, one of the eight imperial merchants, but there were seven other traitors, lackeys and traitors, who were not punished.

It was not that Zhu Cilang deliberately did not take action to leave any trouble, but that he was unable to catch him in one place at the time.

The interests of capital will make these merchants take risks. According to the "Qing Shilu", in the third year of Tianming [the 46th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty], there were 16 traders in Shandong, Shanxi, Hedong, Hexi, Suhang and other places in Fushun. Nurhaci "all gave high fees and wrote the seven major hatreds and sent them back."

Objectively, it is these illegal merchants' trade behavior that created positive conditions for the Manchu civilization to invade the Central Plains civilization.

Zhu Cilang killed a Fan Yongdou, which had nothing to do with the Qing Dynasty trade. They could continue to support Zhang Yongdou and Li Yongdou.

The people who helped the Qing Dynasty smuggle trade were not only the eight imperial merchants in history. There were also countless merchants who secretly provided benefits to the Qing Dynasty.

How cruel they were, in order to prevent the Mongolian invasion, the Ming Dynasty stationed large troops on the front line of the Great Wall, and basically relied on military farms to support themselves.

However, the land in the area is barren and the harvest is not much, and the soldiers cannot concentrate their efforts on farming, so there is insufficient food, and the number of recruitment gradually increases, transportation is inconvenient, and military pay becomes a major problem.

The Ming Dynasty then relied on the civil movements of North China provinces, either the grain transport, or the nano-aton atonement methods. Among them, Kaizhong and France had a great role, so they summoned merchants to transport military rations to the border, gave salt to them, and sold them within a certain range.

Kaizhong merchants also engaged in grains and salt sales, and monopolized the sale of salt and made huge profits. After Yongle, merchants operated their own farms in the north, or bought grain from farmers at a low price to stock up.

Many merchants gathered at border gates to conduct business camps. They dug earth kilns among the loess cliffs and stored grains. The earth kilns were dry and could preserve grains for decades and avoid robbers. Many merchants were best at using this geographical condition to preserve grain, accumulating capital through China and France, and then operating the financial industry, expanding to the Jiangnan area, trading silk and cotton cloth, and trafficking to various places.

And they even secretly sold the stored grain, weapons and even gunpowder to the Qing Dynasty and traded privately with the Qing Dynasty.
Chapter completed!