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These days are definitely the busiest of the officials in their lifetime for the Nanjing Ministry of War to verify the head.

At the request of the Minister of War Lu Zhenfei, almost all relevant officials were transferred to verify the head of the Donglu.

In the Shandong victory, Qin Gongming, the general of Dezhou, killed 673 soldiers from the Eastern Manchu Zhenglan Banner, and 831 soldiers from the Han army, including 1,504 soldiers from the Han army.

According to the letter from General Qin's successor, these flag soldiers were killed in the siege, and the Ming army did not leave the city to pursue them.

Even so, this was the biggest victory of the Ming Dynasty against the Eastern Reichs in the past decade. All the court and the people, including the Holy Emperor, were happy and encouraged.

General Qin sent people to load all the heads treated with lime to Nanjing. Although the Holy Emperor trusted General Qin, he still ordered people to hand over these heads to the Ministry of War for verification.

This move has no other intention, just to declare to the subjects of the world that this is a real victory, rather than a fictitious one with a pen.

Just like the Battle of the Carriage Gorge, although the court repeatedly promoted how powerful the official army of the Carriage Gorge was in the victory, the people did not buy it.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, there are many doubts. Chen Qiyu has obviously besieged more than a dozen rebel kings, including Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai. Why do you still accept their surrender and finally let the tiger go back to the mountain?

If this matter is true, it only means that Chen Qiyu is an extremely stupid idiot.

But Chen Qiyu is obviously not an idiot.

At that time, Chen Qiyu was a chief official in the military affairs of five provinces in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Huguang and Sichuan. How many idiots could sit in this position?

The only explanation is that the battle in the carriage is fake and does not exist at all.

Chen Qiyu may have really fought with bandits such as Zhang Xianzhong, but he will definitely lose, which will allow the bandits to escape successfully.

However, Chen Qiyu's memorial to the emperor could not be written like this, so it was particularly necessary to create a great victory in the carriage and gorge.

The brave official army first defeated the bandits, while the cunning bandit leader expressed his desire to surrender and accept the court's amnesty.

The kind Governor General had good intentions and accepted the surrender of the thieves. Unexpectedly, the thieves immediately repent after leaving the carriage and raised the anti-flag flag again...

In this way, Chen Qiyu's face was saved, the official army's face was saved, the imperial court's face was saved, and the emperor's face was saved. Wouldn't everyone be happy?

The only problem is that people in the world don’t believe it!

If the great victory in Chexiangxia is true, why did Chen Qiyu’s memorial to Chongzhen be vague in the Ministry of War Tang newspaper, and even the specific location is unclear?

This so-called good news will not only fail to play an inspiring role, but will instead cause the prestige of the court to decline repeatedly.

Of course, Zhu Cixuan didn't want the same thing to happen again.

During the "Chexiangxia Victory", the imperial court's prestige was still very high and could withstand such squandering. But now the state is difficult, and if you are not careful, you will face the danger of destruction of the country and extermination. Zhu Cilang will never allow any rumors to shake people's hearts and damage the prestige of the court.

If you want the people to believe in the great victory of the imperial court, you must clearly show the facts to them. The more you cover them, the more suspicious it will be. If you open it and expose everything to the sun, there will be no so many conspiracy theories.

Zhu Cilang certainly trusted Qin Gongming, but he must not deal with this matter hasty. He must make good use of every point to win the support of the people and public opinion for the court.

It is definitely not possible to verify all the more than 1,500 heads.

Even though the officials of the Ministry of War had already checked day and night, it took a full three days to complete this task.

The Ming Dynasty's official army has never had a good reputation, and killing good people often happens.

Some generals and deputy generals did not dare to lead their troops to fight when they were plundering the people at the entrance of the Donglu. They waited for the Donglu to rob them and patted them and left before slaughtering the surviving people. They cut off their heads and shaved their hair and braided them and sent them to the capital for rewards.

This kind of clumsy method of fraud is usually seen through, but sometimes the generals who report the merits will bribe the officials in charge of verification of the Ministry of War and make them turn a blind eye.

And those generals who have no advantage, even if the head level sent by them is real, are sometimes falsely accused of killing good and making achievements. The right and wrong in the meantime have long been inverted.

But this time the Holy Emperor issued a strict order and the soldiers personally supervised it. Naturally, the officials of the Ministry of War did not dare to turn the black and white. Even if General Qin did not manage their penny, he would not dare to interfere in it and accused good people.

The first thing the officials of the Ministry of War should verify is the gender identity of the person being killed, because those who kill good people often kill some women and children who are powerless to tie up their chickens to make up their numbers. Logically speaking, it is very difficult to distinguish gender by relying solely on the head level, but the officials of the Ministry of War have their own methods. If the corpse is floating in the water, the man bows down and the woman bows down, and even if the man turns over, he will still return to his original state. Similarly, putting the head level into the water tank, the woman bows down and the man bows down.

So the officials of the Nanjing Ministry of War threw more than 1,500 heads into the water tank in turn, and all the heads were facing down without exception, proving that all those who were killed were men.

After three days of inspection, the Ministry of War finally concluded that more than 600 heads, the cheekbones were completely consistent with the Donglu, and the braids were braided for decades. Although the remaining eight hundred heads were no different from the Han people from the teeth and cheekbones, the braids were braided for more than ten years.

Such a comparison can correspond to the Ming army killing 673 men of the Manchurian Zhenglan Banner and 831 men of the Han army inlaid red flag. These heads are all from the Tartars and the Second Tartars, and there is no possibility of killing good people and taking credit!

A great victory, this is a real victory!

Even the officials of the Ministry of War who were waiting to die were sincerely relieved at this moment. It turned out that the Ming Dynasty's official army could win battles, and it turned out that the myth of the invincible Eight Banners of the East could be broken.

It turns out that there is still hope in the Ming Dynasty!

While Zhu Cixuan issued an order to reward the soldiers who were successful in Dezhou's victory, he ordered the battalions of the Shence Army to assist the officials of the Ministry of War to hang more than 1,500 heads on the Nanjing city wall to display the public.

In this way, the people entering and leaving Nanjing City could see the Tartars killed by the Ming army and the second Tartars, and they would firmly believe in the authenticity of the Texas victory.

As for the nobles who were originally hung on the city wall for public display, the heads of civil servants had already rotted, leaving only skulls. Zhu Cilang ordered people to take them off, crushing their bones and ashes to warn the world.

In troubled times, Zhu Cilang will never have any sympathy for these vested interests who pick up the bowl and eat meat, put down the chopsticks to curse her.

Through this round of deterrence, the remaining people with ill-gotten plots in Nanjing must be scared and dared not do such a traitor.

For Zhu Cilang, as long as he has military power, there is no need to worry about a slutty and ruthless minister committing rebellion. If someone really wants to die, Zhu Cilang doesn't mind holding up the steel knife again and killing him!

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Chapter completed!