If Zhu Cixuan wanted to gain a foothold in this chaotic situation, he had to establish his prestige!
The battle to defend the capital had been decided.
However, the territory that he, the Son of Heaven, controlled was only Shuntian Prefecture!
He, the Son of Heaven, still had a long way to go.
The current Great Ming was nominally under the control of the Imperial Court, but in reality, there were many ministers and local officials who did not listen to orders or announcements.
In Min Land, Zheng Zhilong relied on his elite navy to control the land and sea of the southeast coast.
In the northwest region, due to successive years of drought, most of the houses were empty. Thieves ran amok, and the government was unable to suppress them.
In Jiangnan Zhili, the Donglin Party firmly controlled the place. A group of hypocritical gentlemen like them actually became the leader of the gentry. With a single call, hundreds of people responded, and their power was shocking!
Donglin Academy's initial goal was to oppose emptiness and talk about empty talk, and to advocate seeking truth and being practical.
However, in the course of history, things had changed.
The Donglin Party was known as the Clear Stream, which influenced the fishing vessels of the world.
The battle for the right to inherit the throne and the battle for the Imperial Censorate gradually took control of the court.
As the Donglin Party members threatened the interests of other non-Donglin Party members, many non-Donglin Party officials formed gangs with high-ranking officials as leaders to protect themselves. At that time, the Xuan Party, the Zhe Party, the Chu Party, and the Qi Party were everywhere in the court.
Gradually, it evolved into a factional struggle. The scale was further upgraded, the nature was more serious, and the influence was even worse. The political struggle in the Ming Dynasty deteriorated sharply and entered an unprecedented new era.
The Donglin Party represented the interests of the merchants and landowners of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces at that time. They opposed the court's collection of taxes from the industrial and commercial industry. They also took the opportunity of Emperor Chongzhen's removal of Wei Zhongxian's power to cancel or reduce the taxes on overseas trade taxes, mining taxes, salt taxes, tea taxes, and other taxes.
This made the financial income of the late Ming Dynasty even more singular. The tax revenue of the imperial court was more dependent on ordinary farmers. In addition, various natural disasters at that time caused a large number of farmers to go bankrupt and form a large number of refugees, which directly led to the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
The Donglin Party was Zhu Cixuan's greatest threat!
Other than that, there were the Four Towns of Jiangbei, Zuo Liangyu, Wu Sangui, Zhang Xianzhong…
However, what worried Zhu Cixuan the most was the Manchu Qing regime in Liaodong.
At this time, the Manchu regime not only had the strongest military organization and mobilization ability in the entire East.
Moreover, through marriage, coercion, and bribery, they had woven a large net of interests, ensnaring all the forces in the north.
Mobei had already submitted to the Manchu Empire, and Monan was in-laws with the Manchu Empire. Koryo had also submitted to the Manchu Empire.
(In fact, at that time, Goryeo was already called Chao Xian. In order to avoid being harmonious, they were all called Goryeo.)
The eight Jin merchants in the north had also become Slave Jian's lackeys…
Slave Jian was such a powerful enemy. Even though Zhu Cixuan had the 100,000 Death Warrior System, he had to take him seriously!
"Resist foreign aggression before stabilizing the domestic situation. After Zhen stabilizes the situation in the Central Plains, sooner or later, I will take care of these Tartars!”
Zhu Cixuan did not have a good impression of the Qing Dynasty.
If the Qing government had not closed its doors to the outside world, how could the great eastern country be humiliated by the small western countries…
The treaty of Xin Chou, the treaty of Shimanseki, and many other humiliating and humiliating agreements were a stain on China's history!
Just as Zhu Cixuan was thinking, Cao Jin, the Minister of War, suddenly reported.
"What is it? Li Zicheng has already been captured."
Zhu Cixuan was overjoyed when he heard his report.
If Li Zicheng escaped, the situation would become even more chaotic.
Now that he had captured Li Zicheng, he would save a lot of trouble!
Zhu Cixuan pondered for a moment and said,""Bring him back to the capital and behead him for public display. You captured the thief leader and made a big contribution. I will naturally reward you in the future! You may leave!"
"It is this lowly official's honor to serve the emperor! This humble subject will take his leave!"
Cao Jin was all smiles.
Ding!" Congratulations to the host for completing the hidden mission. Protect the capital, defeat the raiders, and capture the rebels alive. Obtained system points, 800,000…three lottery chances!”
What the hell? Complete three hidden missions at the same time?
800,000 points…I'm rich!
This was equivalent to 8,000,000 units of silver!
With these points, Zhu Cixuan could do many things!
Moreover, three lottery chances…I wonder what good things I'll get this time?
He was looking forward to it!
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