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Chapter 455 I Only Let You Suffer One Sword
Zheng Hongkui, Zheng Chenggong, and Zheng Cai Wuhuada were tied up in front of Zhu Yousong to plead guilty. Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong were full of shame and frustration, while Zheng Cai had a blue face, covered in blood, and looked like a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water.

It turned out that after Zheng Cai and Zheng Hongkui's uncle and nephew fell out, Zheng Cai beheaded several people and fled. Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong immediately surrounded Zheng Cai's mansion with thousands of soldiers. Against Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong.

Zheng Cai scolded the uncle and nephew for being obsessed with officials, disowning their relatives, betraying their ancestors, and not worthy of being the descendants of the Zheng family.

Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong called Zheng Cai a rebellious official and traitor, who should be punished for the crime.

Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong rushed into Zheng Cai's mansion with their troops. In a scuffle, more than 1000 people in Zheng Cai were all wiped out.

It wasn't that Zheng Cai surpassed these two in martial arts, but that the uncle and nephew wanted to catch him alive. Therefore, after more than a dozen times, Zheng Cai was captured alive by the two uncles and nephew. They ordered people to surround the scene and tied up Zheng Cai and Zheng Hongkui. He and Zheng Chenggong also ordered someone to tie him up, and Zheng Cai was escorted before he came to see him and plead guilty.

Zhu Yousong pretended not to know what was going on, pretending to be surprised: "What does San Aiqing mean?"

"Your Majesty, Zheng Zhilong, Nan'an Bo, rebelled. According to the law of Ming Dynasty, one person rebelled, his family was confiscated, and his family was punished. As brothers and sons, we should punish the law. Your Majesty, please come down." Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong knelt down while saying that Kowtow.

However, Zheng Caili did not kneel, with a look of disdain, secretly said, I have seen lowly people, but I have never seen such lowly ones, do your uncles and nephews think that by begging for mercy like this, the faint king can spare you?

Zhu Yousong ignored Zheng Cai and said with a smile: "You two lovers are serious. There is such a rule in the Ming Dynasty, but it can be divided into black and white. It depends on the specific situation. Although Zheng Zhilong and your uncles and nephews are close relatives, but You have been separated for many years, you two are officials in the court, Zheng Zhilong is in Fujian, he abandoned me and went to protect the king of Tang from rebelling against me, and you are loyal to me and have made great contributions to the restoration of Ming Dynasty, which are completely different things, so Zheng Zhilong's rebellion has nothing to do with you, so what's his crime?"

As Zhu Yousong said, he turned around from the dragon chair, helped Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong up, and personally untied them.

Zhu Yousong clearly distinguishes right from wrong, merits and demerits, a bit beyond Zheng Cai's expectation, with a confused look on his face, is the Hunjun just pretending?The crime of beheading, ransacking the house and exterminating the family can be done with just one sentence?Is this true?
Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong were ashamed, and gratefully knelt down again to thank them, "Your Majesty, I am truly ashamed that such an incident happened in my family... Thanks to Your Majesty's generosity and benevolence, I am willing to take the blame and make meritorious service if Your Majesty trusts us, we are willing to lead an army to march south to Fujian, first persuade Zheng Zhilong to surrender, if he does not listen, we will kill relatives righteously and wipe out the traitors in one fell swoop."

"Aiqing's loyalty is evident, and I am very pleased." Zhu Yousong said that he would untie the rope for Zheng Caiqin.

"Your Majesty, you can't. The guilty minister has a sympathy to return..."

Zheng Hongkui stopped Zhu Yousong, and saluted him: "This thief is an official of the imperial court, and His Majesty has shown him great kindness, but this thief does not want to repay the emperor's kindness, nor does he want to be loyal to the country, but he colludes with the rebel Zheng Zhilong and gathers the crowd." For rebellion, I captured him and handed him over to His Majesty Fa Luo, and his more than a thousand accomplices fought stubbornly, and have been strangled by the troops led by Weichen and Chenggong, please Your Majesty punish this thief for treason."

In fact, Zhu Yousong already knew all these things well. As an emperor, how could he not know that such a big thing happened in the capital under the eyes of the emperor?The tens of thousands of Jinyiwei and the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty are not decorations. It can be said that Zhu Yousong's eyes and ears are all over the world. The reason why he did this is to give Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong face.

From a personal point of view, they are family members. From a business point of view, Zheng Hongkui is in charge of the Beijing camp, and Zheng Chenggong's Imperial Forest Army is responsible for defending the imperial city and the palace city. Of course, it is their uncle and nephew's responsibility for such a thing to happen in the capital. thing.

Now that Zhu Yousong had no choice but to speak, he pretended to be surprised and looked at Zheng Cai and said, "There is such a thing?"

Now Zheng Cai is too late to regret, Zheng Zhilong rebelled, Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong are still heroes in the court, and they have no guilt at all, but what kind of trouble did he follow Zheng Zhilong who is thousands of miles away?Now that we have come to this world, why should we have known today?
Zheng Cai knelt down with a plop, "Your Majesty, the guilty minister was confused for a moment, please forgive me." As he spoke, he began to kowtow to Zhu Yousong.

Zheng Cai in history was not a hero. He first followed Zheng Chenggong and Zheng Hongkui to fight against the Qing Dynasty, and then fought with Zheng Chenggong and joined Lu King Zhu Yihai. Then he betrayed Zhu Yihai and surrendered to the Tartars. This is a capricious traitor. Afraid of death, in order to keep his head, he will do anything.

These Zhu Yousong had already come to a conclusion about him, and the historical records and actual performance basically coincided, so he turned his face away, returned to the dragon chair and sat down again, "If this happened, then I can't tolerate you. My behavior has always been to distinguish rewards and punishments, merits and demerits, right and wrong, grievances and grievances, enemies and enemies, and love and hatred. It is an established fact that you colluded with Zheng Zhilong to plan a rebellion. If you are not punished for your crime, it is not enough to outrage the common people, and it is not enough to imitate everyone. On crime I should have executed Er Lingchi and ransacked your family, but I think you have made a lot of contributions in the naval camp, and I only let you suffer a single blow, and your wife, children, and children will not be held accountable, what else do you have to say?"

"The guilty minister accepts the crime...the guilty minister thank you..." Zheng Cai wept bitterly, knowing that Zhu Yousong would definitely chop off his head, but it was really wishful for him to reduce his crime to this point. .

Zhu Yousong beheaded Zheng Cai outside the Meridian Gate, and the turmoil in the capital calmed down.

Then Zhu Yousong issued a decree ordering Zheng Hongkui to be the commander of the South University, and Zheng Chenggong to be the deputy marshal, and gave him [-] soldiers and horses to go to Fujian.

When the army was about to rise, Zhu Yousong told Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong: "Although Zheng Zhilong committed an unforgivable crime, I think he has made great contributions to defending the frontier for many years, defeating the invasion of the Dutch devils and Japanese crowns. He is willing to abandon the dark and turn to the bright, accept the recruitment, and hand over Zhu Yujian to you and take him back to the capital, I can still let the past go, let him return to his original post, and continue to sit in Fujian as his Nan'anbo."

"Your Majesty has exhausted his benevolence. Please rest assured. I will follow the order. The emperor's kindness is so great. If Zheng Zhilong is obsessed with his obsession, it is a heinous crime. We can only kill relatives with righteousness..." Zheng Hongkui and Zheng Chenggong were grateful. Three beeps, a [-]-strong army left the capital in mighty force, joined the Caojiang Navy in Nanjing, and then went on an expedition to Fujian.

(End of this chapter)