Chapter 2 The choice of the Ming Dynasty
"Your Majesty. The size of the land of the ancestors cannot be abandoned!" As soon as they saw this Wang Cheng's kind words, all the officials of the Daoist Dynasty spoke one after another, opposing the abandonment of the land of Liaodong.
"Our dynasty has long had ancestral training, eunuchs are not allowed to interfere in politics, this Wang Chengen dares to make a big statement in the court today, and Weichen asks the emperor to punish him severely!"
"The minister seconded the proposal! The minister seconded the proposal!" More and more speech officials came out of the class to play.
Chongzhen is a headache, Wang Chengen's words are actually his inner monologue of Chongzhen, it is impossible for these ministers not to understand, but these ministers are still so opposed to it It is much beyond Chongzhen's expectations.
"Chen Yan, you are the cabinet assistant, how about you talk about this Wang Chengen's proposal?" Chongzhen still refused to give up, and directly named the cabinet assistant Chen Yan!
γγγγγChen Yan, who has been in the officialdom for a long time, understands the emperor's mind very well, and the emperor wants to recruit Wang Feng's 200,000 troops to King Qin, but he is unwilling to bear the infamy of abandoning the country, and the emperor is calling him by name at this moment, just to let the proposal come out of his mouth.
Chen Yan raised his head and looked at the emperor, Chongzhen was looking at him with eager eyes at this time, scaring Chen Yan and quickly lowered his head, Chen Yan knew too well in his heart that if he was in favor of transferring troops at this moment, when the siege of Jingshi was lifted, the emperor would definitely give himself the charge of abandoning the country.
"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that what the ministers said is reasonable, and the land of the ancestors must not be abandoned!" Chen Yan didn't want to bear this charge, so he simply came to push two, five, six.
"You!" Chongzhen, who was originally with ardent hope, waited for Chen Yan's words, and suddenly walked away angrily.
The inefficiency and incompetence of the Ming Dynasty regime were infinitely magnified at this moment, and the cabinet's prevarication made Chongzhen at a loss, two months had passed since Li Zicheng's war letter was delivered, and it was the Spring Festival of Chongzhen's seventeenth year in a blink of an eye.
According to the past tradition, the emperor wanted to accept the congratulations of hundreds of officials on this day, but Chongzhen at this time did not have such a mood, seeing that the days passed day by day, the cabinet could not come up with a way to resist the enemy, how could Chongzhen still have the mind.
"Your Majesty, today is the New Year, don't be so unhappy!" Wang Chengen said with relief while changing Chongzhen's clothes.
"Alas, Cheng'en! You still know me!" Chongzhen said with a smile, "Let's go, let's go to the Imperial Palace to receive the congratulations of the hundred officials!"
"Knock knock knock!" The bell of Jingyang Palace rang again and again, but for a long time there was no minister to come to congratulate, and the ministers seemed to have made an appointment, and the first day of the new year was late for the first day of the new year.
"Quick, go and inform the ministers!" Wang Chengen whispered to his little eunuchs to rush to the minister's mansion to inform the court.
"The Ming Dynasty is not dead, I am not dead, they will not regard me as the emperor, I will kill them, kill them!" Chongzhen roared loudly with all his might.
Xi'an Mansion, and the situation in Beijing City is diametrically opposite, at this time Xi'an Mansion is full of lights, all the people are celebrating, since Li Zicheng ascended the throne here to establish the Dashun regime, exempted Xi'an and other state capitals from taxes, which makes the people who suffer from the Ming Dynasty taxes are elated.
The Qin Palace in Xi'an Mansion was already Li Zicheng's palace at this time.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Your Majesty, and the ministers are waiting for you to pay New Year's greetings!" Liu Zongmin, Hao Shaoqi, Li Yan, and others rushed in, except for Li Yan and those who surrendered, none of those old Shaanxi people made a big salute.
Li Zicheng's brows furrowed, but after a while, Li Zicheng's face changed to an expression. Li Yan has also told him many times about these arrogant soldiers, but now Li Zicheng has to rely on these people to fight the world.
"Zong Min, are the troops marching eastward ready?" Li Zicheng suppressed his anger and tried to make himself as easy-going as possible.
"Big brother, don't worry! The 500,000 troops marching east have already been prepared, just waiting for the big brother's order!" Compared with the title of emperor, Liu Zongmin still likes to call him big brother.
"Okay, tomorrow morning, let's go east to Beijing!" Li Zicheng, who was excited, stood up and shouted loudly.
Ningwuguan, Cao Wenzhao, who had been resting here for a long time, had already received a call from the imperial court and was preparing to rush to the capital immediately.
In addition to leaving the necessary troops to defend the city, Tang Tong dispatched 8,000 soldiers and horses to rush to Beijing.
Shandong Liu Zeqing, although he also received a letter from the Ministry of War, he has been hesitant on the grounds that he was injured after falling off his horse.
In the Qianqing Palace, Chen Xinjia carefully reported to Chongzhen the reinforcements from all over the country.
"It's only a little more than 50,000, where is Li Zicheng's opponent with such a small number of troops?" Chongzhen couldn't help but be a little worried after listening to Chen Xinjia's report, "Chen Aiqing, can't the soldiers of Jinzhou really not move?"
"Ministerγγγγγγ" Chen Xinjia wanted to speak and stopped, "The minister, as the secretary of the military department, does not approve of the recruitment of Wang Feng's soldiers and horses into the king of Jingqin, but when such a survival is at stake, the Liaodong army that recruits Wang Feng has become the only choice!"
"So Aiqing is also in favor of me recruiting Wang Feng's soldiers and horses?" Chongzhen suddenly ignited hope and stared at Chen Xinjiadao.
"Your Majesty, there are two difficulties in the transfer of Liaodong's troops, one is who will propose this recruitment strategy, if the cabinet does not take the initiative, it may be difficult to have other methods, and second, the military expenditure for the recruitment of Wang Feng's Liaodong troops is estimated to be no less than one million taels!" Chen Xinjia carefully considered all the difficulties and put forward the two biggest difficulties at present.
"A million taels?" Chongzhen was a little incredulous, "Does it take so much to recruit Wang Feng's army?"
"Your Majesty, I'm afraid that there are only a lot more!"
"But the treasury only has 70,000 taels of silver! How can this be good!" Chongzhen couldn't be clearer about the silver deposited in the treasury.
Regarding the emperor's predicament, Chen Xinjia bowed his head and was silent.
"Your Majesty, Li Mingrui asks to see!" Just as the two were at a stalemate, Wang Chengen walked in.
"Biography!"
"Your Majesty, then Weichen will retire first!" Chen Xinjia hurriedly withdrew.
"Go!" Chongzhen pressed his head and waved his hand helplessly.
"Minister, Li Mingrui see Your Majesty, long live, long live, long live!" Seeing the emperor, Li Mingrui hurriedly made a big salute.
"Get up, what's the matter?" Chongzhen's words were filled with helplessness and paleness.
"Your Majesty, it's a matter of time before the thieves force into the capital! Now the minister has a plan!" Li Mingrui didn't hide it, and went straight to the point.
"Oh, what advice does Aiqing have?" Chongzhen's eyes shone brightly, as if he had seen the dawn.
"The minister thinks that there is only one plan to move the capital at this time!"
"Move the capital?"
"Yes, it is to move the capital! Before the Tang Emperor entered Shu to avoid chaos, and then the Song Dynasty crossed the Yangtze River in the south, these two cases have preserved the country, and now my Ming Dynasty has reached the autumn of life and death, Nanjing is the capital of my dynasty, the institutions here are sound, as long as the emperor moves south, there will immediately become the new capital of my Ming Dynasty!" Li Mingrui cited the benefits of moving south one after another.
"Is that safe? Aren't the ministers objecting?" Chongzhen cared about most about the ministers' leisurely mouth.