The twenty-one-year-old Emperor Chongzhen sat on the dragon bed, because he had insomnia overnight, the young emperor's eyes were dark and collapsed, although he was wearing a clean and tidy dragon robe, but his eyes were full of fatigue and helplessness. He held the music of the military department, and said with a tired sigh: "Huang Taiji just passed the pass the year before last, and now he has sent his thieves to attack Longjing Pass, and the guard Sun Qiying has been killed, and the Tartars have already entered the pass!"

Wu Jue, the secretary of the military department, is not as tired as Emperor Chongzhen, he is Chinese New Year's Eve five years old today, in the prime of life, has experienced the involvement of the Jiangnan commercial tax case, and has been idle at home for more than two years.

He stood up and said in a steady and calm voice: "Your Majesty, the Tartars have attacked Longjing Pass for the second time, and now Chahar has surrendered to the gold thieves, whenever Huang Taiji truces, he will borrow the Mongolian Koluo Pass, every time he advances, we will defend, tired of running for our lives, and the people on the border are miserable, there are many dead and wounded, the situation is so passive, I have to think of a good strategy, build border defense, and fundamentally cut off the hope of Huang Taiji entering the pass!"

Emperor Chongzhen stared at Wu Jue and said, "Wu Shangshu, having said that, after all, since Mongolia has surrendered to Huang Taiji, there is no good way to rebuild the border defense now!

Wu Jue said confidently: "Weichen does not have a particularly good plan, but after the analysis of the border defense, the reason why Huang Taiji can always enter the customs every time he passes the border is basically because the border posts are not strict enough, and Weichen suggested that the original ten miles and one pavilion should be added to five miles and one fort, and each fort will be garrisoned with two thousand troops to increase the solidity of the border defense!"

As soon as Wu Jue's voice fell, Shen Shaoxian, the head of the household next to him, sneered: "I thought Lord Wu Jue had some good plan, it turned out to be an increase in the number of garrisons! Hehe, the Guanning Jin defense line in eastern Liaodong consumes millions of taels of silver every year, and now it is going to increase the border defense of the Great Wall, dare to ask Lord Wu Jue that the money of my Ming Empire is all conjured?"

Shen Shaoxian is now a celebrity around Emperor Chongzhen, his holy family is far above Wu Jue, and because the two belong to the Donglin Party and the Jiangnan Party respectively, they have different political views and are not pleasing to each other, so they talk with each other.

Emperor Chongzhen had lost his assertiveness, but instead of speaking, he wanted to listen to the arguments between the two and compare them to see which plan was more feasible.

Wu Jue was not in a hurry, turned to stare at Shen Shaoxian and asked: "You are a finished egg under the nest?" You are the head of the household, and you only know how to calculate the benefits and losses when doing things, but if the society is turbulent, no matter how much money you have, I'm afraid there is no place to spend it, right?"

Listening to Wu Jue's "fallacy", the fire in Shen Shaoxian's heart did not hit one place: "Wu Shangshu, you should be careful when you speak, what is the meaning of having eggs under the nest?

The words touched Emperor Chongzhen's sensitive nerves, and his eyes stared at Wu Jue wide.

I saw Wu Jue smile coldly and said, "You took it out of context!"

"Wu Jue, you said that you don't settle accounts, but do you know that the money for thieves, disaster relief, and border defense is all squeezed out by the Nanzhili Commercial Tax Division?!"

Wu Jue smiled coldly: "It's true that the squeeze out, but if there is a problem with the border defense, the first one to make a mess is Nanzhili?"

As soon as Wu Jue's words came out, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't hold back any longer, and slammed the table and scolded: "Wu Jue! You are bold! Do I listen to you discuss border defense and how to resist the enemy, or do I listen to you lean into each other and debate right and wrong?!"

Wu Jue has a kind of arrogance: "Your Majesty, Weichen just refuted Lord Shen, and Lord Shen spoke with an offensive ......."

Shen Shaoxian knelt down and said: "The emperor is clear, and the minister is just against him, Lord Wu Jue, who hates the policy of setting up a border guard fort!"

Emperor Chongzhen was furious: "Praetorian Guard, arrest Wu Jue, hand him over to Dali Temple, punish him according to the crime of party struggle, and deprive him of the post of secretary of the military department, and Yang He, the governor of the three sides, will act as the secretary of the military department!"

Wu Jue had just recovered less than three months ago, and because of Shen Shaoxian's slander, he was once again imprisoned by the suspicious and sensitive Emperor Chongzhen.

Emperor Chongzhen still didn't ask for depression, he pointed at Shen Shaoxian and said sharply: "Shen Shaoxian, I sent Wu Jue to prison, and the strategy of this defense will be handed over to you, if you can't come up with a good border defense plan within three days, I will kill you and ask for the crime!"

Shen Shaoxian suddenly broke out in a cold sweat: Accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger, this is really true, I thought that I was generous, and I knocked out Wu Jue, the hard bone of Donglin, in one go, but I didn't expect that the disaster would come again. It seems that when you leave the palace, you have to ask Master Hou for advice!

Who knew that at this time, a non-long-eyed soldier next to him knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that the reason why the Liaodong Tartars frequently enter the customs is to endanger my capital, because of the strategy of Chengzu's Son of Heaven guarding the country, the capital of our Ming Empire is set up on the Liaodong front, and the minister thinks it is ......."

Before Zhou Suoxue's words fell, he saw that Emperor Chongzhen's expression began to be cloudy, and he was so frightened that he stopped and didn't dare to speak.

Emperor Chongzhen asked in a voice like a dead branch, "Go on!"

Shen Shaoxian hurriedly tugged at the placket of Zhou's clothes and reminded him not to say any more.

Zhou Suxue stubbornly said: "Moving the capital to Jinling can avoid war......"

As soon as Zhou Suxue said this, Shen Shaoxian next to him sighed and shook his head.

Emperor Chongzhen slapped the table: "Praetorian Guard, drag down this traitor who messes with our army's heart and has a plot to behead the public!"

Wang Liangfu waved his hand, and the Praetorian Guards pounced on him and arrested Zhou Suxue like an eagle catching a chicken.

Zhou Suxue was so frightened that he cried: "Your Majesty, Wechen said the wrong thing, Your Majesty! The emperor forgives Wechen!"

Emperor Chongzhen sneered and said: "What are your intentions in letting me move the capital to Jinling? Jinling is the sphere of influence that you learned by Zhou, right? What you learned by Zhou is to make Jinling dark as the Southern Song Dynasty? Now that the Tartars are pressing, you let me be the king of retreat?

Shen Shaoxian smiled bitterly and shook his head.

Wang Liangfu waved his hand: "Take it down!"

The strong Praetorian Guards grabbed Zhou Suoxue and took off his official hat!

At this time, a Wenchen in his fifties with gray temples knelt down and pounced in: "Your Majesty! Zhou is young and ignorant, please ask the emperor to bypass his life!"

Emperor Chongzhen said with a cold face: "Zhou Yanru, your nephew, with different ambitions, if you don't kill today, you will definitely cause trouble to the court!"

Zhou Suoxue is Zhou Yanru's nephew and Shen Shaoxian's student, Emperor Chongzhen killed Zhou Suxue, obviously not to deter the party dispute, because Zhou Yanru and Shen Shaoxian themselves are not harmonious, this knife was cut down, and both sides were suppressed.

Zhou Yanru cried a handful of snot and tears: "Wechen must go home and teach this little rabbit cub a lesson! I also ask the emperor to look at the face of the old minister who has been diligent for so many years......

Shen Shaoxian also knelt down and begged for guidance: "Weichen is the teacher that Chen has learned, the son does not teach the fault of the father, and the laziness of the teacher who does not teach the teacher, and asks the emperor to punish his teacher for circumambulating his apprentices......"

Emperor Chongzhen calmed down for a moment, and said with a rough breath: "Escort Chen Suoxue to the prison of Dali Temple, and wait for disposal!"

Zhou Yanru and Shen Shao knelt down and kowtowed like pounding garlic: "The emperor's holy order!" "Thank you for your magnanimity!"