The Houjin camp was gloomy, and everyone was depressed.

After several small defeats in a row, many people don't know if they can defeat the reinforcements of the Ming court like in the Battle of Salhu.

Nurhachi was furious, tied up more than a dozen officers of various banners, and escorted them to the front of the army to correct the law and purge the morale of the army.

"My Eighth Banner Army has never encountered such humiliation before the war, and this revenge will be avenged!"

Contrary to the Houjin camp, Xiong Tingbi returned to Liaoyang and raised his tent to reward the three armies, called Xiaojie, and played the Emperor of the Apocalypse in Nanjing.

Xiong Tingbi himself is low-key, but the generals below him are happy.

Since the Liao Incident, the Ming army in Liaodong often looked at the banner of the Eight Banners Army and fled during the war, and it was even more imminent in the field battle, and there was almost no such pre-war confrontation, and the battle report of killing two generals without damaging a soldier or a pawn.

The generals were greatly encouraged and admired Xiong Tingbi's low-key and calm.

Even the defenders in Shenyang City also spread the news to the people, and the neighbors heard about it, and for a while, the soldiers and civilians in the city saw the hope of victory again, and united as one to resist.

In recent days, Nurhachi's body is obviously not as good as before, after Xiong Tingbi three times and twice, he was depressed all day long, and the serious illness that had just improved some time ago began to attack again.

Huang Taiji was different from the rest of Baylor, he had long been eyeing the position of the Great Khan of the Later Jin Kingdom.

One day, he received a "reminder" from Hanchen Fan Wencheng and personally went to see Nurhachi, and while expressing his concern for his health, he bluntly persuaded:

"Father Khan, the child thinks that the time for a decisive battle with the Ming army has not yet come, so it is better for us to retreat a few miles and give the Ming army in Shenyang and Liaoyang an illusion."

"If the defenders in the city can go out of the city to pursue, this is naturally the best, we will kill him and take Shenyang by chance."

"If Man Gui continues to stand still, we don't have to worry."

"Wait for Horqin and the other five divisions to defeat Zaisai, and then order them to go south to assist and fight a decisive battle with the Ming army in the Shenyang area!"

"At that time, the size of my army is far greater than that of the Ming reinforcements who came out of the pass, after defeating them, I will find a chance to deal with that little emperor."

Nurha lay naked on the couch, coughed a few times, and muttered for a moment before nodding:

"Huang'er, you're right."

"Go down and give orders..."

......

The next day, Huang Taiji ordered a retreat of ten miles.

The Houjin military camp was swept away, and the situation in Liaoshen initially improved due to Xiong Tingbi's strategy, but this was not something to be happy about.

Xiong Tingbi used a trick to confuse the slave chieftain for a while.

Once Nurhachi knew that Zhu Youxiao had transferred all the reinforcements to Fuyuwei, he was bound to make a comeback and attack Liaoshen with heavy troops.

The situation in Liaodong has been quite good in the past few days, the two sides are fighting wits and courage, Xiong Tingbi, Nurhachi and Zhu Xieyuan, the success or failure of each step is related to the lives of nearly one million soldiers, soldiers and civilians in Liaodong.

Due to the reform of Zhu Youxiao in the Ming Dynasty, it was also an eventful autumn, and a wave was not settled, and a wave rose again.

The Jiangnan reform was started by Zhu Youxiao's edict to reform various ministries and institutes in Nanjing.

Half a month later, the officials of the original ministries and institutes in Nanjing conducted a big test under the examination of the military ministers and important cabinet ministers who accompanied them.

Originally, many people regarded this temporary test as a joke.

Although they were deposed to Nanjing as officials, they were also officials of the imperial court.

In this big test, many people thought it was a façade kung fu, and then they would be arranged to be officials in other places, but when the results came out, they were all dumbfounded.

Zhu Youxiao issued an edict again, announcing that the top 500 officials in the general examination would be appointed to other provinces to fill vacancies and continue to serve as officials.

In other words, a large part of the remaining people don't even have to be officials.

500 people seems to be a lot, but compared with the officials of the six ministries in Nanjing, the Ducha Yuan, Dali Temple and other ministries who have been dismissed, the proportion of admissions is too low.

To put it bluntly, Zhu Youxiao is changing his methods to make a big layoff!

Their Emperor of the Apocalypse not only wants to dismiss the Nanjing Ministry, but also fires most of the original officials in Nanjing!

As soon as this incident came out, officials in both Beijing and Nanjing could not sit still.

This is almost a major event related to the life of each of them, and some officials in the DPRK and China, who claim to be upright, have found a good opportunity to fight for fame.

It was not enough to continue to play to Nanjing's imperial front, the Beijing Division's military engine room, the cabinet signing room, and even the Qianqing Palace and Cining Palace all received their self-righteous and nonsense chapters.

There is only one general meaning, this so-called reform will bury the Ming Dynasty's nearly 300 years of Jiangshan Sheji.

Some people also said that Zhu Youxiao was deceived by Wei Zhongxian again, and this was another bad idea of Wei Zhongxian, imploring to depose Wei Zhongxian and return the government to a peaceful world.

This time, Wei Zhongxian was angry.

Our old Wei has been staying in Beijing well, this reform is obviously the emperor's own will, and our old Wei is just trying his best to cooperate.

These civil officials, when they meet a basin, they don't care about it, they can't do anything at all, so they have to buckle it on my head?

Wei Zhongxian mobilized his means and network to get through the empress Zhang Yan and Concubine Liu in the harem, and called a group of "eunuchs" in the court to preach the benefits of reform all day long.

"Beijing Daily" and the factory guard are also sparing no effort to publicize.

The point is that although Wei Zhongxian's hands and eyes are all over the sky, from the inside out, the civil officials seem to be determined to prevent the reform this time.

What's more, even the eunuchs are no longer of the same heart this time.

At the end of last year, when Zhu Youxiao abolished the Nanjing Ministry, he had already indiscriminately touched the interests of the Manchu courtiers, including various political parties, including the Qi Party, the Chu Party, the Zhejiang Party, and the Donglin Party, which had the most prestige among the people.

Among the many officials who were dismissed after the big test, a considerable number of them also had friends with the eunuch party.

His own interests were damaged, and he could still talk to the emperor by pulling his neck, and there were few civil and military people in the Manchu Dynasty, only Wei Zhongxian was a complete "power eunuch".

Shoufu Han was silent, and in addition to Gu Bingqian, the eunuch bigwig, two more cabinet ministers asked for resignation one after another.

The entire court, the six ministries and courts, some supported the emperor, and some wanted to cancel the reform, but they all quarreled all over the world, and they flew everywhere as if they didn't want money.

In a word, it's a big deal.

It doesn't matter what party you belong to now, for those who oppose reform, even if you used to be a eunuch, as long as you are in the middle of the party, we are still good friends.

No one from the court to the people had a positive attitude towards this sudden reform, and even those who supported it had this idea in their hearts.

Eleven out of 10 people felt that the reform would end in a farce.

......

On this day, Zhu Youxiao hid in the palace, looking at the Jingshi Song Shu in a big box in front of him, and felt a headache.

Although he had expected it, he didn't expect the slave chieftain to take advantage of this juncture to start a war.

After the north has started to do things, the south must pay attention to maintaining order, and the reform must continue no matter what, and there must be no chaos in the country.

It's time for a ruthless crackdown!