On July 22, the ninth year of Chongzhen, at noon.

A team of Donggong guards rushed into the Beijing Division on horseback, and they shouted hoarsely with the good news in their hands: "Great victory!" Great victory! A great victory in Liangxiang, the Yongwei battalion beheaded more than 7,000 slaves and thieves! ”

"Great victory! Great victory! The victory of Liangxiang was a great victory, and the brave guard battalion beheaded four slaves and thieves, and eighteen Niu Lu Zhangjing, rescuing more than 100,000 people......"

"Victory......

The cavalry of Baojie entered from the Yongding Gate in the outer city of Beijing, entered the Zhengyang Gate of the inner city along the Yongdingmen Street of the central axis, and then entered the Chengtian Gate of the Imperial City, shouting all the way, and the whole city was a sensation!

Zhang Fengyi, who lived in the inner city, immediately asked the housekeeper to prepare a sedan chair to go to the military department, but when he arrived at the military department, he found that the person who reported the victory did not come, he stayed for a while, and immediately rode a horse straight into the imperial city to enter the palace to face the saint.

Zhang Fengyi was not angry at all why the person who reported the victory did not report the victory to the military department first according to the process, because he heard the three words of the Yongwei battalion, and he knew that it was the army directly led by the crown prince, and there was no need to go to his military department at all.

When the guards of the East Palace reported the good news to the noon gate, the people guarding the gate were all dumbfounded, and a eunuch who held the noon gate hurriedly fished the good news on the city wall with a basket, and then handed it to Cao Huachun, the eunuch of the master of ceremonies, Bingbi, as fast as possible.

Cao Huachun took the good news, quickly glanced at it, was ecstatic in his heart, and quickly ran towards the Qianqing Palace.

At this time, the Qianqing Palace was already in chaos, and there were a large number of concerts and chapters scattered on the ground, and the roar of Emperor Chongzhen continued to come out of the hall: "For a full eighteen days, the thieves and slaves were like entering no man's land, going south to Zhuozhou, breaking Pinggu in the east, and breaking more than a dozen cities in a row. What do they want to do? Want to be Cao Cao? ”

Emperor Chongzhen was furious, and roared one after another: "Gyeonggi suffered this disaster, and the general soldiers of all walks of life are incompetent!" I'm going to put them to death!" ”

The Son of Heaven was furious, and millions of corpses were ambushed, although Chongzhen did not have this special effect, but it was enough to make the palace maids and eunuchs in the Qianqing Palace tremble.

They all trembled, closed their mouths tightly and did not dare to come out, for fear of causing the emperor to be unhappy and being dragged out and beaten to death.

Cao Huachun arrived in front of the Qianqing Palace, and saw that Emperor Chongzhen inside was furious, and after hesitating for a moment, he saw that the roar inside stopped, and then ran in, he held the good news and shouted: "Your Majesty, great victory!" ”

Seeing that Cao Huachun, who had always been steady, jumped in like a monkey, Chongzhen frowned and said angrily: "What is the ghost called?" What the? What did you just say...... Great victory? ”

Emperor Chongzhen saw Cao Huachun's face full of smiles, and his heart was nervous, and he couldn't help but say, "What a big victory?" Where's the big win? ”

Cao Huachun didn't dare to hide the good news behind him and let Chongzhen guess, he immediately replied: "The crown prince reported the victory: the bloody battle in Liangxiang, the Yongwei battalion beheaded more than 7,000 slaves and thieves, beheaded four Jiala Zhangjing, eighteen Niu Lu Zhangjing, and rescued more than 100,000 people...... What a victory! ”

Emperor Chongzhen took the good news tremblingly, he read the song over and over again, for fear of missing a word, the more he looked at it, the more he felt shortness of breath, and his originally nervous face gradually relaxed.

"Good! Good! Good! Emperor Chongzhen shouted three times, walking around the Qianqing Palace, releasing the emotions that had been suppressed for a long time, and there were thousands of words in his heart that were difficult to speak.

This good news came too timely, and Daming now needs this victory to improve the morale of the army and the people!

At this time, the eunuch on duty came to report, and several ministers and six ministers asked for an audience.

Emperor Chongzhen's excited expression immediately stopped, and his face flashed a trace of coldness, these important ministers in the court, they didn't have the ability to fart when the enemy was present, and they came to join in the fun when there was good news at this time.

However, due to the reputation of the ancestral system and his own advice, Emperor Chongzhen still summoned them.

After the ministers finished the salute, Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the Ministry of War, immediately spoke: "Your Majesty! The minister suggested that the Nine Roads General Soldier who entered the King of Weiqin be killed! ”

Chongzhen was stunned when he heard this, and said, "Why did Zhang Aiqing say that? ”

Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the military department, said angrily: "Your Majesty issued an order on the 4th to order the general soldiers of all walks of life to enter the king of Beijing within eight days, but now it has been the eighteenth, and the general soldiers of all walks of life have already arrived near the Beijing division, but they dare not fight with the Qing army, so the minister suggested killing a few general soldiers to put them under pressure!" ”

Zhang Fengyi, as the secretary of the military department, is nominally in charge of the general soldiers of all walks of life, and now that this situation occurs, he can only detain the charges on the general soldiers of all walks of life, otherwise he will be caught by someone with a heart, and he will not be able to escape from the resignation and imprisonment.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't say anything, his face looked a little tired, and after a while, he said: "Kill them, do I still have generals to defend in Daming North Town?" ”

Although Emperor Chongzhen was also angry in his heart, he was also helpless, and he said before that he would execute those incompetents, which was just an angry talk.

Although the current Nine-sided Army, although it ostensibly obeys the call of the imperial court, it has actually begun to form its own system and gradually transform into a warlord army.

In particular, Liaodong Town has already formed interest groups, and the imperial court throws millions of taels of silver into Liaodong every year, but they only defend and do not attack, nor do they build city defenses, they stuff all the money into their own pockets, and the generals and even the soldiers' salaries are greedy.

is so corrupt, the imperial court can't remove them, once the salary is cut off, the mutiny is small, and the enemy is big.

If Liaodong is gone, the Qing army will drive south from the Guanning defense line unscrupulously, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

Jiang Fengyuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, said: "Perhaps it is the lack of unified command of the reinforcements from all walks of life, which causes the general soldiers of several routes not to dare to act rashly. ”

Jiang Fengyuan's remark made several ministers nod their heads in agreement, although they knew that this was not the reason, but everyone tacitly did not want to tear their faces with the border army.

"The prince has beheaded more than 10,000 slaves in a few days, and I plan to let the prince governor send reinforcements from all walks of life, what do you think?" Chongzhen said and handed the good news to Wen Tiren, the head of the cabinet.

Wen Tiren Jiang is still old and spicy, I don't know what ecstasy soup was poured into Chongzhen, and it didn't take a few days to win the appreciation of Emperor Chongzhen.

Several ministers hesitated, feeling that the emperor was a little child's play, not to mention that this good news is not watery, just let the crown prince who is less than ten years old be the governor is a little unreasonable, and the general soldiers from all walks of life will listen to him?

Wen Tiren took the good news and looked at it, his old eyes suddenly widened, it was incredible, and then his eyes flashed, and said: "Your Majesty, since ancient times, the prince has not been a general, and the minister thinks it is better to let others do it." ”

When Jiang Fengyuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Xie Sheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, heard this, they all felt that Wen Tiren was vicious.

Emperors are worried that someone will covet their throne, especially the crown prince as the second-in-command, in order to prevent the power from falling, the successive dynasties generally do not let the prince lead the army.

Even if the emperor personally went to fight the cane and let the crown prince supervise the country, he would arrange his own cronies by his side, called auxiliary and actual supervision.

When Wen Tiren said this, he was reminding Chongzhen in disguise to beware of the East Palace.