Chapter 378: On Thieves

The food in the East Palace was very fragrant, but the two of them tasted the same wax, frowned and whispered, until near Shen (three o'clock in the afternoon) a eunuch hurriedly came, and Emperor Chongzhen summoned the prince and Chang Yu into the inner palace.

The two of them got up in a hurry, hurriedly walked out of the Duanben Palace towards the Qianqing Gate, and met the eunuch palace maid on the road to see that the two of them had heavy and unkind faces, and they did not dare to greet each other from afar.

There are still some officials waiting outside the Qianqing Gate to face the saint, seeing the two of them coming, they talked in a low voice, there are salutes, Zhu Cihong is okay, he smiles and returns the courtesy, Chang Yu directly flashed with a black face, and the ministers who provoked him cursed psychologically, and the dead eunuchs were really virtuous, and once they gained power, they were extremely arrogant.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, Grandpa Chang, the emperor is in the Imperial Garden" As soon as the two entered the Qianqing Gate, two eunuchs greeted them.

The Imperial Garden, between the Kunning Gate and the Xuanwu Gate, pavilions and water pavilions, exotic flowers and plants abound, it is an excellent place for the royal people of the Inner Palace to take a walk before the flower and the moon.

Today's weather is gloomy, and it is not a good time to visit the garden, how can the emperor be so interested, Chang Yu muttered in his heart, but after thinking about it, Emperor Chongzhen is diligent in government, and he has been dealing with government affairs since early times, and his head must be about to explode, and he came out to blow the wind and relieve pressure.

The two followed the eunuch through the Qianqing Palace, the Jiaotai Palace, the Kunning Palace, and entered the Imperial Garden out of the Kunning Gate, and shuttled between the pavilion flowers and branches until the Qin'an Palace.

Qin'an Hall is in the middle of the imperial garden, simply put, it is a dojo, because Emperor Jiajing believes in Taoism, and has greatly repaired it, setting up a dojo, which is taken care of by a special eunuch Taoist.

That's right, there are monk temples and Taoist temples in the imperial city, and there are monks and Taoist priests, but they are all ordained by the order of the elderly eunuchs.

Chongzhen stood by the railing in front of the hall, looking haggard, his brows furrowed deeply, and his expression was worse than the previous two days, thinking that he had been overworked in state affairs in the past two days.

"Minister Chang Yu see the saint" Chang Yu bowed with the prince in front of the hall.

Only then did Chongzhen relieve, glanced down at the two of them, and raised his hand slightly: "Come and talk."

Chang Yu and Zhu Cihong walked up the stairs quickly and walked to Chongzhen's side.

"Your Majesty, the ministers have something to ask for." Chang Yu took a step forward and said.

Chongzhen turned his head to look at him, and smiled reluctantly: "I know what you want to say, but Chang Yu, do you know that even if the thief is rampant, he is just a thief, but the Manchu Golden Dog is different, they are foreign thieves, not only want to swallow the Ming Dynasty, but also destroy the thousand-year-old bloodline of the Han people in the Central Plains.......

Chang Yu took a long breath heavily, who in later generations said that Chongzhen had thought of uniting to destroy Li Zicheng, and luring the wolf into the house, an inadvertent thing was to hand over the ancestral inheritance, how dare he.

"Not only can you break the thief in Taiyuan in one fell swoop, I believe that you can also beat Qinggou outside the pass, and no matter how bad you are, you can join Wu Sangui to protect Ningyuan, and it is always okay to hold Shanhaiguan."

Chongzhen looked at Chang Yu with a sad face with blurred tears in his eyes: "It's a pity that the enemy soldiers are coming to the city, but there is no one available for the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces, and no one is available, and no one can use it, I can only count on you, Chang Yu, don't bear me, don't bear Daming!" ”

Crashed!

The king of this country, the Ming Emperor who is high and high up, finally collapsed in front of his henchmen under strong pressure, and from another point of view, anyone who knows that he is going to ruin the country and his family, and no matter how much pressure he has to bear every day, he may collapse, and Chongzhen is no exception.

"Minister, swear allegiance to the Ming Dynasty, loyalty to the royal family, the minister is willing to go to the border to resist the enemy, go to the soup and fire is to break bones, and will also beat the dog back." Chang Yu was actually quite sad in his heart, and knelt in front of Chongzhen with a pop, and Zhu Cihong beside him was already sobbing and couldn't help himself.

"Get up and speak" Chongzhen stretched out his hand to help, and Chang Yu took advantage of the situation: "Your Majesty, the house dog and wild dog bite people, and the minister went to the north to fight the dog, but the dog in the south has lost his heart, and I am afraid that Lord Shi will be embarrassed."

Chongzhen was slightly stunned, his face was extremely ugly, and he sighed: "Do you know where the thief is at this time?" ”

"The minister doesn't know, but he was defeated and left, since he was looking for the thief Liu Fangliang round, when the minister came from Taiyuan, Liu Fangliang was still in Lu'an Mansion (now Changzhi) and the thief was in Pingyang Mansion (Linfen) The two places are only 300 miles apart, although the mountain road is bumpy, but these days must have been rounded."

Chang Yu pondered for a moment, raised his head and said.

Chongzhen's eyes lit up slightly: "Go on."

"The thief leader Liu Fangliang is the thief East Road Army, after crossing the Yellow River, first took Huaiqing Mansion (now Qinyang generation) but did not directly capture the nearby Weihui Mansion (Ji County, now Weihui City), but went straight to the northwest Lu'an Mansion, because Changzhi has been an important place for soldiers since ancient times, he wants to take it first and then map other state capitals, the minister expects that his next move is not Weihui Mansion or Zhangde Mansion (now Anyang)" Chang Yu said.

Chongzhen took a breath, his face was milder than before: "Then which one do you infer that the thief will fight first?" ”

Chang Yu raised his eyebrows: "Zhangde Mansion, the reason is very simple, Zhangde Mansion is directly east of Changzhi, and the straight-line distance is only three hundred miles, while Wei Hui is still hundreds of miles south of Anyang, of course, the thieves are attacking the city nearby and slowly encroaching on the surroundings."

Chongzhen stroked his palms and looked incredulous: "Although I know that you are intelligent, brave and strategic, and not inferior to those capable military generals above the court, I still didn't expect it to be like this, I am really lucky to have you by my side."

"The emperor has won the award" Chang Yu hurriedly said, but he was very ashamed in his heart, he was very smart, just because he knew this history, after Liu Fangliang crossed the Yellow River, he took Huaiqing Mansion, went straight to Changzhi, and then went east to capture Weihui and Zhangde Mansion, and then went north to the Daimyo Mansion...... The speed of conquering various states and counties is comparable to that of high-speed rail.

But where does Chongzhen know the Tao of this, only that this kid is very smart, and he doesn't even need to pinch his hands to calculate, he can guess the matter without leaving ten, only Zhu Cihong, who has been silent next to him, knows that the reason why Chang Yu knows should be the "dream" of the immortal.

"As you expected, at this time, the thieves are divided into two ways, all the way to Zhangde Mansion, all the way to Wei Hui, I am afraid that tomorrow, at this time, the two mansions have fallen into the hands of thieves" Chongzhen sighed, the muscles on his face twitched a few times, which showed that he was extremely indignant in his heart.

There are no soldiers in the Central Plains, only the guards and officials flee, and the thieves pass by no one to resist at all, those cities are not captured at all, to be precise, they are received, and it does not cost a soldier at all, which is comparable to the devil entering the customs back then.

"If it goes on like this, I am afraid that the thief army will go north, at that time..."Chang Yu frowned deeply: "I heard that the emperor sent the army to the Ministry of Shangshu Shi to suppress the bandits, Lord Shi has no soldiers, no generals and no food, how to resist, what is the good strategy of the ministers?" ”

It is an iron law that internal officials are not allowed to interfere in politics and ask questions about politics.

But this is also a statement to the outside world, Chang Yu is a confidant, and at this time he has to be Chongzhen's weight, he doesn't care about those false, and after a little contemplation, he said: "Although Shi Kefa is not as good as Sun Chuanting, Sun Chengzong and others, but he is not a soldier on paper, he has been leading the army to fight against thieves from Chongzhen for eight to twelve years, and has very rich practical combat experience, and during the period of serving as the secretary of the military department in Nanjing, he also has a lot of experience in refining and training the army."

After a slight pause, he said: "As for the men and horses, I have transferred Liu Zeqing, the chief soldier of Shandong, and Gao Jie, the chief soldier of Xuzhou, to be ordered to go immediately, and the two departments have no less than 50,000 men and horses to meet the enemy head-on, and in addition, Zhou Yuji of Taiyuan led the troops to block from behind, Taiyuan still has more than 50,000 capable soldiers, and I poured 100,000 troops to attack before and after, and the thief army ...... It should be a difficult enemy, at least it can solve the crisis of the Central Plains."

Chang Yu sighed secretly, Chongzhen has no confidence to speak now, and he has no toughness, because the entanglement with the thieves for more than ten years has made him lose his self-confidence, how many soldiers and horses have been invested, how many capable generals have been killed in battle, and in the end, what about the ......

But what makes Chang Yu speechless the most is that the fate is wonderful!

In the end, Shi Kefa still couldn't escape the bad fate with the general soldiers of the four towns!

In history, the thieves entered Beijing, although the Ming Emperor died, but the Ming army still had a certain strength, not to mention anything else, the general soldiers of the four towns in Jiangbei, Huang Degong, Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo, Gao Jie are among the leaders, if these four people can be twisted into a unit, whether it is a frontal hard knock, or a chase and interception, they can hit the Qing army, at least it will not be as unbearable as the history.

However, history is cruel, these four people have their own troops, and they are not convinced, but they also fight each other with open guns and arrows, such as Gao Jie assassinated Huang Degong several times, and Gao Jie himself was ambushed by Xu Dingguo, and the most bitter thing is that Shi Kefa ran around to mediate between the four King Kongs, and in the end, these people only cared about internal fighting and internal friction, and cheapened the Qing army.

At this time, Chongzhen asked Shi Kefa to lead two of them to fight the thieves, whether he could suppress these two green skins, Chang Yu was really worried.

"Your Majesty, the Taiyuan War was soon exhausted, although it can be mobilized, the long journey is embarrassing and useless, how to solve the grain and grass? There are also Liu Zeqing and Gao Jie's department, whether they can be mobilized is still a question, what about grain and grass? Chang Yu threw out the most headache problem.

Previously, the thief army went north to Taiyuan, the prince recounted the dream of Chongzhen, Chongzhen was shocked, and ordered Liu Zeqing and others to enter Beijing, but they each made excuses not to come, only Tang Tong brought 8,000 men and horses to come.

"I have given the order, if he dares not to move, I will kill him immediately" Chongzhen said angrily.

"If he mobilizes troops and does not move on the grounds that there is no food and grass, how can the emperor kill him?" Chang Yu said again.

Chongzhen's face darkened, and then he sighed: "I have been discussing this matter with the courtiers in the past few days, and it should not be difficult to have silver in my hand at this time, but how do you plan to defeat the Manchu Golden Dog?" ”

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