Min Yuanqi's words also surprised Zhu Renzhong, and after thinking for a while, Zhu Renzhong coughed heavily and said, "What does Min Baihu mean is that the situation is going to get worse?" ”

"Uncle Zhu is also a well-informed proprietor, and he also knows the news from the north, Taiyuan is not guaranteed, Datong and Xuanfu are not guaranteed, and Wu Sangui, the chief soldier of Liaozhen, has not arrived...... Uncle Zhu really thinks that the Beijing battalion soldiers of the Beijing Division will work? ”

Zhu Renzhong shouted: "Didn't you say that there are more than 100,000 Beijing battalion soldiers? ”

"The only small number of soldiers and horses in the Beijing camp that have been released have long been released," Min Yuanqi said with a cold expression: "I'm afraid that the soldiers and horses in the Beijing camp are not as good as Nanjing now!" Nanjing's Zhenwu battalion is not an empty battalion head, Caojiang three battalions, there are always 10,000 practical soldiers, plus the 49 guards were ordered to enrich the Beijing camp, there are Wei Guogong to supervise the Beijing camp, sincerity Bo to supervise the Jiang, the history of the military department to transfer all parties to supervise and guard the town's soldiers and horses, Nanjing's current defense is actually still above the Beijing division. The four sides of the Beijing division are Xuanfu, Datong, Jizhen, Liaozhen, these places are considered barriers, as well as Tianjin, Baoding, Denglai Governor's Military Town, now Wei Hui, Daimyo, Zhending Zhufu has been lost, Baoding is difficult to protect, Xuanfu Datong in the north is lost, Jizhen General Tang Tong led less than 10,000 troops, first defend the Beijing Division and then go to Bauhinia Pass, I am afraid it is also unreliable. Dengzhen has long been ruined and unavailable, and the general army of Shandong Town is Caozhou Liu, who led tens of thousands of people south to Huai'an. There is no rescue outside, there is no defense inside, and the people's hearts are not attached, my emperor is afraid that he can only sit in the city and worry about it, and even when the rebel army arrives, the soldiers and civilians in the city are just that, those eunuchs, nobles, and ministers have no heart to resist to the death. Li Chuang is not a Tartar, and the soldiers and civilians in the city have no intention of resisting together, how can this city be defended? In my opinion, in ten and a half days, no more than a month at most, there will be news to the south. At that time, the sky will fall apart, all the original rules will not be observed, the power of the military town and battalion will be greater, the local states and counties will completely lose their control, and the military governor will not be able to govern, and the only thing he is afraid of is that he has only one hand in the military power, and the nobles who are still in the center, the old uncle's family wants to come and have contacts with the nobles, and it is better to make plans as soon as possible. ”

Zhu Renzhong nodded solemnly, he also completely understood what Min Yuanqi meant.

Emperor Chongzhen seems to be trapped in a dead end, Jingshi has fallen, and the emperor is either captured or killed, and the end will definitely not be good. None of the princes went south, and the nobles, eunuchs, and civil officials in Nanjing could only nominate the clan to succeed to the throne or supervise the country, and there was a lack of a center during this time, whether it would form a situation in which the feudal towns in the late Tang Dynasty attacked and killed each other and went their own way, no one can say now.

Min Yuanqi actually knew that after knowing that Emperor Chongzhen committed suicide in April, Nanming did not form a large-scale chaos or self-reliance in addition to the small-scale fighting in the four towns of Jiangbei, and after the failure of the Donglin Party to support the Lu Domain, King Lu was not liquidated, but Hongguang succeeded to the throne, Nanming was established, Shi Kefa was squeezed out of the center out of the town Yangzhou, four towns were formed, and within a few months four towns were formed to guard two Huai, Zuo Liangyu guarded the upstream, Zhejiang, two lakes, Yungui listened to the central order, Zhang Xianzhong was entrenched in Sichuan, and Li Zicheng owned a small half of Huguang, Most of the territory of Henan, Hebei and Jingshi, plus Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places are under the control of the Shun army.

Among the various forces, in fact, the situation of the Southern Ming Dynasty was the best, the gentry were not attached when the Qing army first entered the customs, the Shun army was its great enemy, the Qing army in the south was not the main force, and the Qing army only occupied the dilapidated north, and the ability to manage wealth was extremely poor.

The Southern Ming Dynasty had an army of more than 2 million on the books, far exceeding the situation of raising food and wages in the north, if the center won people, the planning was strict, and the orders were strict, even if it could not compete with the elite Manchu Eight Banners in a short period of time, but it was inevitable to garrison the key points of Jianghuai and wait for the situation to change, and at least form a situation of separating the north and the south...... As a result, the waste of the Southern Ming Dynasty was a hundred times more wasteful than that of the Southern Song Dynasty, which is also unbelievable.

For Zhu Renzhong, obviously the situation is ten times more serious than what Min Yuanqi knows, and at the moment, the old businessman bowed his hand to Min Yuanqi and said: "We were waiting for news from the north before, but we didn't think of taking precautions, and we made plans early. ”

For Zhu Renzhong, there was indeed some paralysis and negligence before, mainly because Chongzhen has had too many major events in the past 17 years. The Qing army entered the customs five times, Songjin was defeated, the Dengzhou mutiny caused most of Shandong, and the Liukou did not mention it, from the second year of Chongzhen in Shanxi and Shaanxi, to the scourge of the northern provinces, and then to the south to Nanzhi Huguang, the number of dead people was at least more than one million, and the governor and the general soldier who died because of this did not know how many people there were.

Liukou is also from a mass of scattered sand to Li Zicheng occupies several provinces with millions of soldiers, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai and the five battalions of the left are not mentioned, a few years ago entrenched in Henan, Shandong Yuan Shizhong also had 100,000 people, threatening Xuzhou, Huai'an, the wind at that time was quite bad, the Zhu family was already planning to move to Yangzhou or Nanjing, and later Yuan Shizhong was killed by Li Zicheng, and the Xu Huai area was stable.

There are too many major events that happened during the Chongzhen period, which is simply dizzying, which is also the reason why Li Zicheng entered the Beijing Division, the officials and gentry chose to surrender, because Chongzhen's measures were inappropriate, too many fiascos and continuous natural disasters, these things are the image of the death of the country in the Confucian doctrine of heaven and man, the death of the Son of Heaven, the destruction of the Ming Dynasty, the dynasty and the Ding Ge are in accordance with the will of heaven, but it is not that the scholars and doctors are shameless.

After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, there were also officials who did not want to be cheeky and chose to be attached, but most of the officials and gentry either chose not to cooperate, or they rose up to resist, and many were martyred after the defeat, and there were also many who lived in seclusion to avoid trouble, so it cannot be generalized.

For Zhu Renzhong, the previous negligence and lack of vigilance were simply fatal, and he had to rely on the junior in front of him to remind him, which was really ashamed, and the resulting gratitude was quite sincere, not hypocritical.

Min Yuanqi smiled slightly, and arched his hand: "The old man can call me Yuan Qi, with the wealth of the Zhu family, even if there is no reminder from the juniors, there will be no big trouble......

"Otherwise, Caozhou Liu is bent on seeking wealth and raising soldiers, and divides the place, and if he is not careful, he will be in his way." Zhu Renzhong said with a smile: "Fortunately, my family has always had dealings with the Duke of Wei, but the old Duke of Wei died in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, and the little Duke of Wei is not very easy to deal with. ”

Three thousand taels to buy a letter, of course, is not the kind of "eight lines" with empty heads and eight brains, but to ask the sincerity to hang the interests of the Zhu family with the sincerity of the uncle's mansion.

Although Liu Zeqing is extremely arrogant, he is very careful about those who need to be flattered, and he does everything to cater to the horse. Now Liu Zeqing is in close contact with the high-level of the Donglin Party, and Liu Kongzhaoyi is a noble in charge of the army, and his status in Nanjing is second only to Shi Kefa, Wei Guogong and a few garrison eunuchs. And Liu Kongzhao and the relationship between the Donglin Party is quite deep, to Gao Hongtu, Jiang Yueguang and others from time to time, these things are like candles in the eyes of the high-level, the core of the Donglin Party is Shi Kefa and many high-ranking officials, there are famous Qingliu gentry such as Qian Qianyi in the local area, as well as a group of small friends of the Fushe waving their flags and shouting, in the country, the Donglin Party during the Chongzhen period has never held power as much as the Apocalypse four years ago, but as far as the corner of the Nanming is concerned, the power of the Donglin Party must be the first in the Nanming.

In addition to the government and the opposition officials, gentry, and celebrities, there are also Zuo Liangyu and Liu Zeqing and other strong feudal clans with military power and strength as aid, so Shi Kefa is really stupid, the party comrades are full of suspicion about the Fu Fan because of the matter of King Fu seizing the heir during the Wanli period, and think that it is unfortunate, Shi Kefa himself is not optimistic about the Fu Domain, and even agrees with the saying that the seven cannot be established, but before and after the first rat at both ends, indecisive, according to the strength of Donglin at that time, if you support the Lu Domain before Ma Shiying and others, the righteous name will be in hand, Ma Shiying, Huang Degong and others could not support the foundationless King Fu to seize the throne, and the general trend was certain, and the situation in the entire Nanming Dynasty was completely different.

It's a pity that Shi Kefa's measures were inappropriate and hesitant to make a decision. Ma Shiying and others are also righteous in grabbing the Fu Domain, after all, King Lu's sage is the boast of the Donglin Party, and King Fu's bloodline is the latest, but it is a well-known fact. King Fu was supported into Nanjing, the general trend is reversed, Shi Kefa's seven can not be established to the ears of King Fu, not only lost the previous power foundation, even Nanjing can not stay, can only invite himself to Yangzhou Governor, the power of the government fell into the hands of Ma Shiying and others, and Liu Zeqing saw that the situation was not good and turned to Ma Shiying, the four towns formed a state of indescribable, the court not only did not form a joint force, the reaction to the establishment planted the seeds of division, Donglin and Fushe not only attacked Ma Shiying and others, even Emperor Hongguang did not let go, Fabricated a lot of rumors to shake the foundation of Emperor Hongguang's rule, in addition to the attack on public opinion, government affairs are also not cooperative, the center of the court restrains each other, the Donglin Party also instigated Zuo Liangyu in Wuchang when the Qing army went south, and attacked Nanjing along the river, threatening to Qing Jun's side, the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty was forced to fight with Huang Degong and other towns, the enemy is current, the Southern Ming Dynasty is in the civil war, which is naturally a move to shake people's hearts.

Several of Gao Jie's subordinates not only did not follow the order to meet the Qing army, but instead plotted to kill the commander in front of the battle, changed banners and surrendered, and the importance of people's hearts and minds can be seen.

There are Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing, Gao Jie, the three departments add up to more than 100,000 people, and there are 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers, and the descendants only think that the Qing army is strong in the south and the Ming towns are looking forward to the wind and the wind is smooth, in fact, the Duoduo Department will not add up to more than 20,000 soldiers, if the four towns obey the order to fight with the Qing army in the south, even if they can't win the field battle, there is no problem in garrisoning Xuzhou, Huai'an, Yangzhou and other cities, Zuo Liangyu's department does not go down the river, even if Azig gets Xiangyang, the Qing army does not know how to fight water warfare, and intercepts it in Jiujiang and other places, and it is impossible to go down the river to take Nanjing.

Therefore, later generations said that the Donglin Party was a disaster to the country, in fact, the Donglin Party people were not wronged, although there were many martyrs, but because of the party's struggle for the benefit of the disaster in the central place, resulting in civil strife in the Southern Ming Dynasty, the crime was not light, saying that they harmed the country and harmed the country, so that the Southern Ming Dynasty fell, and it was not wronged.

At this time, Liu Zeqing's party attached to Donglin, and he also intended to marry a few big people in Nanjing like Liu Kongzhao, who were sincere uncles, and the Zhu family had dealings with Chengyi Bofu, and sending a sum of silver to buy peace was just a small matter for Liu Kongzhao. For Liu Zeqing, he can still get a few thousand silver, the Zhu family is also respectful, and with the face of the sincere uncle, even if the general of the Zhenhuai General Army has any changes to the local area, he should not move his mind to the Zhu family.

Zhu Ren's important thing to do these things is just a trivial matter, but before that, the thinking was not put on the Ming Dynasty will die in the near future, and Emperor Chongzhen will fall into such a major event as the collapse of the Jingshi, which is also the frequent occurrence of major events during the Chongzhen period, and the Jingshi has been besieged many times, which made the high-level at that time, including the gentry and wealthy businessmen like Zhu Renzhong, lack sufficient vigilance against the fall of Jingshi and the suicide of Emperor Chongzhen.

"Brother Min wants to prepare ordnance war horses, in fact, there is a way to save trouble." Zhu Renzhong's gratitude was overflowing, and Zhu Wanchun continued: "There is a delivery station more than 30 miles north of Shuiguan, and most of the warehouses are military supplies. If Brother Min took the lead and managed to quietly buy all the military supplies in the delivery station, even if someone wanted to check afterwards, as long as he secretly acted secretly, he would not be able to find out. ”