The inner court has a genius who can make money and fight, but he is not as young as the weak crown but is the governor of Dongchang, and he has just been promoted by the emperor as a eunuch of Bingbi, and the court and the opposition will be moved, even the inner palace is also in an uproar.

The distance from Xuanwu Gate to Qianqing Palace is not long or short, but it has attracted all the concubines of the harem to face the saints along the way, and even Queen Zhou and Princess Kunxing have taken this as a reason to see each other closely, and they bowed their heads slightly to Chang Yu, which is already a great honor.

is chatting with Chang Yu Emperor Chongzhen naturally knows the meaning of these harems, which is to face the Holy Daoxi, but they are all curious about this little eunuch who turned the tide, and after waving everyone away, he entered the Qianqing Palace, and ordered not to disturb each other, the father and son will meet Chang Yu alone, and even Wang Chengen can only be married outside the palace.

The monarch and the ministers sat opposite each other, and actually served tea with the prince holding the pot, such a high treatment was unheard of, Chang Yu insisted on refusing, and knew the meaning of Chongzhen in his heart, one to win over the statement, and the other to tempt.

If Chang Yu accepts it as a matter of course, it means that this kid is floating, so he has to beat, beat.

But seeing that Chang Yu tried his best to refuse, Chongzhen breathed a sigh of relief, signaled Zhu Cihong to listen on the side, and asked Chang Yu to take care of the customs from beginning to end.

After talking about this long story in detail, it was even more than an hour, and the father and son of Chongzhen, who listened directly, sometimes frowned, sometimes gritted their teeth, sometimes showed their faces and stroked their palms, and sometimes regretted it......

Chang Yu is like a storyteller, leading the two of them to gallop among thousands of troops and horses, and ran through the events since they left the customs.

The meaning is still unfinished, Chongzhen's father and son have endless aftertaste, and only after a few bubbles of tea did they sigh: "The marching formation, the talent of the generals and commanders, it is ridiculous that there are countless soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, and no one can reach a small child in the inner palace!" Shame, shame, but also great luck."

"The emperor has a good reputation, the mediocre posture of the ministers is not as good as the sages, just picking up people's teeth and wisdom, and the battle of Ningyuan is mostly based on the tactics of Yuan Inspector back then"

Hmph, the corners of Chongzhen's mouth twitched: "The difference between heaven and earth, if Yuan Chenghuan is alive, he will definitely be ashamed of you."

Chang Yu coughed lightly and said in his heart, it's almost over, don't kill me.

However, Zhu Cihong's youthful temperament, his focus is always different: "The assassin never showed up again?" ”

"Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, the last time the assassin appeared was before the counterattack on the Qing army, he killed Xiao Ran in the city, and no clues were found after that, and the minister speculated that he had taken advantage of the chaos to leave the city early, and it was even possible that he had arrived in the capital at this time."

When Chongzhen heard this, he raised his eyebrows: "In the capital, he can't make a splash, but just in case, you need to be more careful" said slightly: "I'm afraid you won't be able to stay in the capital for a few days."

Chang Yu had already been mentally prepared: "Your Majesty, but Master Shi is not in a good position, and the minister has heard a little outside the customs and asked the emperor to tell you the details."

Chongzhen let out a long sigh, the excitement he had when he heard Chang Yu talk disappeared in a blink of an eye, got up and paced back and forth in the hall a few times, and said hatefully: "It's not the disadvantage of war, it's a disaster for people."

More than 20 days ago, the Qing army gathered a large army to try to enter the customs, the thieves would join the Central Plains all the way to the north, the north and the south were in an emergency at the same time, Emperor Chongzhen issued a holy decree, Chang Yu, the commander of the East Factory, went north to supervise the army, and the military department Shangshu Shi Kefa went south to the governor to suppress the bandits.

Almost all of them left Beijing with their front and back feet, and they were also dusty servants and fast horses, and the thieves were powerful, and Emperor Chongzhen did not dare to underestimate them, and sent an edict to Liu Zeqing, the general soldier of Shandong, Gao Jie, the general soldier of Xuzhou, Liu Liangzuo, the chief soldier of Fengyang, Huang Degong, the chief soldier of Fengyang, and Zhou Yuji, the chief officer of Shanxi, listened to Shi Kefa to dispatch and suppress bandits.

It can be said that Emperor Chongzhen made an old book and dispatched two-thirds of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty to Shi Kefa at this time to help him suppress the bandits.

Shi Kefa led nearly 10,000 horses from the capital to the south, and the rest of the people and horses were in all directions, Liu Zeqing was in Jinan, Shandong, Huang Degong had just pacified the rebel Liu Chao in the Yongcheng area of Henan, Liu Liangzuo was ordered to attack Huaibei at the beginning of the year, but this goods were grinding and grinding, until now it has just crossed the Huai River into the Zhengyang area of Henan, and Zhou Yuji is far away in Taiyuan.

On the other hand, the thief army, but the strength is concentrated, when Li Zicheng besieged Taiyuan, Liu Fangliang's East Route Army has been like a bamboo, successively won Huaiqing Mansion, Weihui Mansion, Lu'an Mansion, with Li Zicheng after the defeat of Taiyuan after fleeing east to join the division, it is even more invincible, and then under Zhangde Mansion, Guangping Mansion, north to Xingtai, Hejian and other places, and finally the army approached Baoding Mansion, the south gate of the capital.

It can be said that at this time, the entire Henan, Shanxi, Shandong, and parts of Hebei were all under the control of the thief army, and the entire Central Plains fell.

Since ancient times, there is a saying, the Central Plains is chaotic in the world, the Central Plains refers to Henan, since ancient times, there are many military disasters, and the disaster is like a spark burning the plain, out of control, and at this time the thief army is like the fire of the prairie fire, burning the sky and destroying the road where it passes.

If it is just a thief army to make a mess, natural disasters continue, the people are not happy, and the military disasters are together "cannibalism, all the plants and trees, and the bandits rise together" The Central Plains is like purgatory on earth, at this time, the common people still care if you are the Ming or the Dashun, as long as you can live, whoever eats is the father, so Li Zicheng swept north, in addition to his more than 100,000 elite soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of artillery fire.

According to the historical records, the thief army marched towards Baoding Mansion "Kou Dazhi, three hundred miles, feather flag and iron armor, dazzling." The dust rises, and the day is twilight; The horse neighed and shouted, and the sea boiled and the mountain destroyed, "It can be seen that the military power is prosperous, rare in ancient and modern times!"

The Ming army was no longer faced with not only the more than 100,000 thieves, but also the hearts of the poor people of the entire Central Plains, the banner of the Dashun army, and the Ming Dynasty's "civil and military officials who defended the land all looked down on the wind, or the gentlemen fought for the head of chaos, dragged their clothes upside down, and walked away in fear, and greeted Allah with benevolence and righteousness."

Even the common people in Baoding City were unwilling to work for the Ming Court, and they asked to open the door and pay for their surrender, which shows that Li Zicheng has a lot of political propaganda methods along the way, and Baoding Mansion was once in danger.

In history, Li Jiantai, who "acted on behalf of the emperor and personally conquered", fled into Baoding Mansion at this time, and also shouted to surrender, but with Shao Zongxuan, the new prefect He Fu and the local squires resolutely advocated defending the city, shouting and scolding "the people are ignorant and do not know the righteousness ......of the monarch and ministers"

Li Jiantai was destined not to appear in Baoding City, and even when he first proposed the "Emperor on behalf of the emperor", he was scolded out of the palace by Chongzhen and demoted to a commoner, and then he was killed "inexplicably......

Just when the whole city of Baoding was panicked and made a pot of porridge, Shi Kefa, the secretary of the military department, led Teng Xiangwei to arrive, and finally calmed down some of the panic a little.

As soon as Shi Kefa arrived at the ground, he ordered the detectives to go around, keeping an eye on the thief army's every move, and at the same time mobilized the army and civilians to dig ditches and build fortifications to wait for the thief army, and at the same time strictly ordered all departments to rush to help, and every day they kept spitting in the city, inspiring the people to resist the enemy bravely, but it seemed that the effect was not great, and the enthusiasm of the people was obviously not high.

However, more than ten days have passed, the army of thieves has gone to Baoding Mansion outside the posture, the reinforcements are far away, Zhou Yuji feels the farthest, in fact, the geographical location is the closest, from Taiyuan straight to the east through Yangquan to the northwest of 500 miles is Baoding Mansion, after the order, led the army of 30,000 all the way to the east, for the fastest march of the people and horses of each department, at this time has entered the boundary of Dingzhou, and Baoding a stone's throw, but also also targeted by the thief army, sent troops to block. 、

As for Liu Zeqing, who is about the same distance as Zhou Yuji, it is really disgusting, first under the pretext that it takes time to transfer troops to prepare grain and grass, and then Shi Kefa can't help but urge him again and again to finally send troops, more than ten days have passed, and he has just walked out of his house for more than 200 miles, in Texas.

This is all good, originally in Zhengyang, Henan Liu Liangzuo, under the pretext of passing through the thief army occupation area step by step, need to take a detour, walking for more than half a month is almost equivalent to not moving, lingering at the head of the border between Anhui and Henan.

Shi Kefa was very angry when he heard this, but he was helpless, so he no longer counted on this farthest team, and when he arrived, the daylily was cold.

The remaining two people, Huang Degong and Gao Jie, one in Yongcheng, Henan, and the other in Xuzhou, are very close to each other.

But the two were born at odds, and they were both arrogant and domineering, taking Shi Kefa's words as a deaf ear, and doing my own thing, but fortunately, Emperor Chongzhen was alive, and he could still calm the scene to some extent, at this time, the anger of the two was still within the controllable range, and one did not dare to yell at Shi Kefa: "Will, purpose, what purpose" one" go, go quickly, I don't know what edict also "tear the holy decree like waste paper."

After the two of them got the order, although they did not march side by side as Shi Kefa wanted, they immediately led their troops to the north, and they hurried in half a month, but they also entered the territory of Texas, and Liu Zeqing's men and horses were in no particular order!