"Ridiculous, ridiculous. Zheng Zhilong, who gave you the courage to slander the important ministers of the court? ”

Emperor Chongzhen burst into anger again. But no matter how you look at it, you can't hide it, and he has no bottom in his heart.

Datong has fallen, Xuanfu has fallen, what can't Juyongguan do? It is only a hundred miles away from Jingshi, and if Tang Tong and Du Zhizhi really descend to Li Zicheng, the thief army can kill them outside the city in the blink of an eye.

Wang Chengen's whole body was trembling, he was the master of the Admiral Jingying, and no one understood what the Jingying looked like better than him. There are still a lot of troops on the books of the Beijing camp, but in fact, they occupy the vast majority.

In the past few years, the war has been very tight everywhere, and the Qing prisoners have entered the customs several times, and there have been many emergencies around the Beijing Division. The fighting units in the camp, such as the warrior camp, were either drawn from place to place, or gradually depleted in various battles, and then died of many diseases in a great plague last year. The number of troops that can be used for defense now is 40,000 or 50,000 on paper, but in fact it is only a few thousand, and the morale is low, and there will be no fighting spirit and no fighting spirit.

In this way, this point of men and horses is used to cooperate with Zheng Zhilong's army, and it is not enough to defend Yanjing City. As the political center of the Ming Dynasty, the inner city of Yanjing City is forty-five miles, and the outer city is repaired again during the Jiajing period, the south of the capital is wrapped, and the east and west corner towers are turned around, and they are twenty-eight miles long. (Equal to an extra piece to the south, as in the city of Geranza)

The inner city and the outer city are combined, and the roughly calculated circumference is also fifty or sixty miles, and at present, the 10,000 Zheng troops in the city, plus thousands of weak management battalion soldiers, and some net troops, are not enough for 20,000 people. How far away is there a soldier defense, which is equivalent to two or three battlements and one soldier, as long as you think about it, you can know how weak this defense is.

What's even more terrifying is that now the imperial court can't take out enough silver taels to recruit troops and reward soldiers!

There are still more than 100,000 taels of silver in the inner money, which is still a little silver raised by the emperor who asked his ministers to donate salaries, and how many people can be recruited?

"Your Majesty, whether Juyong Pass will descend or not, we will know tomorrow at the latest. As soon as Juyong Pass is lost, the thief army should surround Yanjing City. At that time, whether this Yanjing City can be defended or not, Wang Dugong should understand better than his ministers. ”

In fact, it is not only Wang Chengen who understands, but also the dignitaries and nobles in the entire Yanjing City who understand. Emperor Chongzhen knew better.

"The capital division just can't be defended, Your Majesty is determined to move south, that's not a matter of one word, it's a top priority, the old minister thinks that it should be a recruitment." Zhou Yanru's cheeks trembled.

"The minister knows that the treasury is limited and the treasury has been exhausted, so he is now willing to donate 50,000 taels to help His Majesty recruit troops."

He figured it out, with Zheng Zhilong here, Daming couldn't die. The capital was broken by the Li thief, Zheng Zhilong can also protect the emperor to break through, as long as he arrives at Jinmen, there is a sailor to answer, Li Thief is a million people and can do nothing?

Although this Ming Nandu is only a corner of the situation, it can survive for a while, right? My family's relatives and friends are all in Jiangnan, how can I stay out of the matter? Compared with relatives and friends in the village, this money is a trivial matter.

"In the past, there were no less than one million people in the capital, even if they withered due to many things, now there should be six or seven hundred thousand people, and there are more than 100,000 young and strong people, and they have been favored by me for more than a hundred years, how can there not be people who are loyal to the country?"

Zhou Yanru believes that as long as he is willing to pay, there will be people who are willing to work hard. The biggest reason why the situation in Daming is so bad today is that there is no money to buy people's lives.

Similarly, as a first and auxiliary minister, although Zhou Yanru knows nothing about military affairs, he has read a lot of books and is also familiar with geography.

If the news of the fall of Juyongguan can come tomorrow (15), then Li Thief's soldiers and horses want to kill the capital, and it will probably be 17th.

On the road from Juyong Pass to Changping, the mountain road is steep, which is not conducive to the passage of the army. It is estimated that it will take 15 or 16 days for Li Thief's army to capture Changping City, and it will take 17 days to besiege the Beijing division.

And it can only be killed from the west, and the day after tomorrow (16), as long as the holy driver can get out of Beijing and arrive in Tongzhou on the 17th, it will be out of the tiger's mouth.

"The old minister dares to ask His Majesty to send a proclamation to the king and governor to the whole city to recruit troops and brave. Quickly rang the Jingyang bell, summoned hundreds of officials and relatives into the palace, and understood the matter. ”

Emperor Chongzhen opened his mouth and didn't speak, and Wang Chengen also spoke: "The old man of Zhou Pavilion has become a country, and the old slave has seconded it. ”

Zheng Zhilong lowered his head and didn't speak, but he knew that Emperor Chongzhen would definitely agree. With the help of Wang Chengen and Zhou Yanru, and then forced by the grim reality, Emperor Chongzhen can only bow his head!

Unless he really wants "the king is dead"!

Zhang Shize is allocating grain for Zheng Jun in the granary in Dongcheng, there is still some grain in the capital, but the advantages and disadvantages are mixed, and those officials in the warehouse are greedy for money, even at this juncture, Zhang Shize does not dare to guarantee that those moths can polish their eyes one by one.

If there is a dispute over food, it will be too chilling for the court.

Therefore, he sat directly in the town and supervised the grain and rice flowing out of the warehouse, and it was not guaranteed that it was all high-quality polished rice, but it also needed to be new grain.

Suddenly, he heard a bell ringing in the palace, one by one, which shocked his soul.

Why are the bells ringing in the palace?

Didn't Zheng Zhilong just enter the palace to meet him?

Zhang Shize didn't care about running home, so he rode on his horse and went straight to the imperial city.

When he arrived, he saw that some ministers had arrived, as well as Xiangcheng Bo Li Guozhen, Xinle Hou Liu Wenbing, Gong Yonggu and others, waited for a while, Dingguo Duke Xu Yunzhen, Chengguo Duke Zhu Chunchen, Xuancheng Bowei Shichun, Yangwu Marquis Xue Lian, Qingping Bo Wu Zunzhou, Boping Marquis Guo Zhenming, Yongning Bo Wang Changxi, Anxiang Bo Zhang Guangcan, Wuding Marquis Guo Peimin, Dingyuan Marquis Deng Wenming, Xining Marquis Song Yude, Zhenyuan Marquis Gu Zhaoji, Peng Wubo Yang Chongyou, Xinjian Bo Wang Xiantong, Nanhe Bofang Lutai, Yongkang Hou Xu Xideng and so on arrived one after another, and then there was the Chinese martial arts.

A group of people, together with the ministers of civil and military affairs, poured into the gate tower of the Imperial Gate.

After Zhu Yuanzhang abolished the prime minister, he concentrated the imperial power and made a hundred officials go to court for a thousand officials. The court meeting was set up in the square in front of Fengtianmen (now Taihe Gate). Maybe it's because there are too many people to fit in the hall.

In the year of Jiajing, Fengtianmen was changed to Huangji Gate.

It is estimated that the ministers of the nine ministers of the cabinet can still blend into the hole of the city gate, and the rest of the people can only be hung in the square.

They got up in the early hours of the morning and didn't end until noon, and the ministers stood stunned, not to make noise, whisper, cough, spit, etc., otherwise they would be severely dealt with with as rudeness.

That's really hard!

It is lucky to meet emperors like Jiajing and Wanli, but if it falls into the hands of emperors like Emperor Chongzhen, it is even more bitter.

Everyone arrived, Emperor Chongzhen waved his hand, let's start.

"I have a secret report, Juyong Pass is afraid of instability, if the pass is broken, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, at most the day after tomorrow, the thief army will be a soldier in the city. There are not enough troops in the capital. Counting the old and weak in the Beijing camp, there are only four or five thousand people who can go to the city, plus three or two thousand pure troops, and the 10,000 reinforcements brought by Zheng Zhilong, it is less than 20,000 people. But the inner and outer cities of the Jingshi are added together, and there is a small circumference of sixty miles. There are only three or two hundred soldiers in a mile of city, how sparse is it? I'm afraid that before the battle, I was already scared! ”

"Therefore, Mr. Zhou proposed to recruit troops quickly and give 50,000 yuan in silver."

Emperor Chongzhen kept his eyes on these important ministers and nobles in front of him as he spoke, and saw the panicked look on their faces after hearing the five words "Juyong Guan is unstable", and Emperor Chongzhen's heart was perverted and gave birth to a hot pleasure.

So that you were stingy at the beginning, and you all wanted to pull out a dime, and now I ask you if you are afraid? Li Zicheng's treatment of the rich gentry and bureaucrats, he didn't believe that the people below didn't know, he didn't believe that these ministers who had lost the country one by one did not panic.

"There are still hundreds of thousands of people in the capital, and there are no less than 100,000 young and strong people in them. At the same time......"