At that time, the Ming court was already overstretched and unable to provide disaster relief, and the armament of a large area of defense was withered, which was inseparable from this line of defense.

If Liaodong is abandoned earlier, or like Wei Bao is now, focus on defense and make a show, only tens of thousands of soldiers and horses can be used to hold the main road and supply by sea.

Houjin didn't have a rut at all.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, whoever could help the imperial court make money and save money was the most patriotic and useful.

It's a pity that Wei Bao can't let everyone have a God's perspective, and they all throw themselves to the ground for the five bodies that he admires.

Yuan Chonghuan was the most controversial person in the late Ming Dynasty.

Yuan Chonghuan inherited the Guanning defense line from his teacher Sun Chengzong, and also continued to repair to Jinzhou.

It shows that Yuan Chonghuan is also a master who does not understand economics.

Or that Yuan Chonghuan is lustful for profit and understands the difficulties of the Ming Dynasty, but for the sake of fame and fortune, he does not hesitate to gamble with the entire empire of the Ming Dynasty!

Yuan Chonghuan was good at killing Mao Wenlong, causing the Phi Dao forces to have no owner and even fall into a nest fight.

Later, Mao Wenlong's subordinates could only surrender to Houjin one after another, which was a double damage to the Ming court.

This is Yuan Dudu's biggest stain.

At the same time, Yuan Chonghuan also presided over peace in the later period.

Yuan Chonghuan is not stupid, he knows that if he doesn't negotiate peace, he will die.

It's a pity that Yuan Chonghuan is too big to brag about, not pragmatic, and he has to die.

Yang Sichang, the secretary of the military department who is deeply trusted by Chongzhen, is definitely the person who stands with Chongzhen.

Yang Sichang's policy of negotiating peace with Houjin was very insightful, but he also killed Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting because of different political views.

These two are the last two generals who can fight at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Lu and Sun were both attackers, while Yang Sichang was in charge of peace.

If you put these patriotic and loyal people together, they have to fight their dogs first for their political ideas to be implemented.

These people have one thing in common.

According to Wei Bao's new understanding of life after passing through rebirth, everyone's life path, whether it is a tragedy or a comedy, is actually decided from the first step, and it is difficult to change it in the future.

The problem at the end of the Ming Dynasty was a question of the general trend of history, not a question of which person or group of people, but the result of a mixture of various forces and circumstances.

So Wei Bao has long realized that he can change some people and things, but he can never change the general trend!

If it weren't for the pure Han thinking, if there were no principles, Wei Bao would even think of taking refuge in Houjin.

Then there will be no matter of Wu Sangui's gang of traitors, Wei Bao will be the prince, just around the corner.

So the question at the end of the Ming Dynasty is not how powerful that emperor is, the key is whether he can recognize his own position.

For the emperor of a dynasty that has gone through more than 200 years of ups and downs, the goal is definitely not how to return to the top, but how to die peacefully and decimoredly.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the central government declined, the imperial power declined, the people revolted everywhere, and the power was delegated to the local state pastors to establish private armies.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the central government declined, the imperial power fell, the people revolted everywhere, and the power was delegated to the Guanwai Jiedu to establish private armed forces, and the feudal towns that gradually formed were "peaceful" outside the country for the sake of interests and nominal allegiance, and the power of the feudal towns swelled and dominated the land, and the Tang Dynasty died.

In the last years of the Tatar Qing Dynasty, the central government declined, the imperial power fell, the people revolted everywhere, and the power was delegated to the southern scholars to establish private group training, and the foreigners were recruited to suppress the uprising, and the directly formed feudal lords temporarily maintained the rule of the Qing court, and the Qing court betrayed the country to survive and used foreigners to balance the domestic power, the power of the feudal lords swelled, the Qing court could not be sold, and was abandoned by the foreigners, and a gunshot rang out in Wuchang, and the Manchu Qing died.

As for the Ming Dynasty, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, natural disasters and man-made disasters, Chongzhen was diligent and died directly.

From the beginning of the large-scale civil uprising, to the fall of the dynasty and the reshaping of the new dynastic order, the Han, Tang and Qing dynasties were the beginning of the Yellow Turban Rebellion in 184 AD and the fall of the Eastern Han Dynasty in 220, which dragged on for a total of 36 years.

Jin was established in 280 and 96 years.

Tang, the uprising of Wang Xian in 874 AD, the fall of the Tang Dynasty in 907, and the Tang Dynasty dragged on for 33 years.

In 979, the Song Dynasty destroyed the Northern Han Dynasty, 105 years.

Qing, Jintian Uprising in 1851, abdication of the Qing Emperor in 1911, 60 years.

And Da Ming, less than 17 years from the civil uprising to his death, escaped a sudden death.

In 1662, less than 35 years after the Qing Dynasty destroyed the Southern Ming Dynasty, it was simply the Central Plains without an owner, and the remaining one was king.

Therefore, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has picked up a world.

Emperor Chongzhen is indeed to blame, and it can be called a classic example of a counterproductive emperor.

If you don't work at all, maybe the country can support it for a few more years.

It is difficult to say that Liu Xie, Li Yi, Zhu Youzhen, Guangxu and Pu Yi have any superiority in ability, of course, it is certain that they will pick their feet.

The most important thing for a dying dynasty is not ability, but self-positioning.

So if you want to rescue it at the end of the Ming Dynasty, or you don't want the Qing army to enter the customs.

The most direct and effective way is to change to a monarch who is stable, can laugh at the party struggle, can carry it clearly, does not hold on, does not act brutally, and has a good mentality, and is not afraid of being the king of the country.

Let the Ming Dynasty survive for a while under the command of such a person, and let the localities gradually establish their own organization, order, and armament, which can not only suppress the uprising, but also resist foreign enemies.

Even if the Manchu Qing Dynasty still entered the customs, they no longer faced the panicked and chaotic Central Plains.

Of course, if this is the case, there will not be so many people in the future who love Daming so much.

Daming is a backbone, at least the Ming royal family has an absolute backbone, and Chongzhen did not embarrass his ancestors.

But in terms of ability, Chongzhen is really not good.

Not to mention that Zhu Youzhen's ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang started from the south of the Yangtze River, Zhu Di defeated his nephew's millions of elite soldiers with Mobei.

Just Zhu Youzhen and his brother Tianqi have done better than him, and the situation has stabilized and not deteriorated.

Chongzhen is pathetic, but there is no contradiction with his incompetence, shirking responsibility and good face.

The wretched will have something to hate.

As the master, he should have used people without suspicion and suspicion, and managed his subordinates to unite his subordinates, but Chongzhen did not do it.

If Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di are replaced, Wei Zhongxian will naturally be cut, but he will never liquidate all the eunuchs in an extreme way.

Because borrowing strength, turnips and sticks have always been the father and son's forte, and the next step will definitely be to severely punish the stubborn, reward the obedient, and the most important thing is that they will never push their mistakes on the heads of others.

Wei Bao looked at Yang Sichang in front of him, and couldn't help but sigh, this is the male number two in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, plus a male number one Emperor Chongzhen, you two are a TV series.

"How can this be true, Yang Sichang, what are you talking about?" Wei Zhongxian said angrily: "You are a Hubu Langzhong, is it possible that a Hubu Langzhong is only in charge of settling accounts, no matter how to plan the silver taels for the Ming Dynasty?" ”

"That's the matter of the Tobe Shoshu, the Tobe Shiro, and even more so the Cabinet Ministers. That's the reason for his position to govern his own country, right? If the nine thousand years old insist that I have some idea in a Tobu Lang, he will force me to resign. Yang Sichang's words gradually hardened, but his attitude was still very humble and his tone was very soft.

"How can this really be true, no matter how big or small, officials should do their best for the court, according to your wishes, everything in the Ming Dynasty must be handled by His Majesty himself? Your Majesty is the biggest, doesn't that mean? "Wei Zhongxian seems to be very angry today.

Wei Bao is a little confused, Wei Zhongxian is nine thousand years old, one person is above ten thousand people, what kind of identity are you? With such a noble status, what are you thinking about with a small Tobe Lang?

"Yes, this mediocre official should be dismissed." Feng Quan immediately sided with Wei Zhongxian.

Wei Guangwei and Huang Liji also nodded, saying that Yang Sichang should be dismissed.

Ding Shaoshi and Gu Bingqian didn't say anything.

Ding Shaoshi is the Donglin Party, and the eunuch party approves of things, Ding Shaoshi did not say it, Wei Bao can understand.

What does Gu Bingqian mean, Wei Bao didn't understand it for the time being, Gu Bingqian should immediately stand in line and agree with the words of the nine thousand years old, right? Aren't you the father of Grandpa Wei's godgrandson?

"Shousuke, why don't you speak? I remember, this Yang Sichang was recommended by you to the household department, right? You are Yang Sichang's teacher. Yang Sichang does have some talents. Zhu Youxiao said.

Only then did Wei Bao know that Gu Bingqian and Yang Sichang still had such a relationship.

This is a teacher-student relationship.

Yang Sichang is not considered the Donglin Party, not the eunuch party, because Yang Sichang did not have a good relationship with the Donglin Party later, and Yang Sichang's father Yang He was driven home by Wei Zhongxian, and he was able to recover in the Chongzhen Dynasty, so Yang Sichang must not be regarded as a eunuch.

But Yang Sichang is a student of Gu Bingqian, which is really interesting.

However, there is nothing difficult to understand, Yang Sichang should be a neutral faction, and his political bias is not clear, and this kind of person is not a minority in the Ming court, at least two to three percent.

Since the Battle of Salhu, the national fortunes of the Ming Dynasty seem to be getting more and more back. By the time of the last emperor Chongzhen, the domestic contradictions in the Ming Dynasty had reached the point of irreconcilability, various parties were fighting among themselves, officials were generally corrupt and incompetent, the army was disheartened and the combat effectiveness was extremely low, and the ethnic minority forces in the northeast were also eyeing each other.

In addition, at this time, the climate deteriorated, the temperature dropped, and the peasants' harvests decreased sharply, but the tax burden only increased a lot, and many ordinary people could not survive at all. They wandered around the country to fight and made the Ming court anxious.

And when Emperor Chongzhen was helpless, Yang Sichang's appearance was undoubtedly his last straw.

Yang Sichang is a very capable second-generation official, who loved to read when he was a child, so he is very knowledgeable and has unusual views on things.

After Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, he found that there was such a person in the country, and he was very happy, and Yang Sichang regarded his reputation as very important, and he disdained to form gangs, and he had always been alone, so Emperor Chongzhen wanted to rely on him vigorously.

Yang Sichang soon became the secretary of the military department. In peacetime, this official position may be very easy, but in the war era of internal and external troubles, Yang Sichang undoubtedly carried the hope of the country.

When he came to power, within the Ming Dynasty, peasant armies from all over the country had already swarmed up, turning Sichuan and other places into a mess, and the local local army was not an opponent at all, and asked the imperial court for support everywhere.

And the Manchurians also led their troops south many times, and each time they were able to defeat the defenders of the Ming Dynasty, so they could only defend hard. Emperor Chongzhen saw that the form had rotted like this, so he hurriedly asked Yang Sichang to find a way. And Yang Sichang also put forward a strategy based on some thinking.

The main core of Yang Sichang's strategy is three points: in general, in the northeast, the main force is withdrawn to negotiate with the Manchus, focusing on defense, and first stabilizing the offensive posture of the Manchus.

Concentrate heavy forces to eliminate the peasant army, and after the peasant rebel army is eliminated, it will "pack up" the people and recover the former territory.

In terms of encircling and suppressing the peasant army, Yang Sichang's plan was also very good, and he put forward the policy of "four positive and six corners, and ten sides of the net", and coordinated the unified planning of the forces of the five provinces; under his arrangement and the efforts of Sun Chuanting and others, the peasant army was dealt a heavy blow, and Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and other troops suffered defeats in succession.

Li Zicheng's forces were once beaten by Sun Chuanting in Shaanxi and almost died, and Zhang Xianzhong, who was beaten to the ground, regarded Yang Sichang as an enemy who had to be cut with a thousand knives.

It can be said that Yang Sichang's strategy can be said to be generally no problem, but the premise that this plan can be fully implemented lies in whether Houjin "cooperates", and this is also the foreshadowing of failure.

In the first aspect, Houjin is not a fool, seeing that the Ming Dynasty is already so fragile, it is impossible to miss the opportunity to stop encroaching on the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Second, although Yang Sichang and others advocated peace with the Later Jin, not negotiating peace with ethnic minorities was the "basic policy" since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, there is great resistance to this policy, and there are many patriotic radical generals such as Lu Xiangsheng and others who fiercely criticize Yang Sichang's behavior as "traitor", so Chongzhen does not dare to vigorously support Yang Sichang in order not to wear the hat of "traitor".

When the Ming court was still discussing the war and peace with the Houjin, the Houjin no longer gave them a chance.

Houjin invaded again, and Lu Xiangsheng and others immediately led their troops to a bloody battle. Yang Sichang, who was "small-bellied chicken intestines", hated Lu Xiangsheng and refused to cooperate with Lu Xiangsheng because of his different political positions with Lu Xiangsheng.

It is a pity that Lu Xiangsheng, who could have led the army to break through, was completely annihilated because Yang Sichang did not cooperate at all.

People like Lu Xiangsheng who can fight have all died in battle, so that Emperor Chongzhen has entered a state of being a soldier.

Chongzhen pulled Sun Chuanting, the main force of the remnants of the peasant army in Shaanxi and other places, to Beijing. Therefore, Yang Sichang's plan has been completely shattered because of his personal narrow-mindedness.

And Li Zicheng, who breathed a sigh of relief, slowly made a fortune later, and finally became the last straw that crushed the Ming Dynasty.

Because Wei Bao knows very well what kind of person Yang Sichang is, and knows that Yang Sichang is neither a eunuch nor a Donglin party, but a neutral minister, maybe Yang He has a little bit of Donglin party attributes.

But the Yang family is from the north, and this attribute should not be strong, otherwise Yang Sichang would not be Gu Bingqian's student.

"Your Majesty, you don't need to ask Lord Shoufu, although I am recommended by Lord Shoufu, but I am not capable of personal responsibility, so I just resign." Yang Sichang hugged his fist and said to Zhu Youxiao.

"Presumptuous!" Wei Zhongxian was angry again and pointed at Yang Sichang.