The Manchu army went out of the customs, and the Qinwang army triumphed, but when it was still on the road, the war against the captives that began in October of the 11th year of Chongzhen's entry into the customs, and the approximate losses were also counted.

The Manchu army traveled more than 2,000 miles, scourging Hebei Province, Shuntianfu, western and northern Shandong, in addition to the total of Jinan, there were also three states, fifty-five counties, and two Great Wall checkpoints were breached, Wu Aheng, the governor of Jiliao, was killed, and captured Zhu Youshu, the king of Germany, Zhu Ciying, the king of the county, Zhu Cisheng, the general of Fengguo, and Feng Zhu, the eunuch of the supervising army, etc., as well as Sun Chengzong, who returned to his hometown, and hundreds of people in his family died in battle to resist the Manchu Dynasty. Countless people's families were ruined, among them, there were nearly 200,000 people in the Ming Dynasty who were plundered to Liaodong. Not to mention gold, silver, and jewelry.

After the war, the areas that were ravaged by the revastation needed to be rebuilt, and the nearly 200,000 people who had been rescued had to be resettled, and many more refugees had to be properly resettled. Although the war is over, there is still much to be done.

But no matter what, after all, there have been several big victories and many people have been rescued, compared to the previous times, I can only watch the Tartars loot and get out of the customs, after all, there has been progress.

What's more critical is that Emperor Chongzhen needs this victory, and he needs to publicize this victory to boost the morale of the people across the country, to improve the prestige of the imperial court, and to improve the prestige of him as an emperor.

However, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and there will always be struggles in the court.

As soon as this war ended, some people in the court jumped out and demanded that the responsibility for the fall of the clan be held accountable! This is a big deal, and it is put on the bright side, even if it is Emperor Chongzhen, it must be taken seriously.

I don't know if it's a coincidence, the vassal clans of various places also played the court one after another, crying for King De.

In the original history, Emperor Chongzhen began to cut off his head for this matter. In August of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, a group of 36 civil and military ministers, including Yan Jizu, Zu Kuan, Ni Chong, Deng Xizhao, and Sun Maolin, who were among the governors and general soldiers, were collectively escorted to Jingshi West City and beheaded on the street.

The list of these people, and the person who executed them, was Yang Sichang.

In the face of the menacing pursuit of justice for King De, Emperor Chongzhen of course had to comply with the "public opinion", and in the deliberations in the Wenhua Palace, he said angrily: "This matter, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, has hardly happened. Such a horrific thing, if I don't ruthlessly clean up those who are responsible for this, I will be ashamed of King De and Taizu Chengzu! ”

Hearing this, Yang Sichang, an auxiliary minister of the cabinet, smiled. It seems that after this war is over, Emperor Chongzhen will finally change back to the original Chongzhen Emperor. Lu Xiangsheng has run out, so it's time to clean him up. Hehe, I thought that the emperor had changed his temperament before, and he had been protecting Lu Xiangsheng. It turned out that he was just going to use him to fight!

Above the court, basically all the officials are this idea. After all, in their opinion, Lu Xiangsheng was the commander of the Qinwang army this time. When he led the Qinwang army and Jianlu to fight, he ended up losing the clan, if he was not the first person responsible, then who was still the first person responsible? If you want to punish others, then Lu Xiangsheng must be punished first!

It is for this reason that they believe that after Lu Xiangsheng leads the Qinwang army back to Beijing and hands over the military power, it will be the time for him to be imprisoned.

In this regard, Yang Sichang even "kindly" reminded Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, now that Lu Shangshu has the power of the army, in the opinion of a micro-minister, it is better to postpone the matter of accountability for the time being!" ”

"Yes, yes, this matter needs to be considered in the long run!"

"Your Majesty, the minister also seconded the proposal!"

“……”

Listening to the fact that these courtiers below all expressed their attitudes one by one, as if they decided that they were going to deal with Lu Xiangsheng, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but sneer in his heart.

Hehe, the culprit I said was not Lu Xiangsheng, but Yang Sichang, Chen Xinjia, the Eight Great Jin Merchants and other related people. If it weren't for you people, why would Jianyu be so rampant! Why did you lose the clan!

Wait, when I have restructured the Qinwang Army, completed the reorganization of the army under the command of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and have a reliable army, I will wipe you all out with the power of thunder!

However, it is actually difficult to complete this adaptation.

Because Sun Chuanting's department is a little better, his strategy of "clearing the tun and filling the salary" has given him enough money and food. In addition, the Qin soldiers under his command were newly formed after he took office as governor of Shaanxi. Therefore, the soldiers and horses under his command are all regular soldiers, and there is no family system common to other armies.

Under the command of Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides, he did not train new troops and horses, and he mobilized generals and other generals who were capable of fighting in various places under his jurisdiction to fight. At this time in the late Ming Dynasty, basically all the general soldiers were family members. Including Cao Bianjiao, He Renlong and others, all of them. And this situation, after being adapted to the jurisdiction of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, naturally cannot exist.

Of course, the reason why it is a family system, it is not easy to say that Cao Bianjiao and others are corrupt generals. Therefore, the formation of this Ding system actually has historical origins, not that Cao Bianjiao and others want to deduct military salaries to support their families.

Since Ming Xiaozong abolished the Kaizhong Law, the military food reserves on the northern border have been catastrophically damaged, and the combat effectiveness of the border army has been greatly reduced. The Mongols often came to fight the grass valley, and sometimes even on a very large scale, which exacerbated the abandonment of the tuntian fields and strengthened the Mongols. After this situation lasted for a while, the border army naturally had to take corresponding measures.

From the beginning of the Jiajing period, the border army began to be reorganized. This adaptation is aimed at the characteristics of the Mongols.

And the characteristic of the Mongols is that they first concentrate their forces to break through the border wall. After breaking the border, with the high mobility of their cavalry, the cavalry army of about 1,000 people scattered and plundered everywhere.

And the Mongols have a characteristic, that is, they are poor; Therefore, the equipment and combat effectiveness of their cavalry, in fact, not all of them are of the same rank; Rather, only a few cavalry troops were standing armies, with excellent armor and high-quality weapons, and were constantly trained, with high combat effectiveness.

As for those herdsmen, they can actually ride horses and shoot arrows. If an army wants to be a strong army, it must have good military discipline, at least be able to obey military orders, know all kinds of rules in the army, be able to fight in a coordinated war, have a tenacious will to fight, and so on. Ordinary herdsmen, that is, herding sheep, may naturally fight when they go into battle. To put it mildly, when you come to attack the Ming Dynasty, you are just arming the herdsmen, or the herdsmen.

In this case, the Mongols' thousand-man cavalry was often a small number of elite cavalrymen, leading a large group of armed herdsmen to plunder.

In addition, the population of the Mongols and their lack of materials and other situations determined that they could not afford the excessive losses of the elites, so the Ming border army aimed at this situation, as long as they defeated or eliminated those elite Mongolian cavalry, the remaining armed herdsmen would be scared away.

As a result, the Ming army also formed an elite cavalry army, and this cavalry army required to win the elite cavalry of Mongolia, and naturally the number of people could not be more than there. And these cavalry must follow the general's actions, so it is easy to evolve into the general's personal entourage, that is, the family members.

It was not wrong that the family system came out at the beginning, after all, the military salary was insufficient, and the whole army could not be trained into an elite under the premise that it was necessary to have an army that could fight.

But with the passage of time, the drawbacks of this military system have come out. The resources in the army are inevitably tilted towards the family, so that the million-dollar border army of the Ming Dynasty has basically become an ornament.

Regarding this situation, in fact, after Qi Jiguang, the god of war of the Ming Dynasty, arrived in the north, he also saw the disadvantages and wrote to the court. At that time, he was a backer in the court, that is, he was holding Zhang Juzheng's thigh, so he was able to delegate power, and the new army was formed, and there was no family system.

It's just a pity that after the fall of Zhang Juzheng, he, as a member of Zhang Juzheng's line, was also liquidated. The army he had trained eventually returned to its original state because of his departure. Even in the Apocalypse year, even the last bit of blood, the Qi family army led by Qi Jin, was completely wiped out in the Battle of Hunhe.

When Emperor Chongzhen was thinking about these things, Yang Zhiqi, the imperial historian, came out again and said: "Your Majesty, Weichen heard that those soldiers and ruffians killed a lot of the animal power that the emperor collected for them. They did not take into account the preciousness of animal power at all, and this behavior shows that they have won several battles, and they are suspected of being arrogant soldiers. Weichen thought that when he came to Beijing this time, he should give them some color to see, so that they could know the majesty of the imperial court! ”

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect that someone would say such a thing.

"The minister seconded the proposal!" Another imperial historian, Liao Guoxuan, also jumped out and said, "The imperial court has spent so much money, allocated millions of taels of silver to them, and collected countless animal power, those arrogant soldiers and fierce generals may have their tails up in the sky, and they must be pressed." The three leaders of the army should also be held accountable for not properly disciplining the three armies and conniving at their arrogance. ”

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks it's inappropriate." At this time, Shoufu Xue Guoguan stood up and said, "The army has just won the battle, even if it just eats some meat, what is there to make a fuss about." All of you in Jingshi, but you eat meat every day, right? ”

"......" His words made the hall suddenly cold a lot. Xue Manzi's mouth stinks, and he really deserves his reputation!

After a little fluting, although Xue Guoguan was the first assistant, it suddenly caused a violent rebound.

Many courtiers were still watching the play, knowing that their colleagues were envious and jealous of the merits of Qin Wangjun's unprecedented, and wanted to suppress them, they were also happy, but they didn't expect that Xue Guoguan sprayed them with a word, and they naturally wanted to fight back.

So, some people said that Xue Guoguan himself also eats meat every day, and some said, how can those soldiers and ruffians be compared with them? Some people even asked Xue Guoguan that if the Qin Wangjun arrived, they would not be suspected of being arrogant and arrogant, and if they were not arrogant, they would lose, but if they were suspected of being arrogant, then Xue Guoguan would swallow his words back......

In the main hall, because of Xue Guoguan's words, there was a lot of noise.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at this coldly, he wanted to see how many people would jump out and accuse the soldiers who had just returned from a desperate fight in front of him.

He did not deny that it was possible that the Qin Wangjun might be a little arrogant because of the big victory. After all, this time, the Qin army first surrounded and annihilated about 5,000 Jianyu infantry troops; Then in a battle on the north bank of the Wei River in Tianjin, he annihilated more than 10,000 Manchu troops. In the ensuing battle of attrition on the Diwei River, more than 5,000 Tartars were also killed and wounded. In this battle of Tianjin, the Tartars lost at least about 20,000 horses.

In total, this time the Tartars entered the customs, and the 100,000 troops should have 30,000 dead and wounded. Since the rise of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, between the white mountains and black waters, when has it suffered such a major defeat? The Ming army, and which army has achieved such proud results? If there is no pride, it is a little strange!

Perhaps these civil officials have estimated this, so they will hold on to this point and attack the triumphant Qinwang army!

Everyone has selfish intentions, and these civil officials naturally become red when they see others making great contributions. On the one hand, he emphasized the guilt of the lost clan, and on the other hand, he began to talk about the Qin Wangjun himself. If Emperor Chongzhen is moved, the merits and demerits will be offset, even if the merits cannot be fully offset in the end, at least there will not be too many rewards and promotions.

From the perspective of human nature, Emperor Chongzhen is actually based on this consideration, so he feels that it will be difficult to turn back when the army is restructured. After all, changing from the family system to the previous regular soldier model is equivalent to pulling away all the benefits of the generals. Can these generals be happy if they have just won a battle and their personal interests have been lost?

However, he didn't know that sometimes, general speculations about human nature were often influenced by many things and could not be guessed accurately. Just like the Qinwang Army this time, Emperor Chongzhen was wrong, and even the Manchu Dynasty civil and military were wrong.

However, of course Emperor Chongzhen didn't know at this time, and he also got another conclusion in his heart, that is, Xue Guoguan was far from being as smooth as the late Shoufu Wen Tiren, and his prestige was not enough, so he could not convince the public. In the future, we should pay attention to this aspect.

He was thinking about it, and waited until the Wenhua Hall slowly quieted down, and all the courtiers were waiting for his opinion, before he shouted coldly: "All Yan Qin's army is proud of his achievements, and he has become a proud soldier." That's what they qualify! I didn't expect that you still want to suppress them, so if the next time Jianyu enters the customs again, it will be up to you to kill the enemy and serve the country, are you willing to go? Can you do better than them? ”

Emperor Chongzhen's words were silent in the hall, no one expected that the emperor was not affected by them for a single star, it seems that the emperor's opinion seems to be getting more and more firm, is it not that they can influence?

While they were thinking about it, Emperor Chongzhen said in a cold voice again: "Even if you can't do martial arts, what can you do?" Have you all done your part? Have you made a result? Come, come, show me, where is your credit? If there is also a similar credit to Qin Wangjun, I will allow you to parade the streets to praise your merits, and it would be good to have another glory of Zhuangyuanlang? You've made me see such a deed! ”

The hall was silent, and no one spoke up, naturally no one felt that their achievements could be used to refute the emperor's words.

Emperor Chongzhen glanced coldly at the bottom, in fact, the original Emperor Chongzhen had already realized what kind of virtue the group of civil officials was. He once clearly exposed the darkness of officialdom in the second edict of Chongzhen in ten years.

"The official is designed to be a person, and the official has the same trade. Urging money and food is first consumed by fire, and the amount is corrected and envied. Even if it has been exempted, it is contrary to the purpose of private levy; Only then did he discuss repairs, and then he took the opportunity to moisten himself. Or call for purchase and do not give value, or the post road is carried by a sedan chair. or send to sell the rich and the poor, or reason to be in vain. If you go against your heart, you will knock on Pu arbitrarily; If the bag is rich, it is treacherous and tolerable. The impeachment of the press is distorted, and the reputation of the repetition is reversed. It is also like a Xun Qi who is not tired of being satisfied, and is greedy in Gyeonggi. The eunuchs destroyed and abandoned the defense and wantonly invaded the Luli. Accept scoundrels as minions, and be sacrificed by traitors. Unscrupulous officials are afraid of the situation and bend to it, and accumulate evil and seduce them. Who can sleep in peace with this little people! ”

Of course, this edict of self-sin could not have been written by Emperor Chongzhen himself, but by the late Shoufu Wen Tiren. It was not long after Wen Tiren wrote this guilty edict that he was stripped of his official position and returned to his hometown.

For the corruption of officialdom, the original Emperor Chongzhen was incapable of governance, but the current Emperor Chongzhen was confident. At least, the first step is that the factory guard's knife has been sharpened; The second step, military power, will also achieve the goal immediately. This step by step will be done slowly.

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen stood up and said in a cold voice: "King Qin's army will arrive in Beijing tomorrow, and you will all go out with me to greet you, and I will let the soldiers of King Qin's army know that they are throwing their heads and spilling blood, and I will see it in my eyes!" What about being a little proud? If there is such a great achievement every day, I will live and work in peace and contentment early tomorrow, and I will dominate the Quartet! ”

After finishing speaking, he brushed his sleeves away on the spot, obviously deciding in his heart, and he would not allow his subordinates to refute it, so it was decided!

Seeing this, Xue Guo also threw up his sleeves and left. Leaving Yang Sichang and the others to look at each other, they were helpless. Once the emperor is strong and still has a reason, they have no choice.

The next day, King Qin's army triumphed and arrived on the outskirts of Beijing.