Zhu Youxiao snatched the moire drawing, looked at it again and again, and he praised happily: "Not bad, not bad, you are very good." Li Yongzhen, it's you. You must draw all the patterns that King Shin said. ”

"Yes, the old slave obeys the order and will definitely live up to His Majesty's trust." Li Yongzhen hurriedly thanked him excitedly. He bet right, the patterns on the Ming-style furniture were originally created by Danqing masters, and they have a great relationship with Danqing's painting skills.

At the end of the whole day, Zhu Youzhen felt that he was completely dizzy, and his mind was full of cloud patterns, eight treasure patterns, hollow patterns, and swastika patterns, and those patterns such as phoenixes wearing peonies, toad palace folding laurels, and Wufu (bats) coming to the door were whirling and entangled together. Fortunately, by the time she got to the back, Li Yongzhen was already able to grasp the essence of pattern design. As long as Zhu Youzhen says his name, he can spontaneously design various patterns.

In this way, it was not until the evening that Zhu Youzhen returned to the Ciqing Palace, and fell asleep on the bed.

The next day, Zhu Youjian was dizzy as if he had not woken up from a hangover. It was the first time he knew how uncomfortable it would be to overuse his brain. In desperation, I had to sleep for a whole day.

Li Yongzhen got a lot of money, and was promoted to the eunuch of the celebrant and the pen eunuch in one day. After he originally defected to Wei Zhongxian, he felt that he had been promoted very quickly, but he didn't expect it to be faster this time. He just helped His Royal Highness King Xin draw a few pictures and was promoted to the eunuch with a pen. Happiness came so fast that he couldn't believe it for a while. Li Yongzhen is sincerely grateful to His Royal Highness King Xin. For him, King Shin is a great blessing.

At this time, a major event occurred in the court, Sun Shi Sun Chengzong came back from outside the gate.

Sun Chengzong returned to the dynasty with a murderous aura. He investigated outside the customs for two months and came to a clear conclusion based on various circumstances.

Although Sun Chengzong is also a member of the Donglin Party, he clearly believes that Wang Huazhen is not clear about the defeat of Guangning, and he should be mainly responsible for the failure to know people.

Wang Huazhen did a good job when she first arrived in Guangning. At that time, Liaoshen had just fallen, and the Ming army everywhere panicked and dispersed. Wang Huazhen arrived in Quang Ninh and did not flee when he heard the news. He took advantage of the opportunity of entering the campaign repair period after the Great War of Houjin, Liaoshen, and gathered the defeated troops to hold the lonely city. It contributed to the rapid recovery of morale and the stabilization of the defense line after the disastrous defeat of the Ming army in Liaoshen. However, Wang Huazhen is a literati after all, and his strengths are actually in handling local affairs and managing logistics.

When the Donglin Party pushed him to the position of governor of Liaodong, it wanted to rely on him to redeem the adverse effects caused by Yuan Yingtai's fall to Liaoshen, and to restore the passive situation caused by Yuan Yingtai to the Donglin Party in the court. But the Donglin Party, like using Yuan Yingtai, once again overestimated Wenchen's military capabilities. Not every Wenchen has excellent military vision. Yuan Yingtai didn't, and unfortunately Wang Huazhen didn't either. What's even more terrifying is that they are still very firm in their belief that he himself has this kind of military capability.

Wang Huazhen became the governor of Liaodong, and he arranged 6 lines of defense along the river, boasting that they could echo each other and support each other.

After Xiong Tingbi took office as the Liaodong Economic Strategy, he saw at a glance that Wang Huazhen's defense line was not properly arranged and the forces were too scattered, so he asked Wang Huazhen to change the arrangement and make every effort to hold on to Guangning.

Wang Huazhen was very unconvinced by Xiong Tingbi's arrangement. After the reinforcements of the Ming army arrived in Guangning, Wang Huazhen named them the Pingliao Army. Xiong Tingbi thought that the name of the Pingliao Army was inappropriate and would hurt the hearts of the local people in Liaodong, so he suggested that it should be changed to the Eastern Army. Wang Huazhen was even more dissatisfied with this matter. Wang Huazhen thought that Xiong Tingbi looked down on him and was deliberately damaging his prestige. Wang Huazhen always wanted to take the initiative to pacify Liaodong as soon as possible. Xiong Tingbi advocated a defensive counterattack. came and went, and the contradictions between the two became deeper and deeper.

At the end of the first year of the Apocalypse, the first assistant of the cabinet returned to his hometown. Wang Huazhen's teacher, Ye Xianggao, a member of the Donglin Party, was promoted to the first assistant. With the full support of the East Forestry Party in the DPRK, Wang Huazhen obtained the command of the front line and completely stopped obeying Xiong Tingbi's command.

In February of the second year of the Apocalypse, Wang Huazhen ignored Xiong Tingbi's order for him to stick to Guangning and brazenly launched the Guangning Campaign. He dreamed of rebelling against the Houjin general Li Yongfang and defeating the Houjin in one fell swoop. But he didn't expect that Sun Degong, a close general around him, was a spy of Houjin, and Houjin knew everything about his every move. His dream was woven with the help of Sun Degong. As a result, Wang Huazhen's dream was shattered, the Ming army was defeated in the Battle of Guangning, and Wang Huazhen was almost taken prisoner. Xiong Tingbi, who lacked a major general, directly ordered to abandon the customs and withdraw to Shanhaiguan.

After investigation, Sun Chengzong believed that although he was forced to do so, Xiong Tingbi retreated without a fight and gave up a large area of land outside the Guanxi without authorization, and he should bear secondary responsibility. He is also responsible for the improper recruitment of troops by Ming Shiju and Yushi Li Da. Liaodong Patrol Fang Zhenru, Denglai Supervisor Liang Zhiyuan, and Jizhou Soldier Shao Keli behaved inappropriately during the war, causing panic in the garrison and should be punished.

As for the plan formulated by the king of Liaodong Jinglu in Jin to build a new city in Balipu outside Shanhaiguan, it was completely vetoed by Sun Chengzong. Sun Chengzong believed that the Ming army should take advantage of the Houjin withdrawal and return to Liaoshen to recuperate, go out of Shanhaiguan, push the defense line to the Ningyuan line, build fortifications along the way, defend instead of attacking, wait for the opportunity to recover Jinzhou, and lock Houjin in the land of Liaodong.

Sun Chengzong keenly discovered during his investigation that the current Ming army had completely lost the ability to fight in the field with the Houjin army. Based on this understanding, he also secretly applauded Xiong Tingbi's decision. Sun Chengzong believed that although Xiong Tingbi had resolutely retreated without the consent of the imperial court, it was politically wrong. But if Xiong Tingbi hadn't evacuated all the defeated soldiers and refugees and took away all the supplies, maybe Houjin would have burned the war to Shanhaiguan. It was precisely because Houjin was within a few hundred kilometers of the customs and could not find any supplementary resources that he withdrew his troops gloomily.

However, Sun Chengzong would never approve of Xiong Tingbi's strategy of completely abandoning Guanwai, garrisoning Shanhaiguan, Denglai and Phi Dao, and waiting for the opportunity to attack Houjin in three ways. He believes that at this stage, the Ming army is no longer capable of field warfare. Reluctantly launching an offensive will only repeat the defeat of Sarhu.

If there is no offensive and only sticks to Shanhaiguan, then after Houjin digests the results of the battle of Guangning, he will completely occupy the pass. At that time, Shanhaiguan and Phi Dao were too far apart to form an effective cooperation. Shanhaiguan is too close to the Beijing Division, and once it is lost, the world will be shaken. Daming is the Son of Heaven guarding the country, but he can't let the Son of Heaven guard the country every day. Xiong Tingbi is not very good at politics.

Sun Chengzong's perfect idea was to immediately go forward to seize Ning Yuan while Houjin was retiring from the army. Relying on Ningyuan and Juehua Island to establish a defense line, push the defense line forward to 200 miles away, and ensure the strategic depth of Shanhaiguan. Along the way, we will establish strategic bases that echo each other from afar, defend instead of attack, force Houjin to attack our strong defense line, and rely on the defense line to kill Houjin's vital forces. Start by gradually building a field army. Then rely on the defense line to slowly advance, and rely on the national strength to slowly exhaust the war potential of Houjin.

Sun Chengzong knew that this plan would be very expensive and would cause a great burden to the country, but he really couldn't find a way to win quickly. The fierce party struggle that began at the end of the Wanli period has caused great damage to the country. The constraints on the coach have set a very bad precedent. Sun Chengzong only hoped that his plan would restore the country's decline.

That night, Sun Chengzong, who had just returned to Beijing, was given a banquet by the Emperor of the Apocalypse. After the banquet, Sun Chengzong and the Emperor of the Apocalypse had a long talk all night. Sun Chengzong invited himself to serve as the governor of Liaodong. When he went to Liaodong, 60-year-old Sun Chengzong was determined to repay the country with death. He was not afraid of death, but Sun Chengzong was afraid that the fierce party struggle between the DPRK and China would ruin his plan and his hard work.