Chapter 33: Yuan Chonghuan under house arrest

In the Fengtian Palace, Chongzhen met with Yuan Chonghuan, in addition to Yuan Chonghuan, now Chongzhen takes Wang Chengensi, the chief eunuch of ceremonial eunuchs, and Sun Chuanting, the commander of the new army, everywhere he goes, and when he first saw Yuan Chonghuan, Chongzhen looked at his pale face. The pen and the fun www.biquge.info let a little eunuch get into a chair and let him sit down.

"Aiqing, look at these things, are they yours" Chongzhen took out the letters exchanged between Yuan Chonghuan and Huang Taiji, and asked Wang Chengen on the side to hand them to Yuan Chonghuan.

"Your Majesty, it is indeed a letter from a minister, if the emperor does not believe in the minister and thinks that the minister is guilty, the minister has nothing to say" Yuan Chonghuan looked at the letter in his hand and sat on the chair with a calm face. Running around for the empire all his life, is this the result he gets?

"When these letters were attacked by Emperor Taiji, a war horse came over from the city, and a war horse in the chaos actually carried the letters to my city, this is what someone wants me to see this letter, whether these letters are true or not, at this time, I will not believe it" After saying that, Chongzhen took the letters in Yuan Chonghuan's hand and threw them into the furnace on the side, and the flames slowly rising in the furnace were rising.

"Since the emperor doesn't believe in this, then why bother to hand over these letters to the ministers" Whether it is a means to knock on the mountain and shock the tiger, this is not a good sign, it seems that the emperor is beginning to be dissatisfied with himself.

"I have a question that I have thought about for a long time, but I haven't figured it out, Aiqing might as well come and listen to it" Regarding Yuan Chonghuan, the self-appointed supervisor of Jiliao, Chongzhen's mood is still quite complicated.

"In the past, there were two hostile countries, one large and one small, the two sides were eyeing each other, one day there was something wrong with the big country, in order to prevent the small country from taking the opportunity to make trouble, they set up hundreds of thousands of soldiers on the border of the two countries, but it is strange that the monarch of that small country actually ignored the hundreds of thousands of enemy troops on the border, but poured the country's troops, and made a detour thousands of miles into the hinterland of the big country, and surrounded the capital of the big country" At this time, Chongzhen walked to Yuan Chonghuan's side and said again, "Aiqing, What do you say made the monarch of that small country ignore the hundreds of thousands of troops on the border? Isn't he afraid that his country will be empty, and his capital will be occupied by the hundreds of thousands of troops on the border?"

Hearing Chongzhen's question, everyone knew that this was talking about the relationship between the Jurchens and the imperial court, and the atmosphere in the hall became oppressive for a while.

Yuan Chonghuan just sat quietly and did not open his mouth to answer Chongzhen's questions.

"I haven't figured it out, what made Huang Taiji ignore my hundreds of thousands of troops in the Jinning defense line, so that he dared to pour the whole country's troops and venture to my capital, Yuan Chonghuan, you haven't received the news yet, just on the way to you, I received a telegram from Liu Yingkun, the eunuch of the three customs, you sent to recover Guangning City, the Jinzhou general soldier Wu Ping, led the troops out for a walk, and before he arrived in Guangning City, he ran back in fear of the battle, a general soldier faced, the Jurchen elite was all in the pass, and only a few thousand people stayed in Guangning, who was actually afraid of the war, Wu Zhuo, that damn thing, didn't dare to attack the city in this situation, what use do you say I want him to be the general soldier" After speaking, Chongzhen put the long sword in his hand on the shelf gently.

"The reason why the Jurchens are so unscrupulous is that they are sure that the Liaodong Army will not take the initiative to attack, Huang Taiji sees through you Yuan Chonghuan only thinks about peace, saying that you betrayed me and betrayed the Ming Dynasty, but you are not willing to continue to fight with the Jurchens, and you are bent on seeking peace, which is an indisputable fact, five years of Pingliao, peace to the end, let Huang Taiji ignore the existence of the Liaodong Army, and the lone army will hit my capital, is this the merit of Aiqing Pingliao" Now that the main force of the Jurchens is disabled, even if Huang Taiji goes back, he will not be able to make big waves in a few years, it's time to clean up the Liaodong Army.

"Emperor" Yuan Chonghuan slid off the seat and knelt on the ground.

"Companion, Yuan Aiqing needs to recuperate for a while, you go and arrange a courtyard in the imperial city, let the imperial doctor be diligent, don't let people disturb Yuan Aiqing before his body recovers" Chongzhen took back Yuan Chonghuan's power to supervise and let him recuperate in the capital with peace of mind, but in fact, he was under house arrest in disguise.

"Sun Aiqing, the remaining more than 20,000 cavalry of the Guanning Army outside the city, let you take over Aiqing" Sun Chuanting has more than 100,000 new troops in his hands, and these more than 20,000 Guanning troops are unruly, and they must be honest in his hands.

After Chongzhen left, a group of little eunuchs ran in with the eunuch doctor and helped Yuan Chonghuan to arrange a residence.

"Driving" and "driving" Huang Taiji ran wildly with the men and horses, and Lu Xiangsheng chased after him with 20,000 light horses, and there were constantly small groups of Jurchens on the road, turning the dock to try to intercept Lu Xiangsheng's soldiers and horses, and Lu Xiangsheng also left only a small team of soldiers and horses to intercept the other party, and did not entangle with the other party, and clung to the main force to bite Huang Taiji.

Zu Dashou of Jizhou received the news by telegram through the eyes and ears of the Liaodong Army in the capital on the day that Yuan Chonghuan was placed under house arrest by Chongzhen. Zu Dashou, who heard the news, was furious, and immediately led the army to leave Jizhou and return to Shanhaiguan.

"Since you Chongzhen is unkind and unjust, what's the use of keeping these three customs" After speaking, Zu Dashou burned down the camp of the three customs and led his troops back to Jinzhou, which was guarded by his ancestors.

Lu Xiangsheng chased all the way to Jizhou, and found that Jizhou was undefended, so Huang Taiji escaped easily, leaving a pair of people to go back to report the news, and he led the main force to continue to chase Huang Taiji.

After Huang Taiji bypassed Jizhou, he did not flee to Zunhua, but went straight to Ma Lanyu, and went out of Ma Lanyu from Ma Lanyu.

Chongzhen in Beijing City received Zu Dashou's early withdrawal of troops to let Huang Taiji run away and destroy Shanhaiguan, and fled back to Jinzhou, Chongzhen almost exploded, and smashed the teacup in his hand, "Zu Dashou, you are so bold, I just put Yuan Chonghuan under house arrest, and before I can do anything with him, your Liaodong Legion plans to rebel, force me to release people, take my military salary, don't listen to my orders, and actually burn my three customs camps, it seems that this Liaodong Legion has changed its surname to Yuan and is the ancestor."

"Big companion, let people pass the decree to Nanjing, order the Nanjing officials to be the governor of Nanjing, and order the prince Qin Liangyu to return to Beijing immediately" Let Wang be the governor of Nanjing in Jin, because Wang Zaijin and Sun Chengzong do not deal with each other, and now because of Yuan Chonghuan's relationship, the Liaodong army almost rebelled, Sun Chengzong is Yuan Chonghuan's teacher, Chongzhen thinks it is better to avoid suspicion.

"Send someone to order Lu Xiangsheng and let Lu Aiqing lead the troops to sit in Yongping" I will not accept anyone's coercion, Zu Dashou, I really think that I will not dare to kill you, this time I will not only clean you up, but also the entire Liaodong Legion."

"Sun Aiqing, you send someone to remove all the cannons on the city wall, and prepare to go to the expedition, I plan to go to the three customs in person" Chongzhen of the three customs has long wanted to go, this time Zu Dashou's behavior seriously violated Chongzhen's taboo, the military general did not listen to the order, and led the troops to flee without permission, this kind of thing, no emperor can tolerate.

"The emperor thinks twice" Wang Chengen and Sun Chuanting on the side were almost scared to death, how could this emperor think that one came out, and at this critical moment, how did he remember to go to the Three Customs.