On April 25, at the court meeting of the Emperor's Palace, the officials frowned and said nothing, and the atmosphere was solemn. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Yesterday, the news came that Li Zicheng captured Kaifeng, an important town in the Central Plains.

In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, after Li Zhi defeated Li Zicheng in Kaifeng, Li Zicheng hid in Taihang Mountain. Unexpectedly, a few years later, Li Zicheng took advantage of the famine in Henan to resurgence year after year. Zhu Youzhen, the son of heaven, mobilized more than 100,000 troops to encircle and suppress, but the officers and troops on the front line did not have the ability to defeat Li Zicheng at all. Now not only can he not exterminate the thief, but he has also captured Kaifeng.

In Kaifeng City, from the thousands of Ming clans headed by King Zhou, to the Henan famous gentry who gathered in Kaifeng City, all of them were wiped out by Li Zicheng. Li Zicheng wantonly tortured the powerful in the city, used all kinds of torture instruments, and did not stop digging out the last two pieces of silver hidden in the cellar.

Zhu Youzhen sat on the throne and let out a long sigh. Unexpectedly, after King Fu of Luoyang was killed by Li Zicheng, King Zhou's lineage was completely destroyed by Li Zicheng. The Ming Dynasty attaches the most importance to the bloodline of the clan, and usually no matter how difficult the financial situation is, it is necessary to ensure the wealth of the clan, and the news of the fall of the clan can be said to be a heavy blow to Zhu Youzhen.

To put it seriously, Zhu Youzhen even felt shameless to worship his ancestors.

The civil officials in the court are also mourning. Li Zicheng regarded the gentry as mortal enemies, and not only plundered the gentry and landlords in the countryside, but also raised his butcher's knife against the gentry as soon as he entered the city. This time Kaifeng City fell, I don't know how many civil officials and scholars in the city were looted by the intruding army, and I don't know how many gentry and rich people were killed.

The so-called dead lips and cold teeth are nothing more than that.

None of the officials spoke, all thinking about how to deal with Li Zicheng's problem. Li Zicheng is getting bigger and bigger, and the more than 100,000 border troops obviously can't help him, and they must send more troops. However, it is a matter of great importance which troops and horses to send.

Zhang Guanghang, the waiter of the Criminal Department, suddenly stood up: "The minister has something to say!" ”

"Say!"

"The minister asked the Gonghu Ben army of Jinguo to crusade against the thieves. The Tiger Ben Army is a strong army in the world, and it will be able to crush the thieves! ”

Hearing Zhang Guanghang's words, Zhu Youzhen and the civil officials were silent.

Gong Dingyu stood up and shouted: "Zhang Guanghang, where is your intention? ”

Zhang Guanghang frowned and asked, "What are my intentions?" ”

Gong Dingyu said: "With the character of the Li thief, after defeating the thief, he will definitely occupy Henan and not leave." Henan is in the hands of thieves, just a rogue. If Henan is in the hands of Li Thief, it will be the food base of the Tiger Army. Li Zhi is already domineering in Shandong with the land of a province, if he wins Henan again, he will not stop killing all the gentry in the world? ”

Zhang Guanghang sneered, as if he had heard the most ridiculous thing, and looked up at the Son of Heaven.

Zhu Youzhen looked at Zhang Guanghang, sighed and said: "I want to use the Duke of Jinguo, but now that the Duke of Jinguo is already a very popular minister, if he makes a great contribution to the suppression of the thieves, what will I reward him?" ”

Pavilion elder Fan Jingwen jumped out and said: "If Li Zhi is allowed to win Henan, I am afraid that the imperial court will no longer be able to control Li Zhi." If today's people are excited, if Li Zhi is crowned as the king of the county, I am afraid that the crumbs of the world's drill camp will be moved to join Li Zhi when they hear the wind, and there may be unspeakable danger at that time. ”

Fan Jingwen is the boss of the Donglin Party in the end, and he speaks very well. Obviously, the gentry were afraid that Li Zhi would expand his influence to Henan, but he analyzed the problem from the perspective of the Son of Heaven, and said that Zhu Youzhen couldn't find fault with it.

It is really a very dangerous thing to seal the king with a different surname. The Han Dynasty named Cao Cao as the king of Wei, and finally ceded Chan to Cao. Cao Wei made Sima the king of Jin, and Sima eventually occupied the throne. Li Zhi has actually been seized in Tianjin and Shandong, if Li Zhi is given the title of king, even if Li Zhi has no ideas, everyone else in the world will have ideas.

Zhang Guanghang lowered his head and thought about it, didn't speak again, and retreated.

Wang Duo, the first assistant of the cabinet, looked at the noisy civil officials, stood up and said: "Holy Lord, the thieves are getting more and more powerful, they must be suppressed, the tiger army is not available, please transfer the new army of the Beijing camp to quell the thieves!" ”

After Wang Duo said this, the civil officials all looked at Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youzhen frowned and did not speak.

It's not that Zhu Youzhen is reluctant to send the new army to the battlefield with a silver salary, but that Zhu Youzhen is afraid that he will lose this battle. The new army is the fundamental force of the imperial court to deter all kinds of forces, if the new army is defeated all at once, where will the Ming Dynasty go?

Zhu Youzhen thought for a long time before he said slowly: "Although Henan has been occupied by the thieves, it is not so easy for the thieves to expand to other provinces where the disaster is not so serious. ”

"The matter of transferring the new army needs to be considered in the long run."

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Boxes of silver and goods were transported into Fanjiazhuang from the south gate of Fanjiazhuang.

The soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army straightened their chests and pushed the cart and cart into Fanjiazhuang under the reverent gaze of Fanjiazhuang's father. The people of Fanjiazhuang looked at the rich spoils of this southern expedition, and their eyebrows danced. Naughty children frolicked along the sides of the road, occasionally rushing to the boxes of silver to touch them.

The soldiers who were pushing the boxes yelled, and the young children ran away screaming, having a great time.

Li Xing, the governor of Tianjin, led the civil and military officials of Tianjin to greet Li Zhi at the gate of Fanjiazhuang. Cui Wending, president of the third branch of Fanjiazhuang of Jinqi Bank, followed behind Li Xing, chatting with Li Xing from time to time, trying to get close to Li Xing.

"Second General, Grandpa Guo brought back more than 10 million taels of loot this time, and these silver flowers are spent on our territory, which can be predicted to drive a new round of prosperity in the territory!"

Although Li Xing dislikes Cui Changwu, the head of the discipline inspection team who provoked him, he has no ill feelings towards his eldest brother's father-in-law, Cui Wending. He smiled and asked, "Oh? ”

Cui Wending said: "When Jin Guogong personally trained us branch presidents, he said that when a sum of money from outside enters a place, it will form an 'investment multiplier' effect. The first use of silver creates demand, and the second use of silver by those who receive it from the first user creates another demand, and the same goes for the third time, which ultimately increases the purchasing power of a place exponentially. ”

"If the purchasing power goes up, the income of the artisans or farmers who produce the goods will go up, and everyone will be richer."

In fact, Li Xing also heard Li Zhi say these words, Li Zhi learned some economic knowledge in later generations, and in this era, it sounds like a university in the world. Li Xing nodded at Cui Wending, and went up to greet Li Zhi. He walked to Li Zhi's horse and led the horse for Li Zhi, and walked towards Fanjiazhuang City with a smile.

"Big brother, you've worked hard!"

Li Zhi was riding on a horse, smiling and receiving the welcome and cheers of the people, but suddenly saw a flying object in the sky in front of him.

Li Zhi was stunned and asked Li Xing, "Li Xing, is that a hot air balloon?" ”

Li Xing looked at the thing flying in the sky and said with a smile: "That's right, big brother, the hot air balloon drawings you drew for Qi Liu and them last time were made by those craftsmen!" ”