Chapter 139: Quelling the Chaos (4)
Chongzhen stepped forward, looked at the woman kneeling at his feet, stepped forward and gently helped her up, and reached out to brush the woman's bangs, although the disfigured half of the Jurchen face in front of her was ugly, but through the other half of the face Chongzhen can vaguely see her appearance back then, not to mention any national beauty, but it can also be seen that this woman was a beautiful rich lady.
"You are my people, I didn't govern this country well, I didn't protect you well, don't worry, I will give you an explanation for this matter" Seeing that her age is only two decades, she was originally a carefree rich daughter, and she has fallen to the point where she is now after being abducted, when she was abducted, his family definitely contributed money and efforts to let the government and the family look around, but she still ended up like this, what should happen if it is an ordinary child, whether she was broken to beg or had her tongue cut off to perform arts.
"Come on, send someone to the back mountain, I want to see that Xiucai before dawn" What happened to the woman in front of him made Chongzhen's heart full of anger, how could there be such a dark thing in the country he ruled.
"Emperor Xie, Emperor Xie" Hearing that Chongzhen asked people to rescue Xiucai, Zhao Xiaoya kept kneeling to Chongzhen.
"Big companion, arrange for someone to take her down to rest, and ask people to find the local county order, and at the same time ask Jin Yiwei to make a book of what the county order has done over the years and hand it to me" At night, Chongzhen sat in front of the case and couldn't calm down to review the folds, through the report submitted by Jin Yiwei, there are thousands of human trafficking cases like this in Daming every year, and this is only recorded, and I don't know how many of those things in the secret. Especially now that the war continues, the organizational ability of the imperial court continues to decline, and many places have developed to the point of Ming robbery, seeing all this Chongzhen is extremely distressed, this is my empire, it is really my Ming Dynasty, but now this Ming has become a master who does not know him or that his master does not recognize the decay of this Ming Dynasty.
The next day, Chongzhen saw the person who had been locked up for two years, the person in this period is very valuable, even if you originally had nothing, as long as you waited for the fame of the person, there will naturally be countless people who will automatically attach to you, and you can instantly become a person who is important in the township, but the person in front of you was actually restrained by a scoundrel, and it seems that he is also an honest person.
"Student Jing Kedong, meet the emperor" Due to being detained and abused for a long time, Jing Kedong is now skinny and skinny, looking at him like this, even if Zhao Shenggui doesn't kill him, he won't be able to last long.
"Get up" Chongzhen looked at the skeleton-like scholar in front of him, even if he was so frightened by hunger, Chongzhen still saw the stupidity coming out of the opposite hair, yes, it was the kind of stupidity that read too much, a typical nerd, but Chongzhen liked this kind of person very much, this kind of person is generally some stubborn, different flexibility, do things at a glance, will not bully others, can come back to their lives for the so-called righteousness, although there will be a lot of trouble with them, But this kind of person often has the dream of benefiting one party for the sake of the official, and is willing to act for his dream, but in reality, most of these nerds will not be in the officialdom for a long time, and they will be excluded from the officialdom.
Just when Chongzhen was about to deal with the case himself, a small eunuch outside the camp gate came quickly with a document, and Wang Chengen stepped forward to take the document and handed it to Chongzhen.
Chongzhen opened the document and looked, the border was in a hurry, and it was Huang Taiji again, Chongzhen was annoyed, Huang Taiji was a disgusting guy, he would find trouble for himself, he was pitted by himself, and the 100,000 troops who entered the customs ran back less than 20,000, so Huang Taiji was able to stabilize the situation, and subdued the Horqin tribe of Mongolia, I have to say that the Ming policy in this period was too much of a failure, and I watched Mongolia being pulled by Huang Taiji, no way, the current Ming Dynasty has no diplomatic talents, in the eyes of the Ming people, What Mongolian Jurchen, except for the Ming Dynasty, is just a group of barbarians, how can the Celestial Empire compromise with a group of barbarians.
"Jing Kedong, I give you a holy decree, you first take Miss Zhao Xiaoya to the capital, to find the six doors of Wan Ji, this case, you tell him, let him find out the cause and effect to me, and when I return to Beijing, I will sit in court to hear the trial" Now that the border is in turmoil, this matter can only be postponed.
Songjin defense line, the northern barrier of the Ming Dynasty, the gateway land, Chongzhen ascended the throne to connect the original Songshan Jinzhou two fortresses into a line, and continued to strengthen in the next few years, the gray city wall connects the mountains and mountains in the west and the sea in the east, with the efforts of Qin Liangyu and hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the empire, after the defense line was built, the greatest danger to the empire was blocked.
Today's Songjin defense line, bloody soldiers and traces of repair of broken walls, telling the cruelty of the war for several days, in the case of Huang Taiji regardless of the cost of driving cannon fodder siege, the front line of the city defense arrows, shells, rolling stones, sasswood, has long been exhausted, in Chongzhen received the battle report a few days before the start of the hand-to-hand combat.
That night, with the roar of the tractor, a large number of men and horses led by Chongzhen finally arrived at the Songjin defense line day and night, and the border generals Qin Liangyu and Lu Xiangsheng had already received the news sent by the scouts in advance, and the two led a group of soldiers to wait for Chongzhen's arrival at the city gate.
"The ministers have seen the emperor" This is the second time Chongzhen has come to the border after he ascended the throne, the first time he came, the main generals of the border pass and their families were all packed and brought back to Beijing, and Qin Liangyu and Lu Xiangsheng were arranged to take over the rights of the border pass, Chongzhen's approach is obviously to clear the old local forces and arrange their own manpower, but they are the emperor, and the whole world is people's, that is, they replace their own manpower openly, who can resist, who dares to resist, and the remaining part of the generals naturally began to start after Chongzhen left, took the initiative to stand behind Qin Liangyu and Lu Xiangsheng, Chongzhen did it so obviously. Few of those who can mix with the official body are fools.
"Get up, dressed in armor, you Aiqing don't have to be polite" Looking at the guards on the nearby city wall, there was a sense of solemnity on their bodies, and the vicinity of the city gate obviously felt a lot more than other places, and it seemed that they had been cleaned up for themselves.
After the group of "Emperor Xie" took over, they saw Chongzhen walking towards the city wall, and automatically followed behind Chongzhen with the size of an official rank.
Chongzhen still remembers the first time he came here, the soldiers on the city wall all had a sense of unruliness, Chongzhen could feel the other party's bravery, but it always felt not so disciplined, and now, the soldiers who could be seen as far as his eyes could see in addition to the killing atmosphere Chongzhen also felt a sense of discipline, the soldiers who drank on the street were gone, and the groups of three or five were gone, and the whole fortress seemed to be uniform.
"Is that the Jurchen camp ahead?" Chongzhen looked at the brightly lit camp a few miles below the city and asked Qin Liangyu.
"Your Majesty, that is the Jurchen camp" Huang Taiji, who has been pitted by Chongzhen several times, is now encamped four or five miles away from the city wall, if it were not for the fire of the camp too dense, Chongzhen may not be able to observe it at night.