At the beginning of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, history suddenly became fragmented and messy, and the major events that had affected the world became everywhere, which seemed to be the harbinger of the eve of the fall of the empire, and all parts began to disintegrate.

It was supposed to be a spring rain like oil in April, but the sky in Henan was yellow, and the sandstorm blowing northwest wind and sand whistled in the empty Central Plains like a ghost crying, and the strong wind occasionally blew the soil away, revealing the white bones buried underneath.

This is already the 27th day that Yuan Chonghuan's army has been stranded in Chenliu County, last year Henan was out of harvest, the people are more thieves, it is really difficult to supply here, his command can only eat once a day, drinking water is also very scarce, the soldiers with vegetables on their faces in the early morning around the county side of the only undried well, competing for the yellow water source.

Yuan Chonghuan didn't want to settle here at all, less than twenty miles in front of him, it was Zhuxian Town, the forefront of the duel between the official army and the Chuang army. said that it is a large army, his more than 4,000 people are too inconspicuous in front of the main force of the million-strong army and the so-called 400,000-strong army.

Especially in the official army of Zhuxian Town, Yuan Chonghuan did not see the slightest hope of victory.

"The twilight is soaring, the clouds are yellow, it is the appearance of the defeated army!"

Holding the telescope from Mao Jue, standing on Mao'er Gang and looking east, Yuan Chonghuan couldn't help but sigh for a long time, not to mention the lack of troops, just this morale, how can this battle be fought?

The military department assigned Ding Qirui and Yang Wenyue to supervise the division to come, it was to relieve the siege of Kaifeng, which was different from the battlefield situation of Hong Chengchou outside the Guan, the army was completely made up of displaced people, and there was no such strong mobility, so high morale, so sophisticated organization, although Li Zicheng was sitting big at this time, but the nearby states and counties were also Ming, not afraid of the outflanking and encirclement of the army, it was time to go north and west in one go, and Kaifeng City should be combined with the outside, and the army was severely damaged outside the city.

Although he has no experience in fighting with the exile army, but in the Dongjiang River for so many years, he has also read a lot of Tang newspapers in the imperial court, and the army is not patient to fight hard, as long as he has the courage to defeat him in a big battle, the million-strong army will instantly turn into countless shareholders and flee westward, and once again be chased and fought by the imperial court officials and soldiers!

But at this time, the official army did not have the courage of the official army a few years ago, it had been thirty-four days in Zhuxian Town, Ding Qirui, the governor of the five provinces, had not come up with any plan to march, and Zuo Liangyu, the general of the Ping Thief, was also standing still, and the officers and troops who came from afar to relieve the siege actually began to defend on the spot! Instead, it broke into the army, hundreds of thousands of displaced people were holding hoes and plowing the ground a few miles away from the official army, and the loess flying in the sky was the clouds and weeping yellow that Yuan Chonghuan saw.

Mao Jue is willing to use civil engineering when he fights, and Yuan Chonghuan knows too well what will happen to the Ming officers and soldiers who claim to be 400,000 troops once this encirclement is closed!

If you use the five places in "The Art of War" to describe it, it is the last kind of dead place! But Yuan Chonghuan was anxious, but there was no way!

Follow along and jump in? He couldn't drive Zuo Liangyu, he died with the sky, and left the camp? Now go to Xuchang and Ruzhou, and march to Guanzhong is the best choice, and you can also rush to bring back from the Dongjiang River at the last moment of spring ploughing, and plant high-yield potatoes and corn, and 4,000 people are a spark of hope.

Can! The imperial decree was strangled on Yuan Chonghuan's neck like a rope of execution, he did not have Mao Jue's courage to resist the decree and disrespect, and the three-sided governor at this time could only waste time here in the most wrong way!

Putting down the binoculars, Yuan Chonghuan worriedly asked Fang Langzhong, the staff of the military department beside him, which can be regarded as the only benefit assigned to him by the imperial court, Yang Tinglin, the supervisor of the military who was with Lu Xiangsheng back then.

"Mr. Yanruo! Hasn't there been any new decree from the imperial court? ”

"Back to the Overseer, I didn't receive it!"

Yang Tinglin is also an understanding person, like Yuan Chonghuan, he is also so anxious that his lips are chapped several times, and the originally personable talent is aging like an old man in Liuxun, looking at the northeast, he can't help but shake his head heavily.

"Hey!"

Full of sorrow, Yuan Chonghuan also sighed deeply, and clenched his fists in hatred.

"O princes of the Manchu Dynasty! What are you doing? ”

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When the entire Central Plains official army was gathered and the fate was decided, the imperial court was still busy with internal fighting and liquidation.

Emperor Chongzhen counted on the military department Shangshu to carry this pot of losing power and humiliating the country, but the question is whether Chen Xinjia is willing to carry this pot? The first assistant scholar is unwilling, the emperor is unwilling, and he is naturally unwilling!

This pot is not carried casually, but it will be ruined on the back, and it is a trivial matter to lose the official position, and the children and grandchildren will have to suffer during the imperial examination, after receiving the emperor's severe reprimand, Chen Xinjia closed the door for more than two days.

Although there is no sword and sword shadow in the political field, it is also a murder without blood, and one wrong step may lead to the fall of the head and the whole door is beheaded.

Chen's study, dead and silent like an ancient tomb, only a lone lamp in the southeast corner flickered from time to time, half of his face was gloomy in the shadows, Chen Xinjia's face was also cloudy and sunny, wrinkles on a long face trembled violently, between the messy beard, beads of sweat flowed like a stream on the collar of his purple official robe,

In his hand, a yellow paper was like electricity, and he couldn't stop trembling when he touched it.

However, after hesitating for more than an hour, Chen Xinjia still made up his mind, held the fold with his hand hard, and then tilted his head and shouted out of the window.

"Steward Chen! This recital, for the lord I will play the cabinet!"

"Little obedience!"

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Chen Xinjia refused to carry this responsibility, and the next one with trembling hands was Emperor Chongzhen, except for the secret letter sent directly to the emperor, the Ming Dynasty's recital had to go through the cabinet first.

Unwilling to be this scapegoat, Chen Xinjia's recital debated for himself in detail and detail, a certain year, a certain month, a certain day, the emperor's words, if you can pay the money, a certain year, a certain month, a certain day, the emperor's words, it is appropriate and not suitable for swordsmen! Several times the secret peace with the Qing State that he ordered by Chongzhen was completely shaken out by Chen Xinjia! He Chongzhen was also nakedly forced to the front of the stage from behind the scenes.

What will the Minister say about me? How will the history books record me! Song Huizong? Weak and incompetent? Knock under? The dark murderous aura filled the gloomy half of Emperor Chongzhen's face when he lowered his head.

Chen Xinjia wanted to clean himself up through argumentation, he was not good at negotiating peace with the Qing State, and the driving forces behind him were all emperors, so that the civil officials would not stalk him, but he didn't think about how angry Chongzhen would be when he was forced to push himself to the stage.

How Jiang Shan was no longer in Chongzhen's thoughts, the muscles on his face trembled violently, and even the roar powder that was applied to cover up aging fell off a layer, and under the candlestick, the emperor's voice almost hummed out with trembling.

"The case of fornication and abduction will be handed over to the Criminal Department for punishment!"

"Old slave...... The old slave obeys!"

I haven't seen the emperor so angry for a long time, and the voice of Wang Chengen, the eunuch of the previous dynasty, trembled violently.

At the end of April, an official messenger suddenly came to the door, arrested Chen Xinjia, and put him in the prison of the Criminal Department, so that the boiling Eastern exile and the incident finally came to an end.

This head went to prison, Chen Xinjia figured it out, while writing a letter to ask for guilt, on the other hand, he also spent money to bribe the speech official, how capricious the speech official of the Ming Dynasty was revealed here, after receiving the silver, he tried his best to advocate the execution of Che Chen Xinjia's military department to Fang Shiliang immediately changed his position, and ran to the criminal department squire Xu Shiqi to plead.

Xu Shiqi is also an understanding person, knowing that Chen Xinjia is not dead, and the emperor's face will not fall, and this matter will still not be over, so he firmly supports the capital crime, and resolutely establishes Chen Xinjia's crime of fornication and exile, and negotiates peace without authorization.

But after watching the performance of the Criminal Department, Chongzhen still felt that he couldn't hold his face, which was equivalent to letting Chen Xinjia carry this pot, even if he died, when it came to Chen Xinjia, the ministers would still think that they were the main messengers behind this! In a fit of rage, he forced the military department to change his charges, accusing Chen Xinjia of improper command during his tenure as the secretary of the military department, which led to the fall of Guanningjin, the fall of seventy-two Central Plains cities into the hands of Li Zicheng, and the humiliation of seven vassal kings.

God is pitiful, it is still Emperor Chongzhen himself who urged Hong Chengchou to enter the army, as for Li Zicheng, it is also Chongzhen and Yang Sichang who left the Shaanxi army and Qin soldiers to defend the Central Plains, even if he did not take the blame for the discussion, Chen Xinjia still took the blame for some other things, and was completely sentenced to death and decided!

On the 10th day of the first month of May, in the howling of this military lord, he was escorted out of the prison of the criminal department and went straight to the entrance of the vegetable market.

This series of political actions, as well as the murderous intent of the emperor to extinguish his mouth, made the big guy understand who wanted to negotiate peace, and it also made the relationship between the emperor and his ministers more farther away!

Even if Chen Xinjia is an official, he is ignorant, first he leaked secrets, and then he couldn't resist things! But after all, he was a close minister of Emperor Chongzhen, and he did such a dirty thing for the emperor, but in the end, something happened, and the emperor not only did not save it, but also pushed it down hard.

Who will be loyal to him in the future?

The prisoner car pushed forward in a round, on both sides of the road, the people of Jingshi didn't know so many curves and curves, they only knew how to follow the coaxing, piles of vegetable leaves and garbage smashed into the prisoner car, squatting in the car, Chen Xinjia himself was also desperate to sit with his legs crossed, the mechanism was too smart, and finally lost his head.

But when he saw the gloomy execution ground at the entrance of the vegetable market, the secretary of the military department suddenly snorted coldly with mockery.

There is no one better than him who understands the reality of the Ming Dynasty today! It is estimated that with his head in a different place, it is estimated that the politics of peace will also completely disappear, in history, it is because of Chongzhen's rebellion, the angry Huang Taiji launched the fifth Qing army into the Sai War, which made the Ming Dynasty worse, and seemed to vaguely see the future of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Xinjia sneered and wore shackles on Xingtai.

However, in this time and space, after all, there is more of Mao Jue's variable, and when he saw that the big blade was about to be cut down, on the street, suddenly a rider rushed up violently.

"The emperor has a decree, and the sword keeps people !!"

(End of chapter)