A report from Tianjin was placed in front of Xie Baoqing, the secretary of the Ministry of War, after reading this report, Xie Baoqing's spirit was lifted, and he almost crawled out of the room and rushed into Shoufu's room: "Tianjin urgent report, Tiance Army sent troops to Lushun, landed in Liaodong, and threatened Shenyang!" ”

Since serving as the secretary of the Ministry of War, Xie Baoqing has also lived a double heaven of ice and fire, all of which are related to Wang Yue.

Tiance Army defeated Zhang Xianzhong, Xie Baoqing breathed a sigh of relief, Wang Yue finally did something serious. Who knew that it didn't take long for Wang Yue to toss in Suzhou again, and this time, Wang Yue offended almost all the literati. Xie Baoqing didn't fall well, I don't know how many complaints he suffered, who told Wang Yue to rise because of her? However, Chongzhen, who got the silver, was better for Xie Baoqing's face, which was called a blessing in misfortune.

Zhou Yanru stood up suddenly, took the report and read it carefully, patted his thigh and said, "Okay!" Go to your majesty immediately. ”

Half an hour later, the Imperial Study of the Palace of Nourishing Hearts.

"What? What did you say? ”

On this afternoon, the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen continued to work hard in the imperial study, fighting hard against those state affairs that seemed to never be finished.

Recently, there has been a new thing in the imperial court, that is, Taiwan was included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty finally expanded its territory again.

There is no way, this is Wang Yue forced to Chongzhen, for this reason, the imperial court through the court meeting, set up a prefecture-level administrative unit in Taiwan, stationed in Tamsui, changed Tamsui to Taipei Mansion, Taiwan administratively under the jurisdiction of the Heavenly Governor. Why not under the jurisdiction of Fujian? Because this is Wang Yue's request, he hopes that during his term of office, Taiwan will be temporarily under the jurisdiction of Yingtian, and he will build Taiwan in his own way, so Taiwan has now become an enclave of Nanzhili.

"Hey, my hooray! Great joy, the Tiance Army has sent troops to Liaodong. ”

The person kneeling on the ground was none other than Cao Huachun, the chief of the ceremonial supervisor, and Cao Gonggong. There was no one else in the imperial study except him, and the original two eunuchs who served the pen and ink were also sent out of the door by him - in this kind of good news work, there must be no second person to share the joy and excitement of the emperor. Even Zhou Yanru, Xie Baoqing and the other ministers who brought this good news to him could only wait obediently outside the palace gate at this time - hehe, who let you have an extra part on your body.

Chongzhen took Wang Yue's recital, and carefully read it several times over and over again, and then walked back and forth in the imperial study, which was a manifestation of his excitement.

According to the Manchu Qing movements transmitted from the direction of Shanhaiguan, it is also known that the Qing army has expanded, although the specific situation is unknown, but the Guanning army is not blind, and such a big movement still smells of it.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty has been a sworn enemy for decades, and Wang Yue is an unruly warlord, and now he sets foot on the land of Liaodong, which is stepping on Huang Taiji's dog's tail, maybe it is a dead stumbling.

Losing both sides is what Chongzhen is most willing to see, and the Tiance army and the Manchu Qing Dynasty are fighting for consumption, which is indeed a happy event. Judging from the performance of the Tiance Army in the past two years, the Manchu Qing should not be pleased, and the recovery of Liaodong is just around the corner.

"What is the name of the general who led his troops to Lushun... Tianjin General Soldier Li Zixuan? O man of loyalty, man of righteousness! ”

Chongzhen picked up the imperial pen and wrote the name "Li Zixuan" on a white gauze screen next to him, and after thinking about it, it was not enough, and wrote it again on his sleeve - according to convention, those who can enjoy this treatment belong to the generation of "Jane in the emperor's heart", and they will soon be of great use.

"I want to reward him, a heavy reward! …… named Li Zixuan as the general of Zhendong and added the rank of governor. ”

Emperor Chongzhen excitedly circled around the room more than a dozen times, and it was easy to remember that there was another Cao Huachun next to him - you must know that Zhu Youzhen has always valued the so-called "unpredictable power" the most, and sometimes even if he makes some inexplicable decisions, he doesn't want his courtiers to see through him.

Although Cao Huachun is only a house slave, Chongzhen refuses to let the other party see his emotions out of control - as everyone knows, his temperament has already been figured out by the people below. Cao Huachun kept his head close to the ground just now, and he didn't raise his head at all.

So Zhu Youzhen felt that he had not lost his temper in front of this minion, coughed quite satisfied, and began to ask him some specific things. Only then did he know that his two ministers were still waiting outside, Chongzhen called Zhou Yanru and Xie Baoqing into the imperial study to discuss the Tiance Army's dispatch of troops to Lushun, what countermeasures should the imperial court do?

Send troops to cooperate with the actions of the Tiance Army, forget it. In the end, it was decided that Chongzhen would issue an order to let Wang Yue concurrently serve as the Liaodong Economic Envoy, Wu Zhi would be the supervisor of the army, and Wang Yue would be the crown prince and Shaobao. The crown prince Shaobao is an honorary official title, also known as "Gong Bao".

Wang Yue is the governor of Yingtian and concurrently serves as the economic envoy of Liaodong, which is a bit nondescript, anyway, those who can work harder. Ying Tian Governor Wang Yue is still appropriate, and Chongzhen still expects him to make money.

The Liaodong Economic Strategy Envoy was in charge of the military and civil affairs of a large territory north of Shanhaiguan, and he was one of the best feudal officials in the Ming Dynasty, but now that place was occupied by the Manchus.

Because in the general strategic direction, Wang Yue was lazy and wasted words with the imperial court to explain, so the Tiance Army's dispatch of troops to Lushun was purely a prelude to the first and then the prelude. Chongzhen's holy decree can be regarded as an endorsement of the Tiance Army, and this is used to confirm that the Tiance Army is the army within the Ming system.

In 1638, on April 12, the 11th year of Ming Chongzhen, in the morning.

The naval fleet of the Tiance Army arrived in Lushun, and there had been no fighting in Lushun for many years since Lushun was occupied by the Houjin five years ago.

This Lushun Port is a natural deep-water port, the largest port in Jinzhou, and a famous military port in later generations. After going ashore from Lushunkou, it is not far to the west, and it is Lushun City.

Lushun mouth, formerly known as the lion's mouth, in 1371 AD, Ming Hongwu four years, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang sent Ma Yun, Ye Wang two generals to lead the army from Shandong Penglai to land across the sea by boat, to recover Liaodong, because the sea journey was smooth sailing, then the lion's mouth was renamed Lushunkou, has been used to this day.

In that year, after the Ming army came ashore from the mouth of Lushun, they built the city of Lushun with a circumference of six miles here, which lasted more than two hundred years and expanded to more than eight miles in circumference.

For the Ming Dynasty, the strategic location of this Arthur City is extremely important, it is connected to Denglai Haiphong in the south, the Beijing-Tianjin gateway in the west, the foreign aid to Korea in the east, and the rising Qing Dynasty in the north. It's really an extremely important place to rush to the throat. In a sense, for the Ming Dynasty, whether or not Lushun could be guarded was the foundation of the rise and fall of the imperial court.

It's a pity that in real history, this Jinzhou Lushun, in July of the sixth year of Chongzhen, finally fell into the hands of Houjin.

On the day of the city break, the Qing army burned and looted in the city of Lushun, and 5,300 men, women and children in Lushun became prisoners of the Houjin army.