The Ming Dynasty because of Hongmen, which still seems to be on the table, shrinks back in the distant South Seas of the civil power relationship, in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, although the wind and rain, the building will fall, but in the end it still changed the historical trend.

Until the spring of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, when the scorching summer time came, Zhu Youzhen, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty and the backbone of the Chongzhen Emperor, was still sitting on the imperial chair in the Forbidden City of Beijing, racking his brains and working hard for this magnificent Chinese land.

After Li Zicheng occupied Luoyang City, he finally embarked on the road to the emperor, the wheel of history seems to have inertia, even if the contemporary history at that time was changing the court, it was still vaguely possible to find some of the appearance that should have belonged to it, the Dashun regime was established in Luoyang, the ancient capital of the millennium, Li Zicheng had a previous King Chuang, and the golden dragon was called the emperor, and the year name was Yongchang.

When he heard this news, Emperor Chongzhen, who was in the Forbidden City, was shocked and angry, but there was nothing he could do: the main army of the Ming Dynasty to suppress the peasant army uprising, when the Ming Dynasty raised troops to attack Ruzhou, Henan, was besieged by the Dashun army designed by the current Dashun army, and finally was outnumbered and returned with a crushing defeat, and even the governor Sun Chuanting was almost killed in it.

Without this main force of the suppression army entrusted by Emperor Chongzhen with important tasks, the army in the hinterland of the Central Plains at this time can no longer have the posture of taking the initiative to attack the peasant army as before.

The henchmen of the north, the Jurchens of the Qing Dynasty, sent hundreds of thousands of troops to besiege the Ningjin defense line, forcing Chongzhen to weigh the lesser of the two, first letting go of the peasant army in Shaanxi and Jin and other places, and sending more troops to support the imminent Liaodong border pass.

The former peasant army, the current Dashun army certainly made Emperor Chongzhen embarrassed, but the pattern and combat effectiveness of the peasant army itself are much smaller than the group of Jurchen barbarians who have been skilled in bowing and horses since childhood.

"Your Majesty, you haven't eaten for two days, the national disaster is certainly at the head, but your dragon body is also golden, don't miss it at this moment!!"

In the Jinluan Palace, the thousand-mile biography from Liaodong was placed in front of Emperor Chongzhen, who was in his early forties, and Emperor Chongzhen, who was only a few years younger than Li Tianyang, looked much older than Li Tianyang in terms of demeanor and physique.

Behind him, his most trusted eunuch Bingbi held a bowl of porridge that was already a little cold, and persuaded each other bitterly.

"It's really incompetent, incompetent!"

"In vain, I have added more trust to him and entrusted him with a great responsibility, how dare he, the old horseman, Hong Chengchou, lose my country, how dare he still ask me for help!!"

Chongzhen ignored the advice of the eunuchs around him, and just lived in his own world, quietly venting his sorrow behind his back.

The eunuch Bingbi has long been surprised by this, since Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, the court has never really been stable, and there are nearly 100 important ministers in and out of the court cabinet, which is as dazzling as the horses.

There may be problems with the ability of these ministers, but it is more related to the character of the middle-aged emperor who likes to change his anger at people, which makes it impossible to find a few available talents in today's court for a while.

Hong Chengchou's defeat outside the Guan, when it was in the past, it was impossible to say that he had already been taken off his official robe by Emperor Chongzhen, who was angry, not to mention, I am afraid that he would be taken down by Jinyiwei for questioning.

But now Chongzhen can only scold loudly when no one is around, and after his anger has stopped for a while, he has to hurry up and send more people and materials to the border pass.

It's just that the Ming Dynasty has long been riddled with holes, and there are complaints everywhere, making it difficult for Emperor Chongzhen's clever woman to cook without rice, and there is no blood to reorganize the heroic wind, when I don't wait, the peasant uprisings in the world have risen one after another, except for the land south of the Yangtze River that is a little stable, the rest of the north and southwest places are already in turmoil, so that Chongzhen sighs.

The treasury of the Jingshi Hubu and the Great Inner Secret Treasury are empty, and even a nest of rats can be starved to death, look at the five-clawed golden dragon regular clothes on Emperor Chongzhen's body, and there are even a few patches on it, uh uh Bingbi Eunuch Hand Zhonghua's bowl of gruel that is gradually cold and so on, is really just a gruel boiled by millet, without any additives, which shows that the national politics are difficult.

"Spread my will, and order the governor of Shandong to raise 50,000 soldiers, 100,000 stones of grain and grass, which can be transported to Shanhaiguan and handed over to Hong Chengchou, the governor of Liaoliao!!"

After venting, Emperor Chongzhen could only weigh bitterly from the provinces to see if he could raise some aid to send to Hong Chengchou in Shanhaiguan, as for his defeat in battle, in addition to a reprimand, it was more of an encouragement.

There is no way, although Hong Chengchou lost the war at the border pass, and lost the two important strongholds of Ningjin that the DPRK and China have operated for many years, but this cannot all be blamed on Hong Chengchou alone, the lack of food, the shortage of soldiers, and the lack of repairs for a long time have a great deal to do with the difficulties of the imperial court and state politics.

As for the fact that the Jurchen barbarians are strong in military strength and strength, it is not a fact that Chongzhen only knew about it in a day or two, and with the ability and status of the current ministers of the DPRK and China, the newly defeated Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng, who are talented and sparse, are still inferior to this Hong Chengchou in the facts that Chongzhen knows.

Even Hong Chengchou, a handsome talent, was defeated so miserably in front of the Jurchen barbarians, wouldn't Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng and others be even more unbearable?

Although Chongzhen's personality is cool and the order changes every day, but at least he still has the most vision, even if he is dissatisfied with Hong Chengchou in every way at this time, he still endures his resentment, and hopes that Hong Chengchou can make meritorious contributions and resist the Jurchen barbarians outside the border passes, so as to buy time for the imperial court to recruit troops and raise military funds in the more prosperous and stable land south of the Yangtze River.

"Spread my will, appoint Sun Chengzong as the governor of the five provinces of Henan, Jin and Shaanxi, and the prime minister can go to take office as soon as he responds to the matter!!"

Suddenly, Emperor Chongzhen issued another decree, which made the eunuch Bingbi stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly bowed his head again, quite surprised by the appointment of Emperor Chongzhen.

Even the former emperor of the dynasty, Sun Chengzong, who was already in his seventies, was activated, which shows the lack of talents under Emperor Chongzhen at this time.

“……”

As the orders were conveyed one after another and sent to the hands of the parties through their respective channels, Emperor Chongzhen was finally able to let the tense brain have a moment of rest, and the whole person fell decadently on the dragon chair, making the eunuchs close to him feel distressed, but they did not dare to disturb the emperor's rare rest.

(End of chapter)