Qianqing Palace

"Songjin defeated! Only 30,000 of the 140,000 Ming troops were left to retreat to Ningyuan City! Finished! It's all over! ”

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Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen tightly squeezed the battle report submitted by the military department in his hand, and the roaring voice had resounded throughout the Qianqing Palace, and the ministers of His Royal Highness led by the first assistant Zhou Yanru were silent, and responded to Chongzhen under the anger with silence.

"Can the war situation in Liaodong be recovered?"

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"If Houjin takes advantage of the victory to enter the customs and even attack the capital, how should he deal with it?"

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Chongzhen shouted angrily and asked questions for an hour, but none of the ministers dared to stand up and answer, their strategy was to respond to all changes with silence, burying their heads like ostriches, and the entire Qianqing Palace was filled with an embarrassing and embarrassing atmosphere.

This battle for the survival of the Ming Dynasty seems to have nothing to do with these high-ranking officials and ministers who hold the imperial court, but has become a battle for Emperor Chongzhen alone.

Fang Yuan, the chief banner of the Jinyi Guard on duty at the gate of the Qianqing Palace, secretly felt a burst of pity for the diligent Emperor Chongzhen in his heart.

Fang Yuan was dressed in cotton armor with a tiger stripe blue background, and carried an embroidered spring knife around his waist, which was the standard equipment of the hundred households and the general banner of the Jinyi Guard.

It has been a month since he joined the Jinyi Wei General Banner, and it all relied on Qin Zhan's patient guidance, and in less than half a month, he touched the doorway of the Jinyi Guard.

The Jinyi Health Organization is divided into the North and South Town Fu Division.

Nanzhen Fusi is responsible for the law and military discipline of Benwei.

The power of the Beizhen Fusi is much greater, directly responsible to the emperor, specializing in the emperor's cases, having an edict, and can arrest, torture, and execute on his own without going through the judiciary. There are also many outgoing tasks, and he often travels all over the country, and the outgoing spies are all Qincha.

There are a total of five guards in the Fusi Division of Beizhen, with 1,000 people per guard and 1,000 households in brocade clothes; There are ten hundred households in a thousand households, and each hundred households leads a hundred people; Each hundred households has three to five general flags, and each general flag commands twenty to thirty brocade guards.

His father-in-law Fang Zhenghua had just joined the ceremonial eunuch as a eunuch of Bingbi, because Fang Zhenghua had no children under his knees, he liked Fang Yuan's newly adopted son very much, and cultivated Fang Yuan as his own son.

Fang Zhenghua was directly assigned to Fang Yuan, a brocade guard with a full staff of the general flag, thirty people, all of whom were strong captains, and they were also equipped with the most sophisticated armor and weapons.

Fang Yuan's subordinates only have two small flags, one is Qin Zhan, who has just replaced the previous small flag Zhang Hang and was exceptionally promoted to a small flag, and the other small flag is also close to Zhang Hang.

Fang Yuan figured out these interpersonal relationships, and after taking office, he removed another small banner as well, first, he purged Zhang Hang's accomplices, and he would have fewer constraints in the future; The second is to come out with a small flag seat empty, which can be regarded as drawing a cake for the lieutenants of the brocade clothes, if anyone supports the work of Fang Yuan, this small flag position will be his.

The military meeting after the defeat of Songjin has been held for two hours, and Chongzhen has also roared for two hours, but has not received any constructive response from the ministers, and Chongzhen, who has been roaring for two hours, is exhausted, and can only sit on the dragon chair in a dejected manner, supported by Wang Chengen, the eunuch of the palm print, and ordered to retreat from the court.

The high-ranking officials of the imperial court who had pretended to be deaf and dumb before were amnesty, and Fang Yuan, who was at the gate of the Qianqing Palace, saw only red and purple court clothes coming out, slipping faster than rabbits, and just wanted to stay away from the Qianqing Palace, a place of right and wrong.

Until the end of the court meeting, today's Chongzhen surprisingly did not order the arrest of people and the edict of prison, nor did he order the relevant responsible persons of the court staff to fight this battle, and Fang Yuan, who was on duty, was successfully completed for a day, and he could go home to rest.

With the first month's salary in hand, Fang Yuan finally had a clear understanding of the low salaries of Ming Dynasty officials.

Although the general banner of Jinyi Wei is a seven-grade official, the nominal monthly salary is only ten stones of rice, which is equivalent to seven or eight taels of silver, less than one hundred taels a year. In the past few years, the Department of Suppression and Pacification would also issue a corresponding subsidy of 3 to 400 taels every year, and they could also go to other places to investigate and rebuke local officials and get some oil and water.

In recent years, the financial deficit of the imperial court has reached an astonishing tens of millions of taels, and the nominal monthly salary of Jinyiwei can be fully paid by Chongzhen from between his teeth, and other corresponding subsidies have long been canceled. In addition, the world is in turmoil, and there are rogues everywhere, and the government decrees in the capital can't even reach Nanjing, and Jinyiwei can no longer make money in all directions, so he can only live on a meager salary.

Fang Yuan has always wanted to buy a physiotherapy instrument for Cao Huachun, but a brand-name physiotherapy instrument is at least 3,000 yuan, including the shipping fee, which is 33,000 yuan, and it takes 330 taels of silver.

For a month, Cao Huachun took anti-tuberculosis drugs, and his tuberculosis condition has improved compared with before, and his cough has also been reduced a lot.

Fang Yuan added a positive review to the store that sold the drug in the Taobao system, with a large comment, and the store returned him a voucher of 20 yuan.

Don't underestimate this 20 yuan voucher, the price of goods that can save 2 dollars of silver is still second, and the most important thing is that you can save 200 yuan of system freight, that is, 2 taels of silver, which is a considerable saving for the original cross-time and space shopper.

Fang Yuan returned to the courtyard, chatted with Cao Huachun through the wooden door for a while, and then went back to his room.

The news of Songjin's defeat really came, the Ming Dynasty was in danger, where is the future?

The previous Fang Yuan was just a flat-headed commoner, with no power or power, and it was in vain to think about it, so he could only mix one day at a time. Now that he is the general banner of the Jinyi Guard, there is no egg under the so-called broken nest, if he is beaten into Beijing by Li Zicheng, most of the officials, including him, the general banner of the Jinyi Guard, will definitely be tortured, and he has to re-examine the crisis in front of him and think about where to go in the future.

Traveling to the end of the Ming Dynasty, the way out in the future is nothing more than to support Ming, surrender, or self-reliance.

Whether it is the Manchu Qing Dynasty, or the Ming court, and the gentry everywhere will be enemies with Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, under the blows of all sides, it is a matter of time before they are destroyed;

Self-reliance, if you go through a few years earlier, there may still be hope for success, but at present, all parts of the country are already full of rogues and warlords, Zhang Xianzhong in Sichuan, and Li Zicheng in Henan are already giants with armor of 400,000 or 500,000, needless to say;

The governors and soldiers of various places who are fighting under the banner of the Ming Dynasty but are engaged in the warlords' activities include Wu Sangui, the general soldier of Liaodong who guarded Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan, Liu Zeqing, the general of Shandong who guarded Shandong, Zuo Liangyu, the general of the Ping thief in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, Zheng Zhilong, the chief town of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces in the southeast, and the prince of the Zhu family who is entrenched in Guangzhou and Guangxi.

The only feasible option is Fuming, at least to hold high the banner of the Ming Dynasty, coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes, and wander around with the rogues and warlords in various places, and win a glimmer of life in the troubled times.

Today's Fang Yuan is just a Jinyi Wei General Banner, if he wants to occupy a high position in the shortest possible time, of course, he can't take the ordinary road, he must be promoted.

How do you open the gap?

'Knock knock! ’

Fang Yuanzheng's thoughts were like a tide, there was a knock on the door of the courtyard, the seventh sister-in-law went to open the door, and a deep voice sounded, "Boss, there is an emergency!" ”

He didn't need to look up to see it, he knew that it was his subordinate Jinyi Wei Xiaoqi Qin Zhan who came in, Qin Zhan was the same age as Fang Yuan, his body was slightly fat, but his brain was unusually alert, and his vision was even more unique, he was Fang Yuan's most relied on confidant.

Fang Yuan sat up and asked in amazement, "Fourth, I was shocked, something happened?" ”

Qin Zhan is the fourth in the family ranking, and these days, Fang Yuan is used to calling him the ranking at home.

Qin Zhan hurriedly said, "Boss, after you left, the celebrant sent a message that there was an urgent matter for you to go to Qianqingmen to meet you immediately, so I hurriedly brought you a letter." ”

The celebrant sent someone to bring the message, that is, his father-in-law Fang Zhenghua gave him a task.