Section 34: Detailed Appeals

Before Chongzhen could say one, two, three, four, five, there was a eunuch on duty to report, Qin Liangyu, and Sun Chuanting asked to see him outside the palace. Zhu Yunwen nodded at Chongzhen, and Chongzhen hurriedly ordered the eunuch on duty to bring Qin Liangyu and Sun Chuanting into the palace.

Seeing that the emperor and the ancestor had a serious discussion, the Empress of the Apocalypse Zhang Yan signaled to Empress Zhou, and Empress Zhou also stood up and retired with her little prince in her arms.

Zhu Yunwen smiled and nodded, waved his hand and sent out some fruits in the cave dzi, and let the queen and the others leave, only the crown prince Zhu Cihong and the princess Zhu Yujiao were still standing behind Zhu Yunwen.

After a while, Qin Liangyu and Sun Chuanting walked into the Taiji Hall and excitedly greeted Zhu Yunwen and Chongzhen. After Zhu Yunwen smiled and asked the two to sit down, Chongzhen began to tell Zhu Yunwen about the state affairs of the Ming Dynasty in the past few years.

Since Zhu Yunwen left the Ming Dynasty to explore the way of heaven, in the first few months, Chongzhen has not moved, until the prince's 30,000 Beijing battalion was formed into an army, and the army was officially given to the Yulin Army, which was directly under the emperor's army, and the first commander was appointed by the emperor Yan Yingyuan.

Liu Guoneng was ordered by Chongzhen to take a thousand Yulin troops to Yingtianfu Nanjing, and recruited 50,000 young men to train into an army on the spot to guard the Ming Dynasty and accompany the capital, so as not to let Yingtianfu be in chaos due to the big hands and feet of the Beijing Division. And the crown prince Zhu Cihong was recalled by Chongzhen to the East Palace to learn the way of governing the country.

After the Yulin Army took over the defense of the Beijing Division, and Liu Guoneng arrived in Nanjing to recruit 50,000 young men, Chongzhen officially ordered the establishment of the Military Department, and all civilian officials who did not serve in the Military Department had no right to meddle in the affairs of the Military Department. The bad habit of eunuchs supervising the army with the army has also been abolished, and it has been replaced by staff officers at all levels.

The supreme commander of the military department was the emperor, the first minister of the military department, who was appointed by Chongzhen to Sun Chuanting. Qin Liangyu, on the other hand, was appointed as the first minister of the General Staff.

With a loyal, reliable and usable gun, Chongzhen began to make a big move and reformed the Ming Dynasty. Shi Kefa, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department of Tianfu, was summoned to Beijing, set up an anti-corruption office, and appointed Shi Kefa as the first commander to thoroughly investigate the corruption/corruption of officials, set up a fund for maintaining integrity, and implemented a high salary for the elderly.

He also issued an edict to establish a political council, making Liu Lishun, the speaker of the East Palace, the first speaker, Li Banghua, the imperial history of the left capital, Gong Yonggu, the commander of the attached horse, Zhu Shugui of the clan, Zhang Huangyan, the newly promoted person, Qu Shiyun in the former household department, Li Tinglin, the former director of the military department, Ni Yuanlu, the servant, and Zhang Shenyan, the secretary of Shangshu, entered the parliament as members.

This decree met with collective resistance from the ministers of the DPRK and China, but Chongzhen, who had military power in hand, ignored the opposition of the ministers, and instead took down the first assistant Zhou Yanru in one fell swoop, and dismissed dozens of ministers of the DPRK and China in one fell swoop, including Chen Yan, Zhu Chunchen and other prominent civil and military ministers.

Subsequently, Chongzhen ordered Fan Jingwen, a scholar of Dongge University, to set up the Daming Law Department, Xu Ji, the son of Xu Guangqi, to enter the Ministry of Agriculture, Bi Maokang to enter the Ministry of Public Works, and to make Si Tianjian Tang Ruowang to enter the Daming Science and Technology Institute.

After a big move, the Ming Dynasty Hall has changed its appearance, and the capital has also revealed a new atmosphere after some rectification. After dealing with Zhou Yanru and other ministers who had long been disagreeable, Chongzhen asked the military department, which was already on the right track, to begin to infiltrate the military affairs of several provinces around Beijing.

First of all, Liu Guoneng led 10,000 Yulin troops to march into Tianjinkou along the cement road that had been built. After taking down the defense of Tianjinkou, he turned to Shandong and sent Liu Zeqing, the commander-in-chief of Shandong, to enter Beijing. Liu Zeqing was ill and could not comply, and Liu Guoneng broke into Jinan Mansion that night, captured Liu Zeqing alive and escorted him to Beijing.

Taking advantage of Liu Guoneng's Tianzi Yulin Army to control the whole of Shandong, Lu Xiangsheng's younger brother Lu Xiangjin Lu Xiangguan opened the banner of recruiting troops, and recruited 100,000 young men in January.

Then Liu Guoneng led the Yulin army to Shanxi, and at this time, the generals in Shanxi did not dare to compete with Liu Guoneng at all, and Liu Guoneng easily took over the defense of Shanxi.

Cao Bianjiao took the opportunity to open the banner of recruiting soldiers in Shanxi and summoned 100,000 young people. Liu Guoneng left 5,000 Yulin troops to assist Cao Bianjiao, after all, the thieves were in Shaanxi, and Cao Bianjiao's 100,000 new army alone was still a little powerless.

At the same time, Ma Xianglin returned to Sichuan with 500 forest troops, and Zhou Yuji took 500 forest troops to Huguang, recruited 100,000 young men respectively, and trained day and night.

Wu Sangui took 5,000 Guanning iron cavalry and 1,000 Yulin troops into the Hetao grassland, conquered the Hetao by force, subdued or expelled the Mongol tribes in the Hetao area, and pushed the border of the Ming Dynasty across the Yin Mountain in one fell swoop.

A year later, Zheng Sen, who returned to Fuzhou to form the Pacific Fleet, took the lead in leading his army to take the Daguan (that is, the later Taiwan Island,) expelled the Dutch in one fell swoop, placing the Daguan under the control of the Ming Dynasty.

Ma Xianglin, Zhou Yuji, Cao Bianjiao, and Lu Xiangguan followed up to launch a military operation, and only Lu Xiangjin led an army of 50,000 as a mobile force to support the places that needed support at any time.

Zhang Xianzhong, a thief entrenched in Wuchang, was besieged by Ma Xianglin's department and Zhou Yuji's department, and was forced to flee along the route given by the Ming army, and finally withdrew from Huguang and was forced to enter Shaanxi to join the thief Li Zicheng.

After driving away the thief Zhang Xianzhong, Ma Xianglin and Zhou Yuji held a celebration banquet under the pretext of inviting the governor of Huguang and the general Zuo Liangyu. Before the banquet, no one would have thought that Ma Xianglin and Zhou Yuji, who were also members of the Ming army, would attack Zuo Liangyu, a general of the Ping thief who had an army of 100,000.

During the banquet, Yang Sichang, the former secretary of the military department and now the chief of staff of the Southwest Military Region of the Ming Dynasty, suddenly got up and angrily reprimanded Zuo Liangyu for ten major crimes, such as supporting the army and self-respect, plundering the people, and killing good people and risking merit. Zuo Liangyu was frightened, so he wanted to leave and return to the barracks. was captured by Zhou Yuji on the spot.

The officials present were all in a cold sweat, the Ming New Army was too strong, and now the civil and military are divided, and the civilian officials can no longer point fingers in front of the generals, and they can no longer control the size of the army. It can even be said that the current Ming Dynasty is no longer a noble and a lowly, but a vague trend of being a noble and lowly.

After Zuo Liangyu was captured, Ma Xianglin immediately ordered Zuo Liangyu's family to be captured and raided, while Zhou Yuji ordered the men and horses of the headquarters to surround Zuo Liangyu's department, disintegrate Zuo Liangyu's troops, pick out the soldiers who did not do evil, and organize another battalion to retrain into an army.

The rest of Zuo Liangyu's soldiers were escorted to build cement national highways and water conservancy projects. Zuo Liangyu, who was famous for a while, has become yesterday's yellow flower.

The two troops of Cao Bianjiao and Lu Xiangguan broke through from Shanxi into northern Shaanxi, joined forces with Wu Sangui's troops who were killed from Hetao, and went down from northern Shaanxi, while cleaning up the liukou, while assisting the officials sent by the imperial court to restore agricultural production in northern Shaanxi.

With a huge amount of property copied from the eight families on the right side of the mountain, as well as crops such as corn seeds, potato seeds, sweet potato seeds and improved wheat seeds left by Jianwen's ancestors, Chongzhen said that he was very confident.

In half a year, the thief Li Zicheng and the thief Zhang Xianzhong converged, were surrounded by the Ming army on all sides, and drove into the mountainous area at the junction of Sichuan, Hubei and Shaanxi.

Chongzhen remembered what Zhu Yunwen said when he left, these rogues will be used for the forward death squad of the Ming Dynasty to expand its territory. After besieging the thieves and the thieves, they did not give any more orders to attack.

It's just that Ma Xianglin and several generals regarded the two rogues as the targets of military training, and arranged a few recruits to rush and kill them from time to time, but they didn't force the rogues too hard.

In Liaodong outside the Guan, after Dolgon fled back to Shenyang, he learned that Huang Taiji had died in Jinzhou, and that Yue Tuo and Haoge had been captured by the Ming army.

Under the threat of force, Dolgon triumphantly sat on the throne of the Manchu emperor, quickly quelled the Manchu civil strife, and once again subdued the Mongol tribes.

Subsequently, due to the discovery of the Ming army's placement of terrifying repeating firearms and artillery with a very fast rate of fire on the Guanningjin defense line. After learning that the eight families on the right side of the mountain were exterminated by the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, for a while, they could not have the idea of violating the border passes of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the weather was untimely, and heavy snow suddenly fell, and the survival of Mongolia and the Manchus was in crisis. In desperation, Dolgon used all the troops of the Eight Banners of Mongolia and the Eight Banners, crossed the Yalu River, and entered Korea.

North Korea, which had already surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, would have thought that the Manchu Qing Dynasty would open its fangs to itself at this time, not to mention that the combat power of North Korea was much more cowardly than the previous Ming army, how could it withstand the ravages of the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banner Army, which was like a tiger and wolf, and the picturesque rivers and mountains of the Great Three Thousand Miles were easily crushed by the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banner Army.

The king of Joseon was destroyed, and the ministers loyal to the king of Joseon were killed. Dolgon completely placed the whole of Korea in the territory of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and formed the Eight Banners of Korea as the Manchu servant army death squad, defending Korea and supporting the Manchus and Mongolia with the national strength of the whole Korea.