When Huang Taiji was thinking about it and was busy adjusting the deployment, Emperor Chongzhen was in Juyong Pass and also received a report of the enemy situation from Zijing Pass.

At the same time, I also saw Jiang Pai who came to Juyong Pass through Bauhinia Pass.

Escaped from Shuozhou in time, under the banner of ventilating the news and asking for reinforcements, Jiang Pai fled all the way into Ningwu Pass.

Jiang Jian met Wang Jiazheng, the imperial historian of the Shanxi town supervisor sitting here, in Ningwuguan, and not only reported to Wang Jiazheng about the killing of Hukou, but also reported to Wang Jiazheng the news that the Jianyu army went all the way south to conquer Shuoping City and besieged Shuozhou City.

Wang Jiazheng was also shocked when he learned the news, as the imperial history of the supervising army of Shanxi Town, as long as the news of the imperial court reached the boundary of Shanxi Town, he must be one of the people who knew it earlier.

But in just a few days, Jianyu broke through the border from Hukou, and at this time the news was still on the way from Datong to Jingshi.

Therefore, when Jiang Ping fled all the way south and ran to Ningwu Pass, it was impossible for the people in Shanxi Town to get the news from the imperial court about Jianyu's entry into the customs.

In this sense, this Jiang Jiao, who later sold Daming and sold Dashun, surrendered to the Manchu Qing and then opposed the Manchu Qing Dynasty, this time it can be regarded as a bit of merit.

After Wang Jiazheng received an urgent report from Jiang Jiao, he mobilized the Shanxi town army stationed in Ningwuguan the next day, and was about to use Wang Lian and Fu Jiting as generals to rescue Shuozhou, but he got the news that Shuozhou City was broken.

A large number of people from the direction of Shuozhou City fled to Ningwu Pass, and they not only brought Wang Jiazheng the news of the destruction of Shuozhou City, but also brought Wang Jiazheng a difficult problem of sheltering and resettling refugees.

Of course, this problem is Wang Jiazheng's problem, but it is not Jiang Jian's problem.

When the news of the destruction of Shuozhou City came, Wang Jiazheng thought that what Jiang Pai said was true, and he was an officer who went south from killing Hukou all the way to the north of Ningwuguan until killing Hukou, so he simply sent him to Taiyuan to report the news.

In this way, Jiang Pai was sent to Taiyuan again, with a letter from Wang Jiazheng, the governor of Shanxi Town, to meet with Zhang Xiao, the governor of Shanxi, and then sent to Yanmen Pass by Zhang Xiao, the governor of Shanxi, to meet Li Banghua, a cabinet auxiliary minister and minister of military aircraft, who had received the will of Emperor Chongzhen at this time.

At this time, Li Banghua was anxious about the enemy situation outside the Great Wall.

After the Jianyu army broke through the border from the killing of Hukou, it had already swept through almost the entire jurisdiction of Datong Town in just ten days.

Li Banghua, who rushed to Yanmen Pass to take the town, was so anxious that Wang Guoliang, the general soldier of Shanxi, sent several sentry teams to the north, but none of them brought back the news that Li Banghua could clearly understand the situation in Datong and Xuanfu.

Either they went out and didn't return for a few days and never heard from them since, or they fled back in a hurry, and the news was unbelievable and sensational.

Therefore, after Li Banghua and Wang Guoliang saw Jiang Pai and got the letters from Wang Jiazheng, the imperial historian of the supervising army, and Zhang Xiao, the governor of Shanxi, they soon took Jiang Pai, who was very clear about the situation of killing Hukou, Shuoping, and Shuozhou, and rushed to Xingzai to report the news from behind the Bauhinia Pass in Shanxi.

Of course, by the time Jiang Jian took the telegram sent by Li Banghua and others from Yanmen Pass to Juyong Pass, Emperor Chongzhen already had some understanding of the situation in Datong Town and Xuanfu Town.

Emperor Chongzhen arrived at Juyong Pass before receiving a report from Fan Fucui, the governor of Datong, and others, and later after coming to Juyong Pass, he cut off the news from Datong, but there was news from Wu Fu, the supervisor of the army in Yanghewei and Li Yangchong, Hou Shilu, Ni Yuanlu and others in various parts of Xuanfu.

However, after seeing Jiang Ping, he learned about the chaos of killing Hukou, and the situation of Datong Right Guard and Shuozhou City, Emperor Chongzhen finally had a more real understanding of the situation in front of him.

Especially when he heard Jiang Pai talk about killing the Shanxi Chamber of Commerce in Hukou, which was dominated by the Fan family's firm, he was so bold that he had the audacity to privately arm merchant soldiers to attack and kill Jiang Pai's headquarters in Hukou Nanguancheng and help Jianyu take down and kill Hukou, he was furious at that time.

In the Yongsheng Building, Emperor Chongzhen, in front of all the civil and military ministers and generals who accompanied him, slammed the tea bowl in his hand to the ground and smashed it to pieces, so that all the civil officials, military generals, attendants, ministers and other characters who accompanied him knelt on the ground to plead guilty.

Among them, of course, there are some people who do feel guilty.

For example, Jinyi Weibei Zhenfu Si Zhenfu made Wang Guoxing.

Because Jinyiwei has the duties and missions of counter-espionage, arresting internal responses, and eliminating spies, and in addition to the Beizhen Fusi, it is now also responsible for supervising the performance of duties and responsibilities of hundreds of officials and other departments of Jinyiwei.

When there is such a problem in killing Hukou, Jinyiwei can't escape responsibility, and Beizhen Fusi naturally can't escape responsibility.

In the past, the division of labor between the North Town Fu Division and the South Town Fu Division of Jinyiwei was very clear, the North Town Fu Division was responsible for supervising the bureaucratic system of the Ming Dynasty, and the South Town Fu Division supervised the bureaucratic system of Jinyi Wei itself.

In other words, Nanzhen Fusi is equivalent to Jinyiwei's own internal affairs yamen.

Now, however, Nanzhen Fusi has moved to Nanjing, where he oversees the bureaucratic system of civil and military generals throughout Nanjing Square and in various places south of the Yangtze River.

Moreover, in addition to the North and South Zhenfu Division, Emperor Chongzhen also set up a Xizhen Fusi in Xi'an, which assumed the responsibility of supervising the bureaucracy of the northwest provinces and spying on the enemy situation in the northwest.

Therefore, the Beizhen Fusi also shifted from being in charge of the edict in the past to being responsible for the supervision of hundreds of officials, enemy intelligence spying, and counter-espionage and spies in all parts of the northern Ming Dynasty, especially in the border towns east of Datong.

Therefore, in this sense, if there is such a situation in the killing of Hukou, the Shanxi merchant should assist Jianyu in breaking the city, and the responsibility of Jinyiwei will certainly not be able to escape.

That night, Emperor Chongzhen saw that all the civil and military ministers knelt down to plead guiltily at the imperial meeting in the Yongsheng Building in the north of Juyong Pass, and it was very rare that he did not immediately order these confidants and close ministers to get up, but said with a gloomy face:

"I knew that such profiteers were hateful, but I didn't expect them to be so mad when they saw profit! Like such traitors who have betrayed the country, I can't wait to eat their flesh and sleep on their skin!

"The former Shanxi Qu family guards smuggled and resold prohibited things, and I made the Qu family all over the house, but I didn't expect that such people would emerge in an endless stream, and they didn't know what the court law was, and they didn't know what loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness were! It's hateful! ”

Speaking of this, Emperor Chongzhen looked at Xu Guangqi, who was kneeling, and said, "Xu Qing is a cabinet minister who is traveling with him, what does Qing think should be done with these people?" ”

As an auxiliary minister of the cabinet, Xu Guangqi enjoys many privileges, such as what can be seen by the Military Aircraft Department, he can also see it in the cabinet most of the time.

A long time ago, His Majesty the Emperor in front of him passed on the smuggling trade of the Jinyi Guards to the Cabinet and the important ministers of the Military Aircraft Department to read the information submitted by the Jinyi Guards about the smuggling trade of the Jiubian Merchants, especially the Jin Merchants of Zhangjiakou.

At that time, these ministers thought that the poor and crazy emperor was addicted to copying his house, and after copying the eunuchs and salt merchants, they had to do something to these Shanxi merchants who made a fortune by going to the west to run trade.

Therefore, some of them advised the emperor not to make too many enemies for the time being, and not to copy the eunuch party and the salt merchant who had just copied the eunuch party, and then copy those Western party forces whose actual strength was not inferior to that of the eunuch party.

Therefore, in the end, the cabinet presented the emperor's disposition with the only nine sides of the text, and the non-governmental trade outside the mouth was unified into the newly established official field.

It also issued a ban on the flow of sulfur, saltpeter, gunpowder, guns, knives, guns, bows and arrows and other armaments outside the country.

But that's about it.

And Emperor Chongzhen, under the persuasion of the ministers of the cabinet and the Military Aircraft Department, put aside the matter of disposing of the Jin merchant traitor group for the time being.

Because he also knows that behind these Jin merchant groups, there is a very large Qin and Jin power group with collusion between officials and businessmen, that is, the Western Party group that appeared from time to time in the history of the late Ming Dynasty.