Chapter 740: Competing for the Crown

In the first month of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the Ming army camp in the south of Jinzhou was too lively, and there was an endless stream of warships and cargo ships at sea, and now there were passenger liners who worked overtime temporarily.

Not only did more than a dozen teams from various battalions participate in the "Fighting for the Ding League" to compete for the "Liaodong Ding", but more than a dozen teams from Huangjiawan Island, Zhongmingbao and Yongping Mansion also came.

The soldiers of the Ming army will not complain, and no one thinks that the Ming army will be defeated, because they see the calm appearance of the teams that came to the front line for the game.

Chengda also feels that today's days are so fresh, and there are so many people who went to the front line to compete for the championship, which shows that everyone does not take Jiannu in their eyes.

Before the "God of War" came, the Ming army had already been reborn, and it was really time for the decisive battle in Liaodong, how could Jiannu have the ability to fight?

Whenever I think about it, I am very excited, and I can't imagine that he, a Xu official, will enter the ranks of scholars and doctors, step by step towards the feudal officials, and will become a minister ......from the dragon in the future.

Cheng Da thought that he was worth it in the next world, he was going to personally participate in the battle to annihilate Jiannu, this time the battle against foreign enemies will be famous in history, and the high-spirited Cheng Da secretly swore that he must seize the opportunity of a thousand years to find the marquis immediately.

Hong Chengchou, who sits in the city of sorrow, does not have such a good life, the small city of Songshan has long been out of food, and now he kills horses for food, demolishes houses to find wood to make a fire for heating, less than 10,000 remnants of the defeated soldiers will be crowded into a group of suffering, and spend the Spring Festival of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen in misery and suffering.

The Ming court sent an embassy to ask for help from the "Southern Ming", and simply did not send troops to Liaodong to rescue Hong Chengchou, the emperor was not unwilling to save Hong Chengchou, but he was unable to save it, and he was already thinking about what kind of posthumous honor he would give to Hong Chengchou, who was about to be loyal to the country.

The Ming Dynasty let go of the Liaodong war situation, so there was no need to carry the food and salary of the 150,000 army, and the military department concentrated the food and troops to resist the rapidly spreading bandits.

Yang Sichang lived up to his mission to recover several cities in a row, but unfortunately he finally ran out of oil and died of illness in office.

When the news of Yang Sichang's death reached Jingshi, Emperor Chongzhen sat for a long time, muttering to himself: "Could it be that the will of heaven is going to die in the Ming Dynasty?" Since I succeeded to the throne, I have been running all night to govern the government, I have never dared to slack off, I am not lustful, I am not extravagant, why does God treat me like this? ”

Wang Chengen, who was waiting by his side, burst into tears when he heard the words of the Son of Heaven, choked up and comforted Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, Lord Liang has gone to 'Nanming' to move the rescue troops, and the king of Nan once told the slave maid in person that Daming and 'Nanming' are inseparable from each other, and if they break bones and tendons, King Nan will definitely go north to save Daming and water and fire." ”

Chongzhen, who was extremely confused, asked: "Wang Companion, why does the King of the South have the ability to sweep dozens of countries in the south?" Why does he always have inexhaustible silver, the Ming Dynasty is so large and has such a large population, why is it extremely difficult for me to even support an army of more than 100,000? ”

"The slave and maid can't tell the truth, but the slave and maid know that everyone under the command of the king of Nan works together, and when the civil officials are all responsible for benefiting one party, they are all brave enough to kill the enemy and find the marquis, and the common people are at ease to produce and pay taxes."

"Why am I so unofficial and not greedy? Why do I let them help everyone cry poor? Could it be that after the death of the Ming Dynasty, will they have a good life? ”

Speaking seriously, Wang Chengen didn't dare to talk about the minister, so he resigned: "The slave doesn't know." ”

Chongzhen, who struggled alone, really tried his best, but he was like falling into a swamp, and the more he struggled, the deeper he fell.

In the face of the stormy Daming Jiangshan Sheji, the emperor felt infinitely desolate and helpless, and at this time he could only hope that the 'Southern Ming' would make a move, but the Southern King waved his army to the Northern Expedition to take Liaodong and the Korean Peninsula, did he still want to ask him to wave his army into the pass to pacify the Central Plains?

If the 'Southern Ming' army even took the Central Plains region of the Ming Dynasty by the way, how would he, the emperor, deal with it?

Chongzhen secretly thought to himself, he must not allow Nanwang's soldiers and horses to enter the customs, this is the bottom line, North Korea can give it to him, Liaodong can also not do it, and even as long as it is the territory outside the Great Wall, Nanwang's soldiers and horses can be attacked at will, but he can't be involved in the pass.

The emperor decided to grit his teeth, smash the pot, sell iron, raise military salaries, mobilize soldiers and horses, and fight bloody battles to stabilize the situation.

The next day, the emperor asked the minister to protect the candidate to succeed Yang Sichang. So, a person appeared on the stage, and that was Xiong Wencan, who once served as the governor of Fujian.

Because this old man was disturbed by Huang Sheng's history, the official was not promoted fast enough, so his head was still firmly on his neck.

Originally, in history, because Zhang Xianzhong accepted Xiong Wencan's recruitment and continued to pull the flag and rebel for less than a year, Xiong Wencan was questioned by the imperial court and put in prison, and Chongzhen was beheaded by the emperor who killed the minister in the thirteenth year.

Chongzhen appointed Xiong Wencan as the secretary of the military department and the prime minister of the right deputy capital Yushi Nangi, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Huguang, and Sichuan, and was responsible for the suppression of the Kou.

Where can Xiong Wencan fight, he is only good at fooling, he knows that he can't play the trick of Zhao'an anymore, and he has wolf ambitions.

His own inability to fight does not mean that he does not know that there are people who dare to fight, Xiong Wencan high-profile recommended Li Zhongzheng, who had been promoted to the governor of Datong, to serve as the governor of Xuanda, and Wang Qiaonian to serve as the governor of the trilateral.

The Ming Dynasty needed Sun Chuanting to fight the Liukou, and the history of the Ming Dynasty said: "The court died, and the Ming died." "Now that Sun Chuanting is not dead, but in the absence of the civil war, will Ming still die?

The answer is yes, but after the death of Zhu Ming, a Huang Ming will rise.

The imperial court urged Xu Dingguo, the chief military officer of Shanxi, to go to the rescue when the thieves besieged Kaifeng, and Xu Dingguo's main barracks of five or six thousand people were stationed in Qinshui, and I heard that the thieves had more than 100,000 people besieging Kaifeng, and the army was scattered overnight.

Although the chief military officer and hundreds of family members did not escape, they also lost the men and horses who rescued Kaifeng, on the contrary, a small half of their men and horses became accomplices of the thieves, participated in the attack on the city, and persuaded Chen Yongfu and others to surrender as soon as possible.

The imperial court arrested Xu Dingguo and put him in prison, which was originally a capital crime, and there were many officials who might have been bribed by Xu Dingguo, and they were not beheaded until the autumn.

The Shanxi army was so corrupt that the princes of Gonggong were worried, and the emperor and the cabinet appointed Zhou Yuji, who had repeatedly made military exploits in Fengyang, as the chief military officer of Shanxi, plus the crown prince Shaobao, and the governor of Zuodu.

The emperor worked hard for the country every day, and the loyal Wang Chengen was distressed when he saw it, and he hated to rush to the battlefield to save the day for the Ming Dynasty.

Only a strong army in hand can serve the country, after waiting for the emperor to disperse the dynasty, Wang Chengen once again came to the temporary martial arts arena in the Forbidden City to inspect the internal exercises.

After three years of continuous elimination, the 1,500 eunuchs left behind had a uniform movement and had the appearance of an army, but the smell was a little unpleasant when approaching them.

There is no way, nine times out of ten the eunuchs can't control it, and the smell of urine is a little bigger.