In fact, young military attaches like Zu Keyong, Cao Bianjiao, and Hou Tianxi, who have been charging into the front line of resistance or suppression of thieves, have never had the opportunity to listen closely to these things discussed by the emperor and cabinet ministers.

If it weren't for Emperor Chongzhen who brought them to the Forbidden City to serve as military attachés, they might not have such a secret matter as today in their lives.

And the confidential matters they have been exposed to in their lifetime will not be more than today's half a day.

Before the imperial court issued an order, if they were to talk big and leak these important matters, they would not know how much trouble they would cause.

Fortunately, these people have been in the army since they were young, and they know that keeping their mouths shut is more important than anything else.

As for Zhang Guizhang, Ma Gan and other people on duty in the middle school and military aircraft houses, they will not leak out the words they heard in front of the emperor.

Strict secrecy is the first hurdle that the people of the Chinese Scholars and the Military Aircraft Dormitory must pass well before they can be on duty.

Of course, when Emperor Chongzhen said this, it was just a statement, and if it really spread out, it would be nothing.

Because these things are really a bit sensational, but they're not really a bad thing.

The ancestral system of the emperor is that the princes and vassals seal the country without splitting the soil, give the lord but not the people, and eat Lu but not govern things.

Now that Emperor Chongzhen is increasingly unable to pay the royal family and clan children of the princes, the princes and clansmen, and has started the idea of changing this ancestral system, there may be a sense of crisis for those mediocre rice worms who do not want to make progress.

However, for those who want to be princes and princes and other children of the clan, it is great news that the vassal kings not only seal the kingdom but also tear the soil, not only tear the land but also the people, not only the people but also govern affairs.

Just like more than two months ago, Emperor Chongzhen's practice of asking the Ministry of Rites and the Zongren Mansion to send letters to the governors and palaces of various places to lift the ban on the children of the clan from exercising the business of the four people, only triggered a wave of doubts in the period of time that had just been promulgated in late July and early August.

But in September, the official document of the Ministry of Rites and the Zongren Mansion had been delivered to the governors and princes of the clans, and at this time, the voices of questioning and criticism in the court were obliterated.

Because in the final analysis, this matter itself, whether it is for the court or for the children of the clan, is a matter of mutual benefit.

Speaking of which, what is a vassal king today?

To put it nicely, they are princes and princes, and they are the descendants of Taizu.

To put it mildly, they are just a group of high-ranking royal prisoners, just a group of people who eat and wait for death.

If you come to Emperor Chongzhen and can provide some of them with the opportunity to make contributions and colonize overseas, maybe some of them will really be able to make a career.

Of course, this opportunity is not something that can be given now, at least until Emperor Chongzhen's own strength is strong enough.

Let's say that after Emperor Chongzhen listened to Xu Guangqi's words, he had an idea in his heart, and he was no longer so anxious about the clan issue.

On the issue of the succession of titles to the Dai vassal and the British Mansion, Li Guoyi, Sun Chengzong and others also had new ideas after listening to Xu Guangqi's words.

For the British government, it is good to continue to inherit according to the system, and wait until the Ministry of Rites and the British government have completed the funeral matters for the posthumous King Ansu, and when the British government's son Zhang Zhiji has finished guarding the system and spent the period of filial piety, let him inherit it normally.

And the representative of Datong, Emperor Chongzhen, under the advice of everyone, sent people from the Ministry of Rites and the Zongren Mansion to Datong to supervise his funeral affairs.

In fact, the imperial court had nothing else to do for the funeral of the vassal king, except for giving the title and giving a reward for a certain amount of funeral expenses.

The biggest duty of the officials of the Ministry of Rites sent by the imperial court is to supervise the entire funeral city and not to exceed the etiquette norms of the imperial court, that is, not to transgress.

This time, Emperor Chongzhen still followed Xu Guangqi's suggestion and let Feng Shikong, the Langzhong of the Ministry of Rites who had been to Datong before, continue to supervise.

However, this time, Emperor Chongzhen also gave Feng Shikong a task to this Ministry of Rites.

That is, after the funeral of King Daikang was completed, let this Feng Shikong find a way to persuade Zhu Yi, the prince of the Daiwang Mansion, to take the initiative to write a letter to request the transfer of the feudal domain and naturalization.

At this time, Li Guoyi, the first assistant of the cabinet, and Sun Chengzong, the second assistant and minister of military aircraft, also understood why the emperor took such a big effort.

However, with the previous Emperor Chongzhen's statement to the cabinet ministers about his own ideas and the worried attitude, there was also the suggestion of Xu Guangqi, a scholar of the Wenhua Palace and a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, and these two people also agreed with this.

The practice of this matter is certainly not the practice of humble gentlemen.

Because in the final analysis, let Feng Shikong find a way to persuade Zhu Yi, the prince of the prince's mansion, to take the initiative to write a letter to request the transfer of the domain, which will inevitably be mixed with all kinds of coercion and temptation.

After all, what prince who is used to living a comfortable life would let go of a good Datong and voluntarily write a letter to ask to go outside?

But apart from the method that Emperor Chongzhen is proposing now, they have no other way to get the best of both worlds.

However, this matter will be over, and soon no one in these ministers will have the heart to care about this matter anymore.

Because the men and horses sent by Li Banghua, the minister of the Qincha Military Aircraft in Qingyang, to deliver the letter, have already dared to arrive in Beijing in a hurry.

This time, the news sent from Qingyang by Li Banghua's hand with an expedited post level of 600 miles not only surprised the ministers of the Military Aircraft Department and the cabinet, but also surprised Emperor Chongzhen, who had already made a certain amount of psychological preparation.

Because the news sent by Li Banghua not only confirmed the various information previously reported by the Jinyi Weixi Zhenfu Division, but also reported a news that the Jinyi Weixi Zhenfu Division had not yet reported.

Lanzhou City is broken!

On the evening of September 29, the Lanzhou Acropolis, which happened to be stuck in the throat of Hexi, finally failed to withstand the frantic attack launched by an army of more than 200,000 thieves from all sides, and was captured!

Li Banghua, the Marquis of Dongsheng, Minister of Military Aircraft, wrote in an urgent memo to Emperor Chongzhen: "Since June 28, when the minister supervised the westward march and moved to Qingyang, he sat in the rear in accordance with the order, and coordinated the troops and horses of Shaanxi and the three sides to march step by step and march in unison.

"Since July, the Gan army has been ordered to sweep the surrounding areas of Jingning, Hanzhong Dong Han's troops marched to the ranks, the vanguard reached Xigu, the Shaanxi army Wang Chengen's troops were stationed in Qinzhou, and Gongchang was forced, and the Shaanxi army Yang Shien's troops also heard the order to march westward, and cleared the thieves Cao Ying and Xiying to the west.

"By the middle of August, the Musuman of Luozhou retreated to the city and fled to Taozhou after a short battle, and in August Gongchang Musuman had a fierce battle with several thieves who went west, and there was a false command of Musuman to make the white crane was killed by the thieves in the west, and the rest of the troops also abandoned the city and ran to Taozhou.

"The army of the ministers marched westward, persecuted or even united the Mu Suman and the thieves, and the overseers of all roads were tired from the pursuit of the long battle, and after entering September, the ministers ordered all the troops to rest and replenish, and wait for changes.

Sure enough, in the second half of September, the pseudo-commander of Lintao Mu Suman made Ma Guangyu and the thief infighting, rebelled away from Gao Yingxiang, the head of the thief in northern Shaanxi, and switched to the pseudo-commander of Hezhou to make Ma Jinzhong, and Mu Suman and the thief in northern Shaanxi became a fire and water.

However, unexpectedly, on September 23, the pseudo-commander of Hezhou made Ma Jinzhong and Mu Suman, Ma Guangyu, the thief Ma Shouying in northern Shaanxi, and the Pingliang thief Tuluntai and other troops more than 50,000 troops and horses, abandoned Hezhou to the north, went around Lanzhou and went west, and then the situation in the northwest took a sharp turn for the worse in the next few days!

"First of all, the various units of the Gan army were impatient and rash, originally to rely on the danger of the river to pursue and annihilate the Mu Suman of the Ma clan in Hezhou, but unexpectedly, on the 24th, in Qingshuiyi, north of Anding, they were ambushed by thieves breaking into the camp, Cao Ying, Xiying and other departments!

It is reported that the thieves gathered here have many tens of thousands, including Zhang Jiamo, the chief soldier of the Gan army, Zhang Tianli, the deputy general of the regimental training, Mao Yujian, the deputy envoy of the regimental training, and the newly formed Longzhong regimental training commanders Zhang Wugui, Gao San, Liu Changjiao, and Qin Jun, all of whom died in battle, and only Luo Junjie's department broke through the various units of the Gan army.

When the ministers heard this, they ordered Yuan Chonghuan to gather the troops from all sides and restrain the troops on the three sides, and on September 26, he led his troops to Jingning, and the thieves went north to storm Lanzhou on the 27th.

"As for yesterday, the minister led his troops to Jingning and the news of the fall of Lanzhou has arrived, and the ministries have heard the news and it is too late to save them, which is the fault of the minister and Yuan Du!

"There is also news from the west, King Su fled from Lanzhou and fell into the city, and the ministers were shocked to death when they heard it, and then I asked Your Majesty to blame!"