No matter what Chongzhen planned, it couldn't change as fast as it was.

In the summer and June of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Yuan Shizhong and Li Jiyu gathered troops in the Central Plains, echoing Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng led 100,000 troops, and then surrounded Kaifeng, dug the Yellow River embankment, flooded Kaifeng, and made Kaifeng become a Zeguo. After breaking the sealed city, he immediately returned to the division, broke the power of Kaifeng, and then broke Luoyang.

Not only did these two famous cities in the Central Plains fall into the hands of Li Zicheng, but also that after Li Zicheng captured these two cities, he killed the King of Zhou and King Fu of the Ming Dynasty successively, especially Zhu Changxun, the king of Fu, who was cooked and killed by Li Zicheng and sika deer, and the group of generals was feasted, becoming the so-called "Fulu Banquet". Of the two kings, only Zhu Yousong, the son of King Fu, and Zhu Lunkui, the grandson of King Zhou, were able to escape!

In the attack on these two cities, Li Zicheng used a large number of artillery, and most of his artillery were captured or surrendered by the Ming army, and his artillery tactical arrangement was similar to Yu Guozhen's artillery tactics, which were used intensively on a large scale. After the destruction of these two cities, Li Zicheng proclaimed himself the generalissimo of Fengtian and Yiyi, with Tian Jianxiu and Liu Zongmin as the generals, and Li Yan, He Jin, Liu Xiyao, Li Jiyu, and Yuan Shizhong as the generals.

Immediately afterwards, the bad news spread again in Liaodong, and the Ming army besieged in Songshan finally ran out of food, although because of the support of Xinxiang, they held out for a few months longer than the original time, but the city was broken at the end of June. Hong Chengchou, Zu Dashou and a number of other important generals are missing, after this battle, Dolgon in the construction of the momentum is extremely strong, and he took the opportunity to sweep Liaodong. Break Tashan and other places one by one, and the troops will be under the Shanhaiguan!

At this point, Chongzhen had to reinstate Sun Chuanting, who had been dismissed from office and imprisoned, and made him the governor of Shaanxi, Henan and other provinces, in order to stop Li Zicheng, and at the same time ordered Gao Qi to sneak out of Zhenshan and Haiguan, and secretly let Chen Xinjia, the secretary of the military department, negotiate peace with Jianyu.

"It's really like a soup."

When the information reached Yu Guozhen, he was admiring the snowy scenery of Mt. Fuji in the Japanese country. He shook his head and sighed. It seems that after the two pillars of Huguang and Jiangxi were also shaken, Chongzhen could no longer hold on.

Li Zicheng's purpose of buying grain is also obvious, that is, to attack the Beijing division before the winter, he may think that as long as he quickly invades the Beijing division and captures the Ming Dynasty. We will be at ease in a corner, after all, with a new corner of the place. Compete with the whole country. It's a bit too exaggerated, even Li Yan, who has seen Xinxiang, pays more attention to Xinxiang's military strategy than political strategy. Shogishi commented on this.

"Emperor Chongzhen doesn't know how to deal with it, Sun Chuanting is powerful, but it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and she can dive this kind of garbage. It's strange that he can stop the captives! Gu Jiaming said.

"You can't change anyone, Daming is already muddy and can't be on the wall."

"It seems that the situation is not good. We're back in Tamna, ready to step in at any time. Yu Guozhen smiled: "Li Zicheng is in this situation. It looks like it's still the same, and my suggestion is to let him hold on to the Central Plains for a while, and don't let Jianyu go south directly. Yu Guozhen said.

"Rest assured, if Jianyu knows that we have arrived in Tamna, I am afraid that we will immediately shrink back." Tian Boguang said.

"I hope so."

Although he made a decision, Yu Guozhen was still a little unhappy in his heart, and the people of the Central Plains had to suffer more because of his decision.

On the day he returned to Tamna, Yu Guozhen got a new news, Fan Xian, the envoy of the imperial court, rushed to Tamna, and the boat he was on was outside the port of Yi.

"It's strange, it's clear that it's not long since I left." Yu Guozhen was a little curious: "Let him come to see me." ”

Fan Xian, who was full of sorrow, looked at the fort of Yigang and sighed heavily: "I don't know how Nanhaibo operated, it's only been a few years, Xinxiang has become a fortress, and this Yigang has also become a fortress - if the imperial court reuses Nanhaibo and runs all the passes into fortresses, why are you afraid of building a captivate to invade the south?" ”

"It also depends on who is guarding, Nanhai Bo is guarding with his tiger guards, even if there is no fortress, we can sit back and relax, if we change the group of wine bags and rice bags appointed by the imperial court, even if it is a fortress, we will not be able to sleep!" The sailor beside him muttered.

"That's exactly what I said." Fan Xian didn't care about the disrespectful words of this sailor, and at this time, he didn't have much respect for the imperial court in his heart, especially thinking of the task he came to perform this time, he felt that he was afraid that he was going to become the inner prisoner of another tragic ending of the Ming Dynasty.

"Who is Gonggong Fan, the imperial envoy of the imperial court?" He was feeling sad when he suddenly heard someone shouting, but it was a pilot boat coming from the opposite side, and there were people on board wearing the blue and white uniform of the Tiger Guard Navy shouting.

With the progress of Xinxiang chemistry, great results have been achieved in dyes, so the color of Xinxiang cloth is extremely rich. For example, the Navy uses blue and white, while the Army uses green and black. The South China Sea was fighting and the jungle was dense, so the tiger guards mostly wore green camouflage uniforms, and this time they went north, thinking of the lessons learned from the last battle in Shandong, they changed into black and gray military uniforms.

"I'm Fan Xian...... What does this military master command? Fan Xian's posture didn't look like an envoy who came here to announce the decree at all, but like a little minion who asked to come to the door to do something.

"You can enter the port, the situation has been a little tense recently, so I have kept you waiting for a long time, and I ask for forgiveness."

"Things are a little tight?" Fan Xian was slightly stunned.

"No, you just have to go in."

The pilot did not continue to say that the recent situation was not only a little tight, but in fact, Erzhu had received definite information, and after learning that Yu Guozhen was going north, he knew that Dolgon's pacification strategy had not worked, and they also suspected that Yu Guozhen had come to attack Jianlu's lair, so they had sent elite assassins to assassinate Yu Guozhen.

This was inspired by the assassination in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, which made Jianyu suddenly realize that as long as Yu Guozhen was eliminated with dead soldiers, then the Xinxiang system would not be able to exert its power at all before Yu Guozhen's young son grew up.

Therefore, whether it was during the Wa Kingdom or after returning to Tamna, Yu Guozhen's guards were strict, and Gao Erzhu also rushed to Tamna, hoping to dig out this group of assassins after a disgrace.

"Slave Fan Xian, meet Nanhai Bo."

Fan Xian's performance when he saw Yu Guozhen again this time was more solemn than when he was in Xinxiang, he knelt down directly and saluted, and the tiger guard next to him helped him up, and he only got up after kowtowing respectfully.

"Father-in-law Fan is courteous, and he must ask for something." Yu Guozhen smiled: "What, the 50,000 taels of silver I answered last time is not enough?" ”

"No, no, it's enough, it's enough, it's another thing, it's not the slave sent by the Son of Heaven, but the slave and maid ordered by the queen."

"Oh, if the queen mother has anything to order, just a piece of paper, and there is no need for Father-in-law Fan to cross the ocean to come here."

Yu Guozhen still has a very good impression of today's Queen Zhou, not only because she had defended Fang Ziyi in the Inner Dynasty, but also because she was a person - at the beginning, Tian Guo's family persecuted Xinxiang too much, Yu Guozhen was originally ready to fight back fiercely, but the matter was known by Queen Zhou, she directly reprimanded Tian Guifei, and even made Chongzhen also put Tian Guifei into the cold palace, and did not come out until three months later. Tian Guifei's arrogance was severely frustrated by this, she was depressed, and she died of illness.

"It's about Princess Kunxing." Fan Xian said that Princess Kunxing sold her jewelry and even what Fang Ziyi gave her to the treasury as military salary, and peeked at Yu Guozhen while speaking, only to see that Yu Guozhen looked serious and focused, and did not have patience or disdain because this was a trivial matter, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and cried after speaking: "This matter is related to the royal decency, and it was originally not allowed to be passed on, the queen said that Nanhai Bo is not more than ordinary foreign ministers, and he is the most loyal to the country, and the affairs of the country, no matter how big or small, there is no need to hide it from Nanhai Bo, That's why the slave dared to speak. ”

"Well, I will write a letter to Humble Jing and ask her to send another set of jewelry to Princess Kunxing, and in addition, I am willing to give five thousand taels of silver to the princess......"

"Nanhaibo misunderstood, Niangniang didn't use the name of the princess to reach out to Nanhaibo. Niangniang said, Nanhai Bo is also a big family, although he can make money, he can also spend money. In the past few years, the imperial court has relied on Nanhaibo a lot, and when the imperial court recovers, it has to be reciprocated. She said that the meaning of this matter was to ask Nanhaibo, Princess Kunxing likes Xinxiang Shixue, I wonder if Xinxiang can send a female teacher into the palace to teach the princess Shixue? ”

Yu Guozhen was stunned, this request was really unexpected!

Niangniang also said that if it is inconvenient for the female teacher to enter the palace, she can also ask the princess to go to Xinxiang to study, and then return to Beijing before she gets out of the pavilion. Niangniang also said that she was ashamed of Nanhaibo, but she was even more ashamed of the princess, so she only had this thought, please Nanhaibo do not refuse. ”

"This is not in line with the court etiquette!" Yu Guozhen hadn't said it yet, and the general next to him spoke first.

Jiang Anwei was born in Huwei, and Yu Guozhen taught him single-handedly, and the most respected mothers in his heart were Xiaolian and Liu Ruyi, followed by Fang Ziyi. He felt that Empress Zhou's arrangement was extremely inappropriate, in fact, if it wasn't for Chongzhen's consent, how could Empress Zhou dare to send the princess to Xinxiang, whether it was human words or etiquette, this was an extremely ridiculous thing!

"The princess pawns jewelry and donates it for the country, which is not in line with the court's etiquette system, but the court now has no responsible minister, and the princess can only learn some skills, so she will have a way to live in the future." Fan Xian said, then he thought about it, and said softly: "This is Your Majesty's golden mouth." ”

"Huh?"

Yu Guozhen's heart sank, this is Tuogu!

No matter how much Chongzhen was suspicious of him, but when faced with a group of enemies, Chongzhen knew that only Yu Guozhen was somewhat reliable. Even if it was Yu Guozhen who destroyed the Ming Dynasty and drove him off the throne in the end, with his understanding of Yu Guozhen, Yu Guozhen would definitely not treat his daughter badly.

He is a father after all, and he has no choice but to think about finding a way out for his children!

Even if this way out requires him to leave behind the dignity of the emperor and plead with a courtier who may have ill intentions towards him.

"What about the prince?" After pondering for a while, Yu Guozhen opened his mouth and asked suddenly. (To be continued)