Emperor Chongzhen's donation campaign for national salvation only collected more than 100,000 taels of silver, which he didn't even think could impress Zhang Chu. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 But now the situation is urgent, the ministers can surrender when the enemy comes, but the emperor cannot, and none of the kings of the country have a good end, and they often lose their lives in the end after being humiliated. He was also a competitive man, and he was unwilling to leave Jingshi and flee to the south. In the end, Emperor Chongzhen gritted his teeth and decided that the money would come out of the internal currency by himself.

After the emperor decided to pay the money, he was faced with a difficult problem, who to send to negotiate with Zhang Chu, and the ministers were definitely not interested in such an errand, and finally the emperor thought of Jinyiwei again.

Although Luo Yangxing was arrested under the command of Jinyiwei, fortunately there was a Jinyiwei Qianhu Guo Zhiyi who was loyal to the emperor, and he took the risk of transmitting the news that Houjin was going to attack back to Jingshi, and Guo Zhiyi's loyalty can be seen. And Guo Zhiyi has also dealt with Zhang Chu, and may be able to negotiate a good price.

Emperor Chongzhen was generous this time, and directly promoted Guo Zhiyi to be the deputy commander of Jinyiwei. Then he ordered Guo Zhiyi to go to Liaodong to negotiate with Zhang Chu and ask Zhang Chu to send troops to attack Houjin.

Of course, Guo Zhiyi had no choice but to take the holy decree to Liaodong to find Zhang Chu.

At this time, Zhang Chu was busy in Liaodong, and he did not dare to slack off after receiving the information that Houjin was going to attack on a large scale. Although the target of Huang Taiji is Da Ming, he does not dare to guarantee that the Houjin people will not suddenly give the security army a sudden blow. Therefore, Zhang Chu had no choice but to return to Lushun from Ningbo with the fleet and asked the security army to rearm for war in case of emergencies.

Hong Chengchou's failure was very unexpected by Zhang Chu. According to Zhang Chu's memory, Hong Chengchou's failure was many years later, but he didn't expect it to happen so suddenly now. He originally thought that now the Ming Dynasty and the Houjin should be evenly matched, and Hong Chengchou led the army to come quickly and fail quickly. Now Zhang Chu has not yet made up his mind how to deal with the current situation, Guo Zhiyi came to Liaodong with the will of Emperor Chongzhen.

Guo Zhiyi reported Emperor Chongzhen's meaning to Zhang Chu, and Zhang Chu was really a little surprised, this time the emperor made such a big determination to take out money to buy Zhang Chu. Instead of holding on to the silver and waiting to die.

"Master Guo, you have been promoted again." After listening to the report, Zhang Chu didn't forget to tease Guo Zhi a few words.

"What's the use of being promoted, I think this time the Ming Dynasty is really going to end. None of the ministers in the court were willing to contribute to the country, and they did not even want to give more money when the country was in danger. Such a court would not exist for a few days without the invasion of Houjin. Through this donation to save the country, Guo Zhiyi was completely disappointed in the Ming Dynasty and felt that his decision to take refuge in Zhang Chu was very correct.

Zhang Chu did not make a decision immediately, but found the two of them in He Jin in Liaodong to seriously study the current situation. In the end, it was decided to save Emperor Chongzhen this time, of course, saving it cannot be saved in vain.

Guo Zhiyi returned to Beijing with Zhang Chu's reply, Emperor Chongzhen personally summoned him, and after listening to Guo Zhiyi's report, Emperor Chongzhen felt like cotton was stuffed in his chest, and he was very unhappy.

Zhang Chu offered a price for sending troops to relieve the siege of Jinzhou, two million taels of silver could not be less at all, and it had to be paid first, when the silver was transported to Zhang Chu before he started to act. Zhang Chu also deliberately added that if he was afraid that Zhang Chu would not send troops if he took the silver, the emperor would not have to beg him.

Emperor Chongzhen was angry for this sentence for a long time, and the emperor went to ask for a thief, which is really an unprecedented anecdotal, and he is a little too much of an emperor to be.

I have the heart to straighten my waist to make myself a little tougher, but the reality is there, Zu Dashou is still struggling in Jinzhou, and the longer the time, the greater the danger in Jinzhou.

Emperor Chongzhen himself lost his temper in the palace for a day, and finally agreed to Zhang Chu's conditions, and took out the silver taels from the internal currency and made up two million taels of silver together with the previous donation. This time, the emperor couldn't trust his ministers, but asked Guo Zhiyi to handle this matter. Guo Zhiyi secretly transported the silver to Tianjin, and then loaded it onto a ship and transported it directly to Lushun.

Zhang Chu was very happy to see the silver, and asked Emperor Chongzhen to reply that Zhang Chu was a trustworthy person, and since he received the silver, he would definitely do something, so let Emperor Chongzhen wait for the good news.

Next, Zhang Chu sent a ship to transport 5,000 soldiers to Dalinghe City, and Zhang Chu's action made Huang Taiji nervous all of a sudden. Originally, Huang Taiji knew that Zhang Chu and Emperor Chongzhen had turned their faces, and Dalinghe City was Zhang Chu's territory, and during the attack, Huang Taiji ordered the troops to minimize the conflict with the security army, and only monitored Dalinghe City, and Zhang Chu did not issue an order to support, so the two sides have been peaceful.

Huang Taiji thought that it was not a good phenomenon for Zhang Chu to increase his troops at this time, could it be that Zhang Chu still wanted to help Emperor Chongzhen. In order to find out the situation, Huang Taiji specially sent an envoy to see Zhang Chu, and the envoy conveyed Huang Taiji's greetings to Zhang Chu, and the envoy said that Huang Taiji respected Zhang Chu very much and was willing to rebel against the tyranny of the Ming Dynasty with Zhang Chu. If Zhang Chu is willing to submit to Houjin, Huang Taiji will allow Zhang Chu to be a high-ranking official, and if Zhang Chu is unwilling to submit to Houjin, the two sides can coexist peacefully and not invade each other.

Zhang Chu's answer was very clear, Zhang Chu received the silver from Emperor Chongzhen to relieve the siege of Jinzhou, collect money and eliminate disasters with people, and this matter of relieving the siege must be done. If Huang Taiji didn't want Zhang Chu to meddle in the war in Jinzhou, he could come up with the same amount of silver, and Zhang Chu would not send troops.

"Shameless, self-defeating, this is blackmail." When Huang Taiji and Fan Wencheng discussed Zhang Chu's reply, he couldn't help but scold.

The two of them really felt that Zhang Chu was indeed a bit shameless in doing this, and they actually asked for money at both ends, and with Zhang Chu's strength, it would not have a big impact on the battle situation at all now. He increased his troops in Dalinghe City, but he could only protect himself, and he was far from threatening the Houjin army.

"We still have to find a way to deal with Zhang Chu, otherwise he will harass us when we are fighting, which is very bad for us. I think I sent someone over and told Zhang Chu that we promised to give him money, but Zhang Chu had to withdraw the men and horses of Dalinghe first. Zhang Chu will definitely not withdraw his troops, the two sides will be arguing like this for a while, and when we capture Jinzhou, we will come back to clean up Zhang Chu. "Fan Wencheng gave Huang Taiji an idea. Huang Taiji felt that this was the only way to do it now.

Zhang Chu really rejected Huang Taiji's request to withdraw his troops first, and instead sent additional men and horses to Dalinghe City. He also sent a small force to begin to gather the scattered Ming army on the edge of the battlefield between the Later Jin and Ming armies, and then gathered these people in the city of Dalinghe, where they trained non-stop under the leadership of the security army every day.

Huang Taiji understood that Zhang Chu's men and horses didn't play a big role, and he didn't bother to pay attention to it, so he only sent people to drive away when the security army was too close to the battlefield.

Emperor Chongzhen paid the money, and of course paid more attention to Zhang Chu's actions. After the information came from the front that Zhang Chu had only sent a small force to roam around the periphery of Jinzhou, Emperor Chongzhen felt as if he had been deceived. (To be continued.) )