When Zhang Chu mentioned the internal currency, Wang Chengen, who had always been the most loyal to the emperor, couldn't help but give Chongzhen a stingy evaluation. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info words Wang Chengen felt that something was wrong and immediately stopped, look left and right Fortunately, only Zhang Chu heard it, there is nothing to worry about, this Zhang Chu does not seem to have respect for the emperor. Did you get infected after being with him for a long time, wouldn't this be a catastrophe if you were in the palace, it seems that you should pay attention in the future, and you can't let this Zhang Chu take you to the ditch.

Zhang Chu didn't care at all about the change in Wang Chengen's expression. Instead, he continued: "No matter how stingy you are, you must save your life first, and it is useless to spend money if you don't have a life." ”

"Don't talk nonsense, His Majesty the Emperor is in the prime of Spring and Autumn, how can he die?" This time Wang Chengen had to refute Zhang Chu, Emperor Chongzhen was just over twenty years old, how could he say that the emperor was dead or alive as a courtier.

"In addition to dying of old age, people can also be killed." Zhang Chu decided to give Wang Chengen and Emperor Chongzhen some drastic information, otherwise he would not be able to get the silver from them.

"Who can kill the emperor, the emperor is usually guarded by guards, the city of Beijing is extremely strong, the army of the imperial court is absolutely loyal to the saint, and it is impossible for anyone who wants to murder the emperor." Now Wang Chengen said that he would not believe that the emperor might be in danger.

"Are these people you are talking about the opponents of the Houjin people?" Houjin is now an eternal pain in the hearts of the Ming people, and there is really no one on the battlefield who has the confidence to be able to beat Houjin's cavalry.

"It's even more impossible for the Houjin people, the Houjin people are blocked out of the Great Wall, there are a large number of Liaodong troops defending there, and the Houjin people have no chance to enter the pass again." After listening to Zhang Chu's words, Wang Chengen was relieved. Although the Houjin people were powerful, they were in danger of the Great Wall and could not pose a threat to the emperor.

"The emperor was originally quite safe, but Lushun was lost, Shanhaiguan and other barriers have lost their effect, as long as the Houjin people build ships in Lushun, build a fleet that can transport tens of thousands of people, sail across the Bohai Sea, land in Tianjin, and then go straight to Jingshi, do you think there are any officers and troops on the Zhili Plain that can prevent them from reaching Jingshi? In this attack on Lushun, the Houjin people have used their own cast red-coated cannons, if dozens of these cannons are transported to the city of Beijing, with the combat effectiveness of the Beijing camp will definitely not be able to hold, when the Houjin people rushed into the Forbidden City, cut off the emperor's head, the Ming Dynasty will be over. Zhang Chu got up as he spoke, went to the sand table on the table, and pointed out to Wang Chengen the route of the British and French forces that captured Dagukou and then entered Beijing all the way.

"After this, the Jin people have always been good at fighting immediately, so they shouldn't attack by water. Wang Chengen saw that the threat Zhang Chu said did exist, and the Ming Dynasty had never had a good way to deal with the threat from the sea, so that a few Japanese pirates could ravage the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty for so many years. In fact, the imperial court also saw a possible threat to Beijing from the sea, and established Tianjin Wei, Weihai Wei and other guards to defend it, but now the soldiers of the guard have long since become peasants, and even Wang Chengen does not believe in expecting them to resist the attack of the Houjin people. So Wang Chengen now only hopes that the Houjin people are used to riding horses and don't like to take boats, but everyone knows that this kind of thinking is unreliable.

"Neither the ship nor the sailor is a problem for Houjin. As soon as Lushun was lost, the Ming soldiers and civilians on the Dongjiang Islands became isolated, and many of them would soon take refuge in the Houjin, bringing ships and sailors to the Houjin people, as well as a large number of craftsmen who knew how to build ships. Lushun has an excellent port, and the timber that can be used for shipbuilding in the northeast is all over the mountains, and it will not take long for the Houjin people to build thousands of large ships. Last time, no one could stop the Jin people from entering the Kou Jing Division, if you do it again, do you think the performance of the Ming army will be better than last time? Zhang Chu's words completely dispelled Wang Chengen's illusions.

"How's that okay?" Wang Chengen suddenly became at a loss.

"In fact, this is also very simple, as long as you take out the silver, build large warships in Dengzhou and Weihai and then counterattack Lushun, the threat of recapturing Lushun is naturally eliminated, and it is impossible to capture Lushun when you take a step back, and the Houjin people know that there is a strong fleet in the Bohai Bay, so they dare not send a large fleet to carry out landing operations. It's just that this requires the emperor to invest a lot of silver, but in fact, this silver has not been given to Liaodong. It depends on whether the emperor wants money or death.

Wang Chengen was completely speechless, he wouldn't do anything that made the emperor die, but this matter was not something that his little eunuch could decide.

Wang Chengen knew that the emperor would definitely not be happy if he proposed to the emperor to spend money, and if those ministers knew, they would be attacked wantonly, and the charge of this eunuch interfering in politics was not small. After thinking about it, Wang Chengen decided to report the situation to the emperor regardless of his own gains and losses, so the emperor had to listen to one or two to prepare for precautions, and said that he could not let the emperor be killed.

Wang Chengen hid in the house and pondered for many days to write a long secret letter to the emperor, and wrote down the suffering of the people of Liaodong that he saw in Liaodong this time and the important position of Lushun that Zhang Chu told him in the fold, Wang Chengen felt that he had injected true feelings when writing the excerpt, even so, Wang Chengen was not at ease, and asked Zhang Chu to revise it for him after writing. Zhang Chu also unceremoniously added a lot of words to persuade the emperor, and then sent someone to send the song to the Beijing Division.

Emperor Chongzhen received Wang Chengen's secret recital, and his heart was half cold, the Liaodong defense line has not yet been stabilized, and according to Wang Chengen, there is another big threat on the sea. It would cost money to strengthen coastal defense, and if it was only a passive defense, would it become the second Liaodong defense line, and the money was invested in it, but it did not play a big role. As Wang Chengen said, in order to counterattack Lushun, in addition to investing a lot of silver, you also need loyal and brave generals, and it is difficult to find generals like the current Daming. Moreover, now Emperor Chongzhen has no way to get the ministers to agree to the imperial court to take out money to do something meaningful.

The emperor felt that it was not a solution to always worry about himself, so he sent someone to invite Wen Tiren, the first assistant of the cabinet, to come over.

Wen Tiren sat on the chair given by the emperor, carefully figuring out why the emperor called him.

Emperor Chongzhen handed Wang Chengen's fold to Wen Tiren and said: "Take a look, but this matter must be kept secret, otherwise it will be a wake-up call to the Houjin people, if they really do what they say, the Jingshi region will be ravaged by war again." “

Wen Tiren was also secretly shocked after reading the excerpt, although he did everything in his own interests, but there was also a benefit, he had no prejudice against people, and he did not think that eunuchs were inferior like other readers, he still carefully studied what the emperor gave him, and he basically recognized the content of it, he had already heard of the miserable situation of the Han people in Liaodong, and Wang Chengen wrote very convincing about the threat from the Houjin people who were going to come from the sea, and it stands to reason that as long as there is such a possibility, the Ming Dynasty should take precautions in advance. But all this is implemented in a money word, and there is no good way to persuade the ministers to agree to pay Wen Tiren. (To be continued.) )