Emperor Chongzhen was immediately stunned when he received the reply of the eunuch, he had been the emperor for seven years, and no courtier dared to reply to his words like this. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The emperor's first reaction was to send Jinyi Wei to arrest Zhang Chu to Jingshi and punish him for the crime of bullying the king. But he quickly deflated, Zhang Chu was far away in Liaodong, and he had heavy troops, and he sent Jinyi Wei to use Zhang Chu's habit of being a thief in the past, and he hadn't cleaned up Zhang Chu yet, and the people sent by him were cleaned up by Zhang Chu.

The accustomed routine didn't work, and Emperor Chongzhen had no idea, so he had to send someone to recruit the ministers, and everyone discussed countermeasures together.

Zhang Chu said to the emperor: "No money, don't go." "In addition to a bad attitude, it is true that there is no lie.

Zhang Chu is indeed poor again, and he has become very short of money. The reason for this is mainly because Zhang Chu has spent too much money in the past six months.

In the past six months, Zhang Chu changed his usual cautious style and carried out a large-scale expansion of the security army.

Zhang Chu took advantage of Chen Qiyu's pressure on the rebels step by step, and began to recruit some scattered rebels. Many people in the rebel army have long wanted to join the security army, but Zhang Chu has always strictly controlled the number of troops, and they have no chance to join if they want to, but this time when they are desperate, the security army has given them a way out, of course, many people are eager to participate.

Zhang Chu put these recruited people into the recruit training camp for initial training, and then scattered and distributed them to the security forces in various places. The largest number of replenished troops is the Naturalization City where the eldest princess is located, and more than 10,000 new troops have been added before and after. In addition, the original team has reached more than 30,000 people. In this way, Zhang Chu was not very relieved, and stored a large amount of materials in the Naturalization City.

Zhang Chu did this because he was afraid that Huang Taiji would not send troops to conquer the Mongolian tribes first as in history, Zhang Chu's arrangement did work, and the small force sent by Houjin encountered the men and horses sent to the steppe by Guihua City, and the two sides fought several encounters, all of which ended in the victory of the security army.

The Houjin people were scared and did not dare to send a small force to attack in the direction of Naturalization City. The news of the defeat of the Houjin people reached Huang Taiji, which aroused great attention from Huang Taiji. The security army was also found in the direction of Naturalization City, which made Huang Taiji very headache, and at this time he did not dare to underestimate the combat effectiveness of the security army at all.

Huang Taiji did have the idea of subduing the Mongols before attacking the Ming Dynasty, and if the Mongols subjugated the Later Jin, then the weakness of the Sparse Population of the Later Jin could be changed. For the sake of safety, Huang Taiji sent Xizuo to the area of Guihua City to inquire about the news, and the news that Xizuo came back surprised Huang Taiji. There were 20,000 or 30,000 people in the Naturalized City alone, and this did not count the Mongols that the eldest princess could use her appeal to recruit if there was a war. It seemed that this naturalized city was not easy to fight, and Huang Taiji temporarily gave up the idea of attacking the Mongols and focused all his energy on the attack on the Ming Dynasty.

When Zhang Chu saw that the Houjin people turned to attack Datong, Xuanhua and other places, he knew that this battle would have to be fought for a while. Zhang Chu decided that Zhongyang should still be stabilized by Li Mei, and he took Yue Yue back to Liaodong, which still had many battles to fight.

He Jin, who was in Liaodong, was not idle, he exchanged all the money earned from Zhang Chu's factories and caravans for weapons and food, and began to recruit troops. The number of security forces in Liaodong and Shandong has more than doubled.

These soldiers and horses had been training in the winter, and when the weather warmed up a little and they had a new mission, the recruits were led by the veterans to divide into small units in the Liaodong region and began guerrilla warfare against the Houjin people. The purpose of their battle was mainly to train new soldiers and familiarize themselves with the terrain, so the shock to the Houjin people was not great. Huang Taiji sent a large number of troops, and at the same time, he did not feel that the security army in Liaodong would pose any threat to him.

When Zhang Chu and Yue Yue arrived in Shandong, the security army was already waiting for a new battle.

For the sake of safety, Zhang Chu specially went around various places in Shandong, first, to see the production of factories and the operation of the firms, and more importantly, to see the ideological situation of various troops.

By talking with the soldiers and officers, Zhang Chu was relieved that the instructors sent to the team did an excellent job. The security forces in Shandong all understood whose food they were eating, whose salaries they were taking, whose orders they would obey in the future, who the security forces would fight for, and what kind of glorious future Zhang Chu would lead all the security forces towards.

Knowing the ideological situation of the team, looking at the muskets and artillery produced in the arsenal and the grain continuously transported from the south of the Yangtze River by sea, Zhang Chu had the confidence to say to the emperor: "If you don't have money, don't go." Words to come.

Zhang Chu is full of confidence, and Emperor Chongzhen is also angry, but what he has is not confidence, but full of anger. He felt more and more that he was wronged. Since he ascended the throne, he has been spending money for the army every year, and he has spent tens of millions of taels of silver on the Liao salary of the Houjin people alone, but the Guan Ning army outside the gate will only hide in the city and hold on. And he lost the city and lost his land vigorously, constantly retreated to the south, and reached out to ask for money every day. Finally, Zhang Chu won a few battles, and he learned the way of Guan Ningjun so quickly, he didn't fight without money and intensified, and what he said didn't mean to respect the Son of Heaven at all.

The cabinet ministers led by Wen Tiren were all called over, and they sighed one by one after hearing what the emperor said. Originally, I thought that after Zhang Chu came out, the Jin people would retreat, and everyone would be able to live a stop again, but Zhang Chu, the thief, was a poor ghost, and he still opened his mouth to ask for money for the errand arranged by the emperor. Some people also thought in their hearts that last time Zhang Chu recovered Lushun and rebuilt Dalinghe City, he made such a great contribution, and the emperor hadn't given him money yet. Of course, everyone understands people, and no one will mention this thing that makes the emperor even more unhappy.

"Zhang Chu is bullying the king, please Your Majesty immediately order that Zhang Chu be arrested and brought to trial." Some ministers said indignantly.

"Who will be sent to arrest Zhang Chu?" The emperor's words silenced everyone.

The ministers were very depressed about this matter, and some people had a keen sense that the life of the ministers had become difficult. Gone are the days when the agitation of the past was like a reed and wanted to restrain the general's crime, and the military general would obediently go to Beijing for trial. In recent years, Emperor Wenchen has killed a lot, but there are few generals who have really been killed.

"Why don't we send someone to Shandong to talk to Zhang Chu again." The ministers also did not have the confidence. They suddenly remembered that this Zhang Chu was still a thief, and if they were in a hurry, there might be another Shandong rebellion, and it would not only be the whole of Shandong, but even the newly recovered Lushun, Dongjiang and other places would have to be put into it.

"Who's going to talk to Zhang Chu?" Emperor Chongzhen asked again. The ministers present were all silent, and some of them instinctively shrunk their necks. At this time, there is no benefit to going to Shandong Province, if Zhang Chu turns his face, he may cut off the head of the person who talks to him. (To be continued.) )