Emperor Chongzhen and his ministers made a plan to arrest Zhang Chu when he returned to Beijing to report on his work, and then treat Zhang Chu's crimes, this idea is very good, and the strategy is also good. This time www.biquge.info, because the interests of the ministers of the court were not touched, the emperor's order was carried out very resolutely, and the eunuch of Jinyiwei's decree set off from the capital within a few days.

But what was decided after deliberation in the Ming Dynasty hall had no secrecy at all. After the ministers returned home, they had to study the discussions of everyone in the court with the master, and the officials below should also inquire about the emperor's reaction. Therefore, the things discussed in the court are almost transparent to the outside world. The Statistics Bureau of the Security Army had already mastered the content of the entire court meeting when the eunuchs did not leave Beijing. The emperor's action threatened Zhang Chu's safety, and the Bureau of Statistics naturally quickly passed the information to Zhang Chu.

When Zhang Chu saw the intelligence, he thought that the emperor really looked up to him, and the official he gave was really not small, but the money he gave was less.

The eunuchs and Jinyi guards who delivered the decree came to Dengzhou, but found that there was no high-ranking official of sufficient level to greet them, and the officers who stayed behind told them that not only Zhang Chu had gone to Lushun, but even Xie Lian, the governor of Denglai, was on the front line of Lushun, and if they wanted to go, they could take the ship to transport supplies. The eunuch and the Jinyi guard had to go on the road again, they worked hard to cross the ocean to reach Lushun, but they were told that Zhang Chu was inspecting the Dongjiang River, they ran to the Dongjiang River again, and heard that Zhang Chu went to North Korea, now they became smarter, said that they would not go to North Korea to find Zhang Chu, and decided to die in the Dongjiang River, and Zhang Chu would come back from North Korea sooner or later. After waiting for a few days in Dongjiang, the eunuch found that taking over this job was the biggest mistake in his life, and originally thought that it was a will for Zhang Chu to be promoted, and he would get a lot of rewards for this trip. But when they went to Dongjiang, not only did they not see Zhang Chu, but no one gave them a good face, what happened to these people, aren't they afraid of offending the emperor. After a few days, the eunuchs understood that no one in Dongjiang knew what was going on with the emperor, but they all knew that Zhang Chu was the god in their hearts, and no one cared whether Zhang Chu was promoted or not.

Sensing the bad news, the eunuchs immediately decided to leave Dongjiang, but were told that there was no boat to transport them. The eunuch is now crying without tears, so he can't swim back to Beijing by himself. Fortunately, the security army did not do anything to the end, and they were provided with food every day, so they did not die in the Dongjiang River.

Zhang Chu didn't have time to pay attention to the eunuchs who passed the edict, and judging from the information sent back, the emperor had already murderous intentions against the security army, and it was only a matter of time before the two sides turned their faces. Zhang Chu immediately summoned his staff officers to study countermeasures, and everyone agreed that there should be no problem in protecting themselves with the strength of the security army now, if the security army is determined to defend, with the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, it will not be able to capture the defense line established by Zhang Chu in Denglai, and the territory of the security army in the eastern Liaodong region is even safer, and the Ming army will not be able to get there at all, only the port guard force in Tianjin is still relatively weak, but at the critical moment, the personnel can be withdrawn from the sea, and it will not cause too much loss. In order to avoid the formation of a war with the Ming and the Later Jin, it is better for the security army not to take the initiative to attack the Ming Dynasty now.

Zhang Chu did not want the Ming army to get the benefits easily, he ordered the security army to build a fortress in the port of Tianjin to strengthen the defensive force, if the Ming army dared to attack, he would also break off a few teeth.

The security army where he is now is busy and actively preparing for war, ready to meet the attack of the Ming army at any time. Zhang Chu now had only one question, whether the emperor and his ministers dared to launch an attack on the security army without tricking him into the capital division. The spy personnel of the security army strengthened the strength of the division in Beijing and kept an eye on the movements of the imperial court at any time.

The emperors and ministers of Jingshi knew that it would take some time from the transmission of the decree to getting Zhang Chu's reply, so they were not in a hurry after sending people out. However, after a long time, the eunuch did not come back, and everyone felt that the taste was wrong.

Zhang Chu didn't arrive in Beijing, and it was much more difficult to deal with the security army. But it was difficult for the ministers to tolerate Zhang Chu being so arrogant again. So he suggested that the emperor send troops to directly attack the ranks of the security army in Shandong and Tianjin, so that he would know the strength of the official army.

"What about the security forces in Liaodong?" Emperor Chongzhen is still very sober-minded this time, he beat the security forces of Shandong and Tianjin, Zhang Chu in Liaodong will definitely rebel, and the imperial court has no ability to jump into the sea to Liaodong to exterminate, if Zhang Chu is unhappy to vote for Houjin, then Houjin has no worries, and concentrates his strength to enter the customs again, and the unlucky one is Da Ming again.

Hearing the emperor's question, the ministers also understood the benefits and disadvantages, and they were all silent. This thief Zhang Chu established a stronghold in Tianjin, and he stuck his feet near the Jingshi, but the imperial court did not dare to touch him, and everyone had no good way to develop the situation to this point.

Just when the emperor was worried about how to deal with Zhang Chu, the news of the growing ranks of the displaced people came from Shanxi, and the imperial court did not dare to attack Zhang Chu easily. The imperial court now has to guard against Houjin and exterminate the thieves, if Zhang Chu provokes Mao to rebel again, then the Ming dynasty will really be lost.

In fact, Hong Chengchou did a very good job after taking over Chen Qiyu's position as governor of the five provinces. He used an iron fist to govern the army and at the same time allowed the officials and troops to rob the people, which improved the combat effectiveness of the officers and troops, and he mobilized the officers and troops into Shaanxi to reorganize the siege of the righteous army. In order to change the passive situation, Hong Chengchou surrounded the center of the uprising with heavy troops, and Hong Chengchou led the main force out of Tongguan to pursue the rebels. Carrying out key offensives, Gao Yingxiang's righteous army was successively defeated in Queshan, Zhuxian Town and other places, suffered setbacks one after another, and was forced to move to the western mountainous area.

Hong Chengchou led his troops to chase after the rebels all the way. Hong Chengchou's crazy attack made the rebel army realize that it was difficult to survive alone, and the rebel teams from all walks of life urgently needed to unite, so in the autumn of the seventh year of Chongzhen, the peasant rebel army from all over the country gathered in Xingyang to discuss the plan to overthrow the rule of the Ming Dynasty, which is the famous "Xingyang Conference" in history.

It's a pity that Zhang Chu was not qualified to participate in the grand event at this time, and his security army stood in the ranks of the officials and soldiers at this time.

Although the rebels gathered together to convene this meeting, although they had the idea of cooperating with each other, a total of 13 families and 72 battalions came to participate in the meeting, adding up to more than 200,000 horses. It is not easy to unify the thinking of the rebels from all walks of life.

At this time, Li Zicheng first showed his edge and stood out, he put forward the strategy of "dividing the troops and orienting them", decided to make unified deployment, joint action, and meet the Ming soldiers in separate ways, and the righteous army was divided into three routes: one returned to Shaanxi in the west, one went north into Shanxi, and one went east into Fengyang, burning the imperial mausoleum, and his suggestion was unanimously approved by everyone.

Beginning with this Xingyang Congress, the peasant uprising entered a new period. (To be continued.) )