Chongzhen asked the ministers for advice, only to see an official walking out of the civil officials, and regarded it as Tang Xianzu's son, Tang Kaiyuan. This person is a native of Dongwenchangli, Linchuan County, Jiangxi, a famous poet in the late Ming Dynasty, and a famous courtier, who often said that Emperor Chongzhen was angry, but he was not afraid. In October last year, Tang Kaiyuan once wrote a letter criticizing Chongzhen, saying, "Chongzhen treats civil and military ministers differently, punishes them in Fuchen, and treats them preferentially in Zhenchen." The superintendent was more involved in the wreckage, and the general was appeased. Wenchen did nothing, but the military generals supported the army and were self-respecting, reckless, once there was a police, the patrol retreated, that is, the strict decree was issued repeatedly, and it was like a deaf ear. It is proposed that only by rewarding and punishing equals can civil and military use their lives. ”

Chongzhen was furious, ordered someone to mention Tang Kaiyuan into Beijing, asked him where he had the courage to criticize the emperor, and told him to admit his mistakes and change his words, as a result, Tang Kaiyuan resisted unyieldingly, and was cut by Chongzhen and arrested, and later the famous general Zuo Liangyu wrote, and more than 70 officials and people knelt and knocked on the palace door to beg for it, and Emperor Chongzhen was exempted from punishment and ordered him to make meritorious service with guilt.

At this time, Tang Kaiyuan stood outside, and Chongzhen screamed in his heart: What kind of does this thing have to say? Aren't you coming to scold me again? This sour thing scolded me, and when I wanted to deal with him, seventy or eighty officials would jump out to intercede for him, which was really annoying, and it was best for this thing not to speak at all.

I only heard Tang Kaiyuan say: "Your Majesty, Baishui Zhu Ba is a general, you want to beat him!" A group of thieves in the 36th Battalion are called generals and generalissimos, and you want to beat him again! Jiannu is called the emperor, you have to beat him too! Weichen dared to ask, where did you get so many soldiers? ”

Chongzhen was angry and said angrily: "What's the matter? Shall I beat them? These thieves have no law and do not obey the teachings. If I don't beat them, I won't let the world look down on the court? ”

Tang Kaiyuan sneered again and again: "Your Majesty, can you beat them?" ”

Chongzhen said angrily: "I am rich all over the world and have millions of soldiers, why can't I defeat them?" When he said this, he was also a little embarrassed, and thought about the patched clothes he was wearing, and the words rich and all over the world could basically be removed. After thinking about it again, the 70,000 bandit army that he had put together with great difficulty, the four words of one million soldiers didn't seem to be very reliable. This sentence is also like a drunk man eating an overlord meal. Just got beaten out of the hotel. Standing on the street, he scolded the restaurant with his crossed hands: "Lao Tzu is rich and powerful, but he didn't bring it with him, and he waited for Lao Tzu to get the money." Buy your building. ”

Come to think of it. I can't help but have a fever on my face.

Tang Kaiyuan sighed: "Your Majesty." Jiannu will send troops to my Ming Dynasty in the near future, but I am afraid that the front line of Liaodong will have another incident. ”

Chongzhen was shocked: "Why? ”

Tang Kaiyuan said: "Since the slave chief Emperor Taiji of Jiannu has been proclaimed emperor. It is necessary to show the new emperor's martial arts, what is this cultural rule...... They are a group of wild people who don't understand much and can't show it, so they have to show their martial arts. ”

When the ministers in the hall heard this, their faces changed, everyone is not a fool, they all know a little bit about politics, they only think that Tang Kai is very far-sighted, that Huang Taiji was originally a slave thief of the Ming Dynasty, and now he is separated from the Ming Dynasty and called the emperor, how can he not raise troops against the old master? It seems that the front line of Liaodong is about to make a big attack again, and the scale of this war is definitely not small. If the slaves were all small fights in the past, then this time it was definitely a big fight, and all the troops of the country came to attack.

When Chongzhen heard this, he panicked, and hurriedly asked, "Then what should I do?" Several units of the border army have been drawn into the interior to suppress bandits, Cao Wenzhao's troops have been destroyed, Zuo Liangyu, Zu Kuan and others have also been restrained by thieves. ”

At this time, the rest of the officials had also understood, and Bao Feng, a member of the military department, marched out of the queue and said: "Your Majesty, at the time of this crisis, I have no choice but to transfer the border army that suppressed bandits back to the front line of Liaodong to refuse to build slaves, and the talented Governor Lu is also transferred back to the border army. ”

Chongzhen frowned and said, "What about the thieves?" Without Lu Xiangsheng, who can preside over the overall situation of suppressing bandits? ”

Bao Fengqi said: "We can use the strategy of appeasement to temporarily stabilize the thieves and make them careless, and when the Jiannu army retreats, we can ask Governor Lu to return to the mainland to suppress the bandits." ”

Chongzhen got angry when he heard the word Fufu: "Fufu? Another appeasement? ”

Tang Kaiyuan said: "If you don't appease you, there is no other way to use it, Your Majesty, there was a performance in Weichen last year, you will punish it in Fuchen, and you will be preferential to the town, this trip is unfair." Weichen thinks that thieves can't be wiped out blindly, and it is a good strategy to suppress and appease them. ”

Chongzhen was really angry when he heard him bring up the old things again, but after thinking about it, there was no other way to use it at this time except to appease, it was really whimpering. He said a little hesitantly: "In the past, we have tried to appease many times, but the effect is not good. Moreover, when Hong Chengchou was there, there were many killings and killings, and the thieves were afraid that they would get tired of hearing the word appeasement, and they might not be willing to be appeased. ”

Tang Kaiyuan said: "The thief may have doubts about the imperial court, let's dispel it." There are two methods, one is to launch a set of practical and feasible appeasement plans, so that the thief feels that being careased is the way to live. The second is that the emperor himself wrote an edict to appease the thieves. In the past, the appeasement was presided over by local officials, and once a guy like Hong Chengchou who killed and surrendered appeared, it would destroy the reputation of the appeasement plan. But if the emperor personally issues an edict, the so-called king has no jokes, and the thieves will naturally believe in the sincerity of the court, and they will be honestly appeased. Even if the big thief is not easy to be cared for, but the small thief is easy, if we can use the strategy of appeasement, cure dozens of thieves, and then keep an eye on the big leader of the thief army with a small number of elite soldiers, Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang, the big thing will be done. ”

Chongzhen thought about it for a long time, and felt that it was reasonable, so he asked the ministers to think of a wonderful way to appease him first.

After a while, Bao Fengqi came up with a plan: Fu is a place to talk about Fu. Today, when the Kou Party returns to his hometown, the villagers point to him and criticize him, and if he is unwilling, his hometown cannot be forced to return. Xi'an, Yan'an, Henan, Anyang, after the slaughter, there are two cities can be one city, two villages can be one village, and the empty city and empty village are resettled. According to the household registration, the first part of the car, to the cattle breed, three years and endowment. Between the leaves of Nanyang Yu, one hundred and twenty miles away, the population is not broken, a county is set up in the middle of the road, and the people are in vain. Fu should talk about the capital of Fu, Pi Qukui has huge profits, and those who coerce are more bare, so it is advisable to give loans at their discretion. Where will the cattle breed fees be paid? Fu should be the person who talks about Fu, in order to dissolve the subordinate Fu, in order to install the responsibility of the priest to obey the order, must concentrate on cooking, such as habitable and cultivated, the new attached to the happy industry, in the old people do not disturb, must choose the ability to do the county official to specialize, the county affairs are separately commissioned, and the matter is preferred. (Original Historical Text)

Chongzhen adopted it, and then he ordered the eunuch to draft it, and got an edict to appease the liukou, saying: I look up to the way of heaven, bow down to all directions, and read this army and people, who is not a child, just because the officials are greedy and cunning, and the years are fierce, and they are forced by hunger and cold, and they are willing to do wrong. One or two are ignorant, and gradually coerce the people. Over the years, I don't know how many of them have been killed. I am sad and compassionate, and I sleep peacefully. At present, those who are in Henan are trapped in the mountains and hungry, and those who are in Shaanxi are sporadically lurking. Although the way of life is indicated, I am afraid that the officials will not be good, if the generations are suspicious, or suspect that the generals are planning to trap and kill, or suspect that there are divisions to treat them separately, or worry about the future treacherous and deceitful, or worry about the current life and industry to die. All kinds of affection, good and compassionate, for this reason, the pardon letter was issued, the official was dispatched, and each according to the big book to set an example, and enlightened from the vulgar. If they repent of their sins and surrender to sincerity, they will be called rescuing the refugees, ascertaining their places of origin one by one, and the local people will be assigned to the Baojia. In the provinces, the joy of each well will never be extinguished. The provincial government has a division, that is, the number of refugees recovered and placed in the palace is the most, and the violator is referred to as a serious treatment. He may be outstanding, and he is willing to use the prelude to the superintendent army, and listen to his own achievements. Integrated Narrative; If it is not in the end, that is, the United Nations will be clamped down, and the roots will be eliminated and there will be no remnants. Fushun is rebellious, and the court law is selfless; From death to life, if you wait, you can't miscalculate. The edict is well-known, and the salty envoy knows it.

In fact, it roughly means that I know that you are very miserable, and rebellion is also a last resort. I have appeased you before, but because the corrupt officials under my command have not done good deeds, you are suspicious of the court, and you are worried that you will be booby-trapped by the generals of the court, or that you will be ostracized by the appeasement...... Now you don't have to worry, I personally issued a letter of pardon, you don't have any jokes, you just have to believe me. At the end of the edict, he threatened: Those who are cared for are good people, and those who are not cared for are traitors, and you must think clearly.

After the edict was written, Emperor Chongzhen stamped his big seal and then asked the officials to distribute it and spread it throughout the country. At the same time, all the border troops who had entered the interior to suppress bandits were dispatched to hurry back and prepare to deal with the attack of Jiannu.

The preparation of the imperial court was indeed right, and a month later, the Qing soldiers really began to attack Ming. Huang Taiji sent Doluo Wuyingjun Wang Azig and others to lead 100,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners to attack Ming. Azig divided his troops into three routes, and simultaneously invaded Xifengkou (in present-day Qianxi County, Hebei) and Dushikou (in the north of present-day Chicheng County, Hebei). Ming patrol pass imperial history Wang Zhaokun refused to fight, defeated and died, the Ming army retreated to Changping (now Changping, Beijing), and the Qing soldiers invaded Juyong and Changping North Road again. Wang Puchi, the general soldier of Datong, came to the aid and killed 1,104 people and captured 143 people.

At the beginning of July, martial law was imposed in Beijing. Emperor Chongzhen urgently ordered his ministers Li Guofu to guard Bauhinia Pass, Xu Jinzhong to guard the Fallen Horse Pass, Zhang Yuanheng to guard Longquan Pass, and Cui Liangyong to guard the Solid Pass. A few days later, he ordered Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, to inspect the border passes. On the 5th, the Qing soldiers entered Juyong Pass in Yeonqing, Gyeonggi, and on the 17th, the Qing soldiers suddenly appeared under Changping City from behind Tianshou Mountain and attacked Changping City. The surrender of the people should be in, the Qing soldiers fell into Changping, the Ming general soldier Chao Pichang surrendered, the head of the household Wang Gui and Zhao Yue, and the judges Wang Yuzuo and Hu Weihong were killed.

After the Qing troops entered Gyeonggi and captured Changping, they successively captured Liangxiang (now Fangshan, Beijing) and besieged Shunyi (now Beijing). Ming Shunyi Zhixian Shangguanxin and guerrilla rulers all commanded Su Shiyu and others to resist the city. The city fell, and the national weapons, the rain and so on all died. Taking advantage of the situation, the Qing army captured Baodi (now Tianjin), Dingxing, Ansu (now Xushui, Hebei), Dacheng, Xiongxian, Anzhou and other counties of.

The battle situation suddenly became urgent, Lu Xiangsheng gave up the thief army, hurriedly went north, and rushed to Beijing to help. (To be continued.) )