In the cave of Yangyang, Chongzhen's six years are gradually coming to an end, and several heavy snowfalls at the end of the year have turned the North Stable into a plain white world.

It's the same in the Forbidden City, where ice and frost hangings can be seen everywhere under the eaves. But no matter how cold it is outside, it is impossible to get cold to the nobles in the palace. Of course, the popular ones have long been prepared with high-grade silver frost charcoal, and there are ordinary charcoal in general, and even those lowest-grade eunuchs and miscellaneous servants, and heating fuels such as firewood and black coal are not lacking.

And the atmosphere of the Forbidden City is similar to that inside and outside the palace these days, which has the meaning of ice and fire - this mainly depends on the mood of the lord of the Forbidden City, Emperor Zhu Youzhen of the Ming Dynasty. Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen's personality has always been restless, a good news can make him laugh on the spot, and a bad news can also make him immediately slap the table - but this monarch is always bent on showing the emperor's "unfathomable" posture to the outside world, and the recent receipt, a series of good and bad news, has made his efforts in this area repeatedly end in failure.

The bad news came mainly from the central and western territories of the empire - the peasant army that originated in Shaanxi. Of course, in the Forbidden City they are called Liukou. These gangs of rogues really lived up to their reputation -- they were already tied down under the joint encirclement and suppression of the officials and armies of Baoding, Henan, and Shanxi. However, God gave a chance: the Yellow River froze. So on November 24 of that year, the peasant army broke out of the encirclement by crossing the frozen flight of the Yellow River; The three counties of Lianke, Lushi, and Yiyang, from Shaanxi to Henan, finally began to spread the cancer that engulfed the entire Ming Dynasty.

Originally, he just sent some reinforcements, and then looked at the lively Henan governor Yuan Mo was stupid all of a sudden, you must know that this thing is very similar to locusts, but it is much more terrible than locusts - locusts only trample on crops, but rogue robbers trample on people. Wherever the rogues passed, the common people were either coerced into becoming new rogues. Either they will become their victims, or at best, they will join the army of refugees and become a member of the reserve army of the wanderers.

Wherever they go, they are all ruined. Da Ming is the standard local governor responsibility system. If Henan is ravaged by the rogues. As the governor, Yuan Mo doesn't talk about the merit evaluation officer hat, and even whether he can save his life is a question. Yuan Mo is crazy now. On the one hand, he collected soldiers and horses from all over his own province to intercept them, and on the other hand, he didn't care about his reputation, so he hurriedly wrote to the imperial court center for help, asking for help as soon as possible - it is best to get some short-haired green-skinned troops to come over. Or you can transfer a Guanning army. At present, the entire Ming Dynasty seems to be the most capable of fighting these two soldiers.

When Emperor Chongzhen received this report, he was also in a hurry-where is Henan? The hinterland of the Central Plains! Liukou entered Henan, and then he didn't run with him in all directions! ――Huguang, Sichuan, Shandong, North and South Zhili...... This mess is worth it, and we must quickly control the situation!

But Yuan Mo is a foreign official after all, and he thinks that things are too simple - how can the short-haired army be moved by the imperial court? What those uncles do depends on their own mood. When you are in a good mood, you can run all the way from Hainan to Liaodong. I actually got involved with Dongyu - and I brought my own dry food, and I didn't ask for a reward afterwards, so I didn't have to worry about anything in the court. But when he was in a bad mood, he openly shouted that our army couldn't be controlled—to be honest, he really couldn't control it. People's armies go from recruitment to training to equipment to supplies. There is nothing that can get the court involved, and the command has nothing to do with the court. And this evil can't be said to the outside world, although almost everyone in the court knows about it, but those foreign officials really think that Qiongzhen is a quick knife in the hands of the imperial court...... Let them continue to misunderstand.

The Guanning army can still move, but the problem of the Guanning army is exactly the opposite of that of the Qiong Navy - the Guanning army has to be managed by the imperial court, and the court will give money and grain if it moves slightly, and only by sending a large amount of money and grain over can the cavalry masters in Guanning move their buttocks. And now what the imperial court lacks the most - but it is money and grain, if you have money and food, there is still a fart in Shaanxi, the reason why the policy of "replacing suppression with fu" of the governor of the three sides cannot be implemented is because the supply of money and grain cannot be implemented!

The former can't be adjusted, and the latter can't be adjusted...... Chongzhen really had a toothache for several days after getting the report from Henan, and asked the old ministers of the cabinet, but they all had different opinions and different ideas. In such an atmosphere, the Forbidden City was naturally full of low pressure during that time, and no matter how much charcoal basins were placed in the palace, it always made people feel cold.

Under these circumstances, Cao Huachun, as the head of the inner court, felt that it was necessary to share the worries of his master, and his solution was to go to Chen Tao three times a day - to find out the information about Qiong's navy in Liaodong, Chen Tao's telegraph office was the fastest way.

The hard work paid off, after a few trips, I finally got the first-hand news about the battlefield in Liaodong - the Qiong Navy really won again, Cao Huachun, who was the commander of the inner factory, originally thought that he was also a person who knew soldiers and knew martial arts, and should no longer be surprised by the combat effectiveness of those short hairs, but after seeing the specific battle report, he still couldn't help but be stunned on the spot......

-- Six hundred against ten thousand! is still facing the Houjin elite soldiers, who are known as "invincible"! The number of enemies destroyed was more than 6,000, and he also killed the tenth son of the old slave chief Nurhachi on the spot...... What level of victory is this? You must know that the "Ningyuan Great Victory" was only a total of 200 beheadings!

"Fake, right?"

Almost all Ming Dynasty officials who saw this battle report for the first time couldn't help but think so, after all, this victory sounded too mysterious. If it is true, it can definitely be regarded as the most glorious military victory of the Ming Dynasty since the three major expeditions of Wanli. But it was from the hands of the unruly Qiongzhen, which made it difficult for the imperial court to do - thinking that Ning Yuan's great victory was only 200 beheadings, so Yuan Chonghuan flew up from the small Ning Qiandao and kept him all the way to the position of Jiliao Governor. And now this big victory is even better than Ning Yuan, what should the imperial court do. [,！ Rewards?

There is another thing - these short-haired people are also a little more honest in doing things, saying that they killed a post-gold bigwig, and they are so honest that they even report their real names and surnames? Nurhachi's tenth son, Derg? Can you really be so sure?

In contrast, the officials of our Ming Dynasty are much smarter -- think that after the battle of Ningyuan, the Ming Ji Liao Jing was slightly higher and reported to the top: "The thieves attacked Ningyuan, killed a big leader, wrapped it in red cloth, and the thieves carried it away."

Then the literati went further, for example, Zhang Dai recorded in his "Later Collection of Shikui Books": "The cannon passed through, killed the northern cavalry, and killed the Yellow Dragon Curtain, and injured a king. The northern cavalry said that it was unfavorable to send troops, wrapped the body in leather, and ran away crying."

-- Look, how smart it is, just say that it hit a big boss, I don't specify who it is, of course it's best if you have it, and it doesn't matter if you don't. There are dates without dates, anyway, a rod will be hit first - and then Nurhachi died. Although it had been ten months since the Battle of Ningyuan at this time, and although Nurhachi had also sent troops to Mongolia to beat his old rival Lin Dan Khan during this period, this did not prevent the Ming Dynasty from claiming that Nurhachi died because he was seriously injured and died under the city of Ningyuan.

-- This is the old thing, like the young people of the short hair, who can't wait to shout when they have a little talent, but put the court in a dilemma - do you want to admit this credit? What if I make a mistake? This is a big crime of bullying the king - of course Shorthair doesn't care about this, but our family cares, and the court can't afford to lose this face.

Cao Huachun is worthy of being the big head of the East Factory, and he is extremely sensitive, and after receiving the battle report from Qiongzhen, he was only slightly stunned after reading the beginning, and immediately thought of this. But then, when his gaze continued to look downward, and when he saw the follow-up of the battle report, his face immediately changed - and he finally understood why he had won a big battle, but the atmosphere on Shorthair's side was chaotic, and people didn't look at him very right.

-- The big leader of the Qiong Navy who advocated sending troops to Liaodong actually folded! It was not injured by the Houjin side, but it was damaged in the hands of the Ming army's own people. Although the telegram sent by the Qiong Navy admitted that it was the Hou Jin spies, they were indeed wearing Ming military uniforms at that time, and they were following the Lushun guards, and the Dongjiang General Army was able to get close to the officers of Qiongzhen.

Qiongzhen soldiers and horses came all the way to help and fought a big victory. The defenders of Dongjiang Town, which was under the brand of Lushun, did nothing -- of course, the telegram of the Qiong navy would not cover up for the Ming army, and directly explained the fact that the Ming army had been retreating into the city throughout the battle until the enemy finally fled, and did not come out to pick peaches until the enemy fled -- and then two Houjin spies emerged from the ranks of the Ming army and shot down the commander of Qiongzhen with great efficiency...... Although he is not dead, according to Cao Huachun's experience in torture and execution after taking charge of Dongchang, he was shot with an arrow in the stomach and fell into a coma on the spot.

"Oh my mother, why are these bunnies so uneasy......"

This can make Lao Cao have a big headache - in the cognition of Ming officials and even the Son of Heaven, catching traitors and preventing spies has always been the responsibility of Jinyiwei and Dongchang, even if the Dongjiang Army has nothing to do with them, but this news let the emperor know that if he is next to him, he will inevitably eat some hanging, and he will be put on a black pot for no reason.

Then don't you say it yourself? But the previous victory was real, if he didn't report to the palace as soon as possible, would he still be able to let others get this Qiaozong'er? And there is no way to hide this matter - Chen Tao and their telegraph office have a closer relationship with Wenchen, such as Qian Ge Lao, people have no taboos, and they will definitely report it directly as soon as they get the news.

Escalation is yes, but how to say it?

Grandpa Cao began to fall into depression.

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