In order to get rid of the heavy encirclement and suppression in Shanxi, the peasant army began to move to the border area of Shanxi, northern Henan, and southern Gyeonggi.

A part of the peasant army, oppressed by Cao Wen's troops, broke through the defense line of Kou Conghua in Jingjing, Gyeonggi, from Mokou Mountain near Guguan in the northeast of Pingding Prefecture, Shanxi, and entered the territory of Shunde and Zhending in the south of Gyeonggi, causing panic in the imperial court.

The court panicked, but Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen did not panic, and still maintained his attitude of only watching and not speaking.

Meng Guozuo was very worried about this: "Jinan is a throat land, and Shunde is a large plain, you can go straight to Beijing for thousands of miles, and there is no danger of rivers and mountains to use as a barrier." Now there are Cao Wenzhao and Zhang Yingchang in Shanxi, and Zuo Liangyu and Deng Xi in Henan, all of whom have heavy soldiers, so where will the thieves go? In the past, I rushed from Shaanxi to Shanxi, from Shanxi to Henan, and now I have rushed to Shunde! ”

In order to prevent the peasant army in southern Jinan from threatening the Beijing division, the imperial court urgently sent 2,000 soldiers from Tongzhou and 2,000 soldiers from Changping, together with 8,000 troops from Liangfu, the general army of Baoding, to cooperate with Lu Xiangsheng to deploy defenses and cooperate with Shanxi to suppress them.

After the peasant army was defeated, Lu Xiangsheng withdrew westward from Xingtai (the seat of Shunde Prefecture), crossed the Motianling in the northwest of Wu'an (now Wu'an), Henan (this place also borders Liaozhou, Shanxi), entered the territory of Wu'an, and joined forces with the peasant army stationed there. At this time, northern Henan was already a continuous beacon fire.

The peasant army in the southeast of Shanxi marched into northern Henan in two ways. All the way south to break through Yangyuan Pass, into Huaiqing Fu (Fuzhi Hanoi, now Qinyang) in Jiyuan County, Qinghua Town (Qinyang County, now known as Boai), Wu'an and other places, once besieged Huaiqing Fu City. The other road went east into the territory of Lin County (now Lin County) and Shexian (now Shexian County) in Henan. Henan guard Zuo Liangyu hurriedly parried.

In the west of Shexian County. Zuo Liangyu repelled the peasant army. The Peasant Army of Linn County. Because there was a response from the hungry. The momentum was very large, and once besieged the neighboring counties of Linzhang (now Linzhang) and Qi County (now Qi County). But in the end, he was also defeated by Zuo Liangyu.

The peasant army of Jiyuan was besieging Shuixi Pass in the north of Huaiqing Mansion City at that time to celebrate Zijin Liang's birthday. Zuo Liangyu hurriedly led his troops from Zhangde Mansion (Fu'an Anyang) to relieve the siege and repel the peasant army.

Unexpectedly, Zuo Liangyu was soon defeated by the peasant army in Wu'an, and his 7,000 Henan soldiers were almost beaten in the morning. The 4 mansions in northern Henan are full of flames, and the shape is suddenly severe.

Emperor Chongzhen urgently ordered the general soldier Deng Xi to lead 2,000 Sichuan soldiers. Coupled with the soldiers of Tusima Fengyi, they entered northern Henan to participate in the war. Cao Wenzhao also once entered Shexian County in northern Henan from Shanxi to help in the war.

Since the peasant army was mainly active in Shanxi at the beginning, the Henan authorities did not seriously prepare for war. In such a dangerous place as Taihang Mountain, no heavy troops were sent to fortify, and northern Henan can almost be said to be a door open. Cao Wenzhao's sharp offensive in the southeast of Shanxi caused most of the peasant armies in Shanxi to move to northern Henan. In May, the peasant army reached Cizhou (now Cixian County), amounting to more than 100,000 people, and the army array was dozens of miles long.

It was only at this time that Emperor Chongzhen had to begin to pay attention to northern Henan. Cao Wenzhao and others were asked to support northern Henan from Shanxi.

June. Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, was in a hurry to defend the Huifu (now Ji County) and asked the imperial court to pay attention to the situation in northern Henan. "Extinguish early, don't despise the thief", which greatly shocked Emperor Chongzhen. Emperor Chongzhen's special envoy to the Beijing battalion chief soldier Ni Chong and Wang Pu led 6,000 soldiers and 5,000 horses, day and night, and finally rushed to northern Henan in August. Soon, General Tang Jiuzhou led thousands of Changping soldiers to northern Henan to participate in the war.

Cao Wenzhao and Zhang Yingchang, who were originally fighting in Shanxi, also led elite Shaanxi soldiers into northern Henan to participate in the encirclement and suppression. Lu Xiangsheng and others fortified southern Gyeonggi and attacked the escaping enemy.

Due to the superior strength of the officers and soldiers, and the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen twice allocated military salaries to Hong Chengchou, the shape of the officers and soldiers began to improve. The peasant army in northern Henan began to be in a disadvantageous situation, and was compressed by officers and soldiers in the narrow area of northern Henan, and was continuously and passively beaten, suffering heavy losses.

"I still didn't hold back, and after allocating four million taels to Hong Chengchou and Chen Qiyu, the treasury was empty this year, and the various expenditures had already been planned, and many projects had to be shelved. I can only wait now. Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen took a deep breath of cigarette, even if the Ming Dynasty has begun to be able to automatically generate money, but the speed is still much worse than what he expected, and he has never let go of his worries about the comeback of Jose's forces.

Although the Dutch and the Spaniards are not all the way, with the rise of the British, with the continuous positive trading of the Ming trade with Europe, the trade surplus is getting bigger and bigger, and the silver and gold of Europe continue to flow into the Ming Dynasty, and the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen knows very well that no one is a fool in this world, and one day the Europeans will begin to restrict me.

Zheng Yuelin smiled slightly, "It's much better than last year, in the past, it was people who pressed the emperor to fight, but now it has become the emperor who oppressed the people and beat the people." ”

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen spit out a smoke ring, looked at Zheng Yuelin, didn't know what to say, she knew everything, but she was always able to maintain a childlike innocence, "You really said it easily, as soon as the treasury is empty, the capital chain will be broken, and if you can't get the money at a critical time, it will collapse the sky." ”

This is also the reason why Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen has been reluctant to invest too much in the suppression of bandits in the Central Plains, the problem in the Central Plains is that the overall food shortage of the Ming Dynasty is caused by natural disasters accompanied by man-made disasters, even if the anti-people leaders are killed, there will be new anti-people out, unless Gao Yingxiang and their earliest anti-people elite are all wiped out, the situation should be able to improve, unless it is a decisive victory! It is best to be able to eat two or three hundred thousand people in one go, but Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen also knows very well that such hope is very slim.

"The key is to look at Jiannu, Jiannu will not stop in Korea and Mongolia, and Jiannu must not be allowed to complete the control of the entire north, after sweeping away the worries of North Korea, Huang Taiji will no longer have any worries." Zheng Yuelin saw that the emperor was a little unhappy, and said according to the emperor's meaning.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen sighed deeply and hugged Zheng Yuelin in his arms, "It's all my fault, I shouldn't tell you everything, so that you and I are worried, but if I don't tell you, no one will be able to say it." ”

Zheng Yuelin smiled slightly, "It's right to sue the concubine, if you don't sue the concubine, the concubine still has to ask." It's better to sue the concubines, because the ministers are already roundworms in the emperor's stomach. ”

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen dragged Zheng Yuelin into the quilt, grabbed her slender waist, and made Zheng Yuelin smile.

"I'll catch the little roundworm now, see if you're not honest, by the way, how have Chen Yuanyuan and Xiong Jiahui been lately? Is it still appropriate for two people to get along? Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen suddenly remembered something.

Zheng Yuelin heard the emperor ask about Xiong Jiahui, and sighed slightly, "The concubine really has no choice, and I don't know what kind of harm she has suffered, logically speaking, seeing her parents die with her own eyes, this is not uncommon in Daming, there are few children like her, she ignores Chen Yuanyuan, that Chen Yuanyuan is a ghost, don't look at her young, like a twenty-year-old adult, even Chen Yuanyuan can't help it, the concubine really doesn't know what to do." ”

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen snorted, "Everyone's psychological tolerance is different, such a thing as illness, even if a hundred people are born with the same disease, but the disease is also strange, don't bother too much, you have fulfilled your responsibility, and I have fulfilled my responsibility." ”

Zheng Yuelin knew what the emperor was thinking about Xiong Jiahui, she was not worried about what the emperor would do to a little girl in her early tens, she felt that the emperor was like a little pet or goddaughter to Xiong Jiahui, and she hoped that such a beautiful little girl could live like a normal person, "By the way, the concubine later went to the female doctor of Daming General Hospital several times, she felt that she should let this little girl go back to her hometown for a walk, maybe it would be better, She said that this little girl was already a little autistic, and in this unfamiliar environment, she would become more and more strict. (To be continued......)