Listening to the confession of a thirteen-year-old little Lori, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen didn't know how to do it, and his heart was warm, which felt like an adult woman couldn't do, as if it made him feel that he was also a teenager.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen waved his hand gently, "Don't cry, didn't Xu Guowei tell you?" No one is allowed to cry in front of me, you have done nothing wrong, let you go there to live, because there is a little sister there, her spirit is not very good, her parents died when she was a child, she is depressed, I want you to spend more time with her, you are so clever and sensible, enlighten her more, her spirit should be better soon, I promise you, when you reach the age of sixteen, I will let you enter the palace, is it okay? ”

Chen Yuanyuan hurriedly wiped his tears, and when he heard the emperor regain his soft voice, he became happy, "Gonggong Xu told the people's daughter, don't let the people's daughter cry in front of the emperor, it's the people's daughter herself who is not angry, she can't help it, please forgive the emperor, the people's daughter is willing to accompany the little sister, no matter what the emperor asks the people's daughter, the people's daughter is willing." ”

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen's heart was also slightly blocked, but it was a pity that the girl in front of him was not the woman he liked, if this was from Zhang Yan's mouth, he didn't know if he would faint happily?

"Don't think about it, when you get to Jingshi, you can see more, think more, feel more life, this world is not only qinqi poetry and painting, there are many things, more experience, moreover, there is no life of qinqi poetry and painting, it is not a good qinqi poetry and painting." Although the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen did not have a high artistic talent, he occasionally wrote poems. There is no one that has been handed down to future generations, but his experience of art is not low.

It's just that he doesn't have time to calm down and do those elegant things. He is a man who does not have time.

Chen Yuanyuan listened to the emperor's words, his heart was moved, he only felt that he was very happy, his luck was really good, and he hummed sweetly.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen nodded, looked at the majestic Nanjing Imperial Palace, and felt a feeling in his heart. At the beginning, his ancestors laid the Ming Dynasty here! Let this world be the world of the Han people, let this country be the country of the Han people, and make your family's surname a national surname! This world is the world of the old Zhu family! It must not be thrown away in my hands!

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen before entering the palace. Standing on the top of the imperial steps, he waved to the people who were still cheering, "Long live the people!" ”

Qian Qianyi and Shi Kefa, two great Confucians, one old and one young, were taken aback. Since the emperor popularized the vernacular. What new terms came one after another, long live the people, and the next day it became the main entry on the North and South Daming News.

Many people are thinking, if you kill fewer people, the people will really live long.

He Renlong, Li Bei, and Ai Wannian entered the pass, and the soldiers arrived, while Zhang and Xu Zheng took the soldiers as their own troops, and He Renlong and others were at a loss. The peasant army took the opportunity to enter the Mopan Mountain. It is divided into three: Yan Zhenghu occupies the city and enters Taiyuan; Xing Hongniang, Shangtianlong according to Wucheng. Entering Fenzhou; Zijin Liang and Zhang Xianzhong attacked Qinzhou and Wuxiang and trapped Liaozhou. Zhizhou Li Chengzhang, township officials Yang Yukai, Zhang Youcheng, Zhao Yiheng, Hou Biao and died.

The peasant army entered Hebei, and the general Yang Yuchun led his troops to chase after him, and died in ambush. The rebel army captured Zhaozhou, Xishan, Shunde, Zhending, etc. and went west to the skyline in Xingtai, to Wu'an, and defeated the Zuo Liangyu army; The garrison Cao Ming and the chief bookkeeper Wu Yingke were all killed in battle. The power of the peasant army in Hebei was greatly shaken.

The Mongolian troops invaded Ningxia on a large scale, and the Ningxia commander-in-chief He Huchen was killed in battle, and the Ming court appointed Ma Shilong as the acting commander-in-chief of Ningxia. Shilong grew up in Ningxia, is very familiar with the mountains and rivers of Ningxia, geography, and shape and victory, coupled with the offensive and defensive war preparations, within half a year, and the invading enemy in the Helan Mountain area and Yuquan Camp, Zaoyuan Fort and other places are victorious, killing as many as two or three thousand enemy troops, Shilong's prestige shook the west.

In June of the sixth year of Chongzhen, the Sichuan soldier Deng Xi was instructed to suppress the peasant rebel army, went to Jiyuan, shot the leader of the righteous army, Zijin Liang, and the righteous army retreated to Lin County. Yang Yuchun chased and killed him, and died in ambush. The righteous army used its banner to trap and kill other officers and soldiers, and the Sichuan army was defeated, and on the fifth day of the first month, the army of Tusima Fengyi was also defeated by the righteous army in Houjiazhuang.

The peasant army took advantage of the victory to capture Yiyang, and Jin Huijia, the county governor of Yiyang, abandoned the city and fled. Li Zhongzheng, the director of the car driving department of the former military department of the township official, gathered his family and the strong men in the middle of the army to fight, and they were outnumbered and all of them were killed. Lu's soldiers often saved their lives, occupied dangerous places and fought with the rebels for two days and nights, and their strength was overwhelmed, so that his wife hanged herself, and she drew her sword and killed herself.

On July 14 of the sixth year of Chongzhen, the Houjin soldiers took Lushun. At that time, the chief military officer Huang Long was stationed in Lushun, because there was a war on the Yalu River, he was defeated in several battles, and his ammunition was exhausted, so he killed himself. The guerrilla Li Weiluan set himself on fire to his family and died in battle.

Emperor Chongzhen Zhu stood up fiercely, clenched his fists angrily, and took a deep breath, "Order the officials and troops of Baoding, Henan, and Shanxi to encircle and suppress the peasant army." Except for Ma Shilong's news, which is a bit positive, the rest are rice buckets, so many officers and soldiers, and now the foundation of the peasant army has also been disintegrated by me, why is it still not an opponent? The Houjin and the peasant army attacked at the same time, and the economic construction of the north and the south has reached a critical juncture, and if the state treasury insists on squeezing out the money to fight a war at this time, the speed of economic construction will be greatly slowed down! ”

Wang Chengen glanced at Cao Huachun and motioned Cao Huachun to answer the emperor's question, how dare Cao Huachun answer? The two of them pushed and refused each other with their eyes.

Wang Chengen's status is higher, and he is more intimate with the emperor, so he has to bite the bullet and say, "Your Majesty, your emperor's land is exempt from taxes, the landlord has more than ten acres of land, and the agricultural tax has been halved, so that the strength of the landlords in all parts of the imperial court has been greatly weakened, and the tax pressure of the entire Ming Dynasty has been concentrated on the imperial court and concentrated on the emperor's internal funds. Who doesn't have a family with land and property? Hong Chengchou changed Yang He's policy of "suppressing and appeasing (luring and surrendering)" to "excavating and suppressing with all efforts" and "suppressing and appeasing with strength, first suppressing and then appeasement", and concentrated his forces to attack the Shaanxi peasant army. In the spring of last year, a peasant army broke through to Qingyang because it could not withstand the pressure of the official army. Hong Chengchou personally went to Qingyang and commanded the battle. The two sides fought fiercely dozens of times in Western Australia, the peasant army suffered heavy losses, and the leaders Du San and Yang Laochai were killed. This battle swept away the decadence of the official army for many years, and was called the "Great Victory of Western Australia" by the imperial court. The officers and men still won some battles, but it was not that the government soldiers were completely ineffective. ”

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen heard Wang Chengen defend the local army, and his anger dropped a lot, everything has pros and cons, in fact, he weakened the power of the landlord class at the same time, he should have expected this situation, the situation is actually within the scope of his expectations, but he is anxious!

Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen sat back on his dragon chair and said calmly, "Let's do it first, urge the soldiers in various places, let Chen Qiyu, Hong Chengchou, and Qin Liangyu all work harder, and consider the contributions they have made to the officers and soldiers in various places." ”

Wang Chengen and Cao Huachun couldn't help but look at each other again, or don't they go out with the silver? What is the use of just a testimonial?

"Transfer Lu Xiangsheng to the Imperial Forest Army, a 5,000-strong integrated division, go to Shanxi and Shaanxi to assist in suppressing bandits! ......"Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen thought about it, it was not a way to go on like this, he had to let the activities of the peasant army be controlled within a range, and he must not let the peasant army grow infinitely bigger, threatening the area that has been directly controlled by himself, or decided to send the Imperial Forest Army.

Wang Chengen and Cao Huachun are both happy, send the Imperial Forest Army, the situation must be different, an army of 5,000 people, how much military salary the emperor is prepared to allocate is the key, the cost of 5,000 people for a year, at least 1.2 million taels, three years out is 3.6 million taels, I don't know how much the emperor wants to allot? Although the 5,000 people are a little less, only the silver allocation is enough, which can also boost the morale of the soldiers of other prefectures. The Guards can take the appropriate place to help.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen hesitated for a long time, "Squeeze out a million taels from the inside." (To be continued......)