Why does the emperor not trust his courtiers? Because the courtiers are so strong, even the emperor is helpless against them.

In his early years, when Mang Gurtai raised troops with his father Nurhachi, he heard his father say that the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Kingdom was actually very pitiful, so pitiful that he couldn't command his courtiers at all, and he couldn't even make any son the prince. In order to maintain the operation of the country without increasing the burden on the peasants, the Wanli Emperor decided to levy commercial taxes and mining taxes, but what he never imagined was that there were no courtiers to carry out his will, but received countless opposition, and in desperation, he had to send his own domestic slaves, the eunuchs in the palace to collect taxes in various places, and only under the abuse of those civil officials could he ensure the normal operation of the country, and also bear the countless money and grain required for the three major expeditions.

Why did the courtiers refuse to carry out Wanli's will, and even insulted the emperor's will, just because the object of Wanli's taxation was themselves or the gentry families who were closely related to them. The flesh was cut on them, how they did not feel pain, and how they were willing to be cut, but they never thought about where their flesh came from, where it was parasitic, and how they could live without a host.

As a result, after Wanli's death, Taichang, who succeeded to the throne, had no opinions, like a puppet, and was firmly controlled by the Donglin Party among the courtiers who were closely related to the big landlords and big businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River, and he died as the emperor for less than a month. In this short period of one month, the Donglin Party who had counterattacked abolished all the measures for the benefit of the country and the people during his lifetime when Wanli's bones were still cold, they reduced the commercial tax to a negligible level, drove all the eunuchs who collected mining taxes back to Beijing, and even cut the money and grain of the border army by half. On the contrary, the peasants of the Ming Dynasty suffered a great disaster, Wanli was in the time when the peasants were burdened lightly, and the days were well-off, after the death of Wanli, they instantly fell from the well-off to food and clothing, and after the worst, under the double pressure of natural disasters and man-made disasters, food and clothing inevitably fell into abject poverty and life and death.

The successor Emperor of the Apocalypse was young, in the first two years of the dynasty, he has been deceived by the so-called "Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty" court, and when he found that the courtiers standing in front of him every day would only continue to quarrel with the party, and constantly asked him to reduce the taxes of merchants and large landowners, and the state affairs were in a bad situation, the treasury was so empty that there was not even a mouse, he suddenly woke up, in order to save the Ming Dynasty, he also resolutely learned from his grandfather Wanli to reuse the eunuchs to "compete with the people". Especially for Wei Zhongxian's incomparable trust and reuse, under Wei's strong blow, the power of the Donglin Party was emptied from the court, the will of the imperial court could be implemented in the locality, and the taxes that should be collected were collected again, so that the precarious national situation of the Ming Dynasty was pulled back again.

It is also the year of the Apocalypse, the Jin army in the war outside the pass fell into a bad situation, the Ming war suffered many defeats, the loss of the troops was serious, the Mang Gurtai was not a time to listen to his father Khan in that big prison, indicating that the carpenter emperor of the country is much stronger than his Lao Tzu, not worse than his grandfather, if he sits on the emperor for a few more years, the Eight Banners may have to return to the starting point, and be a savage in the white mountains and black waters again.

Fortunately, the carpenter emperor did not live long, and after his younger brother Chongzhen ascended the throne, the court of the Ming Kingdom turned over again, and those who were suppressed and exiled by Wei Zhongxian by the Ming Dynasty, and the Donglin Party people who were suppressed and exiled by the Apocalypse entered the court again, and the new policies they brought did not make the Ming country peaceful and peaceful, and the soldiers were strong and strong, but the treasury was constantly urgent, the peasants continued to revolt, and the side affairs were becoming more and more urgent.

Mang Gurtai hated Hong Tai, but he was even more jealous of Hong Tai, because Hong Tai was indeed talented and very visionary, he saw at a glance the biggest weakness of the Ming Kingdom, that is, the Ming people were not evenly matched, the imperial court would only intrigue, and the officials would do nothing but raise taxes on the peasants, which made the people in the United States boiling, and the people rose up one after another.

In order to show that he was different from his brother, the young emperor of the Ming Kingdom had vigorously eliminated the eunuchs in the palace since he ascended the throne, and also cut more than half of the organs he could control the courtiers, Dongchang and Jinyiwei, resulting in the fact that in addition to being able to know the price of the dishes of the Jingshi of the Dao Dao every day, he as the son of heaven no longer knew anything outside the palace of the Dao Dao, and the result was naturally incomprehensible, the information was not effective, and it was inevitable to be deceived. The eunuchs and eunuchs sent by his brother to various places were also ordered by him to return, and the vacancies left by these eunuchs were all filled by civilian officials. Such a move naturally won unanimous praise from the government and the opposition, praising him for having "Yao Shun's wind", and shouting that Ming Zhongxing was promising after kowtowing.

Now, this young man, who was praised by his courtiers as the king of the Ming Dynasty, has also begun to realize his mistakes and no longer trust his ministers who can be the moths of the country, and he also has to learn from his grandfather and brother to start using his own house slaves to perform for him what the courtiers would not do at all?

Also, the civil officials of the Ming Kingdom are really a bunch of waste, and it is a fool's dream to point out that these people can defeat Hong Tai. The emperor of the Ming Kingdom should have reused someone he trusted a long time ago, didn't his brother send eunuchs to supervise the army in every battle, and when he attacked Ning Jin with Hong Tai, he saw with his own eyes that there were beardless eunuchs wielding swords and fighting to the death in the city. On the other hand, those civil officials, without exception, all hid behind and recited the blessing of the Buddha, how could they dare to dare to face the arrows and artillery fire at the head of the city.

The emperor of the Ming Kingdom must have been reassigned to the eunuchs to supervise the army because of the incompetence of the civil officials, well, that's the case, it's definitely good, the head of the Son of Heaven of the Ming Kingdom is not bad, he still knows who is an obedient person, who is not an obedient person, who is a person who only thinks about himself, and who is a person who thinks about him as the Son of Heaven. No, the Ming army changed its previous decline and swept through southern Liaoning, isn't it just a proof of the incompetence of those civil officials, he is a wise man.

Appointing his cronies to lead the army, only in this way can he ensure that his orders are implemented to the greatest extent, that is, Mang Gurtai's blue flag, up to Jia La'e Zhen, down to Zhuangda Guard, are all filled by his cronies' minions, and now the Ming Kingdom Son of Heaven sent his slave eunuchs to supervise the army, Mang Gurtai can't think of anything wrong, and can't think of anything wrong.

Dayong was worried that Mang Gurtai would not believe it, and he was ready to spend two more words to make up the reason that the Ming Emperor was extremely dissatisfied with the war outside the Guan, so he personally commanded the battle, although it was reluctant, but it sounded like that, but he soon found that he couldn't make such a move, because Mang Gurtai believed it. But then Mang Gurtai's request gave Dayong another headache, and he even asked to see Zhao Quan.

Dayong could not agree to this request, because the representative of the emperor, the Qincha, was under house arrest in Shuangdao.

After talking about everything, Dayong said that Zhao Gonggong was the Son of Heaven to supervise the army, and the so-called son of the daughter could not sit down, and at this moment he was sitting in the rear to coordinate the army and could not come to Liaoyang, and the Ming army was now the top priority to take Shenyang, so this node was really unable to meet Mang Gurtai's requirements, but he still promised to send Turushh to the rear to meet Zhao Quan, and Zhao Gonggong stamped the seal of the eunuch of the prison army to show that the Ming Dynasty attached importance to the "Anshan Treaty". As for whether Zhao Quan and Zhao Gongguild will cooperate, it is not something that Dayong needs to consider.

This statement is above board and excusable, even if Mang Gurtai is dissatisfied, he can only accept it, although going to see Zhao Gonggong in person can increase the influence of his return to Ming, and he can also talk directly to the emperor through the emperor's close attendants, if he can bribe this Zhao Gonggong to speak completely from his point of view, it would be better. But Shi Dayong is also right, the most important thing for the Ming army at the moment is to take Shenyang, so he can't be in a hurry, and adding a Shenyang city outside a Liaoyang city also increases his weight for reckless Gurtai to surrender to Ming. Besides, there is not much time left for the Ming army, but there is not much time left for him to reckless Gurtai. If it hadn't taken advantage of the fact that it hadn't snowed yet, and Mrs. Hong took Shenyang again on the way back, I'm afraid there would never be such a good chance in the future.

At that moment, Mang Gurtai solemnly put away the sealed "Anshan Treaty", and then handed it to Turush, ordering him to immediately prepare a heavy salute to meet the eunuch Zhao Quan. Dayong also put away the treaty, and then directly told Mang Gurtai that he was going to go north to Shenyang tomorrow, and before that, he also asked Mang Gurtai to provide the money and food needed for the Ming army to go north.

This request was expected by Mang Gurtai, and it was also his obligation, so he naturally agreed unconditionally. Liaoyang City is an important place for north-south transportation, and the commercial tax revenue is extremely considerable in recent years, and the money and grain for transporting Shenyang this year have not yet been fully shipped, so the savings are very considerable, and it is no problem to allocate a part of it to supply the Ming army to the north. As for how to arrange the rest of the money, food, and materials, Dayong did not ask, and Mang Gurtai naturally did not talk much. Anyway, the "Anshan Treaty" makes it clear that the money and grain in Liaoyang City can be disposed of by his Manggurtai himself, and Shi Dayong does not mention it, and the rest is naturally all his Manggurtai's.

Dayong asked Mang Gurtai to immediately levy the banner Ding Qingzhuang of Liaoyang City to go with the army, and asked Mang Gurtai how many bannermen he could recruit. Mang Gurtai had already counted with Cui Da and them beforehand, except for those banner people who did not want to return to the Ming Dynasty in Liaoyang City, they could recruit a total of 1,600 banner soldiers who were young and strong, and only 600 armored soldiers with blue flags were among them, and the rest were temporarily recruited without armor.

In order to reduce the unnecessary losses of his subordinates, Mang Gurtai proposed that the Ming army provide 1,000 pieces of cotton armor, this request Dayong agreed after thinking for a while, but only promised to give 500 pieces of cotton armor, on the grounds that the army's baggage was still in Anshan, and the army could not take out so many cotton armors at once. As for the horses, there is no need to worry about Dayong, there are still a lot of horses in Liaoyang City, and these Dayong are all in mind, thinking about whether they can expand the cavalry again after returning to the division.

Shi Dayong can give him 500 pieces of cotton armor is very good, don't look at the eight banners in the past few years, but the cotton armor is very short, in the past, each flag after the war to send someone to recycle the armor on the corpse on the battlefield, regardless of the enemy and me, it can be seen how important the cotton armor is to the Jin Army, that is, now, there are many banners that do not wear armor with the army, if you can grab the armor, that is a member of the armor soldiers, second only to the existence of the main soldiers of the flags.

Mang Gurtai is not an ignorant person, now that the two sides are cooperating to attack Shenyang, they will naturally not be petty, and what is unhappy about these 500 cotton armor and the Ming army, there is no word at the moment, and he ordered Epilun and Qida and others to immediately go to the formation of the flag and prepare to set off with the Ming army tomorrow.

According to the provisions of the "Anshan Treaty", Dayong allowed the bannermen in Liaoyang City who were willing to return with Mang Gurtai to move to southern Liaoning, and the Ming Dynasty could temporarily allocate any city in southern Liaoning to Mang Gurtai to garrison. Wait until Mangul Tai has met the Great Son of Heaven, and then the court will decide where they will be stationed.

Before he said the location, Dayong had pointed out that Shenyang or Liaoyang could be returned to Mang Gurtai, but both Mang Gurtai and his subordinates invariably rejected these two cities.

What they thought in their hearts, Dayong could also guess that it was nothing more than knowing that the Ming army could not hold on to Shenyang even if they took Shenyang, after all, although the Ming army was attacking this time, it had never encountered decent resistance, let alone fought with the main force of the Eight Banners, it was completely a sneak attack war. The Ming army's impatience to take Shenyang was more of a political significance than a military one. Mang Gurtai decided that after the Ming army took Shenyang, it would only burn Shenyang, and then quickly retreated to southern Liaoning, and would never be so stupid as to stay there for a long time. If the Ming army really did this, the main force of the Eight Banners of Hong Taihui's division could easily tear them apart, even if they had Shenyang Jiancheng to rely on, in the case of cutting off the grain route and reinforcements, the end would be as miserable as Zu Dashou who was trapped in Dalinghe City.

The myth of the invincibility of the Eight Banners in the field has not been broken by any army to this day. Last year's Battle of Jinzhou was completely a battle in which one's own shortcomings were used to touch one's own strengths, and it did not represent the true combat strength of the Eight Banners Army. Mang Gurtai finally escaped from Shenyang with his life, how could he trust his life in a lonely city that was destined to be undefended.

Mang Gurtai insisted on Jinzhou, and Dayong naturally would not object, so he agreed with a smile at the moment, asking Mang Gurtai to immediately arrange for his troops to move south, and he had to prepare for going north.

Before the expedition, Mang Gurtai proposed to swear an oath by Shi Dayong to kill the white horse, Dayong responded without thinking, and after the oath, he ordered the soldiers and horses to march to Shenyang. Mang Gurtai and his newly acquired 1,600 banner soldiers walked at the front of the army, and the banner was also "golden", but the color was the blue color of his own flag.